On Mighty Thor 19
Sep. 5th, 2012 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotSpoilery spoilers for part 3 of Everything Burns.
...So, given Thor not seeing him, and Leah's about "insanity" - Ikol is all in kid!Loki's head??? Ummm. That is. Not good.
Four questions:
(...or did everyone already know this already and I'm just slow to catch on? In retrospect it's kind of obvious. It does explain why you never see Ikol in Mighty Thor (ETA: save the exception mentioned below), because that's not usually in Loki's POV...)
...dangit, this josses my fic! :P (Though this one still stands, other than Thor seeing the mapgie at the end. In fact more and more I become convinced that's where this is going - only with the possibility of kid!Loki switching back. Which might make for some interesting times, if Loki ends up even more literally at war with his nature than usual...)
...So, given Thor not seeing him, and Leah's about "insanity" - Ikol is all in kid!Loki's head??? Ummm. That is. Not good.
Four questions:
- Is he 'real' (by whatever definitions of magical reality one wants to apply) or entirely a psychological artifact because Loki couldn't handle the guilt?
- Does this mean Loki still does have access to all his magical knowledge, just locked away?
- Does Ikol ever get out/take over Loki's body and get up to mischief Loki doesn't know about?
- Does Loki know? (Yes, he talks to and about Ikol in front of others. But Loki - any Loki - has never been overly concerned with how sane he appears.)
(...or did everyone already know this already and I'm just slow to catch on? In retrospect it's kind of obvious. It does explain why you never see Ikol in Mighty Thor (ETA: save the exception mentioned below), because that's not usually in Loki's POV...)
...dangit, this josses my fic! :P (Though this one still stands, other than Thor seeing the mapgie at the end. In fact more and more I become convinced that's where this is going - only with the possibility of kid!Loki switching back. Which might make for some interesting times, if Loki ends up even more literally at war with his nature than usual...)
Re: Sorry if I'm barging in here
Date: 2012-09-10 01:43 am (UTC)If there's one thing we learned from the JMS run of Thor (pre-Siege), it's that Loki, unlike the other Asgardians, had the power to do things while 'dead,' before Thor even thunder-magic-summoned him. Loki had created a threat for Thor by throwing Balder into the Destroyer AND had stolen Sif's body BEFORE Thor had done his Mjolnir-resurrection-thing. So is it really so hard to believe that Loki could have brought himself back somehow, or at least could have worked some magic from the great beyond? It's not like coming back from the dead is rare in Asgard, albeit it USUALLY involves Thor.
With that in mind, and knowing how sinister Loki had been proven to be, I think it's entirely Loki's doing that he ended up as a kid. He thought people would be able to trust him more as a kid. It certainly worked for Volstagg a little bit ("I have children, Loki... and by the eternal droppings of Huginn and Muninn, I find myself sentimental about even the worst of you little monsters"). It backfired in that no Asgardian trusts him, but it was a complete success in that they let him back in. Had he showed up in his previous form, he would have been murdered on the spot.