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arodrwho · 7 years ago

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stonn.....

raised by a couple aunts, i think, after a certain point

her dad left early, sort of a deadbeat

her mom died. illness, i think

her aunts took her in sort of by default; they all lived together the last couple years of her mom's life anyway, them & her aunts & all the cousins

when she says she has no siblings, she always feels a little bit like she's lying, even though, strictly speaking, she's correct

ironworks were the family trade, but though she was a more than decent hand, her passions were never there

she can throw a knife about as well as she can make one--which is to say, rather flawlessly, but without any flourish

stonn, i think, did rather want to learn magic. i think it came as a bit of a disappointment to discover one day that she just--couldn't

(or maybe that she couldn't anymore?)

(i think it was more than a bit of one. i think it crushed her, for a while)

i think she grew up in one of the places that thought magic was tied to the soul, to one’s will, and maybe also the strength thereof

i think magiclearning was mandatory there

(i think she wanted to achieve mastery, though, which definitely wasn’t)

i think people tried to fix her

i think, for a long time, she wanted them to

i wonder what made her stop

i wonder when. i wonder why

i think stonn likes to learn

i think that aspect of wizardry appealed to her

prefers to be direct, where she can

has...rather a lot of scars of varying kinds

her voice is a bit gravelly. unexpectedly, she can sing passably well

(she doesn’t enjoy it.)

(i think she sang to someone, once. i think she lost them.)

she makes connections fairly quickly but doesn’t always verbalize them

there’s a lot she doesn’t verbalize

there was a grandmother, once

quiet, warm, who liked to get down on her hands and knees and bury her hands in soil, long after her joints gave out on her

this grandmother tried, when she was young, to teach her magic

succeeded, a little. and they had that in common

when stonn’s magic began slipping, when she was so disappointed and so scared, it was the grandmother who reassured her

(told her about a sister and a husband stonn had never met, who’d been similar, and showed her, in little ways, they still had things in common)

(maybe she didn’t sing to someone. maybe she was sung to. maybe it was by the grandmother)

(maybe it was both. the grandmother sang to her, she sang to someone else, and in the end she lost them both)

lyla, i think, reminds stonn of her grandmother

(the gardening, the intentionally-softened edges, the refusal to take any shit)

lyla, i think, is painful for stonn to be around sometimes

len is less so

(she bonds with len a little faster, but it still takes time)

stonn loves to read, but hasn’t in a very long time (she’s been busy)

she takes notes in a dead language

isn’t bad at disguises

deadpan sense of humor

hasn’t gone home in a very long time, but has quietly kept several traditions

others she’s let slide, but she remembers them

lil bit of an insomniac

polishes knives when she can’t sleep, sometimes, or when she’s thinking

has been told she’s offputting. has been told she’s unnerving

has never bothered softening it

(hasn’t bothered in decades)

has used it to her advantage, a time or two

(or several hundred)

rarely sentimental

commanding

determined to make the world a little better, however she can

so she does things like leave campsites tidier than she found them

and spy for mysterious organizations bent on dismantling oppressive power structures

as u do

#stonn #the witchy one

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ao3feed-mythology · 7 years ago

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A Twist of Magic

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2NYMJ96

by BlackIris

Prompts will be in bold throughout fic: 52: “Why are there two of you?” / “He’s my twin brother.” / “No, that doesn’t make any sense. What’s the real reason?” 58: “You speak to me as if you’re afraid we’ll fall in love.” 46: “This is all your fault.” / “I hope so.”

Words: 1598, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of 500 Garden Party Extravaganza!

Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, Norse Religion & Lore

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Loki (Marvel), Reader, Thor (Marvel)

Relationships: Loki (Marvel)/Reader

Additional Tags: Reader-Insert, Magic, Fluff, First Kiss, Magic-Users, Multiple Lokis, InLove!Loki, MagicLearning!Reader, Fluff and Crack, Sarcasm

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