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insanityclause · 4 years ago

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first five episodes of Disney+’s Loki, & maybe the finale. Maybe.

As always with almost any project from the Kevin Feige run studio, that ride could continue, at least in some form or another. Certainly, the June 9 ‘Glorious Purpose’ premiere of the Michael Waldron penned and Kate Herron directed Loki proved to be the Disney+ and the MCU’s biggest small screen success so far. Also with any Marvel project, past Emmy winner Hiddleston was elusive on what could be coming next, be it in the Loki finale, another season or another appearance in the movies as the MCU shifts into its next phrase.

One thing is clear, after a decade playing the God of Mischief, Hiddleston still has a lot of Loki on the brain, in the best way.Leading towards the finale, I chatted with a UK-based Hiddleston about returning to play Loki and the search for who or what controls the seemingly all knowing, all powerful Time Variance Authority. The Night Manager star also spoke about filming during the coronavirus pandemic, working with Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, and Sophia Di Martino, who portrays variant and soulmate Sylvie, and his upcoming AppleTV+ series The Essex Serpent with Claire Danes.

DEADLINE: There’s a great line in this season’s penultimate episode where your Loki and Sylvie are stunned at watch Richard E. Grant’s Classic Loki recreate Asgard to distract Alioth and you say “I think we’re stronger than we realize.” There seems to be a great resonance in the line that there’s a whole lot of Loki coming in the finale and probably more …

HIDDLESTON: I suppose it resonates with the theme that we all wanted to highlight about purpose and about meaning. Loki’s someone who’s probably been deluded by the idea that he’s burdened with glorious purpose, and that perhaps that purpose has been revealed to be fraudulent or meaningless, and maybe his self-image or the role that he has condemned himself to play is redundant.

His experiences through this story have shown him that there are actually more opportunities available to him, and you know, it speaks to this idea, like, can we change? Can we evolve, and in that evolution, is there room to grow? You know, so, I think the stronger than we realize I think is Loki finally understanding that, really, by caring for other people, that maybe there’s power in that, and I found that very touching, and the whole thing is an extraordinary dream.

DEADLINE: Speaking of an extraordinary dream, you have been playing Loki for a decade now, since the first Thor movie, We know you are going to do some voice work in the animated What If…? series, but how has it been having this series directly centering on him, in all his variants, so to speak?

HIDDLESTON: You know Dominic, I have enjoyed it so much, because I felt it was a gift and a privilege to be invited to come and sit at the table and think about what the show might be. Also, I suppose so many of the things that I’ve discovered about Loki as a character in the comics and a character in the Norse myths, in the canon, aspects that I’ve always thought were interesting, and understandably, there hasn’t been time or space in the movies to explore them.

DEADLINE: In terms of who he is?

HIDDLESTON: Those aspects of him have been externalized and embedded into this new story about identity itself and about integrating the disparate fragment of the many selves that he is or perhaps the many selves that we are. You know, we contain multitudes. Loki certainly contains multitudes. We have met many of those multitudes, including Alligator Loki (laughs).

DEADLINE: Sounds like you’re not done with those multitudes yet. From your POV, from conversations with Kevin (Feige) is there more that you see for the character as the MCU heads into its next stages?

HIDDLESTON: Well, I certainly don’t have Kevin’s brain or encyclopedic knowledge or capacity for invention. I’ve been on the ride for a while, and it’s been the most extraordinary journey, and to have lived through different iterations, different phases of the MCU, and I’m so grateful that I’m still here, and it’s been amazing to watch. I feel that the MCU is even more expansive, is even braver, more inclusive than it’s ever been.

DEADLINE: How so?

HIDDLESTON: I think the stories are getting really exciting. Not that they weren’t before, but I think they understand that the investment of the audience is very deep, and they don’t take it for granted for a second. So, yeah, I suppose the perspective I have on how Loki might affect the ongoing course of the MCU is this idea of the multiverse. People have already understood it when Miss Minutes is introducing Loki to the TVA. She talks about the multiverse and the war and that the sacred timeline, which is reality as we know it.

DEADLINE: It opens up the aperture certainly for new stories from all opportunities, doesn’t it?

HIDDLESTON: It raises questions of, well, maybe there are other parallel or alternate universes. Maybe there are other realities, and the possibilities there are endless. I feel that at the end of episode five, Loki and Sylvie are close to discovering the answers to the questions that they have of who is behind the TVA and that, somehow, this will provoke even more curiosity about…

DEADLINE: …Because in the Marvel Universe, answering one set of questions always leads to another set of questions, in many ways.

HIDDLESTON: Right. Yeah. Yeah, and I know that there are lots of, you know, interesting titles of movies that’ve been announced, which kind of hint at where it might be going.

DEADLINE: One of those that hasn’t been officially announced, but is rumored is a Season 2 for Loki, in gear under the temporary title of Architect on call sheets and the like …

HIDDLESTON: Well, yes, maybe, as I say, all the kind of multiple alternate realities are …it’s taken me 10 years to get a handle on this sort of mono timeline. The idea that this might be a multiverse is actually beyond my knowledge of physics.

DEADLINE: Well, I doubt that, but let me ask, and no spoilers for the finale or further, but if Kevin, Marvel, Disney asked you to do more Loki, are you game?

HIDDLESTON: (laughs) I have learned, at this point, having said goodbye to the character more than twice, two and a half times maybe, to make no assumptions. So, I’m also aware that I’m only playing him because of the audience, really. So, it’s not up to me. But I do love playing him, and every time, I seem to find new, interesting things about him. So, yeah, I’m a temporary passenger on Loki’s journey, but we’ll see. We’ll see where the ride goes now.

DEADLINE: On the ride, as the finale looms, there’s a ton of fan speculation out there and so much that people have hooked on to from the show. So, as the man at the center of it, what was your favorite part of Loki the series?

HIDDLESTON: That there was meaning in the making of it.That we crossed the finish line in the middle of a global pandemic and could create something, and more than ever, I felt really grateful for being able to do this job. I think in this there are some of those questions that we were all asking ourselves in the last 18 months in the show, you know, what do our lives mean?📷I love taking Loki in new directions. I love the contributions of my fellow actors, of Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino and Richard E. Grant and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Wunmi Masaku, they all brought so much to the table, and I’ll always remember that. You know, I’ll always remember just being in Atlanta with all of them and making our bonkers show. Yeah.

DEADLINE: Making your bonkers show in Atlanta as the world, as America was still in the heat of the pandemic. What was that like, because you were in production and then everything stopped and then you came back, right?

HIDDLESTON: I mean, people have used this word a lot, but it really was unprecedented. I think we did six weeks of filming before the hiatus, and then the production was suspended for four or five months, and we came back. At first, it was unfamiliar because we had to make adjustments, but the thing I remember most of all, quite honestly, is the diligence and resilience and spirit of our cast and crew.

DEADLINE: Really?

HIDDLESTON: Yes, and it remains extremely special for me, this project, for that reason.For me, it just demonstrated the character of these amazing people. It took a huge amount of planning and care and looking after each other. By that, I mean, being in the bubble. So, for many of us, the only other human beings we saw, really, were each other. So, we came to work, and we became a team, and the circumstances fostered this extraordinary team spirit, and so the memory of making it is really my incredible and deep respect and affection for my fellow filmmakers. People like Trish Stanard, our line producer. Richard Graves, our first AD. Kristina Peterson, our second AD. Autumn Durald, DP. Kevin Wright, our supervising producer, and so many others making sure everyone could stay safe and look after each other.It’s really…I find it…it’s very moving, and it’s remarkable, and I just want to salute them all because I couldn’t have done any of it without them.

DEADLINE: In that vein, you have just come off filming The Essex Serpent with Claire Danes for AppleTV+. Very different from Loki, and yet also a tale of what is real and who we are. Is that what attracted you to it on some level?

HIDDLESTON: I read it and immediately connected to it. Read the screenplay, the adaptation. It’s based on a novel by Sarah Perry, which was published in 2016 and is set at the end of the 19th century. It’s an extraordinary story about uncertainty and about our deepest fears and how sometimes our fears can distort our imaginings and how our minds can lie to us. About how we have to guard against that, and Perry sets it in this extraordinary time with a beautiful leading character of Cora Seaborne, played by Claire. Anna Symon adopted it.

There’s this community on the east coast of England who believe that an ancient beast has been awakened by an earthquake and that it’s dislodged all these fossils. But perhaps, it has also dislodged this ancient underwater monster, which has been used to explain certain unusual phenomena. This was in the era when Darwin had just been published a few decades before and people are starting to think, this Charles Darwin, he’s onto something. Still, fear spreads very quickly, and it’s a very fascinating time where science and faith are in conflict.

