Frigga's Lodge

Want to ask Professor Loki Odinson a question? This is the place. Professor Loki (my ongoing Loki-centric series) https://archiveofourown.org/series/5857656

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New chapter 9 in fanfic series Professor Loki

"In Which the Birthday Preparations Are Under Control, Thanks to Loki's Inventions, Apart from One Dr. Strange - Related Complication"

Valkyrie burst forward. Two against two. Her twin blades moved in a synchronized, lethal pattern, a storm of iron that left no space for retreat. Sylvie met the assault with a flurry of parries, adjusting each step to turn brute force into empty air. Steel met steel in a relentless rhythm. Valkyrie smiled. Good. There she is. That's my girl.       Sylvie twisted aside, caught Valkyrie's blades, and drove forward with her own, forcing Brunnhilde back. Valkyrie's eyes narrowed. Sylvie took the bait; it was a risky maneuver – to attack with such desperation. One feint − and Sylvie lost her balance again, but this time Valkyrie showed no mercy and swept her legs out from under her. In the blink of an eye, Sylvie found herself sprawled on the floor.

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New Chapter 8 in fanfiction "Governor Loki". In Which Loki's Memories Manifest, Quite Literally, and the Hub Suffers the Consequences

"Mr. Odinson," she asked, "are you in pain?" The question hung in the air. Once again, Loki found himself at the center of his friends' attention. He cleared his throat. "There is no shame in admitting such things," she continued. "And you may relax. I am a qualified nurse with a diploma. I see these matters at first glance." Her enormous valise landed on the floor with a boom. She rummaged inside it and produced a white nurse's gown and a cap with a red cross. Now it was Loki's turn to look around for help, but all he found was amusement and curiosity. "So, Mr. Odinson. What level of pain are you currently enduring? Name it out of ten," the nurse duck asked.

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New Chapter 7 in fanfiction "Governor Loki". In Which Carol Is Interrogated and Rocket Is Pissed Because Loki Does What He Wants as Usual

Carol felt his presence before she could make him out: a man sitting on what looked like a giant throne, wrapped in a cloak of black shadow. She couldn't see his face; even the outline of his seated figure remained indistinct. She couldn't tell whether he was alive or dead. Then she heard his low voice, distorted by the echo, and trembled. "Hello, Carol."

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Chapter 5. "The Iliad of Governor Loki". In Which Deadpool Saves the Day, Captain Marvel Finds What She Was Looking For, and Governor Loki Steps into the Unknown

"One heartbeat, and Loki's eyes sparked with lightning. A second, and the Elders' stasis field cracked, and the spiders surged forward. A third, and Mjölnir was in Loki's left hand, and a bolt of green lightning shattered every spider on their level."

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New Chapter 4 in fanfiction "Governor Loki". In Which Shadow Pan Challenges the Professor, Three Knives Decide a Treaty, and Rocket Predicts Catastrophe

Governor Loki tackles his first major case and Rocket is forced to admit that B-15's risk management deserves far more respect than he had ever been willing to give it.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/86694231/chapters/232703821

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THE ILIAD OF GOVERNOR LOKI — NOW ON AO3 A sequel to The Odyssey of Professor Loki.

Doom failed to forge Battleworld because he forgot one variable: a man who exists in superposition across the Multiverse. As long as Professor Loki remains active, the Emerald King cannot be erased.

Now, a fragile Treaty holds. The Great Multiversal Hub stands on Earth-616B, a sanctuary for refugees, gods, and creatures from dying worlds. Its Governor is Loki Odinson — once a conqueror, now burdened with preserving reality itself.

But chaos has always been his domain. And the greatest danger in the Multiverse is not power. It is the belief that one has the right to wield it.

New chapters every Friday.

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Chapter 18: The Epilogue. The One Who Returned Home

"Actually, I wanted to ask you about that thing. Again," Stark began.

"No, Stark. I've already said no. No Avengers business. I'm a villain who served his sentence and repented. Now I write memoirs and theatrical comedies."

"I noticed you changed your genre. Your style of speaking too." Stark's voice was gentle. "Though, you know... sometimes I still see you. In you."

The Epilogue. The One Who Returned Home

The end of the Odyssey? Perhaps. The end of story? I don't think so.

Five years after the events of the last chapter. The Starks and the Odinsons are spending a quiet weekend together at Frigga's Lodge.

The last chapter in The Odyssey of Professor Loki

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Chapter 17: An Exam for Professor Loki, Set and Conducted by Kang

"An incursion! When two worlds, two Universes, collide. Only one survives. Or none." Kang shouted over the rising wind. "For us, you and me, it doesn't matter! We are out of this! The watchers of universes, which die and reborn every day."

