A dinky little fic I wrote this morn in reaction to JIM #645 as therapy for fiction-based heartbreak and also because I really hope Thor finds out what happened to Little Loki. He needs to. Not really a fix fic, don’t worry. I’m not used to writing Thor and the Manchester gods prolly don’t work that way at all, I prolly got a lot of things wrong since there’s so much I don’t know about the characters, but just ignore it I needed to do this.
What is Written
of course this ends the Heartwrenching in Hindsight award
because spoiler
it’s actually the moral of little loki’s entire story.
and that’s a pretty understandable moral in the medium of American Comics, where wonderful characters can be in wonderful stories but will always, inevitably be abused and ruined by terrible writers and editors to the point where I just don’t even care anymore and never want comics to touch my perfect angel again (im talking about Cassandra Cain can you tell)
so I guess hats of to Gillen for getting that and finding a way to ensure little Loki won’t get ruined in the most HEARTWRENCHING MANNER POSSIBLE
and for telling this story with Leah that is actually about a female character being trapped as a poorly written stereotype but then little Loki sees that letting her have agency is more important than even the world and so she gets agency bc it’s BETTER FOR FEMALE CHARACTERS TO BE GOOD FICTION that is ALSO A REALLY GOOD MORAL
i just wish he didn’t have to work in a medium where he didn’t have to do something that drastic, where he could keep the story going longer without fear of someone else ruin it
even really good comics remind me of how superhero comics ultimately are terrible geez
see
why would you do this
why would you rip my heart out like this
LOKI’S FREAKING DOG
WHO HE LOVED DEARLY AND NAMED AFTER HIS BROTHER
HIS DOG
AND THAT’S NOT EVEN THE THING I’M IN DESPAIR SPIRAL ABOUT AS EVERYONE KNOWS
every heartwrenching moment in this comic is even more heartwrenching in hindsight
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
No-one knows.
Until now.
Spoilers for all of JIM, obv.
okay this why I shouldn’t read comics and stick to manga or other stuff
things will go to shit eventually. That’s the nature of the neverending story. If I’m invested in a character, something awful will eventually be done to them by an awful writer. If a good writer wan’t to preserve the story, they have to make sure that character is inaccessible.
the very medium means that someone had to do this sort of thing to make sure their story isn’t messed up
I totally get the reasoning here, but I wish the medium was such you didn’t have to go to such lengths
sigh
well I enjoyed it while it lasted.
Lil Loki: Here we go, here we go, here we go. Ladies, ladies. All you lovely ladies, here we go. Sharp eyes and sharp minds, one and all—It’s an old game, I know, but one of the best. I hope you all want to play with me. No sleeves.
Hands open, full heart. There are no tricks here, is what I’m saying, ladies.
Keep your eyes on the big blond fella.
Everybody needs somebody to love, right? Surely you lovely ladies all know… know… uh, you know what I mean. Sorry to play into stereotypes, but –ah—where was I? Stereotypes. Right, yeah. Okay, I –
Big Blond guy, keep a look out.
- The Mighty Thor 617
Lil Loki starts out as a street kid. Dem eyebrows. He also says “ladies” like twenty times on this page. LAAAAAAAADIES.
guys little loki is another one of those people who tries so hard to be cool and fails horribly.
“oh man that’s stereotypes i’m not playing into stereotypes am i wait what was i saying I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING ANYMORE HELP???”
yer adorable
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