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Part 6 of Drabbles
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2023-11-02
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Because No One Cares About That

Summary:

Brief Drabble of Loki trying not to dwell on why a certain event is never mentioned when people bring up his villainous actions.

Notes:

I hesitate to even post this here because I have a lot of gripes with the Loki show and the way the narrative treats him on several fronts. I’m not currently watching it and my knowledge of season 2 is based off gif sets I’ve seen. So this isn’t what one could call “fan” fic, but it’s not exactly approached with a hater mindset either lol

You could see this as taking place in the back of Loki’s mind while he’s mid-conversation with Mobius during that pie scene (I assume there’s only the one??)

(Previously posted on my tumblr)

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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It occurred to Loki, distantly, like the thought was some small, weak creature struggling to swim through radioactive green water as thick as the key lime pie he still refused to take an actual bite of…

Loki took a sporkful of whipped cream - the only thing edible on the plate.

His mind was that thick radioactive pie water, and he didn’t want to acknowledge the thought trying to break the surface.

But every time, every single time someone brought up all the terrible things he had done, or was bound to do inevitably, it was always the acts that had affected his family, Odin and Thor, Frigga, Asgard, the humans, his new… friends… He was a villain for all those things.

And never once…

 

As if everyone had forgotten…

 

He had been trying… trying to be a hero…of sorts…

 

Loki choked down another bite of whipped cream.

 

It was a struggle to avoid the realization why… his first true claim to villainy mattered so little…

 

 

It never even made the list.

 

Notes:

I feel like I’ve seen enough to safely assume that when Brad is listing off all the terrible horrible no good very bad villainous loser stuff some iteration of Loki has done he doesn’t make a single mention of Loki trying to destroy Jotunheim. 😑

Which actually makes me wonder did any Jotunns actually die in that scene or was it literally just an attempt but Thor stopped it before any deaths happened?? Still he damaged the dying planet and did make an attempt, so it’s still pretty tragic either way.

But like, what must it be like to have one of the most defining moments of your life -where you tried to wipe out your entire species- be SUCH an afterthought. Not even an afterthought, literally no one cares. No one ever brings it up. They’re always mentioning the humans who died during the invasion, and Frigga and all sorts of stuff that make him supposedly too irredeemable and yet NEVER the jotunns who died or almost died. It’s an afterthought in canon and an afterthought in the minds of all the creators who’ve touched the Thor franchise. Wild, just wild.

Anyway now this note is longer than the fic itself.

I’m just like poor Loki, you could see why being a Frost Giant was such a shock, their lives don’t seem to matter to anyone at all, it’s so sad if I keep talking I might just make myself cry.

Ughhhhh

(Oh “friends” is written with so many ellipses around it because I have beef with Loki’s new “friends” they don’t deserve him)

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