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When a God Loves a Woman
☆ The Baby Fever AU ☆
Loki x Y/N (Pre-Relationship)
Summary: Loki and you get paired up on a mission, much to the god's dismay - but not because he doesn't like you, no... Quite the opposite. He's hopelessy in love with you. How is he supposed to get through this mission?
Warnings: Loki being a cute idiot in love, pining/bit of mutual pining, a few suggestive things, fluff, swear words, thirst? short mention of weapons? short mention of drugs, mentions of a w*nst - blink and you'll miss it
Word Count: 5,5k
a/n: This is a request from my wonderful friend @fictive-sl0th ! 🥰❤️ I hope you are going to like it - and everybody else, of course as well! 😁
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"No. Absolutely not," Loki stated; crossing his arms over his chest. Tony blinked in disbelief. "What does that mean 'No'? Are you kidding me, Laufeyson?" The god squinted his eyes at his 'team colleague'.
"You must be deaf - or stupid, metal man... Perhaps even both. No... I said no." Tony growled; was already annoyed. "Thin ice, Reindeer Games, thin ice." The billionaire took a few threatening steps closer. "Listen. I don't care what you want, princess. You are the one who needs to prove himself to Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D - and basically the whole world. So if you don't want to end up home and get send into a cell by daddy, you should cooperate now." Loki's jaw clenched; knowing that Tony was unfortunately right. "I'm calling the shots at this mission - which needs to be a success, and if I'm telling you to team up with Y/L/N, then you're going to fucking do it. Are we clear?"
The god was positively fuming with anger - and despair (which Tony didn't notice). "Yes," he hissed. If looks could kill...
It's not that Loki didn't want to team up with you. In fact, he wanted nothing more in his life - and exactly that was the problem. About a year had passed now since he'd been sentenced to prove himself worthy and make up for the chaos he had caused. He became an Avenger - no matter if he liked it or not. It was his only chance to escape the dungeons on Asgard.
It had been a bitter pill for the god to swallow; without a doubt.
Earning the team's trust wasn't easy. Everybody despised him; was suspicious - except you. From the first day he arrived at the Avengers compound, you tried your best to give him a warm welcome. You were nice, kind and sweet. At first, Loki didn't like this at all; thought it was just a fake show you put on. A little game you played or something. After all, why should you have mercy? Why would you accept him? It simply couldn't be.
So, Loki pushed you aside - several times; cold-shouldered you. But you stayed stubborn and continued to treat him friendly - like he deserved and didn't let yourself get shoved away by the god for long. It took a lot of time (and energy), but at some point Loki realised that your intentions were pure. You really meant it. He realised, that you gave him something what nobody else did... A second chance. And from then on, he let you in. Step by step, of course, and slow, but he did.
He talked more to you, spent more time with you, trained together with you - and at some point it came how it had to come... Loki fell in love. Hard. Something he wasn't willing to admit, of course. Norns, he'd rather die than admitting that he fell in love with a Midgardian woman. He also didn't want a single soul to get a whiff of this, so his mission was to keep it a secret - no matter what it took.
The problem was, that preserving this secret turned out to be more difficult than Loki thought. It wasn't easy for him to keep his cool around you; given the fact that he didn't feel this kind of love for ages. By Odin's beard, he felt like a lovestoned teenager! Therefore, he tried to avoid being too close to you - not always successfully, though...
"Good boy."
Tony's words brought Loki back down to earth; out of his head. He clenched his jaw. The anger flooding through his veins was back. Full force - but nevertheless, he tried to control his temper and keeping his mouth shut.
"Why don't you like to be in a team with Y/N anyway? I thought you two get along quite well - or did I misinterpret the situation? Do you have a problem with her?" Tony asked suspiciously. Loki blinked. "No, I-" Before he could say something he'd regret later, the warning bells in his head started to ring at a deafening volume; causing his brain to switch into defence mode immediately.
"I mean yes. Yes. I don't like her. She's annoying me."
The billionaire frowned; crossing his arms over his chest. "You're confusing me, Reindeer Games. No, then yes. Geez, you're worse than a diva. Do you have a problem now with Y/N, or not?" Loki was a hairsbreadth away from grabbing Tony by the lapels of his shirt and throwing him against the nearby wall of the conference room.
"Yes," the god hissed. "I can't stand her." To say those words hurt him deeply; his heart wincing in pain - but for Loki, there was no other way.
"Well..." For a moment, Tony's expression was understanding and almost soft - but then he shrugged his shoulders. "Your problem. The teams are set. I don't care. Make it work." With those words and another shrug, the billionaire turned on his heels, walked away, "See you tomorrow, princess." and left the room.
Loki's eyes followed him, before he squeezed them shut; shaking his head. A sigh left his lips. "How foolish..." He mumbled. "How foolish of me to think Stark would cooperate." Running a hand through his raven curls, he returned to his room. Tomorrow was going to be a hard day for him...
The next day arrived way too quickly - and Loki had slept way too less and spent the whole day thinking about that damn mission, causing him to be the first to stand by the Quinjet; waiting for his 'team mates'. It was an awkward situation. Usually, he was never the first - except today.
Tony arrived only ten minutes later; a shit eating grin spreading over his whole face as he saw Loki. "Well, well... Eager, are we, Reindeer Games?" Loki just rolled his eyes; certainly didn't have the nerves for the billionaire's stupid little games.
"Mind your own business, Stark."
Tony sucked in a breath through his teeth. "Oooh and we're already in diva mode?" The god clenched his jaw; was about to say something not exactly nice to the billionaire, when a booming voice cut through the air. "Ahhh, brother!" It was Thor, of course.
The god walked over to Loki and Tony with a broad smile on his face. "Finally, the time has come! We're on a mission again together!" He said happily, giving Loki a harsh slap on the shoulder. Loki coughed, "Yes, brother, I am thrilled." and glared at Thor - who didn't even notice his younger sibling's discomfort.
"Ah! Don't fret, brother!" Loki rolled his eyes subtly; already questioning his life choices. But when he crossed his arms over his armour clad chest and slightly shook his head, the god's eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of somebody approaching the team. It was Natasha - and you. Loki's gaze immediately got stuck on you - against his will; eyes widening. "This is going to be..." Thor's words faded as Loki's mouth fell agape and suddenly the world seemed to turn in slow motion around him.
You walked casually beside the Widow; your Y/H/C untamed hair flying in the wind. Unlike Natasha, you wore a white and black body suit. Several pockets were attached to it. For comms, weapons and other gear. It was tactical and convenient, but also form-fitting and especially tight. It showed off your curves to perfection - and by the holy roots of Yggdrasil... You looked stunningly sexy. Not that Loki didn't see you before in your mission gear - but you had never worn something like that before.
"Norns, give me strength..." Loki whispered, before he was able to prevent it; attracting Thor's attention. "What did you just say, brother?" "Nothing!" Loki almost shouted in slight panic, before clearing his throat. Get a hold of yourself, Laufeyson!
"I mean... Nothing. I didn't say a word."
What the god didn't think of, was that his eyes were still locked on the beautiful woman only a few meters away from him - and Thor noticed; raised an suspicious eyebrow, as he followed Loki's gaze. "Um, brother, you're staring."
Fuck.
Loki's eyes widened even more; cheeks turning pink as he quickly pulled his gaze off you. "No, I'm not! You must be blind, brother! Or hallucinating!"
Thor wasn't stupid, though. He knew exactly what he saw - and Loki's reaction only proved his assumption to be right. The god said nothing, only smiled, before he went to greet his fellow team mates.
"Ah, greetings, Lady Romanoff and Lady Y/N!" Natasha gave him a smile and a nod. "Hey Thunderboy." You smiled and waved at him. "Hi Thor!" While the Black Widow went to join Tony already on the Quinjet, you walked up to the Asgardian princes - which caused Loki to get slightly nervous.
"Is that new a new armour I see on you, Lady Y/N?" You giggled; nodding. "It is. Nat told me to try something new and I needed anyway something more... functional, so... Do you like it?" You turned in a circle; showing off your new outfit - much to Loki's dismay. He felt his breath hitching in his throat; his chest seemingly growing tighter - just like the space within the front of his leather trousers.
By Odin's beard... How am I supposed to survive this mission?
"It suits you very well, Lady Y/N!" "Thanks, Thor." Then you turned to Loki. "How do you like it, Mischief?"
Like it? LIKE IT?! I love it. It makes me want to pin you against the wall of the Quinjet and ravish you right then and there.
"I agree with my brother."
"Thanks! Now, let's go, boys. I bet Tony's waiting already for us and we don't want to make our diva angry, do we?" You prompted; already entering the Quinjet - which caused the fabric of your suit to bend and stretch around certain body parts even more.
Shit...
You sat alone in a corner of the Quinjet; checking your weapons and mentally preparing yourself for the task ahead, since Tony had announced that you'd arrive soon. Then you heard steps approaching you. Familiar steps. You didn't even have to look up to check who it was. You knew.
"What's up, Nat?"
Your best friend sat down beside you. From the corner of your eye, you could see that she had already changed. A beautiful black, long-sleeved dress was hiding her catsuit underneath. She looked stunning - as always.
"He's into you."
You frowned immediately; were taken aback by the Widow's words. Nat was definitely not somebody who beat about the bush...
You looked up to face her; seeing her lips curled upwards in a smirk.
"W-What, I- Who?"
"Laufeyson." Natasha spoke out the god's name without even blinking; kind of shocking you.
"Whaaat?" You laughed; shaking your head. "No fucking way. I mean, yes, he probably likes my body - like the handsome naughty little shit he is, but that doesn't mean he likes me. Loki has a lot of women and men..." Natasha raised an accusing eyebrow. "Babes, no... Sorry to disappoint you, but Loki didn't have somebody in months."
You frowned. "How do you know that?" Your best friend shrugged her shoulders. "Bruce's apartment is across his and trust me, babe... I hear if he's giving somebody a really good time, 'cause fucking hell, he apparently does." You almost choked on your own spit by her words. "Nat! You cheeky minx!" Again you got just a shrug, accompanied by a grin.
"Okay, let's say you're right... That doesn't mean he's into me." The Russian beauty rolled her eyes. "Y/N... Sorry to say that, but... Are you blind? I don't mean what happened earlier. Sure, his eyes almost popped out of his head, seeing you like this - but that was just another proof." Now you were the one raising both your eyebrows.
"Another proof? What is that supposed to mean now?" Your best friend giggled; shaking her head. "You really didn't notice." "Notice what?" You asked almost desperately know. "The way he's looking at you? How his mood always seems to lift when you're in the room? He smiles - as soon as you're around him. The way he opens up to you? How kind he is to you?" You blinked; staring at your best friend.
"Uhhh, no? I, um, no..." "You should pay a bit more attention then," Nat said; winking. You were still a bit stunned and overwhelmed by those 'news'. That was never your intention. "I... I didn't mean to... I was just trying to be kind. I always knew there's more in Loki than just the bad guy everybody thinks he is. All I wanted was to give him what he deserves... A second chance and a way to proof everybody wrong."
The Widow smiled; placing a hand on your shoulder. "Well... It seems like you were successful in bringing out this other side of him. There is more. You were right about that. But it also seems like you tickled something else awake inside of him... Feelings." "Feelings?" "Feelings. That man is head over heels for you." You bit your lip. That wasn't what I wanted... "Are you sure?" Natasha stood up again, "To 100 per cent." and walked away with a smile; leaving you and your thoughts alone.
You sighed; leaning back against the wall. Your head hitting the metal with a soft thud. You couldn't help but to think about what Natasha said. He's into you. Perhaps it was true and your best friend right, but... What were you feeling? Was his love... requited?
You swallowed. Sure, he was the most handsome man you had ever laid eyes upon, with his long, raven curls, chiselled face and trained body. You loved his wit, how utterly charming he could be, how eloquent he was, how well-read, smart and his other-worldly humour. You liked to spent time with him and talk to him. You'd even go as far and say you were some kind of friends, but love? Not yet.
But when you closed your eyes and thought of Loki, you could easily picture a future with him as a couple - and who knew... Perhaps it was going to happen.
Okay, maybe you had a tiny crush on him.
"Alright. Everybody knows what to do. Let's get those documents, so we can finally make sure that this asshole gets behind bars," Tony spoke and everyone nodded.
The mission was... Well, you wouldn't exactly say easy, but with a good team perfectly manageable. The Avengers got the assignment to help the police to get one of the biggest drug dealers of America - and literally the whole world finally behind bars. Bernardi had always managed to slip the F.B.I through their fingers the past years. Now it had to end - and it was going to.
Today was a big gala in New Haven, Connecticut - the best chance to get Bernardi. But to finally convict him, important documents of the next big drug deal were needed - and they laid safely in a safe in his security monitored and secured suite in the big building, where also the gala took place.
The plan? Tony was going to hack the security camera systems, to make you and Loki - who were going to sneak through the ventilation shafts of the building and actually 'steal' the documents. Nat was going to attend the gala with Thor as her backup and caused distraction - if needed. This time, it was no 'going like a bull at a gate' task. It was no big fight or war. It was some kind of movie like spy mission - and you were hyped.
You didn't understand first, why Tony hadn't sent you and Nat to get the documents, but then you realised that Loki and Thor probably weren't the best duo to attend the gala together. Their cover would probably blow up faster than Tony's patience...
"Y/N, are you coming?" The soft, low timbre of Loki urged to your ears; causing you to blink and snap out of your thoughts. "On my way." You checked if you had everything you needed, then joined your team mate. "Ready, partner?" Loki smiled; gesturing for you to walk down the ramp of the Quinjet. "Lead the way, milady."
Tony had given you the exact positions, coordinates and maps. Loki 'was just your helper' - like the billionaire put it and 'had to follow your orders'.
You sneaked around the big building at the dead of night; looking for the exit of the ventilation shafts. You were quick to find the exact one Tony told you to find and quietly removed the grid, while Loki's eyes scanned the area for any 'intruders'.
"Let's go." You grabbed Loki's attention with your words; nodding towards the ventilation shaft. Just when you were about to climb inside, Loki stopped you. "Y/N, wait! I, uh, I think I should go first." You turned to face him; looking a bit confused. "Why? That wouldn't make sense, Mischief. I have the maps. I know where to go. That's why I..." You climbed inside the ventilation shaft. "... go first. Now come!" Unbeknownst to you, squeezed Loki his eyes shut; face scrunching. "Loki!" "Coming!"
He sighed, then followed you. It was dark inside, of course, but you had your torch and Loki, well, his seidr. Nevertheless, the light source in addition with his position gave Loki the perfect view of your ass; sending shivers down the god's spine. Exactly what he wanted to prevent. Sure, he enjoyed the view, but it was also torturous. You were close and yet so far. "Norns... Can this evening get any worse?" He mumbled underneath his breath, while crawling behind you. "What did you say?"
"Oh, nothing!"
After crawling through the tight, dark space and crossing endless corners for what felt like eternity, you finally announced that you and Loki had reached the destination - the tenth floor of the building.
"Oh!" You abruptly stopped; causing Loki to almost bump head first in your bottom - head first. "What?" "I think we made it. According to Tony's plans, this must be the exit we have to take. The tenth floor." "Let us do that then. My knees hurt." You giggled; working on getting the hatchway open. "Not used to kneel a lot, are we?" "Sounds like you are." Loki answered dryly, without even blinking - and your jaw almost dropped. A blush creeping up your cheeks. He just couldn't help himself. You had given him the perfect opportunity.
"No! I-I mean... I do a lot of work on missions which affords... Kneeling and crawling." The god nodded, but gave you a cheeky smile. "Sure, Y/N. I do kneel from time to time, too."
Gods... You felt the heat in your cheeks increasing, so you busied yourself even more with the hatchway - and to your sheer relief it clicked open mere seconds later. Carefully, you peeked out; head first, looking for any signs of security guards. "Not a single soul to be seen. The coast is clear." You sat up; ready to jump, when your partner stopped you for the second time. "Allow me to go first this time." "Alright." Loki jumped and you followed; the hatchway falling close behind you.
The hallway you had landed in was big with white, clean walls and a black tiled floor. It reminded you of a hotel, but also didn't look like such at all.
"Where to now, milady?" Loki whispered; just in case. "We have to find Bernardi's room," you answered in a hushed voice; pointing down the hallway. "This way." The god nodded; following close behind. So, you sneaked down the hallways; crossing each corner carefully. Another look on the map told you that you weren't far from your destination, when you suddenly heard voices - and they came from behind you.
