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A Wife For Thor Pt.01

10/12/2020

Arrivals and Departures

Pairing: King!Thor x Reader Word Count: 6,990

Warnings: language, talks of death, angst, talks of sex,

A/N: This is seriously...I mean, I don’t even know where this came from. Credits to @darkficsyouneveraskedfor because Roo gave me the idea and I kinda ran with it. Like omg, y’all. Blame Roo. If you happen to reblog, thanks so much for helping me spread my work! xoxo Dialogue from Thor Ragnarok has been used in the beginning of this story.

Please do not REPOST my stories anywhere. Reblogs are most welcome!

He stands with his arms crossed in what appears to be a small sitting room with a large window that opens to the sublime sight of the black space beyond. Sterling silver, radiant red, and brilliant blue stars twinkle into infinity.

This is a sight that Thor had seen many times before and yet, for the first time in an age, he felt hopeful for the future.

His fight had ended. With Ragnarok, his journey had reached an end. Not the end, but certainly that of a chapter I which his battles might rest.

He imagines that this might be how his father felt when he had taken charge of the nine realms.

However violent that takeover might have been, his father had lied about many things—his sister for one—it had been the beginning of a quieter reign. A new formative time for his father. He may not have been a perfect man, but he’d grown wiser in many ways. Still not the best father, but his father, nonetheless.

Thor can almost picture his life on Earth, a time of peace. A time to rebuild. He will be able to give his people a good life there and he’s certain that his friends will appreciate having him closer. Friends from work they may be, but friends.

“Do you really think it’s a good idea to go back to Earth?” Loki asks, standing beside him with his hands held gently at his front.

Thor looks at him, waiting a moment to allow him to finish speaking.

“Yes, of course.” Thor assures him. “The people of Earth love me. I’m very popular.”

Loki takes a breath, looking out the window as he quickly accepts his brother’s reasoning while simultaneously realizing he must word this differently to get his point across.

“Let me rephrase that.” Loki begins, “Do you really think it’s a good idea to bring me back to Earth?”

Thor knows that Loki has a point. His history with Earth is…not perfect. To say the least.

“Probably not, to be honest.” He admits, noting Loki’s apprehension.

Loki smiles, a little knowing.

“I wouldn’t worry, brother.” Thor tells him, both turning back to the void outside. “I feel like everything’s going to work out fine.”

The moment seems endless, the two of them waiting as if the something should or might happen after Thor’s optimistic sentiments.

Then the moment passes and Loki sighs.

“Right, well, I’ll start rounding up the people who will be of the most use once we arrive.”

Thor gives his brother one parting smile but doesn’t watch him leave.

Thor doesn’t know exactly what has changed in him, what makes him so confident in this decision, but he knows it’s the best decision he could have made. And if he’s honest, though he’d never admit it out loud, the possibility of finally being on the same planet as Jane…well, he’d be a fool not to consider the possibilities.

~~~~~~~~~~

Something feels different today.

As you wake, turning onto your side to stare across the small room at the blinking line on the blank word document on your computer screen, you can’t quite put your finger on what is making you nervous.

Your stomach is rolling, making you queasy, despite the fact that you have no reason to be anxious.

Yesterday was like the day before and today will be just like yesterday. Nothing in your life ever changes, and that’s become so much of who you are that whenever you have even a doctor’s appointment your heart begins to race in dreaded anticipation.

With trembling hands you clutch your blanket, trying to find a reason behind this mood. Your breath quickens as your heart panics, your mind scrambling to make sense of these emotions but nothing comes to mind.

So, you get out of bed. You get dressed choosing a simple knee length black dress that fits loose enough to keep you comfortable throughout the day. Then you head into the kitchen and start the coffee pot.

Halfway through the brew you shut the machine off and rush to dump out its contents into the sink.

“Fuck.”

You sigh, realizing you should really invest in decaf coffee for morning just like this.

“Tea. Tea is better.” You rationalize and pull your kettle off the warmer and fill it in the sink.

You replace it in its dock then turn your back to it, hands gripping the edge of the counter as you lean against it.

Your fingers stroke the smooth and unvarnished wooden countertop, suddenly going rigid around the lip as your heart goes frantic again.

The island counter directly in front of you is made of the same unvarnished wood, a slightly mismatched chair on the other side, tucked in beside the open shelving that holds your pots and pans. Along the center of the island sits a small vase with nearly completely withered flowers.

You’re filled with relief as your hands are given new task and you hurry forward and take the clear glass vase, toss the flowers—which crumble as they hit yesterday’s empty cereal box—dump the water in the sink and quickly refill it.

Setting the vase aside, you pull open a drawer and pluck from an array of contents a small packet of flower food, a pair of small pruners, a long piece of twine, and head out the back door to your modest backyard.

There isn’t much in it, and it’s unfenced. A large tree at the back-left corner provides shade and pecans. In the center of the yard sits a set of antique iron work garden furniture. Twisted and shaped into what reminds you of lace. Two smaller chairs and one long bench with curved backs.

You’ve been of a mind to buy cushions for them, but you haven’t found an excuse to justify the expense.

In between the garden set sits an outdoor coffee table made of wood and painted white. It’s fading and will need a new coat soon but again the expense can wait. At least until you sell another story.

Apart from this set and a small wooden shed beside the pecan tree, your yard is mostly overgrown grass and carefully cultivated flowers lining the length of your narrow back porch.

You smile, noticing the length of your grass, grateful for another something to keep you busy today. Something to keep your mind off this mysterious and anxious premonition of something to come.

Quickly you move to a large blooming bush at the end of your porch and cut from it several bunches of pink and blue garden phlox.

You admire the shade of the blue flowers. The color reminds you a pair of blue eyes you’d once seen on a woman who’d come to your school as a child.

She’d been beautiful and kind, but she hadn’t picked you. Still, you’d never forgotten the color of her eyes.

The pink is pastel at the edges of its petals and vibrant magenta at the center.

As you head back in, the kettle only barely beginning to steam, you quickly arrange the bunches you’ve picked and wrap them up with the twine. You set the bushel aside and with the vase pulled close, you tear the packet of flower food with your teeth and pour it in.

Replacing the flowers, you give the kettle one more look before you race back into your bedroom to pick out a more appropriate outfit for cutting the grass.

You decide on a pair of jeans and a plain yellow t-shirt. Pulling them on, you pause with your shirt hooked around your arms as your eyes find your laptop screen, annoyingly black still.

With a groan you pull your shirt on and from the kitchen you hear the whistle.

Breakfast is simple. A store-bought muffin and a cup of breakfast tea do the trick and while you’re still chewing your last bite you head out to cut your grass.

It doesn’t take you too long and you lament the last bit as you cut it, the machine vibrating violently in your nervous grip.

No matter how much you try to distract yourself, this feeling of something terrible coming will not go away and you’re about to go out of your mind when a shout from your back door pulls your mind from it.

Standing there is an older man with an unconventionally handsome face. His lips are thin, cheekbones prominent, brown eyes sunken, and his nose long and defined. His dark hair slicked and parted, neatly kept to match his crisp navy suit.

“Aren’t you a little overdressed?” You shout at him as the whirr of the machine dies into silence.

The man moves towards you, a smile brightening his face.

“I was just at a meeting.” He explains.

“Do you ever stop working?” You wonder, pushing the lawn mower towards the shed as he follows.

“Only when I’m on vacation.” He tells you, amusement in his voice but subdued and you only hear it because you’ve known him for years.

“You don’t take vacations.” You sputter, almost laughing.

“Precisely.” He agrees.

He waits for you to shut the door and when you turn, he greets you with open arms.

“How have you been?” He asks, holding the hug for longer than you’re used to which only adds to the anxiety you’ve been feeling all morning.

What’s going on?!

“Hey, you okay?” You ask him, ignoring his question in favor of satisfying your curiosity.

He doesn’t answer but holds the hug a moment longer before pulling back to look at you.

“We have to talk.” He tells you, making your heart pound.

“Okay. You want some breakfast?” You offer, and swallow hard as your fear mounts.

“Sure.” He says and follows you inside.

You make him a full breakfast. Eggs, bacon, breakfast sausage, and buttered toast with a cup of coffee. Just because you can’t stand the idea of being hyped up on caffeine today doesn’t mean David won’t.

He digs right in while you stand on the other side of the island, sipping on your second cup of tea in hopes that it will ease your frayed nerves.

For a few minutes he gobbles down your food but when you shift on your feet for the fourth time, he clears his throat, takes a drink of his coffee, then puts his fork down.

“It’s not exactly bad news.” He assures you, easing you a little but something tells you that you still won’t like it.

“Just tell me, David.”

“As your lawyer,” He begins, sitting back in your old wobbly chair. “It’s my duty to inform you when there are developments with your family’s estate.”

“Right.” You agree, remembering the day he’d found you when you’d turned eighteen to tell you that you weren’t exactly as poor as you’d thought.

You’re not really rich either. You have a little money that your parents set aside for you. Old money that you hadn’t really touched. You use it mostly for bills when you can’t sell a story fast enough and most of your wealth is in this cottage. A family home that you’d had no idea was yours until David brought you here.

Finally, a home, after living in that school all those years.

“Well, I think it might be time to reveal a little more of that estate’s history.”

“Why?” You put down the floral porcelain cup and wrap your arms around yourself, afraid of what he’ll say.

How did you know that something was coming? What kind of sixth sense do you have?!

“After all this time, why would it matter?” You sigh, moving to pull out the second chair to his right on the shorter end of the island.

“Don’t panic.” He tells you, reaching over to place his hand over yours. “Let’s keep our heads. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

“You say that, but why do I feel like that’s not exactly true?” You sigh.

He blinks, gathering his thoughts before he nods.

“I think I’ll tell you all at once. Like ripping a band-aid. Might be the easiest for you.” He realizes.

You don’t disagree.

“Your family comes from a very small people in Europe. Their origins are hard to trace but we know that they travelled between France, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Greece, and even spent a large amount of time in hiding in the United Kingdom.”

“I get it, they were nomads.” You sigh, your mood taking a turn from the anticipation of clarity.

“Yes. Nomads.” David agrees, patting your hand in an attempt to calm you. “I only mention it because there are many questions as to where they had originated from. No one seems to know. Unfortunately, I don’t think that question will ever be answered as all records before their stint in France have been lost.

“What we do know is that your ancestors, your bloodline are royalty.” David says, as easily as if he were telling you your age. “Even though the titles have long since been lost, you are technically—though you have no country to rule over—a princess.”

Slowly his words sink in and your face begins to relax. You look down at his hand over yours and without warning you laugh once. Then again, and again, until you’re leaning on your chair, head thrown back as your whole body shakes with it.

“What is so funny?” David asks, unamused but he goes back to eating.

“This is a joke, right? You’re pulling my leg.” You gasp, breath shallow.

“Not one little bit.” He shakes his head. “If we knew what country your ancestors came from, you would very much be in some palace or castle, reigning over your people. Your parents, were they alive, would have been King and Queen.

“You may not think it possible, but that is your legacy, Y/N. You are of royal blood.” David insists which sobers you a little, but you think it’s so silly that this is what you’d been so scared of.

This is what you’d been dreading?

“Okay. Fine. I believe you. But what does it matter? You said that if I still had a country then I would be princess, but clearly, I don’t. So, I’m not. What’s the point of telling me this when it makes absolutely no difference to my life?

“I don’t feel any different and it’s not like that makes me any richer? I’m still sitting on a decently sized fortune to assure that I don’t want for anything at least until my forties. What could this possibly change that you felt it necessary to tell me?”

David wipes his mouth with his napkin, finishing up the last bit of his coffee before he gets up and with his dirty plates moves towards the sink.

“Leave it, David. I’ll clean up later.” You watch him, sitting up a little straighter as that anxious feeling begins to grow again with his extended silence.

He washes the plate and as he does, your nerves begin to fray again. You anxiously pick at a small splinter in your island, waiting for him to speak.

He turns towards you as he finished washing his plate, then meets your eyes.

“You weren’t just revealing my heritage, were you?”

“No.” He shakes his head. “I felt I needed to reveal your heritage because someone has reached out with the hopes of setting up a meeting with you.”

“Why would anyone wanna meet with me simply because they know of my lineage?” You wonder, slouched, hands moved to your lap to rest limply as you stare at David, fear increasing with every moment that passes.

“May I ask you a personal question?” He says, moving to stand closer as he dries his hand on your dishtowel.

“David, you know everything about me.” You sigh.

“Why haven’t you ever had a boyfriend? Or girlfriend? I’m not sure I’ve ever asked if you-?”

“To be honest, I don’t know either.” You shrug. “I’ve never really thought about it.”

“Not even as a child?” He wonders.

“I was too busy wishing for parents as a kid.” You clarify. “I didn’t have time for crushes or any of that stuff.”

“Are you opposed to a relationship?” David asks, dropping the towel then moving around to sit back down in his seat.

“Opposed?” You ask, shaking your head. “Not exactly opposed. I’ve just never known anyone worth caring about like that. I’m mainly here at home. I do go into town when I need to get my packages but there isn’t anyone there that…I don’t draw attention like that.”

“You’re a pretty girl.” David tells you, reaching over to tug on your sleeve. “When you aren’t sweaty and covered in grass clippings.”

You scoff, shaking your head.

“It’s not something I really worry about.” You admit.

“Would you ever want to get married?” David asks, and your heart is suddenly pounding.

The idea of being someone’s wife had crossed your mind once or twice. Mostly when you’d been jotting down ideas or plotlines for your books. In the end, because you didn’t think you had enough insight, you’d opted to remove all romance. You write mysteries.

“I don’t know that I’d be any good at it.” You confess. “I’m not…I can’t exactly picture myself being someone’s wife.”

“Why not?”

“Because I…I don’t even know what I’d be like in a relationship, sharing space and time, much less sharing an entire life?” You shake your head. “I’m not saying that I haven’t thought about it but it’s only ever been in passing.”

David goes silent, tapping his index finger against the island.

“David, please. You know I can’t take the suspense.” You plead.

“Yes. I’m sorry.” He nods then reminds himself, “Band-aid.”

You take a deep breath and turn to face him a little more in your seat.

“Well, you are aware of our planet’s newest inhabitants?”

“Th-The Asgardians in Norway?”

“Yes.” David nods. “Well, as a sign of good faith, to ensure that they will abide by Earth’s laws and to assuage any ideas from panicked world leaders that they might try and overtake the planet and make it their own, they have decided that marriage to someone from Earth might be the best way to do that.

“The Asgardian known as Brunnhilde has reached out to all families of royal blood and asked to meet with any eligible women, preferably—as she so tactfully put it—maidens.” He explains. “Which I take it you are?”

You swallow hard, your lungs rubbed of oxygen and yet you somehow manage to quietly acknowledge, “Yes. I’m a virgin.”

How can you not be after spending your whole life unconcerned with romance?

“You don’t have to do it, Y/N.” David suddenly says; however, you can see the ‘but’ in his eyes. “But if you don’t and the Asgardian king cannot choose from the women he does meet, you will probably be hunted down and forced to meet with him anyway.

“All world leaders are in agreement that this is the correct and only way to ensure the safety of the planet. They will not give up until every woman meeting the Asgardian’s requirements have been given the chance to meet with Thor.”

“Thor?!” You gasp, rising to your feet as hundreds if not thousands of images flash through your mind of the Thunder God and the Avengers fighting side by side.

“Yes.” David affirms, rising to his feet with you. “With the death of his father, he is now King of Asgard.”

Of course, Thor is going to be King. You already knew this. It’s common sense.

For some reason though, the confirmation made out loud, vocally…how the fuck are you supposed to marry Thor? An Avenger? That’s not…this cannot be real life!

“David,” You begin, apprehensive.

“I know. I know it is a lot to ask but as I said, I don’t believe we have much of a choice. He might very well not pick you.” David adds, rushing to comfort you and point out how unlikely you’d be the one Thor chooses to wed. “There are plenty of other women that he’s already met with. Women that are more suited to life in a palace than you are. The Hungarian princess is so eager to be Queen of Asgard that she’s been sending the other women bribes to try and convince them to refuse.

“It won’t make a difference, since they cannot refuse should Thor choose them.” David admits.

“A-all I have to do is meet with him?” You stutter, heart in your throat.

“Just a quick one-hour meeting. He’ll ask you questions. Get to know a bit about you. See if you are suited for life as Asgardian queen and then it’s over.” David assures you.

“I’m…There are lots of other women better for it, right?”

“Loads of them.” David promises.

New fears begin to take hold in your heart and mind.

It conjures up the last time you’d seen Thor, strutting from a massive spaceship docked over the ocean by New Asgard. He’d risen from its depths all wide shoulders and biceps. Heavy steps thudding as he’d stopped at the end of the massive ramp, waving at the cameras as his people had filed out behind him.

His hair cropped short as opposed to the long tresses he’d had when he’d last been on Earth, one eye missing with a sleek black and gold metal patch over it the absence.

You’ve never been threatened by him before. He’s a hero. But the prospect of being his wife and having wifely duties...

Your mind flies into panic as it shifts that large body over you, crawling towards you with his hands prying your legs open. The years of sexual experience radiating off of this fantasy Thor and all of his bulging muscles.

You almost want to throw up at the prospect of having to consummate a marriage. You haven’t exactly been eager to be with anyone since you haven’t met anyone special, but you’d at least imagined something more intimate. More personal.

“David I-they won’t choose me though, right?” You reach out for him because your legs are suddenly weak.

He takes hold of your arms and helps you stand still.

“They won’t.” He tells you, sounding convinced. “There are better candidates. Women with actual titles.”

He’s right. Of course, he’s right. He has to be right.

“It’s just a quick meeting.” He promises. “Then it’ll all be over, and you can come back to your cottage and live just as you have been, with no one to bother you.”

~~~~~~~~~~

Leaving your little place is difficult. After spending years without a home to call your own, now that you have your cottage, tearing yourself away from it is like pulling splinters.

You like your little yard. You like your flowers. You love your bed and its white sheets, little pink and yellow flowers printed on the soft fabric.

You’d made it more feminine. You’d brought flowers back and frills and lace. You’d made it everything you thought a cottage at the edge of a wood should look like and as time had gone by you’d brought in more personal touches.

After several years, your home is finally completely you.

This place, this massive Asgardian structure is less gold and more wood, stone, and iron. Silver steel polished so bright it gleams even in moonlight. This place is not you. It’s him. It’s Thor. His home.

Right now, with the day almost over, the palace takes on a warmer tone. The wooden structures and gray stone pillars are bathed in orange light, giving the place a pleasant glow and despite yourself, you can almost picture Thor meandering through these Nordic halls, a long crimson robe around his thick form.

It isn’t an unpleasant image now that you’ve given yourself some time to get used to the idea of him.

When you arrived you were greeted and seated in a large round room, the lower quarter of the sturdy walls made of ornate stone brick, the rest of the wall beautiful dark oak. The floor is also stone, massive carpets underneath several pieces of obviously Norse inspired furniture.

Well actually, the Norse was probably derived from Asgardian styles. There’s a difference in them that you can see but don’t understand. The coffee table in front of you has ornately carved legs, golden embellishments, and a black coat of paint.

The sofa you’re sitting on is mostly wood, painted gold, with plush and soft satin covered cushions in wine red.

There are two other tables around the room, a collection of books on one and an array of fruits, foods, and drinks on the other. There are several different statues and stands. Lamps that look as if they should have flames instead of the electric bulbs they now hold.

Small touches of modern design filter through the room complimenting the more traditional décor.

“Hello there.” Says a lilting voice.

You recognize it and turn to find Loki, slipping through a narrow opening in the large set of doors you’d been escorted through almost half an hour ago.

He’s dressed in a black suit with a plain white t-shirt underneath dressing the look down.

“H-Hi.” You stammer, surprised by his appearance.

You stand, knowing well that he may not be King but for Asgard, Loki is still a prince.

“No, please. Do not get up on my account.” He gestures at your seat and you settle back in as he crosses to the table with all the books. “I forgot some papers in here, I only came to retrieve them. Do not mind me.”

You avert your eyes, afraid to see something you shouldn’t and sit just as stiffly as before, hands fisting the royal purple dress you’d chosen to wear. It’s simple, quarter sleeves, high neckline with a small V at the center. Just above your knees in length, it rises as you grip it.

“Nervous to meet my brother?” Loki asks, stopping by the doors as he eyes your tight grip.

“This whole situation is a little stressful.” You admit. “I’m…I live in a small house in the middle of nowhere. I don’t even know why I’m here.”

“Ah, you’re the one with the lost lineage.” Loki realizes, moving closer with interest. “A hidden princess. You could have refused to come, you know?”

“I would have been forced eventually.” You point out. “There are a lot of people who want this marriage thing to happen.”

“True.” Loki agrees, “My fault, I’m afraid. I make them nervous.”

“You did very nearly destroy New York.” You point out, remembering the carnage reported that day. The aftermath had taken forever to clean up.

“I did.” Loki agrees. “Do you fear me?”

“No.” You admit. “If you weren’t safe, Thor wouldn’t have brought you back here.”

“He could just be too trusting.”

“Maybe.” You agree. “But with the fate of his entire people tied to the successful acclimation of Asgard and Earth, if you were really a threat, I think he’d have cut you out before coming back.”

Loki’s lips slowly curl up into a smile before breaking apart into a toothy grin.

“What is your name again?” He asks, a sparkle of something in his eyes.

“Y/N.” You tell him. “Why?”

“No reason. This has been very illuminating, Y/N. It was lovely to meet you.” Loki says then with a quick bow of his head, he leaves you to your solitude.

Confused, you sit there completely at a loss for what just happened.

Had you taken too many liberties with Loki? What had that smile meant? You’d been made aware that Loki was also involved in recruiting women of royal blood into marriage meetings for Thor, but you hadn’t expected him to know you by the description of where you live.

Maybe because it’s so unlike anyone else’s?

You sit there stewing for another twenty minutes, wondering if maybe you’re being stood up when the large doors open once again.

You shoot up onto your feet, so damn nervous your body reacts without your permission. Through the door this time comes the man of the hour. The massive Thunder God dressed in a pair of dark blue jeans and a plain gray t-shirt crosses over to the table with food and pours himself a stein of what looks like beer from a sloshing brown pitcher.

“Estrid, is this from the new batch of ale?” He booms loud enough that he can be heard even outside of the room as he takes a quick sniff of the liquid.

His voice is so deep.

Licking your lips, you watch him drink the entire stein without taking a breath or waiting for an answer, and then refill it before grabbing it and taking an apple with his other hand.

He turns, holding the fruit up to his mouth and freezes with it pressed to his lips as he meets your eyes, realizing he isn’t alone.

