#& emeraldxphoenix.

[eyes-blazing]

@emeraldxphoenix liked Jörmungandr

Jörmungandr looked up at a familiar scent on the wind. Looking around for the cause, a bit like a frantic child who had let go of their parents' hand. It had been centuries since he had seen his father. Suddenly, he was a child again, being dragged away from his home and family, begging his grandfather to please let him stay.

"Father?"

[wildcxrds]

scars | starter for @emeraldxphoenix

Loki had a thousand lifetimes to her single one, so she wasn't ever surprised that they maintained a sense of magic upon themself. However, once upon a time to her much less practiced eye, she always assumed there was a deeper level of undetectable magic she had no idea about. Magic she'd learn over time.

Glamour. Years past after their little love affair, after loving and losing and reuniting again, she learned they had a word for some of the magic they used. Illusory magic she'd seen in practice from them and from Kairo, her silver-haired friend. Even Kori participated in his own way of glamour, but they called it illusions. Loki called it glamour.

And similar to her friends, Loki used it to hide old stories marked on their skin. Stories she'd yet to see, learn and understand. Until their brief conversation just the day prior.

The late afternoon after an early dinner met her bare form curled with his in their shared bed, legs tangled and her lips pressing slowly and deliberately along the curve of their shoulder up toward his collarbone. Perhaps I'll let you see a few.

Hers were always out on display. She wondered how many or how few she would find, where she would find them, what she would learn. She wanted to learn.

[tempusetveritas]

@emeraldxphoenix sent: "Here." A bottle is thrust in her direction.

She reaches to take it from them gingerly, as though she's half expecting it to transform into something else the second she touches it (after all, it wouldn't be the first time). "And... What's this for?"

[hverfamodir]

@emeraldxphoenix said: "I was kept in the dark all my life." vulnerable confession prompts. | accepting.

"You never should have been." She can't quite look at them as she speaks, knowing that her guilt is the very last thing that they need to take on. But all the same, she can't stop it from showing on her face, even as she keeps her gaze resolutely fixed on some nebulous point across the gardens. "That was never... Never the kind of life that I wanted for you."

It feels so strange, to be having this conversation. She has just about grown used to being in Sessrúmnir again, but everything else about the situation she now finds herself in feels like something she's never even let herself dream about. Even the pain of hearing the way Loki was treated - by Odin in particular - is somewhat tempered by the fact that they are here, and alive, and she gets to have these conversations with them.

"I loved you." Nál looks up then, pale gaze finally settling on her child's face. "From the moment I learned that I was carrying you, I loved you. The first time I held you... You were perfect, to me. I would have done anything to keep you safe—"

Her voice fails her for a moment, because she still remembers it like it was yesterday, and not centuries ago. When the war had come to their doorstep, she had taken her child to the temple in secret and cast a protective spell, lingering there for as long as she could before she'd had to go. Places like that temple were supposed to be neutral, safe spaces, even during times like that. But when she had returned to find that they were gone, it had broken her.

It still breaks her, even now that she knows the full truth of what happened that day. There's a part of her which is furious with herself for believing them to have died that day, while the more rational part of her knows that it was the only logical conclusion she could have come to with the information that she'd had. How could she ever possibly have guessed that her child had been taken - and raised - by the very person who waged the war against Jötunheim in the first place?

"I thought that I was keeping you safe." She whispers after a long moment. "And if I had known that you were still out there... I would have found you. If nothing else, I hope that you believe that."

[harmbidder]

@emeraldxphoenix said: "...So I brought a surprise home."

As a rule, Sigyn is the one who accompanies Loki on the periodic, necessary visits to Astapor these days.

It wasn't always this way, of course. They all hate it, and in years gone by they would try and share the burden of merely being in that gods-forsaken place by travelling there together. But Angrboða's first pregnancy had resulted in her staying at home during such a trip, and once Fen was born he'd provided her with ample reason to continue to do so - something which only changed on the occasions when Sigyn was the one who was pregnant.

And yet, just sometimes, Boða finds herself wondering if it would be better if they were both still there to keep an eye on Loki.

This is one such time.

"A surprise." She retorts - brow arched, arms folded, the faintest, wary glint of fond amusement in her dark eyes. "You look far too pleased with yourself, Loki."

[crownedinsin]

~ @emeraldxphoenix || a little hellhound starter ~

Barghest sits in front of the God, watching them with a suspicious gaze. Lucifer's been spending time with them and the hellhound's nothing if not protective. A soft huff of smoke leaves him as he leans in closer, sniffing. 'You must be special, he doesn't let just anyone meet us.'

