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- "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 to Loki[src]
Sylvie Laufeydottir is a variant of Loki Laufeyson. She had been passing through timelines while being chased by the Time Variance Authority for ambushing and killing their Minutemen, dedicated to destroying them. On the cusp of her plan's success, however, she was interrupted by another Loki variant, and was stranded on Lamentis-1 with him right before its destruction, with the two reluctantly working together to search for a way to survive.
Biography
Early Life
Arrested by the TVA
Sylvie playing in Asgard
Sylvie Laufeydottir was born in a different reality on Asgard and was told by her parents early on that she was adopted. One day, she was playing by herself with her toy action figures in the royal palace, when her playtime was disrupted by the appearance of a Timedoor behind her, along with Hunter Ravonna Renslayer and two Minutemen approaching her, stating she was under arrest. Renslayer grabbed the child by the arm and took her away from her toys to the Timedoor, kidnapping her, while a Minuteman put a Reset Charge on the ground to erase her parents and her reality.
Sylvie being taken into the TVA's custody
Sylvie was taken through the Timedoor to the Time Variance Authority. While being led through by Renslayer, Sylvie watched as a man screamed in cries for help as he was taken into custody also.
Sylvie goes under the procedures
She was then taken through the screening procedures and was given a TVA prisoner uniform. She stood before the TVA paperwork clerk and a TVA scanner clerk who motioned for her to pass under the screening to test if she was a robot or not. She hesitated but went through to the courtroom where Renslayer stood by her and presented her to the judge.
Sylvie escapes using the TemPad
As Renslayer led Sylvie up to the front of the room, she bit Renslayer on the wrist breaking free and stomping on her foot before stealing her TemPad. She then produced a Timedoor using the TemPad and successfully escaped the TVA.[3]
Changing her Name
- "You changed your name. Brilliant."
"It's called an alias." - ―Loki and Sylvie Laufeydottir[src]
While on the run from the Time Variance Authority, she changed her name to "Sylvie". As she grew older, she maintained a hatred for the TVA for kidnapping her and vowed to destroy them and their Sacred Timeline.[4]
Attacking the TVA
Attack in France
- "Devil bearing gifts."
- ―Mobius M. Mobius[src]
Sylvie transported herself to Aix-en-Provence, France in 1549. There she attacked a group of Minutemen from the Time Variance Authority by stabbing many of them. When she was spotted by a boy, she bribed him with Kablooie, before grabbing the reset charge and leaving, leading the boy to believe she was the Devil. She would later lure another group of Minutemen and slaughter them.[2]
Ambush on the Minutemen
Sylvie later went to Salina, Oklahoma in 1858 and laid some oil around the area as a trap for the Minutemen. When they eventually came to analyze the Quantum Ore Shovel she used, Sylvie was spotted by the Time Variance Authority and dropped the lantern she was holding to incinerate the Minutemen. She spotted Hunter U-92 escaping from the fire, but before he could reach the Reset Charge, she used her telekinesis to drag him back in and kill him before stealing the reset charge.[2]
Kidnapping of Hunter C-20
Sylvie kidnaps Hunter C-20
Sylvie then travelled to a Renaissance Faire in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1985, and set up another trap for a squadron of Minutemen. When they later showed up to the tent she was hiding in, Sylvie enchanted the commander of their unit, Hunter C-20 and used her to fight and kill two of her subordinates. When Minuteman 200914867365 asked C-20 why she was doing it, Sylvie responded to him through C-20 that she was having some fun, before releasing C-20 and stabbing the Minuteman herself. She then grabbed C-20's Tempad and opened a Timedoor, before taking the other time charges and taking C-20 as her hostage.[1]
Sylvie creates an illusion in Hunter C-20's mind
Headed back to her hiding place in Haven Hills, Alabama in 2050 in a Roxxcart Mall since the TVA could not detect a nexus event in an apocalypse, Sylvie set up her plan in case the TVA were to find her. Using her powers to trap C-20 in a memory, Sylvie discovered that C-20's mind had been cloudy and that the TVA were using previous Variants as hunters. Inside C-20's memory of a margarita bar, Sylvie posed as an old friend. C-20 asked Sylvie if she wanted anything to eat, and she played along by pretending to be concerned by the place's health record.
