Sylvie Laufeydottir

"Everywhere and every-when I went, it caused a nexus event. Sent up a smoke flare. Because I'm not supposed to exist."

―Sylvie Laufeydottir^[src]

Sylvie Laufeydottir (born Loki Laufeydottir) is a dangerous, female variant of Loki Laufeyson who was being hunted by the Time Variance Authority and referred to as The Variant.

Biography[]

Loki[]

"How do I do this?"
"What would you like?"
"Not squirrel, not possum, not rats. Something that's already dead, and nothing with a face... please."
"Well, you can try our new Chicken McNuggets, and we have a Big Mac, Fliet-O-Fish, and a hamburger, cheeseburger. I quite like the Quarter Pounder, which you can try with or without cheese."
"I wanna try everything."
"Okay."

―Sylvie Laufeydottir and Jack^[src]

After Loki's time slipping sent him into a future where the TVA was being evacuated as the Temporal Loom overloaded, he briefly encountered Sylvie emerging from an elevator in the TVA just before someone pruned Loki from behind. At the same time, General Dox and a virtual army of TVA agents went after Sylvie, although Hunter B-15 and Hunter D-90 believed that there was something more to their actions than that.

In the 1982 of a branched timeline, Sylvie emerged from a Time Door in Broxton, Oklahoma and visited a McDonald's where she ordered everything on the menu and looked around at everyone enjoying their lives with a smile.

"Breaking Brad"[]

With the help of Brad Wolfe, Loki and Mobius tracked Sylvie down to the branched timeline where she was now working at the McDonald's. Loki revealed to Sylvie that he had seen her in the future while time slipping and that the TVA was in danger and Sylvie was there. However, Sylvie was uninterested until Loki reminded her that if what He Who Remains said was true, then the TVA was the only defense against what was coming and if what Loki saw of Sylvie was true, then there was nothing to stand between her timeline and destruction. Without the TVA, everything would be gone. By enchanting Brad, Sylvie learned that General Dox was planning on pruning all of the new timelines. Loki, Sylvie and Mobius attacked Dox's base, culminating in Loki and Sylvie combining powers to release an energy shockwave that took down the rogue TVA hunters and destroyed their equipment. However, Dox still succeeded in pruning numerous timelines and killing billions, much to the grief of everyone.

Devastated and grief stricken, Sylvie declared that the TVA was broken and rotten and the problem. Sylvie returned to her timeline which was still intact where she remained haunted by what Sylvie had witnessed.

"Heart of the TVA"[]

"Sure. Burn it down. Easy. Annihilating is easy. Razing things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard."
"Okay, so... so Timely can save the TVA. Then, we hope that the TVA turns into something good. Then, we hope that Timely doesn't turn into He Who Remains or someone worse. That's a lot of hoping, Loki. I didn't have you down for an optimist."

―Loki and Sylvie discuss taking the hard path.^[src]

At the TVA, Loki, Mobius, Casey, and O.B. enlisted Victor's help to fix the Temporal Loom, revealing in the process that O.B. and Victor had inspired each other's work. O.B. revealed his plan to use his Throughput Multiplier to fix the Loom with Victor helping to modify it to make the device work. However, Sylvie expressed a great deal of frustration at the TVA and Mobius in particular for seeming to not care about the branches being lost and the pasts and true history of the lives that everyone had lived before the TVA.

Loki urged Sylvie to give the TVA a chance, reminding Sylvie that she couldn't kill Victor because he was scared, recalling how he had once scorned Thor for becoming caring after his banishment on Earth, pointing out that because Sylvie did the right thing, the TVA and the existing branches and all of the people on them would survive. While the dead branches and the dead people on them were because of Dox and her people, the branches that were still living was because of Mobius, Hunter B-15, O.B. and Casey were also a part of the TVA. Loki acknowledged that destroying things and starting from scratch was the easy path, but trying to fix what was broken and hoping was the harder path, the path that he wanted to follow despite the potential dangers that would come from it. For better or worse, the timelines were free, and they couldn't just give people free will and walk away. It was up to them to protect the timelines and do better than He Who Remains. Sylvie finally agreed to help after Loki reminded her that they were gods when Sylvie called their actions playing God.

