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When Thor steps into the bar this time, he's looking much more normal. (For Earth. Not really for Asgard.) He's in black jeans and workboots, and a sturdy brown jacket over a t-shirt -- borrowed clothes again, but this time they mostly fit, and they're suited to the New Mexico winter he's come from.

Of course, humans feel cold rather more acutely than Asgardians do, but Thor is pretty close to human at this point, like it or not. Anyway, he's used to wearing heavy layers of clothing. The jacket's honestly kind of a comfort.

He also steps up into Milliways, because he thought he was getting into a van.

Milliways is unexpected this time too, but his confusion passes rapidly. (And it's much less existential this time. Half a day and a good meal after his first Milliways entrance, Thor has his feet under him much more solidly.) He heads for the bar, although he's perfectly willing to be flagged down along the way.

[Tinytag: Thor Odinson, Darcy Lewis, Leela]

[OOC: Closed to new threads, sorry!]

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...Okay. Thor downgrades his mental explanation to speaking-to-a-Midgardian levels, and carries on without a hitch.

"Yggdrasil," he says again.

"The great tree on whose branches the worlds rest."

"We know of no such tree," says Luna. "Thine universe must be arranged very differently from Our own."

"Perhaps," Thor agrees, noncommittally.

Or perhaps her people haven't yet figured out how the wider universe works. (This is presumably incorrect, but it's Thor's first assumption.)

"What of your Equestria?"

He's curious!

"'Tis a land most verdant and beautiful," Luna begins. "Ponies of all kinds live there--earth ponies, pegasi, unicorns, and hippocamps--and Our Sister and Ourself are guardians of them all."

This sounds fascinating!

And beautiful. And, so far, completely comprehensible to Thor. Sure, he hasn't met some of these creatures, but he knows what they are, and this is the sort of world structure that fits right into his mental framework.

He listens with interest. It's clearly visible on his face, at least if Luna can read humanoid facial expressions; Thor's face is expressive, and there's no conflict here between courtesy and his feelings.

"The earth ponies have dominion over the land and all that grows there," she continues. "The pegasi likewise have dominion over the sky and the clouds. The unicorns are masters of magic, and the hippocamps are shepherds of the seas and all things that live there. My Sister and I may be the Sovereign of the Sun and Monarch of the Moon, but it is our subjects who are the true stewards of Equestria."

Thor hasn't totally internalized this lesson yet -- accepted it intellectually, sure, but not applied it to his own behavior and found himself lacking. (Though, to be fair, he's never been so much actively dismissive as just blithely thoughtless.) But he knows it as one of those things his father says about ruling.

"A fair realm," he approves, "and a most equitable division."

He assumes that some of each group, if not all of each group, are warriors. Even a peaceful realm has borders.

"And what of thine own realm, Thor of Asgard? Thou hast told Us where it lies in the heavens, but not of the place itself."

"It is a realm most fair," Thor avows, with the sincerity of someone who genuinely loves his home and the pride of its crown prince.

He's biased, of course, but Asgard is also justly famed.

"Smaller than many, but very rich. Most of its people live in the golden city at Asgard's center. Around it stretch fertile fields, and beyond them forests and mountains encircling, and far beneath the sea that runs off Asgard's rim and rises to fall again as rain. We have bold warriors sworn to Odin's service, and others of many different skills."

Thor respects artisans and magicians and farmers and so forth. Just... all in the absent way of someone who considers it obvious fact that being a warrior is the best and most noble course.

"All of Asgard look more or less as I," he adds, since he's talking to a ruler of various pony-creatures. "Except the animals, of course." Which includes equines, but that seems potentially awkward to mention. "The details of color and size and talents may vary, of course. But rarely so much as among your ponies, from the sound of it."

Can she sense power? He considers mentioning that he's stuck in a mortal form for the moment, and doesn't. Partly just because he doesn't really want to talk about it. It's embarrassing, and this is a fellow ruler.

"Oh, there are animals in Equestria as well," says Luna. "But We had never encountered creatures such as thine own self ere Our arrival in Milliways. They are most monotonous in appearance, if thou dost not mind Us saying so."

Thor grins, unoffended.

"I would not object to another's opinion."

Thor is ignoring the fact that some opinions he mightily objects to. But this isn't touching the honor of his family or any principles he cares deeply about, so.

"This clothing of Midgard is dull to my eyes as well, but I think your thoughts would likely remain unaltered did you see all Asgard's warriors in splendor. There are other peoples of the Nine Worlds, however, which might appease your desire for variety. Giants of fire and frost, elves and dark dwarves, and more besides."

And this is why Thor is blasé about talking to a blue alicorn princess.

"Elves? Dwarves?" echoes the princess, puzzled. "We know not of these things."

"Elves are creatures of light," Thor says, speaking not so much of moral alignment as of literal glowing. "They walk on two legs as I do, but they are slim and fair, as much sunlight as flesh."

"Dwarves are earth-dwellers, small and sturdily built." He gestures to indicate the height, in a very approximate wave somewhere about his waist. "Stubborn, too. They dwell beneath the soil, and they have powers of rock and dirt at their call. The two are kin, but not kindly disposed to each other."

The mun reserves the right to discreetly retcon some of this on the off chance that the Marvel movies decide to actually explore anything about Alfheim and Svartalfheim and Nidavellir. But she's not holding her breath about that.

This mun fully expects that her Millicanon about the origins of the two alicorn princesses will be Jossed to hell and back come next season.

"And thou sayest that they liveth in other worlds than thine own?" says Luna thoughtfully. "Are there no other thinking creatures living in Asgard itself?"

Edited 2012-06-19 22:26 (UTC)