“Quit babying me! I can protect myself.” I’m gonna say Valki :)

Brun stopped short, spun around, and planted a hand firmly against her husband’s sternum. “Look,” she said shortly, “I know you’re excited about this baby. I know you want to help, and I know you’re terrified that something is going to happen to the baby or me. And I understand all of that, Loki, I really do. But I am only going to say this one more time: stop following me to the bathroom.”

“I am not ‘following’ you,” Loki retorted, entirely unrepentant. “I am walking with you.”

“It’s the same damned thing, now knock it off.” Brun’s hand strayed to the belt round her expanding waist, where she kept her most obvious daggers.

Loki, not being blind, saw the gesture very clearly. “I don’t mean to impose,” he said cautiously, raising his hands and backing away a step. “But we still know nothing about how a half-Jotunn child will affect you. An unexpected reaction could overwhelm you without warning. I only want to be prepared.”

“You know what? You’re right. You know what else? I don’t care. This is a tiny goddamned house, you can hear everything that goes on without moving from the bedroom. So you go back to bed, and let me piss in peace.”

With one last ungentle shove, Brun turned and stormed the rest of the way to the bathroom alone.

By the time she got back to bed, her annoyance had passed and she felt guilty for snapping at him. “Sorry,” she said sheepishly, curling up against his side. “I just hate feeling so reliant on you for everything.”

“I can understand that.” Loki helped adjust the pillow that Brun needed to have between her legs, to support her spine. “I absolutely loathe relying on you.”

Brun snorted and kissed his sleep-tangled hair. He refused to pull it back before he went to bed, and it always turned into a rat’s nest well before morning. “I love you, too. So give us both back a little independence, and stop getting up with me every six minutes.”

Apparently Valki + Dagny is a thing now so how about a little headcanon on Valki talking Dagny to Disneyland for her birthday because (according to Tony of course) this is what cool parents do on Midgard and they want to be cool (they take Thor too because Loki doesn't want his "poor & lonely" brother to feel left out)?

Lmao, I feel like Tony would tell them that half genuinely but also half for shits and giggles because he knows they don’t really know what the hell Disneyland is. He goes with them literally just to see the looks on their faces. 

And what looks they are. The word that comes to mind is baffled. At least for Thor, Loki, and Val. The costumes. The characters. “This is an enormous playground,” Thor says, a bit hesitantly. 

“Yep,” Tony says cheerfully. He’s wearing his trademark sunglasses and distressed jeans but he’s donned an I t-shirt, a Mickey Mouse hat (with ears!), and socks with sandals, just because he felt it added something to this whole experience. “Happiest place on Earth.” 

They all laugh politely, thinking he’s making a  joke. 

“No, really,” Tony says. “That’s their logo. Happiest place on Earth.” 

“I - oh,” is all Loki says. His expression says, I should have put this planet out of its misery when I had the chance. 

So we’ve got three Asgardian adults, one Asgardian child, and one very amused human wandering around Disneyland. Thor gets into it, deciding (as usual) to make the best of the situation. He points out everything - the costumes, all the weird balloon shapes (mouse ears! rabbits! Donald Duck! holy shit what is *that?* more mouse ears!) He and Dagny make a game of counting how many mouse ears they see, but they keep getting distracted by, like, everything else. 

Tony brings them into one of the confectioneries on Main Street, because he wants to know if massive amounts of sugar affect Asgardian kids the same way as human kids. He treats them all to gobs of candy and ruffles Dagny’s hair and they’re just having a grand old time. 

Meanwhile, Val is kind of into it, mostly for Dagny’s sake. She thinks privately that this place reminds her of Sakaar, what with the parades and the balloons and the general feeling of a dumpster fire, but the soft little cheerful music that seems to be constantly playing from somewhere is nice, sort of. It’s much nicer after they stop for lunch and she has generous amounts of wine with her meal. They confiscated her flask at the entrance, but the wine makes her feel better. Soon enough, she’s humming along with the music and giving Dagny rides on her shoulders. 

Tony’s still wearing socks with his sandals. 

Loki’s pretty quiet. They think it’s because he’s grumpy and just being Loki or possibly plotting someone’s murder (namely, Tony’s), which he kind of is, but mostly he’s hot. He’s wearing a typical Loki outfit, Midgard version, so, like, black pants and a black shirt and very little skin showing. It’s summer and there isn’t a rain cloud in sight because Thor’s too busy eating a turkey leg to notice that his brother is sweltering and why does Midgard have places where the sole purpose is to gather as many humans as possible in one loud, colorful, seizure-inducing incredibly hot space and maybe it wouldn’t be so bad and he’d even have fun if he could just cool off and calling, like, three clouds to cover up the sun and give him some shade would be fucking nice, Thor. 

“Why don’t you buy a t-shirt?” Tony suggests, when he notices that Loki surreptitiously fanning himself with the wrapper from Thor’s turkey leg. “What you’ve got on doesn’t look that comfortable.” 

“I’m not the one wearing socks with sandals,” Loki replies, and also he’d rather pass out from heat stroke than wear a t-shirt with Disneyland mouse ears all over it. 

That makes Thor finally notice Loki’s stress, but instead of calling the storm clouds and “raining on everyone else’s fun day,” (ugh), Thor decides that Loki needs some ice cream. “Any flavor you want.” he says cheerfully. 

“I recommend chocolate,” Dagny adds. 

So they find a place and they all get ice cream and sit together in the shade of a tree and Tony’s still wearing socks with his fucking sandals and Thor and Dagny have donned Micky Mouse hats with ears. Val sits close to Loki and quietly taps him with the rim of her paper cup. Loki wordlessly magicks her soda into liquor and, in return, she puts her arm around his waist and kisses him, and that makes him feel a little better. 

Overall, it could have been a worse trip. 

Thank you for the ask!