Spock Loki rarely, if ever, speaks to Spock, though it was through no fault of Jim's old friend. Spock doesn't talk about it, but the initial confusion has long faded to easy acceptance of Loki's hostility. They play chess on occasion, especially the days after Jim is annoyed and frustrated by having to figure out how to split his time between his best friend and his partner and says, in tones of great exasperation "why can't you two just be friends?" It isn't that he actually wants them to be, he doesn't think that'd end well for anyone, but he does sometimes wish he could figure out what the problem is.
Jim thinks he might know why, but Loki locks his thoughts so carefully away, has so many walls that even when they share a mind, share memories, Jim cannot quite confirm his guesses. And he'd never violate Loki's privacy by deliberately attempting to find the answer.
( he guesses it's jealousy, but he isn't sure if that's his ego talking or not. )
Bones As far as Jim knows, the first time Loki met Bones was that time he dragged Jim kicking and screaming into Medical after Loki accidentally dislocated his shoulder while they were sparring. He remembers how pale Loki was as he watched Bones set his shoulder with a sickening crack. As per his usual, Bones gave him a verbal dressing down while dealing with the injury, and Loki's eyebrow climbed until he looked quite funny indeed.
Though how much of that is the morphine talking, Jim's still not sure.
When they left that day, Loki had an amused smirk quirking his lips. Ever since then, Loki would always deposit Jim at Bones's feet whenever Jim gets injured beyond Loki's rudimentary first-aid abilities.
Getting scolded by one of them was so much easier than being double-teamed by both. Christ.
( he learned one afternoon he spent lazing around with Bones that they actually first met when a fight with Thor left Loki with three fractured ribs and Thor with a hole in his gut the exact width of one of the dining hall knives. jim doesn't quite know what to do with that information. )
Uhura She's easily the one of his friends Loki likes the most and the one that likes him the least. Uhura's one of the very rare other people besides Loki that can regularly give Jim a serious fight on the mats, and Jim can see the respect Loki has for her. Unlike the cold way Loki tends to ignore Spock, he treats Uhura rather like the way he treats everyone else--with an apathetic indifference. He doesn't go out of his way to avoid her, but he rarely speaks more than five words a day to her, often in the range of "pass the salt" during mealtimes or "excuse me" as he walks by.
From what he hears Uhura says, she prefers it that way. She's friends with Sif, after all.
( once, early on, jim sees a memory of loki as a child; sees him cut off Sif's long hair, sees the blame laid on him and the guilt he never admitted to feeling. )
THIS IS GETTING TOO LONG you can do Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov
Sulu The way he finds out that Loki and Sulu are sort-of-friends is when he walks in on them sparring on the mats one afternoon. While everyone's trained in the basic ways of fighting, everyone has their own skill-set and preferences. Sulu's a fucking genius with a sword and Loki is brilliant with a spear. Jim knew that.
He didn't know (okay, he sort of knew but didn't really fully understand) how good Loki was with knives though, which makes sense since they're not really the most useful when you're fighting giant monsters taller than most buildings. It's always either distance, like canons, or right up-close-and-personal, at which point hand-to-hand or swords, whips, that kind of thing are better choices. Knives don't quite have the range to make them practical at that scale, and making throwing knives that would fit in a Jaegar's hand is just...kind of a dumb idea.
But holy crap, seeing them go at it is something else. It's not the sort of match he usually sees--they're fast and efficient and can take each other down in a matter of seconds. It'd look incredibly uneven if their scores weren't almost tied.
It kind of turns him on.
( if it wasn't him partnered with loki, he thinks that maybe sulu wouldn't be a bad candidate. )
Scotty The only time Loki and Scotty crosses paths outside of the daily mealtimes is when Scotty's performing some sort of maintenance on Starstruck Wolf, and Loki has some sort of issue to bring up or demand to make. Scotty always complains about how rude Loki is about it, the way he phrases his requests like commands and insults rather than questions.
Still, for Jim's sake, Scotty always says, he does his best to implement the changes Loki asks for. Their Jaeger is always one of the smoothest performing.
