#maybe my helas fix it fic will pull me out of this

[ambrosykim]

girls after they finish veilguard

[scribeofmorpheus]

Sleepytime, Aurora ~One Shot

A Marvel Spoof Fic

Written in response to this gifset!

Words: 2k  | Masterlist

Premise: Our magical Marvel beings (Loki, Wanda and Strange) as versions of the fairy godparents to Aurora as they protect her from Maleficent (in this case Hela!)

OC: Aurora

Thank you @electroma89 for suggesting I write something for it! I had tonnes of fun, and even though the story isn’t fairy-tale-eque, I hope you enjoy it!

APPALACHIANS, 00:32 am

Energy crackled against the dark night setting of the Appalachians as an interdimensional rift tore through the fabric of the universe. Bright light poured through the rift, scaring the wild animals that slept under the cover of night. A body materialised out of this light and softly fell onto the thick snow -this less than graceful gazelle was named Aurora.

"Get back here!" Hela’s voice boomed across the rift, her long nails stretching out to peek through the dimensional curtain.

"Make me!" Aurora stuck out her tongue before she clasped her hands together to seal the rift.

Energy pulsed around her as she lay unconscious in the snow.

SANCTUM SENCTORUM, NEW YORK, 00:32 am

Strange had his nose firmly stuck in a thousand-year-old book; its words written in Aramaic -a translation spell causing the words to move and shift until legible with each page turn.

Wong was polishing the brass Centurion of Dismemberment downstairs, leaving the Cloak of Levitation to wonder about the room aimlessly.

Shimmering out through half-closed curtains, a crystal ball became agitated, displaying images of a mountain peak, a woman falling through a rift and darkly painted nails being severed once it was closed.

Curiously, the Cloak hovered close to the heavy drapes but was unable to move them apart.

The crystal ball began to whisper in a thousand angry voices too low for any of the mortals within the Sanctum to hear. In a panic of human-esque movements, the Cloak hovered in front of Wong's peripheral trying to get his attention.

"Not right now, I'm busy." Wong swatted the Cloaks coattails away carefully. "This is a very delicate procedure. One wrong move and I risk awakening the Centurion of Dismemberment. Even the slightest gust of wind could risk awake--"

The Cloak wouldn't take no for an answer and wrapped itself around Wong's midriff, pulling him backwards.

"The hell's gotten into you?" Wong frowned before using his sling-ring to singe the ends of the Cloak, causing it to let go abruptly.

"Oh, shi--" Off-balance, Wong's head hurled directly into the Centurion's folded brass exoskeleton.

GONG!

The noise travelled through-out the Sanctum.

Strange rolled his eyes when the loud noise disrupted the flow of his spell.

"Wong, can you keep it down?" Strange shouted before he mused quietly to himself in annoyance: "Is it really too much to ask for a day of quiet?"

In a hurry, completely ignoring the magical animatronic machine coming to life in great puffs of steam and groaning metal, the Cloak flew up to the sound of Strange's voice.

It tapped on Strange's shoulder several times only for him to subsequently brush him off. Then the sound of something large stomping around and crashing into things finally caught his attention.

"What in the--?" Strange turned to head down the stairs, the Clock tugging him in another direction.

The top floor of the rotunda was filled with several frightened apprentices using sling-ring whips to try and keep the Centurion in one place as his sword crashed into every glass casing.

Wong, having just been woken up off the floor, shook his head and used his magic skills to move each magical artefact away from the Centurion's path destruction.

"Strange, get down here! We need you!" Wong said with great effort as his magical abilities were being stretched thin.

Just when Strange took a step down the stairs, the Cloak had managed to pull his attention towards the shimmering light behind the thick red drapes.

"Hmmm," Strange said as he walked towards the strange lights.

The Cloak finally bringing itself to rest easily upon the Sorcerer Supreme's shoulders.

"Str- Strange? Where the hell are you going?" Wong demanded as he watched his friend walk away with disinterest in his eyes at the fact a live Centurion was slashing and knocking and stomping about.

"You've got it under control," Strange said nonchalantly without looking away from the light. When he pulled back the drapes, he read the inscription plaque fixed upon the crystal ball's stand out loud: "Upon this cutting of the Great Oak of Knowledge sits the Orb of Impending Doom. Beware the day its eyes are opened, for when the screams of guardians past gain their voice again shall be the final lament that foretells of the end of days..."

Strange rose his eyebrow in though, his arms folded around his midriff, one anchored up to rest his chin upon, "That doesn't sound very comforting."

"Wong! Hold down the fort!" Strange shouted from the other room as he opened a portal.

Between deep pants, Wong nodded his head, "Hold… the… fort! Right, no problem… it's not like that wasn't exactly what I've been trying to do!"

 APPALACHIANS, 00:40 am

Strange stepped through the portal, his cloak dethatching itself to hover to a humanoid looking figure a few feet away.

"This better not be aliens," Strange hoped.

The Cloak wrapped itself around a sleeping woman’s frame and lifted her off the ground like a hammock.

The portal, still open, let out orange shimmers, making the snow appear like it was set aflame. On the other side of it, the loud shouts and shattering noises coming from the Sanctum permeated through the cold air.

"So… this is the bringer of the end of days," Strange pursed his lips in thought. "Huh, I pictured something a little more… Well, more. Let's bring her with." He told the Cloak.

"Strange!" Wong's shout trickled out.

"First things first. Let's go deal with that Centurion."

 SANCTUM SENCTORUM, 06:30 am

Wong used magic to make the clean-up efforts go faster while the rest of the sorcerer's carefully levitated the now deactivated Centurion towards the vault in the basement.

When he was done, Wong made his way to the communal resting area where their newfound guest slept on a couch while Strange -floating cross-legged- looked through several hovering books open on different pages simultaneously.

"Anything?" Wong asked.

Strange just furrowed his brows.

"Maybe we should just ask her?"

"What if her waking up creates more problems than it solves?"

"Then, just like earlier, we'll deal with it." Wong was a bit bitter from earlier.

Strange set down from his sitting position and placed the palm of his hand on the sleeping woman’s face, "Wake."

Despite his awakening spell, the woman stayed asleep.

"That's unusual..." Strange uttered.

Then he felt the cloak tap on his shoulder and point at something at the end of the room.

Wong and Strange were surprised to see a copy of the exact same woman, partially translucent and standing with the edge of a coffee table passing right through her knees. She was incorporeal.

"Det er et bord som stikker ut av meg!" The projection shouted frantically.

"This is new," Strange stood from the girl’s unconscious body and walked closer to the semi-transparent version.

Wong cast a translation spell as the projection kept shouting and pacing about, "I think she's astral projecting."

"Who are you?" Strange asked after she passed through him. The feeling was odd.

"Polarlys, Goddess of Limbo and soothsayer to the restless dead. But my Uncle's call me Aurora," she said matter-of-factly.

"I'm Stephen Strange and this is Wong."

The Cloak swatted Strange's hand.

"And this is the Cloak of Levitation," He added.

The Cloak made a waving gesture.

"Greetings," Aurora said with a pleasant sing-song voice that made Strange and Wong stifle sudden yawns.

"Would you mind telling us why the Orb of Impending Doom thought you'd somehow be responsible for the end of days?" Strange asked when the outside world was overcome by an ethereal green hue, blocking out the sun and turning the sky a bluish-green colour.

"What is happening?" Wong said as he peered out the Sanctum's circular windows.

"That would be the impending doom you speak of," Aurora said with bulging eyes.

Out of the corner of the room, rainbow streams of light beamed down like a flashlight as Loki stepped out of the bi-frosts portal perimeter.

"Aurora, would you mind explaining to me why Helheim's gates are opening? And while you're at it, would you also explain why you're on Midgard?" Loki questioned with his finger waggling about, staring at her with disappointed brows.

Aurora shrugged like a teenager, face pulled into a long pout making her doe eyes seem even more pronounced. Immediately, Loki's expression changed into one less scary.

"Ah, Loki," Strange greeted.

"Imposter," Loki replied in greeting.

"You know her?" Wong asked.

"She's my concern, and the reason all mortals on your realm have fallen into an endless slumber.

"What?" Both Wong and Strange said completely unaware of that last sentiment.

"You're probably conscious because you possess magical attributes, or at least what humans pass for magic anyway," Loki said with his nose pointed high.

Wong conjured several birds-eye-view portals around him to confirm Loki's words, and sure as day, through each portal he could see countless humans slowly beginning to fall into a slumber causing chaos to erupt around them.

"I'll gather the apprentice's and other sorcerer's and try and contain the situation," Wong assured Strange before he made for the other room.

"Come on Aurora, get back in your body so I can take you back," Loki ordered.

"No!" Aurora pouted again, arms folding around herself. "You can't make me?"

"Yes, I can and I will," Loki inched further to her. "Now get back in your body or so help me I will--"

Having grown impatient with Loki's interaction, Strange had opened a portal to Timbuktu and swept Loki through it, forcing him out of the room.

"Now that we have some peace and quiet, mind telling why you're causing everyone to fall unconscious?"

Aurora sighed, "It's a protection spell..."

"Why do you need a protection spell?"

"It wasn't my idea. My mother is a little overprotective."

"Your mother?"

Before Aurora could elaborate, Wanda and Vision flew into the Sanctum through the open observatory window.

"Hello, Doctor Strange? Monk wizards? Anybody home?" Wanda asked the seemingly empty space. "Viz, you sure you detected an anomaly here?"

"I'm positive Wanda," Vison replied.

"We're in the back!" Strange shouted.

Suddenly, Loki rematerialized angrier than before, "Do that to me one more time, mortal and I'll have your--"

Strange accepted the challenge and swept Loki away into another portal.

Loki rematerialized just as quickly as he had disappeared, "That's it!"

Loki was about to charge at Strange when Wanda used her abilities to separate them to either side of the room when a subtle rumbling caused the walls and floor to trail cracks.

Several skyscrapers were threatening to topple into one another when Wanda shouted, "Viz take care of that, I've got things handled here!"

With a crack and a thunderous streak, a tear was sliced through the sky as a woman dressed in black and green with a helmet affixed with several sharp prongs sticking out of it descended from the sky -hundreds of swords materialising to form a circular perimeter around the Sanctum.

Wanda let go of Strange and Loki before she jumped out of the Sanctum and landed by an empty park in full view of the ethereal looking woman.

Loki and Strange followed suit.

"Wait for me!" Aurora groaned as she shimmered to their location.

"Who is that?" Wanda asked.

"I believe, that's Hela, Goddess of the Dead," Strange said knowingly.

"That's my adoptive older sister," Loki corrected.

"That's my mother," Aurora said with a deep exasperated sigh.

Everyone but Loki turned to her.

"What? Nobody's family is perfect!" She protested.

Loki chuckled as he summoned his sceptre, "Oh, she doesn't look happy."

