Marvel Movies Jotun
So, a lot of fic is very Jotun-sympathetic. I get that the winners write the history and we don't know the Jotun side of the story, but still. They did apparently invade earth around 1000AD such that Asgard had to come in and save us. Also, perfectly intelligent people (like Loki for instance) over the course of a thousand years didn't question the common wisdom that the Jotun are violent "monsters." More than a thousand years, I guess, because they were one of the nine realms and known before that.
What evidence do we have that the Jotun are not in fact so unpleasant that it's unreasonable to call them and their culture monstrous? They are dignified and cool looking in the movie Thor but that doesn't really say much.
Also, when Odin defeated the Jotun what should he have done to keep them from being aggressive again? Was it unreasonable for him to take their power source? They can't have suffered too much - they could still travel between worlds by spacecraft. They were still alive a thousand years later. They just weren't living in their former splendor, yes? Or am I missing something? It seems to me that the real *suffering* is fanon.
Opinions? Things I'm missing?
What evidence do we have that the Jotun are not in fact so unpleasant that it's unreasonable to call them and their culture monstrous? They are dignified and cool looking in the movie Thor but that doesn't really say much.
Also, when Odin defeated the Jotun what should he have done to keep them from being aggressive again? Was it unreasonable for him to take their power source? They can't have suffered too much - they could still travel between worlds by spacecraft. They were still alive a thousand years later. They just weren't living in their former splendor, yes? Or am I missing something? It seems to me that the real *suffering* is fanon.
Opinions? Things I'm missing?