#frostkiller

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Loki: I got you a pair of knives for your birthday. I hope you like them.

Nebula, with tears in her eyes: This is the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever received. I’ll think of you every time I stab someone.

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I like to imagine that while Nebula and Loki’s relationship is mainly founded on their similarities, there was one major difference between them that drew Nebula to Loki; his ability to lie. It was the one skill Thanos never taught any of his children, so that they could never lie to him. But Loki wasn’t raised by Thanos. Wasn’t brainwashed from childhood to feel as much love and attachment as hatred and fear toward him. Loki was a wildcard. The one person who stood any chance of being able to plot and scheme behind his back, or god forbid make a mistake without him finding out. Nebula coveted that ability. She relished the thought of possessing just one advantage over Gamora. She asked Loki to teach her. But she was a slow-learner, and there wasn’t time to practice. In fact, Thanos had detected her treachery before she herself had even resolved to seek Loki’s tutelage.

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Not even a lack of screentime can stop us.

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Okay, but what if Loki finds out that Midgardian dogs and cats live much shorter lives than humans but they keep them as pets anyway and has an epiphany about dating mortal girls?

“Nebula, I’ve come to realize that love is as fleeting and temporary as anything else. Nothing lasts forever. Humans outlive their pets by decades and beings like me outlive humans by millennia. Civilizations rise and fall. Stars burn out. Even gods die. All this to say; a life spent holding out for something permanent is a life wasted. So with that in mind, I’d like to spend mine embracing the things which bring me happiness, no matter how brief.”

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You can’t prove this didn’t happen.

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Nebula: That’s a sharp outfit Loki. Careful, you could puncture the hull of a Black Order Q-ship, leaving thousands to asphyxiate in the vacuum of space.

Loki: 

Nebula: Because... it’s so sharp.

Loki: Um... Thanks.

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Nebula: So what’d you get me for my birthday?

Loki: *opens a door revealing Thanos tied up in chains* Surpriiiise.

Nebula: Aw, babe! You shouldn’t have!

Loki: *hands Nebula a knife* Go and open your present darling.

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Okay, but since they’ve decided that Thor’s just never going to put down his hammer/ax and become king, I feel like at this point the natural end to his story is going to be death. The best way to do it would be for him to revive Loki somehow and then have the story build up to Loki coming into his own as a hero, with callbacks to what Frigga said to Thor and what Thor said to Loki on Sakaar. Then Thor, who can’t stand to lose Loki again after just getting him back, especially since everyone else he loves is gone, decides that this time it’s going to be him who sacrifices himself for Loki (and Loki’s newfound love, Nebula) just as Loki once sacrificed himself for him and his now ex-girlfriend Jane.

Bonus points if before the sacrifice Thor just hands Stormbreaker over to Loki. Like, without even testing it first, he just knows that Loki’s going to be able to hold it effortlessly.