lokilaufeyfez:
colonelworst:
lokii-d:
dseumu:
When I saw this I thought, “Well it’s not wonder he betrayed everyone. They’re all assholes and treated him like shit.”
for real.
Really?
You think that’s being treated like shit? He’s being treated like “one of the guys”! This is NOT sufficient grounds for murder-betrayal.
Except, Loki wasn’t really treated well throughout the whole movie. He was mostly treated like he was just sort of there instead of “one of the guys”. Even later one, when Loki was appointed as king, the first thing all of them assumed was that he was just insane, they didn’t even stop to think of other possibilities. They all just immediately went, “Oh, we have to get Loki off the throne!” and nothing else. If he was really “one of the guys” they would have tried to think about more possibilities then just jumping to the first conclusion that ran through their minds.
And, by the by, the above gifs are not “being treated like one of the guys.” This is bullying. I mean, Loki’s silver tongue, his lies and tricks, are all he has. They are all the other gods value him for.
Throughout Norse mythology, Loki constantly uses his skill as a trickster to get the gods out of trouble. He sacrifices his own dignity—and, in some cases, almost his own life. He struggles to fix the things the other gods want him to fix. The gods promised someone payment for services rendered, and it turns out to be too much? Loki is there, debasing himself to try and fix it. Thor gets his hammer stolen? Loki comes up with the plan. Asgard is threatened because some god or other stole something or mistreated someone powerful or screwed up in another way? Get Loki, he’s the one who will fix it, almost always to his own detriment.
Heck, one time Odin was pissy because Freyja slept with a dwarf to get a necklace. (Not, by the way, Frigga, his wife. Freyja, a different goddess, who was married to a god who betrayed and left her.) He ordered Loki to steal the necklace, completely ignoring the fact that Freyja was extremely skilled in seidr, or Norse witchcraft. He left Loki to Freyja’s vengeance, and it was Loki’s own quick thinking and slyness that got him out of that mess.
So when Loki is asked if his silver tongue is turned to lead, he’s being asked if the only worthwhile skill he has—the only reason the other gods put up with him—the only thing that has saved his life several times—the only point to his entire existence—is gone.
That isn’t “one of the guys” treatment. That’s bullying and harassment and cruelty being directed at someone who is already considered an outsider.