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november-rayne · 10 months
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A Gift for Loki - Summary
Young Prince Loki of Asgard is the God of Mischief and Chaos, the wild and unscrupulous little brother of Thor, and the son of the King of the Æsir.
Being second in the line of succession, Loki meticulously performs his palace duties by day, but by night he can be found living up to his reputation as a hard-core partying playboy.
Alas, a prince of Asgard cannot remain a fun-loving bachelor forever. Loki's world is turned upside down when duty calls for him to take a wife. His parents have betrothed him to the daughter of the most prominent Lord in the kingdom.
Loki would rather be dragged to Hel than to the altar, that is, until he finally lays eyes on his bride-to-be. Meeting Sigyn cracks the foundation on which he built his hedonistic reputation.
Can Loki give up his philandering lifestyle and become the husband Sigyn deserves? The Nornir have brought the two of them together; will outside forces tear them apart?
*This story is for mature audiences only.* 18+
*Minors DNI*
Warnings: Explicit descriptions of sexual acts, alcohol intoxication, and drug use. Specific trigger warnings will be attached before each chapter when applicable.
This story is NON-CANON. This is an MCU/Norse mythology hybrid AU: Thor and Loki are biological brothers, and Odin isn't the worst father. Comparably, in human years, Loki is in his mid-twenties, and Thor is late twenties. Set in Asgard, the realm is described as a large kingdom with territories and hierarchies among Odin's Lords and Ladies.
Genre: Fluff and Smut. An all-round feel-good fic.
Pairings: AU Loki x Sigyn
Chapters Index 👇🏼
*Contains SMUT
1. Prologue*
2. When Opportunity Knocks*
3. The Message*
4. Denial*
5. The Lost Prince
6. Ill-prepared
7. Meeting Sigyn
8. Doubt*
9. Family Dinner
10. Paths Not Taken
11. The Betrothal Feast
12. Discoveries
13. The Chase
14. Heart to Heart
15. A Token*
16. The Best Man
17. A Kingly Visit
18. Home*
19. Seeing
20. Oh, Brother
21. Fond Farewells- Part One*
22. Fond Farewells- Part Two*
23. The Bachelor Party
24. Brother Mine
25. Reunion
26. Unexpected
27. Sigyn's Virtue
28. Sera's Trials
29. Bed Rest*
30. Purpose
31. The Wedding
32. The Reception
33. His Goddess*
34. Epilogue*
A Gift for Loki One-Shots
The Gift of the Sun* The Gift of Distraction* The Gift of Distraction - Part Two*
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April 2024 Young Adult Book Releases
🦇 Good morning, my bookish bats. I hope you have a good book, delicious latte, and sweet snack within reach! No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in April! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.
[ List Under the Cut ]
🩷 April 2 🩷 ✨ Your Blood, My Bones - Kelly Andrew ✨ What If... Loki Was Worthy? - Madeleine Roux ✨ Fate Be Changed - Farrah Rochon ✨ No Going Back - Patrick Flores-Scott ✨ The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Holly Jackson ✨ Darker by Four - June C.L. Tan ✨ Draw Down the Moon - P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast ✨ The Black Girl Survives in This One ✨ Wrath of the Talon - Sophie Kim ✨ Every Time You Hear That Song - Jenna Voris ✨ Otherworldly - F.T. Lukens ✨ Misdirection of Fault Lines - Anna Gracia ✨ Something Kindred - Ciera Burch ✨ Hearts Still Beating - Brooke Archer ✨ Call Forth a Fox - Markelle Grabo
🩷 April 9 🩷 ✨ Teenage Dirtbags - James Acker ✨ Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa ✨ Dragonfruit - Makiia Lucier ✨ The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella ✨ Fog & Fireflies - T.H. Lehnen ✨ Against the Darkness - Kendare Blake ✨ The Darkness Rises - Stacy Stokes ✨ Right Here, Right Now - Shannon Dunlap ✨ The Last Love Song - Kalie Holford
🩷 April 16 🩷 ✨ To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods - Molly X. Chang ✨ Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon ✨ Deep Is the Fen - Lili Wilkinson ✨ This Is Me Trying - Racquel Marie ✨ Calling of Light - Lori M. Lee ✨ Pretty Furious - E.K. Johnston ✨ Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao ✨ The Lady of Rapture - Sarah Raughley ✨ The End of Always - Rebecca Phillips ✨ The Kill Factor - Ben Oliver ✨ The Breakup Lists - Adib Khorram ✨ We're Never Getting Home - Tracy Badua ✨ The Harrowing - Kristen Kiesling & Rye Hickman ✨ King of Dead Things - Nevin Holness ✨ Sheine Lende - Darcie Little Badger & Rovina Cai ✨ The One That Got Away with Murder - Trish Lundy
🩷 April 23 🩷 ✨ Song of the Six Realms - Judy I. Lin ✨ Off With Their Heads - Zoe Hana Mikuta ✨ Blood Justice - Terry J. Benton-Walker ✨ Kill Her Twice - Stacey Lee ✨ Dark Parts of the Universe - Samuel Mille ✨ Finally Fitz - Marisa Kanter ✨ The Merciless King of Moore High - Lily Sparks ✨ Out of Blue Comes Green - M.E. Corey ✨ A Whisper in the Walls - Scott Reintgen ✨ Homebody - Theo Parish ✨ Punk Rock Karaoke - Bianca Xunise
🩷 April 30 🩷 ✨ To a Darker Shore - Leanne Schwartz ✨ The Vanishing Station - Ana Ellickson ✨ The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge - Matthew Hubbar ✨ What's Eating Jackie Oh? - Patricia Park ✨ Sound the Gong - Joan He ✨ Playing for Keeps - Jennifer Dugan ✨ Not Like Other Girls - Meredith Adamo ✨ The Notes - Catherine Con Morse ✨ I'll Be Waiting for You - Mariko Turk ✨ Pillow Talk - Stephanie Cooke & Mel Valentine ✨ Saint-Seducing Gold - Brittany N. Williams ✨ Where Was Goodbye? - Janice Lynn Mather ✨ The Lilies - Quinn Diacon-Furtado
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lokiinmediasideblog · 2 months
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I will always wonder why out of all the Norse deities, Thor was chosen as Loki's foil for Marvel (which had a lot of influence on other depictions). Thor and Loki had to be changed a lot from the mythological counterpart to work as foils.
There are foil candidates in the mythology that require less changes such as:
Heimdall-Kismesis (and arguably my favorite). They die by each other's hand during Ragnarok. They fight as seals. They are known to have beef with each other as one is the all-seeing gatekeeper of the realm, and the other one is the god of shiftiness. And they are very different in that one is entropy and the other is enthalpy. Heimdall also has rather unique abilities such as very enhanced senses, and he was born from 9 mothers. Unique abilities are common in superhero narratives, just saying. And athough I often see it attributed to Loki in adaptations, it's actually Heimdall who suggests Thor dress up as a bride. Loki's just happy to be a bridesmaid and happily joins in. They both like to troll Thor.
Odin-There's whatever the "Blood Brothers" bond would have entailed. I've seen it interpreted in many ways from Loki being a friend, adoptive child, adoptive little brother, and even Loki being his sugar baby/side piece. I lied, I can see why he was not chosen. They probably wanted someone more evenly matched in power dynamic than King-of-Gods/Jester-Henchman and a younger hero for a demographic consisting of children. Odin has a lot of power over Loki in the myths and had him imprisoned in a very horrendous way. Myth!Odin is also a bit too much like Loki (shady) and is a bit GNC himself and basically gets away with it because he's the Allfather and unlike Loki has more power. But it works in the "Two sides of the same coin" frenemies/abusive relationship sort of deal.
Baldr (arguably the most similar to Thor comics)-Loki's destined to cause his death. My ridiculous and admittedly unfounded theory is that they substituted Thor for him because "God of Thunder" sounded cooler than "God of Light." Also, is it me or does "God of Light" sound too Jesus-like and Marvel might have wanted to avoid that? Marvel comics Thor actually shared multiple traits with Balder (esp. in early versions). The comics do have a depiction of Baldr and his moniker is "Balder the Brave" (avoiding the "God of Light" title) and he's a very bland character. They also like to make it a point to show how Thor is better because he's stronger and braver bleh bleh. The traits they have in common is that myth!Balder and Marvel!Thor are beloved by ALL of Asgard (except maybe Loki), myth!Balder is practically indestructible (except for mistletoe) and Thor was so Gary Stu-ish and "the strongest" to the point of eyeroll. Also, the reason Marvel!Thor and has parallels with Jesus is because they meshed myth!Balder (whom Snorri tried to posit as a Jesus-like figure with his resurrection and such) with myth!Thor to make Marvel!Thor.
