you are alive; so live (closed and open)

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WHO: Hob Gadling + others
WHEN: Between missions Dec - Jan
WHERE: Various
WHAT: Various encounters and catching up
NOTES\WARNINGS: None but will mark threads. Hob has just returned from a canon update.

Closed threads but open Wildcard. Any encounters are welcome. Just start a thread at any Etraya location or DM for plotting.

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for Loki

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Hob is still getting himself reoriented to Etraya, but the apartments aren't hard to find, and he does remember where Loki lives. Although Loki seems put-out at him, which Hob can understand, he hopes to somehow smooth things over with the god who means so much to him.

Loki said he'd return home in an hour, but Hob ends up at his door waiting for him. He did knock, just in case Loki was actually home and was simply delaying their reunion. However, with no response, he's left to linger in the hallway, pacing back and forth on occasion and looking up and down the hall, anticipating Loki's arrival.

Hob looks a bit disoriented and disheveled. He keeps raking his fingers back through his hair in an anxious way as he waits. His hair is cut differently, shorter than when he was last in Etraya, and the beard on his face is a new addition. He has so much to tell Loki about what happened while he was away.

[abit_ofboth]

The week that Hob has been gone has been like torture to Loki. It's been a very long time since he felt like this, but after giving up everything to save the multiverse, Loki is now hyper-aware of what it is like to lose people he cares about so when he couldn't find Hob upon their return, his mind had gone to worst case scenario.

He'd been rocked by a multitude of emotions like he hasn't experienced in a long time and he feels ashamed that he clearly hasn't grown as much as he'd thought. That first night when he'd realized Hob wasn't around he'd thought he'd been left behind accidentally like the people they had gone to rescue. Then he thought maybe he was here but avoiding him. Or he hadn't wanted to come back. Or he had found a way home and had just left Loki. All of this combined to make Loki feel scared, hurt and abandoned. A combination that Loki has never been good at handling so when Hob suddenly reappeared, as much as he wanted to run to him, he also became overwhelmed by anger.

He kind of hates himself for that. Hob likely didn't deserve how Loki treated him when he saw his message, but Loki has never been good at thinking first when he's upset.

But in the end, he couldn't cut him out either. Loki needs to know what happened, why Hob left him and if it turns out that Hob just is done with him, he'll just have to find a way to deal with that.

Loki has barely been sleeping since Hob disappeared, which likely hasn't helped matters, but he hopes it's not too apparent as he makes his way back home to meet up with Hob. He could use his magic to make himself look better, but just the idea of trying that feels exhausting to him. As he makes his way down the hallway towards his apartment door, he almost doesn't recognize the man standing outside his door, but it is undoubted Hob. Loki has the urge to pull him into his arms, especially with how distraught he looks, but Loki has to remind himself that he has no idea what Hob even wants. Or doesn't want.

Without a word, Loki unlocks the door and motions for Hob to follow. For once in his life, he feels speechless.

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When Hob finally spots Loki coming down the hall, he stops his pacing and stands dead in his tracks. He's just staring at Loki, a little wide eyed. When some hair falls over the right side of his face, he quickly pushes it back with one hand as Loki makes his approach.

The god doesn't look very happy to see him. Has he fucked this up completely? All over some mismanaged words?

Once the door is opened and he's invited inside, Hob steps over the threshold, giving Loki some space as he turns to gaze at him again.

"You're even more handsome than I remembered." It still feels like it's been a year for Hob, even if only a week has passed in Etraya. No matter how messy Loki thinks he looks, Hob thinks he's stunning. He's feeling a mix of emotions he's trying to sort through right now.

for Mizu

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Although Hob hadn't expected to meet someone from a past time period, he's happy to assist Mizu with learning about 17th century England if he can. Being a history professor back home, it's hard to pass up the opportunity to talk about it, especially when it involves a moment and place he remembers. It could be their versions of Earth are different, and maybe Mizu won't even remember any of this one day when he returns to his world and time, but learning couldn't do any harm. It's not like they have a lot to do between missions.

After sending a text that he was ready to meet, Hob went to the library at the agreed time. Arriving a bit early, he scours the shelves for a few books, which are brought over to a table for their use. He's flipping through one of them as he waits for Mizu to join him.

[artofrevenge]

After the eternity of a week, it is finally time to meet with the person from close to her own time, to meet with someone who'd been in London close to the time she needs to go there. She suspects he gets out of it something not entirely different from her, if anything—the chance to talk with someone else of their own time. Of this time. Mizu may be from across the world, but he'll get to speak of his home to someone who cares immensely. It makes her feel better to know what he might get out of it because someone helping her for nothing in return, getting nothing from it, cannot be trusted.

She arrives precisely on time, having taken time in the passing days to locate the library and get some sense of it. Having seen a painting of Hob on the tool they all use to send letters back and forth (and to read each other's mail, what remains an unusual feature, like a ledger they all can read), Mizu recognizes the man. She approaches directly and makes a small bow in greeting, as she's used to, but also offers her hand in the English style.

"Hello, I am Mizu." As though there'd be any question.