You’re not exactly sure what to say or what to do, completely taken aback by this strange and sudden exposure to candid Thor. Both of you unprepared to see each other despite the fact that you’ve literally been waiting nearly an hour for him.

His confusion mounts as he lowers the apple, looking around as if expecting an explanation or to see if he’s in the correct room.

“What time is it?” He suddenly asks, meeting your gaze again.

“N-Nearly six.” You tell him, and his one good eye goes slightly wide.

“Oh!” His lips curl up into an easy smile. “I did not think it was that late.”

His smile makes you feel a little more at ease, but you’re still on edge.

“You’re my meeting.” He tells you, as if you don’t already know that. “Y/N? Y/L/N, right?”

“Yes.” You nod, then before you can stop yourself… “You’re late.”

Thor blinks. Startled it seems or maybe just surprised, but then he smiles again. “Oh. I’m sorry.”

“I mean, you can be as late as you’d like. This is your meeting. Sorry. I didn’t…I don’t know why I said that.” You rush to say.

“No, no.” Thor turns to put down his stein of beer and the apple replaced in its bowl. “You’re right. I am late. We were supposed to meet at five, weren’t we?”

When he turns back to you, you nod.

“I’m sorry. I’m sure you have much you could be doing.” Thor says, moving towards you and gesturing at the spot you’d been in before sitting down at the other end of the sofa.

“No.” You confess. “Not really. I’m actually one of the only people that probably doesn’t have much to do. Well, I mean, I could be writing. Or cleaning house.”

“They tell me that you had no knowledge about your lineage before Brunnhilde reached out to your lawyer?”

You nod. “It’s not really important. Or…no. That’s not the right-what I mean to say is that it isn’t significant to my life.”

“Don’t you want to know who your family is?” Thor wonders.

“I know who my family is. I had a mom. And a dad. Both died just after I was born. That’s my family.” You explain. “Apart from getting to meet you, the news that my family was once royalty doesn’t change it in any way. I’m still just as insignificant today as I was before.”

Thor narrows his brow, watching you for a long torturous moment as he considers what you’d just said.

“Tell me about yourself.” He suddenly says, turning to lean back against the arm, his own thrown over the back, right leg bent up onto the sofa.

“There isn’t much to tell.” You admit. “I was born, my parents died in an accident. I was taken to a school for orphans where I grew up and aged out. On the day I had to leave, Mr. Valis found me and gave me my inheritance which is a good amount of money and a small house. I’ve been living there ever since.”

“You didn’t take any additional schooling?” Thor asks, relaxing. “All the other young women I’ve met have made it a point to tell me about the universities and colleges they’ve attended.”

“I took a few correspondence classes.” You tell him, “But I’ve only ever wanted to write, and I didn’t feel that I needed a higher education to do it. I mean, it would probably look better on my resume, but my writing should speak for itself.”

You can’t really tell what he’s thinking with the way he’s watching you, his hand playing with a thread on the back of the sofa.

You take it as a good sign that many of the other women have a degree of some sort. They must want someone respectable with a good education, right?

“How do you feel about political marriages?” He asks, and you’re stunned for a moment.

“Um…”

“Be honest, please.”

“I guess I don’t like the idea?” You admit. “Being forced to marry someone you don’t love because duty demands it? Feels archaic. If you love someone, whether they fit into whatever political standards are being demanded or not should not be a reason to get married.”

Thor sits up, shifting a little closer as he leans towards you.

“If you were asked to go along with a political marriage in every way but the heart, could you?” He wonders, much more interested than before.

“What do you mean?” You ask, confused.

“Well, let’s say for example, you and I were to marry. We’d be expected to have children. You’d be bound to do your duties as Queen of Asgard, but you would not be required to love me. Would you be able to fulfill these requirements?”

“You don’t want to do this, do you?” You realize, seeing the eagerness in his eyes. His shoulders slump. “If you don’t want to get married, why don’t you just say something?”

“I must do what I can to ensure the future of my people.” Thor says, sighing deeply.

“I’m guessing there’s someone else you do love that you can’t marry?”

“Not that I can’t but won’t. She isn’t ready for marriage and I don’t feel right making that kind of demand from her when she clearly has other things she’d like to be doing with her life. And…yes, maybe a little bit can’t. A royal marriage would make the most sense. I need a Queen.” Thor says.

You can’t find the words to tell him how fucked up this all is so instead you sit in silence.

“I know this is not ideal. I’ve tried to find other ways of assuring Earth of my commitment to this planet but nothing I’ve suggested is good enough.”

He needs a Queen. This gives you solace. No one is less of a queen than you are.

“I’m sorry.” You finally tell him. “It’s not fair. But I’m sure you’ll be able to find someone who checks all those boxes for you. I hear the Hungarian princess is pretty eager.”

Thor ignores you, stroking his beard as he watches you. “What do you want from a marriage? Let us say it’s many years from now and you have found someone you love beyond all reason. You two decide to get married. What does that look like?”

You’re a little surprised by the question but you humor him and take a moment to really think about it.

The man you picture has no face. There is no one you care enough about to imagine. So…because he’s the only option, you take Thor’s face and give your imaginary husband a face.

“We’d be partners.” You tell him. “Open about everything important. We would respect each other’s individualities. If something is troubling me, I would like to know that I could turn to him and if he had something on his mind, I’d hope that he could turn to me too.

“We’d be honest about even the unpleasant aspects of our life together. If we disagreed, we would talk about it openly. We wouldn’t hide from each other. We’d spend as much time as we could together and always make time for each other.”

You picture Thor sitting at your island in your comfy cottage. He’s so massive that he’d take up so much space. You’d have to squeeze past him, and he’d turn to wrap his arms around your waist as you pass.

He’d trap you there, not letting you move.

“We’d make breakfast together. Cramped up in my little kitchen, it would turn into play.” You smile. “We’d lounge around the house, reading and listening to music. In the evenings we’d move out to the backyard and watch the sun set then watch the stars until I’d fall asleep on his shoulder.”

As if you’re caught doing something you shouldn’t be, you startle yourself out of your daydream and feel your neck heat up.

You’d crossed from rational marriage into sentimental and you’re a little shocked at the detail in which your mind has gone.

You’re also a little startled by the pleasant feeling that picturing Thor in those situations has given you.

For someone who has never had a crush, you’re startled by the butterflies it gives you.

“But I’ve never been into anyone like that before.” You tell him, looking away from his intense gaze. “So, even if that’s what I picture, it’s not like it’s ever gonna happen.”

“It might.” Thor says, sounding as if he might be trying to comfort you.

“It won’t.” You assure him. “I hope your girl changes her mind.”

There’s a bitter ache in your chest as you say it, and you’re certain it’s only there because of the little fantasy you just allowed yourself to have. You should have picture someone else.

“I hope they relax on the royal blood thing and let you marry someone you love instead.” You hope.

“You say that as if you already know that I won’t pick you.” Thor observes.

You smile wide, laughing even as you bite your lip. “Well, I’m nothing like the girls you’ve met with. I don’t have endless amounts of money. I don’t have a prestigious education or extensive family. I don’t know anything about being royalty. The others have been doing it their entire lives. I’m the least likely candidate. I don’t fit the requirements, except for the bloodline thing.

“I only agreed to meet with you because I knew that the likelihood of you picking me was almost non-existent.”

“Ouch.” Thor says.

“No!” You rush to say. “You’re very…I mean, you’re kind from what I can tell and honorable. You’ve saved Earth a couple times and you’re a little self-centered but only in a superficial way that doesn’t change the fact that you’re a good man.

“I honestly don’t know why your girl won’t marry you but I’m not right for this.” You nod. “I wouldn’t make a good Queen for you.”

Thor nods slowly, thinking for a minute before he straightens up and turns to rise, slapping his hands on his knees before he moves back towards the table of fruit and beer.

“You’re probably right.” He agrees, and for some reason, you’re disappointed.

Not so much that he isn’t picking you, but rather that he sees you aren’t enough. You’re lacking in some way. Which you already knew but…knowing he thinks that makes you feel a little lousy despite that being something you wanted.

“I suppose I’ll just have to pick someone more suitable. Someone who knows better about ruling a people. All the same, thank you for coming.” Thor says, dismissing you.

He picks up his stein again and turns to look at you as you rise.

“It was a pleasure to meet you.”

You nod, “Likewise.”

After a moment of hesitation, you give him a wave and move for the doors, trembling hands reaching out to yank the doors open and make your escape.

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It’s been weeks since you met with Thor and you’ve completely forgotten the whole thing. Life has gone back to normal and even though you now know that you’re from royal stock, nothing, as you expected, has changed.

The only plus that has risen from this whole situation is that you can now picture marriage a little better, however inexperienced and cliché it might be, you can make something up now.

Your little fling with the idea of Thor had given you fuel to slip a little romance into your writing and your fingers are flying across the keyboard of your laptop as you type up a new and promising mystery about a set of lovers and the body they discover in the attic of their new home.

You hate to be interrupted during a writing session, but you must have forgotten that about yourself because your phone starts to ring.

Normally you mute it before you even sit down to write.

With a growl you reach over and take a quick look at the number.

David flashes on your screen and quickly you swipe to answer.

“Hey, can I call you back in like an hour? I’m in the middle of a chapter and I’m on a roll.” You plead, fingers still flying across the keys.

“Y/N, Thor chose you.” David’s voice says and your fingers freeze.

There’s a pounding in your chest and your head is full of white fuzz. Your legs are numb, and your stomach is swirling with both flutters and nausea.

You can’t have heard that right.

“What?” You ask, voice shaky.

“Thor. He chose you. I just got off the phone with Brunnhilde and she wanted to let me know so that I could call you and let you know that she’ll be by tomorrow to pick you up.”

This can’t be happening.

“She said to pack only what you absolutely need. Everything else will be provided for you.”

“David…I…I can refuse, right? I don’t have to marry him.” You plead desperately.

“Y/N…” David sighs. “You agreed to this before you went to see him. I’m afraid the time to back out has come and gone.”

“But I can just not do it.” You argue. “They can’t force me to do it.”

“The government will seize your assets if you refuse.” David explains. “They want this done. I’m sorry, Y/N. There’s no backing out of this now.”

“But…But he loves someone else.” You tell him and even though your mind knows that this should be the last thing to concern you, it should not be the first reason you can think of why marrying Thor is a bad idea, it is.

As your eyes focus on the little blinking line of your word doc, your heart gives a painful ache knowing that your husband will be loving someone else.

#thor x reader #king!thor x reader #royal au #arranged marriage au #thor odinson x reader #thor x reader fanfiction #thor x reader fanfic #thor x reader fic #marvel au #marvel fanfiction #king!thor x reader fanfiction #a wife for thor #a wife for thor pt01

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treasureswordsgirl55 · 3 years

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Candy 🍬

Character: Loki Laufeyson

Pairing: Loki Laufeyson x Fem!Reader.

Inspired by (song): Bésame - Camila

Warnings: Nothing. Domestic Fluff. Pre - Thor Ragnarok / Pre - Infinity War…

Author’s Note: Hello!!! How are you all?

So… This is the first fanfic that I write with Loki. I’d tried to do my best with it, so please, don’t be so rude with me.

So, thanks you for the comments, reblogs and likes. That means so much to me and always are appreciated. 😘💋❤️

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- Have you had something sweet in your life?

The only response I get from him is a snort. I look for the keys inside my little bag and I know that even if he doesn’t show it, he is impatient. I see it out of the corner of my eye that it is leaning against the wall of the hall with all the comfort in the world and yet, as natural as it looks, it looks like one of those models greetings from fashion week in Paris.

Although I have the keys in my hand, I keep looking a little more as if I can’t find them until I hear that melodic sound of his voice, with a noticeable hint of annoyance almost at the height of my shoulders.

- Do you want me to find them for you? I’m beginning to doubt that the bag has a bottom.

I bite my lip while holding back a laugh and Loki’s blue eyes give me an annoyed look.

- Here I have them - I show them to him and before I even put them in the lock, I hear the sound of the locks sliding, just like I hear the gears of the lock move - Loki …

- You can thank me later. - I shake my head as he pushes the door open, making room for her to enter. I simply respond with a nod, silently admiring that charm and chivalry towards women - You asked me something before.

- If you’ve had something sweet in your life, Loki.

- In the romantic realm? Of course…

I cut him off as soon as he begins to speak and threw the bag on the table next to the door.

- I’m talking about candy. Candies. Sweet.

I see him shed in a second of his street clothes so that it is replaced by his Asgardian gala outfit with one of those simple flashes of green magic that I never tired of seeing. This time he’s not wearing the cape, but he looks amazing in the whole outfit. The truth, whoever chose the color green for him had hit the nail on the head.

Although the times he had imagined him wearing other colors, my mind had concluded that he would also look good in blue.

- Walnuts. Grapes…

I only had to look at him to know that his seriousness was a clear indication that he was not joking. What’s so sweet about a nut? I roll my eyes as I search under the cupboard for the bag of supplies I have for movie night, or my usual times of the month, and walk over to the counter where he’s leaning, and set it in front of him.

- Those aren’t sweet, Loki. What kind of life have they given you?

- The life of a prince, of course - Indicates his clothes and I let out a laugh as I get rid of the leather jacket that I am wearing and threw it on the couch. Even though he doesn’t touch the yellow bag, his eyes sparkle with curiosity. Despite having a very dark past, there was still something of an innocent child in him.

- It won’t bite you. Look what’s inside. Today you will know what a real sweet is.

He frowns as he makes the bag disappear and only smiles at my complaints, but still, I see that he has no intention of bringing my bag back from wherever he sent it.

The various treats made a noise like the first drops of rain against the window when they fell between us, and he carefully takes a piece of candy between his fingers.

- That’s a strawberry candy, you will like it - he looks at me as if I had a ghost in front of him and again he sees the candy as if it were some kind of murderous alien - Loki, taste it.

- I prefer walnuts.

I let out a sigh as I walk over to him, take the candy from his hands, open it, and hand it to him.

- It will not kill you, I will not poison you with it and you will thank me later.

His eyes are watching me with horror. As he takes the dubious candy and brings it to his lips.

For a moment, I’m envious of that candy.

I watch him chew for a few seconds in silence, to then be the main spectator of his face wrinkling at the first contact of the acid taste of the strawberry on his tongue. I laugh at his expression, which is very adorable, and he just swallows hard, while he looks at me annoyed.

And something about the way he sees me makes the heat begin to creep up my neck and a strange heaviness settles in my stomach.

- That is the normal reaction of anyone who tries something of strawberry once in their life, although it is delicious with chocolate - I mutter as I put a vanilla candy in my mouth and I see that Loki frowns at the table full of sweets - Don’t tell me that a candy is going to cow you.

- What did you eat?

- Vanilla. One of my favorite flavors - I hand him one of the candies and this time he takes it without hesitation, I smile at his worried expression and forget for a moment that I am in the room with a person who could have destroyed New York in less than a minute. second. I forget that he is an alien, an Asgardian God who is over a thousand years old and attractive as hell itself, if he knew it was a beautiful place.

The only thing I can’t forget is how my heart beats every time he comes to pick me up at work, or every time he is there when I need him. Or just by seeing him.

Or with actions that make me fall in love a little more with him.

It’s just me and Loki here, two people who enjoy each other’s company without being aware of our surroundings.

- I like this one - He handed me the vanilla candy wrapper and left it on one side, noting the goodies that the God of lies liked.

So we spent a couple of hours, between tastings of sweets, where I realized that Loki ended up loving kinder chocolate, after seeing what the fourth chocolate bar ate and did not make any comment about it or how he reached out to take another candy red and put it to his mouth without measuring a word.

- Well, I imagine you know what a cupcake is - Loki looks at me while he nods his head but removes the regalis from his lips and lets out a sigh.

- I never tried one - I nod as I go to the fridge and take out one of those cupcakes that I reserve for special occasions. I take it to him as if it were some kind of trophy and put it in front of him with a smile. As elegant and fussy as he was with order, trying to eat a cream-filled cupcake without getting dirty would be quite a challenge - Your evil reaches unimaginable limits, honey.

I shrug and watch him pick up the cupcake delicately, at the same time that he pulled the lip balm out of my pocket.

I show it to him as I indicate the little dessert and hand him a spoon so he doesn’t complain.

- This lipstick has a cupcake flavor - As soon as that sentence leaves my lips, I feel that something in the environment changes: I do not know if it starts to get hotter even though it is winter, or what makes me feel hot is the look of Loki, who dropped the spoon on the table to push the cupcake aside, as if something in my words had affected him - Loki?

I startle when I see Loki get to his feet quickly and walk around the table to stand in front of me, holding my face with both hands, as if he is trying to prevent me from pulling away. While sitting, he took me several inches in height, but between that moment of surprise at the proximity of him, I found myself with my legs next to his, in a situation too intimate to be a mere imagination in my head.

And yes, I confirm my previous thoughts, up close he is even more beautiful.

- Loki, what are you doing?

- I want to try - The way in which those words come from his lips make my legs turn to jelly, and the muffled sound of his voice without losing that melodic touch that I loved so much, makes an almost imperceptible gasp escape my lips.

Before I could even walk away, I feel the softness of his lips against mine. One simple touch and I feel like I lost the battle that I always refused to fight.

How could a simple touch feel so good? When I find a neuron that serves inside my brain, I raise my hands at the same time that I respond to his kiss, trying to bring him closer, although the only thing I achieve is to take it from both sides of his suit and crumple it in my hands, while I feel a smile it intermingles between our united lips.

After a few seconds of enjoying each other’s contact, I pull away and drop my head against his chest.

OMG, this is something really exhausting.

- Why did you do that?

- Because I wanted to taste the cupcake.

The innocence in his voice makes me lift my face from his chest and his hand caresses my cheek as if it were something fragile.

This alien god is going to kill me one of these days.

- And I know that little dessert will have no comparison with the taste of your lips along with mine. I will always choose you over that. Never doubt it.

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danwhobrowses · 3 years

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One Piece Chapter 1009 - Initial Thoughts

And we are back, happy Good Friday

though every day’s a Good Friday when One Piece is out 1009 is in, and it happens to be my 200th post (admittedly kinda kept that way since I skipped doing a Godzilla vs Kong review)

So let’s get to it

Spoilers for Chapter 1009, Please Also Support the Official Release

Starting with a Color Spread. It was cute, sweet baby Tama in Ringo with the crew, I was curious abut the coat of arms on Franky’s jacket, plus there’s another ‘Zoro consumes something with a blue dragon on it’ - his scabbard isn’t Enma though, it’s Black - and I later realised that Tama is wearing an outfit that isn’t patched up which made me feel warm

But the statues discern me, Five praying statues, four with the Akazaya hats. If this Oda hinting at the deaths? Four Akazaya dying? Tama’s bringing a straw hat to the other so are we death flagging a potential Straw Hat too? Or is it just a non-Akazaya? The first could be Ashura considering that Nami is tying a scarf on it, their fate ‘sealed’, or maybe I’m just looking way too into it

The chapter title isn’t foreboding as well

Of course we were all in the group of ‘Why is Orochi burning Onigashima, is he dumb?’ group, and motive wise he still is, but I did come to a realisation on why this is a problem. Onigashima is in the air, there can’t be much water around to douse the fire

Orochi and the Akazaya finally cross paths for the first time since Oden’s death

Interesting note by MegaForehead, maybe that’s strategic?

I don’t see a missing head from his transformation, though he only used six heads and Orochi has at least 8

Kin’emon is in No Mood

*Insert GTA Wasted scene here*

Kiku far side with one arm just with the most disappointed look ever

And Raizo is next to stay behind to fight with his old rival

I don’t think Orochi is done though; either he still has one more head or they grow back. The Yamata no Orochi couldn’t regenerate heads so it’s the most likely, but we can’t rule out hydra rules

Back to the dome roof though and we learn something new from Law, a strong enough Haki can fight his Shambles, it’s a decent limitation from the OP OP Fruit

A combo attack from two Yonko though is something you need to be scouting for very early guys

Ocean Sovereignty is definitely no joke...though it didn’t slice off the other horn

Roronoa ‘Let me block a Yonko combo attack’ FUCKING ZORO

Okay I take back the horn comment it’s a different direction

What is this dome’s structural integrity anyway?

Law of course pulls Zoro out of the line of fire because he can’t hold it off forever, Kid with the backhanded compliment though

You hurt one of Luffy’s nakama though, so that always leads to Luffy charging in

Luffy’s got a point, why dodge if it’s not affecting you? That’s how Luffy knows he’s doing something

Kaido did not like that insinuation though, he can still shoot dragon fire in Hybrid form and that’s a big ouch for Ragnarok

So now Zoro is pissed off because you hurt his captain, but he’s gotta stick to the plan

Zeus always getting yoinked, this time put in a box

Then Zoro out here cutting up Prometheus while Killer picks on Napoleon

Could be a telling thing that BM doesn’t even consider saving her homies, just that she finds it a poor strategy

Big ouch for Kid though, right in the smush

But part of the plan, putting all the metal on her to magnet her away, then Law with the boulder

BM’s about to be dumped into the water, now she’s scared

But I would worry about Zoro coughing blood...

I don’t think BM is done right now, I think there’s 5 options that’ll save her right now: Prometheus - reforming because Zoro’s body gave in a little, Kaido - since nobody’s paying attention to him after flattening Luffy, her crew down by the water that have been following the island, she Homifies some of Kaido’s fire clouds or she falls but not in the ocean - instead she crashes on land and it causes her amnesia again.

There were only really 2 parts of this chapter: Orochi vs Akazaya and the Yonko vs Supernova. Neither of which I feel are going as well as it looks. Orochi will probably survive once more which can cause trouble for the lagging behind Raizo. The Supernovas are still struggling with the attrition problem, to cause minor problems for the Yonko they have to wear themselves down hard, to the point where it’s almost pyrrhic. Oda has however done a good job in making sure any doubts about Kaido’s hybrid form have been kept at bay, he is still as vicious and agile as before.

I don’t think Luffy nor Zoro are quite done yet, Luffy is resilient and he’s got his Haki back, he just is mulling over the situation: his attacks hurt Kaido which is why he dodges, so how will he use that to his advantage? As for Zoro, he’s taken a heavy hit yes, if BM is delayed Law might be able to doctor him a little but I don’t fear too much for Zoro because injury seems to bring out the best in him. And blocking Ocean Sovereignty even for a short while is a hugely impressive feat.

