This scene is the one that truly gets me. Loki’s face in all of these… It’s the face of boy, not a man. A boy who is begging for acceptance, love, and above all belonging. It’s the face of a boy who was trying his hardest to prove himself of some sort of worth and value. After all these terrible things he’s done and even though he truly believes it was okay, it was all in the service of one need: acceptance from Odin that he is equal to Thor and belongs within the family. That even though he is a “monster”, he is still capable of being loved.
But Odin says no to him. Odin casts away the needs of Loki, whom he calls a son, because in his heart, he cannot truly justify the horrible things Loki has done; all the lies and hurt. And Loki is heartbroken. You can see in the third panel the realization that he is never to be loved, or accepted, or equal for that matter. And suddenly the weight of being lied to and betrayed weighs down on his shoulders. He realizes now that even though at the time of doing all the bad things he’d done and believing they were right, that they were simply ways of trying to get Odin’s attention in the worst manner. But the pain is so great at all of these realizations that it becomes painful to breath, it becomes so painful even to exist within the world and so he let’s go. He tries to end his life because he cannot carry the weight of all the agony that has been bestowed upon him.
(via raeriku)
” You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.”
(Source: deanaxburke, via raeriku)
