#and naturally not like any other race is gonna jump to the Elves' defense

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Ok I have beef with Harding now, too.

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Displaced and Disorderly Chapter 1: The First Arrivals

AN: I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to go through with this idea, but it looks like it’s actually gonna happen.  Here’s my huge crossover fic, let’s see where this crazy rollercoaster leads…

Characters: FemOC (Elicia Autry), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel

Story Summary: Elicia, the average fangirl of many fandoms, is simply trying to survive college–she doesn’t even know what she’s going to do after she graduates.  The last thing she needed was to end up with three, seven, more, very confused people under her apartment’s roof. She’s not sure which is worse–the fact that some of them loath each other, some are very armed, or all of them are from completely different worlds.

Chapter Summary: Elicia’s partial day off, partial study day, is unpleasantly interrupted by the arrival of two young hunters and a confused angel.

Warnings: LANGUAGE.  You’ve got some very confused people without censors, there’s language in here. Not a light sprinkle either, the big F shows up multiple times.

Masterlist

Word Count: 2244

Elicia sat cross-legged on her bed, mechanical pencil making a quick rapping sound on the textbook she had on one knee, he laptop balanced on the other and stabilized by her body pillow.  Pale green eyes roamed the pages of the book with a crease on her brow while she worked soft pink lips between her teeth.

It was a paper she was working on, one for her government class that she wasn’t particularly fond of–she hated politics in general–but she needed a government core class to graduate, so here she was.  Her German Shepherd Beowulf was curled up at the foot of the bed and snoring softly, the television running for some white noise to help her focus.

Silence drove her insane–she needed some kind of noise that wasn’t repetitive if she was going to do anything productive.

Beowulf’s snoring stopped, and a split second later his head came up, ears up as he tensed in anticipation, listening to the apartment.  Elicia’s gaze flickered up to him briefly before she brushed it off as either he’d heard something from the apartment downstairs or something on the television had caught his attention.

Elicia huffed in frustration as she looked back at the hardly touched paper, the same mostly blank word document mocking her with every flash of the cursor.  This was the last thing she wanted to do, and her brain was being very uncooperative on just doing it and getting it over with.

Groaning, Elicia buried her face in her hands before threading her fingers through her long hair, brunette with natural blonde highlights.  She was tempted to start pulling her hair out by the roots, as she would rather be doing anything else than this.

The air suddenly felt thin, Elicia’s next breath a little harder to draw, and Beowulf sat at attention on the bed, letting out a bark.  The lights surged, a loud pop ripped through her apartment before the lights went out.  There was a louder cracking sound that also brought the lights back just in time for Elicia to see three people materialize out of thin air.

Elicia let out a shout of surprise, leaning back as Beowulf leapt off the bed to defend his alarmed owner against the intruders piled on the floor.  He was growling and barking, obstructing Elicia’s view of their faces as he snapped at them, no doubt an intimidating sight when someone was flat on their backs, no matter their size.

“Jesus Christ!” came a loud exclamation from behind the mass of protective fur.

That was a familiar voice.  One she’d recognize anywhere and kept her in shock for a few more seconds.

“Get off me!” that same voice shouted, and one of the other three tried to get to their feet with the intent to get the dog off of the speaker.

Finally, Elicia could see a face, and she gapped like an idiot while Beowulf lunged towards Sam Fucking Winchester, who scrambled back to get out of the way of her dog’s teeth.  Which meant that voice really did belong to–

Someone grunted, the third member of this group sitting up sharply as Sam accidentally dug his palm into their gut.  A very disheveled and clearly confused Castiel looked at Sam without recognition, Sam backing away now from a dog and Castiel, looking slightly panicked.

Finally, Elicia moved, most of her train of thought still crashed but at least functionate enough to leap forward and grab Beowulf by the collar, pulling him away from his position over Dean Winchester.

“Back, back,” she ordered, Beowulf halting his barks but still growling and pulling against the collar towards the strangers.

