If he had, it might've actually kept me out. Unless he applied it some indirect way I haven't thought of yet, or whatever ward he used failed for some reason.
You saw the text, so I'll lay out this completely hypothetical scenario.
Loki knows you like to know things, and Loki's missing and not even responding to texts with conversations that he started. You, being confident in your knowledge, seek out the answer in a more effective means than any of us (because that's what you do).
I'd say that it's likely that you were the contingency plan. Or the "wishful thinking" contingency plan, if we're going to connect this to my original statement.
I'm not ruling it out as a possibility, but I still don't think it's likely. Too many variables where it could have gone wrong, and that I got it before anyone else can largely be attributed to luck.
But I guess we'll know if it happens again. In the meantime, we'd be wise to work out contingencies of our own.
Loki once confessed to manipulating Billy several months ahead of time to see if he would possibly summon Mother, relying solely on the psychology of dreams to ensure that his subliminal message would go through.
Okay, but that's a completely different situation.
1. He passed that message directly, and I am really skeptical that "the psychology of dreams" is all he was working with there. 2. If you were to rank everyone you know by their susceptibility to manipulation, where would you put Billy? Be honest.
If you're suggesting that he put a subliminal command in my brain to find his phone if he disappeared, I guess it isn't impossible, but I still think it's unlikely. My head isn't as easy to get into as Billy's, I've dealt with enough psychics to know a few tricks, not to mention that was standard X-student curriculum. Also, I just barely got here. If he was going to use someone as a contingency, it probably would have been you.
I was just building off of the suggestion you were making. I don't think he would have done the same thing since I don't think he had anything in place when this happened.
There was no random chance involved with that, at least not with the initial setup. He was banking on an inevitability, for the reasons already outlined.
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[ also if you're going to have loki's phone, how could you not look? ]
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Or his phone battery needs to stop being so good.
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Also he could have used a better passcode. Not that four digits wouldn't eventually give, anyway.
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Maybe he abandoned it on purpose.
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It also isn't likely. This is more my way of talking around what this really means.
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Also unlikely.
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[ he means "if", but he says "when" more for her sake. ]
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Loki knows you like to know things, and Loki's missing and not even responding to texts with conversations that he started. You, being confident in your knowledge, seek out the answer in a more effective means than any of us (because that's what you do).
I'd say that it's likely that you were the contingency plan. Or the "wishful thinking" contingency plan, if we're going to connect this to my original statement.
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But I guess we'll know if it happens again. In the meantime, we'd be wise to work out contingencies of our own.
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I'm just saying, I'm open to possibilities.
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1. He passed that message directly, and I am really skeptical that "the psychology of dreams" is all he was working with there.
2. If you were to rank everyone you know by their susceptibility to manipulation, where would you put Billy? Be honest.
If you're suggesting that he put a subliminal command in my brain to find his phone if he disappeared, I guess it isn't impossible, but I still think it's unlikely. My head isn't as easy to get into as Billy's, I've dealt with enough psychics to know a few tricks, not to mention that was standard X-student curriculum. Also, I just barely got here. If he was going to use someone as a contingency, it probably would have been you.
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And you're suggesting that he'd even use the same means twice. He's the god of change. He'd probably do a different thing just to say he did.
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The time is still a factor to consider.
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But the time is most definitely the important factor here.
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How many people do you know that have ported out like this? That you personally spoke to, not just heard about.
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