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hariboo replied to your post: ala-away replied to your post: I WILL SPARE YOU…

perfect post.

unicornicopia replied to your post: ala-away replied to your post: I WILL SPARE YOU…

I was reading the Thor: the movie kids novel and it was like “Thor was like Odin but Loki was much closer to his mother” AND I ASDFK;AJLSDGJKL;ASDKFGJSLD

❤

OH OH OH and let me take this opportunity to add to my many excessive thoughts about Asgardian royal family values re: Odin Is The Worst Dad.

I know that a lot of people take Odin at face value wrt his feelings for Loki, I guess, and go OH HE REALLY DIDN’T TELL LOKI BECAUSE HE JUST LOVED HIM and LOKI WAS JUST TWISTING HIS WORDS LIKE HE SAID despite the meaningful repetition of “He always does things for a reason,” even though he tried initially to deny it to Loki by calling him son, even while Loki demanded to know WHAT MORE THAN THAT because there had to be more than that and they both knew it.

But, you guys, like you understand what he did right? You understand what his plan was?

He stole a baby, not just any baby, but the King of Jotunheim’s son, and raised it as Asgardian with the intention of “making a permanent peace” through Loki and he would have done it, if not for Thor and company’s trip to Jotunheim that shattered the truce.

Let that sink in.

The only way Loki is valuable for making permanent peace is if Odin reveals him as Laufey’s lost heir. (Which is why btw I call UNRELIABLE NARRATOR BULLSHIT on ~abandoned~ and ~left to die~ because YOU CANNOT MAKE PEACE THROUGH A BABY THEY DIDN’T FUCKING WANT.) He was making Thor king, so obviously, the time for the fruition of this plan was near.

And what was this plan exactly for permanent peace through Loki? IT COULD ONLY BE TO DEPOSE LAUFEY AND THEN PUT LOKI, LAUFEY’S RIGHTFUL HEIR, IN HIS PLACE. 

~making a permanent peace~

with a King of Jotunheim Odin raised away from his home because he thought that they were too cruel or barbaric or wtfever for any other kind of diplomacy.

~making a permanent peace~

with a King of Jotunheim who would hate his own people and think them monsters that needed to be controlled and contained and feared because that’s all he’s ever known and no one ever bothered to try to get him to think otherwise.

~making a permanent peace~

by having stolen

and raised

a King of Jotunheim that would bow to Asgard.

MAN THAT ODIN SURE IS A KEEPER, ISN’T HE?

This post is beautiful and perfect. When I was considering Loki’s role as stolen relic, I was also thinking of him as a kind of trans-racial adoptee, being adopted into a culture where he is Other, and he discovers this, that like all the other things in the chamber, he’s been stripped of his original context, has nowhere to turn to but the space where he remains Othered, like how many TRAs were stripped of their original culture so they “fit in better” with the adopted one. 

So the next time I watch this movie and watch Loki scream “JUST ANOTHER STOLEN RELIC” I might cry. 

More thoughts on the subject here:

Loki: An Allegory About Internalised Racism

And THIS is the reason why I:

• find myself shouting terrible things at the screen every time I watch Thor
• am no longer allowed to watch Thor in the company or general vicinity of normal people
• should never watch Thor while handling a steam iron

I swear, even when I’m 80, every time I watch Thor I will be like this:

In the comments to Loki: An Allegory About Internalized Racism (link above), there’s this comment by Thor writer Zack Stentz to prove that We Haven’t Just Imagined This™: