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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.

[omar]

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

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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.]

[twooutoften]

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

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[useofaswhat]

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

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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Is a man a god?

[persuadeyou]

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

[youwillgotohell]

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

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[knowsaboutanger]

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

[thestarspangledman]

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

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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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[childhood_surgery]

You clearly do not know my people...

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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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[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.]