#also i just find the victorian mourning period fascinating

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Hello good companion MorMor+ Something historical or time travel!

Hello good companion! Fair warning: this is going to be long.

I’m gonna go with time travel because historical is too large and I can’t settle on just one time period. Is a Doctor Who AU okay?

Sebastian is a renegade Time Lord. He went through half of the years at the Academy before he set fire to the school, stole his father’s TARDIS and ran away

Thankfully the TARDIS in question liked him so it didn’t bring him back home or refuse to be piloted by him

He doesn’t know much about Earth, except that it’s a useless little planet populated by people who know nothing of long-distance space travel. He doesn’t particularly care for humans in general

Jim is a young Irish man from the Victorian Era, born in the countryside near Dublin on a potatoe farm (yes this is cliché I know)

He’s 23 and already leads a small criminal ring, but crime is just a way to get more money and be respected, he doesn’t actually enjoy it at all

Jim love the stars and spends most of his money on astronomy books and stargazing equipment

One day Seb’s TARDIS crashes in a field near Jim’s home, a night when Jim is stargazing and plotting some criminal activities, as one does

Jim realises immediately that Seb looks rich, so he gives him shelter and help with the intention of robbing and/or blackmailing him

While trying to small talk, he mentions his passion for the stars. Seb quickly becomes fascinated by this weird little human, and decides to take him along in his TARDIS, at least for one trip (he doesn’t really give Jim much of a choice)

Jim’s furious to have been kidnapped at first, but he can’t stay angry when he realises that Seb is literally taking him to see the stars

The one thank-you trip turns into a long-term companionship, and they keep travelling together to various destinations

Sebastian grows to like visiting the Earth’s past, with Jim as a guide. They usually get tangled in mafias, criminal rings, murder attempts etc (thanks to Jim who is now quite enjoying studying the evolution of crime throughout the ages)

In return, Sebastian is Jim’s guide whenever they go to other planets. Jim always attempts to understand how other species think, interact and how they can be manipulated

Jim is also a very quick learner, and he picks up on a lot of alien languages (with a little help from the TARDIS’s translation system, but he actually does learn the languages)

They get into a LOT of trouble and are on the Shadow Proclamation’s Most Wanted list

They fall in love with each other and don’t tell each other for a long time

Seb doesn’t tell him because he knows Jim is centuries younger than him and that he’ll die eventually (and also doesn’t think it’s reciprocal)

Jim doesn’t tell Seb because he doesn’t think someone like Seb could love him

Jim almost gets himself killed one day while they were messing with Dorium Maldovar’s organisation, prompting Seb to fially declare his feelings for him by fear of losing him

Their relationship slowly evolves from friends to lovers, which is weird and awkward for both of them but they make it work (Jim never had a meaningful relationship before, because he’s gay and had to hide it when he lived in Ireland, and Seb just hated most of the other Time Lords he grew up with)

They run into other Time Lords and other immortals sometimes. Seb usually avoids them, but when you’re immortal you’re bound to run into others eventually

Everything is well until they meet Jack Harkness, who has gone back to being a conman after the events of Torchwood (tbh I have no idea what he did between TW and being the Face of Boe, but he probably went back to petty crime for a while)

Jim and Seb try to con Jack and Jack tries to con them as well, neither succeed, they have a good laugh and Jack decides to offer them a drink (and flirt a bit too, but that doesn’t lead anywhere)

Jack immediately notices that they’re not both immortal, and bitterly shares some of his own experience on the matter

After they part, Jim can’t get Jack’s stories out of his head. He knows he’ll die someday and Sebastian will end up alone again, and he can’t do anything about that

Except he can’t live without Seb either

So he decides that killing himself now instead of waiting for his natural death will spare Sebastian the pain of losing someone he grew too attached to

(Maybe he faked his death and ran away so that Sebastian would mourn him and then move on without trying to find him. Who knows.)

[gaslightgallows]

Victorian AU with Loki, Sif & Thor as children for the 5+ headcanons?

