#Sylki kiss

[textsfromthetva]

Loki + Reductress headlines, part 51/?  

#Loki #Sylvie #Ravonna Renslayer #Mobius M. Mobius #Sylki #sylki kiss #Loki series #MCU #Loki memes #lokiedit #Reductress #ngl this entire set is mostly a vehicle to deliver the first one which I think is quite splendid

[nkay928]

A video I made of Tom Hiddleston kissing scenes!! Enjoy and thanks for watching!!

#Tom Hiddleston #Tom Hiddleston kiss #kiss #first kiss #kissing #Loki #Loki show #Loki kiss #sylki #Sylki kiss #crimson peak #unrelated #suburban shootout #return to cranford #the deep blue sea #the hollow Crown #the essex serpent #i saw the light #Tom kiss #kissing video #fan edit #kiss compilation #only lovers left alive #Coriolanus #the night manager #Youtube

[cjrae]

The HMS Sylki? Or; Why I Like It, But I Don’t Ship It.

It’s hard to throw a rock at the MCU fandom without hitting someone who adores the character of Loki, as played by Tom Hiddleston. And with good reason - Loki is one of the best characters of the Infinity Saga due to the fact that he is morally grey. He is capable of villainy, but also heroism and he swings back and forth between those two poles as he works through the trauma of his childhood and stunted development. 

In the Infinity Saga, we know where this leads - he’s grown just enough to recognize that he wants more than validation through rulership before Thanos cuts all of that potential growth off with his brutal execution, further punctuating the tragedy that is Loki’s fate; his death, just like his life, is used to temper Thor into a hero that will rise to the challenge at hand. 

Spoilers are under the cut.

Loki

And then came his first chance to be in the spotlight. In an instant, Loki is ripped away from everything that has defined him - his narcissistic family unit and his role within it, his costume, even his name as he’s often simply referred to as “Variant”. He’s stripped down to his bare essentials and asked to answer the question, “What makes Loki tick?” 

This is a question the first season goes back to again and again as Loki is forced into a brutal version of therapy - first confronting his life and his “fate,” which makes him realize that he’s been stripped of agency his entire life. He’s desperately flailing for control when he has never had any, and it has made him cruel in a bid for attention and love. It is the classic setup for narcissistic behavior patterns and it leads to Loki’s greatest fear - being completely and utterly alone. 

Sylvie

Sylvie is a version of Loki that could have been - what if the God of Mischief had instead been a Goddess? Well, for one, it’s a bit depressing to realize how much better Odin treated an adopted daughter than a son; Sylvie knew she’d been adopted, she was securely attached to her parents and her people. The scene where she’s arrested by the TVA, she is playing make-believe with herself cast in the role of hero.

That role of Sylvie as hero and warrior is exactly what is projected to not just Loki, but also the audience as we get to know her, her mission and just what motivates her. It’s difficult to argue that Sylvie isn’t the hero of the piece through Episode 6. The TVA believes that the ends justify the means and that any actions they take are justified if it preserves the Sacred Timeline. If that leaves a little girl orphaned and homeless just before you’re preparing to sentence her to be reset in front of a judge who clearly has no care for the fact that this is a child who is not responsible for how she was born, then so be it. 

She also displays many of the traits that we’ve identified with the various superheroes of the MCU - she’s self-disciplined, she has a mission, she’s in the right and she knows it. She’s determined to give the entire universe their free will back! 

A Narcissistic Romance?

Here’s the crux of what we’re watching; Loki’s journey of learning to love himself in a healthy manner. One of the luxuries of narrative is that we’re able to externalize that story so that the audience can see Loki’s internal state. Because here’s the thing - most narcissists never change, because they have to understand that something is wrong first.

(Side note; I think this is a huge part of Loki’s appeal, and a dangerous piece of it. There are people who look at Loki’s story and fantasize about ‘fixing’ him by being the ones to show him unconditional love, when the crux of the story is about Loki recognizing the need and gaining the agency to start fixing himself).

Loki, however, has had his Infinity Saga growth put on fast-forward and then smacked over the head with it. He knows something is wrong and then he is shown a version of himself that embodies everything he thinks he needs to be in order to address his insecurities.

In the Void, when Kid Loki looks at him and says “You’re different,” Loki immediately demurs. No, he’s not different, but Sylvie is. Sylvie is Loki as Loki thinks he should be. Sylvie is a hero - in a sense, she is the Idealized Version of Loki.

Unfortunately, we all know what happens when you put someone on a pedestal. Sylvie is vulnerable to the same flaws as Loki - she feels cheated out of What Should Have Been. Only, instead of a crown (and the love of her father) she was cheated out of her right to grow up surrounded by her loving family - and her reaction to that injustice is the same as Loki’s; all consuming rage. She will achieve what she believes she deserves - revenge - regardless of the cost to anyone else around her.

