Do u think you would be interested in Loki or as interested as u are now if being intersex wasn't part of his character?
Absolutely. Loki is a wonderful and fascinating character regardless of what’s in his pants. I was captivated by him and his dramatic love/hate dynamic with Thor in the MCU since 2011, even though he was (and is) being portrayed as strictly male. (I think the whole intersex angle is mostly a fanon-based thing. I know comics Loki is more genderfluid and shapeshifty, but I don’t think he’s ever been confirmed as being dual-sexed. I might be wrong on this, though; I haven’t read many of the Thor comics, so I welcome any corrections.)
If the characters grab me, I’ll write about them no matter what gender they are (or aren’t). M/M has been my preferred drink mix for the last 20 years, with a few excursions into F/F and M/F every now and then. But before I started writing for the Thor fandom, my fiction involving characters with more complex sexualities (shapeshifters, mpreg, that sort of thing) comprised only 0.98% of my total works. And that was a shame, really. There was a whole multicolored universe out there, and I was looking at it through a straw.
Only since I’ve been in the Thor fandom (specifically the Thorki fandom) has the concept of a character’s mixed or shifting sexual anatomy been almost universally accepted by the fans, and therefore made safely accessible to authors and artists who want to explore that aspect of the character without the fear of being criticized, harassed, or (to use an old fandom term) flamed.
Loki’s canon fluidity and widely-embraced ambisexuality is a detail that I think only adds to the complexity and intrigue of his already complex, multi-faceted character, lending him power and vulnerability, and giving authors a verdant psychological playground to run around on.
I’ve written Loki as wholly male as well as wholly female, but the blurry gray area between genders is something I find particularly fascinating and fulfilling to explore, especially as someone who, like many of us, doesn’t fit neatly into one labeled box or the other.
There’s a little bit of Loki in all of us, I think, and that’s what makes him so popular as a character. He’s accessible and relatable, neither one thing nor the other, complicated and compelling, an enigma and an engine of introspection. I believe his impact on fandom as a nonbinary character is going to echo in the annals of fanlore for years to come. How great it is to be a part of this fannish history as it’s being made!
