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darter-blue · 3 years

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Wrote a cheeky little prequel to this ask: breakfast (accidental husbands) and I really like it... so here you go *throws 1k of stucky fluff at you*

Read on ao3 here 🥂

So okay - Steve maybe isn’t hating this as much as he thought he would.

Which doesn’t mean he should've let Thor slip that Asgardian liquor into his scotch.

Also doesn’t mean he won't bitch about this to Tony for at least another three weeks. Partly because Tony threw them under the bus sending them to this “tiny PR thing” that turned out to be a nightmare of people and noise and cameras.

Partly because it's always fun to bitch at Tony. And then pretend he doesn’t understand the insults Tony tries to throw back at him.

But it’s Vegas - and Steve has actually never really been here before. And the hotel is amazing and full of lights and colours and happy people, and it’s nice.

It’s nice to not be fighting.

It’s nice to blend into the noise and anonymity of the big crowds, too intent on the distractions around them.

Thor has abandoned him, spiked his drink and ran basically. A call from Jane or something- Steve forget to listen to be honest.

He’s been watching the people around him, laughing and dancing and free from troubles, even if just for one night. And, well he doesn’t want to seem like he’s staring, but there’s one person in particular who keeps catching his eye. Who Steve’s eyes can’t help but search for over and over again.

Eyes that Steve can tell, even in the low light and overwhelming throng of bodies and movement, are a beautiful stormy blue. Maybe thanks to the serum enhanced vision. Potentially just the luminescence of their particularly brilliant colour.

Probably, definitely, the fact that they belong to such a beautiful face. To a man whose smile is contagious, whose laugh is like a balm to Steve’s battered soul. Who is walking towards Steve right this moment.

Walking, oh god, right up to him. And talking.

To Steve.

‘Hey,’ his lips say, Steve’s eyes have dropped to them as they move, as his pink tongue darts out to wet them, ‘you… ah… wanna dance?’

Steve’s eyes snap up and away from the man’s pretty pink lips to catch his eyes. Eye’s that are watching Steve from under thick dark lashes, and blinking nervously.

‘Dance?’ Steve asks, not sure that could possibly be what the man is asking. People don’t ask Steve to dance.

People ask for autographs. Or selfies. Or to hold the shield (which he does not have on him right now, thank god).

They don’t ever ask him to dance.

‘I mean, no pressure… I just… you look like…’ The man searches Steve’s face, cataloguing his reactions, perhaps finding reluctance there. ‘I didn’t mean to bother you.’

‘No,’ Steve is quick to say, ‘No, no, you’re not bothering me.’

To which the man smiles. And it lights up his entire face, somehow making it even more gorgeous. ‘I’m not?’

‘No not at all! I would,’ Steve has to swallow down his nerves, ‘I would love to dance.’

‘Yeah?’ the man asks. And his eyes shine as if the very idea of Steve wanting to dance with him is a cause for celebration.

‘Definitely.’

Steve throws back the rest of the spiked scotch in his glass, discreetly blanching at the feel of the hot asgardian liquor burning down his throat (is this a stronger batch than last time? It feels strangely like liquid fire in his belly).

‘I’m Bucky by the way,’ the man says, holding out his hand to Steve.

‘Steve. Steve Rogers,’ Steve says, waiting for the inevitable wide eyed reaction.

It never comes.

Instead the man, Bucky, smiles even wider, chuckles a little, keeps his eyes on Steve’s. ‘Well, Steve-Steve Rogers, it’s nice to meet you.’

And Steve’s hand makes its way into Bucky’s of its own accord. Shakes it carefully, aware that the liquor is making him feel light, slightly floaty, and that he should tread softly. ‘Bucky?’ Steve asks, instead of voicing any number of the inappropriate thoughts that are running through his head at the touch of Bucky’s smooth skin in his hands, at the surprising strength in his long, delicate fingers.

‘It’s James, actually,’ Bucky says with another chuckle, ‘but my friends call me Bucky.’

‘Well I guess - lead on Bucky,’ Steve says with a smile of his own. He can’t seem to help it actually. His body seems to be reacting to Bucky quite of its own volition.

And Bucky does. He keeps hold of Steve's hand and pulls him gently towards the dancefloor packed tight with hot, sweaty bodies. But Steve’s senses have condensed to focus only on Bucky. The texture of the small calluses on his fingers, the softness of the skin of his palms, the scent of the coconut in his hair, the heat rolling off him as he closes in on Steve. Turns his body around and presses up into Steve, leans his back into Steve’s chest, looks up over his shoulder at him.

‘Is this okay?’ Bucky asks.

Steve can only nod. He seems to have lost the use of his brain right now.

His body is doing just fine on its own though, so he doesn’t worry about it too much. He lets his hips roll with Bucky’s hips as he sways to the too fast, too deep beat of the music, Bucky somehow finding a rhythm behind the beat and drawing Steve into it with him.

Steve’s arms slide their way around Bucky’s waist, his hands spreading across the expanse of his soft stomach under his light, threadbare t-shirt. He’s lean, but there is no hardness to his frame, Steve can feel the muscles in Bucky’s shoulders, in his biceps, but they’re subtle. The result of a job that keeps him fit, strong, but nothing like the kind of definition Steve sees day in and day out at his own job - if you can call it that.

Bucky is nothing like anyone Steve knows in this time.

It makes him hold him just that little bit tighter. And when Bucky responds by resting his head back against Steve’s shoulder, Steve’s supersoldier heart skips a beat.

It’s… it feels perfect.

Steve nuzzles into the warmth and softness of the skin at the nape of Bucky’s neck. Buries his nose into the waves of thick dark chestnut hair that fall almost to his shoulders there.

‘It’s funny isn’t it?’ Bucky asks, turning his face up to Steve, jostling him and bringing their lips dangerously close together.

‘Hmm?’ Steve humms, too lost in the nearness of Bucky’s breath, the way his eyes have closed and his smile has loosened into something comfortable, something safe. Lost in the way he feels so at home like this, wrapped around him.

‘How there are some people you meet and it just feels like you know them.’

Steve’s movements slow at that, his hips falter, and Bucky’s eyes flutter open at the loss of their rhythm.

‘Do you feel that sometimes?’ he asks, his eyes surprisingly bright and clear in the haze of the room around them.

‘Feel it how?’ Steve asks. He’s thrown by the openness in Bucky’s expression.

