frostiron shipper since 2012. loki & tony enthusiast. multishipper. (elias. he/they. mid-twenties.)
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Loki and the Deeply Valid Fear of Being a Government-Issued Android Without Knowing It
Imagine living for over a thousand years, committing intergalactic crimes, then one random underpaid TVA clerk with a monotone voice suddenly introduces the possibility that, oh, by the way, what if you were secretly a robot this whole time? And Loki, who has always carried himself with the absolute certainty of a god, pauses. Like. âWait. What if I am?â
He hears that question and immediately does a full mental diagnostic. Have I ever glitched? Ever felt oddly mechanical? Experienced an unusual fondness for oil? Maybe heâs too good at lying. Too good at surviving. What if thatâs just the programming?
The TVA worker just moves on. He doesnât elaborate. no reassurances. theres no safety net. Just the terrifying possibility that he might get instantly vaporized for something completely outside his control.
Id like to note, his hesitation isnât even just some random existential crisis, itâs trauma-informed. This man already lived through the experience of waking up one day and realizing he wasnât who he thought he was.
He grew up thinking he was a prince, a god, Odinâs rightful son, only to find out he was actually a stolen relic of war. A Jotun. A creature heâd been taught to hate.
He thought he knew himself before, and he was wrong. What if heâs wrong again? What if theres something else about himself thats been hidden? If he didnât realize he was a Frost Giant, whats stopping him from not realizing heâs actually some highly advanced synthetic being?
Itâs not just a funny existential gag, itâs a callback to one of the most devastating truths of Lokiâs existence:
He has never really known who he is.
Itâs the muscle memory of having his entire identity ripped out from under him. Itâs the learned fear of asking, What am I, actually?
Because the last time he asked that question, the answer ruined him.
Loki AoA Pin-up (Private Commission) I kind of Gil Elvgrenâd him? Hahah! Iâm sorry Marvel. Iâll don the cone of shame now.Â
LOKI SERIES (2021) Concept Art | Mushk Rizvi
starting my loki brain rot off with the style exploration sheet as is mandatory everytime i like a new character đ
Heâs so pretty⌠I want him to be grievously injured
Tom: All of his villainy comes from a kind of betrayal. He just feels like the narrative of his whole life has been an appalling lie. So heâs kind of heartbroken. And maybe if someone can actually get through this sort of, the leather and metal and this shell of anger that he has, maybe they can like, give him a hug. [x]
"It's Crossbones, and his crew's armed with some real high-tech stuff."
one of my headcanons, were Loki is afraid of the dark, i was reading Alligator Loki and saw thissss look at themmmm
@giftober 2024 + @mcuchallenge prompt Day 25: Devilish.
Loki, right before being angelic. Thor - deleted scene
That Barbie Movie meme except it's my favorite trainwreck siblings
Black Widow dir. Cate Shortland | 2021
You know, I always see people write Pepper as the calm one between her a Tony in ficsâwhich is true to some extentâbut I feel like people forget that Pepper gets just as neurotic as Tony in response to stressful situations, just shows it differently
IM2 Tony is dying. What does he do? goes and ditches work to drive a race car and gets attacked. Pepper in response? Unintelligible but understandable screaming at him.
And sheâs so real for that
sometimes you just go âdamn I really love that bitchâ and that bitch is always tony stark