The Thirtieth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Trial players
When: Day 63, morning
Where: Trial zone

[The trial zone doesn't exactly appear to be inthe best shape. It's the ruins of an old building, something once grand, perhaps a castle, with a strange statue of sorts with six spheres leading to a large seventh on a pedestal. It's possible t see a forest beyond the walls, though find a way out to that seems impossible, and plants have overgrown almost everything.]

[On the statue's pedestal is an inscription:
Three tribes that brought a storm,
Winter brought them to task.
Eventually things would become warm,
What in return did springtime ask?]

[Not so far beyond it appears to be stairs leading down into the earth. And to the side of that is a throne.]

[And on the throne is....someone new in Senna colors? Though perhaps the hair is enough of a give away. Though those with a keen eye may yet notice she's still wearing her geode still, with the distinctive cutie mark still on it.]

[She's lounged across the throne, legs kicked over one side, elbow resting on the other, head in hand.]

I'm bored. [And she offers a grin that has a dangerous glint to it.]

How about we play a game?

Comments

[daydreamshimmer]

I'm pretty sure mister constantly talks up his own superiority has little room to give a psychoanalysis based upon one third person reference. [A flat, unimpressed look.] A joking one, at that.

[bestbrotherever]

[Bristling a little before getting himself back under control.]

So you have another of her best features, if only superficially. Or are you only borrowing knowledge of what she has already figured out, but you yourself are not capable of any new insight?

[daydreamshimmer]

Oh Loki.

You don't want me to give my 'insight.' You're absolutely terrified of people really knowing how you think.

[bestbrotherever]

I am fairly certain Solar had already figured that out. Though she would have more to say about it and not simply leave it there.

[daydreamshimmer]

You desperately want to be understood, but you're more scared of losing the power being an unknown gives you, and even more scared of the rejection you are convinced will follow if anyone does fully understand you instead of the acceptance and validation you're wanting.

I can go on, if you want. I usually hold back because I know it scares you, but if you're going to make it a challenge...

[bestbrotherever]

[Ouch. That cuts deep. But it's also something he's glad to hear, if it had come from Solar and not.. whoever this is. So few people get him, and this shows that she does, but she's only demonstrating how well she knows him in order to hurt him... This isn't right. This is what led to him trying to undermine Thor rather than help him be better, and all the bad things that followed.]

[Loki surreptitiously blinks away the tears that are forming and clenches his teeth into a mirthless grin.]

And do you know why that is?

[daydreamshimmer]

Why you spout a massive superiority complex to hide your inferiority complex or that you want to challenge me because you don't want to believe I'm Solar Flare just because I look different?

Which is weird because I change my look all the time, so I'd say a bias of some form, but that is lacking information.

[bestbrotherever]

[He smirks a little. So she's not a mind reader, she does still have to guess at his meaning.]

Do you know the reason for either?

[daydreamshimmer]

A home life based upon a lie is always going to have deeper issues.

I don't know enough about the creatures from your home. That'd be the first way to check for bias.

[bestbrotherever]

I see you know quite a bit. But you also do not know everything. Would you like to learn more and see what you have correctly guessed and what you have not?

[daydreamshimmer]

Oh Loki.

You know I don't need to ask to do that. But you're being dramatic and it's funny.

[bestbrotherever]

Do you not? I believe you have to touch in order to learn, and I am not inclined to let you get close.

[daydreamshimmer]

And I'm stronger then when I was a unicorn.

[bestbrotherever]

Strong enough to use your power on a god who will fight you?

[He crosses his arms.]

But we do not have to fight. You would rather play a game, would you not? And what is a game without stakes?

[daydreamshimmer]

Ah, there's that inferiority-superiority complex again.

I did it before.

Depends on if the stakes are interesting.

[bestbrotherever]

But I was not at my best. Now the tables are, well...

As for the stakes, what do you say to explanations?

[daydreamshimmer]

Not your best, but I'm also better than I was then. Still doesn't say good things about your odds.

Explanations as to what?

[bestbrotherever]

Are you truly better? Or are you deceiving yourself?

Why you are the way you are, and why I am the way I am.

[daydreamshimmer]

Well, I have all my unicorn magic plus a number of things I couldn't do before.

So yes.

[Considers.] All right. At least the parts I know, this place did trigger the surge so obviously I only know so much about that. Can't pick a brain that isn't present for answers.