DEADLINE: When you describe it like that it sounds very Loki indeed.

HIDDLESTON: Maybe the themes are very Loki. Maybe that’s where they join up, but I’m playing a 19th century vicar who is trying to contain his community. You feel very destabilized by all these rumors. So, yeah, to go from Loki to a vicar was definitely new, a new territory.

DEADLINE: Literally and figuratively?

HIDDLESTON: Well, it’s my first significant time in Essex, where we filmed, which I feel embarrassed about. I’ve been to Essex before, but I’ve never been to the very, very eastern, most eastern coast of Essex. It’s the Blackwater Estuary, which then feeds into the River Thames, and it’s a very ancient part of England. It’s so marshy, it’s where in Great Expectations, that’s where Pip meets Magwitch for the first time. It’s all foggy and muddy and marshy and quite atmospheric and a perfect place to set a story about of uncertainty and fear and gothic romance. Clio Barnard directed it, and working with her has been amazing.

DEADLINE: You know, it occurs to me that of all the main Marvel characters, Loki has been such a constant, yet so ethereal in so many ways too. Is it jarring for you to jump back into the role with all the uncertainty it brings?

HIDDLESTON: You know, I’ve always seen it as sort of an extraordinary and surprising constant in my life for a decade. But, I don’t take it for granted because I don’t often…you know, it may end. It has actually ended, and those endings have been conclusive. I really thought a couple of years ago, after I made Avengers: Infinity War, you know, we all know what happens in that scene, and I thought, that’s it.I thought it’s over, and I was really proud to have been part of it. I was grateful for my time, but I thought that, my work would go off in a different direction. So, the idea that I got to come back and have another go was a complete delight, it truly was.

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ilomilodailystuff · 4 years ago

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If You Love Me || Sylki Fanfic

...really love me

Loki x Sylvie fanfiction

[LOKI FINALE SPOILERS]

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(every mean comments about this ship will be deleted. If you don't like this ship, please just ignore.)

They did it, it was over. The impossible had come true.

Their heart beating wildly, the anguish of their uncertainty gradually fades as they understand the finality of it all.

Loki and Sylvie had joined forces to destroy the true mastermind of the TVA. The overpowered individual who pulled the strings behind the curtain.

The Goddess of Mischief dropped her bloodstained sword on the dark ground, making a loud metallic sound. He Who Remains had just gave his last breath.

Sylvie took a deep breath while staring at the inert body of the one who called himself The Conqueror. As Loki stood behind her, he watched her worriedly. She had just accomplished what she had fought for all her life. So many years feeding a justified anger towards one man, for it turned out that the Time Keepers were nothing but a sham. So many years of hiding, of surviving in the midst of so many apocalypses instead of just living fearlessly. Instead of living happily, instead of laughing, smiling, dancing, singing, enjoying the present moment, observing the universe and its many wonders without them being destroyed around her, loving and being loved in return... All of that was taken away from her, because The Ruler had decided to do so. Because only one man had made the decision to sacrifice her timeline and her family and those she loved. She had lost everything as a child, because a human had condemned her existence.

And now, the latter had just died. He had lived millions of lives, and the last had just ended, killed by the vengeful hand of an innocent orphan.

Slowly, Loki moved closer to her as he kept his eyes on her. Then when he was right behind her, he gently took her hand to try to get her out of her torpor. Her face turned to him as her gaze was drawn to the ground. She was still trying to regulate her breathing and realize the previous events.

"Come with me…" He half-murmurs, his blue eyes tinted with green watching his partner's reaction carefully, anxious to see her breaking down despite her strength to contain her emotions.

It was then that she nodded softly, still too absorbed by this decisive moment in her life. Sylvie turns to him with the intention of following him, no matter where he wanted to take her.

A few seconds later, both found themselves outside the entrance to the Citadel.

Loki went down the few steps, before sitting quietly on one of them. His teammate was not far away and she watched him get comfortable, while thousands of thoughts jostled in her mind. Curious, Loki brought his attention to her. When their eyes met, she began her steps to him to sit beside him on the step.

A deep sigh escaped her lips as she sat down comfortably, her eyes fixed in front of her, finally noticing the awe-inspiring beauty of the sacred timeline they both would have admired sooner if it were in a less disastrous context. But now as they ran after time, it was as if it has just stopped.

The variants observed this painting before them, this masterpiece born from space and the end of the universe. For a moment, a pleasant silence rocked them in a surreal dream. Their eyes shine brightly, illuminated by the cosmos and time materialised in a perfectly fluid and sparkling line. But also, their intense feelings took over and tears had formed.

Hesitant but at the same time strangely confident, Loki turned to Sylvie, only able to imagine how she felt now.

"You're okay ?" He dares to ask softly.

Suffering of an internal conflict, Sylvie keeps her eyes wide open and try to look indifferent.

"I accomplished my mission, how do you think I feel ?" She replies naturally, almost on the defensive.

"Relieved ?"

"Yeah, among other things." She confirms with obviousness.

Amused by her slightly aggressive responses which, according to him, are what make her what she is, the god of mischief ends up stretching a tender smirk, realizing that this tone will never leave her no matter the situations in which they find themselves, as dramatic and catastrophic as they may be.

Innocently, Sylvie ends up looking at her partner.

"Why do you smile ?" She asks.

He smiles a little more.

"The real question is... why don’t you ?" Loki retorts, eyebrows raised.

The Enchantress raised her eyebrows in turn, that desperate, lonely look that makes her charm appearing on her face. What to answer to that? She had learned that Loki was insightful about her, but she wasn't used to being the center of attention that much.

"Why seek answers to trivial questions." She asks rhetorically as she looks away from him.

After a while, Loki also turned away, dissatisfied with her answer but still preferring to let go.

"So this is it..." He starts. "It's done."

"It's done." Sylvie asserts, nodding her head a little.

His eyes going here and there, Odin's son was asking himself lots of questions. Including one in particular.

"What do we do now ?" He wonders, seeming lost.

Sylvie took a deep breath again, ignoring like him the future of events.

"Should we go back to the TVA ?" Loki continues, bringing his gaze back to the one person he trusted.

"Why ?" She asks softly. "They don't need us anymore."

"But we don't have to hide." He responds with a comforting smile. "We are their allies."

"Is that what you want, to go back to the TVA ? But to do what ?" She asks again, looking into his eyes.

He thought for a moment, trying to unravel this enigmatic knot, stepping into the unknown.

"The Sacred Timeline is free" He said, emphasizing the first words in an exaggerated and caricatural way. "Maybe once we get there, we can look for another timeline where we can... fit in ?"

A silence took hold of them, leaving for only words the looks they exchanged.

Sylvie then ends up lowering her gaze in the direction of her own hands, revealing between her fingers the object that the Conqueror kept around his hand. The tempad.

"How about we take a break, until one of us finds a place to go ?" She offers softly, lost in thought as she doesn't take her eyes off the object.

"What, here ?" Loki asks, uncertain and surprised by her answer.

"Why not..?" She replies, her eyebrows raised, her mind being elsewhere. "When you've seen thousands of apocalypses, The Void isn't as bad as it seems."

Loki takes the time to consider this idea, thinking about everything else. The members of the TVA, the sacred timeline that has become completely independent, the very few people to which he is attached. They had just accomplished something huge, should they just ignore the multitudes of consequences their act caused ?

"It's over, Loki." Sylvie said, looking up at him.

Again, his gaze plunged deeply into her eyes

"We did what we had to do." She continues, looking serene.

"What if they still need us ?" He asks, referring to the TVA, specifically Mobius and hunter B-15, the only two people who believed in them and offered their precious help.

Sylvie watched the sacred timeline as it gradually divided, and she sighed.

"I am tired." She admits, ignoring Loki's question. "And you ?"

Loki admired the many timelines that continued to split, before taking a deep breath.

"Yes, me too..." He answers softly, releasing his breath, releasing the pressure he had been holding since his arrival at the TVA and which he hadn't known he had kept in him all this time until now.

However, he couldn't shake off his negative thoughts and all his apprehensions about the completion of their mission and the impact it will have on the trillions of people the universe can create. The god of mischief had, against all odds, developed a conscience and a moral code. Yes, they had delivered the world by giving it back its free will. But for some reason that he didn't quite understand, he began to doubt.

And buried into his torment, Sylvie brought a comforting hand to his.

Loki laid his eyes on this delicate hand, yet belonging to that of a warrior, his heart missing a beat at the gentle contact of the one he had become crazy about. In this moment of complexity, in this major turning point for the multiverse, he almost forgot his feelings. He almost forgot the way they looked at each other in the Citadel as they walked into the darkness. He almost forgot the moment she had gripped his hand in the Void, in front of Alioth, hoping to help him unleash his enchantment powers.

