#odin: malekith is alive and so is the aether actually

[worstloki]

Do y’all Loki apologists hate Thor or something and if so like why? Odin gaslit him too... Odin gaslit and girlbossed all of the nine realms lmao

Odin may have erased Hela and glorified/painted their past as more justified and peaceful than it was on Asgard but we're not shown him doing this to the other realms. for all we know he simply abandoned places like midgard because muspelheim and jotunheim still know Odin and hold grudges.

How to explain that specifically taking and raising Loki, Jotun, in a place that is explicitly xenophobic towards Jotuns would specifically be a specific thing pertaining to Loki which is a huge central thing shown in Thor 1 without calling you an idiot. Because it's not Thor's reaction to the lies that is important in Thor 3 even at the "end" of his "arc" in that film where he "realizes" the "truth" of their "history". But in Thor 1 Loki's is. It's a huge deal because it is literally King Laufey of Jotunheim, Loki's apparent biological father, that is the co-antagonist of the film and it is finding out he was not just adopted and lied to but was taken a political pawn and lost this use after finding out this fact, that drives the plot forward.

Thor is not shown finding out this truth. The other realms are not shown finding out any supposed truth about any supposed made-up history (I really doubt Odin cared to spread propaganda past Vanaheim tbh, but whatever).

Thor is not given false hope or misconceptions in gaining Asgard's throne because it is to be given to him. Thor has the support of loyal friends who will commit treason and die to save him. Thor, though also abused, was on the other end of things, where we're shown he is adored and given attention and is confident in his reckless decisions. Thor at the start of Thor 1 is loud and arrogant and brash and admittedly immature but part of that involves speaking over his brother in a way that wouldn't be short of abusive itself if it was long-standing, while Loki isn't shown arguing back or defending himself but shutting down and literally sinking into shadows until the vault scene where he finds out the truth of where he came from.

And Loki, admittedly, has a better grasp of how Asgard works. He finds out he's Jotun, that confirms he was taken at the end of the war, just like the Casket was. He asks why he was taken and upon being told he was an innocent child immediately knows that is not it. Knee-deep in Jotun blood, 'peaceful relations' are hardly that even now. He finds out he was adopted, he asks what purpose it was for. And he's right in saying there is one. He's constantly right about worst-case scenarios. (Compare that to Thor who is being dragged the opposite direction into calling Odin a wise king and superspendicular father. Because they were both abused, but Loki is the one who now must see himself as the monster that parents tell their children about at night.

"It all makes sense now. Why you favored Thor all these years."

And sure, don't take his word on this, it's his POV of things, of course it's skewed. Except he has yet to be wrong. Except Thor is the one shown with a weapon from the vault. Except Thor is the one who was chosen to be King. Except we see how Loki is treated and we see how he reacts.

Regardless, Loki feels, knows, that he was not treated equally to Thor, and if he was given the same opportunities he does not feel he was favoured the same way.

"Because no matter how much you claim to love me, you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the Throne of Asgard!"

Whether or not objective (again, it's Loki's POV, it's how he sees things, and Loki is GOOD at seeing things) the line expresses his opinion on the entire matter. I don't call it apologism to say that he was hurt and reacted. Since that's. Literally what happened. It's not an excuse to say he was mistreated and went mentally off the rails in trying to prove himself worthy or whatever else bc he was abused, but it's a compelling reason that makes sense imo that he would attribute this to w h y he was never worthy and then went through so much villainous effort to prove he still could be useful.

Thor does not understand what Loki speaks of when they argue on 'imagined slights' because he somehow missed that Loki was being mistreated. Genuine mistake, perhaps, but it left Loki in a position where he was getting treated as dirt whereas Thor was put on a pedestal. Both not great situations, and you can't compare abuse, but Loki was additionally shown having to deal with fallout of leaving the situation while Thor 2 was the last time Thor seriously got to reconsider his relation with Odin as a being other than perfect. That conflict and Thor leaving adds a neat layer of depth to Thor's character in my opinion, not unlike what Loki gained at the end of Thor 1.

I can't speak for everyone, and certainly not for apologists since I don't consider myself one, but I don't hate Thor. Loki's suffering is just. not his fault. I don't blame either of them for what position the other was in. But Loki's problems are, on top of everything, things he was born with. Things he can't change and shouldn't have to but still sees as bad.

Also, Thor's redemption arc is great on it's own but not, in my opinion, as fleshed out as Loki's downfall in the same movie. it's not something specific to his identity that he's overcoming because those we're shown on Asgard are also arrogant! they're also into fighting and violence and acting superior! that's standardized Asgardian values for you babey! it's behavioural and stuff Thor can and does attempt to move on from! and then Loki comes along and he's trying to live up to these expectations that he wasn't ever going to be able to live up to because of who he was because whether or not Asgardian-ness is considered Valid In A Given Situation is dependent on Odin! The system of Righteous Judgement is flawed! It's why I blame Odin and Frigga for everything rather than either Thor or Loki, even though I see Thor and Loki as also having an abusive dynamic going for them!

To me Thor as 'the hero who gains humility' is in huge part unique because it occurs at the perfect time for Loki to be fallout damage. (And vice versa with Loki's arc!). Because Thor and Loki act as foils (is that the word?) in Thor 1 and take each other's positions by the end of the film, because Thor learns something was wrong about himself before, he knows something is wrong with his brother right now, even if the entire morality-of-killing discussion has no real part in their discussion.

Thor's own arc through Thor 1-3 means he's genuinely trying to be better, he's just. still working on it. And struggling to acknowledge the past is bad for reasons is difficult bc they were indoctrinated and unlearning stuff is hard. But it CAN be interpreted that way and I love to do so, because Thor being smart but not being self aware until he stops and contemplates things properly is >>> and v/ heroic imo.

Odin gaslights and girlbosses everyone but he does so to Loki far more specifically and about Loki's own identity. Thor gets gatekept about how he's not the firstborn child AND how his brother is adopted and Jotun, Loki gets being the third child PLUS that he's a different species specifically one Asgard doesn't like PLUS a son of Laufey who is literally an enemy king PLUS that he was originally taken as a political token PLUS that being raised as a prince of Asgard with a right to the throne was a lie PLUS even though they raised him they see what he really is as a negative thing and probably intended never to tell him because of it. Loki's downfall is basically showcased lmao.

They were both abused but not in the same way, they were both lied to but I don't consider it equivalent, they're different characters in and of themselves, psychology is up to interpretation, etc.

So whether or not someone dislikes Thor is literally people's choice but I don't particularly hate him, no, though I feel you were being rude in the way you've asked.

I do hate the MCU though so jot that down. So much wasted potential smh.

tldr: yeah odin girlbossed the nine realms. loki was in those nine realms. odin also personally girlbossed loki on top of that. sure thor would get caught in that too since he's closest to loki BU T that's not a central part of his narrative in any film now is it. no, it just serves a temporary 'oh no! ...anyways, moving on so we can fix this' role while Loki's lies stick around.

#odin: loki is jotun actually #Loki: *sobbing* #odin: malekith is alive and so is the aether actually #Thor AND EVERYONE ELSE: *sobbing* #odin: hela is the oldest child actually #thor AND EVERYONE ELSE: *sobbing* #thor always has people on his side #he ALWAYS has support #EVEN WHEN HE LANDS ON EARTH WITH NOTHING BUT HIS NAME THE FIRST PEOPLE HE MEETS HELP HIM AND BECOME FRIENDS #when LOKI deals with problems it's alone #doesn't matter how pure hearted or delightful his intentions are he does things on his own #trusting people literally gets him nowhere lmao #when LOKI lands somewhere new WITH NOTHING BUT HIS NAME the (presumably) FIRST PEOPLE HE MEETS ARE THE OTHER/THANOS #YOU KNOW #THAT Other and Thanos #the ones that torture and threaten and the one that is the Big Bad of 3 phases that personally chokes him to death #YOU KNOW??? #wild #anyway #i don't hate thor #i just wish he hadn't been done so dirty later in the MCU #thor 1-thor 2 thor my beloved #etc. #because he's a jerk earlier but like. i dont hate him for it. he's literally a character??? the dismissive words add to who he was #this is wild #you know.

