Characters: Loki (Cameo appearances by Thor, Banner & Barton.)
Rating: PG
Gen - no pairing
What happened to Loki between the end of Thor and the beginning of The Avengers to turn him from an injured child into a monster? - He grew up.
Diamond
Loki is used to being silenced. He does not condone or forget – he remembers every instance with bitter clarity – but it no longer causes him the same outrage, the same distress, as it once did. It has begun to feel little more than the way of things.
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I went to see The Avengers on Saturday. Being a massive fan of the Iron Man, Thor and Captain America movies, and a long-term reader of The Mighty Thor comics (though I’ve switched allegiance now that Loki has his own series) I had EPIC FEELS about this one. I’d been looking forward to it at fever pitch for months.
Which makes me rather sad to report that I don’t know what I think, now that I’ve seen it. I’m having a moment of cognitive dissonance here, because I enjoyed it thoroughly for about 90% of the way, and then in the last 10% I found myself getting more and more disenchanted until by the very end I came out feeling profoundly disappointed. I simultaneously thought it was awesome, and hated it.
I’ve spent all day today trying to figure out why.
Recap of the plot and spoilers everywhere below:
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TL/DR
The first three quarters of the film is a epic parade of brilliant character moments for all the characters, and I loved it. The final all-stops-pulled-out battle is an epic parade of CGI with very little plot, the aliens were under-used as nothing but cannon fodder, and I felt it was cliched, too long, kind of boring, and didn’t really provide any emotional pay off.
I like to think this isn’t just because I was rooting for the villain all along – that if they had laid the smackdown on Loki in some more inventive manner, while he was doing anything other than just standing there – I might not have minded so much. I may, of course, be mistaken in that, but I loved “Thor” and I thought he’d died at the end of that, so I don’t think I am, not really.
Think of up to 10 ships you support. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names. Have your followers guess as many of the ships as they can; Fandom hints will be given if asked in the replies.
1. The Manwhore and the Dogsbody. (Jack/Ianto guessed by
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eveiyaand oneiriad2. The Trickster and the Assassin. (Eames/Arthur from Inception. Eames is the trickster, of course.)
3. The King and his Nephew. (Elu Thingol/Celeborn guessed by
eveiya)4. The silver tree and the gold. (Celeborn/Galadriel guessed by
eveiya)5. The Empty Vessel and the voice of Death. (Lovely obscure one here: Qui-Gon Jinn/Count Dooku from Star Wars. Count Dooku is the voice of death because the actor playing him also played Death in the many Terry Pratchett films.)
6. Badger-trousers and the Hand of Vengeance. (Marcus/Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5. Marcus once claimed "I have fifteen wild badgers living in my trousers" in a vain attempt to get Susan to pay attention to what he was saying.)
7. The Gentleman and the Rogue. (Norrington/Sparrow guessed by
oneiriad)8. The Magician and the Narcissist. (Loki/Tony Stark guessed by
oneiriad )9. The Mare and the Spare. (Loki/Hoenir guessed by
oneiriad I think I am the only person in the world who ships this. But to balance that out, I do ship it hard.)...
I appear to have run out. The trouble is I tend to be an OTC (one true character) rather than an OTP (one true pairing) sort of fan, which means I tend to be an OTC/anyone shipper. Also, many of them are very obscure.
gryphons_lair who died on Thursday of a brain tumour. She was one of the kindest and calmest people in the PotC fandom, one of the few who I started off admiring her writing and ended up considering a real friend. She sailed on a tall ship, she dyed knitting wool amazing colours using Kool-Aid, she fought for social justice, and she will be missed.although this one is very good too:
I'm not adding the ever-popular "Set Fire to the Rain" because surely everyone's seen (and loved) that one by now?
Also, it's clearly a law that every Loki fanvid must end with the same scene, because having watched dozens I don't actually remember one that doesn't end with him falling.
Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers
Rating: PG
Summary: In which Steve gets what's coming to him after the Alfheim debacle.
Follows "Boys in a Man's world", A Kindness Repaid Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 and Part 7
The journey home should have been delightful. If the land had been sulking before, it was now wreathed in smiles that manifested as a forest in blossom, under crisp, cider coloured sunshine. Every patch of sky, seen through emerald leaves, was sapphire and serene, every small brook chuckled underfoot as they crossed it. Instead of monsters out of the corner of his eye, Steve caught glimpses of white deer, and dancers, and once, for a fleeting, incredulous second, the arched white neck and golden horn of a distant unicorn.
None of it helped. Loki kept up a stream of relentlessly humourous anecdotes in an increasingly strained tone, and Steve found himself pulling further and further inwards as if he fell through the increasing pressure of the abyssal sea. He did not want to know what kind of amusingly ironic lesson was coming his way this time, but he was beginning to think the anticipation was worse.
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Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers
Rating: This part PG
Summary: In which the point of the Alfheim trip becomes clear, and Steve gets to save the day.
Follows "Boys in a Man's world", A Kindness Repaid Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 and Part 6
Only one more part to go after this, I think :)
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“Sssh.” Loki’s whisper sounded, if that was possible, quieter than the surrounding silence. Steve stopped where he was and watched with faint unease as Loki made a series of gestures above the man in the bed.
‘Man’ was a misnomer. The creature lying amid its pile of silk and furs was clearly an elf, tall, slight, beautiful as a razor’s edge, pale as moonlight and swathed in hip-long hair. He was also fast asleep and unaware that he was sharing his private chambers with a magic-using trickster god and an invisible Captain America.
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Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers
Rating: This part PG
Summary: In which Alfheim is inhospitable and Loki only sleeps with his enemies.
Follows "Boys in a Man's world", A Kindness Repaid Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 and Part 5
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As soon as their feet hit the ground, Loki handed Steve his shield and the submachine gun that had been hung up beside it in the Avengers’ vaults. The implications of this would have troubled Steve more if there hadn’t been a fist the size of a helicopter swinging at his head. He ducked it, rolled away, and flung his shield at the wrist, where it struck with the bell-like bong and crunch of refined metal dinning into stone. As it rebounded, Steve leapt up, caught it, and got the strap of the gun wrapped around his arm, the safety off.
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Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers
Rating: This part PG
Summary: In which we finally get to see the sort of comfort Loki wants to help him get over the rape, and Steve recieves an unexpected invitation.
Follows "Boys in a Man's world", A Kindness Repaid Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 and Part 4
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Footsteps sounded outside the door. Loki leaned forward, closed his long fingers around Steve’s wrist and the next moment they were in the shadow of trees, with Central Park’s Gapstow bridge a few steps away, and dragonflies dancing over the Pond.
Dappled sunshine dazzled Steve with green stars, and he laughed. “Oh yeah, about that. I should tell you I’ve got a tracer on me now, so SHIELD will know where you’ve magicked me off to. I should also tell you...”
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Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers
Rating: This part PG
Summary: Steve's perserverance is tested to the limit, and Loki doesn't quite know what to make of the result.
Follows "Boys in a Man's world", A Kindness Repaid Part 1 Part 2 and Part 3
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After two weeks of such scrupulous good behaviour that his dosage of tranquillizers was dropped, Steve escaped and made it barefoot and fugitive to the American Embassy. Fury came to pick him up in person, and sat, elbows on knees, staring at him in silence half the way back. Not until they crossed into American airspace did he finally sigh and say, “Would you like to tell me what the hell’s been going on?”
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