‘Like,’ Bucky’s eyebrows draw in as he searches for words, ‘like you just… always knew them. They feel so comfortable, so… familiar.’ Bucky lets his own hands slide down and rest over Steve’s, linking their fingers together almost absently, ‘Like you were meant to spend your whole lives together, you just haven’t met them until now…’

Steve looks down into Bucky’s face, he’s frowning and biting his lip, looking back up at Steve as if his own answer is not enough.

‘I’m not sure how to explain it,’ he says, and lets his head fall back against Steve’s shoulder.

But Steve understands. It makes perfect sense, if Bucky is feeling what Steve is feeling. Like the two of them pressed together as they are, here in the middle of all these people, all the lights and noise and chaos, have found a pocket of something like home. A safety. A comfort.

And Steve squeezes a little bit tighter, nuzzles in a little bit closer. ‘I know what you mean,’ he says, breathing the words quietly into Bucky’s ear, closing his eyes at the contented sigh Bucky lets out. ‘It feels like that for me too.’

As Bucky’s heart beats in time with Steve’s, as they dance together, fingers laced and foreheads touching, Steve is sure that he never wants to let go of this.

He just isn’t sure how to make that possible.

(look out for the next installment soon)

#stucky #bucky barnes #steve x bucky #steve rogers #my writing #shrunkyclunks #accidental husbands #soulmates #fluff #bottom bucky #cap steve

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nikkoliferous · 4 years

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Phase One: Thor

Since I was looking up my past live-blog of the novel and realising how annoying and repetitive reading through it all is because of my having structured it as a bunch of reblogs, I’ve decided to organize it all into one long-ass post instead. In case anyone else wants to read it in the future. Or in case I decide to re-read it. Because I’m hilarious. 😅

SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO

My Hilarious Yet Wrathful Overview Of Phase One: Thor, Redux

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If your son who’s to become king requires a babysitter to not screw it all up and also the idea of him being king is stressful enough to put you into a coma, maybe, uh… reconsider doing that? Just a thought.

But you see here why Odin was so deadset on Thor becoming king, despite him being ill-suited for the role. It’s not about what’s best for Asgard; it’s about personal legacy. Thor is Odin’s mini me, and Loki is very much not. There are places within the text where Odin laments Thor “lacking his father’s wisdom” (he’s definitely inherited your humility, though, Odin!), but he hopes for Thor to grow into a “wise king” like himself. Whereas he holds no such illusions (lol, pun) that Loki will ever take after him.

now with tag commentary! #this scene is in the script and both novelizations #(though in reading this novel seems to just be a more complete version of the junior novel? #idk i'm confused because they're supposedly written by different authors but so far the text is identical) #and it drives me insane each time i read it

“Haha, I’m a warmongering piece of shit, isn’t it funny?”

I know, I know. I try to cut Asgard some slack for being such a militaristic culture because social changes happen slowly and when you live for thousands of years per generation, it makes sense that your views on things like war would be regressive. The text says Odin has ruled Asgard for tens of thousands of years (so much for taking Loki’s “give or take 5,000 years” line literally; sure, the Odinsleep would have extended Odin’s lifespan, but by that much? Idk).

Still, fuck Odin. Especially since he’ll eventually try to shame Loki for doing the same thing he’s fucking boasting about here. And on a much smaller scale too.

…is it, though?

I actually think Loki’s relationship with being the centre of attention is really interesting in its complexity and we don’t discuss it enough. I’ve said this before, but he strikes me as the sort of person who craves attention but also wouldn’t really know what to do with it if he had it. He craves it as a result of neglect, because he’s never been shown recognition or validation. This is why he seems to revel in it in Stuttgart, even in (or maybe especially in?) his brainwashed state. But he also frequently comes across as pretty introverted and has horrible self-esteem, so I think on another level, sustained, genuine attention would make him feel kind of uncomfortable. Loki seems to believe that in order to be loved or respected, he has to literally be Thor, though. And Thor has always been the centre of attention, so for Loki, attention is synonymous with respect.

I find Loki’s relationship with wanting attention especially fascinating because I too both crave and fear it. As a borderline, I need it. When no one is paying attention to me, I lose my sense of identity. I feel as though I literally cease to exist. It’s excruciatingly painful. And yet, I have no authentic sense of self; I’m just a chameleon, and the closer people get to me, the more likely it is they’ll see behind my mask. They’ll realise it’s all a show and that I’m actually no one. And then they’ll leave. I can’t help wondering if that’s how Loki feels sometimes too.

Wait, what? You mean goat. His horns are shaped like a goat’s. This is a ram:

This is a goat:

This is Loki:

Do you see now? They’re like a goat. Not a ram. Not a cow. A GOAT.

This book was written before Ragnarok was a thing, so it may be unfair to connect the two, but it still seems worth noting that it was Thor who reduced Loki to being no more than a trickster to begin with. “You could be more,” my ass. Loki’s problem has never been that he was one-dimensional; it was always that the people in his life, including Thor, refused to see any other dimensions to him. Which makes those words particularly cruel—as if they aren’t cruel enough already, what with the physical torture and all.

Always happy to have cause to point out that

Loki was on Thor clean-up duty their whole lives; he certainly was not trying to kill Thor.

People like to point to Loki’s attempted genocide of the Jötnar and attempted(-ish? lol) conquest of Earth as proof that he’s some kind of violent maniac. But in a little place I like to call reality, Loki was historically far less aggressive and bloodthirsty than his peers.

Question: why is one conqueror evil and the other is righteously entitled to ruling over the Nine Realms?

Asgardian exceptionalism FTW

I can’t even begin to imagine what would lead you to expect such a thing, Odin. 😂

Uh, ‘cause it is?? And also their planet is MELTING without it??

This is all only within the first two chapters, btw. Lmao

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“Looking for answers,” my foot.

YOU WOULD THINK SO, WOULDN’T YOU??

#i mean unless you knew heimdall #he only commits treason on days that end in y

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What’d I say? Thor clean-up dutyyyyy

Just wanna remind everyone that this

is why he’s smiling during this scene

because it makes me laugh every time. 😂

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My heart breaks every time I remember that second excerpt because literally ALL OF IT happened to him when he survived falling through the wormhole. My poor boy. 😭

But also of note… Loki gets cold (and also does not like being cold). This interests me because 1) as many are aware, the prevalent headcanon that Loki has a low body temperature irritates me and 2) it possibly(?) lends weight to the theory that he may not be fully Jötun, whether by virtue of his birth or Odin’s spell.

