#mokie

Loki spoilers up to episode 5 are in this post, so please be aware.  While I’m happy regardless of how they end up spinning the love between Loki and Mobius (Platonic love is just as valid and valuable as romantic), I can understand people who feel it’s too fast and too soon. That being said, there are some things that stand out in ways that, I think, support their close connection.

 Mobius has been studying Loki for a VERY long time. He has developed an understanding of him. Mobius has had time to get to know Loki even before he ever met him. There is a manufactured intimacy there just because he's had access to every private moment along multiple timelines. Even if all those potential “what if” scenarios were possible to know about someone, that sort of information exchange usually occurs mutually while getting to know someone organically over time, but it is what it is. 

Mobius literally knows Loki better than anyone in the universe or any timeline.

"I'd never stab anyone in the back!" "I've studied every moment of your life. You've literally stabbed people in the back like 50 times." "Well, I'd never do it again, because it’s boring."

Mobius just laughs, because he knows Loki. There's familiarity. 

And for Loki, he's dealing with the Mortifying Ideal of Being Seen for the first time. There's someone who actually understands him. He has, essentially, an equal. Even though there is the power dynamic of Loki having magical abilities and Mobius being a human vs Mobius being in charge and Loki being essentially a prisoner, those power imbalances are only barriers when someone else (the TVA) presses them. Looking past that, on a personal level, Loki has found someone who can match him step for step. 

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