“ already calculating whether or not mother and father will notice if he transmogrifies Thor’s whole arm into a bare chicken wing” Loki, courtesy of @icyxmischief
I’ve literally been laughing at this for almost half an hour, all of you need to enjoy it’s perfection.
I cannot get this image out of my head, and it is BRILLIANT.
Oh this song is interesting because like….the sound of it is a form of pretense? It’s upbeat and sort of sardonically cheerful, but the lyrics are SO sad and lonely, which is the whole crux of the lyrics, too. I love it. Very Loki.
Loki turns a look of muted exasperation on his elder brother. He understands and concurs, really, that Thor’s purpose in life is to be a big brother, and therefore, to occasionally pester Loki until the witchling sees red.
But Loki’s eating his game hen–for once, he was permitted to eat something other than the red meat that upsets his somewhat delicate constitution–and the thunderling interrupts this most wondrous occasion with the finger suspended midair.
“Stop,” he insists, rather factually, already calculating whether or not mother and father will notice if he transmogrifies Thor’s whole arm into a bare chicken wing. Probably, if Thor made a fuss, but Thor making a fuss means he’ll have to admit he was bothering Loki, so there’s Loki’s leverage.
This one? Damn it’s catchy. When the Walk the Moon guy comes in it’s almost like an older Loki speaking to his younger self about the bitter honor in having a voice that is by necessity a lone voice, detached for the sake of survival and ultimately of happiness from the sadness that home brought.
Loki studies the young Coptic Trickster, irked by her presumptuous invasion of his personal space, with an air of icy hauteur.
He would dismiss her on the spot but for his abiding respect for her father, Anubis, and any other death god, for many times death has brushed its fingers over Loki’s skin, but mercifully not taken a stranglehold.
“I will see what I can do,” is all he commits to, holding unnaturally still; the frozen stature is the learned byproduct of a lifetime of being safer when unobtrusive while family members raged their displeasure at each other; and, more recently, being the direct victim of war prisoner abuse. Layla may or may not know that Loki shares these experiences with Tony Stark, whom she seems to have already met under catastrophic circumstances. Loki is not about to ask her.
Oh I see your reasoning big time, particularly pre-Ragnarok:
Bite my tongue, bide my time Wearing a warning sign Wait ‘til the world is mine Visions I vandalize Cold in my kingdom size Fell for these ocean eyes
You should see me in a crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
Count my cards, watch them fall Blood on a marble wall I like the way they all Scream Tell me which one is worse Living or dying first Sleeping inside a hearse I don’t dream
You say Come over baby I think you’re pretty I’m okay I’m not your baby If you think I’m pretty
You should see me in a crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
Crown I’m gonna run this nothing town Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by
You should see me in a crown Your silence is my favorite sound Watch me make ’em bow One by one by, one One by one by (one)
It has an air of vengeance, of calculation mingled with more visceral anger and sadness, for a lifetime of slights; “I’m gonna run this nothing town” really evokes Loki’s mixed sentiments for Asgard ( it’s not his home in that he has no reflection of himself anywhere there save in Frigga, but it’s the only home he’s ever known).
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