Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards! You don't have to do a song that's only instrumental.
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Apologies in advance for the melodrama that ensues when you only have three or four minutes max to plan and write a drabble.
1. "The Plagues" - Prince of Egypt
Loki was not above a little Earth literature and art. The mortals may have been largely contemptible, but some of what they produced had some minor merit.
And Prince of Egypt hit too close to home.
He could just picture Thor standing there in the throne room of Asgard, declaring in his booming voice: "Let my People Go!"
"No chance there," Loki always whispered to this vision.
2. "Pirates Medley" - Peter Hollens
"Thief!" they said.
"Liar!" they said.
In later years, they would say "Murderer!"
There was always a tendency to romanticize Loki and what he was, just as Midgardians had always romanticized the pirates of old, but the truth was simple and plain. He was all these things.
And more.
3. "Monster" - Skillet
Could there be a more perfect description? A monster encased inside your own skin is always the hardest to escape.
4. "A Boy Named Sue" - Johnny Cash
"My life is so hard!" Loki whined to the other people at the bar. "My..hic!…my daddy doesn't love me, and hic! my older brother has such perfect…perfect hair. Hic!" He looked forlornly at a strand of his own black hair. "No wonder…hic!…no wonder he always liked Thor better. And worse…" he added when it looked like his companions would try to interject. "He gave me a stupid name!"
"Loki?" one of his companions managed, surprised. "Why is it stupid?"
Loki seized the man's collar and pulled him closer to whisper in his ear. "Do you know…hic!..how many puns you can make with Loki? Oh, Loki, let's sneak out of the palace. We'll need to be Lo-ki!"
"That's it," Tony Stark said as Loki went back to muttering indistinctly. "That's the last time I'm ever offering Checkers here a drink."
5. "Why Have You Brought Me Here?" - Phantom of the Opera
"This Christine is a fool," Loki remarked.
"Why?" Bruce asked when no one else did.
"The problem will not go away just because she runs from it." Loki's sardonic tone also held a note of bitter experience. "And if you wait for someone else to rescue you, you may wait a very long time."
There was a heavy pause. Loki was here now, among the Avengers, because he had rescued himself, had finally realized that the path he'd been walking on was poisonous.
"Though it is true," Loki said at last, looking from one to the other and ending his gaze on Thor, "that even when rescuing yourself, you can use help."