hello all!! we the mods decided it would be a pretty solid idea to fill everyone in on the discussion we've got going on in the discord so I, mod Ebb, am here for that noble purpose!!
anyone else remember that one line in the bifrost incident, Thor saying "I don't care if my vengeance will us into civil war"? friends, that civil war is the one our lovely war trio got themselves tangled up in!! on one side, Thor and the revolution he finally decided to support, along side any fae who wanted to get involved and most of the part- fae polulation. on the other, Odin, trying desperately to keep control on her country, and manipulating her people into fighting this war for her.
Loki was one of the top researchers for Odin, she and baldur started a project with the intended goal being a magically enhanced missile that would wipe out whole areas of land and poisoning and corrupting the magic within (which explains why lyf lost their connection to the wild for a while!!) when Loki realized how far Odin was willing to go to maintain control over the land she defected, taking most of the research she had collected with her. and she joined the revolution! next bit is just my idea, haven't brought up the idea, but rocks mentioned how in the classic story Loki tricks baldurs blind brother hod into throwing a mistletoe dart at baldur, which kills him. so what if Loki comes back to try to assassinate baldur since he was the other big mind behind Odin's project and Loki just needs to buy the revolution some time, she idk maybe poisons him or something and gets hod to take the drink to baldur? she gets caught on the way out, however, and survives an absolutely horrendous time as a prisoner of war while Odin forces her to finish the project
thor is pretty solidly on Odin's side of the fight until he finds out that Loki has been kept alive as a prisoner, he defects and joins the revolution. just spitballing again but what if after the magic bomb goes off he travels back to the capital, kills Odin, and takes her place on the throne? idk I need to think more about Thor, he's been on my mind today
the bomb!! Odin managed to keep it secret enough that when it went off she could claim the royal court knew nothing about it, it must have been the soldiers going too far, she was planning on prosecuting any survivors as war criminals to maintain the good image of the crown. Tim, Bertie, and their squad were assigned to escort the bomb to it's detonation location. they didn't know what it was. when it went off it wiped out hundreds of square miles, leaving survivors very few and far between and badly injured. Tim was looking right at the blast when it went off. when they got picked up by a retrieval squadron looking to capture any survivors they realized that their country had straight up planned for them to either die or take the fall, so they burned down the camp and went on the run.
I think that was all we got figured out? but please add on anything I missed or other things y'all come up with! ok byeeeee (scurries back to my own blog to minimize any confusion if this turns into a full thread)