[blackypanther9]

Part 27 - Past 1

No one's POV....

You both went into the castle, as you arrived back. You and Loki started a race against each other to Frigga’s chamber, like the old times. You both laughed and tried to cheat. You won the race closely. You both catched your breath again, before, you knocked at the door.

"Come in.", Frigga’s voice said softly.

You opened the door slowly. Frigga turned around and smiled as she saw you both.

"Destiny ! Loki ! I am glad you are alright ! What do you need ?", she asked you.

"I wanted to ask if Loki can join us with the meditation... He needs to learn that.", you answered.

"You completed your lessons...", she said confused.

"I didn't. I know you and Odin try to hide something... You heard my name before... Did I... did I lived once before ?"

Frigga stared at you. She sighed and nodded.

"You were alive 2 times before. And I see that you don't remember anything.", she said.

"I would like to continue my lessons with you and Loki and... meditate so much and deep, until I have at least one flashback. Please Frigga. Help me.", you begged.

She looked at you both then sighed and nodded.

"Sit down on my bed. We start.", she told.

"Does Loki need magic for this ?", you asked.

"No. I will use the magic with you. Loki doesn't need his own."

"Okay..."

"You know how it works."

You nodded. Loki sat on your right and Frigga on your left. You took Friggas hand and Lokis.

"Close your eyes Loki and think about nothing. Let yourself fall into the darkness, it will show light, once you landed.", you instructed.

He did as you told him and Frigga and you closed your own eyes. Everything went black.

Your POV....

'Darkness....that's the first and last thing I saw and knew. It was dark and I felt cold. Where am I ?'

I heard myself.

"Did you hear that too ?", Loki asked.

"Yes I did.", Frigga said.

"Me too.", I told them.

I heard muffled voices. They slowly became clearer.

"....every time.", I heard someone say.

"Of course I can ! It wouldn't be fun, if I can't do mischievous things around here. It's my nature.", I heard myself.

"Dest...Some day the Allfather will throw you into the dungeons, if you don't stop..."

"Jackson... I know what I am doing and besides... he wouldn't do that, because I am the best General here. A little of Mischief won't kill them."

I saw images now. I saw myself and a very young man talking to each other.

"I hope the Dark Elves will keep the truce now...", Jackson said.

"I hope so too."

"It was a good strategy to kill them and save us. We and the Allfather should have listened to you..."

"It's okay. Everyone makes mistakes. Besides I was actually just a guard, King Bor did everything right."

"We still feel bad... we could have avoided it..."

"Like I said, King Bor and the rest of you did everything right. You can't just trust some newbie guard, who only caused Mischief in the castle. It was fine. I needed to prove myself, to be worthy your trust, even if I am one for Mischief."

The man smiled.

"When I am out of this level and I become a guard, then I wanna be like you. You aren't just my friend, you are like a sister to me sometimes."

"But now you still are just a Newbie ! And that means you follow my orders, care for my horse and polish my armor. And now I tell you something..."

"What ?"

"Polish my helmet and you are free to go for the rest of the day, Jackson.", I told him.

"Oh man... I just did it the day before yesterday !"

"Welp ! Polish it again ! It is dirty like hell knows ! I had a fight today. Be glad I don't let you polish the rest of my armor. Now...shoo, shoo, Newbie ! Make my helmet shiny !"

He walked off, mumbling something, but he was smiling.

The pictures changed and I was in Jotunheim. I saw a little Frost Giant and then somebody with Loki’s helmet on. Playing with the little one.

"C'mon ! You can do better ! And now...Show me all you got, my bull !", the Frost Giant boy said excited.

"As you wish, prince Laufey.", I heard myself say.

My past me ran at him and he dodged my horns.

"Ole !", he yelled happily.

My past me laughed.

"You are so funny sometimes.", I said.

"Says the one who has horns like a goat !", he laughed.

"Hey ! This helmet is special to me !", I defended myself.

"I know ! I know ! Whoever can wear your helmet too, is your future. Your lover forever. He is the chosen one, who you will give your love and heart to. The person to share secrets and knowledge with.", Laufey sighed.

"What's wrong little one ?"

"I wish I was that person..."

"Oh Laufey ! I am too old for you. You are 5 years old and I am 404. That would never work.", I laughed.

He giggled too. Then he stopped.

"What about the Dark Elves ? Are they planning a war again ?"

"I don't know, Laufey. We didn't hear anything."

Another images appeared. I laid on my bed and rested. Suddenly the door flew open.

"General Destiny !", Jackson screamed.

"What is it now ?", I asked bored.

"The Dark Elves are planning something big ! Malekith wants to destroy us in 3 days !! He has a weapon called the Aether !"

"What ?! In 3 days is the Convergence !"

"What do we do ?!"

"Take these 3 days to train, nonstop ! We need to be prepared for it ! GO, GO, GO !!"

He nodded and ran out.

The pictures changed again. We were in war against the Dark Elves.

"Destiny, what shall we do ?", Bor asked.

"I...I don't really know... I am not sure what the Aether can do and Malekith has planned... All I know is that we can't show mercy. We will kill every Dark Elf, who comes near us.", I answered.

"I protect your back, if you protect mine, General Dust.", Jackson told.

My past me smiled at him and nodded.

"It's a deal then.", we both said.

"Well...let's make this work.", Bor said.

And with that we all ran into the Dark Elves. We killed and got killed. It was a bloodbath. I saw Malekith and the keeper of the Aether. I saw 4 of our man.

"Hey you ! You 4 ! Get up there and make Malekith busy ! Don't die ! Go, Go, GO !!!", I told them.

They nodded and made their way there. I looked around and saw Jackson in trouble. I threw a dagger in this Dark Elf and Jackson turned around. He saw the Dark Elf and then looked at me.

"Thanks !", he yelled.

"Keep fighting !", I yelled back.

He did as I told and I ran up to Bor.

"My King ! Tell Heimdall, our Gatekeeper, that he needs to look through my eyes, the whole time. As soon as he sees a chance to get the Aether... he opens the Bifrost and teleports the Aether away as fast as he can ! It's our only chance !", I said.

"He knows !", he said after 10 seconds.

I nodded and teleported away. The guards were there, keeping Malekith and 3 other Dark Elves busy. I stayed in the shadows and as Malekith killed the last guard the Bifrost opened. Malekith ran to it, but I jumped out and fought against him, until the Aether was gone. He was finished. I looked around and saw Jackson in bad trouble. Behind and in front of him were Dark Elves, ready to stab him down to the same time. I teleported there and pushed him away, just in time,  as they moved their swords in light speed, inside me. I let out an energy blast and killed them, after that I broke down.

"Destiny !", Jackson yelled shocked.

"I am...fine....", I said.

"Here let me pull them out !", he came closer and wanted to start.

"No ! I will bleed out then ! Let them inside me. Maybe I can make it to the healing wing and survive."

He backed away.

"Okay..."

I slowly stood up and walked away. Bor wanted me on a horse, but I would have fallen asleep, without moving myself and would have never awoken again. We all made it into the castle, after that I fell down to the ground and into the darkness.

"DESTINY !!", was all I heard muffled.

The pictures changed again. I was in a big room with a few corpses.

My past me sat up and looked at itself. I looked the same. I looked around and saw my old dead, too damaged, body. I had a new one and snickered. I stood up and turned invisible. I went down some corridors and stopped at a door, opened it and went through it. On a bed sat Jackson with the helmet of Loki. He cried and polished it. I flew behind his figure and almost touched his shoulder. I looked over it, turned myself visible and smiled. I whispered in his ear...

"Why are you crying my friend ?"

"D-Destiny is d-dead... It's all my fault ! I should have watched out more !"

"My friend... I am right here. I am alive and healthy. No need to cry."

He turned around and saw me. He put the helmet on the bed and threw his arms around me. He hugged my tightly.

"You are alive ! You are real ! I can't believe it !", he said happily.

"Yeah...well let's annoy the others and tell them the bad news, that I still am alive. Guess nobody would have missed me much...", I told and chuckled.

"Bullcrap ! They all shared tears as they knew that you won't awaken ever again. Even King Bor and Prince Odin. He hoped you would survive."

I pulled out a picture of him, Frigga, Bor and me. I smiled.