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angrymadsygin · 1 month
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Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!
Tag from @your-dark-thor
They're all Thorki. The pattern is I tend to make a short statement at the beginning more often than not.
The Sequel Nobody Asked For (to a wonderfully written fic)
Thor remembers many occasions Loki hid his body from him.
2.       AshThor
King Odin was marrying again.
3.       We’re All That’s Left
“Loki! Brother, you are awake!”
4.       The Dawn Came Not For All the Gods
Thor groaned.
5.       Burnt
“Sir! May I have your undivided attention?” Jarvis says, much too calm, so Tony feels suddenly on alert.
6.       And Things get Heated in Summer...
Odin and Frigga decide that it is too early for Loki to wander the Realms in search for knowledge and make the same proposition Thor suggested: tutors skilled in the workings of seið, the best gold can pay for, right there, on Asgard.
7.       “There’s no Place like Home! (Trust Me, Brother!)”
Loki wakes in discomfort.
8.       Breaking Some, Mending Some
Frank Fandrall was laughing, hopping on his crutches through the lobby, surrounded by his cheerful friends.
9.       House of Shadows
Madame Frigga's etablissement is the best in town.
10.   Yearning
On the fifth evening after the Jötun party’s arrival, Helblindi raised his goblet and asked for attention.
Anyone interested please feel tagged. I'm not tagging specific authors because some of you could feel pressure and I don't intend that. Know that I love you all.
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beheworthy · 7 months
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I understand that you appreciated enough things about Love & Thunder (as in Jane's scenes, Thorjane, etc) to consider it canon, but what are your thoughts on the Thor2 deleted break up? I can't help but prefer them breaking up because of the long distance, or Jane being so overwhelmed that she "couldn't imagine a life with him" after everything, than what we got in canon. Maybe my opinion would change if I watched the movie, not sure, but I'm interested in your take on it.
*takes a deep breath* Buckle up.
1. I appreciate you saying whether I'd consider anything canon or not. Buddy, my acceptance is irrelevant. Anything Marvel puts out IS canon, regardless of how we feel about it. That's the whole entire reason I can't let this shit go. Because he's CANONICALLY drilled into the ground by Marvel with nowhere to go. And it depresses me.
2. I hate both break-up scenes because I simply don't want my OTP separated. Period. But if I have to validate any one, I'd go with Thor4 because at least its idea was understandable, the issue was its failed execution. The Thor2 breakup makes no sense and regresses their characters. The two reasons you present that the movie presents:
a) Breaking up because of long distance is such a bastardization of their magical relationship that transcends realms that I just cannot. He's not a coworker or a one-night stand she tried to have a relationship with and decided it wasn't working out. He's the Prince of the paradise in the clouds that's advanced to her realm by a millennium. He's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as far as boyfriends go lol. And his mother died to protect her. Why? Because she had all but accepted her as her daughter-in-law.
You don't just break up with THAT because of long distance, that's unbelievably simplistic.
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b) Jane being overwhelmed that she "couldn't imagine a life with him" is also against her character because she is such a zero self-preservation inquisitive soul that was so fascinated by Asgard's advanced technology, she would be at home on Asgard. She would want to be with him and explore his magical world she's studied about her whole life.
And ok, she was so overwhelmed that she would dump him. For what? To return to her boring 9 to 5 life and do theories of the phenomenons she could do practicals of on Asgard. That makes no sense with Jane's character.
Or she was so scared by the challenges of a life with him (even tho she was ready to die saving him a scene ago) that she just quit? That's not the Jane I know either. She takes challenges head-on and is not a quitter.
The ONLY reason she would break up with him is for him - like I said in my theory that Odin made her do it.
3. Even from a story-telling perspective, it was a terrible choice because it resets every character to their factory settings, rendering the development of Thor1 and 2 completely pointless. Jane becomes a meaningless person forgotten going forward. Thor and Odin are chilling in Asgard with nothing to do and Loki and Frigga are dead with their sacrifices for Thor and Jane amounting to a big fat 0. Why dedicate two whole movies to their romance only to break up because of freakin long distance?
You can't have the event of Ragnarok with Thor in Asgard. You can't have him on Midgard for Avengers movies. What is the point of this then?
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Not to elongate an already long answer, but I always thought the plan was to make her the Queen of Asgard, the perfect foil for King Thor. Her love and quest for knowledge + kindness to help shirtless strangers combined with Thor's sense of justice and protection of his people would make them the PERFECT rulers. Do you know what I'd give for this to be Thor's final ending in the MCU?
Like, I thought she was written to be so fascinated with the stars beyond because that where she belongs. That's where she'll rule. That if anyone from Midgard in the MCU was meant to leave it and stay on Asgard their whole life, it's Jane because she's so far ahead of her time.
But I was Boo Boo the Fool. Her entire purpose in life was to die for him. Because Marvel's all about feminism.
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justlarkin · 11 months
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Christine was motivated to become an actress after losing her family at a young age and King Solomon helped her achieve that dream. Mr. Mononobe would come to watch her performances and leave her a rose on the behalf of King Solomon, but she wanted the real deal. She wanted to bring King Solomon to Tokyo, so he could finally see her performance in person to soothe his boredom and loneliness.
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Loki isn't wanted in Yggsdrasil because of Ragnarok. It's because he ruined Ragnarok. He enclosed Yggsdrasil in a wall just like Tokyo, so now the world can't end and the era of humanity can't take over. Beowulf would've been king, but Loki took that and every other human's future away by not letting the world end.
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The Utopia exception, Overlord/Overload (may be from Childhood's End?)
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Overlord sends MC to a realm where things things that could be dead or alive dwell, leaving Salomon behind in Tokyo. They end up with Quantum though, so it's okay. Oh yeah, those murders that were being investigated? The victims ended up here.
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Another rehashing of Horus and Seth's background. Seth was in charge, but other family members like Horus' mother kept pushing for Horus to be in charge. They started pushing Seth out of the way by using smear campaigns and framing him, using Horus as their figurehead as they did. In the end Seth was judged for his "crimes" and exiled. Horus doesn't think it's fair that he was the only one who was judged though. He wants the familiar members who orchestrated all of this to be judged too.
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The thing that upset Horus the most was that Seth treated him as a little boy. He wants a fair fight with his uncle to gain his respect and to prove he's a man now.
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Nobumichi gets riled up by being called a K-9.
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Horus gets riled up by being called a little boy.
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Everyone in Garo Demana has a direct counterpart. Ahura Mazda's is Ahriman. If Ahura Mazda is a superhero then Ahriman is a supervillain, the worst in the world. They're meant to have a battle for heaven and earth.
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jivewise · 2 years
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i’m going to forever maintain the headcanon that hela is loki’s birth mother (in the mcu)
first off don’t get me wrong, i don’t think odin or frigga or thor would love loki more for being blood related or anything like that. there’s just some great irony in him being related after all
as others have pointed out, hela knew about the loss of odin’s eye even though it happened during the war against the jotuns, meaning she had to have either gotten loose from her prison around then or was imprisoned right after
loki was born at the end of the war
ergo hela was not in prison around when loki was born
ergo squared that hela = loki’s birth mother (aka my headcanon)
“the house of odin is full of traitors” yeah no kidding, starting with my mans odin (and frigga)
lockin up their kiddo hela. i guess banishing her to earth wasn’t an option because she’d just slaughter everyone even as a mortal without her powers
anyway they check in on her once a century and um, doesn’t look like she’s getting any less.. less
they still have her baby tho.. our baby? insert marxist bugs bunny meme
and when loki looks asgardian it’s because he is asgardian, it’s not an illusion or whatever. he’s a shapeshifter, jan
so for the most part odin and frigga can ignore the jotun part of the equation
odin holding off on telling loki about his heritage was because he wiped the realms of hela’s memory, so couldn’t without explaining hela (or lying even more). laufey being the dad’s really just an afterthought
like what would he even say?
