– So you have the Tesseract and the Mad Titan came for it.
– And for me. He promised something worse than pain.
– Alright, We’ll fight him!
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Thor, he’ll kill us both in a few seconds! We need to get out of here. With the cube
I can open the portal!
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Brother, listen to me: together, we can stop Thanos. We can stop anyone! But if we flee, everyone on this ship will die.
– We can’t! And they are dead anyway!
– Then I will die defending my people. Would you like to join me?
– You… You don’t understand… Thor! Wait!
Please! Don’t…
Okay, I saw that “together we can stop Thanos” little scene and I desperately hope that Thor was talking to Loki… But yes, the chances are really small.
Whatever you do, do not imagine Loki having all his fears and insecurities exploited through illusory hypnosis at the hands of Ebony Maw after getting “rescued” from the void
Ohhhhh man. I’m curious how much they will potentially reveal— if they’ll just imply/reference through dialogue what Loki endured, or if they’ll actually show something awful to confirm it.
Either way— I really wouldn’t be surprised if you were totally right on, albeit the character swap. The notion of Loki being manipulated with the mind stone was already so heavily supported by canon, and what else is there to manipulate but the raw emotion and insecurities he felt as he let go of Gungnir (shit, I wonder if that somehow made him a beacon in the void, rather than it just being accidental that he landed on Sanctuary— I can’t recall if you already suggested that?)
But yes, kind of difficult to draw any other conclusion at this point, unless the film goes out of its way to show that the Black Order came to Thanos after Loki had come and gone— which seems unlikely. I’m sure Loki’s dread will be used to illustrate to the audience just how much they should be feared 😦
The way I did it in the fic, Loki spent some time making a name for himself in the criminal underworld (not his real name, obviously), Thanos got wind of it and figured out who he really was, and sought him out because he thought Loki would be useful. I didn’t like the idea everyone else seemed to be assuming that Loki just fell straight into Thanos’s clutches… it didn’t line up with what Hiddleston and Whedon were saying about where he’d been. If I were to write it again, I might have Loki hear of Thanos and seek *him* out – and get way more than he thought he was bargaining for.
Loki is the Philosopher King 