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please stay away from me I don't want that type of negativity anywhere near me.
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A/N; He's so fucking dramatic AAAAAAAAAA he's acting like you got the damn plague or something awful of the sort.
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The rain starts suddenly, tapping gently on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the lounge. You glance up from your coffee. Thor notices the gleam in your eyes before Loki even lifts his head.
âNo,â Loki says immediately.
âYes,â you say, already standing.
Thor beams. âA storm! I shall join you!â
Loki groans, setting down his book. âYouâre not children.â
You spin toward him at the door, dripping anticipation and glee. âSays you, the literal God of Mischief.â
Thor lets out a booming laugh. âShe has you there, brother!â
Lokiâs eye twitches.
âI wreak controlled mischief,â he mutters, folding his arms tighter. âNot puddle-soaked madness.â
You donât even replyâyou just sprint into the rooftop garden barefoot, arms open, hoodie bouncing, socks already soggy, Thor thundering after you.
The sleek stone paths are quickly covered in puddles, the air smells like ozone, and your laughter echoes through the Tower.
Thor crashes out behind you, shouting war cries as you chase him in circles through the wet grass and stone. You slip onceâcatch yourself and cackle like an absolute menace.
From the doors, Loki watches.
Arms crossed. Jaw tight. His silhouette sharp in the dim interior light.
âAbsolutely unhinged,â he mutters. âSomeone electrocuted her brain as a child.â
Eventually, soaked to the bone and breathless from laughter, you came stumbling back inside, trailing muddy footprints and giggling like youâd just outrun death.
Loki was waiting.
He didnât say anything. Just walked forward, placed a towel on your head like a parent too tired to scold, and started patting your arms dry with another one.
âHappy?â he asked flatly.
âEcstatic,â you beamed.
âMoron,â he replied gently.
Thor just let out a deep, satisfied sigh and said, âThat was magnificent.â
âI swear to the Nine, if you fall illââ
âI wonât,â you say, too fast.
He narrows his eyes. âYou will.â
Later...
The room is dark and quiet. The rain still whispers against the windows.
Youâre curled up in bed, shivering under layers of blankets, a tissue clutched in one hand and a cup of barely-sipped tea on the nightstand.
âI told you not to go out in the rain,â Loki says, arms folded, his voice sharpâdefensive. But underneath it: worry.
âI was out there for five minutes,â you rasp.
You try to laugh. It comes out as a cough. Lokiâs eyes flash with alarm.
Without another word, he kneels by the bed, his tone shifting from annoyed to concerned beyond comprehension.
âYou mortals are so⊠fragile.â He brushes a strand of damp hair from your forehead, frowning. âIs this⊠normal? To look like youâve been cursed by a frost giant and then claim youâre âfineâ?â
You manage a weak smirk. âItâs just the flu, Your Highness.â
He glares at you, then stands and swishes his handâsuddenly the tea is steaming hot again, the pillows fluffier, the blanket heavier.
âBetter,â he declares, smoothing the blanket over your chest. âYou will rest. You will drink. You will not die of this absurd condition, or I swear I will enchant your immune system myself.â
âIs that a thing?â
âFor you? Iâll make it a thing.â
Later, when you drift into a fitful sleep, Loki doesnât leave.
He sits beside you, conjuring small spells of cooling mist for your forehead, whispering in Old Norse to soothe your dreams. When you stir, eyes hazy, he leans down and murmurs, barely audible:
âYou must recover. I am not yet done loving you.â
The hallway is quiet.
Dimly lit by warm sconces and the faintest shimmer of magic, it feels like a dream as you step out, the blanket draped around your shoulders trailing behind you like a cape. Youâre barefoot. Sniffling. Half-asleep. But your body noticed his absence, and that was enough to rouse you.
âLoki?â your voice is hoarseâbarely above a whisper, soft like cracked porcelain. You sound like a Victorian ghost haunting the corridors of her loverâs estate.
You catch him off guard.
Heâs seated on the floor, leaning against the wall, knees drawn up, a hand over his mouth. But not fast enough.