"Aurora! I warned you about travelling to Midgard without my permission! You're in big trouble young lady."

Aurora's projection gulped, "Uh-oh..."

"Can't we just reason with her?" Wanda asked.

"Not when she's lost her temper," Aurora warned.

"So what's the plan?" Strange asked.

"We tire her out until her ears aren't blocked by all the blood rushing to her brain!" Loki said sarcastically.

Red, green and orange. Uniformly, Strange, Wanda and Loki took defensive stances as their signature magic colours wisped to life.

“Why couldn’t it just be aliens?” Strange whined as several magical swords embedded themselves into the tarmac and soft grass.

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[gold-from-straw]

Spectres - Ch6

Has this story got entirely out of hand and overcomplicated? Maybe. Should it have had a set-up and explanation and backstory about twice the length of the fic? Possibly? Do I care? No, I do not. This chapter may be a little bit body horror-esque...

Read from the beginning on AO3 if you prefer!

“We must find a puppet,” said Loki, and Tony’s breath was ripped from him again as they teleported, Spectre style into the middle of Wall Street.

“Holy shit,” Peter gasped, staggering forwards.

Tony hauled him back up. “Pretty damn cool, huh?” he grinned. Peter nodded, his eyes sparkling.

Loki shook his head. “You two are the most… unusual of Monks.”

“Normal is boring,” said Tony, waving a hand. “Now, puppets - what are we looking for?”

Loki waved a hand and the bustling crowd around them went dark. The people continued to walk, unnoticing, but Tony could see right through them to a glow in their core, the world behind them black and featureless.

“The Hydra reaches up, its tendrils burrowing into the core of those whose soul is rotting,” said Loki, his voice a deep rumble. “It feeds, and replaces, and leaves behind a puppet, walking and wielding power, and outwardly indistinguishable from the narcissistic, greedy scum it was before.”

Tony and Peter exchanged looks. “Well, we’re in the right place in Wall Street, I guess,” Peter shrugged.

Loki was silent, watching. Suddenly he pointed. “There,” he said, and pulled them through space fifty yards or so down the street.

Tony coughed. “Bit of warning, please?”

“Do you see it?” Loki asked. He pointed towards a man in a suit, the same as every other besuited man on the street, pinstripes and briefcase and mobile phone up by his ear. But instead of the glow in his core, pulsing under the solar plexus, the man had a solid, dull silver tentacle.

The tip of the tentacle was buried in the man’s head, spreading throughout his brain. From there it sank through his body and down, down into the earth where it disappeared into the darkness. Tony cleared his throat. “Well. Yeah. That’s, uh… disgusting.”

“Is it killing him?” Peter asked, eyes wide as he watched the man pause on a street corner to snap into the phone.

“He is long dead,” Loki said. “He is but a puppet.”

“So… we can’t save him,” Peter said, and Tony wanted to hug the kid. At least he knew even if Tony himself became evil, Pete would still want to help him.

Yeah, better not encourage such levels of idealism, really.

“What are we going to do, then?” Tony asked.

“Follow him down,” said Loki, and rushed forwards, a swirl of ravens cawing as his spirit split into thousands of the birds.

“Shit,” Tony muttered, racing after him. Peter shot out a strand of his own Spectral spirit that wrapped itself around the wildly thrashing puppet. The man started to melt, the tendril retracting into the earth and leaving the body behind, folding itself up on the floor like a rubber suit.

Before Tony could retch, or react in any way, he felt strong arms snatching him up from the cloud of ravens, and the three of them rushed through the body, through the earth, following the retreating tentacle.

Tony forced his hysterical mind away from the fact that he’d just dived through a boneless body on the floor and was currently diving into the bowels of the earth after a Hydra. “I’m good under pressure, I’m good under pressure,” he muttered, gritting his teeth and clinging onto Loki.

They reached a horizontal tunnel at last, and the tentacle whipped away ahead of them as they touched down. Loki’s ravens coalesced back into his human form, Peter’s Spectre strand tugged back into his hand, and the three of them looked at each other, breathing hard.

“You have been here before, Peter,” said Loki. “Can you tell the best direction?”

Peter looked slightly panicked, then frowned. “Yeah, actually. That way.” He pointed straight into a wall.

Tony’s eyebrows raised. “Good thing I brought blasting powder.”

Peter shook his head. “No, no, we can just walk through,” he said. “C’mon, I can hear them!”

Tony frowned and looked around, hearing nothing but silence. Loki shrugged. “I do not hear it either.”

Peter led them into the wall, pressing into the spongy loam which parted as he moved, and then closed again behind them. Tony shuddered. “Uh, this would be a bad time to tell you that I’m a bit claustrophobic, yeah?”

Loki turned to smirk at him, but he felt a long-fingered hand tuck into his own. He considered feeling insulted, but it felt too nice. He slipped his own fingers between Loki’s and grinned up at him.

They walked in silence for time that Tony didn’t even bother trying to measure. ADHD always turned that into a bitch anyway, wasn’t much point when he couldn’t see clocks or the sun. He just followed Peter as he turned and pushed on, and when they pushed into a vast cavern, he blinked, like he’d forgotten that’s what space looked like.

Peter gasped and ran across the room. “Teddy, Kate - you guys OK?”

Tony and Loki followed him over, Tony casting a ball of magelight which he threw up into the air to cast a golden glow over the room full of… “Jesus Christ,” he muttered. “How many kids are stuck down here?”

“Fifty three,” said a skinny boy with huge eyes. “We count off every evening.”

Peter was bustling between the bundles of rags and slow-moving limbs, squeezing shoulders, pulling kids into a sitting position, touching faces. Tony reached down to the boy who’d spoken. “What’s your name, kid?”

“David,” he said, taking his hand and hauling himself up, but looking at Tony only out of the corner of his eye.

“Can everyone walk? Does anyone need carrying out of here?”

David snorted. “Yeah, don’t give us false hope, man.”

“We got down here, we’re getting you all back up,” Tony said, still looking around and planning.

“The one-armed man’ll be back soon,” said a tough-looking girl, pushing herself to her feet. “You got no chance. Welcome to hell.”

“Then we shall need help,” Loki said thoughtfully. He tipped his head back and whistled, shrill enough that Tony ducked and clapped his hands over his ears.

“What the hell, Lokes? You want to call the Hydra down on our ears?”

Loki smirked at him. A white cloud appeared behind his back, particles of light swirling around and coalescing into three distinct shapes. Tony sighed. “Hey triplets.”

Hela smiled, the ragged gash in her skin shifting over her face and leaving the grin on her eyes alone. Jormungandr, in human form, looked around at the room full of ragged children, then shifted into a massive dragon, making a couple of smaller kids scream.

“Don’t worry, he’s a friend!” Peter yelled. “Uh, Mr Loki, do you think--”

“Climb onto Jormungandr’s back,” Loki said. “We will help you if you cannot, and he will fly you to your freedom.”

“This can’t be real,” said an auburn haired boy weakly, leaning on a big blond guy who wrapped his arms protectively around his shoulders. “This can’t… it’s a dream.” He pressed his face into the blond’s chest, exhausted.

“I told you I’d come back, Billy,” said Peter gently. He glanced up at blondie. “Teddy, can you get him up onto Jor?”

“Is this for real, Pete?” Teddy asked, frowning. “The one-armed man took you, we thought you’d be torn apart like… like all the others and then… now you’re back here?”

Peter nodded. “You know I said I’m an apprentice Monk? This is my master, Tony. He got Loki to help find me.”

“But that’s a Spectre,” said the tough girl. “Monks don’t work with Spectres.”

“America,” Teddy warned.

“Nah, Ted, we can’t trust these guys - we were all grabbed by a Spectre, we’ve been held here for weeks by one massive Spectre that seems to spread across the whole earth, I’m not going with another one. Out of the frying pan, into the fire?”

Fenrir bounded up in his wolf form, tongue lolling, then, in a swirl of power, switched back to his human form. “America!” he yelled, grabbing her in a hug.

“Fenrir? You’re--”

“You’re here! We looked for you! Why did you go? I missed you! I told Loki and he said he’d look! We’re here to get you out!”

“You’re a Spectre?” America said, mouth open.

“Yup yup. Wolf form. Spectre. Want a ride? I can run real fast. Where’s Kate?”

“Uh, she’s there…” America pointed at a dark haired girl, who pushed through the group to her side. “You’re a Spectre?”

Tony looked around the room. Hela was hugging a group of smaller children, and Jormungandr was switching back to his human form to talk to a different group of teenagers. Peter grinned at America. “Can we rescue you now?”

She nodded, dazed. Fenrir scooped her up into an enthusiastic hug, and she laughed, patting his back before he shifted into a wolf form and raced off. “Shit, yeah, let’s do this. Shit. Teddy, we’re getting out of here!”

“Jor?” Peter yelled. The giant dragon-snake rematerialised, and this time, the kids were much faster at scrambling up onto his back. Tony helped Teddy lift Billy onto Jor’s back, steadying him until Teddy could wrap him up in his arms again.

Then there was a scream at the edge of the cavern, and a roaring snarl from Fenrir. Blood running cold, Tony raced over as fast as he could, Loki splitting into his ravens. At a doorway there stood a black-haired man, his long hair hanging over his face. His nose and mouth were obscured by a jawbone mask, and one arm shimmered, shifting and pulsing with Specral power. “Speed it up, kids,” Tony yelled, keeping his eyes fixed on the one-armed man.

For a moment the three of them stared at each other, the noise of fifty three children scrambling to climb onto Jor a panicked rustle behind Tony and Loki. Then the man leaped into action, hurling himself at Tony. Tony shifted, smashing a vial of flame at his feet. The Spectral arm shot out, siphoning up the flames with barely a glance, and the man spun, his flesh arm nearly connecting with Tony’s jaw. Tony raised a hand to block, the strength of the strike vibrating every bone, making him gasp.

Loki split into ravens and flew at the man, trying to separate him from Tony, but the man kicked out, thumping into Tony’s lower back. Tony dropped to his knee, the adrenaline keeping him from crying out, and swung his arm, knocking the man’s leg out from under him. He fell onto his back, whipped his feet, and flipped himself upright, but Tony had at least managed to scramble backwards, out of the way.

With a hair-raising scream, Loki dived towards the man, every raven shrieking and coalescing around him. Tony pushed himself to his feet, heart pounding, watching in sickening horror as the ravens whirled around the man in a wild storm. Suddenly there was a rending, ripping noise and the ravens parted, all flying away in unison, looking down, calculating. There on the floor lay the broken man, his shimmering arm gone, his bare face contorted in pain and turned towards Tony.

“Holy shit,” Tony breathed. “It’s Bucky fucking Barnes.”

