#mcga loki

[ilovecoveysongs]

Let's Settle This...

Favourite Mcga Loki Child

Alex Fierro

Samirah al-Abbas

Slepnir

Voting ended onApr 27

[the-honeyed-offering]

Magnus 'defeats Loki with the power of friendship' Chase is the one character I NEVER want to see truly angry

[wanderingmind867]

"Maybe…" I said, self conscious as all eyes turned toward me. "I dunno…We could come up with a more secure place to keep him, at least? Like - I'm just thinking aloud here - a maximum-security prison with actual guards? And chains that aren't made from the intestines of his sons? Or, you know, we could just avoid the intestine thing altogether…"

Odin chuckled, like I was a puppy that had learned a new trick. "Magnus Chase, you and your friends have acted bravely and nobly. Now you must leave matters to the gods. We cannot change Loki's punishment in any meaningful way. We can only restore it to what it was, so that the great sequence of events leading to Ragnarok will be held in check. At least for now."

Rick…what!? Everything after this line is actually okay, so this is the last really horrible part of the book. But still. What the hell, rick!? Loki has to go back to his acid cave with the chains? Why!? Don't give me that crap about it being the way things are! Even gods can change and acknowledge the inhumanity of a punishment. This was a step too far, plain and simple. And I will not accept this ending. Not in any way, shape or form. For me, i'm just going to assume magnus' proposal was accepted, and loki and sigyn live in a maximum security prison cell together. If you gave loki nice conditions, he probably wouldn't want ragnarok. Just being honest.

[wanderingmind867]

The scene where Loki flytes Magnus… beautifully written. Not great how it makes Loki look abusive towards his wife and kids, but still pretty good as a villainous monologue. I still really hate Loki's writing in this book, since he was made irredeemably evil with no good qualities whatsoever. But I do still think he got some wonderful lines. Both those opinions can coexist.

But yeah. I still find the final Magnus Chase book incredibly underwhelming. Loki's barely in it, alex and magnus are written so badly that everything feels either malicious or forced, it all sucks. The best part of this book is the section where Hearthstone confronts his father. That was actually beautifully written. But the rest of this book feels like i'm slowly watching a writer who was once skilled slowly lose his touch. Or at the very least, i'm watching him completely drop the ball. And it's sad.

These books deserved better than they got. The first two books were really not that bad. The Sword of Summer was… tolerable. I had some complaints about the Hotel Valhalla scenes, but everything picked up after that. And the Hammer of Thor was also pretty good. But this last book… it's just a mess. A big mess. And I feel horrible saying it, but someone has to. Someone has to.

[wanderingmind867]

It's hard for me to dislike the villains in the Magnus Chase series, because the "dishonourable dead" is a meaningless phrase. Sure, it can mean evil people. But it can also mean people who just weren't deemed "righteous enough." That could be any of us. If you don't perform a suitably valorous act, you go join Hela in Helheim. And like… Helheim actually sounds fine. It sounds better than the Fields of Asphodel or the Fields of Punishment. But I understand and fully sympathize with all the abandoned and dishonoured dead, because they just want to find a place in the sun.

They're heading off to war with Loki and Hel and the giants, because they were abandoned by the gods themselves. It really feels like Ragnarok is just a virtuous thing that needs to happen. The Norse Gods haven't done good by many people in these books. Loki was suffering and finally earned freedom. Unlike with Luke in Percy Jackson (where I felt his reactions to the gods was completely unjustified), I fully understand the perspective of the people aboard Naglfar. That Rick Riordan wants to make them the big villians of the story makes me feel super conflicted, honestly.

[wanderingmind867]

Loki from the Magnus Chase books really is just the godly embodiment of The Joker, isn't he? Both are chaotic and evil, yet incredibly fun to watch and read about. Loki's garish fashion sense, willingness to blackmail people with violence (like when he had randolph stab blitzen), and his general all-around sinister yet silly vibes...he sort of feels like the riordanverse equivalent of The Joker. He also reminds me of Set from the Kane Chronicles, you know? They're both gods of chaos who act silly and charming. So i'd love to see Set and Loki interacting in a comic or fanfic or something, y'know? I think it'd be amazing and hilarious.

[wanderingmind867]

She shot me a dark look. "I don't approve of my father. He may be charismatic, but he's also a liar, a thief, a murderer. He's visited me several times. I refused to talk to him, which drives him nuts. He likes to be noticed. He's not exactly low-key."

I do find this description adequately fits both the Loki of the Magnus Chase books, and the Loki of Marvel comics. A theatrical man of great cunning and cleverness. Ostracized by the other gods, since his crafty schemes made him lose everyone and everything. But still...the man knows how to orchestrate a scheme with a bold, dramatic flourish. Best way to get under his skin is to ignore him.

[bugwolfsstuff]

I fell asleep at 2 something AM last night and my eyes hurt too much to write so im drawing Loki in a wedding dress

I have lost all control of my life