Laufey King of Jotunheim

I am King Laufey of Jotunheim. If you dare come before me, please be brief and to the point, I do not have time to dawdle with pleasantries [Laufey RP blog. I will rp with anyone, just message me. I'm no good at starting so please send me stuff. ]

[thewasandshouldbeking]

@wildlingking || The Trickster's Gambit

[thewasandshouldbeking]

Loki’s brows knit upward, uncertain of the vague meaning in Laufey’s words. The uncertainty ate at him. He stared silently into that scowl for a moment, then looked away, the gloss of tears threatening, but not falling.

"I should not have kept it, should I?" he finally asked, voice soft, but carrying easily in the silent room. "…I should have done as I intended when I first came and asked how to be rid of it. I know all too well what it is to have no place, and what chance will this creature have, heir to less still than that nothing?"

[wildlingking]

"That is up to it as much as your home was up to you."  Laufey replied, in a nearly condemning manner.  His eyes did not leave Loki's back as the small jotun turned his back to him.  He wonders if he would have helped Loki had that been the request he had put before the king, but it was a moot point now.  "Do you truly expect your child to take the same route that you did?  If you truly fear that future, you do not have to keep it when you have given birth to it."

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

Laufey nodded with acceptance, pleased by the decision Loki had made.  “Your brothers have been well.  Býleistr and Helblindi still question me about you, but I feel that their sense of infringement upon their rights has eased."  His expression hesitated however, in expectation of a question he knew Loki would ask.  Pain was obvious in the jotnar’s expression, but he would not say why yet.

[deceiver-of-fools]

"Ah, yes I imagine that would have put them off quite a bit in the beginning… please assure them I’ve no interest in assuming the throne here or anywhere else, really. What right has an outsider like myself to ruling the Jotnar? They would not trust me even if I wanted to, they would not follow.. nor should they." It was something he’d thought about quite a long time ago, and come to this conclusion. Loki was too wild and too restless to be a stationary monarch for any length of time, and as someone who was neither one nor the other.. an outsider to literally every culture.. there was no species or race that would throw aside their wariness and obey without bloodshed. 

"And Farbauti?"

[wildlingking]

Laufey cringed as the dreaded question was asked.  The pain still fresh, he turned his head away as he answered.  "I am grieved to say that he is dead."  He knew it would be difficult for Loki to hear, as he had been one of the few jotnar who had accepted him, but there was no sugar-coating the absence.  "The sea took him on his last expedition across the wastes."

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

"Tell me then if you are able."  He nodded, pleased with the outcome that had turned in their favor.  “With everything you have done for us now, it seems hardly  a repayment, but if you are in need of rest your rooms are still available.  We can talk more later, unless you plan to keep this visit short?"  The king shifted topics almost effortlessly.

[deceiver-of-fools]

"I’ll stay a while." Part of him, and Loki was currently unsure of how large that part of him was, missed being on Jotunheim. Part of him missed Laufey and Farbauti… part of him missed the headspace he was in when standing amongst the Jotnar and knowing they were not foes. 

Maybe part of him just missed the idea of feeling safe within a family for once. 

"How are my brothers?"

[wildlingking]

Laufey nodded with acceptance, pleased by the decision Loki had made.  "Your brothers have been well.  Býleistr and Helblindi still question me about you, but I feel that their sense of infringement upon their rights has eased."  His expression hesitated however, in expectation of a question he knew Loki would ask.  Pain was obvious in the jotnar's expression, but he would not say why yet.

[thewasandshouldbeking]

@wildlingking || The Trickster's Gambit

[wildlingking]

♦

"That is normally how the lots fall.  A mother becomes attached to their child whether they expect to not."  Laufey gave his son  an almost perceivable smile.    “It is the child’s only method of defence, make one who can protect it fall in love with it."  The king had expected Loki’s answer concerning his fears of the jotnar.  There was no doubt that there were still many who would blame Loki and suffer the consequences just to see him and his child murdered. 

[thewasandshouldbeking]

Strange emotions flitted quickly through Loki, like flying fish, leaping from the sea and flashing brightly, before submerging once again into the depths. The implications of Laufey’s words, the subtlety of his expression, brought forth the wonder once again of what might have been, if only this or that pivotal event had only been different.

He pet his thumb over the curvature of his belly again. "…And yet I still fear it, too. That it will be deformed by its parentage. That what I birth will… that I won’t feel…" his brows knit, his expression guilty. “And worse, that it already knows I think these awful things."

[wildlingking]

Laufey scowled at his son's doubt.  This was what his place should have been had Loki not been taken away, but he had hardly been prepared for giving his eldest the comforting words he needed.  His mind reeled against instinct, telling him not to bother with the words that should be saved for another.  "You will not know that."  He finally responds, frustration at a similar feeling of worry that he had felt many moons ago.