Loki’s ravens seemed to hang in the air, the world taking in a long breath before the scream, and then, delicate and elegant, dived back down to destroy the most famous missing Monk in history.

Tony raced forwards, screaming and waving his arms. “Loki, no! It’s Barnes, leave him, no!”

He bent over Barnes’ body, eyes squeezed shut in terror. The rattle of thousands of feathers and wings trying to change direction filled every sense, and he threw his arms up over his head even as he hunched over Barnes’ chest and face. There was a storm of buffeting wind, of beating wings, a brush of feathers, and nothing. Tony squeezed his eyes open.

“Tony,” Loki said, panting and standing over Tony with dark, angry eyes. “You are a fucking idiot.”

Tony burst out laughing, high and terrified. “Shit, I know, right?”

“What is the meaning of this?” Loki snapped.

Tony looked back down at the man beneath him. “When I was a kid, Barnes was this... legend. A Monk who went missing during the final battle of the great Monk-Spectre war, no trace of him whatsoever. Everyone thought he was vaporised, him and Captain America, but…” He breathed out hard. “I grew up with pictures of him and his team all over the house.” He shrugged. “My dad worked with them. Never let me hear the end of it, how I’d never be as good as Barnes, as any of the Howling.” He smirked up at Loki, cocky. “I got better.”

Loki raised an eyebrow and smiled back. “You did.” He bent down to lift Barnes, who groaned weakly. “His soul was entangled with a shard of the Hydra’s,” he said as he straightened.

“You mean he was a puppet?” Tony asked, eyes wide.

“Not at all,” Loki said. “More like… how Peter is now. Only the Hydra’s power was akin to an infection, at war with him. Mine is given gladly, and will work with Peter. It is his now.”

Tony looked down at Barnes, his breathing sharp and jerky. “What now?”

Loki jerked his head. “We return.”

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[saltoftheearths]

Disappointed Thoughts re: Thor in Endgame Leak.

Okay, I have to admit I have no self-control; when I heard a few minutes of Avengers: Endgame had been leaked, I went to watch, to see if there was any mention of Loki. There is not, but there is of Thor, and its implications for Loki, which are what my thoughts here are centred on. 

Spoiler tags are marked, please read at your own peril. For anyone using tumblr’s mobile app, and for whom Keep Reading cuts don’t work, I’ll mark the commentary with “Spoilers Start” and “Spoilers End” so you can just scroll on by if you’d prefer not to see. Also, a warning for some salty language. Here we go:

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Short Version of Thoughts: Thor has become a drunk, fat hobo, living on Earth with Korg and Miek. He has simply given up on everything (and by extension, on Loki). What the fuck.

Long Version of Thoughts: Thor has become a staggering drunk, fat hobo, living on Earth with Korg and Miek, who has to be pushed into doing anything remotely related to ‘saving the world’ or ‘saving the dead / dusted’. Sure, he has some supposed badass moments where he fights Thanos later, but my initial impressions from the leak have made my view of Thor plummet past the ocean floor.

Actually, overall, I find it really weird and kind of disheartening. I get that maybe the Avengers’ first couple tries to fight Thanos after the Snap didn’t work (conjecture at this point?), but while everyone seems to be working hard in the years after, to find some way to fix things, Thor has simply opted to get drunk and let himself go while living in a hovel with some buddies.

I thought at first that maybe he hadn’t even bothered to find the remaining Asgardians, but it occurred to me that if Thor was living with Korg and Miek, he must have somehow found them. But man, if I were Asgardian, and I had somehow beat the odds by surviving 1) Hela’s massacre, 2) Thanos’ massacre aboard the Sakaaran ship, and 3) Thanos’ fucking snap, I would be ashamed my prince (king now? was there any coronation?) had turned into this slobby, shaggy thing with a neckbeard who wanted to run away from his problems and disregard his responsibilities as king. So much for his words from Thor 3: "I choose to run toward my problems, not away from them—because that's what heroes do." This is running away in the extreme. I suppose he doesn’t want to be a hero anymore, then? Since there’s no glory to be found in it, and all he’s met with is failure? I understand that perhaps everyone grieves in different ways and for different spans of time, but this to me doesn’t look like Thor said “yo, govern yourselves, imma peace out for a while” and went on a several-week depressed bender. No, the state of his hair and beard and habits suggests that he’d been doing this for a while. I mean, I didn’t expect him to brood like some tragic Byronic hero, or wail a keening lament to the heavens, but I also didn’t expect this. I………suppose I expected a Thor who would, because of his self-guilt in ‘letting’ the Snap occur, stop at nothing to keep trying to fix his mistake. But he doesn't even bother taking part in further efforts to bring back the dusted / dead until Hulk bullies his way through Thor's door. That's not the marker of a king; that's like a wayward teenager being told to clean his room. *In Treebeard voice*: “A future king should know better! There is no curse in Asgardian, Midgardian, or the tongues of any Realms bad enough for such treachery!” Seeing this Thor makes me realize there's no Super Secret Plot™ for Thor to descend to Hel / Valhalla to pull Loki back to the land of the living where they borrow his expertise to defeat Thanos; no heartbreaking deals struck with the Norns; no time travel in which Thor finds himself a Loki again to change how things are, or any wonderful, conceivable notion that fic writers have dreamed up to bring Loki back to life. There is no overturning heaven and earth to find Loki again. Thor simply. does. not. care. Loki who? Brother when? Who know? I don’t know what to—I want to cry. I wanted to believe Thor cared (and about Loki), but he doesn't. There’s nothing left of that regal, respectful character from other movies. He has become a fucking joke. The Russos and Chris Hemsworth have combined their efforts to turn Thor into a fucking clown. Then again, I guess I should've expected as much, since his actor has been making disparaging comments about Loki and his co-stars anyway, like Loki being "that annoying ex-girlfriend that can't take a hint and go away" or of Tom Holland (Spiderman), "Yeah, he can't keep secrets regarding movie spoilers. That's why we turned him to dust." The same dude who said he thought playing Thor anymore was "boring" and wanted to 'revamp' his character by 'just being himself on screen'. He doesn't want to act, he just wants to put on a cape and parade around pretending he's Thor. Ugh. No. I also realize from this leak that because each moment seems to be jam-packed with Marvel’s ‘heroes’, all jockeying for position for screentime, there is absolutely no room for Loki in this crowded narrative, which seems like a deliberate choice from the Russos. I feel so let down. I want to be proven wrong, since the spoilers are incomplete, and there’s still no real word on how Gamora and Vision come back. And you know they will, because everyone’s fan favourites are back in this leak: T’challa and Shuri come back smiling, baby Peter gets his Tony hug. Disney will bring Gamora back for GOTG3 and Vision back so he and Wanda can have their True Luv ending. So maybe Loki could come back with them. Or maybe Loki comes back when the Avengers do their time travel / quantum realm travel dealio, since past Thanos seems to have no problem bursting back on the scene for the final battle, with what appears to be his Black Order. (God forbid they bring Loki back this way, ‘in Thanos’ company’ as Kevin Feige once promised, framing him as a villain again. Would that be better than nothing, though?) Maybe this, maybe that. But my hopes are not high.

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The End of the World Pt. 01

Thor and the Rabbit

Pairing: Thor x Reader

Word Count: 2,017

Warnings: None? Maybe feels? Oh, spoilers if you haven’t seen Thor Ragnarok or Infinity War. Language, eventually.

Masterpost - Will re-link when tumblr fixes its shit with links.

A/N: So, other than a very short first three chapters of Harry Potter book five way back when I was in high school, this is my first fic...ever. Definitely the first I’ve ever shared. I don’t really know if I want to keep going. I love writing but I’ve always been a little averse to fanfic if only because some people make the characters do things that are WAY out of character and I tend to be like, “They would never do that!” I’m weird. I know. I hope you enjoy it. If even one person likes it I might keep it going. Lots of love!

Waiting. That’s what you’ve suffered through. Unbearable, torturous, never ending waiting.

It’s been months. Months since the world literally ended. Well, it's still turning. People are still living, if that’s what you can call it. Life for everyone, life for you, has become a half life.

In one unbelievable instant everything changed. People, your family, your friends, all gone.

As you stand by the sink, the water running over a small pile of unwashed dishes, you stare at your hands. You can still see it, falling through your fingers, dust…or something like it. Your hands had grasped frantically to hold them close, to keep them from going, but they’d dissolved and disappeared anyway. The people around you not your family. You hadn't been there when they were wiped away. Wiped from existence as if they’d never been there but behind them they’d left a painful hole proving that they had and now they were gone.

You clench your fists, urging your mind to stop thinking about it. You feel so angry that you grab the pale blue ceramic plate from the top of the pile in the sink and traverse towards the living room then chuck it.

There is no satisfying crash of a breaking plate. Instead you find a large, tall, gorgeous blonde standing there with the plate in hand over his head.

“I see you have not lost your impeccable aim." He brings the plate down to twirl in his large hands, a soft and nervous smile stretching his lips.

“You’ve looked better.” You whisper, unable to find the strength to speak any louder as you're overwhelmed with a flurry of memories. Of sleepless nights spent talking, exchanged embraces, kisses, and other intimacies that would have normally made your cheeks flush were your heart not currently aching.

His mouth contorts into a wry smile, a humorless expression as your words send some sort of bitterness through him.

“I have felt better.”

For several painful moments you both stare at each other and you take the opportunity to get a good look at him. His hair is short now. When did he cut it? Why? His eyes…they’re not the same. One is still that beautiful blue but the other is amber and slightly mechanical. He’s still huge. His arms bulge out of his armor with his cape resting against the sides of his wide shoulders.

You want to say something but you're not sure whether you want to be angry or sad. Maybe you want to be honest?

“Are you two just going to stand there staring at each other? If you are could you point me in the direction of the bathroom? Never mind, this potted plant will do.”

Your attention is pulled to what is, in no doubt, a raccoon wearing some type of space armor with a large gun strapped to his back. Did that raccoon just talk?! His voice is hard, gruff, and somewhat cold. Your eyes go wide.

“Wha…?!” Is all you manage to say as the raccoon makes its way to your large potted Philodendron by the fridge.

“Oh, I almost forgot.” Thor says, watching Rocket walk to your plant. “Y/N this is Rocket, a talking rabbit. Rabbit, this is Y/N, a human female.”

Clearly, Rocket is not a rabbit, but it’s Thor so you’re not surprised by the confusion.

“This is Y/N? I don’t see the fuss. She’s no better than that other one back at the compound.” Rocket grumbles stopping beside your philodendron.

You hear a zipper then rush to stop him from peeing on your plant. “Hey! Stop. Don’t pee there. If you want to use the bathroom, it’s through that door.”

You point towards the solid white door beside the open French doors that give a glimpse into your bedroom, the bed still unmade.

