Thank God-- Elizabeth sits down across from him, clearly relieved to not have to go back to her cop-buddies butting heads over things they had no control over. Really, she'd been very clearly warned that Loki, in any iteration, was dangerous and so she did apologize silently to the Loki she actually knows-- wherever he might be-- as she took the offered seat. They'd only established a method of differentiating him from other iterations should one of them attempt to impersonate him, and so far this particular one was clearly not attempting that.
...or she was being conned in a serious way.
But being asked to elaborate was much like being asked to rattle off usual sandwich order, so she didn't hesitate at all at the request. "Our lives are made up of constants and variables, whether we're aware of it or not. Some choices will always go one way, some branch off. When these choices are made, timelines split off from the instant of that choice. It can affect just one individual, or entire nations could be built off of that choice. But this also creates, in effect, versions of an individual. I knew two people who passed themselves off as twins, but they were the same person-- but one was male and one was female, the man from a different timeline. He and his 'sister' developed a method of creating holes between timelines, allowing people to pass through from one timeline into another.
"I'm fairly certain similar technology is being utilized by Bifrons to bring the Immune here. You're the fourth being to call himself 'Loki' that I've met since I arrived about four months ago. Two of them looked almost exactly like you, one of them appeared younger but I could definitely see the resemblance. It happened with Thor too, but not quite to the same level. Bifrons must really think you have the answer to the cure, they keep bringing versions of you here and sending them back."
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...or she was being conned in a serious way.
But being asked to elaborate was much like being asked to rattle off usual sandwich order, so she didn't hesitate at all at the request. "Our lives are made up of constants and variables, whether we're aware of it or not. Some choices will always go one way, some branch off. When these choices are made, timelines split off from the instant of that choice. It can affect just one individual, or entire nations could be built off of that choice. But this also creates, in effect, versions of an individual. I knew two people who passed themselves off as twins, but they were the same person-- but one was male and one was female, the man from a different timeline. He and his 'sister' developed a method of creating holes between timelines, allowing people to pass through from one timeline into another.
"I'm fairly certain similar technology is being utilized by Bifrons to bring the Immune here. You're the fourth being to call himself 'Loki' that I've met since I arrived about four months ago. Two of them looked almost exactly like you, one of them appeared younger but I could definitely see the resemblance. It happened with Thor too, but not quite to the same level. Bifrons must really think you have the answer to the cure, they keep bringing versions of you here and sending them back."