I like to think most of Asgard knew Loki was pretending to be Odin but let it slide because they were so into his bomb ass plays
Thor: See, it was Loki all along!
Asgard: Oh. Oh yeah, gasp, wow. You’re right. Hmm
Thor: …and?
Asgard: And what?
Thor: Maybe spring for a little righteous anger here? Something?
Loki: Yeah, this all seems rather lackluster guys
Asgard: Well, it kind of explains a few things
Thor: Like the stupid statue and the stupid play and th
Asgard: And how Asgard has been less keen to chuck its soldiers across the realms, and how our security has been put before the rest of Yggdrasil, and how the golden realm is completely repaired and beautified in the wake of the dark elves’ attack, and how we finally have plays in the theater that aren’t the same gods-damned Snorri and Bragi productions we’ve been watching since B.C.E., and how–
Thor: HE TRIED TO KILL JOTUNHEIM AND CONQUER MIDGARD AND LITERALLY VANISHED OUR REALM’S RULER
Asgard: Yeah, that was actually the only in-character Odin bit honestly
In response to the thought that Asgard has nothing left to barter or buy things with, I offer this possibility. No ships (other than the literal one that Asgard now lives on).
Sitting at a makeshift desk in his room, Thor stared down at the blank sheets of paper he’d found on the ship. Sighing, he fidgeted the pen in his right hand while he scratched the back of his head with the other. He’d resigned himself to getting started on one of the necessary evils of being king: paperwork. Starting with a budget. There was only one problem with that.
Tossing the pen down, Thor looked up at Loki, who sat on the opposite side of the desk, leaning back in his chair with his boots up on the desk. “Alright,” Thor said, holding up the piece of paper for Loki to see, “Here’s what I’ve got so far.”
Raising an eyebrow at the blank page, Loki commented dryly, “You seem to be missing some numbers.”
I’m pretty sure that Frigga is not Hela’s mother… I suspect that marrying Frigga was part of what put Odin off his conquering ways. I do wonder who Hela’s mother was, though, and what kind of relationship she might have had with her new stepmother. Kind of a reverse wicked-stepmother situation, I guess…
Loki is the Philosopher King 