â  i can't do this anymore, but i don't know how to stop. â (I love these prompts fuck me up)
For the angsty prompts: https://jynxeddraca.tumblr.com/post/819489847841554432
Bit of background for anyone not in the know since this is very different from what I've been posting. I dug deep for my old muses Gabriel and Agmundr from my Supernatural RP days back when I ran the blog Celestial Trickster. I havenât pulled them out for a long time (something like 12 years) and while they have not been forgotten, my memory has definitely lapsed on the details of the show some lol. This is set way back in whatever season it was where Heaven was having its civil war, I promise nothing to the accuracy of any timeline, and I am pointedly ignoring the canon about how Gabriel became Loki.
Also I made one tiny tweak to the opening line. You did say to fuck you up <3.
âI can't do this anymore, but I donât know how to stop-,â Gabriel cut himself off, jaw clenching tight enough for teeth to ache and crack â only to be instantly healed again.
Agmundr turned his awareness to the archangel possessing him and studied carefully. A thousand and some-odd years they had been together. A millennia of witnessing the tricksterâs flavor of justice. Centuries of shared laughter, of shared anger, of shared heartbreak, and the soul-crushing grief that was never intentionally shared â but Agmundr would have had to been blind in more ways than one to not have noticed that seeping through the mental barriers between them.
Not that it would have mattered even if those barriers had kept him ignorant of this tricksterâs grief before now. Walking through the aftermath of yet another one of his siblingsâ battles, the crunch of scorched grass punctuating every footstep, his grief was written plainly in the until-now silent tears that almost burned their way down their shared face. Gabriel hadnât killed these angels, but they were still his family â and he hadnât lifted a finger to stop it.
Gabriel let out a humorless noise, the dark mood of the sound rippling through his grace like a dark shadow through water. âI donât think I even can stop them.â
Agmundr knew he had left because of the fighting, because of the killing â some of which, he suspected, that Gabriel himself had committed. Such was the way of war, Agmundr knew that all to well even before he had met Gabriel. However, he also was aware that there was no leader in his angelâs heaven. No one there to advocate for peace.
âYouâre not funny.â
Huffing in the mental space carved out for him, Agmundr pressed on. âYou are an archangel, one of their older brothers, they will listen to you surely?â
Shaking their head, Gabriel lifted their eyes to the blood-red sunrise that was just high enough to sting corneas. âWhen have they ever?â
âIt wonât help, and Raphael will kill us.â
âThere must be a way.â
âOh there is, is there?â
The grace inside their body suddenly churned explosively as though Hafgufa was hunting through it. For the first time in a long time, Gabriel turned himself inward and glared directly at the soul he shared a body with. By virtue of being his true vessel, Agmundr could only just withstand the bone-searing heat and head-splitting ringing that came with having an archangelâs ire directed at him.
âThen tell me oh wise human, what way do you see?â
Agmundr scowled, his own irritation sending out tiny ripples in comparison across the scorching sea of archangel he was forced to live in. âIf you really see no way to stop them from killing each other and can no longer stand the sight of their corpses, then why donât you end both of our miseries?â
It was a low blow and he knew it. But so was Gabrielâs intimidation.
He deflated. The roiling, blinding, charring grace-form that filled Agmundrâs vision dulled and cooled. Soon, there was a weight on his soul like someone resting their head on his shoulder. This wasnât what was expected. Gabriel didnât back down like that from a single, hot-headed comment.
âDonât talk like that.â The angelic whisper echoed hollowly around him. âPleaseâŚâ
They were both so tired. One stretched too far past his natural lifespan, while the other hid away in liminal spaces and muffled his very essence to avoid detection from enemies â from family â that would sooner kill them than look at him. Both of them unable to truly return home or move forward in any meaningful way. And yetâŚ
And yet things couldnât end.
âWe should bury them, at the very least.â Agmundr said softly.
Eyes closed on the red sunrise. The snap of finger, a flexing of power, and they stood between neat rows of mounded dirt â blackened wings marking each one.