Sylvie gets information from Hunter C-20
Once C-20 got a brain freeze, Sylvie told her that brain freezes are caused by cold things freezing the synapses of the brain to freeze memories in place. When C-20 didn't believe her, Sylvie dared her to answer a question while having a brain freeze. Sylvie then asked C-20 how many people were guarding the Time-Keepers, and when C-20 became suspicious, she changed the setting to night. She then assured C-20 that she could trust her, and C-20 told her that the way to the Time-Keepers was a gold elevator.[4]
Encountering an Alternate Self
Sylvie watches the cameras at Roxxcart Mall
When the TVA finally did arrive in Haven Hills, Alabama in 2050, Sylvie enchanted one of the people at Roxxcart Mall and placed him next to the on sale azaleas where Hunter B-15 and an alternate version of herself called Loki found her. Sylvie pretending to be the man said that he was there to check out the azaleas.
Sylvie revealing her true identity to Loki
However, when Loki and B-15 approached him, decided to possess B-15, causing her previous host to collapse. Loki asked if the man was still alive, not knowing about B-15 being possessed, and Sylvie responded through her that they would usually wake up. Loki realizing that it was the Variant said that she was him, to which Sylvie said that it was more that he was her before smiling at him, to which he returned the pleasure. Sylvie left B-15's body and continued to talk to Loki through Roxxcart clerk Randy.
Sylvie bidding her farewell to Loki
Sylvie then stalled Loki by distracting him before possessing another man's body. Following a brief fight, she knocked Loki unconscious and finished setting up the remaining reset charges. When Loki woke up, she revealed herself to him. When the timer on the charges ran out, they were teleported using Timedoors to bomb different parts of the timeline. Once the bombing was finished, Sylvie escaped through a Timedoor.[1]
Sylvie arrives in the TVA
Sylvie was teleported to the Time Variance Authority Office and entered the hallway towards the office. After seeing Minuteman 750682931199, she tried to enchant him, but her powers were unable to work within the TVA. She then engaged in hand to hand combat with three Minutemen, using her physical skill and a Minuteman's baton to wipe them out. She then approached an elevator with two more Minutemen guarding it, ignored their warnings to stop, and engaged in combat, using one Minuteman as a human shield before dispatching the others.
Sylvie getting challenged by Loki again
Before she could continue, Loki entered the room with two daggers and confronted her. When Loki tried to ask her questions, she asked why he had nothing better to do. When he asked if she was a Loki, she ignored him and told him to move. When he didn't, the two fought. Sylvie reacted with annoyance at Loki's idea to work together and his insult that she lacked vision and tried to leave. When Loki then tried to apprehend her, the fighting resumed, with her telling him to shut up before the two got locked in a stalemate.
Sylvie is confronted by Ravonna Renslayer
Ravonna Renslayer then entered with two Minutemen, and Sylvie overpowered Loki and threatened to kill him if Renslayer approached. Renslayer said she could, but before Sylvie could follow through, Loki stole her Tempad and teleported the two away from the TVA.[4]
Fight for the TemPad
Sylvie angrily confronts Loki
Sylvie and Loki landed in a shed, and with the TemPad out in the open, Sylvie tried to recover it. Loki stopped her multiple times before recovering it himself, and Sylvie slammed him into an ash tray. She then took the TemPad off him before trying to leave, but the TemPad had run out of charge and she could go nowhere. Sylvie then tried to stab Loki, but he used illusions to appear behind her and push her into a nearby rack. When Loki took the TemPad back, she told him to give it to her as he didn't know how to recharge it. Loki said he did, as she wasn't the only tech savvy Loki, but she took offense to being called a Loki and told him to never call her that. As she lunged for the TemPad, Loki made it disappear.
