Loki!feels

[angualupin]

finnygan asked for Loki recs. Unfortunately, Loki fic that isn't poorly written Loki/Thor (a pairing I have problems with on so many levels) is hard to come by, but I've found a few. Any more recs anyone has would be appreciated, of course.

Amateur Theatrics. Gen. Loki accidentally gets de-aged. Child!Loki is incredibly damaged, but not yet beyond rescue

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[angualupin]

The thing you have to keep in mind when dealing with Loki is that the myths -- the backstory, which they may sanitize for comics and film but is still there, informing Loki's character -- is, as Sofie keeps pointing out, not nice. The Aesir are not nice. Thor and Odin are not nice. They are the myths of a warrior culture, and the Aesir are warriors. And you can clean that up as much as you want for modern consumption, but you're still ultimately dealing with characters that are coming out of all this mythological backstory, and that still, comics!canon or not, makes them who they are.

I mean, we can write humorous fics about Loki getting knocked up when you look at him sideways, but behind that, Valar in Aman, what they do to Loki's children. It is fine to have a mythos that says, "and then Loki turned into a horse and got pregnant and gave birth to a foal, and that is how Slepnir, Odin's steed, was born", and on a purely mythological level, that is fine. But once you start thinking of Loki as a person, which comics!canon has done by making him, well, a person, that story suddenly becomes less "and thus Odin gained his famous steed" and more "and then they took Loki's child away from him and kept his child away from him and made fun of him for the rest of ever for getting knocked up in the first place, because warriors don't do that kind of thing," completely ignoring that Loki turned into a mare because Odin had, once again, gotten himself into a bargain that he had no intention of keeping but that he couldn't fight his way out of.

And then they wonder why he wants to sod off and find his own planet to rule.