Gods you have no idea how hard this was. Yes if you haven't guessed it by the title you finally get Thor! Honestly, it was one of those cases where I picked up my pencil and just told my hand "Go, be free. Do whatever you want. Seriously, go nuts". It did. So hope you enjoy this. Also I am so done with the Shakesperean speak which most authors write Thor in. Yes I appreciate it, I comend them on being able to write that but I can't so please don't expect it. Also he's now living on a Earth, with Darcy influencing him, do you people really think he'd still be speaking like that? So we'll have some man of irons but nothing more thank you.
*also to the guest Wolftattoo, umm I saw your review and while I'm grateful that you like my story enough to post a review like like that, I know Tony could probably bring SHIELD down if he so chose to, but that felt like something I needed to write Natasha say. Also Clint and Nat have history yes, but he is NO ONES bitch. And it may be your opinion that Fury is an ass but I didn't mean to portray him like that, just as someone trying to do the right thing and taking maybe a little too much advantage of an opportunity.
Midgard-Earth- was a place Thor didn't understand at all. Some days he felt he understood nothing and everything about humans. Some days he felt like a child, the only one who didn't know something in a room full of adults. And some days he was ancient, understanding everything better than anyone else.
Often Thor was thought of as immature, loud, unobservant and occasionally a little thick. He would be the first to admit that all of those did apply to him at some point. He had been a child that day at Jotunheim, throwing a tantrum because he could. He had had little to no tact, not even thinking before he blundered into things and Loki had to come help him. Loki. His brother. He owed the Man of Iron a great debt for giving him back his brother. Without Stark's intervention, Loki's mind would probably still be wandering or he would be locked in one of Asgard's prison cells. Perhaps -no, most certainly- his greatest failing was where his brother was concerned. The two had been unbeatable together, the perfect team. Thor was, to his people, hope. Brute strength like an Asgardian should be, formidable yet beloved of his people. Loki... He was the night to Thor's day. His protectiveness of those he cared for ran deeper than anything else and he would mercilessly cut down any perceived threat swiftly and with a vengeance. Thor was obvious, you could see him coming from a mile away. Loki? Loki was the knife you never saw until it slit your throat or embedded itself between your ribs. But Thor remained oblivious to the way his brother always had his back until he lost him. Until he went against him in battle and faced it without him by his side. Until he met a mortal by the name of Tony Stark. A man so similar to his brother it was painful.
Tony earned his prowess on the battlefield not due to brute strength but by his inventions, like Loki using his mind rather than attacking, running through ten different possibilities during the span of a few seconds and choosing to go with what he thought was the best option. Tony who was valued for his mind, like his brother should have been, who was respected for the achievements of what he created.
He was well aware now of his mistakes with Loki. Of how, instead of encouraging his brother's accomplishments he jested about them, they didn't matter to him. Whenever Loki used his skills to get them out of his messes how he and his friends called him Silvertongue, how that fateful day at Jotunheim, he had told his brother to "know his place". He hadn't valued his brother. Not until he was gone.
He would be damned if he made the same mistake with Stark.
Of course he saw how Tony overworked himself in his lab, the smithies at Asgard didn't even spend as much time on working as he did and they were Aether while Stark was mortal. He knew of the signs when someone was trying to prove themselves, the norns know how many times he dismissed the signs with Loki.
There was a reason why he willingly allowed Stark to run tests on Mjolnir in "the name of science" as Tony had put it, why he would encourage Tony in some experiment when all the others were wary of the results, and why he would sit and listen to Tony talk about some experiment especially when Banner was busy and he could only understand one word in twenty.
Yet even before Loki came back to Midgard for his sentence, Tony was the only one who said Loki may be redeemable. The one who willingly sat with Thor through the sleepless nights, listening to story after story of Loki, in fact giving Thor a new understanding of his brother, of the reasons for his action, for his betrayal. He was the first to see Loki as what he had been, a Trickster, instead of what he was perceived as, a Liesmith.
Ok so that's it for now. I have a Tony rant for how Loki didn't deserve the shit Odin gave him but I need to fix that first before even thinking of putting it up cos I might but maybe not. It would probably motivate me more if you told me whether you guys even want a Tony rant. And yes I know the guy himself hasn't been featuring much but ughhh I'm not even sure how to add him and this story has totally gone off rails as you can probably tell. So yeah. Sorry about that. Also I'm probably gonna keep updating previous chapters when I can so there's that too. Oh well. Hope you enjoy!
Oh and shameless self promotion here but I put up a one shot of Captain America, basically how everyone just writes that yeah, Bucky takes down Hydra, I sort of wrote how he got to that decision and I would really like some input on that.