Well, strange to him, not to her.

“What the hell?” Dean asked, voice an octave or two higher than normal, cradling one arm to his chest.  Did Beowulf bite him?  Of course her dog bit her favorite Supernatural character.

This had to be one trippy dream.  She fell asleep struggling to write her paper.  That would explain this-this…whatever this was.

“Where the hell are we?” Sam asked before three pairs of eyes locked on Elicia, holding the dog back and gaping at them like they’d pulled elves out of their ears.

In her defense, they had appeared out of thin air.  And she was pretty sure Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins did not possess the ability to de-age and teleport into her room, so she knew it wasn’t them.

Dean and Sam–that was so weird, how were they here, what the hell was going on?  Was she drugged?–both stood up, focus now centered on her as if she had answers for them.

“Where are we?  How the hell did we get here?” Dean asked in that commanding voice of his despite the fact his sleeve was damp with blood.  Yup, Beowulf got him.  But Elicia was too busy feeling very small on the receiving end of Dean in all of his intensity to think much of it at the moment.

“I-I don…Holy…Oh God,” Elicia stuttered, unable to form a coherent sentence.  Perhaps it was simply muscle memory that had her holding Beowulf back from strangers by the collar.  She couldn’t seem to get her mouth and brain working properly again.

Dean leaned back, taking her reaction as she was as confused as they were, looking down at his arm.  “Shit…” he breathed, clenching the wound tighter.  “Sammy, you okay?”

“Yeah, fine,” Sam responded tersely, gaze flickering around the room with growing confusion.  Elicia had posters on her wall–Wonder Woman, Sherlock, Doctor Strange, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural.

Sam’s gaze hadn’t landed on her Season 10 poster yet when she gained some functionality again.

“Winchesters,” she squeaked.

Just like that, she was the center of attention again, Sam and Dean whipping around to look at her while Castiel‘s gaze slowly wandered the room, brows furrowed in thought.

“How the hell do you know who we are?” Dean asked, and Elicia shrank slightly as, once again, she was on the other end of intense Dean.

“Um…ah…” Elicia stuttered before she just mutely pointed at her Supernatural poster.  As the gears in her mind slowly unthawed, she started to get more details.  These were young Sam and Dean, season two–no, one–judging by Sam’s hair, and the fact Dean was sporting that famous leather jacket.

Which meant they didn’t know Castiel, who was standing rather awkwardly to the side, messy season 4 hair and all.  He hadn’t recognized Sam when Sam accidentally dug a hand in his gut, though, so was he possibly…pre-season four?

“What the fuck?”  Dean’s voice snapped Elicia out of her thoughts, sounding rather creeped out.

Season one meant Sam and Dean had hardly dealt with demons, let alone angels and alternate realities.

Holy shit, alternate realities were real!

Sam and Dean Winchester and Castiel were real!

Supernatural was fucking real!

Shit!

“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” Elicia started to ramble in a mantra, letting go of Beowulf as she sank back down onto her bed, voice going up and down.  Beowulf didn’t attack them this time since there wasn’t an obvious threat, going up to and starting to sniff them excitedly.  Dean took a subconscious step back, moving his wounded arm away from the dog.

“This isn’t–how–oh my god…” Elicia said weakly, mind racing but jumping tracks too quickly to come to any conclusions. Someday when she looked back on this moment in retrospect, she’d probably like to say she acted immediately and smartly.

She didn’t. She completely lost her mind, understandably. All she could do was stare at the three people who had just appeared in thin air in shock.

In fact, she thought she might actually be going into shock…at least she hadn’t fainted.

Yet.

“What year is it?” Castiel asked abruptly, surprising everyone when he actually spoke up.  Elicia blinked, staring at him for a moment before she got herself to respond.  “It’s...it’s 2017.”

Sam and Dean looked floored.  “I’m sorry, what year?” Sam asked, stepping forward.  They were getting in her bubble and making her feel crowded, which wasn’t helping her state as she could feel some sort of weird panic settling in.

