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a unified theory: chapter 6
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summary:
The thing is that when you’re searching for answers to something unanswerable, an explanation for the unexplainable, you’re bound to keep getting in each others’ way.
And unfortunately for Sylvie, it’s difficult to uncover the cosmic horror looming over all of humanity on your own.
aka. the AU where Sylvie's a freelance paranormal investigator with a theory, Loki's working for the TVA, trying to uncover the same thing, and they both need each other more than they expect.
this week’s update: featuring shameless rip-offs of that scene from the x-files pilot, backstory angst, unexpected tenderness, emotional constipation, and supernatural parasitic glow-worms in tupperware containers. sample under the cut:
However stupid she should be feeling, dressed in pyjama pants and slippers, in the back of the first cab she finds, Sylvie is utterly numb to it, the entire trip spent in a prayer to anything out there begging them to not let her be killed by whatever’s left in the wound. It’s a strange numbness she’s hit, with a Tupperware container cradled in her arms that contains what’s apparently a worm-on-a-string from hell she swears is bigger than it used to be three minutes ago, and it’s that numbness she blames now, standing in the cool London night as she waits to get buzzed into Loki’s flat. He lives in fucking Wimbledon, of all places, and it’s much nicer than her own - which, as it crosses her mind, feels like a weird thing to be thinking at this time.
Nonetheless, by the time she’s up the stairs and knocking on the door, the biggest shock is somehow him opening it in his black cotton sleep shirt and blue flannel pyjama pants. It’s far too intimate for someone she barely knew a week ago, somehow even moreso than seeing him asleep in his office. It’s his space she’s somehow managed to intrude on, the place where every aspect reflects him, no facade or mid-century modern furniture to hide behind. It’s this that snaps her out of the daze she’s in - a sudden awareness of how genuinely, completely, utterly insane she must look in the moment. Loki stares at her as such, brows furrowed, and he opens his mouth to make a quip about it before he spots the contents of the glowing container.
“You’ve seen these before, right? I think it just tried to kill me, and I can’t see the place it tried digging into my back - I yanked it out but it’s a mess, and if I’m remembering the one file I read-”
His eyes are already widened in alarm, watching the thing writhing around against the plastic. “Whoa. Okay. Come in.”
She crosses the threshold and she’s in his hallway - it’s illuminated by a modern pendant she’s seen in an IKEA catalogue, and he’s got a sidetable off to the right where he’s got an eclectic collection of knick-knacks: family photos in gold frames, random bits of colourful seaglass, something that looks like a fancy blue night-light but she assumes has got to be some weird art piece. His keys, attached to a tiny keyring of a metal dagger, sitting on top of an ABBA Gold CD. She’s barely got time to make a comment about that one before she peels off her T-shirt, standing there in her standard grey sports bra. Instinctively, Loki looks away for a moment.
“Don’t be ridiculous, we’re all adults,” she mutters. “Can you check that out?”
read it here from chapter 1!
#sylki#sylki fanfiction#sylvie laufeydottir#loki laufeyson#sylki au#sylvie x loki#my fic#mcu fanfiction#sylki fanfic#pro sylki#sylki modern au#a unified theory fic
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a unified theory - ao3
aka the sylki paranormal investigators AU fic nobody asked for
The thing is that when you're searching for answers to something unanswerable, an explanation for the unexplainable, you're bound to keep getting in each others' way.
And unfortunately for Sylvie, it's difficult to uncover the cosmic horror looming over all of humanity on your own.
writing fic for the first time in a year and it’s...a doozy. if you’re into supernatural conspiracy theories, mysteries, reluctant partnerships, late night conversations, angst, loki and sylvie being idiots in denial, confusing emotions, weird plots and a lot of banter, here’s the one for you!
three shorter chapters are currently up, and from here, we’re really delving into the plot with some longer chapters to be uploaded. excerpt under the cut, and i’d love it if you could hop on over and give it a kudos and comment!
“Fucking hell, are you okay?” Loki asks, rushing over to where she’s half squatting on the ground, where she instinctively shuffles away. What’s she meant to say to him? Yeah, just routine and nearly got eaten by something I’ve never seen before? God, it’s humiliating. Somehow, that’s the only thing she can focus on as she collects her nerves, raising her knife to his chest so its tip is barely beneath his dishevelled shirt collar. She braces herself against the wall with her other arm and hisses: “How the fuck did you get here?”
He raises both arms slowly, a mock surrender that does nothing to ease Sylvie. “Whoa, knife down, calm down, it’s fine. Same goes for you.”
There are about a million different scenarios that Sylvie is running through her head, and most of them involve Loki as somehow being the one who caused this, somehow tracking her down in the dead of night when the disappearance had barely made the news, let alone hit the TVA. She presses the knife into the knot of his barely-done tie. “Leave me alone. I don’t know how the fuck you got here so fast or why you’re here, but I guarantee you don’t know anything about what the fuck you’re dealing with here so please, get out of my way, or I swear on-”
And then, the asshole shuffles back a few inches, away from the knife tip, and smirks.
“And so you know what you just saw?”
“Do you, dickhead?”
“I’m asking you. You’ve seen that before, then?”
“Well no, but-”
“Mhmm,” he tilts his head, and Sylvie is genuinely ready to punch him. “Let me explain - fine, you don’t have to drop the knife if you don’t want to, whatever, but let me explain.”
She glares at him, and he just gives her another look that tells her sure, keep one hand on the murder weapon, you’re looking pretty stupid with it now. “Better be a good explanation, then, Laufeyson.”
“I’m not here because the TVA sent me out, I’m here because it was on the news and you’re honestly painfully predictable. And, well, I didn’t get a photo of the circle on Ford St, so either needed yours or to at least get one if there was a circle here. And look, you’ve obviously got something figured out, okay, you obviously know more than I do - I just want to talk, alright?”
“Oh, piss off,” she mutters. “What are you doing then, with whatever the fuck that was?”
“Actually,” he replies - and his voice is quieter now, “wasn’t expecting that...but I’ve seen that kind of light before. Not here. But I’ve seen what it does.”
Well.
#sylki#sylki fanfiction#loki#sylki fanfic#sylvie laufeydottir#loki laufeyson#mcu fanfiction#a unified theory fic#i am fully aware that the target audience for this very specific weird au is exclusively me#also b-15 is trying to track down her missing wife c-20 in this because i'm a sapphic and i said so#my fic#pro sylki#sylki au#sylki modern au#loki series
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Tom Hiddleston and Sophia Di Martino | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki.
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sophia di martino for vanity fair, july 2021 📷 chuck zlotnick
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And now my heart is full of warmth after the final..
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— Do it. Kill me. Take your throne.
— No.
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this is how it ended right
#sylki#loki#sylvie laufeydottir#loki series#loki fanart#my: art#not even posting this on main i just had to get the sylki brainrot out somewhere lol#they are FINE and HAPPY together!!!!#love is a goddamn dagger im cryingff#marvel#mcu#loki laufeyson
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Source: Twitter
While Casey and B-15 are chilling on the beach.
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repost from apple ❤️
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Kang was here for the drama
instagram | twitter | kofi
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absolutely obsessed with how a month ago it was like who KNOWS if sylki is platonic or romantic?? who among us is to say.......that’s friendship......you don’t know if there’s romantic intent.....and now it’s literally straight up “yeah this is a love story if this wasn’t on disney+ they would have fucked lol”
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sophia di martino for esquire magazine, july 2021 📷 joseph lynn
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