[ SECRET POST #6095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6095 ⌋

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Comments

[iff_and_xor]

I love this kind of fic generally and find the kind of ending sort of uncomfortable for some reason. I guess it feels like a death of the adult self in a sort of suicide-adjacent way? I’d still be open to reading more stories with that ending, beyond my discomfort it seems interesting. And like you, I think I’ve only seen it with Loki (who I’m not that interested in).

I’m wondering if that’s not an accident. After all, Loki is at least nominally a villain and doesn’t really get the same canonical redemption that other flawed MCU characters get. So it might be easier to just “kill” his adult self without losing “the good” along with “the bad”.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally get what you mean, I have a hard time with happy endings where a character is reborn in some way as a very different entity, because I feel a bit sad for the "lost" self, though on the other hand I can LOVE seeing this idea when it's handled in ways that appeal to me. As the resolution to the story is not one that usually works for me. I can see why people love that type of ending as a wish fulfillment fantasy. Especially with a return to childhood story, that is the same person, just young, so for a lot of readers it probably doesn't have that uncomfortable connotation of losing the adult self.