#also I have a feeling they’re going to just say Enchantress IS Lady Loki so they can pretend to be woke while not actually making Loki
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Loki Finale Thoughts: (Heavy Spoilers; Slykie negative & Pro FrozenInTime; Mostly positive, in case you want to stay away from anything Loki critical.)
[ It was better than Supernatural, so, slight win? ]
-First of all, the quotes during the opening was AWESOME?! I genuinely enjoyed those few seconds of listening to a lot of the more memorable Marvel lines.
-The clock jumpscare was so funny. With Scott Cawthon's recent retirement, that scene is the new face of horror. (Though yesterday a friend of mine actually suggested the "crack" theory that Ms. Minutes was behind it all and for a second there I was like 👀)
-I know a lot of other people did too, but I called Kang and the VINDICATION that brought. I literally yelled (in my house full of sleeping people) when he popped up in his purple cloak with his fucking apple.
-Jonathan Majors was the perfect choice to play Kang. His little giggle was my favourite thing and this specific version of Kang was so much fun to watch. (Kang isn't typically known to be the most entertaining character, (compared to, say, someone like Doctor Doom), so this insane version of him is awesome and I really hope he comes back. Within minutes he started climbing the ranks of my favourite MCU characters.)
-I'm going to gloss over the Loki/Sylvie kiss. I blinked and then they were kissing and I just. They're the same person. It’s not my cup of tea, nor one I would ever brew.
-I've had thoughts since episode one that Sylvie is actually The Enchantress. The powers, characterization, and how she interacted with Loki seemed to fit better. PLUS LADY LOKI ISN'T BLONDE. I stopped thinking too much about the theory after a few episodes, because narratively I didn't think it would fit well with the current lineup of episodes and plot reveals, but her line about "I'm not you" makes me want to revisit that. (Unless I misheard?)
-HOWEVER. They didn't kill Mobius off which is obviously awesome. I had matches ready to burn Marvel Studios to the ground if it came to that.
-HOWEVER AGAIN. No jetski. No "wow". 0/10 nothing else matters. (/j)
-I was really cheering for Loki to run to his husband at the end. (Before I realized what was happening, I was 100% stage-whispering "Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss" like a childish middle schooler while Loki and Mobius were face to face.)
-Not sure what to think about (plot wise) Mobius getting his memory wiped. I'll have to go back and watch when it's not 3am before I form any sort of proper thought around it/what it means. But in terms of what I actually think of it, MARVEL I'M STRIKING THE MATCH. YOU BRING HIM BACK HERE OR ELSE. Mobius deserves everything and more and he needs his memories for that.
-They're very clearly setting up for DSMoM/Loki Season 2 (Season 2!) and I think they did a good job of bridging the gap they needed to, without the cliffhanger seeming forced.
-I've seen a few complaints about it being rushed. I'll definitely have to do a rewatch where I'm not high on adrenaline and scream power. (Monster's Inc. style ofc ofc.) As your local research professor on Bucklemming, I can usually pick out things like bad pacing, but I actually didn't think it was too bad? (Considering there was a lot going on and considering a lot happened and considering this episode was only as long as the others.)
-Also! I didn't think the exposition heavy beginning was a drag. Learning about Kang/the multiverse/his hints at the other versions of himself were all easy to follow but still very compelling. And especially with the cuts to Mobius (my beloved) and then back to Kang (my other beloved) it went by rather quickly and wasn't boring.
-Then again you could show me Jonathan Majors!Kang buying oranges at the grocery store and I would be entertained.
-I'm curious what Ravonna's up to. Since she talked about finding free will, my prediction is that she'll find another (darker) Kang and meet up with him. In the comics she starts out as his enemy but eventually becomes an on again off again love interest. (Yes, you head me right. A slowburn enemies to lovers fic.)
-It'll be interesting to see where we go from here! I actually really enjoyed the show, and I'm one of the trashcan blogs who didn't think Loki was super ooc in the series. (Though I am Ragnarok critical.)
Just my thoughts! (Come tell me yours?)
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#LokiLiveBlogging was my disaster tag for the night.
I was on a ft call with my best friend @p0is0n3d-r4ts and we woke up both of our houses together. (They're currently passed out and still on the phone as I'm writing this.)
There was a lot of screaming and a lot of confused shouts and a lot of snorting, and if you want to do any of those things, (or all three!) definitely feel free to hit me up! My askbox is always open, and anon is always on!
Now I'm going to read Loki AoA or continue writing my Loki/Mobius fic until I pass out.
#I made a stupid amount of posts about Kang.#But every single one will be treasured.#Marvel#MCU#Loki#Loki spoilers#Loki TV series#Loki positivity#AntiSylki#FrozenInTime#Lokius#Loki finale#'Talky talky talky'#Also my eyes are going fuzzy as I'm typing tags.#That's how tired I am.#Long post
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Loki Episode 2 Thoughts (Finally)
I’m extremely late here but wanted to post this anyway - just some thoughts and reactions I had while watching episode 2.
I loved how playful he is when he's trying to hit Miss Minutes with the magazine - he does that look over his shoulder to make sure no one's watching, and I ADORE the little excited thing his eyes do when he's trying to swat her - there's something kind of cat-chasing-a-laser about it. Very, very cute.
Magic nerd Loki! Gotta love a confirmed headcanon.
And I like that this episode also confirmed my headcanons that Loki might slack off when he's not engaged or interested, or considers something unimportant (didn't watch all the propaganda training vids, wasn't interested in Miss Minutes' questions), but is an incredibly focused and hard worker when he's invested in what he's doing.
Tom has talked a lot in interviews about Loki's initial motivation being to find out what's going on, to understand the TVA and how it works, and just generally satisfy his curiosity. It was cool to see that play out and I love Loki's overall curious attitude.
I do like that they're being open about the fact that Mobius is using Loki, and not pretending that Mobius is some kind of perfect angel - Mobius talked about the two options for to explain why he's sticking his neck out for Loki (feeling sympathy for a scared little boy or saying whatever he needs to to get Loki to help him) and it absolutely seems like it's both. I like the way their relationship is developing so far.
Tears again! Not as much as in episode 1, but still good. Two episodes in and we've gotten tears in both - let's keep up this momentum guys (tears in every episode would be lovely, please and thank you)
Is...is someone going to tell Loki that he actually saved a whole bunch of Asgardians?? That his destroying Asgard was a heroic moment and not a villainous one? Did he read about that in the file or does he think he just up and destroyed his home planet a few years after he attacked New York? I just want him to know that that was a heroic moment for him and not a villainous one.
If Loki doesn't get to try candy and Mobius doesn't get to ride a jetski, I'm going to be very disappointed (I mean seriously the jetski thing did feel like foreshadowing, and I just NEED confirmation of Loki's sweet tooth. I NEED IT). And somebody please show Casey a fish.
Speaking of which, I was rather disappointed by the lack of Casey. As fun as the brief exchange was, I was really hoping for another actual scene with the two of them, even a short one. Maybe in a future episode?
Loki being an absolute dork while demonstrating with Mobius' salad was adorable. He’s so proud of himself and I love him.
Still not a fan of the “stabbed people in the back 50 times” line, but something I do really like comes a few seconds later - Mobius’ laugh. I get the feeling people aren't usually amused by Loki. If they're laughing during a conversation with him it's probably at him and not with him - but when Mobius laughs in this scene, it’s because he seemed to genuinely find Loki amusing and endearing.
At first I thought the way Loki acted in Pompeii was ooc, and while it is pretty over the top, I feel like that can be explained by a combination of it being a performance (he's trying to be as dramatic as possible in order to test his theory) and the fact that he's trying to distract himself from finding out about Ragnarok. And I loved Loki's frustration with Mobius’ suggestion to make bird noises. In terms of Loki’s behavior/attitude in that scene, a lot of how I feel was explained in this post by @iamanartichoke.
Sleeping Loki!!! Outstanding, beautiful, 10000/10
I loved how proud Loki was of doing a good job. Please give my boy all the validation.
And I love that this episode showcases how smart Loki is! Not just mentions it, but actually shows Loki being the one to figure things out and solve problems.
LET MY BOY HAVE HIS KNIVES
Multiple hair flips! Excellent!
I genuinely don't know what Loki's actual plans are at this point - obviously he wants to be free of the TVA and not get erased from existence, but I don’t know if he was telling Sylvie the truth about specifically wanting to overthrow the TVA, or he was lying, or if (most likely) it's some combination of those.
Sylvie seems cool but I’m really hoping she’s the enchantress and not Lady Loki, partly because I am just really really not into the idea of any version of Loki being blonde. Why.
It'll be really interesting to see what the tone of episode 3 is like. With the way this episode ended, I imagine the next one will be a little less lighthearted.
I think I’ll make a separate post about this, but I thought it was good that they verbally mentioned Loki being Jotun. This tells me they're at least not forgetting about it, but it also makes me worried that this is as far as they’re going to go. I’m going to be disappointed if they don't at least do a tiny bit to address Loki's internalized racism. Especially with the cast and crew talking about how the theme of the show is identity, it would fit incredibly well from a story perspective and would be a strange thing to leave out, considering how central it is to Loki's identity and how it’s one of the parts of him that has had the greatest impact on his life.
Tagging a few people since I’m posting this so long after the episode aired: @delyth88 @thelightofthingshopedfor @iamanartichoke
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I’d like to start off this review with the reminder that these people put their heart and soul into their work. They work countless hours, while I sit on my ass and type on a blog. I have no film experience, or writing skill, yet plenty of opinions.
I was initially very excited for the series, I love Loki as a character and Tom Hiddleston always does a fantastic job playing him (I actually wish they had him write the character instead of giving him minimal input) However, I wish I didn't watch past episode 3. The directing and writing felt sloppy at best. Loki felt extremely out of character. The development he goes through feels overnight. Remember this is the same Loki that ripped out a guys eye and the next day is in the TVA.
We see Loki go through great change in Dark World and Ragnarok (I get it we can’t all be Taika Waititi) despite the limited scenes featuring him. I’m the movies we see his transition from evil, but he is still the god of mischief, first and foremost. Those movies were maybe 5 hours together, yet better translated the characters depth, than the entire show about him. If it really was about Loki... the series felt as if Loki is back seat to a long monologue filled with plot holes.
There is a severe lack of action. At one point it is addressed that magic cannot be used in the TVA; but Loki is still witty, a good fighter, and has super human strength. We see none of that here and he is reduced to a powerless shell of himself. The few over the top “super hero” effects used, were produced beautifully by the cgi and film crew. The TVA set was well produced and fun with the retro “DMV” feel. The simple costume design with neutral colors and progressively darker lighting, could've paired nicely in contrast against Loki’s character. He’s typically sarcastic, quick on his feet, egotistical, and energetically self absorbed. This series he didn’t even feel broken or exhausted, just bland. Hey, you should always have artistic vision and change material. But characters can only be changed so far, and so quickly without any sustainable reason. It felt almost like a fan-fiction written from the writers ideas, and not the source material.
