Balder is wise in many ways, as many as he is foolish. Left alone with his thoughts, more than once, he has come to the conclusion that loving someone with the loyal ferocity, the unyielding and unreadable bond he has with his brothers…it is a dangerous love.
It is so very dangerous to love someone so much there isn’t anything you wouldn’t do. It consumes you, devours you. It threatens to leave you with out reason or mind for compromise. It is blood and fear and vengeance.
There isn’t anyone - no matter who they were to him - who could stand in the way of it. He would wage war for them, kill for them, die for them. His brothers, Loki and Thor. Beyond all else and far beyond all reason, Balder Odinson loved them with the violence that a man who loved to kill felt when he took a life.
It burned, shallow, just beneath the skin of the youngest son of Odin, the one who wished for peace and light and happiness. The one who would tear worlds apart if they could truly threaten those he loved. The storm, in the heart of the sun, burning bright and deadly hot.