"Securityguards!" You whisper-yelled at Loki, who looked surprisingly just as panicky as you did. Well, after all you were in a hallway... Not exactly many opportunities to hide there. Loki was about to just teleport you somewhere else, but before he could make use of his magic, you had reacted faster and literally shoved him inside a little broom closet you had spotted mere seconds ago. With one hand clasped over his mouth, the other gripping the lapels of his leather coat tightly and your back stemmed against the door, you hid away from the nearing threat. It caught Loki completely off-guard of course, but he found himself once more enjoying the situation. Your touch. The roughness of it. He liked it.
Once you were sure he wouldn't make a single sound, you let go of him. "Sorry. I just had to make sure that-" "I know," he interrupted you, nodding. You nodded back at him; staying quiet. You had to wait until the security men passed. Unfortunately, though, the broom closet was everything but spacious. Quite the opposite... tiny. And with cleaning supplies all around the two of you, it was a really tight fit. So tight, that body contact was inevitable. Your chest almost touched his. You were so close, you could feel his minty breath on your face. Loki's chiselled bone structure looked even more handsome from this point of view - and dear god, had he always smelled that good? Like a mix out of leather, blood oranges and charred wood? You couldn't explain why, but it smelt so comfortable to you. So rich and musky, yet sweet.
You closed your eyes for a second and took a deep breath. Focus, Y/N, focus.
Unbeknownst to you, Loki had the exact same problem; struggling even harder. His hands almost trembled from holding back from touching you. He would've loved to just kiss you right here and now; your scent intoxicating him. But he couldn't, and he knew that.
"I think we're good to go," you breathed out then; slowly lurking through the crack of the door. "Come."
Loki had noticed the slight tremble in your voice - and it sparked something inside him... Hope. Perhaps he had a chance to win your heart. A chance he never thought he had. And maybe, just maybe he shouldn't see this mission as a burden, but as the first shot he could shoot.
Loki knew that women liked to be wooed. So, he decided to try to impress you. After all, he had conquered already a lot of hearts. He knew how it worked. But you... You were different. You had conquered his heart first - and you didn't even know it.
Wordlessly, the god followed you, until you had reached Bernardi's room. A complicated lock adorned the door. Easy access? No chance. "Alright," you stated; switching on your communication device. "Tony. We're standing in front of the room. Pick the lock." The billionaire answered immediately. "Consider it done, Y/N." "Perfect."
Tony's 'consider it done' took longer than you anticipated... Almost fifteen minutes had ticked by and the electric lock still hadn't moved an inch.
"Hey Tony, what's taking so long?" "It's more complicated than I thought. Give me another minute."
And even another minute wasn't enough. So slowly, Loki grew impatient. After all was the risk very high of getting caught by security guards any momenr. Rolling his eyes, he stepped over to the door and placed his hand on the lock. "Loki? What are you doing?" You asked, eyes widening. "Unlocking this damn lock." You blinked. "And, uh, how?" The god gave you a smirk; "Seidr, darling." winking.
Not even a second after he said that, a green cloud enveloped the lock - and it clicked open. Your jaw dropped. "Woah... That's... That's pretty cool."
Step one of impressing Y/N: Done.
"Tony, we got it." "Yes, I can see that... How?!" You smiled; following Loki inside the room. "Mischief." You could practically hear how Tony rolled his eyes at your answer.
After tiptoeing through the big, spacious room and 'stealing' the documents like professionals; you and your partner left again, as if nothing happened. Loki even managed to fix the lock with his magic.
"Let's get out of here, shall we?" You nodded; checking your watch. "We should, yes. The 10 o'clock patrol will pass this hallway in exact... ten minutes. Either we hurry, or tell Thor and Nat to distract them." "I know I have no say in this mission, but I would recommend option two, Y/N. Better safe than- uh... How's this Midgardian saying going again?" You giggled - music to Loki's ears. "Better be safe than sorry." "That's it, yes. Thank you." "I guess you're right... Nat, can you hear me?" "Loud and clear, babes." "Perfect. Can you and Thor distract the 10 o'clock patrol up here? We won't make it in time." "Sure thing!"
Well, unfortunately, it turned out they couldn't...
Just as the two of you rounded the corner into the hallway of the ventilation shaft, rounded a group of five security guards the other corner. You and Loki stopped immediately in your track; standing like frozen to the ground. "Well... Now we have a problem." The guards noticed you, of course, immediately. One of them gave you an angry look. "Indeed we have," the bulky man snarled; switching on his walkie-talkie. "We have intruders on the tenth floor. Most likely burglars; calling for back-up." "Understood, Sir. Back-up is on the way."
Now you were really fucked.
You sighed; cracking your neck and prepared to fight. "Guess we'll have to-" That was the moment Loki had waited for. The ultimate chance to impress you. His hand on your arm interrupted you; pulling you gently behind himself. "Stay behind me, darling. I am going to take care of this little... issue." Loki stepped slowly forwards - like a wolf stalking its prey; read to fight, when suddenly something caught his attention... A small loudspeaker box hanging high up in the corner where both hallways met.
Smiling mischievously; he snapped his fingers. Let's put on a little show for the lady.
The security guards didn't know what was coming their way. Especially not as 'Holding Out for a Hero' by Bonnie Tyler started to echo through the empty hallways. And before any of them could react, Loki had already started his attack. Unlucky for the men, they were just as surprised and kind of shocked how you were. The god moved gracefully; dodging here a kick and there a punch. The security guards didn't stand a single chance. Not even the back-up - and by the end of the song, Loki had knocked out every single man who had stood in his way.
You just stood there; mouth agape and not quite knowing what to do or think. Loki though, had a victorious, smug and self-confident smirk on his face. Running a hand smoothly through his black curls, he leaned casually against the wall. "There we go. They won't bother us anymore."
Loki didn't quite know what he anticipated of your reaction. A nervous smile perhaps. Reddened cheeks or a impressed facial expression - but he certainly didn't anticipated what came his way... "Umm... Thank you? But I could've taken care of them as well. I know, uh, how to fight."
The god had a hard time hiding the shock on his face. And the embarrassment, which followed only a few seconds later. She didn't like it. She thinks I'm stupid. I made a fool out of myself. He face-palmed himself internally.
Swallowing nervously and clearing his throat, Loki stepped away from the wall again; trying to somehow 'save' this situation. "Sure, I... I know that, of course, Y/N. I just... wanted to be... nice." "Well, I appreciate it. Thanks." Before an awkward silence could settle between you and him; the god cleared his throat once more. "We, um, we should leave." You nodded, "We should, yes." and watched him turn on his heels; quickly walking away.
Therefore, Loki couldn't see how a dazzling smile spread across your face. Whatever it was what he just did - or tried to do... It was very sweet of him.
The rest of the mission went smoothly. You and Loki made it safely and uncaught out of the building.
When you reached the Quinjet, Natasha stood on the ramp, already changed in her black bodysuit; grinning. She said not a single word as you and Loki passed her by, just kept grinning. You gave your best friend a confused look; mouthing: "What?" All she did was winking, before she followed you as the ramp closed shut behind the three of you.
After you had handed Tony the documents and the Quinjet was in the air again; heading towards New York, you decided to seek out the Widow.
"What was that grinning about, huh?" You gently poked her side to get your best friend's attention. She turned to face you; smiling again. "Oh, nothing. Just Loki fighting off thirty guys alone," Nat said with a wink. "And this got you smiling, because...?" You looked expectantly at her, not quite getting what she was insisting.
"Gods, Y/N/N... You truly are blind," Nat stated; shaking her head and crossed her arms over her chest, before she walked towards the metallic door. "He did that in order to impress and most likely to protect you. That man is in love with you. Open up your eyes, babes."
The Quinjet landed quite late at night on the compound. Only a few lights were on; signalling that most of the other Avengers were already asleep.
"Alright, guys. See tomorrow," you bid your goodbye to your fellow teammates. After hugging Natasha, you turned to Loki. "Good night, Mischief." The god gave you a soft smile. "Good night." Then you turned and walked away; following Nat and Tony.
While Loki couldn't help himself, but to stare after you with mixed feelings about the last few hours coiling within his stomach, Thor came to stand beside him.
"You are staring again, brother." He stated simply; smiling. "I'm not-" Loki wanted to immediately reject Thor, but the God of Thunder spoke faster. "Do not try to deny it, Loki. I saw everything. You tried to impress Lady Y/N with fighting off those men." Loki's eyes widened at Thor's words - proofing the god to be right. "You... saw that?" "Yes, brother. We all did."
Loki squeezed his eyes shut. The cameras.
He couldn't control his body longer; a blush creeping up his cheeks. Thor laughed heartily; clapping him on the shoulder. "No need to be ashamed, brother. I am truly happy you found love - and Lady Y/N is a great woman, if I might say so."
Loki grumbled, but knew very well that he had lost this game. "I don't think Y/N feels the same, brother. I made a fool out of myself. I will never win her heart."
Thor wrapped his arm around Loki's shoulder, shaking his head. "No, you did not make a fool out of yourself. I tried to impress Jane a lot of times and failed." "Yes, because you're an oafish ape. I'm not," Loki mumbled under his breath; inaudible for Thor. "Don't you give up. One day, Lady Y/N will be yours."
After the kind of awkward conversation with his brother, Loki headed straight to his little apartment in the tower. He considered to go to bed straight away, in order to escape the hold you had on him, but he also was aware that his mind wouldn't switch itself off so easily. So, instead to forget you, he decided to fully indulge in his thoughts, heartache and fantasies, and took a very long shower; whimpering your name over and over again in his throes of pleasure at the imagination of you in that damn body suit.
Now the god was standing naked in front of the sink; staring at himself in the mirror. His damp raven curls falling loosely over his shoulders; pecs still glistening with water, causing a few single water droplets to drip from his chest hair.
Loki took a deep breath; shaking his head. "I'm fool... I'm such a fool..." With one simple snap of his fingers, he was perfectly dry. He sighed. "... and hopelessly in love."
After slipping into a fresh pair of boxershorts, he went to bed; laying awake for seconds. Minutes. Hours? Just like he anticipated. The god stared at the dark ceiling above him, arms crossed behind his neck; thinking. Until suddenly his mobile vibrated for a second; announcing that he just received a message. Frowning, Loki turned to reach for his phone on the bedside table and unlocked it - only for his eyes to widen. You... It was a message from you. Quickly, he entered the chat to read it.
Hey, Mischief. Just wanted to say thank you again for fighting off the bad guys. Very cute. Thanks.
Loki's whole face lit up. Cute? He was smiling so bright, like he had probably never did in his life before. She thinks I'm cute? His heart skipped a joyful beat.
Perhaps was his brother right... Perhaps hope wasn't lost yet and one day... One day you will be his.
#the baby fever au#pre relationship#loki x reader#loki laufeyson#loki x female reader#loki x you#loki#tom hiddleston x reader#loki fanfiction#loki fluff#loki x y/n#loki laufeyson x reader
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So I have tried to request this prompt from someone else but I don't think their blog is that active anymore. If your willing I'd love to request the following.
Prompt: Reader is bisexual and gender neutral.
Reader is considered fairly attractive and gets flirted with pretty often by basically whoever gender wise. And maybe reader and Zelda even end up flirting a little bit. Reader would have a similar lackadaisical flirty personality as Warriors has.
I wanted to see how each of The Chain would react to this with the context of them having secret feelings for the reader.
2nd official request, woo look at me go 🏃💨
Sun: Gender-neutral Reader (”you”/they/them)
Orbit: Headcanons-ish
Stars: Zelda (Assuming they meant BOTW), + the classic Chain of Links <3
Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: mild cussing, mild typical loz violence, Mildly Suggestive, & Trigger Warnings: none known.
Please comment if I missed any. /gen
so i like to think that modern flirting is radically different than their medieval flirting,
like mayyybbeee Wild can handle it, but even then, they have royalty/knights still, so hes still gettin flustered lol
and i like to think u learned that difference the first time Wars complimented ur new/strange modern fit, and u returned the energy?? except 10x stronger (to them)??
youve played the player, and beat him at his own game, the Captain of the knights is sputtering and shit LMAO
(he said smth like, “their beauty is god-like in this otherworldly clothing“ and YOU said smth like he’d “thank you, youd look better in my bed than in armor 👉 😎 👉 ” lmao)
funniest part is, bc its so natural, i can see u immediately shooting off smth and forgetting it instantly, much to the Links collective shock 😭
u go to towns and notice theres always 1 hero around to steer u away from shopkeepers, townsppl, etc so u wont flirt w/them LMAO
(when u finally notice, u just, “ohh i get it now, so im only allowed to flirt with someone named Link, ohhh, okayy” and they just, “NO we didnt say that-!” “No its just their bold flirtations are not for the weak of heart-!” “Yes.” “CAPTAIN-”)
the only one who they cant steer u away from is Zelda.
afterall, they kinda have to inform the Princess/now Queen of the kingdom, whats going on w/them traveling with Link (Wild) around time and space
the sheikah tablet had been disconnecting + reconnecting to Purah’s both fascination and worry
so as theyre invited to eat dinner and explain in the rebuilding castle, everyone’s absorbed in shadow talk or smth, and u can see Zelda’s struggling to follow along, u just casually bring it back to her, as she’s also trying to write notes and theyve moved on too quickly w/o her
“wowww, all these men and not a single one’s gonna offer the lady any, ‘hi, hello, how is the most beautiful girl in the world today?’ “
and the gapingggg from the links shut them right up, while Zelda goes all pink and coughs, and agrees that they should move on to more chill topics lol
and u can crack anybody tbh, Zelda giggles at ur compliments all the time, even in work mode, u can deffo get Wars to blush to his ears, and even Time to look away first in a flirty + staring contest lol
Legend might actually put his hands up like he’s prepared to fight u anytime u try to flirt at him when its just you two, before he realizes what hes doing and stops LMAO
oh and u absolutely get a lot of mileage out of that one lol
the best reactions have gotta be, in order of most to least extreme: Hyrule, Sky, Wild, Four, Legend, Twilight, Wars, Time
Rulie, Sky, Wild and Four fall into that classic, shocked-heart-eyes, full blush up to their pointy ears, etc category when u get them,
they are also very easy to get lmao
Four is the best at recovery, or ducking away, but if its the Colors, its this type of obvious lol, w/the obvious ones like Red and Blue, Green takes a little more to break, and tbh Vio could go toe-to-toe w/u better than Wars tbh before he crumbles under the pressure lol
Legend, Twi, Wars, and Time faces may not change a lot, bc theyre trying to save it lmao, but the way their cheeks go pink and ears twitch is how u know ur gettting to them (along w/legend’s defensive reaction to getting cornered LMAO)
Twi has caved and covered his face w/his hands before lmao
one day youll get Time to break more than an ear twitch, and looking away, One Day.
(Wind is in fact, having the time of his life, watching you absolutely hilariously wreck these otherwise v serious heroes, hes glad u got them to finally relax a little, but also its hilarious seeing Wars and Legend red faces, and occasionally stealing Wild’s tablet to take funny pics of them all to blackmail later lol)
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idk how good that was, as im kinda bust at flirty banter between characters, so i hope this suffices ur need to flirt w/everyone lol
also i feel i should apologize for not rlly including pronouns? it just kinda comes w/writing reader stories to put them in 2nd person to both make intimacy for readers w/their little avatar im controlling for them, and to purposefully remove the need for gendered pronouns :/
so im sorry i couldnt quite figure out how to make it where “they/them” got used much, i promise i love all pronouns, its just a skill issue tbh lmao
btw
send any prayers, blessings, or good vibes u got my way tomorrow bc im getting wisdom teeth surgery and i am intimidated✨
ill post more asks (i have multiple asks!! <33) after im lying in bed lamenting my painful fate,
mostly just worried ill react badly to the drugs, also the idea of being knocked out during surgery is a little scary so what can i say
have a great weekend guys!! thanks for reading if u did :)
Peace out,
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#lu x reader#linked universe x reader#link x reader#loz link x reader#linked universe reader#lu x gender neutral reader#linked universe gn reader#gn reader#gn reader imagines#moon asks#tags are so hard#send good vibes u guys surgery is scary#ive acc been awake the last time i got a tooth extracted which is why this is extra weird for me#also i got it late in life im 23 lmao#uknow maybe u flirting w/the boys would automatically up their game so then they start getting better at beatin u at it lmao#omfg can u imagine tho#medieval looking wars that usually speaks shakespeare level flirts just says now#'so if i offered u enough shiny trinkets- would u be interesting in dating me?'#lmao
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Hey rome I was wondering if you could do alpha sephiroth x omega reader were the reader is cloud's older brother but cloud Is protective If not maybe a little overprotective of the reader who is pregnant and due at any time
Sorry if the request is hard to understand this is my first request and I was nervous to ask
Modern au
Omegaverse, male reader, fluff, mpreg, mentions of birth
Sephiroth x male reader
🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷☁️🩷
It was a surprise that sephiroth managed to court and mate (name) Strife, the Omega being the older brother of Cloud.