“hey kid. you’re adopted. also your dads the king of our mortal enemies. also your moms another of our mortal enemies”
“don’t worry, she’s also my daughter”
“locked her up and erased everyone’s memory of her tho. lol”
“why? what do you mean, why? did you listen to a single word i said?”
frigga’s modus operandi is leaving the family chat on read
loki chooses green as his it color and odin starts sweating
loki weaponizes public transportation and odin knows there’s no going back
meanwhile, thor is taking on hela’s old mantle of asgard’s next big imperialist while odin and frigga aren’t looking
ok and loki being odin and frigga’s adopted grandson who they pretend they’re not biologically related to is just funny
and tragic because of the consequences
ironically this would also mean loki is varying degrees of responsible for killing both of his birth parents
on top of his adopted parents
who are his grandparents
and loki’s ascension to a throne getting subverted is also funny, since, assuming hela’s the ruler of helheim, technically that makes loki a potential heir to 3/9 realms
4/9 if frigga has any claim to vanaheim’s throne.. idk if that’s how norse succession even worked but they’re aliens, jan
also hela/laufey is a totally valid hateship, brought together by their mutual lust for power and resentment of odin all-father, plus the impact of odin and frigga themselves, giving rise to a child that becomes both a balm to and bane of asgard
the peace that odin intended for loki to bring wasn’t between asgard and jotunheim alone. it was between hela and her family
and perhaps the reason why he gave up on those aspirations was because he gave up on being able to reach hela.. being old was taking up too much of his energy anyway
just… clenches fists too tightly for anyone to pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands
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chantsdemarins · 2 years
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❄️Frost Secrets From the Other Son
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This is my first series!! Thank you to everyone reading this and following Loki and Lillian's journey! I am so honored to have you with me. This will end up being about 12 chapters, with new chapters out every Wednesday. If you want to be tagged, let me know!
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S DONE! 9/25/22
@britishserpent @kaogasm @lokisgoodgirl
Summary: When a Midgardian journalist comes to Asgard to record the royal history for humans, her illicit affair with Loki threatens to unravel Odin’s family and reveal his true parentage...
Chapter 1 Welcome to Asgard  Chapter 2 Loki, Meet Lillian  Chapter 3  The Things Happening Between the Chapters Chapter 4 Heimdall Sees All Part 1 and Part 2 Chapter 5  A Strange Awe Part 1 and Part 2 Chapter 6 The Hottest Thing in All the Nine Realms Part 1 and Part 2 Chapter 7 The Lapis Cave Chapter 8 The Story Somebody Hired You to Tell   Chapter 9 Ballad of the Leaves Chapter 10 The Embrace of Ironwood Chapter 11 The Origin of Wolves Chapter 12 My One True King
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magnusmodig · 6 days
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— on the nine realms ; a general study of asgard .
aka vi's world-building reference .
The following details are what I consider to be canon for the Nine Realms. This is primarily based on what we know from the MCU, some minor spinoffs (the thor video game comes to mind), concept art + screenplays and some inspirations pulled from the marvel comics (no particular runs just in general)
It's what I'll be referencing when Thor speaks of the Nine Realms, specific planets within them, and Asgard.
THE NINE REALMS (general.)
The following are all the known realms under Asgardian Protection (pulled from the MCU.) Technically there are 10 realms but only 9 if you don't count Asgard.
Asgard || A flat planet also known as 'the realm eternal' . Home of the Asgardians . Asgard resides in its own pocket dimension in deep space and can only be accessed by wormholes. The center of Yggdrasil .
Vanaheim || Sister planet to Asgard . Where the Vanir (sister species) live . Also where skraelings, some breeds of trolls, and mire giants live . (hc : frigga's homeland.) Where hogun is from.
Alfheim || Home of the Light Elves . Highly magically inclined . To the north live the Falligrians and Falligar the Behemoth .
Svartalflheim/Harudheen || Home of the Dark Elves . Once prosperous, Svartalfheim and its surrounding planets have been completely corrupted by Dark Matter . The Dark Elves (and all other life) are now extinct, with a barren land destroyed by war and the Aether (reality stone) .
Muspelheim || Realm of fire. Where Surtur lives. Various Infernir live here . (Infernir also known as Fire Demons and Fire Giants.) Home to The Infernal Forge and a material called "Scabrite" . Scabrite makes up all Muspelheim's armor and weapons . It can absorb incredible amounts of heat .
Niflheim || A realm of the mists and cold . Helheim exists within the depths of Niflheim . Notoriously, Niflheim's legends say that the spirits of the dishonorable dead and the damned travel the dense fogs there . Hela was banished to Helheim, sealed in the Cave of Ages .
Jotunheim || Realm of the Frost Giants and eternal ice and snow . Led by King Laufey . A portion of Jotunheim was destroyed by Loki during the events of "Thor" (2011) .
Nidavellir || A small planet built around a neutron star . Where King Eitri and the dwarves live. The birthplace of urdu metal and its enchanted objects and weapons, including the Infinity Gauntlet, Gungnir, Mjolnir and Stormbreaker .
Midgard || A realm surrounded by its own solar system with 8 other planets. The main inhabitants of Midgard reside on Earth . Home of the Avengers and Jane Foster. A known host of a wellspring of the 'water of sights' that is connected to the Nornns.
Nornheim/Urðarbrunnr || Presumably: a realm connected to the nornns/water of sights, that is inhabited by other beings beyond the nornns , such as rock trolls. (it's implied the nornns themselves are kept to the waters and are semi-supernatural beings.) Filled with forests , swamps , and large mountains .
ASGARD (overview.)
A flat planet with a top side and a bottom side. Topside features various biomes including but not limited to: forests, mountains and cliffs, deep mines and cave systems, jungles, beaches, and small deserts. The bottom plane of Asgard is host to large crystal structures. (hc: mined and utilized as energy sources and magic storage for spells, weapons, and various other mechanisms throughout Asgard.)
Has day and night cycles, an atmosphere, and various weather patterns. Yearly consists of two (and a half) seasons. Its primary two are summer and spring. (Summer has warm days and evenings/nights that result in easily-melting flingsnö , or a light and powdery falling snow.) Spring (Asgard's longest season), is most hallmarked by its near-perpetual twilight hours. Asgard also exhibits some signs of the beginning of fall, which presumably a farmer's season of rest, but Asgard itself does not experience cold snaps or winters.
Asgard boasts a vast series of waterfalls, rivers, and fjords, though all ultimately lead to, and end in, the Sea of Space. The central city is built around and above these waterways.
The Bifrost spans from the Palace of Valskjalf to Himinbjorg, the Bifrost's observatory. This bridge spans the broad length of the Sea of Space, and reveals the cosmos of space the farther out towards the observatory one travels.
Asgard has 1 sun (that orbits around Asgard perpendicularly), 2 (stationary) moons that can be seen during the day.
Asgard's main colors are red and gold. Its main symbol is the celtic triquetra (sometimes also referred to as the trinity knot.)
Asgard uses all forms of viking art styles, but its main three consist of: Jellinge Style, Mammen Style, and especially Urnes Style .
ASGARD (places.)
Locations in Asgard (based on the 1960s comics - present comics. Not comic or mcu accurate obvsly but i'm taking liberties and referencing what I can within reason.)
Valaskjalf - (hc'd) name of the city of Asgard. It houses the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf where Thor + co live. The palace gardens are run by the Queen of Asgard (currently: Frigga) and are called Fólkvangr. Within the great city of Valaskjalf is the Hall of Science, within which is a great ash tree representing Yggdrasil, and acting as an observatory of the Nine Realms.
Himinbjorg - Heimdall's observatory, which can only work upon use of Hofund, an uru-made sword wielded by Heimdall.
The Sea of Space - the name of the sea that stretches from the Asgardian fjords and out into the void of space (also synonymous with "the void of Yggdrasil".)
Gundershelm - the mining region of Asgard. From here can be found the descent into the crystal caves beneath Asgard, known as the Glade of Crystals. A series of waterfalls and great fjord surrounds this place. The crystals begin to form even outside of the mouth of the mining caves descending down. Hence the name 'glade' of crystals, as the fjord looks something like an open patch in a field of snow from above and afar. Therein also lies the Amethyst Cavern and Boulder Road (which is said to span all the way past Varinheim into Skornheim. The trek can be dangerous due to how long it is, and its intense heat.) One of the more popular mines, the "Mines of Andvari" also is here in Gundershelm.
Varinheim - the mountainous area of Asgard, where the asgardian wolves dwell, amongst other hazardous beasts. Varinheim is where the Trials of Virtue (an Asgardian 'coming of age' trial) is held. It is often filled with mists from the snowy peaks far overhead, and the more uncommonly traveled lands are referred to by commoners as the 'land of the lost'. Hreidmar's Hol is deep within the land of the lost, which is a mysterious valley Asgardians dare not pass into for long. Here there is a strange old man called Hardol who is an ancient healer.
