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𝗃 𝗎 𝗉 𝗂 𝗍 𝖾 𝗋
𝓒𝓪𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓽 10:45 AM
MOOD: ᴍɪssɪɴɢ ʀᴏᴍᴇ.



Patterns existed in everything; nature, humanity, business, godhood. It’s why Jupiter found them so comforting; patterns meant predictability and predictability meant that Jupiter always had the upper hand. The god himself had a predictable schedule: wake up, work, jog, work, shower, work, work, work. However, none of the brothers of the Archaic Triad could be considered predictable themselves. Jupiter may maintain a predictable livelihood, under his dark hair stirred plots from all angles. Because of his capricious nature, Jupiter is of the understanding that Mars and Janus are also of the same nature. Brunches may be the bane of Jupiter’s existence (brunch for this, brunch for that, brunch for family, and brunch for business), it was good to take the time to catch up with his duo that complete his trio and some of the other Romans.

If he could get out the door, that is.

“Mr. Kingsley, you have received an important message from – ” His assistant hurried after his steps, his formal shoes clacking on the tile like tap shoes on a mat.

Jupiter didn’t bother glancing up from the newspaper he was reading, “No.”

The assistant hesitated and Jupiter’s long strides took him far away from whatever nobody wanted to contact him. He passed by the circular desk at the front of the building, and Helena perked up at the sight of him. Her eyes roved over him, looking for anything out of place, until she spotted something absolutely juicy. Nothing could get past Helena, the gossip hound of the company.

“Mr. Kingsley, did you fall and bruise your neck?” She asked innocently, as boldly calling it a ‘hickey’ would certainly land her in hot water. “I hope you didn’t hurt yourself!”

“I’m fine.” Jupiter responded, turning the page of his newspaper and hurrying up to the glass doors.

And once he thought he was free from his nosy and noisy employees, he was greeted by a small protest at his doors. Surely over some clean energy thing that Jupiter had no interest in at that particular moment. Sure, the environment is important – matter of fact, Jupiter thinks it is extremely important if he is to bring Rome to its former glory – but his aerospace company is a long way from being able to operate without jet fuel.

“Mother earth killer!” Someone shouted at him and Jupiter sighed as he tucked his hands into his pockets. Hypocrites, all of them. They like to degrade his use of jet fuel until one of them needs to fly halfway across the world.

Jupiter tossed the newspaper towards the protester and the protester fumbled to catch it, “Recycle this please.” Plebeian.

A black car awaits him at the curb, bodyguards holding back the protesters who seem more confused than organized. The driver had been informed ahead of time where to drive him, a preference Jupiter expressed to his assistant as he likes his car rides to be as silent as possible. Instead of making light conversation, something he finds rather wasteful of his breath, Jupiter stares out the window at the American citizens he will one day make his. He nearly grins at the thought of it; Rome, glorious, built again. Some might call it an obsession of his, but Jupiter prefers to think of it as a purpose.

The car pulls up to the restaurant and Jupiter slides smoothly from his seat. He throws a couple of bills onto the seat he once occupied, tipping his driver a little something extra as there is a chance he’ll come back with a temper. Not that his brothers made him temperamental, but rather discussing godhood politics was a source of great frustration for him.

He didn’t bother listening to the owner of the restaurant, not even acknowledging him as the owner greeted him with a ‘Mr. Kingsley, you’re brother is-‘. Jupiter knows where his brother is; the penthouse, like always. It’s a waste of conversation to confirm something Jupiter already knows, so Jupiter sees no point in discussing it. Instead, Jupiter enters the elevator and presses the button to the top floor.

The doors open into the penthouse; it is nice and beautiful by modern mortal standards, yet Jupiter can’t help but compare it to the sweeping architecture of Rome made with hard labor and mathematical precision. And there was his brother, Janus, standing amongst it all. Of them all, Jupiter believes Janus adapted the best, as expected of him.

“Julius, you are here early. Like always.” It’s the most Jupiter has said this morning, having been buried in paperwork since the early hours, and ignoring anyone who tried to hold conversation with him. “The others must not be long now.”

Jupiter meandered around the room, studying the interior that he has grown accustomed to. Jupiter has always lived as a King, lavishly and extravagantly, but being a capitalistic king was a whole new experience. Well, it was some odd years ago when he first conquered the transportation industry.