"And I thought he hated me, because I always tricked and annoyed him first."

"No. He even wanted to keep your dead body in honor. He didn't want it to burn away or something."

"Still Odin I see.", I giggled.

"Let's cause us a little, painless Mischief. What do you think ? In the end they are all in the throne room.", I said.

He groaned playfully.

"You and your stupid natural Mischief part.", he said.

I laughed and we started. Some weapons were now at somebody elses room, some food was stolen and laid somewhere else. Some armor got destroyed or stolen. And in the end we all laughed, as they found out in the throne room, that it was me and I am still alive.

The pictures changed another time....

Part 28

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The Patience of Angels (Good Omens)

“Right,” shouted Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies and Prince of the First Circle of Hell, “shut up, you lot!”

The rabble quieted down, but not without trouble – Hastur had to set a few unruly demons on fire before Beelzebub could finally make themself heard without screaming. They settled into the chair at the head of the long, long table, with Hastur at one elbow and Dagon at the other, and surveyed the assembled with resigned disgust (which was the most neutral emotion Beelzebub could summon).

Every demon with any scrap of authority was there, every prince and duke and a bunch of other ranks besides, by Satan's own order. Except for Satan himself, of course. He hadn’t been to a board meeting in a year, which wasn’t like him – he usually at least came to the once-a-year all-staff meetings. But the boss was still sulking and licking his wounds after that business in Tadfield. Beelzebub supposed he had the right to sulk; after all, six thousand years of planning had been flushed straight down the toilet, all because of one disobedient brat.

There was something marvelously poetic in that, somewhere, but Lord Beelzebub did not possess a poet’s soul. (Though they had possessed a few poets, over the centuries, but they hadn’t picked up much in the way of insight.)

Sideways (MCU, Stoki)

Loki was not expecting to see Captain Rogers again – vastly preferred not to see him again, in fact, along with the rest of the Avengers – and when he did, the first thing he thought was that wasn’t sure about the new beard.

Thankfully, Captain Rogers couldn’t see him, so he didn’t have to concern himself with the captain’s feelings on the matter.

In theory, the less Loki had to see or hear or be aware of Earth, the better. In practice, he'd learned enough about humans to realize that it was at least prudent to keep tabs on Midgard and its infuriatingly stubborn inhabitants. Unlike Odin (not quite late, not quite lamented, safely and comfortably sequestered away in the most inconvenient corner of the palace dungeons), Loki did not have the ability to see and hear all things within the Nine Realms, so he’d had to take the Gatekeeper into his confidence.

Heimdall was... he wasn’t entirely sure what Heimdall’s opinion on the matter of Loki pretending to be Odin was. He recalled the first time he took the throne—

‘Took.’ It was given to me, justly, by Asgard’s own laws of succession and by order of... the queen.

—when Heimdall obeyed his commands up until the moment Loki relieved him of his duties. He knew better than to make the same mistake twice; Heimdall had guarded the Bifrost for longer than Loki had been alive, and he’d learned a thing or two about the watcher’s loyalties. With the true king alive but incapacitated and Thor having abjured the title, who was there left to be king, save Loki?

And it clearly didn’t matter to Heimdall that Loki was technically supposed to be dead.

Upon the Mountains, Like a Flame: Chapter 10 (MCU)

"Are you truly going to prevent Loki from using his magic to defend himself?"

"I have said that I will. It is the only possible way of ensuring a fair fight, especially if Loki and Sigyn are to face Theoric together. Unless you wish to make it that easy for Loki to defeat him. His power has grown--"

"No," said Frigga, "he hasn't." She sounded tired. "He had help. From whom or who, I know not, but I do know the scope of our son's power."

Odin stopped his disgruntled pacing and turned to face her, and suddenly Frigga felt very cold. "Are you certain? We have never been entirely sure what manner of power to expect from one of his... lineage."

"If Loki had learned by nature how to shield his appearance and his identity from us both, he would have used it – and crowed about it – long before now. As it is, he can transform himself into any number of animals in order to bedevil his brother, but we always know it is him. And before you ask again," she continued, "no, Sigyn did not help him. This manner of magic does not belong to her."

Odin conceded that point, at least. "Sigyn's preference would have been to slip away from Asgard between dawn and morning and never look back. And you would not have been able to find her, I think, any more than I would have. And yet... she stayed."

"For Loki."

"For love of him," Odin sighed, feeling old, as he had when Loki had pleaded for Sigyn's hand in marriage. "They make a frightening pair, those two.

The Art of Weaving (Sequel to “The Art of Spinning”) (MCU)

“He lacks compassion.”

“Lacks...” Thor stopped dead in his tracks. “Father, he spent a month caring for Mother and wouldn’t leave her side even when I wanted him to come to Svartalfheim with me. He helped me free Jane from the Aether and find a way to defeat Malekith that saved the last of the Dark Elves from slaughter, when you and I would have gladly let them all die.”

“And what has been the result of those good deeds? A long-dead race returned to the Nine Realms, upsetting the balance of power even further, and my heir abandoning his birthright to waste the next century in the company of a woman who will be gone in a blink.”

Thor remembered his brother’s parting words, the tight, sorrowful embrace, and the lock of hair Loki had given him. “He gave up his chance for freedom. He accepted responsibility for his crimes, even though we know now that he was being manipulated. What more would you have from him?”

“Nothing. I am grateful to have my youngest son back. But I would have my eldest reclaim his place as well.”

But Thor shook his head, and stepped away from his father’s fond hand. “I can never be the king you want. Loki can. He is like you in ways that I am not.”

Odin went suddenly still. “What do you mean?”

“I lack your ruthlessness.”

L'éternité de la damnation, l'infinité de la jouissance (Crimson Peak)

It had been two years. Two years of independence and travel and writing and of seeing the world. Her life would never be normal again, but at least now it felt charmed instead of cursed. At least during the day.

At night, she still dreamed of red-soaked white nightdresses, and of Lucille Sharpe haunting the crumbling halls of Allerdale. She woke with the taste of blood in her mouth, and visions of Thomas screaming in hell.

She didn’t know if he deserved that. He had done terrible things, but how many had been of his own choosing? He had not been a good man, but he had so desperately wanted to be.

Demon in My View (Good Omens)

Normally, Aziraphale was loath to part with any of the books in his collection – though he was not above going against his own grain for people whom he knew would love and cherish the tomes almost as much as he himself did – but in this case, he was delighted to make an exception.

"No charge. No, I absolutely insist. After all, my dear boy, they were meant to be yours."

Adam thanked him politely, and then asked, "Do you still have that wicked flaming sword?"

Aziraphale winced a touch at the adjective but let it pass. "No, no, I'm afraid not. I was required to give it back."

"That's not fair. It was yours, Crowley said it was. And you did help save the world with it. They should give it back to you."

"Well, perhaps they will, one day."

And His Feet Were Made of Clay (Good Omens)

The bookshop of A.Z. Fell was closed. It was the middle of the day and every shop surrounding it was open for business, but most passersby didn't seem to notice the bookshop, and the ones who did weren't surprised that it was closed. In fact, if you examined the diaries of London citizens going back to eighteen hundred, you would find countless entries complaining about the fact that Mr. Fell and Co. (Aziraphale had added the 'Co.' in the eighteen-forties, when he realized he needed to start pretending to be his own son.) never seemed to be open, and that when they were, the very nice gentleman inside was always curiously reluctant to actually sell you anything.

The thing that Aziraphale had always liked most about his corporation was that it looked human. It lacked basic human needs and drives, but it could simulate and perform those functions with perfect adequacy, and really, that was beside the point, because it looked human. It looked unique, the way humans did. Looked like God the way humans did, and the way angels most emphatically did not. Angels had been created by the Almighty with a variety of ineffable functions in mind, and what they looked like when they weren't cramming all their eyes and wings and wheels into a chunky bipedal casing with odors and fluids reflected those functions.

Humans, as near as Aziraphale had been able to figure out in six thousand years of watching, had no preordained function. God had made them because they were fun and that was enough, and he rather liked that about them. Envied that about then, even. (Envy wasn't something he was supposed to admit to, but he lied to himself about so many other things that he simply couldn't have this one on his conscience.)

