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Since Tony had made customized floors for each of them... FREE floors in Manhattan? Who would be foolish enough to turn that down? the Avengers all moved into Avenger Tower directly after the Chitauri invasion.
It immediately became one big, non-judgmental, all your quirks are acceptable, family. Clint explores the ducts and practices shooting Iron Drones from the roof.
Bruce and Hulk share a suite and have learned to like each other, Tony and Pepper share a bedroom and she rolls her eyes at the antics the team gets up to in between weekly battles with weirdly costumed people who are never a real threat to the Avengers.
Jarvis RULES, with the able assistance of Coulson, who is their handler, having recovered due to Helen Cho's experimental Cradle. He makes sure they take all their vitamins, and bundle up warm.
Thor eats all the Midgardian junk food, in vast quantities, and never gained an ounce. Tony has a standing tab with all the vendors around Central Park And Thor has signed a petition requesting the legalization of nudity in Central Park. Each signer gets a full length portrait of Thor. It's proving remarkably popular.
Natasha secretly knits, not because she's ashamed of knitting, but because she likes to give away her projects as surprise gifts. Tony has set up a tab for her with all the best knitting supply shops. Currently she's working on knits for newborns, including premies, so even the tiniest babies will know someone loves them.
Steve painted all their portraits for Tony to hang around the Tower, and models for art students, while also taking classes in art, when he's not attending officer training. Again, Tony is paying for all this, and everyone appreciates his generosity and does what they can to show their appreciation, even if it's just writing letters to the editor in the Daily Bugle calling out J. J. Jameson for his scurrilous attacks on Tony and his protege, Spiderman.
Rhodey had told Steve how useful officer training was, and while Steve didn't expect to lead a commando squad again, he was always open to improving his mind and his skills. After all, there was no tactical skill involved in fighting the Chitauri. What if the attack had been logically planned?
Thor put together a power point presentation, aided by Jane's assistant, Darcy, that showed how Loki had really not been trying. He used it to force Odin to give Loki a trial. After everything came out, Loki was only convicted of conspiring to sneak Jotun into the treasury. He did that of his own free will before Thanos tortured him and used the Mind Stone on him.
Then Loki's true parentage came out. Laufey accused Odin of kidnapping and child-abuse and usurpation of the line of succession. It was looking like building up to another war, until Darcy, who'd accompanied Thor in order to handle the slide presentation, suggested Odin let Loki go meet his family, and give them back the Casket of Ancient Winters, because this Thanos guy sounded like trouble and wouldn't they need strong allies? Odin didn't want to do it, but Frigga put her foot down, refusing to have her sons set against each other any longer, and Odin caved.
Loki was so relieved that he calmed down enough to ask what Thor HAD done with the scepter because Thanos had put the Mind Stone in it. Thor said that he'd left it behind because they had the Tesseract and it didn't seem like a good idea to have two Infinity Stones in the same realm. So he'd let SHIELD keep it.
Loki face palmed. No, Thor, no, you do not hand an Infinity Stone to a secret organization riddled with enemies of another secret organization. Get it back and dump it on Niflheim. Sure they hate us, but with the power of the Mind Stone maybe they can fix up their realm, and really, we're going to need everyone when Thanos comes knocking on our doors.
Odin was furious because he'd gone to so much trouble to conquer the realms. He shouted and waved Gungnir. Thor shouted and waved Mjolnir. The ceiling cracked revealing a mural of a female Loki-look-a-like riding a giant wolf in battle.
Frigga glared at Odin. Odin blustered, and then eventually confessed. Under severe pressure, he relented and removed the spell making everyone forget his daughter, and brought her back to court. Before Hela could attack, Frigga ran to embrace her in tears, my DAUGHTER. After minor destruction, Odin agreed to step down in favor of Hela. After all, Hela was a far better fighter, and could control the dead, so when Thanos did show up, everyone who fell, on both sides, would only add to their army.
After all that Thor and Darcy returned to Earth, secure in the knowledge that plans were being laid, and alliances formed, against the threat of Thanos. Tony was relieved to hear them taking him seriously, and with Captain America and Thor backing him up, also got the US, and the UN making preliminary plans.