Suddenly caught up in his emotions, he looked up uncertainly in the direction of his partner. Then, she gave him a brief smile, but oh so genuine. The same smile she had given him on Lamentis, while everything around them was death and destruction. Apparently everything was written. But he decided to ignore this detail that the conqueror had shared with too much pride.

Still confused by these unusual feelings, Loki returned that affectionate and heartwarming smile. Only, looking into her expressive eyes - but in the greatest secret, a loving gaze- he realized that the very thing he wanted above all now was to never leave her again. To stay by her side, as long as possible, even forever, better than that : beyond death. His desires made him all the more nervous. He never thought he would be so consumed by his moods, let alone by a loving emotion that possesses him more and more after each day he spends in her company. Nevertheless he wanted to seize this desire and make it come true.

This time, it is the TVA that he forgets, it is the universe that he neglect, it is the time that he ignores.

It is his glorious purpose that he gave up, because he found a new one...

"Sylvie..." He said, drunk with love for her. "I..."

"No, Loki, wait." Sylvie interrupts him, being totally lost and frightened at the same time. "I have to tell you something..."

"Yes ?" He asks, innocent, patient, in love.

She looked at him intensely, trying to express herself. Something seemed to upset her. Loki was trying to read into her eyes, to read her face, when no word could break the barrier of her lips. Disturbed by this confession, it turned out that it was getting stuck between the walls of her throat.

So the Prince of Asgard frowned, intrigued by the torture she was inflicting on herself through this mysterious revelation.

"I..." She starts before her lips instantly seal.

She took a deep breath, bracing herself for another attempt, as Loki's piercing, loving gaze dug into her pupils until it consumed her whole being.

When finally, in complete disarray, she ends up throwing herself at his neck.

Her lips crashed against his, tenderly, passionately but mostly timidly. Surprised but more than grateful for this proof of unexpected love, Loki was not long in returning her kiss with just as much fervor.

Sylvie had never been attached to anyone. She never wanted to be weak because of her feelings. She would never have dedicated herself to someone body and soul, for trusting and breaking down the imposing and solid walls she had built around her was inconceivable. And yet, faced with the many selfless acts of the one who had irrupted into her plan, she had found herself giving him importance. She hated knowing that she was only considering trusting him. She hated the fact that he could climb these walls she had locked herself between.

Worse yet, she was terrified to find herself reaching out to help him climb.

Eyes closed, they kissed each other with fragility, embarrassed to feel such intense emotions but oh how much they surrendered to them.

Sitting side by side, they relished this moment of sincerity and calm after all they had endured. The highlight of their journey. The completion of a battle for freedom, the same cause that the rightful king of Asgard fought against to make it inaccessible to the people of the earth. This cause that he finally chose to defend ; for him at the beginning, but for her on the way, and for the others at the end of their fight.

Slowly, they parted. Loki then dared to rest his forehead tenderly against hers. They kept their eyes closed, as if to immortalized this moment in their memories, for who knows what might happen to them tomorrow.

That's why he whispered these few words :

"You're right, I... I'm a little tired..." He admitted again hesitantly, unsettled by this moment of pure sincerity.

Keeping her forehead against his, Sylvie nodded gently, not daring to open her eyes to face the truth she still had trouble swallowing.

"Let's stay here..." Loki continues.

"Only for a little while." She continues nervously, muttering her desires like him, probably too afraid that someone will hear them or too embarrassed to admit she is weak in front of him, while he is weak in front of her.

"Yes, after all... If something goes wrong, they know where to find us, right ?" He responds with a raised eyebrow as he still kept his eyes closed, trying to reassure himself by making excuses to stay.

"Yeah, of course, nothing prevents Mobius from coming back here." She confirmed casually.

"Well, unless... Unless he had to prune himself." He said worriedly. "But it’s not as if we have no way to reach them !" He adds anyway, optimistic and trying not to feel guilty.

“Yes ! We have the--” She mimics his optimism, as she pulls away from his forehead to observe the object in her free hand.

"T-the tempad..." He confirms by muttering and nodding his head, bringing in turn his attention to the latter.

The taste of her lips was still too present on Loki's for him to think properly. However, he was trying.

Shyly, he finally looked at her again, a quiet smile displayed on his face.

Of course, Sylvie had noticed it. How to ignore him ? So, embarrassed, she gave him an uncertain look, having no idea how they should react now. After all, despite their thousand years of life, the variants had never really been devoted to feelings or romance that seemed more than superfluous and unnecessary at the time. Although they were aware of their emotions, repressed or not, knowing how to react to them was still an area to be explored.

The landscape around them gradually brought her back to reality. Then, looking worried, she turned her gaze to the entrance to the Citadel. She remembered the corpse of the He Who Remains, the one who had wiped out her timeline and certainly thousands more.

Loki frowned, noticing the change in expression on his partner's face.

"Are you sure you’re okay ?" He asks once more with patience.

Lost in thought, Sylvie continued to look at the place where everything had changed with a blank stare.

"No..." she sighs slowly.

The god of mischief was envious to possess the complicated mind of his variant for the sole purpose of finding the source of her ill-being. It would be enough for him to touch her to enchant her, now that he knows the secrets of enchantment. However, would he dare ? He hesitated for a fraction of a second, before totally rejecting the idea away from him. He was incapable of defying her trust, for he knew full well that he would risk a lot if he tried. Especially since he was still cruelly lacking in experience concerning enchantments.

"But when I wake up tomorrow knowing that the one responsible for all this horror is only a memory, then I could savor every second of my life." She asserts returning her attention to Loki as if nothing had happened, speaking with confidence and lightness.

Perplexed but somewhat reassured, he just nodded briefly, straining to accept her answer. However, something in him told him that she wasn't being entirely truthful.

"...Glorious purpose." He said, trying to lighten the mood.

"Mh..." She only answers, a quiet smirk nestling in the corner of her lips.

Calm eventually took over. Neither of them spoke, only watching the story of trillions of lives forming before their eyes in those many fluorescent lines.

"We're not leaving." He speaks up, his statement sounding more like a question mark.

"We're not leaving." She repeats with a little more conviction than him.

Slowly, he finally took a light breath, before sighing in contentment.

After an extremely difficult journey that could have cost them their lives, even though the Ruler had decided that they would be spared so that they could both achieve their goal, they were going to be able to rest, they were going to be able to breathe. Because even if the gods have more ability than humans to resist fatigue and pain, they could do nothing before the effervescence of their emotions. And as tough as they could be, they were tired, mentally and physically.

Thereupon, on this mutual agreement, the two variants had decided that it was time for them to rest for a while. They didn’t know what they were going to do. But they had decided to figure this out…

Together.

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twh-news · 4 years ago

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‘Loki’s Tom Hiddleston Teases Marvel Series Finale, What It All Means & Is There More Of The God Of Mischief To Come?

By Dominic Patten | Deadline

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first five episodes of Disney+’s Loki, & maybe the finale. Maybe.

EXCLUSIVE: “I have learned, at this point, having said goodbye to the character more than twice, two and a half times maybe, to make no assumptions,” says Loki’s Tom Hiddleston as the hours tick away to the finale of the Disney+ series drops early on Wednesday morning. “We’ll see where the ride goes now,” the Marvel alum adds. As always with almost any project from the Kevin Feige run studio, that ride could continue, at least in some form or another. Certainly, the June 9 ‘Glorious Purpose’ premiere of the Michael Waldron penned and Kate Herron directed Loki proved to be the Disney+ and the MCU’s biggest small screen success so far. Also with any Marvel project, past Emmy winner Hiddleston was elusive on what could be coming next, be it in the Loki finale, another season or another appearance in the movies as the MCU shifts into its next phrase.

One thing is clear, after a decade playing the God of Mischief, Hiddleston still has a lot of Loki on the brain, in the best way.

Leading towards the finale, I chatted with a UK-based Hiddleston about returning to play Loki and the search for who or what controls the seemingly all knowing, all powerful Time Variance Authority. The Night Manager star also spoke about filming during the coronavirus pandemic, working with Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, and Sophia Di Martino, who portrays variant and soulmate Sylvie, and his upcoming AppleTV+ series The Essex Serpent with Claire Danes.

DEADLINE: In terms of who he is?

DEADLINE: How so?

DEADLINE: It opens up the aperture certainly for new stories from all opportunities, doesn’t it?

DEADLINE: …Because in the Marvel Universe, answering one set of questions always leads to another set of questions, in many ways.

