@thor.odinson

[ofmyth]

[1 August 0500]



what the hel happened to the rest of july?

and when did it get so blazing hot?

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[ofmyth]

merit?
what else do you suggest has happened

[retravel]

Spacetime issues. We could be blinking in and out of existence here, like canaries in a coal mine.

[ they done fucked multiple timelines, y'all. ]

Though we've been under compliance drugs before. Perhaps you walked out of the flat yourself, under orders. That would explain the lack of struggle/indications of forced-entry.

[ofmyth]

i will see if the building has security footage. if so we can at least discover the manner of my return

[retravel]

Good call. Keep us updated on that.

If you and Stark were both affected, that could make for a pattern in due time.

[ another one bites the dust, etc. ]

[ofmyth]

How long was Stark affected?

[retravel]

You'd have to ask him, I'm afraid.

[ he just creeped on rey's reply 👀 ]

[ofmyth]

i'll do so, thank you

what experience do you have with spacetime issues like this? it is not a common thing for humans to be well-versed in the technicalities of

[retravel]

[ surprisingly enough, that's the first time someone has asked for specifics. with over a month here already, fitz deems it pointless to dodge the question. ]

My girlfriend missed our first date because a Kree monolith transported her to a far-flung planet.
Took me six months to find a way to reopen the portal and rescue her. Made for a steep learning curve.
She and my friends were also transported seventy years into my future, but solving that's been tabled, given our current spacetime displacement.

[ofmyth]

[ man, that's almost nostalgic. a little time travel? that would be valhalla compared to this ]

ah, the adventures SHIELD gets up to these days
i hope we return that you may continue to aid your friends

[retravel]

[ ah, mentioning SHIELD on a public network...

whatever, he's probably already sacked, at this point. tends to happen when you drop a building on the acting head of the organisation. ]

Thank you, Thor.
Until then, hopefully we can aid each other.

[ it's said with the optimism of someone else — his partner — even if he doesn't believe it himself. ]

@loki.odinson / private

[selfimage]

I think it may have hit the arrow closer than you think.

/ private forever

[retravel]

Former or latter?

[ wouldn't the latter be nice... something simple like compulsion and amnesia... a bloody holiday. ]

[selfimage]

[ lots of things would be nice, Leonard. ]

Former.
Link: Thread

[ don't be creepy and stalk everything on Thor's post, Loki. ]

[retravel]

Noted.
And there's the case of Stark.

[ he is literally on the phone with bobbi right now, discussing what the twelve missing and two flickering means, so, mood.]

Could be temporal paradoxes, resolving themselves as individuals prevent their capture, but I doubt it. Timey wimey optimism, that is.

[ time! is! fixed! and yet. ]

We aren't fixed at this point in spacetime.

[selfimage]

You may make what you wish of it in terms of mortal science, yet the consequence may be more obvious. It's like a clever riddle:

Allowing a flow inward and outward. [ empathy. ]
Then that which is close to us.
Then ourselves.

Should I follow that up with 'what am I?'

[retravel]

Must you, Loki.

[ must you be like this. don’t throw moRTAL SCIENCE at him and then drop RIDDLES. ]

Emotions, sentimental objects, us.
The blue glow. The ache in our chests. What’s within us?

[selfimage]

I'm a gateway!

[ is that a punchline. ]

[retravel]

Gateway, portal, rift.
No one ever remembers to close the damn door.

[ why is it always this!! open doors, swinging this way and that. ]

[selfimage]

Maybe it's just a jar.

[ he hates himself a little for that joke, and it'd be far more scathing if Fitz heard him say it. ]

[retravel]

You're the worst.

[retravel]

But I've been thinking the same thing.

[ a portal, like the Kree monolith, opening and closing at intervals unknown to them, seemingly at random. ]

When and why does it open wide enough for things to squeak through?

[selfimage]

More pressing:
Why set these portals loose among the citizens of this realm equipped with the proper resources to adapt?
I refuse to believe that our outburst of contracted aggression was an accident.

We are being used, Leopold.

[retravel]

Lest we forget, Morningstar thought we were a weapons shipment when they haphazardly intercepted our transport.

[ he'd thought they were, but in a limited, HYDRA-esque sense: Weaponized Inhumans. Not to this scale, being lured out by monsters and enemy agents. ]

[selfimage]

[ he had thought too, at first. but why go through the hassle of giving weapons a means of identity? it didn't make sense. ]

I do wonder where they got that tip.

[retravel]

[ when markus wondered why he was made in his own likeness here, fitz suggested it was so he'd be of more use, rather than struggling with further changes to his person. here, a means of identity is a means of survival and mobility, too, concealing and dispersing their agents.

add it to the pile of doomsday theories, eh. ]

Perhaps they'll be more inclined to tell us after all this.

[ though fitz doubts they consider him trustworthy, when he only recently caved and asked to join up. ]