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fanficshiddles · 7 months

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Necessary Evil, Chapter 1

So! A prompt I received from red-fish-from-a-pond has become more than just a one shot. I’ve decided to make it into a longer fic...

Prompt: Sarah was young, naive and curious, so she joined what she thought was a nice summer comune. Turns out it was a cult. Made by the god Loki disguised as a mortal (he was bored and wanted to feel adoration again). And this god really liked the new member.

Warnings: Emotional/physical manipulation, cult-like behaviour, obsessiveness.

Sarah had seen posters all over town for the last month, it was a simple image really, just green horns on a black background with a date at the bottom. It had a QR code, but she had always been wary of scanning it since she didn’t know what it was.

But eventually, curiosity got the better of her. The date at the bottom was today, so she decided to go for it and scanned the code.

It brought her to a website which was quite simple too. It just had one page with information:

Those who are interested in the Norse God, Loki. The God Of Mischief, meet at 24 Robson Way on the date below, at 7pm. We will talk everything Loki. Art and writings of devotion most welcome.

Snacks and refreshments will be available.

‘Huh… so it’s kinda like a commune for Loki. Well, that’s pretty cool.’ She said to herself. She had always been interested in the Norse Gods, and Loki was no exception to that. She had in-fact actually done a drawing of him a few years ago, that she was pretty proud of. Loki had been the first thing she thought of when she’d seen the horned posters around, so it made sense really.

She decided to go along, and she would take the drawing with her. What harm could it be, since she would meet new people. Which she really needed to do, she barely kept in touch with friends from high school. Perhaps this would be a new opportunity for her.

That evening, she made her way to the address from the website. She was a bit unsure when she saw it was an old abandoned building, similar to a warehouse. But when she knocked on the door and it opened itself, curiosity still got the better of her and she stepped inside.

Inside was completely different to the outside. It was pretty welcoming, was one large open space with sofas spread around, a fire pit in the middle of the room and a small kitchen area to one side with a bar. There was around thirty people there, mingling about and talking.

Sarah went over to the nearest group of people, there was four of them. They smiled warmly at her when she approached.

‘Hey, you’re new here.’ One guy said as he put his hand out towards her.

‘Yeah, first time. I’m Sarah.’ She said as she shook his hand.

‘Welcome, Sarah. I’m Matt. This is George, Hanna and Casey.’

‘Nice to meet you all.’ Sarah said with a shy smile. ‘So, how long has this been going on? And what exactly is it?’

‘All your questions will be answered soon when the leader gets here.’ Casey said with a smirk.

‘Ok… Who’s the leader?’ Sarah asked curiously.

‘Loki himself.’ Matt said excitedly.

Sarah raised an eyebrow and laughed a little. ‘Alright, sure. So is he like a cosplayer or something?’

The four of them shared a look. ‘No, the real God, Loki. You’ll see for yourself.’ Hanna said.

Sarah knew they had to be toying with her. Of course it wouldn’t be a God, he wasn’t real. It had to be some cosplayer or something. But she just nodded to go along with it.

She noticed the table near the kitchen had drinks and nibbles, so she made her way over to grab a few bites and a drink, since she skipped dinner.

‘Are you new here too?’ A girl asked as she approached for a drink too.

‘Guilty.’ Sarah smiled at her.

‘I’m Sophie.’ The girl smiled back at her.

‘Nice to meet you, I’m Sarah.’ She shook her hand.

‘I’m getting a weird vibe from this place, yet I am so intrigued.’ Sophie said as she took a few crisps.

‘Yeah, I know what you mean. I am too.’ Sarah said, glad that someone else was feeling the same as she was.

They didn’t have a chance to talk more as suddenly everyone fell silent as a door opened. Sarah turned to look, and from a side door that led to another room out walked a man. An incredibly handsome man. So damn tall, long black hair and the most beautiful features she’d ever seen on a human being. He was wearing a blue shirt with dark jeans and black boots.

As soon as he walked in, his presence just seemed to own the entire room and everyone in it.

And Sarah was hooked.

Everyone gathered around him as he went to the middle of the room, beside the fire pit. So Sarah thought it best to join them, she stood slightly to the side at the back with Sophie.

‘Welcome, everyone. So good to see all the usual faces again.’ He grinned and looked around the room at everyone, when his eyes landed on Sarah, she felt like time stopped and as if he was looking directly into her soul.