Haha, look at this Feminist Icon™ trying to take credit for his female friend’s accomplishments! Truly inspiring.

#for some reason the ragnarok lovers have somehow decided that thor is both a feminist and lesbian icon #whatever that means 🤷‍♀️ #and i'm still trying very hard to figure out why #is it literally just because he *says* he respects women or whatever in that dumb rambly conversation with valkyrie?

Ooh… you were so close to getting the point, Volstagg. So close. Take your tongue off Odin’s boot for just a couple minutes longer.

Also, the author just forgot the name of the Casket. How did this book get published? 😂

JUST LOOKING FOR ANSWERS, HUH?

Because fuck Loki, amirite? He, uh… he’s a prince too, you know.

Also… Fandral, you dweeb 😂

…am I reading too much into this, or did Odin just literally forget that Loki exists?

On the other hand, the author also seemed to forget Loki existed for most of this chapter, so who knows. 🤷‍♀️

lmao @ Jane immediately trying to convince herself she’s too rational to be attracted to a stranger

Honestly, though, big mood.

Just your periodic reminder that Thor’s sycophantic friends KNEW Loki was right and decided to throw him under the bus anyway.

Just as I’ve always said: That was it. That was their ENTIRE rationale. That Loki *could* have done it, therefore he must have. Please tell me these people have nothing to do with Asgard’s justice system.

…lol, jk, Asgard has no justice system.

Ok, first of all, no.

Second: thank you, Fandral. You’re a self-absorbed cad, but also evidently Thor’s least stupid friend.

Thirdly, how…? First, it was, “Loki arranged all this because he’s jealous of Thor.” Now they’ve suddenly jumped all the way to, “All of Asgard is in danger.” What exactly does Sif think Loki is planning? He’s gonna, what… assassinate Odin and then sell Asgard to the Jötnar?

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Please stop hurting me.

Just so there’s no confusion: this one sentence explains everything Loki did for the rest of the movie. It explains how a person who has been historically non-aggressive suddenly transforms into a warmonger. To prove himself a real Asgardian, like his brother and father and grandfather.

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…why did Odin fall into the Odinsleep in two completely different scenes in this book? I’m super confused.

Also, we really need to talk about how cruel it is of Marvel to keep forcing Loki to prove his loyalty again and again and again when he’s been doing so almost literally since we met him. And by “we need to talk about it”, I mean I need to tie Kevin Feige and co. to a chair and spend a minimum of five hours lecturing them on how poorly they understand their own fucking character.

Let’s just be clear here: they’re talking about Loki. They’re saying Loki, their LEGITIMATE king, is an enemy of Asgard, based on evidence so paper-thin it’s practically invisible. Just… please, let that sink in. Take a moment to appreciate how utterly fucked up that is.

I’m sorry (not really), but Thor was so much funnier before Ragnarok.

This scene has always kind of bugged me. If Odin removed Thor’s powers, how come he can still control the weather? Confusing.

So what exactly was Thor’s plan anyway, before he realised he couldn’t lift Mjölnir? He was just gonna call on Heimdall to help him commit treason AGAIN, show up on Asgard against the expressed command of his king, and… Odin would just shrug and be like, “You got me, son! I guess I can’t keep you down. Welcome home!”?

…I mean, I guess that more or less is what happened in the end, but it’s hard to imagine it would have still gone down that way without all the stuff that happened with Loki. Idk.

#look what i'm saying is... thor is not exactly a thinking person #no one on asgard is a thinking person #except loki but he's crazy now so he's also thinking somewhat poorly lol

Cool, Thor. Now imagine feeling that way for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and develop a little fucking empathy for your brother.

But you won’t.

You’ll brush off his feelings of worthlessness as “imagined slights”. 😒

Nice that somebody knows how the royal line of succession works, I guess…

That sound you hear? Yeah, that’s just my heart breaking. NBD.

First, they mislabelled it the Casket of Eternal Winters. Now it’s the Cask of Ancient Winters. Author must have been thirsty when they wrote this. Lol

Look, not to nitpick, but this is not the recommended procedure when you see a storm that you don’t believe is of supernatural origin coming. I’m just saying. Lol

Uh… ‘cause he is?? And your pals are committing treason AGAIN, Thor, so it technically is responding to a threat to Asgard. Just FYI.

Anyways, this is an important point that doesn’t get made often enough. People want to act like Loki illegally usurped the throne somehow, but even without the deleted scene that explicitly shows Frigga passing rulership to him (a scene which is, for some reason, entirely skipped over in this book, but whatever), understand this: Loki could not have controlled the Destroyer unless he was legitimately King of Asgard. The fact that he’s able to do so is irrefutable proof that his rulership is valid.

lmao you little shit

So… here’s my issue with this scene (and with Thor as a character): He always assumes that Loki’s acting out specifically to hurt him. That Loki’s entire life and thought process revolves around Thor. He does it in this scene, he does it in The Avengers… it’s just a chronic thing with Thor. Everything is viewed through the lens of Loki inexplicably hating him.

But that’s… just not accurate. Yes, Loki harbours a lot of jealousy towards Thor. But that’s not what’s happening in this scene. Loki is not trying to kill Thor here because he wants him dead; he’s doing it because Thor (and his friends) are getting in the way of Loki completing his ultimate goal. Loki tried to solve this problem non-violently, by lying about Odin being dead. It’s Thor’s friends who all but forced his hand by going behind his back and trying to bring Thor back to Asgard against Loki’s (and Odin’s!) direct orders.

For all the humility he’s learned in the past few days, this entire speech is still really all about Thor. About assuming that Loki’s doing this for personal reasons, because he holds a grudge against Thor for some unknown reason. This is implicit in his request to “take [my life] and end this.” It never even occurs to him that his friends are traitors to the Crown and Loki, as King of Asgard, is perhaps justified in pursuing them.

It also needs to be acknowledged that Thor’s apology here is hollow, even if it’s ultimately coming from his heart, because he has no idea what he’s apologising for. “Whatever I have done to wrong you” is not an apology. An apology addresses specific hurtful actions taken and commits to not repeating those mistakes in the future. Thor cannot commit to not repeating the hurtful things he’s done, because he doesn’t know what he’s done. Despite his best intentions, what Thor is doing here is actually kind of manipulative. He’s not addressing any substantive issue between the two of them; he’s just trying to talk Loki down. And it ultimately fails not because Loki doesn’t care or because he wants Thor dead, but because it doesn’t actually change anything.