[thewasandshouldbeking]

@wildlingking || The Trickster's Gambit

[wildlingking]

Laufey nodded in response to the greeting, appraising the splendour in which Loki had wrapped himself.  He remained at the door, gazing upon an all too familiar and yet dissimilar face, for a time before breaking the tension that had settled between them, “I came to see how you were holding up.  I have heard so little from any of the workers around the palace, I almost thought you had disappeared.”  He chuckled, but his expression did not shift far from its stoic state.  Loki was an enigma to him and he did not yet know how to address the small jotun.

[thewasandshouldbeking]

"I do not leave these chambers often," Loki shrugged one shoulder, an apologetic smile on his lips. “I fear the retaliation of your people, and while I could have guarded myself well enough before, now…"

He brushed his palm over his abdomen, swollen just perceptibly beneath the silks, where he had shown nothing before. “It’s strange. I had never thought I would have to consider the life of a child. The healers assure me that all goes well, and yet I find myself in terror of some unknown harm befalling one or both of us."

[wildlingking]

"That is normally how the lots fall.  A mother becomes attached to their child whether they expect to not."  Laufey gave his son  an almost perceivable smile.    "It is the child's only method of defence, make one who can protect it fall in love with it."  The king had expected Loki's answer concerning his fears of the jotnar.  There was no doubt that there were still many who would blame Loki and suffer the consequences just to see him and his child murdered. 

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

@wildlingking

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

For several long moments, he did nothing but slowly blink his dim eyes. Then, his mouth began to move as though he were speaking, but the only sound was the faint hiss of his weak breath. His voice had fled him. He let out what might been a growl, followed by a feeble cough that sent another stab of pain burning in his chest.

Slowly, he moved his good arm to indicate his other with a shaky gesture, then cautiously pressed a hand to his ribs. He winced as the pain renewed, and he lay there, trying to catch his breath. Finally, he raised his hand again, lightly tapping his lips and his throat. He swallowed and recovered just enough of his voice to say: “Drink."

[wildlingking]

Laufey scowled with slight frustration, finding liquid in the frozen wastes was not something the king found exceptionally pleasing.  The most likely source would be at the foot of a glacier, but beyond finding it Laufey would have to find a way to transport it.  "Alcohol it will have to be."  He reasons, "I do not have any on me, but I can either take you back or go retrieve something."

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

"I feared as much, but it is no more than I would expect.  I will remain here then, even if my people may now wander freely."  Laufey took to his feet again, returning to the throne.  “You have completed your end of the deal to the fullness of our agreement.  The fate of the infinity gauntlet will be left up to you, but I hope you have a solution to that at some point."  The king knew he would have to convince his council of the safety of leaving the gauntlet with Loki, but that would be a problem for him to solve later.  "

[deceiver-of-fools]

"I do… when my task with the Gauntlet is complete, I will destroy it… the only one in this universe, to prevent another from using it against you if I happen to lose it in the future." Which he didn’t really think would happen, but Loki was no feel… he knew how often he tended to lose in large gambles, he knew how many enemies he had, and he knew that the Gauntlet had a nasty habit of cursing its host to a horrible fate simply by being in their hands… most of all, he knew he himself could not be trusted, and refused to put Jotunheim in danger from his own unpredictable whims. 

Ah, the true nature of chaos. 

"I anticipate only needing it another month at the most, and after that, it will be gone."

[wildlingking]

"Tell me then if you are able."  He nodded, pleased with the outcome that had turned in their favor.  "With everything you have done for us now, it seems hardly  a repayment, but if you are in need of rest your rooms are still available.  We can talk more later, unless you plan to keep this visit short?"  The king shifted topics almost effortlessly.

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

@wildlingking

[wildlingking]

Laufey could see the question plaguing his son’s thoughts, for he too was asking the same thing of himself.  Why?  Why did he care so much for the runt who came to his realm and attacked him?  “Because no matter what you are blood."  He answered both to himself and to the jotun before him.

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

Blood….

The word seemed to tremble in his throat though it had not been he who had spoken it. It rattled in his mind like an avalanche of bones. It was such a primitive sentiment, perhaps almost noble in its simplicity. His eyes burned and his vision blurred as his breath caught and scraped painfully in his throat. His face twisted into a pained expression, though his gaze lingered, unfocused, on some point high above where he lay.

Right now, regardless of his desires, he needed the Jotun king. He needed whatever charity would be seen fit to be granted him. Otherwise, he would die in this cave. The thought sent a spasm through him, jarring his fractures and bruises. He panted. "Help," he rasped weakly, and a tear slid from the corner of his eye. "Please…."