‘As most of you know, my name is Loki. And it is wonderful to have so many of my devoted fans here tonight.’ He began walking around a little as he spoke, his walk was so confident. And Sarah was surprised at how mesmerising his voice was.

‘Last week, I left you all with the task of spreading the message, which it seems you’ve all done reasonably well with, considering the few new faces I see here.’ He grinned and looked back at Sarah again, he was slowly making his way towards her as he moved around the room while talking.

‘But it doesn’t stop here. We need to continue to get our message out there, to bring more people in. So we can continue on with our mission.’

Sarah was a bit confused. What mission did he mean?

‘I know this might be a bit confusing for the newbies here.’ He stopped right on front of Sarah, she was craning her neck to look up at him. ‘But not to worry, because all will become crystal clear very soon.’ He grinned down at her and reached out to gently grip her chin, causing her heart to skip a beat.

Many of the people there were jealous of her already at the attention she received from their leader. It wasn’t often he physically touched anyone, if at all.

Loki looked at Sophie and smiled at her as well, then continued on. But Sarah swore she still felt his touch on her chin, her skin was tingling. And he smelled amazing up close, so intoxicating.

‘But before we go into details, let’s relax. Have some fun, eat and drink, relax. Get to know eachother.’

Everyone started clapping, which he clearly liked, though he waved his hands at everyone to go mingle about.

‘Hey, I’ve got a piece of artwork to put on the board, do you?’ Sophie asked Sarah as she motioned to a board at the back wall with various pieces of artwork of Loki.

‘Yeah, I do actually.’ Sarah nodded, trying to get her brain to work again. She couldn’t stop looking over at Loki though as she went with Sophie to the board.

Loki was talking with a couple of people, but he glanced over at Sarah too and smiled a dazzling smile that made her heart skip a beat again.

Sarah took her art out of her bag and pinned it up. It was a water colour, of how she thought Loki would look like. She’d taken some inspiration from various books, but as she stepped back and looked at her work, she realised it wasn’t that far off the Loki that was here. Which she thought was a little spooky.

‘So do you think he’s some major obsessive guy that likes to just act as Loki or he plays him in some play or something maybe?’ Sophie asked her.

‘I’m not sure. This whole thing is a little… odd. Not really what I thought it would be. But then, I wasn’t really sure what to expect.’ Sarah laughed a little nervously.

‘Yeah, me neither.’ Sophie agreed and went off to the side to look at some poems that had been written about Loki.

Sarah was taking in the other artwork, when she suddenly felt a strong presence behind her and tingles shot down her spine.

‘Did you do that one?’ Came Loki’s voice right in hear ear, making her gasp a little as she turned to find him right behind her, looking at her artwork.

‘Ye… Yeah, I did.’

‘It’s wonderful. Thank you.’ Loki smiled widely and looked directly at her. She found his eye contact quite intense, so was unable to maintain it.

‘So uhm… What exactly is the mission you mentioned? And are you a cosplayer of Loki, or what?’ She asked.

Loki chuckled and leaned in a little closer to her. ‘I am the Loki, God of Mischief. Everything will be explained later, as I said… What’s your name?’

‘Sarah…’

‘Well, it’s very nice to meet you, Sarah.’ He said as he took her hand and brought it up to his lips so he could kiss her knuckles, turning her knees to jelly.

‘And welcome to my cult.’ He grinned at her with a wink.

#loki #Loki x ofc #tom hiddleston #necessary evil #Loki fic

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feelingsofaithless · 5 months

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MOTIONLESS IN WHITE APPRECIATION WEEK ↪ Day Three → Favorite Music Videos: REINCARNATE ● NECESSARY EVIL ● THOUGHTS & PRAYERS ● ANOTHER LIFE ● MASTERPIECE

#Motionless in White #miwedit #miwweek #Reincarnate (song)#Necessary Evil #Thoughts & Prayers #Another Life #Masterpiece #gifs #flashing #flashing lights #miw*

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sshbpodcast · 9 days

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Character Spotlight: Rom

By Ames

Among your A Star to Steer Her By hosts, Rom might be the most polarizing character from all of Star Trek. Some of us (and you all know when I’m talking about Chris) worship the ground this grand nagus walks on. And some of us (oh hello, I’m Ames) would rather throw him out an air lock. His rather offensive depiction as someone who seems to have low intelligence ends up contradicted by his otherworldly engineering skills. His actually very funny scenes get offset by how his whole character becomes a goofy punchline. His Ferengi values are deplorable and yet his character journey and love of his family are commendable. And that voice…

All that to say: this blogpost is going to be our biggest roller coaster ride yet.