Sephiroth proved to be a very capable alpha to the Omega, being the Son of Shinra Sephiroth could provide (name) with a perfect life.
"Time to wake up" sephiroth deep voice whispered in his mates ear, gently caressing his large belly that carried their sons, Sephiroth managing to knock (name) up with triplet sons that they were already working on (name)s for.
Sephiroth gently peppered kisses across his neck and smirked at the cute sounds the other was making "ten more minutes..." (Name) grumbled but the silver haired man wasn't having it, getting up and lifting his very pregnant mate in his arms.
Sephiroth was a serious man, a ruthless business man in the best of days but in his home he was a loving mate and husband.
"(Name)!" Little marline ran to the Omega who hugged her the best he could while being pregnant with three pups "hello pup" he said as sephiroth kept a hand on the omegas lower back.
"Cloud!" (Name) smiled at his baby brother, the blond alpha letting his brother check him over and fret as his instincts went haywire.
Cloud and sephiroth always had a....rocky relationship.
It started in university where they were on opposing teams for their respective university martial arts teams and have been sworn enemies since.
Cloud glared at the silver haired alpha and Sephiroth glared back.
Cloud didn't think Sephiroth was good enough for (name) and sephiroth just thought cloud was annoying.
The visit was a constant war between the two, finding anything to nitpick at each other much to (name)s annoyance.
Cloud barely let Sephiroth get five feet within (name)s vicinity.
"Oh" (name) looked down to see wet liquid down his leg "I'm so sorry Barrett" (name) whispered as a contraction rolled through "I'll drive you to the hospital!" Cloud said but Sephiroth halted him "on a motorcycle? Absolutely not"
"He's right Cloud, he needs a secure vehicle" Tifa spoke up and the blond alpha glared at the smug Sephiroth "and don't you worry (name)" Barrett said waving off the omegas worry.
(Name) ended up having surgery to deliver the pups, three beautiful little boys that all looked identical to their Sire.
"My babies..." (Name) mumbled as he reached to the three babes.
"I'm an uncle..." Cloud mumbled as they all went in the room to see (name) and the babies "you're an uncle" (name) mumbled very drugged and loopy "baby... Tell em the names!" He said giggly "they are named Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo" sephiroth said holding two out of three "wash your hands and you may hold them"
"Tell cloud the thing..." (Name) mumbled to his alpha as the babes were passed around and Sephiroth sighed "(name) would like to know if you're willing to be their god father" he grumbled, the blond looking at his tiny nephews in awe "absolutely..." He said pulling little Loz closer, the baby a bit more of a Cryer than his brothers.
Little kadaj didn't want to leave his Dam at all, practically sobbing when someone tried to hold him and Yazoo just didn't care.
"Now let's let the new parents spend time with their babies" Aerith said calmly, everyone bidding goodbye "you did good kid" Barrett kissed (name)s forehead lovingly, being his and Clouds defacto dad and the omega smiled at the affection.
When everyone left (name) fed his pups, two at a time then took the last to feed "they're going to be so loved..." (Name) whispered as Sephiroth put them in their little bassinets "they will never be without" sephiroth whispered as (name) passed out from exhaustion.
(Name) was going to be an excellent parent... Sephiroth could feel it.
#ff7#ff7 x reader#ff7 x male reader#sephiroth x male reader#Sephiroth x reader#x male reader#male reader#omegaverse#omega male reader
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Heyoo, I was rereading a player's aid last night and I had a really weird dream sorta related. And now I'm taking that dream and your story to make an absolute Frankenstein mess of ideas.
What if the Guide (someone from our world) did go alongside their adventures in physical body. But in not in order! First with Time, at 7 years old all throughout his adventures. After that, at 9, Guide met the Minish alongside Four! Then, with Legend at 10 up to 14 (because the poor vet got too many adventures).
But between Leg's adventures happened the classic LOZ adventures with Hyrule. Then at 15, Guide went with Sky!
After that, there was a rest until 17 to go with Twilight, then at 19 with Wind, but because I theorize he didn't originally have the blessing of the hero, Guide appeared until after he beat the Tower of the Gods (is that the name? I'm on my way home in the metro and I honestly forgot...) and helped the child from then on as a more helpful and capable guide.
After the whole mess with Wind, Guide helped Warriors with much more experience under their belt to aid on a whole ass war. And lastly, Guide helped our poor amnesiac Wild after waking up to a world he didn't recognize and had no real idea how to save.
In my case, I have a giant soft spot for Twilight (in a romantic way) because he and RE 4 Leon were my crushes as a child on the Wii, so there's that. But with you or anyone who may want to take this mess they I'm freely gifting, you can choose who would be the romantic interest.
A little detail to not forget is that Time and Guide last saw each other as traumatized children, and when the chain gets collected and they meet Wild and the Guide soon after the BOTW adventure, Time is physically around his 40's and mentally who tf knows! But the Guide is at the oldest, 20 to 21.
(I'm not sending it on anon because in case this is minimally interesting to you, maybe I can send more random thoughts I have on this AU or others without much issue. Will I regret it? Who knows, I'm sleep deprived and after going to school early af, then going to work... I'm in no mental state to make good choices either way. Whatever. Call me Nana, if you need to refer to me in any way.)
HI NANA!! ALSO I LOVE THIS IDEA!!
First, the possible angst potential with Time and Guide got me hurting for real because LET THIS MAN KNOW PEACE!!! I feel like that man would also instantly recognise the Guide because he's built like that
Honestly just love the boys not being alone for their adventures like yes let these men know peace when there is only chaos
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Hi!! Do you have any fic recs where derek is completely head over heels for stiles from the very beginning?? Like completely in love and smitten ♡ it can be AUs or teen wolf universe ♡
Well, I might know a few. ❤️
Derek's Epic Love Story by arrowofcarnations | 11.5K | Explicit
Derek Hale is good at getting what he wants. Unfortunately, what he wants now is Stiles Stilinski, who doesn't exactly seem to be in the mood for his shit.
Scrubbing Bubbles by MargaretKire | 46K | Explicit
Stiles thought it would be easy doing janitorial work for an office. At first, it really was. The job only took a few hours in the evenings and it helped pay for rent and college. Sure, Hale Industries took up an entire floor in one of the downtown financial buildings, but the place was new and easy to care for. He didn’t even have to spend much time cleaning the huge corner office, because the trash was nearly always empty and the office itself was spotless, like no one used it.
It was basically the perfect college job. At least, until the boss started staying late.
Sidequest by bleep0bleep | 11.4K
Agent Derek Hale has been working up the courage to ask his partner Stiles out on a date (finally!) when he heads out on a solo mission—without Derek. Eager to provide support, Derek arrives in Beacon Hills, only there is no mission, and Stiles' dad thinks Derek is Stiles' boyfriend.
Well. It could be worse.
If being sexy was a crime, you’d be guilty as hell. by DropsOfAddiction | 14.3K | Explicit
Derek tries and fails to shut his gaping mouth as Stiles arrives at his desk, heartbeat rabbiting a little faster than usual.
Stiles grabs a file out of his desk, muttering something about forgetting to mail it yesterday and needing to get it down to filing by Monday. Derek’s barely paying attention, unable to concentrate with the scent of him right under his nose.
He leans over Derek to grab an empty envelope from their shared stationary tray and Derek knows he’s absolutely fucked when he sees how his trousers are moulded to his perfect ass.
“So.... how do I look?” Stiles asks casually as he stands back up, as if his very presence hasn’t just given Derek a very sudden and uncomfortable boner.
He looks like he should be on the cover of GQ.
You’d Be So Good To Come Home To by SylvieW | 5K
In Stiles’ final year of college, Derek decides to rebuild the Hale house. He keeps asking for Stiles’ opinion on the house plans. Stiles doesn't realize that Derek is building the house with a mate in mind.
Put Out the Fire (but not the one in my heart) by omelet | 2.8K
Derek thinks this is getting a little out of hand. Because honestly, he never would have guessed that he would one day come to own a firemen-themed calendar.
I Intend to be Independently Blue by Loz | 21.7K | Mature
Stiles is the worst thing that could have happened to Derek. He hasn't been wolfing out at inopportune moments since his teens, but only because he has a system in place. And this is where Stiles comes into play. Because he's been messing with this system, and doesn't even know. Also, there's a wendigo.
sing me a song, piano man by bleep0bleep | 2.2K
Derek’s worked at McCall’s for three years, just about as long Stiles has been the pianist, and not once has Stiles ever sung a song about him.
Queer Your Coffee by alisvolatpropiis | 3K
Derek's just over the city line when he sees a sign for an independent drive-thru place, Full Spectrum Brew. There are three cars in line when he turns in, which annoys him but gives him hope. Not that he really trusts the people of Beacon Hills to have much taste when it comes to coffee (god, he is a snob), but the shop’s popularity does seem to bode well. The line of cars moves way more slowly than he’d like, each customer in front of him seeming to take way too long to order, and then lingering when they get their coffee. He’s irritable from lack of sleep and an even more detrimental lack of caffeine, anxious to get out of the car. Finally it’s his turn and he slowly rolls up to the window, turning the radio down.
For a second, he thinks he must have fallen asleep while he was waiting, because what he sees when he looks in the window surely must be a dream.
Stunning brown eyes like glowing honey and sweet little nose, slightly upturned; a shapely pink mouth, bottom-lip pierced by a thin black hoop that he's worrying with the tip of his tongue as he smiles a gorgeous hello.
He's the most beautiful man Derek's ever seen.
And he’s shirtless.
Mating Habits of the Domesticated North American Werewolf by lielabell | 35.4K | Mature
Derek doesn’t do pining. He doesn’t. So when it becomes clear that Stiles is much more interested in having Derek as a new best friend than a boyfriend, he puts on his big boy pants and makes it fucking work. He becomes the best goddamn friend a spastic teenager could ever hope to have.
The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) by Nokomis 17.5K
Everyone falls magically in love with Stiles. Well, except for Derek, who is suspiciously immune.
Wet T-Shirts For Charity by LadyDrace | 2.4K
Derek takes his car to a charity car wash. He didn't realize the wash came with a side of sexual frustration and pining.
How Derek Got His Groove Back by WhoNatural | 4.3K | Explicit
Cora kicks him under the table. “Do you have the hots for the baby lawyer?” she hisses urgently, and Derek blinks at her, feeling his face heat.
“Don’t be ridiculous. He’s young enough to be my--”
“Younger brother,” she cuts in, and shakes her head. “Age difference excuses do not fly with me. Are you gonna ask him out? Derek, you need to do something about that.”
“About what?” he says, frowning, watching as Stiles sits down at a table with a group of older, lawyer-types.
“The fact that you’re both about one drink away from sex in some janitor’s closet.”
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LoZ AU- The Courage of Running Away LABRYNNA EXPANDED (long post alert)
Let's start with a link to the original masterpost since this is plunked in the midst of Part Five of the OG plotting posts.
Labrynna was practically a footnote in the original CoRA plotting posts, it and Holodrum basically getting covered in one post.
But as I've noted since, it turned into its own storyline, and I got wrapped up in Politics, and fantasy politics are my fucking catnip so I have at this point gotten through two whole ass NaNos with it oh god.
Image descriptions will be in ALT this time around so theoretically the seventeen to twenty pictures in this post won't be quite so bad???
So where things pick up, Link has just left Windfish Isle on Uncle Torik's ferry with Marla and Tonbo and they're headed to Labrynna.
...I was going to post the map of Western Aurule here but that. I'm gonna put that in its own post. Here's a link to the map of Aurule proper as it currently stands.
And the first thing Link does, before they even get all the way to Labrynna, is piss off a pirate:
A lot of you are not going to look at the alt text so I'm going to say that he's based on a thorny devil and I did not mean for him to turn out so adorable. (But also I love lizards so maybe it was inevitable that my fondness would show through.)
Link was MOSTLY trying to get him to leave Crescent Island alone so he blows up the figurehead of Kragg's ship.
Which was of Kragg's wife.
Kragg is gonna show back up.
Link and Marla and Tonbo manage to escape to Jabu City, which is based on the fact that there's an OoT-style-Zora Village underwater off the coast in Oracle of Ages because this fic is nothing if not wild extrapolation.
Jabu City is a mixed-peoples city, with Zora, humans, Rito and some Gorons, but it's largely Zora.
Note on mister "Oh I'm in DANGER:" A running gag is that Marla is considered a very attractive Zora and Tonbo is having absolutely none of people hitting on her. Marla takes a lot of delight in this.
Have some more Jabu City fashion because I got carried away:
The trouble is, Jabu City is a beautiful place but the Zora there are generally kind of... hoity toidy high on themselves. There's a few crass comments made about Marla being from Windfish Isle, for example.
So Link, Marla and Tonbo don't spend especially long there and instead head north to the town of Brynna, where Link finds himself instead running into his mother's past-- stories of her adventures, but even more importantly into a traveling story collector who has a bit of a connection to Catena.
I want you all to know that hitting on the idea that the Graceful Gorons are called that because they're all Victorian era-style boxers was the single most inspired moment I've had in this AU setting's worldbuilding, my brain is enormous and I am sexy as hell XD
Anyways Allemande and Courante were Catena's friends for years, and then Catena died so Allemande started taking journeys around Aurule every few years so that he could collect stories about her and about adventurers like her. Think of him as being a bit like an earthier Kass without an accordion.
Allemande suggests that they go to Lynna City, Labrynna's capitol, partly because another one of Catena's old friends lives there now.
But on the way they run into Politics again (they've already run into these politics in Jabu but now it's even more in their face), because they have to cross the Kappakon River to get to Lynna City, and that means interacting with the Kappakon River Zora, who are quite a different deal from the coastal Zora:
What Enhir means when she says "what they're doing to us" is that the mayor of Symmetry City next to Dimitri Bridge is dumping garbage upstream of the nearest Domain, Nuun Domain, trying to get rid of them and mostly making their Patriarch and their tadpoles desperately ill. (I didn't include a sketch of the Nuun Domain Patriarch even though he does have a design because at the point I drew this I already knew this post was longer than most of the original posts for the AU, waagh)
Symmetry City is also where Link, Marla and Tonbo first meet Sturmaz, who essentially joins the party for pretty much the rest of the storyline because I love him and he's a good boy.
I made a post about Sturmaz before and it features a little more art that is absolutely him yelling at Symmetry City's mayor about this mess.
So it takes some yelling at the right people but eventually Link gets the Nuun Domain sorted out and they head to Lynna City to meet his mom's best friend, Githa, who actually lives here because she got banished from Hyrule for reasons that might be clear after the picture:
Notes on Githa: She was originally inspired by Agitha from TP as she appears in Hyrule Warriors with a bit of influence from Purah; for some reason when Invid and I were playing through HW Agitha being a secret criminal or mob boss turned into a running joke along with her NPC mode constantly clinging to giant bosses whenever it was absolutely inconvenient. That turned into Githa.
Also, she doesn't know Catena thought of her as her best friend, which is the real reason Link decides she's a disaster person.
The problem is, now they're in the Capitol and naturally there's more Politics there. For example, Sturmaz's uncle:
(Marla and Tonbo don't want to let Sturmaz or Link think that having shitty father figures is normal.)
And indeed, the stupid hat does come with the job, as Link discovers when he goes with Sturmaz and Nimbas to the Labrynna Senate:
So the idea behind Labrynna's government is that in CoRA's version of events, Labrynna abolished the monarchy after Queen Ambi because they weren't putting up with that shit again (the official line is that so much power is considered too much strain on one person.)
As is evidenced by the Presiding Lady still being a member of Ambi's bloodline and the senator of Brynna being her sister, however, nepotism is still alive and well in Labrynna.
Also Link gets a cute outfit so that he doesn't stand out so much in this crowd:
(It was an emergency situation I swear.)
To be clear this is a man's dress and Link's entire reaction to it is "I don't know how my father puts up with a floor length skirt." Fuck your gender roles.
Nimbas turns out to be more than a bit of a professional jerkass.