Many things could be said about Loki. Homewrecker, murderer, life-ruiner, trickster, the list goes on and on. Loki likes to think of himself as the life of the party. And he quite likes parties, always had the taste for them since the roaring twenties; not the foolish frat parties those little Greek gods like to throw. No, Loki loves true parties, the Great Gatsby kind, the kind where extravagant people go to get extravagantly wasted.

And what better way to celebrate mourn a death than a party.

“— cordially invited to party with your favorite — Todd, are you writing what I’m saying or playing with your dick. Jesus, you write so slow.” Loki snapped his fingers at his lackey, er, assistant.

“Sorry, um, h-how do you spell cordially again?” Todd stuttered, pencil held ham-fisted over the back of a receipt Loki got at the convenience store down the street (he was craving bad coffee).

Loki sipped his bad black coffee, choking a little on the aftertaste and enjoying it in the way only a Chaos God could. “Uh, I don’t know actually. Maybe sound it out?”

Todd sounded it out under his breath, writing it down, and Loki took that as his cue to continue. “Ahem, with your favorite trickster — ”

Just as he had started, the door busted open and in came a breathless (what was his name again?), panting like a dog south of the equator. His hair was mussed and sweaty hands were gripping a black bag that he weakly brandished to Loki. “Mr. Leo, I have it!”

Loki steepled his fingers together and grinned, “Perfect. Absolutely perfect. You are
dismissed, Todd.”


“What about—”

Dismissed! And Todd scuttled out the door with his tail between his legs.

The trickster god beckoned Carl(?) over with an ominous finger. Carl carried the black bag like it held his lifeline (and, truthfully, it might) before slowly placing it on the desk. Loki gestured for Carl to push the black bag closer to him. This was it, Loki felt anticipation at what he was about to do. Todd was a good substitute, but nothing could replace his — laptop!

The laptop gleamed in the dank basement of Todd’s mother (Loki really needed to find a new base of operations) and Loki rubbed it lovingly. Now, he can truly write his invitation, with beautiful, beautiful spellcheck.

“You may go, Carl.” Loki waved his hand towards the wooden stairwell.

Carl made to leave before straightening in almost offense, “Uh, sir, my name is Timothy.”

“Wait, really?” Loki pondered this, wondering briefly where he got Carl from. “Well, Timmy, you are free to go. Shoo, shoo.”

Timothy left without another word and Loki got to work. His fingers moved speedily, dancing across the sleek keyboard as the words flowed easily into his mind. The trickster was beyond giddy with his idea. The ball will not only give him a chance to wear that suit he impulse bought, but will also allow him to stoke the flames between the gods without even having to lift a finger! Hera was so quick to accuse everyone in the span of five minutes; he wonders how many accusations will be thrown around during an entire ‘charity event’. Loki made sure to write up a separate invitation to invite some humans to the ball as well, to make the event more legitimate.

“Hm, it’d be rather weird for an illegal bookie to be holding a charity event, wouldn’t it?” Loki tapped his chin in thought even though he didn’t even really have to think about it.

Gods and Goddesses,

I cordially invite you to my lavish charity event that is to be held October 16th. It is a black tie event and I expect you to dress your very best, lest you be denied at t he door! I hope you all grace us with your presence. (:

- Jupiter, King of Gods


And sent!

𝔗 𝔥 𝔢 𝔐 𝔬 𝔯 𝔯 𝔦 𝔤 𝔞 𝔫
LOCATION: ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ʀᴇᴀᴅy ᴛᴏ ɢᴏ.



The room started to thin out, several of the gods seeing it fit to leave early and the Morrigan felt her anger flare once more. She pinched the bridge of her nose and took a second to even her breaths before addressing the room.

“I know I don’t have a lot of information, but it’s imperative that you all know as soon as possible.” Her hands grip the podium and her eyes pierce into every god in the room, “There is a murderer on the loose and any one of us could be next.”

The Morrigan spared a glance towards the mourning mother, feeling one-legged and graceless. What is one supposed to say to people who lost someone special? Especially when all she knew of Hephaestus was his ugliness and bad politics. The Morrigan cleared her throat awkwardly, “My condolences to everyone close to him. He was, er, a special man with…a good heart?”

Well, she tried.

The Morrigan was a professional, and professionals always put their phones on vibrate during an important meeting. Despite the gravity of the situation, someone thought it fit to call her again. The woman fished out her phone from her pocket and glared at the caller ID. She hit the end button, resolved to call back after she concluded the meeting.

“Well, this has been…entirely unproductive and I hope next time we meet it will be tamer.” She shot a glance at the door which Ares had walked out of a moment earlier. “Now, excuse me, I have an important phone call to take.”