One of my biggest issues and final straws was the relationship. The relationship felt very forced and wrong. Slyvie and Loki are essentially twins, due to the same parentage. A love interest is not necessary in every series, and it took away from this one severely. I found myself dreading the finale due to the obvious upcoming kiss. The director, Kate Herron, addressed that it was to represent self love...however if you have to explain why it's not incest, it's probably incest. I understand some people don't mind because Slyvie doesn't feel like a Loki (Maybe it's the fact that she looks like and is named after Enchantress rather than lady Loki...not very creative guys) But it made me very uncomfortable. The director is a LGBT woman herself, yet I feel she was locked in a very male gaze, heteronormative, direction. A woman can co-star without being a love interest. An example of this done well is Loki’s friendly relationship with Verity in the comic Agent of Asgard. They met and became friends in only a matter of comics, with better tangibility of relations. In the comics we also see as a version of Lady Loki, and expression of gender-fluidity; without feeling forced or “woke.” On that note, if Loki is established as gender fluid in the MCU, why is there only one female variant of him. The other variants even express surprise of there being a female variant.
Slyvie lacks depth and felt “gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss.” Sophia Di Martino plays Slyvie well and I have no qualms with the castings. I was very excited for a female character with more story than Black Widow, but it was never given. It’s been confirmed that Sylvie isn’t Enchantress, however for the sake of character design, continuity, and incest...I hope she is and that they’re just keeping it a secret.
With a second season coming, I’m glad a new director will be taking the reins. As bad as I feel saying it. Disney has the budget to do better, and not use a “well let’s see what they make” strategy.
I’m not sure how a series can feel so rushed and so empty at the same time. As if it was drawn out to waste time and tell us nothing.
I also found the secondary characters like Owen Wilson’s Mobius and Wunmi Mosaku who plays hunter b-15 likable but underused. Something that left a bad taste in my mouth was how all the characters played by POC were bad guys or killed off. For those unaware this is a trope often exercised by “progressive” creators, usually attempting to include black or Hispanic characters but promptly killing them off or reducing them to a villain. This all just contributes to an absolutely messy series.
No, I didn’t think they’d reverse Loki’s death, give us gender shifting Loki, or Lady Loki as she is from the comics. However the lack of coherent writing (not that I’m one to talk,) contrast of Loki’s character, and rushed emptiness, was a major disappointment. If you love this character, don’t go past episode 2. Feel free to let me know your thoughts both critically and enjoyability at face value.
TLDR: good acting, casting, special effects. Poor character development, weird incest relationship, empty “progressiveness” and lack of action.
Wouldn’t watch past episode 2 if I could go back in time
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Episode 3 Thoughts
Just finished watching episode 3. Warning for spoilers.
I really enjoyed this episode for the most part. I’m still not convinced that Sylvie is a Loki though. I just don’t get the Loki vibe from her. I actually have a few theories about her though.
First one is that she only thinks she is a Loki. If you’re a Doctor Who fan, you might remember The Next Doctor episode where Jackson Lake thinks he is The Doctor but it turns out his memory was messed with. It’s a longshot but I think it could be possible.
Another theory is that Sylvie is the little kid from the start of the season that Mobius gets the Kablooie candy off of. Another long shot and probably instantly debugged as I heard Cailey Flemming from The Walking Dead is supposed to play the young version of Sylvie but it would be a nice twist.
A more obvious theory is that she is actually The Enchantress and has been fooling everyone all along. I think this is too obvious a storyline but you never know. I think at this point I’m just trying to think of reasons why she’s not Lady Loki because I don’t want her to be.
I enjoyed the ‘team up’ between Loki and Sylvie for the most part. Tom and Sophia have great chemisty on screen and play off each other well. I do dislike the power imbalance where they are making Sylvie seem more powerful than Loki when all she does is her ‘enchantment’ trick. Until we see otherwise, I’m assuming that’s all she can do magic wise.
In terms of the fighting, I’m disappointed that we have a continued trend of Loki not fighting like he usually does. If you look back at the other movies, Loki fights very swiftly and fluidly but in the fight scenes in the show, he seems overly clumsy (and yes, you can use the excuse that he was drunk in this episode but that doesn’t explain the 2nd episode). I did appreciate him using his powers during the fight though (something I would have expected him to do in Ep 2 when he had gotten his powers back from the TVA). It annoyed me a little that Sylvie was fighting a lot more Loki-like than Loki was though. When they were fighting together, they should have been more equally matched.
I saw some theories that Loki has the time stone. From what I can tell (I haven’t watched the theory videos yet) they say that because he reversed the buidling that was falling. This theory doesn’t work because he would have reversed the whole scene if he had the time stone, not just the buidling.
The singing! Oh my god, the singing! It’s so funny, the other day I was listening to I’m so Lonesome I could Cry from the I Saw The Light Soundtrack and I was thinking, ‘I really wish Tom would sing with his real voice sometime’ (Yes, I know he sang in the Pirate Fairy movie but it was very brief). My prayers were answered apparently.
His voice was so beautiful on the Norwegian song. I never expected that he could sing that way but I’m pleasantly surprised. I don’t doubt the big nerd tried his best to get that pronunciation down pat too. I saw something that said Tom would be recording the song properly and I hope that isn’t just misinformation. I would love a full version to listen to because his voice (when he was singing seriously) was like velvet to my ears. When I was watching the scene, I have to admit it reminded me of the times when Michael Fassbender has sung in different languages. They have a similar vocal sound.
Now, I left this until last because I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Loki and Sylvie. It’s a weird concept, isn’t it? I can already tell people are going to start shipping them, but they’re the same person essentially, aren’t they? Well, it’s all depending on the truth of her identity, I guess, and then, if she actually is a Loki, could that even work? Can you date yourself?
I’m not boarding the ship just yet but even I could see the tension at times that could hint to something in this episode. I mean, that moment where she just crowds up on him, supposedly trying to use her powers on him, that was such a loaded moment. It was almost uncomfortable because of how intimate it was.
I don’t know guys. What do you think of Loki and Sylvie? Do you think there could be any kind of romance there? Is it too weird?
In my opinion, I think that if she is Loki, it would be too weird (also far too chaotic to have Loki dating Loki). If it turns out she is not Loki then I think a romance could work. I can’t deny that a big part of me wants to see Loki in an actual relationship, purely out of curiosity for the most part. How would Loki be in a relationship?
Anyway, there was, unfortunately, a lot of the silly stuff (totally agreed with Sylvie when she called him a clown, because this Loki that they’re trying to shove down my throat is a clown--most of the time, at least). I really liked that Loki seemed genuinely concerned and outraged that the people were going to be left to die.
I can’t wait to watch the next episode to see how they get away from this apocalypse and what happens next. I wish we had more than 6 episodes to look forward to. Can we have some mischief and there be a surprise that it’s acutally 10 episodes? Ah, wishful thinking...
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spoilery loki and sylvie and show crit under the cut
i think the thing about sylvie/loki is that...like...there was no real need for there to be a romantic subplot for the show? of all the current MCU shows that really did not have the space for romance, it was this one. like, if you’re going to set up the entire next phase of the MCU you don’t need a romance, and if you’re not going to give us a romance in FATWS where the chemistry was off-the-wall bonkers, then Loki certainly didn’t.
And it just didn’t feel...like...romantic? The romance part felt strained. Friendship I could believe. i would have loved that. not only do i love myself, I like myself, and want to spend time with them and make sure they’re okay and taken care of.
And idk. It just. Loki just got done trying to take over Asgard and then New York after being potentially brainwashed/tortured/compelled during Avengers. If he’d gone on a discovery of self-love that had been billed as such, I think that would have been more believable. Or if the thing with Sylvie had been pushed more as “yeah we all know this is a little odd, but what a Loki thing to do, amirite?” Mobius says something to that effect, and if there’d been more of it, like “of COURSE the only person Loki wants to make out with is another Loki”, that would have been better, I think.
As it is, it really felt like Sylvie was only female so they could have a romantic subplot and called her Sylvie so it would seem less weird. She’s the only Loki who isn’t called Loki. Loki is always Loki. Lady Loki is only “lady” because Lady is a title. It’s not because they are lady version of Loki.
This is the thing that happens in the comics with the Hawkeyes, actually. Kate isn’t Lady Hawkeye or Girl Hawkeye or Hawkette. She’s Hawkeye. Clint is also Hawkeye. It’s not hard. Loki is Loki regardless of appearance.
And Sylvie didn’t need to be a Loki to be a compelling character.
idk it just. it felt like Marvel gave us Sylvie so they could be like “see? we understand the gender fluids, we love Gay.” but then let’s make her the most selfish and least intelligent Loki! because SHE’LL do the thing that explodes the multiverse, which since she’s doing it is bad now
and as someone who is coming to terms with my “what is gender” fluidity, the way they were like “this is a cis man. this is a cis woman. they present as cis man and cis woman. genderqueer!” is frustrating. i would have LOVED to see both of them with genderbending makeup. make Loki more femme. Make Sylvie more masc.
and like, yeah, i don’t think I’d have as much of a problem with some of this if Marvel actually had, you know, real representation in their stuff. if you’re giving us a ~canon~ genderfluid bisexual Loki then I’d like to see that on screen! I’d like to be shown, not told! And I’d like for those characters to not be selfcest because in the larger context of how queerness is portrayed in media that’s not great! It feels like you tried to put your own spin on weird predatory gay tropes from the Code Era and I can smell that shit, Mouse Boy.
And yet at the same time it feels like they made Sylvie Sylvie instead of Loki to remove her as far from Loki as possible to make the romance okay? But at the same time I think that undermines her. Because if she’s really Loki, and not comic!Sylvie, aka Enchantress, then why should she be so ~different~ and ~special~ compared to the other Lokis? Yes, obviously, they’re all different in their own ways because of what they’ve gone through, and she was pruned very early compared to most of the other Lokis, except kid!Loki.
It’s weird because. Because on some level I’m okay with her being a ~superior~ Loki. She was literally cut from the timeline because of sexism!!! (but again that undermines the whole genderfluid thing. because that’s not really fluidity? that’s a “this loki is female. this loki is male” not “this loki is female, this loki is all genders”. does that make sense?) but for me it just fell flat. like we never got to know her well enough to know that she���s Loki, just her own kind of Loki. We never got to see her be Trickster. Or do mischief. Even as briefly as we saw the Void Lokis, you still got that impression of...well...Loki-ness. Be it weirdness, assholery, pomposity, they all had that flavor of Loki. and i just never felt that from Sylvie (which is why I’m still sitting here thinking “but was she really a Loki variant? or is she actually enchantress!sylvie???”)
anyway i’m not going to read through this for coherency, this is just me spitting out some thoughts
#loki#loki show#loki show spoilers#loki show critical#marvel critical#rant#if you're going to have lady loki why are you not just putting tom in drag that's what i don't understand
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Ok some thoughts after the loki episode
I had seen one particular youtuber lmao when giving a review of the first two episodes, she called Sophia Di Martino a miscast and basically seemed like she hated her in the show….only for me to see the second episode and Di Martino literally has like two fucking lines😂
Now it seems like she’s saying it’s a miscast because she doesn’t look like Lady Loki from the comics and to that I say…I don’t think it matters. We know marvel adapts things…changes how costumes look in live action vs comics…changes the gender of some characters like I don’t get that argument.