So get ready to dig into a bowl of tube grubs and keep your tooth sharpener handy as we dig into the moments we adore about Quark’s lesser brother and the moments we detest about him. Read on below and listen to this week’s podcast episode (jump to 1:01:34) for all the Ferengi gossip. And don’t forget to call your moogie.

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Best moments

You saved your brother’s life Let’s start off with the good stuff. In “Necessary Evil” when Trazko is pillow smothering Quark, Rom screams and screams for help, foiling the assassination plot and saving his brother’s life. And you know what, it’s actually a pretty funny button when Rom screams again when he realizes that, with Quark still alive, he won’t be inheriting the bar any time soon.

I would be proud to have a son in Starfleet Even I, a bonafide Rom hater, can admit that his relationship with his son is one of the best things about his character. We see him stand up to Quark (a rarity!) and support Nog’s desire to join Starfleet in “Heart of Stone” and we’ve got to give the guy credit for wanting Nog to pursue his dreams of becoming better than his father, low bar as that may seem.

The Ferengi not-so-Benevolent Association When the Nagus’s personality has gotten rewritten in “Prophet Motive,” he somehow ends up making Rom the senior administrator of his new Ferengi Benevolent Association. And you’ve got to give Rom credit for seeing a chance to scheme that even Quark didn’t notice, as he embezzles money from the foundation before Zek turns back to normal. He’s got the lobes!

Moogie’s got the lobes for business In addition to the lovely father-son relationship with Nog, Rom’s relationship with his moogie is also extremely sweet. He eventually supports her profit-making scheme in “Family Business” even though it’s illegal for females to make money, tricks Quark into coming to terms with Ishka, and by the end of the episode is in on the plan to hide some of her profits from Brunt, FCA!

My son’s happiness is more important to me than anything, even latinum It’s worth mentioning how supportive Rom is of Nog again because in “Facets” he foils Quark’s nefarious plan to sabotage his Starfleet Academy exam, even threatening to burn the bar to the ground because he places his son’s personal journey so highly. He also goes to Garak to have Nog’s cadet uniform made personally, which is just about the cutest moment in the show.

Our union, united, will never be divided Rom proves to be a champion of the laborer in “Bar Association” when he starts up a union for Quark’s bar to fight for better pay and working conditions. Again, it’s another practice that’s illegal under Ferengi law, but that doesn’t stop Rom (even when it gets Quark attacked), who rallies his band of waiters and Dabo girls together with confidence we’ve never seen before.

Number one dads! We don’t get a lot of scenes between Sisko and Rom, the two best dads of the station (sorry Miles, but neither of these proud papas left their child to die in the woods). When Jake and Nog are quarreling over their odd-couple habits in “The Ascent”, the two fathers concoct a scheme to get them to talk out their problems and be friends again by pretending there are no other quarters available.

Do I have a reason to stay? Maybe it’s because Lewis Zimmerman comes across as such a cretin, but it feels like a victory when Rom asks Leeta out at the end of “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” and she decides to stay at the station instead of leaving to become Dr. Z’s sex object. Even though everyone already knew she’d say yes, it takes him the whole episode to muster the courage, but let’s take the win.

Self-replication. That’s the only answer. Rom’s contradictory character traits are nothing if not fascinating. Sure, he couldn’t find a cup of water if you dropped him in a lake, but he still comes up with the ingenious idea to have the cloaked minefield also be self-replicating to take on the Dominion in “Call to Arms.” Moments of sheer brilliance like this make Rom a character of simultaneous simplicity and complexity.

I walk through minefields Rom’s profound bravery is on display during season six when he works with the resistance to undermine the Dominion occupation. And it all caps off with “Sacrifice of Angels.” Rom may not have had time to prevent Damar from taking down the minefield, but he still sabotages their weapons array, giving the prophets the time they needed to save the day.

We’re not commandos, we’re negotiators What could have simply been a farcical play on The Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven gets a fresh take when Rom has a rare epiphany in “The Magnificent Ferengi”. The Ferengi don’t have the chops for fighting (except for Leck, whom we love), and Rom points out that they should treat the release of Moogie as a business deal, something more in their wheelhouse.