No break next week means we might get a quick resolve, or we might just see more Akazaya having to fall behind, King and Queen still don’t have fights and we don’t know where Sanji is right now, Perospero and CP0 have been quiet and if Onigashima does indeed have ocean below it then they’ve not made landfall in Wano’s main island yet (contrary to the mountain we saw in an earlier chapter)

it’s still worth reminding though, we are probably due a tragedy at the end of this act...until Act 4 it’s best not to expect a climax

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Competition (Final Effect)

When Her Imperial Majesty Averia VII finally married, the empire rejoiced. When she gave birth, however, the empire plotted.

X X X

“What are you doing here?” The Dia-Farron snarled.

The seer huffed. “What does it look like? I’m bringing a present for the new crown princess. We’ve foreseen great things in her future.”

“Oh, be quiet.” The Dia-Farron rolled her eyes. “You have not. You’re just here to curry favour with the empress and get your hooks into her successor. You lot are still bitter that the empress did an apprenticeship with us instead of you.”

The seer scowled. Given that he resembled his ancestor, Caius Ballad, quite closely, it was a fearsome expression. “You only got that apprenticeship because you sabotaged our offer!”

“What are you talking about? Maybe that bridge just blew up on its own, thereby preventing your team from arriving on time to make its pitch.” The Dia-Farron smirked. “And aren’t you all supposed to have precognition? Why didn’t you see that one coming then?”

“We all know there are a few of you with Semblances that obscure precognition, or did you think we missed the fact that you had a bearer of Lucky Fox on the planet at the time. What was she doing, taking a holiday?”

“You can’t prove a damn thing!”

“And we’re not going to make the same mistakes this time!”

The Dia-Farron glared. “Professor Cuddleburg can trump any present you come up with. He is the cutest and cuddliest hamster in the galaxy. In fact, he’s in the top five cutest and cuddliest hamsters of all time. There’s no way the crown princess won’t love to have him around, which means we’ve basically got one foot in the door already. If he has to stay around, it’s only natural for the empress to hire him and one of us as the crown princess’s tutors.”

“We’ve got an in with the hedgehog,” the seer replied. “Lord Hedgeborough is well aware of your scheming. He has no intention of letting you have everything your own way, and he has the ear of the empress herself.”

“Hmph.” The Dia-Farron brandished Professor Cuddleburg at the seer. “You really think that will matter in the face of such an adorable hamster? Besides, it’s not like the empress listens to everything he says. The bearer of Ragnarok is basically one of us. She’ll put in a good word, I’m sure.”

“And we’ve already approached the bearer of Saviour.” The seer smirked. “She, at least, can be relied upon to do what is best for the empire and not be swayed by an adorable hamster.”

“I think you underestimate the power of our hamsters,” the Dia-Farron countered. In her hand, Professor Cuddleburg cackled menacingly. “It wasn’t that long ago that there was a Dia-Farron on the throne. The empress might not act much like one of us, but the proud blood of a Dia-Farron still flows through her veins. She’ll make the right choice.”

“We’ll see.” The seer pointed at his eyes. “And when it comes to seeing nobody sees better than us.” He patted his pocket. “I even have a secret weapon.”

“A secret weapon? Unless it’s a victory beam, I don’t think you’ve got a chance.”

X X X

Her Imperial Majesty Averia VII sighed as the representatives from the Dia-Farron and the seers practically tripped over each other in their bids to reach her and her daughter first. In the end, it was the seer who succeeded after dodging a net and throwing a chair.

“Your Imperial Majesty,” the seer announced, still catching his breath. “It is an honour to be invited to meet the crown princess.”

Behind Averia, Claire and Jahne weren’t even trying to conceal their laughter as the Dia-Farron got back to her feet and considered firing her net gun again before thinking better of it. There was too much of a risk of hitting the empress and her daughter.

“I am always pleased to welcome a representative of the seers,” Averia replied. “How fares the House of Ballad.”

“We fare well,” the seer replied before he offered a wrapped box. “A gift for the crown princess, Your Imperial Majesty.”

“Thank you.” Averia nodded at Jahne to open it. In her arms, Thyra’s gaze was drawn to the astoundingly adorable hamster that the Dia-Farron was holding up like some kind of talisman. Following the baby’s gaze, the seer’s eyes widened, and he not so subtly stepped to the side to block the baby’s view before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small chocobo chick.

What caught Averia’s eye was the chick’s coloration. It was a striking purple that matched the hair colour of Caius Ballad. Thyra’s gaze immediately snapped to the chocobo, which cheeped softly and stared back at the baby.

“That is an unusual chocobo,” Averia said. “I can’t say I’ve seen many purple chocobos in my time, and he is exceptionally purple.”

“Ah, yes. Purple chocobos are exceedingly rare, but the reason this particular fellow is an even more vivid shade of purple than most of his kind is because he was hatched on a world we recently discovered had been badly contaminated by gravity Dust following a volcanic eruption. As a result, his feathers are a more intense purple, and he appears to have developed some control over gravity in addition to the usual Synergist abilities purple choocbos usually have.”

“Fascinating.” Averia glanced to the side as Jahne opened the gift. Her lips twitched. It was a tiny outfit in the authentic style of the Nsu Clan. “An adorable outfit.”

“We thought it appropriate since you are also the Chieftain of all the Clans, and we hope for young Thyra to become a farsighted and wise ruler whose reign shall be remembered long into the future.”

Averia’s lips twitched. She had a feeling it was more like he and the rest of his clan wanted Thyra to be more favourably disposed toward them.

“We do, of course, have other gifts,” the seer continued smoothly. “But we shall present them during the upcoming naming ceremony, in accordance with tradition.”

“Of course.” Averia nodded. In her arms, Thyra shifted restlessly and reached for the chocobo chick. Little wisps of frost formed, a testament to her heritage. “I look forward to it.” She glanced past him. “Perhaps you should allow the Dia-Farron representative to present her gift. She seems to be having a conniption.”

X X X

“That clever bastard,” the Dia-Farron muttered. “I definitely didn’t expect him to have a purple chocobo chick that’s even more purple than normal.” She smirked. “But if he thinks we’re beaten, he’s got another thing coming, right, Professor Cuddleburg?”

The hamster took a moment to unleash the full power of his cuteness and then nodded. They had a battle to win.

X X X

The birth of a crown princess is always cause for celebration in the empire. However, it also provides unique opportunities for the various factions within the empire itself. These factions will spare no expense in their pursuit of favour and influence with the new royal, turning the traditional naming ceremony into something close to a pitched battle.

X X X

Author’s Notes

Never count out the Dia-Farron. The seers might have the upper hand for now, but they’ve still got a few cards to play. Plus, they’ve got an important advantage. When it comes to science and technology, nobody is better than they are. And if the princess wants to be the best, she’d have to learn from the best, right?

Incidentally, the Imperial hedgehogs are their own faction. However, they are less concerned with influencing the crown princess directly than they are with keeping any potential bad influences away. This policy became standard after the many clashes between Vanille I’s hedgehog and hamster. Knowing how close Averia VII is to Lord Hedgeborough, the seers wisely chose to seek his approval, which he granted largely to counterbalance what he knew would be powerful efforts from the Dia-Farron.

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a-simple-imagine · 5 years

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a-simple-imagine’s Masterlist (old)

THIS IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED AS OF 28TH JANUARY 2020!!

MY NEW MASTERLIST CAN BE FOUND HERE

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CAROL DANVERS

Oneshots;

Tea Parties and Test Flights - Carol Danvers x fem!reader

Carol and Reader have been friends since they were little. A reader invites Carol around for a very specific walk down memory lane and surprises her with a fort.

Everything She’s Not - Carol Danvers x platonic!Cubby!reader

The reader is shy, nervous and a bit chubby and has powers similar to carols. When Carol joins the Avengers the reader becomes jealous and disheartened but Carol comforts her.

‘After Sex’ Kisses - Carol Danvers x fem!reader

Gentle kisses shared between the reader and Carol after sex as they discuss their dinner plans.

Prompts;

You Make Me Feel So Insecure

Sleeping

HOPE VAN DYNE

Oneshots;

An ‘I Thought I Lost You’ Kiss - Hope Van Dyne x fem!reader

A kiss to celebrate Hope returning home after the Thanos snap

Prompts;

Honesty

Warm

MARIA HILL

Oneshots;

Tremors - Maria Hill x fem!reader

On a mission together, the reader gets hurt. Determined to get back out into the field the reader tries to prove she’s fine.

MINN-ERVA

Oneshots;

Training Room - Minn-Erva x reader

The reader decides to go annoy Minn-erva because they’re bored and want attention

This Whole Jealousy Thing - Minn-Erva x fem!reader

Minn-Erva gets jealous of the Reader's friendship with Carol.

The Morning After - Minn-Erva x fem!reader

The Reader tries to make Minn-erva admit that she’s actually soft

Chill Babe - Minn-Erva x fem!reader

Minn-erva gets jealous because she thinks Yon-Rogg is trying to steal y/n away so she puts him in his place

NATASHA ROMANOFF

Oneshots;

Two Heroes - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader, Tony Stark x platonic!fem!reader

The reader has to deal with the loss of two of the most important people in their life.

Distraction - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

The reader is a new avenger and gets private training from Natasha

Bad Babysitters - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

Natasha and the reader babysit Morgan Stark

Thunderstorms - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

The reader has PTSD after the battle in Wakanda and is afraid of Thunderstorms. Natasha tries to figure out what's going on.

A Goodbye Kiss - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

A kiss goodbye before Natasha goes away on a mission

A Morning Kiss - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

Natasha and reader share an early morning kiss

A Dying Kiss - Natasha Romanoff x reader

The reader goes with Natasha to Vormir to get the soul stone

Powers of a Supernova - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

The Reader is making herself weak/sickly because she is trying so hard to contain her powers of supernova. Natasha doesn’t know that the Reader has powers, but is beginning to notice how ill she is becoming

Scared of the Dark - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

The reader is losing control of their powers and Natasha tries to comfort her

Not The Mission - Natasha Romanoff x male!reader

Nat stays undercover for a couple months for a mission, living with the reader and ends up liking them

Idle Conversations - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

While on a mission with Natasha, your burdened with the task of being lookout so you decide to fill the time with meaningless/random conversation much to Natasha’s distaste

Come Home - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

Watching nat on the news fighting causing the reader to worry but nat ends up being fine and comes home to put her mind at ease

Team Cap - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

“Civil war imagine with fem!reader and Natasha where they’re on opposing teams and there’s some delicious angst where the reader says “the next person to ask me about Natasha is gonna lose their legs.” A bit of an established relationship.”

Robots and Roses - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

Tony gets y/n an unusual gift for her birthday and Natasha’s not sure she can compete with that

Clowns Lurk In The Dark - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

When the power goes out at Avengers Tower, things start to get a little spooky for Y/N

Prompts;

“You’re overthinking- I’m yours. That’s all I want to be.”

“You make me cliche, but I love it I guess.”

Brilliant

Hate

Theft

“Hey, you mind if I save your life?”

“Back then, I lied when I told you I didn’t love you. You needed to move on from me– I needed to protect you from me.”

“I regret it all. I really do, I swear. Please, please– let’s fix this, please”

Series;

Always - Nastaha Romanoff x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2

The reader is an Assassin who used to have a complicated relationship with Natasha before she joined the Avengers. Years pass and Natasha shows up while your out on the job after some information.

When Worlds Collide - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

Based on the events of Into The spider verse only instead of ending up in Miles’ universe you end up in the MCU

NEBULA

Oneshots;

A First Kiss - Nebula x fem!reader

Sat under the stars the reader and Nebula share an awkward but sweet first kiss

Prompts;

Wait the tears are good tears?

It doesn’t matter what they think, I just care about what you think

Hurt

PEPPER POTTS

Oneshots;

A Hello Kiss - Pepper Potts x fem!reader

A kiss hello to celebrate Pepper returning home from a business trip.

A You Look Beautiful Kiss - Pepper Potts x fem!reader x Tony Stark

The reader struggles with her outfit choice for the evening but a tender kiss and a few words shared between lovers is all it takes for them to feel better.

A Furry Friend - Pepper Potts x fem!reader x Tony Stark

The reader decided to bring home a new friend while Pepper is away which leads to some issues

The Dare - Pepper Potts x fem!reader

The reader has an accident and Pepper is curious how it happened

Three Hearts - Tony Stark x fem!reader x Pepper Potts

It’s Y/N birthday and she doesn’t really feel like celebrating but that doesn’t stop Tony and Pepper from doing something a little special though.

TONY STARK

Oneshots;

A You Look Beautiful Kiss - Pepper Potts x fem!reader x Tony Stark

The reader struggles with her outfit choice for the evening but a tender kiss and a few words shared between lovers is all it takes for them to feel better.

Two Heroes - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader, Tony Stark x platonic!fem!reader

The reader has to deal with the loss of two of the most important people in their life.

A Furry Friend - Pepper Potts x fem!reader x Tony Stark

The reader decided to bring home a new friend while Pepper is away which leads to some issues

Three Hearts - Tony Stark x fem!reader x Pepper Potts

It’s Y/N birthday and she doesn’t really feel like celebrating but that doesn’t stop Tony and Pepper from doing something a little special though.

Clowns Lurk In The Dark - Natasha Romanoff x fem!reader

When the power goes out at Avengers Tower, things start to get a little spooky for Y/N

VALKYRIE

PROMPTS;

“Did you use to get things as a child when you screamed? I’ll let you know right now that it’s not going to help here.”

SERIES

Queen Material - Valkyrie x fem!reader

After Ragnarok, you open a small bar in the heart of New Asgard. Valkyrie has been coming to your bar for years and that doesn’t change once Thor hands over power. However, you’ve never really spoken to her until now.

WANDA MAXIMOFF

Prompts;

Date

Rose

YON-ROGG

Prompts;

I might have slept with your robe while you were gone - Yon-Rogg x fem!reader

THE FROST SISTERS (THE GIFTED)

Oneshots;

Just Go - Esme Frost x reader

As a member of the inner circle, your job is to get everyone back in one piece. But when the frost sisters don’t turn up on time, you go check what’s up only to walk in on Marcos striking down Sophie and Phoebe.

Strawberry Ice Cream - Sophie Frost x fem!reader

Sophie is intrigued by the reader because she can’t read her mind and feelings are starting to surface

Headcanons;

Dating Esme Frost would include...

Prompts;

Jealous - Esme Frost x reader

A hello/goodbye kiss that is given without thinking + An unexpected kiss that shocks the one receiving it - Sophie Frost x reader

I came to say goodbye. + It’s lonely here without you. - Esme Frost x Reader

Series;

Monster - Frost sisters x platonic!fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

The reader is a patient in a mutant mental hospital broken out by the Frost Sisters and they try to recruit you into the inner circle.

Three - In - One - Esme Frost x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2

The reader is on the threshold of a new relationship with a girl named Esme but she’s keeping the relationship from the people closest to her.

ARTHUR CURRY

Oneshots;

You Me Her - Arthur Curry x fem!reader x Mera (poly)

The reader and Mera have been dating for a while but when Arthur returns to Atlantis old feelings resurface and everything becomes complicated

DIANA PRINCE

Oneshots;

Donations - Mera x fem!reader x Diana Prince (poly)

The reader and Mera visit Diana at a museum to ask her to lunch

Breathless Kisses - Mera x fem!reader x Diana Prince (poly)

The reader, Mera, and Diana share some kisses and discuss meeting the Justice League

Prompts;

Lying

ENCHANTRESS (JUNE MOONE)

Oneshots;

Things said at 1am - June/Enchantress x reader

The reader wonders where Enchantress goes at night

HARLEY QUINN

Oneshots;

My Little Friend - Harley Quinn x fem!reader

Harley realizes that she loves the reader and that results in her finally leaving the Joker.

Paired Up With a Crazy Clown - Harley Quinn x reader

“I think our teams just teamed up for the sole purpose of setting us up together, god save us all.”

A Simple Job - Harley Quinn x reader

“I can’t decide whether I want to kiss you or kill you, you infuriatingly attractive narcissist.” The reader takes Harley on a job which ends up going not quite as expected.

Our Team - Harley Quinn x Platonic!reader x Poison Ivy

Harley and the Reader are saved by Poison Ivy and they form a team until Batgirl and Supergirl show up.

We Meet At Last - Harley Quinn x reader

The Reader is a singer at one of Joker’s clubs and Harley starts to develop a crush on the reader.

Things Said too Quietly - Harley Quinn x reader

Harley takes the reader on a surprise adventure

Tales From Gotham High: English Project - Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy

Harley and Ivy have an English Project due but one of the girls would much rather mess around.

Prompts;

Sunshine

Three Sentence fanfic

Series;

Mind Games - Harley Quinn x fem!reader x Joker

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

A series following the reader's adventures alongside the Joker and Harley Quinn after she is kidnapped and joins their little gang

THE JOKER

Oneshot;

Things Said Through Gritted Teeth - The Joker x reader

Series;

Mind Games - Harley Quinn x fem!reader x Joker

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

A series following the reader's adventures alongside the Joker and Harley Quinn after she is kidnapped and joins their little gang

MERA

Oneshots;

You Me Her - Arthur Curry x fem!reader x Mera (poly)

The reader and Mera have been dating for a while but when Arthur returns to Atlantis old feelings resurface and everything becomes complicated

Donations - Mera x fem!reader x Diana Prince (poly)

The reader and Mera visit Diana at a museum to ask her to lunch

Breathless Kisses - Mera x fem!reader x Diana Prince (poly)

The reader, Mera, and Diana share some kisses and discuss meeting the Justice League

Series;

Dirty Little Secret - Mera x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2

The reader is secretly dating Mera who is still dating Arthur but she’s getting tired of hiding

POISON IVY

Oneshot;

Our Team - Harley Quinn x Platonic!reader x Poison Ivy

Harley and the Reader are saved by Poison Ivy and they form a team until Batgirl and Supergirl show up.

OTHER

Tales From Gotham High: 2. New Kid

There is a new kid at school and Ivy has taken it upon herself to make introductions

Tales From Gotham High: English Project - Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy

Harley and Ivy have an English Project due but one of the girls would much rather mess around.

DANNY TORRANCE

Baby, It’s Cold Outside - Dan Torrance x fem!reader

“Could I request a Dan x female!reader that’s full of a bunch of cuddles and softness and Dan being so happy because he’s finally in a stable relationship with someone he loves”

ROSE THE HAT

Stay With Me - Rose the Hat x fem!reader

Y/N tries to convince Rose to give up on Abra (Set during the events of the movie Doctor Sleep)

Rose’s Girl - Rose the Hat x fem!reader

I was wondering if you’d be willing to write a Rose the Hat imagine where the reader goes in a relationship back and forth between members of True Knot, mainly Crow Daddy, and Rose finally gets jealous enough she does the whole “You’re mine, Y/n.”

EMILY NELSON

Oneshots;

Leave - Emily Nelson x fem!reader

Emily takes you to a party but doesn’t like seeing you with other people

Dingy Bars and Dry Martinis - Emily Nelson x fem!reader

The reader thinks back to the first time she met Emily

Back From The Dead - Emily Nelson x fem!reader

Emily surprises the reader at her grave

Just Another Tuesday - Emily Nelson x Stephanie Smothers

Stephanie’s mind wonders to her beautiful friend being a little more than just friendly

STEPHANIE SMOTHERS

Oneshots;

Just Another Tuesday - Emily Nelson x Stephanie Smothers

Stephanie’s mind wonders to her beautiful friend being a little more than just friendly

AMBER HEARD

Prompts;

Strip

ANDREA RUSSETT

Oneshots;

Things To Discuss - Andrea Russett x fem!reader

The reader and Andrea do a Q&A together and accidentally confess their feelings

ARIANA GRANDE

Oneshots;

Return Of The Ex - Ariana Grande x Fem!reader

Ariana spots you with another girl and gets a little jealous

BLAKE LIVELY

Prompts;

Cuddle

BRIE LARSON

Oneshots;

Movie Premiere - Brie Larson x fem!reader

The reader and Brie enjoy a quiet word among themselves at the Captain Marvel afterparty before heading home

Prompts;

You can ask me as much as you want, I’ll say I love you each time

you're my favorite + I heard you weren't having that great of a day

You always duck away when you smile + kiss me again

CARA DELEVINGNE

Oneshots;

Hugs!! - Cara Delevingne x fem!reader

A quick and simple hug shared between lovers

Let's Play a Game - Cara Delevingne x fem!reader

The reader's roommate is throwing a party but they’re not feeling it, and neither is Cara so she joins them.

DEMI LOVATO

Oneshots;

Our First Times - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The Reader and Demi go on an ice cream date

What If Is Our Only Mystery - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The Reader has a series of questions for Demi

Cool For The Summer - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

A self-conscious reader and Demi explore their relationship during a party

Point To Prove - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The reader gets harassed by a drunk and goes to Demi for help to get him to leave her alone

Virtual flirting Can Cause Real Life Pain - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Flirting on Twitter leads to an unhappy Demi

Let me invade your solitude - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi tries to befriend a lonely looking person

Birthday Surprise - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The reader plans a surprise for Demi’s birthday but it doesn’t quite go to plan

Effort is Beautiful - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi and the reader go on a date to the planetarium

Birthday Blues - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi comes home just in time for the reader’s birthday

Girls Like Girls - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Based on the music video by Hayley Kiyoko

Until We Meet Again - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The reader becomes very ill and Demi stays by her side

When the Night Calls - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The reader and Demi go on a picnic together but the reader is suspicious when she has to run off since it’s not the first time.