(By "river monsters," Nimbas means the Kappakon Zora. Just to be clear.)
Link also visits the Maku Tree, because you don't go to the capitol of either Labrynna or Holodrum and just not visit the Maku Tree.
I wanted the Maku Tree to have an equivalent to the Kokiri for a number of reasons but one of them is that over on the Ghirahim side of the story he's having a silent existential crisis about his backstory and I like narrative mirrors. *thumbs up*
Credit goes to Invid for the idea that the Koroks and Kokiri are actually just the same thing entirely and that the Kokiri put on the Korok masks in order to leave Korok Woods safely.
Also Kula is actually a canon Breath of the Wild character. I made a sound like I was greeting a cat when I found her in TotK. XD
Link finds out, among other things, that the Golden Kragg seems to still be pushing his way up the Kappakon despite that he has to fight every single river Zora on the way. It turns out that Kragg is upset about more than Link blowing up his ship's figurehead:
At some point several years before in Yoll Province, the local dragon went missing, the local lizalfos started acting up, and then the Labrynna Senate, partially spurred on by Senator Nimbas's arguments on behalf of Senator Aldo from Yollton, well, absolutely exterminated the Lizal presence in Yoll Province, and executed the lizalfos leader in Lynna City Square.
Leaving behind her husband, the Golden Kragg, and his lizalfos pirate crew.
So THAT'S not great.
Have a chonky dragon.
Obviously that means that Link has to investigate this shit.
Kragg is heading straight for Lynna City with full intent to carve a new statue of his wife out of the Maku Tree herself, and while the River King Izemaz, living in the Maku Domain, is absolutely going to step in if Kragg tries it, the main bridge Kragg would have to come through is a major marketplace in Lynna and Link can't stand idly by even if it means his destiny as a Called Hero is sort of chasing him around a little at this point.
Which means that Link and party take an express glider to Yoll because time is now of the essence (it is terrible that I didn't draw this. Imagine them sitting in one of those steampunk engine-less plane contraptions and getting launched from a catapult. Also Marla doing lots of screaming.)
Well, shit.
(Link can hear Gabbrosald's sickened godsong because of the pointed ears while Zora are just really sensitive to Things Being Wrong in the Environment. LORE.)
Anyways shit goes DOWN. They have to do a dungeon and everything. And finally, at the end of it, once they've freed the dragon in distress, Gabbrosald gives them a ride back up to Lynna City so they can stop the Golden Kragg from burning Maku Park and using the Maku Tree as carving base, because actually Lord Gabbrosald was rather fond of those lizalfos and would prefer that the Golden Kragg not get himself killed.
Now Link just needs to convince Senator Nimbas that killing the lizalfos that the furious local dragon god is fond of is maybe not the best idea.
#my art#loz#loz au: the courage of running away#au august#holy fuck goodnight everybody#I should not have tried to fit this whole storyline into one post
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LoZ - Gerudo Pantheon
There will be more, but this is all I have for now.
Gela = A higher goddess of the sand. Originally from Jïasïd within the Ûjïa Desert, a small country in Baydaan, the continent beyond the Gerudo Desert, far to the southwest of Hyrule. Which, at the time of Hyrule's creation, the Gerudo Desert was a great sea named the Lanayru Sea. During that time, Baydaan & Hylia (the name of the continent that Hyrule is on) were entirely separated by that sea. Gela's true name is Geladïna & she acts as both the Gerudo goddess of the sand & the Hylian goddess of power, Din. It was in Jïasïd, the Gerudo's home country, that she created the Gerudo when she infused too much of her fiery passion into the flower in her garden, forcing it to grow large & bloom, & from that flower came the first Gerudo. They worshiped her as the Goddess of the Sand. She also rules over the domains of battle, fire, lightning, earth, sand, hardship, the forge, the seasons, treasure, gemstones, jewelry, passion, & dance. Before creating the Gerudo, she encouraged the evolution & growth of the Gorons as a species, having found such creatures absolutely fascinating as there are very few even non-sentient species that were truly inorganic. After the accidental creation of the Gerudo, she then aided in the elevation of the Mogma as well. Geladïna's husband is Jawàrik, a higher Gerudo god of war, strife, responsibility, & conquest. With him she gave birth to Gàlondo, who later became Demise. After the eternal war began in the Gerudo's home country, it became obvious that their marriage would be a sexless one. It was determined that they should annul their marriage before one of them committed a faithless act. Once that was finished, Geladïna later collected a harem of mortal concubinus/male concubines (Vo'màzren), all Gerudo men, with which she had 7 daughters with, who eventually become the 7 Heroines. Her sacred animals are snakes, specifically cobras, as well as eagles, salamanders, & fire/lightning dragons. - As Din, she is always depicted with wing-like protrusions behind her ears & her associated symbol on her forehead, while as Gela, she is always depicted with a Màlàki Kōbra (Royal Cobra) with a large ruby forehead ornament resembling the one that Ganondorf wears in TotK.
Jawàrik = A higher Gerudo god of war, strife, & conquest. Husband to Vah Gela & father to Gàlondo. He is from the small country of Jïasïd, which has been cursed to be in eternal strife against its neighbors. As a result, Jawàrik is constantly in battle with the other countries' gods of war. Before the war struck out, they managed to have 1 son, Gàlondo, who Jawàrik then took with him to train for war. The ancient Gerudo belief of Nīkôzeto'reqra originates from him. The word loosely translating to conquest, but means something more along the lines of the "Right to Victory." Nīkôzeto'reqra was sort of the Gerudo's equivalent to the real-world concept of "Might Makes Right" or the Chinese philosophy of the "Mandate of Heaven."
Gàlondo = The only begotten son of Geladïna & Jawàrik. He is a Gerudo god of war, power, conquest, fire, lightning, especially dry lightningstorms, virility, pride, destruction, bloodlust, & the burning desert sun. While a god of the sun, similarly to Hylia, he is specifically the god of the desert sun who rules over the aspect of the sun in which the earth is without water. This often results in it burning the land & its inhabitants punishingly & unforgivingly. His is nothing like the warm, gentle light of Hylia. This, plus his domain over dry lightningstorms, also tends to result in him being associated with the hardships that comes with a life in the desert. Which also tends to result in him being associated with oppression & Gàl'gáron, or the Gerudo hells, where it's said that the sands burn through your shoes & scorch your feet. Gàlondo was taken back to Jïasïd to be trained in the art of war as a child, then later in life, was tasked with being the patron of the Golden Land before Sheikaku, then finally Hylia. No one outside of the Hyrule Pantheon knows what actually happened to him. Said to have had a romantic interest in Vah Kàvtrïna, but that his behavior led to him being rejected. Is known for having trysts with Gerudo vaien who worshipped him. Specifically in situations where a couple requested his aid in becoming pregnant. Though, this was never done out of goodness. Rather, he saw it as a way to get a free fuck out of it. There are stories of him possessing Gerudo voen & breeding their wives. The children produced were a rare example of having 2 biological fathers & one mother, causing them to be ¼ deity. This fact often became apparent when those children grew up to take on certain attributes of Gàlondo himself. Every voe born after the Curse of Castration is believed to be descended from one of those children. His sacred animals are boars, oxen, rams, lions, & eagles. - Often portrayed with long, flame-like, deep orange hair, sharp, radiant, golden eyes like that of an eagle, & Orc-like tusks.
Amàhrta = A Gerudo Goddess of the Moon, Mirrors, Dreams, Illusions, & Prophecy. Said to be the most beautiful of the Gerudo goddesses with silvery-white hair like silk-spun moonbeams & ruby eyes that twinkle like stars. Jewelry made of silver & featuring moonstones (Amàhmàtu) are often gifted to her as offerings as they are said to be her favored gemstone. Geladïna's elder sister. Sickles (Tàrrkyn), scythes (Tàrrba or Tàrrdo), & other scimitars are also associated with her, but are not considered sacred to her the same way that the Moonlight Scimitar & Mirror Shield are. She is also known to preside over weaponry, specifically swords & is known for her deadly swordfighting technique said to resemble dancing. It is a style of swordfighting that she is said to share with her sister. She is known for given those her worship her faithfully prophetic dreams. - She is often depicted wearing a crown of stars, in a gown of moonlight, with a Hedjàsht'è Ikem (Mirror Shield) in 1 hand & an Amàh'let Shim'tarr (Moonlight Scimitar) in the other. All other Moonlight Scimitars & Mirror Shields are merely pale imitations of hers.
The Blessed Concubini = al'Shôsï'úl Vo'màzren. Vah Gela is known for having a harem of 7 Gerudo concubini (plural of concubinus; male concubines), who service her. The men where blessed with immortality, but not full godhood, so that they could continue to serve their beloved goddess. While none show any real interest in each other beyond comradery, often treating each others as brothers, they aren't opposed to foreplay if it interests their goddess. Geladïna & her Vo'màzren have an odd relationship in that, in a certain sense, they actually legitimately love each other & behave as if common-law married. Make no mistake, the Blessed Concubini are by no means whores. Rather, they had been among Vah Gela's most dedicated & loyal followers, some were Priests of the Temple of the Sand & others were simply devout worshipers. Their devotion had been so strong that Geladïna had to have them for herself. No one ever accused her of not being greedy at times for she was a goddess of treasures & jewels. So, she spirited them away & offered them a position as a way to serve her directly. However, she warned them that they'd have to leave their old lives behind entirely. They thanked her graciously & accepted. Each & every one of them love her dearly & they are now the prized jewels that shine upon her crown. Metaphorically speaking, of course. This is actually a controversial thing amongst Gerudo theologists as the Gerudo are a very romantically exclusive people. Though, let it be said that she does not encourage others to do as she has. If anything, she tends to make it clear that what works for her most likely won't work for everyone & even considers herself & her Vo'màzren to be a unique case.
The Seven Heroines = al'Zaf Vahshô'làran. The 7 eldest demi-goddess daughters of Geladïna.
The 8th Heroine = Known as al'Uàf'té Vai'làra by the Desert Gerudo. However, a more accurate title would be al'Mà'trook Voh'lawàr or the Forsaken Hero, which is how he's referred to by the Highland Gerudo. Over the many years, the 8th's story has been diluted until almost unrecognizable. Only the Highlands Gerudo know the truth in any real capacity. In truth, the 8th was a male from Hyrule, who came to them in the Gerudo's hour of need. Afterwards, he was turned away due to the belief that men only bring disaster. He then left for the Highlands, where many Gerudo followed him, having been unhappy with how he'd been thanked. Those Gerudo & the 8th later founded Ealiyah Town. The Seven left behind gifts for the 8th as a way to apologize. Afterwards, the eldest of the Seven left for the Highlands where she & the 8th married. Their son, the Centennial King of that time, later married a Gerudo woman & became the 1st Chief of Ealiyah Town. All other Ealiyan Chief's are descended from him.
Sāqmàla = The Gerudo Goddess of Life's Bounty & mother to Vah Gela & Vah Amàhrta. A goddess of life, vivifatility (pertaining to both fertility & virility; this is a word I made up), flowers, fruits, springtime, sex, passion, pleasure, motherhood, childbirth, & Vāïn. As well as being a protector of Vaien, though she is clearly not opposed to the exploitation of men. However, that isn't due to any true hatred on her part, she is simply a product of her upbringing much like most. Is known for being able to take on the form of a Vae whenever she wishes, which she does a more than negligible amount in her myths. Though a goddess, is considered a very promiscuous figure even long after marriage. Is also thought to be very beautiful, but in the way that a sex-worker might be. As in, actively trying to be sexy. Not that she isn't naturally, but unlike Kàvtrïna, who was always just content with looking nice & appearing presentable, Sāqmàla is very intent on maintaining her looks & being seen as desirable. Many have stopped worshiping her in favor of Vah Kàvtrïna & this has caused her to take up issue with the younger goddess, even becoming jealous of her. It used to be that Vaien wishing to get pregnant or Vaen prayed to her for fertility or virility. She is most famously known for her part in the story of "King Hànrysé's Folly." Which, is about a sort of Henry VIII type of Gerudo King. Though, here, he does eventually get his son, but uh... Let's just say that he never, ever makes such demands of any woman ever again due to what Sāqmàla did to him. It's a bit weird, but then again Greek myth is also pretty damn weird, so I guess that's just the nature of myth? I might be willing to give a brief summary of the story if anyone's interested.
Kàvtrïna = A higher goddess of love & passion originally from Hyrule, but has since been embraced by the Gerudo pantheon. Also rules over tender sexual relations (specifically, the tenderness & emotional connection experienced between those who are in love), femininity, vivifatility (pertraining to both fertility & virility), pudicity & loyalty, righteous retribution, as well as healthy relationships, bravery, compassion, music, the hearth (specifically the home, hospitality, food/cooking, & family, through which she also rules over the domains of weddings, marriage, childbirth, & motherhood), beauty, the moon, the truth, balance, nature (especially flowers, fruit, oases, the seashore, & the tide) & the hunt, healing & medicine, soulmates (specifically, the bond between soulmates), & is known to be a defender/protector of children & abuse/rape victims regardless of their sex. Due to how divinity works, she still became known for them. Also, being a goddess of righteous retribution & a defender of abuse victims also qualifies her as a warrior goddess of protection, or a heroine goddess, meaning she has a natural inclination towards fighting & protecting others much like her brother. Originally worshiped in Faron, Ordona, & Necluda, but has since been embraced by Hyrule as a whole, as well as the Gerudo. She also encouraged the development & evolution of a group of Remlits, who eventually became the Zonai. Thought to be the most beautiful of the Hyrulean goddesses & of equal beauty to Amàhrta in the Gerudo pantheon, just in a different way. The Gerudo refer to her as the Oasis Mother (al’Wahē Vah'ma) & a Dāvah'làra (great heroine goddess, a protector). Sacred animals are Dusttail Foxes, Everlost Moths, Dune Leopards, Sand Cats, & wind/water dragons. Is also said to be able to transform into a Vae whenever she wishes much like Sāqmàla, though she isn't nearly as well-known for it as the Gerudo Goddess of Life's Bounty is, really having only 1 myth in which she does it. She just isn't a very promiscuous person, unlike Sāqmàla. She believes that what she does in her bedroom is her & her partner's business & no one else's. - The Gerudo often depict her as a gorgeous Gerudo woman with long, wavy platinum blond hair that reaches her knees in a long, loose braid, icy blue eyes (that later turn a glowing silver) with slitted pupils, pronounced, sharp canines, catlike claws, facial markings similar to Sheikaku's but less jagged & more curved, & a dark, Gerudàn skintone despite her actually being just very tanned. She is also depicted with a 2nd pair of arms beneath the pair you typically see & is very prominently depicted with a pair of daggers at her hips & dual scimitars sheathed at her lower back or wielded in her hands. Unlike in Hyrule, the Gerudo don't forget her warrior side & is often referred to as a warrior goddess & huntress by them. The Gerudo often show her in a Sharùnga, Aelaahàsil (a sarong & crop top), & Streshibpen (Gerudo-style winged high heels), which Karina would find some issue with as she was generally a modest individual. Conversely, she was also depicted in an Ànshibak Qàmpàto (a closely-fitted imperial-collared shirt with a boob window, this one without sleeves), which she'd prefer. She's also depicted wearing a Gerudo battle tiara. However, in battle, she is instead depicted wearing an exomis-adjacent outfit in the form of a Konchàq (A Gerudo version of an exomis), under a Gerudàn demi-curiass called a Nisdïre with lovely Gerudàn patterns, on her head they put a Vallah'jï Tàj (goddess tiara, which are often even more ornate halo crowns than what Gerudo kings & queens wear) Àb'bīvten (sleeve weights/arm chains), Tzèxad'bīvt (hand chains similar to what TotK Ganon wears), though she keeps the Streshibpen. Sometimes depicted with a bow & arrow & a pair of Dune Leopards flanking her sides as she is considered a huntress.
Nàjbek the Starcarver = Believed to be a Dohnàkht, which is similar to the Greek concept of a Titan. In Gerudo theology, it is believed that the Earth is contained within an orb of obsidian that floats within a sea of light along with other worlds. Nàjbek is believed to use his hammer & chisel to break holes in the night sky, allowing the light of eternity to filter through to the mortals below. However, most Hyrulean Gerudo have forgotten him & now believe that the stars are gems placed there by Vah Gela to guide them. - Is thought to be either a sculptor or a stonemason.
