[OOM: Family reunion. It’s Lokasenna by way of Jerry Springer; or maybe it’s Opposite Day, since Skaði cries, Loki gets the moral high ground and Weyland plays peacemaker. Small warnings for discussion of infanticide, child-murder, and less-than-consensual sexual activity; in other words, business as usual for this family.]The problem with having a body composed entirely of will and energy is that in situations like this, when he is deeply emotionally agitated—hurt and angry—a little of the shape integrity is lost; so the Loki that stalks down the stairs and into the bar tonight is a little hazy around the edges, at least at first.
He’s not going to take Pyrrha’s shape; this isn’t her problem. He’s not going to turn the body back over to Fina either; this much emotion, on top of her longstanding drive for revenge? He doesn’t want to spend the night in the cells. So here he is in his own shape—a lean, pretty, stubbly, bed-haired redhead in clothes he’d borrowed from Pyrrha (jeans, Chuck Taylors, a faded t-shirt from some small-town pridefest or other)—on his way up to the bar.
Alcohol. Alcohol will fix this, or at least give him a distraction for a while.
He orders some Atlantean, takes a deep breath, and
suppresses--solidifies, settles into a vague approximation of a smile.
Distractions are welcome.
[open until his next EP!]