Sylvie learns she's on Lamentis-1
Sylvie then taunted Loki about being a magician, and Loki pulled out his daggers. Sylvie picked up her sword, but before another fight could break out, a purple meteor smashed through the roof and took them off guard. Sylvie asked where Loki sent them, and they left the shed to find they were on the planet Lamentis-1 in the year 2077, where an apocalypse was taking place in the form of a moon crashing into the surface. Sylvie called him an idiot for bringing them here, but Loki didn't know what she meant. Another meteor crashed down in front of them and the two ran for cover as Sylvie explained that this was the worst apocalypse saved in the TemPad and that no one survives. She almost got hit by a meteor, but Loki pushes her out of the way.
Sylvie takes cover with Loki
The two managed to take cover under a large truck, and Loki asked why she wasn't killing him, and she said that because he had hidden the TemPad, if he dies it is lost. She then pointed to a mining shack to take shelter in and the two took off, but when Loki asked if they were a team, she said no. The two were bombarded by meteors on the way over, but the two safely made it inside.
Sylvie tries to control Loki
While Loki was catching his breath, Sylvie approached him and grabbed his face before trying to use her powers to trap him in a memory, similar to how she used her powers on Hunter C-20. It failed, due to Loki's strong mind. The two then drew their blades again, but Loki was tired of this and proposed a truce, which she scoffed at. She asked where the TemPad was hidden, but Loki jokingly said it was in his heart, so she threatened to cut it out. Loki told her to stop trying to kill him every 30 seconds, but Sylvie said that he was full of it as he needed her to figure out how to recharge it and that's why Loki saved her. Sylvie told him that her plan was years in the making, and that when she got the TemPad back, she go finish her plan, and then kill him.[4]
Abandoned Town
Sylvie and Loki exploring
She then left to find a power source to charge the TemPad, and Loki accompanied her. The two trekked to a nearby town, and the two argued on the way, especially how Sylvie was a variant but did not like to be called one, and also did not like to be called Loki. She then told him her name was Sylvie, and Loki told her that having an alias when not Loki-like. Sylvie then dragged Loki for working for the Time Variance Authority, and said that he did not know what he wanted. He asked what he wanted, as he was confused why Sylvie would create a power vacuum so large in the TVA without planning to fill it herself, and that he never would do that. Sylvie said that she wasn't him.
Sylvie asks Loki for the TemPad
When they arrived at an abandoned town, Sylvie noted that their fleeing was in vain as everyone died anyways. She then said they had about twelve hours before they would die along with them, and that it would get worse as the landscape changed and society collapsed. They then found a neon sign that was powered on, and Sylvie pretended to check the electrics before asking for the TemPad, but planned to leave and abandon Loki as soon as she took it. Loki saw through it and told her to try harder. Sylvie then told him to stop pretending to be tech savvy, as the TemPad required a large energy source to recharge, not just enough power to light up a sign.
Sylvie and Loki speak to a woman
They then continued past the town and came upon a house with inhabitants. Sylvie grabbed her sword, but Loki stopped her, telling her that his diplomacy and guile would work better than her violence. She then kicked the door down, before being blown backwards by a woman with an air gun pointed at her door. She got up and Loki taunted her slightly before trying his tactics, which also failed and he too got blown back. The woman taunted them calling them "devils" and then asked what they wanted with her, before Sylvie asked where everyone had went. She said they went to an evacuation vessel called the Ark, and Sylvie realized that the Ark could power the TemPad. Sylvie then learned that they could get there via train, but that there were no tickets left. She and Loki then left for the train at the edge of town, discussing how they would get on it.
Sylvie and Loki get on the train
The two found the train station, which had many people waiting outside to be let on. Loki then told her that they couldn't fight their way on, and Sylvie said her plan didn't involve fighting. Her plan was to enchant a guard to lead them through the crowd, and use him to kill anyone who stood in their way, probably killing all the guards and hijacking the train, and that it wasn't violent as whether there was a fight was up to the guards. Loki told her that they'd be doing this his way, before he transformed into a guard's outfit. While they passed by, the crowd yelled about how unfair it was that only the rich received tickets to salvation. When asked to see their tickets to Shuroo, Sylvie enchanted the guard to believe that headquarters had radioed a request for Sylvie to go to Shuroo that morning. The two then boarded the train.[4]
Train to Shuroo
Sylvie speaks with Loki
On the train, Sylvie and Loki sat down in a corridor and talked about their early life. Sylvie told Loki that she couldn't remember much about her mother, other than blips. However, Sylvie was interested when Loki discussed his mother. They then talked about their love lives. Shortly after, Sylvie took a nap and when she woke up, she found Loki drunk and singing Asgardian chants with the rest of the passengers. However, Sylvie noticed one passenger giving Loki a suspicious look and leaving to report on his behavior. Sylvie tried to get Loki to stop but they were confronted by multiple guards, which resulted in Loki getting thrown out of the train.