[wildlingking]

Laufey wished to jump to action when Loki started to convulse in pain.  The weak please for help pulled at his nature, and he looked to the trickster for information.  "Where, and how?  What can I do to help you."  All Laufey knew at that moment was that his son was in pain.  He had bound the wounds he saw before, but he did not know what other internal wounds were present.

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[deceiver-of-fools]

"The only way to break this barrier by force is to match it with superior power.. an enemy would need an Infinity Gauntlet like mine own to do it…there is only one in each universe, and as I’ve no intention of relinquishing my hold on this one, I don’t foresee it to be a problem." Actually he had a permanent way to insure this, but that was something Loki would be keeping to himself for the time being, “Jotunheim is safe, as according to our deal… my only warning is this; the protection will not extend to anyone who leaves this realm, and if you are slain before you pass its reigns to another, the magic will either die or seal off this place from the outside worlds altogether forever… I’m not actually completely sure which."

[wildlingking]

"I feared as much, but it is no more than I would expect.  I will remain here then, even if my people may now wander freely."  Laufey took to his feet again, returning to the throne.  "You have completed your end of the deal to the fullness of our agreement.  The fate of the infinity gauntlet will be left up to you, but I hope you have a solution to that at some point."  The king knew he would have to convince his council of the safety of leaving the gauntlet with Loki, but that would be a problem for him to solve later.  "

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[deceiver-of-fools]

"You may choose who becomes the new core whenever you’re ready to relinquish it." A shrug, lightly given, and the Deceiver placed his blue hand upon his true father’s chest, just over where he felt the strong beat of a large heart just within its prison of bone and muscle. 

Around his left arm flared the magic, and arcane words spilled in a steady stream from Loki’s mouth, weaving into one another in a duality of male and female voices whispering all at once. Smokey grey at first were these tendrils of power coiling out of the hidden Gauntlet he wore, but upon being snapped up by his own energy, they turned a vicious shade of jade and acid green. The end of these followed his fingers to find Laufey, reaching cold tentacles to wrap harmlessly around and find itself anchor there, while the rest burst and blossomed forth. 

Loki’s eyes were overwhelmed by this light as well, glowing cosmic peridot and dragonfire opal, drowning out the slitted pupils and the whites at once and even shining in the back of his throat when he opened his mouth, as though there were living fire brewing in his belly. 

The magic swelled, reached a crescendo, found its stride and jerked upright, lancing itself in vertical lightning to pass through stone and ice seamlessly, without so much as leaving a charred mark in its wake.. up and up into the thick, clouded sky of his homeland, where it slammed against the atmosphere above the clouds and flowed out. Like water it poured down the outside of an invisible force field over Jotunheim, rippling bioluminescent patterns of marbled green against the snow beneath it… down and down and down until the entire world was contained inside its bubbled protection. 

When the ends reached themselves underground the the dome was complete, the lightning from Loki cut itself off, whipping once to the left and right like an injured serpent, and then fell back into its Master… where it lay dormant yet again, and the panther removed his hand from Laufey. 

"There we are." He was drained of his sorcery almost entirely for the day… could not have even managed to shift his shape, more than likely, without being unable to change back… but despite his exhaustion, he was victorious. 

[wildlingking]

Laufey felt the new magic settle around his heart.  It was a strange, new presence in which he felt he could feel the enormity of their world, but it was in no way a burden.  The light of the magic had caused Laufey to close his eyes to protect them from the light.  It was only when Loki affirmed it was completed that he opened them again.  He saw immediately the exhaustion that had taken over his son, but he allowed Loki his pride and did not mention it.  "I feel it.  There is no doubt to that power."

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

@wildlingking

[the-jotun-liesmith-blog]

Loki’s brow furrowed and the same, single question hummed in his mind: Why? He was so tired but he could not sleep, some bitter obstinacy holding him to wakefulness. He could not trust Laufey. He dared not. So he lay still, his shallow breath the only sound to mar the silence that hung heavy in the air.

[wildlingking]

Laufey could see the question plaguing his son's thoughts, for he too was asking the same thing of himself.  Why?  Why did he care so much for the runt who came to his realm and attacked him?  "Because no matter what you are blood."  He answered both to himself and to the jotun before him.

[wildlingking]

((-creeps on- I'm happy to see you on my dash again! -creeps off-))

(( <3 it seems there are quite a few people who are happy to see me again here.  It's wonderful to see you all again as well!))

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

Laufey nodded his agreement, pleased with these terms.   He watched the magic radiate from Loki’s hands with a sense of wonder.  Even as ignorant of magic as he was, Laufey was able to guess that the power needed to accomplish the task Loki was about  to would take considerable strength.  ""Then let it be done.  Let us be rid of the people who seek us harm."