Finally and only semi-relatedly, we should maybe at some point talk about the fact that Loki, who is stated to be a master tactician, has displayed a weird pattern of hardly ever being as lethal as he could be. He freezes Heimdall in place instead of killing him outright; he backhands Thor with the Destroyer instead of incinerating him; he, well… *gestures vaguely at almost the entirety of the first Avengers movie* Anytime the violence is even a little bit personal, he seems to hedge. Odd behaviour for somebody who’s supposedly super evil.

I’m sorry, I know I’ve pointed it out at least a hundred times before, but I just can’t encounter this scene in any form without taking a moment to appreciate how underrated and hilarious it is.

I also genuinely wonder how many Ragnarok stans who have accused me of having no sense of humour, have failed to laugh at moments like this one. Kinda feel like if you need to have the comedy spoonfed to you in the form of ass jokes, maybe you’re the one whose sense of humour is lacking. 🤷‍♀️

Let’s be super clear: this is not what happened. Loki did not betray Odin; he was betrayed by Odin. He did not open Asgard to its enemies; he attempted, misguidedly, to destroy Asgard’s enemies. And he most certainly did not commit suicide out of a sense of guilt.

I’m not saying Loki did nothing wrong, nor am I saying he feels no regret for the lives he has taken. What I’m saying is there’s no indication that he believes he betrayed Odin or Asgard in the process. Which makes perfect sense, because he didn’t. Everything he tried to do was for Odin and Asgard. It was misguided and horrible, yes, but it can hardly be classified as a betrayal.

The insurmountable burden on Loki is not that he did terrible things, but that no matter what he does or how hard he tries, Odin will never look at him with anything but contempt. Consider once more these passages from the very beginning of the book, at Thor’s coronation:

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Consider that this book goes to great pains to point out that Odin favours Thor because Thor is a warrior like him. And yet even when Loki embraces that, even when he acts more war-like than ever before, Odin rejects him— just as he always has.

There is a reason why this moment is the last time Loki will ever call Odin his father. Because he realises once and for all that, no, nothing he tries will ever be good enough; no, Odin won’t ever look at him with pride. That is Loki’s burden. That is why he lets go.

The epilogue is really just two pages of making me want to vomit.

There’s your party where Thor and a certain subset of the fandom insist that Loki was mourned. There’s barely an indication here that anyone even perceives his demise as a negative thing.

“[Sif] could see Frigga thought [Loki was dead] as well” also contradicts the tie-in comic for TDW, so I don’t know what the author is on about there. Unlike the majority of Marvel comics, the tie-in comics are canon to the MCU, so it’s a bizarre statement to make.

COULD YOU SMEAR THE DEAD* ABUSE VICTIM A LITTLE HARDER, PLEASE? Fucking hell.

No matter how many times I encounter this scene, in whatever format, I still fail to become desensitized to how disgusting it is. I realise there’s a good chance that whatever version of events Thor has been told was twisted at best; but how you can look at a man whose son has just committed suicide under any circumstances and say there will never be a better father than that guy, is utterly beyond my capacity to understand.

And Odin’s “you’ve already made me proud” line just feels like extra salt in the wound because, again, Loki let go because he realized Odin would never say those words to him. And yet they come so damn easily when it’s Thor.

Fuck this entire family so much. I think I hate them more than Loki does. Sometimes I wonder what he would think about that. How he would react to knowing that not only is he actually loved, but that he’s so loved that people are genuinely furious at the way he’s been mistreated. That there are people who regularly devolve into full-on rants because they just can’t contain how much anger they have towards the people who hurt him. I think he’d have a hard time wrapping his head around that concept, tbh.

Anyways, to end on a not-completely-depressing note, I’m still waiting for someone at Marvel to explain how Loki knew what Thor said in this scene after plummeting into a wormhole. ‘Cause he references this conversation as Fauxdin at the end of TDW. So like… ?? Did he steal Odin’s memories before he erased them? Because that would be… kind of neat, actually. And very clever. Not entirely ethical, of course, but it’s Odin, so fuck ethics.

WELP, THAT’S IT. Thanks for following along with my dumbassery, hope you enjoyed yourselves. Lol

#phase one: thor #loki meta #thor meta #odin's a+ parenting #frigga's b+ parenting #topic: thor and loki's broken relationship #loki #thor #heimdall #lady sif #the warriors 3 #jane foster #ragnarok cinematic universe #mcu #topic: asgardian hypocrisy #topic: asgardian militarism #topic: odin's family dynamic

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elenatria · 6 years

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Took me some time to watch this Collider interview from back in April but here it is.

Tom randomly mentioning Chris again. <3

Tom saying Taika didn’t ask for many takes (because, well, improvisation is improvisation and Taika was easy going like that and took things as they came - there goes the “Taika tortured Tom” theory). But at the same time trying not to throw any shade on Alan Taylor - because that film probably did need lots of takes and Tom is a perfectionist like that.

I mean he had no qualms politely “throwing shade” in the past on parts of The Dark World, on some of the production choices and the way it was filmed, but Tom is polite so most of the times, when he lets some criticism slip, he basically takes responsibility and “blames himself”, being tempted maybe but never ever throwing anyone under the bus.

He does mention in the same Collider interview that the one film that was radically changed from script to film was the Dark World, and it wasn’t just Loki’s death of course. It was also the fact that they changed director and the initial approach was a more romantic/angsty film with a Montague/Capulet sort of feud between Odin and Jane.

Tom, although led by the interviewer to say the Dark World had the most intense reshoots , changes his statement right away and mentions Ragnarok instead (notice how he’s being interviewed for Infinity War -the freshest memory, the film one would expect him to discuss and promote - and although he’s talking about The Dark World he chooses to talk about Ragnarok. Not such a nasty memory after all, huh?). I mean what’s so intense about Tom just sitting on a throne, right? Or Tom yielding Mjolnir and wearing Thor’s cape.

The interviewer probably had in mind Loki’s death which was super intense and heartbreaking but that scene, as we all know, was shot before Feige changed his mind about Loki’s fate so Tom and Chris played it like a genuine death.

No reshoots were needed for that one. Probably. Unless of course they did go to Iceland again for that particular scene, just like Chris is now going to Atlanta for A4. However, “Chris and I played it like it was Loki dying” so... there it is. Probably no “intense reshoots” for the death scene. As for the fight scenes on Svartalfheim just before he dies? Who knows.