This is what makes her betrayal of Loki so heartbreaking. He tells her the truth, with all the benefit of having his story on fast forward - Loki has grown enough to know that killing He Who Remains isn’t going to fix Sylvie’s pain any more than ruling would finally make him happy. Sylvie just shared her ability to enchant with Loki, reassuring him that he was capable of performing it as well because “we’re the same.” 

But when she pushes him away, she denies that connection. 

Season 2′s Core Story (Or My Theory, At Least)

So, if the central story of Season 1 was Loki learning a healthier self-love that wasn’t dependent on the approval of his father or besting Thor, then we segue nicely into the next phase of Loki’s healing, which should also address how he will self-regulate his emotions going forth:

How do you forgive yourself after you’ve f***ed up?

Whether or not Sylvie’s decision was actually the wrong one or not is a separate essay - but suffice it to say that on a personal level, she completely and utterly f***ed up and she may have on a cosmic level as well. 

But learning to forgive yourself in the wake of mistakes is vital to Loki’s continued growth as a character - so much of his story has been how he’s consumed by his self-hatred that he projects onto others because he is unable to process his emotions on his own. But at the end of Season 1 his worst fear has come true. He’s utterly and completely alone for the first time in his life - there will be no one to project them onto. He won’t even be able to attempt to rule the TVA, a go-to strategy when he’s stressed - because Kang has pretty throughly beaten him to the punch. 

If he doesn’t need to ally with Sylvie again to deal with the story of Season 2, I will be shocked because it will give the writers an opportunity to have Loki actively working through how to be angry, empathize and eventually forgive, without being destructive in the process. (Because he is not going to have time or emotional space to both deal with the ramifications of Season 1′s end and indulge in old patterns - one will have to give way to the other.

Not Boarding The HMS Sylki

I think I’ve made a pretty long-winded explanation of why I like the relationship between Loki and Sylvie and why I think it works on a character level. That doesn’t mean I ship it, however.

Some relationships come into our lives and are not meant to be permanent, long-term romantic relationships that end with commitment and families. Sylvie and Loki’s relationship is, as I’ve said before, an externalized view of what is happening within Loki himself. Eventually, however, he is going to need to internalize what this relationship is teaching him and when he does, it will be over. (And the same for Sylvie, honestly - Loki has as much to teach her as she does him).

But learning healthy self-love, as opposed to stunted, conditional love, is what will allow Loki to keep letting go of the narcissism that has shaped his life until now and stunted every other relationship in his life. And that foundation is what will give him the potential to actually step into a more heroic role within the MCU going forward, with the more complex and nuanced understanding that people are just that - people. No one is perfectly virtuous and no one is purely evil, hero or villain.

Especially not Loki.

#loki #loki tv show #mcu #meta #essay #character analysis #sylvie #sylki #sylki discourse #sylki kiss #long text post

[queenvisaide-blog]

Hee hee, I like anti Sylki's tears

#pro sylki #sylki #sylki kiss #loki sylvie #sylvielaufeydottir #loki x sylvie #sylvie laufeydottir #sylvie #loki series #lokilaufeyson #loki marvel #loki odinson #mcu loki #loki laufeyson #tva loki #loki tv #loki

[absolutequeertrash]

#loki #loki season 2 #loki season two spoilers #loki s2e6 #lokius #so much queerbaiting #and so much sylki kiss backtracking

[lokiiied]

ngl i got so scared they were gonna make mobius a fucking white picket fence two kids and a loving wife…and then they gave us “single dad” mobius “wife is long gone” hmm you’re really my friend? okay i ain’t arguing with a tall, handsome, dark haired stranger guess i’ll just follow you anywhere.

and then i was happy bc sylvie is so happy in her life!! by herself!!

and THEN i got so scared when loki & sylvie went for a drink and i was like alright here we go…and then i got “of course i know you. your friends are where they’re supposed to be. we’re writing our own stories. write your own.” and “i want my friends. i don’t want to be alone”

and then i was happy again bc she left to go listen to records!! and the record shop guy is cute! maybe she thought so. maybe not! she’s just vibing!!

and then i got, “it’s about who” while staring right at mobius.

what a fucking rollercoaster.

#i genuinely dont know what to expect next ep #like they could very much still turn around and be like ‘here’s sylki again!!’ #BUT they could ALSO very much make the gays happy #like they don’t even have to make them kiss yet just don’t give me sylki #let loki choose mobius and let mobius choose him they are SO CLOSE #to fixing this #please please please #ill be so good i swear i promise i’ll never complain again #loki season 2 #loki spoilers #loki #mobius #lokius #anti sylki #sylvie

[kamwashere]

natalie holt i could kiss you in the mouth

#THIS PLUS THE SY*KI KISS NOT EVEN MAKING IT TO THE RECAP IN THE FINALE #AND BASICALLY GETTING RETCONNED EVERYTIME LOKI WOULD TIMESLIP #I LOVE WINNING #anti sylki #lokius #loki laufeyson #sylvie laufeydottir #loki series #mcu #kamwashere

[spam-eater]

​if queerbaiting is one of those comically-large-box-propped-up-on-a-stick traps then I’m just sitting underneath it. Like I’m fully aware that the stick is gonna fall at any moment and I’m just like. Chillin. In a way

#loki season 2 #lokius #loki #I haven’t really seen ppl talking about it lately but like sylkie frightens me #clones. not into clones kissing.

