sometimes your trickster god husband glitches through time and all you can do is stand there and look devastated
The entire dynamic of this scene is PEAK ‘guy who pretends he is fine but is the softest most emotionally compromised piece of wet cardboard you’ve ever seen’ (mobius) x ‘guy who is actively falling apart but will reassure the first guy at all costs even if his own organs are leaking through spacetime’ (loki).
Mobius: 😑🧍♂️We need to talk about the fact that you keep disappearing.
LOKI: I DONT KEEP DISAPPEARING
Loki immediately disappears like a glitching little Victorian ghost in a silk scarf who drank too much space absinthe.
MOBIUS: 😐 you just disappeared.
Loki: looks like hes about to throw up.
Mobius, immediately: I AM ON THE BRINK. I AM ONE HAND-GRAB AWAY FROM KISSING YOU RIGHT NOW OUT OF SHEER PANIC. YOU JUST VANISHED IN FRONT OF MY MALEWIFE EYES.
Mobius is like “😓it looks horrible.. it looks like youre being born or dying or both at the same time..”
that is a time husband line.
that is a my beloved is in peril line.
you can physically watch mobius go from:
• 😐 “you just disappeared” →
• ☹️ “it looks horrible” →
• 🥺 “it looks really painful”
And Loki is all: oh just a little space-time slip darling! pay no attention to the fact that i looked like i was being exhumed from the void!
Lokis got his reassurance face on like: “I can handle it :3” “im bendy and full of lies :33”
Loki instinctively soothes Mobius: its okay, its okay. not “i’m okay,” not “don’t worry about me,” but comforting mobius for being upset.
Mobius meanwhile is on the edge of taking this man home immediately, wrapping him in seventeen blankets, sitting him down with tea and honey and a very serious talk about how they cannot keep doing this. This is no longer Agent mobius this is malewife distressed from spousal body horror mobius.
Also, Loki immediately recognizes that Mobius is scared for him, not of him. Mobius is not recoiling because Loki looked monstrous, he’s recoiling because he thinks Loki might be in agony and trying to brush it off, and that’s unbearable to him.