The Dark World reshoots were surely radical, they did include Loki on Odin’s throne (since Feige decided later on to let Loki survive) but it’s interesting to see that the most “intense” reshoots were for Ragnarok. I wonder why. Does anyone have any info (or even a theory) on what scenes from Ragnarok the reshoots were for? “Intense” but “enjoyable”, hmmm...

In short: Tom saying that Chris’ new, relaxed and less controlled behaviour, (his laughing/humour/spontaneity) made Ragnarok better.

Tom describing the Ragnarok filming as enjoyable.

I rest my case.

#tom hiddleston #chris hemsworth #hiddlesworth #the dark world #thor ragnarok #filming #iceland #loki #thor #avengers #infinity war #collider #interview #taika waititi

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iamanartichoke · 6 years

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I keep thinking about all of the inconsistencies in that scene in IW. Some - most - of these inconsistencies leave room for interpretation that something was going on in that scene that the viewers are not yet privy to, some plan that will ultimately reveal how Loki survived the confrontation with Thanos. But here’s the thing: if your plot hangs on leaving “clues” for the audience to dissect because there’s a bigger meaning to what’s being shown, then you have to lead the audience in that direction, whether it’s through action or dialogue or some other indication that your intent is for the audience to not take the scene at face value.

Think about The Dark World for a moment. When Thor and Loki confront Malekith, their plan hinges on giving the appearance that Loki has decided to betray Thor and give Jane up to the Dark Elves. The audience, knowing that Loki has enough motivation to betray Thor (Thor has left him locked up in prison, after all, and hasn’t visited, and Loki is full of rage and hurt and is still kind of nuts at this point in time), could take this at face-value. Loki is extremely convincing (I personally believe that, even though it was a ruse, Loki got a lot of satisfaction out of kicking Thor in the face, for example), Loki has been shown to betray Thor before, Loki has a reputation as a character of being scheming and villainous. So we could believe that Loki decided to throw Thor and Jane under the bus. However, we get a few key lines of dialogue between the brothers just prior to this: “This plan of yours is going to get us killed,” “Are you ready? I am,” “Still don’t trust me, Brother?” They are very vague lines, but they are enough to show the audience that Thor and Loki have some kind of plan and that all is not as it seems as the next few minutes play out.

We don’t get that in IW. One of the biggest things that people have discussed is: Where was Hulk prior to Loki’s “We have a Hulk” line? The line implies a plan and, sure enough, Hulk leaps out and takes Thanos by surprise - but, why wasn’t Hulk fighting in the battle that clearly took place before the movie opened? Seems like that would have been a good time to have a Hulk. Now, if Hulk’s presence had been hidden to Thanos for a reason, the audience should know that. A throwaway line later: “Hulk helped Valkyrie escape with half my people,” Thor could have said, or in the moment, “It’s harder than you think to take down a Hulk,” implying that Hulk was in the battle and Thanos believed he’d bested him. (These aren’t great lines, admittedly, but I’m not being paid to write the movie.) It could have been done, is my point.

Maybe the biggest inconsistency of all is - where the fuck was Loki after he shoved Thor out of the way? We get a good five minutes or so of activity - important, plot-establishing activity - where Loki is literally just not there. This could be for a purpose, but it’s more likely that they just didn’t have anything to do with him at that point and literally shoved him to the side. Otherwise, if we were meant to infer that Loki was up to something, we should have been able to see Thor and Loki exchange a word or a meaningful look after Loki pushed him aside, or to see Loki’s reaction while Thanos was crushing the Tesseract, or something that implied that Loki was doing something important and not just sitting around on ass while Very Important Things happened.

Finally, the dialogue that we do have is cryptic but we’re not given anything to determine if it’s cryptic for a reason or if it’s cryptic because that’s how the writers think Loki talks. For example, “undying fidelity.” It’s theorized that Loki was actually pledging this to Thor, and accepted because trying to stab Thanos immediately afterwards is not a thing one does in fidelity. So we could take this as Loki having a trick up his sleeve, except that Thanos immediately says, “You should choose your words more carefully” to Loki Silvertongue (which - what?), and then he breaks the 4th wall to literally tell us, “No resurrections this time.” So how the hell are we supposed to interpret this? We’re getting mixed messages and inferences. If it was some kind of ruse or clue, we need more. At any point during this confrontation, we could have been given clues. “I always do (choose my words carefully),” Loki could say, or “You know me better than that,” which hints toward their history and the fact that Loki always has a plan.

What the writers have ultimately done here is give us a scene that they want us to take at face-value: Loki is dead, period, not coming back. But the scene which establishes this is shoddily written and inconsistent, and so despite their insistence that Loki is dead, theories will abound as fans analyze every single moment looking for clues that are not there. I think it’s written so haphazardly because they wanted a call-back line - “We have a Hulk” - and otherwise they didn’t know what to do with Loki during that time so they literally just had him off-screen while things happened and only brought him back into the frame so that they could kill him off, solving the Loki Problem once and for all.

#charlotte bitches about iw #i will never be over loki #infinity war speculation #infinity war theories #loki theories #loki pokey artichokey #russos #marvel #avengers

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simpmaru-nara · 6 years

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Re: Thor Ragnarok

Okay so I’ve got a lot to say about this movie so I recommend you settle in for the long haul. Also there’s gonna be spoilers obv since I’ll have to reference the movie to make some of my points. I’ll try to stay away from any big ones, but go into this knowing that it will spoil some points.

To get started I’d like to say that if you are going to see the movie for pure entertainment value then the movie’s pretty alright; gorgeous graphics, some good jokes, fun costumes, etc. But even in that aspect much of the action was lackluster simply because it was often diminished to make room for dialogue or to cut to uninteresting parts of a fight. For instance in the final big fight there are three different points of interest and we spend too much time seeing the least fun parts of all those fights. And the gladiator scenes, which were extremely played up in the trailers, only last for about ten minutes and end by leaving the viewers both confused and disappointed.

