catwinchester:

trickster-grrrl:

endurraesa:

hey uhhh real quick

Thor was a victim of Odin’s abuse and brainwashing too, so maybe try not to blame him for thinking Loki was beyond hope because when a parent you’ve been raised to trust tells you that, you’re inclined to believe them

“Thor was a victim of Odin’s abuse and brainwashing too”

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, because being the golden child that everyone loves totally is the same as being the scapegoat outcast whose father literally said his birthright was to die and then locked him in the dungeons for what was meant to be the rest of his life with no content with the outside world.

*snort*

Sure, Thor was totally abused too xD

Not all abuse follows the same pattern and no one is saying Thor was abused to the same degree as Loki was. 

Let’s look at the 3rd child, Hela, because her abuse has most in common with Thor. Odin seemed to treat her well and judging from the friezes she uncovered, they seem to show she was respected by Asgard, ruling at Odin’s side. She was given the same weapon as Thor and raised to be a warmonger than Odin could unleash on his enemies. 

But he had moulded her into a mass murderer. Do you doubt that doing that to a child is abusive? 

It doesn’t excuse what she did, just as Loki’s abuse doesn’t excuse what he did, but it does help you understand why these things happened.

As for Thor, he basically got the Hela-lite treatment. He was raised to love war and fighting, he was even raised to be a cold-blooded killer (just look what he did on Jotunheim), just not to the same degree that Hela was. 

Neither Thor and Hela were raised to have introspection, given the ability to question their actions, thoughts, or beliefs. 

And when they did what they had been raised to do (wage war) but without Odin’s permission, both were banished. 

None of his children were raised with their best interests at heart. Rather, they were turned into what Odin wanted them to be. He viewed them as extensions of himself that he could do what he wanted with, rather than as people in their own right. 

Nothing about this is healthy parenting. Nothing about this raises well-rounded adults. He has damaged all his children via the emotional abuse used to turn them into what he wanted them to be.

Thor was able to overcome his abuse and become a wise, rounded adult (well, ish. He succeeded as long as you ignore the BS that was Ragnarok). 

Although it wasn’t shown onscreen, Loki seems to have taken strides too, not to overcome the abuse perse, but to become his own person, who he wants to be rather than who Odin wanted him to be, or a rebellion against who Odin wanted him to be. 

Some of Odin’s children received different kinds and different levels of abuse, but they were all abused.