"You sure about this, Thor? Really think this is how you're gonna prove your worthiness?"
Thor chuckles at the disbelief in his new friend's voice. Unlike Tony Stark, Thor has faith. That might seem a little foolish, a God having faith, but gods were prone to having faith more than most mortals, really. In this case, Thor had faith in the All-Father. Odin had had a plan when he threw Thor down to Midgard. That, Thor knew for a fact.
Looking over at the Midgardian man he'd become fast friends with Thor grins.
"You told me yourself, Stark! My father would not have dropped me and Mjolnir so close together if he did not intend for me to find a way back to Asgard! And what better way than this, really?"
Yes, Thor had meditated long and hard on Tony's words and his father's desires before Loki had shown up to spread her poisonous lies. Tch… his sister had truly forgotten herself this time. Thor didn't want to believe that Loki had truly done all of this just to get him out of the way so she could become Queen of Asgard. But… his new friend had made too good of an argument, truth be told. Who HAD let the Jotun into the Vault? Odin had told Thor and Loki the story a thousand times. When he'd defeated the Frost Giants and pushed them back, the All-Father had put an end to their conquering ways by taking the Casket of Ancient Winters, their most powerful artifact. Not only did the Casket bolster their power and strengthen their realm, but it also allowed the Frost Giants of Jotunheim to traverse the roots of the World Tree much as the Bifrost did for Asgard… albeit in a far more limited, far less cool way, to be clear.
However, the Casket had rested within Asgard's Vault since the end of the war. So how had the Frost Giants gotten off of Jotunheim? How had they gotten into the Vault? Perhaps if Thor were a bit smarter, a bit slower to act and faster to think, he might have realized something was amiss and taken a moment to consider the situation, rather than immediately rushing off to destroy Jotunheim for their transgressions.
He was starting to see the error of his ways now. And starting to see how it was that his sister Loki might have manipulated him into the course of action that had ultimately doomed him.
His father wasn't dead. Thor refused to believe it. Loki had lied to him, both to cover up her deception with the Jotun but also to usurp the throne. Thor wouldn't stand for it! He would prove himself worthy, regain his powers and Mjolnir, and return to Asgard to confront Loki for her transgressions once and for all!
… But first he had to prove himself worthy. And he'd come up with the perfect way to do so.
"I see now the folly of my ways, Tony Stark! See, before I only used my powers to destroy! But a king must be more than a conqueror, more than a destroyer of worlds! A king must be able to nurture, to build and grow his kingdom! That is why I will prove I can build with a hammer just as much as I can demolish with one!"
With that said, Thor brings the Midgardian Hammer that Tony had gotten for him down on the nail held between his fingers, smashing it into the two planks of wood and connecting them together. Haha! He was doing it already!
"… Sure buddy. Look, you've got my unconditional support here Thor. But… do you really have time for this? What was it you were going to try to make again?"
"A longhouse, my friend!"
Initially, when Thor and Tony had last spoken after Loki had very nearly succeeded in making him succumb to despair, Thor had hoped that just the realization of what he needed to do would prove him worthy again. He'd rushed to Mjolnir in the central courtyard and thought very heavily about building things instead of destroying things as he'd reached out to give the hammer's pommel a tug. He definitely wasn ' t just thinking about building and nurturing and growing things for the sake of getting his powers back! He was completely sincere in his new outlook on life! But alas, Mjolnir had refused to budge and Thor had found himself forced to concede the truth… he would need to actually prove he could build something before Mjolnir would believe the veracity of his newfound beliefs!
Of course, that was easier said than done. Thor was a warrior, not an architect. He'd never constructed a single building in his entire life. However, he HAD seen some built before. In particular, he ' d watched a longhouse be built here on Midgard hundreds of years ago! So he figured he'd start there!
Of course, the first problem he ran into was a matter of supplies. He needed wood and he needed tools. And he had absolutely no idea where he was going to get any of that. Fortunately, late last night while he'd been trying to figure out a solution to his problem, he'd run into the Lady Jane Foster. A brilliant mind cloaked in a beautiful face, Lady Foster and he had talked for quite some time. He had told her more about the Bifrost, which was apparently something that the people of Midgard had theorized existed but did not know or understand until now. Lady Jane called it an Einstein-Rosen Bridge of all things, how quaint!
But she'd also helped him with his own issue by suggesting that he petition Tony Stark for his assistance in securing the building materials. His new Midgardian friend had said that he would help Thor after all, and apparently Tony Stark of House Stark was not just a Lord… he was quite a wealthy, influential figure on Midgard!
In fact, Thor was beginning to suspect that Tony might actually be a King in his own right. Only Tony's original warning that most of Midgard didn't 'do kings' anymore had stuck with Thor. Perhaps Tony was a secret king, or a king in hiding, and thus it would not behoove Thor or his new friend for him to 'blow up his spot' as the Lady Darcy Lewis would say! Thor had learned so much in the past couple of days since he found himself on Midgard! While he certainly would have preferred to have the experience without the exile and the loss of his powers, he was still grateful for the good things that had come with the bad!
"Right. A longhouse. That's… a tall order, Thor. Are you sure you have that much time to waste?"
Thor chuckles again, shaking his head as he picks up another nail and waves his Midgardian hammer at Tony.
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