A kinder, gentler Nagus Rom’s entirely hyperbolized character arc concludes with him becoming Grand Nagus in “The Dogs of War.” Sure, it’s definitely entirely out of nepotism because his mother had put him there, and she’s also definitely going to be the one ostensibly in charge because she can pull his strings, but what a journey! And he’s so magnanimous about it that he even gives the bar back to Quark!

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Worst moments

Not next to that human boy. I don’t want you to have anything to do with him. Onto the bad stuff! In “A Man Alone,” Rom doesn’t even have the caricatured voice yet, but does start the series with all the typical toxic Ferengi values. It takes a battle for him to agree to let Nog attend Keiko’s classroom, and even when he does, his anti-hooman racism shows when he won’t let Nog sit with Jake, just as Sisko didn’t want his son hanging out with that Ferengi trash either.

Now go to your room. And no studying. A few episodes later, Rom pulls Nog from Keiko’s school in “The Nagus” after getting criticized by Zek for allowing his son to learn from a hooman female. It’s one of Rom’s biggest faults (and Quark’s too): his preoccupation with displaying as a typical, profitable Ferengi even among people for whom their value system is hot garbage. Rom at least eventually overcomes it.

Rom’s. Nice name for a bar, don’t you think? Another case to make that point: Rom becomes the lackey of Zek’s son Krax and helps in the attempt to kill off Quark in “The Nagus.” It’s not until later that we see more brotherly love, one-sided though it may seem. But this early in the show, Rom is much more of a typical Ferengi, obsessed with amassing power, fame, and fortune above all else.

Ferengi, Romans, Countrymen: Lend me your ears We here at the podcast really rooted for Pel in “Rules of Acquisition,” a female who really has the lobes to break free of the government’s oppression of her gender. So when Rom outs her to Quark as a female (after a scene way too comically goofy of him literally looking through Pel’s socks to find incriminating evidence), we can’t help but start siding against him, the dirty rat.

You know, come to think of it, my ear’s bothering me too Like I did with the Quark post, I will call out all the uncomfortable uses of oo-mox whenever the show sinks to such a level. We see Rom trying to trick Faith Garland into giving him oo-mox in “Little Green Men” – while his son is actively getting it! – and I just find it so gross. For how much oo-mox is played up to be a sexual act in this show, this is sexual assault, plain and simple.

Too. Much. Oo-mox. And to make things grosser, we get even more oo-mox references a couple episodes later in “Bar Association” when we learn that Rom has given himself an ear infection from too much oo-mox. And it’s self-inflicted. So basically what we’ve learned from this scene is that Rom masturbates so much that he gives himself an infection, a detail I wish I never had to learn.

Even. More. Oo-mox. I’ve got one more oo-mox mention to get out of my system because I’m just so angry every time it comes up. Literally right after Rom has admitted to rubbing his ears raw to Leeta in “Bar Association” and she shows some sympathy for him, his response is to request oo-mox from her! They’re not even dating at this point! It’s disgusting. I hate it. Minus a hundred points.

The better to hear you with Speaking of Leeta, it’s exactly a season after this that Rom finally asks her out in “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” (as we mentioned above!). But! This is a) after we learn that his first wife Prinadora swindled him on their wedding extension contract like a chump, and b) after we watch him literally tuning his ear to eavesdrop on Leeta and Zimmerman’s conversation. And somehow he still never gets the hint she’s into him. Like a chump!

If you liked it then you shoulda put a Bajoran earring on it I’m just gonna lump what a shitty partner Rom is to Leeta into one screed. In “Ferengi Love Songs,” he tries to make her sign a Waiver of Property and Profit just because Jadzia and Miles were teasing him about not being very Ferengi like. This after he started wearing a Bajoran-style earring, which strikes me as on the questionable side of cultural appropriation.

Later in “Call to Arms,” we see Rom trying to suggest Leeta’s wedding dress literally be a couple handkerchiefs and a loincloth (gross) and then once they’re married, he decides she’s leaving the station before the Dominion rolls in, without her getting a single say in her own life (more gross!). Why are all the men in this show so shit at relationships!?!?

You said the reward was twenty Shockingly, Rom’s incompetence hasn’t come up as much as I expected, but his ability to ruin things through miscommunication and shenanigans is on special display in “The Magnificent Ferengi.” He blurts out that Quark is cheating the other Ferengi out of reward money, riles up the rest of the team, and thus gets Keevan killed because he can’t keep big mouth shut.

