RP post: sandbox side continuity with reindeer-games!Loki in -- in the forge

[ostro_goth]

Teja is in the forge, cleaning up shelves and throwing away notes of past projects, and broken things.

Paper goes in the fire, metal goes into the crucible.

While he does so, the Goth is deeply worried, and broods. There has never been such a dangerous being in the cells as Loki is. If Teja could only hate him, then there would be much less reason for this gnawing dread in his heart. But Teja respects Loki still, as a god of his people, and one that the tales have dealt a harsh and unfair deal, at that.

Teja would see him redeemed, and stand out in the sun and know that he is free in this place: - not a god and ruler, but free from his bonds, like any other.

But chances are, if any takes down the magic barrier, and opens that cage, then this place is doomed yet again from the uncontrollable rage of a completely crazed god.

Teja would give him a chance, but cannot risk endangering all whose safety is his duty.

At least, the god was reading the last time Teja checked, from afar.

There is none here that Teja knows of, none! that might tell with any certainty when it may be safe to let Loki go. For what healer of broken minds may gauge a god??

Teja sighs deeply, his heart filled with pity, and throws another page of provisional book-keeping upon the fire.

Comments

[ostro_goth]

"I shall do so," Teja says, nodding.

He does not say aloud 'You are the expert', but the sentiment shows in his tone of voice, and in his mind clearly.

[balancingminds]

"Yes, I hope that will do some good. He clearly thinks of us as simple and showing them we're not might be useful."

[ostro_goth]

"I would wish to make a difference for him," Teja says. "He is a god of my people, and it pains me to see him so far out of his water."

[balancingminds]

"Yet, he is also a man in pain. Can you see him as that first and the god second? I think it will help."

[ostro_goth]

"No mere man is ever that dangerous," Teja says, "not even I was. But yes, I can see him a a creature that suffers, not a god that should be strong and godlike for the edification of others. He is Loge -- one would not expect much divine justice from him, in any case."

[balancingminds]

Charles sighs and rubs his face before saying,

"I'm a quite powerful telepath, humanity is not as weak as you think. He is only as dangerous as you give him power to be."

[ostro_goth]

"My determination did not stop his madness, while he was still able to use magic," Teja says. "He is only contained now."

[balancingminds]

"I was able to make it through his mental shields and his mind is still the mind of a man. Yes, a man powerful in strange and different ways but he is not that different from you or I. If he knows you hold him above yourself, he will use that."

[ostro_goth]

"I do not hold him above myself," Teja says, "or I would have knelt to him when he first demanded it: - which I did not!"

[balancingminds]

"Yet you consider him a god and thus expect more of him than you would of a man. Treat him as one or the other but I recommend the former if you wish to help him."

[ostro_goth]

"You are the expert," Teja now says aloud.

He suspects that Loki would take any attempts to treat him like a man as a personal affront to his massive ego.

[balancingminds]

"Yes, that's the idea. To show him that we are not cowed by him, which will create respect enough that in time he might wish to speak to us on a different level."

[ostro_goth]

"Creating respect would be a good aim," Teja says, "for if he respects us, and that which we can do, then he would not so easily spread mayhem and destruction."

Pause.

"Not quite as easily -- it is still in his nature!"

[balancingminds]

"True, but the scale and scope of that can be changed. He's in pain and full of anger and needs to be shown there are other ways to approach relationships."

[ostro_goth]

"I know not that relationship is the right word here," Teja says. "He does not see any others in relation to himself, except so far down he can hardly see them."

[balancingminds]

"There is no other word to use. All interactions are at their heart relationships, which require building connections and trust."

[ostro_goth]

"We have bitten off a thing that will take quite some time to chew," Teja says. "But yes, that should not deter me or you."

[balancingminds]

"Yes, as I said before this will take time but I think he can change."

[ostro_goth]

Teja nods.

"Would you have tea, as long as the rain lasts?" he offers.

[balancingminds]

"Thank you, yes," Then he'll go inside and face the problems waiting in his world.