“2017,” she squeaked, glancing between the three before her gaze settled on Castiel.  As Dean would say, he looked constipated.

So she figured she knew what he was trying to do.

“I...I think you’re in the wrong universe...your powers won’t work here,” she managed to get out.  Beowulf laid down on the ground between her and the others.

“Hold on, just...pause!” Dean said gruffly, holding out his now bloody hand.  “You’re trying to say we’re not only...twelve years into the future, we’re in another universe?”

Elicia nodded mutely.

“I don’t believe it,” Dean said, looking at Sam.  “I don’t believe it.”

“It’s true,” Castiel said flatly.  Dean spun around to face him.

“And who the hell are you?”

Castiel looked at Dean with so much indifference it almost hurt.  “I’m an angel of the Lord.”

Oh, Lordy...

“There’s no such thing,” Dean scoffed.

“Yes there is,” Elicia suddenly piped up.  “Just like there’s time travel and alternate universes...I think I’m going to faint,” she finished weakly, running her fingers through her hair.

“Look, Dean it sounds crazy, I want to say it’s crazy but...it would definitely explain some things,” Sam said seriously, glancing uncomfortably at the poster on the wall was he spoke.

Dean turned to Castiel.  “All right, Angel Boy, if you’re what you say you are and this really is some alternate universe where it’s 2017 with...that,” Dean forced himself to continue as he too teared his gaze from the poster on the wall, “...are you responsible?”

Castiel’s eyes narrowed.  “I’m as clueless in regards to how we got here as you.  And I cannot seem to return to our world, either, which should be our focus.”

“Are you saying we’re trapped in some crazy...other reality?” Dean asked.

“I am.”

Sam and Dean shared a look, the two of them trying to process their situation before Dean finally turned back to Elicia.

“What the hell is that?” he asked, pointing to the poster on Elicia’s wall of an older him and Sam.

“A television series poster,” Elicia said weakly.  At least she was regaining the ability to speak.

“And why are our faces on the poster?”

Elicia felt a twinge of annoyance.  “Gee, what do you think, Sherlock?”

Dean seemed taken aback by the sudden appearance of Elicia’s sarcasm, looking at Sam, who seemed like he was caught between annoyance and amusement.

“Why are our lives a television show?” Dean asked in a surprisingly steady voice.  He was probably holding back the meltdown Elicia was in the middle of.

Well how was she supposed to answer that one?

I mean...there’s a plethora of reasons, and you’re not going to like all of them...like:  ’Here, it’s quality entertainment!’

Just...no.

“A lot of people here are interested and invested in you three and what happens to and around you.”

“Three?” Sam asked sharply, glancing at Castiel, who was suddenly paying much closer attention to the conversation as well.

“Um...yeah, Angel Boy is going to be pretty damn important a few years down the road for you two.  And vice versa,“ Elicia said.  The three started sizing each other up a lot closer, looking understandably unnerved by the whole ordeal.  With her brain unfreezing and starting to get some actual function back in it, Elicia took one look at the blood on Dean’s hand and arm and stood from the bed.

“I’ve got a med kit, I’ll get that for you,” she said sheepishly, Beowulf getting up as she did and sticking close to her side.  “Sorry he bit you."

Before Dean could make any comments about her dog biting him, she’d left the room, Beowulf in tow as she headed to the bathroom.  In the cabinet under the sink she kept hydrogen peroxide, cotton balls, and a small med kit that included gauze and painkillers, as well as a bunch of other random medical things.

She didn’t know how to dress a wound, but surely if she gave Dean some tools he’d be able to clean himself up.

When she returned, Dean eyed her dog.

“He doesn’t have rabies or anything, does he?”

“Beowulf’s up to date on all his shots, you’re not gonna get anything serious from that bite,” Elicia assured him.

“Beowulf?” Dean asked incredulously.  Sam tipped his head to the side as if to say fair enough, kneeling down and letting Beowulf sniff him while Elicia handed Dean her little gathering of supplies.

