#mobius leaving the tva when loki is gone??

[limit-list]

loki season two finale spoilers

me when i cry. me when. me when i sob my eyes out. marvel really had him finally get to his character motivation, he doesn’t wanna be alone, he wants to have his friends, and then????

they say “hey bestie, relive all of these awful things for hundreds if not thousands of years trying to get to a point where you can make things work, come to the slow realization that you can do nothing to get your happy ending, have your last meetings with mobius and sylvie, then sacrifice yourself so that your friends can be happy. and then sit alone at the end of time! :)”

the absolute MAGNITUDE of power that loki wields?? he literally had the multiverse take the form of yggdrasil and he plopped himself in the bottom of it??? he who remains built himself a massive fuck off house and loki is just sittin in the middle of a time-tree watching. WHAT.

[p4nishers]

I find it very hard to understand everyone's confusion regarding who he was talking to when he said “I know what kind of god I need to be. For you.” In the doorway, Sylvie runs off, but Mobius is frozen and horrified. Mobius is the Loki expert. Mobius knows then that Loki isn’t coming back and just stares in fear and petrification. Loki knew those words had meaning to only them, and those are the ones he chose as his farewell. Then he turns and advances towards the loom, where the Lokius theme was playing as he became the God of Stories because it was through Mobius’ guidance and unconditional love and support that they’ve come this far.

Mobius explaining to Loki in s2e2, "because it's not my life, this is. the tva is the only life i've ever known, i like it. i wanna thank the guy who brought me here, got me this pie." and the juxtaposition to the revelation that Loki is the one who brought Mobius to the tva in the first place and gave him his own Glorious Purpose makes him leaving the tva the moment Loki isn't there anymore louder than ever in terms of how real their love is. It proves Mobius truly stayed at the tva because he had Loki. He only decided to finally see his tl because loki wasn’t around anymore — he felt no other purpose to stay. But really there’s no purpose for him in his st either. Loki is his purpose. Loki is his life.

Mobius didn’t choose to leave the TVA just because Loki wasn’t there anymore but because he knew Loki couldn’t see him there as well. So, he chose to stay in his og timeline because at least in one of the infinite timelines where Loki reigned over, Loki could still see him as opposed to in the tva, a place that exists outside of time.

Loki HEARING Mobius means that they are connected. They could have literally had that same scene but with Sylvie in Mobius' place - but no, it was Mobius who Loki heard. It is Mobius whom Loki is looking after. They are together in spirit. And Mobius knows that. He knows that Loki sees him and that's the most important thing. As sad as it is, Mobius being alone and depressed without Loki is better than him being happy and nonchalant about Loki being gone (like Sylvie). Mobius is lost without Loki, he can't live without him, whereas Sylvie can. This just solidifies how real their love is. Loki watching over Mobius and smiling upon hearing his voice was not only insanely romantic but also solidifies whom that “for you” was truly meant for. “For you” was for Mobius. “For all of us” was for his found family. (sorry this got so long i just think their love story is very impactful)

this. all of this.

[dilfmobius]

Do you know what absolutely kills me?

Mobius doesn't often let himself get rattled. He usually lets things roll right off his back, no matter how chaotic things get. Two out of the three times we see his calm demeanor crack, however, are related to Loki: Once when he feels as if Loki betrayed him for Sylvie, and the other when he figures out that Loki will be sacrificing himself to save everyone. Even during the time that Brad goads him, and causes him to lose his temper, Loki is right there for him, to help him calm down again.

Loki really is the center of Mobius' universe, and the one thing that is able to break his composure, is the thought of losing him. 😢

goddd yes thanks for this because it kills me too!!!

but okayyyy let's talk about it because wtf is this??

he's so hurt!! betrayed!! look at his face!! owen wilson you owe me money!!!

and the jealousy fueled spectacle he puts on right after. "It's breaking my reality right now!" oh, baby, we know.

and this

this look on his face?? literally brings me to tears. he's scared and confused and loki's out there!!!

and my personal favorite

it's the clenched fists that really send me over the edge, because he's trying desperately not to break down, not to lose his cool. he just needs to hold it together until loki gets back. he'll make it back. right?

but godddd that look of pure anguish on his face. it's like his life is flashing before his eyes but it's all just loki.

(why yes i did make gifs specifically for this ask, i promise you i'm very normal about all of this)

another scene where mobius loses his cool (that i just really love) is when they get separated at roxxcart. mobius is energized by the fact that they're so close to finishing this, but also that he and loki were gonna do it together. loki was the one who figured it all out and mobius was so proud and just,,, "you're gonna take my job if i'm not careful." and why did he have to say it like that???

anyway, the last thing mobius wants is loki out of his sight and he has a conniption about it!

"of course he's a threat [...] that's why i want him with me." and yes of course mobius knows better, because no one else knows loki like he does. but i'm also very endeared and amused by it. mobius please take a breath.

i also love loki's soft, "mobius, it's fine." just end me please.

AND YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT MOBIUS BEING AFRAID OF LOSING LOKI WHAT ABOUT THE ENTIRE FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON 2

THE CLUTCHING??? THE MANHANDLING???

i will never be okay again and it's because of THIS EPISODE.

"loki's here? where?" "i need a loki who remains." the look of horror on mobius' face every time loki timeslipped "he'll make it back." "give him more time! he can still make it!"

season 2 really is where mobius just falls apart and the crisis of faith fully sets in. of course his worst nightmare is losing loki; he's the only real thing mobius has left. "everything you've been doing is wrong, and all your gods are dead." and poetically enough, not all of mobius' gods are dead. loki's there. loki made it back to him.

and they're whole conversation in the automat after brad chipped away at whatever was left of mobius' defenses. of course mobius doesn't want to know about his past life. his past life didn't have loki. he likes his life at the tva because loki is there with him.

it's why he leaves once loki is gone

ANYWAY, this kinda got away from me oops i'm done fhdgfjsdg

[boredintjqueen]

I have a theory:

Here's what we know:

Our Loki, TVA Loki, is a variant. Therefore variants can affect and be affected by the Sacred Timeline even if they're not from the Sacred Timeline.

A variant simply being in a different timeline cannot cause a branch- that's why in the Pompeii apocalypse Mobius suggests making 'bird noises'. If you don't cause enough of a disturbance you can get away with it.

Loki is canonically bisexual, genderfluid, and capable of shapeshifting.

The 'Centuries' Loki spent studying had to have been spent in the Sacred Timeline because any other branch would have disappeared too quickly.

Loki would have to leave before Don's nexus event.

Loki couldn't have spent centuries on the Sacred Timeline as himself because people would recognise him and he would risk encountering the Sacred variant.

Don's wife is 'long gone', he never says he's divorced.

Don's children, Sean and Kevin are very much like Thor and Loki (one likes snakes and the other likes chaos) while Don is nothing like Odin which leads me to this conclusion:

Loki timeslipped back to the Sacred Timeline as a woman to study whatever he needed to study and during the course of that time he married and had children with Don. He couldn't stay long enough because Don is mortal and Loki probably didn't want to watch him die, so he existed in a time-loop that amounted to centuries, a time-loop that ended at a point in time where Don assumed his wife simply up and left him. Loki probably used a different name which is why Don didn't know his name when Loki timeslips to him the first time but he did find him familiar enough to trust.

I wouldn't put it past the creatives behind the show to leave these breadcrumbs for us to draw this conclusion even if they would never admit it to the higher-ups. The higher-ups couldn't even let lokius happen, so no way they were aware of these breadcrumbs.

[lightneverfades]

Frostiron AU (Loki: Season 2) | What if Loki time-slips to a point in time when Tony is still alive?

Part I / Part II / Part III

This is an AU where Loki and Tony were both in a relationship before the whole 2012 events of Avengers (which caused a major schism in their relationship). This Loki never had a chance to apologise before he is brought to the TVA, then told of Tony's inevitable fixed fate in Avengers: End Game.

Mini fic below!

BEFORE

"Tony Stark sacrificed his life--," Mobius spoke, and the bearded man continued to speak about Tony's achievements and inevitable fate, but all Loki could hear were the last words he had uttered to Tony out of pure spite on the open balcony of Stark Tower.