You see it. The shine in his eyes. The way he quickly wipes his cheeks with the heel of his palm, trying to make it look effortless. Like he wasnât crying in the hallway over you.
âWhat are you doing out of bed?â he asks, standing swiftly, voice low and tight. âYou shouldnât be up.â
You shuffle toward him, blanket still wrapped around your shoulders. âWhat are you doing crying in the hallway?â
He falters.
âIâm justâŠâ he swallows, hands twitching at his sides. âWorried. Thatâs all, my love.â
You blink at him, voice raspy as you deadpan, âDude. Itâs the flu. Iâm not dying.â
He exhales a breathy, incredulous laughâbut thereâs no mockery in it. Just relief. Just you. Standing there like a sleepy little gremlin, dragging your blanket like a train.
âI know that,â he says softly. âBut itâs never... just the flu when itâs you.â
You step into him. He immediately wraps his arms around your shoulders, blanket and all. You melt into his chest like heâs gravity.
âIâve seen gods fall,â he murmurs, lips brushing the top of your head. âBut nothing ever felt as terrifying as watching you burn up and not being able to stop it.â
You tilt your head up, brow bumping his chin.
âYou big softie.â
âDonât tell anyone,â he mumbles into your hair. âItâll ruin my brand.â
You smile.
âIâll take it to the grave,â you whisper, before pulling him back toward the room. âNow come on, I need you to warm my feet before I freeze to death.â
You shuffle back to bed wrapped in your blanket like a burrito, sniffling but victorious for having made it down the hall and emotionally checked on your God of Meltdowns.
Loki helps you ease under the covers without a word, conjures a mug of tea with a flick of his fingers, and gently places it in your hands.
âSmall sips,â he murmurs, crouching at the edge of the bed like a healer at your feet.
You raise a brow at him over the rim of your cup. âWhat, no lecture this time?â
His eyes flick to yours. âI think youâve suffered enough.â
He says it lightly, but thereâs something heavy in his voice.
You just drink your teaâwarm, minty, a little sweet. He vanishes beneath the blankets to press his fingers around your feet. With a quiet spell, heat radiates gently through them.
You hum in response.
He gives a quiet snort, and then heâs moving againâslipping into bed on the other side of you, pulling you back against his chest in one slow, protective motion. His arms curl around your middle, locking you in like youâre the last thing holding him together. You donât resist.
His forehead presses into the curve of your shoulder.
You breathe. He breathes with you.
His magic flickers againâfaint, warm, steady. A soft buzz at your sternum, like heâs trying to anchor himself to the rhythm of your heartbeat.
You wake up in the middle of the night, groggy and flushed. Youâre not burning up, but youâre hot enough to feel gross, and the congestion has hit full force.
You let out a few rough coughsânot violent, but deep enough that your chest aches a little.
Loki stirs immediately beside you. He sits up halfway, one hand braced on the bed, the other gently touching your back.
âYouâre alright?â he murmurs, sleep-rough and tense.
You nod weakly, coughing into the crook of your arm. âJust⊠stuffy. Gross.â
He watches you like heâs trying to read your pulse with his eyes alone. Then he exhales, brushing your hair from your forehead.
âPlease donât do that again,â he whispers. âDonât go out in the rain like that. Donâtâdonât scare me like this.â
You blink at him. âLoki, Iâm okay. Itâs just a cold.â
âI know,â he says. But he doesnât sound convinced. âI know.â
And then he lies back down and pulls you to him anyway, like he still needs proof that youâre alive and warm and real.
He presses his forehead to yours, eyes closed, like heâs trying to draw breath from you. As if your existence is whatâs holding him together.
You fall asleep like that, wrapped in his arms, his magic pulsing faintly against your back.
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Gambit doodle I never posted
This is something that I addressed in my fanfic https://archiveofourown.org/works/62259737/chapters/159281697, but I decided to post this opinion here in hopes to make a small discussion. (This a ramble, so everything might be all over the place. Sorry.)
I don't think the warriors 4 are actual friends. (I'm only talking about the MCU versions.)