Rocket zips his pants back up and after a glare at you, he moves towards the door. He reaches up and turns the handle, having to stretch a bit to reach it, and disappears into your bathroom. As the door closes you turn back to Thor and find him watching you.

You have a gnawing sense that you know who he visited first but you’re afraid to ask. You know it’ll only hurt but still, you to ask anyway.

“Who was he talking about?”

Thor’s gaze changes and you recognize the guilt there. In his hesitation he shifts his weight to his front leg like you’ve seen him do when he’s readying himself for a confrontation. He clenches his fists around the plate and sighs. It’s a miracle it doesn’t shatter.

“We saw Jane on the way here.”

You scoff at the same moment that her name touches his lips. You can’t help the knee-jerk reaction at her mention. It sends a coldness into your heart as it lurches with jealousy.

“Of course, you’re going to go see her.” You are going to add ‘first’ but that would imply that you had expected him to come see you. Until the moment that you saw him standing in your living room you weren’t even really sure he had survived.

You move towards him and watch as he tenses, expecting who knows what? A hit? Like you could ever hurt him. You take the plate from his hands and watch as he physically flinches away from you but lets the plate go all the same.

With nothing to hold onto, he snaps his fingers then holds his hands neatly in front of him at ease. His eyes watching you as you move to the sink and shut the water off, depositing the plate with the rest. You hold onto the edge of the sink, staring as the water drains, urging yourself not to overreact.

“We only saw Jane because Bruce Banner is assisting me in finding my people and Jane is the only astrophysicist that might know of a way in which we might find them. It has been a long time since Jane and I stopped courting, you know that.”

“Find them? You lost your people? Aren’t they on Asgard?” You ignore the part about Thor and Jane courting.

You don’t need to think about that. You’d seen more than enough of their courting.

“Asgard was destroyed.” He states simply.

You turn around and search for his face but he’s no longer looking at you. He’s looking at the ground, his eyes unnaturally sad.

“I’m sorry.” You want to comfort him, but your pride roots your feet to your kitchen floor. “What happened?”

“My sister Hela,” He begins.

“You have a sister?”

“Yes, she tried to take Asgard and rule it after my father died.”

“Your dad is dead?”

“Yes. He is with my mother now.” The area around his eyes tightens as his jaw clenches and unclenches. “My brother and I summoned Surtur so that he could bring about Ragnarok to destroy Asgard, as Hela was using it to sustain her power over my people. We succeeded and escaped Asgard but before we could reach Earth we were ambushed by Thanos. He killed half of my people…and Heimdall. And Loki.”

His voice falters on Loki’s name. His brother’s name.

You let your feet carry you forward as your heart aches for him, pride be damned. You don’t stop until your arms are wrapped around him, pulling him down so that you can hug as much of his torso as possible. He melts in your arms, his own wrapping about your waist to hold you against his body as he buries his face in your neck.

“I’m so sorry, Thor. Loki was…I know you loved him.” Whatever anger you held towards Loki for his attack on New York, you now know what it feels like to lose your loved ones.

To have them be gone as if they’d never existed. How could you not feel anguish for Thor?

“I was right there, Y/N. I could not save him. He saved me.” His voice sounds thick as he struggles to contain his grief. “He was a terrible brother.”

You understand the love in his voice as he says it. Though Loki had given Thor such heartache in life, no pain compares to what he must be feeling now after losing him.

You run your hand along the back of his head, comforting him as best you can. “So, this happened before…before everyone else…?”

You don’t need to finish the question. He knows what you’re talking about and he hugs you closer. Tighter.

“Thrice I have failed, Y/N. I failed to save my people. I failed to save my brother. And I failed to save the universe. It’s my fault that they’re gone. If I’d been smarter, if I’d killed Thanos before he could use the gauntlet none of this would have happened.”

You let that sink in for a moment and wait for the anger to wash over you. You lost everyone and yet the anger doesn’t come. All you feel is an ache in your chest, a squirm in your stomach, and relief to finally have your arms around him. It feels like you can breathe again. Like the world is right though you know it’s far from.

“I’m sure you did the best you could.” You finally pull back so that he can straighten up a bit and so that you can look into his mismatched eyes.

He looks tired and defeated. You place your hands on either side of his face and with your thumbs caress it. He stares into your eyes, searching for something, forgiveness maybe?

“I’m so glad you’re safe.” You whisper.

There’s no warning as he suddenly dips his head and closes the distance between your lips and his. He pulls you closer against his body and up so that you’re standing on your tip-toes as you kiss him. Your stomach does somersaults.

His lips are warm, soft at first but then they become demanding. You run out of breath before he does, like always, what with your human lungs. You pull back so that you can catch it and he lets you, but keeps his forehead pressed to yours and his eyes shut.

“I do not know what I would have done if I had shown up and you were not here.” He confesses.

“You would have gone back to help Jane find your people. If your father is gone, that means you’re King of Asgard, doesn’t it?”

“I do hold a responsibility for my people now, you are right.” He sighs, and you feel his fists grip the back of your shirt tightly as if he were making sure that you can’t go anywhere. “But I would have been lost if you were not here.”

Suddenly, you hear your toilet flush and are reluctantly pulled from the moment as Rocket walks out of your bathroom drying his hands on the front of his shirt. He stops and stares at you and Thor.

“That was fast. And you were worried she’d hit you?”

You pull back, inserting some space between you both. Thor straightens up and turns slightly to face Rocket, but he doesn’t release the back of your shirt. He’s still gripping it tightly, wrinkling the fabric.

“Have you finished relieving yourself rabbit?” He asks Rocket who shrugs.

“As far as relief goes. Are we almost ready to leave? I’ve got a date with the Man of Steel. I’m gonna show him the proper way to make a flight suit and he said he had some drink called ‘Tequila’ he wanted me to try.” Rocket moves towards the open front door.

You hadn’t noticed it before but that was clearly how they’d got in. Had you left it unlocked?

“Stark is called the ‘Iron Man’, and yes. We can leave. But,” Thor turns towards you once again. “I must insist that you come with us, Y/N. I cannot bear to be apart from you for a moment longer and I will not leave you here, alone. I am assuming that your family-?”

“Yes, they’re gone.” You don’t seem to need to explain that to him. He knows.

You turn to watch Rocket walk out your door and then look back up at Thor who stands staring at you with pleading eyes and you know that you can’t leave his side either. You reach behind your back, gently worm your hand underneath his and intertwine your fingers, gripping his hand tightly.

“Let’s go.”

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In The Meantime (Thor X Reader)

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For Anonymous: “Can I request drabble/fic where say the reader got injured on their last mission and was told to refrain from any sexual activity by their doctor for a few weeks but their bf Thor is visiting and reader is super horny and begs him to at least get off next to them so they can watch and wish they could participate?”

A/N: I was kinda worried about this being weird but...I don’t think it is. Also...knee-highs? Really? Okay. Anyway. I tried to go for a gender neutral reader :D

Warnings: WOW THIS IS NSFW/18+, it’s basically all masturbation. Just being honest.

Words: 2,453

Your last mission went horribly wrong right at the tail end of it all. It wasn’t so bad that you wouldn’t ever be allowed back in action, but it was bad enough that you’d be out of commission for a few weeks. A few of your ribs were broken and you had a bad enough concussion that Dr. Cho wouldn’t allow you out of her medical wing for three days after you returned from the mission. You spent most of that time rolling your eyes and attemping to prove that your ribs wouldn’t magically cause any internal bleeding if you just leaned over the wrong way once.

But they would, and Dr. Cho knew your stubborn personality better than you thought. It wasn’t your first time being placed in her care.

She let you out of the infirmary on the fourth morning after the mission, but demanded you stay on bedrest for at least another three days. A full week in bed with nothing to do. You were restless, mostly because your boyfriend had disappeared after Ultron showed up and you hadn’t seen or heard from him since. You’d thrown yourself into work and missions in the interim to distract yourself, but being forced to stay in bed would only bring on panic as you worried more and more.

FRIDAY kept a close watch on you. She was at least open about sending daily reports to Dr. Cho, but her intense stare via infared camera only made you more nervous. It stunned you into submission, and you hated it.

Toward the end of your prescribed bedrest, there was a knock on the door. It was soft and quick, and when you called for the person to open the door, Thor stepped inside.

Only he was completely different. He had one eye, for starters, and a huge hole where the other used to be. He was covered in dark marks and scars, and his cape hung from only one shoulder. You would’ve flung yourself out of bed if it didn’t mean FRIDAY would immediately alert Dr. Cho about it.

“Baby?” you asked, slowly sitting up with a long, drawn-out groan from the self-induced pain in your ribs. “What the hell happened?” You waved him over, and Thor obliged, walking to you and sitting on the edge of the bed by your knees.

“I could ask the same of you,” he retorted. “Except both Tony and Dr. Cho informed me what happened to you, Wreckless One.” He smiled softly at you, reaching gently for your hand.

You pulled it from his automatically, going straight for his hair despite the surge of pain that ran through you. “You got a haircut,” you said. “And your eye… My ribs will fix themselves, but your eye…” You traced your fingers down his face and gently ran your pads along the darkened skin aournd his empty eye socket.

“You don’t want to know what happened to me,” he said. “It’s not a happy story.”

You pushed yourself closer to him, still groaning as your ribs most likely pushed themselves into places they weren’t meant to be. All of that, just so you could kiss him and remind him that you most certainly wanted to hear what he had to say, no matter what. You loved him, and not a missing eye or a crudely planned haircut would change that. “Tell me anyway,” you whispered as you sat back.

He shook his head, but only followed it with helping you relax against your pillows. You pressed your hand against the empty spot on the bed where he would fit, and so he kicked off his boots and laid down beside you. Then he recouted his whole story - of Surtur and Hela and Sakaar - until there was nothing left to say. The silence that followed was awful, and you couldn’t help but reach out and touch his scarred, beautiful face to try to comfort him. He sighed, but the silence pervaded.

After a bit, Thor leaned over you and crashed his lips against yours. You had just kissed him a few minutes ago, but it didn’t feel like it. There was urgency to this kiss, and to the way his fingers pressed against your sides - in response to which you winced, not moaned, and he noticed the difference. He immediately stopped, pushed himself away, and turned over so he was beside you again. You groaned at him in frustration rather than pain.

“You can’t just leave me like that,” you whispered, trying to reach for him. “You can���t start something and then stop just because my ribs are healing.”

“Actually,” FRIDAY cut in, in a manner you’ve never heard of her before. She would normally wait for prompting, but you thought perhaps someone saw something on the infared camera across the room or something. “Dr. Cho has placed a note in your file stating that you should refrain from any sexual activity until further clearance is given.”

“Fuck Dr. Cho,” you mumbled as Thor chuckled and grabbed your hands in his.

“Dr. Cho is unavailable at this time,” FRIDAY said.