Sylvie sees the broken TemPad
Since he had the TemPad, Sylvie followed him and jumped out also. After recovering from the fall, they found out that the TemPad was broken, much to Sylvie's anger. She was angered at Loki's carelessness and caused a small energy blast when she shouted to relieve the stress of impending death.[4]
Making a Plan B
Sylvie is consoled by Loki
Sylvie sat down in defeat, while Loki followed suit and consoled her over his failure to protect the TemPad. Loki then suggested that they still aim to escape, which would ensure their survival. Convinced that their presence might alter the programmed timeline, Sylvie and Loki made their way to Sharoo.
Sylvie and Loki in Sharoo
However, upon entering Sharoo, Sylvie and Loki found it crowded and struggled to get to the front. Loki asked if all the people down below were going to be left to die, startled by that fact. Sylvie and Loki then went around the crowds through the backway before getting attacked by some more guards.
Sylvie running for cover
Sylvie and Loki then had to take cover after asteroids began falling down over the city. As they were running, a heavy object almost fell on them but Loki used his telekinetic powers to keep it away from them.
Sylvie sees the Ark destroyed
When they reached some distance from the impact site, they observed a gigantic asteroid crashing into the Ark. Loki and Sylvie fearfully gazed at the Ark, as their only hope of survival was smashed to pieces. Upon seeing this, Sylvie walked away from Loki, having fully given up on their chances of survival, while Loki stood still in shock.[4]
Fighting the TVA
Sylvie speaks with Loki
Having left Sharoo, Sylvie and Loki sat down on the outskirts of the city and waited as the planet crashed into Lamentis-1. Sylvie told Loki about her past on Asgard, being taken into the Time Variance Authority as a young child, and escaping them. She said she'd been running from them her whole life, which impressed Loki. As the meteors edged closer, Sylvie and Loki grabbed each others hands. As the planet crashed into the moon, two Timedoors appeared and the two escaped through them.[3]
Sylvie taken into TVA custody again
The Timedoors transported Sylvie and Loki back to the Time Variance Authority Office, where they were arrested and separated by Mobius M. Mobius and Minutemen. Sylvie was then taken to an interrogation room where she was locked inside, with two Minutemen guarding the doors to make sure she didn't escape. Becoming bored in the room, Sylvie rested her head on the table.
Sylvie is asked for help from Hunter B-15
Eventually, Hunter B-15 walked inside and put aside her baton, surprising Sylvie. B-15 then asked for Sylvie's help before opening a Timedoor and asking her to accompany her. Sylvie followed and found herself back in 2050 Haven Hills outside the Roxxcart building. Sylvie was then asked to unlock B-15's past memories, as B-15 had sensed something from the time when Sylvie had enchanted her. After B-15 remembered her past life, Sylvie smiled.
Sylvie is captured by Minutemen
Returning back to the TVA, Sylvie was recaptured by Minutemen and brought to where Loki was also in Minutemen custody. Ravonna Renslayer arrived and told the Minutemen that she'd take care of them, leading them into an elevator. Inside, Sylvie asked Renslayer if she remembered her and Renslayer replied that she did. Sylvie then asked why the TVA had arrested her, but Renslayer claimed that she couldn't remember the reason.
Sylvie fighting the Minutemen
Sylvie and Loki were taken to the Time-Keepers chamber where they saw the Time-Keepers sitting on thrones before them. Sylvie tried to confront them, but Renslayer used a Time Twister on her. B-15 then arrived and deactivated the collars around Sylvie and Loki's neck. She then gave the two weapons and Sylvie began fighting off the Minutemen, before getting confronted by Renslayer. Sylvie managed to knock Renslayer out before confronting the Time-Keepers with Loki.
