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Loki goes instantly where Huan tells her. She has a safety against landing intersected with solid objects, her or any of her belongings, so dramatic as it would be she can't just appear with her opponent already impaled. She has to actually stab him.
So she stabs him, spikes him from there. And hollows out Lævateinn and channels ice into the wound.
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purposeful_glory
At least ten different people have asked me if I'm pursuing you. It's a little annoying. I will have to tell Tyelcormo that I understand why he started physically assaulting people who asked if he was involved with Irissë.
They've all known me longer. Or perhaps they think my obvious affections are obviously unrequited. He's smiling.
purposeful_glory
I mean, I'm great and everything, but what do they think they're seeing?
...probably my known fetish for people who it'd politically advantage me to be involved with, and we regularly vanished together for long visits during which I did not go home. I'm sorry, if I'd been thinking about appearances I'd have structured things a little differently.
purposeful_glory
Snort. I don't care if people think it on my own behalf unless it means they're going to consider me a puppet; that would be annoying. And even if you weren't engaged and didn't think there was like a forty percent chance I'm evil and do you even like girls at all and the fucking soul graft thing that I don't want to touch - okay, that's too many ands, but removing only three of those conditions would not suffice to get me to go there.
Did he parse that right? Well.
Sadly we cannot tell people any of those reasons that their hopes are in vain. A hazard of being around me at all is that people will warn you you're being manipulated by me but I don't think it's particularly worsened by vague romantic speculation so you needn't put particular energy into quashing it.
Or ask me to do it for you, I mean, I don't expect rumor-quashing to be a particular expertise of yours anyway.
purposeful_glory
It's not. I would've had to develop it if I'd slipped up or Sigyn hadn't kept his mouth shut when I healed him or something but I was lucky.
I consider this rumor's prevalence to be evidence that I am very, very good.
purposeful_glory
Fair enough. Is Galadriel not running around making use of your permission to tell people which of your cousins you're with?
Hmm? Of course not, I wouldn't have given it if there were any chance she would.
She doesn't want to hurt Findekáno. She wants to hurt me, and she realizes that sharing something like that is stooping pretty low even towards that goal, so if it does not seem decisively likely to hurt me she'd never do it. Telling her she can is telling her that I don't expect it to.
Which is not quite true. Though I think the conclusions people'd then jump to would hurt Findekáno more.
Which is not quite true. Though I think the conclusions people'd then jump to would hurt Findekáno more.
I manipulated him, possibly on my father's orders or possibly just for personal amusement. He lets me, so his judgment can't be trusted, whereas it's only my character that's in question and it's already thought rather poorly of.
He has a countervailing narrative but I think he'd hesitate to use it.
It's a shame we can't smear abstract concepts through the cosmos along with Morgoth, isn't it?
It's a shame we can't smear abstract concepts through the cosmos along with Morgoth, isn't it?
purposeful_glory
Oh, would that we could. I can't even think of a stone that would do the job, at least outright instead of by messing with people's heads.
I don't want to mess with anyone's heads. I just want to not be distracted from winning this stupid war.
Anyway, if Galadriel thinks that'll be the narrative she won't share, why would she?
There are a million ways to achieve her goals with her current resources but I don't think she'll stumble on them, she's not trying very hard. I think she may want to be trying to hurt me more than she actually wants me hurt, at least seriously hurt.