loki's concern over mobius after his outburst is genuinely so endearing and nice to see. he genuinely cares for mobius and wants to make sure he's okay, the same mobius has done for him. loki knows something is wrong with mobius bc he's the one who's known for his outbursts not the latter. in this essay i will—
what will we do when the world it is ending / and time it is halted for friend and for foe? / try to hold on to the time as it passes / i'll tend to / the flame / you can worship / the ashes
Loki: an analysis on how his sentences get interrupted and how this hints at Lokius
Season 2 Episode 1 spoilers ahead.
In Season 1 Episode 4, at around the end of the episode, Loki initiates a ‘speech’ towards Sylvie.
In this scene, it was implied that Loki wanted to confess his romantic feelings towards Sylvie, since throughout the entire episode, everything was pointing towards them having a romantic relationship. Aside from that, the entirety of Episodes 5 and 6 of Season 1 were gearing towards their kiss in the finale.
Now before he can get his confession out though, Loki gets interrupted by Renslayer, who prunes him and physically transports him to another dimension.
In Season 2 Episode 1, Loki has been slipping through time in the TVA. To remedy this, Mobius, OB and Loki formulate a plan. Before he sets off to put the plan in action (to prune himself), Loki has a moment with Mobius.
Before he could say what he wanted to say, though, he gets physically transported away, again.
In the first instance with Sylvie, it fully points towards a romantic confession. In the second one with Mobius though, it wasn’t clear what Loki wanted to say.
However, user @/sherlokius on Twitter pointed out that the Lokius theme (from the Season 1 soundtrack by Natalie Holt) plays in the scene with Loki and Mobius mentioned above.
Now I’m not sure if this is intended or not, but I did some digging on the Lokius soundtrack and the scene.
The Lokius soundtrack is in D minor (correct me if I’m wrong, my music theory is shit). I cannot be sure what the tonality is in the Loki and Mobius scene mentioned above, but it is probably in G minor because of the F# after the three notes that play during their conversation (which aligns with the harmonic minor rule), so I was convinced that the Lokius soundtrack wasn’t playing during the scene.
However, (and I might be reaching HARD on this, but hear me out). In ‘Lokius’ (the soundtrack), there’s a string solo that starts on a G, and then the background strings play a B flat chord and then an A chord. Attached is the moment in the track for your reference.
In the ‘confession’ scene, there’s three prominent notes in the soundtrack while Loki is speaking to Mobius — G, B flat and A. (i can’t attach the video here because Tumblr won’t allow me to attach more than one video in one post, but its timestamp is 31:32 into Season 2 Episode 1.)
So if we really want to fit the narrative that the Lokius track was actually being played in the scene, I would go so far as to say that a variation of it was playing. Similar chords, similar notes. Besides, multiple users on Twitter mentioned that they could hear it.
So what does that mean?
With the knowledge of a) that the scene is a parallel between Loki/Sylvie and Loki/Mobius, and b) a variation of the Lokius soundtrack is playing, we can infer that there are some implied Lokius shenanigans going on here in Season 2, and that Loki’s interrupted ‘confession’ might just be a love confession. Now I don’t know if this parallel is deliberate, but you gotta admit, there’s been a whole lot of amazing Loki and Mobius interactions this season, so… I’m gonna accept whatever we get gratefully. Beggars can’t be choosers, right?
enchanted! AU where Loki, god of mischief, prince of Asgard is taken in reluctantly by Don, a single dad with two kids who know all the Norse stories because Don reads them bedtime stories every night.
Loki is defintely the type to have a playlist for every mood, scenario and occasion. I would even say he listens to many different types of music genres cuz sure girly pop songs are good for getting ready to a party but punk rock goes hard when your father told you, you can't be King (so does depressing songs but whatevs)