Big Steps, Little Steps - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi meets the reader’s daughter for the first time and she’s very nervous

Regret - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Regret follows a one night stand

Christmas Hero - Demi Lovato x fem!readers

Demi has a show on Christmas so they celebrate the day after

Cookie - Demi Lovato x fem reader

Demi takes the reader horseriding but things go wrong

Can I Have This Dance - Demi Lovato x fem reader

Demi and the reader share a dance to a cheesy HSM song

Evening Shower - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

You’re home alone when someone joins you for a shower

Lady Killer - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi is an assassin for hire who finds sometimes it’s hard to get the job done

Allergies - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Demi is sick but can’t figure out the reason but the reader knows

Plastic Fangs - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

It’s Halloween and all the reader wants is a kiss

Haunted House - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

The reader visits a haunted house with Demi despite hating them

Picture Perfect - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Taking photos with Demi for Christmas

Series;

Ignorance is bliss - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Demi has a crush on her producer’s daughter

What I already knew - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2

Demi cheats on the reader and they find out

Him or Her? - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Part1 Part 2

Demi starts dating a girl for publicity but she starts catching feelings but she’s already got a boyfriend

Say Something - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

The reader goes to visit her parents and accidentally gets into an accident

Tell Me You Love Me - Demi Lovato x fem!reader

Part 1 Part 2

Based on the TMYLM video by Demi Lovato

GEMMA CHAN

Oneshots;

Nothing But Co-Stars - Gemma Chan x fem!reader

The reader and Gemma develop a secret relationship while working on Captain Marvel together but when the press find out you both aren’t sure what to do

MARTIN GARRIX

Oneshots;

3 hits wins - Martin Garrix x Selena Gomez

Martin and Selena have a nerf gun fight

Fruitful Message - Martin Garrix x fem!reader

Martin’s always busy but this time he leaves behind a message

Child’s Play - Martin Garrix x Kayla (requester)

Martin cheats on Kayla and after they break up he tries to win her back

Simple Fight, Simple Solution - Martin Garrix x fem!reader

The reader and Martin have a fight over his jealousy and possessiveness

I Wanna Be More - Martin Garrix x fem!reader

Martin asks the reader to be his girlfriend

3.AM. Adventures - Martin Garrix x fem!reader

Martin goes on a little adventure in the early morning and the reader decides to tag along

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Prompts;

Mine

SELENA GOMEZ

Oneshots;

Popcorn Challenge - Selena Gomez x fem!reader

Just a lazy day spent on the couch

3 hits wins - Martin Garrix x Selena Gomez

Martin and Selena have a nerf gun fight

SKYLER SAMUELS

Oneshots;

Rooftop Picnic - Skyler Samuels x fem!reader

The reader plans a picnic for Skyler which leads to an unlikely confession

Charity Gala - Skyler Samuels x fem!reader

A flirty reader goes to a gala with Samuels only to admit that she wants to make their relationship... official?

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robobrainmurdermysterytheatre · 5 years

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RE: This post (sort of) because I feel like I derailed the OPs post and I literally don’t know them and I feel awkward posting on it more lol

BTW if y’all are sick of talking to me about this no worries, nobody owes me a reply, I just like talking about the game and I have learned a lot from what other people have to say so here we are.

Fuck this got really long so I’m cutting it but it’s about Elder Maxson. Again. Sort of. And Synths. And I want to preface by saying I’m all about love what characters you want, you do you. I’m not trying to hate on anyone for liking or disliking fictional characters or organizations. But I have a lot of feelings.

So I’ve been thinking about a few things and a few things have been brought to my attention that I haven’t seen brought up before. So the quest for Teagan, with the crops and stuff, I know this is a sticking point and possibly could be disregarded because it’s an optional quest, but if Teagan knew Maxson wouldn’t approve of strong arming settlers for crops, why would he tell *you* to do it? I know you can complete the quest other ways, but looking at his voice lines he’s pretty gung-ho on the strong-arming part. He has zero reason to think you wouldn’t march on up to Maxson and tell him Teagan’s trying to put you up to strong-arming settlers, which would lead me to believe he doesn’t have a problem with Teagan putting you up to strong-arming settlers at all.

Also I just... I don’t know if I can believe that Maxson feels bad for killing or trying to kill Danse (depending on how you choose to do it). Like I *want* to believe he does, but Jesus, he’s just so cruel about the whole thing, even if you convince him to spare Danse. And afterward, when you get promoted to Paladin if you clapback at him when he says all of Danse’s stuff is yours now he says “To the victor go the spoils. Being a part of the Brotherhood, you should learn to appreciate that sentiment.” and he is sinister about it, it literally says in the dialogue direction ‘sinister smile’ I feel like there is A LOT loaded into that sentence, knowing that real, actual armies IRL historically and even now operate like this, especially armies who are allowed to operate at will without or with very little government oversight, their whole agenda is to win, take shit and expand and be more formidable. Maxson and the BoS won’t outright say it ever in the game, but looking at their actions and their sentiment, it seems, to me, like that is kind of part of their agenda. Which, I mean, you could argue is fine because they’d be keeping order and killing super mutants but they’d be running things their way, uncontested. Eventually they’d weed out all the synths and kill them - so bye Danse, bye Curie, bye Nick, don’t forget Magnolia and Sturges also - of course they would kill Strong so bye Strong too. They probably wouldn’t let me keep my cool robot workbench or my badass enormous sentrybots with skull faces and minigun hands because that kind of technology isn’t fit for civilians so I’d guess I have to say bye to Ragnarok and Lilith and Lucifer and Azrael (please do not judge my precious children by their sinister names) and Jezebel and Ada too. Oh, and Synth Shaun. They would definitely kill Synth Shaun too.

The thing I learned today which is part of the reason I’m back on this bullshit besides that thread ☝ is after Blind Betrayal Maxson has Danse’s records in the BoS stripped. I just got done in Fallout 3 doing the beginning of the Brotherhood stuff there and I have to go talk to that wizard-looking scribe lady (god I love their stupid outfits in 3, but I digress) and she makes A REALLY BIG DEAL about how their records are so important, every member has a record of the stuff they’ve done and how they’ve died and that’s their legacy. It’s mean, like vindictive. Like, synth or not, he did all of whatever he did. Aside from that, Maxson has literally altered the historical truth - there’s not even record that says “we accidentally a synth, this is what he did and we killed him because synths are bad” Again, like, thinking about real-world historical examples of people intentionally altering pieces of history to erase people or groups of people or what people have done - the reason behind actions like that have never been good.

And I’ve been thinking a lot about the whole, the people of the Commonwealth are bigots thing a lot. Yes, they are scared of synths because of the wrath The Institute has brought down on the people. They’re also scared of Raiders and Gunners. They’re scared of anything that stands between them and being safe and fed. Like, listen, they understand the difference between a human dude walking up into their settlement and a Raider, I feel like if someone bothered to take a second to explain to them Not All Synths(tm) work for The Institute and a lot of them are actually really nice and might brew you a stimpack or help you solve a noir mystery or take care of your feral infestation down the road they would be receptive to it. They would be especially receptive of it if the person telling them that was the head of the organization keeping them safe and fed >.> Would they be perfectly accepting? Probably not, but they would probably let them live for two seconds without throwing a fit. They would probably not shoot-to-kill on sight. Even the people in Diamond City who talk shit about Nick aren’t out there trying to murder him.

Kind of in that same vein, let’s talk about Desdemona and the Minutemen for a second. Because I feel like, and maybe I’m wrong about the intention, my girl got slandered into making it look like she doesn’t support The Minutemen. If you fail your covert op any number of ways, she literally says you can use them to forcibly liberate the Synths. Hell, if you haven’t met Preston yet, she’ll tell you where he is and to go find him because she thinks The Minutemen can help. She’ll only go off on you if you don’t sound the evacuation alarm. If you destroy The Institute with The Minutemen and you sound the alarm, like Preston tells you on no uncertain terms to do, she’ll call you “The destroyer of the Institute. Liberator of the synths.” and say “My only regret is we couldn't have been there when you did it.“ When you talk with her about the people trying to hurt the Synths that made it out of the destruction of The Institute and she says “ They're vigilantes and bigots. They don't recognize anyone's laws. Not even yours.” I don’t think she’s talking about ALL the people, she’s talking about people who are vigilantes and bigots which, if you do the quests to go rescue the Synths, usually bring you to Raider dens, who aren’t your people and you’re working against anyway. The gangs that hunt Synths that she has you clear out after The Institute is destroyed are Raider gangs. John the Farmer in buttfuck egypt out by the glowing sea isn’t slaughtering Synths, he’s busy with his farm and his water purifier that doesn’t work and Gunners attacking him weekly. When it comes down to it, how many people like John the Farmer are going to bite the hand that feeds them and fixes his water purifier and fucks up the Gunners if that hand is The Minutemen and they say Synths are OK (because they are, generally)?

and RE: danger synths and Acadia and stuff... so I’m trying to unpack the whole, weird Acadia lore that magically allows for DiMA to insert memories that he didn’t have in the first place into synth replacements (e.g. you kill Tektus, stuff his body in a wall, but DiMA can make a “perfect replica” of him with nothing to go on?) I’m assuming when it was said that synths pose a unique danger that humans don’t, this is what was being referenced - that Synths can be messed around with to replace humans in order to manipulate whatever. Putting Acadia aside for juuuuuuust a second - because of the weird magic lore contradiction - there’s a couple of points about this. We see very few people in the game who have the resources, the technology and the know how to actually mess with a Synth’s brain. Even the people supposedly the best at replacing people with “perfect copies”, The Institute, are still kind of shit at it. Every single infiltrator that we see in the game knows what they are and gets called out by someone who figures out what they are. The “perfect copy” idea is hysteria - possibly even propaganda from The Institute itself. The only contradiction to that is what DiMA did in Acadia and honestly, I have no idea how to explain that. That’s all aside from the fact that, technically, in this universe humans have the ability to do the same thing. We know humans can be face changed. Deacon says he was both a girl and a ghoul (the ghoul incident is legit and backed up by terminal entries in the Railroad) and to be either of those from being human dude Deacon, you would have to get a voice change so that has to be a thing, right? Take a human who knows enough about another human, physically turn that human into the other human, and you have someone replaced, no Synths needed. And even Far Harbor, who will, with certain choices, go destroy Acadia don’t destroy them just because they’re synths, they destroy Acadia because Acadia murdered and replaced Avery.

Which brings me to the final thought I had because holy crap I just wrote for like two hours and I’m tired and out of steam now. I keep really, really wanting to like the BoS and Maxson because they have the neat stuff and a lot of their people are cool and my friends like them but I just, like, can’t as long as they’re a faction that advocates for the genocide of Synths. That’s the one sticking point I have. I could maybe even tolerate them hanging around the Commonwealth where they maybe shouldn’t be, I could maybe see them through a nefarious lens than I do if I knew they wouldn’t come to Sanctuary and wipe out a third of my population because of how they were made - if they weren’t trying to kill my friends and my synth son. Honestly, I love a lot of fanon stuff about Maxson and the BoS because it changes that but canon, in the game, that’s what they would do.

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djangounchaine · 6 years

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New life chapter 2 meeting the gems

"-THIS!" Crona screams but he stops as he looks around and he's in a house where one end it has rock interior with a door in the center and the rest of it is made of wood. Crona just looks up and down and though it was bit weird since the the whole thing didn't mix. Steven and Connie step down from the warp pad but Crona still remains on the warp pad. Steven notices this and looks at Crona

"you don't have to worry its safe," Steven assures him. Crona finally steps down from the warp pad and looks around he weird house.

"So um Steven w-w-where are we?" Crona asks

"Oh this is where I live," Steven responds, "what do you think?" he asks and Crona just looks around again before looking at Steven

"It looks nice. I guess." Crona says in a low tone

"well since your gonna be hear for a bit. Want something to eat? Drink?," Steven asks

"U-uhm no no," Crona responds on impulse with a shock face.

"Uh ok," Steven says. He found it a bit odd the way Crona reacted to the offer but he didn't want to press on so he decided to talk about something different subjects. "So uh what can you tell us about the place you live?" Steven asks hoping Crona knows what type of environment so they can narrow down the places he might live.

"uh I -I live in m-m-many places but t-the one I tend to live most was a place on a forest," Crona stutters in response. Connie starts to think of all the places where he could live and looks at steven

"Hey Steven do you have a globe or map around here," she asks

"oh yeah let me see," Steven says and he went through some of the cabinets. Steven looks through one of the cabinet on the side of his stairs. "hm lets see shoes, boxes, ug there you are," Steven takes a globe from the cabinet. He walks to Crona and presents the globe. "The Gems gave me this for my 6th birthday so that i can learn geography. So where do live?" asks as he brings the globe closer to Crona. Crona looks at the globe carefully and looks at the continents

"uhm I-I-I mostly live hear," Crona points at the US. Steven moves his head just enough to see where Crona pointed at and then looks at him

"Ok where in the US do you live?" Steven asks. Crona is about to point in the US but then the warp pad activates and all three look to see white light coming from the warp pad to see three female figures: one was tall, thin with white skin and her hair leading to a point in the back. The second one is short with purple skin, long lavender hair, she is wearing a black tank top and mauve color leggings. The third on is the tallest of the three she has maroon colored skin, has a cubed shape afro, is the most muscular of the three, she's also wearing a visor. What Crona realize is that all three were wearing a star symbol in their outfits and the thin one had a gem on her forehead while the short one had a gem on her chest but the bottom half is covered by her tank top

"Steven we-" the thin woman stops talking at the sight of Crona. "um Steve who's this?" she ask

"Oh sorry this is Crona," Steven says and then looks at Crona, "Crona, these three are the Crystal Gems," he says with a smile. Steven then walk toward the Gems, "This is Amethyst," Steven points to the short one

"Yo what up." Amethyst says

"This is Pearl." Steven says as he points to the thin one

"Greetings," Pearl greets with a smile

"And this is Garnet." Steven says as he points to the tall one

"Hello." Garnet greets in a stoic manner while adjusting her visor

"U-Uh hi I-I-I'm Crona," he stutters nervously. Amethyst walks towards Crona. She looks up and down taking a good look at him and smiles

"Yo whats with the weird get up," she says

"Amethyst!" Pearl says in an angered tone before calming down and looks at Crona with a smile. "I'm sorry she can be a bit immature," she says with the last word having a dark tone. While Amethyst doesn't seems to care and sticks out her tongue at Pearl.

"Try to behave Amethyst," Garnet says, "So Steven care to explain everthing," she asks

"Well Connie and I were trying to watch the new episode of Crying Breakfest Friends when we got a video call from Peridot. She says she and Lapis were being attack but it turns out it was just Crona. In fact he's the one being attack by Peridot but things calmed down we found out that Crona came to the barn by accident. From what Peridot told us it's by a flash of light." Steven explains

"He also says he can find his way home but he needs to be in a certain place in order to get home," Connie explains. Getting the gist of the situation Pearl turns to Crona

"Oh your just lost. Well don't worry we'll get you back to your home," Pearl says with a smile

"o-o-oh ok thanks," Crona stutters while looking down. In the meanwhile Garnet approaches Steven.

"Is there anything you else you know about him?" Garnet asks him

"Uh not much else really. Oh he was about to show were he lived until you guys show up," Steven explains

"Alright what did you use?" she asks and Steven presents her with his globe. While Steven tells Garnet on how Crona lives somewhere in the US. Unbeknownst to the two, Crona is overhearing their conversation, he sighs in relief. He's glad that these people are helping him get back home. Once he's back he find out what happened to him and Rag-

'Oh no Ragnarok!' he screams in his mind, his pupils expand and starts to chatter his teeth and looks down, "Oh no Ragnarok." he whimpers. Steven, Connie and the Gems note on Crona's sudden reaction and are starting to feel concern for him. Connie walks up to him and gently grabs his shoulder

"Hey is something wrong?" Connie asks

"Ra-ra-Ragnarok," Crona stutters

"Who's ragnarok?" Pearl asks

"Right we forgot to mention that. You see Crona told us that Ragnarok is his weapon partner that comes out of his back," Connie explains but after saying that she began to think about it and looks at Crona, "uhm Crona can you explain on who Ragnarok is?" she asks

"H-h-he's my blood," Crona states. Connie gives Crona an odd look and wanted to tell him 'are you serious' but decides to take a much more gentler approach

"OK Crona can you explain that a little bit more please," she asks

"You see h-h-he lives in m-m-my body and he c-c-comes out of my back. Also m-m-my blood is black," Crona stutters. After hearing that, Connie is left dumbfounded. The way Crona explains everything, even though he stutters, he seems to be telling the truth. Connie wanted to know a bit more but she stops when she hears Amethyst laughs

"HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAHA" Amethyst laughs as she rolls on the floor, "Aggh i-i wow you haha you can't make that stuff up." she says as her body lights up and she morphs her body to resemble crona and got up and walks in front of him. Crona himself was speechless as he's staring at himself but being light lilac. "You see he lives in my body and he comes out my back. Also my blood is black hahahahahaha," she laughs and smacks her right hand on the right side of her head

"AMETHYST!" Pearl screams. Amethyst looks at Pearl as her face looks like it would explode form anger and morphs back to herself normal self. Pearl then looks at Crona with a soft look, "I'm sorry for her behavior hehe," she chuckles nervously. "I'm sure your just a bit confused. Based on how you got here, I believe your mind got scrambled," she says with an innocent smile on her face.

"Y-y-you don't believe me?" Crona asks

"Well it's certainly not possible for a human such as yourself to have all the things that you just described," Pearl responds

Crona sighs. He should have know that people wouldn't believe in what he said even if he tells them. Yet this time it was different. Normally Ragnarok would appear and say something rude and bully him by now but what happened. Crona starts to think of the worst case scenario on what if. What if he lost Rag-

"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH"

Everyone stood still and have their eyes wide open after hearing that groaning sound come out of nowhere

"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH"

The groan was louder and Connie, Steven, and the Gems are looking directly at Crona.

"R-Ragnarok?" he asks as he looks up. All of a sudden black liquid spews out of Crona's back. Amethyst grabs Connie and brings her at least 5 feet away from Crona. The liquid itself still connected to Crona's back begins to solidify as it morphs into a muscular, humanoid figure with an egg shape head. It has an x in the middle of its face with large ping-pong ball like eyes with x's as pupils, has gloved hands, spikes on his back, and no mouth . It also starts to rub it's head. While everyone just stares in horror at the sight of the thing, Crona sighs in relief. "R-Ragnarok your okay?" he asks. Apparently called Ragnarok, he looks down at Crona with an annoyed look

"Do I look okay to you?" Ragnarok asks with an angered tone. Ragnarok then proceeds to pull on Crona's lips and gives him a noogie

"Ow ow Ragnarok Stop," Crona pleads

"First of all I got a massive headache. Second where the fuck are we?", Ragnarok points out while looking around the house while still bullying Crona. Ragnarok finally notices Steven, Connie and the Gems. "AND WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY!" he yells.

Steven, Connie and Amethyst were just wide eyed at the sight of Ragnarok. Pearl is making gasping noises and Garnet clench her fist and got in front on Steven to protect him.

"Hey bitches mind telling were the fuck were at?" Ragnarok asks rudely while still bullying Crona. Connie recovers from her shock and looks directly at Ragnarok

"Hey!" she shouts and Ragnarok stops bullying Crona and looks at Connie. "Stop that!" she states and Ragnarok let's go of Crona and arches forward

"Stop what?" Ragnarok asks in a mocking tone.

"Stop bullying him. Also what are you?" Connie asks as she tilts her head to the side. Ragnarok didn't answer at first instead he looks at Crona, who in turn look at him as well

"I-i-i told them y-y-your my weapon p-partner and y-y-your in my blood and t-that's it's black," Crona explains. Ragnarok then turns back to Connie and crosses his arms

"There, everything that pinky just said is what I am." Ragnarok says

"Alright maybe I asked the wrong question," Connie says to herself but loud enough for everyone to hear. She was about ask Ragnarok another question before he spoke

"Hey I got a great question. WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!" he yells. The Gems feeling the situation getting more hostile, they summon their weapons and make sure that Connie and Steven are behind them. Ragnarok and Crona can feel things are getting a bit worse and are tense up.

"Wow we got ourselves some bad asses over here," Ragnarok says with his hands in the air. "Hey Crona lets show them what were made of," he says as he morphs into a broadsword. Crona prepares to fight until Steven screams

"STOP!" he screams and everyone stops and look at Steven. Steven looks at Crona and Ragnarok. "Ragnarok you want to know where your at?" Steven asks and Crona's sword manifest lips just above the guard

"Yeah that's all I want to know," Ragnarok responds

"Ok you two are in Beach City, Delmarva," Steven says while giving an odd look over Ragnarok's sword mode

"Alright then," and Ragnarok morphs back into his humanoid form. "Now tell me how the hell Crona and I got here," he demands

"well you two came from flash of light," Steven explains

"Flash of light. Really?" Ragnarok says and looks down at Crona. "How the hell did that happen?" he asks

"I-I-I don't know. I-I d-d-don't remembered," Crona responds causing Ragnarok slaps himself in the face

"Great. Just great." Ragnarok complains

"b-but they s-s-said they're going to help us," Crona says

"well at least you did something right," Ragnarok says rudely and looks at Steven, "alright fatty help us out so I can go back to eating souls," he states causing Pearl to get angry at Ragnarok

"You fowl mouth creature!" she says in an angered tone and walks closer to Ragnarok's face and point her index finger in front of him . "Apologize to Steven," she threatens. An anime tick mark appears on Ragnarok's forehead as he's getting more agitated

"Get your finger OUT OF MY FACE YOU BIRD HAG!" he screams

"Ughh," Pearl says in disgust. She's really getting angry at Ragnarok and was ready to attack him until Garnet puts her hand on Pearl's shoulder.

"Ignore him. The sooner we help them, the sooner they'll leave," Garnet explains

"Uh fine", Pearl grumbles and walks away from Ragnarok. Crona sighs in relief as things finally calms down at least he doesn't have to hurt anyone. Ragnarok pokes Crona's head to get his attention

"W-what?", Crona asks

"Yeah I just notice something," Ragnarok says

"What is it?" Crona asks

"What's with those chicks being all weird looking." Ragnarok says while pointing his thumb at Pearl as an example.

"Well look who's talking. You come out of that guy's back," Amethyst points out. Ragnarok was about to say something before Crona spoke

"T-t-their G-G-Gems." Crona says

"Gems?" Ragnarok asks

"T-t-their aliens," Crona responds leaving Ragnarok a bit baffle

"Aliens? Really?" Ragnarok asks as he looks at the Gems closely. He remain silent before bursting out laughing. "HAHAHAHAHA. Wow th-this is new: witches, monsters, demon weapons, soul eating, and now aliens. Wow you learn something new everyday. HAHAHAHA," he laughs. Crona looks down embarrass over Ragnarok's behavior. Steven, Connie, and the Gems look at the two with an odd look. Connie and Steven look at each other and both shrug their shoulders. Garnet rubs her chin and walks towards Ragnarok and Crona

"What are you talking about?" Garnet asks while crossing her arms and Ragnarok looks at her

"uh witches, monsters, demon weapons, and oh yeah I forgot eating souls!" Ragnarok says in anger tone while using his fingers to count off all the things he says. "What do you think I'm talking about." he finish. Steven is scratching his head. Now things are getting much more complicated, Steven can't wrap his mind of what Ragnarok is saying. Steven focus his attention to Crona.

"Hey Crona uhm how normal is all the stuff that Ragnarok is saying?" Steven asks

"Pretty normal," Crona responds without stuttering and without any problem

"Yeah its pretty normal, fatty. Its as normal as breathing and as normal as the sun and moon laughing," Ragnarok states while laying his elbow on Crona's head. Now everyone is just confuse. Connie is just trying to understand if Crona and Ragnarok were telling the truth or was good at lying.

