Nike

After a foolish night of drunkenness, the young King Thor is on a search for a new queen, this time a commoner that the people of Asgard can rise behind and love as one of their own. All Aesir youth who are of age and pass the initial tests of beauty, virginity, and fertility are to be housed in the king’s harem where they will be groomed and trained for potential queenship. After one year’s time, the king will then spend a single night with each of the chosen youth in order to choose his queen. The strangest youth in competition for the crown? A lying, thieving, mysterious trickster known only by the name of Loki. Little does the House of Odin know that Loki is neither Aesir nor a commoner.

Thor AU - Odin does not steal Loki; the Jotun prince is instead raised to adulthood in Jotunheim. When Thor leads his friends to attack Jotunheim, unanticipated consequences ensue. I'm not sure what this is, really, or if there will be more of it. I do, however, know it is inadequately edited. Corrections always welcome.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. --Thomas Hobbes And so he flung himself between Laufey and the final strike that would have been his death, arms flung wide to cover as much of his crumbled and bleeding father as possible, and called out, "I will be the weregild for this transgression!" It was only enough to stop Thor's hammer from crashing down, for still it stayed raised into the air, the lightning still crackling over its uru head. Eyes the color of the clearest ice had bored into Loki, giving him a chill he'd never known before and could not entirely banish no matter how he steeled himself. "You offer your own death in place of your king then? And why should I exchange one small prince for a just punishment to a king who brought this cost to his own people?"

Thor can't aim. Loki loses his mind.