Ringsfjord - a merchant town nestled in one of Valakjalf's fjords. It's a place where the finest smithies and weapons makers make their shops, as well as magical enchanters. Legends have it that four enchanter brothers named Brona, Enrakt, Forsung and Magnir lived in Ringsjford, and that Brona was one of the first Asgardians to discover the rifts between realms. (One of which was named 'Brona's Barrier'.) But Brona's discoveries had long since been lost to time, especially after the creation of the Bifrost (until Loki, an equally adept sorcerer, was able to rediscover the passageways between realms for himself). Their forge is called "Forge of the Sons of Ivaldi" and boasts some of the finest asgardian-made weapons in the city.
Skornheim - another old and magic-rife land that's filled to the brim with danger. Including but not limited to; dense swamp-woods, quicksand, spiny plants (called 'nightmare plants'). The most important point of interest here is Skornheim's Stronghold which is a surviving ruin from the first battles against Surtur.
Gymirsgard - west of Skornheim. To reach Gymirsgard, one would have to traverse through the dense forest/swamps and brave the threat of unusually large water-dragons the likes of the fabled Jormangundir.
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laresearchette · 6 months
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The Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes series watch
This Hostage Earth written by Michael Ryan The Fall of Asgard written by Christopher Yost A Day Unlike Any Other written by Christopher Yost
In the episode begins with, The Enchantress and Executioner attacting Karnilla, the norn queen to take the Norn Stones, powerful magic objects for the Masters of Evil. Zemo has recruited several more villains to the team. Meanwhile, the Iron Man unveil a device that can open portals between dimensions and plan to use it to bring Thor back to Asgard. Cap suggests using an old Hydra castle as the test site, where back in WWII he saw the red skull use a portal to capture monsters from other dimensions. Scaning the castle they detect eight points of dimensional energy around the world.
The Masters of Evil have taken advantage of an opportunity to divide the Avengers. Each Avenger faces off against a separate villain. Meanwhile, Thor faces off against Baron Zemo and the Enchantress. They are bringing the Norn Stones to Earth which is causing Norse creatures to appear all over the world and merge the nine realms. This is a significant threat that the Avengers must act quickly to prevent. However, there are greater plots at work. Zemo betrays the Enchantress, hoping to claim the creatures of the nine realms for his army.
The Avengers fight their enemies and win. They destroy the Norn Stones on Thor's instructions, which severs connections between the realms. However, the Avengers vanish into these other realms, and Thor ends up in Asgard where Loki taunts him from Odin's throne.
Hawkeye wakes up in Alfheim and fights against Loki's army with the help of the light elf Faradai. Captain America is pulled into Niffleheim where the souls of the Howling Commandos torment him, except for Bucky and Logan who never died. Captain America disperses the souls and refuses to give up. The one behind the illusion is Hela, daughter of Loki and ruler of Niflheim.
Black Panther was chased by Dark Elves' tortured souls in Svartalfheim, but managed to escape through a well that led to Alfheim where he met Hawkeye and Faradei. The ogres were taking Asgardian prisoners to labour and concentration camps in Vanaheim when the Hulk showed up and defeated them with a powerful thunderclap. As a result, the Warriors Three thanked and respected him for his strength and 'gift of battle'. Iron Man fights a giant named Ulick and escapes with the dwarf king to the forges of Nidavellir. Meanwhile, Thor is still in Loki's clutches, and Loki promises that he and Baldur will face execution soon.
The Avengers prepare for the final battle against Loki. Stark is seen crafting a new suit of armor with the help of the Dwarf king, while Ant Man and Wasp ride with Sif and the Valkyries. Hawkeye, Black Panther, and Faradei arrive on a flying ship from Alfheim. All the heroes, except for Iron Man and Captain America, assemble on the Bifrost. They have to fight an army of mythological creatures and traitorous Asgardians. They bring each other up to speed on recent developments and agree to storm Asgard together.
Captain America is trapped in Niflheim and makes a deal with Hela to send him to the battle. Meanwhile, Loki summons Hoarfen the Ice Wolf to defeat the Avengers, but Cap arrives just in time and helps the heroes win. The heroes are able to breach the inner sanctum and the final fight with Loki begins. Iron Man arrives with a new suit of armor made of Uru the same metal that mjnoir is made from. The Avengers split up to free Thor and find the source of Loki's power. Thor reveals they have to sever his connection to Yggdrasil, the World Tree, to defeat him. They join the fight. Loki is powerful but is defeated in the end.
Hawkeye, Panther, and Ant-Man discover Yggdrasil, the mythical tree that connects all of reality. Initially, they are reluctant to destroy it, but when Loki starts to lose control and risk starting ragnarok and destroying the 9 realms, Ant-Man uproots the tree, causing the Odinforce to drain from Loki and back into Odin. As a result, Odin awakens immediately. The Avengers return to Earth with great success and earn the respect of the gods themselves. As for Loki, his punishment is revealed to be the same as in Norse mythology: a serpent will drip venom into his eyes until the end of time.
So the big three-part finale was all in all pretty great. The creators did a great job of giving each character a moment to shine. The character with the most interesting character arcs was Hank, who was struggling with his identity as a superhero but still wanted to contribute to the team. Hawkeye was witty and clever as always. Steve has a great moment where he shows his drive to be a hero and help over any kind of want for himself when it is offered. He also gets to be a little sassy early on which is always. If anyone ended up left out it was ironically Thor, who was a damsel in distress for most of the three-parter.
The animation in this three-parter was top notch with Wasp, Ant-Man, and Iron Man all getting an Asgardian upgrade and looking great. This is an episode where Jack Kirby's influences on the design are felt. The action scenes were all well done with every getting a chance to shine. Even the the Asgardian characters.
The episodes also do a good at environment and world-building. We learn what the 9 nine realms are, see a bit of them, and see how they function a bit. Which is so much more than ever get in the MCU. The stakes in EMH feel so much more real because takes the time to world build.
As I said way back in the Thor introduction episode I feel like the family dynamic and backstory are a little lacking. Loki is a huge improvement over Ultron from the last episode, but he's still not the villain. Don't get me wrong the voice actor is giving it his all and there are moments where is enjoyable in what bastard Loki is. But there just feels like a lack of dramatic weight to it all. Like, we never learn at what point Loki went from mischief-maker to straight-out villain and the narrative seems indecisive if all this is a new development for Loki or if he was always like this. Which takes away from the dramatic weight of Thor's brother being the villain. It feels like Loki could be anyone and things would play out the same.
My overview of the first season of EMH overall is that I truly think it was fantastic. I would be pretty hard-pressed to pick who my favorite character was. We have Steve Rogers being his perfect good-hearted self. I did not expect to end up liking Hank Pym as much as I did. Love the fact that Hulk is a fully realized character with a personality and motives, something that is so absent in all of the movies. T'Challa was a great addition to the team as kind of a quit foil. The creators understand the heart of all these characters and know how to utilize them well.
I also adore the animation of the series. I love it when characters design followers' rule of silhouette. The frame rate and motions were pretty smooth and sleek and the show's use of colors and shadows was always so on point. I look at comic book cartoons from the past decade and they more often look so bland and generic. Not necessarily bad but dull. This show never does and also does expressions really well. I could gush all day about how much I liked the animation style.
I give The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes a huge recommendation. It is a good time. After so many recent disappointments in the MCU, it's a nice reminder of why I liked Marvel stuff and hope that in the next 10 years or so it hits that nostalgia cycle. If people really wanted to they could so all some deep dives and metas for the characters.
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ToM:R Timeline!
Here’s the Tales of Mewni: Ragnarok timeline! Everything from beginning to end will be updated here, along with individual chapter posts! Stay tuned!
Chapter 1: Hated Snakes - When both the Greek and Norse Pantheons are called to Asgard, Loki meets and talks to an interesting person who provides him an interesting opportunity...
Chapter 2: Preparations to Be Made - Before Heedsi can begin his rehabilitation, he must met with Cordelia in a neutral zone. 
Chapter 3: First Things First - Loki is called to Avalon for his first lesson in proper etiquette for a God, complete with help from the Sun Goddess of another pantheon.
Chapter 4: An Ant Among Giants - Loki returns to Jotunheimr to discuss the shrinking numbers of the Jotnar with the King of all Jotnar, his father Farbauti...
Chapter 5: A Cold Fight for Freedom - Farbauti, the Titan King of Jotunheimr, has come to Mewni to force Sigurda, and all Jotnar who followed her path, back to their realm...
