HEADCANON MEMES || ACCEPTING.

“ … ótr.”  the name leaves his lips with grief, gaze dropping at the memory; guilt weighing heavy on his shoulders.  “ ótr, frænir, reginn, lyngheiðr, lofnheið and their father hreiðmarr. they were all friends of mine and my family, long ago.”  were being the key-word.  “ odin, hænir and i were going to visit the andvara-falls one day — we were simply out there to hunt and fish. neither of us knew that ótr was there that day too, having shape-shifted himself into an otter. i… struck him with a rock while his eyes were closed and he was dining on a fish. i believed him to be just another otter, and… he died. i killed him.”  

he doesn’t mention what happened next. none of them had known at the time that it was ótr, and so, they had proceeded to skin his dead body and made a bag out of him. that same night, they had proudly shown what they had caught, including ótr’s skin, to his family, and needless to say, they had recognized ótr right away.

“ when his father and brothers found out what we- i, had done, they demanded ransom for our lives, so we offered them what we had; gold — but they wanted a very specific ring as well, that they made me retrieve. though the ring they had me retrieve for them was cursed. i tried to warn them, but of course they wouldn’t listen to me, and they took it… that was the last we heard of them before they all died. i miss them, still. they were good people. hreiðmarr was a good king to his people, and his sons would’ve made fine kings as well. a father lost his son, four boys their brother, the dwarves their leader, all because of a stupid mistake that i made.”  

it wasn’t often that loki felt guilt from anything he had done, but this one, he still carried with him, centuries later. perhaps because that family had been so welcoming towards him when very few others had, and — while it had been an accident — what had he done in return? gotten the entire family; his FRIENDS killed, one directly, and the rest indirectly.

he missed hænir as well. the one friend he had been able to talk to about it all with afterwards; who had understood what he was going through, and had been willing to forgive him.

|| @aftcrstark ||  i screencapped the ask and added to a new post bc i don’t trust tumblr to not mess up my formatting atm

“ i love you, damn it! - morgan stark @aftcrstark “

“what?” their road together hadn’t exactly been easy and smooth. her getting his attention to trying to help her to get home, it had been a bumpy road. it had taken them time to even get remotely closer to fixing the time machine thing. “you just want me to get you home. don’t say something you don’t mean.” 

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