As you may well know, Loki was the blood brother of the god Odin in pre-Christian Scandinavia. Loki had a very serious problem: he was a half-breed of warring tribes and he was not treated very well as a direct consequence. The bottom line of his trouble was mixed loyalties. He was a giant, or something like it, but for some reason he became a god to the Aesir and blood-brother of Odin.
He was a trickster - to most contemporary Americans this means that he was more normal than many of his brethren in terms of his use of deception and trickery as part of his repetoire for dealing with life's challenges. Not the strongest brute or the best fighter, nor the wealthiest Loki survived by his wits in the face of pretty extreme challenges. The giants made him do this: the gods made him do that...and somehow he had to get through it and live, which was not always easy to do.
In the ancient myths he never had children, but in The Children of Loki - a number of soldiers and characters are all created, along with a set of circumstances worthy of being just that: Loki's own children. Gezka FaucMerz the genetically engineered and Kiel Bronson - the "barely not in prison" Sergeant are a testimony to the strange forces that influence people's lives in both reality and fictional story.
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