"You make this decision simply because one of us happens to be immortal, is that it?" Loki fired back with an incredulous look, and a hand on his hip. Live with it, he said. Loki could punch him.

"Eliot, we've discussed this at length countless times before. I am no better a man than you are yourself," he continued, normally averse to admitting his own faults but this was for the sake of winning an important argument. "Throwing your life away just because someone has a few more centuries left in them than you have is still absolutely foolish, and if you're going to insist on this just because I am a god, then I will demand to be treated as such and you will be forbidden whether you like it or not."