Thor laughed again, but you weren’t in a similar mood. You crossed your arms as gently as you could and made up for it with the most sour face you could conjure. “You can’t get me started like that and then not finish the damn job!” you said, regardless of having said something similiar before FRIDAY had so rudely cut in. “FRIDAY, can you shut the hell up and leave us alone for an hour? Please?” you called, never looking away from Thor.

“One hour timer set, Agent. I’ll check back then.”

“Thank Gods,” you sighed, and then Thor turned over so he rested on his elbows, though still not over you.

“Yes?” he asked, an entirely different person now that you were kind of turned on and slightly embarrassed. He smirked, knowing he’d riled you up.

“You’re really just gonna not touch me because some stupid robot said not to?” you asked him, lightly straching one of his huge muscles on his bicep so you didn’t have to move too much. You thought you might be able to save some stamina if you made little movements, litte touches to entice him, but Thor knew that wasn’t how human bodies worked.

He shrugged. “If Dr. Cho says you should refrain from sexual activity, who am I to question her?”

“A literal fucking God,” you said as you lowered your brows. “A literal God who’s been gone for two fucking years, leaving me with all this stupid pent up energy that my stupid broken ribs are keeping me from expending all over you.” You knew he loved dirty talk, so you tried your best, although it almost made you feel pathetic. He was way better at it, and his sarcastic smirk told you that he knew it, too. You whined and said, “C’mon, Thor! Please! Something - give me something!”

He wiggled his eyebrows at you, then pecked your cheek without touching much else beyond your shoulder. “You’re adorable,” he said, once again grabbing your hand. “And I apologize for being gone so long. I was keeping the leaders of the other realms from advancing on Asgard-”

“Yeah, okay, cool, but I’m still ready to go here and I don’t know when you’re leaving again,” you told him. You’d have time for more stories later, maybe. Or when he came back again. You cursed yourself for having made whatever mistake on the last mission that had left you with broken ribs and the threat of internal bleeding. All you wanted to do was jump his bones before he left again, preferably without dying in the process.

“I don’t, either,” he said quietly. When you saw the seriousness in his eye, you knew he was tellign the truth. He didn’t have many other places to go, you remembered. Maybe he was here for good, but that still didn’t help the ease the heat that flushd your body. “We have time, and I can be patient.”

“I can’t,” you mumbled, tracing small circles on the back of his hand. You bit your lip and pulled him to you so you could kiss him again, because if that was the most you were going to recieve until Dr. Cho said otherwise, then you had to take it. But Thor had a certain effect on you; even if he wasn’t trying to turn you on, he was doing it anyway. You were putting yourself in a corner you couldn’t really afford to be in, but you didn’t want to stop yourself.

There was another sharp pain in your side, and you gasped against him before he pulled back.

“I won’t hurt you,” he said softly, a hint of a warning on his tongue. “We’re waiting.”

You moved your hand down to try stroking him over his trousers, but he caught you in the middle of the act and shook his head. “We’re waiting,” he repeated, louder this time. More commanding.

You huffed and laid back against your pillows as you shook your head. You almost crossed your arms and put your sour face on again, but then an idea struck you. If you couldn’t get release, maybe you could convince him to give it to himself. That might help, maybe. It could make things more tense bewteen your legs, but you wanted to give it a chance anyway.

“Fine,” you said, “we’re waiting. But…”

He rolled his eye before you went on. “I hesitate to ask what it is you’re about to ask of me,” he told you.

“What if…” You bit your lip, then reached out and ran your fingers through his short hair. He was sticky, like he’d been sweating before he came to find you and hadn’t even managed to shower. It wouldn’t matter with what you were about to ask him anyway. “What if you...worked yourself...for me?”

He stared at you for too long. You knew you’d have to help him clean his eye and find a patch or something for it, but you doubted losing an apendage could kill him now if it hadn’t already. He could stand to get a good handjob, even if it was from his own hand.

“You won’t let me touch you until Dr. Cho says so,” you said, vitriol lining her name even though she was only looking out for your health, “so why don’t you do the job for me? And when I’m better, I’ll repay you for it.” You wiggled your brows at him, still running your fingers through his hair, hoping that would play some part in convincing him that you needed him to do this.

Either it did, or it had no part in his decision at all. Either way, he sighed, turned himself over so he was on his back, and looked at you again. “You’re sure this is what you want?” he asked.

“No, it’s not,” you said simply. “But it’s close enough.”

You both took a second, then shrugged at the same time. Thor went slowly as he pulled his armor off, handing it to you one piece at a time so you could place it in a nice pile beside the bed. You missed seeing his glorious naked body, and while he wouldn’t let you explore it the way you wanted to, having him so close in such a state was enough to satisfy your craving for him. For now, anyway.

You motioned for him to lean against you, and he compromised by placing his head on your shoulder. You wrapped your arm around him and drew little patterns against his chest, which was just as sticky as his hair and beautifully displayed for your viewing pleasure. You focused on his hands, though, and placed a kiss on his head as he trailed his fingers all over his body. You bit your lip to keep from gasping when he gripped his cock in one hand but dug your nails into his skin when he gently started pumping.

You could hear how desperate for moisture his skin was, and you weren’t sure how he’d react to you forcing his fingers into your mouth, so you went with a safer option. You could just reach a bottle of lotion you kept on your bedside table with the tips of your fingers, so you brought that over to him and pushed a dollop into his free palm.

“Thank you,” he said, always royally polite.

You chuckled and rolled your eyes, even if he couldn’t see it. After putting the lotion away, you focused on him again and enjoyed the show. He worked himself the way you wanted to, and in minutes he was already leaking precum. You continued to gently run your fingers over his chest, trying not to block his vision to what was going on below. You moaned when he did, kissed his head when you especially liked a move or a sound he made. He pumped faster, arched his back, and dug his head into your shoulder, and you gasped behind him, hoping he would turn his head so you could really kiss him. But he didn’t; he just shut his eye and grunted, picking up speed as you watched his toes curl. You knew he was close, so you pushed your nails into his chest and bit your lip.

“Fuck, baby,” you whimpered close to his ear. “This is so hot.”

That was all he needed to push himself over the edge. His his bucked repeatedly as white streams of his cum pumped out of him in bursts, covering the sheets and parts of his thighs. You wished all of that was inside you, but you didn’t say as much. You let him have this, knowing what he’d already been through.

You let him catch his breath before pulling his face towards yours. He obliged, and even let you lean over to kiss him. When you pulled back, you kept your forhead against his, even though your position put strain on your sides. Not much, but enough for you to feel uncomfortable. Still, you told him, “Thank you, baby.”

“I’m the one who came. I should be thanking you,” he whispered.

You smiled and softly touched his cheek, unwilling to argue anymore. He’d done what you’d asked of him. It wasnt enough, but it had to be, for the time being. “The second Dr. Cho gives us the all clear, I’m letting you do whatever it is you want to me. So get creative,” you told him.

His smile was all the assurance you needed to know that was exactly what he needed to hear.

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General Likes:

Polyamory, gen, het, slash, femslash, families of choice, competence, BAMF female characters, angst, hurt/comfort, teamfic, pretty much all the tropes especially if there is a twist, worldbuilding, humor, redemption, for want of a nail AUs, time travel, werewolves, dragons, crossovers, non fantasy/SF canons encountering the supernatural/aliens, fix it fics

For worldbuilding specific stuff: I think I'd be happy with pretty much any deeper exploration of canon or implications of canon. Building on throwaway references is also great as is considering logical endpoints that might not even have been intended by the creators. Or exploring something the creators never even mentioned but that has to exist for that world to be at all functional (like agriculture and trade in fantasy worlds as something rarely mentioned or explored in depth). Or unintended applications of technology and/or magic that exist in canon. Or exploring how history would change with the presence of certain canonical elements.

Feel free to combine or mix up the prompts! The character choices are mostly there just as preferences or ones I think would fit with the worldbuilding prompts. Since the focus of this exchange is on the worldbuilding, I'd be perfectly happy to get something that doesn't focus on any of the characters or even original characters.

All of my requests are open for either fic, art or in universe meta. I love fics that blur the lines with meta.

Art Likes:

I’m pretty sure I’d love any art! I love sketchy styles with maybe just a splash of color to draw the eye. Black and white images with only one color to highlight Important Things is A+. That said, any art in any style would be amazing! As for subject matter, I’d love to see any scenes from the prompts or stuff from my likes.

Do Not Wants:

The ones bolded are the most important to leave out, but here is an expanded list:

permanent character death, incest, rape, dubcon, torture porn, underage stuff, infidelity, humiliation, character bashing, ship bashing, no powers AUs, love triangles, fake married/dating, power imbalances in relationships, hate sex, scat/watersports, necrophilia, PWP, abuse, fusions, zombies, 1st person POV, issue fic, themes of cynicism and futility, nihilism that isn't of the optimistic kind, animal abuse, unrequested ships, slavery, genderswap of the always an x kind, unrequested AUs , jealousy

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Request #1 - worldbuilding Asgard and/or Jotunheim

Loki (MCU) || Thor (MCU) || Hela (MCU) || Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (MCU) || Original Character(s) (MCU) || Any or No Characters (MCU)

WB: Jotunheim (MCU)

Ever since the first Thor movie, I've wanted more about Jotunheim. Anything! What is their culture like? Society? Geography? Politics? Flora and fauna? Gender? Medicine? Education? Trade? It'd be really cool if there was something dealing with the differences pre and post war with Asgard.

Why did they try to colonize Midgard? Given the revelations about Asgard in Ragnarok, were the Jotnar even trying to turn the Earth into Jotunheim's image, or was that just propaganda by Odin and the possibly innocuous presence of Jotnar on Midgard a convenient excuse for more war? Was their attempt one of desperation?

How are their relations with the other Realms? Do they still have any trade with them after the war? What does Jotunheim think about the events of the Thor movie? Are they even aware who it was that tried to destroy them? What were the consequences of the Bifrost attack? Severe planetwide or just local?

For art: I'd love to see a map of Jotunheim or plant or animal studies. Or maybe something detailing Jotnar clothing. Or architecture. Or what their language and alphabet looks like.

For in universe meta/fic: Excerpts from books or videos from various scholars on all the Realms. This could be really interesting, especially as a way to see how the Jotnar view themselves vs others, especially with Asgardian propaganda (and racism in their tendency to refer to any species but their own in derogatory terms). Or maybe something detailing what Thor and Loki would have learned through their education, skewed as it likely was. There had to be some reason they were both so convinced Jotnar were monsters.

WB: Aesir and/or Jotnar biology (MCU)

I love me some alien biology worldbuilding! They're clearly more hardy than humans, stronger and longer lived, but what are the other differences? Why does Odin disintegrate into sparkles upon death, but not other Aesir? Are there developmental differences between Aesir and Jotnar? Is one more long lived than the other? Hardier? What about nutritional requirements? Are they allergic to any foods the other is not? Do Jotnar have hair? Horns?