Although if they did have a function, he was convinced that they existed for the sole purpose of making more of themselves.

A Pause From Thinking (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

“Doctor, I appreciate the courtesy call, but it this is some sort of human mourning ritual, I’m really not interested.”

"I didn't think you'd be interested in mourning. I just thought you might want some company. A loss is a loss, after all." Julian poured out the whiskey and handed Garak a glass. "Here's to terrible fathers."

Lots of Rules and No Mercy (sequel to “I Say, Why Not?”) (Tron) 

It was about a month after Alan was first able to communicate with his security program that Tron made the request—not out of any doubt in his user's abilities, but out of respect for the human he looked to as both creator and guardian angel.

"His name was Ram," said Tron, the words appearing on the screen beneath his angularly-rendered face, his voice coming through the headphones like an echo of Alan's own voice. "We were in the MCP's holding cells together for a while. He was just an actuarial program, but he was good at the games and..." The blocky, pixelated face didn't convey one-tenth of the emotion Alan was sure he could hear in the program's tight, gruff voice. "He was a good friend."

"I'm sorry." Alan felt silly, even after a month, apologizing and offering sympathy for the erasure of a program. He was a software engineer after all—he'd been writing and rewriting and erasing programs since high school. It had never been that big of a deal before. "I'm sorry, Tron."

Tron seemed to gather himself together. "Alan. Can you resurrect him?"

Alan stared at the face on the screen, unsure of what to say. He knew Tron couldn't see him or his expression of dumbfounded shock, but the silence said enough. "Forgive me," Tron murmured, seeming to bow his head in the way that made Alan the most uncomfortable. "It was impertinent of me, I shouldn't have asked—"

"It's not that," Alan blurted out. "It's just—I wouldn't know where to start," he added, trying to ignore the uneasy thrill of his creation's simple faith in him.

The Goblin Emperor’s Garden (The Goblin Emperor)

It became Maia’s habit, following the drama of his first Winternight as emperor of the Elflands, and once his wife-to-be decided that he no longer needed quite so many dancing lessons, to hold small intimate suppers one evening a week in his private dining room in the Alcethmeret. Sometimes he entertained several people, sometimes only a few, but nearly every week, Csethiro Ceredin was at the table.

If it was only the two of them at supper, she sat opposite him, where he had the privilege of listening to her speak until the small hours of the morning on all manner of topics, while he forgot about his meal and tried not to drown in her brilliant blue eyes. If there were others at table, she sat at his right, and though she had other social obligations on such evenings, it was worth it to Maia, to be able to sometimes, quickly and surreptitiously and not always entirely secretly, squeeze her hand under the embroidered tablecloth.

His secretary and all of his nohecharei always noticed, and he suspected that they desperately wanted to tease him about it. His nephew Prince Idra also always seemed to notice, and as he and Maia grew closer, Idra did not hesitate to tease him.

“You should be careful,” Csethiro playfully warned the prince, one night after the rest of the guests had taken their leave and the three of them were alone at table, lingering over dessert. “For someday your uncle will find you a wife, and you will make just such a fool of yourself, and he will be as shameless in laughing at you.”

Idra and Maia both blushed, stamping their utterly dissimilar features with a moment of family resemblance. “If I am so fortunate as to someday have such a wife as to be worth making a fool of myself over,” said Idra, half-bold and half-shy, as only a fourteen-year-old boy could be, “I should thank my uncle profusely for his choice, and not mind the teasing.”

“Well spoken, cousin,” Maia said gratefully.

#gaslight blogs about fic #first line meme #good omens #mcu #space vikings #star trek deep space nine #crimson peak #the goblin emperor #tron

[shieldedsouls]

this largely covers information in terms of thor learning of and dealing with loki’s mortality. mostly this has to do with thor’s perception of their relationship, but touches on his relationship with frigga as well as her assumed death.

tw for: death, death mention, faked death, anger issues

please message in private if i missed something or you need an extra tag !!

aside from a couple of groups such as the asgardians and olympians, there really aren’t any immortals within the nine realms

jotunns are part of the mortal stock, and i’ll get back to this in the next segment

thor and loki are raised believing they are of the same blood, that they are siblings in every way and they therefore both have eternity to see through together

while it does not go unnoticed that loki sort of ages and grows differently, no one in their group thought much of it beyond general teasing

it DID make thor more protective of his sibling than he might have otherwise been, which really pulls together on how much he still cares in the future after things go wrong

even when he does first find out about loki’s heritage, he’s more angry about the fact they were lied to and trying to calm his sibling down than he is focused on what exactly that means for loki’s lifespan

thor is dealing with so much else happening at the same time that he doesn’t have the ability to process this until much later on.

it isn’t for some time after loki’s fall from the broken bifrost that thor really mourns that his sibling is gone, that he won’t be getting loki back because mortals simply do not pass in the same way immortals can choose to. as far as thor knows, that moment is it, that’s the last time he’s ever going to have a sense of his sibling being around.

then loki shows up again, in midgard of all places, and with a dangerous weapon but something is off about the whole thing and thor is going to find out what so he can bring loki home. loki does a bunch of really shitty/stupid things here, but ultimately he’s unharmed as far as thor is personally concerned, and he’s able to successfully bring his sibling back to asgard in one piece without a terrifyingly heavy reminder loki will still die one day

then loki is imprisoned, and that turns into a sort of new status quo. when thor isn’t off cleaning up messes in the nine, he is trying to get loki’s sentence changed, or trying to visit ( often being blocked permission one way or another by odin ), though he doesn’t have the chance to do either as much as he would like.

when malekith shows up, thor is already trying to deal with protecting jane and figuring out what to do with the aether

frigga actually does a huge amount of emotional damage to him at this point, using an illusion of herself and jane to distract malekith and keep the aether away from him

thor doesn’t find this out until much later, and his grief is very raw and real as he’s spending time thinking she chose to pass on in order to protect jane and the nine

this is why he ultimately still goes to loki and breaks him out

despite them both being very fragile in a lot of ways because of frigga’s decision, thor appreciates getting his sibling out of the damned cell and giving loki an opportunity to prove themself, a chance to protect the nine like thor has always thought they were meant to: together

the plan of apparent treachery goes off beautifully and jane is safe, but thor gets thrown about a bit more than he had expected to

he doesn’t get a chance to tell loki to run before his sibling is being killed by the same person who seemingly killed their mother and thor cannot handle that much loss in such a short time

literally the only reason he gets up and doesn’t absolutely fall apart at this point is because he has to stop malekith, he has to protect the nine to the best of his abilities, or his family’s sacrifices will mean nothing and he can’t disappoint their memories like that

by the time the whole problem with the aether is wrapped up, thor is quietly carrying his grief and realises in that moment he cannot accept becoming king, not for a very long time at least, because all he sees in this set of experiences is where he failed to protect. his only duty up to this point is to protect and defend the nine and its inhabitants, and not being able to save his mother or sibling shakes him to the core so vividly that continuing to protect others is all that will hold him together.

so when odin ( coughdisguisedlokicough ) offers the throne, he can’t accept it. thor feels this desperate need to make up for not being able to do enough for his family, and he retreats into his duties again, buries himself and his pain in saving others, because if he doesn’t, all he’ll want to do is mourn.

when thor finally does find out/realise frigga and loki are both alive, though both hiding in very different ways, he is angry. angry with them for lying, for leaving, and in many ways he handles both situations like a petulant child would.

he throws a fit with frigga, complete with tears and “ how could you do this to our people, to father, to loki and me ” because she’s one of the only things both he and loki care about in equal measure in the entirety of existence

it’s very purposeful to include loki in every mention of himself, because as far as he’s concerned, frigga truly sees them as siblings still the same way he does

he does not do this in public however

this happens in private where she’s been hiding on midgard, resting and recovering from extensive use of her magic

and she ends it with a promise to return home eventually

with loki he exposes the lies with threat of bodily harm and somewhat childish “ yes you are/no i’m not ” kind of banter, outing him in front of everyone

he keeps frigga’s living a secret, tells loki when they are alone because his sibling deserves to know but he won’t reveal her to all of asgard without her being ready to return home to back it up

as for the future, and how thor could or would handle loki dying: he can’t. Straight up, end of story, cannot deal with the fact he is going to one day lose his sibling and it will be real and painful.

