Chased through the snow by bears? Oh no, not Loki, but he's happy to watch 0ther unfortunate souls being chased by bears in the snow. He cannot imagine that anyone would have been stupid enough to provoke them, they could have happened upon the bears accidentally, stumbled into their territory, but then again? Intelligence was a difficult thing to measure in creatures with such brief lives
Loki was not known for his helpfulness, it was a great deal more fun for him to watch chaos unfold until or unless such things stopped being fun, which would happen eventually. For a time he simply stood there on an outcrop watching the scene play out in the snow before it was simply no longer interesting. Besides, playing the hero came with its own set of benefits, people owing you their lives, their allegiance, their favor. Loki could be heroic when the mood struck him. When he felt like it. If there was something to gain.
So after a time he descended from his perch, placing himself between the beast and the target. He could misdirect the beast, he could blast it, he could create a mist and lose the creature in it, or an illusion for it to chase...but swatting the creature simply took less effort. Like batting a dog on the snout and the bear had a similar reaction: confusion, submission, an appropriate degree of shame? Whatever it was the creature seemed to at least sense it was messing with forces out of its league.
"Ta-da."
[4.] Loki's wily trade leaves many bereaved
Well, if someone had to bring the party it might as well be the patron god of mischief, chaos, and other such deviances. This would not be difficult, as they say, like shooting ducks in a barrel, especially given the fact that the present crowd was already drunk and worked up.
All it needed was a little push! The proper application of magic.
Turning ale into snakes had always been his favorite, it worked on the servants in Odin's palace, and these were drunk mortals. One had to be paying close attention to even suspect it was Loki who was going the conjuring, hand gestures that were subtle, his scepter tucked at his side not at all in use. The toxic mixture of his enchantment and the atmosphere and soon the ale was flying and mortals were breaking furniture over one another.
Nothing left for Loki to do here but watch and bask in the ambiance, he'd completed his mission.
[5.] Your tricks can take away, yet also give
This sort of thing was only funny when it was happening to others.
In fact Loki was usually the cause of such things, not the effect. When things popped out of strange portals and began attacking other things he was the one creating the portals and the one letting the beasts through. Granted letting the Frost Giants into Asgard had gone spectacularly wrong, but it had given him some clarity as well.
This, this was different, this was not the rift he created, nor the dimension he hoped to cross. He'd no idea how he managed to get lost in the transition to Earth, but this was not they way he was expecting to begin his reign and the heckling of the House of Odin. On a world he, astonishingly, knew nothing of (none of these realms were of the nine he readily recognized) and fighting strange creatures, demons, not of his design.
And they had the audacity to attack him, but mindless creatures weren't expected to know a king when seen, a trespass that he could forgive, even if he would not forgive being attacked. Fortunately he still had the scepter in his possession, not that he would not have been just fine on his own, but being able to channel destructive energy blasts swiftly and efficiently? Enabled him to mow these creatures down quickly.
Of course the kind of magic or power that he wielded was vastly different from indigenous magic. If the scepter produced nothing in the way of results it could still function perfectly as a spear with severely curved ends.
Help him or stay out of his way, Loki is not very discriminating when it comes to killing these creatures and anyone who gets in his path.
Loki | MCU | Rifter
Chased through the snow by bears? Oh no, not Loki, but he's happy to watch 0ther unfortunate souls being chased by bears in the snow. He cannot imagine that anyone would have been stupid enough to provoke them, they could have happened upon the bears accidentally, stumbled into their territory, but then again? Intelligence was a difficult thing to measure in creatures with such brief lives
Loki was not known for his helpfulness, it was a great deal more fun for him to watch chaos unfold until or unless such things stopped being fun, which would happen eventually. For a time he simply stood there on an outcrop watching the scene play out in the snow before it was simply no longer interesting. Besides, playing the hero came with its own set of benefits, people owing you their lives, their allegiance, their favor. Loki could be heroic when the mood struck him. When he felt like it. If there was something to gain.
So after a time he descended from his perch, placing himself between the beast and the target. He could misdirect the beast, he could blast it, he could create a mist and lose the creature in it, or an illusion for it to chase...but swatting the creature simply took less effort. Like batting a dog on the snout and the bear had a similar reaction: confusion, submission, an appropriate degree of shame? Whatever it was the creature seemed to at least sense it was messing with forces out of its league.
"Ta-da."
[4.] Loki's wily trade leaves many bereaved
Well, if someone had to bring the party it might as well be the patron god of mischief, chaos, and other such deviances. This would not be difficult, as they say, like shooting ducks in a barrel, especially given the fact that the present crowd was already drunk and worked up.
All it needed was a little push! The proper application of magic.
Turning ale into snakes had always been his favorite, it worked on the servants in Odin's palace, and these were drunk mortals. One had to be paying close attention to even suspect it was Loki who was going the conjuring, hand gestures that were subtle, his scepter tucked at his side not at all in use. The toxic mixture of his enchantment and the atmosphere and soon the ale was flying and mortals were breaking furniture over one another.
Nothing left for Loki to do here but watch and bask in the ambiance, he'd completed his mission.
[5.] Your tricks can take away, yet also give
This sort of thing was only funny when it was happening to others.
In fact Loki was usually the cause of such things, not the effect. When things popped out of strange portals and began attacking other things he was the one creating the portals and the one letting the beasts through. Granted letting the Frost Giants into Asgard had gone spectacularly wrong, but it had given him some clarity as well.
This, this was different, this was not the rift he created, nor the dimension he hoped to cross. He'd no idea how he managed to get lost in the transition to Earth, but this was not they way he was expecting to begin his reign and the heckling of the House of Odin. On a world he, astonishingly, knew nothing of (none of these realms were of the nine he readily recognized) and fighting strange creatures, demons, not of his design.
And they had the audacity to attack him, but mindless creatures weren't expected to know a king when seen, a trespass that he could forgive, even if he would not forgive being attacked. Fortunately he still had the scepter in his possession, not that he would not have been just fine on his own, but being able to channel destructive energy blasts swiftly and efficiently? Enabled him to mow these creatures down quickly.
Of course the kind of magic or power that he wielded was vastly different from indigenous magic. If the scepter produced nothing in the way of results it could still function perfectly as a spear with severely curved ends.
Help him or stay out of his way, Loki is not very discriminating when it comes to killing these creatures and anyone who gets in his path.