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The Absolute Power Meme

Maybe it's a convenient twist of fortune and chance, maybe it's a game between friends or lovers, maybe it's a vacation of restraint, or maybe it's sweet revenge. Whatever the case is, suddenly you find you can make people do anything you like, simply by telling them to. Or maybe just that one person. And boy does that power feel good. You just can't help indulging, maybe because that power is intoxicating or maybe because there's something pulling your strings as much as your pulling someone else's. Is it one-off? Temporary? Or the start of a brand new 'relationship'? Whatever the case, for whichever reason you have it and for however long, you have complete control of this person: Tell them to sit, they sit, tell them to sing, they sing. Tell them to love you, and they'll love you whether they like it or not.

1. Post with your character name, series, and any preferences (such as what you'd rather NOT do)
2. Others respond with their shiny new ability.
3. Optionally, roll for a reason
4. As things go on, the person giving commands will lose more and more control over giving orders themselves, intoxicated by power, fueled by the moment, or really losing control to someone else.
5. Just because they're going to follow commands doesn't mean they want to. They can try to avoid it all they like, and complain as much as they want...but it will eventually win out no matter what.
6. Corrupt. Deal with therapy bills.

~-~PROMPTS

1 - Revenge: They did something against you however long ago, and now it's time you give them a taste of their own medicine. You might be a bit vindictive as it goes on, though...
2 - Enemies: You've long been rivals or enemies, and this is just the next step in your ongoing battle...or is it the end?
3 - Love: Maybe you've forged a deep bond, maybe you're just trying to protect them, whatever the case their life is now in your hands. They're probably willing to give up control to you. For now. Absolute power can corrupt anything.
4 - Stalkers: PAY ATTENTION TO ME. LOVE ME. BE WITH ME FOREVER.
5 - Fun: You could always do this, you're just tired of not doing it, and this unlucky person happens to be the one subjected to it. Best not get bored.
6 - Accidental: You didn't mean to, you might not even realize you can at first...but now that you are, it's pretty cool beans! Don't get carried away!
7 - Kink: You don't have any ulterior motives, you're just spicing up the bedroom. Don't lose yourself in it now.
8 - Pet: This isn't new. This person is your pet and always has been--or has been for awhile. What to do with them today?
9 - Puppet: You're not doing this on purpose! Something just seems to be motivating you to give orders that happen to be followed. Careful, you might not be in any more control than they are.
10 - Choose your own: Maybe there's some other reason to be driven to give commands to someone else. Just remember that with great power comes...

Originally posted by lone_defender on memebells .

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Thor | MCU | open

[draperies]

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[secretways]

[Loki is not best pleased that Thor has come to him, found him, but he would never go down without a fight. Or, well, maybe not a fight but at least a tangle of cutting emotions and pain.]

So, brother, you have found me.

[draperies]

You should have known you could not evade me forever, Loki.

[He circles Loki, guarded and suspicious. He knows not when his brother will strike nor what form his malice may take. He does not intend to let Loki close enough to once again pierce his skin with one of his knives, however.]

Do you surrender or will you have us fight once more?

[secretways]

I did always enjoy our fights. Your brawn against my cunning, but no, I have other plans to set in motion this day. You are merely an interruption. [The raw emotion in his voice is mostly hate and derision but even when in full-vengeance mode he could never truly at his core despise his brother. He was not sure what he hated more, Thor or being unable to truly hate Thor at all.]

[draperies]

What do you scheme now? [Underneath the anger, the frustration with his once beloved sibling, there is fatigue. Must they continue this game, this vengeance?

Thor once held such hope that he could convince his brother to come back to the light, come back to him as both brother and the dearest friend he once was. That hope had died the minute his brother put a dagger in his side rather.]

[secretways]

[Loki let out a short bark of laughter]

I do not monologue, brother. Did you expect me to just lay out my plans for you?

[draperies]

[He isn't surprised, not truly.]</small. No, you never do. I had hoped that perhaps we were done playing this game, however. It will not end well for you, brother.

[secretways]

If there is no game, then where is the fun?

[draperies]

I am in no mood for fun, Loki. At least not your sort.

[secretways]

Ever since you lost your heart to another you have been less amusing. Is there to be no heartfelt plea for me to return to the 'loving' arms of the House of Odin?

[draperies]

I have asked you to stop this madness, brother. I have begged your forgiveness for however I have wronged you and yet you have denied him each time. What more can I do to reach you? If truly there was a way, I would do anything.

