Deity powers AU- Loki gains “followers” through social media

daydreamerfive:

Pre-Thor(2011) Totally AU, possibly cracky

Loki decides to become more powerful than Thor by gaining “followers” on Midgard. After spending some time on the realm he has learned the basics of social media, but mastering it and the local culture is taking too long! He decides to hire a minion from the nearby University. That minion is Darcy.

He explains that his mission is to become more popular and powerful than his elder brother using social media, and that they will have near limitless resources at their disposal. He never hides his identity but Darcy (at the beginning) thinks he is simply an eccentric foreginer, who is very into his ‘God of mischief’ persona.

Darcy makes Loki into an internet star via epic prank videos to start with. Then she tells him that he could grow his fan base more if he had some kind of political message or charity that he was supporting.

So Loki, who started all this as part of his sibling rivalry ends up doing some epic amount of good (because he is a god with magic powers who never does anything by halves) without really intending to and it changes him. He becomes all about the cause and forgets why he was here in the first place.

Then Thor comes to take him home for reasons (maybe a battle?) and everyone is like ‘Woah!’ Loki is stupidly powerful all of a sudden from his hundreds of millions of ‘followers’ compared to a few thousand for the rest of the gods.

The Aesir are all forced to eat humble pie.

++The cause would be something close to his heart like LBQT rights/representation, child abuse prevention, sexual assult survivors, etc.

I would love it if somebody wanted to actually write this as a fic, just tag me so I can read and adore it lol ❤