Chapter 6: Dead Conversation - Cordelia visits the Death Realm - the dominion of the dead and all underworlds - to talk with two gods regarding Loki’s rehabilitation...
Chapter 7: Family Matters - Called back to Avalon once more, Loki is confronted by Cordelia about what happened between him and Baldr all those years ago...
Chapter 8: Brothers - With nothing to lose, Loki beseeches Odin to lessen the punishments placed upon his children.
Chapter 9: The Impending Blizzard - An emissary of the Norse Pantheon arrives in Mewni to discuss Sigurda’s intentions with settling there.
And there we go, all caught up! Major characters not made by me are the following, along with who made them!
Cordelia belongs to @kururu418!
Sigurda belongs to @laylaylamode!
And Apollo/Baldr belongs to @princesscallyie!
Hope you guys have been enjoying it so far! This post will get periodically updated with every new chapter!
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could i get a director's commentary on loki's coronation ritual in chapter one of yonder? i love the way it's structured.
Yes, of course! Let's do this old school DVD commentary style since it's a long scene and it's been a minute since I've done the line by line thing, which is always very fun.
The coronation was either the first or second scene written -- I can't remember now. It's something of an artifact of when the story was originally going to be more Loki-focused, closer to Yonder that way, and I'm not sure I would have made that choice if I had known upfront it was going to be a Steve-and-Natasha-centric story. But once it was written I wanted to keep it.
I actually wrote this coronation and the one in Morning 9 back to back, though I can't remember which was written first. If the one in Morning (which takes its cues from Thor's coronation in Thor, which Yonder establishes is to crown a co- or junior king rather than a ruling monarch, in the fashion of the Roman augustus and caesar (senior and junior emperor) system) is the public ceremony that the Valkyrie refers to, then this is the private version meant entirely for the people of Asgard. This is the coronation ceremony that crowns a ruling king, which is why it's distinct from Thor's coronation.
“This is the old way,” the Valkyrie had said when she was telling Natasha that the humans could watch the coronation but they had better stay the hell out of the way. “Bor and Odin prettied the public parts of it up when they decided that there was no reason that Asgard shouldn’t rule the Nine, but this is what all that gilding covers up. It’s what our ancestors have done since before the Aesir split from the Vanir. Odin did it, Bor did it, Buri did it before him – Thor never got the chance.”
The rivalry between the Aesir and the Vanir is referred to a few times in this story as well as in Yonder. The version of the history that the Aesir tell is that the Aesir left Vanaheim amongst some kind of conflict and eventually settled on Asgard.
I can't remember if this is said explicitly in Yonder, Horizon, Morning, or never and just threaded through all of them, but the way I have the Asgardian imperial system working is that Yggdrasil, the Nine Realms (which actually encompasses far more than nine planets), was a loose confederation prior to Bor's day. When Malekith and the Dark Elves went on their crusade, Asgard's victory over Svartalfheim let them rise to prominence, which is where the original Protectorate of the Nine Realms comes from, and that was political alliance with a much tighter grip than earlier. It didn't go to direct conquest until Odin's time, though over the millennia since Odin's and Hela's campaigns Asgard has very much backed off of direct rule and mostly just gone back to interfering in most cases. "Lord Protector" is a title that Loki still takes very seriously, as comes up in Yonder.
There was pain briefly on her face at the mention of Thor, but by now Natasha knew that the Valkyrie hadn’t known him for very long before the attack on the Statesman. Maybe it was the potential she mourned, not the man, but it was hard to tell. Maybe to the Valkyrie it didn’t really matter; maybe for her the two had been one and the same.
The Valkyrie only knew Thor for about a week in the timeline I use, which has Ragnarok and the attack on the Statesman very close together but not on the same day.
The old way, she thought now, watching the intent faces of the Asgardians in the flickering firelight of the bonfires set up at the top of the cliff face where New Asgard would be built. It was the dark of the moon, the night sky so clear that the stars looked like gems spilled out on dark velvet. She didn’t know if Asgard was up there somewhere, still shining, still visible from Earth because the light of its destruction hadn’t reached them yet.
Most of the time it was easy to pretend that the Asgardians were human, or at least close enough to it not to matter. They looked human unless you were close enough to note the handful of minute differences visible to the naked eye – a certain sharpness to their features, a heavier tread, a slightly lower center of gravity. Natasha suspected that there were more that even she just hadn’t noticed yet; it was easier to see when there were more Asgardians around than just Thor or Loki, where discrepancies could just be written off as individual quirks rather than characteristics of the whole species. Even after two months – nearer three now – she was still finding out all the numerous other ways in which Asgardians differed from humans in ways other than their lifespan and physical strength. It went beyond enhanced senses – it had been a shock to realize that they really could see in the dark, something she had vaguely been aware of when Thor had been with the Avengers but written off only as good night vision.
Obsessed with making aliens be aliens, especially the more humanoid aliens like Asgardians. There are other physical differences that Natasha isn't aware of so aren't mentioned here, but they pop up occasionally in some of my other fic.
Their eyes flashed now in the reflection of the bonfires – fewer than two hundred and fifty people, from the oldest grandmother to the two infants in arms (one with its father, one with an older sister), less the handful of Asgardians who had been cloistered in the purpose-built little hof for the past twelve hours. Natasha was uncomfortably aware of how small and human she was compared to them and was glad to have Steve and Bruce with her, the three Avengers standing at the back of the gathered crowd. Since they were allies, they hadn’t come armed – Natasha wasn’t even wearing her widow’s bites – but it left her feeling vulnerable in a way she disliked. It wasn’t that she thought she was in any danger, since the Asgardians seemed barely aware of the humans watching them. But she didn’t belong here. None of them did, never mind that it was their planet in the first place.
The number of surviving Asgardians was established in Yonder: 223 in New Asgard, 143 on Vanaheim, and 9 elsewhere in the Realms. I think in retrospect I might have upped the number of survivors, but it is what it is and the numbers were set in Yonder.
I remember that there were a few early versions of this scene that had Rhodey present.
“The king comes!”
She didn’t see who had called out. It was a woman’s voice, but that didn’t mean much; three out of every four Asgardian survivors were women. Others took up the cry until Natasha could feel it pulsing in her bones.
Something else established in Yonder: between Ragnarok and the attack on the Statesman Asgard has a pretty drastic gender disparity, since most of the male Asgardians were killed fighting either Hela or Thanos's forces.
“The king comes! The king comes! The king comes!”
In the glittering firelight that punctuated the lambent darkness, Loki’s eyes gleamed with reflected brilliance.
He was in white – undyed wool, rather – and it was pale against the darkness as he came up the marked path from the hof, accompanied by the Valkyrie and one of the other Asgardian survivors. He looked very little like the would-be conqueror Natasha remembered from six years earlier, his hair loose around his shoulders and his hands empty at his sides. She couldn’t see his expression from here.
The first of several tests. Note that Loki is never the one who responds to the initial question.
An Asgardian man stepped out of the crowd before Loki and the two women could enter the circle of firelight and set the butt of his spear against the ground, blocking their way. “Who comes?”
“The King of Asgard,” the Valkyrie said. “The Allfather of the Aesir.”
None of the other Asgardian royal titles (Lord Protector, etc.) are being used, emphasizing that this is a ceremony solely focused on the Aesir.
“Who claims this?”
“I do.” Loki’s voice was hoarse. “I am Loki, son of Odin, son of Bor, son of Buri. I am Loki, son of Frigga, daughter of Fjörgynn, son of Nörvi. I am Loki, brother of Thor, son of Odin; I am Loki, brother of Hela, daughter of Odin. I am Loki, blood-son of Laufey, son of Bergelmir, son of Þrudgelmir, son of Ymir. I do not know my blood-mother.”
Loki doesn't find out that Farbauti is his birth-mother until that scene in Yonder 6. Fjörgynn is the mythological Frigg's father. Bergelmir and Þrudgelmir are both mythological jotunns; I figured Laufey's parentage would be well-known enough that Loki would know it. (Best I could find there is no parentage for the mythological Laufey, who in the myths is Loki's mother, not father; Marvel switched the genders of the parents.)
“Will any vouch for you?”
“I do,” said the Valkyrie. “I am Brunnhilde, daughter of Viðrir, last of the Valkyrie. My oath is to the throne of Asgard; I have sworn my sword to Loki Odinson.”
Viðrir is one of Odin's many names -- not that I think the Valkyrie is Odin's daughter on the wrong side of the sheets, I was just running through likely names. MCU's STILL never given the Valkyrie a real name; Brunnhilde is the name of the comics character.
