no meme since may?! for shame!

[aburningspirit]

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ONE. list your characters (journal names optional).
TWO. others reply with one of those characters or a pairing for you to write; platonic or romantic is up to you.
THREE. pick five cliché AUs from this list (complete with explanations!), and write something of any length - a sentence, a paragraph, a drabble, or a full-length ficlet, if you'd prefer - for each of those five AUs, involving that character or pairing.

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[aburningspirit]

Loki and Thor.

there is no scenario where jealousy is nonexistent

[trickstering]

arranged marriage - Loki shifted uncomfortable under the gaze of his brother. "It isn't even logical - who wishes for their daughter to marry the second prince?" There's a note of jealousy to his tone but mostly annoyance. "Why should she not marry you? The two of you would be happier for it and I wouldn't have to deal with the--"

"It is what it is, brother, complaining about it ceaselessly will not stop it. You are the one always speaking of diplomacy, think of it that way."

"I understand that. It's the part where you don't have to be forced into this ridiculous affair that I don't understand."

role-swap - Banished. It was a cruel word, all things considered, but not so cruel is the action that it stood for. Had he not always striven to do what the Allfather wished of him? Yet in one fluid motion he had been cast out for trying to save things, and now Thor sat on the throne. It was like the worst possible situations of all, wrapped into one. But he was powerless to stop any of it, though he feared for the safety of Asgard.

genderswap - Princess was an unfair word, all things considered. She could not be a Shield Maiden, not like Sif had chosen, because there were expectations and responsibilities. Instead, she was forced to watch her brother as he excelled in everything, and she was taught courtesy, which seemed just another way of saying charming lying. Why should it be that Thor get to have all the glory purely because he was a man? Loki thought it most unfair, indeed.

timeskip (spoilersssssssssss?) - The lies that the community had seen were, evidently, merely the surface of the extent of which Loki was capable. After the terrible destruction Loki had brought onto New York, it seemed fitting that he returned to Asgard as a prisoner. He hadn't expected Thor to visit him ceaselessly, talk to him as if he had always cared for his brother. Loki knew better than that, he didn't deign to believe that a year could have changed all that they had known for centuries. And yet...somehow, he had started to count the time between his brother's visits, and even the insults he sometimes threw had become tinged with excitement and jest rather than hatred and anger.

illogical pregnancy because i am really lazy - Thor stared at Loki. Loki stared at Thor. Thor looked at the stallion and then back at Loki and tried to make this work in his mind. Spoilers: it was still weird & i give up.

[aburningspirit]

THAT BLOODY HORSE