#loki head canon

[aurorawest]

Thoughts on the popular fandom take that loki never killed anyone pre thor 1?

Well, it's not my head canon, but I guess it doesn't make me roll my eyes too hard. I find it incredibly unlikely that Loki had never killed anyone before for two reasons: 1) Asgard is a warrior culture and we have canon references to battles that Thor and the W4 have been in. Occam's Razor here—it's reasonable to believe Loki fought in those battles too, even if he isn't explicitly mentioned. And 2) Tom Hiddleston does not play the battle on Jotunheim like it's Loki's first time killing someone. Loki is presented in that scene as a highly competent fighter.

"But Aurora!" you might say. "That was just the adrenaline! Later, killing someone for the first time would hit him!" And while sure, that may be true (I have never killed anyone or been in combat so I can't offer any firsthand experience), the popular portrayal of a soldier's first time taking a life is that it's a very difficult moment. If Loki was just caught up in the battle, driven by adrenaline, and we were supposed to believe it was his first time killing anyone, wouldn't Branagh have given us a scene of Loki struggling with that? Because we get quite a few scenes of Loki struggling with things after returning from Jotunheim...killing Jotuns in combat isn't one of those things.

If we're going to go down the "Loki never killed anyone pre-Jotunheim battle" road, let's think about point 2 for a second. What does that say about Loki that he's never killed anyone before, and suddenly he does, and it doesn't appear to bother him in the slightest? When we see that so many other things bother Loki quite a bit? If you want to head canon Loki as a sensitive soul who hates killing, you're actually undermining it by insisting Loki hasn't ever killed before.

And as someone who does head canon Loki as a sensitive soul who hates killing, my head canon is that he's been in multiple battles and wars, that he despises it, but that he's learned to shove those feelings down.

You know, now that I've written this whole thing, I think I'm rolling my eyes at people head canoning that Loki's never killed pre-Thor 1, after all.

[holdfastperseus]

It is absolutely WILD to me that we got :

1. Mobius risking his life to save Loki in eps 1

2. Protective Loki™ in eps 2

3. SO MANY physical touch

4. Holding on to each other’s forearm

5. Brushing shoulders as they walk

6. Mobius’ hand around Loki’s waist

7. Words of affirmation as a love language (yes I’m talking about the “you’re the god of mischief” pie scene but there’s so much more)

8. Loki & Mobius going undercover and dressing up

9. A pie date AND a carnival date

10. Loki eating food just because their boyfriend Mobius likes it even though Loki clearly don’t

11. Mobius and Loki teaming up & causing mischief

12. Tandem bike scene

13. SO MANY bickering like an old married couple and everyone around them just going “what the hell”

14. “It’s got your shape to it“ “What do mean it’s got my shape, it’s in a suit it could be anybody” + sylvie being 100% done w/ them

15. Loki and Mobius always shifting closer to each other like magnets

16. Mobius encouraging Loki’s mischief

17. Whatever the fuck episode 5 was

18. Flustered Loki

19. Loki fixing up their appearance (fit check) before meeting their crush

20. Mobius Don dropping hints that he’s single and straight up flirting with the hot stranger

21. “Hello” “Hello” “Hi” “Hey”

22. “You saved my life when I first arrived. You saw something in me that I hadn’t seen in myself”

23. Mobius’s kids bike being red & green (Loki’s and Thor’s color)

24. The fond smiles

25. Mobius offering up his jet ski in a heartbeat

26. Loki time slipping to Mobius time and time again

27. “It’s about who” with Loki looking at mobius for 10 seconds before they said the line

28. Don’t even get me started about the “For you” scene

29. Loki hearing Mobius’s “let time pass” and finding comfort in it

30. The tragic lovers torn apart by fate trope for Lokius

[boredintjqueen]

Why just a little?

This interview is so precious to me.

[worstloki]

they're brothers

[galaxythreads]

sometimes i get reminded of source material and go "yeah, whatever loser, the Little Guy In my Head would NEVER" and then remember that the little guy in my head is not interpreted by me correctly on purpose and he would in fact, in canon, do that

(but the little guy in my head would NEVER)

[catwouthats]

There has to have been at least one person on the creative team for Loki that was like “hey if we do all this, it will look queer. Like very gay.” And they definitely shot that person down with the “not everything has to be gay” and the “we’re just trying to show a strong healthy male friendship! :)”

Bro warned them defo.

They defo didn’t listen.

[p4nishers]

my toxic trait as an ace person is thinking every character i relate to is a virgin until proven otherwise

[tsuyoiqueen]

hot take: i need spideypool and lokius to go on a double date.

[spider-spirit-god-whatever-bitch]

EVERYONE SHUT UP OMG WHAT THEY THEM LOKI CANON??? I REPEAT THEY THEM LOKI CANON???? OMG???? OMG???

[hettolandija]

Bucky and Loki bonding over the things they were forced to endure and do during their times in HYDRA and Black Order. I will be rotating this idea in my head for a next few months.

[aurorawest]

Abt this funny post summing up tje avengers movie. Do u have meta on what loki was doing in the first avengers relating to "not actually wanting to win the battle of new york" idk

I guess I don't really have meta, because I don't really subscribe to that theory? At least not in the sense that you often see people talk about it, where he throws the battle on purpose. I guess what I think is that deep down, some part of him knew Thanos had brainwashed him. Maybe, subconsciously, he didn't fight to his full ability?

I guess an analogy would be like, professional sports players. Their job is to win games, but maybe their heart isn't totally, 100% in every game for whatever reason. Maybe sometimes they even want to be traded, which, obviously, they need to play well for another team to want them, but maybe their lack of commitment to their current team means they don't play to their full potential.

One of my head canons about Loki is how desperately he hates the idea of choice being taken away from him. So I don't think he would have purposefully lost the Battle of NY, because I don't think he would have wanted to admit that Thanos was controlling him in any capacity. He'd rather be a monster than have control over his own mind or actions taken away from him. This is covered pretty heavily in my fic Here, Here and Here, and to some extent in Afterimage, as well.

[ginny-lily]

Oh but Yggdrasil is beyond beautiful obviously

[justaz]

loki growing fond of peter and since his love language is stabbing peter ends up with a large collection of blades, some of which still have his blood on them

[worstloki]

Thor would figure TVA Loki's been mentally disturbed so bad by looking at the clothes alone. He'd see the rolled-up sleeves and just Know Loki needs help.

[brujaporfavor]

Not me head cannoning a female Thor variant (from Slyvie's branched reality... even though they pruned it) that's exactly the same, boisterous, jacked, tall, golden retriever of a person and they'd be into Casey randomly as Thor is prone to like nerds (Jane, Bruce).

[amphibifish]

BOOO BOOOO THUNBS DOWN BOOOOO I THOUGHT THIS SEASON WAS MOSTLY FREE OF THIS BULLSHIT GAHHHH IT HASNT HAPPENED IN SO LONG