“I do,” said the other Asgardian, a handsome older woman whose dark hair was shot through with threads of silver. “I am Eir, daughter of Hjukí, healer of the house of Odin. I have seen Loki Odinson grow from babyhood to manhood: he is the son of Odin.”
We never see Eir's fate in Ragnarok so I have made the executive decision that she survives -- as Natasha says in a later chapter, it's the equivalent of having Loki's pediatrician survive, but it also means that there's someone who has a long history with the royal family surviving who can vouch for him. Hjuki is another Norse mythological figure, who might be related to health/healing.
The Asgardian man stood aside. “Pass, then, King of Asgard.”
The trio proceeded nearly a double handful of steps until another Asgardian stepped out of the crowd. She held a battered shield in one hand and brought it up before her. “Who comes?”
The passage between each of the tests is nine steps, from the Völuspá in the Poetic Edda, which talks about the mythological Ragnarok. Although Thor fights and defeats Jormungandr, the world serpent, he is poisoned by its venom and is only able to take nine steps before he falls and dies.
“The King of Asgard,” the Valkyrie repeated. “The Allfather of the Aesir.”
“By what right does he claim this?”
“By kin-right; I am the son of Odin, King of Asgard, who has passed the great gates and feasts now in Valhalla; I am the brother of Thor, King of Asgard, who has passed the great gates and drinks now in Valhalla with all the rest of our kin.” Loki’s voice broke slightly on his brother’s name, but he didn’t hesitate. “By acclaim of the Althing, who are the voice of Asgard and speak for all the Aesir.”
My "Asgard is an elective monarchy" agenda. The Althing is still the parliament of Norway and has been for the past millennia plus.
“Will any vouch for you?”
“Of those among the living I alone saw my father and my brother die,” Loki said. “It is my word alone you must trust in this. My brother –” He stumbled over the words, but managed to push on. “My brother died for me, and I will carry the burden of that all the days of my life.”
Natasha had the sudden visceral memory of Loki screaming in Wakanda after Thanos had snapped his fingers and left them all behind – that awful, barely comprehending grief of someone pushed to their breaking point. He had screamed until his voice gave out, the only real sound that Natasha could remember from that first awful hour. Everything else she remembered only in flashes of sensation – the breeze on her face, the ruined metal of the War Machine suit under her hands as they had pried Rhodey out of it, Steve’s bruising grip on her as he had wept. All of it overlaid by the memory of Loki screaming.
Yonder establishes Loki just snapping and screaming and screaming after Thanos leaves. Didn't know at this point that the Battle of Wakanda was going to make it into Horizon. Rhodey has to be pried out of the War Machine because Thanos crushes it with, I think, the Power Stone.
A woman stepped out of the crowd of Asgardians – barely more than a girl, at least by human standards; Natasha still wasn’t certain what that meant for an Asgardian. She was visibly pregnant, her hands resting on the curve of her belly. “I speak for the Althing,” she said. “I am the voice of Asgard and the tongue of the Aesir. By our choice Loki Odinson is King of Asgard and Allfather of the Aesir.”
Deliberate choice to have a pregnant woman as voice of Asgard, signifying both present and future.
The other woman lowered her shield and stood aside. “Pass, then, King of Asgard.”
Natasha counted the number of steps Loki took before his path was blocked again – nine steps, carefully measured. The gray-haired man who stopped him this time had a sword in each hand, bringing them up before him in an X. “Who comes?”
Not named in this scene, but this is Ullr, who appears again in the next chapter. Ullr is the Norse god of skiing and hunting, and associated with swearing oaths -- oaths in this 'verse, where there are a few other mentions of whether he can/should get Loki out of his. It's mentioned briefly later, but Ullr wasn't on Asgard during Ragnarok, he was with the Asgardian garrison on Vanaheim and chose to come to New Asgard. He's one of the older surviving Asgardians. The mythological Ullr is the son of Sif; it's not mentioned in this story, but he's probably either her father or her uncle, some kind of relation.
“The King of Asgard,” said the Valkyrie. “The Allfather of the Aesir.”
“Loki Jotun-born, by his own admission,” said the man, who was muscled like a blacksmith and might well have been one. “Laufeyson, not Odinson. What right has he to Asgard? What claim does he have on the Aesir? Go back to Jotunheim, frost giant.”
The tests have to actually be TESTS. They're ritualized, but it's not a gimme that Loki will get through them.
From the way Loki flinched back, Natasha guessed he hadn’t expected this, though neither Eir nor the Valkyrie looked surprised. His mouth worked silently for a moment, then he said, “Jotunheim has no – no claim on me, nor I on Jotunheim. By our laws and Jotunheim’s there is nothing between us, neither by kin-right or law-right.”
Note that kin-right and law-right are two separate things here, as are Asgard's and Jotunheim's legal codes.
“Kin-right, law-right.” The man made a scoffing sound. “No child of the Aesir are you, sly-skinned false godling. No Ás fathered you, no Ásynja bore you. Even the rime-cursed Jotnar cast you out.”
This was the part where I had to really sit down and grapple with the hold that genealogy and blood descent have on high fantasy, and I tried to be really careful with my phrasing throughout this scene, since Loki's claim to the throne relies so heavily on his kin-relationship to Odin and Thor, and I didn't want to accidentally default to blood-relationship language.
Loki’s eyes were shocked and huge with hurt, but there was more resignation on his face than anything else – the shock, Natasha thought, came from the fact that the accusation had come so publicly, not that it had come at all. His gaze flickered to either side very quickly; whatever he saw on Eir’s and the Valkyrie’s faces seemed to reassure him. What had come as a surprise to him had clearly been planned by the two women.
It still took him a moment to answer, his tongue darting out to moisten his lips. “Jotun-born am I, yes,” he said haltingly. “No Ás fathered me, no Ásynja bore me. But never have I known any father but Odin Borson, nor any mother but Frigga Fjörgynndottir, nor any brother but Thor Odinson. In all the years of my life I have called no realm home but Asgard, no house such but the great palace of Valaskjalf. Sly-skinned am I, yes, but this skin is my own by choice; I know no people but the Aesir, nor would I have any were they offered me.” He took another breath. “I was offered that choice. I denied it. The Aesir are my people by my choice, not by raising alone. I have no claim on Jotunheim; Jotunheim has no claim on me.”
Loki's ritual language slips a little with "I was offered that choice" -- a reference to his time with the Black Order. I wanted to really, really emphasize here that this is Loki's choice to stay with Asgard, to continue being Asgardian, to remain with the Asgardian people, to continue claiming his family.
The repetition of the "I have no claim on Jotunheim; Jotunheim has no claim on me" is Asgardian legal language, going back to the fact that Asgard and Jotunheim have different laws. By Jotun law Loki lost all legal rights when Farbauti made the decision to abandon him, but by Asgardian law he still has some rights. He has to revoke them in order to take the Asgardian throne, giving up what he calls on at the beginning of IW when he calls himself "rightful king of Jotunheim." (In Yonder when he invokes the "name of Jotunheim which bore me" during the summoning it's actually a major, major legal fuck-up, which is what Farbauti takes him to task for.)
“Will you go to the gates of Valhalla and ask those whom you claim as your kin if they see it so?”
Only way to go to Valhalla is to go to the verge of death.
A muscle jumped in Loki’s jaw, the flickering firelight illuminating the sharp planes of his face. He was very pale. “Yes.”
The Valkyrie stepped forward. “Even the divine Aesir may pass the great gates but once,” she said, grasping the hilt of her sheathed sword. “My oath is to the throne of Asgard. I can let no harm come to Odin’s kin while I yet draw breath.”
A woman stepped onto the pathway behind the man with the swords – Forseti, the goddess of justice. Her voice rang out clearly as she said, “If he is worthy, then he may go to the great gates and no further.”
Because "worthy" isn't a loaded term at all in the MCU.
“Not even the divine Aesir may go that far without dying themselves,” said Eir.
“Every living thing must die, even the gods,” Loki said; there was a heavy ritual note to the words, as there had been to everything that had happened since the sun had gone down. “Even stars burn out.” He shut his eyes briefly before he went on, his breath coming out in short, sharp pants; he was afraid. “I have faced death before. Death is an old friend. One way or another I will see my kin again.”
