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[rebuildyourruins]

Uh, what about it?

[The lightning is such an intrinsic, obvious thing to Thor that he doesn't know what she's asking.]

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[ Patiently, or well, "patiently": ]

Why can you make lightning?

[rebuildyourruins]

Because I'm the God of Thunder. It's what I do.

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...then what does the god of lightning do?

[ Look, there was a lot to process there about living with someone who claims to be a god and how that aligns with what she sensed in his chi pathways and how that played into what he told her before about his people (were they all gods? was he in charge of them because he WAS a god? ...what even are gods anyway?

But this was clearly the most important thing to ask. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

The same thing, that's still me.

[It's only a matter of semantics and titles.]

After all one follows the other.

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...that's not at all the same thing. One is a sound and the other is part of an element.

[ She blinks and shakes her head. ] Or -- your world could just be different, which is... [ weird, but probably just 'weird' because it has to do with lightning and lightning sucks ] ...you know, fine.

[rebuildyourruins]

[It's best not to try and get a straight answer out of Thor for how his lightning works. In the end it boils down to magic and power, the birthright of Asgardian gods. He nods, a picture of reason.]

Most likely. Asgard differs from the other worlds within my own universe, before even thinking about those elsewhere.

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[ So she's just going to chalk it up to world differences for now, because that's what makes a lot more sense than the god of thunder and the god of lightning being the same thing. ]

Alright, then. [ ...but now she's a little distracted. ] Have you always been able to control lightning?

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I've had the ability from a young age, but control of it is something I have only mastered recently. I used to channel it through Mjolnir, my hammer.

[It was only the loss of that weapon that truly awakened Thor to the fact that his power was solely his, and not in need of a focusing tool.]

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You're over 1,500 years old. What does "a young age" even mean to you?

[ Seriously, what was she talking to right now. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

When I was a child? [What else could it mean!] Truthfully I don't remember when I first showed signs of it. I was given my hammer when I came of age, which is when I started using lightning in battle. I didn't do anything like that before then.