“Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.”
At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
when oscar wilde said “i’m tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else’ and when sylvia plath said ’‘i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart” and when rilke said “this heavy humanness” .
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not throwing shade at people who enjoy the traditional Beauty And The Beast trope but I do appreciate how the Loki show broke expectations by inverting the polarities of how the trope usually plays out
You see, it’s a pattern with ships between Loki and a woman (whether said woman is a canon MCU character or Sigyn or an OC) to play up the “she’s the light to his darkness” angle, the “she’s the rock who can tame his chaotic nature” angle, the “she’s his only thread left connecting him with his good nature” angle. It would have been so easy to fall into this pattern when you give a male villain a female love interest. But not here, not in this show. So what we had instead is Loki falling for a woman as dark and chaotic and damaged as he is and deciding he’s going to be to that woman the person that he always wished somebody else was to him. But he can’t be that person if he still holds onto his self loathing, if he’s still willing to doubt himself, if he still keeps his validation issues. He’s learning to love himself through loving his messiest aspects in someone else.
It is often said that you can’t love someone else before you learn to love yourself first, but this is bullshit and borderline ableist. The truth is that if you are capable of loving another, in a truly pure and altruistic way, then you are perfectly capable of redirecting this capacity for love back to yourself, and that’s exactly what Loki is learning by loving Sylvie, that if he can forgive her, why can’t he forgive himself?
A tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. Sometimes even sung about. The lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and fiction become almost indiscernible. It’s now up to you to pass them down.
Chapter 12, Between Certifiable and Bliss by the lovely @heyjude19-writing π€
Look at them, i love them, omg you captured how he just surrenders to being comforted by her after an emotionally exhausting night and just *keyboard smash, incoherent noise* he just wants to feel safe for like a minute of his life and *sniffles* she provides that and itβs mutual and *screeching* their hair and facial expressions are e v e r y t h i n g
