𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑 *

good morning. ♥

            i feel like a lot of fanon portrayals focus way too much on thor being stuck in this sort of ‘frat-boy’ mentality that just doesn’t add up with all of the trauma he’s endured. like, sure, funny/comedic scenes are tons of fun, but he’s genuinely suffered - not only watching his brother, the person who he grew up with at his side for as long as he could remember, die three. times. in front of him (and i’m counting his attempted suicide in thor 1) along with the death of his closest friends, the majority of his people, his mother, his father, and having that all stack up on top of his shoulders in the span of less than ten years.  it’s why his arc in end game pisses me off so much- his depression should have been properly looked at. the trauma and the anger from what he’s been through should have been looked at accordingly, but instead it was turned into yet another of the mcu’s jokes.  the point is that he had to find what was left of himself and realize that that part of him could still be good, could still be worthy of what he’d struggled to keep afloat, and in the end worthy of continuing to protect what was left of it all and rebuild.                   we also never really see thor own up to his own mistakes because of it. we see him dwell on perhaps one or two of them, but at length, he just seems to grow without much prompting it in the end.  end game was a good chance for them to really delve into that opportunity and they fell flat on their ass with it. anyway in this essay i will

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if yall thought my canon divergent posts on dracula were obnoxious, just you wait. 

honestly thinking my thor is going to dive off the deep end into a very heavily set fantasy aesthetic / vibe.  very much in-touch with the 9 realms and the areas/folklore surrounding new asgard than based in ragnarok +onward. 

also, this blog absolutely recognizes valkyrie as the ruler of asgard; and thor himself (in my portrayal) retains his titles of former king,  god of thunder,  and son of odin.  he has swept all facets of royalty off of himself and prefers to be seen as a defender of the whole nine realms.   he has no interest in ruling over new asgard, even if he is referred to as their former king.  this is in essence the juxtaposition between he and his brother.  he has completely given up the title of king and no longer wants it, especially considering that he does consider it a failure that he was unable to save his people and many of his friends from both surtr and the attack(s) made by thanos. 

so,  after doing a lot of thinking, i really want to focus on thor’s portrayal from thor: the dark world.  he’s far more serious here, and i really don’t like the way that the writers treated him from ragnarok onward, in that they not only took off his edge, but turned him into a sort of comic relief where he should have been entirely different    especially regarding the depression and imposter syndrome he deals with in endgame. so, yeah, his portrayal will be mainly taken from the dark world and journey into mystery.  while this blog will not touch often on the pagan elements of thor’s worship, i will be building more for (new) asgardian culture on old norse sociological and anthropological studies.