“Here’s what I’ve got,” she said. Dean’s eyebrows rose as he took the bottle of peroxide first.

“Think I could have a towel or something to clean up the blood?”

“Yeah, sure,” Elicia said, glancing over at Sam as he finally got Beowulf’s approval to pet him, which was what he was currently doing.

Elicia had just handed the towel over to Dean--who had already started cleaning himself up--when the air thinned once more, Beowulf jumping to attention near Sam and starting to bark again.

The lights surged.

Dean reached for his gun--Well, shit, of course he was packing!

“What the hell?” Sam asked no one in particular.  Elicia moaned.

“Not again...”

Pop!

BANG!

THU--THU--THU--THUNK!!!

“AARGG!”

“What the Fuck?”

“Shit!”

“Seven Hells!”

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Marvel’s Loki TV Series and MCU Timeline Explained

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This article contains Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers.

It’s been well over two years since the events of Avengers: Endgame, and you’d be forgiven for forgetting exactly what went down during the climax of the Infinity Saga and some of the entries that led to it. There were plenty of Easter eggs and nods to other parts of the MCU in both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame – some of them edging on “blink and you’ll miss it” territory as Marvel Studios sought to wrap up a decade and change of storytelling.

Ahead of Loki’s release on Disney+ we’ve been revisiting the God of Mischief’s journey to the small screen and pondering all the reasons that this new TV version of Loki will be different to the one we now know and love, despite our better judgement.

In many ways this is a tale of two Lokis: the one we’ve already seen evolve – albeit gradually – throughout the Thor trilogy and the Avengers films, and the one we’re about to see reckon with a new fate in Loki thanks to an accidental temporal intervention.

First, let’s take stock of all the ways both of these Lokis are the same.

Prime Loki

When we first met Loki (the excessively charismatic Tom Hiddleston) in Kenneth Branagh’s 2011 franchise-starter Thor, he was a sly and manipulative prince but still loyal to the realm of Asgard. As he prepared to witness his brother Thor (Chris Hemsworth) become king and take over from their father Odin (Anthony Hopkins), Loki decided to throw a spanner in the works by arranging a visit from the Frost Giants – a race beaten by Odin and left in ruins in the realm of Jotunheim long ago – in the middle of Thor’s coronation.

Though Loki initially sabotaged Thor’s big day as a lark, he unwittingly started a chain of events that would lead to a devastating personal discovery: that he himself was a Frost Giant, rescued as a baby from the Jotunheim battlefield by Odin in the hope that he would forge peace between the two realms one day.

Loki, who always felt like Odin’s least favored son, was overwhelmed by the trauma of what he retrospectively viewed as a life filled with lies and betrayal, so when Thor was banished to Earth for kickstarting yet another battle with the Frost Giants Loki saw an opportunity to take the throne of Asgard as Odin fell into a deep sleep.

It didn’t go as well as he hoped. For a while he was able to rule Asgard, but when the Warriors Three and Sif travelled to Earth against Loki’s wishes to retrieve Thor, things fell apart. Loki intervened and attacked Thor and the gang to prevent them from destabilizing his newfound power, but Thor stopped him and returned to Asgard. The two brothers fought and Odin woke from his slumber.

Odin’s obvious dismay at his son’s actions left Loki bereft. He let himself fall from the broken Bifrost Bridge into a wormhole in space rather than make amends for what he’d done or accept any punishment that might be forthcoming.

Thor assumed Loki died that day, but Loki was very much alive. On the other side of that wormhole was Sanctuary, an asteroid field inhabited by a violent race called the Chitauri. Also installed on Sanctuary was The Other, Thanos’ personal servant, who gave Loki both a powerful Scepter that contained the Mind Stone and command over the Chitauri army to invade Earth. In exchange, Loki was to snatch the Tesseract – a cosmic cube housing the Space Stone – and bring it back to Thanos.