[itsybitsypeterparker]

[ calm down ] sender pets receiver's hair and tries to soothe them after a scary situation (for baby spider pls)

comfortable intimacy prompts // accepting! @emeraldxphoenix

Peter's heart was pounding. He had scared the shit out of someone when trying to save them from an incoming truck. Peter just wanted to do the right thing. But the sight of a child weighing 56 pounds hauling a truck over his head with little difficulty apparently scared people. The poor victim ran away in a heartbeat and Peter put down the truck, feeling the panic setting in and ran for the nearest quiet, dark place, which happened to be a corner of a alleyway. He shoved his head into his knees and curled up on the concrete floor, sniffling.

He hadn't even noticed Loki approach. But being a child that operated on physical affection and reassurance, when he felt the weight of a hand petting his hair, Peter looked up with glassy brown eyes inbetween tears. He stared up at Loki for a moment, soaking in the affection, until he sprung up and wrapped the God in a tight hug, crying into Loki's shirt, wet face pressed against him.

"I-I wanted to help. I didn't want to scare them." He managed through sobs.

[victoriousfidelity]

@emeraldxphoenix sent: ♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise? (Full permission to complain) the salty af munday meme. | accepting.

♦ what was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to your rp wise?

y'know what i don't feel bad talking about this because i have the person in question blocked on all of their blogs, now, and it's relevant to my answer about rp pet peeves from earlier. somebody followed me first, initiated our ooc communication and plotting, and i generally thought we had a nice vibe starting. then i sent them some memes, and they took a few days to reply to them - which is absolutely fine! - but when i dared to take more than 2 days to respond to them, they softblocked me and wiped all trace that we'd ever interacted from their blog 💀 it was truly one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me in all my years on this weird website. oh and they also, once they'd done that, changed their age on their blog from 21 to 18 - and noticing that was what prompted me to block them. insanity.

[lightsiided]

     "LOOK." though her hands are busy with the tea kettle, she inclines her head towards the kitchen window to direct their attention. in the yard, thor is training with the girls. the both of them try their hardest, of course, but are no match for their father. at least not yet. "leia's going to throw a tantrum any minute now. she hates to lose."

thor isn't even trying all that hard, really, easily fending off the both of them at once without breaking a sweat. "did you two used to train together? when you were young? thor says you fight almost as well as he does --" of course he'd said almost, she thinks with a smile, pouring hot water for tea into a row of cups. "-- but i can only imagine what sort of destruction you two caused together."

@emeraldxphoenix liked for a starter!

[acertainfemininemystique]

PROMPTS FOR ANGSTY CONVERSATIONS

@emeraldxphoenix asked: " you don’t owe me anything. i don’t think any of us should owe each other anything. "

IT'S ONE of those things that someone might know intellectually , but in practice is much harder . their dynamic is something almost impossible to navigate and she has a feeling it's causing more hard feelings than anything else .

❝ yeah . . . not that easy though is it ? ❞ she responds quietly , eyes flicking up to his .

[ofvanaheim]

@emeraldxphoenix sent: "Here. You're old enough to try this aren't you?"

Narvi grins at the question but doesn't bother to answer, a hand immediately reaching for the offered drink.

"Dad, how old do you think we are?" Váli asks, laughing - before his expression morphs to a scowl as he realises his twin has beaten him to taking the drink. Would trying to snatch it off him undermine the point that they're old enough...? Probably.

[wildcxrds]

hapi crimas | @emeraldxphoenix

[tempusetveritas]

@emeraldxphoenix sent: Smirking, the god approaches the hunter on her lunch break and slips into the seat opposite. Deliberately, they lean their elbows on the table and lounge forward. "A little birdy told me you said I might have been right about something..."

"I've no idea what you're talking about." Comes her immediate reply, and for a second she simply narrows her eyes at the file she's reading; she may be on her lunch break, but that doesn't mean she's not working. And then she sighs, closing it over and transferring her glare to Loki instead. "Remind me never to tell Ophelia something in confidence ever again."

[lumiiiscorner]

positivity for @emeraldxphoenix from anonymous

sending love to emeraldxphoenix! absolutely an amazing Loki but an even more wonderful friend! I love getting to chat and write with them 💚

[harmbidder]

@emeraldxphoenix said: "I remember how powerful those thighs are." sensual and sexual tension sentence quotes. | accepting.

She's unguarded, here in the confines of her bed, and as such her laughter in response to the trickster's words is warm and full-throated in a way that few get to hear. This is as close to giddy as the Giantess has ever been, though she'll deny that vehemently should anyone else mention it.

Loki is, as ever, the exception to so very many of her self-imposed rules.

Long fingers tangle in their hair, tugging lightly to encourage them back up her body so that dark-painted lips can press to theirs.

"You have not been absent for that long, rakkaani."

[qapsiel]

@emeraldxphoenix ;; some meme somewhere Loki said: “I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.”

                            "THAT IS ANATOMICALLY IMPOSSIBLE," HE POINTS OUT. "And balls is a terrible slang word for testicles. They're not ball-shaped. If at all, they look more like eggs. It makes more sense, too, because eggs grow a baby bird or reptile inside them, and testicles grow at least one half of what you need to make a new human."