Is it missing from my life? Yes. Is that what I want? Absolutely not.
[Loki enjoys being ungoverned!! But also the idea of Sumire trying to scold them is hilarious.]
I can't say I know you well enough to say for sure, but... my mother is stubborn.
Her marriage was a political one, ending a war between the Aesir and the Vanir. Her first child was lost to her, spirited away to another realm until time forgot her. And the whole reason you get married like that is to produce a proper heir, right? Kind of a bummer.
Thor and I, neither of us were born of her womb. Thor from a dalliance Odin had with Gaea, and myself born in Jotunheim. Still, she raised us as her own. Thor has never doubted her love for him, and he knows that they are mother and son regardless of blood. Someone who loves and guides... aye, that's about right for her role in his story.
My take might be that she guides a bit too much. Like any mother, she thinks she knows what is best for all. She ruled Asgard accordingly, and while she presented herself as less brash, less violent than my father, her decisions were sometimes crueler.
She's the God of the Hunt now, and I'd say it suits her, being wild and free and not tied down by marriage or politics.
Someone she'd choose... I imagine is someone as stubborn as her. Someone who's faced hardships and continued on, for better or worse. Acting from a place of love that reaches beyond the self, focusing instead on the good of everyone, sometimes to their detriment. The seemingly contradicting love and war, fertility and death. And a uniquely feminine energy all the same.
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[Loki enjoys being ungoverned!! But also the idea of Sumire trying to scold them is hilarious.]
I can't say I know you well enough to say for sure, but... my mother is stubborn.
Her marriage was a political one, ending a war between the Aesir and the Vanir. Her first child was lost to her, spirited away to another realm until time forgot her. And the whole reason you get married like that is to produce a proper heir, right? Kind of a bummer.
Thor and I, neither of us were born of her womb. Thor from a dalliance Odin had with Gaea, and myself born in Jotunheim. Still, she raised us as her own. Thor has never doubted her love for him, and he knows that they are mother and son regardless of blood. Someone who loves and guides... aye, that's about right for her role in his story.
My take might be that she guides a bit too much. Like any mother, she thinks she knows what is best for all. She ruled Asgard accordingly, and while she presented herself as less brash, less violent than my father, her decisions were sometimes crueler.
She's the God of the Hunt now, and I'd say it suits her, being wild and free and not tied down by marriage or politics.
Someone she'd choose... I imagine is someone as stubborn as her. Someone who's faced hardships and continued on, for better or worse. Acting from a place of love that reaches beyond the self, focusing instead on the good of everyone, sometimes to their detriment. The seemingly contradicting love and war, fertility and death. And a uniquely feminine energy all the same.