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No. No. NO!

[The video is an absolute blur, but there is definitely destruction happening. The tinkle of broken glass, loud thumps and cracks that sound a lot like furniture being hit with blunt objects - anything you'd associate with a house being utterly totalled from the inside can be heard through the maelstrom.

Then it stills, and one red-faced, absolutely apoplectic Pyro is visible in the middle of his path of destruction.]

You assholes. You stupid fucking assholes. If you were so almighty, we wouldn't be any threat to you, would we? So why the hell take them away? Curse me. Make me think I'm Stryker, I don't care. Just bring them back, and do it now.

[It doesn't matter how many times he's told others that people come back. That's it's random. That they're better off. This is his fucking leader and second-in-command, two of the mutants he admires above all others, and they're both gone. If someone doesn't talk him down soon, he'll be paying off the damages on a burnt-down paid residence for the rest of his time in Asgard.]

((ooc: backtags are coming, but this huge of a drop had to be referenced. also, if any gods want to garnish his wages for the damage or anything, consequences are obviously expected for this.))

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You should be. We were gonna make some real change around here. We just needed more time -

[There's a silence while he restrains himself from throwing anything else.]

And you can't "expect" people to go any more than stay. It just happens. I know people who've been here since the first group was brought in, and Magneto was here before me, so I figured my odds were good.

You think that is true, but I doubt it was.

[He is not attempting to be cruel, but truthful.]

You made assumptions, hoped for things. Your mistake.

[Loras may sound wise. He's just bitter.]

Doubt away. You haven't seen what they're capable of.

[As lightly as he responds to Loras's first statement, the second brings a snarl.]

And you didn't? You obviously didn't think your sister was gonna get taken away. Don't act like you're above it all when you piss your pants just as bad as anyone when they pull this.

I'm not acting as if I'm above it all! But you've been here longer, and you told me yourself that to lose people was common.

So no, I am not pretending to not be moved by losses. But taking out your anger on me will solve nothing.

This - this is targeted. [His voice is low and dangerous, but his ranting sounds decidedly paranoid.] This isn't just random people leaving. Both my allies and Oswin? They're after me, and they've figured out the curses don't work.

...or perhaps you're being paranoid.

[Because Loras fully believes the gods have cursed him, but rationally, he knows it isn't true.]

Man, Thor bitches about me personally when he talks to all of us. If that's not a grudge, what the hell is?

It simply means you are noticed by them.

Perhaps your friends were just useless to them.

Dangerous, yeah. Definitely not useless. Unless you just mean for the war, and if that's what it was, then I should've gone back too. 'Cause I'm not lifting a finger to help them.

[Loras snorts.]

So instead you will let your friends die, because of your stubborn pride? For they may fight, and they may die, if you refuse to.

If any of my friends die, it's their own stupidity that'll do it. They shouldn't be in this war either, and always caring about what's "right" over what'll keep you around another day'll get you killed eventually.

Most of 'em get that, so they'll be fine.

[Bobby. Always the blind spot, always the worry.]

So you and your friends have no honor.

At least I will remember that.

Honor.

[The disgust in his voice is off the charts.]

You keep your honor, and I'll stay alive. Sounds like a fair trade.

Yes it does.

For I would rather die for honor, than live as a coward, unwilling to protect those weaker than I.

You say coward, I say smart. This is obviously an agree to disagree situation.

Obviously.

[Because Loras, despite his own faults, would not back down on this.]

Nice talking to you again.

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