[deceiver-of-fools]

Deceiver beckoned to him then, a quick flicker of his claws in invitation to lure his father closer, “come, I must lay my hand against your heart so that the spell can key itself onto your signature. it’ll use you as its anchor point and master then, rather than me."

[wildlingking]

"If that is what it must take."  Laufey kneeled down before Loki so that his son was able to reach up to where he needed.  "Will it be able to be passed down?"  His gaze carefully rested on Loki, waiting for him to act.

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

"I do remember, and I am pleased that you did as well.  I only have one question before you put this in place.  How will people come and go from this world?  I only ask because isolation could be even more of a detriment to our land."  Laufey had cause to doubt the intentions of his son, but his trust had grown over the last several visits he had with his prodigal child. 

[deceiver-of-fools]

"I will construct the barrier to allow only those of Jotun blood to pass in and out of it, as well as their wargs and their mounts and their kills… beyond that, the only ones who can pass through are those with direct permission from you." Answered the basilisk as he cast his hands out to either side in something like presentation, one hand glistening blue and the other white as snow, “only the King has say in the guests of Jotunheim."

[wildlingking]

Laufey nodded his agreement, pleased with these terms.   He watched the magic radiate from Loki's hands with a sense of wonder.  Even as ignorant of magic as he was, Laufey was able to guess that the power needed to accomplish the task Loki was about  to would take considerable strength.  ""Then let it be done.  Let us be rid of the people who seek us harm."

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[deceiver-of-fools]

"Asgard is….. preoccupied… I would not worry about them for some time, and in fact, never again, for I hath come to make good on my deal to you. I promised I would use my weapon to protect Jotunheim, do you remember? I intend to make good on my word this day." Nevermind that it had taken him this long to devour enough energy to perform magic so hugely scaled…. and nevermind the amount of sleep he’d lost over it and a thousand other problems on his mind… the point was; he’d made a promise to his father, and he intended to honor it. 

[wildlingking]

"I do remember, and I am pleased that you did as well.  I only have one question before you put this in place.  How will people come and go from this world?  I only ask because isolation could be even more of a detriment to our land."  Laufey had cause to doubt the intentions of his son, but his trust had grown over the last several visits he had with his prodigal child. 

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

[wildlingking]

Laufey looked up from the council that had previously held his attention to see a familiar form in the doorway.  “And hail my victorious son."  He replied, a smirk appearing upon his lips as he waved away the jotnar before him and stood to greet Loki. 

[deceiver-of-fools]

"Aye, both victorious and a son, so the statement must then be entirely true!" He stopped a respectful distance away and bowed in a grand gesture of delight. His hair was longer now since last they’d met, and fell in tumbling curtains down either side of his face, “I have much and more to report to you, but first and foremost I must know; do you and the others fair well?"

[wildlingking]

"I will be glad to hear it in time."  The king agreed, appraising the changes in his son's appearance.  "I have no doubt that there is many a story to accompany this news.  As for our people,, we fare much as we have before.  There has been a worrying absence of trouble from Asgard however."  Laufey raised an eyebrow as if in suspicion, but the smirk still on his face told otherwise.

[deceiver-of-fools]

Brinicle - (@ Big Daddy)

It had been far too long since the cold fingers of Jotunheim had wounds its unforgiving embrace around the Deceiver’s shoulders, and longer still since he had gazed up at the great gates to the Hall of his father. His true father, that is, the father with whom he’d been building a bond for the past few years, slowly getting over his prejudice towards his own species with the large, guiding hand of the frost king. 

Metamorphic eyes of preternatural green flickered downwards, watching his own cobalt hand as it flexed retractable claws in against his palm. One hand Jotun, one hand Aesir, a fairly new modification that Laufey had not yet seen- and Loki wondered if he would find it as ironically amusing as he did. 

With head held high and spine straight, the trickster pushed open the double doors and entered the Hall, his white fur cloak flowing out to snap at his shoulder in the harsh wind of the blizzard. Crisp and cold and quiet was Jotunheim during these times, drenched in the eternal winter that now licked at Loki’s booted heels, freezing the silvery nickle buckles over in glosses of thin ice. It was good to be home, good to feel as though he’d reached an environment his body was adapted to…. 

Somewhere he belonged. 

"Hail, almighty father!" called out he, in a voice laced with the booming confidence of a man healed and powerful. 

A mighty change from their last meet. 

[wildlingking]

Laufey looked up from the council that had previously held his attention to see a familiar form in the doorway.  "And hail my victorious son."  He replied, a smirk appearing upon his lips as he waved away the jotnar before him and stood to greet Loki.