I was talking to my friends about this over the weekend and we’ve all come to the agreement that Odin is the husband everyone suspects of murdering the missing girl in every domestic thriller novel ever written.
He is a drunk middle aged man child who hates hearing the word no.
But he still has good qualities. Odin tells great stories and gives good advice, he’s a good strategist, and a fun drinking buddy. He’s a good person to have on your side. If he existed in a domestic thriller novel, Odin would be a grizzled veteran and head of the HMO. He would keep up on current events and neighborhood gossip that he could lord over the neighbors if need be, and he’d turn up at a bar to get drunk and complain about foreign affairs (the Jotnar). He would treat Frigg like a queen and be a middle-range dad.
Sort of strict and impossible to please but he’d make sure his kids have everything.
Meanwhile Frigg would be a super mom, head of the PTA, and make sure that everyone thought Odin was the perfect man and husband.
Loki would absolutely be the neighborhood gossip. He keeps Odin filled in on the neighbors’ dirt but not really in a malicious way. Just because he doesn’t really know when to stop talking. But he also knows all of Odin’s secrets because he knows exactly how quickly Odin will turn on a guy if you piss him off. It’s self-defense.
During the day, Loki is a stay-at-home dad and a house husband. He plays the guitar in a local band. Sometimes when Odin starts droning on about politics, Loki just cuts him off with a joke to change the subject because he just can’t listen to another second of it. Loki tells the best jokes and he’s friends with a million people online from just about everywhere. Sometimes he’ll just take his family and split heading off in a retro Airbus without telling anyone where he’s going. He always comes back with wild stories that no one believes.
Loki has absolutely been in bar fights. It takes a lot to make him snap but when he does he has a monstrous temper. Sometimes when he’s really angry and some idiot at the bar is annoying him, Loki will punch him in the mouth just to shut him up. Sigyn has had to bail him out of jail.
Loki lets his kids watch R-rated films as long as they don’t tell their mom. But of course they do. Sometimes the kids will come home with a note complaining that they were swearing in class and Loki always argues, “It’s just a word. It’s not bad grammar and it’s not like they were wrong anyway.” Cause they usually weren’t because, despite popular belief, Loki does have a rather strong set of morals. He teaches his kids to stand up for the little guy and to fight back, so in situations like this Sigyn has a hard time disagreeing with him.
Loki and Sigyn have an open relationship that everyone thinks is just an excuse for Loki to cheat.
Sigyn is a stressed out career mom and Loki isn’t exactly straight as an arrow. He’s been known to visit gay bars and she just wants him to be happy. He takes great care of the kids and treats her well, and it’s not as though she’s never had a side piece either. She’s not as innocent as people seem to think.
Angrboda is Loki’s on-again-off-again girlfriend. Odin doesn’t approve of her. Sigyn gets along with her most of the time. Loki has children with Angrboda and they come over most weekends to hang out with the twins. Hel is a bit of a moody teenager with a sarcastic streak. Loki treats her like a princess. Fenrir likes sports but inherited his father’s temper and Loki isn’t quite sure how to handle him all the time. Jormungandr is the quiet one. He spends a lot of time reading and drawing, and it takes a bit to draw him out of his shell. The twins are toddlers in the midst of their terrible twos.
Angrboda appeals to Loki’s more artistic side. She owns a popular tattoo parlor that Loki had been known to frequent even before they started seeing each other. She also volunteers at a dog kennel. She brings the kids with her because she wants them to know the importance of compassion and caring for animals. She lives in what Odin considers a bad neighborhood, but it’s perfectly nice. She inherited her house from her parents. Most of her furniture is eclectic and secondhand, and sometimes people ask her for decorating advice. She doesn’t have a housekeeper or anything, but it’s always clean and taken care of and the pets and kids are always well fed. Angrboda demands that her kids get perfect grades and they also go to school clean and well behaved.
If she ever hears anyone badmouthing Loki she always makes sure to get to the bottom of it. Cause let’s face it Loki isn’t the most popular guy. If someone is disrespecting her or her family she won’t hesitate to punch them dead in the face. Loki has had to bail her out of jail. Sigyn gets upset when this happens because she worries about the kids and it looks worse if a mother ends up in jail.
And I’m gonna stop here because I really can go on about this forever.
