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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
purposeful_glory
Oh, I didn't say he was ineffective. Just, he seems to have already decided she was in the way.
You said she was 'being Galadriel'. That doesn't give me much to work from.
purposeful_glory
Malicious miscellaneous gossip, principally aimed at Lúthien. Lúthien and I wound up having a very sharp conversation about homosexuality. At one point I implied that I was ditching her "princess sleepover" plan to go find a girl to sleep with but I've run out of known amenables.
Maedhros mentioned in one of his letters that Thuringwethil was intrigued.
You can't - I am familiar with the comments being unpleasant, but you can't pick a fight over it every time, it's what all of us are told - by the gods themselves - from a very young age. Compassionate people will be compassionate about believing it's abhorrent and self-destructive behavior, but no one, not even Fëanor, seems to have, without personal inclination prompting them, thought their way right out of believing it.
You can't - I am familiar with the comments being unpleasant, but you can't pick a fight over it every time, it's what all of us are told - by the gods themselves - from a very young age. Compassionate people will be compassionate about believing it's abhorrent and self-destructive behavior, but no one, not even Fëanor, seems to have, without personal inclination prompting them, thought their way right out of believing it.
If you pick a fight specifically when the comments are directed at Maedhros that's worse.
purposeful_glory
I picked a fight because I was disappointed in Lúthien and angry at Galadriel, and it was the thing I could most readily complain about in the whole miserable list with a minimum of sounding confirmatory.
What else was she saying?
purposeful_glory
Loki has an eidetic memory; she recites the list verbatim.
He sighs and shakes his head. I will ask Finrod to do something about her.
purposeful_glory
Maedhros may have already done, but assuming more effort can be applied without canceling out...
Depends what he did.
I don't expect there'll be any problems, then.
Could he factually take us all alive if he wanted to?
We had contingency plans for if Fëanor found a way around his word and for some reason picked a fight, but since Angband fell the contingency plan has been 'surrender'. Don't tell them that.
purposeful_glory
Won't. But I would be incredibly pissed off at them if they threatened you with nukes. That is not why I let them have nukes.
They haven't, have they? Don't get angry at them because we have a plan for if they did.
purposeful_glory
Yes, I'm just pointing out that they have reasons besides his oath and the possibility that you'd do something other than fold encouraging them to avoid it.
Right, people who you're very annoyed with don't have a good track record.
purposeful_glory
Well, sometimes they get away with it if all I am is annoyed. People who I'm annoyed with and threaten populations I like, though, those have a terrible track record.
I am not nearly as paranoid about my cousins as I'm sure I must come off whenever we speak - it's my job to have plans for even unlikely things, if they're the sort of thing that can effectively be planned for - but if I were him and wanted to pull this off, I'd do it while you were a day into accelerated cognition, communicate his terms to no one but my father and tell my father that he'd demand an oath from anyone who was told about the threat, and then once he got his surrender and his oaths spend eight weeks designing a different story about the reconciliation.
purposeful_glory
Might work, until I gave everybody free will and the secrecy oaths snapped.