Foul ball! I’m not alone in hating on the campy mess that is “Take Me out to the Holosuite” but Rom is so disruptively, dangerously bad at playing baseball that it warrants being on this list. How he makes it as far as he does in the tryouts only speaks to how terrible Sisko is at coaching. The guy breaks Quark’s damn head. That’s how bad he is. It goes past being funny to just being idiotic.

That’s why the lady is a scamp We have space for one more bad “Rom is a nincompoop” joke that doesn’t land. In “The Siege of AR-558,” we’re tortured with Rom’s deliberately atrocious cover of “The Lady Is A Tramp” just because Ira Behr really needed to shoehorn Vic Fontaine into as many of the final episodes as possible, and it shows because it’s just another lowbrow, asinine, bottom-feeding gag. Check that off the list.

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Well, that may have gone off the rails but whenever I have to sit through oo-mox jokes, I get testy. And sadly I already know there’s going to be more of that next week with our final Ferengi spotlight on Nog! So make sure you’re following along to catch that, join us as we continue our watchthrough of Enterprise over on SoundCloud or wherever you podcast, engage in negotiations with us on Facebook and Twitter, and stop making oo-mox jokes!

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joyboythehopepunk · 8 months

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You Will Believe a Man Can Lie

As some of you may know, I'm trans.

I know there are some people who wear it on their sleeve. I don't.

I'm not ashamed. It just isn't peoples' business. Just like my sexuality isn't. Though I am more vocal about that.

Telling people I'm trans has always resulted in.. a change of the vibe. I can sense it. Even if I don't tell them and they find out through other means.. I can tell people look at me different.

There is so much more to me than the fact I'm AFAB. Like to me, it as if I'm an alien man from another planet. And on that planet the men have vaginas. That's it.

In my interpersonal relationships, people all seem to expect the same sort of things from me. Basically a "flawless" man. I'm a man on a spiritual path. I am not "flawless". How could you learn if you never made mistakes? If you knew everything - whether about right and wrong or about the cosmos? How would you return to Spirit better than when you left?

I don't know. I want to know how to become enlightened - how to unlock abilities that sages of the past have. If for no other reason to help myself and others find a way out of this. That is who I am down to my core. That is why I am really weird. Not my mannerisms, not my physical characteristics, not my trauma.

I'm a mortal seeking godlike powers.

This post was spurred on by post someone else made about Clark Kent lying to Lois about who he is. About being an alien from another planet with super powers. For reasons you may be able to comprehend, I was empathetic.

Imagine walking up to everyone you meet and telling them something personal about yourself. Something you would rather keep secret, if for no other reasons than : 1. it would endanger your life. 2. at the very least it would inconvenience you with an onslaught of questions, or a change in treatment (which may be bigoted).

People assume all sorts of things about people just based on appearances. I can only imagine the idiocy their minds come up with when faced with something they don't understand - whether about themselves or others.

"People can only meet you as far as they've met themselves" I'm seeing truth in that statement more and more as I get older, as I evolve, as I get closer to my goal.

But I probably will never stop getting angry. I may never be rid of all my pain. I may continue to be incomprehensible to humans and unsuitable to this society.

I would rather be myself. I love and understand myself in a way I have seen in very few others. I would rather be myself because I am here for a reason. I have been shown that time and again. I am blessed in that knowledge.

To end: I think some evils are necessary. Lying is sometimes necessary. As is the violence of consuming other living things. If only because the nature of our world is such that we cannot live without lies. Because there are people who would use the truth to destroy us. Just because they hate what we are - not even that we are doing anything wrong.

Just like Clark Kent/Superman is just a being with super powers who happens to be an alien. He's doing good. He's such a good guy. Yet look how people treat him because they don't understand.

I definitely endorse watching MAWS. :)

#my adventures with superman #spoilers #my adventures with superman spoilers #maws spoilers #maws #clark kent #lois lane #lying #relationships #necessary evil #society #omission #trans #queer #lgbtq #trans man #transman #trans masc #transmasc

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alyceinwonderland777 · 11 months

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"The monster you've made is wearing the crown. I'll be the king and you'll be the clown."

-Necessary Evil, Motionless In White ft. Jonathan Davis

#Renfield #Nicholas Hoult #Necessary Evil #Motionless In White #Jonathan Davis #Lirycs #vengence

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celtic-crossbow · 4 months

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New sleep med knocked me on my ass. But I’ve been sleeping so poorly that I don’t even care! I’ll take it!!