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Sīmurgh = A holy winged shewolf spirit/goddess of Gerudo myth in a similar vein to the Keaton, if more powerful. So large they can pick up & carry a Molduga. Benevolent beings associated with healing, longevity, resurrection, & purity. Has the colorful wings & tail of a peacock, the body & head of a wolf or coyote, the front feet of a lion, & the back feet of a hawk. Periodically, the Sīmurgh must die. When it is time to do so, the Sīmurgh builds a nest of aromatic twigs, then rests in it before bursting into flames. After her body has turned to ash, she is reborn from them anew. This is done to purify her body of worldly corruption. She is thought to help mortals when she can. Her tail is said to be able to send people back to where they came from, that her tears heal, & that when she sings, no falsehood may pass the lips of those that hear her song. The Queen Sīmurgh is said to perch upon the Mother Tree of Life in al'Vahlïen'è Wahē (the Oasis of the Gods) that she protects. Is associated with the sun. - Inspired by, but not exactly like, the Sīmurgh of Iranian myth. Is also inspired by some myths surrounding phoenixes.
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Fashïna'dàrra = Passion Lily. A sacred flower to the Gerudo as it is said that this was the flower that the first Gerudo came from. - A reference to the IRL Flame Lily.
Amàh'let Shim'tàrr = Moonlight Scimitar. A holy weapon & the one most associated with Amàhrta, the Gerudo Goddess of the Moon. She is often depicted holding one in her hand. All other Moonlight Scimitars are merely imitations of hers & pale in comparison. The true Moonlight Scimitar is said to be made of moonbeams & releases an arc of moonlight that cuts through the air when swung.
Hedjàsht'è Ïkem = Mirror Shield. A holy shield heavily associated with Amàhrta, the Gerudo Goddess of the Moon. She is often depicted holding one in her hand. All other Mirror Shields are merely imitations of hers & pale in comparison. - The original symbol on OoT's Mirror Shield was the symbol of Amàhrta. A crescent moon facing to the left with a star between the points.
Vah'hanma'è Sāqsha = Mother Tree of Life. The source for all other Trees of Life. While the Fruit of life from lesser Life Trees are merely a cure-all panacea, the Fruit of Life from the Mother is said to grant immortality. If a mortal reaches enlightenment or has overcome some trial or journey that declares them worthy of godhood, they are allowed to eat from the tree in live, then when that body dies, they are resurrected as a god. At which point, their training as a god begins. Within the boughs of this tree nests the Queen Sīmurgh who watches over & protects the tree.
Manfàsï Wàru = The Division War, the first war with Hyrule that resulted in the Gerudo becoming a female-only race. Also called the Great Castration, though not in a literal sense, more so metaphorically. The Gerudo were cursed with al'Sûl'si Nàshàlay'è in the middle of said war, which resulted in all the Gerudo voe dying. This resulted in much fear & heartache in the Vai & also reduced their numbers by half, thus causing the Gerudo to lose the war.
Sûl'si Nàshàlay'è = The Curse of Castration; the name of the female-only curse. Though it is also accompanied by Vah Gela's boon, which allows not only for the Gerudo's blood to not dilute no matter how much they reproduce with foreign men so long as they return to the desert & not leave until 18, but it also gave rise to the sex industry in the Gerudo culture.
Mafzīnàkha Voe'attàr = The Centennial King. After al'Sûl'si Nàshàlay'è, only one Voe is born every 100 years & that Voe is destined to be king.
- Mafzī'àlfankha Sûlfetànïr = The Myriennial Tyrant. Every 100th Centennial King is cursed with the Bringer of Demise's hatred & becomes an evil warlord hellbent on Hyrule's destruction. - Due to the extreme length of time between each Tyrant, mortals have only discovered this trend once & the fact has since been lost to time.
Múta Vallah'jï Shôhxàl = Sex Goddess's Divine Favor. A condition in which a Vai or Voe has been given a boon from one of the 2 Gerudo goddesses of vivifatility. In Vaien (women), it shows itself in the form of hyperfertility, superfetation, multifecundity (and with it hyperlactation), & heteropaternity, but without the health drawbacks of these condition; Vaien blessed as such are referred to as Shôsi'úl Vàman (blessed mothers). In Voen (men), it amounts to both macroorchidism & hyperspermia, but, again, without the possible drawbacks of either; Voen blessed as such are referred to as Shôsi'úl Vōdan (blessed fathers). In this instance, it refers to an unusually high sperm count, even compared to one without hyperspermia. Even before the Curse of Castration, very few Gerudo were given such a blessing. Mostly only those who Vah Sāqmàla took a special interest in or who Vah Kàvtrïna saw as having pudicious merit. And generally only Vah Sāqmàla grants heteropaternity due to Vah Kàvtrïna's teachings focusing so much on themes of fidelity, modesty, chastity, pudicity, & just healthy relationships in-general. (If Vah Kàvtrïna ever does grant such a thing, it's mostly as a form of punishment for the Vai so that she'll be less able to hide her adulterous behavior.) Now-a-days, only the Centennial King is blessed with it. Theologians used to theorize that it may be part of Vah Gela's boon, which would make sense considering Vah Gela is one of Vah Sāqmàla's daughters. If so, it is likely that this is a way to help alleviate some of the stress put on Vaien (women) due to the Curse of Castration.
Wàru'shorq Vōttàrilàkaen = The Wartorn Kingdoms. Refers to Jïasïd & its surrounding countries. This is due to them being cursed to be in eternal conflict with each other. This has caused the land there to be uninhabitable & more barren than the Gerudo Desert. It’s said that the land has seen so much bloodshed that the sands have been forever dyed a grotesque blood red & that the sky is loomed over by an eternal cloud cover. There are frequent flashes of lightning that light up the clouds that are believed to be the war gods of the agonistic countries’ clashing against each other in divine combat. This Sisyphean struggle is what led to the Gerudo becoming a nomadic tribe of bandits & conquerors that roamed the desert before eventually arriving at Hyrule's border within the then Lanayru Desert.
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Okay okay okay. The Zak post I keep meaning to make.
Its like. Y'all know me and my Crossover and the Lore and I have a lot of lore surrounding Gods since there's all different mythologies tossed into it.
And I wanted to talk on what /exactly/ Zak is in relation to Gods and being Kur and all.
The short version of the answer is a bit of LoZ, a pinch of ATLA, and a big hecking dose of The Last Unicorn.
The long version is a bit rambly and doesn't entirely make sense to anyone but me.
The first question: How do you kill a God?
After all, if Zak is Kur's reincarnation, then how does a God die? How does one kill a God?
The short answer is that you can't. Gods are Magic. The forms and personas we see them take are fractions of their Power that become their own identity.
If one is lucky, they may cause enough damage to one particular identity to make them fade for a while. But their Magic still exists, and will eventually reform into that identity. The only theoretical way to kill a singular God is to gather every God from every religion and mythology, and kill them all at once. Which. Yeah basically impossible. Because if even one shred of any Gods' essence is left, they can all reform.
However. It is possible to seem to 'kill' a singular identity of a God. The Gods' different personas exist on the beliefs of the People. If people stop worshiping that God, that particular version will cease to exist.
Now half of this isn't entirely relevant but lets get to the thing that is: Reincarnation.
If a God doesn't die, how can it Reincarnate? Basically 'reincarnate' is like. A catch-all term that doesn't quite fit what's being done.
A God can decide to not just manifest it's current persona, but to shed Godhood become something Mortal. This is a Process and absolutely changes the God is so many ways.
A God is just something that is. Their personas and manifestations may be influenced by Mortal Belief, but they are not in any way Human. They do not have the same understanding of things like morality or certain bonds and emotions(unless it is their Domain). They may love or feel sadness, but it does not last long in comparison to eternity. They do not need any food or rest or sustenance of any kind. They are not Human or Mortal or anything they are something Else. This may lead to Human perspective seeing them as cruel or evil, but they just are. They are Magic and Nature and that does not bend to 'good' or 'evil, they just are.
To become Mortal, fully Mortal, will change that. They become Mortal. They feel the pull of 'good' and 'evil', they know how to love, to feel sorrow, to have it all last beyond the temporary flitting of reality.
The new Mortal is, in all senses, Mortal. They are a new Person. But with the power of a God. Mortal Bodies do not always like the power of a God though, which can cause issues. They do not seem to run out of energy, but the Mortal must be careful to not draw on too much of their power, lest they burn up.
They are a new Person, though still can remember at times who they once were. Like a whisper in the back of the mind. Just a bit. Not enough to bring the God forth, not enough to revive them. The God is dead, and always will be. The Mortal has replaced them. And even if the Mortal were to burn themselves away to become a God once more, they are never the same.
“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
This is what the connection between Zak and Kur is. Kur 'reincarnated', for whatever reasons that are beyond mortal understanding and mortal memory. Zak is here now. Zak is Kur, but Kur is dead and gone while Zak is here to stay. A Mortal with the power of the God. A God with all the life of a Mortal.
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[I don't have any more lizards in my inbox (but feel free to send more with a topic WINK), but, since some LoZ frands have found this shit show and I've been doing a few more strictly LoZ threads, I've just been thinking about Nabooru's roots again. So I'm going to take the time to gush about the thoughts I've been having about her of late.
As a disclaimer, this all is based in canon with a sprinkling of my own hcs, but I will never not be slightly disappointed about how little they do with Nabooru. Not necessarily in just like not giving her screen time or what have you (which IS a shame but I get it; minor/secondary(?) character), but like with the very unique position she's in during the events of OoT. Unlike the others who are awakened as Sages, Nabooru absolutely has ties to Ganondorf, the man they're meant to help Zelda and Link defeat. Even on just the very basic level of they're both Gerudo and he's the king of their tribe. As a Gerudo herself, there HAS to be some inner conflict there, even if she hated him from the moment she laid eyes on him for whatever reason (which I don't think is the case and I'll get into in a minute), and she never comes off as power hungry or particularly self-serving herself, which puts a fork in ideas of her happily opposing Ganondorf to take over the tribe herself imo. I would have loved to see that play out in more than just a small, uncertain comment about how she never expected someone like her to become a Sage which can MAYBE be interpreted as her status as a Gerudo with any perceived loyalty, whether truly there in any degree or not, could awaken as someone meant to help destroy the king of her people. It's an ambiguous line which I can appreciate to some degree, but I would have loved even a few lines of hard cut dialogue that showed the unique position she was in compared to the other Sages (which I'll probably discuss a little more in depth, too. Maybe).
Honestly, everything canon about Nabooru is fascinating, but there's so little to go on it's almost maddening. One thing that I really find interesting and is one of the reasons I feel Nabooru and Ganondorf DID have at least a mutual trust in each other is simply this: Nabooru was the second in command of the Gerudo. The next in charge behind Ganondorf. Now, I personally don't see Ganondorf as the type to allow his second to be someone he can't trust, and I'm more inclined to believe that the king (or leader) chooses their second in command. I could be wrong, but it makes the most sense to me and, therefore, Ganondorf wouldn't choose someone he didn't trust to stand in his stead when he was absent or be anywhere near a position to make decisions for the tribe. And the same idea can be extended to Nabooru: I don't see her accepting a position standing as someone's second if she didn't trust or believe in them. We see that she is principled and has a sense of honor, almost a code, it seems. I mean, when you first meet her, she talks about Ganondorf killing people and how she doesn't agree with it. So it's hard for me to believe that she would agree to such a position no matter how it was decided if she didn't have faith in Ganondorf as king.
Which brings me to my next point: perceptions. What characters say, what we see and don't, etc. As a whole, thr Gerudo seem to support Ganondorf. As in, it does not seem he's disliked in the tribe. I don't think it goes as far as "worshipping him like a god" as I think it's a gossip stone claims, but I think he is well-respected as their king. Maybe that's indoctrination and fear. Maybe it's they just really don't know what he's been up to outside of the desert (initially, at least; i have ideas on how maybe they were kept in the dark post pulling the master sword when shit went bad BUT its nothing im settled on), which is more what I lean toward considering what Wind Waker suggests concerning his initial motives at least. But I don't think any Gerudo you speak with says an ill word about him. They don't express any concern for what's happening outside of Hyrule, suggesting either complacency with it or, again, ignorance of the scope, perhaps. It's really hard to say for sure, but they definitely don't seem to hate it or Ganondorf (even if, after taking over Hyrule, it doesn't look like he's used his position to help his people which is ANOTHER fascinating conversation I think but).
But then we get to Nabooru and where things with not only the overall situation with the Gerudo gets interesting but for Nabooru herself it's intriguing. When you first meet Nabooru, she vehemently claims to hate Ganondorf and has vowed to disrupt his plans (and take all the treasure in the temple which is...weird but I guess they wanted to play up the thief part more). But what might be even more interesting is that she calls herself a lone wolf thief. This comes just after we learned that she's the second in command of the Gerudo, a position that shoud presumably be VERY tied to the Gerudo tribe as a whole which feels really incompatible by definition? Like maybe when it comes to thieving she's a lone wolf but I don't know. That feels weird and flimsy? But either way, when you think about it, it has you wondering what the truth is and has you questioning the reliability of our "narrator" so to speak. Why would Aveil (for lack of a canon name I think I just use her MM counterparts name) call Nabooru the second in command when Nabooru claims herself a lone wolf? What does this conflicting information mean?
For me, it shows just how complicated Nabooru's character and position is. It also reveals that it's very likely Nabooru didn't ALWAYS hold the same, vitriolic stance on Ganondorf as she does when we meet her in-game as in the past. Or even if she does so passionately despise Ganondorf as much as she claims to. Since Aveil, who I believe is said to be acting as Nabooru's second in command since SHE was also gone, calls Nabooru the second in command to Ganondorf, I'm more willing to give this credence over Nabooru's claim first because Aveil has no reason to say that unless it was the truth. She gains nothing from giving Nabooru's rank (or lack thereof, perhaps), let alone lying about it. So, we're left with option one which is Nabooru "lied" about being a lone wolf. I can see her doing this since she is trying to get Link to help her, and when she asks if Link is a spy or whatever, iirc to continue the conversation you have to say you hate Ganondorf. Thus, it would make sense that she might want to distance herself from Ganondorf and even the Gerudo, considering how they're viewed in Hyrule as a whole and she even outright SAYS shes not like Ganondorf, to help convince him to help her.
Or there's option two: something happened in private that got her demoted, but the rest of the tribe wasn't privy to the change in her rank for whatever reason, whether that be because it was VERY recent or they were intentionally kept in the dark about it. Or maybe exile, considering it very likely was related to Ganondorf's plans concerning Hyrule. I have more heacanons about this, and that it was actually Nabooru presenting Ganondorf with an ultimatum of basically "You either cut the shit with Hyrule or I walk" sort of thing and it ends up a self-exile sort of thing that, again, no one had been told about yet for whatever reason. And tbh I think these two ideas are both true to some degree: I personally think Nabooru does do a little fast talking with Link to ensure he does what she wants as well as something did happen between her and Ganondorf that had her making the final decision to stop him him VERY close to when Link meets her in the Spirit Temple. My guess is there was likely a breakdown of trust between them and, when Nabooru learned the scope of what he was up to, she decided she couldn't stand by him any longer.
Which now brings us to the feels part. A second in command of any kind of group should be passionate about their mission and the people they help lead. Nabooru is no exception to this. I hc that, though she never particularly strived for a high rank or political position, she always wanted to help her people work toward bettering their lives. To get them to a point of prosperity where they didn't have to do whatever it took just to survive. Being a warrior and then becoming part of the Elite helped her do that, and she was content there, but she took her position as second in command seriously because she knew she was in a prime position to really try and make things happen for the Gerudo. As I said, I feel she had to have trusted Ganondorf, but I take as far as she admired him and his ambition, passion, and drive toward achieving their like goals of helping the Gerudo (which I do think he had initially going off of what he says in WW). She wanted to help Ganondorf, she wanted to trust him and help lead the Gerudo to the best life they could have. And I think she knew about his quest for the Triforce fairly early on, and probably protested him chasing what she saw as mere myth for, at first, more practical reasons like needing to focus on the there and then, the concrete things they could manage and fix and better rather than on fairytales that might lead to nothing. She also felt that something sacred to the HYLIANS from THEIR gods wasn't meant for them, anyway, if it existed at all. This is where things probably started to break down between them, but they still managed to work together because it was demanded of them both abroad and at home, and until Nabooru learned of just how far he was going to obtain the Triforce, she didn't do much more than argue with him about it, her biggest concern being how the Gerudo as a whole could get pulled into his plots no matter how he tried to keep them uninvolved. She knew the animosity toward the Gerudo in Hyrule, how plenty were likely looking for the smallest excuse to declare war on them again, and she didn't feel the myth was worth the risk. That they should better the lives of their people through their own power, resilience, and creativity (especially if Hyrule wasn't keen on helping them in even the smallest ways) than through some magic relic that might not exist. However, once she heard the rumors of what he had done to the Deku Tree and Jabu Jabu and his attack on the Gorons to get the spiritual stones, she couldn't stand by him any longer. She could not support someone not only willing to threaten and kill innocent people for his own gain, but also that he completely disregarded how it could potentially harm their people, successful or not. She basically then has to make the decision to commit treason, to betray not only her king and a man she trusted, but also the people she loved and would do anything to save. In her mind, stopping Ganondorf saved them and, when every effort she made all the way up to an ultimatum didn't sway him, she felt she had no choice but to act.
