☆ : Of the sun, stars, and the moon, which is your muse’s favorite?
The moon.
–It’s connected to wolves and nocturnal beings, with whom Loki shares an affinity.
–It’s connected to emotional humors, the obscured, and the mysterious, which appeal to Loki.
–It’s granted light only by the sun, which Loki of course associates with his own relationship to Thor (who is the sun).
📐 : Is your muse good at math? Do they like it, or do they hate it?
Loki is actually better at math than people would give him credit! I draw this conclusion for several reasons.
One: The mastery of spells and potions requires a capacity for rote, and also competence in what roughly equates the science of chemistry in the natural world. Chemistry is a math-heavy science, particularly when it comes to the understanding of the interactions of various combinations of molecules, and ratios of substances being combined. Same can be said of alchemy.
Two: Loki in the new run of the comics is tremendously good at computers and hacking, and this also requires competence in coding, which is connected very closely to the part of the brain that controls mathematics.
Three: Loki’s personality, for all his love of chaos, is still, paradoxically, also one that loves cold hard facts, provable evidence, and precision, all connected to the absolute nature of math.
i scare people lots because i walk very softly and they don’t hear me enter rooms so when they turn around i’m just kind of there and their fear fuels me
AND THAT IS HOW YOU USE AN EFFECTS PEDAL
I was gaping the entire song this is insane
If I had a dollar for every time a musician made me feel like I’ve done nothing with my life, I’d be filthy, FILTHY rich.
After YEARS of wondering I found out this is called “Beethoven’s 5 Secrets” by the Piano Guys.
Bryson Andres!
✨ you are Ice! (Water/Earth or Water/Fire)
Tagged by: @starkastichotmess
Tagging: Steal it!
Core Strengths: Ice is calm, imaginative, wise, patient, adaptable, observant, artistic, idealistic, rational, practical, dependable, fair-minded, respectful, honest, loyal, and insightful
Possible Weaknesses: When immature, Ice might be depressed, pessimistic, passive, indecisive, self-loathing, overly cautious, unsocial, shy, stubborn, bitter, judgmental, callous, excessively serious, or withdrawn from reality.
Ice is cool, calm, collected, logical, and abstract. It combines the calm, serenity, insight, adaptability, and wisdom of Water with the order, consistency, loyalty, and practicality of earth. They are creatures of cold, crystalline beauty – elegant and unapproachable. They are deep, mysterious, and inscrutable – yet they see the rest of the world with astounding clarity. They have a big-picture view of life and tend to be meticulous planners. Ice is also generally a very good judge of character, so long as Ice does not give in to pessimism or cynicism. That is one of Ice’s great internal struggles – the conflict between an intense inner idealism and pessimism about how corrupt the world is. Ice is exceptionally perfectionistic. Ice is also known for its subtly determined nature. Instead of trying to break through barriers, Ice finds another way. When the barrier is weak or if Ice finds just the right angle, it breaks through with the force of a massive iceberg. Yet against stronger or more aggressive forces, Ice adapts, melts, flows around boulders, through piles of debris, over dams, and even through the smallest cracks. When it finds such small opening, it freezes – expanding and cracking the barrier apart. Ice plans everything meticulously in advance and can be seen as opportunistic since it never lets any opportunity go to waste. Ice is very independent and often stubborn, but not aggressive or bossy. Rather than try to force the world to conform to itself, it bends and moves to suit the circumstances, subtly influences the world from the shadows, or else it simply leaves. Ice knows when to withdraw and leave a hopeless organization, pointless debate, or harmful relationship.
Solitude is natural and comfortable for Ice, so it very capable of leaving toxic situations behind and not looking back. This tendency to choose an isolated lifestyle may be in reaction to past hurt or betrayal or it could just as easily stem from being highly introverted. It often views society as a whole as being cruel, stupid, chaotic, or threatening. Ice is very structured, orderly, rational, and logical. They are punctual, organized, detail-oriented, planned, and are excellent at either creating or running vast, complicated systems – whether for business, politics and other practical concerns or for philosophy, religion, science, or other more abstract pursuits. They have both the creativity and wisdom to create as well as the practicality and diligence to administrate. They are strong and stable, honest and loyal, fair-minded and rational, orderly and reliable.
Under stress and pressure that would break anyone else, Ice still stands like an ancient, unconquerable glacier. This ability to think well in both abstract and concrete ways makes Ice a natural planner. Everything in Ice’s life goes to serve The Plan: an extremely complex life-long plan for success that incorporates every foreseeable variable and contingency. Often, Ice begins making The Plan while still a small child and continues to refine it and re-work it across his or her life. Their ability to predict the future is mysterious and can be either inspiring or terrifying depending on whether Ice is a friend or enemy.
Ice generally uses its towering intellect to solve problems, express deep truths, create inventions, or unravel the mysteries of the universe rather than make money or get fame. Fame is of very little interest to Ice. Ice often has a strong creative and artistic streak, loving music, literature, philosophy, and the arts. The Icy person often has a natural and effortless gift at creating pristine, elegant beauty – whether in artwork, abstract systems, or even in the clothes she or he wears.
