You adapted or used magic to alleviate the heat - sorry, used 'seiðr'. Also, living on a spinning golden whirligig was hot, as in, that universes sun reflecting off of metal hot, living on a metal meteor hot.
So what made one an Asgardian? Apparently, all it took was to live on Asgard for a few centuries, to the point that people forgot where you came from, or be born there. Not that there was any proof that Buri had anything to do with it. Why was Buri, the man who would be a builder and first king of Asgard, a Jötun? He was licked out of ice, Duh.įunny little loophole - since Buri wasn't born of Ymir's blood and instead licked out of ice, it wasn't considered patricide.
Plus Buri and most of his men were Jötun, with a few Vanir mixed in. Seemed kind of weird how involved the jötnar and Asgardians always seemed to be in these stories, and with Thor explaining that because Ymir was the basis for most life in Jötun and Asgardian existence? Kinda to be expected. Thor said some jötnar accused Buri and his mobsters of poisoning the cow, but there was no proof, and with Ymir out of the way, the Asgardians could take control of a finally fully formed tree-shaped cosmic nimbus and all the universes therein. Apparently refused anything but super cow milk.
Except, it wasn't Odin and his brothers that killed Ymir and made the cosmos out of his corpse, as Norse myth had it - more that Auðumbla somehow died and Ymir died of thirst. Auðumbla the super cow was apparently one of the first beings in existence in the galactic soup along with Ymir - the father of all Frost Giants.
but also finding out that, yes, Buri, father of Bor, father of Odin, was licked into being by a primeval supercow named Auðumbla that licked him out of a salty iceblock. Ok, so finding out that you basically were under the forced rule of intergalactic mobsters turned monarchs kinda sucked. a spinning gold disc in space at the tippy top of the Yggdrasil tree. A mob family that, after scouring most of Yggdrasil, took the majority of gold and minerals from claimed Realms, and used it to build a Golden Realm and crowned themselves Kings of the Universe. less like police and more like a mob family protecting claimed turf. after they had invaded and conquered most of it first. Tony had wondered out loud that if Earth was such a trailer park, why Odin and the Asgardians ever even bothered with it, to which Thor replied that they had to.Īpparently, the Asgardians were the self-proclaimed protectors and peacekeepers of all the Nine Realms. Earth, the Milky Way and all that Midgard contained. Which apparently was an anomaly, go humans!īut that also lead the rest of the Realms to view their universe as the weakest, well shit.īut also also that meant that none ever bothered invading Midgard hardly ever since it wasn't seen as worth it. But also kinda sucked to find out that humans really were the only native life in their universe. It was kind of gratifying that aliens named the whole of their universe, or Realm, after their one planet that contains humans. Imagine, a cosmic nimbus, a space cloud that contained nine universes in it, and Earth and what could currently be observed of their universe? Was just one Universe inside of it. Getting Thor to explain the Yggdrasil was fascinating as well. Thor was even amiable to telling all he knew about the history of his people, their interactions with Midgard and the other Realms, as well as the other species and their lives that lived out among the branches of the Yggdrasil. Though brash and most stories involving a tavern at some point, his adventures were entertaining to listen to, even when things went sour. The alien was jovial and an engaging storyteller. Tony would never have expected that Thor, a man that appeared so boyish and puppy-like, could be such a font of information. Loki partners with Tony after he leaves the Avengers, Favorite Loki Fics Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 87208 Chapters: 54/54 Comments: 21 Kudos: 182 Bookmarks: 28 Hits: 6618
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