every illusion gets him every single time, because thor stops processing beyond oh my stars loki is dead that’s my baby sibling and i couldn’t protect them even though he knows loki cannot live forever

loki might seem to be playing it as a game, and maybe to them it is, but thor’s reactions are always genuine and raw for this reason

he tries very hard to internalise his grief the way he can with most other things, but it has always been different when it comes to loki

and when it comes down to it, there are so many possibilities of how loki is going to pass. It could be in front of him, in battle, of sickness, they could be realms apart; anything could happen, and the thought always terrifies thor

if loki actually dies and it’s in battle, the first thing thor is going to do is beg them to stand up and reveal it as an illusion 

that the fight is over and they’re okay they can get up now, that he won’t even get mad this time

the more gruesome/scarring the death, the more hysterically thor responds

thor holding his sibling’s body and literally crying for hours

electricity gathering in the air around them, storms rolling in that are the worst the region/world has seen and he just stays there cradling loki and apologising for not being able to keep them safe

if loki dies from illness or simple old age, thor is there the entire time and is helping them do even the most basic of tasks in hopes that the saving of energy will keep his sibling alive just a little longer

thor taking every jibe and mean word without trying to argue back because he’s just glad loki is still talking at that point

he still cries, so much, because losing his sibling was never going to not hurt

thor making sure to get loki a proper funeral on asgard, the way all their people are supposed to be honored

to welcome them home one last time, to have asgard see his sibling

and never in all his life will thor wish he could follow someone to whatever comes after death, mortal or immortal

#death tw #death mention tw #faked death tw #anger issues tw #( in the storm | headcanons | thor ) #[ there's a lot to their relationship #and its Complicated ] #[ but thor really and truly loves loki #to the very core he does ] #( assembled anthology | all headcanons )

[bereft-of-frogs]

The fic I’d like to see from you is a fic I can’t believe I haven’t seen yet and think you’d be the best fit for. “Dark World” where Loki gets still very stabbed but not quite as stabbed, so he’s super injured but isn’t dying, but they can’t go back to Asgard and Malekith has the aether and there’s a dust storm rolling it. Very whumped Loki with Thor and Jane he just saved and also the world is maybe ending and if it doesn’t he probably has to go back to jail. (Wait, can this be both memes?)

It can certainly be both. When I posted them both I was like ‘oh these are completely different, these will totally be AUs I won’t write, this is just for fun.’

Look at us now. Even the Harry Potter AU I’m like...dang I could write this though.

(Also reiterating: if anyone wants to write anything based on these headcanon AUs, please feel free, and please tag me in it so I can read them.   : D )

So, okay, Loki getting stabbed but not dying.

CW for the description of injuries

First off, I am probably going to write the one from last night - at least a small snippet - where Frigga is captured instead of killed so when Loki is wounded she’s there to take care of them. But a more canon-compliant AU, where Frigga is still dead and it’s just the three of them alone. (Also warning, I’ve seen Dark World...maybe twice? So I might be wrong on some canon stuff, I’m going off of what I see in gifsets and what I read on the wiki and in other people’s fics...):

- Loki’s injuries: so I’ve seen it going around that the reason for the black veins/ grey skin is some kind of poison on the blade, so if there’s no poison on the blade he probably doesn’t die right away. But he’s bleeding a lot, and he’s got a collapsed lung. He’s having a lot of trouble breathing, he’s in an insane amount of pain, and is convinced he’s dying. Cue the desperate apologies and deathbed confessions. At least until he’s too out of breath to talk.

- I like to headcanon that both Thor and Jane have some form of first aid training. Thor is more of field medic and Jane is more Wilderness First Aid (if you’re living in small-town New Mexico and studying astronomy, I’d imagine there’s some hiking to be done to find good stargazing spots and WFA are always good skills to have if you’re hiking in remote locations.) Between the two of them they at least can get Loki stable enough to be moved, but his condition is rapidly deteriorating. They don’t have any equipment, but at least manage to control the bleeding a bit and get him to the shelter of the cave.

- so Thor is feeling...pretty shitty about all of this. Wracked with guilt over being the one who took Loki out of his cell, where he was at least safe, being the one that Loki was hurt trying to save. Loki wakes up a bit and is like ‘it’s okay, did you really think I was going back to jail?’ and they have this horribly sad conversation about death being just another kind of freedom while Thor begs him not to let go.

- while this sob-fest is going on, Jane stumbles across an opening in the back of the cave - one that leads back to Earth. So Thor bundles Loki up again and they make it back to Earth and find Selvig who is like ‘nope nope nope, Loki’s back, don’t like this’ but they’re like ‘cool, Loki is also dying, so it’s fine.’ Selvig’s house at least has some supplies, so they’re able to at least stop more air from entering the chest cavity. (There’s this special type of dressing called an ‘occlusive dressing’ that’s coated in a wax that creates a seal over the wound so no more air can get in. Fun fact.) He’s still not doing so hot and probably needs surgery but there’s nothing to be done, they’ve still got to defeat Malekith. So they kind of bundle him in Selvig’s bed and hope he survives while they go off to end the fight.

- they do and Thor returns to find Loki thankfully still alive but unconscious and fading fast. Thor’s accepted he’s not going back to Asgard since that will find them both in a cell, or worse, but he needs help so instead he turns to SHIELD - but oops SHIELD is actually HYDRA and while they save Loki’s life they trick them and imprison them in the base in Sokovia and voilà more whump as they’re interrogated and experimented on (and who are these other two locked up in this dingy basement?) while Jane desperately looks for them and finds no trace and Sif comes down to look for them and finds no trace...

- but then Asgard does finally find them and basically threatens war on Earth if they are not returned because Odin goes into Protective Dad mode when he sees what’s being done to them and HYDRA all falls apart and Winter Soldier/Age of Ultron shake out a little differently.

(that got a bit away from me there at the end)

(basically the third act of The Dark World is where I start to lose memories of the plot. Somehow they get back to Earth? Somehow Malekith is defeated? How does this fit in with Winter Soldier? I don’t know. I’ll figure it out later.)

(Yes I ended up on PubMed this morning don’t @ me)

(If I write this you know for sure I’ll be reading a bunch of thoracic impalement trauma articles in prep because I’m just that extra)

(The problem with this is I kept being like ‘well for this injury I would do this’ and keep remembering they don’t have a fully stocked ambulance of things they would need to treat this.)

(Yup, fun fact about me, this is how I made money while I was in undergrad and thought I was going to med school, I got my EMT license at 18 and worked on an ambulance during the summers, and was a clinical research assistant in an emergency department.)

(I went into academics instead which obviously is working out...just super...)

(I’m kidding, I really like my death studies/history of medicine degree, I would just also like it if I had a job.) 

Thanks for asking!

I have...so many AU ideas now. so many. I am out of control. It’s bananas over here.

#i don't know why i keep ending up on 'captured and experimented on' but here we are #purveyor of AUs #ask meme #chest injury cw #Anonymous

[storiesofwildfire]

          @vanirbound​ -- plotted starter with Fandral (and Loki later on, but ya know)

♔—- Two guards escorted Fandral to the royal throne room, where Odin sat upon his throne, his one eye swollen so badly that he hardly looked like he could see from it. The king was in, what Fandral would describe as, piss poor shape. The swollen eye was really only scratching the surface of the damage the king had taken. A bruised cheek so severe that it stood out in harsh contrast against the pale skin, a split that ran from under his hair, down his forehead, as if his head had nearly been cracked in two.

And those were only the injuries from the neck up.

Thor and Loki rushed off with Jane to deal with the Dark Elves. Thor returned only once Malekith had been defeated and the Aether could be safely stored. He went to his father, broken by the humiliation of the invasion, defeated by the state of Asgard in ruins, and heartbroken over the loss of his wife and he told his father that he did not want to be king, that he would not remain on Asgard. He spoke of Loki, of how he died protecting not only the people of Asgard, but all of Yggdrasil as well, and he praised the younger, supposedly dead prince of understanding the burden of the throne. There were plenty of people who did believe such, that always believed Loki would have been better suited to be king, but he was dead, so what did that leave?

Except, his death hadn’t been true.

