Hallo! I really love your Hiddlesworth analyses and your fanfictions over at AO3. Sure I love Angsty Hiddlesworth fics/HCs... However, I dont want to buy into the fact that they are at odds with eachother. Its Hollywood, everything is about appearances. It just feels sad that some fans are getting so mad over the assumption that the Hiddlesworth bromance is dead. Like I said we dont know what happens when the camera isnt on them.
Hi!
Fans getting mad? Mad even?… Whoa. People like getting upset for no reason, don’t they? Always looking for Cinderellas and evil stepsisters to put the blame on.
Well…
*cracking knuckles*
This is a long overdue Hiddlesworth analysis I’ve been meaning to do for some time now.
There’s nothing wrong with angsty headcanons and fics. They’re just fics, you know? Fiction.
However people somehow want to believe that Chris and Tom’s friendship has fizzled out. For REAL. And that it’s mostly Chris’ fault. Oh, Taika’s fault as well for “getting between them”. And they don’t talk about this as a mere headcanon, they believe it to be the truth.
Let me just hit them with some hard facts here.
“Cold” Chris: is it a new thing? No it’s not.
Then.
2011. Chris remembers shit, Tom remembers everything.
2012. No dancing for Chris.
Go to 3:26. Enthusiastic Tom dances to Chris and Chris probably cracks a joke but turns the other way, acting all “embarrassed” with his awkward shrugging and buttoning up his jacket (”There he goes again with his dancing, oh boy…”).
2013. No finger hearts for Chris.
Look at childlike Tom asking Chris to reciprocate with a finger heart, and Chris feeling too embarrassed (or too bored) to indulge him.
(Maybe because Tom’s finger heart was even weirder -as well as upside down- than the one he recently pulled in Korea lololol).
2013. Chris walks on, Tom follows.
At 0:25, notice Tom following him around like a puppy, his eyes fixed on him no matter where he goes, whereas “cold” Chris seems to be casually cracking a joke and moving on. As if he’s always “distracted” or “busy”.
Same here at 2:02, Tom says something, Chris just laughs and walks on, as if he’s eager to get on with the posing for the cameras or just doesn’t want to linger. (Chris is always restless btw, ADHD-esque.)
2013. Chris teasing Tom for his singing/dancing/talking too much/whatever.
And let’s face it, Tom was always more sentimental, or at least he was the one not afraid to show he was sentimental.
So.
Sentimental Tom.
He always expressed his excitement to work with Chris.
Then again so did Chris.
When a kid in a Thor costume asked if they were actually brothers in real life, Tom replied “I wish we were”. I know, the goddamn feels, right?
Now.
2016. Tom is still “following him around”.
Many people assumed from this little “god of thunder” bts clip (at 0:36) that Tom is still a lost puppy following Chris around whereas cold Chris neglects him. BS. See the above clips from the Iron Man 3 premiere and The Dark World premiere, Chris would always “walk away from him”.
2016. Chris doesn’t react as expected to Tom’s “brother from another mother”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3blyNzNRGU
Chris STILL teases Tom for his dancing.
Chris didn’t watch “The Night Manager” either. The HORROR.
Btw there was so much back and forth and relentless teasing between the two in that panel, so what I’m saying is, people see what they want to see. And they choose to ignore all the Hiddlesworth cuteness and good-natured humour.
BUT.
“Cold” Chris or not, Tom is the one Chris danced to at the Ragnarok premiere. And we’re talking as late as November 2017 here.
So. To go back to the infamous Wizard World panel.
2016. Chris would gladly be Romeo to Tom’s Juliet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vkOkW5bNEw
And let’s face it, if some people thought Chris was “cold”, he was probably sick, jetlagged or just… tired.
Either way, Tom kept showering him with compliments.
2016. Chris says “brothers from another mother” (copying Tom. At last.)
2016. Both Tom and Chris were posting on IG about working with each other.
Some people said only Tom was eager to gush about his new collaboration with Chris. Not true.
Tom’s post.
Chris’ post. Selling papers “with his mate”.
2016. Chris was totally checking Tom out when he first appeared on set in his black Loki costume.
I don’t know of many “cold” people or dead friendships doing that.
And they were laughing at each other’s jokes all the time.
Oh. Btw some people thought Chris was distant and aloof while Tom was desperate for attention, at the same time trying to be discreet while touching Chris’ shoulder lightly. They said Chris didn’t return the hug.
Well, guess what. Taika was drawing Thor’s tattoo on Chris forearm that moment. No wonder Chris couldn’t return the hug. He had to stand still. D’uh.
2017. Chris danced his way to Tom at the Ragnarok premiere.
Oh btw LOOK AT THEM HOLDING HANDS.
They love each other. *shocker*
To top it all, we have Taika, well-known for his honesty as well as keeping private things private, confirming that Tom and Chris have a deep respect for each other but, although the interviewer asked him specifically “How are things on set between Hiddlesworth” he took it as “How are they getting along?” so he replied “I don’t know, I’m not in their heads”. Possibly not knowing, possibly knowing but dodging.
Sure it was a gossipy question, maybe coming from a true Hiddlesworth shipper, and at first I found Taika’s response a bit alarming. But honestly that was just me being paranoid.
I don’t think people have a reason to be “mad” at anything.
Hiddlesworth lives.