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[rehandle]

[ Complicated. It's complicated, being Loki. ]

Then embrace him.

[ It's what he's had to do, in order to grow. He's no god. He's not even sure he can entirely be called mortal anymore, the number of times he's died and the number of lives he's seen. But, even so, ]

We're constantly layering selves over selves, god or not. He was a stepping stone to you, the same as anyone alive was once a stepping stone to themselves. You don't have to denounce yourself to acknowledge past mistakes, and you don't have to be willing to repeat them to accept who you've been.

[thecoolerloki]

Would you welcome him as you've welcomed me? Be honest. I will know if you're lying.

[rehandle]

I don't know. I've never met him, I know next to nothing about him. But he's also not you. Saying I'd welcome him is as arbitrary as saying I'd welcome your second cousin twice removed. It doesn't mean you're any less welcome for having been him.

And you're defeating your own object. My opinion of the yous you've been isn't the one you want to change.

[thecoolerloki]

I fear that if I embrace him, I will lose the trust I've worked to build.

Perhaps you're right, though. Perhaps I shouldn't have cared so much about being trusted in the first place.

[rehandle]

Or you can try being more concerned with being trusted for your own sake than mistrusted for his.

[thecoolerloki]

[he smiles]

Mm, but that sounds too responsible. And I'm Loki.