Not more than a few days after Thor left, Loki reappeared on Asgard. For a brief moment, joy filled Fandral’s heart, as Loki had always meant more to him than most realized. The news of the younger prince’s death cast a great shadow over the swordsman’s heart and he wasn’t even sure how to properly mourn. They lost Loki once already, believed that Loki was dead or too far gone, but this time? When it seemed as though he’d finally turned over a new leaf and actually came back to Asgard when even Thor hadn’t... Fandral thought he might be able to breathe. Perhaps Loki would prove himself a worthy heir after all? Perhaps he would be good for Asgard in Thor’s absence and Odin’s incapability.

Instead, he nearly slaughtered the All-father, at least, that’s what the stories said. Fandral couldn’t understand, had a hard time digesting the stories that spread like wildfire around the city about Loki’s so-called assassination attempt. Loki was many things and had done even more disturbing deeds, but Loki was not a cold-blooded killer. The prince had so many opportunities to silence Odin before, so why now? Why, when he would have had a real chance at freedom, would he come back just to murder his father? It didn’t make sense, didn’t add up, and Fandral... couldn’t find it in his heart to condemn Loki.

Something was wrong, he knew it.

But when the guards came for him, demanding that he comply as Odin wished to see him, a new fear coursed through Fandral’s veins. He’d been one of the small group to help break Loki out of the dungeons, one of the few who willingly committed treason for Thor to liberate his brother and see them off to Svartalfheim. Since Loki had come back and nearly succeeded in killing the last royal that remained in Asgard, was it possible that Odin wished to pursue real punishment for those who had helped him escape?

More than community service or a slap on the wrist? Execution?

He held his head up high as the guards led him before the All-father, determined to show no signs of suspicion, paranoia, or terror. On the inside, though, Fandral quivered and shook. Even his near-death experience on Jotunheim hadn’t brought him this close to cowering on his hands and knees, but he was determined to make sure he held onto his pride.

“My king, what has--”

Before he could continue his thought, the doors burst open behind him and Heimdall stepped into the room. The sight, at first, was nothing short of a relief. While Fandral and Heimdall always seemed reluctant to admit that there was anything between them, even in private company, the swordsman shared the Watcher’s bed more frequently than any other romantic pursuit. They kept their ties secretive and often refused to admit to one another than anything more than sex existed between them, but they both knew that wasn’t true. 

But his blood ran cold a moment after the relief momentarily chased away his terror. If Odin brought Fandral here to imprison or execute him for treason, perhaps he’d done the same with Heimdall? Were they both about to meet their end? Would Volstagg and Sif be carted through the doors next to die alongside them? Would Thor himself be pulled back to Asgard so he, too, could suffer the same fate?

“I have an assignment for you both,” Odin spoke as Heimdall came to stand beside the swordsman. 

“An... assignment, Sire?” Fandral responded.

Odin barely even looked in his direction, not that he could manage much of that at the moment. Loki really had done a number on him, assuming, of course, that it was Loki. “Yes. I am sending you both after Loki, an enemy of Asgard. He is, by far, the most dangerous threat that currently stands unresolved. You two will be tracking him down.”

Oh, Odin wasn’t a fool. Of course, Heimdall would be a prime example of a good candidate. While Loki could hide from Heimdall’s sight and Fandral knew he could, if anyone had hopes of tracking the runaway prince, it was the watcher who stood guard over the Bifrost. Fandral, though? That was a much more strategic move, the type of move that came with strong and developed skills in manipulation. Loki always had a weakness for Fandral, even if he’d never acted on it, and Fandral, despite not bringing himself to acknowledge that truth, knew it. 

How could he not? The younger prince was one of the strongest reasons why Fandral stood where he did today, in Gladsheim, with a title of one of the best swordsmen in all of Asgard. Loki mattered to him and he mattered to Loki. It’d always been that way, even if recent years proved to be a bit rocky for their relationship, or any of Loki’s relationships, really.

Even in Odin’s state of grief and rage, though, sending the pair after Loki seemed rather cruel, a low blow, even for the All-father.

“And we are to bring him back here to answer for his crimes against the throne?” Fandral forced out, though his throat felt like it threatened to close, wanting to cut off all of his air supply and silence him before he could say anything further.

“No. I do not want Loki brought back alive,” Odin said, his tone growing eerily calm. “The boy has proved to be too dangerous, too reckless, and too bloodthirsty--” Laughable coming from Odin, of all people. “He cannot be allowed to continue. I am sending you both to ensure that his life is brought to a swift end.”

There it was, the twist in his stomach that made him feel like he could actually be sick at Odin’s feet. No matter what Loki had done, Fandral couldn’t imagine bringing himself to the point of being able to murder his prince.

“Sire--”

“You will find him. You will kill him on sight. You will bring his body back to Asgard to ensure that his death is not another trick. He turned from Fandral to Heimdall, his swollen eye finally opening just enough that they could actually see most of his eye. It looked as though he suffered from partial or total blindness.

What happened to cause Loki so much rage? Fandral never knew him to be particularly violent or to find enjoyment in causing unnecessary pain.

“Do you both understand?” Odin asked.

Fandral couldn’t bring himself to speak, he only helplessly turned almost pleading eyes towards Heimdall.

#( main verse ; post tdw ) you’ve ruined everything #( side muse ) fandral #c; heimdall #vanirbound #( long response ) if it were easy everyone would do it #closed starter #( ship ; vanirbound ) let’s be alone together we can stay young forever #pending fandral/heimdall/loki tag #{ possibly that last one??? idk i'm just doing stuff } #( ship ) fandral x heimdall

[archiveofolives]

lol my goal is to watch ragnarok before its first year anniversary (hey y'all let's do a ragnarok week on its first year anniversary, who's with me?) and on that end, i have finally rewatched the dark world (this one got a bit too long bc i was already taking notes while i was watching it)!!!

thor: the dark world (2013):

- you know what, for all that we disrespect this film for, it did give us a lot of things like fleshing out the world kenneth branagh began, juicy brotherly bickering and drama, the loki and frigga scene (WHICH WAS STILL TOO SHORT :( ), loki as cap, a fantastic soundtrack and iconic scenes like remember that part where thor jumps off the balcony, twirls and flies off after he catches mjolnir? still can't find a scene that beats that

- also tada. never forget tada.

- ODIN IS SUCH A COLONIZER like it's nice to know he hasn't changed through the thousands and thousands of years he was alive but in the light of what we'd discovered it's...kind of disturbing? maybe? but like, he's said things like the nine realms are united again and reminded of our strength during the intro and then he was ready to sacrifice every single asgardian against the dark elves and he's so sure of winning and hey remember that he thinks mortals are lesser (for all his we are not gods speech) and he keeps insisting that the dark elves are all dead? sounds typical!

- sif going there are nine realms, the future king of asgard must focus on more than one and i bet thor's glad they're disconnected from the world tree now. no need to be king of nine realms, just one! let the rest of the realms rule themselves like they were supposed to lmao

- their dialogues are really so heavy tho, even more so than the first two films but weirdly enough, it feels like i only ever notice this whenever thor talks? so maybe it's just chris hemsworth tripping over the weight idk

- i feel like richard and ian don't get as much credit, they're both very sweet! i kinda hope jane and richard got a chance with each other after she and thor split, i mean richard's a stable kinda guy and jane deserves stability after all the shit she put up with ok!!!

- the post-credits scene between thor and jane really is so romantic tho, i'm glad they got that moment before shit hit the fan

- also weird, sometimes it feels like nat portman's wig is too big on her or smth like i know everyone was in-between other shootings during this film but

- i laughed at "we're americans!" "that's supposed to make them like us?" like this is a joke i only got five years on wtf

- idk smth about the way the whole thing was shot feels so...old! like it's a very old technique or smth. kinda like how you can tell if a movie was from the 90s or what but...2013!

- also i made a discovery: i thought they buried the aether on earth (BECAUSE WHO SAYS GODS HAVE TO BE SMART) but i never realized it's a hidden dimension accessible anywhere in the world tree during the convergence (or through spells???)

- JUSTICE FOR MALEKITH AND THE DARK ELVES they deserved so much more from the budget and the plot ok!!!