Fearing Thanos’ retribution and feeling he had no choice but to comply, Loki travelled to Earth in 2012’s The Avengers via the wormhole-opening Tesseract and took the cube from SHIELD, eventually opening a larger wormhole over New York and beginning the Chitauri invasion.

Ultimately beaten by the Avengers in the Battle of New York, Loki was set to be brought back to Asgard as a prisoner along with the Tesseract and condemned to a cell in the dungeons.

This brings us to a fork in Loki’s road and the MCU timeline itself.

Dead Loki: Infinity War Timeline

Post Avengers, Loki languished in the Asgardian Dungeons until his mother Frigga (Rene Russo) was killed by the Dark Elves in Thor: The Dark World. Released by Thor, the duo attempted to defeat the Dark Elves’ leader. Naturally, Loki faked his own death during the fight, hopped back to Asgard, and ousted Odin. He then ruled over Asgard for years in Odin’s guise.

Thor eventually discovered Loki’s deception upon his return to Asgard following the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron. The two embarked on a journey to Earth to find the real Odin, who revealed they had an older sister called Hela (Cate Blanchett) who would try to lead Asgard into war against the Nine Realms. Odin suddenly popped his clogs, leaving a confused Thor and Loki to face Hela.

They were no match for her, and both ended up stranded on the artificial trash planet Sakaar in Thor: Ragnarok until Loki reluctantly joined forces with Thor, Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and Hulk/Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to try and take Hela out of the equation. They were able to do this by summoning the fire demon Surtur, beginning the all-cleansing process of Ragnarök. This course of action came at a terrible price: the complete destruction of Asgard, during which Loki once again stole the Tesseract while no one was looking.

As promised in The Avengers, Thanos came looking for the Tesseract during Infinity War after Loki failed to deliver it to him. The surviving Asgardians were attacked by Thanos aboard their escape ship the Statesman and half of them were killed. A showdown with Thanos left Hulk unconscious and Thor trapped by the Black Order. In a moment of unexpected redemption Loki tried to deceive Thanos by offering up the Tesseract, and made a failed attempt on the Mad Titan’s life. Thanos killed Loki for his insolence by snapping his neck.

Variant Loki: TV Series Timeline

With Loki dead, half the universe snapped out of existence, and Asgard reduced to a tiny population on Earth, Thor fell into a deep depression during Avengers: Endgame. But there was a glimmer of hope on the horizon when the team put together a plan to go back in time and retrieve the Infinity Stones, reversing Thanos’ snap.

This “time heist” placed Tony Stark, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner, and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) back at The Avengers’ Battle of New York in 2012, and their plan to grab the stones went smoothly at first. Steve acquired the Mind Stone in the form of Loki’s Scepter and Bruce convinced The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) to hand over the Time Stone, while Tony and Scott hit Stark Tower to lift the Tesseract.

Unfortunately, Tony forgot that he made the Hulk take the stairs instead of the elevator when the Avengers originally accompanied an imprisoned Loki down to the lobby. As Hulk smashed through the lobby door he sent Tony and the Tesseract flying. Loki saw an opportunity and didn’t hesitate: he picked up the Tesseract and jumped through a wormhole.

This is the version of Loki we join as the character’s Marvel spinoff series gets underway. Not the Loki who saw the fall of Asgard and perhaps got to make amends for some of his previous crimes by supporting Thor in the aftermath, but the Loki who just led a deadly invasion of Earth.

“With Loki taking the Tesseract, fans will see exactly what that action means and what a bigger ripple he’s made in time doing that,” Loki director Kate Herron explained. “It causes him to be more reflective about his actions and why he’s done what he’s done.”

Responsible for many human deaths – including Agent Phil Coulson on a SHIELD helicarrier before the Battle of New York had even begun – this Loki is still full of rage following the exposure of Odin’s lies about his origin.

He is, by all accounts, a total butthole.

