#hii!!!!!! :] !!!! i'm happy you liked the asks!!!! nw about them taking so long I 100% get it; when your sick you just kinda Cease To Be -

[quillheel]

@mobiues // loki & mobius!

Loki tries to wrench his arm free, and the contact feels like a fire against the skin to him. But resisting it feels worse.

The way hot is cold and cold is hot, and something in them is burning up. The shiver-shake-speed up of being wounded, of being pinned down. — not a pin, just a snare — no, a cradle. not hare stuck in bramble, not salmon caught in web, not a preyish thing being caught in the maw of something bigger than him, he and his many arms, he and his many snares. It isn’t the same. He has to remember that.

Remembering is difficult in a place with no time. Remembering is difficult when he reaches up, compulsive, to drag his fingers over his neck to see if there's still a collar there. — like a misbehaving hound you pushed back in the kennel until they learned not to bite. like teaching the hard way, the way they were raised, the way of hard lessons and hard wars and hard laws to live by but they had to live by them; decisions already made. decisions they had to keep making.

Reality. Breathe, lungs burning, focus or it'll get you killed. Loki looks to Mobius, coming back to the right-here right-now and the angle of which the skin frames his eyes make him look a little more harsh than maybe he intends. The look of a man who’s been through this before. The look of a man who’d kill you not to go through it again. — but you already know what he’s gone through, a thousand different iterations, a thousand different wounds; you’ve watched him die, Mobius, and he knows it. The wicker frame of his scarecrow body only proves you right, only does so much.

He was never much of a fighter, and even if he was, it’s never enough in the TVA.

“ Let me go. “ the words bite out of him before anything he meant to say can overtake them, like that dog in that kennel. the God continues, composure humming back into him like remembering who you are after a bad dream. He wasn’t going to wake up, but he’s gotten good at thinking on his feet. “ I will handle this later. The longer we wait the more we waste— “ he hisses a breath through his teeth, maybe irritation, maybe pain. Mobius is the expert, isn’t he? Too bad he wasn’t the doctor, too.

“ —I know you and your merry men don’t exactly have time-keeping beyond keeping time, but surely, you understand the urgency I am impressing upon you, yes? “ Loki tries to stray, and the burning only thickens, a lesson they have to learn the hard way.

( Even through the unspoken determination of ‘I’ll drag you if I must’, the way it is sometimes a test of will against the divine to hold them and to keep them at all. He lived into his act of the snake very well, didn’t he? )

#hii!!!!!! :] !!!! i'm happy you liked the asks!!!! nw about them taking so long I 100% get it; when your sick you just kinda Cease To Be - #for a lil bit BHKBRTRB but!!! hands you him!! (i switch between he/they for my loki but if its easier to stick w one just tell me btw!) #i left mine Also pretty vague but i was kind of rolling with the idea of perhaps this was at some point during the sylvie investigation - #before loki ran perhaps if they had more time to work on things together? or maybe at the end of time? #it's been a bit since I rewatched Loki (though i do intend to when I have wifi back) but!! if wanted we can 1000% plot it :] #my ims and my discord are always open!!! #MUSE / Loki #ROLEPLAY / Loki #━ ♔ to jump from anywhere & make it home : threads. #━ ♔ you sing but only the pavement listens : ic. #sidenote god i need to get loki better icons BHKBKHB #injury // #mcu //