Any reproductive differences? Aesir seem to align to human norms fairly well (and what if they don't?), but do Jotnar have more complicated arrangements? What is their sense of smell, taste and vision like? In the myths, Jotnar were shapeshifters and so is Loki in the MCU. Is this a species wide thing or just more common on Jotunheim? How do their instincts differ

How do Aesir and Jotnar powers work? Why do Odin, Hela, Heimdall and Thor have powers, but the rest of the population doesn't seem to? How does the freezing touch of Jotnar work? Is it constant or just a defense mechanism? How cold can they get to shatter leather and metal made by Asgardians? Can all of them produce ice?

For fic: I'd love something where Loki is forced to confront his Jotun form long term. Perhaps Odin's spell on him fails when Asgard is destroyed and he'll have to deal with whatever differences there are.

For art: Anatomical studies and/or comparisons would be amazing! I'd be especially delighted with anything highlighting the differences.

WB: Asgard and its history (MCU) || WB: Relations Between Asgard and the Other Realms (MCU) || WB: Politics of Asgard (MCU)

All of these seem thematically related, so I'm lumping them together. Feel free to focus on whichever you want or combine as you please!

Ragnarok really made me hanker for more info about Asgard's past and its relationship with the other Realms. How did Odin and Hela go about their conquests? The murals depict Asgard being built by slaves. Where did the slaves come from? What happened to them?

Neither Thor or Loki are aware of Asgard's true history. What were they taught instead? Was that just Odin being Odin and keeping secrets, or was there some magic or technology behind Asgard's collective amnesia? Or just fear of the king?

How were Asgard's relations to the other Realms affected by its bloody history? Do the other Realms remember it? How were they affected by it? Have they recovered? Has Asgard purposefully and actively kept them lower, despite all its words of peace later? What was the relationship like after Loki-as-Odin pulled Asgard away from actively policing the other Realms?

How has Asgard itself been affected by these revelations? Its destruction? Do the people start a revolution on the ship? Is there a reason they're so passive throughout Hela's reappearance? They didn't seem shocked or particularly resentful of Loki usurping Odin's place either.

For fic: I'd love something where the Asgardian refugees have to contend with going from the top of the pile to the bottom. How would the other Realms treat them?

For art: I'd love to see more of the murals! What other secrets has Odin been keeping? How prevalent are they? I'd love a before and after like in the movie, but for other events.

WB: Relationship between magic and science (MCU)

Thor says they're one and the same on Asgard. Is that true elsewhere? I mean, there seem to be quite a few differences functionally. How does magic work and how is it different from science? Is everything on Asgard just technology so advanced it basically works like magic? If not and magic is actually a thing, how does it work? Can anyone do it with enough study? Does there have to be a natural aptitude for it beforehand? Or are there degrees of separation where anyone can do magic with certain artifacts and rituals, but only naturally born magic users can use it without those interfaces? Is shapeshifting magic, a natural ability or technology?

For fic: I'd love something dealing with Loki learning magic, or even Thor trying to learn it! They both seem fairly comfortable with advanced technology, but Asgard itself doesn't seem to have any visible tech. How does that work on Asgard?

Request #2 - worldbuilding Sokovia Accords, Wakanda, Stark Industries

Tony Stark (MCU) || Pepper Potts (MCU) || James "Rhodey" Rhodes (MCU) || T'Challa (MCU) || Original Character(s) (MCU)

These requests might not be as detailed as the Asgardian stuff above, but don't take it to mean I'm less enthusiastic for them! I just found it easier to come up with prompts there. I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever you come up with!

WB: Stark Industries (MCU)

Stark Industries sounds like it should be a huge corporation! With all the advanced tech in the MCU in general, what wonders does SI create that make the MCU just that bit different from our Earth? How did the company restructure after Tony returned from Afghanistan? With SI's focus on clean energy, is climate change less of a big deal in the MCU?

What's the legal differentiation between SI and Iron Man and the Avengers? Especially after the Sokovia Accords? What about Tony's work for SHIELD before it went under? What's the public's perception of SI after everything? What does the day to day running of SI look like? Perhaps a perspective from the average worker that has to deal with the fallout of their boss being a superhero/involved with a superhero?

How did the internal shakeup of SI go after Obadiah Stane and his double dealing? After SHIELD fell, how many of its agents sought refuge with SI? Is Hill still there after the Civil War? What did SI get up to after the events of the Avengers? Did they get access from the government to the Chitauri tech?

For art: I'd love something schematic-y for one of their products or maybe pamphlets or something from their public relations department. Or magazine and newspaper articles on SI or Tony, Pepper or Rhodey.

WB: Sokovia Accords (MCU) || WB: Public Relations and superheroes/related agencies (MCU)

I'm Team Tony, so I don't really want anything dealing directly with Steve and his team, but I also don't want any character bashing. I just really don't understand Steve's perspective. Ross is definitely an asshole who used the Sokovia Accords as an opportunity to push his agenda, but the concept itself did not originate from him. And he isn't capable of single handedly forcing 117 countries to agree to them. I don't think the UN works like that.

I also don't think the script writers know what the UN works like either? So, give me the Sokovia Accords with more of a focus on the legal and diplomatic realities rather than the dramatic tension necessary in a movie! They had to have been in the works for years at the very least, how did none of the Avengers know about them? Or did they and it just wasn't mentioned in the movie? How many times were they amended? How will they be amended? How do they work in practice? They certainly weren't ratified during the bombing because of the bombing, so why did the movie proceed as though they were in full force?

What does superhero PR look like in the MCU? Before the Accords? After?

WB: Wakanda increasing its international openness (MCU)

I don't have anything in particular in mind for this, I just saw the tag and my brain went !!! How and why does Wakanda decide to stop its isolationist policies? How does it affect them? How does it affect the rest of the world?

Middle Earth - J.R.R. Tolkien

Boromir (Middle Earth - Tolkien) || Faramir (Middle Earth - Tolkien) || Original Character(s) (Middle Earth - Tolkien) || Original Gondorian Scholar (Middle Earth - Tolkien) || Gandalf | Mithrandir (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: Libraries & Archives (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: Southern Middle Earth (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: cultural differences between races (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: trade in Gondor (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: education in Middle Earth (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

WB: afterlife for non elven races (Middle Earth - Tolkien) /

WB: Mythology and Religion (Middle Earth - Tolkien)

I've been a Tolkien fan since I was 11, but haven't recently reread the books. I tend to float in and out of the fandom, but it is always near and dear to my heart. I don't really have detailed prompts for these, because it feels like they're pretty descriptive on their own.

I'd be most interested seeing something dealing with Gondor or Men in general throughout Middle-earth. In universe texts, stories, and songs dealing with aspects of the prompts would be great! Especially considering a lot of the mythology is presented to us as fact (despite the layers of 'it's just a translation' conceit) rather than from the perspective of the people themselves. The readers know what happens to Men when they die, but do the Men themselves know? Sure, there's accounts from the Elves and what the Valar and Maiar told them, but I doubt all of them are aware of it. Or if they had been at one point, how did that change after lack of contact?

Middle-earth is a big place, but we only really know a lot about one small part of it. What do the people we're familiar with think about the places we've never seen? Is there any contact at all? Are those places filled with familiar Races or is there more variety? Did they ever visit? What did they bring, if so? What did they leave with?

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Ken (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || Farah Black (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || Bart Curlish (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || Original Character(s) (Dirk Gently TV 2016)

WB: how the Blackwing subjects' powers work (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || WB: Cosmology (Dirk Gently TV 2016) || WB: Blackwing (Dirk Gently TV 2016)

Gosh, I just love this series so much! I want to know more about everything in it, but managed to limit myself to these :D

How does the universe work in DGHDA? In the second season it's implied that it's broken and that the Blackwing subjects are effectively the debugging programs of the universe. How does that work? How did Blackwing find them? Did they ever make a mistake? Are there more out there? What are they doing? How does the universe decide which people to chose? We also get to see the universe's backstage. Why do people's eyes go different in that place? Why were Amanda's and Todd's fairly normal, but Friedkin's were red? What does the glowy stuff mean?

There are a number of holistic identities and the way they work seems to be very varied. Francis Cardenas' power was very overt and amazingly powerful. Bart is basically unstoppable and Mona can turn into literally anything. Dirk's power, by contrast, is fairly low-key and unobtrusive. Has he fully realized his potential?

How did Blackwing come into existence? How long have they been operational? How were they so unsuccessful in determining their subjects' powers enough to lose almost all of their funding? Was it the recapturing of the subjects that made the universe broken? Anything dealing with Blackwing and their subjects during their captivity there would be great! Like, how did the logistics of keeping Ken in a taxi for 70 days even work? Things like that :D

Star Trek the Next Generation

Data (ST:TNG) || Jean-Luc Picard (ST:TNG) || Deanna Troi (ST:TNG) || Original Character(s) (ST:TNG) || Any or No Characters (ST:TNG) || Geordi La Forge (ST:TNG)

In most fandoms, I'm fine with a grimer, darker take, but for Star Trek I like it to encapsulate the ideals it was created with - namely, that we might not be perfect, but we can achieve so much if we're willing to try and strive to be better. Which isn't to say that life has to be perfect, but I'd like it to be hopeful. Cynicism need not apply.

WB: Warp Engines (ST: TNG)

There was a recent article about warp drive possibly not being such an impossibility anymore! The technical details would probably be beyond me, but I would love an explanation of Star Trek's warp engines combined with the real life science one! Give me all the pseudo technobabble!

WB: interspecies relationships (ST:TNG)

How common are they? How common is offspring? Genetic manipulation is forbidden in the Federation, but do people use it anyway to have children they otherwise might not be able to, legally or otherwise?

There's loads of culture clash between people from different countries from the same planet, how much more is there between two different species? Or does that make it easier in some ways?

WB: fashion and clothing (ST:TNG)

Honestly, this prompt was entirely and completely inspired by this tumblr post: http://cookiesforthedarkside.tumblr.com/post/169324738115/mosellegreen-justanothercarbonunit in which Gene Roddenberry has a problem with zippers. And buttons. By the time TNG rolled around, there were clothes with visible seams and such, but it was left ambiguous whether they were actually zippers. So, what does clothing without buttons or fasteners of any kind look like? How does it work? What material is it made out of? Is the lack of zippers and buttons the reason for some of the more...let's say eclectic looks?

WB: media reporting (ST:TNG)

Starfleet gets up to so many shenanigans, it's ridiculous. And we know reporters and journalists still exist! So, what do they report on? Is there a 24 hour news channel somewhere? Is there a gossip rag Picard secretly reads that absolutely butchers the Enterprise's mission reports? Are there dramatic readings of them in Ten Forward?