HIDDLESTON: Right. Yeah. Yeah, and I know that there are lots of, you know, interesting titles of movies that’ve been announced, which kind of hint at where it might be going.

DEADLINE: One of those that hasn’t been officially announced, but is rumored is a Season 2 for Loki, in gear under the temporary title of Architect on call sheets and the like …

DEADLINE: Well, I doubt that, but let me ask, and no spoilers for the finale or further, but if Kevin, Marvel, Disney asked you to do more Loki, are you game?

HIDDLESTON: That there was meaning in the making of it.

That we crossed the finish line in the middle of a global pandemic and could create something, and more than ever, I felt really grateful for being able to do this job. I think in this there are some of those questions that we were all asking ourselves in the last 18 months in the show, you know, what do our lives mean?

I love taking Loki in new directions. I love the contributions of my fellow actors, of Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino and Richard E. Grant and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Wunmi Masaku, they all brought so much to the table, and I’ll always remember that. You know, I’ll always remember just being in Atlanta with all of them and making our bonkers show. Yeah.

DEADLINE: Really?

HIDDLESTON: Yes, and it remains extremely special for me, this project, for that reason.

For me, it just demonstrated the character of these amazing people. It took a huge amount of planning and care and looking after each other. By that, I mean, being in the bubble. So, for many of us, the only other human beings we saw, really, were each other. So, we came to work, and we became a team, and the circumstances fostered this extraordinary team spirit, and so the memory of making it is really my incredible and deep respect and affection for my fellow filmmakers. People like Trish Stanard, our line producer. Richard Graves, our first AD. Kristina Peterson, our second AD. Autumn Durald, DP. Kevin Wright, our supervising producer, and so many others making sure everyone could stay safe and look after each other.

It’s really…I find it…it’s very moving, and it’s remarkable, and I just want to salute them all because I couldn’t have done any of it without them.

DEADLINE: When you describe it like that it sounds very Loki indeed.

DEADLINE: Literally and figuratively?

I thought it’s over, and I was really proud to have been part of it. I was grateful for my time, but I thought that, my work would go off in a different direction. So, the idea that I got to come back and have another go was a complete delight, it truly was.

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lokidrabbles · 6 years ago

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Healing Methods (Loki x Reader Oneshot)

Reader catches a cold; Loki has a couple of things up his sleeve.

It was certainly that time of the year, the dreadful one where your co-workers seemed to collectively fall ill together. While you prided yourself as one of those individuals who “never got sick,” luck played a cruel game of chance, leaving you a miserable, flustered, leaking mess in your cold, cold apartment. It was probably four days already, four days of burning nostrils, sore throats, inhuman sounds coming from your larynx, and of you ingesting unwanted amounts of expectorants and antihistamines.

Yes, you were terribly sick with a cold. And Loki thought you were absolutely revolting.

One of Loki’s many pros of being Jotun is his immunity to Earthly viruses, diseases, and common bacteria. So, needless to say, Loki did not comprehend your current state. It was just another thing to add to the list of reasons why humans were so “pathetic” and weak to mere tiny organisms.

Normally Loki would just avoid you in this situation, knowing (or not really caring) he would probably be the last person you’d wanted to be nagged or bothered by. Also you had become easily irritable at his snide remarks to you due to your throbbing head and fluctuating fever. You swore you saw an imaginary pair of devil horns grow on his head once he noted the bad mood you were in.

Like a snot nosed child, Loki made it his own personal goal to rile you up as much as he could. Mostly because he thought you attempts to hush him were, while admirable, quite hilarious.

It had been a long time since Loki had been able to live up to his reputation as the God of Chaos and Mischief.

And here you were, cuddled up against your couch in such a vulnerable state.

Such an easy target.

“Goodness, you look like death. What is that flowing from your nostril? You know, I don’t think I want to know. Please make sure you stand on the opposite end of the room, far away from me.” Loki retorted, mischief drizzled all over his face.

“I don’t recall inviting you here.” You retorted with a raspy voice, sounding horribly unappealing. A soft fleece blanket was wrapped over yourself and head included, with only a small opening allowing you to peer out with puffy eyes. You were a literal human burrito, with a pile of used tissue scattered around you. Truly a vision of beauty, you thought.

“Now, now.” Loki began, wagging his finger at you. “What is that saying? Ah, yes. Laughter is the best medicine. And I am here to cure you of this disgusting illness you’ve acquired.”

Deep within the layers of fleece, you shot daggers at him with narrowed eyes, only feeding his misdemeanor even more. You muffled something at him between your snot and sniffles, something he clearly made out as a plain “fuck you.”

Loki gritted his teeth in anticipation.

“Not while you’re leaking like this, dear.”

You revved up your leg accordingly, and shot out a firm kick at his ribs, purposefully shoving him off the couch.

He was being an absolute pain.

Loki landed with a soft thud on your floor, holding back his sniggering at how easily you were flustered by his tactful commentary. You humored him very well, maybe a tad too much.

You turned away from him justly so, burying your face deep in your blanket cocoon. “Go. Away.” You jabbed weakly.

Loki popped up right behind you, his hands tensing at the possibilities available to him precisely at this moment. You getting this upset and irked at him, riled him up even more.

“Are you certain you wish for me to leave you in such a critical condition? I mean look at you, in this defenseless, fetal position. Obviously, you aren’t getting any better...or cleaner.”

He gently patted your messy hair, only receiving a multitude of grumbling noises.

“Loki, if you want to share banter or want me to call you on your crap, I really don’t want to...ugh.”

Your voice became even more hoarse. Your throat dried up harshly, sending you into a fit of hacking coughs. Rightly so, Loki slowly backed away from you, getting a better understanding at just how bad you had gotten.

“Hmm, I’m rather disappointed (Y/N). Usually you’re more vocal and upright with your repartee towards me.” He teased, crossing his arms lazily over his chest.

You spun around and sat up to have a better view of him, wrapping and tightening your blankets much more snug over you. Loki only saw your pupils shoot up a glance towards him.

“I just need to lay in bed for a couple of days,” you began softly. “So I would appreciate it if you weren’t here to affirm my grossness.”

“You have been laying in bed for a couple of days already. And whatever your human doctors have recommended for your treatment, clearly isn’t working.” He gestured towards the entirety of your spectacle, indicating how terribly ill you clearly still were.

“What’s your point?”

Loki eagerly scooted closer to you, sitting justly on your coffee table, perfectly reaching you at eye level. You were tense, knowing he was conniving something sinister to either piss you off more, or to simply amuse him. Or both.

“Luckily, you have the benefit of having me as your endearing acquaintance, who just happens to have the perfect remedy for you.” He announced as a matter of fact.

You raised an eyebrow, clearly doubting every word he mentioned. “So far, you haven’t made me laugh at all Loki.”

“I wasn’t referring to that, dear. Your ineffectual Midgardian healing is doing nothing to better your state. Hence, I’ve propped up a little something from Asgard which will surely bring you back to your usual self in no time.”

His chin raised up high and prideful, obviously garnering much confidence in this Asgardian remedy he was offering to you. If you weren’t backed up with mucus, snot and phlegm, you probably would have wanted to plant a much needed kiss on his seemingly perfect mug.

“Okay, so some medicine from Asgard? Hmm.”

You were pensive for a brief moment. However at this point, you were willing to try anything just to make you breathe normally again. Also to stop Loki from being such a pest.

“Alright, let’s have it Dr. Loki.”

His fingers danced and wiggled meticulously, as a soft glow began to manifest itself at the palm of his hand. The glow began to take shape of a small round object, quickly flashing, and then slowly revealing this ancient remedy used by Asgardians for thousand and thousand of years...

A fig.

A small, round, purple fig.

It wasn’t...quite what you were expecting. You looked up at him, and then back down at the plain looking fruit, and then back up again in disbelief.

“Loki, a fig? Are you kidding me? How the hell is a fig supposed to help me?” He flicked your forehead with quick fingers, hushing you before you continued onto your rant towards him.

“This isn’t a fruit from Earth you fool. This is a fig from the healing shrubbery in Asgard. These small fruits contain properties which almost help heal almost any type of illness or disease. I’m very certain it should be enough to take away this pesky “cold” you have.”

Again, your doubt fell heavy, as Loki inched the small fruit closer to your face. You inspected it, squinting your eyes to ensure you weren’t just seeing things. No. It just looked like a plain old fig to you. One you could just easily buy at the market downtown.

“Are you messing with me again?”

He rolled his eyes far into the back of his head, clearly irked at your ongoing interrogation at his attempts to make you, you, feel better.

“ I realize you aren’t in the best condition now, but you should know by now when I am being serious. Look, take a small piece and you’ll see you’ll feel much better already.”

