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10/06/25(Mon)05:36:33 No.722567207

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Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)05:36:33 No.722567207

>So, the name on the wall. Loki. The giants called me something that?
>Probably the name your mother wanted for when you were born. She must have called you that to her people, but she never told me.
>So mom ignored you and set my name in stone the way she wanted, and for this whole game you've been calling me by the name you wanted?
>A question for another day. Let us go home...

>I guess the point of this journey was that she wouldn't have accepted being buried near our house.
>I... do not know.
>So what should we do now?
>I... do not know. Lead me, my 11 year old.

>So what's with the name you wanted that you've been calling me by? Atreus? That's not the name of a god.
>No... he was a soldier. A zogbot.
>A great warrior?
>All zogbots get trophies; we were all participants.
>Our entire life was in being disciplined by our superiors, our responsibility, being sent off to battles, and dying for zog. Life was really bad and unfair for us, and we never questioned it.
>Mm.
>But Atreus was unlike the rest of us. He was always grinning and smiling and had quirky expressions. That inspired us... to hope. That though we were utterly without agency, if we just looked to each other for affirmation, we could assuage ourselves. We could call ourselves human... and good people.
>When the day came for Atreus to die for zog... he did so in a really favorable way for our commander and routed the enemy forces.
>I intimately carried his dead body home and buried him the way your mother had forbidden me to bury her.
>I... think about him to be comforted.
>Wow! You actually told a good story. Kitschy head guy missed it!

>I understand if you want to go home, but...
>If mom wanted us running around in the wilderness this badly, maybe we should stay out here and do unpaid labor for people that don't ask us for it.
>I mean... what would Atreus the zogbot do?

>And what would Loki do?
>Dad, you didn't need to start calling me that just because you found out mom did a few seconds ago...