asgardcoda | MINGLE LOG: WEEK ONE

Who: Everyone!
What: The MINGLE LOG for Week One of the Asgard Eventide Reunion!
When: March 1-7
Where: Anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please.

[ OOC NOTES: Whether you're making a return to the city or this is your first time setting foot into Asgard, the gods and Natives alike sure are happy to see you. This is a catch-all mingle log for Week One! Please check HERE for a run-down on what's cookin' this week. You can feel free to make your own headers, create your own events, or post your own logs elsewhere as you please. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location of your character in the title of your comment.

As a note: we were super fortunate to have a few of our old NPC handlers volunteer to pick up their old Gods for the reunion! We currently have Hel, Heimdall, Baldr, Thor, Freyr, Mimir, Honir, Asgard!Loki, and also Frigg available for threading. If you'd like to request an appearance from one of these kids, please say so in the title of your comment. Some of us may make our own top-level as well, so be on the lookout for that! A million thanks to our NPC team for being so fantastic, we love and appreciate you so much.

Don't forget to check out the IC Inbox Mingle and the Network Post Mingle in the network comm! Let us know if you have any questions! ]

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"Nor I! There are names here that I am sure where never here the last time - did you know I found one for my cousin?"

Maglor chuckles softly. "He got a toy of his first horse. Magic, I am guessing. What did you get?"

"Your cousin?" Oh wow... she doesn't remember ever meeting a cousin of his, so they must not have been here. But... wait, that means--

"There's others being brought here, too?" She thought they were just pulling the same souls again...!

"Oh, um... I got a little gusk-san!" She fetches the plush toy from her pocket.

"That is what it seems, aye! Not many... but... one or two, here and there." He nods and smiles to see the little toy.

"Ah, Hibiki, that is sweet! From your world to this, eh? A little piece of home. How long do you think you will stay?"

"Uh-huh! It's a little gusk - they live in the forests where I come from. There were a bunch that lived in the forest around my ho-- My home, for a while." Although that place no longer exists...

But ah, as for staying-- "I'm still not sure... I don't want to leave Shii-chan for too long again." What she means is, she doesn't want to be without Shii-chan for long, but. She doesn't want to dwell on that, either.

"What about you?

Maglor nods, understanding.

"An even more precious piece then, if they are from so close to you! And I think I will stay - there is... no one at home for me."

...Oh. She can't keep her smile through words like that. Her expression becomes solemn; concerned.

"...Do you... have anybody here...?" If he had even just one person, at least...

"Ah now, do not weep for me, Hibiki." He ruffles her hair again.

"I am quite happy here, I assure you. And perhaps you could visit, hm?"

He says this as though she weren't one of the hugest crybabies ever. Somehow, she gets the feeling she might not be able to avoid it...

"I... couldn't even come here before, though." A whole 600 years had apparently passed while she was gone. How is she supposed to make it back against odds like that...?

"You did make it back eventually." He points out kindly. "I think all of us returned home - I remember being here for a long time and then... I was where I was before. So perhaps it runs in cycles."

That gets a look from her that's both curious and hopeful. "Cycles...?"

She already doesn't get it, but if he really does think there's a chance, then maybe...!

"Well - you know the story we were told when we first got here, yes? Death and rebirth. So... cycles, aye? I wonder if coming and going here is the same."

"Cycles..." Of just returning and coming back? Huh...

"So you mean... after this, maybe we'll all be here in another six hundred years...?"

She's trying. She's trying so hard.

"Maybe!" Maglor shrugs. "It would be nice if we did though, do you not think? A regular reunion, of sorts."

"Maybe..."

Although the more she thinks about it...

"...Won't it be weird to keep coming back after so long, though?" It's not that she minds returning, it's just... well, it's already odd to think that the last time she was here was practically ancient history.

"Perhaps? Six hundred years is not so long to me, but I suppose it can seem so. But we do not know, after all, if this is mere fortunate chance, or something regular, eh?"

Surprises all around today. "H-huh?"

It's that first part she's totally hung up on, her mouth agape. "But... six hundred years is a really, really, really long time!"

She can't even figure out a better way to describe it than that. The scope is just too large to her.

"I suppose it might seem so!" Maglor laughs at her surprise softly.

"But for one of my people it is not quite so."

"How long do you normally live?" If six hundred years were really so little, then...

"We are tied to the world, and exist as long as it does."

So. Almost forever.

...Wow. Okay, yes, that is a very long time.

"...H-how old is your world...?"

"Ah now... you know, I am not entirely certain. I myself have seen some nine thousand five hundred years, but my grandfather is one of the First, and he was born in the very early years of the world."

...Oh goodness gracious.

"N-n-n--"

"Nine thousand?!"

Hang on a sec Maglor, it's going to take a while for her brain to wrap around this.

That never gets old.

"Give or take a few hundred - before the moon and sun rose we tracked time differently, which is why I do not know exactly how old the world is."

Maglor please take pity on the girl, you just seriously broke her brain.

"B-but..."

Oh gosh. Oh gosh. She doesn't even know where to start.

"Before--?!"

He shakes his head at her and ruffles her hair fondly.

"I am very, very old, dear one."

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