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[helpdesk_hero]

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[helpdesk_hero]

Trust me, if he wanted to annoy you, he would have sent you to the Kid. He'd drive you up the wall just because you SPOKE to Ikol.

If it was me, he'd expect communication and probably a talk about how over thinking is bad. Or not enough self care is bad. Or trying to expect the usual rules that apply to humans apply to him can be problematic and ruin things. Not that I learned that one well myself.

Sending you to me is because he expects I serve as an object lesson, a 'don't do what he did' thing.

Unfortunately lists of things I've done that he's aware of and which were possibly foolish from some angles of observation isn't short?

[mostdangerousbird]

Why do you call him Ikol? Aside from it being Loki backwards.

I… see. I’m not giving him a special set of rules because he’s a god. I haven’t yet, and that doesn’t seem to stop him from seeking me out. If that’s it, he’ll survive.

[ Tim isn’t going to touch the other points with a ten foot pole. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

One has to have a means by which to differentiate the three of them. And there is weight and significance to that name.

It's less that he needs a special set of rules and more that he doesn't work in a way that a normal human would understand. Hell, he doesn't work in ways that a Metahuman would normally understand. While he looks human, it's more fair to consider him an alien in most regards. One with whole different cultural expectations and experiential weights that make interacting with him different from how you'd talk to another person.

Running up against that difference can be really hard. Lord knows I ran head first into it not long after we came here and I realized some things. But that's not here or there.

[mostdangerousbird]

I'm going to stick with Loki. It's how he introduced himself, and so that's what he'll stay. I'll keep calling the others Large and Small.

Noted. I can work with that, provided he either lets me get to know him enough to anticipate, allows for mistakes, or tells me directly without stomping off. I get along with a surprising range of backgrounds; he's an outlier. I think he'd actually delight in making me work for it.

[helpdesk_hero]

King size and snack sized?

[Even though Tim's one is the only one that was properly a king.]

I really do wish you luck with your decisions and also how it all goes after. That's all I can offer at this point, other than the time you need to speak.

[mostdangerousbird]

No. That would imply I think they’re snacks, and again: no.

Thanks, David.

[helpdesk_hero]

I mean, we can agree that one of them is, just not one to those two.

Not a problem. I know he can be hard to handle, and I got that he sent you to talk to me for a reason.