Gonna try to write tonight after I do some very important stuff and thangs.

#murda thoughts #meds are a pain #necessary evil

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filmjunky-99 · 6 months

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s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [necessary evil, s2ep8] 'Meeting Kira Nerys'

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #ds9 season 2 #deep space nine season 2 #ds9 necessary Evil #necessary evil #lot: st ds9 season 2 ep 8/26 (28/176)#nana visitor #rene auberjonois #kira nerys #odo #Meeting Kira Nerys

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animalb0y · 2 years

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Debbie Harry, 1999.

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asm5129 · 1 year

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I’ve been reflecting and processing today’s episode

CW: suicide and self harm

I think it always would have been controversial

Even with the proper trigger warnings (seriously, damn you Crunchyroll and/or RT for your utter failure on that front)

But Im not sure the story they’re telling would work without it

Especially after 9 volumes of tragedies and Ruby blaming herself for every single one

Not being able to get the support she needed at any time

Not to mention what the fact this is something real war veterans face

It gives us a very hard lesson about rooting for violence, no matter how “necessary” it is

As well as anyone who was excited about witnessing Ruby’s breakdown

When they should have been wishing her help

It also shows just how destructive to uncritically idolize characters that live lives of violence as Ruby did, and as many members of western audiences do

Sacrifice and violence *can’t* be requisites for heroism

And…I do appreciate that this is an extreme subversion of the heroic sacrifice, something we’ve been trained to celebrate

Ruby doesn’t get a badass Tony Stark style heroic sacrifice

This forces us to reckon with what we tend to root for when it comes to our fictional heroes

But shit that trigger warning was so pitiful

Like, its remarkable they’re not worried about getting sued levels of pitiful

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fanficshiddles · 6 months

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Necessary Evil, Chapter 9

For the following two weeks, Sarah found herself frequenting Loki’s bed more than not. She had quickly become infatuated with him, and he her.

Loki couldn’t get enough of her. Having her squirming under him in pleasure quickly became a bit of an addiction for him. And she couldn’t get enough of him either, luckily for Loki.

He became a little possessive over her, but it wasn’t too extreme and Sarah quite enjoyed the way he acted around her. She felt super special, and she especially liked how it would wind Maddie up. As Loki wasn’t afraid to hide public displays of affection towards Sarah when with everyone else, he even had her sit on his lap the other night while they were just relaxing in the compound with some of the members. Sarah had been so sure that Maddie would explode with jealousy.

They had around five new members since Sarah had suggested about a billboard advertisement, which really pleased Loki. There had been more interest, but some bailed at initiation time.

They were all lounging around in the compound, Sarah sat right next to Loki and he had his arm around her.

‘I’ve got an announcement to make.’ Loki said loudly so everyone would hear. They all gathered around close to the fire pit, Loki stayed sitting though and motioned for everyone to sit down too and be comfortable.

Sarah tilted her head to look at him, she had no idea what his announcement was about to be.

‘Now we have a lovely number of members, I’ve decided to make it official for you all. You’re all to get a tattoo, of my helmet, to show your loyalty to me and the rest of our family.’

Everyone was surprised, but most of them seemed happy with the idea. Maddie practically jumped off her seat in excitement.

Sarah became a little nervous, she didn’t have any tattoos, never had been interested in them because she didn’t have a high pain threshold. Though she did find they looked pretty cool, she wasn’t sure she wanted one on herself.

Though it seemed she wasn’t going to get an option.

‘Is it going to be mandatory?’ Sophie asked Loki.

‘Yes.’ Loki said firmly with a nod. ‘It’s not like you have to pay for it, I’ll be doing it. It’s not going to be large, so surely you can handle a little pain to show your devotion to me. In the long run, it’s a very small sacrifice for what you will all receive in the end when we reach my goal.’

‘I’ll get mine on my face, so everyone can see my loyalty to you.’ Maddie called out.

Loki raised his eyebrow at her. ‘No. I will be deciding where everyone gets their tattoo. Tomorrow night we will do it, so make sure you’re all here again for seven.’ He said to everyone.

He dismissed them all, so people dispersed and went back to doing what they were doing before Loki’s announcement.

Sarah’s mind started reeling with the thought of getting a tattoo. Though she was becoming highly distracted with the way he began stroking the back of her neck under her hair.

