#mcu!mobius

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My take on Loki and Mobius no one seems to share because it all became a ship war is that:

In S1, Mobius is horrible to Loki. It's a captive/captor relationship where the captor takes out anger at being inconvenienced by their captive's self-preservation by physically (by proxy) and psychologically abusing him. He also uses very dehumanizing language when referring to Loki.

He DID NOT give Loki therapy. That's a police interrogation using unethical tactics. I don't care what Kate Herron said in the interview. She's wrong and misinterpreted the show she directed. And Michael Waldron is also wrong.

In S2, Mobius DOES make it up to Loki and shows he's sorry by risking his skin to save Loki.

Mobius didn't fix Loki or make him good. Loki was the one to set Mobius on a path to redemption.

OPINION: The concept of using the TVA to explore Loki and his fight against pre-determinism and being put into boxes has a lot of potential. The TVA has such fucked up implications. HOWEVER, this show always picked the laziest and cheapest way to go about it, and abandoned too many threads.

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The Loki series fumbled in that it could have been a very meaningful tale about grief.

What if the main TVA cast Loki interacts with are people he killed in 2012? And it would have been so meaningful for his character development!! He learned to care about humans! It would also explain why Mobius is drawn to him.

What if part of the conflict was Loki trying to save Frigga and alter the timeline to keep himself and everyone else safe? And he fails at it all the time. This could be either TVA!Loki or some other antagonist Loki variant. If it is TVA!Loki and HWR was present, it could have tied to the comics lore of Kang keeping an alternate version of his dead lover (Ravonna) around because he couldn't accept her death.

The Loki variants that were pruned or removed from their timelines like Sylvie and those in the Void would be grieving their lost lives.

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I really wish Disney/Marvel had the balls to make Sylkius cannon. Then I would be able to use the "If I had a cent for every time Owen Wilson played a character in a polycule, I would have two cents. Which is not much, but it's weird it's happened twice."

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Going through the Lokius tag with "pie" in any field, and I have yet to encounter a fic other than mine where the pie contains drugs of any kind (hallucinogens, memory-altering, mood stabilizers, or hell even aphrodisiacs (surprising given that it's AO3 )). And like I did find some sexy times pie scene fics but they don't involve any kind of drug.

Honestly, I can't believe there's so few drugged pie fics. I've heard people say that but I had to see it to believe it. What are we doing to our youth to have them not apply classical dystopian tropes?

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Sylki antis really be like "omg the character who was established to be a mean asshole thinks their relationship is weird, we won so much besties". Negative media literacy.

Brad looks like the coppiest cop and I bet his playlist is full of Five Finger Death Punch. Exactly the kind of person whose judgement you should accept without question *sarcasm*. (I associate that band with assholes that called me slurs, LOL).

Dude makes jabs at Loki about imprisoning again ("I'll get you a looser suit next time"), not having a rank there, being a villain, and his mother (berserk button).

In S1, when Mobius is calling Loki a cockroach and accuses him of being a degenerate, it sounds A LOT like right-wing rhetoric, especially directed towards a canonically queer character. Like I know they're talking about the fictitious concept of variants (And Sylvie and Loki look NOTHING alike, and I think it's impossible all variants share DNA with Tom Hiddleston's Loki), but it seems rather allegorical in that manner. This isn't surprising in a fascist organization.

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Marvel let loki have two families (the frost giants dont count tho)

The TVA fam could have been better developed. I can only buy a goodish relationship with Sylvie, Mobius (only after S2 because he risked his skin for Loki, in S1 I was like "WTF are people watching to churn out so much fluffy Lokius? I can only see this going darkly."), and OB (lesser degree because new character) because he rarely interacted 1-on-1 with anyone else. They were usually present in a group setting.

In Ep.5, I became convinced Loki has some attachment disorder and extreme fear of abandonment, so he latched onto anyone he could by taking people he once knew from their timelines because he doesn't seem very close to them.

And Loki sadly never got to patch up things with his adoptive family. Maybe one day he will?

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Just saw a rant on s2 ep2 that was basically "I'm mad Loki didn't deal with Mobius perfectly, and fuck Sylvie for being traumatized."

Like do any of them seem okay to you? They all need serious therapy.

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I love how YA hero coded Victor Timely is. The story told from his POV is something straight out of a fantasy novel. Young boy is given a mysterious book that confirms that magic (sorry, "advanced science") is real and keeps that knowledge to his heart, inspiring him into becoming a great magician (sorry, "scientist"). Grown up to be a loveable con man and underdog, the boy is visited by a mysterious lady and her quirky magical assistant in a carnival (how whimsical) who tells him she comes from a world that magic ("advanced science") is real and that he's the Chosen One and has a Grand Destiny to fullfill there, but evil villains like the Wizard Gentleman and his sidekick butler want to use him for their own means. I'd read that book in a heartbeat.

LMAO. It really is a very whimsical YA plot, but with a man in his 30s. And I will keep laughing at the Wizard Gentleman and his sidekick butler. Thanks for pointing this out!