the-flying-dolphin

    She belongs nowhere, and so she belongs everywhere. For as long as she can remember she has known peace (of a sort) and craved freedom, and now the possibilities open to her are dizzying.            Sometimes she thinks her skull should crack from the strain of infinity—should, but does not, will not. She can drink the universe—the multiverse, the whole of existence—to its dregs and still be thirsty for more knowledge, more life, simply more. She endlessly creates herself because she is free, unmoored, and that reality is so intense she feels almost drunk with it.            She is Elizabeth, and she has freed herself

Marvel Cinematic Universe; Thor & Loki gen, background Thor/Jane Foster; inspired by the trailer for Thor: The Dark World            For several eternal seconds after he finds Jane’s body, Thor doesn’t comprehend what he sees.            She is lying on her back, sightless eyes wide with terror, covered in her own blood. The source is clear: a wound gapes open under her jaw, and above it her face is as pale as marble.            It is not possible. It is not possible. He’d said he would find a way to save everyone and he’d brought her here for a reason and she’d trusted him and this cannot have happened, n

the truth hurts worse than anything I could bring myself to do to you Marvel Cinematic Universe; Loki & Odin, gen; sort of a missing scene near the end of Thor: The Dark World He should not be here. He should not be here, on Asgard, in the palace that was never his home and always his prison before his keeper stopped pretending, the place where his mother (yes, of course he will claim her, now that she is gone and he sent her killer to find her, monster who can do nothing but hurt the ones who care for it) was struck down, where his once-father told him he should have died centuries ago. (Oh, yes. Of course he should have. Of course. He