Where will I be this time tomorrow?

[takeitslow]

Who: Peter and a bunch of people
When: 20th on to the end of the month
Where: Various places around the Moira
What: Bonding with friends and family after being released from the cell
Warnings: Cursing, possible discussion of J's death, probable reminding Peter he's an idiot



[Individual prompts below, but anyone can join in and say Peter is anywhere on board.]

Comments

[takeitslow]

I'm sure me not listening to you must be the worst.

[He deadpans, snorting. He's pretty sure from the smile that this guy could care less about his opinion anyway. Which is fine, he could do with more people not caring about what he thought or did.]

Not that I know of? Why are you supposed to be famous or something?

[realitywarped]

Not me, specifically, but my name does tend to be infamous. Wanda can tell you about the one from her world, for one. And before me, in mine... well, the last Loki was known mostly for frequent attempts to cause mayhem for everyone.

[He shrugs. Looking back, with hindsight made clear by not being completely insane, cackling and talking about himself in the third person hadn't been a good start on not being unsettling, and talking about mere mortals as he ruined their lives hadn't helped..]

But yes, when the Loki most people know of spent very little caring on mere mortals, they do find it rather ominous meeting someone with my name.

[takeitslow]

[He files that away for later, another conversation among the thousand he needs to have with his sister. Still, if Wanda hasn't protested the friendship with her son and this guy yet or told Peter to stay away, he can't imagine there's much of an issue here. And, well, it's not like he's the type to abide by society's rules himself.]

But like, I said. I've never heard of you. And alternate universes are apparently a thing, so just because some version of you caused shit doesn't mean I have to be freaked out by you. So, you know, if you're trying to scare me off from talking to you, you might want to try harder.

[realitywarped]

I try not to scare people off too much. I like the sound of my own voice far too much for that.

[He smiles, dry and self-deprecating, because it is true he tends to be a little wordy when he gets going.]

But yes, multiple dimensions do make things interesting. You're rather younger than the Maximoffs back home, both of you.

[takeitslow]

Then don’t be such a downer, because you make it sound like that’s what you’re doing.

[He shrugs. He's heard some about himself and his sister from Billy's world, from Billy's point of view. It's a little daunting to hear about the cooler, older version of himself that everyone, including his nephew, thought so well of.

He laughs awkwardly.]

So Billy's mentioned. I mean, obviously right? Wanda so doesn't look old enough to have a teenager. And apparently everyone expects me to not be a teenager. Or at least to be the same age as my twin.

[realitywarped]

[To be fair, he is. It's always easiest to test how far he can push people- mostly, to see how far he can push before they walk away. It's a habit he hasn't quite broken in his new life, either.]

Mmm, let's just say the version of you in that world has made more than a few mistakes of his own in his time.

[He suspects bringing up the rather messy ex-wife and child thing might scare Peter off entirely, which isn't his intent.]

...Well, if you ever want a neutral party's viewpoint on anyone's duplicates in our world, you'll know where to find me. Billy is... a little biased, sometimes. Far too inclined to loyalty where it perhaps shouldn't be.

[takeitslow]

What? Billy makes him sound like some kind of massive hero. Like, he's awesome or whatever.

[And maybe Billy had tried to be kind by only selling Pietro's better points. Or maybe Peter just took the obvious affection in Billy's tone the wrong way.]

He's family. Families tend to be pretty damn loyal, particularly ours. I'm betting that's not so different in your world.

[realitywarped]

A hero, yes. But so many of the heroes in our world are... flawed, to put it kindly.

[And of course Loki knows where most of the biggest flaws are. Secrets and lies and manipulation always were his strongest talents, back when he'd been burning.

Mostly what he remembers about Quicksilver, however, is being very annoyed at having him constantly turn up all the time when Loki had been pretending to be the Scarlet Witch, for reasons of his own. Far too devoted to be healthy, really, but Loki isn't going to mention that. Nor is he mentioning their purported father, unless that comes up some other way.]

Certainly Quicksilver has always seemed very... dependant on his sister. And the Scarlet Witch has done more than a few things she perhaps shouldn't for her family, including Billy. But for all Billy might have been Wanda's once, he's entirely his own person. Make no mistakes in thinking that just because one of his mothers is a Maximoff, he isn't just as much Kaplan.

[takeitslow]

I don't think they think so.

[Sure Wanda had tried to tell him Pietro had issues with stealing and flirting, but neither of those seemed like a real flaw to Peter. He was under the impression she didn't think so either, with the way she only drug it out to combat what Peter was trying to say about himself.]

There's nothing you shouldn't do for family. [And he'll believe that, as long as he remains unaware of many screw ups of the twins of Billy's world or the numerous ones of his father in his own.] Him having another family doesn't mean he'd be any less loyal when talking about Pietro. Believe me, he's already given me the short version of his, uh, situation.