[Open] The Boys Are Back In Town

[thorndergod]

WHO: Thor, Anders, Open to any!
WHAT: An open log, gonna put up prompts for people as they come up, or people can pop a prompt in for me if they want either dude.
WHEN: Early-to-mid whatever December is
WHERE: All over the place
NOTES: None at the moment.

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[hwaaaitsme]

Suddenly he is being embraced, crushed against Thor's chest so tightly he thinks he heard himself creaking. For a fleeting moment he thinks that Thor is attacking him and, in that moment, he doesn't care if he is. That passes, as Thor avows him, as Thor, of all people, welcomes him into a family he already belonged to--but does not belong to in the slightest.

Loki swallows thickly as his panic calms, crushed under the weight of Thor's arms, and tries to muster some indignation. He can't find any and, in the end, just offers up:

"Our," he corrects and repeats himself again. He could ask Thor the question that consumes him--Why?--but Thor is not so much older than he is. Thor will not know. There is only one person living who would and he is behind enemy lines.

[thorndergod]

He frowns in confusion at the word, unable to search Loki's face for clarification while hugging him. That is no cause to let go. After a few moments his own correction comes to him and Thor has to face something else. If Frigga was as a mother to a qunari, how would that make her less Loki's? He cannot call Loki brother and deny him the parent that loved him.

Thor takes a deep breath and nods. "Our mother." That doesn't change anything about her either. She had loved. And possibly lied. ...Probably, actually, considering her skill set compared to Odin's. Had she lost a child and replaced him? Did Odin even know? Was that the reason Odin had always been somewhat cold to Loki, or is it that Odin simply suspected the child wasn't his?

Did it matter?

Thor is back from the greatest defeat he's ever suffered, involved in a war that has already (temporarily) claimed his homeland. There is so much ahead of him still, and his brother is beside him. In the grand scheme of everything in Thor's life, he can't find that the 'how' and 'who' matters.

He gives Loki a warm thump on the back before straightening and releasing the smaller man. A tiny bit of amusement crinkles his eyes as he looks Loki over.

"Even as a qunari you are smaller than me, brother. You should have eaten more of your vegetables."