@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

[ it's been a difficult few weeks, and it feels almost like everyone's still trying to hold themselves together. there's a quiet hush over the unrest, which means that it's absolutely time to get some shit together. ]

Oh, hello.
Just a few thoughts that I've put together, I suppose- prior to my arrival here I had a rather good sense of the goings-on within the very fabric of reality. While I certainly can't indulge myself in such feats since I got here, I can say with confidence that the multiverse loves patterns. Something that's simple to predict. For instance, there are some of us here that seem to mirror a similar set of circumstances with one another while still coming from different universes. (See: Tony Stark and Stephen Strange.)
With that in mind, I thought that there simply must be something similar that links us all together in a thread of commonality.

Come now-
You all must have noticed.
Everyone's hot.

[ mystery solved.

it could be that he's just bored. ]

Comments

@jon.snow

[northerndragon]

Hot?

@jason.todd

[reneger]

attractive

[northerndragon]

Pretty?

The place I come from is nothing like this. When we say hot, we mean something that could burn.

[selfimage]

And here it just means you sizzle.

[ Loki stop ]

[reneger]

'hot' still means burn shit
it also means hot as in attractive, pretty, sexy
ie:
jon is so hot, he makes me blush like a school girl

[northerndragon]

We’d say

Blush like a maiden

But aye, that’s the same.

It’s true that any number of you are pretty enough. Does anyone have any idea of why it might be so?

[reneger]

loki's just being sassy

[northerndragon]

Is he usually like this?

[He may have noticed a pattern.]

[reneger]

generally, yes

[northerndragon]

It’s good to have someone around who makes you laugh.

[selfimage]

Super sexy.

[northerndragon]

Where I come from, we’d say pretty or comely or handsome. Hot is a word for a fire or a spring.

Is it because love is like a fire?

[selfimage]

Yes, sure.
Why not?

[northerndragon]

A pretty face can still be hateful, if it hides a cold heart or a false one.

A face that isn’t so pretty can become prettier every day.

[selfimage]

Don't let the subjectivity bother you.
Please, name someone who isn't hot.

[northerndragon]

Even if I could, I think it would be unkind of me.

When I was still a green boy, around eighteen or so, men would call me pretty to mock me. But that doesn’t mean anything to a sword. Beauty can die on a blade, or kill with it.

And I don’t know that I am, but if I am, it doesn’t matter.

[filloryfanatic]

You are! Not that you care. Just saying.

[northerndragon]

It’s kind of you to say so.

[He doesn’t have any sense that this is something Quentin in particular would say to make him feel small.]

[filloryfanatic]

Yeah sorry I meant it in the nice way! You're a very handsome guy.

[selfimage]

That's a poor way to make a mockery.
Usually those sorts of insults that derive from being compared to a woman begin and end with a certain kind of ignorant fragility from those spouting them.
Though it's best to show some kind of confidence in this situation. Enjoy being attractive, Mr Snow.

[northerndragon]

I was sullen, as a boy. I took offense easily. It wasn't that they compared me to a woman, there's not much wrong with being a woman if you are one, but that I knew they wanted to make me feel small. I am bastard-born. It makes you used to insults, and used to proving them wrong.

[And if you are determined to prove that you're not a creature of lust and deceit, it can make it a little harder to enjoy being attractive.]

Better to not feel like you need to prove anything anymore.

[selfimage]

It's the subtly in the comparison and not the insult itself.
No matter.

Though it does make me wonder, what is there to prove for a compliment?

@tsera.vel

[bivariant]

Ah, you're a poet as well as a swordsman. +1 attractive points, I guess.

[ time to haze jon ]

[northerndragon]

Tsera Vel.

[A friend? He thinks? Sort of?]

I’m no poet. Or I hate to think of what passes for poetry where you come from. Where I come from, it’s always talking about some woman’s hair and her fine eyes, or how strong some hero was.

[bivariant]

Oh, don't 'Tsera Vel' me, Jon Snow.

[ you're the one out here talking about beauty and blades and death. ]

It's a little bit of the same. Pretty girls. Glorious deaths. Sometimes it's milking machines, if you like it weird. Good to know that some things are standard across worlds.