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[lacksconviction]

[Video clicks on, and it's Loki! Hi Loki! The bruises he got in the port have all gone down by now, and he's wearing his fancy gazelle helmet. Apparently he's feeling flamboyant today.]

Sad, really. Seeing humanity being exterminated like that. Set upon, and wiped out by alien powers infinitely more powerful, and advanced than it could ever have hoped to have been. Apparently, the distant eyes of Odin and Thor, and any other absent protectors of you Midgardians fell shut in your hour of need. [He gives a woeful little sigh.]

If only there had been someone... some being who might have known how to compete with such a threat. Some watchful ruler, who could have summoned armies from the air in your defense. Who could have spent the many long eons before this tragedy befell mankind, advancing your civilization to the point where you were a world that would stand unassailable.

[He gives a helpless, sympathetic shrug.]

Mistake it not, Mortals, you were made to be ruled. It just so happens that some rulers are more benevolent than others...

[Then he grins, and clicks the feed off.]

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[psychic_hotline]

Nice hat. Not so sure about the speech.

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[lacksconviction]

You are not my intended audience.

[Are you an Avenger? No. This trolling is only at it's peak when received by an Avenger.]

[omar]

So I takes it you take "everything happens for a reason" real literal, then.

[lacksconviction]

Should I not? The universe is a tapestry of consequence upon consequence, after all.

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[wemaketheworld]

..."made to be ruled".

[It's a question, kind of. A "why"?, a demand for an explanation. He's doubtful. You can hear it, even if you can't see it; he's in full-on Rorschach mode right now, never mind that it's quieter than he wants because it hurts too much to project properly.]

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[lacksconviction]

Mankind.

[There's kind of a softness in his tone here, because hey Ror, you're like, his problem child and he doesn't want you to reject him any more than you already do.]

The whole dirty, chaotic mess of it. Your rulers are corrupted by power and greed, they fear death, hunger for glory, and pit the continents of your world against each other in wars and conflicts unending...

[Pauuuuuse]

There was a time when I believed that I could end that.

[twooutoften]

What, you plannin' on takin' on the job or somethin'?

[lacksconviction]

I'm afraid the time for that has passed.

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[useofaswhat]

And ain't you just the cutest little antelope for the job.

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[lacksconviction]

[Yes, as a matter of fact, yes he is.]

Perhaps before my untimely demise, but alas it was not to be.

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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Is a man a god?

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[lacksconviction]

A man was called one once, by the people of Midgard. By their understanding, he is.

[persuadeyou]

'Benevolent' isn't really the word I'd use.

[lacksconviction]

I would have been eventually.

[youwillgotohell]

None of us had our gifts there. What use are your what ifs?

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[lacksconviction]

No use at all, save my own entertainment.

It's not speculation aimed at wise women, but a barb at those who thought they saved the world by slaying me.

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[knowsaboutanger]

Let me guess. You're a villain kinda guy.

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[lacksconviction]

Simplistic, but as you wish. It falls in line with the rest of your little army to see me as such.

[thestarspangledman]

Being ruled doesn't sit easy with me. I think I told you something along those lines back in Stuttgart.

[lacksconviction]

And how did that place sit with you? How does it sit with you to know that being ruled by me, would have spared the thousands of lives lost to their bored torments?

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[janesaid]

Cocky much?

[Yet she's not irritated, really. Everyone else seems to have that under control. She is popcorn.gif at you now, Loki.]

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[lacksconviction]

Not unduly so. I am a God, after all.

[People just straight up can not handle it when the liesmith drops a truth bomb on them.

...Well, a sort of very biased truth bomb, at least.]

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[childhood_surgery]

You clearly do not know my people...

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[lacksconviction]

I clearly wasn't addressing your people. The majority of this ship's inhabitants are Midgardian, you are an ill fitting aside to them.

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[sharpsuitfluffytail]

[...What even with the villain speech.]

Are you really using the port as your own personal political campaign?

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[lacksconviction]

Sadly, I don't believe there's much political opportunity for the dead. No, this is merely an observation for those who's actions brought me here.

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[chlorophylliac]

[If the emphasis had gone on 'made' she would have assumed this was casual Barge trolling, and who doesn't enjoy a bit of that? That it's on 'were' makes her think he's confirming something. To someone specific.]

Are they listening?

[timesbureaucrat]

I am not a Mortal. [Someone's feeling a bit cocky now that he has his regenerations back. Also bitchy because Kay is away. Narvin is worried and that worry expresses itself as bitchiness.]

Nevertheless, why anyone would want to rule Earth or any other human settlement is beyond me. Humans are stubborn, wayward and violent, and their backwater planet--although dear to them--is hardly worth the trouble it would take to conquer and hold it.

[trenchcoatedly]

[Oh, if Castiel was prone to eyerolling, only an angel would be able to view the cosmic amount of eyerolling going on right now. As it is, there is only Castiel's passive face.]

Midgardians? Is this simply another term for humans?

[nakesnakecobracobra]

What's so sad about it? If you ask me, the Vanquish were just the same as humans, only physically stronger. Their behavior was similar enough.

[hourglass_twin]

Some humans were made to be ruled.

Some were made to rule.

And some would rather not involve themselves with any of it.

[everymansdevil]

Haven't heard a gloat like that in a good long while. Sounds like something big went down just before I woke up.

[tatty_bye]

So commanding, so assured. You must be a rather stern taskmaster between the sheets.

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[surfaceshine]

Get in line, twobit. Or watch fewer movies. Definitely one of the two.

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[worldsbestmarksman]

[blind. fucking. fury. Clint mashes the buttons on the device together and stares furious out into space but he doesn't say anything. He doesn't say anything at all.

Except just then he mashes the video button by mistake so have Clint Barton-easily recognizable as Barton-staring out into the stars.]

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[buildindreemz]

[Have one tired - but very skeptical-looking - Ariadne, Loki.]

I really don't think exchanging one evil overlord for another would solve the problem of capture and enslavement, but thanks for playing!

[hungryanhorny]

Guess it's too bad they couldn't cut it, huh? 'Course, way I hear it, the current ones are gonna be hung out to dry too... [She doesn't know who you are, Lok; but she really doesn't need to in order to dislike you.]