You sighed heavily, knowing there really wasn’t a way out of this. Truthfully, your appetite was suppressed due to the amounts of cough syrup you ingested earlier on.

“I don’t know, I’m not feeling particularly...fruity.” You chuckled slowly, followed up by another set of hoarse coughs.

Loki took the small fruit in both of his hands, carefully pulling apart open, to reveal a very bold tint of red, pulpy like substance. He carefully crafted a very small piece, bite sized, picking up carefully between his thumb and index fingers and holding it precisely in front of your lips.

“Open your mouth now, aah.”

Your nose became wrinkled and your eyebrows narrowed, slowly jerking your head backwards away from the foreign piece of fruit. It wasn’t as if you were very picky with food, but right now, a lot of things seemed quite nauseous. On top of that, Loki wanted to hand feed you. With his own hand, and fingers. Feeding you, on your lips, your nasty, crusty lips. You looked up at him again, clearly indicating your lack of comfort.

“I thought you said I was disgusting and you didn’t want to be anywhere near me.”

He gave you one of his signature smirks. However, there was a sort of fondness behind it. Loki’s eyes were gentle on yours, slowly providing you with some relief.

“Perhaps, but I’d rather have you in tip top shape in order to defend yourself against me. It’s rather boring when you aren’t being your usual witty self. So, open.”

You gently opened your mouth for him, shaking in the anticipation of the moment. Loki feeding you some type of magical fruit of the sorts, for the purposes of healing you. Taking care of you. If your face wasn’t red already, you would have easily blushed at this fact.

With his slender fingers, Loki carefully propped a small piece of the fruit, gently placing it at the tip of your tongue. The moment was mind-numbing, especially once you felt his cool fingers slightly brush on your lips.

On one hand, this would be an extremely intimate and romantic moment, as sweet fruit juices would hopefully cover your throat and provide you with swift relief. However these juices were far from sweet. They were sour, vinegar-y, pungent, and absolutely bitter. Nothing like a fig.

You shut your eyes harshly and your face became puckered at the intensity of tastes dancing on your taste buds. Your legs shook violently, as you let out a displeasing moan from your mouth after finally swallowing, gasping for air after the experience.

“That was...fucking...horrible!”

Loki’s mouth was twisted, obviously fighting back, again, a fit of laughter at your child like reaction to its taste. He covered his mouth immediately with a free hand, letting out a pronounced series of giggles.

“Ehehehehe.”

You continued to swallow, attempting to wash away the repugnant taste away with your own saliva. You darted a glance of pure indignation at him.

“Why didn’t you tell me it was going to taste like this! Blegh!”

“Oh! Did I forget to mention how severely bitter and acidic this particular fruit was?” He asked coyly, and then shrugged. “It must have...just not crossed my mind at all.”

Oh, you little ass-hat. You knew he was plainly lying through his teeth. You knew he, again, wanted to continue messing around with you. And it worked, worst of all.

“God, you suck Loki. Go away.” You said in defeat, bundling yourself up more.

“Okay, I admit, that was for my own amusement.” He replied, biting his thumb in anticipation. “It was indeed hilarious. However, this fruit truly does help heal all types of illnesses. The catch though, for it to work well...”

You shook your head violently. “No, no, no more!”

“(Y/N), you need to eat it entirely to feel better. Please, have trust in my words. I promise, I am not jesting with you anymore.”

You closely shut your lips tight together, determined in letting no other piece of food in your mouth, even if it was provided by Loki.

He clenched his jaw at your act of defiance.

“I wasn’t asking.”

His tone sent shivers down your spine, making your loosen up your lips immediately. When he wanted to, Loki was terrifying, and you knew he wasn’t playing around with you anymore.

“...fine.”

“Ah, good human.” His jaw loosed up as well, very pleased at your compliance with him.

“But!” You exclaimed softly. “You need to feed me every little piece.”

He arched an eyebrow at you, noting the twinkle in your eye. “Oh? Is that so?”

You nodded, propping yourself up straight, and justly opening your mouth, tongue slightly sticking out. You weren’t looking forward to it at all, but at least you could get some amusement and enjoyment out of it. Who wouldn’t want to be hand fed by an Asgardian god?

He chuckled. “Sly little human. By tomorrow you’ll be feeling much, much better. And perhaps we can put that little tongue of yours to some better use?”

You coughed harshly, again, completely ruining the moment.

“...Perhaps not.”

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bucky-my-barnes · 7 years ago

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Preference #4: First Date!

Tony:

The two of you walked towards the diner that Tony had in mind, while part of you was so tired all you wanted to do was sleep for a year. The other part was screaming about how you were going on a date with Tony Fuckin’ Stark. “Toby is doing much better by the way, that is the name of the little boy you saved earlier today.”You explained with a bright smile.

“You mean the little boy we saved today, he wasn’t even technically alive when I showed up, that was all you darling.”Tony said placing a hand on the small of your back as he held the door open for you.

“I suppose that is true, but you did get him to the hospital in time for them to actually save his life.”You chuckled following him towards a booth in the corner. The host laid menus down in front of you so you started to look before ordering whatever sounded the best.

After you ate you couldn’t help but get lost in his brown eyes as he spoke about his life and what he had been through. Softly he placed his hand on top of yours breaking you out of the small trance he had caught you in. “The reason I asked you out is because you have a lot of the qualities I admired in my mother. The want to help someone even when it’s not up to you, the kindness I see in your eyes. I really hope that you will allow me to take you out again.”Tony said sincerely as two slices of apple pie were placed in front of you, the vanilla ice cream melting slowly on top.

“I would love to Tony.”You replied digging your fork in happily. Sure you knew of his past, but everyone has one and he was being extremely sincere so you wanted to give him a chance.

Steve:

Steve had taken it upon himself to plan every detail of your date out, the only thing was he didn’t seem keen on sharing any of them with you. Beyond the fact that you needed to bring a swimsuit, you had no idea what he had in store for the two of you. Getting ready you looked in the mirror one last time as your doorbell rang, revealing that he had arrived. Walking out you saw his motorcycle feeling a little bit of fear in the pit of your stomach as you had never ridden one before. Handing you a helmet he flashed you a knowing smile, able to see through to your true feelings.

“Don’t worry I promise I’ll take care of you.”He chuckled wrapping your arms around his waist taking off down the road. It took awhile to reach your destination but when you did, it left you speechless. There was a picnic set up on the beach down by the water, and it seemed you two were the only ones there despite it being a rather nice day out.

“Wow, all of this for me?”You asked in disbelief as you walked towards the blanket sitting down. Not only was there food of all types but there was an expensive bottle of wine that you were sure had to be paid for by Tony because who could afford something like that naturally?

“It will never be enough.”Steve smirked as he handed you over a glass of wine, and a long stem rose.

The two of you talked and ate for what felt like minutes but was probably more like hours. Suddenly he got a glint in his eye that seemed rather mischievous taking you by surprise in that moment. Standing up, he grabbed you throwing you over his shoulder running off towards the water dunking you both below the surface. As you reemerged you splashed water at him furiously to try and get him back, even though you were both already soaked head to toe. Laughing he picked you up twirling you around, the sunset causing a light glow being cast over you the indiscretion quickly forgotten.

Clint:

When Clint told you to meet him at SHIELD at 6 PM for your date you were curious as to where you were going but it require athletic like clothing and footwear he mentioned. So you weren’t exactly surprised or upset when you found out you were going hiking at some foot trails nearby. Taking your hand in his he started leading the way along one of the paths, seemingly knowing exactly where he was taking you. The conversation was light and fruitful making you feel at ease, but then again you always did around him. Reaching the top of a cliffside you were amazed at the sight in front of you.

The sun was setting in the valley leaving the sky a multitude of different shades of pink, yellow, orange, and just a hint of purple fading into the dusk. “It’s so beautiful Clint.”You marveled unable to tear your eyes away not even realizing he was looking at you with the same fervor.

“You’re right it is.”He said still not even caring about the sunset. “I also brought pizza and beer, I know it’s not the most romantic of dinners but I thought it would be fitting after being healthy and hiking all the way here.”He joked as he pulled his backpack off his back pulling a blanket out setting it down for the two of you to sit. Then he pulled out containers of food, and bottles of beer that were miraculously still cold.

“To future dates!”You declared holding your beer out tapping the neck against his in cheers.

“To many more.”He said with a smirk before taking a drink finally taking in the beauty that was spread across the sky.

