Okay, but when Loki eventually goes back to his own timeline, Sif needs to go with him. If she's not particularly attached to New Asgard or Thor in this timeline, then she could go back to a still-existing Asgard where her death left a vacancy and fill it. And she could provide support for Loki as he reconciles with his family, because OF COURSE by then they're going to be on much closer terms and they won't want to be separated anyway. THIS IS PERFECT. Although, one thing more, I'd like Loki and Sif to meet up with Thor and the Guardians because I think getting to see that a version of Loki is still out there alive would help Thor feel better and give him some closure. And knowing that in some timelines Asgard still exists, too. I think that would be comforting. Maybe hearing that he and Jane stayed together in that timeline might spur him to seek her out and rekindle things in his own. (Because Sifki is good, Sifki PLUS Fosterson is even better.)
Or...*thinks about it some more* Maybe Thor would be willing to return to New Asgard and take up the burden of kingship if Loki and Sif came back with him? Because I was not happy at all with him sloughing off his duty like that; so much for Asgard being a people when he just abandoned them all. As long as Loki did go back to his own timeline to let his family know he was alive, because Frigga at least deserves that much. And I think that if she knew there was a timeline out there where Thor had no other family left, she would support Loki returning there to be with him. And he'd be able to take a bunch of stuff back with him to New Asgard that would allow them to recover part of their lost heritage -- books, seeds and plant cuttings, etc.
Oh man, you don't even know the long conversations I had with poor CallistoNicol over this--I am not at all sold on my own ending. I definitely thought Sif could go back to Loki's timeline, but like you said, that leaves Thor completely alone, and that's sad for him and also I wasn't sure Sif would be willing to abandon her last duty: to protect the crown prince, even if that crown prince is off doing whatevs and doesn't seem to want to be protected. Plus then they'd have to lie about where Sif came from, because if it became known that Loki had the Space Stone, Thanos would try to destroy Asgard. Honestly I've wondered whether the best ending isn't Loki going back to his own time alone: the tragic but inevitable result of finding Sif is realizing that that ship has sailed, their chance has passed, and even when you turn your life around, there are opportunities now lost to you because of decisions you made in the past. He can't have Sif, but he can have his family back. I think that's a good ending, but a super sad one, and I wimped out and took the happy ending route. :)
But actually I am super digging your second paragraph! That would fix a lot of problems, because trying to get New Asgard back on its feet is a noble enough cause that it sort of circumvents the inherent selfishness in Loki wandering the time stream until he finds one he likes. :) Totally agree with you on Thor's ending being a bit of a letdown, especially when so much of his story arc was proving himself worthy of the throne and of Mjolnir; Loki inspiring him to return to his throne would be a lovely story. And you're right, I think Frigga would feel that her Thor, who is happy and safe and has found the love of life, needs his brother a lot less than post-Endgame Thor. And bringing things back to New Asgard to help them reclaim their culture and heritage is genius. Seriously, if I ever do a chapter 2, that will be it.
And yes yes yes to everything you said about Jane. She is still the best match for Thor, and that scene in Endgame where he was talking about her . . . he's not over her. They need to get back together.
Basically this was the best comment and you have so many good ideas.
So, I have been thinking more about Loki bringing some things back from his Asgard to New Asgard, and besides cultural things to share with the whole community, he'd probably want to pick up some of his own personal possessions as well. Because I think it's accepted fanon that Frigga would have had his rooms preserved, even when she thought he was dead. So imagine Frigga hanging out there with him while he decides which of his most treasured and useful possessions he wants to take back with him. And try to tell me that Frigga didn't weave blankets for both her boys that have been on their beds since they were children. (Tapestries, too, that are probably hanging on their walls.) So she's watching Loki carefully fold up his own special mom-made blanket, to take with him, and she thinks about future timeline!Thor not having anything of his own from home. None of the gifts that she's given him over the years. And she gets this determined look on her face, and she confirms that Loki can return to this timeline again if he wants to, and she tells him to return in however many months that she thinks that it'll take to make it, because she's going to weave a new blanket for this other version of Thor, so he can have something of his lost childhood and his mother back. And she gives Loki something to take to future Thor now, as well, some sort of present, and includes a letter saying how much she loves him and believes in him and maybe shares a few memories from when he was little and throws in some motherly words of wisdom, and imagine Thor absolutely breaking down and crying his eyes (er, eye) out when he gets it, but they're good tears, they're healing tears, it helps him so much to have the letter (which smells like Frigga's perfume, which he'd never thought to smell again) and the Thoughtful Gift (whatever it is), and when the blanket comes he wraps himself up in it and it's almost like being in his mother's arms again.
You are killing me, I am dead right now. That is the sweetest and saddest thing, Frigga weaving Thor a new blanket. Now I'm imagining Frigga sadly deciding what to send other!Thor . . . Frigga thinking about other!Thor, Thor who has lost everything and everyone, and deciding she's willing to sacrifice having Loki in her life if it means that other!Thor is happy (and if it means that Loki is happy, because he finally has Sif, who Frigga knows perfectly well he's always secretly cared for, and because Thor needs him in that other timeline, and he doesn't need him in the current one). Just think about Frigga coming to understand that it is not her lot to have both of her sons happy and whole in her life.
New headcanon for my own fic: Loki spends most of each year with Sif and Thor in the current MCU timeline, helping Thor run New Asgard, but he spends a few weeks each year in his own timeline, visiting his mother. Or maybe he brings Frigga to visit New Asgard occasionally (in disguise, obviously) so that Thor and Sif can see her too.
Regular visits!headcanon firmly accepted. Also -- imagine the popularity points Loki would gain with the New Asgardians if he showed up bringing things from old Asgard.
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