I was thinking about that
“is there a lucky beau waiting for you at the end of this crusade"
line, how ‘lucky’ could legit be a bit of a wordplay (lucky = Loki) and how this entire conversation is describing the state of Loki and Sylvie’s relationship at the end of season 1 and their relationship as season 2 progresses.
because yeah, obviously ‘lucky’ in this context is a Loki wordplay, so that automatically sets Loki as 'Sylvie’s lucky beau’. Her special one. Significant other.
The cast and crew said that in terms of character development, Loki has already evolved further than Sylvie, he’s moved past his anger and pain, but unfortunately, Sylvie hasn’t made that journey (crusade = journey) yet.
Because Sylvie’s crusade, as Loki puts it, was putting an end to the TVA. Her entire lifelong mission, her journey was to destroy the people/person responsible for the TVA & what they did to her. This was her 'glorious purpose’ and her only goal she’s had for god knows how many centuries.
For example, Loki’s own glorious purpose was power, control, ruling etc. This was his entire shtick, episode 1 states it and it’s all about it.
And then during that same episode he realizes the hard way that conquests and ruling isn’t what he truly wants and needs, that in the grand scheme of things, it’s ultimately meaningless. Thanks to the TVA when he realizes that he’s never had free will and his life’s basically meaningless, and when he sees how his life ultimately turns out for him, everything changes for him.
His life literally gets turned upside down, he figures out during episode 1 (as well as the rest of the season) that his glorious purpose is just nothing.
Sylvie only realized that after she killed HWR. She plunged the sword into his chest and then promptly collapsed to the ground, sobbing, realizing that her own glorious purpose wasn’t what she needed, that it wasn’t “it”, it brought her no satisfaction, no catharsis, no relief, the pain remains and she’s just full of regrets now.
Loki realized that in ep 1 and then had a fine journey of self discovery. Sylvie realized that in ep 6 and she’s still on that same journey.
and like Eric said, she hasn’t had that full journey that Loki had yet and it was what caused their disagreement. They both care about each other, the feelings are very real but they are at different stages of their journey.
Obviously she’s working on that and that will probably be one of her arcs in season 2 (something the writers have already hinted at and I can’t wait for that), but yeah, Loki has made that journey already, hers has only just begun.
In a way he, her “Loki” beau is literally waiting for her to be on the same page as him. Waiting for her to get to the end of her journey.
And then you have Sylvie’s line:
“Yeah, there is, actually. Managed to maintain quite a serious long-distance relationship with a postman whilst running across time from one apocalypse to another.”
Considering Loki and Sylvie are currently parted through literal time and space, 'long distance’ is definitely one way of describing their relationship. Given how alone Sylvie is, has always been, how she’s never had anyone in her life before (which is something she also admitted to Loki) Loki came barreling into her life, I’d say that what she has with Loki is important, special and serious in its own way to her. He’s the first person she’s let in, bonded with and cared for.
And then this whole postman thing…postmen deliver letters and messages to people, which is ironically kinda what Loki did too in the finale by forwarding the info about Kang, warning people about the impending war, and as far as we know, he’s the only one (along with Sylvie probably) who knows what happened and is actively trying to spread awareness.
He’s pretty much become a bringer of news. Bad ones but okay. He’s a messenger in this case.
Also considering the show is about time travel and since Tom has teased Loki will search for Sylvie it’s kinda safe to assume both of them will spend time hopping through time and apocalypses, trying to reunite and also to fix the multiverse mess and the Kang situation.
So in short, Loki is “the lucky postman waiting for her at the end of her journey” aka the one with the knowledge about Kang, the war, and the one who wants and is waiting for Sylvie to make the same journey and is eager to reunite with her
and Sylvie the one who’s still running across time, jumping through apocalypses, either trying to find Loki, deal with Kang, both at the same time etc, being on a journey, both literal and metaphorical and has a special someone waiting for her.
It’s not the first time episode 3 foreshadowed certain things that happened later on. And if there’s any weight to this ‘Loki postman’ discussion, I’d say that Loki and Sylvie’s journey ends with them being reunited, on the same page and all that lovey dovey stuff. I think, and considering what the writers have hinted at, a happy ending is guaranteed.
but first Sylvie too has to go through that same character journey as Loki did for her to reach that happy ending with him
y'kno what they said in the show
"you can’t get to the end until you’ve been changed by the journey”
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