Bruce:

Bruce had invited you to dinner and after some debate you had decided you would go to a new local Japanese style restaurant. From the menu they provided online it seemed like a lot of new things that you both had never tried but wanted to. Sure it wasn’t the most romantic of options but you didn’t really need that to have a good time with him. Taking your seat across from him you really wanted to reach up and touch the soft curls lining his forehead. It took every ounce of you not to, fearing that it would make it a little awkward. This was your first date after all, one of many you hoped if it all went well.

The waiter approached with a pen and pad in hand waiting for your order. “Why don’t you just surprise us with your best dishes?”Bruce suggested looking to you for confirmation, accepting your nod. All the different foods were amazing, there wasn’t anything that the two of you didn’t like.

Upon finishing you felt so full that you were groaning playfully holding your stomach. “Good food, but even better company.”You said softly making Bruce turn a bright pink across his cheeks.

“I agree, and I really want to see you again.”Bruce said touching your hand that lie on the table softly.

“You act like you have a choice.”You joked leaning over the table kissing his cheek. “You are kind of stuck with me now.”You laughed making him smile wider than you had ever seen before. It was one that you swore was going to be on your mind everyday for the rest of your life.

Thor:

Months had passed since you had last seen Thor, and you had begun to wonder if you were truly ever going to see him again. That was until Jane called you at five that morning alerting you that it appeared Thor was due to appear any time now. Of course you were there awaiting his arrival when it did happen almost two hours later. “THOR!”You called out running directly for him leaping into his arms happily.

“Lady/Sir (Y/N) I have missed you ever so much.”He shouted loudly picking you up into a bone crushing hug that you would definitely be feeling later. “I have returned to take you on our date or outing.”He said pushing the hair out of your eyes upon setting you back down on the ground. “I have heard stories of this place called a Zoo where creatures of Midgard are contained, I would like to see them all!”He said boisterously.

“That is a great idea, we can make a day of it. I know the perfect place, they will even let you feed some of the animals.”You explained leading him over to your car. “By the time we get there they will probably be open!”You smiled unlocking the door for him before getting in the driver’s seat.

Reaching your destination you felt the excitement oozing off of Thor, making you feel like you were a little kid again yourself. “Let’s go to the petting zoo first, it’s always the best even if it’s for children.”You giggled grabbing his hand dragging him over to where the goats and other animals deemed safe to pet were held.

As the day came to a close you felt so much closer to the God having shared some of your culture with him, then hearing his stories of his family and Asgard. Also you were relishing in the fact that he was now going to be a part of the Avengers and therefore on Midgard more often. It was the beginning of something beautiful, or at least you wanted it to be.

Loki:

Taking Loki’s hand you kept your eyes locked on each other, and it was probably a good thing for the staring that was taking place would have been quite intimidating. Not only were you receiving it from onlookers but from other dancers as well. It seemed that there were many who were jealous of you, and your closeness to the Prince. Smoothly you moved in time across the floor, in flawless actions making you seem almost like you were gliding.

When you finally took in those around you, you began to feel a little out of place truly wondering if you were good enough to be dancing with Loki at all. Quickly he pulled you in closer than was considered appropriate but only to whisper in your ear. “They are just jealous that I get to dance with the most exquisite one alive for the entire night.”

“I believe it’s actually because you deserve better than I.”You responded softly airing your true thoughts knowing it was better than lying to the God of Lies and Mischief.

“There is no better than yourself (Y/N), don’t believe that for a moment.”Loki said spinning you elegantly before twirling you back into his chest, making it so you could feel his heart beating as wildly as yours. The faces in the crowd now but a memory at his words, it seemed they weren’t kidding when they stated that he had a silver tongue. As the words would stay with you long after he had spoken them, even if he didn’t realize it.

Pietro:

Picky wasn’t the right word when it came to how you were when it came to dates. It had to be something genuine and not just dinner and a movie. Sure that was okay sometimes but you wanted originality, and Pietro was happy to provide. When you woke up that morning there was a cup of coffee waiting for you on your nightstand somehow still steaming with a note laid underneath. It told you to meet him on the roof of Avenger Tower at 10 PM for the date he had been planning, and to wear something comfortable. If anything you had to give him an A for effort so far, it was more than others had done for you previously.

Wearing a comfy hoodie, and sweatpants you headed up to the roof about five minutes before 10. Upon reaching the top you couldn’t believe your eyes, a giant projector screen was set up, accompanied by fairy lights gently glowing around a set up of blankets and pillows. Popcorn, pizza, candy, soda, any kind of movie snack you could imagine was set up in front of it. Standing before you was Pietro in a similar outfit to your own holding out a bouquet of (Y/F/F) with a sheepish look on his face.

“I didn’t know exactly what to do, but I wanted our first date to be extra special.”Pietro said biting his lower lip waiting for your reaction.

“Piet, I love it! No one has even taken the time to do anything like this for me before.”You said still in awe as you wrapped your arms around his neck happily embracing him. Sitting down next to him digging in to the feast of junk food in front of you while the movie started to play. Surprisingly enough it was (Y/F/M) and you had never told him that it was. “Wow I can honestly say I didn’t see this coming.”You said smirking widely now rendering him speechless.

Peter Parker:

Too many thoughts were running through your head as you started getting ready for Homecoming. Having tried on several different outfits Nat and Wanda had picked out for you, you finally decided on the blue outfit with the red accent pieces. It may or may not have been subconscious, or slightly on purpose. Also you had long decided if Peter revealed his secret to you for any reason you would not hold back yours any longer. While your father had no idea of your plan, it didn’t matter because like him once you had made up your mind, it was nigh impossible to get you to change it.

To keep up appearances you met Peter at the dance so that you didn’t have to direct him to Avenger Tower where you lived. Even your father had no idea you were going on a date with his intern/Spider-Kid and for now you wanted to keep it that way. Falling for the boy you were supposed to be protecting wasn’t your intention going into it, but you couldn’t stop yourself either. “Wow you look amazing.”A voice said breaking you out of your thoughts causing you to look up and see Peter in his suit.

“So do you.”You said your mouth dropping open just slightly at his appearance. “Should we go in?”You asked timidly, the feeling being genuine for once instead of a front.

“Uh yeah definitely.”Peter said holding his arm out for you to take, immediately directing you to the dance floor once inside. A slow song started playing and you both started swaying along with the music, him gently leading you. Words weren’t needed you both were saying everything you needed with just your eyes, never once leaving the other’s. It was a night you were going to remember for the rest of your life, and you never wanted it to end.

Bucky:

Since it was an impromptu date there weren’t a whole lot of choices that you guys could do that wasn’t one of the regular options. That was until you remembered that your friend’s band usually did live music in the park during lunch time on Wednesday’s. Grabbing Bucky’s hand you started dragging him towards Central Park only stopping to grab some street meat from one of the vendors perched down there clearly taking advantage of the music. Sitting on the ground you patted the spot next to you for him to take. Luckily the band was just getting started and they played a lot of soft rock music easy to listen to.

“So you hear a lot about my life story what about yours?”Bucky asked taking a bite of his lunch looking to you curiously.

“Well my family life has always been a little unstable so I ran away from home at 16 to live with my Grandparents and from there I wanted to be able to help others like me. So I started studying psychology and got into therapy myself so that I could become a healthier person in the long run. It hasn’t really been easy, but I have gotten to meet some people in my life that have made my struggles worth it. I am glad to say you are one of them Bucky.”You explained with a small smile placing your hand on his knee.

“I didn’t think I could have a life outside of what HYDRA had made me, but you have proved me very wrong and I have never been more thankful for anyone besides Steve.”Bucky said trying to refrain from getting choked up.

“I’m not going anywhere Bucky, I’ll be here as long as you want me to.”You said reassuringly leaning your head on his shoulder letting the music take you both over, living in the moment.

Sam:

Pulling on your favorite jeans and a sweater you wanted to be comfortable but warm when you and Sam took on the Haunted House. You had to admit it was a creative idea, and it was something you hadn’t done since you were younger. When you guys got there you decided to just jump right in and start with the haunted attractions they had to offer. First was a haunted maze which wouldn’t have been so bad had you not gotten followed by someone a little too closely making you grip on tightly to Sam’s hand. Sure he was an Avenger and fully capable of keeping you safe, but then why did he look terrified too?

“Run (Y/N)!”He yelled out suddenly dragging you through the maze every which direction getting you both horribly lost. Now you weren’t being followed, but at the same time you also didn’t know if you would be able to find your way out from here. Eventually you had to call someone from the staff to help you get out and instead of immediately going to the next thing you decided to grab some hot chocolate from the concession stand.

“Well for an Avenger you're not very brave.”You joked blowing on your drink before taking a sip.

“I saved you didn’t I?”Sam asked defensively eyeing you curiously over his drink taking a drink himself.

