#anyway if u ever hear me say i'm listening to born in the wrong era 'viking' music but in a more ironic and meta way than you ever could...

[tyrannuspitch]

i think part of the reason that one time travel AU (in which loki is a viking-age human trapped in the modern day) itches my brain so much is like. hmm. something about Story again. loki is in a mundane-ish world, living a "normal" "rational" life where he's shed almost all of his individual identity to survive, and he longs for a life which was in many ways objectively harder but still home. and he hates how the present caricaturises it, but he also puts it on a pedestal himself. but when he was in the past he was probably still not happy at all, knowing the character, and he was deeply religious and he aspired even closer to the myths because loki-the-person was a priest of loki-the-god... but now that he is in the present he can't see his religion the same way because he's so rapidly undergone the nihilism that science encroaching on the spiritual can inspire, and because nothing he does ever changes the time travel phenomenon trapping ppl in the modern day... but he ALSO thinks of norse pagans as His People and the christian-secular modern world as the enemy... but he was ALSO born into christianity and "saved" from it by odin... i'm getting away from the point here but. oh god it's so chewable. so many overlapping narratives of identity and narratives on which one bases one's identity. and he doesn't even know he's in a fanfiction of a movie adaptation of a comic adaptation of a myth!!! it's been like a year and i'm still gnawing on this like a bone

#there's something very inkheart about it somehow. idk i haven't read inkheart since i was 11 #anyway if u ever hear me say i'm listening to born in the wrong era 'viking' music but in a more ironic and meta way than you ever could... #this is what i'm talking about #space viking tag