The final battle begins. Thanos came to Wakanda, but he was not the enemy Professor Odinson feared most. Another waited in the shadows. The one who had orchestrated the trap. The one who knew far too much. After all, what could be more dangerous than crossing blades with a man who knows something about you that you do not? To defeat Kang, strength would not be enough. Fortunately, strength had never been Loki's favorite weapon.

A new chapter in the fanfic series of Professor Loki

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Monster and/or hero?

"Monster or hero? Ask yourself," whispered the one wrapped in green.

Why do we need monsters so much in our stories?

(a few thoughts I need to get out of my system while writing fanfic)

For me, it looked more like a trick than a proper narrative structure: to show the hero through an encounter with a monster, which then turns out to look suspiciously like the hero himself. A doppelgänger encounter, because every Odyssey, sooner or later, seems to find a mirror for its hero.

After all, what is an adventure if not spending time with the unknown, only to discover that it was very much known all along — a mirror to show you yourself?

So, when Loki in my fanfic story meets Hela and then Hulk, the question is: is Hulk no more than Hela, then? The hero saw himself in Hela’s destiny, and then again in Hulk’s. Ah, no, I told myself, something is different here.

Hela was a path one might take. Hulk was about blindness. Rage is blindness, in a way. Banner is not fully conscious of Hulk’s actions. And it turns out Loki was not fully conscious either, when he tried to achieve his great goals.

That is why it was so important to help him see it.

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Chapter 16: Your Package is Delivered to the Golden and Rose

"That'll be thirty gold pieces, my king." Valkyrie held out her hand. "I win."

A new chapter in the fanfic series of Professor Loki

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/80959836/chapters/226952621

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The moment your original character starts making their own decisions

Flox Odinson: "Grandfather said you could even see behind that door. If you still want to."

With canon characters, we already know so much about them. You can give them a recognizable trope, throw them into another angst trap, build an AU around them, and it works because we carry their history with us already. But original characters are different. They are often easier to talk to. They start dragging you through the story faster than you can keep up with them.

That was exactly what happened with Flox Odinson — my original child character, created for my fanfiction series Professor Loki.

Seeing Canon Loki through child's eyes turned out to be such a strange and unexpectedly emotional adventure. But there is also a trap hidden there: what if the character remains flat? What if they exist only to observe someone else’s story? Thankfully, Flox seemed to know exactly where he was going and what he was looking for in this narrative long before I did.

***The last, honestly, is a little terrifying.***

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Chapter 15. The One Who Predicted Ragnarök and Walked into it with His Eyes Closed

"People. Animals. A sprig of the World Tree. And memories. That's all that's left of our homeland."

A new chapter in the fanfic series of Professor Loki

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Chapter 5. Saturday evening, unexpected guests, and one forgotten premiere

Saturday evening in the Odinson household was supposed to be quiet. Instead, it involved a magical fever, a Sorcerer Supreme, and a theatre premiere that someone very important had completely forgotten.

AI-generated illustration. Fictional characters.

"I knew it! Alex! I knew it – he's not who he pretends to be!" Alex made a heroic effort to sit up. "Look here! I printed the photo from yesterday. You know what? I did it! I caught our professor. And he's not some stupid cosmology professor; he's a real alien invader!"

"The Odyssey of Professor Loki"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80959836/chapters/214377816

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Chapter 4: Family Saturday breakfast and other catastrophes

Saturday mornings in the Odinson household were never quiet. This one involved Thor, a game console, a prophetic child, and the first unmistakable sign that Loki was beginning to come back.

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"...A big, but not fat, cat jumped onto the kitchen island. It gave him a much-needed distraction. This must be the stray Sylvie had mentioned earlier. There was a bloody mouse in its mouth. Looked like it had come to its master with a gift.

Loki didn't seem to notice. But his bandaged hand drifted to the cat's back. The cat purred, pleased, and placed its offering in front of him.

Loki's long fingers touched it, seemingly by accident.

The bloody, but very much alive mouse woke in a flash of green light and darted away. The cat shot after it."

"The Odyssey of Professor Loki"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80959836/chapters/213228896#workskin

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Chapter 3: Three interviews, one adaptation and one Goodbye

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"Alex knew her job. She just needed to catch the wave, and then her interviewees would spill the sensation themselves. Besides, academia was her field. She knew exactly where to set her traps.

First: family. Wife, almost ten years together. Two kids - a boy and a girl. He relaxed. Good.

...

They met - the sunbeam, the ring, his finger. At that exact moment, Whitney took her one and only shot. All three of them were bathed in a flash of golden light"...

"The Odyssey of Professor Loki" https://archiveofourown.org/works/80959836/chapters/212741711#workskin

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I finally finished writing a long Loki story.

The Odyssey of Professor Loki

It’s about memory, family, and what happens after the End of Time.

Professor Odinson lives a quiet life in Nottingham… until the past starts catching up with him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80959836/chapters/212707326

CHAPTER 1 "In Nottingham there lives a perfectly respectable family…"