Bend Around the Wind
by Scyllaya 2013
How do I even start on this?
Bend Around the Wind is the first longfic I remember reading. To this day, I’ve read it multiple times whenever I felt like some good Marvel content. Especially after the movies started to get darker.
Well, here’s the summary from AO3:
“ A few months after the battle of New York the God Loki appears back on Stark Tower under chaotic circumstances. This time however he is on the run. Tony Stark gets caught up in the crossfire and is taken along with the Aesir. Can the two of them ever make truce in order to get away? And even if they do, how does one escape from such a dark corner of the universe, when they are so very far away from the Nine Realms, that not even Loki knows the way back home. But first, they need to survive.”
So yeah, it’s set after the events of the first Avengers movie, and diverts from canon of mostly all MCU movies that came out afterwards.
You can consider this a roadfic in space. It’s great.
Amazing relationship build-up, interesting OCs, great comedy moments that feel like they could’ve been taken straight out of MCU’s comic relief itself. And don’t even get me started on all the character background that’s perfectly integrated into the main plot.
If pirates in space sound appealing to you, definitely give it a read! I know FrostIron is practically dead at this point but I still love this ship, so fight me. (please don’t fight me)
Rated E, unbelievable 403k words, 100 marvelous chapters
Here’s the magic link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/550896/chapters/981409