Liesmith Shadow Defender

Prompt: Loki is Asgard's secret agent and diplomat/spy. His family are aware and love him and work with him, so he actually has confidence in himself and what he does. The rest of Asgard is not and thinks he's the useless prince, Thor's friends included. At some point, Loki and the four are stuck in a very long drawn out situation where all of Loki's skills, in diplomacy, spying, secret agent ninja-ness, magic, and just all around awesomeness come out to the W3 only. Where Loki earns their respect and friendship and loyalty as much as Thor has. And they earn his.

"Sometimes Loki wishes that people in other realms were just as stupid as they are in Asgard. It really isn’t fair that the people he has to work against are more intelligent and interesting then the people he protects. But that is really just his bitterness at the situation talking. He hates Nidavellir. He hates the Warriors Three. Common sense, really, that he would hate being sent to Nidavellir with them. Especially when he needs to get some damn work done and here they are, cornered by Dwarves with magic repelling weapons and just tipsy enough to believe that killing a prince of Asgard and his companions wouldn’t be a bad idea."