EARTH-11 ♔ JUST ISN'T HOW I ENVISIONED IT

[jotun]

WHO || Wanda, Malina, Caroline, Jordan, Alex, Loki, Jane, Darcy, YOU
WHAT || The Knights wake up after a mission in Saudi Arabia with the worst kind of hangover.
WHERE || Earth-11
WHEN || End of 2016
HOW || As you like it; mission in individual top-threads, actionspam.

It's hard to notice right away. For the most part, everything looks normal. The toilets flush in the right direction. The sky's still up. The buildings are still scraping the clouds. But something about it feels wrong, and the details come in waves.

The first wave is that no one is in the castle, or in England, or even in Saudi. It's hard to tell where they are, except it's close to the equator. Warm. Sunny. And a city. Maybe they're lucky. Maybe someone's there to greet them, if not in this bed that isn't theirs, then in this apartment that isn't theirs, or this house.

But out in the streets, things get stranger. Gone are the gleaming glass and metal frames of the skyscrapers, replaced with statuesque marble shaped into hellenic curves. Everything is bright colors and bronze. The metal coins people trade for currency have a wolf's head stamped on them, valid only in the Republic of Midgard.

The world is wrong. And no one but those in the room with Loki and Jordan seem to remember why.


[ ooc note; WHILE THE SAUDI ARABIA MISSION wraps up their encounter with Loki, everyone is invited to play in the whackadoodle AU that Loki created by making Jordan grant his wish to rule a world full of all the things Loki desires, where Thor is nowhere to be found. Consider this your dystopian/framework/everyone's dead AU event. Please note that only mission characters will remember the events of Earth-11, as they've only been transported to a parallel universe. Everything you play is for fun, not for character arc. ]

Comments

[highlyemotional]

The only thing worse than dying here would be living here.

[hacker]

We already tried talking the others out of it. Believe me. If she's anything like them, trying to stop her won't go anywhere.

[wishuponadjinn]

[Oh my God this is so embarrassing. He just needs to spit it out, get it over with, but at the same time jesus this was so horrendously embarrassing for him. He has a hard enough time talking to girls for himself, but to do it for his Master was horrifying. It was like some twisted grade school crap, a game of "jimmy wants me to tell you that he likes you and wants to know if you like him too" level of bullshit. Unfortunately, Jordan had never been to grade school, he had no experience with the child's play kind of he said she said. Growing up in his father's palace had taught him about these kinds of games though, and it was usually on a much more dangerous level than crushes and children's rumors.

He could do this, he was a master of delicacy, he just had to adjust his natural settings to deal with an unsuspecting, kind woman, rather than dealing with his cruel Father or his harsh Master.]

I apologize for causing any discomfort or anxiety, my Lady, it is not my intention to do so. Please know that I am only acting as a messenger, and only in the interest of you and my Lord's... relationship. As it were.

[He's blushing, eyes scanning the ground, anything other than Sif's face.]

[fiercest]

[She catches his moment of flush and smirks at him. She realizes that apparently her husband has broken the adage about not kissing and telling. Though, they aren't kissing so there isn't anything to tell. Which is perhaps why she is out here with Jordan having this rather sensitive discussion.]

I see. And he is perhaps concerned as to why there isn't more to the relationship, I assume? [She's certain this is where she's meant to touch on the needs of a man and how her role should be to satisfy those needs. However, she's never been the typical lady. Why should that change with vows to him?]

Perhaps I've been too restrained. [She rests her hand to his shoulder.] This burden shouldn't be yours, though. My King should be willing to discuss this with me, but I fear he does not trust me. There is such a concern he has about keeping what is his, that he doesn't allow himself to be open with me.

[recycling]

[ UGH. fine. ] Regina... and Emma Swan. I know they're there, for certain.

[highlyemotional]

[ the horse lady that lives in the lake? thanks castle gossip. she frowns, drawing her hand back from davin to curl her arms around herself, stepping away from him. ]

They're magic.

[hacker]

They're traitors. Thrall or not, if they're sticking it out here after what happened, they gave up their oaths.

[highlyemotional]

[ that is irrelevant to caroline. ] I can't fight magic.

[innovates]

[Jane tries not to let her face show her disappointment, instead clearing her throat.]

Yes. Actually, I think you're the only person who might be able to help us. Is there somewhere...private where we could all talk?

[Before someone catches them and kicks them out of here.]