"I never loved you, Stark. You were merely a tool to help me ascend to my true throne!"

It was all a lie, and yet that had been the single most effective lie he had ever said to Stark. The look of anguish that had contorted Tony's features had already been hard to watch, but the overlap of pain that had later dimmed the usual glimmer in Tony's eyes had been what left Loki feeling utterly broken and guilty inside. And yet, in spite of all that agony, Loki had gone along with the Chitauri's plans, their influence on him too strong to resist as he destroyed everything in his path and hurt the one person he held dear.

Stark... Loki thought as he gazed at the TVA recording room wall with an overwhelming sense of numbness, the cold seeping through his blood and within his bones.

I never got a chance to say goodbye.

And he never would, because the TVA had stolen that chance from him.

NOW

Ripped, torn, shredded and rebuilt in a few seconds was not an ordinary sensation one felt in a lifetime, and having experienced this more than once, Loki had assumed he was going to travel back and forth from the past to the present within the boundaries of the TVA. He had braced himself for the next one when he felt a particularly large set of invisible claws suddenly pierce his back, ensnaring him once more within its clutches as his feet slipped, his back tugged so forcefully that his head also snapped back, his body being swung and then pulled like a ragdoll. A small cry barely left his lips before his body was pushed right back onto solid ground, his impeccable balance the only thing keeping him from toppling over outright.

Loki barely had a chance to look around his surroundings and get his bearings before he heard a voice.

"Loki?"

Tony's voice echoed, and Loki's whole body froze on the spot as the dizziness subsided somewhat.

Loki tried to speak, but he couldn't as he found himself staring at Tony, utter shock stealing any words or thoughts that Loki had. He was alive. Tony Stark... was alive!

And just as quickly as his body was recovering from the pull of the time slip, Loki felt the awful tug grabbing ahold of his neck, an invisible assailant unwilling to let him go. Panic raced through his blood as he realized he was being pulled back, and taken away again. But damn if he was going to leave without saying anything.

"Stark, I'm sorry for everythi-!"

That was all Loki could manage before his voice crackled away like a broken speaker, a single tear slipping and then vaporizing into the air as his physical atoms were ripped and pulled in all directions.

[percheduphere]

SHELL-SHOCK

Clearly, Mobius is grieving, but more than grieving, I think he's shell-shocked. In gifs 1 and 3, he possesses the thousand-yard stare. From his perspective, everything happens so quickly and without explanation. One moment, he's standing near his best friend, the next, his best friend locks him out and is gone. There was no time to prepare emotionally for what was going to happen. This is the look of dissociation, which Mobius is only pulled out of when Verity, and later Sylvie, asks if he's okay (he isn't).

In gif 2, Mobius is blinking rapidly. It's the kind of physical reflex that occurs when someone is just on the verge of tears. He is on the cusp of it, but the breakdown isn't happening. It's not coming out. What stands in the way of a much-needed cry is understanding what happened and why. I'm sure Mobius is smart enough to figure out the logical why, but he must be asking himself the emotional why, "Why didn't Loki tell me?"

I don't think Mobius has had enough time to properly enter the deeper stages of grief yet. At best, he is in denial. He chooses to "Just wait a while... Let time pass" in hopes Loki will return because he has developed a profound trust that Loki would.

The TVA

We learn through Sylvie's astute understanding of her variant self that for Loki, it wasn't really about the TVA but what the TVA represents: his friends. Mobius, it cannot be denied, is his best friend. The entire argument he has with Sylvie is prefaced with arguing about what Mobius wants.

What Mobius wants, like Loki, falls to the wayside due to the needs of the greater good. Mobius only leaves the TVA once Loki is gone, which suggests that the TVA represents the same thing for him in reverse. And he must look--is forced to look--at his timeline because Loki sacrificed himself for it to exist.

Yet Mobius still has no place to call home because this timeline already has another version of himself in it. Mobius must build his own life somehow like Sylvie. The difference between them, however, is that Loki always meant more to him than her.

THE EMBRACE FROM AFAR

I love the green flare lens they use in this shot. Mobius is absolutely embraced in Loki's colors. Mobius is surrounded by love and gentleness, watched from afar, but I'm not sure if Loki understands how much his loss actually means to Mobius.

What we do know is what the loss of Mobius means to Loki:

[idonotlikethatsam-i-am]

rock with me, but. mobius alone for awhile. starting out with talking to the stars and sky on a late not on a park bench with "hey loki.... i don't know if you'll hear me- probably not and I'm being silly but... just in case. just if you possibly do" and going on to tell loki about what he saw, or just about his day generally.

he doesn't need to, mind you. loki has been watching. the whole time, he's been watching. at first it started with being distracted by all the branches of time; there's so much to see. but on the first call from mobius he can FEEL it, like a string being tugged, and then its all he can focus on. yes, he keeps all the other infinite strands of time alive as well, but... his focus is always on mobius. his mobius.

sylvie comes to check on mobius eventually. gives him her/HWR's tempad. says "you're being a bit of a mope, why not take a walkabout. find yourself or something. i had a good run, but it seems like you might need it, for now. get me home first, though, yeah? and visit me, once in awhile." and he does, both get her home and visits.

between visits, he's off taking in the views of a bunch of different lokis from all around the timeline(s), seeing his many moments of glory but never intervening, never interacting. just, watching, as he always did. just up close this time.

a fair amount of days of mobius just talking to the stars - talking to loki - while following his various adventures turns into weeks, and months, and then one moment mobius just. looks up at the stars with a sigh like "....i miss you, you asshole. i hope you know that. i didn't even get to say goodbye. I really hope you hear me. I hope you have the whole damn time."

wonder how long til that emptiness and sadness and longing turns to bitterness at loki doing all of that without a word edgewise. like. loki didnt explain, he just gave one at look at sylvie and mobius and then walked off into fucking radiation city. loki didnt even say he stood up for mobius. he just. walked. said he was doing it for them - for sylvie, for mobius, but he didnt explain any more. and kept fucking walking. mobius looked fucking terrified watching him. fists clenched knuckle white when he realised loki was going where he couldn't, with no way to follow, and no goodbye given. which... terror turns to anger, anger turns to sad - which we see bc of him leaving the fucking tva - sad turns to hopelessness, hopelessness turns to observation, and then, from there, bitterness at being left behind once again by a loki gone off to who the fuck knows where.

which. that rattles loki. loki, thinking he should stay away at first, to try to let mobius find his place on the timeline. like. hes not sure what mobius's pattern is at first, he's so distracted by everything else but eventually its his mobius he tunes into time and time again, and eventually all others fade to the background when he finally realises what mobius's pattern is. and, its him. its loki, its the best hits, and thats breaks him in a way he hadn't expected. its one of mobius's monologues on a bench late at night, tear stained and drunk and miserable that pulls him from the throne, though.

"you fucking LEFT. you left, and you walked out to the goddamn loom - something we all thought would rip us to shreds without the damn suit, something we both argued over doing - and then you vanished. you fucking left me, loki, again, and what the hell was i supposed to think besides that you found somewhere better and more powerful to be." and he's ACHING, its a deep, bone deep agony of bitterness that has festered through pained, hot tears.

[aritks]

Loki and Mobius changed eachothers lifes. And you literally can see it.

Mobius changed Loki's life, thanks to Mobius, he found himself, he "saved his life", he is now a person with a new light thanks to Mobius.

But Loki also changed Mobius life.

From seeing the TVA as just some work, when the question of choosing the timeline he came from or the TVA, he chosed the TVA, because he is happy being there. But now that Loki is gone, we realised that all this time TVA was only special WITH Loki for him.

And now that there is no Loki, he seems lost like doesn't know what to do. Leaves the TVA, goes to his timeline. And there is nothing happy and special in the air. Is like.. bland. Depressing.

Is like Mobius was the light at first that made Loki change, but in the second season Loki is now the light for Mobius eyes, that made him also change his feelings.

[kiteblue42]

Part 4 of - what the heck is going on with Mobius anyway?

