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Channeling nervous pre-trip energy.
Rewatching Thor while ripping CDs reminds me how much I want a "Loki knows he was adopted" AU. Usually if I want to read a fic that doesn't exist, I find a way to write it myself, but I haven't got the time for it right now - I'm between two and five thousand words away from finishing the Spy fic in the big Team Fortress 2 story cycle, with four more to go.
That said, I think it'd be a great idea if someone else ran with it. Loki being adopted into Odin's family and knowing about it, to keep raging confrontations and painful revelations to a minimum. Rather than frost giants being monsters everyone tells their children about, they're the quiet, noble prince living in the great halls of Asgard, standing by throne. When he ascends to it, Thor wouldn't go to war against the Jötnar, not when he knows how abhorrent it would be to strike against his family and his brother in such a fashion. And if Loki ever came into a position of power, even temporarily, he wouldn't take up arms against either the people of his birth or the people of his home.
There'd still be lots of opportunity for questions of identity, and loyalty, and honor, and all that good stuff which made Loki's character arc far more interesting than Thor's straight-up hero's journey.
Also, if I were to write this, I honestly can't think of how I'd include Darcy, who's one of the movie's graces.
Still. Anyone wants to see what they can do with this, besides this little ficlet, feel free to go ahead and have some fun.
That said, I think it'd be a great idea if someone else ran with it. Loki being adopted into Odin's family and knowing about it, to keep raging confrontations and painful revelations to a minimum. Rather than frost giants being monsters everyone tells their children about, they're the quiet, noble prince living in the great halls of Asgard, standing by throne. When he ascends to it, Thor wouldn't go to war against the Jötnar, not when he knows how abhorrent it would be to strike against his family and his brother in such a fashion. And if Loki ever came into a position of power, even temporarily, he wouldn't take up arms against either the people of his birth or the people of his home.
There'd still be lots of opportunity for questions of identity, and loyalty, and honor, and all that good stuff which made Loki's character arc far more interesting than Thor's straight-up hero's journey.
Also, if I were to write this, I honestly can't think of how I'd include Darcy, who's one of the movie's graces.
Still. Anyone wants to see what they can do with this, besides this little ficlet, feel free to go ahead and have some fun.