#infinitynihilism

                  So this is bad. This is like, super bad. The last                   time she had encountered him, it had ended                   with one revival and one death — and not the                   way around it would be more suitable for her. 

                  Her hand comes to rest around the handle of                   the quantum sword before she even realizes                   that she had summoned it.

      "No."

infinity-nihilism

After Thanos had acquired the Infinity Gauntlet, a cataclysmic disaster that still ended in his defeat, the entire event had been undone - erased from spacetime and reality. It had been wiped from the minds of nearly everyone in their entire universe, and it was said by the cosmic giants that those who remembered went insane.

'Sane,' of course, was a subjective term as far as Eros was concerned. Yes, he had been forced to be a witness, and yes, he had endured horrific and sick torture along with Nebula, but it had been several Terran years since the incident and he was fine (in his opinion). Plus, while wielding the gauntlet, Thanos had been at the height of insanity, and losing it had perhaps given the Titan some of his sanity back. That was why Eros was going to finally visit him at his homestead - which he had to see to believe.

The Titanian calendar counted time based on Earth's movements because that was where they came from, which meant that the 'once a year' that Mentor made them promise to meet on friendly terms came around quite often. These meetings had understandably been somewhat tense for the past decade and a half or so since Thanos had nearly wiped Titan of all life and civilization, his own mother included, and then colonized it with his  brutish allies and sparked what could only loosely be called a civil war.

“Luck you are not to encounter the Mistress on your mystical journeys through life and what lies beyond. She makes no exceptions no matter how great the peril the Universe needs to face. Perhaps there I might find an advantage in your return.”

      "I would not assume anything I could say would         change your opinion on that matter. Which does        not mean I agree with any of that."

                  Which, just as well, is not a conversation held for                   the first time either. Or much rather, a monologue                   as trying to get Thanos's minds of things he seems                   necessary is a difficult task he only attempts to                    fulfill if he himself thinks it's important to do so.

                  And that he's not yet sure about.

"When everyone is beneath you, betrayal comes sooner or later."

❛ BUT SHOULDN'T THEY

            be afraid of you? Enough to know that betraying you             would be their worst mistake. ❜

Phil Coulson curled up in a fetal position.

Whomever, whatever, this was... it was death. His death.  The scar on his chest burst open, blood pouring out as he struggled to breathe. Loki was there, or a hallucination of him anyway, as Phil grasped at carpet in a desperate attempt to root himself in reality.