"laughing sun and moon? That's NOT NORMAL!" she yells causing Crona and Ragnarok to look at her with wide eyes. Connie then starts to think of what to say and remembers that Crona showed up by a flash of light. In that moment she starts to piece things together and turns back to Crona and Ragnarok. "Um I want you two to follow me," she says and she leads them outside. Crona and Ragnarok look around as they were in a beach and they walk down the steps. When they got down both of them look behind them and see that the house they were in and behind it was a giant statue of a woman with 4 arms spread out and 4 surrounding the house. Two hands on the left and one on the bottom right are gone. Crona is amaze by the statue's appearance while Ragnarok just scoffs it off for being a shitty statue. Once they reach the sand, Connie turns to Crona and looks above him. "Crona please look at the moon," she says while pointing above him

"Why w-wha-" Crona stops talking and is in shock as he sees the moon

"Hey Crona what are y-" Ragnarok mouth appears and his jaw drops at the sight of the moon. It was round and had no laughing face. Crona couldn't believe what he was seeing why is the moon round. Where was the it's face? Crona starts to gasping for air. All of a sudden he remembers how no one knew a thing of what he was saying. How everyone just look at him and Ragnarok with confusion and more importantly the flash of light he came through. Crona piece everything together and now knows what's going on. He and Ragnarok are in another Earth.

#soul eater crona #ragnarok #steven universe #connie maheswaran #garnet #pearl #amythyst #crossover #fanfic

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baritonechick · 6 years

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The New King of Asgard

Word Count: 1,362

A/N: Spoilers from Thor Ragnarok! Don’t read it if you don’t want the movie kinda sorta spoiled! Also.... Smut-like tendencies in this first part guys; aka bondage ;)

Everything went to hell after Loki’s death. Thor had left to help on Earth and that left the kingdom in disarray.

Odin was on his deathbed, or so everyone thought. One day, he had miraculously gotten better and was up an around.

All of Asgard believed that their king was alive. Except you.

You’d known from the start that it smelled of one of Loki’s tricks, and you were beyond right. Growing up with both Loki and Thor had allowed you to catch on to the trickster’s ways.

The first time you were able to speak with the king had taken a few days. Finding time to encounter him had been hard, but you knew Loki would make room in his schedule for you.

You step into the large throne room, the doors closing behind and the sound of them echoing around every pillar. There was no one else in the room except you and the black-haired man lazily lounging on the throne.

Neither of you said anything until you approached him.

“My suspicions were right,” you plainly announced.

Loki’s eyes carefully lifted to meet yours. His gaze was terrifying to the normal Asgardian, but you know him well enough.

“I would have been disappointed if you hadn’t of figured it out.”

“As soon as news spread of your death, I knew you’d pulled off your biggest stunt. The only question is, what’s keeping me from spreading this around Asgard?”

The god of mischief pursed his lips into a thin line but nonetheless remained calm. His tells always involved the way he moved his mouth. He was debating on what he should do with you.

Kill? Torture? Or…

“If you were any other person, I’d think you foolish to bring that information to me. But you know I won’t harm you.”

That was the interesting part of your relationship with the god. Ever since you both were young, Loki held a liking for you. You swore up and down your hatred for him, but it always seemed half-hearted.

“I do.”

“Then you know my offer.”

You had to think for a second, but the memory almost immediately hit you.

Loki leaned against the railing of the balcony and glanced over at you.

“When I become king, I’ll make sure you’re my queen. I’d rather have no one else at my side.”

You hadn’t thought the day would ever come for him to take action upon those words, but it had.

“No. I will not willingly stand beside you to rule this kingdom.”

Loki tsked lightly, “Now, now. I never said it had to be willingly, though I can see right through you. There’s nowhere you’d rather be than here.”

You frowned. “You’re wrong.”

With that, you turned to head for the door but something stopped you from proceeding. You knew from the instant it touched you that it was his magic.

“Loki,” you hissed, “Let me go!”

A rope of green light binds your arms and legs together and pulls you to a spot beside the throne. The magic materializes around your appendages into actual metal chains that are tied around a pillar just a foot or so from Loki.

“Loki, you little-“

The god waves his hand and your lips are sealed shut until he finishes talking. His appearance shifts into Odin as he straightens his outfit.

“I’ve got business in the realm to deal with but I shall be back later, pet.”

The words seem foreign in the old king’s mouth though you know what, or rather who is behind the faćade. Loki stands up and travels down the steps to the doors. He exits the room and locks it behind him, just to make sure that no one will find you.

You mindlessly tug on the chains, a task you’d been doing practically all day. Loki had made you a dog and you weren’t going to stand for it. Once Asgard found out who was really behind the wheel, things would change.

It seemed like hours until the doors finally opened once again and ‘Odin’ stepped inside. The moment those closed however, the mask fell and Loki revealed himself.

“Who knew being king would be so… exhausting.”

You gritted your teeth, “Maybe someone who deserves it.”

In a moment, he was in front of you, clutching your jaw in his hand.

“You won’t speak to your king that way. I’d tell you to kneel, but, seems you’re already begging for forgiveness.”

You tore your head away from his grasp and narrowed your eyes viciously.

“If I could stand, I’d show you just how little forgiveness I want from you, Loki.”

You knew saying his name like that would only egg him on further, but with your current position, there wasn’t much else you could do.

The god paused momentarily and suddenly turned to glare at you. His hand went to your hair as he pulled it back to reveal your neck. Loki’s lips brushed against the skin around your ear and down to your collar bone.

“You will call me your king, do you understand?”

You said nothing which in turn caused him to jerk back the locks of hair he held between his fingers.

“Do you understand?”

A small, incoherent yelp formed in your throat but you nodded.

“Yes, my king.”

The strands were released from his hand as he moved away. Your cheeks flushed bright crimson at the thought of his dominating nature. You weren’t about to admit how much it turned you on.

“Good, pet,” he purred softly, straightening his back and heading to the throne.

Loki sat down, materializing a small wand to fidget with. His fingers spun and twirled the stick around subconsciously. Dear god, you had to hold your composure.

You’re strong, stronger than half the men in Asgard, yet you fall weak under Loki’s control. And you still refuse to admit the power he holds over you.

“Do you plan on staring for eternity or admitting your infatutation?”

Your gaze now falls on the god’s eyes and you set a determined stance.

“Neither, actually. I’d much rather be off fighting Frost Giants than here, my king.”

Loki’s jaw clenches tight and the muscles in his neck tense.

“Your defiant nature will be your downfall, Y/n. Anyone else wouldn’t be so kind to you in this situation.”

“I wouldn’t be in this situation if anyone else were in your position.”

Loki took that as enough, for he quickly got to his feet and stood in front of you.

The god of mischief, ironically, kneeled in front of your body and wore a small smirk on his face. One of his hands landed on your waist and the other behind your neck.

“You wouldn’t want anyone else in my position now, would you?”

His words sent chills down your spine but somehow also sent heat into your core.

“Isn’t that right?”

You eyed him curiously, “Yes, my king.”

Loki seemed very pleased with your answer and leaned into you. His rough lips pressed against yours unexpectedly. The thing that shocked you even more was that you weren’t pulling away. In fact, you groaned into his mouth as his silver tongue gained access into yours. The god’s hands placed themselves on the back of your neck, allowing him to deepen the kiss even further.

You felt the chains around your wrists give way and you immediately splayed them on his hips. Your mind hadn’t even caught up to what you were doing yet. If it had, the sensible part of you wouldn’t have allowed this.

The suddenness of a loud knocking came from the entrance and you both stopped. It was enough time to realize what was happening and for you to be able to push the man away.

“Sir, the play you requested is ready,” the voice called from the other side of the door.

Loki glanced at you in shock before composing himself.

“I’ll deal with you later,” he hissed quietly, waving a hand and magically tying the chains around your wrists once again.

He transformed into his father once again, leaving you to chide yourself on your lack of self-restraint.

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jeongincore · 6 years

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Shit i really liked and kinda didn’t like about Ragnarok

I recently saw ragnarok and became so rejuvenated that i brought my marvel blog back but i wanted to seriously talk about like things that i liked and really didn’t just to get shit out there.

Things i really liked (like so much that i am obsessed)

-Thor’s new hair cut/outfit, i think its actually super suitable. Gives that sort of cool ass warrior refugee look. Plus, Chris Hemsworth is beautiful.

-The humor, oh god it was hilarious, i’ve never laughed so genuinely and so much in my life and it made the movie so charming and relatable. It was also such a departure from The Dark World and the first Thor, which dealt with so much emotional baggage for not only just Thor, but for Loki, who basically suffered throughout both movies.

-Hulk being an actual toddler/Bruce Banner being so fucked up and anxious because WHEN DID HE GET ON AN ALIEN PLANET.

-”You’ve been on other planets before i assume” “Yeah, one!” “well now it’s two”

-Valkyrie. Her entire everything gave me so much to love and adore. Tessa Thompson has stole my heart yet again.

-TAIKA WAITITI AS KORG WAS ACTUALLY SO FUNNY

-The little tiny glimpses of Loki and Thor’s childhood, aka the snake story, get help. It really showed how much time Loki and Thor had spent together, which i assume is a lot because age in Asgardian years work differently probably? Like imagine that, Loki and Thor spending time together and being inseparable for 100 years. It showed that they were always close despite loki feeling different or alienated, which explains why its so hard for Loki to just leave thor for dead.

-”You’ll always be the god of mischief, but you can be so much more” See that shit destroyed me. Thor acknowledges that Loki is not like him. He’s a trickster, manipulative, and selfish. But he also acknowledges that Loki is so much more than his tricks and lies, which shows so much character growth in Thor, who sees loki as more than just an asgardian prince that was raised the exact same way opposite of Thor, but as his own fucking person.

-Thor actually not being stupid and falling for Loki’s tricks, aka his magic projections of himself/his petty, stupid betrayals. Tom mentioned that Thor was evolving and that Loki was finally starting to realize that he’s the only one not growing. Scenes like the betrayal scene and the snake scene, although meant to be hilarious, point out that Thor isn’t that idiot that just was too trusting of his brother, he sees through Loki’s tricks, he’s seen them for years, and it really shows that Loki’s getting predictable with his fake deaths and betrayals, which might hint at him changing?

-IT FIXED THE INCONSISTENCIES. The main reason i didn’t like Dark world, though i did see it as amazing for its ability to mix the emotional darkness between Loki and Thor along with the humor throughout the movie, was because it pointed Loki out to be the type of cold blooded monster that would murder his own father. I mean I’m no Loki apologist, i love the kid but he’s killed, he’s manipulated, he’s hurt everyone around him, but i doubt he could ever kill Odin, no matter how much of a shitty father he is. Also low-key hated the whole “Loki if you betray me, ill kill you” Thor bullshit. We all know thor wouldn’t be able to do that, he still hopes Loki is his brother.

-AGAIN, THE SNAKE SCENE WAS SO FUNNY.

-”I thought the world of you Loki.” Ouch.

-Hulk and Val’s bromance.

-The entire Valkyrie v. Hela scene. It was so beautiful and ethereal i actually nutted.

-LOKI DIDN’T NEED TO COME BACK. HE DIDN’T NEED TO GO BACK TO THE SHIP WITH THOR. HE DIDN’T NEED TO GO BACK TO ASGARD. HE COULD HAVE NOT. BUT HE DID. BECAUSE SOMEWHERE IN THERE UNDER THE SELFISHNESS MAYBE HE CARES.

-Loki’s face when odin called him his son.

-Loki’s face when Hela told him to kneel.

-Loki refusing to let Thor go back to Asgard. “Are you serious? you can’t be thinking of going back there, that’s madness!” is that? Loki cARING?

-Loki’s character development.

-thor in a jean jacket and hoodie in new york.

-Thor spilling beer everywhere.

-Loki letting Thor take the orgy ship.

-Jeff Goldblum. Thats it.

-LOKIS FACE WITH THOR AND ODIN ON THE ROOF OF THE CASTLE I SCREmed AFTER ALL LOKI DID HE WAS STILL PUT THERE AS A PRINCE OF ASGARD BYE.

-”Hello father” “OH SHIT”

-The entire play. Loki’s rule as a benevolent god/king in which, before everyone feared him for a dictatorship militaristic form of ruling he could have, but in reality he just like ate grapes and watched plays.

-Thor wanting to be a Valkyrie. The crowned prince of asgard, wanting to be an elite team of woman warriors.

-VAL IS GAY AND IN TESSA THOMPSONS WORDS, HAD A GIRLFRIEND THAT SACRIFICED HERSELF TO SAVE HER.

-Val kicking Loki’s ass.

-THE RETURN OF THE DOUBLE BLADES OUT OF NOWHERE.

-Loki in a suit.

-HEIMDALL I LOVEJWIFHTGE.

-”I thought you didn’t want to talk about it” “heres the thing”

-”Hello!” “Hi” *blasts everyone in room with giant laser guns*

-”What are you? Thor, god of hammers?”

-IMMIGRANT SONG.

-”i swear i left him right here” “where? on the street? Or in that nursing home thats being torn down?”

“I’m not a witch” “Why do you dress like one then?”

-Loki rolling his eyes when thor is approached by fans.

-Loki calling stephen strange a shitty sorcerer and going at him with stabby hands.

-Confirmation of loki’s love of stabbing.

-Confirmation that Loki is a snake, and also Thor’s favorite snake.

-Loki reciting Thor’s prayer to odin with him mY SON.

-The avengers parallel. “He’s my brother!” “adopted.”

-”mbLERG ITS ME”

-”AGH LOKI!”

-’DIRECT ME TO WHO’S ASS I HAVE TO KICK”

-”Where? the devil’s anus?”

-Bruce fighting evil with fireworks. Good job sweetie.

-Bruce flopping like a fish on the bifrost.

-Thor and his sparkles.

-Lightning eyes.

-Odin finALLY DYING. THANK GOD.

-*Loki on a death trip* ‘this is a terrible idea”

-Loki somehow reciting a spell to bring surtur back. what a weirdo. how did he know that.

-LOKI COMING BACK.

-im here.

-Loki

-Brodinson.

-Thor and Bruce’s bromance.

-Jane not being there. I mean it makes sense she dumped him, he left her for two years chasing down infinity stones and constantly almost dying while she had no way of contacting him because Thor’s ass didn’t know how to use fucking email. Also i just really honestly never liked her character to begin with, i mean sure i love that Jane is a strong, smart woman but tbh i just wanted to Fast forward every time she was on screen.

-The cute death wolf.

-”THATS HOW IT FEELS!” “sorry i just really like the sport”

-THOR ACTUALLY BEING PORTRAYED AS LESS OF A JERK WITH CACTUSES SHOVED UP HIS RECTUM AND MORE LIKE THE SWEET, CHARMING, CHARISMATIC AND SLIGHTLY ARROGANT BUT MEANS WELL MAN HE IS.

-Val being there as a cool as member of the team rather than just the love interest of Thor. Protect her at all cost even though she probs doesn’t even need it.

-”I’VE BEEN FALLING FOR THIRTY MINUTES”

-Stan Lee’s cameo as the dude who cut Thor’s hair. Thank you for doing all of us a giant favor. Please do the same to Loki.

-loki beating someone up with his horn hat.

-Loki twirling his horn hat.

-Loki being such a self serving, extra asshole that he came from the fucking fog screaming “YOUR SAVIOR HAS ARRIVED”

-Bruce asking where tony was and then complaining about his tight crotch pants.

-LOKI’S COSTUME CHANGE GOD I HATED THE OLD ONES BLESS UP.

-Loki’s costume being mainly blue, black, and gold :-)))))))

-Loki being 100% done with everything that happens.

-Val knocking Loki out when he makes her relive her trauma why do people ship this you go honey that was a dick move

-Thor throwing various things at Loki to make sure he’s not a mirage.

-he’s a friend from work, something a kid from make a wish that met chris suggested, being in the film and all of the trailers. I hope that made that kid smile.

-”In return, i wish to be granted safe passage through the anus”

-LOKI FINALLY ACCEPTING THAT HE DIDN’T WANT THE THRONE WITHOUT A FAMILY. THAT HE’D RATHER WATCH HIS BROTHER TAKE IT AND STILL HAVE A BROTHER THAN HAVE A THRONE WITH NO ONE TO SHARE IT WITH.

-LOKI SHOWING UP ON SCREEN DURING THOR’S CORONATION.

-Loki being genuinely worried about and double checking if Thor really wants to bring him back to earth after what he did kill me honestly that would probably hurt less.

-Loki’s face when thor said that going their separate ways was what Loki always wanted bc in reality that is the opposite go back.

-Hela not being Loki’s daughter because 1) it proves that ya’ll should stop hoping that a comic soap opera about rich petty alien boys with daddy issues would be anything like classic norse mythology, and 2) when the fuck and how the fuck and why the fuck

-Loki suggesting that he and Thor both rule over Sakaar together lmao ouch.

-Loki just being really cute and quirky.

-Thor being so fucking amazed by Val all the time.

-”You’re late.”

-”I saw you coming” “course you did.”

-THE GUNS NAMED DES AND TROY I WANTED TO FUCKING DIE.

What i didn’t like much;

-Hela. I loved her character, but honestly here is where i think there might’ve been some failure despite how much i loved that movie. She seemed so out of place as a villain, and i feel like the whole related shit tried to mimic Guardians vol. 2, but honestly the fact that Thor didn’t care much about her made her feel so out of place. But i did like some parts, like how she was so disappointed about not being remembered or what her existence and disappointment did to how loki was raised.

-Dr. Strange? Ok that was weird. It makes sense and it was funny to see him but to be honest i wasn’t into it.

-tHE SCENE WITH VAL AND A GIRL BEING CUT. WHYWHYWHY

-tbh was not fond of frost master, don’t hate me.

-Loki possibly taking the tesseract????? And hinting that he might turn evil again??? don’t do this to me marvel.

-loki possibly being turned into the quirky sidekick of his brother. Loki is Thor’s equal, not his annoying little brother/wacky sidekick. I didn’t get that vibe often, but sometimes i did honestly.

-RIP thor’s hammer.

-ODIN BEING A PIECE OF SHIT YET AGAIN.

-Hela’s entrance. it was so quick and like out of place i was like what wait, Loki and thor didn’t even have time to prepare or even mourn.

-the comedy. It was its best and worst part of the movie. Sometimes it was tasteful. Other times it was too much. Thor and Loki didn’t even get to mourn for their dad who tbh was an asshole but still their dad before there was a annoying joke about kneeling. It took away from the story sometimes.

-the lack of hugging between thor and loki.

-The way they glossed over the warriors three’s death like they weren’t Thor’s closest friends and the only ones there for him when Odin tried to banish Thor to earth :-))))) I mean after all that shit he went through I’m pretty fucking sure it probably hasn’t caught up to him but ya bitch still pissed.

-The way, Thor, who basically admitted that Loki actually meant the world to him and was the only family he had left, didn’t ask where he was after asgard exploded? Like tbh i get it, he trusts Loki, his brothers capable and strong and most of all really fucking smart, but i’d still be like :-) the fuck is Loki. I think this is a directing error though rather than like the characters fucking up but i was freaking out, i mean asgard was literally pebbles and everyone was out BUT my son.

-No sif, i mean i get it Jaime Alexander was busy but like y'all could’ve explained smh.

-Loki not getting a hair cut. When will his emo phase end.

-Not getting that one flashback to 80′s asgard with mullets and emo loki.

Overall it was pretty fucking cool, one of the best movies of the trilogy. I fell in love with the marvel cinematic universe all over again. But it wasn’t perfect.

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Marvel asks: All of them! Sorry, can't choose! ^^'

AAAAARRRGGHHHH!!! Well that’ll larn me!

Marvel asks

Tony Stark: favorite movie?

Close call; I’m very fond of “Avengers Assemble”, “Thor” and “CA:TWS”, but the one that has wowed me the most of all was “Black Panther”, which took everything to a new level of brilliance.

Drax: what character would you wanna be friends with?

I’m going to make this “characterS” and say Jane Foster, Aunt May, and General Okoye. A lot of my other faves probably wouldn’t be so easy to be friends with (too prickly, messed-up, hyper-focussed, downright dangerous, etc) but I would love to be mates with these three!

Valkyrie: favorite director?

Ryan Coogler, no question!

Pepper Potts: top 3 fave characters

Ugh, very hard to choose! Most of our protagonists are pretty cool, in their different ways. Let’s pick three of the women; Okoye, Gamora, Natasha. But I could just as easily have said Nakia, Hope and Hawkeye. Or Rocket, Groot and Shuri. Or...

Yeah, very hard to choose.

Sam Wilson: funniest scene?

Unlike a lot of people I loathed the relentless humour in “Ragnarok”. So I’m going to say, Sam and Cap’s first meeting in TWS, which is gentle and kind, and character-driven.

And (although it’s rather sick humour) “He’s adopted” is very funny.

Bucky Barnes: most heartbreaking moment?

The bit in TWS when the pilots try to take off and provide air support and are shot down before they can get to their planes. Reduces me to tears every time.

Nakia: character you wish had a bigger role?

I want to see more of Shuri!

Rocket Racoon: best nickname?

I don’t think I know the scripts well enough! “Legolas”, possibly?

Natasha Romanoff: favorite ass kicking scene?

Another one that’s very hard to choose.

Natasha’s first scene, maybe, when she’s barefoot and unarmed and still beats the shit out of half a dozen brawny guys. It’s such a great use of an action scene to establish character. I also love her fight with possessed!Hawkeye.

But on the other hand, the Dora Milje’s team fighting style is unbelievably awesome...

Ned Leeds: favorite villain?

Killmonger, no contest. He’s rounded, believable, well-motivated, and even though you know he’s wrong you empathise with him. Masterclass in how to write a top-notch antagonist.

I also really liked Toomes/Vulture in “Spiderman Homecoming”. Again, because he had good motivation and was an interesting rounded character, not a cardboard “I wanna rule/destroy the world >snarl snarl

Bruce Banner: guardians or avengers?

For sheer fun, Guardians. But I’m enjoying seeing them all meet up!

Thor Odinson: most attractive character?

Still Hawkeye. Give me those Renner arms.

Gamora: favorite pairing?

As in Ship? T’Challa/Nakia, and Gamora/Peter Q.

As in Best mates? Rocket & Groot, Peggy & Jarvis, and Peter P & Ned.

Mantis: what do you think will happen in Avengers 4?

I’m with @hanorganaas on this; it’ll have to involve time travel in some form, to bring back at least some of those lost. Also I have it on good authority from @spectralarchers that Hawkeye will come back as Ronin. And clearly a certain Carol Danvers is going to be involved.

