Loki is the marvel fandoms ho, ship him with anyone and it will, against all odds, somehow work.
Although I myself wouldn’t call Loki a hoe, because I realy like him as a character, I totally understand what you are talking about in the terms of fandom, and yeah, you are right! Loki in a fandom is a 100% hoe, I came across such unexpected, plot-unrelated and incomprehensible ships with Loki, which surprised even my filthy mind.
It is a very interesting phenomenon actually, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. For Loki is not the only character who gets such reputation - many fandoms have that one intriguing, alluring character, for whom the majority of fans lusts, and who becomes a part of multiple ships (many of which are quite illogical from the canon’s plot point of view). Like Sans from Undertale, Dismas from Darkest Dungeon, Tom from svtfoe and so on, I’m pretty sure everyone can call a few characters from their fave fandoms.
And I’ve been wondering, why does this happen? What makes us want to see this single character in relationship and in a specific one (consider that each one of us believes their counterpart to that ‘heartbreaker’ character to be the one and only possible love interest, people can kill you for their otp!).
I’m not smart or something, but I think that when a character catches our attention (like Loki does, it seems that people can’t just be indifferent towards him, we feel something for him), we fall in love with them to some degree. We are interested in them, we like them, and as a result - we want them, because desire is human’s natural manifestation of the interest. It’s the same with objects - we don’t want to just look at something beautiful, we want to buy it, to have it, to own it. And since we can’t physically see, touch, have or even interact in any way with fictional characters we are interested in (as in real people, our brain can’t actually tell a difference, especially with such realistically portrayed characters as Loki), I believe we do it through other fictional characters from the same universe. And since we all are different and our love and romantic relationships concepts and patterns differ, we do it through different characters as well. Maybe it is easier and more satisfying for us to associate ourselves with one or another character, and so we choose them to ‘woo’ our fictional love interest. Or, reversed, to get metaphorically laid by this character we desire.
Call me big brain or dumb, idk, these are just my thoughts. Because I think this realy is very interesting. We spend a lot of time in these fictional worlds, and everything we do even here is as complicated, as it always is with humans. And isn’t it wonderful?
As for my own Loki-hoeing affairs, I am thorki stan, because their relationship seems interesting, arousing, I like their story, dynamics, all of the hate and love and passion flying between them. I love how different, yet close and intimate they are, how they can be such excellent counterparts to each other, how their traits and features are almost painfully antagonistic in their nature, and what kind of allience they could have together, their strong sides combined, and weak spots covered by each other. I am a crazy aesthete, and I simply LOVE how they look together, their palettes and bodies and faces and voices complementing one another. I’m truly in love with the idea that your partner is not your missing part, but your complement, that together you make something new and qualitatively different, and I have found it for myself in Thor and Loki ship. I’m aware that their relationship is far from healthy, but hey, that’s what fantasy is for - shipping beautiful, imperfect, wretched hot dudes.
And yeah, not to be horny on main, but I’m also kinda into those overpowering, dominating ‘do you yield’ kind of things, so thorki is my fav. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
