I change, Chris. Every time I die, I come back different. I remember most of what went before but it's like seeing a movie in a mirror. If something happens to me and I get killed, the Loki who comes back won't be me ... whoever it is, they will remember how I felt about you and absorb those memories, maybe even the feelings, but they won't have lived them.

[ Annoyed with his own description to at sounds so paltry and weak, he sighs. ]

The life of a god reflects their era. I am curious and mischievous, and I don't want to hurt anyone even when I do. Before me, I was wracked with guilt over the death of a child I killed. Before him, I was the magpie mentoring myself, that same child, and Loki was so very innocent in those days ... that was how I killed myself.

I'm always at war with Loki, you see. That's what being a chaos god means.

So ... I'm Loki, but I'm also ... me.