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They strongly disliked and hardly trusted each other, but it was a good thing to have some sort of a constant to rely on when interacting with another person. Loki loved acting out and Natasha hated him for doing so, Natasha loved to remind him of his dumb attitude and Loki hated her for doing so.

Wow I suddenly remembered this storyline. Why make an angry hipster au when you can just force the characters on an angry hipster roadtrip as they are. Set somewhere after The Winter Soldier.
Loki's shirt says "I am Captain America" because you bet he'd start throwing around a ridiculous magical voice impersonation whenever he found a fault in the American culture. And Natasha would remind him that she didn't really take it personally, she was not Steve, and not even American anyway.

And Loki's magic is radically lesser than it used to be because ?? some sort of banishment or fugitive case (which is also the reason for the hair), so he - being the paranoid piece of trash he is - keeps drawing all sorts of witch runes on him to ward off ill fortune and the like.
And that's the tale of how the Black Widow ended up with an angsty Asgardian to look after because sure, if you're incognito and I'm incognito, and you're an idiot villain, we could well be incognito together.