Yet all of these tremendous strengths do come with weaknesses. Ice is extremely introverted and cautious. If Ice is ever surprised and has no plan at all for the current situation, Ice often freezes up entirely – unable to act. Ice may be adaptable, but improvisation is very difficult. Ice does not like surprises and is often stubborn. Further, Ice is very emotionally withdrawn. While Ice usually has a rich, complex internal world of emotions, Ice is very poor at expressing those emotions to others – and some Icy people may even have difficulty reading the emotions of others. Ice tends to be distant, remote, and very difficult to read – often having a constant poker face or unintentional icy death glare. Even when emotions are expressed, getting the right words out with the right vocal tone is frustrating. This often tends to push away the very people Ice wants most to get close to.
This over-abundance of caution, difficulty improvising, and difficulty expressing emotions are Ice’s three great weaknesses. Yet for anyone who manages to get close enough to Ice to make a real emotional connection, they will find Ice to be very loving, devoted, and absolutely loyal. As a general rule, anyone who earns the love or friendship of Ice will enjoy lifelong, unbreakable commitment and they will get the rare treat of enjoying the warm and compassionate heart at Ice’s core.
Intellectually, Ice seeks understanding and efficiency. Water asks both “why” and “how.” It is holistic and sees everything in the universe as being connected with everything else. Ice is drawn to everything deep, abstract, and complex. It intuitively sees the connections between ideas and between cause and effect. It builds up complex networks of information with each bit connected in its mind with all the other bits that compare and contrast with it. Yet it also has an intense drive to make sense of things. Ice creates order out of chaos, efficiency out of waste, and elegant systems out of aimless wandering. Budgets, long-term plans, engineering, and business management are second nature to Ice. It misses no detail no matter how small and excels at innovation and gradual improvement in general. While everything fascinates Ice, it’s logical, orderly systems that are most interesting. Put together, this makes Ice well-suited for the humanities, sciences, and business – at least in theory. One of Ice’s intellectual weaknesses is its tendency to become lost in its own mind. This can be due to going down rabbit trails on related subjects, getting distracted, or simply getting so absorbed that it never even gets to make the decision in question. The other is making the assumption that all people behave logically. Ice can easily misread a situation by failing to take into account the more emotional and chaotic elements of human nature, often missing subtleties and social cues. However, no element is more intelligent than any other. It is merely a different pattern of thinking.
Emotionally, Ice is the most introverted of all the elements or element combinations. Ice has strong feelings and ideals, but has great difficulty expressing them. Due to the fear of an embarrassing emotional outburst, Ice generally suppresses unwelcome emotions like anger, sadness, or fear. Ice may express positive emotions, but even then usually in a controlled way. This can cause negative emotions to build up and churn inside, magnifying them over time. Sadness, fear, and bitterness tend to be especially strong. If not deal with in a healthy way, this can lead either to sudden outbursts releasing days, weeks, or even years of frustration all at once. Ice’s wrath is rare, but terrible – especially if Ice believes the object of its anger deserves it. However, Ice may just internalize their emotions even further, withdrawing into themselves until they begin to view all the world as a hostile, threatening “other.” Sadness, fear, and bitterness are Ice’s negative emotions.
MBTI: INTP is the perfect example – though INTJ and INFJ can work as well. Occasionally, ISTPs may show up as Ice (though they are normally Earth/Air).
Functions: Introverted Thinking, Extroverted Intuition, Introverted Intuition, extroverted thinking
Enneagram Types: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9
Platonic Solid: Round (Icosahedron) and Cube (Hexahedron)
Aristotelian Environment: Cold (either Wet or Dry)
Temperament: Phlegmatic/Melancholic, Melancholic/Choleric, or Phlegmatic/Choleric
Cardinal Virtue: Wisdom/Caution (Prudentia) and Self-Control (Temperantia)
Yin-Yang: Yin
Opposite Element: Lightning – While Ice (Water/Earth) is wise, logical, calculating, self-controlled, dignified, calm, and innovative, Lightning (Fire/Air) is brave, willful, lively, free-spirited, dramatic, and visionary.
Loki is 36% Ravenclaw, 28% Slytherin, 24% Gryffindor, and 12% Hufflepuff!
(Author’s note: this quiz was highly simplistic and predictable. I tend to write Loki as almost equal parts Ravenclaw and Slytherin, so for an accurate percentile, boost up the Slytherin number to the 30s as well).
You are a Ravenclaw through and through, but your ruthless ambition means you may also fit well in Slytherin. Knowledge is incredibly important to you, and you love nothing more than learning new things, but your love of learning is undeniably motivated by your determination for success. Unlike some of your fellow Ravenclaws, you often avoid any task that requires teamwork, preferring to work alone.
Your slight compatibility with Gryffindor house hints at an underlying desire for adventure that may manifest itself in a love of travel or trying new things.
tagged by: @starkastichotmess
tagging: anyone, too tired to tag 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).
icyxmischief 