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[liverletdie]

Recent events have me thinking.

[ Stark says, taking a sip from his cup, before he focuses back on a camera. It's a lot more HD than your usual import camera -- then again, nothing but the best for Tony Stark. ]

In recent months, we've had people showing up, different times, completely different people, and now there's word of people sticking around. That's different, it's never happened before. [ A pause, a sip. ] But who knows, it could be a fluke, right? Or maybe I don't have complete data. Anyone else heard of anything like that happening?

I mean, that's as an aside. I've... I've seen a lot of people hold themselves responsible -- myself included -- for things that someone who isn't them did. Either a person they become, a person they were and aren't anymore -- or a completely different person.

Would you hold them responsible? After my...unfortunate incident I found people were holding me responsible for things that this -- different version of me had done. Is that a constant? Should people be held accountable for things that they weren't necessarily guilty of? If I'm ported out tomorrow, would the Tony Stark that replaces me be held accountable for anything I did over my time here?

[ Another pause then. His finger drums against the glass. ] Anyone have any thoughts?

Comments

[purple_reign]

Historians. The world tends to remember things that make it into the history books. And when a god is a violent one...well. That's not something they're going to leave out.

[liverletdie]

And historians get everything right.

[ Said wryly. ]

I don't know... there's no way for incognito or anything like that?

[purple_reign]

Don't know. Not interested anyway. I spent enough of my life being too afraid to be myself. I'm not going to spend the last of it hiding from the world too.

[liverletdie]

Is that what it is?

I don't mean that -- but you don't have to draw attention to the fact that you're -- allegedly -- the reincarnation of... [ A pause. ] -- the Sumerian Goddess of fertility. [ Another pause. ]

Ah. And Warfare. Gotcha.

[purple_reign]

Maybe not. There have been lost pantheons before. Recurrences that just never surfaced, but for me... I just don't want to hide like that.

But it is my choice to take that on. It's a little different from the issue you're talking about right now.

[liverletdie]

Yeah. I think so.

[ A pause. ]

I don't really do God things. It's a bit too mytical for my taste. [ But just watch. He will clone Gods when he needs to. ]

[purple_reign]

Pretty sure you have to be a God to do God things anyway.

[liverletdie]

Ha, very funny.

That's why I leave that nonsense to Thor, and wash my hands of it.

[purple_reign]

Thor! Really? Is he here? Or she! I don't want to presume.

[liverletdie]

He, and no. He isn't.

He's been around a time or two before, but not recently.