bakerstreet | Got a secret

Got a secret

true to myself:
A Gen or Shipping Meme

You have a secret that you've been keeping from those closest to you. It could be a terrible power, a dark past, an illness, a hidden life. You know that to tell the truth about yourself is to risk absolutely everything. Not only would they (rightfully) question the very idea of staying with you - it isn't safe, it isn't sane - but you've kept it from them so long. How could they possibly trust you again?

But at the same time... this secret is eating you up inside. You love them, all of them. Every perfection and every flaw. All you've ever wanted is for someone to care for you completely in that same way, and maybe, just maybe... you can have that with them.

So, do you have what it takes to be vulnerable? Can you find the courage to be true to yourself, and to the people you love?

How to Play

1. Top level with a brief description of your character and what their secret might be.
2. Don't forget your preferences! (gen or shipping, etc)
3. Tag around!

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[ /gestures in "her dad is a demon who'll use her body as an active portal to invade, then destroy, the human world." ]

[ooc: multiple personalities are fun!]

[Good for gen or shipping, and she's an alien backup to another alien, and she went against her orders and tried to kill a classmate! And got removed from existence for doing that.]

[ so very here for her revealing the uncomfortable secret that Snoke's been in her head pretty much forever/been communicating with her as far back as she can remember. she could also reveal that she retrieved Vader's helmet and had/has been communicating with someone she thought was her grandfather. 'worst case' secret would be incorporating TROS and /gestures to Palpatine.

alternatively, perhaps she met someone who didn't know who she was/her history and she kept her involvement with the First Order a secret. or the whole "heir to Vader, potentially unlimited power, etc etc" thing she has going on.

would love gen stuff with Han/Leia/Luke and dealing with all the stuff she never told anyone about (or felt that she could talk to any of them about). overall good with gen or shipping for this. wide open on canon; also open to cross canon, AUs, timeline fuckery (if we can make it work); prior/established CR always welcome.
note: her talking about Snoke and/or her darkside training will likely involve mentions of or allusions to grooming and mental/physical abuse (she sure wasn't wearing padded armor to protect against blaster shots or blades); if there's something off-limits for you please let me know ahead of time so I can avoid it or steer the interaction a different direction. ]

{{She's a vampire who has been alive since the 1880's, living in a secret apartment inside a library pertaining to the paranormal and occult sciences.}}

( muffled emo music playing in the distance )

[She heads over and offers him a cup of take-out coffee.]

You look like you could use this.

[Want some emo "you think you're a monster? well check this shit out"

I was thinking either some magic shit caused Loki to loose his Asgardian glamor or they found some more tapes of the Winter Soldier killing innocent people.]

((ooc; goddess of marriage who wants to get a divorce and stop being queen? idk ig. also hey kronos is probably coming back))

[Motions at entire plot of Wandavision]

[You interested? I was thinking some assumed CR with Loki being on earth after the shit in Wakanda went down (Thanos taken care of, but Vision still dead so the show can still happen) and Wanda finding him to help with the whole 'get my kids back' thing.

Either Wanda telling him what happened in the town for angst on her side, OR they're practicing something and her magic strips away his Asgardian glamor for angst on his side. Or something else if you have any ideas!]

[Ooooh, I like this! Down for the accidental stripping of Asgardian glam since Wanda is pretty out of the loop when it comes to Asgardian family drama beyond the whole New York thing :') Let's do it!]

[The cabin in the middle of nowhere is normally a very peaceful place, the perfect area to spend in quiet contemplation and study. Of course all of that study has to lead to somewhere, thus why the peaceful clearing is currently not-so-peaceful. A swirling vortex of red chaos magic reflects off the trees, lashing out from the circle on the ground.

Two mages work around the circle, trying to power but also contain the arcane energies within. This is just a test run, a proof of concept, and one that is quickly showing it's flaws.

