So it’s been a hot minute since I rped on tumblr, mostly cause I definitely see it as a very toxic rping environment. But that is a discussion for another day... I came back on here cause aside of all that, I will give tumblr it’s props when it comes to headcannon discussions. The best discussions I’ve had came from here. So I want to throw in my 2 cents on a little thing that came to mind after seeing the 2nd episode of Loki. So ...
I’m hype for one. I’m happy to see that they are showing that Loki can come off as female, Loki is genderfuild and identifies with whichever gender he presents as. (I say “he” because the Loki we are used to seeing so often is normally in a male presenting way, so I’ll say she when I’m taking about Lady Loki.)
Anyways, I was excited but since we are just in the second episode, there are so many possibilities this could pan out. When I first realized that Lady Loki was going to show up, I didn’t know about the actress playing her. I wondered how Marvel Studios was going to go about it. For one we started the Disney + show line up with WandaVision. In the comics, Lady Loki came about through Loki possessing Wanda. So I wondered if Elizabeth Olsen was gonna come back as Lady Loki or would Marvel go with the genderfluid route that we have seen already in Loki Agent of Asgard and in other comics as well.
At the start of the episode when the TVA agents came to investigate you see a hand come out of no where and tap the one chick’s (I am typing off the top of my head, please excuse I’m not gonna remember everyone’s name off the bat, My brain is fucky) temple JUST LIKE WANDA DOES to get people to hallucinate. I thought, ‘Oh Shit!’ The Wanda route! My geeky self was happy either way.
BUT Then at the end you see the reveal, it’s not Wanda! Genderfluid route! My geeky self and My Non-binary ass was happy..... BUT...... Lady Loki is blonde.....
Let me state now that I’m not mad about it. Now don’t come at me, Some people are pretty pissed about that little bit, but really I don’t care. Loki is a shapeshifter. In Norse mythology he was supposed to be a redhead. And we all know about the horse thing. I even strongly defend POC cosplayers on tiktok because 1 cosplay is meant to be fun, fuck anyone who tries to gatekeep cosplay with racist idiology, and 2, Loki is a shapeshifter, any race he makes himself is cannon by that logic. So if Lady Loki is blonde, than she is blonde. *insert advertisement music* “Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s shapeshifting!“
BUT There’s different ways to look at that little point about her being blonde.
Yall remember that deleted scene for Dark World where Loki had an illusion playing of him walking down the ramp, all of Asgard cheering for him while he wore a RED cape... Thor’s color? There were discussions ALL over the place about that. Why red and not green and in short the discussions were all about Loki emulating Thor in his desire to be deemed worthy. One simple color choice sparked all that discussion. What if this blonde was the same thing? Just one little change to make her feel closer like Thor.
Or.... What if it IS like the Wanda route? But it’s not Wanda’s body that got taken over... What if it was the dutiful wife, the one whom would bend over to collect the droplets of snake venom, the one who would do anything for her husband... even offering her body. What if that’s actually Sigyn? That thought alone has had me all fucked up.
Or maybe this is just alternate universe Loki, we saw one image of Loki jacked as fuck so who knows. But like I said this is the second episode. So who knows, but I am excited to see how this goes.
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