I AM THE LADY SIF
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"The graves of Asgard are littered with men who underestimated Sif." - Lorelei (Agents of Shield)
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AGE: Old as balls
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUALITY: She's an ages old goddess. I'm sure it's fluid.
OCCUPATION: Warrior/Guardian of Asgard and the Nine Realms
HOMETOWN: Asgard
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Asgard/the hotel
LIKES: Battle, Thor, winning
DISLIKES: Deceit, betrayal, being underestimated
Not overly fond of nuances in relationships with other people Sif is very direct and assertive. She says what she means when she deems it necessary, but that is not to say that she always speaks out. When she does, it is without euphemisms or subterfuges, however. Through time she has learnt the precious nature of strategic silence and that things do not always need to be said. Despite this she still sometimes struggles with this and out comes the loudmouth.
Sif is also an extremely proud person, and perceives every slight against her as something to be punished. She does not take disrespect lightly and she sees herself and her people as being above mortals, for example. That is not to say that she is vocally xenophobic or that she doesn’t take protecting them seriously; she simply doesn’t think they’re exactly her equals (Their lives are so short and bodies so fragile!) and treats them accordingly: like people to be protected and watched over. Because of Thor, Sif tries very hard to understand what he sees in Midgard and its inhabitants. As it is, she is very open to new ‘human’ experiences, if there is a chance for her to understand what is there so special in that Realm. And let’s face it, she has started to acquire a bit of a soft spot for them. Regardless of her feelings on their fragility, one thing Sif never does is lack in respect towards them. All people deserve it. They all deserve compassion, as well, and despite the first impressions Sif isn’t just stoic all the time. You can’t fully protect people you cannot connect with after all.
There is a fierceness in everything Sif does, and everything she feels. When blood boils in her veins it does so for many different reasons: she is fiercely loyal to her home and her people, fiercely protective of her loved ones and fiercely proud of herself and of all the things previously mentioned. Her loyalties have, so far, been very easily organized: Asgard (the kingdom and people, not its king if it doesn’t benefit the all) above all realms, her duty above her wishes, Thor above all other friends. This last has a tendency to change as her own deeper feelings for him and her feelings on becoming attached to anybody again do.
It was around the time, when Sif’s inconsolable lamenting about her beautiful hair reached critical mass, that Sif’s parents sent her to study with the Shield-Maidens of Valhalla. And thus, the Warrior Sif was born. Upon returning to Asgard she and Thor rekindled their friendship, and he even helped her prove wrong everyone who didn’t think a lady could be one of the fiercest warriors in the realm. Now come to terms with her black locks Sif was the fiercest warrior she could be, and had found herself a purpose. Along with the Warriors Three (and Loki, though she always saw him as more of an outsider), she formed Thor’s group of closest friends. They were protectors of Asgard and adjacent realms, prized fighters, and beloved heroes. Reluctantly, and only for the love Thor seemed to bear him, Sif became civil with Loki again as well. If Thor saw something worth keeping around in him then it must be there, she decided. And thus she vowed to become his friend.
Around 600 years ago an Asgardian sorceress, Lorelei, spread chaos and strife through the realms as she used her powers of persuasion to amass manpower and riches in order to rule over all. Thor, Sif and the others fought against her, but eventually Lorelei used her powers on the man Sif loved, Haldor. He became her puppet, devoid of free will or any want that wasn’t connected to Lorelei’s own. Sif had to watch as he turned against her and their friends under Lorelei’s spell, their feelings for each other meaning nothing to him anymore With his aid and others Lorelei caused massive amounts of destruction on her way to conquer everything she set her eyes on.
Ever dutiful, Sif had to put her feelings behind her and do what needed to be done in order to save the realms and their people; a man without his own mind wasn’t a man you saved, and Sif had no illusions that she might have to stop him...dead. Unfortunately, it was Lorelei who, seeing no use for him anymore, did away with Haldor while Sif watched. Finally they defeated Lorelei by putting a collar around her neck that stopped her from speaking, and she was promptly imprisoned in Asgard, where she remained. Sif’s own recovery happened in private where she could show weakness in a way that did not interfere with her duty. It was never discussed again.
