A couple of thousands of years after Bor died, came the day of the battle of Tønsberg, in which the Jotuns –Huge, blue creatures, with patterns carved unto their skins- were trying to invade Midgard.
Odin was in his prime; many æsir loved and feared him.
Having called in his army, he was walking around the cold camp when he saw her.
At first glance he thought she was an ordinary Asgardian warrior –Long dark shoulder length hair, blue eyes, thin lips, lithe body- until he saw the almost invisible rose grafted on the upper left corner of her breastplate.
The rose was simple yet demanded attention.
The petals faded out the further away they were from the core of the flower, while the stem was covered with thorns -some blunt, others looking sharper than a thousand needles.
As soon as he saw the rose, he recognized it from having seen it on many special occasions. Not wanting to lose the opportunity of meeting her properly for the first time, he quickly advanced towards her.
As he stood before her, Rose tried to keep in the smirk (unsuccessfully) and bowed mockingly towards Odin, trying to gauge his reaction.
"Rise old friend" Odin declared not bothered by the thinly veiled insult.
He watched as Rose stood up quickly (just realising that as a woman, she should curtsey not bow), trying to keep the grin that was threatening to come out on his own face, as Rose grimaced slightly as she scoffed at him.
"Since when are we friends, my King?"
Undeterred at the condescending tone (smartly realising that he must be somehow testing him), he inclined his head slightly to his left.
"Since you stood side by side with my father in his hardest battle." Odin replied.
"Also when you insist on sending me many kingly gifts with your insignia stealthily carved on them" he added absentmindedly.
"Fit for a King" she said shrugging
"So you recognize me then?" Rose asked, staring at him, as she dared him to look her properly in the eye.
Not one to back down from a fair fight, Odin attempted to hold her stare for a few seconds.
Managing to hold it for a few meagre moments, he was soon overwhelmed by all the things he saw in them. He thought he was old, but when he looked into her own eyes he saw so many emotions and experiences. Standing in front of eyes that had seen so much of the world, he felt like a newborn babe once again…
Quite a feat since he was now over a thousand millenniums old.
Not realising that he had passed Rose's test, he knelt down before her, paying homage.
"Elizabeth Rose Maskell, it would be my honour if you would fight beside me as you did with my father in the days of old."
-T.R.M.-
After that quick encounter, she fought the battle standing at the King's right side. Thanks to her help they managed to easily defeat the Frost Giants in Norway and took the battle to Jotunheim.
The battle was brutal and bloody, many foes and a few allies dropping dead like flies, with Rose offering every life she cut down to her daughter, sparing only a few, with promises of coming back in case the need for a favour ever arose.
After some long and arduous months, Odin finally defeated Laufey, finding his runt son in the process.
Deciding to bring him up as his own, (for he was abandoned in the harsh and bitter snow to die), he named him Loki, quickly making the decision to raise him in the belief of him being an æsir.
When Rose heard about his decision, she warned Odin of the wisdom of keeping his ancestry hidden from him. Infinity told him to beware of the consequences of not telling Loki the truth, and him finding on his own. Odin foolishly and arrogantly brushed off her concerns and assured her that he would not find out.
Many lifetimes later, he learned that it is not wise to disregard any advice given by the Entities.
A few years after that war, Death, thankful for her mother's care, love and friendship, decided to try to make her a small gift (nothing as glamorous as the stones they first made).
Wanting to try and grasp the concept of Infinity, she started a war to last Thousands of Billions of years.
The Kree and Nova war.
Since death was basically her thing, she tried to merge it together, causing this bloody war, a true testament of her own self.
Since her only friend was her mother, she had no one else to tell her that her present wasn't exactly ideal.
Infinity, amused (and slightly mortified) by her daughters' attempt at grasping Infinity, thoroughly thanked her and headed off to look for a friend for her daughter.
Honestly, she would take anyone, just as long as her daughter didn't feel as lonely as before. Undeterred, Rose set out to many planets, keen to find someone suitable enough.
A/N - Outfits are posted on Polyvore.
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[just add the polyvore. c0m at the beginning].