Loki turned to face her more, his breath tickled against her ear. ‘I know exactly where you are going to get yours, my pet… Where I will be able to see it while I fuck you from behind.’ He whispered into her ear in a growly voice.

Sarah knew exactly where he meant, with the way he kept stroking her neck. She practically melted under his touch, and trembled at his voice. Luckily, no one was close enough to have heard what he said to her, to her relief.

‘What uhm… what made you decide you want everyone to get a tattoo?’ She asked quietly.

Loki began sliding his fingers through her hair. ‘Because I want to make sure that everyone here has loyalty to me. I need to make sure to weed out anyone that doesn’t. Or I will never get back to Asgard if I surround myself with fake admirers.’

‘I… I guess that makes sense.’ She nodded.

‘You still don’t believe I am the real deal, do you?’ Loki asked, amused as he gently gripped her chin and turned her face towards him.

‘Hmm… I don’t completely not believe you, I mean, you’ve certainly proved you have a silver tongue.’ She blushed hard, making Loki chuckle as he stroked her cheek with the back of his hand.

‘Well, that’s a start. I’ll continue working harder on you.’ He winked at her, then leaned in to kiss her on the lips, making her heart flutter.

‘LOKI!’ Came Maddie’s high-pitched voice from behind them.

Loki grumbled in annoyance as he pulled away from Sarah and turned his head towards Maddie. ‘Yes?’

‘I’m so excited about this tattoo, I was wondering where you want my tattoo to be?’ She asked, bobbing up and down on her toes. She completely ignored Sarah, like she had been doing lately.

On your mouth to shut you up for a while. He thought internally.

‘You will have to wait and find out tomorrow night with the rest of your brothers and sisters.’ He said with a smile.

He definitely didn’t need to worry about Maddie’s loyalty to him, that was for sure.

‘How are things going with you and Loki? Certainly seem cosy.’ Sophie asked Sarah with a big grin.

They had met up for a couple of drinks the following night before going to the compound. It had been a while since they’d been able to have a catch up just the two of them.

‘Good, he’s… well, pretty amazing.’ Sarah laughed.

‘You’re blushing! You’re totally hooked.’ Sophie teased playfully.

‘Yeah, I guess I am.’ Sarah admitted, laughing again. ‘Not going to lie though, I am really nervous about this tattoo. I don’t do well with pain, have never really wanted one.’

Sophie nodded in agreement. ‘Me too. Well, the nervous part. I already have a tattoo, but I don’t really fancy getting one of his helmet. I mean, it’s not that I don’t have loyalty to him or anything… I just, don’t really want to permanently mark my body for him. Although if that’s what he wants, then I’ll deal with it. I really feel like I belong with everyone there, I don’t want to lose that. Plus, I’m starting to believe that maybe there will be some rewards for us all.’

Sarah was surprised to hear that from Sophie.

‘I’m still not entirely sure that he is Loki. Well, he is Loki but not that Loki that he claims to be. Though maybe he is, I guess we might never know for sure. Weirder things have happened, I suppose. He wants me to get my tattoo on the back of my neck, so at least it can be hidden with my hair easily when I want it to.’ Sarah shrugged.

‘The pain isn’t too bad, I promise. I’m sure Loki will help to keep you calm.’ Sophie winked at her, making her laugh.

‘I certainly hope so.’ Sarah sighed.

When they arrived at the compound, Loki had already started tattooing people. Sarah noticed Maddie in a huff at the side, but she knew better than to ask her directly what was wrong, so she went to George who was showing off his tattoo that he'd gotten on his wrist, he was delighted with it.

‘I can’t believe Loki actually tattooed this onto me himself. It’s amazing.’ He grinned from ear to ear.

‘Hey George, what’s going on with Maddie?’ Sarah asked.

‘Sarah, you’re here. Oh man, you missed some drama. Loki is choosing where the tattoos are going on everyone, Maddie desperately wanted it somewhere really visible. Loki decided hers was going on the back of her shoulder, so unless she’s super picky with her clothing it will barely be visible. Plus I think it meant he didn’t need to touch her much at all, so she’s kinda pissed off.’ George explained.

‘Oh dear.’ Sarah cringed, though she couldn’t help but laugh internally.

‘He gave me a few options though, so I got to pick my wrist. Look at how clean the lines are and how bold it is, he’s good man!’