𝕃 𝕆 𝕂 𝕀
LOCATION: ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠɪɴɢ ᴀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴛɪᴍᴇ.


interactions:@Danvers


"Oh, wait! Did Zaddy play Tetris with a horse again? ...No? A cow maybe? Or a goat?"

Loki shot up from his seat with indignation, a seat which he had been sulking in for the past five minutes after the frostiest hug from his own daughter. Onto his feet, and showing a vigor he hadn’t shown towards any other mishap that happened in that damnable room, Loki shouted for everyone to hear, “How dare you! I haven’t done that in age—”

Well, it was rather odd that Hermes of all people would call him ‘zaddy’. They had a partnership of sorts at his casino, occasionally doubling together for the odd con, but never has Hermes shown an inkling of sexual attraction or familial connection to Loki. It dawned on him, “—oh wait, you mean Zeus. Sorry.”

Loki retook his seat, crossing one leg over the other and assuming the Thinker pose. While the whole debacle this Conclave has turned into is, frankly, hilarious, it does bring up a lot of questions. Yes, of course, there’s the ‘whodunnit’ – but, more importantly, how? If he learned how, then Loki might be able to finish off his enemies more effectively (more effectively translating to not spending hours creating spa invites outside of the Colossus bounds only for the god to decline his invitation). It would certainly solve a lot of problems for him.

“I, also, would like to ask,” Loki began, puffing out his chest and donning a faux curious look, “why does the Wicked Witch of the West care about a son that she threw off a mountain? I don’t know, I’m just spitballing here, but I think Hera is the killer.”

With a devious smirk, Loki leaned back in his chair and spread his arms wide as if to say ‘I’m an open book here’. No doubt some of them might accuse him of murder, but there really is no foreseeable reason for him to kill Hephaestus. Well, unless he decided murder is a justifiable punishment for being ugly, which is apparently what Hera thought some thousand odd years ago.

As is, once Loki discovers how Hephaestus was killed, Odin is about to be in a world of hurt.






𝔗 𝔥 𝔢 𝔐 𝔬 𝔯 𝔯 𝔦 𝔤 𝔞 𝔫
LOCATION: ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ʜᴀꜱ ʜᴀᴅ ᴇɴᴏᴜɢʜ.


interactions:@gothelk & everyone at the Conclave


The smell of a hospital. A firm chest behind her back, arms encasing her. The war is so far away from them… The Morrigan’s nails scratched five perfect deep grooves into the podium. A lot of things annoyed the Morrigan, but dealing with the Greeks topped the list – especially when one of them decided to use their powers on her without permission. Aphrodite’s intention may have been to calm the room, but remembering the world wars only caused her ire to grow. The Morrigan has never loved and will never love.

“Are all of you done yet?” The Morrigan calls out, her voice commanding as she stares the only Roman god down.

Like a soldier marching to face combat, the Morrigan steps away from the podium and advances towards Mars. His words ring in her head with each footstep and all she can hear are the gods constantly asking for her to – what? Magically have all the answers?

“Let me make this perfectly clear, to all of you.” The Morrigan begins, voice assertive and unwavering, “I am not your keeper. I am not your mother. I am not in charge of a bunch of sniveling, poor excuses for deities. You want your answers? Then stop with the theatrics and 𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫.”

The Morrigan turned on her heel and returned to the podium. Her phone flashed with an incoming phone call and she scowled at it before rejecting the call. There’s no time for that right now, she has a group of unruly gods to babysit, apparently.

The state of the Greek pantheon is devastatingly sad and despondently useless. It was one of their own who died, though, and part of the Morrigan wanted to let them mourn. She wanted to sympathize with them, see their hurt and soothe it. The Morrigan wanted to feel bad for them – they just made it so damn hard to. They find out Hephaestus died, and this is the reaction from them all? To fall so easily to their emotions like hapless mortals? There is a time for mourning, but the Morrigan has the room until 1:00 PM and throwing tantrums isn’t in her itinerary.

“Now, if you have all calmed down, I’ll tell you what I know.” The Morrigan inhales and exhales, “Which is absolutely nothing.” Before anyone could interrupt, the Morrigan holds up her hand to command silence, “Hephaestus’ thread of fate has been snipped which means he has died, and not in a way fate had intended. Someone manipulated his fate and murdered him somehow. How? I don’t know, I have my crows searching for his body currently, but we don’t know where he is.”

