[ SECRET POST #2150 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2150 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

If it's appropriate to have "headcanon" for myths, mine was always that Loki was kind of a prick, but an alright sort of guy, but he was a Trickster. Capital T. The Trickster figure shows up in myths all over, and really, their primary purpose is to teach (usually, but not always, through terrible example CoyoteIamlookingatyou.) A Trickster's job is to upset the status quo, to pull down the mighty, and to remind people that they're not invulnerable.

Cue a bunch of Aesir playing the "Let's throw stuff at Balder!" game. So Loki makes sure he gets hit by something that will actually hurt him. Why doesn't Loki weep to return Balder to life? Because (sometimes) dead is dead, and just because everyone wants something, it doesn't mean they get it.

Heck, didn't the Aesir only realize it was Loki's fault because Loki got good and pissed one day and decided to have an old fashioned Jerry Springer show in the mead hall? ("You are NOT the only one Freya's been shagging! Now who else has some dirty laundry?")

Bringing about Ragnarok, well...he'd been horribly tortured for a few centuries/millenia, all the while bound in the entrails of his own son. Yeah, that might make a guy kind of pissed.

[(Anonymous)]

Mythological Loki I'm fond of. As far as you can be fond as any of the scary, scary entities in myths.