And then there’s still the possibility Di Martino is a character mashup of Lady Loki/Enchantress which I think is likely and in that case…her hair being blonde fits the enchantress character?!!! Idk I was pretty pissed this youtuber made it seem like Di Martino completely ruined the second episode with her portrayal and for the two lines she had, I thought she was fine.
There’s probably going to be an onslaught of hate she gets because we’re so used to Hiddleston Loki, seeing someone else technically be him will be strange. And don’t get me wrong, if you don’t like her in the role by the end of this it’s all good lmao, I’ve just been pissed people judged her when she literally barely appeared in the episode long enough to give her a chance.
Also, I still hate the whole TVA is bad theories, mainly because that’s too obvious of a plot line…like it truly agitates me that so far I’ve barely seen anyone even consider the possibility they aren’t. Because it’s definitely still up in the air. in the end this show revolves around loki, and he’s obviously suspicious of the TVA but it just doesn’t make sense to me right now. everyone always thinks the big organization is bad and marvel has also DONE that plot before, I don’t want to keep seeing it personally. But I do think if there’s any sort of corruption, it’s not with the TVA, it’s with the Timekeepers themselves.
Based on how Mobius has acted, I can’t see him being like “secretly evil” like some suggest. I can’t see that desk worker Casey being bad. The TVA, especially all the workers probably don’t even know everything about what they’re doing. Mobius mentioning he’s never even MET the timekeepers made me think this. Cause Mobius seems like a prominent agent.
The TVA itself and all of its workers probably don’t know about any corruption the Timekeepers may be involved in (and I think Renslayer probably DOES know shit). It’s more like they’re pawns for the timekeepers. They don’t question stuff because it’s all they know/been told.
The other thing is…the timekeepers created the TVA and all its workers…and from what we’ve seen these people have their own personalities and they’re not robots…so why would the timekeepers make them like this?
Also to point out the TVA isn’t bad at all from my knowledge of the comics but the Timekeepers can be jerks.
And my last thought, I don’t think our main Loki will team up with Lady Loki. Idk why I feel that way😂 but it’s Loki, if he does team up with her, it’s because he has a plan/scheme and same goes for her with him but we shall see!
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Real quick scattering of thoughts on Loki 1x02 and x03 before I watch the newest episode. I watched them pretty much at the same time so it’s a two-for-one post. Here be spoilers for episode 3! On mobile so no cut again, sorry.
Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.
Okay. In no particular order but attempting to start with ep 2 first:
Loki trying to get info on the Timekeepers and the TVA in ep 2 and being blocked by the most bored archive librarian ever was hilarious. The whole sequence of him trying to get her attention only for her to completely ignore him until he rang the bell was creepy but so funny.
Loki’s reaction to getting the details on Ragnarok made me so sad. :( Same, Loki. SAME. I’m also still gutted Asgard was destroyed and I refuse to even watch the movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But him going to look at that in the first place made me wonder if maybe in the back of his mind Loki’s coming up with a plan to save Asgard? (Or at least, one version of Asgard in the multiverse.) I would love that. I want Asgard back in general and was hoping for Thor 4, but having Loki be the one to save Asgard would be SO fitting. He may be adopted but he’s still an Asgardian at heart, truly. Having Loki be the one to save Asgard would be a great way to show him finally acknowledging that and have all the Asgardians acknowledge it too.
We have an official population for MCU Asgard! 9719 people. That fits. It’s about twice the size of a pretty small suburban town. Asgard is SMALL. It just doesn’t have the space for a lot of people. It’s still a city, but Asgard the Realm has other things on it besides just the city, so it can’t have a huge population.
I wonder what the official population of New Asgard is when we see it in Endgame? And how many Asgardians come back post-Blip? This would really all depend on how many people made it through Hela’s rule and onto the ship during Ragnarok- and then half of them would’ve been killed by Thanos in the beginning of Infinity War. Would half of the remainder have been Snapped away at the end of IW, or would Thanos leave them out since he already halved their population? File under questions Marvel will probably never answer. Also file under “Thanos continues to be really bad at math.” (Should probably go look at the New Asgard sign again to check, but I don’t think it listed population.)
Loki annoying Mobius by messing with his salad was great. Loki annoying Mobius in general was great.
Loki letting the goats free in Pompeii made me think he might have a liking for goats, which means I now have a headcanon that Loki was friends with Thor’s goats as a kid and would sometimes let them loose to get their assistance with pranks. Thank you show, for cute kid Loki headcanons.
Tom Hiddleston probably had a BLAST yelling at people in Latin in character as Loki, and good for him!
Sylvie’s entrance sequence at the beginning of the episode with the fight scene vs the TVA set to “I Need a Hero” was amazing. I haven’t seen Shrek in a while but this might just reach the same levels of A+ “I Need A Hero” song usage as the Shrek sequence.
Speaking of the beginning of the episode, the Ren Faire setting was SO good. Great way to get laughs, and it made me want to go to a Ren Faire again.
The Roxxcart setting for the big encounter later in the episode made me flash back on all the times Roxxon’s appeared in the MCU. Two main thoughts: 1. I so want a Jane!Thor movie where the main villain is Dario Agger, evil Roxxon CEO and Minotaur. Preferably working with a better version of Malekith (from another universe probably) like in comics, because as much as I love Thor 2 my one complaint is that their version of Malekith was SO LAME. Especially compared to comics!Malekith. Plus an Agger + Malekith teamup would mean both the Nine Realms AND Earth are in danger, by definition. Thor 5 please, Marvel. 2. I really, really miss Cloak and Dagger and that show deserved so much better.
(Our) Loki’s perpetual insistence that he’s better and that the plot (pun intended) is about him is both funny and also a little sad- because he knows, or at least thinks, that if he stops insisting those things, everyone will stop paying any attention to him whatsoever. And he needs attention.
Poor Mobius probably felt so betrayed at the end of this episode. :(
Onward to episode 3!
This was by far my favorite episode so far. I LOVE Sylvie. I love her and Loki’s dynamic. I love that we get Loki talking to someone he considers an equal about some very personal things, and that Sylvie does the same thing with him. They understand each other in a way nobody else has. Because they’re the same person, sort of. I’ve taken to calling them “alternate reality twins” and that’s what I’ll keep calling them unless told otherwise.
They also annoy each other in a way nobody else can. And it’s hilarious. They look equally annoyed at the other not falling for their tricks and equally annoyed at needing the other’s help before they really start to bond and I LOVE ALL OF IT. I also feel like they adopt each other a lot quicker than either would be willing to admit, and then they’re annoyed at that! Loki yelling “you’re so weird!” at Sylvie made me go “OH they’re bickering like siblings!!!” and that was pretty early on! I’m an only child but that had peak sibling energy to me. Even them trying to trick and outdo each other had sibling energy most of the time.
Their earlier fight when they first get to Lamentis, before they realize where they are, had some VERY quality quips and also really had me wondering who would win in a fight between the two of them. Sylvie seems to have more physical strength, and she’s got a sword instead of daggers so longer reach, but Loki has skill and he has tricks. I think with his skill at magic (he can TELEPORT?! Probably only a few feet and probably limited by where he can see but that’s SO COOL!!! I don’t think we knew he could do that?!) Loki would likely run rings around Sylvie IF there were no people around for her to enchant. And assuming that she wasn’t able to set any traps beforehand, because Sylvie has proven well able to set traps to take down people who should be at a major advantage against her. Otherwise, I think Sylvie would win. She seems to have better physical training than our Loki, and if there were any people around for her to enchant he’d have to contend with them too. And if Sylvie could lay traps ahead of time, then it could go either way (you never can tell with a Loki, much less two) but I think Loki would probably lose. Loki is just as tricky as she is but that seems to be something she’s had a lot of practice in. Loki is more about confusing opponents with illusions and duplicates and talking his way around people. Sylvie sets traps instead, and is more comfortable/better at using brute physical force.
Speaking of enchanting, me while watching episode 2: “Hey, these mind controlling powers remind me of Enchantress’ powers!”
Sylvie in episode 3: calls her powers “enchanting”
Me: “OH.”
So Sylvie seems to be a composite of 3 characters. 1. Lady Loki, as in Loki when identifying as female. (There’s also that time from before they said Loki was genderfluid and a shapeshifter and back when Loki was still evil when he possessed Sif’s body and went by Lady Loki, but we don’t talk about that.) 2. Amora the Enchantress, a major Thor character/villain who uses magic to “enchant” people into doing what she wants-yes this is definitely a cringey “magically enchants people into loving her, consent-issues-out-the-wazoo” evil seductress stereotype in old comics, but it’s gotten better recently. And 3. Sylvie Lushton, the much lesser-known second Enchantress, who was a regular teenage human girl when after a Ragnarok (don’t remember which one, there have been multiple but this would’ve been early 2000s) Loki for shits and giggles decided to make her think she was Amora and give her the powers to match. She was on the Dark Reign-era (aka when Norman Osborn was in charge of SHIELD and the Avengers) version of the Young Avengers, the Young Masters of Evil, and that’s where I know her from. She’s a great character- she genuinely wants to do good and help people, but her brain is a bit messed up by the number Loki did on it, so she gets confused. I believe she’s currently in comic book limbo after Amora found out about her a while back, got pissed at her for stealing her name and her whole Thing, and tossed her somewhere dangerous on the World Tree while saying something about how if she can survive it then she’ll prove she deserves the name Enchantress. She sadly hasn’t been seen since as far as I know.
So each of those characters have similar characteristics with Loki’s Sylvie. Sylvie 1. Is a Loki who is female (Lady Loki), 2. Was presumably raised on Asgard and uses her magic to “enchant” people via a form of mind control into doing what she wants (Amora the Enchantress), 3. Is named Sylvie (Sylvie Lushton, Encanhtress II). Also worth noting that both Amora and Sylvie Lushton have blond hair, and so does the MCU’s Sylvie. All three characters also have green colored magic!
May turn the above bullets into their own post just for informational purposes. Also, when we said we wanted Enchantress in the MCU, this is not what we meant. Stop with the Monkey’s Paw-style wish granting, Marvel! (Looking at you, X-Men comics’ response to us wanting more Wanda.)
Anyway. Will round off with my favorite thing: everything on the train. Everything on the train was WONDERFUL.
