Ragnarok AU where Hela doesn’t show up so Thor and Loki have to deal with their issues then

arcano-cosplay:

portraitoftheoddity:

• So, I firmly believe that Thor would have absolutely kicked Loki’s ass if Hela hadn’t shown up and interrupted him. Because in that moment, Thor blames Loki for Odin’s death; Thor’s come back to Asgard after years away to find his brother lied to him, and now his father is dead, and he’s reeling and 100% going to lash out because a big portion of Thor’s problem-solving skills rely on hitting things. 

• The two of them have a knock-down, drag-out fight on that cliffside, probably crumbling part of it and ending up down on the beach below. Loki fights back viciously to start, but then it all catches up to him and he just… breaks down:

• Because Loki didn’t want Odin dead. He had the chance to kill him, but didn’t; didn’t even torment him – he left him in a Midgardian home for the elderly, when the old man would perhaps suffer a blow to his dignity, but not be in any true peril or pain. Because Loki lost his mother, and his brother abandoned him, and he couldn’t bear to kill another father and lose any more of his fractured family. 
• Thor stops hitting him and, still furious, holds Loki close. The both of them wind up weeping on the seaside; they’re orphans now, and Loki is all the family Thor has left, however furious he might be with him.
• Thor summarily gives Loki a good solid bitching out for faking his death and making Thor think he was dead again, and leaving him to fight off Malekith alone.
• This gets Loki’s hackles up and you left my corpse to rot, you abandoned me! Left me to bleed–
  
• …Bleed?
• Loki’s armor was torn in the fight. He folks his arms protectively, but Thor pulls at his tunic just enough to catch a glimpse of gnarled scar tissue on his chest–
• Another bone-crushing hug ensues.
• They end up walking to a coastal village for lunch, and talk. Loki remarks on how boring kingship is, while Thor mocks him a little for his indulgence with the statue, etc. Loki shrugs: if there’s anything he’s learned from Thor, it’s that Loki is much better loved when he’s dead. Thor gets quiet about that.
• Thor explains that he’s been searching for the infinity stones. Loki points out that, well, the Aether is safe, the Tesseract is in the vault, the mind stone was in his scepter, and that miserable second-rate sorcerer had one around his neck–
• And they double back to Bleeker St. and then end up going on a brotherly infinity stone road trip instead of all this Ragnarok stuff. 

fuckin write this i dare you! id pay to see this movie omg