One day, I’m going to draw lokius, but I will draw Loki as the beautiful woman she deserves to be.
because goddamnit even if the show might’ve done an awful job representing his gender/form fluidity— it doesn’t mean the comics OR the original source material, norse mythology, dating back more than centuries ago, don’t exist.
Don’t get me wrong, the Lokius fanart I’ve seen is stunning. but I have barely seen any depicting Loki as a woman or even feminine, and it’s a itch I must scratch.
(Me when Marvel takes a character who is both fluid in original source material and specifically genderfluid in some of their comics and then just don’t do anything with that in the show dedicated around that character: 🧍)
Norse mythology Loki, whilst most commonly appeared as male, was a shapeshifter God who in multiple instances took a female form - and in perhaps one of the most well known Loki stories, took the form of a mare and gave birth to one of his children, Sleipnir. There are also other stories in which he gave birth, not as mare, too. But it is important to note to not too heavily view norse mythology Loki under a modernistic lens, and identifying him as being trans/gender-fluid in norse mythology is a very complex thing to go into due to multiple reasons. But for Mavel’s interpretation of Loki, there are multiple comics, dating from early 2000s till now, in which he is openly genderfluid and form-fluid and you could definitely say for those he is genderfluid and falls under the trans and queer umbrella.