In fact “confused and disappointed” was the mood for the entire movie

Despite excessive exposition the story somehow manages to be extremely vague with lots of unanswered questions. The first ten minutes of the movie is just Thor explaining how he ended up in the position we find him in and explaining the plot-important villain he faces. It tells instead of shows and is interrupted several times to make way for uncharacteristic jokes. It’s boring as hell and still doesn’t answer most questions one could have about what’s been happening to Thor since last we saw him. Then it transitions in probably the most disappointing way possible to answer a question that people have been burning with since the cliffhanger in the last Thor movie; what happened to Asgard and Loki? Thor arrives in Asgard to find Loki; who apparently has been met with zero suspicion in the face of extremely odd behavior and the creation of a god damn gold statue. Despite being questioned at every turn by the Warriors Three and Sif (who was suspiciously absent in this movie but I’ll get to that later) in the first movie, apparently in this movie everyone is content to praise the saint Loki who died for their sins. The entire situation is treated with a lot of nonchalance even after Loki is unmasked. Even more casual is the mention of the time that has passed with Loki in charge and absolutely nothing is said about what he’s done as king. Several movies building up Loki’s desire to rule, believing himself more worthy than his hot-headed brother, only for it to end up being something he does nothing note-worthy with. We were led to expect more. Oh and also apparently Thor and Jane broke up? Why? Oh right because we needed room for his new love interest. Of course this type of empty story telling carries on throughout the entire movie. It’s never truly explained how the last Valkyrie survived or how Bruce ended up in space.

Actually I’d like to talk about that last one a little more. The writers behind this movie used huge cop-outs in a few key points. One of the biggest was Hulk explaining what happened to him after the events of Age of Ultron. They used the dumb child-like personality they built for him as a way of dodging responsibility for explaining how the hell Hulk even ended up where he was. The quinjet, as far as we know, is not a space-faring vessel. It’s a god damn plane and yet we’re meant to believe that somehow the Hulk managed to fly that thing into space and make it far away from Earth and crash land on Sakaar before anywhere else. It’s ridiculous yet it’s the only explanation we’re offered from an illiterate Hulk. More than that we aren’t given any reason for why Thor is in the Hulk’s quarters. It’s made fairly clear that Hulk’s feelings towards Thor are mixed and the Grand Master wanted Thor dead in order to keep his Champion but for some reason both keep Thor alive and even choose to let him stay with Hulk? And no one questions it; not even Thor.

Thor, and the entire cast for that matter, is wildly out of character the entirety of the movie. Everyone is ripped to shreds in favor of humor. It’s like the writers went, “Hmmm, how do we make Bruce Banner funny? Oh!! I know! Just make him really weird for no apparent reason and also give him mood swings because we’re just going to forget that he had complete control prior to this movie and instead he’s going to be neurotic.” And they did that to everyone. Thor had a sense of humor in the earlier movies; typically more subtle and friendly, but here he’s openly sarcastic bordering on cynical. His jokes come across more Stark-ish (if Tony suddenly genuinely stopped caring) than they do Thor’s brand of humor. And Loki. God Loki... he’s reduced to a running joke about betrayal and being untrustworthy. “Silver tongued” Loki appears to have lost any amount of wit or actual mischief and is instead predictable and weirdly subdued. And all of this humor is ill-timed.

The writers absolutely refuse to give a single moment in the movie any depth. Any time that the plot manages to touch on something meaningful there’s humor thrown in as a buffer that only succeeds in forcefully detaching you from the plights of the characters. Thor’s in a cage and being threatened by the literal catalyst of Ragnarok? Better toss in a couple of jokes so it doesn’t seem too intense. Thor and Loki actually have a chance to talk about their problems and/or work as a team to establish a dynamic? Better make a joke about how easily Loki will throw Thor under the bus. Odin just died and Mjolnir was destroyed? Quick lets move onto the next thing before things get too heavy. The movie completely fails in making you care about anyone in the main cast. In fact, the person I was most invested in for the entire movie was Heimdal. The man has a total of maybe 10 minutes of screen time, but damn if he wasn’t the most interesting thing going on in the story. That’s at least half way because they didn’t try to force any awkward humor with him and they didn’t kill him. Which they killed a lot of characters in this movie and never give it the proper time or even weight to be grieved over.

Among the characters who were killed were the Warriors Three. A fact which is never acknowledged even as it happens. We at least get told (through Exposition Golem Alien because the audience can’t be trusted to deduce anything obviously) that Mjolnir being destroyed is a heavy weight on Thor and we see briefly the level of grief Thor feels for the loss of Odin, but the Warriors Three were Thor’s best friends. He grew up around them, adventured with them, they play a significant part in the first Thor movie, yet even before they die they’re widely forgotten about both by the plot and by Thor. Interestingly enough, however, is that Sif does not appear in this movie.

Sif remains completely AWOL for the entire movie, and honestly I’m pretty sure the reason is because the writers were reluctant to kill her off since she’s the Hot Warrior Babe. Because obviously they showed no hesitation in getting rid of the warriors as a casualty of the opposition to Hela and if Sif had been present she would have been right beside them and equally dead. Couldn’t do that so instead she’s just mysteriously not there. And I make this accusation with more than just Sif in mind. The movie also doesn’t want you to think that Hela isn’t attractive. In every scene we see her in she starts with her hair down in a sexy cat suit until she’s ready to fight at which point her wild black hair turns into her war helmet. There’s no real reason for the transition other than the fact that if she was always sporting the war helmet then she would come across as less attractive.

Besides the casual “must remain sexy” attitude towards Hela there was also a huge lack of continuity in the story, which kind of ties in with the lack questions answered, but still stands as it’s own problem. In the first Thor movie Odin takes Thor’s powers and casts an enchantment on Mjolnir. “Whosoever holds this hammer, should he be worth, shall possess the power of Thor.” Obviously Thor is the one to eventually pick up the hammer again and regain his power, but the importance of Mjolnir relative to Thor’s abilities is not diminished at that point. Yet magically in this movie Thor doesn’t need Mjolnir he just has these powers naturally. Even though, you know, Asgardians have never been shown to just naturally have elemental abilities and it was established that Thor doesn’t have much magic prowess the way Loki does. But that’s okay we’ll just ignore that because it’s really cool to see Thor turn into an anime character with glowing white eyes and electric fists (an ability he didn’t have even when he possessed Mjolnir). Also there’s the fact that Asgard’s history is vaguely outlined in the first movie as well and it’s made very clear that Odin is not the one who carved a spot for the golden city. He’s not the first king; his father was king before him. So no, Hela, you didn’t help Odin drown the realms in blood especially not while he was busy trying to end a war with Jotunheim as was explained as what he was doing around the time Thor was born and Loki was adopted. And it’s not just this either; there were plenty of other errors there, even with Doctor Strange.