[But he knew not how to reach his poor, mad brother and he had grown tired of the constant betrayals. As much as it pained him, it was so much more inviting to finally give up, to accept his brother as the villain so many others saw him as.]

Tell me again, brother, how have I wronged you? What have I done to make you despise me so? You must know that it was never my intention to hurt you... Above all others, it is you who has been my closest companion. Does that truly mean nothing to you? Am I no longer your brother?

[secretways]

You never were, or do you forget the truth of my true parentage so easily? [It stung a little, but Loki would never admit that. He wanted to hate Thor with every fibre of his being, but hate and love were inextricably linked and nothing he could do could change that fact. Thor was the sun - bright, full of energy and warmth. Loki was the moon - cold and small, easily hidden by the brightness of the sun. Just Thor's very nature obscured him whether he meant it to or not. His brother had always meant everything to him, be it brothers-in-arms or as fierce enemies and rivals.]

Nothing I could ever have done would have stepped me from your shadow. The mighty Thor, the first-born of Odin. Ever was I a companion behind Sif and the Warriors Three, even for you. [Well, no, he wasn't but his twisted little mind believed it and it was true in his own reality.]

Now, though, now I have stepped in to the light of my own making.

[draperies]

That matters little to me. We were raised side by side. We fought, we played, we were close once. Does that mean so little now that you know the truth? [It stung for him as well, that Loki could deny what they were so easily, claim it had all been part of some slight against him.]

You were never behind anyone in my eyes! I never meant to outcast you so, brother, and it pains me that you think otherwise.

[And is that truly what he thinks?] This light of yours... it is nothing but madness.

[secretways]

Why would it not? State the truth of it yourself, brother. [He knew not that there was power here that he had not known of as he spoke it.]

I was never the fighter you were, I preferred long range and intellect while you praised the up-close form of fighting.

[He laughed again, a bitter thing. His mind had been twisted through rage, pain and hurt. That fall through the wormhole had not killed him as he believed it would. Some days he remembered letting go willingly of Gungnir, other days he recalled only that Thor had thrown him in, cast him aside. Then came the torment of falling in to the hands of Thanos and the plans for the tesseract. His grips on sanity had probably loosened somewhat.]

Perhaps it is madness, what of it?

[draperies]

[Why could he not stop this? He did not wish to have this discussion, not yet again, and yet he felt as if he could not stop his lips from moving and answering.] You have been my constant companion since we were boys, Loki. I care not about blood ties or lies our father told, that is the truth of it to me.

And so we are different. Is that wrong? Does that not mean we are stronger when we are together, as it should be, brother?

[They were opposites, true, but it is why they worked. He had always respected his brother's counsel, had always felt comfort knowing when he was truly unsure, Loki would be there to help him see things as they should be once more. Perhaps he had been foolish and never shown his appreciation, but he had thought Loki knew it all along.]

I could show you the way back to true light. You know that I would.

[secretways]

A shared bedroom as children does not mean so much now when you discover you are the monster who plagued our nightmares. [Loki does not look Thor in the eyes when he tells him what he believed was a truth.]

Ah yes, follow Thor, always follow Thor.

[draperies]

Damn you, brother! You are no monster to me, but that matters so little to you, does it not? [Dealing with Loki tested his patience so easily anymore. His eyes narrowed on his brother, jaw tightening.]

I only desire to help you.

[secretways]

What do you know of it? [His voice hissed and full of venom.] Have you ever watched your own skin betray you? Have you, Thor?

[He twists away and ignores that statement, it burns that Thor wants to help make it right and he doesn't know why it burns so much.]

[draperies]

I have not. I am sorry, brother. I am sorry for your torment. [But it was something that Thor could not change nor help.]

You know deep down this is not a solution. This will not help. You must know that.

[secretways]

I am enjoying myself, surely that is enough, brother?

[draperies]

No, Loki. You know that it isn't. I had hoped the brother that I loved more than anyone was still in there somewhere, but the more you speak, the more I fear I must accept that he is gone.

[secretways]

He died on the bifröst, when you threw him in to an abyss. Loki Odinson is no more.

[draperies]

Loki, I did not... I would not. You let go.

[secretways]

That is not how I recall it. [Defiant.]

[draperies]

Look at me, brother! I may have failed you, yes, but do you truly think I would ever throw you away in such a way? I thought you dead... I mourned for you!