Not to mention I imagine she also saw him change significantly as the draw to power became all the more encompassing which would also break her heart and HURT. But yeah. I could go on but I'm about to leave work SO. Basically, I think exploring this even a little would have made for an interesting side narrative in OoT and would give more umph to the sort of standing up for what's right theme they had going there because internal conflict. Nabooru is slept on and it's a crime.]
#:: nabooru ☀#:: headcanon ☀#i should just tag this rambling because thats what it is#.:long post:.#also relevant to the db verses to a degree so u no#some nabs history in there
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Alright, so I hear you have link dnd sheets for crossovers?! What’s this about Wild being “magically delicious”?! Does Time get language proficiencies from his party? (or did i misinterpret that?)So many questions! (must admit, Wild is my favorite…) So please will you elaborate? please?
:D I will absolutely elaborate. Thank you for giving me the opportunity!
Re: Time's language proficiencies: Time knows six and a half and two halves languages. Now, what languages those work out to is a little muddled by virtue of these sheets existing as sheets in-and-of themselves, in the absence of any campaign or setting; without knowing the precise balance of LoZ to DnD content, I've got no way to tell if everyone's speaking Hyrulean or Common. Just to make things easier on myself I've gone with DnD-standard languages for the most part, though I've tried to tie them back to things that make sense in an LoZ context if you squint through one eye and pretend for a while. Since I've put him down as a Firbolg (forest giant), he knows Common, Elvish, and Giant, and because he's got the Feylost background thanks to being Kokiri, he also knows Sylvan, the language of the fey. (Being a Firbolg also allows him to speak to plants and animals; they can understand him but he can't understand them. So that's the first half-language.) I've classed him as a College of Glamour bard/clockwork origin* sorcerer (*with some homebrew edits)/fey wanderer ranger, and while the first two don't give him any extra language proficiencies, the ranger class comes with an option to have learned a language spoken by a favored enemy of yours.
(Technically I didn't give Time the option that does that, but I figure he grew up close enough to Skull Kids to fudge knowing that even if he didn't necessarily learn from Tatl or Skull Kid, and having an extra language or two isn't going to make or break anything. Which, speaking of, I also gave him Druidic, the secret coded wild language of the druids, because if Anyone is gonna know that despite not being a druid it's gonna be the guy who was raised by a Great Tree.)
The two remaining half-languages are Abyssal and Celestial, which I've decided he's half-inherited thanks to being Fierce Deity's vessel. :3 (Fierce Deity being a hc'd – alternate? – version of Sky, hence this part's inclusion in the "cool interactions between Sky's godpowers and the Chain" section of my comment.) He doesn't actually know them, but if he takes disadvantage on his next roll from the ensuing migraine, he can borrow them for a little while. :33
Re: Wild being magically delicious: it's not a mechanical thing or anything, lol, just a little note I left on his sheet in case it would influence any (theoretical) play. This guy's tripping over gods left and right, and they all adore him! He also gets some fey traits by virtue of being a(nother) fey wanderer ranger, and I've decided that means he has a Snow White effect that draws wild animals to him and makes them more comfortable in his presence. (He also frequently wakes up with seasonal flowers in his hair. 💞 ) Combined, that basically means his aura/magic signature/whatever is Very Tasty and powerful beings like to say hi and pinch his cheeks.
I'd like to think that if Sky did fail a couple madness saves in godmode, Time would get taken out by a nasty headache, everyone flips out, Wars freaks and moves to cover Time in preparation for getting Absolutely Wrecked (he's got a healthy respect for FD thanks to Time's performance in the War of Ages)... and then FD catches sight of Wild and drags him into an impromptu cat nest while Wind rolls his sleeves up and goes to argue him into giving Sky back without frying everyone.
#this is already very long so i will describe wild in another post methinks. i'll tag you#answerin' stuff#hmmm this should maybe have a tag#linked sheets loz dnd thing#that'll do
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Dream or Nightmare?
°☆• Part 2 of Illusions •☆°
Loki Laufeyson x fem!Reader
Summary: Time passes - and Loki just can't forget you. What if he meets you again, but it doesn't turn out how he wished it would? Is there still hope for a happy end?
Warnings: angst - still quite a lot, but also fluff!
Word Count: 5,1k
a/n: I actually didn't plan to write a part 2, but well... Here we are - and I absolutely love it! 😊 Huge thanks to @hadesbabygurl and @smolvenger , who gave me the groundbreaking idea(s)! 😁
I hope this part makes y'all happy! 🧡
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Masterlist °☆• Loki Masterlist
Time was passing fast - as fast as it could tick by while being 'stuck' at the TVA.
A lot had happened.
Mobius and Loki became best friends, first and foremost. They learned to trust each other and how to work together. Ravonna Renslayer disappeared - only the Norns knew where to, and the 'Time Keepers' had been overthrown and were now replaced by a council - for which everybody who wanted could vote. All of the workers knew now, that they were variants. It was chaotic and messy at first, but Loki and Mobius offered them to get their memories back - which took an awful lot of time, but it was worth it. Friends found each other again, just like family members, couples, classmates - hel, even neighbours.
It was part of the compromise.
For the safety of the time line everybody must stay at the TVA. Time lines still had to be reset, because everybody realised that there were only two ways... Strict order or complete chaos. Sure, it was cruel and unfair, but life just wasn't.
Unlike before, though, variants didn't get pruned as before. They got a thoroughly detailed explanation what was happening and how thinks worked here. They got offered a job. A home to stay. A chance to reunite with other variants they might know. A new life.
And the concept worked.
"Are you still thinking about her?" Mobius' voice urged to Loki's ears, as they sat across from each other in their lunch break; eating a slice of cake for dessert. Well... Mobius ate it. Loki was more or less absent-mindedly poking around with a fork in the poor deliciousness. At Mobius' words, though, he stopped and looked up; being snapped out of his thoughts.
The god sighed; "I think about her every day, Mobius." shaking his head. "I can't forget. Neither the memories, nor what could've been. And especially not Y/N." Like so often, when Loki's brain put him through the torturous memories of what had happend quite a while ago, here, in the TVA, as Mobius threw him inside his very own sweet, cruel dream, tears started to form in his eyes.
Mobius' eyes softened. He felt for his friend and was truly sorry about this tragedy. "I know you can't - and I'm so sorry. I was the one who put you through this." Once again, Loki shook his head. "You couldn't know. Stop blaming yourself." "Says you."
That caused the faintest of smiles to dart over the god's face. It didn't last, though.
"Sometimes I wish I could forget, you know. Get rid of all the heartache and pain. Stop getting tortured, but..." He swallowed hard; trying to hold back the tears. "All I have left of her are my memories." In vain. A single tear was running down his cheek and dripping onto the wooden surface of the table. "But I'd rather die than losing my memories of Y/N. It's a curse. A doom loop."
Mobius sighed. "I wish I could help you... Bring her somehow to you, but... I can't." "I know, Mobius... I know..." Silence spread between the two men, but before Loki could fall deeper into the dark hole which was his own mind, the agent decided to get him - like so often out of it.
"Come on," he said; standing up. "Let's keep on working. Still got a lot to do." Loki agreed and stood up as well. They both cleaned up their place and left the cafeteria, in order to keep on working.
"I see you tomorrow." Loki nodded; giving his friend a faint smile and turned to walk away. "And hey!" The god stopped in his tracks; facing Mobius once more. "Don't think too much. I know it's hard, but... Try it, okay?" "Yeah..." "Good."
Loki's and Mobius' shift had actually ended over an hour ago, but the two worked a bit overtime; keeping Loki distracted and to get some more work done. Now, the god was on his way home, when suddenly B-15 appeared beside Loki.
"Loki."
He stopped; turning to talk to his friend. "Oh, hey B. You good?" She smiled; giving him a nod. "Sure. You, too?" The god faked a smile and nodded. "How's work going?" "Good, but, uh, I'm in a bit of a hurry and... Can you do me a favour?" Anything to distract myself. "Of course, sure. I've got time." Loki shrugged his shoulders and buried his hands in his brown work trousers. "What do you want me to do?"
B-15 held up her TemPad. "Can you bring this to the Repairs & Advancements department?" The god took the TemPad. "Sure. Um, where do I find the department? I think I've never been there."
After B-15 described Loki how he'd get to his next destination, she thanked her friend and left.
Loki headed down several hallways, before he stepped into the elevator; pressing the lowest button. It took the machine a whole while to get him on this very floor. It felt like an eternity for him - but ultimately, the familiar 'ding' tone echoed through the small space and the doors slid open. They revealed a long, high hallway with mint green cabinets lining the right side of the hallway. A lot of different things were stacked on said cabinets.
Loki gazed around; scanning his surroundings. It looked kind of... messy. Chaotic.
Hesitatingly, he stepped out of the elevator and walked cautiously down the hallway. Am I right here? He saw nobody else. Not a single soul. Sure, the lights were on; actually creating a bright and somehow cosy atmosphere, but... Nevertheless was this all a bit creepy. The god kept on walking, until he reached a room. That must be it. Hunter said the first room on the left.
He stepped inside. The room was big, high, utterly chaotic and yet organised. Big kind of racks lined the sidewalls; every shelf filled to the brim. In the middle was a huge oval-shaped counter with several things and stuff laying around on it. Most of them Loki even couldn't name. And whatever it was that hung from the ceiling, Loki had never seen something similar before.
Nobody was to be seen - or well... That's how it seemed. He stepped forward, until he reached the counter - on which stood written in big, black letters: Repairs & Advancements. Must be right, then.
"Hello?"
No answer.
"Hellooo?! Somebody here?!"
Again, Loki received no answer. He waited a few moments; let a few minutes pass - but nothing.
"Why would Hunter send me to this place, if nobody is even here?" Loki said out loud - more to himself; frowning. Shrugging his shoulders, he just placed the TemPad on the counter in front of him and turned to leave - only to completely freeze in motion mere seconds later.
"Wait, wait! I'm here, I'm here! Hello! Don't leave!" A female voice suddenly echoed through the big room; followed by some loud noises. Loki froze in place. He knew that voice. It was all too familiar to him. He didn't hear it in a painfully long time - only in his head; and he thought he'd never hear it again... You. It was your voice.
Loki felt like he was struck by lightning and hit by a truck at the same time. His mind and emotions were running wild. Was this... reality? Could this be true? Or was it again just a cruel illusion? Or by the Norns, did he go mad? Was it all just in his head?
He didn't dare to turn around. Too afraid to be disappointed and heartbroken again, but also curious at the same time; his heart already screaming at him to run to you.
"Apologies! I didn't have a visitor in, uhhh, was it 200 or 300 years... Anyways, please don't go! How can I help you?" There was your voice again. But closer. And Loki couldn't help himself, but to turn around. His head fighting a battle against his heart, which was already lost the moment he heard you call out for the first time.
So, he turned around, slowly; facing the counter once again. His breath hitched in his throat; eyes widening and jaw slacking. Every muscle in his body tensed, but also lost control at the same time.
There you stood, behind the counter with that beautiful kind smile on your face. Your hair was bound together in a messy bun with a few loose strands framing your face. You wore some kind of brown, beige and green overall and looked like a... mechanic?
Tears started to pool in the god's eyes.
"Y-Y/N?" He halfway sobbed; voice hoarse. "A-Are you... Are you real? I-Is this... r-real?"
You frowned; scrunched your nose in the cutest way possible. "I, uh, I think you confuse me with somebody else. My name is Ouroborus, not Y/N - but you can call me O.B."
Loki's facial expression derailed. It felt like getting Hulk-smashed full force - until realisation hit him. She doesn't remember... Of course, she doesn't remember! She's been brainwashed, just like the others.
Loki shook his head frantically, before making quick steps towards you. "No... Your name isn't Ouroborus - and you'll remember me in a few seconds, my love."
You frowned even more and absolutely didn't understand why that strange TVA worker suddenly touched your arm gently. He was gazing into your eyes like you meant the world to him - and you didn't know why. What is wrong with him and why is he so... desperate and shaken?
Shaking your head softly, you pulled your arm away; out of his gentle grasp. "I'm sorry, but, um... Do... Do we know each other?"
Loki's heart fell and shattered into a million pieces at the impact. She can't remember me... Why can't she remember me?! Still!
"W-What?" He breathed out; the tears starting to fall once again. "It can't be..." You could practically feel the desperation radiating off of him. "I-I don't understand, I... W-Why is it not working?"
You watched the strange man pace up and down; ruffling his wild raven curls. What a weird thing to happen... There you were, living your peaceful life, repairing several things the TVA workers send you, with nobody actually visiting you for hundreds of years and suddenly - out of the blue, there was this man and did... that? You honestly couldn't quite believe what was happening in front of your eyes, and yet you felt a wave of... sympathy for him. Compassion.
You got ripped from your thoughts, as you felt two warm, strong hands softly gripping the sides of your upper arms. You blinked, only to realise that the man was leaning over the counter; oceanic blue eyes seemingly staring straight into your soul.
"Y/N, please... Please tell me you can remember...."
He was so close that you were able to actually smell him. Leather; something fresh and fruity you couldn’t point out and a mix of sultry musk and charred wood.
You blinked; softly shaking your head.
"I-I don't, I-"
Loki dropped his hands abruptly with a frustrated, sad sigh and stepped back. His eyebrows slanted, as he lifted his hands to gesture at himself; fingertips literally digging themselves into the clothed flesh of his chest. "It's me, Y/N..."
So slowly, he was frightening you a bit. His sheer maniac frustration. He seemed to be obsessed... with you?
"Sir, I'm really sorry. I-I don't know what happened to you, or the person you are looking for, but I'm asking you to leave now. I'll take a look at that TemPad and send it back as soon as I repaired it."
Loki's body slumped; all hope leaving his body.
Days, weeks, months, years ago, you were so far and unreachable. Now you were so close suddenly, and yet still out of his reach. It wasn't fair.
Loki stumbled backwards, overwhelmed by the whole situation and your request for him to leave.
"I-I'm so sorry... So sorry..." The god mumbled, before literally turning on his heels and running; trying to escape the nightmare he had fallen into. Or was it a dream?
He ran to the elevator, pressing the button quickly; repeatedly - almost as if something was hunting him down. As soon as the doors shut close and the machinery started to move him upwards, Loki pressed himself against the brown wall; breathing heavily. He was completely beside himself; on the verge of losing his mind.
Did that just really happen?
Not knowing what to do, he absent-mindedly stumbled down the hallways of the TVA, until he landed on the doorstep of the little house of his best friend...
His fist hit the wooden door; begging for entrance. "Mobius..." And again. "Mobius, please... Open the door." No minute later, the grey-haired man with the moustache answered the god's pleas and opened up the door.
"Loki?" Mobius asked with a frown; still dressed in the familiar TVA shirt and trousers. His eyes settled on Loki. He saw the tears in his eyes... How puffy and red they were. He could tell that Loki was devastated and... traumatised? It alarmed the agent. He had never seen his friend like that before.
"What happened?!"
A single tear was running down the god's cheek. "She can't remember, Mobius. I-I tried to give her all the memories back, b-but she can't remember... It's not working!"
Loki's words confused Mobius. He hadn't a single clue what this was all about.
"Who, Loki? Who? What are you talking about?"
Loki stared aimlessly into distance; swallowing hard.
"Y/N..."
This confused the agent even more. And he was highly concerned; given the fact that his best friend seemed... disorientated and not quite himself...
Gently grabbing Loki by his shoulder, he urged him to step inside his house. "Come in." The god let himself get 'dragged' inside wordlessly; without any resistance. Mobius guided him to the kitchen; stopping in front of the small dining table and pulling back a chair. "Sit down, take a breath and tell me exactly what happend, okay?" Loki nodded; did what Mobius told him to do and sat down.