The Morrigan made the executive decision to keep from them that she’s never seen fate manipulated so. Never has the Morrigan found a thread of fate cleanly snipped like she did at Hephaestus’ home, unlike the fray of life that she always discovers.

𝓜 𝓲 𝓵 𝓵 𝓲 𝓮 𝓙 𝓮 𝓪 𝓷
LOCATION: ɴᴇᴄᴛᴀʀ'ꜱ


There was something about rolling your eyes too hard that was slightly painful, like a twinge in your eyebrows when your vision goes dark for that split second. Millie Jean only knows this because she rolled her eyes so hard at Jasper that she saw red spots for a split second. She doesn’t really know what she did to offend Jasper so much other than stick up for her friend. In her humble opinion, the other girl’s immense dislike of her seemed uncalled for; not that Jasper would care to hear her opinion at all, or even hear anything Millie Jean had to say.

Usually Millie Jean would chuckle at Nate’s awkward and endearing nature, but her mood had soured at the presence of Jasper. Millie Jean was too nonconfrontational to talk to Jasper about her frankly offensive behavior, so instead she took a sip of her drink and kept her eyes on the napkin before her. The club suddenly felt very, very hot.

“I’m going to the bathroom.” Millie said suddenly, standing up and grabbing her drink. She moved away from the table quickly before she could hear them say anything, gunning for the bathroom to at least get some space from the table. Tonight was supposed to be her night.

And it, decidedly, wasn’t her night.

The bathroom door looked like the gate to heaven, a golden halo around it symbolizing her escape. Her imagined getaway was beautiful until it was blocked by a familiar silhouette. Like a train wreck, she saw everything in slow motion; her body careened forward, tripping over someone’s foot in the crowd, and she face planted into someone’s back. Her drink dumped all over her and the not-so mysterious other.

To be quite honest, Millie Jean was tired of falling onto Cassian Lee. What is that saying? Once is an accident, twice is a hobby?

𝔗 𝔥 𝔢 𝔐 𝔬 𝔯 𝔯 𝔦 𝔤 𝔞 𝔫
ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴄʜᴀʀᴛꜱ!


The Morrigan is a precise woman. When she sent her emails, penned her letters, ordered her crows, she did so with the message that it was The Conclave – with a capital ‘C’. Capitalization to signify the importance of the Conclaves and why attendance was dire. Yet, still, the gods bumble into the room like toddlers with their ‘why, why, why’s. Part of her wants to scream ‘why? Because I said so!’, but then she would have to deal with at least two gods calling her ‘mom’.

First it was Mot, sweeping into the room with his disinterest and disdain, demanding answers from her like she was his to serve. Politely, she told him to wait, as there were more to come. Politeness went out the window when it was asked a second time, by Shango, and she answered with clipped tones and forced smiles (“Not everyone is here yet, please take a seat where your name is.”) And her seating chart! Her seating chart, thrown out the window by everyone and their damn mother! Do they not know how much of her prints she used up for those name slips?

By the time the danishes arrived, a headache had already formed in her temple like a steady beat of a drum. No, with Zeus in the room, it became a sledgehammer on soft clay. She pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes to the gods, breathing in and out with the whirr of the air conditioning. The din of the room faded behind the kaleidoscopic swirls of her eyelids and she lost herself in her breathing. When she opened her eyes again, she was calm – not collected, noticeably, but decidedly less likely to rip another god’s head off with her bare hands.

With a new distance from the chaos of the room, the Morrigan watched the pantheons behind a veil of disinterest and cold observance. It seemed that a lot of them were under the impression she liked these Conclaves, that she enjoyed bringing them together for dick measuring contests when all she wants is answers. When all she wants is to return to her place in the universe. The Morrigan glared at an empty seat, noticing the absence of the Roman gods with a prick of annoyance. Of course, they wouldn’t show, even when one of them RSVP’d. Well, Mars might show eventually, to report back to his brother-in-arms.

“You must wait no longer, my fair lady~!” The thin veil between her and chaos snapped, torn down by the hands of Benzaiten (no, she goes by Bentley now). “Did you get my email about next semester? Not that I mind seeing everyone still alive and kicking, but you don’t need to throw these little meetings to see me, I’d come wherever you asked me to.”

The Morrigan cleared her throat, belatedly noticing that Benzai – Bentley had taken her hand to kiss. A little bit of heat stuck to her hands where her lips once were, and the Morrigan snatched her hand away quickly to clasp in her other hand. She forced a smile, polite but distant, “Ah, I haven’t had a chance to check my email, what with planning the Conclave. It is about to start, I think I see a seat with your name over there that you can – fuck it, just sit wherever you want, everyone else is.”

