all Loki all the time
I'm trying to work out some things about Loki even though I'm only a little way into this. I'm sure fandom has been over everything with a fine tooth comb already but please bear with this newbie.
This is all movieverse for me and I get that that means Asgard is a place of aliens and "magic" is just science we haven't figured out yet. In face I like all that a lot. Still, I cannot shake the gods' roles and for me, Loki is the trickster god, the liar, the god of chaos. He is the force of entropy. He is the disease that ruins your crops, the rot that gets in the timbers of your house, the flash flood. He is also creativity, humor - the unexpected, the new. Without him there is no innovation. He lets loose chaos just to see what happens - destruction and unexpected innovation both. He's needed.
Our Loki has feels though (as the kids apparently say these days), and he's gotten carried away. The god of chaos out of control is a dangerous thing and a thing he does very well. He revels in being out of control. I don't think that means he's fully a pscyhopath though. He doesn't get off on causing pain - just in disrupting and causing chaos. He's no sociopath either. He cares, and narcissistic as he is, he empathizes. He wouldn't be so good at messing with people if he didn't understand and feel them. He's just got that big empty hole of need him though and the constant need to punish himself. Yes, he's cruel and would torture kittens if that would make him feel better but he just needs to learn to believe he's loved, right? Right? And accept himself for who he is - which is the god of chaos and not-Thor. He wouldn't be a "nice" guy if he learned to accept himself but maybe he could stop short of fratricide and invading other worlds? I mean, somehow he managed to satisfy his chaotic urges in the hundreds of years before he flipped out in "Thor?" No?
This is all movieverse for me and I get that that means Asgard is a place of aliens and "magic" is just science we haven't figured out yet. In face I like all that a lot. Still, I cannot shake the gods' roles and for me, Loki is the trickster god, the liar, the god of chaos. He is the force of entropy. He is the disease that ruins your crops, the rot that gets in the timbers of your house, the flash flood. He is also creativity, humor - the unexpected, the new. Without him there is no innovation. He lets loose chaos just to see what happens - destruction and unexpected innovation both. He's needed.
Our Loki has feels though (as the kids apparently say these days), and he's gotten carried away. The god of chaos out of control is a dangerous thing and a thing he does very well. He revels in being out of control. I don't think that means he's fully a pscyhopath though. He doesn't get off on causing pain - just in disrupting and causing chaos. He's no sociopath either. He cares, and narcissistic as he is, he empathizes. He wouldn't be so good at messing with people if he didn't understand and feel them. He's just got that big empty hole of need him though and the constant need to punish himself. Yes, he's cruel and would torture kittens if that would make him feel better but he just needs to learn to believe he's loved, right? Right? And accept himself for who he is - which is the god of chaos and not-Thor. He wouldn't be a "nice" guy if he learned to accept himself but maybe he could stop short of fratricide and invading other worlds? I mean, somehow he managed to satisfy his chaotic urges in the hundreds of years before he flipped out in "Thor?" No?