Loki needed a moment to sort his thoughts and process what he had just experienced - which wasn't quite easy...
"B-15... She- I met her on my way home after our shift. She asked me if I could bring her TemPad down to the Repairs & Advancements department a-and-" "The Repairs & Advancements department?" "Y-Yes?" Mobius shook his head; visibly trying to think. "I honestly don't know if I was ever down there... Perhaps... Perhaps not... And you went there?" Loki nodded; feeling his emotions get stuck in his throat again. "Yes. I-I found her, Mobius. She's there. S-She-" "Who? Who did you find?" The agent interrupted his friend.
Another tear rolled down the god's cheek; his heart rate picking up at the thought of you. "Y/N... My Y/N..." Mobius' eyes widened. "What?! Y/N? She's there? Here? In the TVA?" Loki nodded; a black curl falling into his face. "Yes, but... She... She can't remember, Mobius. I tried to give her back all the memories, but... It didn't work."
The agent frowned. "What do you mean it didn't work? It worked with everybody here. With every variant. And now you're telling me that Y/N is... immune to it?"
"Yes."
Mobius went silent; answered nothing, and strained Loki's patience with it.
"What am I going to do now, Mobius? I-I can't pretend this never happened. I can't just ignore her! This is the woman I love! My heart, body and soul are yearning for her! I-" "I know, I know," the agent interrupted his friend. "Take a deep breath. We're going to find a way, okay?" Loki nodded; followed his order.
"What if..." Mobius started; thinking. "What if it has something to do with your feelings for her? Could this change something in your magic? I mean... You don't have a past with every other variant here and barely know them, but Y/N is different." Loki shrugged his shoulders; still a bit overwhelmed. "I-I don't know... It shouldn't. After all, it worked with you and Hunter, too - and you are my friends. We do have a past."
Mobius sighed. "Point taken." Loki was right.
"Well, in that case... I currently can't think of another solution than making her fall in love with you again. Perhaps she remembers then."
Loki blinked. "Make her fall in love with me again? You mean... Woo her, take her out on dates and court her properly?" "Exactly."
The god swallowed hard. This was not how he hoped this would go, but what other choice did he have right now?
Loki needed a few days, until he set foot in the Repairs & Advancements department once again. His brain, but especially his heart had a hard time catching up with what was happening... You were constantly on his mind. All day long - and at night, he saw you in his dreams. It was even worse than before.
Now, he stepped cautiously down the lonely hallway towards you again, taking deep breaths. He decided to best start with an apology - and that was exactly what he wanted to do now.
"H-Hello?" Loki entered the big room. "O...Ouroborus?" It felt so wrong to call you by that name and not your real one. "I, uh, I came here to apologise! I didn't mean to scare you. It's just... I lost somebody who was very important to me and you reminded me of her." You suddenly appeared from behind the counter, smiling softly. "Apology accepted. I'm sorry you lost her. Sounds very hard to lose someone important..." The god swallowed again; noticing how hard it was to keep his feelings at bay and under control.
"It truly is. Again... My apologies." "You're forgiven-, uh... What's your name, actually?" You asked with a bubbly giggle. "Loki." "Well, then... You're forgiven, Loki." His name leaving your lips caused a shiver to run down his spine; butterflies running wild inside his belly.
"Thank you."
From that day on, Loki tried to spent as much time with you as possible, in order to test out Mobius' theory and hoping to make you fall in love with him again. He tried to be his funny, charming, mischievous self - but after a while he had the feeling, that he was not making any progress. He took you on 'date' after 'date' after 'date', but that was it. You'd always talk about work, colleagues and the TVA in general. It was not very often, that the conversations became a lot more personal. Loki really tried everything possible to woo you; always stayed positive and didn't give up hope, but the feeling he had was anything but good - and he should be proven right...
Being the gentleman Loki was, he always accompanied you home after each 'date' and made sure that you arrived safely - just like today.
You stopped in front of the small door, fishing out the keys of your handbag and turned the lock, before turning to face the man again. "Thank you, Loki," you said; giving him a soft smile; which he returned. "No need to thank me, dar- O.B. It's a privilege to accompany your date home." Your smile faltered a bit; almost impossible to see, but Loki caught it anyway. Did I say something wrong?
"Good night, Loki. Thanks for paying dinner." He gave you a court nod, "As I said... Privilege." and paused for a moment.
"Would you... Would you like to come over sometime next week? After work? I-I could cook something for us and we could enjoy the rest of the evening with a glass of wine on the sofa." Loki had never invited you to stay at his - until now, and therefore was he slightly nervous. He couldn't help himself. His heart forced him to make the next move; suffering already way too long. The vital organ felt like a decaying rose since you had re-entered the god's life...
Flowers need water to live - and your love was the water Loki's heart needed.
You swallowed hard; body tensing up visibly. Something shifted within your demeanour. He noticed.
"Loki, that... That's really very kind of you and a sweet idea..." Your words send his heart and hope skyrocketing. Could this be finally the moment I waited such a long time for? Like a fool blinded by love, he didn't notice the hesitant undertone in your voice.
"But, uhm... I'm really sorry to say that, 'cause you've been very generous and kind to me... Uhm... I know you try to impress me. And maybe you feel more than just friendship, but... I don't feel quite the same." You took a deep breath; your words felt like a painfully tight grip around the god's heart.
"You are very nice, but absolutely not the type of men I'm into. I, uh, don't want something romantically with you. Sorry..."
And his heart crumbled to dust underneath your hand; all hope came crashing down. Loki wanted to cry and scream from the agonising pain within his chest - but he didn't. Instead, he just nodded wordlessly. "I-I understand. Thank you for your honesty. Good night," he more or less rushed out, before he turned to quickly walk away, since the tears started to already form in his eyes. He had absolute no intention to break down right in front of you. He'd rather do that at home - and he did.
That night and the few nights which followed, the god more or less cried himself to sleep. The small spark of hope he had carried within his body was gone. Extinguished. Non-existent. Nothing was able to cheer him up. Neither his best friend, nor B-15 - who was shocked to learn that she had send her friend unknowingly back to the love of his life. The Norns knew they tried, but... In vain. Just like Hunter and Mobius had no solution for the memory problem...
Loki stopped visiting you. Took his distance; knowing very well that he couldn't just treat you like a friend.
Days turned into weeks, but it was the same like before... Loki couldn't forget you and especially his feelings for you. You seemed to follow him everywhere. He often dreamed of you. Almost every night. A thin line between torture and bliss - until one dream changed everything...
A young Loki came to stand beside his mother; the cape of his ceremonial armour gently billowing in the wind. "I can sense your happiness, son," Frigga started; turning her head to look at him. "I take it your attempts to woo Lady Y/N have been successful?"
Loki blushed in the deepest shades of red at his mother's words. "M-Mother, I, um, w-we..." The young prince stumbled over his own words, trying to explain himself, but the Queen only shook her head softly.
"No chance in denying, Loki. I saw the kiss you shared. And besides, I'm neither blind nor stupid. It was only a matter of time. But finally, we got that kiss." She winked - and Loki literally jumped up in his bed; wide awake. The dream triggered another memory, which had been locked deep down somewhere in his brain. His eyes widened.
A kiss...
Perhaps that was what it would take... A kiss.
Loki had remembered a bedtime story which his mother would tell him and Thor, back when they were small kids. Toddlers, perhaps even. The story was called 'Sleeping Beauty' - a Midgardian fairytale, in which a beautiful princess falls into a deep slumber due to an evil magic spell, and the only way to save her is, of course, true love. So, the handsome prince kisses her - and she awakes.
Isn't the TVA exactly the same somehow?
As stupid as it might sounded, Loki had to try. He'd try anything to get you back.
He jumped out of his bed; quickly slipping into his TVA clothes. A look on the watch told him, that he'd have to get up for work soon anyway, so he had some time to get to you, before his shift started. With a snap of his fingers was he ready to leave his small home; teeth brushed, raven locks tamed and body clean. Usually, he didn't use his seidr for this, but today...
Loki was almost running down the seemingly endless corridors of the TVA, before he reached the elevator and only a few moments later the Repairs & Advancements department. Confident and trusting in the brainwave he just had, the god strutted down the last hallway, separating him from you.
Entering the big, familiar room, he looked around; eyes searching you - and to his luck, he indeed found you. You were standing on the left, in front of the huge shelf, inspecting some... device. Not beating around the bush - and not losing any more precious time, he quickly stepped over to you.
You were deep in thoughts; focused on your work and task ahead. Once the approaching steps had gotten from your ears to your brain, it was already too late.
Being suddenly yanked into someone's arms caused a yelp to escape your lips. "Loki?!" You squeaked with eyes wide open; caught like a deer in the headlights. "What by the Timekeepers are you doing?! Let go of me! I told you I am not-"
The god had heard enough. Before you were able to protest more, he leaned in and captured your lips with his; pouring all his love for you in the kiss.
While Loki relished in the feeling of your soft lips after such a long time, you were shocked. Appalled. You told him he wasn't your type and yet he makes a move on you? How rude... You wanted to push him away and ask him what the fuck he thought he is doing.
You had already lifted your hands; ready to shove him away, when it happened... Your brain felt suddenly like it was about to explode; a dam on the verge of breaking - and it did. Memories exploded within your head like fireworks... Asgard. Your childhood. Your parents. The first time you saw Loki. The first words you exchanged. The beautiful friendship you had shared with him, which melted into your first kiss. You remembered. How he had made love to you for the first time. Every dance and laugh you shared. His proposal. Everything.
You felt relieved; free. It was like the fog in your brain had finally lifted and you could think clear again. You could finally see him.
Your heart threatened to burst from the sudden rush of happiness and love you felt. You had lost Loki, landed in the TVA, were forced to forget him - and suddenly... He was right in front of you.
But then you felt how Loki wanted to break the kiss again - something you couldn't allow him to do. Before he could part his lips from yours, you pulled him quickly back in; literally throwing yourself into his arms. Unbeknownst to you, flew the god's eyes open and widened to the size of plates at your movement. Surprised and shocked, he gave into the kiss; just enjoying the moment - until he had to take a breath.
Deep Y/E/C eyes gazed into his; a teary smile on your face. You slowly lifted your hands to cup his chiselled cheeks; feeling his skin underneath your fingertips after such a long time, sending shivers down your spine. "Loki..."
His name leaving your lips caused his heart to skip a beat, as realisation hit him.
"You remember me?"
You nodded quickly; running a hand gently through his raven curls.
Tears spilled from Loki's eyes like waterfalls as he lifted you up into his arms; spinning you in a circle. You yelped up in surprise, but giggled almost deliriously; wrapping your arms around his neck.
"At last, I finally have you back, my love. I'm so sorry it took me so long to find a way back to you, I should have-" You shook your head; shushing him. "Shhh, my prince. Not now. Don't blame yourself." You pressed your forehead against his. "We have a lot to catch up to, but... Let us enjoy this moment, please. Just... hold me. Let me feel your touch. I've been starving for way too long."
How could Loki possibly refuse your request? He smiled through his tears and wrapped you up securely in his arms; kissing you slow and tender.
"Hey, C-4, have you seen Lo- Oh my goodness. Am I dreaming?" Both, Mobius and the other TVA worker were staring at the end of the hallway. C-4 in confusion and Mobius in shock. "I, uh, don't know? What do you mean exactly, Mobi-" Clapping his fellow co-worker absent-mindedly on the shoulder; eyes fixated on what was happening in front of him, he moved on. "Thanks, C-4. I got this."
You and Loki walked towards Mobius; smiling brightly. Loki had slipped his fingers through yours, holding your hand tightly. Stopping halfway to wait for for his friend, the god couldn't help but to pull you into a gentle kiss, causing you to giggle.
"Loki?" Mobius asked; still not quite believing what his eyes saw. "Am I dreaming this? Is that..." He gestures towards you. Loki chuckled, nodding. "Y/N, yes... My Y/N." His friend smiled. "So... She can finally remember? She has her memories back?" He nodded again; feeling how a lump formed in his throat once more. Happy tears were ready to fall.
"Yes... Finally, she remembers." Loki turned to you. "Darling, this is Mobius. He's my best friend." You smiled at the man opposite of you, stretching out your hand. "Very happy to meet you, Mobius. I'd introduce myself, but I guess my man here did that already, so..." Mobius returned the smile; shaking your hand. "In all those years, the one thing he loved to talk about, was you. It was really sweet." You giggled at his words; seeing Loki blush.
"How did you get her to remember? I thought you couldn't?" Mobius asked, after swallowing the piece of cake. He had invited you to eat a slice of cake together, catching up a bit.
Both, you and Loki smiled lovingly at each other; hands still intertwined. You just couldn't leave your hands off of him - just like Loki couldn't leave his hands off of you. "Well..." You started. "He's my prince. And just like a prince, he kissed me awake." "Because I am your true love." "Just like I am yours."
Mobius' eyes widened. "What? Like in that fairytale? What was its name again?" "Sleeping Beauty," said Loki with a smile. "Yes! That's the one." His friend nodded.
"Exactly like that, Mobius. I kissed her awake - and now she's mine again."
#loki x reader#loki laufeyson#loki x female reader#loki x you#loki#tom hiddleston x reader#loki fanfiction#loki fluff#loki x y/n#loki laufeyson x reader
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The water splashes against my boots and then seeps through my trousers as I fall to my knees before her. Trembling hands come up to cup her face and trace the high arches of her cheeks, imprinting into memory what was once forgotten. (x)
So I got inspired and drew this scene from Sehnsucht by @intangiblyyourswrites because it’s a damn masterpiece. And Link’s outfit is purposefully a weird mix-match for plot-related reasons, but I won’t spoil it. Please do yourself a favor and read it!
#zelink#Link#Zelda#botw#breath of the wild#loz#tloz#the legend of zelda#fic rec#zelink fic rec#literally had to learn how to learn how to digitally paint for this but it was WORTH IT#absolute worst idea to have this drawing be baby's first time using a tablet and photoshop with a base layer of traditional art good god#me to myself: what is digital color theory when I'm working from traditional media kill me now#intangiblyyours#Sehnsucht#my unholy mix of traditional and digital art#my art
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Don’t Apologize (Request)
Sebastian Stan x gn!teen!co-star!reader, Anthony Mackie x gn!teen!co-star!reader
Genre: angst, fluff
Request Description: Hi🖐 Can I please request a cast x teen reader and there in an interview and she's quite shy and doesnt talk much and the interviewer knows that so they ask her all the questions but she cant and she starts to cry so the cast get angry or something. I love your writing♥️
Warnings: language, anxiety
(A/N): so sorry i didnt do this like i usually do my cast x readers, i only chose seb and anthony for this. i hope its still alright. and im back to requests again, although it’s been fun doing some of my own work (and also work with loz, that beautiful bastard) for a while :)
“See you later, Bryan.. If you know what I mean!” Anthony yelled after the last interviewer, as he shuffled out the room with his list of unanswered. You and Sebastian were cackling, wiping your tears. You’d lost track of how many interviews you’d had to sit through of Anthony talking about his ‘round brown’.
“Oh my god, how many of these do we have left?” Sebastian asked, calming down finally, and running a hand through his hair.
“Why? You have something you want to tell me?” Anthony joked accusingly, looking from Sebastian to you. You shook your head silently, hoping to not be dragged into one of their never ending discussions.
“Don’t- Don’t drag me into your shit, Mackie,” you mumbled. A wheeze escaped Anthony at your shy mumble. “Why couldn’t they just have paired me with Elizabeth again?”
Before Anthony could begin joking and making you and Sebastian laugh again, another interviewer walked in. She looked uptight and collected, wearing professional clothing and holding rather official looking papers.
“Hello, I’m Yolanda,” she greeted Sebastian with a toothpaste-smile, and shook his hand firmly, before doing the same to you and Anthony. She was intimidating, not casual or approachable, but someone who had their shit together.
She seemed interested in you right from the start. In her first few questions, she’d always look directly at you while asking. Her sharp gaze was anxiety inducing, even more so than all the other interviewers. Sebastian and Anthony ended up answering for you though, knowing that you were shy and uncomfortable with people. Yolanda didn’t seem satisfied with this though.
“Y/n,” now she was addressing you directly, spitting your name from her mouth like poison, “would you say that this movie is in line with you and your coworkers’ character arcs?”
You were sure you could answer it. Well, if you were at home, talking to your pillow. Right there you could feel your heart beating painfully against your ribcage. Both of the men on either side of you definitely heard the way your breathing picked up.
