ORB: 10 of Rebirth's Height

[sorcerous]

[ See Loki. See Loki in a nature-esque background that's fairly rocky, a bit hilly, but also very generic. Could be anywhere. Could totally be a place that is not on a mountainside where one would go and seek some dragons.

See Loki's horse, dappled and dark and very skittish, at the moment. He cuts a regal figure on her, straight-backed, strong; he handles her skittish movement with an easy hand. ]

My brother -- Thor -- has arrived. I suppose you will greet him, Sif, if you have not already. To you, and to the rest who fancy themselves heroes: know that I will be watching your moves with great interest.

But I no longer count myself among you.

[ This is the closest Loki will get, at this moment, to a declaration of villainy.

ooc: I cannot stress enough that Loki is being a douchebag and is wrong about basically everything. ]

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[sorcerous]

This kingdom, led by an idiot, with a populace that may as well be so many gadflies -- no. Nothing is the matter. Continue on your course; no doubt you will weather the storm and find clear skies quite soon.

[shiromadoushi]

[[and Bakura gives Loki a look. He's been talked down to in that sort of way enough times now to know what's going on]] We're in a storybook world, where people are being told that they're heroes and expected to go out and save the kingdom, what else did you expect? [[There's an unexpected bitterness in his voice, the influences of his brother figures and his years in the City coming through]] Being put on a horse doesn't make you a knight, being given magic doesn't make you a master wizard, being titled a hero doesn't make you anything more than what you were before you were given that title.

[[a deep sigh as the bitter drains from his voice, leaving him looking far more like what people expect of him]] Worlds like these.... they're what you make of them. What you make them into. If everyone's an idiot, find the ones who aren't and screw the rest. [[...so maybe the bitterness was still there.]] You don't have to be a jerk about things just because not everyone is what you expected.

[sorcerous]

A leader who cannot defeat a crisis deserves what he gets.

[ He cares nothing for that bitterness; he has more than enough of his own. But a ruler must be deserving, must be strong, must be clever, wise. The King is none of these, and as long as he is none, Loki may use his failures to justify what he would have done regardless (though, if in other circumstances he would have defected with much more subtlety).

He will not stay by Thor. Not when Sif has seen his true form. Not when all that he is has come unraveled, leaving him no choices. Not now. ]

[shiromadoushi]

And you're going to let just that one person drive you away?

[sorcerous]

And what is so wonderful that would have kept me here?

[shiromadoushi]

This is where everyone else who's not from here is... Where else is there even to go?

[sorcerous]

Anywhere.

[shiromadoushi]

[[a small sigh]] Do you really think you'll find anything different out there?

[sorcerous]

I know I will find nothing different there.

[shiromadoushi]

Then why are you so fit on leaving?

[sorcerous]

I have left already. By there, I meant Schwanheim.

[shiromadoushi]

[[a soft sigh]]

At least here, you have people from outside who aren't like the ones you hate so much in the Kingdom. The one Eagle saw out there were just the same, after all...

[sorcerous]

Then my situation has not changed, and I am more content for the striving.

[shiromadoushi]

[[there's a bit of a pause]] There wasn't even anyone here you found to be friends with?

[sorcerous]

I am not the sort for friends.

[shiromadoushi]

Companions, then.

[sorcerous]

What is it you would like to hear?

Every companion of mine, I have abandoned. I have turned upon them and left them bitter enemies.

[shiromadoushi]

[[this is akin to blasphemy for someone from a shounen manga world.]]

But why...?

[sorcerous]

They loved another better than me.

[shiromadoushi]

That doesn't mean that they didn't care about you or want to be your companion.

[[If he got all huffy because how of Yuugi stole the spotlight, he'd never have had any friends...]]

[sorcerous]

I would rather be alone than be forever second.

[shiromadoushi]

It's that important to you?

[sorcerous]

Yes.