There’ll be an opening section where the traumatised survivors are trying to regroup in a shattered world. Somehow or other the script will have to contrive another “lowest ebb” moment even lower than the end of “Infinity War” (& I don’t envy the people tasked with that!) because that’s how script dynamics work. But ultimately the big purple knob-head will be defeated.

Shuri: most rewatched movie?

Either “Avengers assemble” or “Guardians of the Galaxy”; I haven’t kept count, but they are the ones I go back to for a happy evening slobbed out in front of the telly with a big bag of tortilla chips.

Peter Parker: best outfit/suit?

As a Superhero Suit, I love the Ant-man suit!

As actual wearable clothes, I’d like to have Gamora’s leathers, especially the red coat; practical and sexy.

Happy Hogan: what ‘superpower’ is the coolest?

Well, I’ve always wanted to be able to fly, so any of the superpowers that give you that would be great!

I also love the way Mantis’ abilities take something that culturally is just expected of “nice good girls” (being empathetic, reading others emotions and reactions, being able to soothe down even the most aggressive person) and make it a fucking superpower!

Aunt may: most painful death?

After those brave pilots in TWS? Pietro. Really didn’t see that one coming.

Pietro Maximoff: Peter Quill or Peter Parker?

Aww, don’t make me chose! Quill is so cute!

I was never a Peter Parker fan until Tom Holland but now - ok, Peter Parker.

Heimdall: would you like a Deadpool crossover?

Properly done, then hell yeah! But it would need a very, very good script to juggle the emotional/tonal switchbacks required.

Steve Rogers: who resembles their role the most?

From what we get to see as fans? I’d have to go with Chris Evans.

Rhodey: who resembles their role the least?

Karen Gillan certainly doesn’t sound much like Nebula!

T’challa: favorite non-romantic pairing?

I’ve already suggested a couple of Best-mates relationships; so how about some siblings? Gamora and Nebula; so much tension, so much anger and yet so much torn, blood-soaked loyalty. It’s just as interesting a dynamic as the one between Thor and Loki, with a lot less screentime than that has had.

I also liked the sibling loyalty and love between Wanda and Pietro. Always good to see a happy sibling relationship, when Screenwriting 101 would have it that only sibling rivalry is interesting...

Peter Quill: favorite place in the mcu?

That’s going to be a tie between Know-where, for the visuals, and Wakanda, for - well, everything really.

Loki laufeyson: best line/quote?

Ugh, there have been a lot of great lines. Right now, I’m going to go with Okoye’s “For Wakanda? Without question.” Such a fantastic use of a single line to cement how her character is the embodiment of honour.

Scott Lang: do you think you’d have died in the snap?

Hmm. I kind of hope I would, to be honest; life afterwards is going to be spectacularly hellish until they manage to fix it.

Stephen strange: favorite song used?

The opening of “Guardians of the Galaxy”, with Quill slogging through the rain and then putting on “Come and get your love” on his walkman and starting to dance. Just gorgeous; as a sequence, as framing, as a way of telling us something about him very economically, as a device to show us this is going to be a hell of a fun ride...

Phil Coulson: the moment you fell in love with your favorite character?

Seeing as I find it impossibly difficult to pick a favourite in the first place, this is one I can’t answer!

Okoye: which movies did you see in cinema?

All of them bar the first two “Iron Man” films.

Maria Hill: favorite special credits?

What, as in “Mr Evans’ marmalade sandwiches made by” kind of thing? I’m not sure I pay enough attention to the credits to have ever noticed one (I made that one up, needless to say).

Or are “special credits” like cameos? A nod to the mourners for Yondu, then.

Erik Killmonger: favorite press moment/interview

Way back during the press tour for “Avengers assemble”; a journalist asked RDJ in-depth questions on Tony’s motivation and development, and then only asked Scarlett Johansson some ridiculous thing about her diet; and instead of answering with a patient smile she called him out on it.

It was only, what, five years ago, yet it was almost unheard-of then for a female actor to bite back publically like that. And the good thing is, that already seems pretty extraordinary.

Wanda Maximoff: favorite relationship of the actors?

I don’t know enough about their relationships to have one, really.

Nebula: favorite minor character?

Luis. An “ordinary person” character who is highly likeable in his own right and who does the right thing even when he knows it’s bloody dangerous & could get him killed. For similar reasons I’m also very fond of Cameron Klein and Dr Helen Cho.

Vision: Steve with or without a beard?

Without, definitely. Not a great fan of beards to be honest. There’s the odd face that looks great with one (thinking of a certain Mexican actor and rare fern collector) but mostly they’re just fashionable face-fur.

Nick Fury: what actor would you like to see join the mcu and for what role?

On one level, I’m content to wait and see what they come up with. I’m not a comic-reader, so I know almost nothing about any of the characters until they appear in the MCU, which makes dream-casting any of them pretty difficult.

On the other hand, I did read a rumour that John Boyega is in line for a future role; and as I’m a huge fan of his I would love for that to be true!

Hope Van Dyne: expectations for ‘Captain Marvel’?

As a non-comics person, I don’t know anything about the character or her story. Hopefully we’ll get an interesting, well-rounded female lead with solid motivation and her plot-line isn’t primarily about a) a man or b) not being able to have children. Or c) her children being dead.

Groot: I am Groot?

We are Groot.

Grandmaster: which characters would you like to see interact more?

Shuri with all the scientists!

Peggy Carter: Hulk or Banner?

Both. Both is good.

Luis: favorite Chris?

I’m sure they’re all lovely chaps.

Michelle Jones: would you like a Black Widow movie?

I’d like to see lots of the female characters get stand-alone films. So, yes please to a “Black Widow” movie, but also, hmm, let’s see; how about a “Shuri and Jane Foster Science the Shit Out Of This Mess” movie? A “Peggy Carter and the early days of SHIELD” movie? A “Nakia the Super-spy” movie?

Sif: long hair Thor or short hair Thor?

Long hair. Markedly more appealing with long hair.

Jane Foster: favorite character development?

I love the way Steve Rogers’ story kind-of goes in cycles of effort and hope and bitter experience, and always comes back round to situations where he affirms who he essentially is. It’s good to see a non-liner pattern of development like that, which is much closer to how real people deleop and change, instead of the standard narrative “A to B” model like Dr Strange (”was a jerk, learned to do better” - okay, he saves the world, so that’s good; but as for development, pish).

Yondu: favorite after-credit scene?

The Shawarma joint.

Also Hope seeing the Wasp suit for the first time.

Wong: favorite marvel intro?

Not sure I pay that much attention to the intros, tbh. I’m just sitting there thinking “Give me the story, folks!”

Thank you for asking! - and thank you, if you’ve had the patience to slog through all this, for reading!

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Episode 16: The Fall with Kelly Cercone

Please consult these Instagram slideshows for accompanying images: The Fall Part 1 The Fall Part 2

Sarah Timm & Jojo Siu Welcome to the costume plot.

Jojo Siu I'm Jojo Siu

Sarah Timm and I'm Sarah Timm. We're professional designers with a passion for costume design and the performing arts. Our podcast does contain spoilers. Accompanying slideshows for each movie are linked in the episode description.

Jojo Siu We hope you'll join us every other week as we delve into the wonderful world of costume design in The Costume Plot. [music]

Jojo Siu Hello, and welcome to the Costume Plot again.

Sarah Timm Welcome back. What an exciting episode. Let's dive right in. We have a very exciting guest with us today. She's a friend of mine from FIDM but you may know her from "Avengers Endgame", ever heard of it? Thor Ragnarok. American Horror Story. These are just some of her credits. She's a brilliant costume maker and many other things. You may know her from her Instagram "Anachronism in Action:, or as the winner of the "Her Universe fashion show". It's Kelly Cercone!

Jojo Siu Welcome, Kelly.

Kelly Cercone Happy to be here.

Sarah Timm Thank you so much for joining us. We are stoked to talk to you. What movie have you brought us and our listeners today?

Kelly Cercone I am super excited to be talking about "the Fall", which is probably my favorite movie of all time. And when you guys mentioned it during the "Mirror, Mirror" episode I was...I just got really excited and I messaged you pretty much a day later.

Sarah Timm And I was really excited because you are...I just want to say you're a great get for a podcast guest about a podcast about costuming because

Jojo Siu Absolutely!

Sarah Timm You're legit and amazing. But also I was saying this you off mic but everything that I know about the fall for the most part I know because of Kelly's posts and her cosplay of it. And I've just been an admirer of the costumes from afar, so I'm excited to deep dive into them today.

Jojo Siu Absolutely. I'm so glad we're covering this in a different way. Even if we don't cover another episode normally.

Kelly Cercone This movie has so many costumes in it. It would...it....There's a lot of ground to cover.

Jojo Siu Absolutely. Perfect for one episode.

Sarah Timm Totally. Yeah, we can really take our time. This is exciting.

Jojo Siu All right. So I already gave you power to share. So whenever you are ready, Kelly.

Kelly Cercone All right. Okay, so...should I...I'll just start by talking about the movie. A little bit?

Sarah Timm Yeah, tell us whatever you feel like we need to know before we get into the clothes.

Kelly Cercone "The Fall: was directed by Tarsem Singh and costume designed by Eiko Ishioka, which...this was the second movie that they collaborated on. The first being "The Cell" and then "The Fall", "The Immortals" and last "Mirror, Mirror" for which Eiko won her Oscar. The movie was loosely based off of a 1981 film called "Yo, Ho, Ho" which was a Bulgarian language film. It was released in 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival and theatrically released in 2008. And it had pretty mixed reviews when it came out. I guess a lot of people went to go watch it thinking it would be like a comedy and then were very surprised when it was not.

Sarah Timm Was it marketed more as a comedy? Because sometimes that's all in the marketing, you know?

Kelly Cercone I mean, I think people just thought it was gonna be like, oh, a fantasy adventure, you know, they weren't expecting it to be as sad as it is. The movie was largely funded by Tarsem himself. Because a lot of people were very confused when he tried to explain that he wanted to make a movie that was partially written by a four-year-old. And one of the things that he wanted to do, because he did "The Cell" because there was so much CGI in it, he really wanted to try and do the opposite of that. So all of the locations in the film, they're actually on location. And they filmed in 20 different countries over the course of four years. And he said of working with Eiko, "we heard Eiko was really difficult to get, but we fell down on our knees. It turned out to not be so hard. She worked on every one of my films." Oh, and "I had enough of that in my first film. As much as I enjoyed it. I decided in this one, the art direction was going to be in the landscape and in the costume design and nothing else." And I feel like you really see that in "The Cell" because it really is the setting...the places that he found. And then the costumes. There's not a lot of other bells and whistles until it comes to the storytelling. And this movie really is a love letter to storytelling. Because it wasn't very popular when it came out. It was very hard to research. I couldn't actually find any quotes from Eiko herself about the movie, which was really disappointing.

Sarah Timm We've had a few of those sometimes there's just no information to be had, you know?

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu I actually feel like I kind of had that with "Mirror, mirror" too. She just...there's not a lot she says about her work, because I think she sort of lets it speak for itself.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. Oh, I did find one quote. This was right before she did "Mirror, mirror". She talked about how she wanted to try doing something computer generated, like "Toy Story", but in real life.

Sarah Timm Whoa!

Jojo Siu That would have been so cool.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. And she she said that she was actually disappointed that she got so famous for doing costume design, because she...I mean, she was a production designer and she had a really long award winning career as a graphic and advertising artists. So when she got really famous for costumes, that's the only thing people wanted to hire her for.

Sarah Timm Wow, I didn't know that.

Jojo Siu It makes a lot of sense. Like where that artistic vision comes from. Because of the graphic design background. Yeah, I can see a lot of that translation. That's so cool, though.

Kelly Cercone Because this movie is kind of hard to explain. I'm just going to read a plot synopsis. Because I feel like if we go costume to costume,

Sarah Timm It's gonna be bonkers.

Kelly Cercone You'll miss a lot because a lot about this movie is...it's like playing with archetypes, like storytelling archetypes. So a lot of the characters are those archetypes but they're also...it's kind of like the Wizard of Oz where it's double cast. So you'll see the real life person, that character in the story that's being told, shows up as. So, in 1915 Los Angeles, heartbroken stunt man Roy Walker is hospitalized and possibly paralyzed after taking a jump in his first film. He meets Alexandria, a young Romanian born patient in the hospital, who is recovering from a broken arm and begins to tell her a story about her namesake, Alexander the Great. Alexandria is told she has to leave, but Roy promises to tell her an epic tale if she returns the next day. The next morning, as Roy spins his tale of fantasy, Alexandria's imagine brings his characters to life. Roy's tale is about five heroes, a silent Indian warrior, and ex-slave, an Italian explosive expert, Charles Darwin, a pet monkey named Wallace and a massive swashbuckling bandit. An evil ruler named Governor Odious has committed an offense against each of the five who will seek revenge. The heroes are later joined by a sixth hero--a mystic. It quickly becomes apparent however, Roy has an ulterior motive for telling the story. He wants to gain Alexandria's trust, so hecan get her to steal medicine for him that he can use to commit suicide. I feel like this entire movie needs to have a trigger warning for suicide.

Sarah Timm Yes.

Jojo Siu Absolutely

Kelly Cercone It is riddled throughout the movie, from Roy's depression and suicide ideation, when he actually attempts to commit suicide. And some of the other characters also commit sort of suicide in different scenarios later on towards the end. And there's also child abuse, child manipulation and child death. There are parts of this movie that are really intense and they kind of sneak up on you. So for anyone who wants to skip the, the more emotional part of it, I would stop at the one hour and two minute mark or when Roy asks Alexandria if she likes chocolate.

Jojo Siu It's a good marker.

Sarah Timm Yeah

Kelly Cercone Yeah. Well, I looked it up because I...the movie. It's so pretty and fun. And then it just takes a hard turn, and if you're not expecting it, it can be a lot. Okay, so getting to the actual costumes now.

Sarah Timm Whoo.

Kelly Cercone This is Alexandria. And she spends the whole movie in this cast, which is really cute because she's always walking around carrying this box that has all of her special things in it. And a lot of the items in it show up in different ways throughout the movie. I know you guys like a good sweater. And she has a really cute sweater.

Sarah Timm We do!

Jojo Siu She knows

Kelly Cercone like it has this nice little detailing down the side and it's so cute. And I think it's supposed to be winter in Los Angeles, like they're definitely in LA, but I think it's supposed to be winter because otherwise, you would be way too warm to wear a sweater.

Sarah Timm Like a breezy 65. You know?

Kelly Cercone Yeah, exactly. And she spends most of the movie in various sort of dressing gowns, and they usually have a little bit of lace around the collar and sometimes some pin tucking. And they're just...they're super cute.

Sarah Timm She's adorable.

Kelly Cercone She IS adorable.

Jojo Siu I love how she's wearing this sweater around her cast.

Kelly Cercone Well, it wouldn't fit! It wouldn't fit otherwise.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu Right. So cute.

Kelly Cercone And here's Roy. And you pretty much only see him in this shirt. And then later on another sweater. He basically in the real world, he wears the same outfit the whole time. And you never see him from the waist down, which I think was to sort of help sell that he was paralyzed. And I guess when they were filming, they didn't tell her that he could walk. She actually thought that he was paralyzed.

Sarah Timm Oh my gosh.

Kelly Cercone They they went really above and beyond to try and get a very authentic response from her. I guess, even though she didn't necessarily have lines, Lee Pace, who plays Roy, would say his dialogue and then she would respond...like improv respond. And then he would play along with her. So a lot of the dialogue in the movie she made up on the spot. And she didn't speak English. So a lot of her...you're actually watching her learn and speak English over the course of the film.

Sarah Timm Wow, that's amazing!

Jojo Siu I had heard that.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. And you can I mean, you can tell to like cuz you can, when she's speaking, you can kind of see that she's trying to figure out how to phrase a question.

Sarah Timm Mm hmm.

Kelly Cercone Um, but yeah, his shirt...I did notice, compared to some of the other characters that you see later on, that are wearing more modern shirts. He's actually wearing a slightly, what feels to me like a sort of Pioneer-y shirt. And I wondered if that was a nod to the fact that he's a stuntman and westerns. And maybe this is more what he's comfortable wearing. Because he's usually wearing something like this in a film.

Sarah Timm Interesting.

Kelly Cercone And all of the textiles in the hospital are very worn in, you know. They've probably been washed a million times, it looks very soft. And here is the two of them in bed. As they they spend pretty much the whole time storytelling in various snuggly positions, talking back and forth to each other.

Sarah Timm I did notice when I was watching it last night, I was like, wow, her. She's such a good actress. And you know, like children are not always really good actors. So I was definitely impressed by her. And it makes sense why it feels so natural is because it was it was because right being really natural. That's so

Kelly Cercone yeah. And the curtain that was around his bed, I guess sometimes they would cut holes in the curtain and film through the hole. So that it was just like sort of the two of them interacting. One thing that's worth noting, when you're watching the story unfold in this movie, Roy is the narrator. Like you're always hearing him speaking but what you're actually seeing is from Alexandria, his imagination. So there ends up being some kind of like funny visual dialogue jokes, because they're clearly thinking of different things.

Jojo Siu That's okay. So that was really fun part of the movie that I remember, I think they did that really well.

Kelly Cercone Oh, this is maybe more for later, but because stunt men are really important in this film. I wanted to show you guys this photo of the stunt men.

Sarah Timm Yes!

Kelly Cercone ...who played all of the main characters.

Sarah Timm Shout out, stuntmen.

Jojo Siu That's so great. That's awesome.

Kelly Cercone All right. First up is the bandit. Now this...three different characters wear this costume over the course of the film. The first person we see wearing it is Alexandria's father, and this is when Roy has decided to make him this character in her story. And he starts talking about him being one of the two brothers that bandit brothers. Later, Roy takes over that role when it becomes clear that Alexandria either doesn't understand what he's trying to do or doesn't want her father in the story. So Roy takes on the role of the bandit. And then finally towards the end of the movie, Alexandria inserts herself into the narrative and she becomes the bandits' daughter. She literally shows up and it's like "It's me! Your long lost daughter!"

Kelly Cercone And that's the two of them here.

Sarah Timm Oh my gosh.

Jojo Siu It's so cute.

Kelly Cercone It's...It's so cute.

Jojo Siu I very distinctly remember when I watched this movie, when she comes out with her little red mask, I was just like, "Yay!"

Sarah Timm Everything is cuter when you make it small.

Kelly Cercone And she's so cute. Like, I think she does.. she tips her little mask up, like "See! See!" This costume...First they start off by saying that he's Spanish, and later the bandit is switched to being French. So there's some sort of mishmashing of elements happening in his costume. But notable is the overly wide suede chaps. And I think that's kind of a nod to him, you know, as the bandit is riding a horse and stealing stuff. But they're very over the top.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone There's a lot of very subtle texture in his robe. It's a silk habotai. And the mask that they all wear is like a raw silk. And his belt has a lot of tooling on it. And the braid is also...I mean it has a very decorative pattern when you zoom in on it. And for how decorative his costume is...I mean, it's silk...you don't think of a bandit wearing a silk outfit riding a horse, but it's still very functional. You see him fighting and swashbuckling in this costume throughout the whole movie and it moves really beautifully.

Sarah Timm Yeah. Silk can really be...I think people associate silk with being really fragile and it's you know,

Kelly Cercone It's super strong!

Sarah Timm ....People associate charmeuse and chiffon and floaty and light, but it is really strong. It can be a real workhorse fabric.

Jojo Siu Definitely.

Kelly Cercone Next up is the slave Otta Benga. And the name that they gave him, I feel is a very intentional choice. This is something that Roy probably would have been aware of and why he chose this name because he's based off...er not based off of, but Otta Benga is the real last name of a real life enslaved man who was put on display in the Bronx Zoo in 1906. So Roy probably would have heard about this in the news and maybe that's why he chose the name. I also feel that he was an intentional choice because the real life Otta Benga died by suicide. So I think the director, you know, wanted to pay homage to him and also just thought that it tied in with the themes of the movie. Otta Benga, he broke out of his chains when Governor Odious killed his brother. So his headdress: I actually found some photos from the craftsperson who made the headdress, Adam Howarth, and he said that the beaded headdress was made from iron, iron pyrite or fool's gold. And the horns are resin. I tried to see if they were from any specific animal. And the closest I could find was a Scimitar Oryx.

Sarah Timm Mm.

Jojo Siu Mmm! It's a beautiful shape. And pattern.

Kelly Cercone The beading is also on the belts of his costume, along with some fur and some more suede. This is his real life counterpart. He is an ice delivery man to the hospital. And he teases Alexandria, because she comes and tries to eat some of the ice. And I noticed that he's wearing a hat. His hat is gray in both worlds. And he's wearing a little shawl here, which sort of comes back later. So I'm just pointing it out. But I like that they have these shots of him with a cart in both versions of the story.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu Mmhmm. A lot of parallels.

Sarah Timm I had a whole watching that last night with the ice delivery. I had a whole like mental journey. I went on thinking about ice deliveries and how it used to be something that was like part of people's everyday lives and how wild that is.

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu That and milk delivery.

Kelly Cercone Yeah!

Sarah Timm There is a man who came and brought you the ice.

Sarah Timm Anyway. Blew my mind a little bit.

Kelly Cercone Next up is Luigi. And he is very stylish and tailored compared to everyone else. He has this long mustard cloak with little red lining that's visible periodically. And the back of the coat has this really beautiful raised embroidery applique and I love the neckline and the collar and the cuffs of his coat. It's these like circular pieces that have a lot of movement, like when he's, you know, pointing his gun or running around.

Sarah Timm I've never seen that sort of cuff before and it looks so cool.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, I, I was trying to like find if there was any historical reference for it. And the closest I could come up to is in the 17th century, like sometimes you saw those kind of overlay circular shapes on shoe pieces.

Jojo Siu Mmm, mmhmm. Yeah.

Kelly Cercone I mean, it could not be that and....

Sarah Timm Right. The closest.

Kelly Cercone Spoilers, but in his death scene, he opens up his coat, and it has pockets!

Sarah Timm All the pockets!

Kelly Cercone Pockets full of dynamite. And I also don't...he has, what you think is a shirt is actually an asymmetrical vest that's open on one side?

Sarah Timm Look at that.

Kelly Cercone That's his shoulder and it goes down to his stomach.

Jojo Siu I was just thinking that. It's almost like a halter top.

Kelly Cercone It's just really unexpected. It's like the most...the most buttoned up covered character, when he's like, "Surprise!"

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm Secretly sexy inside.