( watching them interact is kind of like watching two hedgehogs try to hug. or something. )
Chekov Jim doesn't think Loki and Chekov have ever spoken. He prefers it that way.
( not that he thinks the kid is weak, but he's seen loki make grown men cry with a look and a few cutting words. cry--or try to beat loki up. it's pretty up in the air each time loki opens his mouth. )
"Fenrir," Loki says, and for fucks sake, just because he and his brother are named for Norse gods doesn't mean everything around them has to be. It's ridiculous enough that all of Thor's friends have names that could be found in various sagas.
"Enterprise," Jim argues, because he's always been fond of the word, the idea, the whole concept of achieving a goal through hard work and taking initiative. It's fitting, he thinks, to name their Jaegar something like that, since they'd be piloting the first of this new Generation.
They argue for a week until they have to decide, the painters are waiting for a final decision to properly christian the Jaegar.
It was shortly after the Beckett siblings disappeared. No, not disappeared, Jim thought, dead dead dead. He wasn't afraid but the situation stank to high heaven. Everyone knew the Becketts in small and large ways. It was a loss no one had an explanation for.
Loki had simply told him to get his head in the game (okay no he actually said something like "This is an eventuality that awaits us all if we are unable to grapple with the reality we exist in." To be fair, Jim felt he was nicer about it than usual). Two weeks later, they were called to the coast of Mumbai. High-risk, high-tension, high of all the things that could go wrong.
Jim drank it up.
But this Kaiju ("Dupli" he found out later) could split itself and they had foolishly aided in its duplication process. The newly born Kaijus attacked his flank and Jim screamed while Loki watched. He had enough in him to crush the Kaiju's skull but everything went black soon after.
When he woke up, Loki told him quietly, "We're retiring."
Jim was too shellshocked to protest (no, that's a lie, he protested, long and hard, in every corridor, until Loki slapped him and said, "They destroyed her. There was nothing to recover. We are through.") It took him even longer to realize he was being let go.
But Loki waited for him (cutting remarks armed to the teeth, Jim thought wistfully) and took Jim gently in his arms and guided him to the helicopter. Loki never left, never considered it. And Jim let go.
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err hmm. loki talking to jim's friends.
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Loki rarely, if ever, speaks to Spock, though it was through no fault of Jim's old friend. Spock doesn't talk about it, but the initial confusion has long faded to easy acceptance of Loki's hostility. They play chess on occasion, especially the days after Jim is annoyed and frustrated by having to figure out how to split his time between his best friend and his partner and says, in tones of great exasperation "why can't you two just be friends?" It isn't that he actually wants them to be, he doesn't think that'd end well for anyone, but he does sometimes wish he could figure out what the problem is.
Jim thinks he might know why, but Loki locks his thoughts so carefully away, has so many walls that even when they share a mind, share memories, Jim cannot quite confirm his guesses. And he'd never violate Loki's privacy by deliberately attempting to find the answer.
( he guesses it's jealousy, but he isn't sure if that's his ego talking or not. )
Bones
As far as Jim knows, the first time Loki met Bones was that time he dragged Jim kicking and screaming into Medical after Loki accidentally dislocated his shoulder while they were sparring. He remembers how pale Loki was as he watched Bones set his shoulder with a sickening crack. As per his usual, Bones gave him a verbal dressing down while dealing with the injury, and Loki's eyebrow climbed until he looked quite funny indeed.
Though how much of that is the morphine talking, Jim's still not sure.
When they left that day, Loki had an amused smirk quirking his lips. Ever since then, Loki would always deposit Jim at Bones's feet whenever Jim gets injured beyond Loki's rudimentary first-aid abilities.
Getting scolded by one of them was so much easier than being double-teamed by both. Christ.