Ooh, I have been saving this one for a quiet night…

1) Thor is the young lord of the manor, the apple of his father’s eye, a favorite chum of the local boys and a favored beau of the local girls. Loki is the rather less-regarded second son. Everyone says there’s something ‘off’ about him, though no one can agree on what. The rumor is that he’s someone’s bastard son, either Odin’s (the Duke of Asgard) or his wife the duchess’s (Lady Frigga). It would make more sense for him to be the duchess’s byblow, but as to why the Duke (who’s well-known for being a hard arse) who would keep not only a son who is not his but a wife who was unfaithful is beyond the ken of the local gossips. (There’s even one rumor that Loki is the illegitimate son of Odin’s daughter by his first and very imprudent marriage, but no one puts too much stock in that tale.) Sif is Odin’s legal ward, the orphaned daughter of a late friend and business partner of the Duke’s. She’s lived at Asgard since she was nine years old is the same age as Thor and two years older than Loki, and is the heiress of a respectably large fortune, which Odin has the handling of and which will only become Sif’s upon the occasion of her marriage.

2) Young Thor (known the Earl of Mjolnir or Lord Mjolnir) was absolutely hopeless at his elite school (he’s not dumb, by any means, but he doesn’t respond well to the regimented lessons and sees nothing of use in any of his teachers) but he’s a hero at sport, so who cares? It’s more or less the same when he’s at university - he puts in just enough work to get by with a respectable degree, but puts rather more effort into cultivating a reputation for fighting, womanizing, and decorous hard drinking. Loki (Viscount Silvertongue) doesn’t put in much effort at school either, but it’s not out of a lack of interest. He is a precociously clever child and devours books by the cartload (he even ruins his eyesight by his habit of reading late by candlelight). He’s particularly interested in chemistry and, thanks to his indulgent mother, has a room at the estate hall set up as a chemical laboratory. He toils in there diligently, hoping to make some great discovery that will win him accolades and honors (and money). Sif is a blisteringly intelligent young woman who does very badly at her young ladies’ boarding school and is the eternal despair of her finishing governess. Reluctantly, she learns how to dance and to draw, and to play the piano, but she has no interest in anything that’s only going to serve to fetch her a higher price on the marriage market.  

3) The boys have a loving, though deeply antagonistic, relationship. Loki resents Thor’s ease with people and the respect he commands from their friends (and from the Duke). Thor admires Loki’s cleverness and knowledge and envies the close relationship he has with their mother. However, they gladly join forces to secretly disobey the Duke and help Sif to learn all of the things a proper young lady really ought not to know. Thor teaches her how to wrestle and how to drink and how to shoot, while Loki shows her how to ride astride and how to fence. Loki also gives her lessons in chemistry, which Sif finds less than fascinating at first, but Loki is a good teacher and shows her far more practical applications for chemical experiments than Sif would have first thought.

4) When he was at university, Loki garnered a reputation for himself as quite an amateur thespian, and he takes great delight in not only going about in disguise himself, but in dressing up Thor and Sif and their drinking chums and running riot in the village, and even going up to London to paint the town red. In their lab, Loki and Sif cook up all sorts of greasepaint and dyes to use in their escapades. Unfortunately, all these adventures come to an end after one of Loki’s experimental dyes causes Sif’s long blonde tresses to be stained permanently black.

5) The Duke of Asgard intends from the very beginning that his ward will one day marry his eldest son (or perhaps his nephew Fandral, though he drinks and whores even more than Thor does). Both Thor and Sif have been aware of the Duke’s plans for years, but while Thor is indifferent-to-amenable to the idea, Sif really isn’t keen on it. Which she complains about to Loki for years and years before realizing that while she’s not keen on marrying Thor, she does rather like the idea of Loki as a husband. And being a forthright young lady, she tells him so, fully expecting to be laughed at. Not at all expecting what DOES happen… Afterward, they confide in the duchess, who has always been their advocate before the duke. Frigga warns them that Sif’s inheritance is contingent on Odin’s approval of their marriage, and although she will help them however she can, if they decide to elope, they will very likely be disinherited and forbidden from returning to Asgard. Before they get any further in figuring out what to do (which they NEED to do, because Sif’s condition is now becoming very apparent), Thor drops a bombshell onto the family: he’s married. In fact, he went out secretly before breakfast one morning and got married to an eminently respectable pharmacist’s daughter called Jane. Deciding that it was now or never, Loki chimes in with news of Sif’s pregnancy and that she and he intend to marry. It’s all too much for Odin, who has a fit of apoplexy at the dinner table that he never quite recovers from. Thor becomes Duke of Asgard, Loki and Sif marry in plenty of time to keep local gossip from speculating on the conception time of their impending child, and Frigga observes only a scandalously short period of mourning before going off on a grand tour of Europe and coming back married to a man called Heimdall.