And the scene with the Doc was odd in it’s own right. Last we saw of Doctor Strange he was giving up the infinity stone and taking over the New York sanctum as a talented, but still young sorcerer. When we see him in this movie he throws around magic like candy; appearing to be extremely proficient and wearing a familiar comic-book-esque outfit. Which raises the question, where is he relative to the power he (if we’re to go off the comics) is meant to possess? Is he the supreme now? What has he been doing since the end of his movie? The timeline is wonky at best and leaves you grasping blindly to try and put it together. It’s only made worse by the first after-credits scene which seems to be leaning into Infinity Wars territory.

Honestly I could talk about everything this movie could have done better for hours. I could pick apart the entire movie start to finish for all the things that were just wrong. But this is already an essay sized post so I’m gonna wrap it up. I care about this franchise. I care about the MCU. And that’s why it makes me so upset, as a fellow writer, to see how god damn lazy every part of Thor: Ragnarok was. The writer’s consistently and shamelessly cop-out of any meaningful story telling. “Show not tell” is a concept burned, drowned, and buried. They tear apart these beloved characters so thoroughly that they are nearly unrecognizable all in the pursuit of getting some good one-liners out there. I don’t have the words to describe my disappointment because Thor isn’t the first recent Marvel movie to do this. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 made some similar mistakes and now I’m feeling like the MCU no longer cares about building a coherent story line with dimensional characters. Instead they just care about making a movie as quotable as possible so that they sell some merch. And that’s a shame; I don’t want to see the MCU die because of a cash grab that sacrifices legitimate investment in the franchise.

#thor ragnarok #thor ragnarok spoilers #marvel #mcu #long post #i wrote a god damn essay yall i'm sorry #if you managed to read the whole thing and wanna yell with me feel free to hmu #alien babble

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capbucky-0506 · 7 years

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Awkward (SamxReader)

And I present to you...(insert drumroll here)... A NEW ONESHOT BASED ON SAM WILSON BECAUSE I LOVE HIM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony was notorious for his parties. He always looked for a reason to throw one. This time, it was to celebrate the defeat of Ultron and to honor the new recruits: Wanda, Pietro, and Vision. Although parties weren't your scene, you've grown to be fond of the recruits, so you had to be there for them. Plus, Natasha wouldn't let you miss it. "Y/N, are you dressed yet?," she asked as she walked into your room with Wanda in tow. "Tony wants us there in five minutes!" "Almost done!", you call out from the bathroom. After you swiped on another layer of peppermint lip balm, tightened the laces on your Converse, and smoothed down your light blue dress, you walked out to see Nat in a black bodycon dress and Wanda in a red flare dress. "I look way too plain," you comment. "Are you kidding?," Nat scoffs. You're the only one who can pull off wearing sneakers to Tony's stuffy parties. You look amazing." "We all look gorgeous," Wanda adds. "I've never had the chance to dress up before, or even go to a party! How do these things work?" Natasha grabs her hand. "Just drink, dance and have fun. Pepper and Jane will be there, too. They're cool. We'll be looking out for you." You grab Wanda's other hand. "And if any guy messes with you, call one of us. Steve and Sam happen to be well-versed in kicking ass." Wanda laughs. "Thanks. Shall we go? I'm guessing you want to be talking to a certain someone instead of us, right Y/N?" "A certain birdbrain?", Natasha adds. "Maybe a falcon?" You met Sam a year ago, when you were assisting Steve and Nat in stopping Project Insight. He was sweet, genuine, and was the funniest man you've ever met. He was so relatable as well. Ever since then, you've grown to develop feelings for him. Not that he knew, of course. You were terrible flirt and incredibly awkward. Just last week, you fucking fell on your face right in front of him! You feel a blush creeping onto your face. "Shall we go?" "Let's." The three of you go downstairs to see the party in full swing. You spot Jane and Thor by the bar and break away from the girls to get a drink. "Hey lovebirds," you say as you walk behind the bar and pour yourself a whiskey. "Hey, love," Jane responds with a bright smile. "You look great." "So do you! And Thor, you look very handsome." "Thank you, Lady Y/N. Tell me, how is Sam doing?", he says with a smirk. You take a sip of your drink and look down, trying to cover up the blush on your face. "I haven't seen him yet." "Seen who?" You look up to see Sam joining in on the conversation. You accidentally drop your drink, shattering it. That was Thor and Jane's cue to walk away from the bar. "Um, y-you, Sam. Hey. Wh-what's up? How's it going? How's the hunt for Bu-Bucky?", you stutter while trying to sweep the glass under the counter. Sam chuckles. "Well, we haven't found him yet. Steve is still hellbent on looking, though. You look beautiful, by the way." "Thanks! So do you! Well, you look handsome, not beautiful. Not that you're not beautiful! It's just, yea!" Sam throws his head back in laughter. "Thanks. Would you care to join me on the balcony?" You nod and make your way over to him, grabbing his hand in a sudden burst of confidence. Damn, Y/N, you thought. As you walk by Nat and Banner, you see them share a knowing look. You and Sam step out onto the balcony. You can feel the wind whipping through your hair. You stay looking at the beautiful city in silence for a few beats. "Can I ask you something?", Sam asks. You nod. "Why do you get so nervous around me? Was it something I said?" You quickly shake your head. "It's just that..." You pause, trying to find the right words. Then, you take a deep breath and begin talking. "I'm kinda...odd. I'm not like Nat or Wanda. All of the other girls came in heels and jewelry. I came in Converse and lip balm. I'm different from everyone else. I don't even think I belong here. I've been awkward all my life. I've even lost friends because of it. And when I met you, I knew I didn't want to lose you. I like you too much to ever want to mess up." You bite your lip and close your eyes, trying to prevent any tears from falling. After a moment, you feel Sam grab your hand, causing you to open your eyes. "Ever since I met you I knew I liked you. I saw you help destroy Project Insight and then proceeded to crack me up whenever you could. When Tony threw that party to celebrate getting Loki's Scepter, you showed up in jeans and a plaid shirt. When Tony asked you about it, you said 'You wear a toaster as a suit on a daily basis and you draw the line at jeans?'. Your quirkiness is your best quality. You're adorable and amazing and anyone who says otherwise is a damn fool. I love you because you're you." You're stunned. You didn't expect him to say all of that. Before he could say anything else, you grab his face and press your lips to his. He wraps his arms around your waist. You stay like this for a while, only breaking apart to catch your breath. "Peppermint?", he asks. "Oh yea." You feel someone watching you and look to see the rest of the team with their phones out, taking pics of their "precious Y/N" and her first boyfriend. Sam rolls his eyes. "Really, guys?" "WILSON, YOU HAVE TAINTED MY Y/N," Tony shouts. Pepper hits his arm. "TONY." "SORRY." You and Sam erupt in laughter. "Wanna go back to my room and watch Star Wars?", he asks. You nod and grab his arm, racing towards the elevator. "STAR WARS BETTER BE THE ONLY THING YOU'RE DOING," Tony screams. "TONY, LEAVE THEM ALONE. Y/N IS GROWN," Pepper shouts. "NEVER."

