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lelliefant · 4 months ago

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Mmkay, I haven’t been very active on this Loki-themed Tumblr for a while, and a lot of my old mutual Loki stans have drifted away, but I’m putting this out there just in case someone might still be interested.

The MSU Loki was totally misused and misunderstood, from about Ragnarok on. This character had SO much potential and so much depth to explore—and yet, even when they finally gave him his own show, it wasn’t really about him. It didn’t delve into why he had become who he was. It didn’t address the unanswered questions about him—who was his birth mother? What happened to him in the void? What did Thanos do to him after that? How did he live over 1,000 years and never find out he was a frost giant? All kinds of rich opportunities were just ignored, and Loki was never done justice.

So, I’m writing this story about Loki set around 823 A.D., before the events of the MCU, so I can explore some of those questions about who Loki is. I want his perspective on his family—a father who tells him his “birthright was to die” and banishes him to life imprisonment for crimes he himself had committed in the past; a mother who ostensibly loves him, but allows him to endure the father’s emotional abuse from childhood; the brother who treats him as an inferior for a thousand years and then wonders why Loki is so mad.

I’ve been creating and editing AI images to help tell the story, so it reads sort of like a storyboard. It uses title cards for dialogue, like a silent film. And I want to post some of this stuff here as sort of a preview, and also sort of a test run. Does this weird format even work?

The following are shots I’ve randomly pulled from the story at various points, so they won’t make sense in a linear way. I just want to put them out there. I would very much appreciate feedback/notes/constructive criticism on any of this!