asgardeventide | Chapter 5 ✒ Video

[Hello there, Asgard. Enjoy a message from everyone's favorite mystery writer and wannabe cop. He's currently sitting in his room, his brow furrowed in thought.]

I have a question.

[He pauses, trying to determine the most delicate way to ask this.]

What if we don't want to fight in this supposed war that is coming our way?

[This place isn't that bad. He's met some really great people that he likes. But to be honest? He cares about Beckett and Alexis. They're the only ones that he wants or needs to protect, and would be willing to give his life for. What the hell does he care about the gods and their stupid war with each other? None of this is worth any of their lives.]

What are they going to do? Pull us out of the halls and drop us into a battlefield?

[Maybe he shouldn't have said that out loud because that's probably exactly what they'd do. Castle sure as hell didn't sign up for this. And wouldn't the gods want people who were actually interested in fighting?

He wonders if a deal could be struck. What would be the price for sending he, Beckett and Alexis back home?]

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And if there is, do you think broadcasting it on this network, itself yet another so called gift of the gods, is the way forward? I admit, I have my own thoughts on the matter; I suspect it's not as cut and dry as the gods make claim, but I'm well aware that the walls have ears and the ground eyes.

So far nobody has found an escape route and I don't expect one to be found. The gods themselves are going to have to allow it.

[But what does he have to give them? A boatload of money back home but what the hell would they even want with that?]

And why would they do that? They already have everything they need.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Maybe the third option is more covert.

[ he's had a browse of the other conversations, and the why of the question, the post, has been made somewhat apparent (a daughter. how typical)— ]

And then what? You're not the only one here with family and friends. If you discovered this elusive third option, what is it that would make you, above all else, worthy of it? The gods' would not grant a reprieve to all who asked, to all who presented them with this but-a-hope you speak of. I won't ask if you could go through with it — condemning a whole other world to destruction for love, for clearly you believe you could, and that is humanity, is it not? But

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What would they think of you if they knew?

Wouldn't it be better for them to have people who both know how and want to fight instead of myself? To me, they're just asking to lose if they have a bunch of me's on their battlefield. Send me home. Take someone who's in better shape.

[That was something he hated admitting, but if it got him back to New York, then so be it.]

As far as what they would think? I'd be home with my daughter and my girlfriend and this place would be a memory.

[And now some questions for you, guy.]

Your name is Loki. Kind of ironic.

You're sorely mistaken if you believe battle is all that makes up war. If it were, war would be far simpler.

That wasn't what I asked.

I am Loki. There's no irony there at all.

So, what, they're going to let me sit around and work strategy? Actually I might not be half bad at that.

[Hey, if he can craft a compelling mystery novel...]

If you are him then who's that other guy whose House I seem to be a part of?

Who am I to say? Regardless, I suspect your emotional turmoil over your loved ones being involved will satisfy them, and Asgard, greatly.

Another. I suggest you don't contend me on the issue of my identity.

I dunno. Does emotional turmoil combat greyness?

How are there two of you, though?

Emotions do, or so they say.

Four. There's a Loki of Utgard, and another — a child — that claims my name. [ and remarkable similarities that aside. ] This realm claims a Loki of its own, as does its Utgard. I am of Asgard, but not this one. The child is from yet another version of Asgard, if I'm not mistaken.

All universes require gods. That is how.

Knowing what I know about this place, that actually makes sense.

Must be pretty shitty for you though.

[Kind of amusing to Castle.]

And why is that?

[ on the one hand, it completely is. on the other hand, loki's not going to deny that there aren't advantages that he can and will use. ]

Other Loki was apparently able to trap you here as well.

I think you'll find it would have been Odin, as a matter of fact, and I've merely traded one Asgard for another. I've time enough to make this more than a cage. Their folly is in making it too small and weak to hold all that they wish.

And yet, you're here.

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And yet. [ he's under no illusions that he'd be lacking in freedom if he were on his asgard; one cage for another, only on this one, there's yet no risk of being tried as a war criminal. ] I intend on making the best of it.

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I am Loki. That ought not be forgotten by anyone.

[ and he intends on having a bit of fun. ]

I won't forget you, buddy.

I am in your House, after all.

It's hardly mine. [ in the sense that he assumes castle means, at least; he may have been placed there, but he claims no allegiance, feels no kinship with its patriarch, and certainly does not claim it as home. ] As you were so keen to point out, at least.

I'm just saying. The Trickster God attracts a certain type of people.

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Do you consider us to have a certain kinship, Richard?

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Or would you prefer 'Mr. Castle'?

Just Castle.

And who knows? As you mentioned, the Loki whose house I'm in is not you.

"A certain type of people." I was merely curious as to what you believed that to be, as we're apparently it.

[There's a pause as he thinks of how best to word this.]

Ones who know that there's more than one way to get something done.

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