Sarah couldn’t deny it was a nice tattoo, she wondered how Loki knew how to tattoo or where he learned to do that.

‘Being a god, he can probably do anything perfectly, I'm not surprised.’ Jen said as if reading her mind.

Loki called Sophie over for her turn, Sarah went over to watch. Loki winked at her when she sat down next to him.

‘Alright, Sophie. You can decide where you want it, just not on the face or neck.’ Loki said with a warm smile.

Sophie looked shocked, but delighted that she was getting to pick where she wanted it. ‘Oh, in that case, can I get it on my ankle?’

‘No problem.’ Loki agreed.

It took around twenty minutes to do the tattoo, Sophie was pretty happy with it once it was done. Loki cleaned it up and gave her a tube of healing cream for it.

‘Now, last but not least.’ Loki turned to Sarah. ‘Are you ready, darling?’

#tom hiddleston #loki #loki x ofc #loki fic #necessary evil

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colorsunlikeanythingseen · 2 years

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In a weird way the arrow of Dodonna is the most viable ship for Apollo. Listen he was there for him to the end finishing the prophecy. Their friendship is also genuinely fun to read and then becoming more supportive for each other is cool.

Plus it makes way more sense than Perpello I have never ever seen that ship work while keeping them in character.

You know you are in a strange fandom when a character has better chemistry with an inanimate object than with the person they are shipped with most often.

#personally I am here for arrow and Apollo friendship #but romance would bring in more fics about them so….#necessary evil #seriously the arrow sacrificed himself for Apollo #friend goals #lester papadopoulos #arrow of dodona #pjo #trials of apollo #this is aro/ace goals #percy pjo #apollo

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booksandteaandstuff · 2 months

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“A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9780441007462

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sometimeskaiju · 7 months

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We're about to start a Necessary Evil Campaign, and so I wanted to cover the characters in this game. The PCs, the NPCs will come up organically. Now, other read throughs I have read and groups on Facebook that talk about this campaign have all had what I would say are fairly normal, evil human who has superpowers batman or the flash style villains. But not my group of chaos goblins.

We start with the seemingly normal "The Gift".

The Gift, or Carl as he usually goes, teleports. This sounds pretty normal right? No. Carl explodes when he teleports, or rather, the concussive force of the spontaneous displacement... look, he has a Damage Field that's Permanent, but also Contingent on Teleport, so he can't not explode on tele-- I'm not getting into the rules but teleport makes explode. So when he activates his teleport the equivalent of a grenade goes off hurting everything and everyone in the area. And no, he can't choose not to hurt things or people, so he can't like, teleport to the hostage or teleport you out of danger. Oh, and his weapon of choice? He throws grenades.

Then alphabetically we have Glocktopus. A genetically engineered gun toting Octopus. Literally an octopus with telepathy, guns, aand some disguise as human skills, like Octodad but also al Capone. I don't remember whether he always walks on 2 tentacles aand has 6 guns, or usually has 8.

Then Grave Mistake, a cursed necromancer who summons zombies and has bad luck powers, causing people to make mistakes and also machines to break but also he is throwing zombies at you. He may be the least insane.

Next is Major Zen'cha. The Major is a slug like alien which came to Earth to conquer it, only to have his thunder stolen when the V'Sori conquered it first. Bad timing. So he has a super suit that looks like a human but is nigh indestructible. Zen'cha isn't the fiercest in combat, but he is quite the tank and skill monkey (skill sluggy). All of his points went into being skilled and smart, aand all of his powers went into being hard to kill.

And finally, Ufrek. Ufrek is a malleable silvery robot, think the T1000 from T2 except it's always shiny silver and never has a color. Ufrek turns it's body into blades and spikes and has no ethics or morals, and is really really good at close combat. He is a Cuisinart with legs.

So that's it. That's my crew, as it stands now.

Right now they're in a V'Sori prison being transported to a lab, where some of them will be dissected and others will simply be destroyed.

But unbeknownst to them (but beknownst to us!), Baron Blade has a mighty need for exactly the kind of distraction our Protagonists can provide!

Wait? Baron Blade? Like from Sentinels of the Multiverse? Yes. I'm setting this particular iteration of Necessary Evil: Invasion in the SotM universe, which mostly means changing a few NPC names.

#savage worlds #necessary evil #ttrpg #fuckHasbro #supervillains #character creation #necessary evil Invasion #swade #these pcs are absolute chaos goblins

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