"Me? I just do whatever's fun at the time," Loki said with a casual shrug. "Then I get in trouble and talk myself out of it. No bonds, no regrets. At least most of the time."

Except of course when he got somebody else he actually did feel a bond with tangled up in the trouble, or there were consequences that weren't that easy to talk away. But Odin wasn't here and he didn't want to think about his illness or its consequences.