“Define save, and maybe replace with got us hopelessly lost?”You laughed nudging him lightly enough not to spill on him, happy the warmth of the drink was bringing feeling back to your hands.

“Hey any time I spend with you, is worth getting hopelessly lost for.”Sam said kissing your cheek making you flush super warm at his touch.

Natasha:

Actually you had never been on a formal date before so you didn’t really know what to expect, having been a product of HYDRA. Since you hadn’t really experienced it before Nat wanted to go do something fun but intimate at the same time. Dancing was the solution that she had come up with, and well it was her so you weren’t about to argue. Getting dressed up in one of your favorite outfits that made you look sexy, you couldn’t help but check yourself out in the mirror approvingly. Walking out to meet her at her room you lost your voice the second she walked out in a killer red halter style dress that accented her every curve.

“Is it just you or is it hot in here?”You blurted out before you could even think about it but luckily it earned a genuine laugh from the woman before you.

“I think it’s all you babe.”Nat said smirking giving you a quick wink before taking your arm leading the way to the car.

Reaching the club you had no idea what was going to be inside but your idea certainly wasn’t a sea of people spanning the entire dance floor. Suddenly you found yourself in the center of the madness with Nat’s body pressed up against yours. There wasn’t a song you recognized but that didn’t matter, the only thing you could focus on was the feeling of her against you. Placing your hands on her waist you matched her movements unable to believe you were actually getting to hold her at all. Closing your eyes you soaked up each moment wanting to spend forever in her arms.

Wanda:

Deciding on a cute little Italian Bistro your friend recommended you couldn’t wait for your date with Wanda. Calling ahead you made a reservation and asked for them to reserve a specific bottle of wine that you knew was kind of pricey but totally worth it for her. Putting on a nice outfit that consisted of black pants, a red top, and a nice black leather jacket you took a good look in the mirror before going to pick her up. Knocking on her door you were amazed at just how beautiful she looked in front of you in a little black dress with her red leather jacket over it. “You are so gorgeous.”You gasped barely above a whisper earning a huge smile from her.

“Thank you, you look incredibly sexy if I must say. I do like the leather jacket.”Wanda smirked shamelessly looking you up and down.

“I thought you might wear yours so I wanted to match.”You admitted rubbing the back of your head slightly ashamed as you opened the car door for her.

Entering the restaurant it was everything you had been told it was, including down to the bottle of wine. The waiter pouring it over chilled grapes in large wine glasses before the two of you. “A toast, to the most beautiful girl I have ever met, and hopefully to more dates like this one.”You said holding yours out to Wanda.

“To many many more.”Wanda nodded agreeing as she hit her glass on yours before taking a sip relishing in it’s complex taste making you wish that you were suddenly that wine glass between her lips.

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Loki’s Head Writer Loves Alligator Loki As Much as You Do

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The following contains Loki spoilers.

Loki episode 5 introduced a multitude of new Loki variants, including an older Classic Loki sporting the character’s iconic comic costume, a younger Kid Loki version, and most importantly: Alligator Loki. This small reptilian variant – complete with tiny golden horns! – is apparently just as much of an Asgardian trickster as his more human counterparts. (Even though, admittedly, his very existence raises some legitimate questions about his birth and adoption status that the show does not and sadly will probably never address.)

While Alligator Loki’s screentime during “Journey into Mystery” is relatively limited, he nevertheless steals every scene in which he appears – and all of our hearts along the way – thanks to his sassy growls and penchant for violence. Because let’s face it, no matter what you were expecting from Loki, an alligator version of the character biting the hand off another, entirely different version of the character was probably not it. Embrace the chaos, Marvel!

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Despite Classic Loki’s heroic sacrifice at the end of the episode and the chilling admission from Kid Loki that he succeeded in killing his brother Thor, it’s Alligator Loki who has firmly emerged as the series’ most talked about Loki variant. Just look online, where a steady stream of memes, fan art, and behind-the-scenes tweets are actively celebrating the arrival of our new reptilian God of Mischief. A (surprisingly cute) Funko Pop is already available for pre-order and I know I can’t be the only person desperately hoping that we’ll get some sort of cuddly plush in the very near future.

In short: Alligator Loki has reached Baby Yoda status, and we’re all going to have to live with it. (This is not a bad thing, by the way.) It turns out that even Loki head writer Michael Waldron is not immune to Alligator Loki’s many charms, naming him the best Loki variant of all.

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“I mean they’re all unique and interesting in their own way,” Waldron tells Den of Geek. “But Alligator Loki, he’s my favorite.”

This admission actually carries more weight than fans may initially be aware of. According to Waldron, the first draft of Loki’s fifth episode included even more Lokis than the roughly 15 different variant versions we see pop up during the hour.

“Tom Kaufman, who wrote episode five, he’s an amazing writer who wrote for Rick and Morty, and his first draft had so many different Lokis, I can’t even remember all of them now,” Waldron says. “But there was such a buffet of different Lokis.”

Clearly, none of them could compete with a Loki who was, in fact, an entirely different species. And since this same episode also shows us Frog Thor briefly, I think we have to assume that there may well be timelines where every Avengers character is actually a different type of animal. Future What If…? episode fodder, perhaps?

Though it seems unlikely that we’ll see Alligator Loki again this season, Loki is a show where multiple timelines exist, a seemingly endless variety of every character is out there somewhere, and pretty much anything feels possible.

Basically: Gritty Alligator Loki origin story when?

“Of course! Just wait,” Waldron says.

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January 30, 2014: the March issue of Elle UK was released featuring Tom Hiddleston A God Among Men.

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Tom Hiddleston: A god among men?

Hollywood A-lister, ELLE writer, YouTube sensation – Tom Hiddleston’s cult status is evident on every platform. And, as ELLE’s Annabel Brog discovers, he’s not afraid of revealing, well, everything.

When ELLE’s Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Candy was at Wimbledon last year, she rather naively tweeted afterwards: ‘I sat next to actor Tom Hiddleston and his girlfriend Jane. He’s a very funny man.’ She has never – bear in mind this is a mother of four who edits a fashion magazine, which puts her high on a certain demographic hit-list – been trolled like it. The responses veered between righteous fury that she had outed Hiddleston as being ‘With Girlfriend’, and rather bloodthirsty expressions of envy that she had, you know, talked to him.

Tom Hiddleston inspires fervour in his fans. He’s an extraordinary actor who has won universal acclaim – his roles include feckless Prince Hal in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown; sweet, doomed Captain Nicholls in Spielberg’s War Horse; and currently the blood-drenched warrior Coriolanus at the Donmar Ware- house – but it’s his performance as pallid, sociopathic god of mischief Loki in the Thor and Avengers Assemble films that catapulted him into the stratosphere. To put it in context: Hiddleston recently donated a pair of signed Converse to the Small Steps charity auction, alongside the likes of Mick Jagger and Kate Moss. His shoes sold for £4,500 (more than anyone else’s). He is very appreciative of the interest, while simultaneously being uncomfortable with the idea of fame. ‘Do I like it? It’s sort of inconsequential in a way, a weird corollary to everything else I’ve done. I cannot tell you how surprising it is. It’s like, really? REALLY? I honestly try not to think about it too much.’

We are nestled under a heater in the beer garden of a north-west London pub on a chilly December evening. Hiddleston is drinking whiskey, which is part of my cunning strategy to break him down – he has always given me the impression of being very prepared in interviews – but it doesn’t work. After five shots, he remains entirely in control.

Nonetheless, he is rather adorable: ferociously bright (he went to Eton, then Cambridge, where he got a double first), earnest ('I know. I’m sorry. I can’t help it’), obliging, and old-fashioned. Partly that’s his classical- ly handsome face, partly it’s his impeccable manners, and partly it’s the way he constructs his sentences.

Describing his favourite book, William Boyd’s Any Human Heart, for instance, he says, 'Like all life, it contains multitudes’; or, on opening up to new people, 'I fear I am initially quite private.’ When he is sure of his subject – talking about work, family, culture – he is eloquent and assertive. When he is less certain – typically on the subject of himself – his voice rises slightly in inadvertent questions: 'I’m solitary [but] I don’t think that’s a good thing, I think I’m better in company?’ Or: 'I know that there’s this thinking capacity, which is possibly not a good thing?’

Tom William Hiddleston is 33 (on 9 February, to be precise), a middle child with one sister 15 months older, and another five years younger. His childhood sounds like a simple, pleasurable place. 'I have memories of climbing trees and watching The Snowman, with David Bowie introducing it in his snowman scarf.’ He starts to laugh. 'When I actually learned who David Bowie was, I was like, “That’s the man from The Snowman”. And people were: “Never say that again. That’s Ziggy Stardust. Shut up!”’