- the castle shield thing really was such bad plotting, too. actually this movie doesn't do plotting and fight scenes and pacing too well. about the only fight scenes i enjoyed (now) (that i'm no longer like that meme that goes tdw is a good movie y'all are just mean) is frigga vs malekith, loki vs everyone and thor's final blow on malekith

- they never let it rain when thor arrives anymore :( and honestly, give me dreamy, romantic, idealistic thor any day. i feel like we don't get this enough.

- i have forgotten so many amazing lines like, "she's dangerous!" "so am i" and the butthurt "I AM" when thor asks jane if she was ready and loki's like I'M HERE BY THE WAY

- 28 minutes in and heimdall is already rolling his eyes

- man, you can really see the difference with how the odinsons behave between odin and frigga. odin gets shit while frigga gets nothing but hearts and i mean that's fair

- heimdall jumping to attack the dark elves' ship is so 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 thor: the dark world aka watch heimdall be the only functional member of the government

- you know what, frigga really has nice shoes, i can't get over this (headcanon that frigga saw her fate from the norns and was ready to die)

- you have to admit that for all that he is a disaster, the level of composure with which loki took the news of frigga's death was admirable. what happened after is a different story ofc lol

- sometimes sif is just...too good for thor...too good for everyone...just too good...

- also loki is alive in avengers 4, just look at his masterful illusions in this film. i feel like he doesn't get much credit for his illusions. or his acting skills—i swear he enjoyed pretending to be odin in that last scene with thor a liiittle too much

- also remember thor taking the train to greenwhich and being such a pure soul when the woman stumbles to him? never forget

- THIS was also the first time i noticed something! thor ends his first battle with "i accept your surrender" and his final battle with "i've come to accept your surrender" like whatever you call that narrative device, i love it

#liv is typing #thor #the dark world #liv rewatches odinsons (2018)

[empress-of-snark]

(this header by @caseyblu is cooler than the actual movie)

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013)

AKA: All roads lead to Svartalfheim.

(Alternately, “Make the universe dark again!”)

(Spoilers for both Thor 2 and a tiny bit of Thor 3.)

Much as I wanted to enjoy this movie, it’s just… so forgettable. The villain is boring as hell, Jane is just kind of there, and they’re trying to make her important but it’s not working, and knowing that Loki is really alive takes all the emotion out of his ‘death’ scene (especially after that part in Ragnorak, you know, where Matt Damon plays Loki, lmao).

First of all, it starts off almost exactly like the first Thor movie. “Long ago, we Asgardians were at war with this other race, and we fought a lot, and we won, but at what cost?” Been there, done that with the Jotunheims, Odin. It was also very reminiscent of the prologue to Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe it was just the color scheme.

We were watching a possibly illegal version online which, for whatever reason, didn’t have subtitles for the Dark Elves, so we had no idea what Malekith was saying, ever. Here’s the thing though: it didn’t matter at all. Other than like, making it clear that he’s out there planning stuff, pretty much all of Malekith’s scenes are nearly arbitrary. I looked up some of the lines online and it’s all just stuff like “Asgardians are weak and the dark days are coming soon, blah blah blah.” If that’s all your villain says for the whole movie, get a new villain. I can’t believe they wasted Christopher Eccleston’s talent on this two-dimensional cardboard cutout of an antagonist.

Thor already went through all his character development in the first movie, so he’s really got nowhere to go here. He’s pretty boring. Like, honestly, he’s one of the most boring characters in the movie, and it’s his movie.

But Jane is perfect for him, because she’s also boring in this one. She’s a vessel for the aether, and nothing more. Oh, and she’s kind of rude to her perfectly nice date, Richard.

Sorry if we’re being really harsh here, by the way. I feel like this is harsh, but it also needs to be said.

As always, I have no idea exactly how immortal Asgardians are. Frigga takes a knife to the gut and she dies immediately, yet Loki gets impaled with a sword and somehow survives? Also, if Frigga is capable of the same magic that Loki is, I feel like there was something more she could’ve done to get out of that situation. But no, kill the woman to propel the men’s stories forward.

There were a few good points in this movie! I need to say something positive, this is ridiculous. For one thing, I completely forgot about Captain America’s cameo and it was great. Now I need to find that behind-the-scenes clip of Tom in the Cap suit, pretending to be Loki impersonating Cap.

Zachary Levi is a delight as Fandral/Robin Hood. No idea why he had to be recast, but honestly, I don’t really care. He got a glo-up, just like Bruce Banner.

Darcy steals nearly every scene she’s in and again I am very sad that this is her last MCU movie (As far as we know…). This is weird, but I’m also sad that she never got to meet Loki. I just feel like that would’ve been a really interesting combination and possibly hysterical.

One more good point is that Thor and Loki’s sibling interactions are so accurate. One of the best scenes was Loki’s irritating backseat driving while Thor was desperately trying to figure out how to drive the Elf ship, shouting at Loki to shut up.

This movie isn’t a complete waste of time and it’s worth a rewatch, but it’s definitely not one of Marvel’s better installments. At the most, it helps set up Infinity War by introducing the Reality Stone.

RANKINGS:      Hero: 6 Myeh-myeh’s out of 10. The most that can be said for Thor in this movie is that losing his mother and (apparently) his brother makes him realize that he needs to spend more time with the ones he loves, i.e. Jane. But this is pretty understated, and the fact remains that he’s still pretty boring for most of the movie.

     Villain: 2 wasted Doctors out of 10. Malekith is just… the most boring villain. Explaining this ranking implies that there’s anything more to be said about him. There’s not.

     Supporting characters: 6 interns out of 10. Basically anyone who’s not Thor and Malekith. Honestly, the supporting characters are the only thing that make this movie even a little bit interesting. My brother says that the most telling thing about this movie is that he was almost more interested in Darcy and Ian than Thor and Jane.           Female characters: 5.5 Bechdels out of 10. Again, this one passes the test because of Jane and Darcy, and it still has all four of its women from the first one. However, Frigga is killed at the halfway mark, and Sif and Jane are pitted against each other in a love triangle that goes nowhere and adds less than nothing to the plot.

     Action scenes: 6 punches out of 10. There’s one major fight scene at the end, and about three little ones before, but none of them are terribly memorable, aside from the deaths. The coolest part is when Jane and Selvig manage to teleport little groups of Dark Elves all over the city.

     Stan Lee: 3 cameos out of 5. Not a very impressionable cameo, but it gets a good laugh.

     Charisma: 4 points out of 10. At the very least, it was devoted to its aesthetic. But this movie just feels lacking overall. The themes aren’t really played out as much as they could’ve been and it definitely leaves you unsatisfied.

In total: 32.5 out of 65--50% exactly. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 66%.

Next is Captain America: The Winter Soldier!

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Gates of Glory, part 16

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so, there will be a second part up (probably today) that will include many emotions and much Loki, this kinda serves to set that up! bear with me! a lot of action ahead

Y/N entered Frigga’s Chambers some days later.

“I talked to Loki”, she said sadly, “So stubborn, just like Odin.”

“What did he say?”, Y/N asked silently.

“That I am not his mother”, she said with a sad smile.

“My Queen”, Y/N said quietly and took her hand: “Words mean little to him. Trust me when I say this: He truly loves you.”

She smiled at Y/N: “It’s funny how you see it when it is concerning me, but concerning you, you are as blind as a bat.”

Frigga smiled and walked away: “You are the only one to reach him, Y/N. Whatever happens, do not let him fall.” Y/N did not move for several seconds, then stood up to leave the palace. 

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Y/N quietly wandered through Asgard without thinking about anything in particular. She had reported the facts to the All-father. She damned herself for letting this happen. Years ago, when she saw her parents died and when she killed her mentor, she vowed to never feel a thing again. Life was just easier without love. It made her job easier.

She had to watch out for no one. She could be rough without second thoughts.

Quietly, she watched the waves crashing against the harbour. Y/N pressed her lips into a fine line and sighted silently. She played around with her fingers and hoped it would end the thoughts in her head. But there was no escaping it.

"By staring at the ocean, it will not disappear", a man's voice said.

"Really, Fandral? Have you ever tried?", Y/N asked and turned to the friend of Thor.

"Not really, actually", he returned, "Just a wild guess."