Are there a billion different channels of subspace radio that broadcasts all the local minutia of whatever system the Enterprise is currently in? Do they play it on the bridge?

I just feel like it'd be an interesting perspective on the little details of the Star Trek verse that have to be there, but we never really see. Go wild!

WB: AI rights and personhood (ST:TNG)

We know Data paved the way for AI rights in the ST verse. What ripples have his efforts caused? We know it's not just limited to him or other androids and robots - it seems like everytime we turn around, another hologram gains sentience. With the amount of holograms in use by the Federation, it could become a problem very quickly.

Do more androids eventually get built? Do the star ships themselves gain sentience? How would the Federation navigate these issues?

WB: Utopian Earth (ST:TNG)

It probably isn't a true Utopia, because those seem impossible and designed to fail, but I'd like to think it's pretty close. How does life for the average citizen of Earth look like? What do they do in a post-scarcity society? What do people not in Starfleet do? How do they live?

[wnnbdarklord]

Chocolate Box 2018 letter

Dear Chocolatier, I'm glad we matched! This is my first Chocolate Box exchange, but I'm sure it'll be a great one :D For ease of access, I've provided a table of contents. Don't stress about it and feel free to pick and choose or combine bits of my prompts. Happy writing/arting!

AO3 username: wnnbdarklord

edit: I totally forgot to put Hela & Loki in the table of contents, but the prompt itself is there, not to worry!

General Likes

Art Likes

Smut Likes

Do Not Wants

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Bruce Banner & Loki || Bruce/Loki

En Dwi Gast | Grandmaster/Loki & Thor

Fenrir/Loki

Frigga & Loki

Gamora & Nebula & Loki & Thor

Heimdall & Loki || Heimdall/Loki

Hulk/Loki || Hulk & Loki

Korg of Krona/Loki

Loki/Pepper Potts/Tony Stark

Nick Fury/Loki

Loki/Bruce Banner/Brunnhilde | Valkyie

Loki & Yondu Udonta

Crossover Fandom

Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Loki (MCU)

Farah Black (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Samuel Vimes (Discworld novels)

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld novels) & Loki (MCU)

Groot (MCU) & Treebeard (LOTR)

Loki (MCU) & Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Loki (MCU) & Ned Stark (ASoIaF)

Loki (MCU)/Theon Stark (ASoIaF)

Loki (MCU) & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Daredevil (TV))

Loki (MCU) & Q (Star Trek)

Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV))/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries)/Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: TNG)

Samuel Vimes (Discworld novels) & the One Ring (LOTR)

Tauriel (Hobbit movies) & Boromir (LOTR)

Tony Stark (MCU) & Ned Stark (Game of Thrones)

Wonder Woman (DCU) & Loki (MCU)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Farah Black/Todd Brotzman/Dirk Gently || Farah Black & Todd Brotzman & Dirk Gently

General Likes:

Polyamory, gen, het, slash, femslash, families of choice, competence, BAMF female characters, angst, hurt/comfort, teamfic, pretty much all the tropes especially if there is a twist, worldbuilding, humor, redemption, for want of a nail AUs, time travel, werewolves, dragons, crossovers, non fantasy/SF canons encountering the supernatural/aliens, fix it fics

Also, I'm fine with mpreg as long as there's some worldbuilding involved beyond 'assbabies are totally normal and unquestioned'. Is it magic? Science? Shapeshifting? Whatever? As long as it's not just a thing that happens normally on Earth (reactions of humans to someplace it's common is a+). Even a/b/o mpreg is iffy for me because it's usually a feature of the world.

For any pairings, as long as they don't clash with my DNWs (first and foremost the incest DNW), I'm fine with either gen or romance no matter what the actual match is. Also, don't consider the length of a prompt as an indication of my enthusiasm for it. Some pairings I just have more ideas for, but others I have no idea what to prompt, but my brain just went !!! when I saw it.

I'm fairly certain it's obvious from my sign up that MCU Loki is a favorite character of mine. In general, I prefer Loki to be morally grey or conflicted or redeemable and not outright villainous. Think more pre-Thor or Ragnarok Loki rather than chaotic evil Loki. Anything with jotun!Loki, genderfluid Loki and bi/pan Loki would be amazing!

My previous letters for Trick or Treat (http://wnnbdarklord.tumblr.com/post/165264151230/dear-trick-or-treak-2017-creator) and Crossovering (http://wnnbdarklord.tumblr.com/post/163153222375/dear-crossovering-2017-creator) if you'd like to get more info!

Art Likes:

I’m pretty sure I’d love any art! I love sketchy styles with maybe just a splash of color to draw the eye. Black and white images with only one color to highlight Important Things is A+. That said, any art in any style would be amazing! As for subject matter, I’d love to see any scenes from the prompts or stuff from my likes. Characters being affectionate, gentle touches, characters as werewolves, characters in fancy dress/costumes, characters doing magic, characters getting it on are also all welcome.

Smut Likes:

Frottage, coming untouched, size kink, transformation kink, pregnancy kink, breeding kink, a/b/o, mild dom/sub stuff, sex pollen, tentacles, telepathy, first times, routine sex in the missionary position, weird biology, xeno kink, sounding, lactation kink, consensual body modification (bonus points if it's magical), public sex...I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but since this is the first time I'm even expounding on smut I'd like, let's leave it at this.

Do Not Wants:

permanent character death, rape, dubcon, torture porn, underage stuff, infidelity, humiliation, character bashing, ship bashing, no powers AUs, love triangles, fake married/dating, incest, power imbalances in relationships, hate sex, scat/watersports, necrophilia, abuse, fusions, zombies, 1st person POV, issue fic, themes of cynicism and futility, nihilism that isn't of the optimistic kind, animal abuse, unrequested ships, slavery, genderswap of the always an x kind, unrequested AUs, jealousy

Generally speaking, a specific prompt is going to come before any stated DNWs.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Bruce Banner/Loki || Bruce Banner & Loki

One of my favorite pairings that there is a sad lack of fic for. I'd be happy with pretty much anything involving these two interacting, but I'd love something centered on their mutual realization of the similarity of their issues; their perceptions of themselves as monsters and realizing that 'hey, you understand!' and then being awkward friends (or more).

Maybe Loki's glamour fails at the end of Ragnarok, with Odin dead and Asgard gone. He might have put on plays revealing his origins, but that is way different than facing the reality. Bruce helps him cope.

Or maybe they talk about what's been going on on Earth. Does Bruce decide not to return there and goes off exploring the universe with Loki?

If you go the shippy route, I am a sucker for these two falling for each other very hard and very fast, like 'oh no, he's hot and kind and such an asshole?!' with a bit of pining and possessiveness.

En Dwi Gast | Grandmaster/Loki & Thor

Grandmaster/Loki is such a great ship that I somehow ended up shipping before I even saw the movie. This is one ship I am fine with a bit of dubcon and power imbalance. Loki's position on Sakaar canonically did not seem very stable and I can't imagine Loki would not be very aware of the power imbalance there and might end up doing things he normally wouldn't to keep being in the Grandmaster's favor. Especially considering the events prior to his arrival. That said, I would also not mind a fluffy and cracky version of them hooking up either, especially if Thor is watching the whole thing like ????

Actually, I would love something where Loki and the Grandmaster troll the everloving hell out of Thor. Maybe playing the strangest sounds coming from their bedroom when they know Thor can hear, but actually they're cuddling in bed and feeding each other grapes.

Or Thor's reaction if the Grandmaster comes find them on the ship looking for Loki. With Loki being oddly touched that someone went looking for him, even if he does still think the Grandmaster is insane.

Fenrir/Loki

Anything with this would have to involve a more intelligent Fenrir for my own sanity. Maybe even a shapeshifting Fenrir? That said, size kink ahoy. Also would not mind wolf babies.

Maybe Loki finds an...um interesting way to distract Fenrir during the battle? Would like Loki being utterly wrecked, but oddly satisfied by the end.

Frigga & Loki

A fascinating relationship that did not get explored nearly enough in the movies. I'd love a slightly darker take than fandom usually goes for. Frigga still stands by Odin, even after all the shit he's pulled and not once does she validate Loki's complicated feelings about him. Instead, it's all about trying to pull Loki back into the family fold without admitting Odin might have done anything wrong. And with Ragnarok's revelations, whole other facets can be explored. Is she Hela's mother? Does she know what happened and did that color her response to Loki? Was she part of the conquering? Was she the reason Odin changed?

I'd love an AU where she didn't die. How would have things turned out then?

Gamora & Nebula & Loki & Thor

Oh, all the parallels for the space siblings! Maybe Gamora and Nebula come across the Asgardian refugee ship? Maybe Thor and Loki go after Thanos and meet Gamora and Nebula who are doing the same and they decide to join forces?

As much as I would like to see Nebula & Loki and Gamora and Thor interacting, I would love to see Nebula & Thor and Gamora & Loki interacting instead (or as well). Maybe Thor gets along surprisingly (or not so surprisingly if we consider Loki) with Nebula and Loki is amazingly good at getting under Gamora's skin in a way she only thought Nebula could. Hell, maybe one set of siblings provides some therapy for the other. Seeing other people's problems is easier than reflecting on your own, after all.

Heimdall & Loki || Heimdall/Loki

These two have an interesting dynamic and I'd love to see it explored more! They go from kinda hating each other in the first movie to almost amused bantering in the third. How did that happen? Heimdall was obviously aware something was up with Odin, but he didn't really do anything about it beyond hide. And Loki didn't seem to keen on trying to catch him. Was he going to do something until he saw Loki was just taking a break from the shitshow his life had become? Or maybe Loki actually impressed him a little bit with how he ran Asgard and loosened the leash on the other realms?

Or, for an AU, Loki gets Heimdall on his side as he rules Asgard and feelings develop? And it's all very complicated due to the deception Loki pulls posing as Odin so they have to hide because imagine the scandal of the Allfather moving on from his beloved queen so quickly.

Maybe just something with the two of them interacting on the ship after everything. There's one theory that Heimdall is/has the Soul stone - does Heimdall know Loki has the Tesseract because of it?

Or maybe all that hate in the first movie was just UST that went unresolved because the Gatekeeper couldn't consort with a Prince and they finally let it all out after on the ship.

Hela & Loki

Far too little interaction between these two in the movie. I'd be happy with anything. Obviously, there are so many parallels between them. Do they commiserate? Does Hela view Loki with contempt?

Maybe Hela is the reason Odin reacted badly anytime Loki shapeshifted into a woman. How would the revelation about Hela play into Loki's perception of that?

I would also love an AU where Hela wasn't forgotten and trapped, but still a member of the family. What would their lives be like as siblings? Would she (still bitter about Odin's change of heart) reveal Loki's origins to him, trying to get him to hate her? I'd imagine that could backfire spectacularly, since she'd be the only one to tell him the truth. With Hela still there, would Odin even take Loki from Jotunheim? Maybe Hela is the one to pick him up, viewing him more like her beloved Fenrir than a son or brother.

