#so her vessel is partially destroyed & she can’t heal because she’s trapped and has no access to anything that would help

[babygirlthor]

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alright, apparently at any given moment I‘ve got four something variations of mer/sea creature infinity stones AUs so here goes one…

the tesseract is on Asgard, hidden in the vaults— except she’s never been a cube and instead appears in the form of a sea creature. she’s a bit of an amalgamation of a box fish & a dragon sea slug but also vaguely humanoid shaped like a mer would be. So in the vault, instead of on a pedestal like everything else, Space is a bit separated from the main trophy room. Her water tank is completely blocked off by (energy) reinforced glass.

Young Loki finds the water tank cause he’s sneaky and wants to see the vault (because he’s drawn to it). The glass is a bit fuzzy and harder to see through when the bright barrier flares, though sporadically it’s more clear. The water is somehow not murky, as it stays completely clean.

Loki is of course fascinated by the strange creature he sees on the other side, though (at first) the feeling is not mutual as Tess is wary of all asgardians (and isn’t familiar enough with them to realize Loki is a child).

The cage, I mean- tank, is pretty small and barren, so although its depth goes a bit deeper than the floor, there’s no hiding spaces or similar creature comforts. There’s no algae, and no obviously no sun.

This also means that even tho they’re as far away as they can be, and Tess far larger staying in front, it’s obvious that there is two creatures here.

They don’t even attempt to communicate anything back to loki for a long time.

The second here is Mind, and he has been here for a long time. This was originally just his cage, and he has no idea Tess was in another section of the vault. At first, Odin had considered not keeping Tess at all, because having two infinity creatures in one place seemed risky even for him. He realized it was too risky even dumping one of them in a random spot in the ocean, because that would allow them to heal and become too powerful.

Tess had no idea mind was there either, but once she realized what was happening she attempted to contact the others. The message is vague as this kind of communication isn’t her strong suit, it’s mostly emotions and pain, but enough so if any of the others were nearby, they would know where she was.

Mind attempts to contact her back, but now behind another barrier, Tess’ abilities aren’t strong enough in this aspect for it to reach her. Mind is already worried at the message, but the lack of response is panic inducing and he knows they can’t die and the alternative can only be something worse.

In his panic, he manages to destroy his cage and the barrier, but it hurts him more than it did the tank. it could be rebuilt, and it was, multiple times. Odin eventually realizes keeping Mind away isn’t worth the effort, and he’s only destroying his vessel to the point, losing more and more of the leaf shaped structures (scales I guess? but also not really) he was once covered in.

And Odin isn’t cruel you know, he needs them weak, but not on the brink of “death”.

So he puts Tess in Mind’s tank, and well, that fixes one problem.

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#thanks for making me actually write this out 💀 #tesseroki #infinoki #I didn’t even reread this so apologies if it’s incoherent lol #I might’ve posted about this before but that’s because I routinely forget about it and then circle back around a few weeks later #I don’t even have a WIP doc for this plot I should probably do that #in case it wasn’t clear #they’re not fed btw :( #Odin is mean :( #better than bor but still :( #anyways eventually as Loki grows up he keeps visiting #he can’t help them escape (yet) but he realizes he CAN find their family so they can be reunited #he doesn’t have a safer place to bring them yet but it gets them a bigger cage! #Odin thinks they’re bringing back ‘treasures”’ just because. precious artifacts #just warrior things yknow #oh and reality is actually hidden in the vault too but on a seperate plane of existence so they don’t find him til later #the core from her chest is removed as bor had attempted to remove her power #he realizes she can’t be killed and traps her in that separate plane so she’s left by the stones with basically no water #so her vessel is partially destroyed & she can’t heal because she’s trapped and has no access to anything that would help #anyways that’s a lil bit of the backstory #I have yet to build much actual plot skfkf #sea slug mer #au