Kelly Cercone And this is his real life counterpart, which is a friend of Roy's on a fellow stunt man, who has a prosthetic leg that shows up in various symbolic forms throughout the movie. Oh, yeah, I also like this one, because it shows that his real life counterpart is also more tailored than some of the other characters we see.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Kelly Cercone He's also wearing a nice suit and nice shoes.

Sarah Timm Tied together like the fantasy and real world versions.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Kelly Cercone Next we have the Indian. And he's a really good example of how Roy and Alexandria are interpreting the story differently, because it's clear from the phrasing that Roy uses that he's referring to a Native American. But Alexandria is picturing her friend from the orange groves, who is an Indian immigrant from India. So it becomes a bit of a joke.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone And his costume is beautiful. The outer shell is an emerald green organza that there's a lot of pleating in the skirt, and in the stylized turban, and it's worn over an underlayer that's sort of a rust, maybe cotton or linen. And at one point he rips...he pulls out a piece or rips off a piece to make into a blindfold, because after the death of his squaw, he made a vow never to look upon another woman. And the reason that his wife died was because of Governor Odious, which is why he wants to kill her.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone It's actually really really sad. He...Governor Odious...furthering the theme of suicide throughout the movie, Governor Odious kidnapped his wife. And when she wouldn't, I guess, love him, he put her in a maze that has no escape, except to jump off of a tower and kill yourself.

Sarah Timm Ugh. That's so dark.

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu Trigger warning number like 20 at this point.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, basically.

Sarah Timm I love that sheer green over the rust. That's...gorge.

Jojo Siu Yeah

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu That's one of my favorite color greens too. That emerald color. Ugh, It's so gorgeous.

Sarah Timm Love.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. And I mean, I have to think it was intentional, but his beard. I love his beard. It always looks sort of styled. They got it to go in the different directions. And when he takes off his turban later in the movie, he has this gorgeous long hair that you're just not really expecting to have been tucked up in there.

Sarah Timm I love that.

Kelly Cercone And next we have the naturalist, Charles Darwin.

Sarah Timm This coat.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. Again, Adam Howard was one of the craftspeople who worked on it and he said that the coat...the reference for the coat was a highly magnified photo of a butterfly's wing, and that the shape was made with foam. And that the fur was hand colored.

Jojo Siu Oh my gosh!

Sarah Timm Wait, so underneath there is foam. Oh, that's amazing.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, to get it to have that structure and shape and to hold away from his body.

Jojo Siu Mm hmm.

Sarah Timm Wow.

Jojo Siu Even the arms.

Sarah Timm Yeah are the sleeves foam too?

Kelly Cercone Maybe I it didn't specify.

Jojo Siu There might be some in there.

Sarah Timm Yeah, it looks like it.

Jojo Siu Just the way it's kind of holding up.

Sarah Timm Yeah. That's so cool.

Jojo Siu Mmhmm.

Kelly Cercone And here's Wallace who spends most of the film being carried around in a little bag. Under the coat. He is wearing a white shirt and pants, which his real life counterpart is a hospital orderly, and he's pretty much wearing the same outfit. Like this is what Alexandria sees him wearing on a daily basis. And to remind the audience that he's British, I guess they put him in a bowler hat and jacket. Which makes...it makes a very nice look with the the coat. I'm not mocking it. It's just funny.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm It looks a little bit clockwork orange-y too.

Kelly Cercone I was thinking that, but I don't think that was what they wanted. Because Darwin is so not edgy.

Sarah Timm Yeah.

Jojo Siu Definitely not.

Sarah Timm I guess it's just the white outfit with the black bowler.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, yeah.

Sarah Timm That automatically calls it to mind, you know?

Kelly Cercone Yeah, no, the second he takes the coat off. You're like, Huh.

Jojo Siu Throwback.

Sarah Timm I've never seen Clockwork Orange by the way. I don't think I need to.

Jojo Siu It was a pretty disturbing movie. I watched it once. And I was like, mmmm...I don't need to see that again.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, it is. I mean, it is really pretty. The production design on that movie is so good.

Sarah Timm Yeah.

Jojo Siu Mm hmm. Yeah. Beautifully done, but hard to watch.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, for sure. Um, so next is the mystic. And he's sort of a combination of two characters. The other orange faker that Alexandria is a friend with and then Otto, who is an old man who is in the hospital. And he sort of...he comforts her at various points in the movie when she's afraid. And he makes jokes about having magic teeth and how to make monsters go away by saying oogly googly. So she sort of combines these two characters into, you know, a magic man who can kind of do a little bit of everything. And they meet him when he literally comes out of a tree. I forget if it's hit by lightning, or just spontaneously bursts into flame. But he crawls out of it and his hair are part of the tree and sort of scrambles out like roots. And he's slowly become sort of more human looking throughout the movie. Since they're all trying to find Governor Odious. He...I mean, he eats Darwin's map, which is poisonous. So then he goes to his friends and they do a ritual to make the directions to Governor Odious show up on his skin. So his skin becomes the map.

Sarah Timm Cool.

Kelly Cercone And the ritual that they do is based off of a real life chant called the Kecak. And it's a Balinese Hindu dance that is part of Ramayana and is traditionally performed in temples. The checkered robes that they're wearing is actually part of the rituals. So I like that they included that in the movie, even though they're using this ritual in a very non-traditional way.

Sarah Timm That's nice, like a little...

Jojo Siu That's so fascinating.

Sarah Timm Yeah, like a little nod to the real life thing. That's cool.

Jojo Siu I'm trying to remember now, because my family went and saw an original Balinese temple dance, but I assume it was not the same thing because they weren't wearing exactly this, but a lot of the movements now are making me try and remember if they did anything similar when I watched it, but it's so fascinating, though.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. Well, I mean, from what I read, it's part of a specific story, that it's part of telling the story. So I mean, maybe they don't perform it outside of telling that story.

Jojo Siu Right, right.

Kelly Cercone So Governor Odious' soldiers are based off of....At one point in the movie Alexandria sees a man doing x-rays, and it really, really scares her so the soldiers become the nightmare version of the 1920s X-ray outfit, which is a leather apron with a metal breastplate and helmet. And they take that and they sort of...really dehumanize it by blacking out the face and the eyes. And they take away their hands, they take away features that make them recognizable as humans.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone And they sort of move in a pack in the movie. Like they have very stylish movements and all of the noises they make are hyenas.

Sarah Timm *gasp.

Kelly Cercone So they're like, cackling.

Jojo Siu So creepy.

Sarah Timm Wow. That's...that's extremely creepy. I feel like I should explain to the listeners that I tapped out at the 40 minute mark of this movie, but I definitely intend to go back. I've had a long week. And I was like, I can't pay attention this tonight. It deserves my attention.

Jojo Siu Save it for another day.

Sarah Timm So some of these are a surprise to me and some are not.

Jojo Siu Yeah, I can only imagine as a four-year-old.

Kelly Cercone They're...I mean, they're definitely...they're not in a ton of scenes. But they're...I mean, they're just so beautiful. In a creepy way.

Sarah Timm Oh, yeah.

Jojo Siu Creepy to a four year old, but really beautiful for us.

Sarah Timm The helmet almost...it looks almost like, I don't know, a kitchen appliance or something. But like a very evil one.

Jojo Siu And almost like it's formed to the head

Kelly Cercone Like a coffee grinder or a pepper grinder. Or a blender.

Jojo Siu Like a deformed one, that's gotten kind of crushed in.

Sarah Timm I just went to IKEA today. Maybe I just have home furnishings on my brain. The gloves are very creepy.

Jojo Siu Yeah, it's like they have spoons for hands.

Sarah Timm That's how I draw my hands because I can't draw. So I just draw like a little diamond.

Jojo Siu A little spoon or spade.

Sarah Timm It's just kind of like this.

Jojo Siu Very creepy.

Kelly Cercone So next up is Governor Odious. So part of what is feeding into Roy's depression is...the movie that he was in, he was dating the lead actress in the film. And she breaks up with him and starts dating the lead actor in the film, who is Sinclair. So Sinclair takes on the role of Governor Odious in the story, because Roy really hates him and Alexandria picks up on that. So in real life, he's wearing a striped suit jacket, which is very warm and kind of soft looking. and stylish white pants, and then the story counterpart of him. He's wearing also a stripe coat, but it's very shiny and slick and colorful. And it's just a little over the top. And I don't know if they...he ends up dying in a pool. And I don't know if that was meant to be a "Great Gatsby" reference or not. But it is the 19-...he's very 1920s.

Sarah Timm I feel like 1920s man dying in a pool is...you can't help but think of "Great Gatsby".

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu Very true.

Sarah Timm I like that fabric.

Sarah Timm Smart fabric.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. And his vest...

Jojo Siu It's a really nice color.

Kelly Cercone I don't know, it's very hard to see but it does....this vest also has stripes.

Kelly Cercone Hmm. Love it.

Jojo Siu Beautiful. It's got a nice play of textures.

Kelly Cercone So after they have the map, they...they're trying to find Governor Odious. And they come upon this big wagon and they think he's inside, but they open it up and surprise. It's actually Evelyn. And Evelyn is a very complicated character, because she embodies a lot of the heartbreak and mixed feelings that Roy is having about his girlfriend and she's played by nurse Evelyn or sister Evelyn, who is a nun who works in the hospital. So she has...you first see her in her cute little nun outfit, nurse outfit, which is very starched and clean. And you only see Roy's ex-girlfriend for a second and she's wearing a very simple linen sort of driving suit. When I think of pictures of Edwardian ladies wearing driving suits with the big hats, but she has hair that is a little more 1930s.

Kelly Cercone Mmhmm

Jojo Siu Mmhmm.

Kelly Cercone When she appears in the story as Princess Evelyn, she's wearing this...

Jojo Siu Ugh. My favorite.

Kelly Cercone Beautiful gown.

Sarah Timm There it is.

Jojo Siu So beautiful.

Kelly Cercone This costume is very Chinese inspired, from the reference pictures that I looked up. I am going to guess that it was inspired by the Ming Dynasty specifically. And then it has very stylized Lotus embroidery down the front and these bands that...they're sort of... when you look closely, they're not completely attached. They're kind of floating on the surface of this sleeve to make this...just her sleeves very structured and a focal point. And she has this very elaborate hat with a veil of fans that then open.

Sarah Timm Oh, that's so cool.

Kelly Cercone And surprise! She has pants underneath, I think.

Sarah Timm Beautiful and functional.

Kelly Cercone Oh no wait that's just her sleeves. I'm wrong. Oh well this...this scene is funny, because I...Oh wait, you didn't get that far!

Sarah Timm I'm sorry.

Kelly Cercone She's like....Roy's telling this story, right? And he can tell that Alexandria has to go pee. But Evelyn is acting out that she has to go to the bathroom as she's talking to him. And it's so funny.

Sarah Timm Okay, yeah. That's hilarious.

Jojo Siu You must watch the second half of this movie soon Sarah.

Sarah Timm At 11 when I was turning it off. I was like 'Kelly's gonna beat me up'.

Kelly Cercone Well, now you'll just have a greater appreciation when you watch it.

Jojo Siu It's true.

Sarah Timm Exactly. Yes.

Jojo Siu You'll catch all the little trips.

Kelly Cercone So next, Alexandria has decided that she wants romance in the movie, or in the stories, so she sort of pushes Roy to make this a romantic love interest. And we see Evelyn in this very, very over the top sort of fairy princess. And there's a corseted bodice, so I'm like, maybe it's a little bodice ripper, although she's probably way too young to know what that is. I mean, this just screams romantic heroine. And she has a line about how feeling like, "I was like a bird in a cage". And then there's music playing and Alexandria is singing her lines. And then she literally has birds. So the story is like...because you find out she was betrothed to Governor Odious. And she's like, "Oh, I've been rescued now by this bandit, and he loves me!" So, you know, this is their great moment here.

Sarah Timm Classic romance novel sort of story.

Kelly Cercone And her locket that she's wearing is the same locket that Roy gave his girlfriend in real life. So a lot of his...he's having a lot of feels in this scene. And he's taking them out on her, even though, I mean, it's really his feelings about his ex-girlfriend.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone I tracked down the patternmaker--the woman who originally made this costume--her name is Jane Law, and she has some pictures on her website and surprise! The costume apparently originally had sleeves.

Sarah Timm I was gonna say...

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm What're those?

Kelly Cercone They're never in the movie. So I think they must have just decided they didn't want to use them for whatever reason. And I found another picture of the same costume in a museum. And there, it only had one sleeve.

Jojo Siu Only one sleeve. Interesting.

Sarah Timm That's odd.

Jojo Siu It's like seeing all the different options of what you could and couldn't do with this.

Kelly Cercone But I mean, I love this costume. It's my favorite costume. And I mean, I just love like when you zoom in on the bodice, there's all of this texture from this lace that was clearly hand-painted and just very lovingly applied everywhere.

Sarah Timm This is the one you've made.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. Or the one I cosplayed. I didn't make this one. But I made a cosplay of it. Yeah, 'cause...right.

Sarah Timm Right, right, right, right. Yes.

Kelly Cercone Yeah. I pretty much watched this movie and then instantly lost my mind.

Jojo Siu It makes sense.

Sarah Timm We all have those moments.

Jojo Siu Especially with how beautiful these costumes are.

Kelly Cercone Oh, I forgot to show you earlier. But when...on the anniversary of Eiko's birthday, the year after she passed away. Google did a Google Doodle of her and the costumes they did were from "The Fall". So these were the three little Google doodles that they did, so it's Evelyn's Lotus dress, Luigis coat, and then, her wedding dress, which I will show you in a minute.

Sarah Timm That's so cool.

Jojo Siu So exciting!

Sarah Timm What a nice little tribute.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Kelly Cercone So yeah, after...

Sarah Timm Somebody at Google has taste.

Kelly Cercone After their little love fest, they decide to get married. And I love that each of the characters...they get slightly more dressed up. So Otta Benga puts on a orange, iridescent orange robe. The Indian puts on a little jewel brooch on his turban and The Mystic puts on gold face paint.

Sarah Timm Just a little gussied up.

Kelly Cercone It's very simple, but they really made an effort for their friend and this scene is very surreal because at this point, Roy has taken what he thinks is a whole bottle of morphine. So he's kind of tripping out and is spinning, and then they're surrounded by Sufi's...like Sufi dancers who are doing a meditative dance, and it's very surreal and beautiful.

Sarah Timm I love the big skirts.

Jojo Siu And can you just explain to us what the Sufi dancers are for our audience members who do not know what that is

Sarah Timm I don't know what that is. I was nodding my head like I knew, but I don't.

Jojo Siu Sorry to put you on the spot, 'cause I realized I was like "oh I don't think I know what that is."

Kelly Cercone I knew I wouldn't remember everything, so I tried to take notes.

Jojo Siu Totally fine.

Kelly Cercone It is a meditative practice for a certain branch of Islam. So that, I guess it's a ritual.

Jojo Siu Very cool. Thank you, I'm sure we would have one person out there asking that.

Kelly Cercone In this movie, it's probably very stylized and not how it is in real life. I would assume...

Jojo Siu Right

Kelly Cercone ...because I feel like I have seen videos of Sufi dancers before and it does not look like this, and one thought that I had about the colors of their outfits, which I will come back to, after we talk about her wedding dress, but I think that this color choice of the white over the blue was intentional. So, This is Evelyn's wedding dress. And as you can see, it is just...

Sarah Timm That's so beautiful,

Kelly Cercone It has sleeves similar to her Lotus dress but they're much more structured, they're almost padded, or I think they are padded or quilted with rolls. The fabric is a very 3-D jacquard, and maybe even trapunto like here on the sleeves, you can see there are these raised portions. And it has sleeves like her Lotus dress but it's much more fitted and even has like a bustle in the back. These pleats fan out over something, doing support here and I see maybe an outline of a hoop. And yeah and I mean her headdress is just amazing...

Jojo Siu Just phenomenal.

Kelly Cercone This film has a lot of use of veils and masks, as I'm sure you've seen, which I can only assume is symbolic of hiding one's true feelings and emotions and motivations, and so there's a lot of duplicitousness in this movie.

Sarah Timm Yeah, the padded rolls remind me sort of, of kimonos. We had to make one for M. Butterfly that you would have to you know, like roll a whole thing of batting, you know, every hem is like this padded rolls.

Kelly Cercone I mean, you can kind of see, it does look like it is also padded at the hem. You can see kind of a little tulle down there.

Sarah Timm Yep, It's a cool effect.

Jojo Siu I think a lot of the kimonos have that layered sleeve look too, so it's kind of...it's very reminiscent of that.

Kelly Cercone I'm sure, I mean, I'm sure even if she wasn't thinking of that, it was in her design aesthetic, obviously.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Kelly Cercone So, going back to the Sufi's for a second. When I was also looking through her scenes, it kind of made me think of like a bed comforter, which then led me down this thought train of like, "Oh well, maybe the white over the blue is supposed to be symbolic of the weight of his relationship, and heartbreak is smothering him, like a too-big blanket. It might be a stretch, but I was like, "hmmm, it's just late night" .

Jojo Siu While you're in bed. It makes sense. I can see that connection there.

Sarah Timm Even if it's not something that was intended by the filmmakers, it's fun to sort of find those little, maybe symbolic things that you can read into as a viewer,

Kelly Cercone Yeah, I mean, this movie has so many things in it that you can take symbolism from and I'm sure there's even more, 'cause I'm watching this as a Western person, and the director is Indian, and I'm sure there's a lot of cultural references in here, that I'm not picking up on.

Jojo Siu Right.

Kelly Cercone And a lot of people that actually pointed that out is that there's so much interplay of different points of view, like from Roy and Alexandria and then....When you're talking about this movie being about a love letter of storytelling, it's sort of also the collaborative process of storytelling because the story changes so much throughout the course of the movie based off of the different points of view.

Jojo Siu I think that's a very non-western trope as well, of storytelling because we talk about passing stories down through generations. And I think that also carries through this movie, very very well, not just from his perspective but also from Eiko's perspective too, I think, 'cause having all those different layers, there's so much symbolism and kind of religious mysticism, that's a very big part of Eastern culture and Eastern sensibilities that I think definitely shows up. So I think that's a great point. So beautiful.

Kelly Cercone I mean, this is kind ofthe last big costume. There are a few minor things after this but, I mean really after this, it's kind of like a cartoon where a lot of the characters stay in the same costume the whole time.

Sarah Timm I like it.

Jojo Siu I think this touches on so much of what's in there though. This gives us a really good smattering of all the characters and how we see each of them in the real life, and also the fantasy element in that parallel is really fun. And what a great challenge for a costume designer to be able to kind of come up with two very distinct, but "they need to tie together" looks.

Sarah Timm Yeah.

Kelly Cercone And I guess...oh yeah! I just thought of this right now: she's wearing a very structured white hat, and when she's a nun, she's also wearing a very structured white hat. There's just so many parallels. I love it.

Jojo Siu Yeah, Eiko really thinks of everything, like in all of her movies, that's all I've ever seen.

Kelly Cercone I mean this movie... this movie had a $30 million budget! That's nothing...like it's insane that they made this movie was so little money. I know $30 million sounds like a lot and it's not for a giant movie.

Sarah Timm Not for a movie with this...

Jojo Siu Especially with all those locations too! It's insane.

Sarah Timm Well, it's like we were talking about earlier the triangle of cheap, fast and good. They picked cheap and good, and it took them four years.

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu Yep. It took them a very long time, but it was worth it.

Sarah Timm The correct decision.

Jojo Siu Yeah. Very, very true. Well thank you so much, Kelly this was so much fun. It was nice to kind of revisit the costumes, especially since I hadn't seen it in so long and I was like, "oh yeah that's what happens in this movie!" But yes, it was fun to see all of them again, and all the characters again and kind of be reminded of what happened.

Kelly Cercone I was so happy to have a chance to really dig in and research this movie because I learned even more about it and it just made me love it more, so to hear about all of the behind-the-scenes work that went into it, like what I actually managed to find, made me just love it even more.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm That's half the fun of making this podcast is the research part. I know that I have had such a good time, especially if it's one of my favorite movies, you know, finding out all these tidbits that I didn't know before, and it just deepens your appreciation for it and especially not even just as a film but it makes you appreciate the craftspeople who put their work into it and made it what it is.

Jojo Siu For sure.

Kelly Cercone Because they shot in so many different countries, they hired...a lot of times, it was a local crew, so when I was looking at the costume crew, it would be like "Seamstress: India, Seamstress, Italy". It's really...they pulled from a huge talent pool to make it happen.

Jojo Siu That's awesome. Yeah, that's great. I feel like that adds so much more of that authenticity to the process to knowing that you're not just getting one team working on everything and not saying that they can't make it beautiful, but you're getting a little bit from every country, and seeing some of that sense based on that seamstress or that team or whatever is going to whoever is going to be around.

Kelly Cercone One of the themes of the movie is collaboration and different points of view. You're actually getting input from all of these different people from all these different countries.

Sarah Timm Yes.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm Yes, completely.Well, great job.

Jojo Siu I know. Yay for all the prepwork!

Sarah Timm Expertly done.

Kelly Cercone Thank you.

Jojo Siu It was.

Sarah Timm So do you want to tell our listeners a little bit about...maybewhat you do in, you know the entertainment industry? What do you do?

Kelly Cercone Yeah so, I am a member of the Motion Picture Costumers, local 705, and I am a table person, which is really the equivalent of a firsthand for people who are in theater and know what that means. But on a daily basis, I will assist the cutter/fitter or pattern maker with easily whatever they need help with, whether that'sfinishing patterns or cutting out fabric, stitching, sort of like organizing prioritizing projects, I mean, I'm essentially an assistant to the cutter/fitter.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu Very cool.

Sarah Timm That's kind of what I do in theater, so it's funny that we sort of are parallel, but in different industries. So what have been some of your favorite projects? You could say some of your favorite films you've worked on or even favorite pieces that you're really proud of having a hand in.

Kelly Cercone There's so many. I mean I was like, over the moon when I got to work on the Mandalorian, because I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and

Sarah Timm Yeah!

Kelly Cercone I was...when I found out that they were me filming it in Los Angeles, I was snooping hardcore to try and get any information, so that I could get on that show and then I was working on Avatar, and we were walking around the studio and I looked over and I saw a poster with Boba Fett's face on it and it was like, "They're filming it here?" Literally it was two stages over.

Sarah Timm Oh my god, "I'm just gonna walk in and pretend like I already worked there."

Jojo Siu Just show up and sit down and start working.

Sarah Timm I've been here the whole time I'm sewing this thing, what are you talking about?

Jojo Siu What do you mean you don't know who I am?

Sarah Timm That's rad.

