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Personality [ ]

Sif is a loving wife and a caring mother, as she dearly loves her husband, Thor and her daughter, Thrúd and wants for the best for both of them. She dearly loved her  stepsons, Magni and Modi , despite not being their biological mother, and considered them as her boys. She reminisces the happy times that she and Thor told them stories by the fire as young boys until they fell asleep in their laps. Initially, like the rest of the Aesir, Sif was incredibly loyal and reverent of her father-in-law, the All-Father, striving to impress him and encouraging her sons to do the same. But after her sons' deaths and she deeply mourned for them, her feelings began to change into distrust for Odin for his selfishness, as he was the one responsible for sending Magni and Modi to their deaths " like brittle knives ", and outright contempt for him for inviting Atreus to Asgard and treating him significantly better than his own grandchildren. Sif feared that Thrúd would be the next to die and tries to convince Thor about Odin's true nature, in order to protect her family.
Before Atreus came to Asgard, Sif was much like her husband, Thor, as she would often get drunk and partake in many debauched activities. She also continued Odin's cycle of toxic parenting in berating, mocking, and even beating their children out of discipline in order to make what was considered strong, competent men that would impress & serve the All-Father well. However, after Magni & Modi died while on a mission from Odin who was indifferent to their deaths, going so far as to deem them worthless and Asgard better off without them, she began to question both the parenting of Odin as well as Odin himself. She gave up drinking & took on a new, gentler parenting style with her daughter Thrúd that focused more on her as a person than her value to Odin. She even went so far as to ban her from fighting and becoming a Valkyrie only because she did not want her to serve under Odin, no longer trusting him to value his family and their safety as much as he claimed. She also attempted to convince Thor to do the same, to focus more on protecting their own family & to stand up to his father. And while Thor improved in some areas, going so far as to give up drinking, she had little success in convincing him to focus more on their own family than pleasing his father. She was also willing to save the lives of mortals, as seen with Skjöldr . Initially, Sif held strong open contempt for Atreus, due to his involvement with the deaths of her son and stepson and the risk he posed to the Aesir gods, but she came to accept him as an ally after realizing the true depravity of Odin's actions.


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Powers [ ]

As the Aesir Goddess of Earth and Family, Sif has many supernatural powers.

Immortality : As an Aesir Goddess, Sif is immortal. Only a sufficiently powerful weapon or an extremely powerful being can kill her. Chlorokinesis : As the Goddess of the Harvest, Sif can control nature and any type of plant matter.

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Norse Mythology [ ]

The name Sif is the singular form of the plural Old Norse word sifjar . Sifjar only appears in singular form when referring to the goddess as a proper noun. Sifjar is cognate to the Old English sibb and modern English sib (meaning "affinity, connection, by marriage") and in other Germanic languages: Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰 ( sibja ), Old High German sippa , and modern German Sippe . Sifjar appears not only in ancient poetry and records of law, but also in compounds ( byggja sifjar means "to marry").
In Norse mythology, Sif is a goddess associated with earth. In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda , Sif is the wife of the thunder god Thor and is known for her golden hair. In the Prose Edda , Sif is named as the mother of the goddess Þrúðr by Thor and of Ullr with a father whose name is not recorded. The Prose Edda also recounts that Sif once had her hair shorn by Loki , and that Thor forced Loki to have a golden headpiece made for Sif, resulting in not only Sif's golden tresses but also five other objects for other gods.