"The fact you came all the way here to speak to me tells me you need me to do something", Y/N crossed her arms: "What is it?"

"Thor wants to speak with you", he replied. His voice was a bit off.

Y/N raised an eyebrow: "And he sent you to get me?"

"He is not here right now", Fandral explained dryly.

"That means?", Y/N asked cautiously.

"With the Bifrost repaired through the power of the Tesseract, he could travel to Midgard."

"Why did he do so? Do his friends need his help?", Y/N asked irritated.

"Not really", Fandral shook his head, "It is this girl of his. She has disappeared, it seems."

Y/N pressed her lips together: "She could have died. Mortal lives are fragile."

"Whether I agree with his choice of spouse or not does not matter. But he desires your presence", Fandral spoke.

Y/N nodded quietly and replied: "Lead the way."

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When they arrived at the palace, people were running around.

"Fandral!" Y/N turned her head towards Lady Sif who walked towards the two of them: "Thor has returned."

Fandral frowned confused: "Did something happen?"

"He brought the girl with him", Sif said, "She's with our healers at the moment."

"So she is alive", Y/N said cynically, "What a miracle."

"For now", Sif replied, "But there's an abnormal amount of energy surging within her. I doubt Thor has accepted the fact that a mortal cannot survive this."

"Energy", Y/N repeated silently, "What kind of energy?"

"Not from Asgard or the nine realms", Sif spoke quietly, "the healers do not know what it is."

Y/N clenched her teeth: "Where is the All-father?"

"With Thor, I assume", Sif replied confused.

Y/N looked at Fandral and Sif and faked a smile: "Well, duty calls." With that, Y/N hurried upstairs towards the healers' rooms.

When walking towards them, Y/N saw a girl, Thor and the All-father walking down the aisle to the library. The All-father had a dark expression on his face and looked rather worried. Y/N frowned and decided to follow them.

"There are relicts that predate the universe itself. What lies within her appears to be one of them", Odin said when entering the library, "The nine realms are not eternal. They had a dawn, as they will have a dusk." He opened an old book that Y/N could not recognise: "But before that dawn, the dark forces, the dark elves reigned absolute and unchallenged."

"Born of eternal night, the dark elves come to steal away the light...", Thor read from the book, "I know these stories, mother told them to us as children."

"Their leader, Malekith, made a weapon out of that darkness and it was called the Aether. While the other relicts often appear as stones, the Aether is fluid and ever changing. It changes matter into dark matter, it seeks out host bodies, drawing strength from their life force. Malekith sought to use the Aether to return the universe to one of darkness", Odin explained, "But, after eternities of bloodshed, my father Bor finally triumphed, assuring the peace that lasted thousands of years."

"What happened?", the woman asked looked at the All-father who turned towards her before answering coldly:

"He killed them all."

"Why are you certain? The Aether was said to be destroyed with them and yet here it is", Thor said and looked at this father.

"The dark elves are dead", Odin insisted.

"Does your book mention how to get it out of me?", the woman asked a bit frightened.

"No", Odin said and closed the book, "it does not." He turned away and wandered off.

Y/N clenched her teeth and followed the old god: "My king. I have heard what happened to the mortal."

"She will die, as will they all", Odin said darkly, "Death is always present in the lives of mortals."

"I do not wish to object", Y/N agreed, "But I am certain you see the problem at hand."

Odin stopped to look at the warrior: "Speak."

"The Aether", Y/N started, "Is one of the six infinity stones. It cannot be destroyed. Whoever buried it must have buried it at a gateway between our world and the world of humans. Now, we are in possession of it and the Tesseract. One infinity stone attracts an audience, two attract an army."

"The nine realms are at peace, there is no army that wishes to fight us", Odin replied shortly.

"I do not believe in the effectiveness of peace", Y/N spoke just as coldly, "As soon as they find a loophole to attack us from, they will. War, quarrel. It is the constant drive all throughout our time. Everyone wants to rule the nine realms."

"Asgard's armies are ready to fight off all known enemy forces."

"Exactly", Y/N pointed out, "But the art of war is to be ready for the unknown." Odin looked at her with scepticism in his eye. "We know much, not all, but much about the nine realms we rule over, but we also know that there are other forces beyond our rule. What if the things who gave the sceptre to Loki attacked us? We know nothing about their true strength."

"I thank you for your suggestion", he said and walked off, "I will come back to you."

Y/N rolled her eyes, but nodded: "Thank you, my king." She turned around to see Thor and his mortal walking towards the gardens. Quickly, she caught up to them: "My prince. You have demanded my presence."

Thor stopped and turned around. His face was serious when he looked at Y/N. The woman next to him gazed at Y/N in amazement.

"Lady Y/N", he prince said and nodded, "I have."

Y/N looked at the woman: "I suppose you are Jane Foster. I am Lady Y/N of Vanaheim."

"Have you told everyone about me here?", Jane whispered embarrassed.

Y/N could not help but to smile cynically: "It did not go unnoticed that the future king of Asgard has fallen in love with a human. Rumours spread quickly, especially rumours like this." But with this, she turned back to the prince: "What is it you need me for?"

"What flows within her...", Thor said, "is it like the sceptre? Will it corrupt her?"

Y/N pressed her lips together: "I do not know. It is an infinity stone, like the Tesseract. However, as the former keeper of the Tesseract said before he was murdered, things like this are not made for mortals. I doubt it will corrupt her, but it can consume her."

"What do you know about the dark elves?", he asked.

Y/N looked at the roof to evade his gaze: "They are said to have fallen centuries ago. However, it has been forbidden to enter Svartalfheim ever since, which is why no one knows what happened to them after the Aether was taken."

"So they could still be alive?", Thor asked.

"Your father says no", Y/N replied and looked at him.

"I asked you, not my father."

"Yes", Y/N sighted, "They could still be out there."

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Y/N was on duty as a guard standing next to Heimdall when suddenly, alarms went off.

"The dungeons", Heimdall said surprisingly calm.  

Y/N froze: "Loki?"

"I cannot see."

Heimdall looked at the woman next to him: "I cannot see anything. Go."

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Y/N had never run faster in her life. Asgard's citizens stayed inside, the streets were flooded with personnel of the armed forces. Suddenly, she heard a loud crash behind her. Though she feared the worst, she did not expect that. When she turned around, all she saw was a cloud of dust emerging from the palace. She had seen Thor entering the dunegons.

"I'm sorry", Y/N said more to herself as she put duty before feelings and ran towards the palace.

The creatures that were waiting for her in the entrance were looking more dead than alive. Y/N had never been terrified of anything. But their weapons were deadlier than anything she had ever seen before. A sword was nothing compared to it. She used her shield to fend off their weapons' blasts. The ground was covered in the bodies of her companions that had not been fortunate enough to sense the gravity of the situation. There was no time to fight like gods, now was the time to fight for one's life.

"Y/N, go!! SAVE YOURSELF!" Y/N recognised that voice instantly. That was her former officer from her time as a trainee.

Y/N blocked a blast and used a fireball to kill the thing in front of her. "The entire city is under attack!", Y/N yelled back at him, "We cannot make a step back!"

A soldier next to her was hit and fell to the floor and Y/N used his body as a shield to make her way through the enemy forces. She was covered in blood of his body and of the liquid that was flowing in the creatures she was fighting. She pierced two of them with her daggers that she lit on fire and watched them burn. With her fire attacks and spells involving earth, she fought mercilessly. Suddenly, there were no more blasts.

Y/N looked around her and saw that the ground was covered with the bodies of the enemy forces and Asgard's soldiers. Including her former officer.

She did not lose any time and started running through the palace to get to Odin. She encountered Sif and a squadron that were going towards the weapons' vault.

"Y/N", Sif said in disbelief, "You are alive!"

"Where's the mortal?" Y/N yelled darkly.

"Frigga-"

"O no", Y/N started running as fast as she could, knowing that all these creature wanted was the Aether.

She heard Thor's loud booming voice screaming something that sounded like a loud 'no' and the sound of his mighty hammer. She threw her body against the door to Frigga's chambers to find the prince throwing his hammer towards disappearing ship in the sky. Then, her eyes fell on the woman on the floor. "It cannot be..."

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