Tag: loki

pyrebomb:

erebusodora:

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.

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This is beautiful. I love the way his eyes seem to glow and make his tears look like acid.

loki-god-of-menace:

But legit, all. Don’t you understand?

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.

pyrebomb:

seamayweed:

illwynd:

aurora-nerin:

dardisblue:

can we talk about Marvel official website has updated Loki’s bio that confirms the “Loki was under the influence of the mind stone” fan theory?

Not a Loki apologist here, he did what he did, but a lot of stuff, his version of how he fell from the Bifrost, that speech in Germany, especially the “sudden clarity” scene with Thor makes a lot more sense. 

Seems like after 10 fuckin years marvel saw a value in Loki and has stopped shitting on him. What a time to be alive

#loki#tbh it was always pretty clear that we were meant to read something like that into it#and because it’s there in the original performance I’m not convinced that marvel is suddenly aware of Loki as a worthwhile character#i think someone has figured out he’s bankable#but their understanding of him has never been worse than now

reblogging to add my own tags here because i just wanted to say it again

it is nice to have it set out right there that loki was not being controlled but was being subtly influenced, because that accords with what is actually shown on the screen. that description makes it clear that loki chose to cooperate in the first place, even if he was undoubtedly left with few options at that point, and it also makes clear that there was some extent of influence affecting his perception of events and his own emotional state. 

but i want to reiterate that the fact that they’re adding that to the official bio doesn’t mean they suddenly realize loki’s value as a character. all of that was already heavily implied in the original performance, even if fandom has been fandom and has argued and gone into total extremes of black and white interpretation and made a huge stink out of it. and more recent films have reduced his complexity, waved away his real grievances, and practically rewritten the nature of his relationship with Thor. That is rather a downward trajectory for Marvel’s use of the character. 

I do wonder if this addition indicates that the show will indeed be about Loki’s lost year. But I don’t feel like it necessarily indicates that they know how to do it well, if so.

I think there’s some wiggle room, but yeah, the bio only states what we could already see on screen, in that Loki was not completely mind-controlled the way Clint and Selvig were by him. @pyrebomb puts it perfectly by saying that Loki’s “destructive beliefs and behavior that already existed WITHIN HIM” were only amplified. Loki has already shown in Thor 1 that he doesn’t care much for mortals (whether it be their lives or the sanctity of their minds) and that he would be willing to even hurt or kill Thor. 

What I’ve always appreciated about Loki’s character is that he is driven so much by his own choices. He makes his own fate, and it is both incredibly saddening and a quality I admire in him because no matter how poor his decisions are, they are his own. He is so determined not to have his life and fate controlled by anyone else that even when Thor reaches out a hand to him, he decides to burn that bridge by stabbing him.

Stuff like the extent of torture at Thanos’ hands is more debatable but not relevant to the question of his agency. It certainly makes him and his motivations more sympathetic, and there is no question that everyone reacts to pain differently. But it’s still his choice to hurt others. Even when he’s under duress and it might be dawning on him that he is being subtly influenced and his perception may have been messed with, he won’t let anyone else be the cause of his actions. I don’t know any other character who defends their agency as much as Loki, even to the bitter end. It’s why I love him so much and I think we should respect that about him insteaed of trying to take his agency from him.

And yeah, the bio is no indication that Marvel has learned to respect or appreciate Loki as a character, so I def wouldn’t get my hopes up :/

Yes, thank you. This is PRECISELY the reason I get so riled up when fans try to remove his agency and place the blame for his behavior elsewhere. At that point in the story IN PARTICULAR, all that Loki has that he really feels he can call his own are his own decisions, no matter how bad they are. And it just strikes me as so utterly misguided if not downright disrespectful to try to take that away from him, too.

Given the timing of this, I’m actually quite fearful that the series will be about his missing year. It’s too little, too late. We’ve all already made up our minds about what we think happened, and the chances that the plot would align with that are slim to none as nobody actually seems to AGREE on the matter. But I’m especially wary of them tackling that particular story NOW, when they seem to be trying to align MCU Loki’s characterization with Agent of Asgard and later, completely disregarding the fact that Tom drew most of his initial inspiration from the Siege arc when he was constructing his portrayal of Loki and the fact that they are QUITE LITERALLY different characters. At this point, MCU Loki is basically an ourobouros devouring himself.