#personally i would keep the orientalism minimal by just borrowing the basic system of brother-murder and so on

[nostalgia-tblr]

i think the problems in the first thor movie really started in that flashback scene where odin explains that he has two sons but only one throne and then he smiles at them and hands each of them a sword and says "you know what you have to do, boys"

#okay maybe it didn't go EXACTLY like that #but it did IN MY HEART #thor (2011) #brodinsons (battle royale version) #if you make them fight it out then you get the best king :) #or possibly a civil war? #if fandom is going to insist on the Jotun Orientalism thing there should at least be Ottoman Sultanate Succession fic u kno? #a system where people eventually went “you know what? there *is* such a thing as too much fratricide.” #personally i would keep the orientalism minimal by just borrowing the basic system of brother-murder and so on #we know thor (or his mum) is the favourite because he's in Asgard and thus close to the capital for when his dad dies #while poor unloved loki (and his less hot mum) is all the way over in jotunheim. so far to travel to compete for the throne :( #oh no i already see the flaw in this idea - i gave them both mothers! whose actions will make a difference to anything! silly me!