[ This game is more like gay, European or excessively flirty. ]
Loki.
[ He repeats it, trying it out. It sounds strange to him, not in an unpleasant way, just like something he'd never say, totally foreign, and he half wonders if he's saying it wrong. ]
Well Loki, I'm sorry we weren't more welcoming yesterday, but we'll try to help make you feel right at home.
[ He noticed that Loki is reserved. Most of Steve's friends had deemed him unapproachable, kind of scary, definitely way too tall and not friendly like Thor. Steve had left his first school from bullying. He'd been scrawny and loud and kids apparently couldn't deal with that, so he'd found himself in dumpsters and with his back against lockers, minus lunch money, and pushed down the stairs. People would put gum in his hair and throw paint on his clothes and pants him in the hallways. He's annoying, they said. He breathes. That was his crime.
He'd left for a few years to get homeschooled, and enrolled in a few self defense classes. Apparently that went real well for him, and when he transferred, everyone had loved him. Seriously. He was still loud about what he was before, except nobody calls him a teachers pet anymore, nobody would think of shoving him in a locker, and people actually want to be seen with him. It's so.... Shallow.
So he doesn't let them do that to Loki. He doesn't let that happen to anyone, which is why people love him a little less now. He makes the rest of the football team feel bad about beating up on that kid with the cane, and they'd completely ostracize Steve if not for the fact that he's a star player and he makes an excellent wingman at parties with cheerleaders.
No one deserves to go through all that, in Steve's not very humble opinion. And yes, he can totally see that Loki isn't exactly keen on meeting Steve, despite what he says. Honestly, whenever new people started walking over to Steve, they could probably smell the fear on him, do he gets it, gets it probably more than Loki knows. ]
Where is that, by the way? Home?
[ Steve's never been outside of the country, gets good grades in Spanish but wouldn't survive a day in a Spanish-speaking country without English. His accent is absolutely atrocious, the epitome of American, but his vocabulary is great and he understands grammar pretty well. He's tolerant of other cultures, super curious about them, but he's not much a traveler. He's in love with home, with an ideal America.
He'd go to wherever Loki's from, and he'd enjoy it, but he'd get a little homesick too. Yeah, the adjustment must be difficult. ]
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Loki.
[ He repeats it, trying it out. It sounds strange to him, not in an unpleasant way, just like something he'd never say, totally foreign, and he half wonders if he's saying it wrong. ]
Well Loki, I'm sorry we weren't more welcoming yesterday, but we'll try to help make you feel right at home.
[ He noticed that Loki is reserved. Most of Steve's friends had deemed him unapproachable, kind of scary, definitely way too tall and not friendly like Thor. Steve had left his first school from bullying. He'd been scrawny and loud and kids apparently couldn't deal with that, so he'd found himself in dumpsters and with his back against lockers, minus lunch money, and pushed down the stairs. People would put gum in his hair and throw paint on his clothes and pants him in the hallways. He's annoying, they said. He breathes. That was his crime.
He'd left for a few years to get homeschooled, and enrolled in a few self defense classes. Apparently that went real well for him, and when he transferred, everyone had loved him. Seriously. He was still loud about what he was before, except nobody calls him a teachers pet anymore, nobody would think of shoving him in a locker, and people actually want to be seen with him. It's so.... Shallow.
So he doesn't let them do that to Loki. He doesn't let that happen to anyone, which is why people love him a little less now. He makes the rest of the football team feel bad about beating up on that kid with the cane, and they'd completely ostracize Steve if not for the fact that he's a star player and he makes an excellent wingman at parties with cheerleaders.
No one deserves to go through all that, in Steve's not very humble opinion. And yes, he can totally see that Loki isn't exactly keen on meeting Steve, despite what he says. Honestly, whenever new people started walking over to Steve, they could probably smell the fear on him, do he gets it, gets it probably more than Loki knows. ]
Where is that, by the way? Home?
[ Steve's never been outside of the country, gets good grades in Spanish but wouldn't survive a day in a Spanish-speaking country without English. His accent is absolutely atrocious, the epitome of American, but his vocabulary is great and he understands grammar pretty well. He's tolerant of other cultures, super curious about them, but he's not much a traveler. He's in love with home, with an ideal America.
He'd go to wherever Loki's from, and he'd enjoy it, but he'd get a little homesick too. Yeah, the adjustment must be difficult. ]