Last time she makes a damn seating chart. She, once again, wonders why she bothers as she twists away from Bentley to take a drink of water from her water bottle. When she turns around again, there’s vomit on the floor and the room stinks of upchucked fish and artificial raspberry. The Morrigan runs her hands over her face and glares at the empty seats once more. Fuck the Romans, fuck the Greeks – hell, fuck everyone for ruining her seating chart. Who does that? Their names are clearly on their seats! It doesn’t get much simpler than that!

“Poseidon.” She says instead, fingers gripping the podium she stands behind as she smiles at the long-thought dead god (except she knew, always had known). “I’m glad to see you made it. Please take a seat…wherever. Thank you, Anubis, for getting the janitor.”

She waited until the mortal janitor left before talking about their very discrete matter. “Everyone please settle down, I have something important to say.”

No one heard her, caught up in their own conversations, and she thinks she even spies three of the Greeks napping. Do they really think she called a Conclave for them to dally? Does no one understand the risk they are taking, letting the Colossus sit in the unknown?

Hephaestus’s mysterious death in Seattle meant more than a simple mourning. It meant they were killable – by something other than distance from the Colossus. It meant that they were immortal, but not invincible like they originally thought. They don’t have her power, they don’t see the threads of fate twisting before her eyes, and they didn’t see the clean snip of Hephaestus’s string. It wasn’t his fate to die – someone manipulated fate to kill him, cut the threads themselves, and it wasn’t just wrong, it was impossible.

“Please, everyone just – ” and still they continued, Hades even managed to slink in during the chaos. She couldn’t take this anymore! She is so tired of being the responsible god, the god that calls the Conclaves, that covers for them when they slip on their secret – tired of being the damn janitor!

“Hephaestus is dead and I don’t know who killed him.”
  “Hephaestus is dead and I don’t know who killed him.”

𝔸 𝕄 𝕄 𝕀 𝕋
ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ ⇀ ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ꜰᴜᴄᴋ ᴇᴠᴇʀyᴛʜɪɴɢ.



The heated battle of court is the only thing keeping Ammit’s eyes wide and awake. The night before was spent nervously cooking meals upon meals upon meals, anxiety only borne from conclaves gnawing at her like she gnawed on hearts. Work was easy, though, a rhythm that her fingers fell into with a tap, tap, tap.One would think the repetitiveness would have her falling into dreamland, but dissecting the loud yelling of the prosecutor and the low timbre of Anubis.

“The motion to reduce the bail for Mr. Andre Lawerence has been rejected, we will convene back here to continue this case bright and early on Monday. This is day five, Mr. Isam, let’s not drag this on much longer, alright?” The judge intoned and Ammit hurried to type it down so she could get out of there as quickly as possible. The Conclave was starting soon, too.

From across the courtroom Ammit could see the broad planes of Anubis’s back clothed in one of his nice suits. Eons of knowing him led Ammit to understanding him almost like the back of her palm – she could see the frustration emanating from him like drawn radio waves in a comic book. Her first instinct was to go to him, smooth his suit down and tell him his favorite words of hers (“I’ll feast well, tonight”). Then she remembered – he’s not her fuckin’ boss anymore.

“Hmph! I’m my own boss!” She harrumphed to herself, gathering her things together.

“No, you’re not.” The Judge muttered as he passed behind her, not even looking up from the paper in his hands. Ammit clamped down her first reaction to give him a not-so-kind gesture.

Whatever, she has a Conclave to go to anyways.

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Her shitty car didn’t have a name, because shitty cars don’t deserve names – and she tells her car that every time she drives it, angrily thumping at the steering wheel when it makes a weird sound. She refuses to get it fixed, whatever is wrong with it; no way in hell is she going to spend money on such a piece of junk. At the thought of it, Ammit rolls down her window and spits, hoping part of her saliva hit the car to remind it that it is beneath her. Sometimes it forgets.

Because of the reasons outlined above, Ammit drives her car slowly and carefully on the road. An important thing to note when she spots Anubis’s car zigzagging through traffic while hers chugs along like a slug on fire. Ammit scowls to herself, smacking the radio in between the seats to change the station – violence is the only way to get any of the buttons in her car to work. In a way, this car was meant for her.