S2e5 - the one with where they get the band back together

Disclaimer- I’m a single parent and found it hard to be objective watching this one. For me this episode was a very perfect reflection of how hard, lonely it can be to bring up children by yourself and how you willingly give up so much of yourself for them. They did this very well - I hope they don’t screw this up in the final episode.

A good life, but not a happy one

Mobius timeline life is good but not super happy. He comes across as struggling and lonely. Mobius works 6 days a week, he tries to sell Loki one of his jet skis that he no longer can use, he’s constantly being interrupted at work by his kids, the house is chaos and he had to leave the boys to fend for themselves selves while he was at work (therefore he has no friends or family to watch them or money to pay for childcare). This is a person struggling to keep it together, but he does manage to do so for his boys and he manages to stay kind and positive towards them. The boys are the top of his list of priorities “I can’t leave my boys”/ “I need to check on the kids” “I got to get back to my boys” “I’ll know”. This all speaks of someone who has given up his own wants for the kids and feels guilty about doing anything for himself.

Given the slightly flippant tone of “long gone” when discussing his wife I think it likely she left rather than died (or blipped) - as that’s not how a grieving widower is likely to speak (especially if he might be overheard by the boys).

The whisper of adventure

There are a number of signs that Mobius has a desire for adventure. His love of jet skis, the fact he immediately agreed to try out the time door, how much he loved the idea of being “Mobius.” (“Mobius is a pretty cool name”)

The idea of being your better self

It wasn’t just adventure for fun that’s calling his name though but also the idea of being something more. Mobius reacted emotionally to the idea of himself as someone that would “save my life when I first arrived”. His delivery of “I sell Jet Skis man” showed how little he thought of himself, but also a desire to be something more.

Loneliness

This exchange killed me:

Loki “you saved my life when I first arrived. You saw something in me I hadn’t seen in myself”

Mobius “Are you really my friend?”

Loki “I am”.

Just the way Mobius says this tell us how much he really really wants to believe he could have a friend like this.

Loki’s view of Mobius

Once again the major topic of conversation between Sylvie and Loki is Mobius (this is becoming a theme - and if they do get Sylvie and Loki together it’s just mad and funny).

Anyway this conversation tells us that Loki believed Mobius when he said the TVA was the “only life he knew” and that he “liked it”. Of course there’s an element of this being wishful thinking on Loki’s part, but he is pretty insistent that Mobius should be given the choice. So Loki thinks (at least until Sylvie talks him out of it) that there is a good chance Mobius would chose the TVA - and himself. And as Frigga once said (Thor: dark world) Loki is “.. so perceptive about everyone but yourself”. So I don’t think we should dismiss Loki’s perception about Mobius. (He is also pretty insistent in his conversation with Mobius that “this is not the life of the man I know”. And there’s enough for viewers to see “Mobius” is more at ease with himself than “Don”.)

Sylvie undermines this and persuades Loki he is being selfish. (Side note - Sylvie puzzles me this season and in particular in this episode- if you watch closely she sees that her McDonalds meal disappears and Loki’s drink in the bar disappear too - but says nothing to Loki and does everything to stop Loki from trying to fix it - is it just denial or something more sinister?)

Last episode

So some theory based predictions for Ep 6

Themes that still need payoff:

- order & chaos

- Partners & Friends & loneliness

- Hard choices

Th end of the last episode has me thinking we may get a happy ending because it would be narratively neat to leave Loki surrounded by his new TVA family - especially after the way last episode was concluded.

It would pay off the themes positively as follows:

order & chaos - Loki (chaos) working with TVA (order) to give balance

Partners & Friends & loneliness - Loki and his misfit friends get to stay together so they don’t have to be alone

Hard choices - this one worries me but it would be possible for a number of hard choices to be made that still ends up in a good place (even if it doesn’t seem like it will at the time).

Hard choices Mobius

I think this is aimed specifically at Mobius - Loki made his hard choice in Ep 5 when he was willing to let this team go. I’m hoping they will be able to square the circle with Mobius and his family, because he’ll *not* be ok without the boys or without Loki (& the TVA).

Given this is a time travel show with magic I don’t see why they can’t find an solution to that - because the issue is about not having enough time to both look after the boys and look after yourself. I’ll be super disappointed if they make this unnecessarily miserable by making Mobius give up either his fulfilling life & friends at the TVA or his boys. Though I also won’t be surprised to see this as a plot point. If they try to sell it to me as Mobius being super happy to return to his life I’ll be doubly annoyed.

In theory the boys timeline should be long gone so this choice should not exist, but they seem to be setting up this hard choice for Mobius in particular ( so maybe the loom explosion was meant to be a full reset).

Hanging threads & wild cards

X5 /Brad /Zaniac - is still in the TVA - is he going to cause chaos as they try to fix the loom?

Renslayer - is in the void - will she tame Alioth? Is Miss Minutes really gone or does she have another instance in the citadel at the end of time?

Kang - is HWR really behind everything? Are all the events just one pre-planned trap of HWR?

Sylvie - Sylvie knew more than she has told anyone (eg she saw the disappearance of items and said nothing). She has HWR tempad. Loki treats her like she has words of wisdom so we also tend to accept she is right or benign, but her last piece of advice was completely wrong. She has been acting pretty oddly all season too - what’s up with that? (Worth remembering she is a Loki variant and they are generally not to be trusted).

Romance

My own reading of Mobius remains that he lost his heart to Loki sometime around S1e2. By S1e5 he’d accepted this, but concluded it wasn’t going anywhere - so conveniently he didn’t need to exactly work out what the feelings were. Mainly because Loki was focused on Sylvie. This episode doesn’t change that since we don’t get any TVA Mobius.

Loki on the other hand did give more away this episode - and it was the first one (for me) where it looked like his feelings could be romantic or at least headed that way. Whenever he talks about saving his friends we all know this primarily means Mobius. I mean how much interaction has he really had with the others? The discussion in the bar was particularly instructive- he wants Mobius to have the choice (this is *after* seeing him on the timeline when he knows what Mobius would be giving up) and he desperately hopes Mobius would choose to stay with him. But Sylvie persuades him otherwise.

Sylvie - there is really no sign of the romance from last season left here. Loki does still greatly admire Sylvie. I’d say Loki almost hero worships her - and especially takes what she says about free will and choice as authoritative (as if she were an expert on it). This is consistent with his romantic feelings from s1e4,5&6 which seemed to grow out of his admiration for her radical / free spirit nature. But by this episode it didn’t seem to be romantic any more - rather a mentor / mentee conversation. Loki did not declare he wanted Sylvie back or even anything close to it - and it would have been the obvious time to do that.

Sylvie has never seemed particularly romantically interested in Loki to me. She kissed him to distract him in s1e6 and no doubt thinks he’s quite hot, but that’s all I’m getting. I actually like this about her as a character (she’s just not that into you Loki sorry). I hope she is a bit more villainous than we know (a bit more basic Loki if you will) otherwise she has been a bit of a spare part this season.

I am not expecting any romance from the last episode though mainly because:

(1) I don’t think there is time to do either romance option justice with all the other plot points to be resolved (2) romance is not central to the plot of season 2 - they have pushed the friendship / found family theme hard and that will do for plotting & emotional payoff purposes, and (3) if you want to be commissioned for season 3 you don’t resolve romantic tension. We’re on Tumblr so we all know there are a significant chunk of fans of any media that follow the stories for the romance aspect - and we all know this audience is likely to be very loyal, vocal on social media and will predictably turn up to watch the next season just to see how it plays out. If they resolve a romance arc either way too early they kill a lot of interest in season 3 - people are always more interested in “will they won’t they” than an established relationship.

[pocket-dust-starr]

LOKI FINALE SPOILERS!!!

PLEASE SKIP IF U DONT WANT SPOILERS!!

Wow

I loved that.