However, Dox and her men were killed by Renslayer and Miss Minutes while Brad Wolfe pruned Hunter D-90 and abducted Victor as the Temporal Loom was reaching critical, and the TVA started evacuation. Loki realized that Renslayer wanted control of the TVA and so was still there with Victor. Loki and Sylvie attempted to find them, but Miss Minutes separated them by sabotaging an elevator, forcing Loki to take the stairs as Sylvie hotwired it. Loki encountered his past self who had time slipped into the future near where Sylvie was prying open the elevator doors. Realizing the implications, Loki pruned his past self from behind with D-90's Time Stick, promising a confused Sylvie that it would all eventually make sense. Answering a call from O.B., Loki and Sylvie had him reboot the system in order to take Miss Minutes offline. Doing so also disabled the dampeners blocking their powers, enabling Sylvie to enchant Brad. Sylvie made Brad prune Renslayer while she and Loki rescued Victor.

Using Victor's temporal aura, O.B. and Casey were able to open the blast doors, but the Temporal Loom was already on the verge of exploding. Although Loki volunteered to launch the Throughput Multiplier, Victor decided to do it himself in case something went wrong. However, the temporal radiation was so high that it spaghettified Victor in seconds and the Temporal Loom exploded with the blast wave consuming the TVA and everyone in it.

"Science/Fiction"[]

As Sylvie finished her shift at McDonald's, Loki approached her, only to discover much to his surprise and relief that Sylvie remembered everything, including the explosion. At a bar, Loki explained how everyone's lives were reset to before the TVA which Sylvie saw as a good thing as they were back in their real lives. Loki in turn wondered how many would've chosen to stay at the TVA given the choice, suggesting that they could finally be given the choice that He Who Remains took away from them. However, Sylvie was uninterested in anything but enjoying her new life and got Loki to finally admit what he truly wanted: to have his friends back and to not be alone. An emotional Loki wondered where he belonged without his friends and Sylvie urged him to write his own story like everyone else was doing now. However, after Loki's departure, Sylvie witnessed her timeline spaghettifying like Victor Timely while visiting a records store and barely escaped in time using He Who Remains' TemPad.

Impatient to return to his life, Frank expressed an interest in the TemPad and the possibilities that it held for his criminal activities while Dr. Verity Willis enjoyed Doug's books and Don unsuccessfully tried to sell her a jet ski. Upon his return, a despondent Loki ordered his friends to go back to their lives where they belonged. However, Sylvie arrived with the news that everything was falling apart, and the branches were dying. With everyone present, Doug attempted to enact their plan, only to discover the TemPad missing. Although Frank was accused of stealing it, he was proven to be innocent as the timeline and everyone in it began breaking down as reality came to an end. His friends' words running through his head, Loki desperately grasped at the strings of reality before suddenly time slipping back to moments earlier as he was about to disintegrate himself.

Loki managed to send himself back in time to Sylvie's arrival, having finally figured out how to control his time slipping: rather than it being about where, when, or why, it was about who. Loki declared that he could rewrite the story and, focusing on O.B., time slipped back to the TVA, appearing next to O.B. before the explosion.

"Glorious Purpose"[]

"The only way that anything survives..."
"Is if I never kill He Who Remains in the first place. So you have to kill me. I'm not giving you my blessing, if that's what you're waiting for."
"What do I do? It's the Sacred Timeline, or nothing."
"It's not enough to protect the Sacred Timeline, Loki. Even down there, it's full of death and destruction and injustice. Do you really wanna be the god who takes away everyone's free will so you can protect that?"
"But what good is free will if everyone's dead?"
"And who are you to say we can't die trying? Who are you to decide we can't die fighting? You're replacing one nightmare with another. I grew up in apocalypses, Loki. I've lived through enough of them to know that sometimes, it's okay to destroy something."
"If... if there's a hope that you can replace that thing with something better."

―Loki and Sylvie.^[src]

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Character traits[]

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Powers and Abilities[]

As a variant of Loki, Sylvie shares all of his powers. However, she has trained her magical abilities to a greater degree than either the original Loki or the variant Loki although she appears to lack some of their skills such as conjuration.

Enchantment: Sylvie is able to enchant people, control them and even speak through them.
Energy Blast: While fighting General Dox's forces, Sylvie was able to fire energy blasts from her hands at the TVA hunters. By holding hands with each other, Loki and Sylvie were able to unleash a massive energy shockwave.