asgardeventide | 009 || voice

[Is he going to mention anything that happened during the power failures? Definitely not. Not when he could distract himself with something else. Anything else. And his voice now is as cheerful as it's ever been.]

Hey-o, Asgard! Super quick poll time. How many people here would skin me alive if given the chance?

[No reason. Actually, several reasons, but. He follows it with a laugh.]

Not that I'm volunteering... yet. But hypothetically. No consequences, no turnabout, just a good, straightforward flaying of Henrys!

...Or anyone, for that matter. If you could slaughter absolutely anyone here with absolutely no backlash, would you go for it? I mean, it's not like anything you do is gonna follow you back home, so you might as well go wild with it! Doesn't even have to be for any reason, though you can imagine one if you'd like. Maybe you're just curious as to how it feels! --It feels great, by the way.

I've asked before whether anyone had murdering experience, and was kinda surprised at the answer- but I'm wondering if that's changed at all for anyone, just from being here. A lot of folk haven't been in a war before, and I see a lot of people asking or offering lessons in fighting. Which is great and all, but how many have experience in killing? It's a totally different field! And it's kinda the one that counts when it comes down to it.

But getting back to the important question here: skinning of Henry, yes or no? I'll even return the favor, if you want, though I'm a little out of practice. But if anyone wants a gory death for any reason, I'm your guy!

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So I can stop whoever killed you from doing it again.

[A pause.]

Without murdering them.

By breaking their legs? You know I don't mind doing that myself!

Well, I hadn't figured it out exactly yet, but I would.

I think legs are the way to go. I can show you! But if they're coming after me, you really shouldn't get involved anyway. You don't even have a power that's only good for killing. You're more useful elsewhere!

[He begins to say something but ultimately decides against it.]

It's a good thing this is all hypothetical.

[There's a laugh. It's pretty good at sounding normal.]

Of course. Totally unlikely, too. I've walked all over the city, into every dark and dangerous-looking crevice, and haven't run into a single ambush. The city's villains are slacking!

But it's nice to think about.

Well ... for you. You do realize you have friends who don't want this, right?

[There, he's finally said it.]

Eh? Well, I guess so...

[Which is alarmingly sentimental to consider. Or at least, it has something resembling emotions involved, so he just laughs instead, after a longer pause.]

Mm, I'm not good at this. Does it bother you?

Yeah, it's not the nature of it that bothers me. Which is worrying in other ways.

It's that it's you.

Getting to learn the joys of carnage, huh? Experience will do that to ya!

But you don't have to worry about me. I'll be fine! Possibly after ending up in several pieces.

It's more that I'm desensitized to it, Henry.

And you won't be fine, not really. Or you shouldn't be.

You'll get there! Tolerance is just the first stage. Give it a little more time and you'll be laughing your way across the battlefield~

And I've been fine so far! Both in death, and in every bit of mangling that I've ever had.

I doubt that's how it started for you, Henry. But good job with that wishful thinking.

[He guesses.]

But eventually, death won't work out for you.

Not exactly. But it helps! Once you leave a few more broken corpses behind ya, you'll see!

And sure, eventually death'll knock me off completely! But that's not a bad thing, everyone has to die sometime.

I'm not planning on it.

[But he has faced some of the harsher parts of this war. Not that he's going to tell Henry that.}

And I don't think you want to die here. Not for good.

If you're sure!

[And he's unlikely to try and push it, especially on someone he considered a friend. Even if he tries to not consider it at all.]

And sure, I'm not trying to die here. I'll fight it off as long as I can! But it's still there waiting, and whether I want it to doesn't change a thing.

Well, you have to make it back home. Just in case you have to have children.

[It's something that Harry thinks is likely important.]

Nah, I don't think that's going to happen. They would've come back from the future by now. I'm not even married! I have Gerome here- but he's another Henry's, I'm not gonna see him when I go home either.

Oh, er. Right.

That's still confusing.

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