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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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"Froth? What does villain froth look like?" inquires Loki, starting river-ward.
"Sssshhh, if they think you can't stop me they won't let us walk. How've you been?"
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"Quite well. Finally got around to having that economics discussion, it was lovely."
"All of my brothers are very good company," he says fondly.
Well.
We hadn't met his wife before the wedding party, he courted her far away from the whole family which I do not blame him for in the slightest. It was a very formal very nice party in the palace and everyone'd drunk a lot and my father was being my father and Turgon was being - very restrainedly rude, Elenwë wouldn't have picked up on it because it was all comments that could have been neutrally intended, and they just kept picking at each other and eventually my father said to Elenwë that she would probably someday regret marrying for social position and the groom attempted to throttle Tirion's crown prince and it was very dramatic.
We hadn't met his wife before the wedding party, he courted her far away from the whole family which I do not blame him for in the slightest. It was a very formal very nice party in the palace and everyone'd drunk a lot and my father was being my father and Turgon was being - very restrainedly rude, Elenwë wouldn't have picked up on it because it was all comments that could have been neutrally intended, and they just kept picking at each other and eventually my father said to Elenwë that she would probably someday regret marrying for social position and the groom attempted to throttle Tirion's crown prince and it was very dramatic.
purposeful_glory
Oh dear. ...Your father and I did a bunch of experiments with ice and then discussed the matter and I listed some of Fingon's characteristics for him and he said Fingon was invited for dinner, which invitation I have not yet conveyed.
You should probably at least let Fingon know that it didn't go disastrously, he must have been worried for the last few months.
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Well, I would have characterized the previous exchange as a disaster, but he calmed down. ...Seemed to help when I mentioned that galactic weddings are more paperwork than soul grafting.
I did notice that he didn't have objections before I mentioned that.
And that wasn't a disaster. It was not much fun, and he'll probably not want to speak to me for a decade or so, but all the disaster scenarios I had in mind began with 'you're no son of mine and I'm not satisfied that you holding the Silmaril fulfills the 'Fëanáro's kin' stipulation of the Oath and you can go join New Mithrim if they'll have you but Doriath we're telling that we're not accountable for your behavior'.
And that wasn't a disaster. It was not much fun, and he'll probably not want to speak to me for a decade or so, but all the disaster scenarios I had in mind began with 'you're no son of mine and I'm not satisfied that you holding the Silmaril fulfills the 'Fëanáro's kin' stipulation of the Oath and you can go join New Mithrim if they'll have you but Doriath we're telling that we're not accountable for your behavior'.
I did not think that was likely or I wouldn't have chanced it. But not being on speaking terms with my father really truly isn't worse than I expected, and I got some satisfying yelling in first. And - the last thing he said to me was that we need not see each other until he has the indelible memory solution. That - is his way of apologizing, and I'll be the first to say that he's very bad at it, but - he was furious with me and made a point of communicating that he still considers a hard probably-unnecessary thing that will make me happy to be an important priority.
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He asked what sort of apology you'd like regarding the boats and I said you'd probably be thrilled with an actual verbal apology and he told me to either put New Mithrim within shouting distance or convince Fingon to come to dinner, is that promising?
Maturing emotionally is the one thing my father does at a very very Quendi pace.
But it's - he is putting in a lot more effort than I expected him to bother to put in.
But it's - he is putting in a lot more effort than I expected him to bother to put in.
I would expect that to be a disaster. My father does not enjoy being around people who hold him in contempt and I don't think Findekáno can win his respect or will particularly desire to try. Instead I expect my father will pointedly try to evaluate whether Findekáno is interesting to him and Findekáno will eventually, unless there's company, fall back on insinuating things that will annoy my father.
He might be miscalibrated about which insinuations will bother my father, though.
Father needs to believe that I - respect him, trust him, serve him out of something more than precommitments and convenience and common goals. The way to get under his skin would be to imply that for as long as Findekáno has known me I have thought of my father as an unpleasant and unlikeable complication to my goals and a barrier to my growth as a person.
Which I don't think is true, incidentally. I am pretty sure I did love him and trust him. But that's how I would hurt him if I were trying to, and you could certainly say true things that would raise it to his attention.
The way to upset anyone who isn't my father would have a lot more to do with implied relationship dynamics. As you must have picked up on by now.
Which I don't think is true, incidentally. I am pretty sure I did love him and trust him. But that's how I would hurt him if I were trying to, and you could certainly say true things that would raise it to his attention.
The way to upset anyone who isn't my father would have a lot more to do with implied relationship dynamics. As you must have picked up on by now.
I am sure as a species we will eventually outgrow it. Quendi pace.
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I look forward to being seventeen thousand years old and it being a thing of the past.
When I was younger I found it very satisfying that there were actions that carried all of these meanings I wanted. But there wasn't anything at stake back then and also it hadn't occurred to me that it was probably not so interesting and satisfying for everyone else.
purposeful_glory
You know what I find useful for conveying meanings? Words.