I want to talk about Mobius’ ending. Loki has gone and become basically the keeper of Yggdrasil but on the multiversal scale, but what has Mobius got? He’s back to the old way at the TVA except now that Loki’s not there he doesn’t want to be there either. So he leaves, and he leaves to his variants life that we saw in episode 5, except there’s still no Loki showing up. His variant is busy with the kids so Mobius can only watch from afar, and then even when Sylvie says it’s weird without Loki, the camera focuses on Mobius’ reaction with his soft and sad little “yeah…”

Sylvie is able to go out and live her life again but even she knows how important Loki must have been for Mobius for her to comfort him. She on the other hand, only seems to be comforting Mobius over the loss of Loki, she herself doesn’t seem as upset.

She even asks what he will do now and the camera stays on his face for a good 10 seconds and he says “let time pass….”

just for this phrase to be repeated into the next scene with the music as Loki sits upon his throne within the tree of branches.

now with Loki, I honestly think he has become the God of Time. Because,

1, he learnt to control his time slipping, able to go back and forth in time as well as through to different branches.

2, after time slipping for so long, he learns how to STOP TIME and even He Who Remains was like woah okay damn.

3, he built up enough courage and determination to destroy the loom (which I’m guessing would need shit tons of power???? Like?), and he grabs the branches OF TIME, literally holding the physical embodiment of universes, and weaves them together into the tree (which I think is Yggdrasil). 4, Mobius saying let time pass is echoed multiple times as the final shot of Loki and the tree appear, further signifying he is now the god of time.

5, the time stone was green and so is Loki and the tree, just saying

[lucianalight]

Loki S2 Review

I rewatched S2 and I liked it even more on the second watch. I'm giving it a 6 out of 10 in average(8 for the finale). Since I didn't post a review week by week like for S1, I'm just going to talk about the main things I liked/disliked

The Improvements & Things I liked:

The pace and the narrative's tone and framing have changed. While the pace drops sometimes, these moments aren't as boring as S1. Meaning you don't want to constantly check when it's going to end(like you know, S1 and especially 1x06). The narrative is neutral and doesn't villain code Loki and hero code others. It doesn't turn Loki into a clown, a punching bag or someone who deserves humiliation(I guess they've done enough of that in S1). On the contrary the characters are shown as flawed people, with Loki being the most moral, considerate, logical and heroic amongst them.

They stated bluntly in episode 1, that what TVA used to do, were atrocities. That they were killing numerous innocent people who had a right to live their lives as they chose.

The characters were three dimensional, likable or tolerable despite their actions in S1. They showed remorse for the things they had done. Although the way the narrative chose to go about it in S1 still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It shouldn't happen to you for you to realize sth is wrong. But at least it was shown that the characters weren't slaughtering people mindlessly and some of them deep down knew it was wrong. Although the fact that they still did it, because of the "greater good", and "woe is me! It's not a comfort it's a burden" attitude about it is repulsive.

OB, Casey and Timely being funny, cute nerds and fanboys :D

Loki using amazing magical stuff and DID YOU SEE THE GREEN MAGICAL GLOW IN HIS EYES?*incoherent screaming*

No Romance. It was unnecessary and rushed in S1. This time they focused more on Loki needing friends and that was definitely a better choice imo and what they should have gone for in S1 too.

Sylvie's actions and personality framed as what they were. She wasn't put on a pedestal as this amazing different FeMaLe version of Loki. She was framed as a flawed character with wrong and right actions and beliefs.

Loki and Sylvie's talk in the pie land, about change, hope, fixing what's broken and being gods. That sigh before Loki saying "We are gods" with all the weight of the world on his shoulders. Wonderful acting.

The ending and its epic soundtrack.

Topics & Things That Could Have Been Handled Better:

The Topic of New York Invasion

"Sometimes a rage builds up and you just gotta let it out. Do you remember that time I was so angry with my father and my brother, I went down to Earth and I held the whole of New York city hostage with an alien army? Tried to use the mind stone on Tony Stark? It didn't work so I threw him off the building. It wasn't tactical. I lost it"

On the surface it looks like Loki's saying that's why he attacked New York and probably most people accept this without a second thought.

But the context of the scene matters. We see during the interrogation Mobius loses his temper. He was worried about Loki getting angry, but he was the one who loses his temper and hits Brad. Loki tries to calm him down by sympathizing with him to try and see what caused his behavior. It's the same thing he did for Thor in the first movie, before coronation and after it, while Thor was nervous and angry. What he says about New York while isn't the whole truth, it also isn't untrue. He was angry with Thor and Odin but as we know his anger and thoughts were influenced by the scepter. We also know Loki doesn't like to talk about his time with Thanos or being tortured. Instead he uses a half-truth, sth that is in character for Loki.

So the scene can be rationalized by this analysis but it's still annoying that this analysis is even needed. They should have been clear about the scepter's influence especially when mcu confirmed it.

Loki thinking about Thor's change as being a weakness. While both Thor and Loki were groomed and taught to consider being soft as a weakness, that wasn't Loki's true feelings. At least I don't think someone who prefers words and magic-that are considered a weakness in Asgard-over brawn thinks like that. His goal in the first movie was to goad Thor into fighting him. So the line should have been sth like this: "Asgard taught us being soft is a weakness, so I used that against Thor to goad him into a fight. I said he's gone soft…"

Plotholes and things that weren't explained.

Why Loki and Sylvie weren't sent to their original timelines like others? And why neither of them showed any interest in seeking their family? You're telling me Loki wants to see these people he knows for 10 seconds more than Frigga or Thor? OOC.

Sylvie's sudden mastery of magic since 1x06 isn't explained. She didn't know much, but then suddenly could do everything Loki did. I mean I can headcanon that her and Loki linking their power taught her some things but these sudden developments without any explanations are annoying.

Loki's genderfluidity. No mention of it at all. Although I believe that no representation is better than bad representation. And you should leave a topic alone if you don't understand it, otherwise you're gonna mess it up. Because bad rep can be more harmful. And so maybe it was a good thing mcu let that one go. But they could still fix it with some shapeshifiting, explaining its difference with illusions and Loki confirming that he is comfortable in her female form.

Loki's clothes. It's probably not that important in comparison with other issues but I really hate that beige suit. Why Sylvie who doesn't even want to be Loki and wasn't in Asgard since childhood changes into an Asgardian outfit for a fight and not Loki? Yeah I get it. It was because of the last reveal and transformation and finding his identity blah blah blah but at least they could have gave him his old Asgardian clothes or he could change the suit's color ugh

Criticism & Things I didn't like:

The ooc moments for Loki in some comedic scenes. Especially in episode 5. While the character has a comedic potential, it's not based on clownery or clumsiness. The best humorous moments for Loki are the ones where he outwits others, use sarcastic language or he is being outwitted despite his careful plans.

Certain emotional stakes aren't clear from the start. The audience know that saving TVA is the right thing because it protects all the freed timelines but they don't know why they should care? Or more accurately why Loki is so emotionally invested in this goal. That gets answered in episode 5 and while Loki's talk with Sylvie is a good emotional scene, the fact that it's stated so late in the story, makes the first few episodes boring when it comes to saving TVA.

The main reason the emotional stakes aren't clear(at least for me), I believe is because most of the people Loki call them his "friends",  haven't done anything to either deserve his friendship or aren't close enough to be considered a friend. Let alone someone Loki tries to move heaven and hell to be with them, instead of for example trying to find his brother and family. It is an issue which again is rooted in S1 and carried to S2. What happened in S1 wasn't therapy or a healthy friendship.

However, Loki being loyal to anyone who show him an ounce of affection or him being moral enough to try to save people are in character for him and that's sth good about it.

The torture scene.

The trick Mobius and Loki pulled was predictable as hell. I didn't even doubted Loki in TDW, let alone here. And even though I didn't believe for one second that Loki's actually going to hurt the guy, and he wasn't shown enjoying it, I still hated that he went along with the torture idea Mobius had come up with. Especially considering the fact that he was a victim of torture himself and never shown any sign in canon that he would torture someone. So yeah I hated that scene.