Hulk/Loki || Hulk & Loki

All of the size kink, please. Also, I love stuff where Loki's jotun instincts kick him in the head and make him pay attention to the Hulk because yes, this one can beat the tar out of me without breaking a sweat. And the Hulk being a bit confused, but up for it. Loki is a puny god and puny giant, but it's not like he'll break. Green babies welcome (maybe Loki's instincts get kickstarted by the fact his world is gone now and well someone needs to repopulate the planet).

For stuff not quite so in the gutter, I'd love something that elaborated on their relationship (platonic or otherwise) on the ship. Maybe Loki is put in charge of making sure the Hulk doesn't tear the ship apart? It could go from Loki forcibly putting him to sleep or trying to bring Bruce back to telling him stories or maybe even the Hulk turns out to be great at flyting.

Maybe Loki finds out who the Grandmaster's champion is before Thor arrives and works on befriending him. Could start out as Loki wanting to use the Hulk for his own purposes, but growing to care for him on his own terms. Maybe the Hulk reminds him of Thor too much and heartsick at the thought that Thor is dead, Loki just clings a lot.

Korg of Krona/Loki

I literally have no idea how to make this pairing happen, but I'm totally open to it! Not sure what Korg would get out of it either, seeing how he's made of rock. But I believe in you, chocolatier! I know you can make this work :D

Maybe Loki ends up too electrocuted to be coherent enough to direct Korg and the other gladiators to go to Asgard and it ends up destroyed? Cue comforting.

Or maybe Loki just really likes debating with Korg about his revolutionary pamphlets and it goes from there.

Maybe Korg wins a particularly impressive fight and the Grandmaster lends him Loki for the day. Loki is game for it. I'd be deeply amused if this prompt just ended with them playing like chess or something because Korg misreads the situation.

Loki/Pepper Potts/Tony Stark

My OT3 for this fandom! I'd love anything! To see how it happens, to see a scene when they're already established, negotiating it, or defending it, anything! How does Loki deal with his longevity vs Pepper and Tony? Does he try to fix it? Does it happen without his intervention? Or does he decide to become mortal for them?

Perhaps an AU where a jotun Loki comes to Earth and gets involved with them (bonus for worldbuilding that jotnar relationships are polyamorous far more often than on Earth). Or maybe he has a fling with them (separately or together) when he was younger and then feelings when he meets them again?

Maybe after Civil War, Pepper manages to outmaneuver Loki into joining her and Tony, bagging them a powerful ally for Infinity War?

Nick Fury/Loki

Despite everyone teasing them about daddy issues, Loki and Fury were fucking long before Fury lost his eye.

Or maybe Loki approaches Fury after the Dark World with an offer of cooperation and things happen. Or Loki wrangles an offer of amnesty after the Avengers with the reveal that Hydra has infiltrated SHIELD after pulling the info from the mind of one of his minions (and things happen).

I'd love anything with the two power coupling all over the place. Or Loki baiting Fury into having his way with him everywhere.

Both of them pretended to be dead for a while, maybe they shared tips and commiserated?

Loki/Bruce Banner/Brunnhilde | Valkyie

I'd love something where, for all their individual dysfunctions, they all work together pretty well. Bruce doesn't have to worry about hurting them, even if he accidentally Hulks out, but also provides a stabilizing influence for them. Loki might be twisty and a drama queen, but he is fiercely loyal once he decides that he wants this. Brunnhilde gets a friend and sparring partner in Bruce and someone she can show her darker side to in Loki. Somehow, they make it all work.

Or for something more cracky, maybe they all just got together during one of the Grandmaster's orgies and never fell apart after.

Loki & Yondu Udonta

They're both blue aliens with issues! I can just see them being weird friends (that they would never ever admit to being) :D

Maybe after Loki falls off the Bifrost, he lands on Yondu's ship? He doesn't want to return to Asgard and can't think of anything better to do, so he sticks around. Yondu keeps him because a magic shapeshifting alien with Aesir strength is great to have around for ravaging.

Or maybe Loki uses Yondu to escape Thanos. Maybe he even drags Gamora and Nebula for the ride?

Or does Yondu visit Asgard, hoping to pull a con there and gets caught by Loki? Instead of handing him over to Odin, Loki takes him out for a drink and they swap ever more ridiculous stories.

Crossover Fandom

Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Dirk Gently gets people where they need to go, which makes him a perfect companion for the Doctor. It lets the TARDIS have a break from doing the same. Or they join forces and make the Doctor's life even more chaotic.

Or perhaps the TARDIS takes the Doctor to Blackwing and he takes Dirk away from there. Or does Dirk accidentally get on the TARDIS, perception filter or no? Does the Doctor try to get rid of him or is he delighted by such unexpected company?

Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Loki (MCU)

Is Loki a Blackwing subject and that's how they meet? Does he break Dirk out, planning to use him for some purpose?

Or the man who gets people where they need to go meets the god who has no idea where he is supposed to be. How does Dirk help Loki in that case?

For a crack prompt, perhaps Loki mindcontrols Dirk and tries to use him for taking over, but the universe makes things go improbably wrong for Loki's plans, but pretty great for everything else for him.

Dirk ends up on Sakaar, the planet of the lost. Does the universe implode or is he just there to get a certain trickster god to where he needs to be?

Farah Black (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) & Samuel Vimes (Discworld novels)

Farah apprentices under Sam Vimes. He's impressed by her encyclopedic knowledge of criminal law (even Ankh Morpork's labyrinthine one), but less so with her attempts to blindly follow it. Especially considering some of them contradict each other twice.

Or maybe they team up to bring down a criminal. Maybe Vimes is the apprentice when he appears on Earth and wants to be a cop again.

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld novels) & Loki (MCU)

During my first Yuletide, I received a few amazing fics with this pairing and I'm hankering to see more of this scenario.

Loki falls to the Discworld in Lancre and Granny decides to knock some sense into him through hard work and headology.

Or maybe a young Loki gets sick of being called a witch all the time and decides to really learn how to be one. Granny has no idea what to do with an actual god trying to be her apprentice so of course she acts like she knows exactly what she's doing and takes him on. It ends up surprisingly well.

Groot (MCU) & Treebeard (LOTR)

Flora Colossi are either a subspecies or an offshoot of Ents. Does Groot come across Treebeard and Middle-earth in his travels? Did the Entwives disappear to Planet X?

Does Groot help the Fellowship out? Or does he invite Treebeard to go see the universe with him?

Loki (MCU) & Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Loki falls from the bifrost and crashes into the TARDIS. Donna, experienced with dealing with skinny angsty godlike aliens, knows how to handle him.

Or maybe Loki and Donna keep meeting through the years as she travels with the Doctor and he is intrigued by this mortal that never seems to age. Maybe he helps her deal with the Doctor's memories - perhaps what science cannot fix, magic can.

Loki (MCU) & Ned Stark (ASoIaF)

Because reasons, Loki swears fealty to Stark and helps out with the politics part of the GOT causing Ned to survive.

Maybe he'd been shapeshifted into the direwolf they find at the beginning of the book? Maybe he comes to Westeros during Robert's Rebellion and helps out, even when injured or something?

Loki (MCU)/Theon Stark (ASoIaF)

Loki discovers Westeros during the time of Theon Stark the Hungry Wolf and is super into him. Together, they go into bloodsoaked wars and emerge victorious. Does Loki decide this is a place he wants to rule? Is he content with just Theon?

Loki (MCU) & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Daredevil (TV))

So Avengers Academy had a Defenders event where Loki and Foggy had a beautiful friendship. Which just made me want the same for the movie and tv versions of them. I just want them bro'ing around together.

For a more serious prompt: Loki is kept for trial on Earth. No one but Nelson & Murdock want to represent him. Or the Hoggarth firm kicks it down to Foggy once complications arise. Anyway, there's something off about this case (I'm not a lawyer, but international/interplanetary jurisdiction, extradition,human rights etc etc) and Foggy is going to get to the bottom of it. This would be a variation where there were extenuating circumstances for the Incident.

Loki (MCU) & Q (Star Trek)

Tricksters in spaaaaace. Anything with Loki and Q being BFFs across the universe.

Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV))/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

They met, they banged, she solved his murder.

Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries)/Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: TNG)

This strikes me as a fascinating dynamic. Phryne would draw out some of Picard's mischievousness while he'd be a stabilizing influence. Does Picard time travel to the twenties? Does Phryne end up in the future somehow? Imagine her on the Enterprise!

Samuel Vimes (Discworld novels) & the One Ring (LOTR)

Anything inspired by this post http://emoinspace.tumblr.com/post/168728003648 where Vimes arrests the One Ring for being an accessory to murder.

Either that, or Vimes is the only Man who can resist the Ring for a long time out of sheer bloody mindedness.

Tauriel (Hobbit movies) & Boromir (LOTR)

Do they meet before the events of LOTR? Does she come across him on the road and accompany him to Rivendell? Or does she come across him on Amon Hen in time to save him?

I'd just be fascinated by them meeting. Tauriel who wants to go out in the world and do more to fight back and Boromir who has been fighting his entire life. I expect Boromir would be a little more at ease meeting a Silvan elf than the Noldor he first encountered.

Or maybe after the Battle of the Five Armies, Tauriel makes her way to Ithilien and spends her years there fighting. The soldiers of Gondor think she's a myth until Boromir meets her.

Tony Stark (MCU) & Ned Stark (Game of Thrones)

Tony Stark as a Stark of Winterfell would be great! How is he related to them? Does he just want to stay in his holdfast building stuff? How do events go (for his family especially) with him in the picture?

Or maybe Tony just finds himself in Westeros and gets in with the Starks due to his name. Does he hang with Ned? Does he try to upgrade Winterfell?

Wonder Woman (DCU) & Loki (MCU)

I want one thing from this interaction and that's Lasso of Truth angst. Does she tie him with it while fighting him? What does he say? How panicked does he get? When Diana realizes, how does she react? No one's ever really truly panicked before when she used it, after all. Do they become friends after? Or at least not enemies?

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Farah Black/Todd Brotzman/Dirk Gently || Farah Black & Todd Brotzman & Dirk Gently

These three just make my heart happy, ok? They're such great friends, I love them. Farah and Todd spent months trying to look for Dirk! Dirk kept thinking they would come for him! I love it.

This can be either shippy or no, but I would love something that deals with Dirk's time in Blackwing. He was such a mess in season 2, I would love for something where Todd and Farah take care of Dirk and help him be less high strung.

Or maybe something with the three solving a case in their newly acquired offices? Dirk and Todd helping Farah train and study (not that she needs to) for a PI license?