Kelly Cercone Yeah,

Jojo Siu That is pretty awesome.

Kelly Cercone That was very...

Jojo Siu Very cool.

Kelly Cercone All the Marvel films I've worked on have been really great. Yeah, and there was one pilot that I worked on that we got to make so many amazing costumes and the pilot never came out. I just get sad every time I think about it, but I mean that just happens

Sarah Timm It does.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Kelly Cercone I don't even know what the ratio is, of pilots that get canned versus into shows, but I mean it happens.

Sarah Timm What was it called?

Kelly Cercone It's called "Hieroglyph", and it was gonna be the Egyptian version of Game of Thrones.

Jojo Siu Fascinating!

Sarah Timm I would watch that.

Jojo Siu That makes me sad that it never went anywhere!

Kelly Cercone The trailer used to be up on Hulu. I don't know if it still is, but it was for a while, which surprises me. Why would you put up the trailer, if you're never going to make the show? But, okay. I mean I'm still happy to see it

Sarah Timm True. Those are for advertising things.

Jojo Siu It's true. So sad.

Sarah Timm I assume that the costumes you made for them are hopefully...hopefully they'll be used for something else lovely right.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know where they ended up. They could be in a rental house somewhere.

Sarah Timm Yeah.

Kelly Cercone They don't tell me these things.

Jojo Siu They just disappear. You never see them again.

Sarah Timm So what brought you to costuming? Do you have a specific experience in your life? Or did you always know that it was something you wanted to do?

Kelly Cercone I always knew that it was something I wanted to do, or I knew I wanted to do something, sewing related. I remember my mom telling me when I was like six or seven.We were in the car going somewhere and she turns to me and she's like...or...I turned to her and apparently I claimed that I was going to become of corset maker one day, and she was like, "okay, honey, that's...that's great".

Sarah Timm That's hilarious.

Kelly Cercone I mean I did! I become a corset maker! But yeah, I mean I think...it didn't really...it stupidly didn't really occur to me until I was in high school and saw the Lord of the Rings movies, I was like, "Oh right! This is like a JOB, job." And then I was like, "I'm gonna do that". I had a brief stint in high school, where I was like, "Oh!" or...No, I would say in junior high, where I was like "Oh! Maybe I'll become a marine biologist" and then it was like, "No I want to make costumes".

Sarah Timm I feel like...

Jojo Siu I think I had that in ninth grade too, like, "I'm gonna be a doctor".

Sarah Timm I know a lot of people who are like, "Oh yeah, I had a marine biologist phase". Everybody has a phase like that when they remember they're like "The ocean is rad. I'm gonna be a marine biologist".

Kelly Cercone Well, I mean it's like...I grew up watching National Geographic. Glorious.

Jojo Siu So fascinating. The ocean IS fascinating. There's so much in there.It's magical.

Kelly Cercone I actually met a marine biologist, and she's like, "I had literally the opposite experience. I was in school and I thought I was gonna become a fashion designer and then I became a marine biologist.

Sarah Timm Oh my god.

Jojo Siu How funny. When do you ever hear that?

Sarah Timm Did you have a Freaky Friday at some point?

Jojo Siu And just never switch back.

Sarah Timm Wow.

Jojo Siu That's so funny. So how, if you don't mind me asking, how did you kind of first get into, you know, costuming for movies? I know you said you went to FIDM with Sarah, but what was your kind of first transition between?

Kelly Cercone While I was still in school, I interned for a local stylist Mildred of Mother of London, and a lot of...she had a clothing line, but she would also do custom pieces for a lot of musicians, and then that sort of rolled into making costumes for small independent movies. And once I graduated, I mean not immediately, but...'cause you have to get 30 days to join the union, and it took me a while to get 30 days. But I was working at an all local costume house, off and on, and kind of just...I think my first...actually "hieroglyph" was the first big pilot that I worked on. And it was through people that I had met at FIDM through Paul, our teacher, and he put me in touch with Christie, who is the costume designer on "heiroglyph".

Sarah Timm It really is all about who you know.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm All of my jobs pretty much have stemmed from my first internship that I took after college, you know it's because I met that person through that, and I met them through that and it's, you know, people I've met, just through one single job.

Jojo Siu It's true. Very, very true. Very cool. Well thank you so much for telling us all about that Kelly, it's been really fascinating to hear about all the perspectives of how people get into our industry. Because I think that's also, like...We are hitting people that are obviously in our industry, but we're also hitting a lot of people who totally have no idea what we do so it's cool to be able to hear both perspectives.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, and it's very opaque from the outside. I get a lot of people messaging me asking for advice and, you know I explain it as best I can but it's really not a clear process, or even just to explain to people. They're like, "do I need a master's degree?" and I'm like, "No, you just need to be able to do the job."

Sarah Timm Yeah.

Jojo Siu Right.

Kelly Cercone And that's the opposite that most industries, you know, tell students.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm Right.

Kelly Cercone I mean, not that education is bad, I think education is amazing but it can feel very backwards sometimes.

Jojo Siu Yeah, very true.

Sarah Timm I feel left out a lot as a costume as a theater costume designer specifically that I don't have a master's, because so many working costume designers do, and I'm always just like, I have the same skill set, you know, it's just an extra thing that I didn't do. So it's interesting, what industries that matters, and then what industries it doesn't.

Jojo Siu Well, and...to be honest, where you're working Sarah, I don't really think it does matter that much. If someone DOES have an MFA, there's sometimes where I'm just kind of...I don't...It was like an extra thing. It's certainly not something that's getting me more work.

Sarah Timm Right.

Jojo Siu I mean, I shouldn't say that it's gotten me some, but it hasn't gotten me all of my jobs.

Kelly Cercone Yeah.

Jojo Siu For sure.

Kelly Cercone It's probably more...I mean, more networking.

Jojo Siu Yeah, absolutely.

Kelly Cercone Showing people that you can work hard and, you know...do the work.

Jojo Siu Yeah, totally. I think it also is about how well you work with other people right. We keep talking about collaboration and that's such a huge part of our industry too. It's not just about getting the job done. It's also about getting along with the people you're working with. so that they'll want to hire you. No one wants to work with someone who's horrible to work with, regardless of how good your skill is. Unless you know...unless you're really that far above and beyond. But most of the time., if you have a reputation for being that horrible on every job, you kind of start, you start filtering out a little bit.

Sarah Timm Yeah I think if you're established you can be a jerk to people and still get jobs, but if you're not yet, then you're not gonna get hired back.

Kelly Cercone If you've won an oscar, you can be a jerk.

Sarah Timm I should tell that to some of the jerks that I've worked with. Be like, "Excuse me, you didn't win an Oscar? Then you don't need to yell at me. Thanks so much.

Jojo Siu Yeah, totally agree. Well, thank you so much, Kelly. I hope you had fun.

Sarah Timm Yay!

Kelly Cercone I'm was just like, oh god I love this movie so much. I was like, I hope I'm not giving way too much information, and that this makes sense. Because there's so much in this movie to love.

Sarah Timm It's very dense.

Jojo Siu Yes.

Kelly Cercone But worth really diving into the nitty gritty of. I think.

Jojo Siu That's the fun of these podcasts too though. It's where you really do get to kind of dive in deep and take the time to talk about it. I feel like when we have an hour to talk about two movies, it always feels really rushed, but it's nice to be able to take our time through one and really go in.

Kelly Cercone I'm really are impressed with how much ground you guys manage to cover in one episode with two things. I'm always like, "How are they being so succinct, and descriptive?"

Jojo Siu Thank you for saying that because we certainly don't feel that.

Kelly Cercone No it was great. It's great.

Sarah Timm That's the best feedback we've ever gotten. I'm so thrilled to hear that. I'm leaving this in the episode.

Jojo Siu Especially when half the time we're like "Sarah I feel like I've talked too much. Did I cover everything? I don't feel like anybody knows what we're talking about."

Sarah Timm It's funny because a lot of the times, we'll alternate. The one episode JoJo will talk for 40 minutes and I'll talk for 20, and then we'll switch the next episode. So it's like...we kind of just fill in the spaces as needed.

Jojo Siu Very true.

Sarah Timm But yeah. Thank you for joining us to nerd out about costumes, It's the best.

Kelly Cercone Thank you for having me.

Sarah Timm You're so welcome. Can you tell our listeners where to find you on the internet, if they feel inclined? They're probably...I think, based on discussions there's only one place, but tell them where that is.

Kelly Cercone Yeah, I am sort of taking a break from social media. So really the only thing I have right now is Instagram, which I periodically update. But a lot of my prior work and tutorials and whatnot are still on there for people to look at and I respond to questions, almost all the time, as long as they're not creepy.

Sarah Timm We'll link you in the episode description, so that people can go right to you in the profile.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm Awesome.

Jojo Siu Cool. Well thanks again, this was really successful. Great job Kelly!

Kelly Cercone Thank you

Sarah Timm All right, so that's it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoyed it.

Jojo Siu Yeah, and join us next time.

Sarah Timm Yeah we have some good movies coming up.

Jojo Siu Yeah.

Sarah Timm I'm excited about it!

Jojo Siu I'm excited!

Sarah Timm Alright, that's it.

Jojo Siu Thanks everyone. We'll catch you on the next one. Bye!

Sarah Timm Bye!

Jojo Siu Thank you for listening to the Costume plot. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @thecostumeplot. If you have a question, comment or movie suggestion, you can email us at [email protected].

Sarah Timm Our theme music is by Jesse Timm, and our artwork is by Jojo Siu. Please rate and review us wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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Untitled in Space (Ch.1/4)

Loki x Reader

Summary: After Ragnarok, the people of Asgard must learn to forge a new identity, under the guidance of a new king. Everyone must do their part to ensure the survival of their group: but with adventures to be had, mishaps guaranteed, and trouble both inside and out of the spaceship, the journey will be anything but uneventful. Word Count: 2,453 (oh my god) Warnings: bad writing, Thor: Ragnarok Spoilers (I guess? the whole series is after the movie, so...) A/N: I’m surprised at how well the prologue was received! I hope I don’t disappoint aaah

Prologue ~ Part Two ~ Part Three ~ Part Four

Your bare feet padded softly along the cool, metal floor as Heimdall took you to the throne room. You wouldn’t call it that, really – it was the captain’s room of a ship, not a grand hall – but somehow it carried the same sacred weight. You pulled up the skirts of your dress absently, balling the fine fabric in your fingers. It occurred to you that it was now your only piece of clothing.

“I never thanked you for your help,” Heimdall said suddenly.

You frowned slightly. “What do you mean?”

“For aiding me in the evacuation,” he explained. While your pace was even, you had to take two steps for his single stride. He rolled his shoulder in a shrugging motion. “I knew I could trust few. You have always been ready to adapt when needed. Even if you’ve taken on a more traditional role as of late,” he added, gesturing to your dress and hair, both akin to traditional Asgardian style. “That flexibility is a skill that serves you well.”

“I learned from the best,” you supplied, your mouth forming a tight-lipped smile.

“So you did,” he agreed amiably, turning down the hallway and stepping through the open doorway. You followed at his side, dropping your skirts and clearing your throat before looking up. Your eyes widened in surprise to see Thor coming to meet you, a smile split wide on his face. Before you knew it, you were swept up in a hug, laughing despite yourself as he spun you around.

“Oh, my friend, I’ve missed you,” he grinned, setting you down gently. For such a tall, strong figure, he was always incredibly gentle.

“The same,” you admitted, smiling and gesturing up to your face. “I like the look.”

“The– oh, the eye. Yes, it’s growing on me.”

“It suits you,” you laughed. Your smile faded as your eyes focused to the person standing at the helm, her silhouette outlined by the starlight through the glass. Your head bowed slightly as you lowered your eyelids in respect. “Lady Valkyrie.”

“Oh, please,” she snorted, tossing a thin, empty bottle into the air and catching it repeatedly. She stepped down from the helm a bit unsteadily, her laugh breathy and low. “You can cut the theatrics.”

You frowned, head lifting to look at Thor for guidance. He shrugged. You cleared your throat, decidedly squaring your shoulders and nodding. “Alright, then.”

Valkyrie laughed, continuing to walk towards you, raising her eyebrows at Thor as if impressed. “Alright, then,” she mimicked, catching the bottle and using it to point in your direction. “I’ll see you… no.” her eyes narrowed and she moved the bottle to Thor, pursing her lips. “You. I’ll see you later.”

“Rest well,” Thor nodded, glancing at Heimdall. He nodded imperceptibly, turning to walk with Valkyrie as she exited the room, intent on escorting her safely to her destination. The metal doors slid closed, leaving you alone with Thor in the large, empty room.

“Is she drunk all the time?”

“I can’t tell, to be honest,” he admitted easily, and you laughed. His easy-going honesty was something you’d missed. It struck you with a sudden, painful nostalgia. You looked down at the floor, shifting your weight and wiggling your toes. Thor looked down as well, chuckling. “And how did you misplace your shoes?”

“I used the flat soles as an arm brace and the soft fabric for wraps,” you answered automatically, shrugging. “The temperature in the ship is pleasant. The only thing I need fear is dirty feet.”

“So you’ve been helping the wounded?” Thor asked, moving towards the helm. You followed, taking your time as you spoke.

“I began working as soon as we took off. Suturing, resetting bones, wrapping…” you sighed. “I’m sure this ship has medicinal capabilities. But we haven’t had the time to do any sort of exploring. I’m sure there’s a map somewhere…”

“That would be useful,” he admitted, sitting down in the chair and propping one knee up, leaning on his elbow.

“...and we’re low on supplies,” you continued. “Bedding, food, medicine. I know you received a headcount–”

“Nine hundred and forty-eight, yes.”

“–but they’re disorganized. Some people still haven’t found their families, friends. We’ve already lost two adults and one child to severe injury.” You exhaled deeply as you stepped up to the helm, coming to stand beside him. The two of you gazed out of the glass, watching the slow passing of a rosy, auburn nebula, spread out like broken spiderwebs. Is this what our descendants will do, you wondered, instead of look for shapes in the clouds?

You realized Thor had been speaking. Your raised a hand to your face, rubbing your eyes. You could feel the dull beginnings of a headache in the back of your skull.

“Sorry, what?”

“You have a better grasp of our situation than anyone else,” Thor repeated, watching as you tried to banish your fatigue. “Heimdall was right to suggest you.”

“I appreciate his recommendation.”

“And I know you’ll impress. You always have,” he admitted easily, his smile kind.

You scoffed lightly in response, sighing as you crossed your arms. A faint humming resounded within the walls and you felt a slight draft of fresh, cool air. “Your brother didn’t think so.”

Thor frowned, tilting his head. There was a small, knowing smile on his face, but less joyous. “I’m think I disagree.”

You shrugged, trying to keep your expression impassive. “Do you mourn, still?” Your voice sounded hollow in your throat.

Thor frowned. Did you not know?

He opened his mouth, but you inhaled deeply before he could respond and smiled graciously. “Back to the matter at hand. What would you have me do?”

“Take the role of chief advisor, of course,” he replied automatically, but his expression was still troubled. “Give you authority to… delegate, organize. You'll be needing an outfit to suit the job,” he added, smiling as you looked down at your tattered state, as if seeing the rips and stains in your dress for the first time.

You laughed quietly, nodding. “I agree. This doesn't quite suit me anymore.” You snapped your fingers suddenly. “That reminds me. When are we stopping at a port?”

Thor frowned, shrugging. “I… honestly hadn't considered that.”

“We have to. As soon as possible,” you stressed. “And do a full run-through of the ship to see what supplies are already on board.”

“Yes, that's true,” he murmured, sighing before standing up and nodding. “I assume you'll want to go off-ship yourself?”

“Definitely.”

“I'll arrange a party, then, and stop at the earliest opportunity.” He smiled, putting his large hand on your shoulder gently. “I'm truly glad to have you here, Y/N. We’d be wanting for guidance without you.”

You blushed, shrugging and crossing your arms, smiling faintly. “At your service, my King.”

Thor pressed his knuckles to his lips gently, walking alongside the glass windows. He hadn’t yet adjusted to the lack of sunlight to tell the time, and despite the exhaustion in his body, sleep was far from his mind. Instead, he was thinking of you.

How could you possibly not know Loki was alive? Perhaps the news hadn't reached your ears while still in Asgard; from what he could guess, your hair and clothing hinted at rural life-– but Thor also knew you'd spent time with Heimdall in exile. Both left you in isolation, so he supposed it was possible...

You were a puzzle to him, always had been. Perhaps if–

“What news?” Loki asked, walking in through the doorway. Thor turned, raising an eyebrow. “I thought you were resting, brother.”

“Sleep evades me,” he responded, obviously bothered by the fact. “And the green giant is in the room next to mine. Do he and the Valkyrie ever stop talking?”

Thor laughed, earning a tired scowl from his brother.

“It's not funny.”

“It is. A little,” Thor admitted. “You realize you don't have to stay in that room.”

“I’m well aware,” he grumbled, running a hand over his raven hair. “But I can't seem to find another suitable one. I'm going mad.”

“Well, perhaps you could provide insight on another matter. Do you know where the nearest port is?”

“The nearest?” Loki frowned. His eyelids felt heavy as he shook his head. “Knowhere, I assume. It’s ironically close, no matter where you are. I can go up to the navigation room and adjust our course.” He paused, narrowing his eyes and tilting his head slightly. “I hope you're putting together a party to disembark.”

“Yes, and it includes you,” Thor verified. Loki nodded approvingly, reaching up to rub his temples. “Well, you're obviously putting me to use. Should I be pleased, or concerned?”

“You should feel... filled with purpose,” Thor corrected dramatically, making a grasping motion. “You're taking life by the reins and contributing to the greater good.” He clapped his brother on the back with a laugh, making him jolt. “It's a service to your people.”

Loki rolled his eyes and scoffed, but the shadows of a smile played with the corners of his lips. “I never knew you were so theatrically inclined. You should really take up dramatic arts.”

“Organize a group and I will gladly participate,” Thor smiled cheekily. “You've done it before.”

Loki sighed and waved his hand dismissively as he stepped away from the helm, bringing his hand up to pinch his nose. “Spare me an ounce of dignity, I beg you.”

“Did you have any to begin with?”

“I'm going now,” Loki sang, turning on his heel and heading out. The doors slid shut silently behind him, and Thor smiled faintly. He may have been a fool for loving Loki, after everything, but at least he was a happy fool.

“Your rooms are in corridor E, number 12,” you instructed, pointing to one of the doors leading out of the bay. “The number is marked on the outside, so you'll find it easily. Bring any personal belongings you want to keep– leave anything else for us to put to use.” You smiled comfortingly at the girl, who seemed barely older than an adolescent. Her hazel skin was smudged with blood and dirt, lines heavy under her eyes as she shifted the sleeping baby in her arms.

“Thank you,” she croaked, offering you a tired smile. You returned it, reaching out to squeeze her shoulder lightly. “Don't be afraid to ask for help.”

She nodded quickly, eyes watering before she ducked her head and made her way towards the door.

You'd left Thor in the throne room– though calling it that still didn't feel right –and immediately set to exploring the ship. There were five decks, but luckily, you'd only needed to travel two before finding the navigation room. The hologram maps inside laid out the ship’s design.

You'd memorized the basics: deck one, landing bay and storage; deck two and three, residential and maintenance; deck four, air circulation and production; five, navigation and control. Asgardians were spread throughout the top three decks.

Now, hours after your meeting with Thor, most of the people in this bay had been relocated to Deck Three. Only the severely injured remained, in preparation to be taken to Four, where you would help the volunteers organize a medica. That alone felt like enough to make your head explode.

The next woman stepped forward, and you pointed to the doorway. “Alright. Your rooms are corridor E, number 14–”

“I can get there,” she interrupted, lifting her chin. You paused, raising an eyebrow, before dropping your arm and nodding. She’d probably been a noble on Asgard, but it didn’t make a difference now. “Good. Then can you help others find their way?”

She looked at you for a moment, as if measuring you up, before nodding. “Yes.”

“Thank you,” you replied curtly, ushering her to the side. “Please do so.”

You reached up to your head tiredly, feeling a sudden, sharp pain behind your forehead. Of course. Just the time for a migraine. Motioning on of the volunteers to your side, you told them which rooms could be filled before stepping away. The pain was more intense now, like something dull pressed hard against your skull.

“Excuse me,” you muttered quietly, moving past a small group as you made your way towards the door. Your vision blurred as you walked and you stopped, holding one hand out for balance. A small part of your mind chastised you for not resting earlier. But you hadn’t had time…

Your steps grew more unbalanced as you came closer to the bay doors. Losing your footing, you bumped into someone, catching yourself on their arm.

“I’m so sorry,” you apologized, looking up blearily and recognising the man’s face– the one whose son you’d helped this morning. He held your elbow to support you, expression alarmed. Your lips parted slightly and you straightened, reaching up and pressing your palm to your forehead. “S-Sorry. How’s Avel?”

“We’re headed to our rooms now,” he answered, smiling tiredly. “I’ll bring Avel up when I’ve set blankets down for him.” Then his eyebrows creased in a frown. “Are you well?”

“I’m fine,” you answered quickly. Your lips tried to smile, but it felt like a cringe. “Just a headache.”

“Lie down if you can,” he advised, letting go of your elbow, hand outstretched to catch you if you lost your balance again. You nodded blearily, blinking a few times to shake the spots from your eyes.

“I will,” you promised, taking a careful step away from him, and turning towards the door.

The overhead lights seemed blinding as you continued– slower now –out of the bay. But the door seemed shaky… you knew there weren’t two doors, either. You reached up quickly and pressed your palms to your eyes, trying to banish the double vision as you took slow, wobbly steps.

You opened your eyes again, only a few feet from the door. Breathing an internal sigh of relief, you reached your hand to the wall to steady yourself, leaving the bay behind. You didn’t expect a simple trip to be so painfully tedious.

You didn’t expect to be struck to the ground upon exit, either.

Someone coming quickly around the corner slammed into you unintentionally, exclaiming in surprise. You fell to the ground underneath them, knocking your head against the floor. Pain blossomed at the back of your head.

You gasped in pain, trying to breathe and feeling a heavy weight against your chest.

“I’m terribly sorry,” a familiar voice said apologetically above you, grunting as they lifted themselves off of you. “I really didn’t mean–”

Your eyes snapped open, feeling a sickening, sudden anxiety in your stomach.

No. It couldn’t be.

You grimaced painfully, lifting yourself up onto your elbows as your vision wobbled, cleared and focused, three shapes becoming two shapes, becoming one. You shook your head, screwing your eyelids shut for a moment, before opening again.

You were met with two startled green eyes.

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