And why that scene was even necessary? Loki could get into X-5's mind when they weren't in TVA. We know he is capable of it. He did it both through mind stone in Avengers and in TR. how else they were going to delve into Mobius' problem though smh

But alright let's say they needed a scene like that. Still the whole Brad believing Mobius is against torture, and Loki's the one who would be in favor of it, is so fucking ridiculous. Any way you look at it, it has always been TVA and Mobius who did any torture we've seen during the two seasons. The tortures that Loki endured might I add. Even in the previous scene, it was Loki who didn't hit Brad and only tried to intimidate him non-physically by acting as a villain. It was Mobius who hit him, who was shown more affected by Brad's insults. So logically the scene they had planned to fool Brad, should have been played completely the opposite way. By having Mobius do the torture. At least it was recognized that the torture idea was from Mobius and both he and Loki gave the credits for it to Mobius.

Verity Willis. Hunter B15 unlike the Verity in comics, doesn't have a close friendship with Loki or truth detector powers. Not having a good friend like comics Verity for Loki, was such a wasted opportunity in the series.

Mobius saying to Loki "You're a man of action...". That was such a stupid, unnecessary line. As if the main difference between Loki and Thor wasn't Thor acting before thinking, and Loki thinking and planning before acting. While Loki is also a man of action, he is first and foremost a man of strategy. The only plausible explanation imo is that Mobius said it to not feel useless in comparison with Loki and his skills.

"Thor's not that tall". Yeah, no. I don't think Loki's reaction to seeing Thor and Odin's statues would be that. Knowing his brother and family were murdered by the very same people he's working with now. Remind me again why he's considering them "FrIeNdS"? Someone really needs to explain the concept of friendship to Loki. Or rather the writers of this show.

And while we are at it. Let's talk about how Loki's past and identity issues were completely swapped under the rug as if they were all magically fixed and didn't matter anymore. As if those weren't the most important part of his journey. Another issue rooted in S1.

Final Thoughts(for now :D)

Season 2 was definitely better than season 1. Not perfect, and not for those who care about OG Loki's issues. They set him on a completely different path in S1 and they messed up any chance to actually delve into his problems. So in S2 we're having a character that we're supposed to accept has moved on from certain issues, and now tries to find what he wants and where he belongs. Still, I think that they listened to the criticism for once as they tried to fix some of the problems of S1. After many years it didn't feel like that the creators hate the character, or using him as a prop, or a plot device. It was a story about Loki. A bittersweet story for the god of stories.

[cookies-and-music]

Ghost. - part 20: Directions

My suggestion for this chapter is Born to Die by Lana del Ray, cause I just had to.

Part 1 here - Last part to be published on Tuesday

PAIRING: TVA!LokixOC

TAG LIST: @kats72 ; @mischief2sarawr ; @m3ntally-unstable ; @star-maker-rain-dancer

SUMMARY: Loki meets sombody at the TVA he once knew. Unfortunately she doesn't seem to remember him.

Lydia crouched down, covering her head with her arms, but she didn't feel any impact. She didn't feel anything. Slowly, she opened one eye, and the strong light that hit her was annoying. She straightened up, blinking to adjust to the neon lights, and looked around, recognizing one of the corridors at the TVA.

TVA? Loki!

She still felt the stone she had taken from the tree in her hand. She loosened her grip to check that it was still there. And it was. And so was the TVA. She started running towards O.B.'s office, and the closer she got, the more she heard her colleagues talking.

"She will never give up, you saw what she's become, B-15."

"It's precisely because I've seen her like that that I don't trust her, Mobius. Under different circumstances, I might have gone with her into the unknown, but I won't accompany her to die and I won't let her drag us along."

"No need" Lydia said, opening the door "I did it."

"Did what?" Mobius tilted his head.

Lydia looked at everyone present before smiling.

"I took the heart from the donor" Lydia showed the stone to everyone, holding it between her index finger and thumb. B-15's jaw would have hit the floor if it weren't attached to her, and Victor Timely took a few steps back as if frightened.

"What the hell…" Mobius began but was interrupted.

"Oh, I wouldn't worry too much, the donor was dying anyway" Lydia slid the stone onto the desk towards O.B., who took it in his hands, adjusting his glasses.

"You really did it" Mobius leaned in to get a better look at the object.

"And it went well" Lydia shrugged, while O.B. began murmuring with Timely and analyzing the stone with various instruments.

"You've completely lost your mind" B-15 shook her head.

"Maybe, but at least I solved the problem."

"Actually, I'd wait to say that" O.B. interrupted, drawing attention. "This thing… has no energy."

"What do you mean?" Lydia tilted her head.

"Well, the heart is supposed to power the tree, like some sort of battery, right?" Lydia exchanged a glance with Mobius, nodding.

"So it should have a charge, a form of energy."

"Faster, O.B." Lydia crossed her arms.

"At first glance, this stone has nothing energetic or magical or anything. It's just a stone" O.B. looked at her almost apologetically for having to give her the news. Lydia laughed bitterly and dug her fingers into her own flesh as much as she could while rolling her eyes from the floor to the ceiling.

"Just a stone." She repeated bitterly. When she had put her hand in the tree, she had felt the energy coming from that thing, but there was only one person in the world who could have created such a deception.

"I can analyze it further to see if there's anything else but…"

"Screw it" she turned, opening the door and leaving "Screw everything" She ran down the corridors, knocking over anyone in her way, reaching the main hall and hurling herself against the glass behind which Yggdrasil hid the Asgardian, punching with all the strength she had in her body.

"Screw you, Loki" she threw another punch. "Do you hear me? Screw you!" She threw a third punch. "Do you want to spend eternity alone? Fine!" Mobius, who had run after her, finally reached her and grabbed her arm, pulling her back and out of the room while Lydia struggled.

"Sorry about that" Mobius smiled at the shocked colleagues. "She's a bit stressed, it'll pass soon."

Lydia continued struggling until she was out of the hall.

--

"Feeling better?"

Mobius had made her sit in the infirmary and left her there to cool down while he went to get her something warm.

Lydia didn't answer, remaining curled up with her chin resting on her knees and her gaze lost.

"I'll take that as a no," Mobius sighed, approaching. He sat on the cot next to her, holding the cup he had brought between his hands.

"I'm really sorry, Lydia, truly. And not just because Loki is my closest friend, but also because I saw your disappointment."

Lydia still didn't respond.

"You tried. You risked your life for him, and that's admirable, but sometimes we have to know when to stop, take the time to mourn and move on."

"I saw him," was all she managed to say.

"What?"

"Loki" Lydia lifted her head slightly "In Asgard. I talked to him."

Mobius took a moment to process.

"And what did he say?"

"That he loves me and that he wants me to move on."

Mobius inhaled.

"You should."

"I can't," Lydia finally turned to look at him "I know he made a choice. I know we should be grateful and do our best to live out the opportunity he gave us. I know all of that."

"But you can't."

"He asked me if I loved him. I said yes, and he left. He chose to live without me. But I never chose to live without him."

"You two are so selfish," Mobius smiled, taking a sip from the cup, forgetting he had brought it for her "and yet you both have no sense of self-preservation."

"How can I move on, knowing he loves me too, that we could have had everything? I can't live in this purgatory where he's alive but we all have to pretend he's dead."

"I understand," Mobius nodded "But if you do love him, the only thing you can do is preserve his legacy. This," he gestured around them "is what we have left of him."

A shrill beep from Mobius's pager interrupted the conversation. Mobius glanced at it quickly.

"It's O.B., want to go see what he says?"

Lydia nodded slightly.

"Let's go," he got off the cot, "and then enough. Starting tomorrow, you'll focus on something else, agreed?"

She smiled slightly and followed him.

--

The last person she expected to find in O.B.'s office was her.

"Sylvie" Lydia said through gritted teeth.

"Princhett" Sylvie replied with equal enthusiasm.

"This isn't your place, what are you doing here?" Lydia crossed her arms.

"I invited her" O.B. interjected "for an Asgardian's perspective."

"Trust me, as soon as this little meeting is over, I'll be as far away from your ugly face as possible."

"Calm down," Mobius intervened. "Both of you. O.B., what have you found out?"

"Well," he adjusted his glasses "as I said before, this stone should work like a battery, but right now it's drained. Upon further investigation, we found small traces of energy inside, of various kinds, or rather, coming from different sources."

"Which, for those without an engineering degree, means?"