Loki telling Sylvie about Frigga and how she taught him magic and then demonstrating the fireworks made me tear up. 🥺 Right in the feels. I miss Frigga a lot. I miss Asgard/the old Thor franchise in general a lot, but this is about Frigga. She was AMAZING and I miss her. Forever love the detail that Tom and Rene came up with the idea on the set of Thor 1 that Frigga is the one who taught Loki magic and fighting and how that informed their characters’ dynamic to the point of it being canonically discussed later. There’s a great Thor 2 deleted scene where Frigga talks to Thor about this exact thing. Frigga is such a fave of mine.
Sylvie telling Loki about her own past in turn made me very curious what her life was like and what the differences are. She seemed to have had a really hard time of it as a kid and I just want to hug her. (I also want to hug Loki, but that isn’t news.) Loki has had a very tough time, but really only after finding out he was adopted. He doesn’t appear to have had many friends on Asgard before (though I headcanon that he was friends with Lorelai before her exile, and since it’s my headcanon I imagine a similar situation with Amora, if not quite as close a friendship because comics Loki gets along better with Lorelai than her sister) but he at least had a family who loved him and who he loved, and a status as a prince that would’ve given him a good life and protection. Sylvie doesn’t seem to have had any of that as a kid. :(
“Surely there were some would-be princesses? Or perhaps a prince?” CANONICALLY BISEXUAL LOKI YES! YES.
Comics Loki is canonically both bisexual and genderfluid! Explicitly discussed on page, multiple times, and expounded on by writers too. (One of the most heartwarming Odin moments for me- yes, Odin does have heartwarming moments!- is when he’s telling his kids he loves them and he says something to the effect of “my son, my daughter, my child who is both.” The latter is Loki, the former are Thor and Angela. I might still be bitter over MCU Hela taking Angela’s place in the family sorry not sorry. This was in Original Sin: Thor and Loki, for anyone wondering.) I tend to default to he/him pronouns when talking about Loki because Loki tends to be male more in appearances, and also partly because it’s what I’m used to, but when Loki is clearly female I’ll of course switch to she/her. I have seen people use they/them pronouns for Loki too. I don’t think Marvel has ever said what pronouns Loki prefers though.
Speaking of which: I realize the “Sex: fluid” on Loki’s info card in episode 1 was probably foreshadowing Sylvie, but I kind of want to also read it as a nod to Loki being genderfluid. (Loki is also a shapeshifter, so gender would = sex in this case.) Whether it would be a nod to specifically comics Loki or also to MCU Loki is anyone’s guess as of now. We’ll find out I guess, or if it turns out to be strictly headcanon than it’s whatever floats your boat. :)
Back to the train scene!! Sylvie loudly protesting that she can’t sleep near people she doesn’t trust and then promptly falling asleep across from Loki a few minutes later made me emotional. ALTERNATE REALITY TWINS. Also VERY much a parallel to Loki falling asleep across from Mobius last episode.
Loki realizing that Asgard was really his home and his family really was his family only to also realize that he’ll never see either again and deciding to handle this by getting ABSOLUTELY DRUNK is SO ASGARDIAN OF HIM. I cannot. He even did the “Another!” *smashes glass* thing just to bring the point home.
Oh gosh, LOKI SINGING IN ASGARDIAN. FEEEEEEELS. I know, it’s actually Norwegian. I wonder a bit why they didn’t use Icelandic instead? Anyway, this was lovely and I love that going by the translation it’s a song of longing to go home, and it mentions Idunn’s apples of immortality. Apparently the full version of the song is going to be on the soundtrack and I’m so excited for that.
Loki’s metaphor of “love is a dagger” was actually quite good, he and Sylvie just lost the thread of it right at the end there. I wrote about this in tags somewhere, I’ll copy it in here later.
Edit: here’s an edited version of what I wrote on this post: This was a great metaphor until it got away from him. So close to the point (heh) and then they veered right away. Let me finish this for them: “Love is a dagger. It’s a weapon for far away and up close. You can see yourself in it. It’s beautiful. You have to give it to the right person.” So what this scene tells us about Loki is that he’s been hurt by love because it hasn’t been real. Or hasn’t felt real to him. Maybe he’s given it to the wrong people, or maybe he couldn’t tell who the right people were. (And if this is in reference to his family then I think he’s still too close to the revelation of his identity to be able to think clearly about the situation. Because his family DID love him! Even Odin. He just lost sight of that with everything happening.) Love is also about trust. And Loki doesn’t trust easily.
I really love this quote and this scene. Kinda want to do a “Love is a dagger” graphic of i ever have time.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if Loki and Sylvie come back to this conversation and come to a more satisfying conclusion. I hope that happens actually.
Sylvie using her headpiece against an opponent in the train fight instantly made me think of Wonder Woman. A+. Also, I haven’t mentioned yet but I love the fact that Sylvie’s headpiece looks exactly like God(dess) of Stories Loki’s from Agent of Asgard. Loki’s Ragnarok headpiece definitely had big AoA Loki vibes, but Sylvie’s headpiece is much closer- mostly it’s smaller, which is very Agent of Asgard Loki in general, but the one horn being cut off is specifically a God(dess) of Stories Loki thing and I love that they pulled from that.
Loki throwing the dagger and missing because he’s drunk was hilarious. Not good for Sylvie, but hilarious to watch. Don’t fight while drunk, Loki. Also, he threw “love” at Sylvie and I laughed when I realized that.
I didn’t realize until I saw a parallel gifset of it why Loki carefully going up to Sylvie after her scream felt so familiar- it’s just like how he went up to Thor after Thor overturned the table in Thor 1. The CONTINUINTY!! Absolutely amazing.
While trying to save the Ark Loki was probably thinking a lot about what he saw in the TVA clips of his own people trying to escape Asgard during Ragnarok and that hits kind of hard.
Loki apparently using telekinesis to stop the column from falling on him and Sylvie threw me off a lot until I saw another gifset that included the moment in Thor 2 (trailers only, I think) when he finds out Frigga is dead and all the furniture close to him breaks and flies away from him. The pose was even the same as when he stopped the column. I think he can sort of... push things away from him? (Almost like a Force Push 🤔) He seems to need to stop and tense up his arms while he does it though. And it doesn’t have the green effect the rest of his magic does, which is odd.
Speaking of Loki’s powers, I’ve said this in tags for sure but I’m so happy they’re FINALLY letting Loki hit people with green magic bolts. He does tend to prefer more subtle uses of magic, but I still can’t believe it took over 4 movies for that to happen. It’s kind of a no-brainer magic attack- probably exactly why Loki prefers other things- but you’d think he would’ve done it at least once after 4 movies.
I saw a post point out that by the end of the episode, Sylvie has lost both her headpiece and her cloak/robe thing, which makes me wonder if she’s going to get a new outfit by the end of the show. Or at least different accessories. I’m also curious if she’s going to take up the Enchantress moniker by the end of the show.
Finishing this with theme analysis and theory time:
The revelation that TVA agents used to be variants and were somehow reprogrammed makes so much sense. There’s something immediately shifty about the idea of 3 Time Keepers dictating the fate of everyone in infinite multiverses, and this just solidifies the hint that the Time Keepers are going to be the overall Big Bads. Which makes sense, narratively! But this shifts the TVA agents from villains to victims. Mobius gets to stay sympathetic and so does Sylvie, AND once the TVA agents find out about their origins it puts the same choice onto them that Loki has. They all have a choice now about who they’re going to be. They’re not who they thought they were, but are they going to let themselves be defined by what other people (here, the Time Keepers) think they should be, or are they going to be who they want to be.
This is exactly what Loki: Agent of Asgard is about, by the way. And I know I said in the last post that Loki’s greatest villain is himself, but I’m going to amend that because I didn’t say it quite right. Loki’s greatest villain is his evil self. Loki the god of evil, the Loki that is the villain. Loki (and all the other Asgardians) in Agent of Asgard is genuinely a god, and AoA tells us that gods are defined by belief- they are what people believe them to be. That’s how they exist. So because so many people believe Loki is an evil villain, the universe tries to twist him to fit that role. The plot of AoA is Loki trying to avoid that fate, to be better, be who he wants to be. It’s a meta story. It’s Loki trying to break free of the narrative he’s been part of up until that point. And eventually he manages to break the fourth wall itself and take control of his own narrative by becoming the god of stories. He controls his own story and it no longer matters what other people think he is, only what he thinks of himself. Nobody else gets to change or define him.
AoA’s villain is a future version of Loki that does go back to being evil. He’s basically the cosmic force- destiny, the narrative itself, etc- that’s trying to fit Loki into the “evil” box personified. Loki is seemingly taking that idea and subbing in a different personification for that same idea of lack of choice: the Time Keepers. We know from the Miss Minutes short in episode 1 that the Time Keepers want one timeline. We don’t know if that’s actually to prevent a multiversal war like the short suggests or if that’s just propaganda. When Loki tries to find out more about the war or about the beginning or end of time in episode 2, he can’t access those documents. Something doesn’t seem right there.
Edit: Also, in episode 2 Loki compares the TVA to Asgard by saying both the TVA agents and Asgardians are equally stupid. The reveal of who the TVA agents are adds a new dimension to that comparison. They both see themselves as guardians of the world around them, special, but really they’re no more special than the people they’re fighting to protect. Or in other words, they’re only as “special” (“heroic,” really) as they make themselves.
Also an edit: damn I just realized the continued stupidity of R*gnarok having Fenris and Odin in the same movie and Odin dies but get killed by Fenris. Asgardians have a saying about watching for wolves’ teeth.
I’ve seen the theory around that Sylvie might be a former TVA agent (which seems to be backed up by the midseason trailer I very belatedly saw, oh my GOD TINY SYLVIE!!!!! But also oh no tiny Sylvie at the TVA :() and I really like that. It makes sense. Maybe she went rogue because she realized the TVA is preventing people from choosing for themselves. Maybe she even knows what it is the Time Keepers actually want. Or maybe she’s doing this just for herself because she didn’t enjoy being brainwashed by the TVA and she doesn’t like being told who to be! That is after all part of “what makes a Loki a Loki,” even if she doesn’t use that name anymore.
I’m also wondering (hoping?) if maybe her being a former TVA agent could explain why she’s a mashup of different characters, instead of it just being Marvel mashing characters together because they can. This is mostly wild speculation, but could the TVA possibly have put multiple people’s timelines/memories inside her head? What if she’s in universe an amalgamation of a Loki, an Amora, and/or a Sylvie?
We’ve had some clips of what looks like a Thor 1 era Loki in front of the throne on Asgard- which looks different to me; maybe Loki redecorated? We’ve also gotten a shot of Loki in front of a ruined NYC skyline, including Avengers Tower. Maybe we’ll get an episode where Loki wins and we’ll see different timelines where he wins in different ways, until he realizes that this isn’t actually what he wants?
Whoops this got long??? Thanks for reading if you read this far!
