ledbythewind | [Voice/Action]

[Ah, Valentine's Day. The one experiment a year Richard hates most, for a variety of reasons. Granted, this year wasn't TOO terrible, as he was spared the unfortunate fate of falling in love with anyone under the effects of the experiment... but that didn't stop other people from from falling in love/lust with HIM, much to his dismay. And that's left him with many things to think about, as have some of the reactions to the experiment that he's seen from other people. Which leads him to ponder...]

Indulge my curiosity: what sorts of things are considered traditionally "masculine" where you come from?

[A bit later on, Richard will head out of the house on a shopping trip to All Passions and the item store, where he can be found looking for a new wardrobe and a few other things, probably as a result of some of the answers he received to his question. After picking out a bunch of things to take home with him, he chooses something new to wear home as well: cargo pants, combat boots, and a leather motorcycle jacket, because all of those things are super-masculine, right? Alas, on someone with the approximate build of a toothpick and delicate features like Richard has, the end result is a bit ridiculous, but don't tell him that. (Or do, your choice.) He can't quite bring himself to cut his hair - he's still far too proud of it - so instead he opts to pull it back into a ponytail.

There. Much better, in his eyes. Now the question is, what will his friends and housemates think of this?]

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[Loki chuckles softly.]

How wise of you to know that.

That's also something that is similar across multiple worlds.

I find that rather comforting, really.

Do you now? And why is that?

Because I like to think that the brain is a greater weapon than muscles.

I think that all depends on the situation, though I am inclined to agree with you most of the time.

It would be a rare situation that it wasn't.

[He laughs.]

And in the rarest of situations, you simply convince someone else to do it for you, yes?

That is one way of doing things...

[You, sir, are starting to sound decidedly like his uncle right about now, and he's pretty sure he doesn't like it.]

[Evil uncles are the best kind.]

Better than hitting things with a hammer.

I would say that also depends on the particular thing.

Unless the thing in question is a nail, I'd argue the point.

Oh?

A hammer is the best solution for inserting a nail into something solid.

I can't argue with that.

Now that I think about it, I don't recall getting your name. I'm Richard, and you are?

Loki of Asgard.

[Interesting.]

Nobility, then?

Temporarily deposed king.

I see. There seems to be a surprising amount of royalty that I've met here in Luceti.

[Including himself, but he's not going to mention that fact for the simple reason that he doesn't like that information being too widely-spread.]