// I’m feeling a lot of static in the air about my temp hiatus from ships, and I am getting the impression that the decision has generated bad feelings in some of my partners. Nothing in the known universe makes me more anxious than feeling as if I have disappointed people I care about, or made them feel badly about themselves.
So for now, I’ll reopen romantic threads (lol that lasted less than 24 hours), and continue to call this a multiship blog, but I’m going to be highly selective about what threads I feel the energy to respond to.
I also want to continue to stress that I am eager to explore platonic relationships, be they affable or antagonistic, with Loki. So please continue to send me starters and Asks from his parents, brother, friends, and children.
heads up that there is graphic medical abuse in fantastic four. characters are restrained and medicated against their will in a hospital setting while in clear distress. it was really triggering for me because i didn’t expect it and i’d prefer that doesn’t happen to anyone else.
wait help trigger now means just that you find something scary or disturbing???
i’m a victim of medical abuse who suffers ptsd as a result you dickweed
Also, yes “trigger” can be something that is terrifying or disturbing.
Loki was bullied in childhood, but there is no evidence in the comics or the films to suggest that the bullying was of a physical nature. In fact I’d argue Loki was more neglected than bullied, and starved for validation, not ridiculed (though certain lines on Volstagg’s behalf in the films suggest there may have been moments of the latter form of abuse).
It’s more a phenomenon in which Loki was “Othered” by his culture. He was, both filially and institutionally (because Odin, the head of his family, is also the head of State and cultural arbiter), pitted against a certain desired socio-cultural standard of forthrightness, aggression, and hypermasculinity, as the undesired alternative, in every day small interactions and in the society in which he was raised. At the very least he suffers from internalized racism for this very reason, living in an imperialist society that literally sees people of other realms as economically dependent subhuman colonialized species (particularly the Jotnar).
Frigga, another Other (because she was a woman and witch), recognized this and it’s because of Frigga that this misconception is as egregious as it is. Because Frigga clearly taught Loki not only how to use magic as an intellectually driven deceit in battle, she also taught him a very particular dance-like fighting style that involves rapid attacks, spins, and repeat attacks, such that the enemy can never get a good hold on you at close range, and it’s probably because of Frigga that Loki is so adept with a short blade:
Probably the most vivid demonstration of Frigga’s signature fighting style, which maximizes SPEED and AGILITY at the expense of upper body strength (in other words, ideally suited to Loki’s athletic but non-muscular body type) is when Loki disarms like four or more Dark Elves in Svartalfheim single-handedly without gaining a single scratch, in the span of seconds, just in time to rush to and rescue Thor from Kurse.
So while physical STRENGTH is not Loki’s forte, he has a great deal of physical AGILITY and ENDURANCE, and his ass was kicked in a more verbal and cultural way than a physical way.
I love your analysis. You are so articulate and interesting, do more please!
AH! Thank you! ❤ This blog has always been a meta blog, even longer than it was an rp blog! Check my meta tag for more 😀 I am always trying to answer these questions to the best of my ability!
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