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AVENGERS: LOVE AND LIGHTNING - Sneak Peak
All is fair in love and Thor! After tricked into a betrothal by a princess from another realm, Evangeline Green must find the Eternal Flame to win back her freedom, and save the nine realms. But those aren't the only sparks flying. Things are heating up between Evangeline and the seductive God of Thunder, but will his treacherous ex-girlfriend, Enchantress, and a group of feuding Avengers tear apart this unspoken romance?
“You were gone for forty-five minutes.”
“Please, don't.”
“You were gone for forty-five minutes, and you came back engaged to a lesbian fairy princess,” Wanda judged me over the rim of her mug as she sipped her tea.
“Don't say it out loud,” I groaned and stuffed my face into one of the throw pillows on the couch.
“Technically it was an elven lesbian princess,” I heard Stephen correct her.
“Technically it was an elven lesbian princess and Thor,” Scott chimed in, forcing me deeper into the depths of the couch. I muffled my moans of misery.
“Let’s recap here,” Nat said, steepling her fingers together and bringing them to her lips. Thor kept staring at her blonde hair with a distasteful look. “We need to find this Eternal Flame in twelve days, or elves overtake Asgard and invade here. And Angie has to marry Arwen from Lord of the Rings.”
“She had white hair,” I added. Asta agreed that the Eternal Flame had to be returned to call off the engagement.
“Like the dragon lady from Game of Thrones?” Scott piped up.
“Actually, I heard the dragon lady’s not a natural blonde. They dyed her hair for the show.”
“What? Seriously? It's not real? I feel so betrayed…”
“Wait until he finds out the dragons aren't real,” Stephen muttered. The Sorcerer Supreme cleared his throat, “Thor, do you know where the Eternal Flame is?”
I glanced over at Thor, who sat next to me on the couch. He winced, staring down at the glass table. “Well, it's sort of, complicated…”
“What happened? Did Smokey the Bear stomp it out?” Sam remarked. He stood behind Cap’s chair, chest puffed out, arms crossed. There was still unease between the Avengers. I hoped Thor would take away the pressure, somehow.
“It has to do with Loki, doesn't it?” Clint said out loud. “That's when it all goes to shit, isn't it? Come on, buddy, tell me I'm right.”
Thor was extremely quiet for a minute.
“Yes. Loki moved it to Earth.”
Clint leaned back in his seat with a smug smirk. “Called it. Knew it was the turd.”
“Did you just call the God of Mischief a turd?” Scott glanced warily up at the ceiling, waiting for a lightning bolt to strike down from the heavens and smite someone. “Isn't that bad ju-ju or something?”
Rhodey nodded mutually. “Maybe. But it’s the truth; he was a real turd.”
I felt a small smidge of relief. I could get everyone to agree on something—that was a start.
“It was about, uh, seven hundred years ago,” Thor recalled. Peter Parker and Shuri sat criss-crossed on the ground, listening eagerly. “Loki—he was my brother, who was murdered by the dark elves—and he liked doing experiments and blowing things up, but our mother, who has also passed away very recently—she murdered by the dark elves too, but I killed all of them—anyways, she told him not to do the experiment on Asgard so he wouldn't destroy the kingdom. So he went to Earth instead,”
“What happened then, Mr. Thor?” Peter asked.
“Well he did the experiment, and I believe he created something...a plague of some sort? Anyways—”
“Wait, you said seven hundred years ago…” Wanda started counting on her fingers.
“Are you saying that Loki was responsible for the bubonic plague, commonly referred to as The Black Death?” Vision inquired in his usual neutral tone.
I squeezed the pillow tight to my chest. I owned a small cupcake business (it helped smooth things over with my degree in political science, and it gave me a reason to avoid eating out), and I wondered if I should let the Avengers eat the latest order I made, just to take their minds off of European disasters.
“Actually, that might have been my fault...I tried to make some soup…” Thor trailed off, suddenly solemn.
I sat up abruptly. “Who wants cupcakes?”
Tony’s head snapped away from the alcohol. “Mine! I get Steve’s!”
I stood and walked away from the Avengers as they started to bicker amongst themselves. I went to the kitchen counter and peeked into the light-pink cardboard box—
Crap. The blush on my face matched the box. I cursed myself silently.
It was February, so over half of my orders were Valentine's Day-themed. This one was incredibly expressive, topped with antacids and messages inscribed in frosting.
Nothing was going to take my mind off this stupid marriage-thing. Or Thor’s engagement present that he never told me about. Or my stupid feelings.
“Hey, they’re my colors.”
I looked up at Wanda, smiling innocently. She had a small face with perfectly round eyes. Her high cheekbones made her look solemn outside of conversations, permanently tormented with knowledge in everyone else’s heads.
I nodded and started to poke around drawers for paper plates. “You and Vision get to spend Valentine's Day together now. That's exciting.”
“We already had plans,” Wanda said, opening up a cabinet above and setting the plates on the counter.
She shrugged at my confused expression. “I didn't just stay in contact with you, even though texting you is...so much fun.”
“You know I prefer face-to-face.”
Wanda glanced back at the living room. “So does he.”
I didn't stare at who she was talking about. I bent down for napkins. Wanda leaned back on the black granite counter, “Vis and I had a system to keep in touch...kind of like you asking that Heimdall-guy about Thor.”
“What's the point to all of this?” I said, standing upright again. I didn't overlook the comparison she made.
Wanda had plucked one of the cupcakes with red frosting from the batch, rotating it with her slender, twig-like fingers. “He never did anything like that with Jane.”
“Jane was busy, she had a career.”
Wanda offered me the cupcake she stole. “So do you.”
I handled the cupcake lightly as I returned it to the box and closed it.
“I know you like him. And now he's here, and I've looked in his mind...and I think you should go for it.” Wanda said.
I sighed and looked up at her. Wanda was a mind-reader. As friends, it was something to get used to in the beginning, but after awhile, I didn't really mind anymore. I was her open book. Wanda understood me, probably better than anyone else.
And she knew what I was about to say as I shook my head. “He’s nice, but I have so much on my plate right now. There’s the Accords and Ross and taking care of you guys. My business, college, this marriage-elf disaster—”
“You’re right.” She said. “But is adding one little cupcake to your plate too much?”
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A/N: Hi Awesome Adventurers! Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed. I’m so excited for this new series I’ve started publishing on AO3, The Collector’s Cosmic Romance Saga. We have tons of Thor love and a steamy Peter Quill love triangle is coming soon! Join the Avengers and Evangeline Green on a galactic journey in part two, Avengers: Love and Lightning. Love, fortune and glory to you!!
#Avengers#The Avengers#marvel#Marvel Comics#MCU fic#MCU#MCU fanfiction#avengers fanfiction#thor x reader#Thor Odinson#thor#loki#Loki Laufeyson#natasha romanoff#natasha romanov#clint barton#tony stark#Steve Rogers#Stephen Strange#tchalla#Shuri#wanda maximoff#sam wilson#Bucky Barnes#thanos#wade wilson#james rhodes#scott lang#peter parker#peter quill
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1x14, 1x15
i tell you what, the lack of lighting makes this really dramatic, but tbh grey’s does it better. don’t @ me
awe fitz! don’t blame yourself
ward on the other hand, please feel all the guilt
may is right though, the only one to blame is quinn
switzerland! is this the only shield place that we get an actual location of?
“we’re her family” 😭😭
may just strolls into the holding cell and beats the (deserved) shit out of quinn 😂😂
this is interesting. the subtitles don’t match up with what coulson says. “it’s time you knew the truth.” even if you didn’t have subtitles on, you can tell what is said doesn’t match up with his mouth.
ward questioning saving skye should have been the first red flag, and yet none of us thought anything of it
relinquish command? yikes
trip!!
“how did he land such a sweet ride?“ “he died“ “that’s tight“
trip: *pause* “is that a full bar?“
if that aint me
garrett: *just casually grabs a guy’s tongue*
i’m not up to date on my marvel/avengers knowledge, but is what quinn’s mentioning here in or mentioned in one of the movies?? i don’t remember anything about berlin or morocco, but “red head” is obviously nat, right?
this whole trippy holo-sequence is so cool
it’s not encryption, it’s a map!!
‘pretty please‘ is always the way to go
ok but really, how was the drive from istanbul?
these two have no idea what they’re in for
are ward, etc using gun-guns or night night guns?
so, this is the beginning of skimmons? aight 😏👍
also fitzsimmons is obviously endgame, but i’m not against tripsimmons
tahiti!
there’s no way all of that happened in 2.5 minutes
okay but this whole spiking situation, like A+ job by chloe
oooooo chitari blood!
oh yeah. the next episode is all about this enchantress lady 🤷♀️ meh
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1x15
i’m watching it but sorry, i could care less about this episode
she hits him and he just flies 😂
man, that cell regeneration is no joke
skimmons!
sitwell. unfortunately one of the few actual cameos
“how was tahiti?“ “it sucked“
dr. selvig, dr. foster, i should have started a name drop counter for this show.
thor!
loki - already at four for this episode
and there’s lady sif
unfortunately the only cameos we get are ones that are affordable on a tv budget, so no tony, cap, nat, etc...even though those would obviously be cooler. although peggy is pretty neat. (s2 i think?)
philinda 😍
may’s face at “men have an inherent weakness we do not share” 😏
oh right, it’s not chitari..it’s like kree or something.
yay icers!
what does the R stand for though? fitz didn’t finish
the back slap 😂
sif just jumps down 😂😂
it’s probably gonna be explained in a couple minutes but why wouldn’t they just get cars full of ladies so they don’t have to worry about lorelai? (except one man for bait)
ok ward getting swayed is his fault. why didn’t he just shoot?
yes jemma! stand up to coulson
some of those vegas shots were definitely green screen
“i would die for you“
“and i will give you a gift in return“ -immediately cuts to sex in a hotel room
may and sif, brotp
fitz under lorelai’s spell and coulson playing along 😂
sif flies out the cell
aww lorelai ignoring fitz
may getting in the last punch
phil and skye 😌
ahh, this is when we learn about may’s secret reporting
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For Asgard (Chapter 29/?)
Summary: What if Odin had banished Loki to Earth instead of Thor? The story of how you, the Reader, meet and help Loki on his quest to return to Asgard.
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A/N: I am soooo sorry it’s taken me this long! Here we have a transitional chapter into the Ragnarok chapters :D
“Hey, Thor.”
“(Y/N),” the god greets you in the grand corridor as you approach the throne room. “How are you faring with... everything?”
It has only been a couple days since you had returned to Asgard with Lorelei and Thor had saved the world from Malekith, but this is your first time seeing Thor since you had parted.
“What? With the love of my life dying before my eyes? Yeah, I’ve been better...”
You feel like a horrible person having to lie to Thor. But it’s for Loki’s well being! you tell yourself.
“I understand,” he says, placing a hand on your shoulder. “Just know I will be here for you.”
“Thank you, Thor, you don’t know how much that-”
“-Although, not in the literal sense, as I will not be here.”
“Oh!” You arch an eyebrow. “Where are you going, then?”
“As I have just explained to my father, I will be journeying throughout the Nine Realms to bring peace upon them. However, what I did not tell him is that while I am away, I will also conduct my own sort of scavenger hunt, if you will.”
“That sounds… fun?” you offer, not entirely sure what he means by that. “How long will you be gone for?”
“Hard to say. Could be many months. Years, even.”
“Then, I guess this is goodbye?”
“I suppose it is.” Thor goes in for a handshake, but you pull him in for a hug instead.
“Come here, you big lug!” He chuckles wholeheartedly at that. “Good luck, Thor.”
“Thank you, (Y/N). But what will you do? Would you like me to accompany you home to Midgard?”
“No! I mean, no thank you,” you say hurriedly. “Asgard feels more like my home now.” Thor appears proud at your statement.
“Well, please keep our home safe while I’m away.”
“Will do.”
Your future brother-in-law (though he has no idea of this fact) nods to you before walking off in the other direction. You turn and head to the throne room doors, smiling at the guards who open them at your advancement. After all, the “All-Father” has granted you the highest ranking in the palace. Next to him, that is…
The moment the doors close, you scurry excitedly up to the All-Father’s throne, where a man who bears the appearance of Odin relaxes all too comfortably in his golden seat, lying horizontally with his legs over one of the armrests. An Asgardian woman feeds the King by dangling a bunch of grapes above his mouth. The old man has a goofy satisfied grin on his face.
He’s going to ruin everything he’s worked for if he keeps up like this.
“Beat it,” you tell the woman, practically snatching the grapes from her hand. The face of Odin blinks up at you, now with a Cheshire Cat smile. Once you hear the woman has audibly exited the room, the man you stare down at transforms himself back into your love.
“Why, hello my darling. Have you come to feed me, instead?”
“You wish,” you scoff, trying to hold back a smile of your own.
“I do, in fact.” Loki sucks a grape from the bunch you hold in your hand.
“You need to be more careful, you know,” you warn him, “Everyone is going to think something’s up.” Your mischievous husband-to-be sits up and gazes at you with a twinkle in his eye.
“Yes, you do have a point, my dear,” he agrees, “But oh, this is so much fun.”
“I know it is, Loki. Just don’t do anything completely insane and questionable, please?”
“Like what, might I ask?”
“I don’t know… Like have minstrels write songs about you or order a giant statue made of gold in your likeness or write a play about yourself-”
“-I like the sound of that one…”
“Hello? Are you not hearing me?”
“I hear you and your voice is like music to my ears.” Charming bastard. You can’t help but full-on smile now. “I am a lucky man to have you looking out for my best interests.” Loki pulls you into his lap and your arms cling around his neck.
“And don’t you forget it.”
You kiss his lips. Then again. And again. Then with some tongue… You pull away for a moment and press your hand to his chest.
“So, um, where are you keeping him?” you ask. Truthfully, the question had been pestering you for a while now.
“You cannot seriously be thinking about my adoptive father while kissing me?” You shake your head and laugh a little. “Are you certain you want to know?” he asks. “You can still plead plausible deniability if anything unfortunate were to occur.”
“No, Loki. You’re my fiancé and we are in this together one hundred percent. Come what may.”
“Then come with your King,” he says, “I will show you.”
Donning the All-Father’s illusion once more, you walk side by side with Loki through the palace until you both come upon the end of the corridor, where stands a door that looks as if it hasn’t been open for thousands of years. Loki checks around shiftily to make sure no peering eyes happen to be watching you both before unlocking the door with a wave of his hand. It gives off an eerie creak as it opens, revealing a very delirious, elderly figure sitting up against a wall in the dim light.
“What’s he saying?” you wonder, noticing Odin’s incomprehensible mutters.
“I have given up trying to decipher it, myself. Nonsense, surely,” he waves it off.
“What will we do with him?”
“For one thing, he cannot stay in Asgard much longer for fear of someone stumbling upon him. But I have not yet found a suitable relocation…”
“I might know a place,” you suggest.
“Really?” He sounds surprised at your quick thinking. “Where?”
“It’s an old folks’ home in New York. ‘Fit for a King’ is their slogan, though their name says otherwise.”
Loki turns to you, intrigued to hear more.
“Shady Acres Care Home.”
“Ehehehe, oh my dear, you are wonderfully bad.” Loki twirls you in place which makes you giggle. He then closes the door, leaving Odin alone to his bewitched daze in the dark. Loki tilts your chin up and kisses your lips sweetly, then says, “What do you say to a little-”
But his thought is interrupted by the sound of womanly snickers heading your way. Loki is quick to transform himself at the disturbance, his eagle form now flapping its wings to sit on the corridor’s open-window ledge.
“You’re still here?” Lorelei says to you, rounding the corner. “I would have assumed you’d gone back to wherever it is you came from.”
Lady, I gave up my safety to free you from that damn Elf. You better watch yourself.
“Uh, yeah? I’m not going anywhere, believe me,” you say rebelliously. The sisters draw nearer to you, which makes you nervous at how close they’re getting to potentially finding Odin behind this door.
Amora sneers. “You don’t belong here. Even more so now that Loki’s dead. He only kept you around as a plaything, didn’t you know?”
The eagle caws angrily from the ledge.
“I’d watch how you speak to me right now.”
“Why? You’re out of your element, sweet pea. Even the All-Father hates you!” Amora continues to taunt you. “My sister and I are going to run this place, so you best know yours.”
“Oh really?” You shift into a defiant stance and meet eyes with the bird. “Because I have this funny feeling that if Odin were to hear about this, he would have you banished from Asgard in a second.”
Amora and Lorelei laugh airily at that while the eagle flies away.
“You should have gone back to that wretched Midgard while you had the chance. Or do they not want you there either?”
You feel so incredibly powerful when you finally see the palace guards show up from behind these dastardly ladies. One of the men clears his throat.
“The All-Father demands the presence of the Enchantress sisters.” The women share an unsure glance.
“Have fun with that,” you say.
It feels good to be on top.
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Part 30
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Stark Sibs
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
Warnings: Fictional Knowledge and Use of Science and Magic. Non-Consensual Body Modification
When everyone made it back to Siberia, they all noticed a couple of things.
The common room was complete destroyed even worse than when they left the building. No one would make eye contact with each other. Though it was mostly no one would make eye contact with Vision, Pietro, or Francis. This led to questions of just what the hell could’ve happened in that battle. The video footage of that fight was strangely missing and F.R.I.D.A.Y. wasn’t budging when it came to finding it.
But that was background information as Francis and James broke down at the sight of Selene looking so pale and fragile. Francis noticed the Olympian urn that Starlord was carrying.
“How did you get that,” he questioned hoarsely. He had already broke into tears when Pym was brought back, somehow manage to get himself together to help them with Selene, and nearly lost his composure when the Enchantress attacked Torunn, nearly lost his life force using all of his energy fighting against her, and then breaking down at the sight of Selene.
“Uh, Lord Poseidon. When Selene lost consciousness, he descended on us. His eyes were so angry. He would’ve blasted us without a second thought if Selene weren’t right there. It wasn’t until he got a good look at Tony did he realize who we were,” Sam stated as he kept shifting his glance between Steve and Tony.
“Where’s Aunt Peggy and Ronnie?” Tony asked deliberately shifting around to keep Selene out of Steve’s sight as he made his way to the medical floor.
“On the medical floor with Hope, Hank, Pym, Thor, Lady Sif, Loki, and Torunn,” Azari spoke up from being held in King T’Challa and Princess Shuri’s embrace.
“What happened to Torunn?” Gamora questioned.
They noticed Torunn’s sword sticking into one of the walls.
“One of the Enchantress’ spells knocked her unconscious,” Francis growled. His eyes flashed deep silver at the thought of his other sister lying unconscious.
When they made it to the medical room, Hope and Hank were hovering around Pym. Thor and Sif looked a second away from taking Torunn to the Asgardian healers while Loki fluttered around her muttering spells. Peggy and Sharon were looking at the three of them in worry, and nearly fainted at the sight of Selene. Hope and Hank drew in a breath and Thor, Loki, and Sif growled darkly no doubt muttering curses at the Enchantress.
Tony laid her down and plopped down in the seat beside her bed. Peter Parker dropped down from his place on the ceiling to sit beside his mentor and pray for the girl that became like a sister to him. Peter Quill walked to sit in the chair beside him and Groot didn’t know where to go.
The other Guardians nodded their heads before walking out to go help with the cleanup of the common room. James, Azari, Pietro, and Francis just stayed in the room with their siblings and sat in the middle of the floor watching them.
Francis wanted to help. He was the champion of the god of healing, but he had no experience with it. That was going to be his next lesson with Apollo after the eclipse. His head snapped up as his stepdad uncovered the urn and the sweet smell of nectar wafted into the air.
“So what if I did petition to give them immortality, it’s not like they’re going to find out for a long time,” Selene snapped from Francis’ memory. “At least now, we can give them ambrosia and nectar without having to worry about them dying!”
Francis jumped up lighting fast and turned to Pietro. He didn’t even noticed when they spoke in the old language of the gods’. Even the Asgardians with their All-Speak looked over in confusion, but all that mattered was that Pietro understood. The two boys made their way over to Starlord and grabbed the urn from him. Pietro raced out and returned with three cups and let Francis pour the drinks.
Slowly and carefully, Francis poured the first cup into Selene’s mouth. They all waited with baited breath as her complexion regained color and she groaned slightly in pain. In another heartbeat, she was blinking her eyes open and they were the same glowing green they always were when Olympian magic was in play.
Pietro wasted no time rushing over to Pym and doing the same to him. He sagged deeply into the medical bed and blink up tiredly at his sister and birth father. He gave them a small smile before yawning as he tried to sit up.
James had grabbed the last cup and made his way over to Torunn. He slowly poured the nectar into her mouth and she floated above the medical table. Her golden hair was flying out behind her and when she opened her eyes, they were crystal blue like looking at the ocean from Poseidon’s point of view.
Holographic screens of their vitals appeared and they were steady climbing their way up even as the three of them fell back into unconsciousness.
“They’ll wake up on their own now,” Francis announced turning to look at the adults. “The nectar is healing their wounds and if this came directly from Lord Poseidon, then it’s healing any damages to the mind also. They’ll be good in a few hours.”
Pietro nodded alongside him. Though Loki turned to look at them, “Nectar is a healing drink for all of those that fall under the Olympian jurisdiction. Torunn is an Asgardian and the shrinking boy over there is fully human. Why did it work for them?”
Sif and Thor looked intrigued also. Francis and Pietro; however, were looking for the exit. “Uh, how about we let Selene explained that when she wakes up!”
Pietro grabbed his younger brother’s arm and raced out of the room quickly. The adults looked at each other and didn’t know what to do. James and Azari just sighed and moved towards the door.
“We should go help with the cleanup. Francis and Pietro say they’re going to be up in a few hours and F.R.I.D.A.Y. is watching their vitals. She’ll let us know,” James stated before stopping to place a kiss on his twin’s forehead and casting another glance at his other siblings before following Azari out of the room.
“He’s right,” Tony whispered just loud enough for everyone else to hear.
“Still, someone should still stay in the room with them just in case,” Hope argued. Sif ran a hand through her daughter’s hair before looking back up at the room.
“Loki and I shall stay. A warrior and sorcerer in case the Enchantress returns,” she declared. Tony and Peter noticed Peggy and Sharon tense at the name. The two nodded their consent before quickly leaving the room.
“I have got to find out what happened in that battle,” Tony muttered.
“I’ll tell you what happened. The Asgardians over there basically turned into the ruthless warriors they are in the myths. Pietro and Francis went nearly full out with their gifts from the Olympians. And Vision showed just what he could do with that mind stone. Even Doctor Strange showed off some powerful magic. With the skills they were showing off, Thanos and his army wouldn’t know what hit them,” Hank declared from his spot beside Pym.
“It was that bad?” Starlord asked wide eyed.
“It was worse than you could ever imagine,” Hope declared.
Tony looked interested and nodded his head. He placed a kiss on Selene’s forehead, went to Pym and ran his knuckles gently across Pym’s cheeks, went to Torunn, brushed her hair away from her face and placed a kiss on her hand. Thor nodded his head at Sif and Loki before he too left though he walked back in a place Mjolnir beside Torunn. She probably can’t lift it, but she is her father’s daughter and she will always have his protection.
Then they made their way to the door where the Peter’s were waiting for them.
When they made it to the common room, they found T’Challa holding James, Clint holding Francis, Dr. Strange was holding Pietro in a magical bubble, and Shuri was pinning Azari’s arms to the side. He didn’t want to risk hurting his aunt, but Steve Rogers had another thing coming if he sprouted out anymore bullshit.
“What’s going on in here?” Tony demanded. Everyone froze at the clear anger ringing through his voice before they all turned to him and spoke all at once.
Peggy and Sharon both raised their guns to the air and shot once. Twice. Three times.
“SHUT THE HELL UP!” Sharon snarled. She was glaring at Steve and was looking as if she was ready to burst out some Agent 13 moves on him.
“Aunt Peggy? Ronnie? What’s going on?” Tony asked them.
“Rogers feels as if he is entitled to speak to James and had the audacity to get angry because he didn’t want to talk to him,” Sharon ground out.
Steve shook his head and marched up towards Tony, but Selene isn’t the only champion with cool powers. Francis’ eyes glowed silver before a pack of wolves appeared in front of Tony snarling at Steve.
“Get.Away.From.My.Dad,” he growled out. The wolves crouched down ready to attack at his word before Steve took a cautious step back. Though he still was going to stay what he had to say.
“Tony, James and Selene are MY children and you had no right to keep that a secret from me,” he snapped. The wolves growled dangerously, but Tony wasn’t taking any shit from anyone any longer.
“That’s rich coming from you, Rogers. You had no right to use my money and resources to search for the person who killed my parents behind my back. I knew you were searching for your friend. I had no problem with you using my money for that. But he killed my mom. You knew for three years that he killed my parents and you didn’t think not once to tell me,” Tony’s expression grew dark. “You knew that if I would’ve known that I would’ve stop funding your little adventures and I would’ve hunted him down myself.”
“But you see you thought you knew me and what I would’ve done if I knew beforehand, but I’m not ashamed to tell you all that you don’t know shit about me. Did you forget that I'm the only one that trusted and respected Bruce and the Hulk when I first met them? I would've torn this world apart to find Barnes for taking away one of the few people that I had that shed light into my life. But you see, I would’ve had him do the time for his crimes and he would’ve gotten the mental help that he needed. Get your head out of your ass and you can see clear as day, that’s what he wants. But Barnes isn’t what we’re talking about right now and we will never have that conversation so don’t get your hopes up.”
“James, Selene, Francis, Torunn, Pym, and Azari are MY kids. I have been the one raising them and taking care of them. I helped with science fairs and homework even when they didn’t need it. I don’t care who their biological parents are. They are MY children. And if you EVER get it in your head that I or they somehow owe you an explanation or are at liberty to listen to you, then I will create a wormhole into space and let you assholes fall from it. And I won’t be so generous to grant you a suit,” Tony sneered.
Francis smirked before relaxing in Clint’s hold. “Besides, we were the ones that asked him to keep a secret. You all left him in the dust after Ultron when it wasn’t even his fault that its programming was activated. You let Wanda onto the team and said nothing when she played around with his mind. She did it once and the Ultron program was brought back up. Who says she couldn’t do it again and who knows what program Dad could have made? And with the way her powers fitted around her emotional state, who knows how she could’ve corrupted that programming like that infinity stone in the scepter did to Ultron programming?”
James shook his head, “I had always been just a boy that had wanted to get to know his father. I was your number one fan. When Uncle Tony from my dimension gave me a hologram shield disguised as a watch, I happily took it even when Selene sneered at it. I thought she just couldn’t see the appeal. She just couldn’t understand how you were a good man. She always hated you quick to point out all the flaws you had. It took us coming to this dimension to prove that she was right. And wasn’t that a slap in the face. You weren’t the guy from our Uncle Tony’s stories. The one who treated all of the Avengers as his family. He was always looking out for the little people. But here? You didn’t care about the little people. Because if you did, you would’ve saw that the little people were calling for you to care about their voices. You only cared for yourself and your happiness. You only cared about Bucky. You aren't just a bully. You’re a selfish one too. I’d say stay away from me, but you have a track record of doing what you’re not supposed to do. But I’m nice enough to warn you, Selene’s not as forgiving as me.”
Scott though noticed a particular word in James’ little speech. “Dimension? You’re from another dimension?”
James, Francis, and Azari looked towards him and raised an eyebrow. Azari nodded slowly in a mocking way. “I know you heard Selene say the Black Widow was her mother, and from what I can tell around here, this Black Widow can’t have children.”
“It doesn’t matter anyway,” Francis stated shrugging out of Clint’s hold. His eyes were still glowing silver and plopped down on the ground. “All of our parents are dead. Azari, Pym, and Torunn are lucky enough to get a chance. I don’t know about you, James; but Selene and I don’t care to know about these second class parents.”
A small smirk played on James’ lips before he moved to step away from T’Challa. “I only have my mom. My biological father died. I have Iron Man and Starlord as dads now.”
The two brothers laughed before they each moved to continue cleaning up the room around them.
“I am Groot?”
Rocket, Francis, and Pietro burst into laughter. “No, Groot. You don’t have to whip them with your branches.”
Tony smiled at his family before looking each of the Exvengers in the eye. “Their room is off limits unless you are on their list for approved visitors and since I wrote out the list myself, I know none of you are allowed.”
Steve stormed out of the room. Sam and Bucky close on his heels.
Scott swore the wolves were chuckling.
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It wasn’t even thirty minutes after their little chat in the common room that Steve was sneaking into Selene’s medical cube. Someone had drawn the curtain around her bed to keep the sun out of her face. He sat in the chair beside the bed and just looked at her. He noticed all (few as it may be) of the similarities that she had with him. He saw a lot of Nat in her, but he did notice the features he and her shared.
“Tony won’t appreciate you sneaking in here,” Peggy stated as she leaned on the wall beside Selene’s bed. Steve jumped because even with his enhanced hearing, he didn’t hear her enter the room. He looked over at her in shock before registering what she said.
“I don’t care what Tony says. She’s my daughter and I’ve got the right to be here.”
Peggy shook her head and sighed, “Some days I wish I could age normally. You boys are going to send me into another grave.”
Steve eyed her down before asking the question that had been on his mind for awhile, “How are you alive?”
She smirked at him before carefully sitting down beside her niece. “You and James couldn’t be the only ones with serum in your veins. Though admittedly, mine is more like Natasha’s. It took a lot of hiding and paid actors and makeup to keep the appearance up. Tony and Nick helped keep everything hidden.”
“Why didn’t he tell me?” Steve looked angry. Tony was tearing him down about secrets when he was keeping two major ones.
“Because I told him not to,” Peggy snapped slightly. “It was none of your concern about if I were alive or not. After your fourth visit to the home and I heard how you belittled Tony to the point it made me tear up, ME, I decided you didn’t deserve to know.”
“I didn’t try to belittle him. It’s just every time I saw Tony. I saw Howard and I wondered how could Tony disrespect his father’s name. His father’s legacy in such a way.”
“The only legacy Howard left was loving you more than his son and a weapons industry to curve his anger at not finding you.”
Steve couldn’t think of a reply to that. He didn’t really have to. Selene groaned in pain and a man appeared in the room. Steve could vaguely recall seeing the man back in Siberia, but the man was shining a little bright back then for him to see clearly.
“I couldn’t help but to overhear that Noelani’s father say this room is off limits. Is there a reason you are disrespecting his wishes,” the man asked. He looked at Steve and anyone with a brain could see the underlying anger swimming in his sea green eyes.
“Tony’s not her father. I am,” Steve declared. The man raised an eyebrow at him.
“Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family,” he tilted his head to the side. “I have watched from my throne plenty of times that you have hurt Noelani’s family. She is my champion and she is like a daughter to me. You have no idea how many times I have come close to killing you for each tear she shed in secret.”
Neither paid attention to Peggy slipping out of the small area. She was after all not on the list for visitors to the children. Oh the joys of being legally dead.
“Tell me, Captain, what was so wrong about her father that you had to try to kill him?”
Steve immediately began to protest, “I-I- I didn’t try to-“
Another man appeared; this one blonde. He was dressed in a golden doctor’s coat with a giant sun with an arrow through it painted on the back.
Steve got the distinct impression that he was severely outnumbered. “I didn't try to kill Tony.”
The first man glanced at the doctor who shook his head slightly. “But you didn’t like him, no? You pretended to be his friend, abused his money and resources to your own pleasure, and now you are angry that he no longer lets you into his or his family life.”
“I love Tony! I’ve always love Tony. I’d never do those things to him,” Steve protested.
“Oh sweetheart, I know love and you didn’t love Anthony,” a silky voice stated from behind him. He turned towards the sound, but a strong grip on his head kept him from looking. “No, you don’t want to do that. Especially not with the way I’m feeling right now.”
“Who are you,” Steve demanded getting angry. He hated no knowing something.
“Oh, you poor miserable man. Don’t you realize? You're at the bedside of one of the few and rare champions of an Olympian god. She’s been severely injured and we’re all taking notice,” the voice behind him continued. “Why to put it lightly, we are Olympians.”
“Poseidon,” the first man nodded his head in acknowledgement.
“Apollo,” the doctor stated as he rubbed some kind of paste across Selene’s head.
“And I’m Aphrodite,” the voice behind him finished. “You didn’t answer my uncle. You didn’t like Anthony. We want to know why.”
“I told you I love Tony,” Steve argued. Apollo snorted and shook his head from his place beside Selene and a smack was thrown against Steve’s head by Aphrodite.
