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Through the centuries that I have lived, and the many more that will come, many have asked who I am. They have searched and none has found the answer, and the correct answer shall never be found.
These are the answers I have given throughout the centuries…
I am the rightful king of Asgard and Jotunheim.
I am both Aesir and Jotun.
I am a parent - a mother and a father.
I am the most powerful sorcerer of the Nine.
I am young and I am old. I cannot die, yet I can be reborn.
I am arrogant, proud and stubborn.
I am cast out, forsaken, but never alone.
I am a Monster, and yet I am not.
I am not good nor evil, but I am an agent of Chaos.
I am kind, compassionate, but if you force my hand I am an unrelenting force of evil.
I do not make the world safer, but I do make it more interesting.
I am your biggest nightmare or your greatest gift.
I am the voice in your head that makes you want to do bad things.
I am the one for whom you shall kneel, and I am the one on his knees.
I am whoever you want me to be, but I shall never be who you expect me to be.
You can search for me a thousand lifetimes and never find me, and I shall appear when you least expect it.
I am the liar and a deceiver.
I am the trickster.
I am a shapeshifter.
I am change.
I am, and never shall be, who you think I am.
As you can see, I am all, and I am nothing. There is not one answer to who I am, there are many. This list is, and shall always be, incomplete. And nothing set in stone.
I am Loki, and that might be the most accurate description there shall ever be.