It's hard to tell exactly who lost concentration or if it was the both of them, but the dome containing the energies cracks, then shatters. A wave of red energy radiates out, throwing both of them back and shaking the trees around them. It isn't as much damage as it could have been, but they were working on a very small scale compared to what would be needed in the end.

Loki groans, aches blooming all along his back from where he'd hit a tree. He opens his eyes, squinting against the bright sun.]

Wanda?

Ow.

[Quite the understatement for the blast, but it's nowhere near catastrophic. Wanda, for all this new power, does know it's best to always err on the side of caution. Still, she's a heap on the ground where she'd been tossed, grass stains on her clothes and bits of it in her red hair.]

I'll take the blame for that one. Are you--

[She looks over to where Loki ended up, and the words leave her.]

Uh.

[Maybe she wasn't as careful as she thought. Wanda sits up slowly, keeping her eyes on him.]

Loki?

[Her tone of voice when she looks at him has Loki mildly worried. Her magic is something rare, so rare he'd barely even heard of it before meeting her in person. There's no telling what it could do when it lashes out.]

Please tell me I didn't grow another head.

[He raises a hand to shield his eyes from the intensity of the sun. Rather than the familiar pale peach he is use to, he sees dark blue.

Newly red eyes widen.]

Shit. [He throws an arm in front of his face, as if that will stop Wanda from seeing what she's already clearly noticed. Frantically he tries to gather his magic to his hand, to his face, something to put the familiar mask back in place.

It doesn't work.]

Damn it, come on!

... not another head, no.

[She'd panic and think she did this to him, somehow, but given how his panic is manifesting, she's beginning to think it's more like she uncovered something she should not have.]

You're, uh. Looking kind of blue.

[Normally Loki is good at parsing aphorisms from other cultures. Unfortunately he's a little too distracted at the moment.]

I know! That's the problem!

[He looks around for a place to hide, eyes darting from bush to tree like a cornered animal. Nothing in their immediate area seems like it would be able to provide suitable coverage for the six foot god, so he shoots to his feet and starts power walking back to the cabin.]

[Maybe it wasn't the time for that comment, but she couldn't help it. He's not the only one a little freaked out. But she pushes herself to her feet, having to jog to catch up to his longer strides.]

Loki. Hey. You mind explaining to me what just happened?

[Loki doesn't slow down.]

My glamor! The spell must have stripped it away. [Said as if Wanda has any idea that he had a glamor on in the first place.] But I can't recast it, it isn't sticking!

Your glamor?

[Well, she didn't know that. Wanda huffs as she hurries to keep up, and try to get in front of him.]

Look. It's just me here. [And she's... mildly alarmed, but doing her best not to let it show on her face. She knows what that can do.] If my magic broke it, maybe it can fix it, too.

I don't know how. [They reach the cabin, Loki flinging open the door with a burst of magic. He knows there was no one else outside to see him, but being in the enclosed space makes him feel just a bit more secure.]

The glamor is one I apparently adopted as an infant when Odin found me in Jotunheim. The only time it went away...it always just came back on it's own a second later.

[Her cabin is purposely small, but he makes it look ridiculously so in this state. Wanda knows he's upset, so she lets him talk, crossing her arms as she leans against the doorway.]

First, I think we need to calm down. [We? Him.] Thank you for the backstory, there. I didn't know.

[Does it change anything? She doesn't think so.]

Secondly, I'm sure we can figure out something together. Maybe it's not coming back right away because you're so worked up.

[She tips her head to the side.]

... I'm not running away screaming, if you haven't noticed. I'm--surprised. I think that's reasonable.

[Wanda's words make Loki stop. Completely stop. His eyes darting around the room, the frantic movements of his hands, the way his head jerks around at every small sound, it all stops as he focuses on her.

She isn't running.]

You would be, [He swallows, and though his left hand starts picking at his right palm, he remains otherwise unmoving.] if you knew what a Jotun was.

Enlighten me. I'll tell you where a Jotun falls on a scale of one to Scarlet Witch.