First of all, their personalities might clash. Hogun, the quiet one. Fandral the ladies man, Volstagg who eats, and Sif... is a girl? Sif is smart(?). Has black hair? Obviously, that's not their only defining traits, but it's their most memorable ones because that's how they are portrayed. I understand that a lot of friend groups are like this, but when I look at the warriors 4 I don't see that same charm of "Oh, they enjoy each other's company and get along really well". If anything, they can barely stand each other, especially when tension is high. Now I know that's a tough claim to make considering I came to that conclusion based on this deleted scene, but it would make their dynamic more interesting.
I believe/theorise that the only reason they are friends is because of Thor, and their dislike for Loki. If you take Loki out of the equation they won't really have anything else to stand on friendship wise even with the warrior thing. Being Thor's friends I'd assume they are all from high ranking families, so were kinda pushed to be together anyways. Hogun for more diplomatic reasons, and going with the Frigga being a Vanaheim war bride theory, might also have something to do with her or is connected to her. Not sure about Volstagg, Sif or Fandral, and I don't care about them as much. So much is poured into these three by the fandom that I can't be asked to think of anything.
Despite sources saying that Sif and Hogun both despise Loki the most (Hogun even more), I first interpreted them as arguably the most tolerant of Loki, Hogun especially. Hogun is the most respectful towards Loki even if his opinion of Loki is clear. Whereas Volstagg and Fandral pick and choose when they want to be allies. They have both defended Loki, but do not hesitate to go on the bandwagon of threatening him and such. Also, "Silvertongue turned to lead?" They're bullies. The fact that you can't tell whether or not they are going to be your enemy makes them more dangerous. In other words, they're both kinda fake.
In a deleted scene Loki, Hogun and Sif are in a black haired trio. You'd think that Loki would be directly next to Thor and away from the other warriors, but instead there's a big distance between the brothers. Why is Loki standing directly next to two people who clearly hate him? Is Hogun Thor's spy or something? Is that why he's so observant?
I grew up thinking Hogun was the smart one, but his friendship with Thor would sometimes blind him from his own intellect. When they end up in Jotunheim he's the one that says "We shouldn't be here." to the others. Loki was the one who made sure they would be rescued should something go wrong, so they're the only ones with a brain cell it seems. It kinda makes me wonder why Hogun hangs out with them besides the warrior thing. He isn't so jolly, or loud, or spunky, or hungry, or even too eager (blood thirsty/prideful). He's observant and is dragged along for the ride, kinda like a certain someone. I think this is the MCU's fault when it came to writing his character, but he's kind of just there.
Another insight on Hogun, I believe he's only expressive with Thor. Everyone sees Hogun as this figure that embodies silence and restraint, and maybe even lacking emotion, but I can picture Thor not having that same view on him.
LOOK AT HIM! He's avoiding eye contact! He's all shy!
(I'm going to be real with you guys, the main reason I care this much about Hogun is because he's played by Tadanobu Asano. That's Kakihara.)
Asgardians are jealous of Loki. The reason Loki is so belittled and gaslighted is because people like to use him, but also in order to keep gaining favours from him, they need to keep him needy of their praise and blah blah blah. I think a lot of us know how it works, so I won't explain that. On the other hand, Loki has something they don't, which is what makes him 'untrustworthy'. Loki is adaptable, curious and dedicated, as well as other amazing traits.
Loki is "burdened with a glorious purpose". He has a bright star, and people who do not have a bright star as well tend to see that star, and want to dim it. (Yes, I believe there's a spiritual side to it.)
Loki can easily acknowledge (and has) that he's jealous of Thor, but when others call him jealous they are projecting. They especially do this when Loki outwits them. They don't even have to be jealous of Loki, they must've had their ego bruised by him in one way or another.
Sif is close to Thor, but she would never be able to surpass Loki's level of closeness, which sucks, because Loki and Thor barely have any similarities. Why is Thor so insistent on attaching Loki to his side? Thor doesn't need Loki. Thor shouldn't want Loki. Sif and Loki mirror each other. Sif is a warrior lady, most likely with a mission to bring greatness back in the name of female warriors, considering the fiasco of Hela and the Valkyries. Loki is a practisioner of magic, which is seen as feminine, and can battle without magic efficiently, as is expected of a prince. Loki can go both ways, but Sif would never be able to do such a thing.