[odins-sonofmischief]

I just want you to be okay.

#loki #loki series #lokiedit #lokitvedit #sylvie #sylvieedit #sylki #sylkiedit #loki x sylvie #dailyloki #marveledit #marvelgifs #marvel #mcu #2x06 #I kinda love how we got to see this scene from a different angle #(wish we'd seen the whole scene and kiss too tho) #loki spoilers #myedit

[villainboygirl]

#loki #loki tv show #sylkie #sylvie laufeydottir #goodomens #good omens #good omens season 2 #our flag means death #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmd #kiss #meme #ship #steddie #stede bonnet #ed teach #edtech #aziraphale #aziracrow #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable heartbreak #neilgaiman #neil gaiman #love #good omens 2 #marvel mcu #fandom ships #lgbtq #go season 2 spoilers

[textsfromthetva]

#He Who Remains #Loki #Sylvie #Sylki #but also pretty anti Sylki you know how it is #sylki kiss #Loki series #MCU #Loki memes #lokiedit #texts from last night

[catwouthats]

Loki: It’s hard being polyamorous. My girlfriend left to another timeline and my boyfriend doesn’t even live in a timeline :(

Sylvie: We broke up the moment I kicked you through the time door…

Mobius: You have a boyfriend??

#Mobius would have no idea they were dating #he would literally kiss him and he’d be like #ahhhh but he doesn’t like me like I like him #yes I’m fine with both ships #technically I ship lokius a little more #but sylki is fine #sylki #lokius #loki season two #loki series #incorrect quotes

[nightfurycyare]

"Please...Don't Go"

something i drew from the trailers, i wonder if this scene will happen in episode 5

please dont repost my art ty :)

#sylki #sylvie laufeydottir #sylvie #loki series #loki season 2 #loki #loki laufeyson #digital drawing #photoshop #i need them to kiss again so badly

[shivieroy]

sis was STARVING 😭

#my top 3 favorite scenes she just looks so in love here #we know you wanted to kiss him bae #sylvie #loki #sylki

[feral-sylki]

I am. so not over how fucking tender the little moment when Sylvie realises Loki thinks he’s going to have to kill her is. Like. Her voice, the delivery on the line, “So you . . . have to kill me,” because she knows, knows how it eats at him. The way she walks to him, the way she looks at him. She loves him, in her way, and feels sorry for him. But “I’m not giving you my blessing,” she says, one part tender and two parts bitter “if that’s what you’re waiting for.” Because as bad as she feels for him, she wants to live. And she’s furious at the idea that all she’s fought for comes to this. But if she can’t live, she’ll die fighting. And then Loki begs “what do I do?” because ultimately, he cannot kill her. Standing before her, he knows that. This is Sylvie. He can’t, but more importantly, he won’t. This moment, the tension, the acting, the heart rending stakes, all coming down to this really fucking powerful scene between them that took my breath away

#loki #loki season 2 #loki spoilers #sylvie laufeydottir #sylki #pro sylki #we didn’t get a kiss we got soul shredding scenes that had me on the edge of my seat huh

[erenfox]

people.

Loki Season 2.

Episode 2.

Is finally here.

IT'S FINALLY HERE SKFAJDHJSJAJSJEJA-

spoiler alert 🚨

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First off... Where do I begin? The whole mission in this episode is finding Sylvie and it's really funny seeing Loki act like a lovesick puppy lmao (go cry antis). I find it hilarious how B-15 and OB are basically shouldering the whole multiverse at this point; that's tough!

Now let's talk about the whole scene with Loki and Mobius interrogating Brad Wolfe. When Loki got all personal and snarled "Where is Sylvie?" I felt literal chills man. LITERAL. CHILLS. Like, Loki, sir, calm down, you'll kill us all- And the way Mobius slapped some sense into Brad - perfection.

Sylvie. Sylvie working at the McDonald's with the badass haircut, and hers and Loki's reactions on seeing each other - chef's kiss. I absolutely LOVED the way they communicated; the slow burn love IS KILLING ME HELP-

AND THEY HELD HANDS! I mean, ok, it was for magical purposes only (ahem, ahem) but still, you can't convince my fangirling dumbass that they didn't like it! It was really sad seeing her go away tho, our lover boy was almost in tears... I REALLY HOPE THEY GET TOGETHER SOON PLEASE MARVEL AAAAH-

Ahem. Well that's about it. THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE, THO I WISH IT WAS LONGER!

#sylki #loki #loki laufeyson #loki season 2 #loki series #sylvie laufeydottir #sylvie #mobius #im screaming #im loving it #loki season two #brad wolfe #mcsylki #masterpiece #chefs kiss