fic | thor (2011) | remember this first
These are not the feelings I anticipated! S-P-O-I-L-E-R-S for Thor (the movie).
Title: Remember This First
Fandom: Thor (2011)
Characters: Loki, Thor, and Odin.
Warnings: None.
Summary: Loki remembers everything.
Pre-film. 500 words.
Remember This First
Dear Odin:
Go fuck yourself.
XOXO,
Memlu.
Like, what in the fuck? Dude adopts a frost giant baby, actively hides the baby's origins from the baby as the baby grows up, teaches the baby frost giants are evil and cruel and terrible, and when the baby, now a man, discovers he's a frost giant, dude's like OH WELL I THOUGHT I COULD MAKE YOU DIFFERENT (P.S. FROST GIANTS ARE STILL EVIL) (OH LOL YOU'RE A FROST GIANT). What the absolute shit. Big round of applause for Father of the Year, everyone!
So, yeah, I spent the entire last scene torn between JANE/THOR FOREVERRRRRRRRRR and wanting to punch Odin in the face over and over again. Like, of course Thor, who afaik has no idea why Loki did any of the things he did (iirc, the only characters who know for a fact Loki's a jötunn are Odin and Frigg), would be all AW, NO, DAD, YOU'RE GREAT! but ugh, it still made me so mad that the narrative was all oh poor Odin. No! Fuck Odin! And I'm pretty dang mad at Frigg, too. ~We had to protect you from the truth.~ Oh, sure, you had to lie to Loki (because frost giants are just inherently evil, u no) instead of, idk, reaching out to the frost giants or actively working to correct the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of frost giants in Asgard or any one of a thousand other things that wouldn't be outrageously terrible.
GOD, THIS IS THE OUTCAST OF REDWALL ALL OVER AGAIN.
Hi, my name is Memlu, and I'm crying about Marvel movieverse Loki in perpetuity, even in the likelihood they will paint him as ~*~eeeeeeevil~*~ in future installments of this particular franchise or the Avengers series.
Addendum (which I would hope unnecessary, but: fandom): Anybody tearing down Thor to prop Loki up will have to answer to Ol' Betsy and the Five Avengers. I refer, of course, to my fists.
FEELINGS: THE LIVEJOURNAL.
Title: Remember This First
Fandom: Thor (2011)
Characters: Loki, Thor, and Odin.
Warnings: None.
Summary: Loki remembers everything.
Pre-film. 500 words.
Remember This First
- In the early afternoon, the king ate his lunch with his two sons, the eldest fair, the youngest dark. Asgard ever bright glowed with the muted oranges of the particular hour; an inquisitive yellow peeked over the horizon.
"Why didn't you talk to the jötunn?" asked Loki. The war was ever of interest. "Talking always works for me."
Thor ran over with laughter.
"No, it doesn't! What about last week, when I had to save you from Hallormr?"
Loki, dark of hair and thin of face, paled; he had a strange way of going white instead of red. Hallormr said it made him look a ghost, and Thor said it made Hallormr look a shut up before I break your teeth off.
"Mother says you should fight less!"
Thor frowned. "What, and I'm supposed to let him beat your face in?"
"I can take care of myself," Loki snapped. His face hurt with cold. Loki tore his bread in two and stuffed his mouth with it to stop his tongue.
"No, you can't," said Thor, with the ease of a truth well-known. "That's what you need me for."
"To answer the first question," said Odin, and both boys were quiet, "I did at one time reason with their king." He looked to Loki, who held himself straight like a sword thrust deep into the earth. Loki's eyes were wide and dark, and to Odin they were as shadows thrown by a white mountain. "But the jötunn were hungry for conquest and cruel, and it was not in their nature to seek reason."
Thor said, "And that's why you had to fight them."
"Yes," said Odin. "Sometimes talking alone is not enough. A wise king knows when it is time to fight."
"See?" Thor threw his arm about Loki's shoulders; he held him tightly. Loki resisted, then he let his head fall to his brother's warm shoulder. "That's why I protect you."
"No," said Loki, "that's why I protect you," and he stuck the rest of his bread into Thor's mouth. Thor sputtered and pushed Loki away, and Loki fell laughing against Odin.
"That was dirty," said Thor, "that was unfair." He picked up a thick leg of pheasant from the platter between them. "You're the skinny one. You should eat more!"
Thor advanced. Loki kicked his legs out at him, one-two aimed for his chest, but Thor simply pushed them aside.
"Enough," said Odin.
Thor settled for eating the pheasant himself. Loki smiled and went for the grapes.
Yellow superseded orange. Thor dropped the bone, cleaned, to the plate, and Loki looked out over the water, thinking of the jötunn as they marched through the realms, cold and cruel and terrible, and of his father shining brightly as he rode against them, Odin so noble, brilliant, true. He thought of himself riding at his father's side.
"And do you remember the things I tell you?" asked Odin.
"Of course!" said Thor.
Loki said, "I remember everything, Father."
Dear Odin:
Go fuck yourself.
XOXO,
Memlu.
Like, what in the fuck? Dude adopts a frost giant baby, actively hides the baby's origins from the baby as the baby grows up, teaches the baby frost giants are evil and cruel and terrible, and when the baby, now a man, discovers he's a frost giant, dude's like OH WELL I THOUGHT I COULD MAKE YOU DIFFERENT (P.S. FROST GIANTS ARE STILL EVIL) (OH LOL YOU'RE A FROST GIANT). What the absolute shit. Big round of applause for Father of the Year, everyone!
So, yeah, I spent the entire last scene torn between JANE/THOR FOREVERRRRRRRRRR and wanting to punch Odin in the face over and over again. Like, of course Thor, who afaik has no idea why Loki did any of the things he did (iirc, the only characters who know for a fact Loki's a jötunn are Odin and Frigg), would be all AW, NO, DAD, YOU'RE GREAT! but ugh, it still made me so mad that the narrative was all oh poor Odin. No! Fuck Odin! And I'm pretty dang mad at Frigg, too. ~We had to protect you from the truth.~ Oh, sure, you had to lie to Loki (because frost giants are just inherently evil, u no) instead of, idk, reaching out to the frost giants or actively working to correct the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of frost giants in Asgard or any one of a thousand other things that wouldn't be outrageously terrible.
GOD, THIS IS THE OUTCAST OF REDWALL ALL OVER AGAIN.
Hi, my name is Memlu, and I'm crying about Marvel movieverse Loki in perpetuity, even in the likelihood they will paint him as ~*~eeeeeeevil~*~ in future installments of this particular franchise or the Avengers series.
Addendum (which I would hope unnecessary, but: fandom): Anybody tearing down Thor to prop Loki up will have to answer to Ol' Betsy and the Five Avengers. I refer, of course, to my fists.
FEELINGS: THE LIVEJOURNAL.