#springfling789

Hello I love you and you make my heart go boom boom whoosh ;)

When it came to training, you were a lot shyer than the rest of the Avengers. While they seemed to have no problem showing off their various powers and strengths, you were a lot less proud in your meager skills, despite the fact that you’d been practicing at Kamar Taj for quite a while before you’d been approached to join the avengers after showcasing an adeptness above the rest of your fellow trainees.

You supposed you were a little worried that you’d be compared to Doctor Strange if anyone else saw you training, and that alone was reason enough for you to sneak out to train on your own every night once most of the team had gone to bed. It wasn’t your best decision, by far, but you were guaranteed a couple of uninterrupted hours in the sparring room to practice your magic without the worry of being seen or heard.

As you got settled in the training room for your session for the night, you took a few slow, deep breaths to center yourself, focusing entirely on your magic, letting yourself feel it from your fingertips all the way to your toes, and once you were confident that you were fully connected to your magic, you ran through the familiar moves with your hands to bring up your portal shields.

It still felt surreal, even now, that you had the ability to do such wonderful, and powerful, things with just your hands and the sling ring on your fingers. To have the ability to save and protect, and hurt if necessary, right there at your fingertips. It was a powerful feeling, but you did your best not to let it go to your head.

You weren’t sure how long you stayed there in the sparring room, just going over various spells and moves you had in your arsenal, and after a while, you let your hands fall, the portals disappearing into thin air. Bracing your hands against your lower back to stretch out a little, you were so completely in your own little world that you didn’t realize you were being watched.

“When were you going to tell me you have magic?”

You startled so badly you were almost certain you could hear Loki wince apologetically as you turned around to look at them, eyes wide from the shock of being discovered.

“Loki, I…” But you couldn’t finish the thought, because really you had no excuse. Loki was your best friend. If anyone at the compound had deserved the truth, it was certainly them, and suddenly you felt very bad for not having felt the need to mention it before.

To your surprise, however, Loki just smiled. “I get it. Everyone knows how cocky that doctor is. I wouldn’t want to practice in front of everyone, either, if I had the same powers.”

You relaxed, and released a breath you didn’t even realize you were holding. “Yeah… It’s… intimidating to say the very least.”

Loki nodded sympathetically. “And you’re still pretty new around here, so I imagine that’s not very easy, either.”

You shook your head defeatedly and crossed the room to pick up your water bottle and plop down next to Loki on the bench. “It’s terrifying. I feel like I’m so behind everyone else, even though I’ve been training for the same time as some of them.”

“Well, I imagine you’ve never had the need to train as intensely as they do, either.”

Again, you shook your head, and the room fell into a bit of a silence, not entirely awkward, but not the most comfortable, either.

“…I’m sorry, I should have said something. You’re my friend, I shouldn’t keep secrets from you.”

“I get it. Truly, Y/N, I do.” Loki smiled, and it was so warm that you found yourself smiling back easily, the guilt washing away. “Maybe one of these nights, we can train together? I’m sure there’s things we could teach other. Our magic isn’t so different, after all.”

With a wave of their hand, they created a little ball of light, and with a few movements, you brought up a glowing orange ball, and the both of you smiled.

Aww thank you so much!!!!

8) Do you have any stories from Pride?

- Hmm.... here’s some highlights from my first Pride:

The Pride we go to is in a big, crowded, busy city, so I was really proud of myself for driving there and in town and for not having a panic attack during all of that!

Someone told me my eyebrows looked snatched >.>

I got a fuck ton of compliments on my Pride poster, which I spent 15 hours making the night before (woops).

That poster also ended up in a picture in a news article the next day.

I made a lot of very loud jokes about the homophobic, religious protestors (I wanted them to hear me lmao), and people around me started quoting me on Twitter 😂

We joined in on a lot of chants while we were waiting to get into the gated part of Pride. The best chant was probably “Homo sex is in” (because the religious homophobes there had a sign that said “Homo sex is sin”).

Not really a highlight, but I super wanted to fight this guy who was upset that I didn’t put the bear flag on my poster, the poster I spent 15 hours on and put 28 flags on....The disrespect... I was big mad lmao.

We joined an ICE protest as we were leaving Pride.