Private to the Admiral THEN PUBLIC HEY JERKS HE NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION.

[lacksconviction]

[This is a tentative post, and Loki's voice has the faltering quality of a man who suspects he may be talking to himself:]

Admiral? There are questions I have which I do not believe anyone else here is qualified to answer.

First among which may be the most futile of them:

Are you listening?

[EDITED IN LATER: Public]

[Hey Barge, Loki is just going to make this conversation with the Admiral, fully public.]

I must indeed be becoming tiresome with my questioning today, because I have one more. This one for the wardens, for those of you serving this man willingly:

Why?

Yes, I have asked before, and yes I've heard answers. For your deal, for your inmate, for the sake of doing some good in the universe, but I wonder how you justify it to yourselves. To serve an entity who not only is little known, but actively refuses to surrender his intentions, the masters which he serves, or even the reward which he will reap for his work in controlling all of us.

I have been told by many among you that he is not a God, but what other beings deal in secrecy and souls?

Why are you content with this?

Prey tell me, that I might lay to rest my fears about what more this place is, than just a prison.

Comments

[video/private]

[aggravating]

[The first thing you're getting, Loki, is a round of slow applause. Not sarcastic applause, but pretty damn impressed applause]

Honestly, if I could go back and do it again, I think I'd rather take my chances with being dead that ending up here as some sort of cheap-ass, self-help psychology experiment.

That said, the Wardens are idiotic assholes. Nothing in the whole Goddamn world is worth having your identity played with.

[video/private]

[lacksconviction]

They are laughable! To come preaching at us for our crimes and calling upon us for reformation, and then... this. No excuses, no defense, just endless greed!

[Loki looks and sounds stressed. Angry and wrung out and worked up over something that he went into specifically to create this response. Three cheers for him, he correctly predicted that everyone on the barge was a huge dick.

Everyone apart from Tony. Who agreed and applauded him and who he is privately venting at now.

There is a brief pause where Loki weighs up the pro's and con's of continuing down this path. Then he quickly shifts, and turns to point the communicator around. There's a flash of the glass walls of his cell, before the image settles upon an unruly stack of around thirty magazines of various kinds (including a couple of mod confirmed rubbish porn mags).]

He put these in my room while I was talking to him. Do you want any of them?

[video/private]

[aggravating]

Welcome to the human condition, Hamlet. [He doesn't know about the King thing, sure, but you're certainly unstable enough to fit the nickname. It's a fun unstable, though. It's amusing.]

People are moved by greed and power, and not much else. I've found the general thought-process focuses in on tossing away morality and belief as soon as someone lays out the easy path.

[... God, Loki. You're offering him trashy porn mags. Can his bro-crush even get any larger?]

Is that porn? Is that cheap porn?

You give that to anyone else, and you're so off my party list. [AKA: GOD YES GIVE HIM THEM]

[video/private]

[lacksconviction]

Not only the human condition, then. Greed and power hold sway over beings from every corner of the universe, just... not normally to the callous detriment of one's sanity and self determination.

[He's only unstable when the wind blows north-northwest! But... seriously Loki, are you saying you didn't trade your sanity for power? Because that is a lie and we all know it is a lie.]

I would feel foolish offering them to anyone else! [Most of the people who he's on good terms with right now are SERIOUS SUPERVILLAIN TYPES okay, so sharing porn with them would be weird...] Though I must admit, the appeal is somewhat lost on me, I shall hold them in reserve for you.

[In asgard the porn is all odes and tapestries, these photographs aren't hot at all.]

[video/private]

[aggravating]

Yeah, well, sanity's overrated. You either lose it in your twenties or it's beaten out of you as soon as you actually have to fend for yourself.

[He's just gonna think the wind always blows from there, man. He likes you, but he also knows you're pretty much a nut job]

Seriously? Naked people don't do much for you? What, you more of a erotica and trashy novel kind of man?