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Wishlist

  • Loki and ANY Avenger have a heart-to-heart and bond as tentative allies then, eventually, friends, in the coming final showdown with Thanos.
  • Loki and his children. 
  • Loki spearheads an academy that combines Asgardian Seidhr (magic) with Tony Stark/Stark Enterprises’ and Princess Shuri’s/Wakanda’s technological advances. 
  • Thor and Loki reunite after Loki is resurrected post-Infinity War. 
  • Loki doing various PR functions (such as visiting hospitals) alongside Thor and other Avengers in order to render his earth-image more positive. 

//Wishlist: Loki, post-Ragnarok, after New Asgard is settled, or even during the impending conflict with Thanos, going back to New York to look at memorials to those whom the Chitauri killed.  Loki, having already done so when he placed Odin in that nursing home.  Loki, being mentally sound enough, and having regained some of his previous moral fiber, genuinely and quietly contrite for the Battle of New York, while still believing that, at the time, he had no other option in escaping Thanos but to furbish himself with his own realm in exile.  

Give me a plausible, gradual Loki redemption arc not contingent upon him being suddenly a saint, nor emotionally coerced by family or friends.  A Loki who can do heroic things on occasion, on his own terms (see the resurrection of Surtur).  

A Loki like Tom Hiddleston once said, who “exists between damnation and redemption.”

Things I love about the “villain turns good” trope:

batmansymbol:

pitviperofdoom:

  • Ex-villains graduating to “weird
    uncle” status.
  • Ex-villains and hero(es) turning the
    events of previous battles into bizarre inside jokes.
  • Ex-villains embracing the power of
    friendship and love.
  • Ex-villains putting up walls and
    keeping to themselves until the heroes teach them what it means to
    trust someone.
  • Ex-villains messing up and being
    forgiven because redemption is a process, not an endgame.
  • Ex-villains being shy and uncertain
    about their new place as a hero.
    • Bonus: Ex-villains hiding behind their
      hero friends during moments of shyness and uncertainty.
  • Ex-villains being tempted back to the
    dark side only to realize how much their newfound friendships mean to
    them.
  • Ex-villains pretending to return to the
    dark side, and using their villain cred to be a mole/saboteur on the
    heroes’ behalf.
  • Ex-villains taking the same skills and
    character traits that made them effective villains and using them for
    good.
    • Ex-villains defeating current villains
      by being better at those skills and traits
      than they are.
  • Ex-villains being rejected by almost
    everyone except the very few willing to give them the benefit of the
    doubt.
    • Ex-villains being ferociously
      protective of those few.
  • Ex-villains convincing old allies and friends to follow them to the light side.
  • Ex-villains helping their hero friends
    through guilt and self-doubt by reminding them that your mistakes don’t
    make you and it’s never too late to turn things around.
  • Ex-villains receiving unconditional
    trust and affection from someone small and innocent, and having no
    idea what they’re supposed to do with that.
  • Ex-villains reuniting with heroic loved ones that they don’t have to fight against anymore.
  • Ex-villains looking around at their new
    friends and their new home and having to sit down and ride out a
    sudden wave of powerful emotion because they can’t remember the last
    time they felt content.

fun game: apply every single damn one of these to prince zuko

milkteaghost:

Imagine a villain getting injured and losing their memory and the heroes finding them and taking them with them and taking care of them and the villain gets their memory back after like a week but doesn’t want to say anything because the heroes are being so nice to them and nobody has been that nice to them in so long and they don’t want it to end and they’re maybe getting fond of the heroes but don’t tell anyone shhh. But eventually something happens and the heroes are in trouble and they’re trying to get the villain to run away because they still think they’re an amnesiac with no idea how to defend themself and they’ve grown to like them and don’t want them to get hurt but the villain just pushes past them toward whatever is trying to hurt the heroes and just fuckin goes guns blazing and destroys them

OOC: Imperative wishlist (things I had in my mainverse that I’d like to rebuild in a new verse)

–A developed, start-to-finish storyline in which Thor discovers Loki is alive and they don’t just “make up,” they also fight, and backslide, and evolve, and talk, and fight some more, and talk some more, and finally TRULY reconcile.

–The chance for Loki to be aided by a friend or lover who commits to learning about psychotherapy and aids him from start to finish in coping better with his PTSD.

–The chance for Loki to become used to life on Midgard, and to see the intrinsic worth in human beings, and, in turn, to feel contrite for events in Avengers Assemble.

–The chance for Loki to go up against, and defeat, Thanos.

–The chance for Loki to go up against numerous other Marvel villains, as an antihero or even full protagonist.

–The chance to be in Loki’s female form and, in that form, even bear a child.

–The chance for Loki to mend bridges with fellow Asgardians (including Sif and the W3). 

–The chance to work for Tony Stark or another employer among the “good guys” and to gain true intellectual fulfillment and positive personal recognition from it.

–The chance to build a friendship with Jane Foster.

–The chance to build a friendship with Darcy Lewis. 

–The chance to make peace with Odin’s memory.

–The chance to TRULY mourn Frigga, and recover items of inheritance from her.

–Lots of meaningful interaction with lots of other Marvel CANONS (I have NOTHING against OC’s, but I need to build a CANON verse FIRST to get my bearings). 

I will be honest, but discreetly so:  I lost a pivotal rp partner this past month, who played not only a spouse to Loki, but also his adoptive family, best friends, one of his children, and his employer. The emotional significance that this person’s verse had to me cannot be overemphasized.  And I have rp partners who are trying to help me cope with this, and doing a wonderful job of it.  But I am still having tremendous difficulty adjusting to an entire mainverse that was there one day and utterly gone the next.  It is hard. It’s the second time it’s happened in only three years. And it’s giving me some writer’s block, because whenever I write Loki in another verse (I have two wonderful verses going right now), I short-circuit. I start associationally remembering lost things from the verse that’s gone. And I get sad that in many ways this character is back to square one.

I will do my best to maintain the caliber of blogging and rping that has earned me 2,142 followers.  Words of encouragement and support, and ideas for how to address the above wishlist, are VERY much appreciated.