In last night’s post, I had a brainwave about how manipulating dark energy could be a matter of will. I decided not to go into it there because I wanted to stay on track.
A while ago while thinking about language, I came up with the idea that the Allspeak might be a form of externalised telepathy that is perceived as speech. This would mean that Asgardians can influence the world around them, specifically the perceptions of people around them, and the way they understand things, with their minds.
This would mean that their ‘magical’ abilities are actually an extension of their language, which has a lot of implications. One would expect that it would be hard, if not impossible, to manipulate dark energy without ‘speaking’ the Allspeak; however, it’s also possible that there are many ways to manipulate it that affect the effects you can have, although some functions (like creating wormholes) are probably pretty much consistent. The jotnar, then, may manipulate it through their control of their personal temperature, which would account for the very ice-based nature of their magic. Asgard produces illusions because they do it through this externalised telepathic ‘language’ of pure meaning, which they may not perceive as sound but rather as… meaning. Odin can do other things because he may know other means of manipulating it that take a lifetime to acquire.*
Perhaps Odin and Heimdall can see everything because they can expand their telepathic field over the Nine Realms - that is what Heimdall means by his ‘gaze.’
As a result of this, manipulating dark energy will look like just ‘willing’ things to happen because that’s effectively what it is.
It may also explain why the gem in the spear Loki has in the Avengers works as it does, since I don’t think it’s one of the Infinity Gems but rather made of the same stuff as the Tesseract (I’m not sure about this, but putting it out there anyway). Loki does magic the Asgardian way, which relates to this externalised telepathy, which means that when ‘put into’ his hands (I think that could be a significant phrasing that makes it ‘belong’ to him) its output of dark energy has an effect on the minds of people. It would probably scotch the idea that Thanos was mind-controlling him, since I would imagine that if Thanos is using dark energy his methods would be different, but would explain why Thanos needed him. It could be that it’s normal for dark energy to have an effect on the mind of the Asgardian user/person in close proximity if they do it too much - and perhaps that’s why Odin went looking for the other ways of using it, and why they built the Bifrost. The effect would probably be small, but significant; more an amplification than a change.
*If Jane Foster manages to get a handle on portal/wormhole tech, which does seem to rely heavily on dark energy, what will Midgard’s grasp on it look like? I would say that, given the way our society and science function now, it would be computer-mediated. If this is even MCU-possible, it’s likely that it will be through our control of the virtual world that we learn to manipulate dark energy. Notice how Selvig sets up the Tesseract for the portal with a computer. We probably won’t be able to learn the Allspeak; our bodies don’t do that kind of temperature shenanigans; but our fingers dance around the keyboard and have real world effects.
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