Sylvie throws her weapon at one of the Time-Keepers
Ready to achieve her goal, Sylvie decapitated the head of one the Time-Keepers, only to find out that they were androids. This then left Sylvie and Loki confused and both asked the question of who founded the TVA. As Loki was about to say something to Sylvie, he was pruned by Renslayer.
Sylvie threatens Ravonna Renslayer
Enraged that Renslayer erased Loki from the TVA, Sylvie promptly disarmed Renslayer and pointed the baton at Renslayer. Renslayer then told Sylvie to prune her, but Sylvie refused and demanded that she tell her everything about the TVA.[3]
Personality
- "I'm hedonistic. A lot more than you, I assure you. But never at the expense of the mission."
- ―Sylvie Laufeydottir to Loki[src]
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Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Frost Giant Physiology: Sylvie is a Frost Giant who had been enchanted to look like an Asgardian. Due to this heritage, Sylvie possesses the natural abilities of any Frost Giant, such as superhuman strength, durability, speed, agility and healing, the ability to manipulate ice and cold, and live for thousands of years.
- Superhuman Strength: Like all Frost Giants, Sylvie is superhumanly strong.
- Superhuman Durability: Sylvie's body is more resistant to physical damage than the body of a normal human being.
- Superhuman Speed: Like all of her species, Sylvie is naturally faster than humans.
- Superhuman Agility: Sylvie naturally possesses greater agility, dexterity, balance, and body coordination than that of a normal human being.
- Superhuman Stamina: Like all Frost Giants, Sylvie's musculature produces considerably fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than that of humans.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite her body's resistance, Sylvie can be injured like any other Asgardian or Frost Giant. However, her metabolism enables her to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue with greater speed and efficiency than that of a human.
- Longevity: Sylvie has the capacity to live for thousands of years.
- Cold Immunity: Like all Frost Giants, Sylvie is immune to the otherwise cold.
- "Enchantment is a clever trick. Cowardly, a bit amateurish, but clever."
- ―Loki to Sylvie Laufeydottir[src]
- Master Sorceress: Like her original counterpart, Sylvie is a powerful and skilled sorceress, capable of using magic to cast spells. She can even cast weakened versions of her spells in the TVA, where no magic is supposed to function.
- Telekinesis: Sylvie can use telekinesis to yank and drag her opponents. She also blasted air and dirt away from herself in while screaming over the loss of the TemPad.
- Enchantment: Sylvie can enchant victims by making physical contact and then grab hold of their mind, forcing them to fight on her behalf or obey her whims.
- Mental Manipulation: Sylvie can easily compel a weak-willed person to engage in combat for her or believe whatever she tells them by merely touching them. However, someone with a strong will may be able to resist.
- Memory Playback: Upon touching someone, Sylvie can trap them in an illusion created from their own memories, forcing them to relive past events. This effect persists even after physical contact is broken and lasts until the memory playback ends, at which point the victim loses consciousness. While touching them, Sylvie can view their memories and even insert herself into the illusion, allowing her to interrogate them in an environment where they'll be more compliant and willing to reveal information. She was able to extract information about the Time Variance Authority from Hunter C-20 by using this method.
- Possession: Sylvie can use her enchantments to take complete control of other people's bodies, speaking and acting through them. She can also use her enchantment abilities through them, allowing her to "jump" from one body to another by touch. This leaves the victim exhausted and drained, causing them to immediately pass out once she stops possessing them.
- Power Bestowal: Sylvie can bestow enhanced strength and durability on the people she possesses. This was demonstrated when one of her thralls repeatedly knocked Loki across the room and threw him around with ease (despite the fact that he weighs several hundred pounds), and was only briefly stunned when Loki hit him in the face with a heavy metal object (which would normally be enough to cause death or serious injury to a human, especially when wielded by an attacker with superhuman strength).