O.B. looked at Lydia's blank expression, which somehow made him feel more uncomfortable than when she was angry. He gulped.

"Well, thinking of it as a battery, this is currently drained, but it's possible that it has been recharged multiple times in the past."

"I'm still not following," Mobius put a hand on his hip.

"The heart fills with the power of whoever creates the tree, i.e., it recharges, and then it diffuses it, powering Yggdrasil little by little" Sylvie interjected.

"And how does that help us?" Lydia massaged a temple, too tired to think and her plans never seemed to work.

"Loki could use it this way" Sylvie grabbed the stone and waved it in front of Lydia, "he could inject his power into it and then leave, letting the tree power itself until the battery runs out."

"And when the battery runs out?" Mobius asked.

"We end up like Asgard in 2017" Sylvie turned to him "But that would happen anyway at some point, because nothing is infinite, not even Loki's power."

"Sounds easy" Lydia looked at her skeptically.

"Oh, it's anything but easy. The moment Loki recharges the heart with all his power, he ends up with nothing."

"What do you mean?"

"That he would no longer be a god, neither of mischief nor of time. Goodbye powers, goodbye longevity, goodbye everything. He would just be Loki… and—"

"And he would never agree to that," Lydia sighed, running her hands over her face. Sylvie nodded, and a silent moment passed.

"Well, we'll have to convince him," Mobius clasped his hands in front of him.

"You know it's impossible" Lydia shook her head.

"No, I don't know that, and neither do you."

The group just looked at him as if he were rambling.

"Come on, you can't say Loki has never surprised you" he continued "When he arrived, he was an egotistical megalomaniac, and in the end, he made the greatest sacrifice one could ask of someone."

"So what are you suggesting?" Sylvie crossed her arms.

"To go on. To try. Whatever happens, it will be his choice and it will be free, and whatever it is, we'll have to accept it" he looked at Lydia.

"I don't think he wants to listen to me right now," Lydia sighed.

Mobius smiled, "In fact, I don't think it should be you talking to him."

--

Swimming in space in a heavy suit attached by a cable to the TVA base was probably the most difficult and complicated thing to do. Besides, it was risky, given that the tree emitted a considerable amount of radiation.

Mobius cursed with every step.

After passing the branches that, like brambles, blocked the passage, Mobius found not Loki, but the god of time. Seated on his golden throne, rigid and with a face that seemed to have aged years. He looked at him, and Mobius had the sensation of facing someone else, someone unknown.

"Mobius," the god pronounced his name.

"Should I bow?" Mobius tried to lighten the atmosphere, and the only response he got was a softening of Loki's expression.

"I know why you're here and my answer is no."

"Oh good, since the longer I stay, the more I risk my skin, I'm glad it was quick," Mobius shrugged "Enjoy the rest of eternity" he waved, turning to leave, taking only two steps before stopping, as if a thought had just occurred to him.

"Just one question before I go" he turned back to the god "why?"

"Why, what?"

"Why don't you want to come home?"

"I have no home to return to" Loki clenched his jaw.

"Oh, come on! Why are you always so dramatic?" Mobius laughed "You know that's not true. We are your home, and I know you know it" he shook his head "why don't you give me an honest answer?"

Loki didn't respond.

"Nothing? Then I'll guess," Mobius touched the helmet with one hand, as if he wanted to massage his temple. "Maybe you think you deserve punishment for all the deaths you've caused over time, or maybe you think the only way not to do more damage is to abstain from the world, or maybe you believe that solitude is the only answer because you've been too disappointed by the people you trusted."

"Mobius…" he spoke as if to warn him.

"Maybe all of these things together, or simply, you couldn't face life without being a great god but a mere mortal."

"You know I'm not that shallow."

"So, what is it? What's the reason? Give me a sensible answer and I promise I'll leave." Loki clenched a fist and looked away. Mobius sighed.

"I know you believe there's nothing out here for you, right now. That the god of mischief or time is the only thing you can ever be, but it's not true. You are a skilled analyst, you've proven to be a brilliant scientist, and most importantly, you are a great friend, and that's why I'm here."

Loki looked at him with a softer expression.

"We love you, Loki. We want you in our lives, and knowing that you're just an observer isn't enough for us. We want you to be a part of them."

"And what if it doesn't work?" Loki sighed.

"Know that there's someone at the TVA who doesn't understand the meaning of the verb 'to give up.'"

Loki ran a hand over his eyes, "She'll end up getting herself killed."

"That's why you need to come back, the girl has no sense of self-preservation, she's impulsive like no other, and I can't keep up with her anymore" Mobius took a few steps, placing himself in front of Loki "But know that she's not the only one at the TVA ready to risk everything for you." He placed a hand on Loki's shoulder. Loki gave a faint smile, covering Mobius's hand with his own, and Mobius felt terribly relieved at the idea of seeing his friend again and not the self-proclaimed king of timelines.

"So…" Mobius reached into the pocket of his suit and pulled out the stone. "Shall we give it a try?"

so... stay tuned for the epilogue, I guess. Don't think many users are reading this fic anymore... anyway, I'm writing and pubilishing for the few who do read it, and myself. As, usual Cheers.

[lady-rose-moon]

Can I suggest a TVA Reader x Loki where the reader figures out that her and Loki loved each other before she was taken to work for the TVA?

How could I forget you? || Loki x Reader ||

A/N: ahhhh I really hope you like this!!

Laufeyson. Variant L1130. An eternal pain in the TVA’s backside. God of Mischief. Your personal - unwanted - leech. 

For some reason, Laufeyson had started following you around just as much as he followed Agent Mobius. You found it unnerving how he stared you down and handed you things before you even realised you needed them. He seemed proud to be reading your mind even with the use of his magic.

You were sat at your desk looking through some case files when you saw L1130 approaching. Muffling a sigh under your breath, you continued staring down at the page you were analysing, finding the Steve Rogers variant much more interesting than the God of Mischief that was trying to barge his way into your world. You didn’t need him around and Mobius hadn’t reassigned the variant so why was he so keen to be around you?

Time passed and yet all Laufeyson did was sit beside you, crafting paper into little roses and impaling the bottom of them with rolled-up paper supposed to be a substitute for stalks. From the corner of your eye, you saw him begin to arrange them neatly into a bouquet, his eyes never leaving the paper roses as his deft fingers tied a ribbon around the paper stalks.

“Shouldn’t you be doing your work, Agent?” Loki asked after a few moments of quiet, twirling the paper bouquet in his hand solemnly.

“What file did you steal the paper from to make that?” you asked with a sneer, turning to face the God of Mischief properly now and seeing just on the edges of his face how tired he looked, “a variant like you shouldn’t even be on this floor.”

“Mobius was busy,” Loki replied softly, his eyes never leaving the bouquet as he spoke, “I needed company.”

You scoffed and rolled your eyes, “then why bother me?”

“Because I trust you, Y978,” Loki replied and you noticed the hesitance in his voice as he spoke your name.

It felt like he was about to call you a different name, some name that you felt on the edge of your brain but couldn’t quite grasp. With a huff, you turned back to the Steve Rogers variant, deciding to ignore the variant.

“I lost someone, back on my timeline,” Loki spoke after silence had reigned for a few moments, “my fiancee. It feels like everybody has forgotten her existence.”

“Angrboða?” you asked, never looking up from the file, your voice bored as you turned a page.

“No, no,” Loki replied slowly, his curls flowing around his shoulders as he shook his head, “you wouldn’t know her either. It feels like she was deleted from my timeline. She exists now only in my memory.”

“The TVA doesn’t purposefully steal people and delete all of their existence, L1130,” you replied as you turned another page, highlighting where the Nexus Event began, “perhaps it was delusion.”

The variant stilled beside you, his breath hitching and you turned just in time to see him stand from the desk and throw the bouquet into the bin beside your desk as he stalked away. Good, he was finally gone. Now you could finally focus on your work again.

After a few minutes, your eyes wandered to the bin where you could still see the bouquet Loki had created so lovingly as he sat beside you. You frowned and took it from the bin, admiring every rose and smiling when you saw that the paper was blank. He hadn’t ripped variant files to make these. He’d used plain, untainted paper to make innocent white roses. 

