he just BECOMES as yggdrasil? he just, you don't understand, he just becomes the tree? the core of time itself? he just wields the power of literal gods and transforms the flow of all timelines into a tree, using the timelines themselves as the fibers and pathways to create a self-supporting structure that he feeds his own power through like life-support? for all of eternity? to keep everyone and everything in existence EXISTING??? he just takes the form of the thing he has grown up knowing about, yggdrasil, for his whole life, dreaming of conquering all sentient life forms on all the trees branches, and instead of conquering it, he creates and powers and guides the very flow of time itself that those people will freely live upon? the symbolism. i'm dying, the symbolism. yall. yalllll.
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loki finally getting his glorious purpose and his throne and his crown but not the way he wanted it. god, not even remotely the way he wanted it. and he would give it up in a heartbeat if he could.
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Loki is, in my personal opinion, the best thing Marvel has produced in fucking YEARS.
Actually, I don't think any story Marvel has made has ever impressed and awed me as much as this one.
I'm going to be thinking about this for WEEKS.
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E N T E R T H E L A B Y R I N T H
In the Labyrinth, they talk of gods.
They whisper between their fingers and sweeten their breath with the tales of titans of old who once stood so tall that a single breath would cause earth-tremors, their steps reshaping the ground trod beneath them. Their fingers were the tools that smoothed the mountains into points, shaped and carved the ridges and valleys in between. If you hike far enough, one woman claims, if you travel to a point where the oxygen is thin and your vision blacks, you can make out a partial print against the mountainside. You can run your own fingers along its length and still feel the titan’s warmth as if his palm were pressed right against yours.
The woman says, It is a thing of worship. It is a thing of devotion.
In the Labyrinth, they ask you to make you make your body anew before the King of the High Hills. They say that you are alive because you must suffer for the life and love of the Lord, that you must open your body and let him lick along your flesh so that he may taste the endlessness of his perpetual reign.
In the Labyrinth, there is no escape from his touch.
“You have a heavy burden upon you,” the headmaster was saying, teeth and eyes all a glitter under the amber cast candles. “I am not unsympathetic to the arduous path ahead of you—but please understand that this suffering must be experienced for the longevity of the king, for the beautiful life ahead of him. Only he is the one who can shed mortality and raise to the gods, because he is the only one strong enough, courageous enough, to count the cost of living forever. You must succeed where others have failed. You, this class, this is our last chance to mend what has been made broken. You must. You must.”
The Mouths of Elysium is a dark-academia fantasy created with Twine where your choices matter to the story. You live inside the Labyrinth, a maze that hates to become known with walls and paths that change every hour. The center of the Labyrinth sits a university that has been there since the beginning of time; its only purpose is to recruit students who can solve the puzzle of life, who can create an elixir that would allow the King of the High Hills to live past the length of forever. Failure means a fate worse than death.
You are one of those students.
Althea Callaghan - You know her in death. She has been the taste of rot against your tongue, the anger and hurt in your palms. You see the nice, beautiful lines of her teeth and become a creature of grief unfolding unto yourself. Debase yourself with the fervent want of her. Bend at your waist and beg for forgiveness.
You hate her. You want to watch her bleed. She feels the exact same about you, but what she doesn't know is that every waking moment of your life is dedicated to her.
The Princess/Prince - The forgotten child of the throne. The 405th child of His glorious reign. Divinity runs through their veins, the heir to so much power, but they will never see themselves rule the unforgiving landscape of the Labyrinth. Their fate is to die and be buried amongst the endless graves of their dead brothers and sisters. They must do this so the King may live forever.
A fully customizable MC including gender, appearance, and sexuality
A landscape of horror. A landscape that hates you and everyone who might try to understand it. Go beyond the walls and be witness to a reality worse than death
Key choices that will influence your game and experience. Will you succeed or fail?
Learn what it means to be forgiven. Learn what it means to suffer. Become devotion. Become loyalty. Make your body anew before the King of the High Hills
DEMO : TBA (coming soon)
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okay, but here's the thing that makes me so mad:
Loki's ending makes perfect sense for his character.
When we are first introduced to him in the MCU, his primary desire, the things that motivates him most, is power, but also to be loved because of his power.
Loki's arc from Endgame to the show is about how he only wants power because he thinks it means he won't be alone; his greatest fear, the thing he has really been wanting this entire fucking time, is to not be alone. He only realizes this because he has matured and grown up so much over the course of this show that he can recognize and admit that to himself and Sylvie.
He has lost everyone he has ever loved, and he used to think that power is the thing that could get them back, and in the end, he ends up alone. That's fucking infuriating.
Everything Loki has ever done was so that people would love him, and he gets that. He has a family now, and not because of his power. Loki was powerless for the majority of his time with his friends; they love him because of who he is. But at the end, he gets the power that he wanted, he gets the throne, and it takes him away from his loved ones. It's a sacrifice, a burden, not glorious but heartbreaking.
His arc is flipped on its head; it's a tragedy and a curse and it destroys him. But he does it anyway, for of the people he loves. It was always going to end this way, you see? The tree, the god of stories, the glorious purpose. It was sitting right in front of us.
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HE IS THE MCU BEST VILLAIN, HE IS THE MCU GREATEST HERO, HE IS TIME ITSELF, HE IS THE CENTER OF THE MULTIVERSE, HE'S BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS PURPOSE, HE IS LOKI LAUFEYSON OF ASGARD
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