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Jan. 23rd, 2013 08:45 pm"You could have told me what I was from the beginning. Why didn't you?"
In one of the countless alternate universes, Odin did just that, and it saved his adopted son and the rest of the nine realms a whole lot of suffering. Growing up knowing what he was, Loki never had a existential-crisis-induced nervous breakdown which lead him to commit patricide/genocide/fratricide, like he did in Thor. Naturally, he's still got some "adopted-child" issues, but this time around he doesn't have the added baggage that comes with growing up being told his people are monsters.
In short, this Loki just a (mostly) harmless trickster, rather than a megalomaniac with a god-complex. He's what Loki might have been, had Odin made different decisions while raising him.
In one of the countless alternate universes, Odin did just that, and it saved his adopted son and the rest of the nine realms a whole lot of suffering. Growing up knowing what he was, Loki never had a existential-crisis-induced nervous breakdown which lead him to commit patricide/genocide/fratricide, like he did in Thor. Naturally, he's still got some "adopted-child" issues, but this time around he doesn't have the added baggage that comes with growing up being told his people are monsters.
In short, this Loki just a (mostly) harmless trickster, rather than a megalomaniac with a god-complex. He's what Loki might have been, had Odin made different decisions while raising him.
