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[willnotwatch]

WHAT in person
WHERE the... cemetery?
WHEN day ""136""

[somewhere in cam... cour... uh, qm, there appears to be a new plot of land—some overgrown with weeds and other weed-adjacent plants, and some with towering oak trees and the like, and some with just perfect patches of freshly mowed and manicured grass...

also

there are tombstones every scattered all over this area, with the name of your father or father-figure on them, regardless of whether or not they are here or dead or here-dead.

yeeeeesh.]

Comments

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

Well-- yes, but, it's obviously meant to be a symbolic... stand-in. Thing. It's not literal.

[dranksforthememories]

Well I already did my fair share of yelling at Odin in effigy ages ago anyway.

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[l-laugh. looks at his hands.]

Yes, I suppose you would.

[dranksforthememories]

[plunks down on the ground beside him]

Honestly, if anyone's going to shout at any rocks, isn't it about your turn?

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[shakes his head.]

No, it doesn't feel right. He didn't betray me like he did you, or, mistreat me as he did Loki. I was spoiled, his favorite, he even still comes to me in visions. Compared to everyone else...

[dranksforthememories]

Oh, yeah. Compared to everyone else, him lying to you about your entire existence and family legacy and his banishing you for doing as he taught you and judging your worth by proxy through a hammer is just. Fine? I guess? Good parenting? Responsible?

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

Well. Yeah. I am, kind of mad about those things.

[dranksforthememories]

[pats his arm]

Good, because I was being sarcastic about them being fine.

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[laughs]

Oh really, I couldn't tell.

I-- I have something important to tell you. And him, I guess.

I've-- decided to renounce the throne after all.

[dranksforthememories]

[UHM]

[swivels her head to stare at him. just, this face.]

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

Of course I'l still loyally serve and lead Asgard as its prince but to ascend now is pointless, isn't it? It's vanity. I was standing king for days.

[dranksforthememories]

...

...don't take this the wrong way, but what's the point of not doing it, exactly?

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[dry]

The prince stops telling me his life is worth less than mine. And anyone like him that's left can't do it either.

[dranksforthememories]

...

[cocks her head, like, okay, worth a shot]

Do you think that'll work?

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

Honestly I have no idea. But... he seemed to hear me this time. He heard that I only took the throne with him at my side, at least...

[dranksforthememories]

[nods...]

...listen, I don't give a fuck about Asgard's throne, but it's weird you're calling it vanity. It's not like you were gonna take it for you in the first place.

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[snorts. picking at the dirt and the lil rocks in it.]

No. I was going to take it for him.

[flicks a pebble at the tombstone '-']

My whole life I wanted to make him proud. Stand for everything he told me to stand for, be the king he told me to be. Then I learn he didn't stand for those things himself.

[dranksforthememories]

No, he was a huge hypocrite. You're not, though.

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[Smiles up at her.]

I trust you'll throw me through a few walls if I ever am.

[dranksforthememories]

Duh.

[tugs his hair a little]

Do everyone a favour and don't make any unsettling abdication speeches in front of the people until they're safely planetside somewhere, yeah?

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

[fjsl laughs]

I didn't even make an ascension speech.

[dranksforthememories]

Keep it up, then. No speeches.

[aahiyaaaaaa_ah]

Frankly it seems easier to just not bother the people with, symbolic politics and gestures going on with the remaining royals.

[dranksforthememories]

It's gonna get confusing fast when we bring Loki home to rule by your side and you're both technically "Your Highness," though. I will probably just start calling you Sparkles in front of everyone.