Thanks to marketing materials for the upcoming series we already know that following his Battle of New York escape Loki will be apprehended by the Time Variance Authority – a bureaucratic organization which monitors the state of the MCU’s timeline. It’s unclear if the show will fully redeem the God of Mischief from a post-Battle of New York state of trauma and vindictiveness, but the show has apparently found a different way to do so than we’ve already witnessed, which is a good thing – as charming as Tom Hiddleston absolutely is, we need to see Loki nudged further away from 2012-era villain territory for all this to work long term.

Loki writer Michael Waldron has described the show as a “struggle with identity, who you are” and “who you want to be” so it’s definitely a possibility that Loki will become a better version of himself than we’ve ever seen before.

“Loki is a character that’s always reckoning with his own identity, and the TVA, by virtue of what they do, is uniquely suited to hold up a mirror to Loki and make him really confront who he is and who he was supposed to be,” Waldron explained.

The TVA will recruit the God of Mischief to help clean up the temporal mess he made when he grabbed the Tesseract and skedaddled – it seems The Ancient One was quite right when she said that any major disruption to the flow of time would create branch timelines where things have gone badly wrong. Could Loki really become a valued TVA asset, righting wrongs and setting things straight? Maybe, but as we know, Loki is gonna Loki, and he probably won’t enjoy being told what to do by anyone.

“I love this idea [of] Loki’s chaotic energy somehow being something we need,” Hiddleston told EW. “Even though, for all sorts of reasons, you don’t know whether you can trust him. You don’t know whether he’s going to betray you. You don’t why he’s doing what he’s doing. If he’s shapeshifting so often, does he even know who he is? And is he even interested in understanding who he is? Underneath all those masks, underneath the charm and the wit, which is kind of a defense anyway, does Loki have an authentic self? Is he introspective enough or brave enough to find out? I think all of those ideas are all in the series — ideas about identity, ideas about self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and the difficulty of it.”

Hiddleston added “[That] was very exciting because in the other films, there was always something about Loki that was very controlled. He seemed to know exactly what the cards in his hand were and how he was going to play them. And Loki versus the TVA is Loki out of control immediately, and in an environment in which he’s completely behind the pace, out of his comfort zone, destabilized, and acting out.”

Perhaps if Loki actually met Loki he’d have a fresh perspective on whether anger and spite are worth clinging on to?

Lokis All the Way Down

Even as the show intends to explore Loki’s struggle with his own identity, it seems set to introduce other Lokis from different timelines and realities, which leaves the storytelling door very much open. Not just in terms of new angles on previous MCU tales and major cameos, but to inspiration from the pages of Marvel Comics as well.

“Part of the fun of the multiverse and playing with time is seeing other versions of characters, and other versions of the titular character in particular,” confirmed Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige.

The comics are certainly ripe with possibilities. There’s Kid Loki – a vessel for the trickster reborn after he manipulated Hela into taking his name out of the Book of Hel. Then there’s Old Loki – a real bastard who makes the current Loki seem like a Care Bear in comparison. Loki even found himself inside a body intended for Lady Sif at one stage, becoming Lady Loki (later incorporated into Loki’s fairly casual gender fluidity).

Loki: Agent of Asgard

Interestingly, Waldron has also said that the show will explore whether Loki could ever make a friend, which is the focus of Al Ewing’s 2014 Agent of Asgard run. In these comics, Loki meets a woman called Verity Willis who can see through any lie, making her the perfect person for Loki to have an open and honest friendship with.

It was around this time that the Loki of Marvel Comics also had an epiphany: that a lie is just a story and a story can be rewritten. This allowed him to turn over a new leaf, redefining his character from the God of Lies to the God of Stories. Thinking back to Hiddleston’s first official comment when Loki was announced, this could be just one way that Marvel has approached further seasons of the show and Loki’s continuing journey through time and space.

“Loki,” Hiddleston wrote. “More stories to tell. More mischief to make. More to come.”

Marvel’s Loki will be streaming on Disney+ from June 9.

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