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llygaidwideshut · 7 years

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Easy choice, Hard decision

So I am a sporadic writer at he best. The muse is very fickle with this one. Anyway Darcyland is one of my favourites, and with so many amazing writers and stories- you guys have helped me through some pretty rough patches in the past year. You know when you read so many great stories, it becomes a bit intimidating to dip one's amateur toes in that very same pool in the fear of screwing it all up. Anyway I just had to thank you guys for all the amazing fics that I got to read. So I wrote this little thing as my first foray into the writer side of Darcyland. Do let me know what you think of it.

A special shout out to @pollydoodles, @nemhaine42, @chrissihr, @amidtheflowers, @ibelieveinturtles, @awwheartno, @themonkeycabal, @meleedamage and all the other wonderful writers out there.

She was supposed to be on her way to the airport right now; on her way to the US embassy in Germany. Instead she was sat, in the ass crack of dawn- staring at her mailbox, trying to compose a grown up reason- other than ‘I don’t want to’- for refusing the job.

She knew since the past week that leaving would be wrong. That feeling dogged her continuously even though her finally leaving was always in the cards. She studied Political Science for crying out loud! She wasn’t made for hard science. That was why she had recruited Ian in the first place- she was supposed to train him in all things Jane and hand over a well- trained Jane- expert who could also Science! Hell, even Jane knew she wasn’t permanent. She had been in it for that awful six science credits; and came out of it with her whole axis displaced.

Looking back, she wonders why on earth Jane ever took her on. She was a 21 years old slacker without any prospects who could only afford college because of her trust fund; who only decided on college to escape the suffocation of conservative values back home. College had been hard and her attitude had not helped her. Before long she had found herself lacking in those six godforsaken credits. At that time Jane’s proposal seemed like an easy A. Keep the scientist fed and watered and occasionally dose her in vitamin D; and in return get those credits. At that time she had thought the whole gig to be a hoot. Jane was hardly a department favourite, what with her ‘wayward’ ideas; but now she knows better. She knows that Jane chose her from half a dozen of hard science applicants- though she has point blank refused to say why. She wonders what Jane saw in her. She knows Jane inspired her. Her grit and determination when the whole world pushed her down was admirable. In only a few months Jane had become her role model: made her realise that she could do a lot more if only she applied to her potential. With that in mind she had started looking for work where she actually got to use her degree. Jane had been her very enthusiastic and number one supporter- so had Thor once he had shifted base earth side.

But now, when all was going great. When she finally had a decent paying job, her world changed. In came the Big Bad! The S.H.I.E.L.D upheaval made her sick in the stomach. Scrolling through the data actually made her throw up a few times; before she had the foresight to read in an empty stomach (yet that didn’t stop her from dry heaving). The world was in a great big mess and once its people started to come out of that shock; fear would set in. She could see it. Fear being the greatest motivator for any disaster, and the need to fill up the vacuum created by S.H.I.E.L.D/HYDRA would definitely lead to consequences she could not even begin to comprehend. But she had still held her tongue and tried to enjoy the farewell party that Jane and Thor had thrown her. However the next day she had watched the Black Widow vs The Senate debacle and her fears closed their cold hands round her throat. She was sure that the time was near when the Avengers would fall from grace from perceived wrong doings- and the whole world would be out for their blood. And where would she be? Tucked in an office in Germany- on Team World! No way! She was Team Jane! all the way. Now that Team Jane! had a plus one, who was not only an Avenger but also an alien; she could very well imagine how bad the situation could turn out for them should the powers of the world wanted to prosecute their heroes.

Jane was the first person to love her the way she was. She was going to stick to her like a wart. She would make up contingency plans when hell finally broke lose. Jane was there to save her from herself and to see her prosper. Now she would stick with her little family- they would be stronger together. Smiling to herself, she composed a satisfying, apologetic mail and shut the laptop; only to find Thor watching her from the doorway.

“I see you have decided against leaving,” he said.

“You don’t sound surprised.”

“Back on Asgard, warriors would be backed by someone with political acumen. Someone who could see the larger picture. You behaviour the past week was practically screaming out your final decision,” he said kindly.

She snorted. “Did anyone ever tell you that you are more insightful than you look?”

Thor simply smiled.

“Do you think I made the right decision?”

“Are you at peace with your choice? Right and wrong is simply a matter of perspective my friend.”

“Too early for philosophy big guy,” she groaned.

“If I were to say that your decision brings peace to my heart? Knowing that you will always have my back and if required will guide me if I misstep?” Thor asked.

“I’m not a hero, that’s in your job description.”

“Your battle field and mine may differ. But never believe that you are any less a hero on your turf. After all, not all heroes wear capes. Some wear a lot of knit wear and a smile,” he proclaimed.

“Hey! Don’t diss the knit,” she scowled. Then-“What do I tell Jane? She is going to be so disappointed.”

“Maybe try the truth?” came the rather unhelpful suggestion- in her opinion- as Thor ventured into the kitchen and started to rummage through the shelves.

“Look here dude; I’m the sass master in this household,” she waggled her finger.

Thor laughed, “Very well then. How would you like for me to cook you ladies some breakfast and you can enlighten Jane on how you choosing not to leave will be beneficial in the long run. I am told scientists are mendable to logic.”

“Hmm, worth a shot. But if it goes sideways, I’m throwing you under the bus,” she declared. “Now get your royal backside to work. I want eggs and pancakes.” With that she shuffled to the door.

“Darcy.” She turned back to look at Thor’s contemplative face. “As much as I adore that our family will not be broken, I desperately hope our fears never take corporeal form. But should that ill time come; then know this- I put my faith and life in your hands, My Lady,” he tilted his head in her direction.

Her eyes fogged over and the next thing she knew, her arms were around Thor’s waist and he held her as she made promises that they both hoped never got to see the light of the day.

Link to AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9945467

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