Tess and Loki. Western AU.
[Okay, so I’ve been around a while, and there are a lot of Lokis on Tumblr. I’ve written with five who are still active, and since each dynamic and portrayal is different to me… here’s one for each with relevant tag.]
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the-ever-changing-mask He came from the East; Tess–Tessie with her brown skin and ropes of beads around her neck–watched him climb down from the stagecoach, fine clothes immaculate in spite of a long-as-hell journey. She shifted the baby on her hip, squinting at the newcomer from the porch of McKay’s General Store. His eyes, Tess noted as he passed them by, were greener than the emerald stickpin he wore.hraunwyf Ilse came by the smithy whenever she needed new shoes for Sleipnir, elegant and oddly sharp– like the straight-edged razor that Tess once used to cut her husband’s throat. ”Reckon you know I did it,” Tess finally confessed after too many shots of whiskey. Ilse’s smile only confirmed her suspicions. tinytricksterprince The morning she found the boy was the day she mustered up her courage and left the whorehouse. ‘Respectability’ never quite came her way, but clever hands and a quick tongue saw her son back East and dazzling his Harvard professors. Never let it be said Tess McKay failed to teach her boy to look after himself.
vesallkyn Tess called herself “Tommy” in those days, whiling away the year of ‘89 with nothing more than a prospector’s kit and the (men’s) clothes on her muscular back. The bastard had her in bed by 1890, and the pair of them struck it rich by ‘91. Loki celebrated by buying a fine green coat for himself; she bought him an engagement ring.
xgodofstoriesx Loki Laufeyson was the best poker player Tessie McKay ever set eyes on. When she realized he had no less than twenty different ways of cheating, she stole her daddy’s Colt pistol and shot him in the ass for stealing her money. Six months later he showed up on her front porch, clean-shaven and smug as sin with a bouquet of flowers in his hand.