Sif had gotten once again fairly close to Thor, Loki and the others in all their time fighting alongside each other. She had grown protective, of all of them in fact, but Thor especially. On the day of his coronation as king there she was, amused at his hubris but happy nonetheless. After the attack on the vaults Sif was reluctant to break the truce and accompany Thor to Jotunheim, but eventually he swayed her like he swayed them all, and off they went. Really Sif only went because she wouldn’t be able to live with herself if something happened to her friends without her around. While in Jotunheim, Sif joined Thorr’s misguided attempt to fight the Jotuns, but hey were soon outnumbered. The second she saw the Allfather riding his horse above them all, Sif knew they were saved...but at what cost? Odin’s wrath at Thor’s disobedience was inescapable, and he ended up banishing his own son from Asgard, stripping him of his abilities and title in the process. Sif was a helpless witness to this at the time, but refused to remain so for long.
Some days later, Sif begged Loki to persuade their father to let Thor back, but the trickster refused. Upon his refusal Sif brought up his apparent and ever-present jealousy of Thor since the more he seemed to thrive on Thor’s disgrace, the more she felt suspicious, and relayed those suspicions to her friends, who seemed to agree. Eventually Sif managed to persuade the Warriors Three to ask Odin directly to lift the banishment on Thor. Arriving at the throne room, though, they found Loki sitting as the new ruler of Asgard instead. Sif asked to speak to Frigga and was denied again, at which point (and more due to Fandral’s influence than her own) they decided to surrender to the facts and kneel to Loki as their king. Only then did they ask for the recall. Loki, of course, denied their request to call his brother back, claiming some reason that might have seemed politically sound to others, but to Sif sounded only like an excuse. If not for the her friends Sif might have directly confronted and defied Loki’s decision - and who knew what would have happened to her then? That was when he was definitely marked, in Sif’s mind, as untrustworthy.
When animosity began taking over her friends and give way to infighting Sif attempted to bring the focus back on the problem at hand. When Hogun suggested they go find Thor themselves Sif was the first to agree and claim that Thor would do the same for them. In Heimdall they found an ally, who agreed to turn a blind eye to whatever they might do that involved the Bifrost, and the four godlike friends arrived on Earth, in New Mexico.
In the small sandy town Thor was not hard to find at all, and as soon as they did they debunked the lies and tricks Loki played on Thor. Not too long after their arrival, however, the Destroyer descended upon Midgard with clear instructions not to let Thor go back. Immediately Sif engaged the Destroyer. While the Warriors Three distracted it Sif climbed a rooftop and pierced its throat with her spear. It seemed to have worked, but seconds later the Destroyer regenerated and almost vaporized Sif. It took a firm, convincing speech from Thor to get Sif to disengage and retreat, as she was fully ready to die a warrior’s death if it meant taking that thing down. Instead, Sif agreed it was better to live to fight another day.
Thor then told them to deal with Loki in Asgard while he stayed behind to deal with the Destroyer on his own. Sif didn’t leave immediately, however, and remained on Midgard long enough to watch Thor’s self-sacrifice earn him back his Asgardian qualities - and Mjolnir. She and her friends then watched Thor deal with the Destroyer on his own, redeeming himself with every move.
With that threat finally abolished, she, Thor and the Three returned home to deal with Loki. Back in Asgard, it was Sif who brought Heimdall to the Restoration Room while Thor fought, and eventually defeated, Loki - but not before the Bifrost was destroyed to stop the mass murder of all Jotuns. This meant Loki’s death, however, and while they all celebrated Odin’s return to the throne lavishly Sif knew what that meant for both Frigga and Thor, and knew that there was grief beneath the celebratory surface. It was a sad thing, even for Sif. The loss of an Asgardian (legitimate or not) to darkness and betrayal was never going to be a happy occasion, regardless of who was lost. She could also see how the inability to return to the mortal Jane Foster affected her friend, and regardless of her own budding feelings for Thor, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
After Frigga devised a way to find and communicate with Loki and discover his plans, Thor was tasked with returning to Earth and apprehending his brother and the Tesseract. Sif consulted with Heimdall on Thor’s progress often, and was present when Thor returned to Asgard with Loki and the Infinity Stone.
