//I’ve noticed that people have mellowed out, yeah, I just wish it hadn’t been largely because Ragnarok ridiculed him to the point os making him “that funky backstabbing drama queen who’s a disaster but we love anyway,” and then Infinity War…killed him. Lol.
But yes, the one silver lining of all this is that I get a lot less anon hate for loving the character than I did back in 2012-2015, LOL.
what would completely break your character?
That’s hard to imagine, as Loki is a ruthless survivalist. My closest guess would be for both Thor and all of Loki’s children to die simultaneously and because of an error Loki made, particularly an enemy who wanted to exact vengeance upon Loki by harming his loved ones. I believe this because losing Frigga under those circumstances (in part because he gave Kurse directions out of the Asgardian prison and unwittingly straight to Frigga’s chambers) already nearly broke him.
what was the best thing in your character’s life?
Learning magic, hands-down. It’s empowered him, it’s given him purpose and identity extricable from the demands of Asgardian culture, it’s saved his life, and it’s a special thing he shared with his mother, the parent who truly unconditionally (though with her flaws) loved him.
how many friends does your character want?
Loki would rather have few, close friends than a wide array of casual friends. He is a classic introvert. He also trusts very few people, even those whom he loves.
for what would your character give their life?
Answered here.
Ahaha Gwen! ❤ Just answered 4 and 13 here!
As for the rest:
what is your character reluctant to tell people?
Anything in detail about his time with Thanos. Loki would rather be thought a heartless bastard than confess that he was ever vulnerable and humiliated because Asgardian culture, for all its medical advances, still has zero concept of mental illness and how to treat it.
what would your character make a scene in public about?
Loki isn’t a scene-in-public person. The only time he was ever reduced to this raw of a state was directly in the wake of Thanos’s custody, in Avengers Assemble, when he was utterly frantic to win Midgard and the Tesseract in exchange for his freedom (”life’s great lie” :’) ). Nowadays, and contrary to popular belief, Loki is far from an “attention whore,” an extreme introvert and background strategist who is mortified by being the focus of attention or scrutiny. Which is exactly why, when he was in a fucking fishbowl in The Dark World care of Odin, it was such a cruel punishment.
for what would your character give their life?
Welp. We just saw, didn’t we? And I always knew it was true: Loki would give his life for Thor’s safety. My Loki muse would also die for his spouse or children. For people, Loki would die. But never for a cause or idea. True Slytherin.
what is your character afraid of?
Being replaced, insignificant, unremembered. All of these things, in spades, by Thor, because not only is Thor “all he has left,” Thor still connotes all things wholesome and worthy to Loki (betrayed by the deleted scene in which he fantasizes in his cell about wielding Mjolnir and wearing a red cloak, just like his big brother). My particular Loki muse also fears losing his children, or seeing them harmed, particularly by enemies he has made. He also fears the repetition of trauma he’s endured under Thanos and minions; he will long after these people are all dead, because PTSD is frankly an intractable mental illness with cognitive-emotional associations that ruin otherwise safe everyday things and people, that you simply learn to live with. Finally, Loki is afraid that when he dies, and permanently dies, he will never earn entry into Valhalla, and see his mother again: or the rest of his family, when they, too, die. He’s afraid his afterlife will be lonely.
what seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
Most of Loki’s banal, everyday memories are connected to Thor, because they bunked together as children and were treated as a matched pair, with Loki the “grooming pony” for Thor the champion racehorse, ever at his side to buffer, protect, and “healthily” compete with Thor. So it’ll be things like, how Thor’s hair looked on a sunny day, or how terrible Thor’s armor smelled after sparring practice. Possibly one important memory of Loki’s unique to MY Loki muse is one banquet that would have turned out disastrous for Thor–who, in my headcanons, is mildly learning disabled (dyslexic and attention-deficient)–had Loki not been hiding under the banquet table feeding him lines from a passage of epic poetry about Odin that Thor was meant to recite to the entire table of diplomatic guests. I love this headcanon because it shows the backbone of Thor and Loki’s young relationship, to which Thor often later defaults: Loki, concealed in the proverbial woodwork, but hardwired to protect and support his big brother, who enjoys attention and is seen as the infallible golden child (something that carries its own unhealthy, unrealistic pressures).
what does your character pretend or try to care about?
Loki TRIES to care about NOTHING, even pretending this to deceive HIMSELF (Frigga was right, despite the context of telling him he is “perceptive about everyone but himself,” in that Loki has a peculiar blind spot, partly self-preserving and partly self-thwarting, when it comes to inward reflection), but it never gets him far. In fact it’s usually detrimental to his long-range plans, particularly when Thor, Frigga, or even Odin is involved. What Loki does care about? Self-sufficiency, self-worth, intellectual stimulation and growth (despite Ragnarok!Thor’s strange allegations of “stagnating” and “becoming predictable”), keeping a sharp wit, KNOWLEDGE for its OWN sake, SECURITY (often perceived as synonymous with power, which he doesn’t really want nearly as much as he tells himself), HERITAGE, BIRTHRIGHT, and FAMILY. Loki’s ENEMIES like to pretend that he wants the throne and power, but again, the Throne (capital T) to Loki is equivalent both to being seen as a worthy match to Thor (who is also an archetype for Worthiness in general and for Asgardian Worthiness specifically) and to safety/security/stability. Despite being a chaos-monger and an agent of perpetual fluidity/change, Loki is surprisingly attracted to stability (see myths!Loki’s marriage to Sigyn, Goddess of Constancy).
crucial muse development questions. send a number in my inbox to find out more about my character as a person ( because often, the most important things about character development have nothing to do with their shoe size or netflix queue ).
- what would completely break your character?
- what was the best thing in your character’s life?
- what was the worst thing in your character’s life?
- what seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
- does your character work so they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?
- what is your character reluctant to tell people?
- how does your character feel about sex?
- how many friends does your character have?
- how many friends does your character want?
- what would your character make a scene in public about?
- for what would your character give their life?
- what are your character’s major flaws?
- what does your character pretend or try to care about?
- how does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?
- what is your character afraid of?
//STARTER CALL FOR THORS!
//STARTER CALL FOR AVENGERS (ANY)!
You’re my brother and my friend. Sometimes I’m envious, but never doubt that I love you.
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