Author's Note

Hello, beautiful readers, old and new! Just a little 4-1-1 before you dive into this thing; I highly suggest you read before you continue on so that you're not so confused. I, of course, will try and answer any questions you have, but for the basic ground work, I suggest you stop here and check out this author's note. That's what it's here for after all!

The first and most important thing you need to know about this fiction is that it is not a cohesive, put-together, plot driven story; it is just a bunch of little one shots and short stories involving mainly Loki and my OC Brynn Hagel. (There will be some other characters too, but mainly it's centered around these two.) This is not an origin story of how they met and came to have the relationship that they do—I am currently planning that story and working on it bit by bit, but that won't come along until later. (Be on the lookout! Title: 'The Insufferable Brat & the Crazy Bastard who Thinks He's a God')

In the meantime, until that fateful day arrives, I've decided to introduce you to the characters and my writing in this format. It's a very strange way for me to do this; usually I have an actual story of how "this is how it all happened" out before I start doing little things like this. But, unfortunately, since dreaming up this idea and relationship, I've been having plot bunnies breeding in my head and making it kind of hard to concentrate on some other things, so, in order to alleviate that problem, I'm resorting to this little collection of vignettes. I don't know how often this will be updated. I also don't have a specific chronological order planned out for them to go in. In this first story, Brynn is sixteen, in the next she could be 21 or 18 or 16 again or, hell, maybe even 40 with a husband and kids—I don't know! It's plot bunnies as they hit me that cover different parts and events of the relationships between characters. The next one could even not have Loki and Brynn! … Okay, no, the next one probably will have Loki and Brynn—I imagine most of them will have those two. But I make no guarantees about anything. Except that Brynn probably won't be ever be 15 in any of these shorts. We'll cover that year when the actual story happens, so some stuff that you see here will be explained in the origin story later on. (For example, exactly why Loki's nickname for Brynn is 'Princess'—there's more of a meaning behind than you think.)

Some short stories may also be somewhat AU from the cannon I'm using/making for the origin story and that universe. (For example, there could be a short story about Loki finding Brynn as a baby and seeing how that plays out—that would be very AU from my cannon.) I imagine most of these scenarios will be aligned my cannon, but some might not be. If that's the case, I will let you know which ones don't keep with cannon.

And what is my cannon here and the universe it goes with? That goes along more with the big story itself, but I'll explain the basics here. The main story itself will take place after Dark World and will pretty much diverge from the MCU there. Loki actually died in DW but was brought back to life for reasons I won't name yet (some stuff has to be kept secret) and found himself stuck on Midgard. (As such, Odin remained king of Asgard, Thor returned to earth to the Avengers and Jane.) Loki's and Brynn's paths cross, they slowly grow close, and events lead to Loki becoming Brynn's guardian. Their relationship is strictly brother-sister/parent-child—no romance at all, never will be. As of right now, going into this first oneshot, that's pretty much all you need to know. If more stuff comes up in other oneshots that needs some background info., I will have that at the beginning of that "chapter".

Also, if anyone has an idea for a oneshot that they'd like to see, feel free to leave it in the comments. Ya never know, I just might like and use it. ;)

Get it? Got it? Good. On with the fun!

(*sighs* I hope at least a little of this makes sense—I feel like I'm not explaining this well….)