#mobius can find the discarded list of potential baby names

[iamanartichoke]

Not gonna lie, though, I kinda love how Loki with a crush is like - he's so obvious about it? He didn't even try to hide it (except when Mobius called him out, which doesn't count); from showing off his magic (fireworks in the palm of his hand, come on) to coming up with an excuse to cuddle under a blanket (he looks so enormously pleased with things asdhjdksa) to generally sticking to her like glue, he just ... he met Sylvie and decided I like that one and it is now everyone's problem.

It just strikes me so much because I never would have expected Loki to behave that way. Like, in my fic, he denied he had a thing for Valkyrie for quite awhile and then, once he did realize it, he tried to ignore it and make it go away, which he would have kept on doing forever if she hadn't let him know she returned his feelings, and like - idk, I just always felt like Loki, as a generally intensely private person, would keep those types of feelings hidden. (Not to mention the inherent self-loathing which would contribute to his desire to keep it hidden, bc there's no possible way they would ever feel the same way about me, I am worthless, better to not make a fool of myself with these inconvenient, unrequited feelings.)

(This dynamic doesn't necessarily play out with Thor, in my many Thorki headcanons that often conflict with one another, but yknow, that's different.)

So, to me, Loki being about as subtle as something that is the opposite of subtle felt very unexpected and surprising but at the same time I think that's why I liked it? Because it's so endearing to me. Like, it's kinda cringe but who isn't cringe when it comes to a crush? And just, the way he looks at her, and hangs onto her words, and really just puts himself out there? Fucking adorable. Soft. It reveals a kind of innocence that he likely doesn't possess in literally any other way; there's still this hopeful innocence inherent in his pleased little smiles and his "she needs me" proclamations and just.

It makes me, honestly, want to write some crack-taken-seriously fic that's literally just about the cringey things I now imagine Loki-with-a-crush might do, given the opportunity:

- writing her 50 poems and agonizing over them until he selects one (1) that isn't too embarrassing and that's the one he gives to her

- laying around plucking fucking petals off of a flower (she loves me, she loves me not);

- blushing a lot

- wondering if their children will look more like him or her or some evenly balanced combination

That last one may be a bit much but I don't actually know what people typically do when they have a crush lmfao. I just imagine it all culminating in a scene where Sylvie is like, "Aw, you had a crush on me when we met? That's so embarrassing" and Loki being like "Sylvie we are married" lmao.

This has been a quality post.

#i'm not sure where i was going with this #except that loki with an obvious crush is something i didn't know i needed #until now #does really enjoying one character hopelessly crushing on the other count as shipping? #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #sylkie #loki + sylvie (platonic) #thor (bc it's fic so thor is there) will catch loki with his stupid flower petals #and will literally hurt himself laughing #in case anyone wondered #mobius can find the discarded list of potential baby names #and he'd just let it go unmentioned until one day he and loki are doing something unrelated #and mobius just says 'so - Emerson huh. do you have something against this child or' #and loki is so embarrassed but also he's like 'shut up MOBIUS' #anyway #loki series #loki series positive