THE INCARNATION

Summary: Loki's origins are not revealed on Jotunheim. He does not visit Thor on Midgard, nor does he send the Destroyer. Thor has to face a banishment that continues far longer than three days, forcing Thor to learn what it truly means to be mortal. I.E. The Adventures in the Proper Care and Feeding of Ordinary Mortals and Banished Alien Princes.

(noun) incarnation: The act of incarnating or clothing with flesh; the act of assuming flesh or a human body and the nature of man.

(noun) incarnation: In surgery, the process whereby a wound heals, the affected part becoming filled with new flesh; granulation.

(noun) incarnation: A representation in an incarnate form; a personification; a visible embodiment; a distinct exemplification in form or act.

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Thor sat in a chair with his hands bound together – the hands that failed to lift Mjolnir. They still shook behind him, still reeling with Mjolnir's accusations.

Unworthy.

Thor could not escape from the feeling of Mjolnir's unmoving handle beneath his fingers or how the muscles of his arms utterly failed to lift it.

You are unworthy.

A commonplace Midgardian man stood across from him, interrogating him on his action inside their temporary structure guarding the hammer. The tone of his voice was like ash mixed with water.

"The men you so easily subdued are highly-trained professionals, and in my experience, it takes someone who's received similar training to do what you did to them. Would you like to tell me where you received your training?"

"You are unworthy of these realms! Unworthy of your title! You're unworthy! Of the loved ones you have betrayed. I now take from you your power. In the name of my father and his father before, I, Odin Allfather, cast you out!"

Thor could not speak. Just how much longer would his banishment last? What exactly did his father expect him to do to prove himself worthy to return? He thought it was as simple as finding Mjolnir again. Once he reached his inviolate weapon, it would fly into its native home in his fist and Thor would become himself again. He would be able to return home.

"Pakistan? Chechnya? Afghanistan? Then again, you strike me more as the soldier of fortune type. What was it, South Africa? Certain groups pay well for a good mercenary. Especially HYDRA," his captor said, spilling out words that would have made little sense to Thor, even if he had been listening, which he wasn't.

"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor," was now inscribed in runes on Mjolnir. Mjolnir tested him and found him lacking.

He was still unworthy.

"Who are you?" the man with the suit asked, rousing Thor from his stupor, forcing him to the unavoidable conclusion he had been running from since his feet hit Midgardian soil.

The wielder of storms. The son of Odin, son of Bor, son of Buri. Prince of Asgard, heir of the Crown of Yggrdrasil.
 A vain, cruel, greedy boy.
An exile.

"Just a man."

Disclaimer: I quote Marvel's Thor throughout. I do not own it.

Definition of incarnation comes from Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia