what is Blood Brothers? I see thorki shippers reference it sometimes but idk what it is or how it relates to thorki.
Ohohoho. Oh nonny. You have a treat ahead of you.
See, well, there’s a 2004 Loki comic four-issue miniseries written by Robert Rodi with art by Esad Ribic (the artist who did that fantastic cover with Wolverine’s beer bottle boner, if you’ve seen that story floating around XD), and there’s also a motion comic version of it (called Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers). So you might see it called either Blood Brothers or Loki (2004).
In this particular timeline, Loki has defeated his opponents (including Thor, Sif, and Balder) and locked them in Asgard’s dungeons while he takes the throne... even though he is completely bored by the “ruling” part as opposed to the victory part. He also spends pretty much the whole comic trying to manipulate himself into killing Thor to prove he can... and ultimately finds he really doesn’t want to, and that what he wants instead is, after years of mistreatment at Thor’s hands, for Thor to love him again and be on his side. (This Thor, unfortunately, is not the most sunshiney and merciful thunder god ever, so... well, Loki’s desires do not come to fruition.)
You can tell Loki is super evil because of the size of his horns /s
(That’s him telling off Hela after having already promised to kill Thor for her. Because he doesn’t! want! Thor! dead!)
And even Hela’s threats to kill him instead don’t work because...
Yeahhhh oh Loki you are a tangled mess.
I think the series gets overlooked by some fans because of the art style (as you can see, Loki is not a Hiddleston-esque young and pretty Loki in it, which makes sense considering when this book came out). It’s a damn shame, though, because it’s a good one for being very much not a straightforward story, and the picture it paints of Asgard (if Loki’s version of events is to be believed at all) is not the kindest depiction. Which is not to say that Loki is a cinnamon roll in it; he has decided that becoming the self-styled God of Evil is a step up from being a trickster, so clearly things have gone Very Wrong. But there’s a lot of meat to the story. It’s one you can really sink your teeth into in terms of Loki’s psyche and his relationship with Thor, with Asgard as a whole, and with his own choices and fate.
I mean. This poor bastard. siiiiigh.
There is also an interesting running theme of mercy--very early on, Loki spitefully tells someone they’re an idiot to expect mercy from him. But then the above panel. And then, when his ultimate decision on what to do about Thor is this...
The series is also the source of these gems:
Dom!Loki with Thor in bondage lol
Loki sitting on the throne Like That, as he does
Loki le casually doodling a heart in the dirt while bored during childhood lessons with Thor
(You may have also noticed the “What is Loki without Thor?” in that upper panel there. A fandom fave!)
Loki creepy-staring at Thor
And I don’t even know what to say about this
*sobbing* Thor you jerk. Love him again!!!11!!!!!one!eleventy!!
A few other fun tidbits:
It’s made clear in this version that Loki cut off Sif’s hair explicitly because he was jealous that Thor liked her better than him and was hanging out with her more.
Also, Karnilla sends Loki a celebratory concubine after he takes the throne, and he has less than zero interest in doing anything with her (as little interest as he has in like. actually doing the ruling part rather than going and staring at Thor in chains in the dungeon and angsting about why everyone expects him to kill Thor when he just wants Thor’s attention and love like he always has). l mean seriously: at first he literally tells her like you wanna do something to please me? how bout you rule this hellhole for a while -_- He has zero interest, at least, until he’s particularly lonely and sad about Thor and accepts the distraction.
(She’s the “not so, my lord” there. And even then he is not particularly... invested in the proceedings? He shrugs her off the moment he thinks about Thor again lol.)
So like. The whole series is an angry, vengeful Loki... chaining Thor up and then spending the whole damn book obsessing over him and pining for him and wanting Thor to love him. It is an insanely thorki book and if the art made them all “pretty” you can bet everyone would talk about it a whole lot more.
But anyway. Yeah. It is well worth the read for thorkis and for Loki fans in general.
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Wish Among the Stars
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by lettalady
Her life changed in 2012 when Loki walked past her station on the helicarrier. That day's consequence? Reassignment to the subarctic, the substation where the Capsicle was at one time. With the news of Loki's death, it became a waiting game: for TPTB to decide she'd learned her lesson, to be brought home again, to see who of the station's 3 inhabitants would crack first.
When Loki appeared striding towards her down a hallway she thought she knew the answer. Maybe she didn't know as much as she thought about the men she was protecting, the station she was guarding, or the god everyone always told her to trust as far as she could throw.
Again, Loki left her to the consequences of her choices. In a post HYDRA world SHIELD needed all hands, & she was brought home again. Given a station, but never a task. The devil finds work for idle hands, as the saying goes. Seeking out everything alien, anything potentially linked to Asgard, has a consequence. For our agent it meant stumbling upon a disc that zapped her to another world, a hellhole where she stayed until Loki & Thor appeared, whisking her to safety.
Every time Loki appears there's a price to pay. This time she just might not live to pay it.
Words: 6172, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
Series: Part 5 of WISH
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: F/M
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Original Female Character(s)
Relationships: Loki (Marvel)/Reader, Loki (Marvel)/Original Female Character(s), loki & original female character, Loki & Reader
Additional Tags: look it was about damn time we got the payoff between Loki and his agent so be ready for the smut
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