[Wanda waves over one of the wooden kitchen chairs and sits on it. Well? She's waiting.]

[Not much catches Loki off guard, especially when it comes to things people say, but the blithe way Wanda asks for an explanation has his gaping like a fish.

He doesn't take the seat, but stays where he is (further away from her), his hands continuing their fidgeting.]

They're...they're monsters! They threatened your world millennia ago, nearly destroyed it with eternal winter. Even the youngest Asgardian child knows the terror of the barbaric, cruel Frost Giants!

[She crosses her arms and leans back, much like a mother waiting for a decent explanation as to the broken vase in the house.]

... and? Are you planning on an eternal winter, barbaric actions, cruel intentions...?

Many would say I am always planning with cruel intentions.

[He frowns, pulling the scar-like designs on his face in a strange way.]

It's just...you didn't grow up with it. You don't understand.

It's... a very jarring look, but I don't think knowing this about you now changes to what extent I think you're plotting or scheming.

[If she's being honest.]

[Loki isn't sure if he's relieved or annoyed to hear that. On the one hand it is comforting to know his reputation outweighs his unfortunate heritage, on the other he still feels like she just doesn't get it.

And maybe she never will. It's not like Jotuns were the monsters under her bed in every bedtime story the nanny told.]

Fine. Just...try not to make direct skin contact with me when I'm like this.

[Frowning, Wanda stands.]

Will I get frostbite?

[Loki nods.]

At best. A Frost Giant's touch is just as dangerous, if not more so, than their blade.

Okay.

[Wanda regards him curiously.]

So, we just need to get your glamor back. I've never cast one before.

[Sort of. Kind of. Westview and that altered reality probably counts, because what really is a glamor but an altering of reality?]

We can't risk my appearance being that consistent drain on your power.

[He sighs and pulls the chair closer to him. He doesn't want to risk sitting too close to her.]

Perhaps recreating the explosion...

Well, I'm hoping it'd be temporary until yours comes back.

[If it comes back. But Wanda's trying to remain optimistic.]

[...yeah, that's probably a better idea than trying to recreate an uncontrolled magical explosion.]

Yes, that makes sense. I have a few texts...

['A few' turns out to be three very heavy tomes. Two in some kind of runic language that's probably Asgardian and another in some kind of flowy elvish script.]

These cover the basics of illusion and glamors.

[Wanda already senses a problem.]

Care to translate?

[There is a lot to hold against him (betrayal, patricide, filicide) but the most damning thing of all is the deep-seated inferiority complex.]

Edited 2021-12-05 07:27 (UTC)

[ooc: No real secrets, as such. But very self-conscious and shy about his injuries sustained in war and having to depend on a cane for walking.]

[ooc: She fears not being able to care for her family after the death of her father, and also feels guilty for being upset that the trajectory of her life has had to change so drastically because of it.

OR

Would also love to play a brothel line with Evie, so there's a lot of guilt and embarrassment inherent in coming from a wealthy family and having to resort to sex work in order to survive.]

[ooc: he's a dreamer, ie he can take anything from his dreams, literally anything. Cars, drugs, people. gen is ota, m/m for anything shippy!]

[Oh? Someone learning about him being the secret other member of the Blue Man Group? Yes please!]

( Secrets, you say... you mean like actually being a magical creature when you hunt magical creatures and having a metric ton of Catholic guilt to go with it, that kind of identity crisis-inducing secret??? )

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Got a secret

raven | teen titans

Rose/Thorn | DC Comics

Ryoko Asakura | Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | OTA

Kylo Ren/Brianna Solo • r63!Star Wars

Evangeline Nix, Doctor of Crypto-Biology || Antiquarian Horror OC, reluctant vampire

james buchanan barnes | mcu

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hera | lore olympus | ota

wanda maximoff | mcu

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Theseus | Hades

Nico Acosta | OC | OTA

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA

Kavinsky | The Raven Cycle | OTA

Loki | MCU | OTA

Lancelot | Cursed