It's not--it-- [Clint doesn't know why he suddenly feels on the back foot when Loki's the one offering himself up. It's that realization, the same that Loki seems to be having, of just how fucked the situation is.] I don't think you do see.
[And a breath:] It's done. [He puts it that way, to start.] Thanos is done. He did a lot of damage. We undid most of it. He's done. But not without casualties. Two of ours dead, one's- I don't know, unstuck in time or lost in the timeline or just went back in time and decided to stay there, one's gone off into the universe to find himself, one's just trying to live his best life, and then there's me. [Who in theory is now also trying to live his best life, but that's not how he would describe it. Bruce deserves whatever peace he can find and carve out for himself. Thor hopefully will find whatever it is he's looking for. There are theories abound about what happened to Steve, though the most credible has been that after he did his duty, he settled down in his own time to get to live his life and might be kicking it now as an old man.
Sure. There are new heroes all over the place. Avengers, if they want to call themselves that, both from when the team was still together and who have shown up since. But the Avengers as the world knew them are no more.]
I don't know that you want to offer me that kind of power.
[Not that he thinks himself the kind of person that would abuse it, that would make the world a worse place for whatever he could think of having Loki do. But neither does he necessarily think himself a good man.
He's also not fool enough to turn it down wholesale. Having a god in his pocket could be useful down the line. Either to help himself, because god knows someday his luck is going to run out, or to help others when he isn't enough.]
...I wouldn't make you do anything you didn't want to do. And I wouldn't have you embarrass yourself. In case you were worried.
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[And a breath:] It's done. [He puts it that way, to start.] Thanos is done. He did a lot of damage. We undid most of it. He's done. But not without casualties. Two of ours dead, one's- I don't know, unstuck in time or lost in the timeline or just went back in time and decided to stay there, one's gone off into the universe to find himself, one's just trying to live his best life, and then there's me. [Who in theory is now also trying to live his best life, but that's not how he would describe it. Bruce deserves whatever peace he can find and carve out for himself. Thor hopefully will find whatever it is he's looking for. There are theories abound about what happened to Steve, though the most credible has been that after he did his duty, he settled down in his own time to get to live his life and might be kicking it now as an old man.
Sure. There are new heroes all over the place. Avengers, if they want to call themselves that, both from when the team was still together and who have shown up since. But the Avengers as the world knew them are no more.]
I don't know that you want to offer me that kind of power.
[Not that he thinks himself the kind of person that would abuse it, that would make the world a worse place for whatever he could think of having Loki do. But neither does he necessarily think himself a good man.
He's also not fool enough to turn it down wholesale. Having a god in his pocket could be useful down the line. Either to help himself, because god knows someday his luck is going to run out, or to help others when he isn't enough.]
...I wouldn't make you do anything you didn't want to do. And I wouldn't have you embarrass yourself. In case you were worried.