“This moment where Thor believes — not only has he lost his home and is forbidden from returning to it — but that he has lost his father, and the reaction to this news and the way which he articulates quite tenderly, quite vulnerably his response, is beautifully done.”
With his friendly, gentle, and wise nature, Baldr was considered among the best of the gods. When he began dreaming about his death, Frigg extracted an oath from every creature, object, and force in nature to never harm her son. However, she overlooked the mistletoe due to its youth and small size. Using this to his advantage, Loki created a dart from the plant and manipulated Baldr’s blind twin brother, Hod, into killing Baldr. When the new world arises from the aftermath of Ragnarok, Baldr will be reborn.
Needed to paint something dark (to calm my senses), torn (to have a little practice) and familiar (because I’m lazy). So – took one of the recent Loki doodles. I think I’ll finish this later – I mean, really FINISH, add details, make this look less messy, etc. This is a sketch so far. But I think it gave me what I needed.
One of my colleagues sent me this song, and it felt good painting to this.
Loki is a character that defends his agency/desires his agency to the very bitter end, which makes it all the more interesting and down-right compelling that he is also a character who has that taken away from him more often than most. He sacrificed agency for years to Odin (and even Thor, but that is a meta for a different time), while maintaining it fiercely with others; he had his agency completely ripped away by Thanos, leading to him being so desperate for it that he would go as far as to not refute every action as being from him/plotted by him, to 1. at least have some control again 2. avoid the pain and desperate shame of what happened. He then, again, had his agency removed when he was imprisoned for the rest of his life, putting him in a dilemma of sacrificing what agency he did have (anger, bitterness, the choice to feel those things; the illusion that the actions on Midgard were his own) to reveal what Thanos did to him.
He’s an amazing character, who literally struggles with his own agency and that is just SO. COMPELLING. He wants it desperately, but he either sacrifices it or has it taken away, and that struggle of him fighting that, or even self-thwarting just so he can feel some agency, is just down right interesting.
Baldursbrá 