While Loki was in judgement (and subsequently imprisoned), the time came to rally against the Marauders. With the destroying of the Bifrost the Nine Realms had gone unprotected, and the Marauders took advantage of that. As soon as he bridge was repaired, Sif and friends rallied other Asgardians against them, and war began. On Vanaheim, after saving Thor’s life by blocking a missile aimed at his head with her shield, Sif watched the Marauders surrender (who would have thought slaying the biggest of them would do it?) and some were brought to Asgard for imprisonment. During the celebration, back home, Sif attempted to confront her feelings for Thor, which had grown from simple friendship to a different type of affection. She tried to gauge his response, then, and quickly came to understand he was still enamoured with Jane Foster. Sif decided then to focus on the protection of Asgard, as it is her job.
Not too long after, however, Sif had to confront those feelings again with the shocking arrival of the mortal herself. Out of love for Thor and no animosity towards Jane herself Sif was nothing but kind and helpful to her - by her standards at least.
Right after Jane came the Dark Elves, in pursuit of Jane and whatever was inside of her, and Sif was at the forefront of the resistance. The Queen’s death was a very strong blow for her, however, one she hasn’t truly recovered from since. It was a great loss to everyone, the people of Asgard and her family, and for Sif it meant losing a kind of mother figure who was her break from the boys she lived surrounded by; Frigga was the female presence who understood things men couldn’t possibly hope to understand.
After Frigga’s death it became more and more apparent that all needed to be left behind in order to defeat the Elves and protect the Realms. Sif welcomed the need to focus on something other than the huge loss, and threw herself into her mission - even if it mean committing treason and getting herself exiled. To get rid of the threat, it would be a small price to pay. Which isn’t to say she agreed with Thor when he expressed the need to bring his treacherous brother into the affair, but he was the only one who could help. And she supposed even Loki deserved revenge for the one family member he had ever really been close to. Along with Fandral and Volstagg Sif played a key part in the plan Thor devised for saving Jane and getting rid of the Elves once and for all. She rescued Jane from the prison Odin had put her in and brought her safely back to Thor. Before their departure, however, she had a few choice words for Loki: If he betrayed Thor, he would have to contend with her. And she meant it.
The plan worked, and not only did Thor manage to defeat Malekith but he also recovered the Aether safely. Unfortunately Loki died in the process, though the details of his death seemed to indicate a much too easy death for him in Sif’s mind. This wasn’t a mere soldier after all. However, this was but a flimsy thought in the back of Sif’s mind and one she never shared. The last piece of this Aether business fell to Sif and Volstagg to deal with, since they were both entrusted with taking the Aether out of Asgard and deliver it into the hands of The Collector, where it would be safe and away from the Tesseract.
Mere months after this, Sif made her return to Midgard. This time she had been tasked by Odin to bring the sorceress Lorelei back alive after she escaped the Asgardian prison following the Dark Elves’ attack. She enlisted the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., shocked to discover the lauded Son of Coul had not perished at the hands of Loki after all. Eventually they managed to pinpoint Lorelei’s location and Sif along with Coulson’s team came to apprehend her. Lorelei unleashed her men on Sif first and managed to not only escape, but take one of the agents with her. Sif was furious, knowing full well what Lorelei’s escape could mean for Midgard. While searching for the enthralled agent Sif bonded with not only Coulson, but the warrior Melinda May, in whom Sif found a kindred spirit, even if a human one.
As it turned out, the enthralled warrior had gone to hide in plain sight: the plane S.H.I.E.L.D. was using. She was betrayed and locked in the cage by one of Coulson’s agents, having succumbed to Lorelei’s wiles in the meantime. Not long after, the vessel was open mid-flight and Sif was thrown out of it. She survived and held onto the plane as well as the collar to imprison Lorelei with, and when they opened the airlock again she went back in to finish her task. Not only did she fight the sorceress hand-to-hand but had the added difficulty of having to listen to Lorelei recount things of the past that hurt, in an attempt to make Sif disobey her orders and go for the kill. Sif was much stronger than that however, and took advantage of Lorelei’s boasting to slap the collar on the witch as she lay half-defeated asking for death.
