Tag: loki

thefunkiestlesbian replied to your post: “I’m at Target and I just overheard a girl say “for real, I’d low-key…”:

This is such a mood. Whenever I’m in airports too long all the noise blends together and the intercoms are bad quality, so when the announcements about “smoking is not allowed in the terminal” repeat I start to hear it as “Loki is not allowed in the terminal” and im half asleep and jetlagged like, “you bet he isn’t ”

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Hello! Regarding your tags – #I’ve done this to Loki on occasion but I can always do more – on the recent magical exhaustion post, could I ask you to point me to the direction where I could find it, that is, you having done this to Loki? Also yes, poor Loki can always take more of magical exhaustion, heehee :) Anyway, have a lovely day ^^

well, in thinking about this more I realized that I’ve never used magical exhaustion as…the source of the whump, I guess you could say; it’s mostly been kind of a side effect of Other Bad Shit, partly because magical exhaustion (and internal resource depletion in general, I guess) is an easy way to handwave beating up somebody who’s canonically really durable. but, hmm, fics of mine where that’s a bigger part of the premise…

speed the collapse (scatter what remains) – not so much magical exhaustion as magical…autoimmune disorder? basically, the Other fucked with his magic and it eventually broke after he reached Earth, turning on Loki and making him really, really sick. trying to use it just makes things worse.

Avengers Academy: Friendship Is Magic – obviously this is Avengers Academy Loki but I inevitably write him as strongly influenced by my understanding of MCU Loki, and this fic is whump based on somebody trying to cut off his magic. (if you’re not familiar with Avengers Academy, you can pretty much just think of it as an AU where most of the major characters are much younger and in school together.)

winter in our bones – Loki falls from the Bifrost to Earth and gets snapped up by HYDRA when he’s still half-dead from the fall (also, in this AU, Steve is the Winter Soldier). this one definitely goes in the “magical depletion as a handwave so I can beat him up” category.

all turn to fire – Infinity War speculation based entirely on trailers. Loki exhausts himself softening the Statesman’s crash landing and doesn’t have much left to fight Thanos, which is why he resorts to bargaining away the Tesseract.

clearly, I need to write something more specifically about magical exhaustion, because that’s a fun variety of Loki whump that I’ve only sort of used.

loki-god-of-menace:

I…. just noticed that Thanos broke Loki’s left arm in Avengers: Infinity War.

I’m going to legit end Thanos, friends. Brb.

I definitely noticed that he twists Loki’s left arm to make him drop the knife, but is there something confirming he actually broke it? not that I think he wouldn’t, I’m just wondering if there were details I missed (I actually have watched that scene several times, first to get things right for fic and then because, uh, it’s good whump if I stop before Thanos actually breaks his neck and pretend that part never happened)

veliseraptor:

I generally headcanon Loki as someone who has a very good and very sharp memory – maybe not exactly photographic, but he tends to remember things well and for a long time. (it’s part of what makes him so good at holding grudges.)

on the other hand, Loki also tends to be someone who focuses very much on the negative of things – for whom the bad sticks harder and much longer than the good. I’ve had Thor think multiple times in different fics about wishing Loki’s memory was a little less precise – and that’s usually in reference to the way Loki absorbs the things Thor says, the precise words he uses, and holds onto them. as someone who is – if not careless at least often less than careful with his language, and speaks from emotion sometimes without thinking of implication, that has consequences for the way Loki thinks about how Thor sees him. 

so things like “imagined slights” and “you had her tricks, but I had her trust” and “know your place” – for Thor, they’re things he said once, spoke in anger or frustration or without thinking, or things he’s changed his mind about later, but for Loki they often become immutable truths.

in a lot of ways, Loki doesn’t think of anything as being “idle words.” even lies have meaning. and when it’s someone like Thor speaking, or Odin (“your birthright was to die”), who loom so large in Loki’s life and whose opinions are so important – that goes even more so. and post-facto it is very hard to dislodge that language or replace it.