“I lost someone, back on my timeline,” Loki’s voice sounded in your head, sparking a curiosity in your mind. Who had been the one he’d lost. “She exists now only in my memory.”

With a tsk, you stood from your desk, gathered all of your belongings and clocked out for your lunch break. You didn’t go to the dining hall as usual for lunch, no, you went to the time theatre with Loki’s life reel in hand. 

You slipped into a free theatre and inserted the reel into the player, unpacking your bag and pulling out the hot chocolate you’d made on the way. You skipped to where you had last seen Loki and something inside you had forced you to stop. That ache in your mind was ringing through you now but you persevered. 

It was a ballroom, people gathered inside the golden halls and music ringing off the walls as people danced with joy and laughed. Loki was sat nursing a drink unhappily as he watched his brother dance with as many girls as he could fit on his arm.

The dark prince watched with bitterness as every girl evaded his charming invitation to dance. Defeated, Loki resigned himself to a seat and decided to spend the night bitterly drinking mead and cursing his brother’s lack of manners beneath his breath. 

“Excuse me?” came a soft voice from beside the Prince and he looked up to see a woman dressed finely in a beautiful gown, dressed in green, his colour.

Your breath hitched as you instantly recognised your own face. Horrified but intrigued, you continued to watch the reel, your hot chocolate abandoned. 

“May I help you?” Loki asked with bitterness in his voice, glaring away from you as he took a sip from his glass, not caring for how he spoke. 

“I saw you sitting over here and you looked very lonely,” you spoke without fear, your hands coiling in your emerald skirts to ease the tension in your body, “why is a Prince so ignored?”

“Why is the daughter of my father’s trusted kingsguard standing here with me when she could be dancing with the eldest?” Loki spat with venom in his words as his eyes flicked over to Thor and then back to you.

“I don’t want Thor,” you retorted easily, pulling a chair beside Loki and sitting down on it, brushing down your green skirts as you looked at him, “I want the smarter one, the quieter one, the one that knows when to stop eating and drinking.”

Loki hummed and tipped his head back, swallowing the rest of his wine before standing and offering you his hand , “dance with me?”

With a grin, you took the God’s hand and allowed him to guide you onto the dancefloor where you stayed with him for hours on end.

You spent hours watching as memory after memory passed along the screen, how close the two of you became until one day.

You were standing on the balcony looking out over Asgard with Loki holding your arm when an orange door opened behind the both of you. Loki turned around with a dagger already in his hand and you watched as people walked through - people you used to consider your friends - and took you into their rough grasp.

“Variant P2334, you are being arrested for crimes against the timeline,” one hunter told you and ignored your panicked yells.

“Reset the timeline,” another commanded, grabbing your other arm and dragging you through the orange door as you screamed out for Loki.

The file ended. There was no more existence of Y/N Y/L/N on the timeline, she was gone and you were here. 

“So,” came a familiar voice from behind you and when you turned around, you saw Loki standing by the door, “you know then.”

“How long have you been standing there?” you whispered, trying to sound strong and authoritative but you knew that you had failed miserably.

Loki approached you and cupped your cheek, “I saw it all,” he whispered as your breath hitched and tears filled your eyes, “I have missed you, my darling Y/N.”

You allowed Loki to hold you in his embrace, sighing into the contact with absolute relief. “I missed you too, Loki,” you whispered into his suit, your heart beating happily behind your ribs.

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Pumpkin Pouter

Thank you Anonymous for this cute idea!

Plot: The reader and Loki are getting ready for Halloween and have bought some pumpkins to carve. Only, the reader starts getting upset about carving and starts pouting, so the god of Mischief has some plans to tickle that attitude right out of them.

Rating: G

Pairing: g/n reader. I do more female readers but I’m working on doing gender neutral ones too!

P.S. chose this picture because it reminds me of Aliath and of course, Halloween.

Fall. Your favorite time of year. The reason? Halloween. You loved the crisp chill in the air, the turning of the leaves and of course, getting ready for the Halloween holiday. You and Loki went all out this year, buying pumpkins, decorations and candy for Trick-Or-Treaters. However. This year, one of your favorite things to do; carve pumpkins, proved to be more of a chore than pure fun. As you went along with your carving, your mood changed but Loki had a way of helping rid you of your frustrations…He tickled that attitude right out of you. All silliness broke through, leaving you happy and ready to try again as Loki conjured pumpkin after pumpkin to help you out.

It was a Thursday. Late afternoon to be exact. It was also Halloween and you were busy putting up decorations and setting out candy while your husband, Loki was working at the TVA. You wanted him to be impressed with your skills when he walked through the door so you took extra time to make sure everything was perfect before he got home. Loki also loved Halloween because his mischievous antics were more accepted than at any other time of the year. He usually did harmless tricks with the children that came to your door for Trick-Or-Treating, which always ended up with them begging to see fireworks come from Loki’s hands. They always stood in awe of him when he’d do this trick and would politely say, “thanks, Mr. Loki,” as they grabbed their candy and raced off to another house.

Loki was no longer feared by “Midgardians” as he called humans, but treated him like one of their own. The memories of 2012 long gone, he could finally be “normal” again as he lived with you in a beautiful home outside of town. Neighbors didn’t shield themselves from him and actually struck up conversations and friendships with the two of you, which integrated Loki into every day, normal life. He loved this life. For once, he could be himself and not have to act like a royal prince all of the time. He could live his life the way he wanted with you by his side.

Not long after you finished decorating the house, Loki walked through the door. He was finally home. Safe with you. He opened the door, walked in and set his briefcase on the floor next to the door and took off his TVA coat and placed it on a hanger. Life was sweet for Loki now. He had a good job that paid well with benefits and he could set his own hours so he could be with you as much as possible. You loved this, having your husband home with you for a good majority of the time. Mobius was very lenient with Loki when it came to being his boss since they’d known each other for so long. He knew you two being together was one of the important things, and he gave Loki free range to come and go just as long as the work was done. He still had to be a boss of course.

As Loki hung up his coat, he took in the sight of your decorating skills. Cobwebs, spiders, ghosts and skeletons adorned the entire front part of the house as he took it all in. He loved how you decorated the house for many of the holidays so he would feel included. One thing he loved doing however, was scaring you by jumping out from behind you and saying, “boo!” You were sometimes caught in the moment and nearly screamed out loud, whilst other times, you knew he was there and you teased him about not scaring you.

“Darling, I’m home,” he said loudly as he walked through the house to find you. “In here,” you yelled back from the living room. A smile spread across his face. He finally got to see you after a long day of work and was relieved when he finally put his arms around you and kissed you sweetly. “How was your day?” You asked as you both sat down on the couch. “Long…”, he replied with a sigh and a stretch before he put his arm around you to cuddle you. “I see you had a busy day at home too,” he mentioned as he looked around the house at the decorations. “Do you like them?” you replied as you smiled widely and perked up. “Yes. VERY scary, indeed,” Loki teased back but was again, impressed. “After dinner, do you want to carve pumpkins with me to put out on the porch?” you asked with an elbow bent on the back of the couch. Head in your hand. “ I’d be honored,” he cooed as he took your hands and kissed them both. “Well, then. Let’s eat so we can start the pumpkins,” you said, getting up from the couch to head into the kitchen.

After dinner was over and you both cleaned the dishes, you set up towels on the kitchen table to put the pumpkin on so things wouldn’t get too messy. Although, in years past, you two would have a pumpkin guts fight and seeds and pumpkin innards would be everywhere and you all had to clean it up. That was the best part of carving pumpkins with Loki. You got to be silly with him and he’d dish it out to you too. After setting the pumpkin down, you got right to tracing a face on it so you had a pattern to go by. It was a typical Jack O’ Lantern face that grinned widely back at you. Loki of course, cut out the pattern for you because he didn’t want you to accidentally cut yourself with the knife. He was always considerate of your safety. After he cut out the pieces, your face fell. The design didn’t look right at all to you. It was crooked and not all parts of the face were the right size. This frustrated you to no end because you wanted to give Loki the perfect pumpkin to display. He then put his hands on your shoulders and told you it looked good.

