Vision has no hair anywhere on his body–no armpit hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. No fingernails. His skin tastes like metal. Sometimes, he forgets to breathe for minutes or hours at a time.
Captain Marvel smells like burning. When you touch her, your hand comes away cold because she’s absorbed your body heat. If she gets cut, she bleeds light. She can tell you what the inside of an explosion feels like.
Bruce Banner vomits after de-hulking. His skin is always red and peeling. He looks sick, like he has a fever, and he ingests more medication than actual food. There are blisters on his lips.
Tony Stark has a huge, sunken scar on his sternum where the arc reactor was removed and his chest aches each time he takes a breath. He has callouses in odd places–so does the whole team, really–and there is a permanent bald spot on the back of his head where it has been cut open every time he gets thrown around in his suit.
Spider-Man sometimes forgets which way is up–if you put him in a room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling, he couldn’t tell you which is which. His hands and feet are prickly to the touch, even through his costume. He is very nearsighted.
The Scarlet Witch has no sense of boundaries; if you can’t tell she’s spying on your thoughts, why should she stop? She doesn’t do it out of any malicious intent, just out of curiosity and convenience. She never loses arguments.
Thor speaks about events that happened thousands of years ago as if they were last week. Cats arch their backs and stare at him. Something about him–his eyes, or his skin, or the way he moves–seems slightly off, like he doesn’t belong on Earth at all.
This is the exact expression he gave to Thor during the elevator scene: the surprise at hearing something he so desperately needed and the sadness because it’s too late. In this scene, he recognizes that Odin is dying, and in the elevator scene, Thor tells him that he thought the world of him only in the past tense, so there’s acceptance in his gaze but also a wistfulness.
I find it so sad that the people who claim to love him are so lacking in self-awareness. Odin realizes he was a bad father, when it’s too late to be of any use to Loki. Thor continues to think that all the problems between he and his brother are his brother’s fault and his brother’s responsibility to fix. What’s even sadder is that Loki rose to the occasion, meaning he’s given up trying to assert his feelings and has succumbed to the notion that for his relationship with Thor to work, it has to be done on Thor’s terms.
What’s even sadder is that Loki rose to the occasion, meaning he’s given up trying to assert his feelings and has succumbed to the notion that for his relationship with Thor to work, it has to be done on Thor’s terms. <——– This.
I try not to see it this way because it’s so not Loki. It’s not like Loki to do sth on someone else’s term. I refuse to let Ragnarok take this away from Loki. The only way I can see and bear it is the concept of ego death that Loki went through in comics. I chose to see that torture scene as the burning of ego death and his return and reconcilation with Thor as letting go of his anger.
@illwynd, I’m reminded of our recent conversation.
Loki is the Philosopher King 