“Uh. Well. Yeah, to a- to a degree. Some of them,” you choked out. Pathetically, you realized you were blinking away tears. No one had noticed yet, thank goodness. What a stupid thing to cry about, you thought.
“Do you think it aligns with the comics’ character arcs? Do you think it’s good to diverge from the original story?” She asked intensely, eyes still boring into yours. You kept your gaze at the floor sheepishly, picking at your nails.
Sebastian looked down at your hands in your lap, and quickly grabbed one in his hold, preventing you from picking your fingers.
“Um.. Well, I think- I think that there are a lot of, you know, um, storylines and arcs in the, uh, the comics, so staying canon could mean a- a lot of things,” when you finished your sentence, you breathed out in relief. Your entire torso seemed inhabited by a wild, unresting anxiety, tingling and aching.
A single tear slid down your face, and you quickly rushed the hand that was not in Sebastian’s to wipe it away. This definitely did not go unnoticed. You immediately felt Sebastian squeeze your hand and Anthony putting his arm around you protectively.
“What the damn hell, lady? You’re stressing them out!” Anthony boomed, gesturing wildly with his free hand. You looked up and saw Sebastian’s jaw clenched and brows furrowed. Anthony had a similar expression, you discovered when you turned to him, a frown prominent on his features, and intense eyes.
“What’s your problem?” Sebastian yelled. The woman seemed taken aback, mouth agape and on her chest like she couldn’t believe that they thought this was her fault.
“It’s not my fault they started crying!” she said. Her voice shook quietly, clenching her hands around the bottom of the chair she sat on.
“Yeah, it is your fault!” Anthony said. Meanwhile, you sat there uncomfortably, shaking. She was right, you thought, it was your fault for being such a baby, she was just doing her job.
“I’m- I’m sorry, it’s not your fault-” you begun, finally raising your head to meet the woman’s eyes. Her gaze made you tremble. She was bristling.
“No, Y/n, don’t apologize. It is her fault.” Sebastian cut you off, squeezing your hand once more, encasing it in his two. Anthony nodded angrily.
“Alright, I think it’s best if you leave.” Another woman, whom you recognized as Anthony’s publicist, came racing into the interview. She put her hands on her hips, and nodded towards the door sassily.
The interviewer huffed, and gave you another furious look. “You’ll hear of this on my blog. The world will know!” Then she got up and away, stomping all the way out. You breathed a sigh of relief, the moment the door closed behind her.
“Are you okay?” Sebastian immediately turned to you, searching your eyes again. His heart broke at the way you trembled. You nodded.
“Man, that woman was an asshole!” Anthony, too, could feel the way you shook under his arm on your shoulders. “That was not your fault, she was just a dick!”
“Agreed!” Sebastian scoffed, hands still holding yours.
Anthony’s publicist studied you three for a moment, furrowing her brows and chewing her lips. Then she looked at the filming crew, and the back at you three. “How about we say we’re done for today?”
You all looked up, “Really?”
“I’ll handle the marvel dudes. You guys just take the rest of the day off,” she smiled warmly at you, a caring look in her eyes. A grin stretched on your face. Anthony and Sebastian exchanged glances when they saw your face, smiling.
“Back to the hotel then!” Sebastian grunted as you all stood up. You left and drove back to the hotel, and when you got there you ate sandwiches and chips. After that the three of you played Mario Kart together (something you’d taught them, and they’d absolutely fallen in love with it).
“Fuck you, Stan!” Anthony spat, doing a flip over Sebastian’s kart and getting into 3rd place. You giggled from your place on 1st.
“Oh fuck, don’t do this, Mackie, don’t do this!”
“Adios, Amigo!” Anthony cackled, disappearing far in front of Sebastian. The latter threw his head back in defeat. The round ended, you crossing the finish line on first, Anthony on second and Sebastian on fourth.
“That was a shitty round, I demand a rematch,” he said, sipping his water. Anthony scoffed and shook his head. You did too.
“Hey, by the way, N/n?” Anthony was looking at you from his place beside you on the couch. You nodded questioningly. “You know that wasn’t your fault, right? What happened back there with that lady?”
You grew quiet, heat rising to your cheeks. Sebastian had a look on his face. You guessed they had talked together, that they would bring it up with you again.
“Because it wasn’t. It’s not your fault you feel this way. It was that lady who should have been more mindful of you and how you feel. She was clearly trying to take advantage of your timidness to make you spoil something,” Sebastian continued. He still seemed angry, actually, clenching his hand.
“So don’t apologize for that stuff, alright? That ain’t on you,” Anthony patted your back. You looked at him and then Sebastian with a smile, and then nodded sheepishly.
“Alright, yeah. I guess you’re right,” you said softly.
“Of course we’re right!” Anthony was (unsurprisingly) immediately back to normal, “now back to the game, kiddos. Sebastian wants a rematch, he’ll get one.”
And then you played Mario Kart together for an unspecified number of hours, the thought of that asshole interviewer long gone. You felt right at home, at number one in Mario Kart and number one in their hearts.
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LoZ AU- The Courage of Running Away Part TWENTY-NINE
Previous post is here!!!
This is another mostly-prose-with-illustrations post and most of the wrap posts are going to be the same because there’s a lot to cover.
#AU August
#LoZ AU: The Courage of Running Away
Dinravi stabs Nightmare Demise and sends lightning through the blade. As Nightmare Demise fades he suddenly grins, teeth all sharp:
[Image Description: Nightmare Demise is laying on his back, grinning as smoke hisses around him. “Maybe NEXT TIME, Little Prince,” he says. Dinravi frowns down at him. “In DEMISE’S Nightmares, perhaps,” he says. End ID.]
(Note: I did not expect Dinravi to say that.)
Link manages that second blow, and Fierce Deity stumbles back, still smiling the same as before.
[Image Description: Fierce Deity puts his hand to his chest and closes his eyes, black blood trickling thick from one side of his smile. He fades away. Link, who’s gained a bruised cheek and a cut lip since we’ve last seen, stares at him in some confusion and mixed emotion. End ID.]
At last, together, all three Triforce bearers turn their power on the God's Nightmare in the center of the room along with Eltani and Ghirahim, and with Hylia's Light Queen Zelda closes the tear in reality.
Zelda rushes to the sacristy to check on her daughter. Astramorus is coming through the door to the tunnels as she makes it there, the pendant with the Moon Pearl over his shoulder, the book of spells under his arm, looking exhausted, and they stop to stare at one another for half a breath.
"... Where is Serenumbra?" Zelda asks him.
Astramorus's face twists and then he holds up a limp creature, some sort of snake with a skull for a face that is definitely not a snake's skull.
"We scuffled," he says, as if that explains everything. "He's alive and I'm GOING to change him back, but your Majesty I'm not a young man, this seemed like an easier way to get him back up here."
[Image Description: Astramorus, looking very done and with the Moon Pearl over his shoulder and the magic book under his arm, presents with his other hand a snake with a human skull that appears to be attempting to constrict his arm. The snake is labeled “Snakenumbra.” End ID.]
Queen Zelda stares at him with the schooled expression of someone who has made a career of not laughing at the wrong moment.
"We'll discuss this when we get to your sentencing for attacking Prince Dinravi," she says, and Astramorus shrugs.
"I think you know I didn't go after him because of that," he answers.
[Image Description: Link sits on one of the stone beds in the Sanctuary and leans back on his hands. Ghirahim settles down next to him. Link side eyes him.
"You look terrible," he says.
"Thanks for noticing," Ghirahim answers with a tired smile. "You look WORSE."
Dinravi, off panel, sends a "Leave him alone, Ghirahim," in their direction. End ID.]
"No I've decided that I like this one," Ghirahim shoots back. "We fought a hinox and an eldritch nightmare together and I think he might be a little crazy." He grins at Link, teeth all sharp. "I learned my lesson with the first of you," he says, "The spirit of the hero does something funny to your heads, it's entertaining when it's not frustrating."
Link stares at him and then rubs the mark on his hand. "I thought this was some kind of mistake, actually," he admits.
Ghirahim gives him a flat look as if he can't believe what he's hearing. "I threw your father off a roof and you were ready to kill me, I could see it in your face," he says. "You epitomize your predecessor's foolishness."
Link is absolutely not sure how to take that.
Astramorus thumbs through the book of magic and finds the counter to the spell Serenumbra used to put the princesses to sleep, waking them.
"Well now, Dove," Queen Zelda says, "you're safe now," and Princess Zelda, who'd been holding it together so well, falls into her mother's arms.
Princess Hilda stares at them silently for a moment before saying "I'm so deeply sorry for the trouble Lord Serenumbra has caused."
Princess Zelda pulls away and asserts, "She had no idea, Mother."
Queen Zelda gives Hilda a rueful smile. "You know, I have another arm if you need it."
Hilda is taller than Queen Zelda (she's quite a tall girl) but that doesn't matter; she buries her face in the older woman's neck and begins to sob.
"There now, that's better," Queen Zelda says.
[Image Description: Hilda is folded over Zelda Sr and sobbing into her hands on Zelda’s shoulder, while Zelda Jr is leaning into Zelda Sr’s other shoulder and crying more quietly, giving Hilda a tired and fond look. Queen Zelda has her arms wrapped around both girls and is making a serious thoughtful face, thinking: “So how do I explain to my husband that I’m adopting the ruler of a neighboring country this time.” End ID.]
Then, at Hilda's insistence, they restore the proper shapes of the Scarred Woman and the Burly Man.
"On the love of Hylia, your highness," the Scarred Woman promises Hilda, "I'll never take another order not from your kind lips."
Queen Zelda purses hers. "I think being turned into.... That. Was more than enough punishment for the part you two played in this mess," she decides. "As for Serenumbra himself-"
Serenumbra's shape is being restored by Astramorus as she says this and he barely waits for a human tongue to open his mouth. "Princess Hilda," he says, smiling paternally, "I was only acting in what I saw as your best interests-"
"Shut up," Hilda cuts him off. She looks like she's ready to cry again. "Your Majesty, do as you please with him, I never want to see him again."
"I helped raise you-" Serenumbra starts, and it's Astramorus who cuts him off this time:
"Don't make me hit you with this book again, Seren," he says.
"I think his fate is my right, at this point." This is Eltani. "He would have had my son either murdered or seduced by a demon to spread bloodshed across Hyrule."
"Well, he's only a little more than half demon now," Serenumbra starts to say.
"What." Ghirahim says.
"I pulled some human emotion into him to make him more manageable," Serenumbra continues as if he hadn't spoken. "There was plenty around the castle, Hilda's a very nice girl."
Hilda gets up and leaves while Ghirahim leans directly into Serenumbra's face and starts screaming at him.
[Image Description: Ghirahim saying his fuckin piece. He has one hand braced on the wall behind Serenumbra, who is flinching back, while Ghirahim holds his other hand- shape shifted into claws- in a position ready to grab and tear. Ghirahim is absolutely screaming, although some of the dialogue is cut off. End ID.]
The dialogue isn’t in the image description because I’m going to share the entire thing including cut-off parts here: “You awful disgusting little man daring to toy with the magnificent Ghirahim even THINKING to tamper with MY PERSON I should cut you to pieces and leave you with your heart still beating in the sun for the lizalfos in the desert to find and we’d see whose problem I was THEN I swear on my last master’s ashes if it wasn’t for my prince you’d already be gutted on the floor for this but you’re not worthy of bleeding on the same carpet that’s touched his feet and that you dared to assume that your disgusting machinations would even work on him proves what a pathetic fool you really are-”
Eventually Dinravi pulls him gently away. "I knew there was something wrong," Ghirahim mutters, then says, "Eltani tell your son to let me kill him I'll never backtalk you again."
"Tempting, even if I don't believe that," Eltani admits. "Zelda?"
Queen Zelda shrugs. "He's all yours, dear."
Finally, finally Serenumbra's smug face drops. "Well, at least my dear old friend will be keeping me company on the gallows," he says nastily, looking at Astramorus.
Astramorus seems unmoved; Link on the other hand is immediately worried, looking to Queen Zelda and Eltani, who both look a bit thoughtful.
Eltani says, "Well, no, he's certainly exiled from Gerudo City, but I think I'm willing to go with the idea that he was acting under duress."
"Seren didn't actually tell me to-" Astramorus starts to say, but she holds up a hand.
"Even now you're calling him a fond nickname," she says sadly. Astramorus looks surprised to have this pointed out.
"I'm willing to acknowledge the help he's been since the incident," Zelda says. "But we'll discuss it back in Hyrule. Lord Astramorus has only done good here in Lorule, it's unfair to sentence him here, especially on the heels of the battle he helped win."
"I think that's fair," Eltani agrees, and with that I'm wrapping the post because holy wow it got long lol
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Oh god, imagine the obligatory ff7 timetravel story but with 15 year old Cloud standing at shinras entrance, with the triplets, who are toddlers, and demanding to see "his husband". On one hand Cloud ist so done with all of it on the other hand he kind of likes this opportunity to fuck with Sephiroth.
Oh my god yes.
No no this is perfect, I’d tweak it just a bit but I love this soooo....
Cloud, through a series of events gets punted back into the past with the Remnants in tow.
He wakes up confused and aching in the middle of nowhere with a toddler gnawing on his chin, one yanking at his hair, and the other asleep and drooling across his lap.
Needless to say his first rational thought is a soft but heartfelt “the fuck???”
Eventually though he gets his shit together and takes stock.
To his relief he still has First Tsurugi and he’s still enhanced. Slightly more unsettling is the fact that he’s also still as fresh faced and young looking as ever, frozen in time as he’s been for so long now, but the Remnants are children somehow. Drooling, biting, kind of horrifyingly adorable children.
Which, of course, means that Cloud can’t just leave them behind.
Cloud’s sure that, somewhere, somehow, Aerith and Zack both are laughing at him.
And then he almost has a panic attack when he realizes that they’ve somehow been thrown back in actual time.
But then, once he breathes into a bag and screams at the sky for a bit (which the triplets seem to think is some kind of group scream along) Cloud reaches a strange sort of zen.
And that’s around the time that he decides he’s going to take this entire situation and run with it.
Needless to say the only ones more shocked than Genesis and Angeal when Cloud rolls up to Shinra (pretty and slender but obviously enhanced and with a monster of a sword) with three little Sephiroth knock offs in hand is Sephiroth himself.
“Hey honey,” Cloud says as he stares up into Sephiroth’s face, absolutely no inflection in his voice even as Yahzoo swings from the hilt of First Tsurugi, obviously tied in place with a bit of cord.
“....” Sephiroth stares down at Cloud in turn, also absolutely expressionless.
On the ground between them Kadaj manages to move get his hands, and teeth, on the edge of Sephiroth’s leather coat.
Wrapped around Sephiroth’s leg, Loz begins to cry.
“The kids were missing you,” Cloud deadpans. “Thought I’d bring them by, let them see you, maybe come kill Grandpa. Make it a whole family outing.”
To everyone’s surprise Angeal lets out a loud, slightly unhinged sounding cackle.
For the first time in history Sephiroth looks like he might faint.
#Hi Honey I'm Cloud AU#Sefikura#Anonymous#RayRambles#Final Fantasy 7 Remake#Final Fantasy VII#FFVII#FF7#Final Fantasy 7
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I apologize to whoever I talk to on a regular basis and to you guys because likely the only thing I'm going to be talking about probably Shining Pearl comes out is going to be Skyrim. Literally my favorite game right now. I don't know why it took so long for me to finally play it, but damn I'm happy lmao
So I have never seen someone play Skyrim and I didn't know anything about it before going into it (other than the memes of course), and one of the first things I did was kill a chicken to try out my flame magic. The owner came at me, so I killed him too. Went inside, and suddenly I was being attacked from all angles. I had to go back a bit in my saves to get back to normal xD So now I know not to kill chickens. I've done the golden dragon claw side quest thing, and I'm now finding my way back.
I absolutely love it so far, despite how many glitches it may have xD It takes me back to my first playthrough of Breath of the Wild (which was my first time really playing a LoZ game) mixed with regular DnD!
Honestly I look back and see how much I've changed as a person with my interests and find it funny that I am becoming the very thing late middle school/early high school me despised xD I used to think fantasy was so overrated and stupid, but here I am now, making a fantasy webcomic, drawing almost exclusive fantasy things, playing DnD regularly, and now playing Skyrim. 14 year old me is quaking right now xD It honestly makes me want to draw a timeline of myself and see how much I've changed because my God it has been a lot lmao
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