“Yeah. You have to say that. You’re my husband,” you replied, looking defeated. “No. I really do like it. The shapes give it character.” Well, that didn’t help at all as you threw down a paper towel and stomped off to the living room and plopped down on the couch. You were in full pout mode as you crossed your arms and scowled looking forwards. Loki came in and sat down next to you, and tried taking your hands in his but you just pulled away, giving that same irked stare. “Maybe I could conjure up another pumpkin and you could give it another go,” he said semi softly as he looked at your stone cold face.

“No! I’m never making another stupid Jack O’ Lantern as long as I live” and slapped a hand down on the couch angrily. You once again returned to that same way of sitting. Arms crossed, staring straight ahead. Well, Loki could now tell you were in the beginnings of your “pouting” stage, so he decided to do something to stop it before you became furious. He’d always do this certain thing when you started pouting and he was going to make sure that mood was headed off at the pass. “You do know darling,” he began his plan. “I do know one thing that will get you out of your little pout. He’s a certain monster you might’ve heard of….The Tickle Monster?” You perked up instantly and grinned at Loki. “Well…I thought you were angry? Now, I mention the Tickle Monster and you start smiling ear to ear? Do you want to be visited by said monster, darling? May I remind you, your face has already betrayed you.”

Your heart began to race with excitement as you were given this information. Your mood began to change but you wanted Loki to think you were still pouting. “Yeah. Whatever,” you said smartly. Arms still crossed with attitude. “ That smart mouth of yours will be bursting with giggles once he gets a hold of you. I promise you that.” Loki then got up and vanished down the hall to “change into” the Tickle Monster. Leaving you to sit in silence for several minutes. After about five minutes, you heard it…The snarling sound of the “Monster” getting closer and closer. The clear sound of his boots hitting the hardwood floor. Loki hid behind the wall as one by one, his fingers became visible to your delight. You nearly jumped up with excitement but remembered you still had to put on this facade of pouting so that he would tickle you senseless.

Finally, he slowly showed his face and grinned that silly sinister grin. You were in trouble now for pouting and Loki made sure you knew it. He then spoke in a deeper, raspier voice, “ well now. Nice to see you again, darling. It’s not been that long since we last met, yet here I am. Care to confess to me that you’ve been pouting? Or will I have to make you do so? Either way, I will make you divulge the information I want to know.” He walked over to the couch you were sitting in and motioned to ask if he could sit down. Eager for his touch, you agreed to let him have the spot next to you. However, before you knew it, Loki got up, turned you so you laid on the couch, and straddled your hips. Before you could register what happened, he already had your wrists pinned, invoking magic to make them stick to the couch. You were screwed now. He stared down at you like you were his prey, still smiling. His beautiful eyes danced with joy. You couldn’t help but lose yourself in his eyes and all of a sudden, felt him lift up your shirt to tickle your belly. Only, he didn’t. Not at first. He wanted to make you wait in anticipation so he drummed his fingers on your belly. Slowly at first. Then he got faster and faster until he was all out scribbling on your delicate skin. You loved but hated when he did this because it tickled so much worse, but loved it because it got your silly mood going full force. You were properly giggling now as he switched things up and got your sides and your hips. You tried to buck him off but his godly strength stopped you for successfully doing so. “Stupid god weight,” you chuckled as he went along poking and prodding different parts of your available skin. Laughter pitched up a bit as your breath began to grow rapid. Loki noticed this and as the Monster said, “I believe you have learned your lesson, darling. I shall now cease my tickle torture on you.” After all, he didn’t want to KILL you either laughter.

After a few minutes of coming down from your ticklish high, you noticed he had left the room, only to come back as your sweet and loving husband, Loki. You were still out of breath when he returned and he took notice he stood before you with his hands on his hips and grinned. “Did you have fun with the Tickle Monster, my darling,” as if he didn’t know it was himself that just tormented you to the edge of insanity. Your face hurt from laughing but you were able to eke out a “yes” in response to his question. He helped you sit up and swing your legs off the couch so he could sit down and cuddle you. “ My brave darling….You did wonderfully today. I am honored to be the one to make you feel better when you’re in one of your “moods. Oh. And by the way, I knew you were faking the pouting as soon as I walked into the room.” You giggled again and laid your head on his shoulder, linked your arm under his and breathed him in. You were so lucky to have the god of Mischief as your husband and anymore feelings of being upset drifted away in the silence as you heard his steady breath and heart beat. You wanted this love to last forever as you quietly closed your eyes and fell into a peaceful nap with your husband.

[nygmobblepot-trash]

I tried. I really tried to like Sylvie but her whole character is "I'm mad at everyone." It's so god damn old. I get why she's mad at the TVA but Loki has a point. You can't just give everyone free will and walk away. Nor can you just kill everything. She acts like she's above the TVA when she isn't.

Also why yell at my main man Mobius? Who the fuck are you to do that? Is it a good time to get pie? No. Probably not. But what else is there to do? The science team is working. OB is 5 seconds away from having a stroke. To be hovering around them is just going to make things worse. Also we've established that Mobius eats when he's stressed out. Why the hell didn't Loki catch on to that? Or say anything? Screw the possible romance for 1 second. Mobius is Loki's friend. It's a fact in the show. So why would he allow her to scream at him and then allow her to bring up something he knows bothers Mobius? All he says is "Sylvie wait." What the hell?

Even when she leaves Loki says nothing to Mobius and follows her. You think "Oh they'll continue to talk about Mobius." But noooo. Loki says one thing about Mobius trying to look through the dark like everyone else and then immediately changes the subject. Why not go off about how Mobius was taken from his own timeline and forced to work for the TVA. About how shitty it would be to see the life you should've had but instead, you keep fighting for the timelines to survive. Or about how if he had left and gone back to his life she'd bitch about that too. He stayed behind to help clean up HER mess. If he wants pie he can have pie.

In conclusion, Loki is a fake friend and I'm so sick of it. Sylvie go back to McDonald's and make everyone you meet just as miserable as you.

[in-my-loki-feels]

WIP Wednesday

All right, since sharing sometimes improves my feelings about a fic, here is a snippet from the President Loki fic I'm working on, inspired by these two wolfpup026 pieces:

“The TVA didn’t just prune you, it pruned your branch,” Mobius said. “There isn’t a timeline to go back to.”  Loki showed disturbingly little reaction to the news. Mobius didn’t know all of this variant’s tells but he doubted the god of mischief was pleased to hear all of his work had gone up in smoke. Then Loki’s right hand flicked out and a dagger dropped into it. In a movement too quick for Mobius to track, Loki crossed the distance between them and jerked Mobius' head back with a tight grip on his hair, exposing Mobius' throat. Mobius froze at the feel of the cold blade just under his Adam’s apple.  “You aren’t giving me many reasons to leave you alive, little agent,” Loki murmured. Up close, he really did look like the Loki Mobius knew, enough so that it made Mobius’ breath catch. The look in his eyes was the real tip-off: cold and cruel. Even when Loki had first been brought to the TVA, he’d never looked like this. Maybe Mobius had overestimated his ability to talk his way out of trouble.  “We don’t prune branches anymore,” Mobius croaked, wondering if that detail would help. “It’s kind of a new thing we’re trying.” “And you think that absolves you of all past sins? Am I not owed my recompense?” Loki replied calmly.  A chill ran down Mobius’ spine. The TVA manual hadn’t included a section on surviving torture. Despite the danger of the blade at his throat, he jerked in surprise when Loki suddenly dropped onto his thighs, straddling both Mobius and the chair. Loki twirled the dagger idly, but the casual gesture was undercut by the firm grip he kept on Mobius' hair. There was leashed anger behind those green eyes, even if his body language didn't show it. “The question is: what to do with you?” Loki said. “I quite liked the idea of slitting your throat in front of whoever came to rescue you but as you can see”—he gestured to their surroundings with his weapon—“your precious TVA seems to have abandoned you which means you’re all mine to do with as I please.” Now, Loki’s smile promised many unpleasant things.