Peter Parker’s instagram feed is filled with selfies with different Avengers and his friends and half-a-dozen of them have Thor and Loki in mid-kiss in the background and Peter hasn’t noticed.
I imagine old Thor to grasp Loki’s hand every time they are together cause he’s afraid that his brother would slip away leaving him forever so he squeezes hard and never lets go. Sometimes Loki doesn’t mind this gesture and holds Thor’s hand back.
And what if one day, as they are both sitting like in the picture, Thor squeezes Loki’s hand and then it relaxes his grip, so Loki looks at him with a smile because he’s in a teasing mood, only to find Thor’s eyes meeting his, unfocused, still. Loki’s smile vanished and swallows, squeezing back, waiting for a response, anything. Thor’s hand feels limp in his grip, and he knows.
Thor has left him.
But Loki, being Loki, gives a final sigh of relief as he lets go of the last of his seidr, all that’s been tethering him to life for centuries now, knowing that finally, in death, he and Thor will never be parted. This one last act of selflessness has guaranteed him his place next to Thor in the afterlife. The Universe is in balance at long last…
This was beautiful… my heart is hurting and I need a hug
LOKI:
“This day, the next, a hundred years, it’s nothing. It’s a heartbeat. You’ll never be ready. The only woman whose love you prized will be snatched from you.”
I must have seen this quote a thousand times, but tonight it struck me. “The only woman whose love you prized.” Thor is a thousand years old. This is the first woman he’s given any piece of his heart to in all this time?
I wonder why that could be?
Could he have been, OH, pining for his little brother? Could Loki have been pining right back?
No WONDER Loki was SO SALTY about Jane in the first movie. He’s been wrapped up in Thor for a millennia, and this mortal woman saunters in and gets in a day and a half what Loki’s been hungering for for centuries, completely unearned. And Loki’s in the midst of an identity crisis/mental breakdown on top of it. Of course he sends the Destroyer. Of course he spits out “that woman” like an epithet. Of course he lets go of Gungnir.
Loki is the Philosopher King 