His parents are incredibly proud of him: 'It’s taken us a while to get there. It’s one of those conversations I don’t have with them, but I just know that they are [proud]. If we [he and his mother] start talking about it, we will both collapse in a heap of tears. It’s moving to make your mother proud.’

Growing up surrounded by women has had a glorious effect on his view of them. 'I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.’ He is also – praise the Lord for men like Hiddleston – very romantic. When asked about love and relationships, he simply says, 'Honesty is a gift – to be honest about who you are and how you feel – because it encourages intimacy, and intimacy is really where’s it at. To be known and know someone is an amazing feeling, and you don’t get there if you’re pretending to be anyone else.’

Hiddleston voices Captain Hook in Disney’s Tinker Bell And The Pirate Fairy (out this month), and has a high-impact cameo in Muppets Most Wanted. But his next lead in a film is in an homage to both strong women and love. Only Lovers Left Alive is an enchanting, funny, somnolent Jim Jarmusch project in which he plays Adam, a 500-year-old vampire rock star with suicidal leanings. 'Adam is a delicate soul,’ says Tom. Adam is, indeed, delicate, but he is also (and this is where Tom’s gift for comedy comes into play) sweet and entirely useless, a reclusive musician suffering the despair of being eternal. Think undead My Chemical Romance fan. He stars opposite Tilda Swinton, who he says is just like her giddy, optimistic character, Eve. 'She’s the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s seemingly effortless. She’s very, very warm. Tilda and I would be laughing sometimes and Jim would come in and say [he adopts a lazy Ohio drawl]: “Taaammmm, you smile a lot, man. And Adam doesn’t smile so much.”’ He also loved the purity of the love story. 'Adam is so deeply flawed, and depressive, and melancholic. But Eve just loves it, loves his commitment to it. We were trying to make a film about acceptance. And true love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.’

So Hiddleston is clever, eloquent, charming, sensitive and earnest. But then there’s that other side, the spontaneous and silly side, best seen on YouTube, where he has become an inadvertent sensation due to the fact that 'I don’t know what my boundaries are, I just say yes to things’.

That’s how he ended up throwing some serious shapes on Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which, for the record, was 1) not planned: 'I promise I had no idea I was going to do that’; and 2) the genuine Hiddleston disco experience: 'If you asked me to dance now, it would be the same moves. That’s my dance.’ He can also be seen sing- ing Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror on Korean TV, because the talk show host asked him which part of his body he had most confidence in and he said his voice. (And, yes, he was tempted to say something smutty: 'I’m English, so I’m dirty.’) His own favourite clip features him teaching the Cookie Monster a lesson in delayed gratification. ('Are you saying if me wait, me going to get cookie?’) 'I’m proud that I’ve met him.

He’s the Cookie Monster, a cultural icon. My mum loves it and my niece loves it. She’s two years old and she thinks there’s nothing illogical about Uncle Tom speak- ing to the Cookie Monster.’

So when we meet for the second time, after he comes off stage at the Donmar, I am tempted to see if the no-boundaries thing is for real. There is beer involved (the man can drink) and a line of questioning veering from the absurd to the inappropriate. Put it this way, he’s a very good sport…

Annabel Brog: Will you throw me your best insults?

Tom Hiddleston: [Laughs] Why are we doing the insult game?

AB: Just go with it, I can take it.

TH: Um. 'You utter, utter [with increasing emphasis], utter c**k’ is good.

AB: I just wondered if foul language, delivered beauti- fully, sounds less foul. Which, in fact, it does.

TH: When I get angry with myself, when I forget lines, I’ll be like, 'You absolute f **king f **k c**k b***ocks p**s f **k. You, you… f **ker’.

AB: You say that to yourself ?

TH: Yes.

AB: How do you feel afterwards?

TH: I feel better! The word f **k is enormously satisfying.

AB: OK, I am going to describe teenage Tom to you and you are going to tell me how accurate I am.

TH: [Grins] OK.

AB: I’ve realised this may be quite insulting. Please remember it’s only a game.

TH: That’s totally fine. It may well be more favourable than the truth.

AB: Teenage Tom wasn’t uncomfortable with girls, but he didn’t get to touch one for quite some time. First kiss, 16.

TH: NO! [Emphatic] First kiss 10! Yes, 10 years old, tongues and everything. [Laughs] She was a huge crush, we were in the same class, a lot of note swap- ping, and eventually it all went down in a cricket pavilion on an autumn night. It was very thrilling.

AB: I got it so wrong.

TH: I was sometimes quite alarmed by friends of mine at school who didn’t have sisters, the way they treated girls, the way they spoke about them… I was like, 'Guys, they’re not aliens, they’re human beings.’

AB: You hear stories about Eton schoolboys, and the fan girls who line the cricket pitches when they play… TH: I don’t relate to that at all. I didn’t have a serious relationship until I was about 19. I fell head over heels in love and I was with her for two years, and it was an amazing relationship. So I don’t know who those girls are, who line the cricket pitches.

AB: How would you describe yourself as a boyfriend?

TH: Very honest, I hope. God, I don’t know. I hope I’m fun, I hope I’m a good time. Sponta- neous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind. Dancing… a lot of dancing. I insist upon dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. The more dancing, the better.

AB: [Referring to an incident last year when Tom, on a press call with Swinton for Only Lovers Left Alive, was photographed in a revealingly tight trousers] Cannes. Trousergate. Discuss.

TH: Trousergate?

AB: Please tell me you know what I am referring to.

TH: What are you… I genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about. Cannes?

AB: Oh God, really? Oh no. OK, OK, shall we move on?

TH: [Squeaky] What��s trousergate? [Clears throat] Trousergate…

AB: Maybe I should just get it up on the iPhone and show it to you.

TH: OK, get it up on the phone.

[AB types 'Tom Hiddleston Cannes’ into Google Images and hands him the phone]

TH: [Slowly] Ohhhhhh heavens…

AB: It has a Tumblr account and everything.

TH: Oh God. [Laughing but horrified] How monumentally shaming! What does one say to something like that? What do I say? Do I need to explain it? I don’t think I can.

AB: Would you like to move on from this subject?

TH: Maybe. Yes…

AB: OK.

TH: [Determined] Look, I had a very interesting experience going to Cannes. An airplane in Heathrow caught fire and they shut down the whole airport. There were no tickets on Eurostar. All the flights from Gatwick were booked. So I got in a taxi and drove to Dover. I got on the ferry at 2am, with people on the booze cruise, and students going on hockey tours, got to Calais at 5am, another taxi to Paris airport, flew to Nice, landed about 11.30am, went through customs, got in another cab and drove to straight to THAT photo call, where THAT picture was taken, having changed in the car on the way there. So I think I look all right, for someone who’s been up all night.

AB: You look great. [Long pause] It’s just a shame no one’s looking at your face.

TH: [Laughs] They’re looking at Tilda! That’s what they’re looking at.

You can’t really profile Tom Hiddleston without going there on his looks. He is, in the flesh, a deter- mined and imposing physical presence. If you have seen his Coriolanus – raging with pride and betrayal – you will know this, and on the ELLE shoot it is evident most when we film him running. Hiddleston has a fine-looking run. He may look like a matinee idol; he may speak like a 19th century poet; but watch him run and you are suddenly very aware that he is 21st century man. It would be nice, I suggest, to see him in a role that’s unquestioningly modern. 'I would really like to,’ he says. 'I’m knocking at the door, honestly.’

As expected, he is game for anything on our shoot. He hurls plastic chairs across the warehouse, he sprints down Scrubs Lane, and he scares the crap out of the whole team by leaping over the railing of a 10-foot stair- case, which would have ended his Coriolanus run rather spectacularly if it went wrong. At the end of the day, Hiddleston is hard to pin down. He tells me a story,about a spontaneous, solo trip he took to Hawaii after he flew to LA to audition for a part he didn’t get.

'I went canoeing with whales, ran around the island, climbed the volcanoes. There's this beach where all the surfers go to challenge themselves, the waves are like 30 feet high, and I was introduced to this lifeguard by some landscape gardeners I met. We were watching these kite surfers and I was in awe, frankly, of their courage and I said, "Why would you do that? It's so dangerous." And he looked at me with this amazing, generous smile and said [adopts a US accent]: "They're just trying to answer the same question we're all trying to answer, man." And I said: "What question is that?" And he said: "Is it enough?"'

So there you have it. Tom Hiddleston: big talent, big laugh, big thinker, non-planner, great dancer. In his own beautifully phrased words, he is 'just as complex and contradictory as everyone on this planet'. Or, in our rather more base words, pretty damn hot.

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