( he learned one afternoon he spent lazing around with Bones that they actually first met when a fight with Thor left Loki with three fractured ribs and Thor with a hole in his gut the exact width of one of the dining hall knives. jim doesn't quite know what to do with that information. )
Uhura
She's easily the one of his friends Loki likes the most and the one that likes him the least. Uhura's one of the very rare other people besides Loki that can regularly give Jim a serious fight on the mats, and Jim can see the respect Loki has for her. Unlike the cold way Loki tends to ignore Spock, he treats Uhura rather like the way he treats everyone else--with an apathetic indifference. He doesn't go out of his way to avoid her, but he rarely speaks more than five words a day to her, often in the range of "pass the salt" during mealtimes or "excuse me" as he walks by.
From what he hears Uhura says, she prefers it that way. She's friends with Sif, after all.
( once, early on, jim sees a memory of loki as a child; sees him cut off Sif's long hair, sees the blame laid on him and the guilt he never admitted to feeling. )
THIS IS GETTING TOO LONG you can do Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov
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The way he finds out that Loki and Sulu are sort-of-friends is when he walks in on them sparring on the mats one afternoon. While everyone's trained in the basic ways of fighting, everyone has their own skill-set and preferences. Sulu's a fucking genius with a sword and Loki is brilliant with a spear. Jim knew that.
He didn't know (okay, he sort of knew but didn't really fully understand) how good Loki was with knives though, which makes sense since they're not really the most useful when you're fighting giant monsters taller than most buildings. It's always either distance, like canons, or right up-close-and-personal, at which point hand-to-hand or swords, whips, that kind of thing are better choices. Knives don't quite have the range to make them practical at that scale, and making throwing knives that would fit in a Jaegar's hand is just...kind of a dumb idea.
But holy crap, seeing them go at it is something else. It's not the sort of match he usually sees--they're fast and efficient and can take each other down in a matter of seconds. It'd look incredibly uneven if their scores weren't almost tied.
It kind of turns him on.
( if it wasn't him partnered with loki, he thinks that maybe sulu wouldn't be a bad candidate. )
Scotty
The only time Loki and Scotty crosses paths outside of the daily mealtimes is when Scotty's performing some sort of maintenance on Starstruck Wolf, and Loki has some sort of issue to bring up or demand to make. Scotty always complains about how rude Loki is about it, the way he phrases his requests like commands and insults rather than questions.
Still, for Jim's sake, Scotty always says, he does his best to implement the changes Loki asks for. Their Jaeger is always one of the smoothest performing.
( watching them interact is kind of like watching two hedgehogs try to hug. or something. )
Chekov
Jim doesn't think Loki and Chekov have ever spoken. He prefers it that way.
( not that he thinks the kid is weak, but he's seen loki make grown men cry with a look and a few cutting words. cry--or try to beat loki up. it's pretty up in the air each time loki opens his mouth. )
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"Enterprise," Jim argues, because he's always been fond of the word, the idea, the whole concept of achieving a goal through hard work and taking initiative. It's fitting, he thinks, to name their Jaegar something like that, since they'd be piloting the first of this new Generation.
They argue for a week until they have to decide, the painters are waiting for a final decision to properly christian the Jaegar.
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IT'S SMARTER TO NAME IT FOR A PREDATOR
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Loki had simply told him to get his head in the game (okay no he actually said something like "This is an eventuality that awaits us all if we are unable to grapple with the reality we exist in." To be fair, Jim felt he was nicer about it than usual). Two weeks later, they were called to the coast of Mumbai. High-risk, high-tension, high of all the things that could go wrong.
Jim drank it up.
But this Kaiju ("Dupli" he found out later) could split itself and they had foolishly aided in its duplication process. The newly born Kaijus attacked his flank and Jim screamed while Loki watched. He had enough in him to crush the Kaiju's skull but everything went black soon after.
When he woke up, Loki told him quietly, "We're retiring."
Jim was too shellshocked to protest (no, that's a lie, he protested, long and hard, in every corridor, until Loki slapped him and said, "They destroyed her. There was nothing to recover. We are through.") It took him even longer to realize he was being let go.
But Loki waited for him (cutting remarks armed to the teeth, Jim thought wistfully) and took Jim gently in his arms and guided him to the helicopter. Loki never left, never considered it. And Jim let go.