#kingdom. interactions.

[urmajaesty]

❛   you are very troublesome,   do you realise ?    ❜     

loki,   the child,   dislike leaving the void.    it is a place of death and destruction and betrayal,   true   —   but it has been his home for many years.   even the shadow of asgards is nothing but a blur,   and something only the elderly loki talks of so fondly.   had it truly been his home ?   the child does not know:   in the wake of what he has done,   there is very little doubt that he would ever be welcomed back.

(    the child does not think of the allmother’s face.   what sort of crumpled expression frigga would have worn when she’d found thor’s body   —   ?    what sort of curses she would have laid at his feet should she know that it was her second son’s doing ?   would she still call him her son ?   or is he the face of a foreigner,   the unwanted child odin had robbed so haphazardly ?   )

not that it matters.    the timeline has been reset :    thor did not die.   and,   as punishment,   he will not live.

but the child says nothing of that.   he merely tips up his chin,  defiant,   but his eyes sharp.  accusing.    ❛    you’ve taken not only the elderly loki from my company,   but your absence have forced mobius to enlist our help just because you were not able to find your way back.   i do not belong in the timeline anymore,   if you haven’t noticed.    ❜ 

    @hederahtus​   /   starter call

[urmajaesty]

❛   what ?   ❜    his word comes out biting.    but more than that,   it is simply reluctance that has him so agitated by the obvious stare.   turning,   the child gives the older version of him an unimpressed scowl.   his eyebrows minutely raised,   questioning  —

❛   you obviously have something to ask of me,  loki.   might as well  speak.    ❜

  for @seidrborn​ because kid!loki wants to.

[urmajaesty]

❛    —    you’re shorter.    ❜    

it is not his first time seeing thor.   after all,   living in the void for as long as he did,   there was bound to be a thor or two that’d shown up,   clearly rejected by the timeline for whatever it is that they must have done wrong.   but   ...    he’d never once seen one up close.   alioth,   the demon,   was always at their heels;   and thor,   the foolish idiot,   would always try to fight it with his lightning.   a noble thing,  indeed,   but with alioth’s smoke of death,   no one escapes.

the child does not know how to properly react.   it is unlike seeing a ghost,   because the thor he remembers is young of face,   his features yet to be taken with facial hair and whatever fine lines age does to an individual once they’ve grown up.   yet,   at the same time,  there is that unmistakeable air to the god of thunder that loki thinks he could recognise anywhere.

so,  he thinks   -   this is the thor he did not kill.

[    his word goes unsaid :   you’ve grown up well.  ]

❛   do you recognise me ?    ❜    

    @crscendo​   /   starter call