奈落

This scene to me is maybe Loki’s most tragic moment in the movies. Because it’s one of the few times we see Loki entirely alone, not putting on a show or lying to anyone, so his panic and heartbreak are real.  And he reaches out to Odin - and it’s the reaching out that gets me, that moment where Loki hesitates to touch him - and then he when does dare touch, he almost immediately pulls his hand away, and maybe it’s just shock, but also - Loki was just holding the Casket, has just found out what he is; and he knows what a frost giant’s touch does to Aesir.  He’s scared to touch his father, scared that he might freeze him, hurt him further.

Oh. My. Heart.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

“A monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

“My soul pours out without end, like melancholy water,”