Now that Asgard was no longer under Odin's thumb, travel between Asgard and Midgard was more relaxed. Brunnhilde the Valkyrie and Sif become role models in the Midgard lesbian community when they casually announced that they are partners in more than kicking ass and drinking all the booze Tony can provide.
As part of his 'community service' for his role in the Chitauri invasion, Loki does good works on Earth, mainly in New York City and Stuttgart, Germany. The man who lost an eye was given enough 'weregild' gold to set him up for life. Loki worked with Jarvis to help weed out Hydra, and discovered Bucky Barnes was alive and currently brainwashed. Steve was barely held back from smashing all of SHIELD. Tony almost went with him when he learned that his parents were murdered by Hydra, using Barnes as a weapon.
Pepper and Coulson joined forces to calm them all down to attack the problem rationally. It was agreed to have Loki skywalk to snatch Bucky and deliver him to real, professional, doctors, who could help heal him. Natasha and Clint would have joined in the original argument, but they were currently having a crafting battle. Clint made the mistake of sneering that knitting was for girls, real men crochet. He shouted, MEN CROCHET! LOOK AT THESE BICEPS! THESE ARE CROCHETING BICEPS! KNITTING IS FOR GIRLS, IT IS FOR... OUCH! NAT, STOP OH GOD IS THAT A KNITTING NEEDLE I AM SO SORRY WHEN I SAY IT IS FOR GIRLS I OBVIOUSLY MEAN THAT IT IS THE STRONGER FORM OW OW OW HELP!
Bruce just sipped his tea and watched as Nat and Clint battled with knitting needles and a crochet hook. Hulk was betting on Nat. Tony filmed it to post online.
Then Steve came into the room, and huffed. "Crochet? Seriously, Barton, everyone knows that real men make lace. My mother taught me how to make hairpin lace when I was a sick kid. Selling it helped pay the rent. NEVER MOCK LACE."
Everyone was distracted. Heimdall, who had showed up to try Tony's Midgardian booze, because Odin's been stuck on gatekeeper duty by Hela and this is Heimdall's first vacation in millennia. Well, Heimdall nodded. This explained all the times he'd seen Steve having long discussions with people in antique shops over lace tablecloths and the like.
Tony nodded. It also explained the time Dr. Doom ripped up Sue Storm's lace curtain when he smashed into the Baxter Building, and Steve lectured him on his lack of respect for the hard work of others, while bashing him over the head with his shield.
Nat nodded. She'd taken Spiderman under her... well, spiders don't have wings... tutelage and he'd made great progress in artistry with his webs. They're so lacy these days that most villains don't want to break them.
Clint nodded. Sometimes new villains haven't got the message and Spidey's favorite playmates teach them. He'd seen Magneto and Doc Ock take them aside and explain (with more or less broken bones depending on how smart the new villain is) that you do not.break.the.lace.webs.
Tony nodded. That makes Spidey sad. You can be a villain, but there's LIMITS. Underoos is an adorable dork. If you have any soul at all you leave the pretty webs alone and let him finish up the battle in time to get home at a decent hour.
Steve nodded. And if Deadpool hears about it... whoo hoo.
Tony had been a little concerned about Deadpool at first, when he found that DP was bringing Spidey food and eating chimichangas with him on rooftops, until he discovered that it was just DP being a Dad, which Tony can relate to. Spidey doesn't eat enough, so if DP brings him pizza with extra cheesy breadsticks, that's good and will tide him over until he gets to the Tower for team dinner. May is an angel, but she can't cook.
Thor nodded. He's been writing an epic ode on good dads, using Deadpool and Tony as examples, because... well... there's not many good dads in any of their backstories.
Tony stopped paying attention because he dropped a stitch. Cable knitting was hard! DUM-E and U had got the hang of it before him, and made a metal mesh Iron Man. He didn't want to hurt their feelings, but it was VERY uncomfortable, so he'd made a giant refrigerator to magnetize it to and display it. He needed it anyway to keep Thor's snacks in stock.
Knitting, Thor said, is what holds the Avengers together. He has learned the Extremely Manly Art of Crochet, and made a strap for Mjolnir in rainbow colors.
For his next project Thor was planning to crochet a rainbow float for Pride. Midgardian gender roles are so amusing. Love is Love, Thor said, before he hugged everyone.