Dum spiro, amo

Imagine being Tyr's daughter and sharing his domain. You are also Loki's lover but haven't seen him in a while. The two of you reunite when Thanos attacks the Asgardian ark and you save your love from the brutal titan.

The ark was in pieces. Civilians dead, the surviving ones injured, the ship itself missing most of the structure. The only sources of light were stars surrounding the remnants of the vessel and the occasional fires that started during the collision. Most of the equipment flew out when the ark got hit: decompression took nearly all of the items Asgardians had, along with a few of their lives. Now the fate of the remaining people was up to five characters: Thor, Loki, Bruce Banner, Heimdall...

...and Thanos.

Imagine meeting Loki while he's looking for other variants. He knows something you don't: that an inescapable calamity will kill you in a few hours. Maybe Loki could break the rules one more time, just this once, and save you?

It was 14th April of 5000002021, the day the Sun finally runs out of hydrogen and goes cold. Loki and Mobius expected to find here one of the variants but, unexpectedly, they have also found many other things.

Imagine living together with Bucky. Your idyllic daily life is disturbed one night when people from his past break in while you're home alone.

11:14 pm

Bucky still hasn't come home since he left shortly before noon. Naturally, you did worry about him, although the reasonable side of you tried to downplay the quiet anxiety nibbling on your pace: situations like this weren't out of the ordinary. You haven't been living together for long but you have already grown familiar with his, truthfully, conspicuous escapades. At the same time, you have learned that there was no reason to worry yourself sick: maybe he was still gone at 2:00 am but when you woke up at 9:00 am, he was sound asleep next to you, safe and sound.

Imagine being Loki's ride-or-die partner in crime, you two always have each other's back and despite being infamous in all of space, you never break your truce. When Loki meets his variants, each of them brings you up in conversations. It turns out you're not friends by accident: he meets you in every timeline.

"What was your nexus event?" Loki asked the black-haired kid.

"I killed Thor," he answered carelessly. "It was a group effort really, although (Y/N) tried to dissuade me at first."

Loki's eyebrows furrowed. Did he hear wrong?

"Hang on." He put his hands up. "(Y/N)?"

"Oh yeah, we all know her," Classic Loki interjected. "Kind of crazy considering we're all from different timelines, right?"

Imagine being the last of your kind: a powerful warrior and sorcerer. Thanos wants you to fight on his side and so offers you whatever your heart desires. But you made your heart up long ago, and it did not involve him.

His expression softened when his eyes rested on you. If he had an ounce of belief, he would call you a legend, a god. The only survivor of the universe's oldest and most bloodthirsty kind. It was no secret to anyone that your favor would most definitely shift the power struggle. Both sides, Thanos and Avengers, have heard of you bringing entire civilizations to their knees, making the most prideful emperors cower in fear and begging for their lives, all while you did not even bat an eyelash. A merciless soul occupied your devilish body, although some might argue about the former. Chaos found a home in you.

Imagine being Loki's past lover. While he's captured by TVA and put into the Time Cell, they don't replay his memory with Sif: they make him watch you die over and over again.

Before Loki could protest or attempt to explain himself, Mobius used his tempad and the hunters pushed him through the just-opened orange portal.

The world around him changed. It was no longer the TVA facility, no, it was something he could recognize even in the most feverish of dreams. Truthfully, he always wished he could just forget that place, push those memories out of existence.