Callback to what Loki says to the Ancient One and later Thanos in Yonder. One of the recurring themes in Norse mythology is that the gods lose in Ragnarok; they aren't immortal in the way, say, the Greek gods are. They can still die. And Loki's pretty fresh off both Ragnarok and the massacre on Statesman, not to mention the Snap; he and the other Asgardians are all VERY aware that they can die. Loki's also scared that at the end of the day, he's not Asgardian by birth; he might not be able to survive what an Asgardian could.
The man looked at him for what felt like a long time, though was in reality only a few seconds, then lowered his swords and stepped aside. “Pass then, King of Asgard.”
Loki moved past him to stand before Forseti; the other Asgardian moved back into his former position before Eir and the Valkyrie could follow him. “This path can be walked only by one. Your oath has no place here, last of the Valkyrie.”
“I will guard his body, then, while his spirit goes seeking,” the Valkyrie said, and sat cross-legged, drawing her sword as she did so and resting it across her knees. Eir sat beside her in the same position, her hands resting palm-up on her knees.
Loki stood looking at Forseti – a tall, dark-skinned woman with her hair dressed in elaborate braids. A girl stepped out of the crowd and offered Forseti a wide-bowled cup, flicking a fascinated glance at Loki as she did so. Forseti took the cup, careful not to spill a drop – firelight gleamed off the surface of the golden liquid that filled it to the brim – and passed it to Loki.
Alcohol, honey (of course), drugs that thin the veil between the realms of the dead and the realms of the living, and more drugs to accelerate even an Asgardian's accelerated healing.
He raised it in salute. “I drink to our glorious dead!” he cried, then raised it to his lips, his throat working as he drank. He didn’t pause for breath, just tipped it back; when he was done, he turned the cup over to show it was empty before passing it back to Forseti.
A lot of the ritual language in this scene goes back to Loki's battlefield prayer/speech and the toasts in Yonder. Asgard's religion is a form of ancestor worship; there's a difference between the divine (living) Aesir and deified (dead) Æsir, and it's the latter Loki's calling on here.
He was breathing hard as he went to his knees with what Natasha thought was exaggerated care. Even in the flickering firelight that she could see that his normally-pale eyes were dark, the pupils blown wide; she guessed that whatever had been in that cup hadn’t just been alcohol. He put one hand to the ground in front of him, then touched a clod of soil and grass to his lips. “Earth must be fed.”
The "Earth must be fed" line is actually borrowed straight out of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse and isn't from Norse mythology at all, though in its original appearance back in Yonder, when it's Sif doing so at first, it was a reference to the mythological Sif as an earth goddess, bridging war/death and earth.
There was an echoing murmur from the watching Asgardians, like a swift flurry of wind through cornstalks. Beside her, Steve shifted uneasily, one hand twitching like he was thinking of crossing himself with his old childhood instincts. The back of Natasha’s neck prickled and she found herself feeling automatically for the widow’s bites she wasn’t wearing, as though they might have any place here.
I have a whole elaborate headcanon/backstory for Steve's relationship with religion that's mostly only hinted at in Horizon and later Home.
It wasn’t the planet Earth the Asgardians meant, she knew. It was primordial earth, where the Asgardians believed that the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasil were watered by the three wells that ran through all the realms.
Primordial earth as the place where the roots of Yggdrasil are watered by the three wells is from Yonder -- the wells are from Norse mythology, primordial earth is mine. Asgardian religion and cosmology is NOT Norse mythology.
Forseti touched her fingers to her lips in the same gesture, then drew a knife out from inside the loose sleeve of her gown. As Loki raised his gaze to her, she stooped and in one quick, liquid motion cut his throat.
A few earlier versions of the scene had sacrificial animals, because I did want to have a blood sacrifice. I was thinking about different ways to do this scene and play more into the alien-ness of the Asgardians and eventually hit on actually bringing Loki to the edge of death, because of the Asgardian accelerated healing. As he tells Natasha the next morning, if he dies, he dies: there has to be real risk.
Steve jerked forward as the knife flashed. Natasha and Bruce both grabbed his arms, Natasha hissing, “Remember the Valkyrie said not to interrupt, no matter what happened.”
This is the only line of dialogue any of the humans have in this scene.
Loki hadn’t even flinched as the knife opened his throat, sending a spray of blood across Forseti’s face and gown. He was gasping now, his blood a dark waterfall across his chest as he raised his empty hands over his head, turning his face upwards towards the stars – absurdly bright out here, far from Oslo or any other city. His voice was hoarse as he spoke, barely audible from having his throat laid open nearly to the bone, and his eyes were glowing gold.
The gold-glowing eyes are a reference to Heimdall's eyes -- Loki can see well beyond what a normal Asgardian can right now.
“I stand at the gates of Valhalla and they are open for me!” he cried, his pale face ecstatic in the firelight. “There beyond them do I see my father and my mother. There beyond them do I see my father’s father and my mother’s mother. There beyond them do I see my father’s father’s father and my mother’s mother’s mother and all the line of our people back to the beginning of time.”
This is a take on the Viking prayer for the dead that was dramatized in The Thirteenth Warrior and which Thor: Ragnarok later used parts of when Thor is mourning Odin on Sakaar: Lo there do I see my father, Lo there do I see my mother, my sisters, and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning. Lo, they do call me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever. (The Thirteenth Warrior, based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead, which in turn is based off Beowulf, does not really...hmm. either age well or hang together, but the prayer for the dead was probably its greatest legacy: it's a good scene. This version also has ibn Fadlan's prayer at the beginning. Fun fact: the red-headed Viking in the mail shirt is actually played by the same actor as Bor in TDW.)
There were tears running down his face, shining in the firelight as he rocked back and forth on his knees. The wound in his throat was still streaming blood, but Natasha could see it already beginning to close. His voice rose again, stronger now.
Loki is, quite literally, having a religious experience, because he didn't actually know if it would work. Not just because it really could straight-up kill him, but because he didn't know if it would work because he isn't Asgardian by birth.
“Even now my kin are pouring out the grave-ale in the great hall where the brave will live forever! They are calling to me! They bid me take my place among them beyond the great gates which even the divine Aesir may pass but once!”
Still playing off the Viking prayer for the dead. Loki uses the same language during the prayer/speech before the battle in Yonder.
There was a low rising murmur from the watching Asgardians. They seemed to eddy like a tide, leaning towards Loki as though they could see what he saw, into the afterlife where all of Asgard but them now dwelt.
Every living Asgardian has in the space of a few days seen ninety-nine percent of their species die, their planet destroyed, and then half of the remaining one percent of surviving Asgardians be snuffed out of existence. For the king -- the interlocutor between the living Aesir and the dead Æsir -- to be able to publicly see and speak with the dead...it's a big deal.
Loki threw his head back suddenly, voice raised in a wordless hawk-screech of triumph as he spread his arms to the stars above him. “Allfather Odin!” he shouted. “Your son calls you! God to god, king to king, Allfather to Allfather! My people, who were once yours, send me now to stand at the gates of Valhalla to look upon the faces of the Æsir and the Ásynjur; I may come this far but no further, for they are calling me back to them.”
Another line straight out of Loki's prayer/speech in Yonder. If you pay close attention to Yonder and Horizon, you'll notice that outside of this ritualized language, no one ever refers to Odin as Allfather again; Loki is the only one who gets that title until he also gives it to Thor in the final chapter of Yonder.
He paused to take a breath, his face gilded with tears as he cried out again. “Allmother Frigga! Your son calls you! God to goddess, king to queen, Allfather to Allmother! My people, who were once yours, send me now to stand at the gates of Valhalla where all the line of our kin have passed before; I may come this far but no further, for they are calling me back to them.”
The wound across his throat was little more than a thin red line now.
“I bid you pour a cup for your son in Valhalla and think of me kindly until I come to dine with you again, for even the gods must die. Hail Æsir! Hail Ásynjur!”
Yonder again. Loki says the same thing before he bloods Thanos and then turns him over to the other leaders of Yggdrasil.
Whatever Loki had been about to say next died on his lips as his eyes went wide. “Thor!”
Not ritualized, not expected. But who else would it be?
He jerked forward with his hand outstretched, reaching for something – someone – no one else could see. There was a sudden stillness in the air, all of the Asgardians staring fixedly at Loki with somehow even more intensity than they had before. By now there was no question that Loki loved his brother beyond all reason, despite what Natasha thought were several determined attempts to kill him; every Asgardian there had to be terrified that given the chance he would follow Thor into death.
“Thor,” he said, pleading. “Brother –” He was weeping now in earnest, tears spilling from his still-golden eyes and dripping off his chin to water the earth where he knelt.
Earth must be fed.