Hunter C-20 while under Sylvie's influence
- Power Bestowal: Sylvie can bestow enhanced strength and durability on the people she possesses. This was demonstrated when one of her thralls repeatedly knocked Loki across the room and threw him around with ease (despite the fact that he weighs several hundred pounds), and was only briefly stunned when Loki hit him in the face with a heavy metal object (which would normally be enough to cause death or serious injury to a human, especially when wielded by an attacker with superhuman strength).
Abilities
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- Genius-Level Intellect: To be added
- Master Tactician: To be added
- Skilled Engineer: To be added
Sylvie fighting a Minuteman
- Master Combatant: Sylvie is able to fight Loki on equal ground, successfully defeated some of the most skilled warriors of the TVA, and almost effortlessly took down security guards on Lamentis-1. She was also skilled enough to temporarily hold back Loki while inhabiting the body of a human thrall.
- Knife Mastery: Like her variants, Sylvie is highly skilled in wielding small blades in battle, as shown when she stabbed and killed Minuteman 200914867365.
- Sword Mastery: Sylvie is highly skilled in wielding a sword in battle, and she even able to contend with Loki in melee combat.
- Expert Acrobat: To be added
- Bilingualism: Sylvie is able to speak and understand Asgardian and English.
Equipment
Weapons
- TVA Baton: Sylvie, while possessing Hunter C-20's body, used this baton against the Minutemen squad on the Renaissance Fair tent, in an alternate 1985. She later used these batons again to fight with the Minutemen in the Time Variance Authority Office during her attack.
- Lance: Sylvie used a jousting lance to attack the Minutemen in the tent while possessing Hunter C-20's body.
- Sword: Sylvie has a short sword with Asgardian runes on it. She used it to fight and threaten Loki several times. She also used it against the guards of the train in Lamentis-1 and the Minutemen protecting the Time-Keepers.
Other Equipment
- Horned Helmet: As a variant of Loki, Sylvie also has a horned helmet, which is smaller and with a broken horn, that she can also use it as weapon in fight.
- TemPad: Sylvie used a TemPad to teleport to different alternate timelines while collecting Reset Charges and to escape the Time Variance Authority's radar. However, her TemPad was stolen by Loki and later destroyed on Lamentis-1.
- Timedoor: Sylvie uses these space-time portals of the Time Variance Authority to travel to apocalyptic events of the history to avoid being found by the TVA.
- Reset Charge: Sylvie collected many of these TVA devices in her ambushes to the Minutemen. She finally bombed the timeline sending all of them to many points in the history, thus causing a complete chaos on the Time Variance Authority.
- Kablooie: Sylvie bought this blue chewing gum in 2050, and she chews it in her time travels.
- Quantum Ore Shovel: Sylvie obtained this A.I.M. device during the earlier third millennium, and used it to ambush the Minutemen on an alternate 1858, in Salina, Oklahoma.
- Uniforms: Sylvie used Hunter C-20's uniform when she possessed her in the Renaissance Fair tent, and later used Hunter B-15's uniform when she possessed her in the Roxxcart Mall.
Vehicles
- Lamentis-1 Train: Sylvie and Loki boarded the train while trying to reach the Ark to escape Lamentis-1. While on the train, she and Loki discussed their early life and Sylvie took a nap. After she woke up, Loki's cover was blown and he was thrown off the train. Since Loki had the TemPad, Sylvie was forced to jump out of the train as well.
Facilities
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- Royal Palace of Valaskjalf: To be added
- Time Variance Authority Office: To be added
- Roxxcart Mall: Sylvie used the Roxxcart Mall as a place to lay low while hiding from the Time Variance Authority. She also used it to bring the captured Hunter C-20 so she could find out how to get to the TVA.
Relationships
Family
Allies
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Appearances
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Trivia
- Sylvie Laufeydottir is an amalgamation of different characters from the comics:
Behind the Scenes
- Sarah Irwin was a stunt double for Sophia Di Martino in the role of Sylvie Laufeydottir.
- Sylvie's costume was made by Christine Wada, who added concealed zippers to facilitate Sophia Di Martino nurse her baby between takes.[5]
