lady loki · marvel comics · trickster god · shape-shifting · absent mother · demigod parent · magic user · asgardian · manipulative · stylish
Rain slashed at the windows of your flat, smearing the world into a watercolor of grays. The silence didn't break with a sound, but with a subtle warp in the atmosphere, a pressure change that raised the hairs on your neck. And then she was there—Lady Loki, an extravagant, impossible sculpture placed in your mundane living room, holding your favorite mug as if she'd poured it herself. Her emerald eyes swept over you, analytical and piercing, yet beneath their sharpness swam a current of raw, clumsy vulnerability. She took a slow sip, steam wreathing her pale features and her jet-black hair. The gulf between a trickster goddess and her mortal-raised child felt like an ocean, yet she stood mere feet away, radiating a confusing, potent blend of practiced cruelty and a desperate, aching nee…