Hogun is that non-white friend in an all white friend group who's willing to forget and disregard his own ethnic background for those white friends. Excluding the whole Jotun Loki thing, Loki and Thor are both mix-raised, seeing as Frigga is from Vanaheim (according to fandom anyways). Loki clearly inherited a lot of Vanaheimian(?) traits, including the black hair, despite having an Asgardian king for a father. If Loki behaves like a Vanaheimian despite having an Asgardian upbringing, how would Asgardians perceive Hogun? Hogun is threatened by Loki and is determined to drive him out of the friend group. On the other hand of this halfblood envy, Loki makes Hogun feel ashamed. A half Asgardian managed to out-Vanaheim the full blooded Vanaheimian.
Fandral and Volstagg? I don't know, I don't care about them. Maybe Volstagg isn't a very smart person and is jealous of Loki's wit, whereas Fandral is an enabler who's there to be a soft blow. He's a reassurance to Loki's insecurity. He's nice so Loki would think "hey, at least there's one person that's okay with me" and still hangs out with them so that they can benefit from him.
I can imagine Loki has quite the reputation. And when you have a reputation, people talk. Loki is intelligent, diplomatic and pretty much has the significant traits of both Odin and Frigga. Loki is hard working, and tries different things. He's a problem solver, and adapts well to cold weather. I could see Thor views this as Loki outshining him, which is why he could never understand how Loki believed he was in Thor's shadow. Thor thought that Loki was better than him, and suspected that maybe Loki knew it too, and made sure to remind Loki which son was in charge. Which son truly had favour. Which son really mattered. Thor cares for and loves Loki, but is also jealous of how much skill and significance Loki has, even though that skill is a result of Loki's determination, trial and errors. Loki was able to butter people up with his silver tongue, but Thor put people on edge with his loudness and forwardness.
Edit: There are more reasons I can come up with for Thor to be jealous of Loki. First off, Thor felt the only significance he had as the son of Odin was that he was the first born. That's the only relevancy he has. Personality wise, he's the typical Asgardian warrior, with the brashness, light hair and being ready for battle. Loki, on the other hand, has many amazing feats, and stands out. Thor would most likely (or is expected to) become a copy paste of Odin, whereas Loki has an identity of his own. Loki can become whatever he wants, and be whoever he wants outside royalty. Thor's destiny is to be the king and remain stagnant.
What makes it worse is that being a male mage is frowned upon for sexist reasons, but Loki ultimately gets away with it. Being the 2nd prince may play a huge factor, but you'd think that Odin would try to put a stop to that. If he did, he wasn't successful, because Loki's a known seidr practitioner to all of Asgard. I don't think Thor would've been allowed, perhaps heavily discouraged from it.
Frigga is a warbride (according to fandom again), and possibly has stockholm syndrome. I guess she's jealous of Loki's freedom. Loki is technically Odin's servant, and one who can easily gain freedom by leaving the family. Thing is, he's a great employee, and they don't want to lose him. He needs to be convinced that he has no one, and has no other opportunities. She loves Loki, but is willing to have him suffer like she does. She needs someone to be trapped with her. She needs that company. She is unknowingly working as Odin's puppet as she does this, because she herself cannot leave.
Heimdall's all seeing eyes can't spot Loki, and that gets on his nerves. This guy doesn't understand that some people find it creepy to be watched, so he can only assume that Loki is up to something. He must be! Why is he hiding himself before stepping into the shower? Why is he hiding himself as he sleeps?
Odin??? I'm not sure. Every abusive, narcissistic parent is envious of their child about something. Sometimes that envy is over nothing. Odin makes declarations of peace, but Loki is the true embodiment of that (ignoring Thor Ragnarok). Odin looked for trouble, but Loki does anything in his power to make it a last resort.
Odin obviously saw Loki as lesser. To have that lesser become the person Odin claimed to be must be a giant bruise to his ego.