There was agony on Loki’s face as he finally drew his hand back, curling briefly in on himself with his palms pressed to his stomach, as if holding in a mortal wound. “I cannot do it,” he whispered. “I cannot do it. There is no one else.” He raised his head again, golden eyes glowing in the firelight before they began to fade back to his normal blue-green. “Asgard is ashes and atoms and all of my kin are feasting now in Valhalla, save for she who rules in Hel. I will have no homecoming in this life, not until I come to the great gates once more.”
As the gold fades from his eyes his vision is returning to the real world.
One of my favorite bits in this scene, and I went through a lot of variations on Loki's exact phrasing. At the end of the day it always has to be his choice, whether to stay and take up the responsibility or to walk away. I've always seen Loki as having a very strong sense of responsibility.
It's left deliberately vague whether he really saw Thor or if Thor spoke to him. A few later scenes call back to this specific sequence:
“Not long now, brother.” Loki’s voice was so low that Steve didn’t think he would have heard it if they hadn’t been standing side by side. The words weren’t meant for him anyway. “Meet me at the gates.” (Horizon 16, flashback to the Battle of Wakanda)
and of course, when Loki returns to New Asgard in the last scene
The great hall’s carved wooden doors were shut to keep out the cold. Loki vanished his glowing ball with a twitch of his fingers and took a deep breath, then pushed open the doors.
Light and sound spilled out, the cheerful scrape of the guitar- and fiddle- like Asgardian string instruments and the characteristic three stroke double-beat of the drums, a woman’s voice singing along with it. It continued on for a few seconds before someone noticed the open doors.
“The king!” someone cried, and then in eerie echo of the coronation ceremony months earlier, “The king comes! The king comes!”
“King Loki!” The little girl who had brought Loki the kittens to bless the day they had left came tearing down the aisle, making Loki stagger backwards as she flung herself into his arms. “King Loki, you’re back!”
They might not be the great gates of Valhalla and it might not be his family, but he gets a homecoming at the doors of Iðavoll nevertheless.
Loki stayed on his knees for a few moments more, then rose to his feet, a little unsteady as the Valkyrie came to help him – the man that had blocked her path had stepped aside. He took the knife that the Valkyrie handed him and breathed on it, raising it so that the mist of his breath could be seen on the metal, then drew the blade slowly and deliberately across his palm. The wound began to close up again nearly as soon as he took the blade away and held his hand up but the blood ran down his wrist to stain the sleeve of his white shirt. “I bleed! I breathe! I live! I have gone to the great gates but no further; I have looked upon that which is not to be looked upon by the eyes of the living and I will not see its like again in this life. I have spoken with the Allfathers and Allmothers who came before and returned to stand before you now.”
To show that he's returned in body, not just spirit: he draws breath, he bleeds. Note how quick he starts to heal up again; the drugs in the drink are still working on him.
He flung the knife point-down into the ground before him, where it stood quivering like a giant bee, and let his gaze travel around the circle of watching Asgardians. “I am Loki, King of Asgard, God of Mischief, Allfather of the Aesir! Does any deny me? Speak now!”
This is the first time Loki himself claims his titles; previously during the coronation Eir and the Valkyrie have announced him.
The only sound was the crashing of the waves against the cliff below them.
“Speak now!” It was Eir.
Another long pause.
“Speak now!” Forseti cried out.
Silence, and then someone – Natasha couldn’t tell who – shouted out, “The king comes!”
Others took the cry up. “The king comes! The king comes! The king comes!”
As if it had been a signal, the Asgardians began to kneel – one by one at first, then in clumps and finally the stragglers in a great wave, until Loki and the three humans at the back were the only ones still standing. Steve twitched a little, uneasy – possibly at the same memory Natasha was having right now, but somehow she could feel the difference between this and Stuttgart. Maybe it was the expression on Loki’s face. Maybe it was the hum of magic in the air, something that raised the hair on the back of Natasha’s neck and made her feel painfully small and human. Like she was the alien here, not the Asgardians.
Loki's got a complicated history with large masses of people kneeling to him.
“I am King of Asgard,” Loki said again – for himself this time, the words falling like stones into a still pond. He shut his eyes, as if trying to hold onto the shining image of whatever it was he had seen when Forseti had cut his throat. “Farewell, brother,” he whispered into the firelit darkness, with the only other sound the pounding of the Skagerrak’s waves against the cliffs below. “Pour a cup for me and think of me kindly, little though I have deserved it at times. I will not see you again this side of the great gates. Wait for me a while longer, if you will.”
Another callforward to what Loki says during the Battle of Wakanda, that's quoted up above: "Not long [to wait] now, brother. Meet me at the gates." That scene was not written when this scene was, so that scene's actually a callback to this one.
I've said a few times that for a big chunk of Yonder I wasn't certain whether Thor was going to actually come back. That's even more true here, where we know that none of the snapped people are going to return for at least five years. One of the things that I really wanted to keep in mind throughout Horizon in regards to the Snap was that as far as any of the characters are concerned, they're dead. Really, truly, not coming back, dead. And for the Asgardians that goes double, because most of the Asgardians were massacred, not snapped. Loki has no idea that Thor was snapped and not killed until he shows up on the battlefield in Yonder. Part of him is always going to hang onto Thor, but he's also releasing him here, accepting that he has to stay on this side of the gates.
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buffyfan145 · 1 year
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I was thinking yesterday with the new footage of season 2 of “Loki” coming out again how Loki and Sauron are quite similar and it dawned on me that Haladriel really is similar to Loki and his wife Sigyn in ways. I always knew Tolkien was heavily influenced by Norse Mythology when creating all his stories as there’s gods, elves, dwarfs, men, and other similar creatures and Midguard being Middle Earth especially when I started reading it myself after the first “Thor” film having already been a fan of LOTR (and thanks to Neil Gaiman’s condensed modern English writing of it). But of course loving Loki I was always fascinated about the story of his wife Sigyn, who in Marvel Comics gets the title the Goddess of Fidelity for loving him and staying by his side through out all the trickery and mischief he causes. Sigyn’s normally depicted as an Asguardian with having blonde or red hair and blue eyes, while Loki is half Asguardian and Jotun but usually has the dark hair and green eyes but is also a shapeshifter too (and one of their sons became a werewolf). Not to mention Loki’s MCU costume resembles Sauron’s armor.
The big part that makes me think of Haladriel now too was he fell in love with her first and thought she wouldn’t love him as she was engaged to another. So he at one point shapeshifts into her fiance and tricks her into marrying him instead. She was angry at him for a while but the realized she actually loved him more than the guy she was supposed to marry and decided to stay with Loki as his real self. Then there’s also the story of how she helped him while he was imprisoned. Marvel Comics also gave Sigyn more story too as Loki taught her how to use magic similar to his own, and they did try to rule over the 9 realms at one point too as king and queen. Of course the MCU has redeemed Loki (and I love his relationship with his brother Thor) and while Sigyn seems to not exist they do seem to have given part of her story to Sylvie in the “Loki” series as she’s a female Loki from another universe and one of the MCU’s Loki’s love interests.
So do love having another ship of mine that Haladriel is reminding me so much of and that Tolkien would’ve known about as they were part of stories he grew up hearing and reading about.
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Masterlist
Currently on hiatus
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Eddie Munson:
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Ink:
Warnings: 18+ content, smut(varies from episodes), drug use, slight season four spoilers
Summery: Ava can't get her mind off Steve and turns to Eddie for help but it isn't the help she expected
Character looks
Epilogue
pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5
Season one (currently working on)
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Billy Hargove
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Bruised / one shot
Warnings: 18+ content, Talk of abuse (of course), Smut, degradation, rough sex, doggy style, spanking,
Everything Has Gone To Shit
Epilogue | Pt. 1
X Black character (No Name yet) Blurb (Coming soon)
The Fruity Four
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Crushes
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Peter/Henry/001
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Blood
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Marvel
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Loki:
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Goddess of nature: WARNING: Smut, cutting, mentioning of suicide, miscarriage, mentions of rape (not from Loki), and abuse Summery; in order to have an alliance with another realm Odin must have there daughter marry one of his sons the next king.
Natasha Romanoff
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Steve's sister: Warning: 18+ content, mentions of suicide, mentions of rape, cutting, eating disorder, PTSD, and alot of trauma. Summery: Steve had a little sister who he loved but left behind when he went into the ice but he doesn't know she went into her own personal hell
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I'm willing to write for most marvel, stranger things, and umbrella academy characters except for minors
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I don't like writing vanilla sex but I might be willing to it will just take longer
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