“Do not speak such lies in my presence. I am the embodiment of beauty, love, and lust themselves. I know love and every aspect there is to it. No, you do not love Anthony Stark. You are in love with the idea of being with him. This world pits the two of you against each other and put you to one of the grandest test ever. You beat him to near death in that cave with no means to contact anyone inside of broken armor. You felt as if the two of you ever got together and he ever got out the ridiculous and impractical line you drew, and then you could do the same to get him to listen. But let me be frank, Steven. I alongside Athena, Hephaestus, and Ares have watched over Anthony since he was a child. Our hearts have bled for him. He is like our child. That is why I will never let you get the chance to be with him. Every time I glimpse into your heart, I thank Chaos and the other gods. Hades, I even thank the titans that I paired Anthony with Peter. He has someone to cherish him and see him for all that he is worth and more in ways that you could have never imagine. The next time you proclaim to love Anthony; I swear on the River Styx that I won’t even glance up from filing my nails when I smite you.”
The smell of fresh roses filled the air as she disappeared. The other two gods seemed to have a conversation through their eyes alone before Apollo stood from his spot and headed to the door.
“I am going to speak with Francis and Pietro, if Hermes hasn’t beaten me there first. I will return to Olympus afterwards,” he called over his shoulder.
That left Steve alone with Poseidon once again, but Poseidon didn’t look at him. He just kept gazing at Selene. “You should leave or you will see why Anthony held the title of the Merchant of Death personally and this time... he will not hold back.”
Steve slowly stood up in a trance. He needed to process everything and he could admit being around Selene only brought him a little relief. He had a daughter. But he had a daughter who wanted nothing to do with him. She wanted to see him dead. He made his way to the door before stomped and glanced back at Poseidon and his champion.
“I didn’t like Tony at first because of the way he carried himself. As if he was better because he was so smart and because he was so rich. He was always going off on rants about different things and it made me hate him even more because I didn’t understand any of it. And I hated not knowing what was going. Tony was always taking risks and he never followed orders. To me, he was like an overgrown man-child. But he kept proving me wrong. He kept being unpredictable. And a part of me hated how I could never understand him then, but another part of me wanted to know more.”
Poseidon still didn’t look at him. “Reflect on that and all of your actions towards, Anthony. When you are ready, you will be brought in front of the council of the Olympian gods. We’ve looked favorably upon Anthony for many years even when some of his actions disappointed us; coming before us to admit your wrong doings, we will give our honest opinions on your words. Let it go without saying that just because you have the chance to win our approval, it would take more than your lifespan to ever gain the children’s’.”
Then he went back to ignoring Steve and Steve left out to go do what he said. He needed to see why he has such conflicting thoughts about the man he claims to love.
#not steve friendly#notstevefriendly#not team cap friendly#tony stark and his children au#tony stark imagine#post ca:cw#my oc
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Loki Episode 2 Holds Out for a Hero and a Villain
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This review contains spoilers for the second episode of Loki
Loki Episode 2
“Up where the mountains meet the heavens above. Out where the lightning splits the sea. I could swear that there’s someone somewhere watching me.”
When Marvel’s Kevin Feige discussed Loki’s evolution recently, he noted that “putting Loki into his own procedural series became the Eureka moment for the show.” This became a talking point between fans because Loki was simultaneously hyped as another “six-hour movie” and the two concepts seemed to clash a little. Would Loki’s overarching story blend well with elements of a crime procedural?
The first episode of Marvel’s latest small screen project gave us a little good-cop/bad-cop stuff, with some interrogation room tactics weaved in as Owen Wilson’s Mobius M. Mobius went down the “get inside the mind of a killer” route, and the second episode of Loki continues to embrace the procedural vibe.
A fairly traditional teaser sets up episode 2 as C-20 (Sasha Lane from American Honey) and her squad of TVA Hunters arrive in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the mid-80s to investigate a reported Variant on the loose at a renaissance fair. The team is ambushed by the Minutemen-murdering Loki Variant mentioned by Mobius at the end of the last episode, and Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” accompanies the rest of the scene in what may or may not be the most extremely online deep cut I’ve ever seen.
TERRIBLE MISS MINUTES IMPRESSION: Hi there! You may be asking yourself what a “teaser” or “cold open” is! Let me get you up to speed. A teaser is a narrative technique used at the start of a TV episode to intrigue the audience just enough to stay tuned. In crime procedurals it’s usually the first building block of that episode’s mystery. A good cold open makes us feel compelled to stick around and find out “whodunnit,” why, or how!
Back at the TVA, Loki is learning – or half-learning – about what happens when a Nexus Event passes the red line and they can’t reset it: the destruction of the Sacred Timeline. During the lesson Miss Minutes acts as a Gal Friday who Loki has little appreciation for despite her enthusiasm, and she ends up calling him a jerk. Which he absolutely is. Nevertheless, the scene is delightful. If there has to be a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? remake in our future, put Tom Hiddleston in there as Eddie Valiant and you could craft a sturdy bridge out of my suspension of disbelief.
Some specific temporal energy has informed the TVA that the Loki Variant was indeed responsible for the ambush on C-20’s team. The Hunters are used to dealing with Loki Variants – apparently they prune Lokis “almost more than any other Variant.” Slippery little bugger though he may be, this stands out as fairly important information. Are these Variants like raptors unwittingly testing the fences? Also, can we take a guess at who might be leading the pack when it comes to Variant numbers if Loki is in second place? Keep checking the background at the TVA! We’ve already seen a Skrull and Peggy Carter.
Our Loki is being teased with the possibility that he could snag an audience with the Time-Keepers if he’s useful enough, leaning into the tried and true cop show “you could get immunity or a reduced sentence if you cooperate” trope. Loki buys it, but it seems incredibly unlikely that this is anything other than manipulative bullshit on Mobius’ part.
We also get to spend a little time alone with Mobius and Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in this episode. The pair have clearly known each other for a long time but Renslayer now has the unenviable task of riding the line between boss and pal. She’s steady and calm, but you can still envision her as Loki’s own police chief: laying down the law with Mobius, calling him a “loose cannon” for allowing Loki into the fold, and asking him to turn in his badge and gun – or whatever the TVA equivalent is.
His interactions with Renslayer are perhaps supposed to be charming but they’re actually kinda unsettling, though I can’t quite put my finger on why just yet.
Mobius emerges from the meeting even more determined to see Loki pick up the pace. He tries to out-manipulate the manipulator with his firm but soft-spoken psychology by telling him that the troublesome killer Variant is a “superior version” of Loki. Our Loki is just a “scared little boy”. I mean, why are you booing him? He’s right.
Loki is put to work in the bowels of the TVA on the research beat, poring through case files and having a fun interaction with a live-action Roz from Monsters, Inc. The stakes are high here. Loki’s life pretty much depends on him finding a breadcrumb or two, and luckily he manages it during an emotional montage during which he processes that Asgard, the home he grew up in and then abandoned, is gone. And he didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.
He digs deeper into the destruction of Asgard and finds that there was no variance energy detected at ground zero and has an epiphany (mmm, we’ll come back to that, no one here is ready for more of my Miss Minutes shtick yet, least of all me) that the show seems to be hoping you don’t ask too many hard questions about.
Loki reasons that he’d hide in zero variance energy apocalypse events if he were evading the TVA, and is excited to prove himself right. Mobius is dubious, but they try out Loki’s winning theory in Pompeii just as the city is being destroyed. The buddy cop energy is strong in the scene, with Loki acting as the mischievous rookie who won’t play by the rules and Mobius as his older, weary partner.
Hiddleston and Wilson’s banter remains effortless, and I can admit that it works a lot better than Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan’s in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Maybe it’s that Wilson’s “bird noises” bit truly feels like improv being done by someone who’s good at improv – the kind of thing you’d usually see end up in a Marvel gag reel. There’s a lot of fun stuff in this episode, but just passively watching Hiddleston and Wilson’s undeniable chemistry even when they’re having an existential chat about life, the universe, and jet skis has proved to be enough for me honestly.
Speaking of which, Loki uses said chat to plant a much-needed seed of doubt in Mobius’ mind about whether the Time-Keepers and the TVA are really the good guys. I’m on his side here: all that Variant killing and near-religious predetermination has left a whole lot of blood on their hands. ATCAB – All Time Cops Are Bastards! No, wait, that’s Jean-Claude Van Damme erasure. I won’t have it.
Anyway, ding-ding, maybe these two mismatched detectives have more in common than they thought, and it all leads to Mobius having his own Kablooie epiphany.
EVEN WORSE MISS MINUTES IMPRESSION SOMEHOW: A sudden epiphany during an episode is often called a “Eureka!” Moment. The protagonist has some good evidence and the case is almost cracked! All it will take is a little bit of inspiring information to help them cross the finish line. If you’ve ever seen an episode of House, you may already be familiar with these moments, and the look on Hugh Laurie’s face when he finally works out that it’s not lupus or sarcoidosis. Come back soon!
Mobius’ “Eureka moment” places the murderous Variant in 2050 Alabama, so Loki, Mobius, Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku), and a bunch of other Minutemen eventually find themselves inside a slightly futuristic shopping haven called Roxxcart. I love that this show could go anywhere and do anything but will just as happily cut to a file room or a barely-disguised Walmart as it will to apocalyptic fucken Pompeii.
The Roxxcart mission indeed unveils the mystery Variant: it’s Sophia Di Martino! And the credits identify her as Sylvie aka Enchantress and not Lady Loki as we may have expected.
Depending on your grasp of Marvel lore, this reveal will be quite surprising, thrilling, and perhaps confusing. Pros: we didn’t have to wait as long for this unveiling as we did for WandaVision’s Agatha Harkness reveal. Cons: no catchy theme song. But the fact that this reveal has come so early on in the series is pretty exciting – it probably means bigger surprises lie ahead.
But it’s here that the episode subverts our procedural expectations somewhat. It’s not Sylvie who is revealing her grand plan upon being discovered, it’s Loki. And she’s way ahead of him. “This isn’t about you,” she tells Loki, somewhat echoing the Ancient One’s dying words to Doctor Strange.
Again, this feels very significant. Ol’ Tilda spent a long time protecting our reality, and her successor is about to deal with a multiverse of madness in his upcoming sequel. And lest we forget how the Ancient One set that truth bomb up: “Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.” It feels like Sylvie knows something very important that we don’t, and her own “glorious purpose” goes beyond selfish aspirations.
Loki might be a little closer to shrugging off his self-absorbed nature than Sylvie realizes. In my favorite part of the episode, he checks to make sure B-15 is okay when she’s left unconscious by her possession. This is a guy who just killed a bunch of people, just absolutely has nothing but contempt for people, and he’s concerned about the wellbeing of a Hunter who has shown him nought but derision. Loki isn’t holding out for a hero. He might just be on the path to becoming one.
Or maybe he was just lifting a weapon off her body and I’ll have to take it on the chin next week.
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