[wishuponadjinn]

[Relief floods him at her intuition on the subject and the fact that he didn't have to come right out and say that Loki was upset they weren't doing the bedroom tango. He nods at her guess, a hand coming up to scrub up through his hair.

That doesn't stop the blush from doubling in effort, going from his hairline to disappear under the collar of his shirt.

Now he just had to try and smooth things over, hopefully getting some results for Loki and securing an ally in Sif.]

I cannot speak as to His Majesty's level of trust in you, My Lady, though I am sure this is not such a matter that he feels as though he cannot confide in you.

[He proffers his arm again, walking once more to burn off some of his nervous energy.]

I think it's less a matter of trust in you, and more a matter of Lord Loki's... [he pretends to search for the appropriate word, letting the implication roll in the air between them before saying delicately-] embarrassment.

And though this is a matter that the two of you should discuss, I believe he thought a certain amount of delicacy would be best when opening the topic for discussion with you. Being with him as much as I am, I was able to suss out what it was that had been occupying My Lord's mind, and upon his request [sure, something like that] and my volunteering, here we are.

[starprince]

Do you have some kind of condition, or...

[hacker]

Yeah, I ... can't tell if this is just negative thinking.

[fiercest]

[She takes his offered arm to continue this walk with him. It still upsets her to think that the matter of her marriage is being treated through a third party, that those private matters are a conversational topic for her husband. It's understandable that he has concerns and that he speaks only to those he's comfortable around, but it worries her to think what else he might be burdening Jordan with. He has much on his mind and to lay them all onto another, someone that is at his side so consistently, it doesn't ease her mind.

She takes a breath, taking in his words and his reassurances. She wants to ease his embarrassment, but she knows that is not something that can be so simple.]

I do not wish to place you in the middle of my marital affairs, Jordan, even if you have volunteered yourself as such. I will not pass word along to my husband through you. Not because I don't believe you would do so, but because I know you would. I know you would easily take message to him to appease him and to reassure me that things are going to be alright.

Perhaps, it is time that I share more with him. That I offer up that openness that he seeks and simply allow things to progress as they might naturally.

[She's trying hard to tiptoe around any details, to simply let Jordan know that she hears the concerns, she appreciates them, but she'll handle this on her own time and in her own way. Which, she assumes Jordan already knew. He's very intelligent and for as close as he is with Loki, he is close to her as well.]

It is not as if I am seeking out comfort with others. There is only my care for him. [She almost starts to go further into her hesitations, but she does not want him to be that sounding board for her.]

It shall resolve itself eventually and your Lord shall have a mind at ease.

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline rolls her eyes. and bares her fangs in an awkward smile. ]

Witches usually throw fire? I'm pretty flammable.

[hammersexual]

[ he looks suspicious of that for a moment, but surveys the group and apparently decides they don't look like they could shank him in an alley before he took them all down. he shrugs and reaches for a shirt, to everyone's chagrin. ] Follow me.

[ there's not much in the way of privacy down here, but he leads them to a small alcove at least. ]

[recycling]

Everyone is pretty flammable.

[highlyemotional]

Irrelevant!

[ caroline pls. it's very and you started it. ] Magic has range and I do not.

[bredinthebone]

[Malina follows his lead, still staying quiet and shifts to lean against one of the walls. She's got no familiar collateral to tug on here. All she knows is they're probably not going to be able to do this without his help.

Hopefully Jane and Alex will be able to get through to him.]

[ambitionist]

[the spell is broken when thor's shirt is back on and he realizes that they'll probably have a lot of explaining to do, judging from thor's non-reaction to both him and jane. and since jane isn't actually a member of the knights and malina isn't talking, he'll take it upon himself to be the one to do the explaining once they're in the alcove.]

Soooo ... first of all, I gotta ask, what are your thoughts and feelings about Loki?

[godoftableflips]

Loki? [ his eyebrows lift in evident surprise ] He who rules this land?

[bredinthebone]

That's the one.

[She seems less than impressed with him.]

The Douchebag in Chief.

[hammersexual]

What would you know of him? I hear little, and care little for politics.

[ambitionist]

Great. [at least he's not up his ass. that's ... something?] Hear me out. What if I told you that he was only this way because he got some powerful magic in his hands? That there's another reality where things are completely different? Including you.

[godoftableflips]

I would say it seems you've suffered more blows to the head than I have.

[innovates]

It's true.

[How are they even supposed to convince him.]

You don't even remember Asgard, do you?