It was a slow drive to the Conclave, frustrating and anxiety riddled. She parked her car messily, going over all sorts of lines, and caring very little for it. She dares someone to hit her car. Ammit may not eat hearts anymore, but that doesn’t mean she won’t stab them. (An over exaggeration, of course, but said with the confidence that if she were charged, Anubis would work for her for free).

The room was easy to find, and she didn’t so much as push the door as she did kick it wide open. She didn’t do it for the dramatic entrance, but rather to get the last bit of anger out of her after she saw Anubis’s car in the parking lot. He was there before her. It might not have been a race, officially, but damn did Ammit hate losing. Ammit entered the room and ignored everyone around her, beelining for the Egyptians since they were all already congregated together.

“Hey Bastet, Hathor.” Ammit said in greeting, choosing to slouch in a chair near Hathor, and added belatedly, “…Boob.”

Ammit glared at Anubis, daring him to challenge her nickname for him in front of their pantheon.

I said I wouldn't... But here I am 🙄😂


ayyyyyy join!!!

𝕃 𝕆 𝕂 𝕀
ᴛᴏᴅᴅ'ꜱ ᴍᴏᴍ'ꜱ ʙᴀꜱᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ ⇀ ꜱᴇᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴛy
MOOD: ʜᴀᴠɪɴɢ ᴀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴛɪᴍᴇ.




Basements are inherently dastardly. Nothing good ever came from the bowels of a basement; so, Loki makes it a habit of conducting business in luxurious hotels and fancy rooftops – things befitting a rich underground bookie who makes millions off of gambling addicts. Then, the damn police came sniffing around his base of operations, and his little meeting was changed from the coziest conference room in all of Seattle to fuckin’ Todd’s mother’s basement. It is supremely low class of him.

“This is supremely low class of me.” Loki repeats for his minions to hear, legs crossed imperiously on his camping chair with expensive brandy in expensive glass sitting in the cupholder. His minions – Todd and the new guy – stutter, unsure if they should agree or refute his opinion. “Christ, you act as if I’ll hit you. C’mon, guys, it’s me! The Leo-ster! You don’t have to act so formal around me.”

Loki stood up and did a turn in his casual black silk button up and black slacks, as if to show that he’s one of them. Of course, he isn’t. He’s an immortal, a fuckin’ god to these ants, but fear never was the way. Loki carefully lowers himself back down into the precarious folding chair, winking mischievously at his underlings as their shoulders relax.

“Now, status report!” Loki says cheerfully, careful to not disturb the casual atmosphere he created. “Did you do what I asked of you?”

“Yeah!” The new guy (Carl?) exclaims, excited to prove his worth, before sitting back and clearing his throat. In a more macho voice, he continues, “I have a feeling Rotger won’t be walking anytime soon.”

Loki’s eyes widen comically, and he leans forward, “What? You broke his legs? What kind of operation do you think I’m running here? I’m not a damn gangster!”

“O-oh, well T-Todd said that –” the newbie stumbled over his words, cowering slightly while playing with the ends of his shirt.

Loki couldn’t contain it any longer, he falls backwards and bursts into laughter. “I’m just kidding man, nice work. Fuckin’ Rotger, hope the little bastard’s kneecaps heal slowly.”

“O-Oh.” Slowly Todd and the new guy start chuckling too, nervously and hesitant.

A ringing echoes in the dingy basement, disrupting the unease like a knife on a chopping board in a horror film – that is, to say, it didn’t disrupt it at all, but rather made it worse. Loki looked down at his phone and jumped onto his feet, “Well, I have an appointment. Good job with Rotger, guys. Knew I could count on you!”

Loki whistled a jaunty tune as he leapt up the stairs, twisting his hips this way and that to the sound of a beat no one else heard.

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It didn’t take long for Loki to find the conference room after exiting his nice, sleek black car. He just had to follow the scent of Greek desperation and Celtic ire. It also helped that the door was left slightly ajar either from tweedledum’s somersault into the room or that nobody’s projectile vomit relay race. Loki smiled to himself at the chaos around him and took off his sunglasses.

“Nice aim, dude.” Loki cackled, patting the man that stunk of fish on the back as he passed him by.

Anubis passed Loki by to bring back materials to mop up the mess. “Hey, Assface.” Loki greeted, moving away from the straight-laced man before he could respond.

Normally, Loki would find the time to antagonize every human being in the room, but he was more preoccupied with making a beeline straight for his daughter. Like an angel, Loki spread his arms wide and beckoned Hel in for a hug, “Oh my lovely daughter, what a sight for sore eyes! Give daddy a hug!”

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