[private] aftermath.

[gokai_kaesu]

Well, in a nutshell, that Epic Plan backfired.

Kid had a couple of aces up his sleeve, you realise, as you drag Cain's sorry ass up to your designated ('Miss, I'll get a penthouse suite. Yes. Don't you know who I am? Thought so.') room. Kind of fun, watching the two of them duke it out, but hell did that kid know how to fight hard and fast

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[tsume_kaesu]

More fucked up than Loki realized. It wasn't the injuries, it wasn't even being attacked and betrayed by his own brother. The part of him--the part that's taking over now, while he's too exhausted to manage anger--feels he pretty much deserves that.

But how can he not hate him? How could he believe this punishment just and yet...still love him?

And coming through the door here made it worse. It wasn't just that there was suddenly a veritable horde of Abels--a headache for another time, really--but that...

That one. He'd killed him. And Naoya knew too well what would happen when he died and reincarnated. He'd seen it before. He hated seeing it. He was not a kind man, but no one deserved this curse

[gokai_kaesu]

The Abels - the whole lot of them - all those possibilities - looked like not the brightest idea to dump on Naoya all at once. Well, that One Guy upstairs was probably laughing His ass off at this point (at least, in the universes where He had survived), watching His little wolf run rampant among all the sheep.

He has his I-am-so-lost-so-I'm-going-to-mope-instead look on. Loki winces behind Naoya's back and shucks off his jacket as well, tossing it into the same tub. He got off this pretty much easily.

Cain's incarnation was human, and well...

"You don't have to make sense of it now, you know."

Naoya, king of tl;dr. *sobs*

[tsume_kaesu]

"..." He knows. And he knows that...in his own way, Loki's trying to keep an eye out for him. Since he killed Abel, the jotun's pretty much been the only one who bothers, and so...

So Naoya is more inclined to actually listen, instead of dismissing him out of hand. Still...it's just too much. The pain keeps growing...he's seen too many Abels in too short of span of time and it's brought so much flooding to the forefront. He's not figuring anything out now, that's certain.

"...I'm not sure it'll ever make sense." He's too broken. Too broken, and he's aware of it, of how much he's lost. Hope, love, mercy, kindness, charity...they had been the first to cast aside. Love is too painful when those you cared about would die and forget you with the next cycle. Naoya no longer remembers a time he understood it's ways.

[A lie. There's one exception to the rule, and one...gray area. But he can't help his brother, and Loki is...Loki, and therefore too annoying to bear thinking on.]

/patpat IT'S OKAY BFF ;3;

[gokai_kaesu]

Naoya was interesting as all hell, that was a fact. The feud was even better, and it was a lot of fun dancing on both sides. He is a trickster god, after all, and after that gig with those computer programs and that reincarnation of Izanami, such entertainment as this was hard to come by.

He....just didn't like the aftermath very much. That was why he always left before it could come to that. But Cain...he was pretty much different. Loki had watched him discard emotion after emotion during the centuries, sharpening his hatred into deadly intent.

So yes. Stop looking so damn vulnerable.

Loki chucks his tie clip to a table and loosens his tie, following Naoya and leaning against the frame of the bathroom.

"Make sure of that some other time, Cain," he says offhandedly. "You'll what - " he twirls his finger, " - short-circuit that pretty little head of yours."