"As far as I'm concerned, they are of your blood." She replied simply, sipping her own tea. "They're of my line, and so that makes you... oh, an especially complicated uncle? If you'd like to be, that is."
She knows her own complicated history with her children. Hadn't wanted to ask her counterpart and risk bringing up painful memories. But she knew she would want to be in the children's lives in his shoes, and so wanted to give him the option.
"Mortals can be exceedingly clever in working around their limitations, for good or ill." A slight softening of her own expression at his admission, smile turning a bit wry at the edges. "Of everyone I don't think you need to justify yourself to me in that respect. Even at my worst I never hated Midgard for all I might have said as much to upset Thor or alarm his friends."
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Date: 2019-01-27 11:24 pm (UTC)She knows her own complicated history with her children. Hadn't wanted to ask her counterpart and risk bringing up painful memories. But she knew she would want to be in the children's lives in his shoes, and so wanted to give him the option.
"Mortals can be exceedingly clever in working around their limitations, for good or ill." A slight softening of her own expression at his admission, smile turning a bit wry at the edges. "Of everyone I don't think you need to justify yourself to me in that respect. Even at my worst I never hated Midgard for all I might have said as much to upset Thor or alarm his friends."