001. voice.

[shadohdamn]

( potential spoilers for season one of American Gods, if you'd like me to avoid any spoilers please just lmk in the subject line. )


What do you believe in? Really believe? What do you devote your time to?

( A pause; he's having a sip of cocoa. )

Now I've been here a few weeks, I've gotten to wondering about that. There's a lot here that's the same as back home, with a few obvious differences thrown in. Advertising, TV, that kind of thing. Back where I come from, what you spend your time on and what consumes your thoughts matters. There's a lot of shit you might not realise how much it matters to you. Mattering matters, if you want to make it sound like some bullshit affirmation.

So here's the thing: what if the reason we come through those porters with the powers we got is because people believe we will? What if we only start fighting crime or committing them because people believe we will?

( A long exhale, almost a verbal shrug. ) Or maybe it's bullshit. I dunno.

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[shadohdamn]

So everything random chance?

( Not outright dismissive, but it makes him uneasy. )

Then what reason would anyone have to be decent?

[am_i_a_monster]

Decent? Most people have reasons they do what they do. Even the monsters have reasons for hurting and killing. Some even think that the killing is decent.

[shadohdamn]

People who aren't right in the head.

( Calm, matter of fact. ) Decent as in treating other people right, obeying the law, that kind of decent. The stuff on the moral scale that isn't flexible.

[am_i_a_monster]

The law isn't always decent or even fair. They could make laws against imports.