Is loki gay

Unlike the gods of certain other religions, their behavior is not used as a model for proper living. I’m not…anything.” Which is refreshing because, for some reason, the concept of asexuality is as absurd as a unicorn, but will Florence Pugh’s MCU counterpart embrace this identity? 

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Representation is not a minor ordeal because when we see someone like ourselves on the big screen, we feel seen, almost like we matter.

Her shapeshifting is explicitly said to be tied to her self image — whatever form she is in, Loki is always Loki, “first, last and always.” (See Agent of Asgard #5 and #16 for more on this!)

Odin, in this same comic series, refers to Loki as “my child who is neither my son nor my daughter.” Other writers have continued this characterization, with series such as Vote Loki and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl showing him changing his gender presentation, or making reference to his genderfluidity.

Those children, whoever they were, are never mentioned again as far as we can discern.

Because Loki has been attested as having been impregnated both in animal form and also by supernatural means in other sources, we unfortunately can not assume these children must have been the result of intercourse with a man while he was in the form of a human-like woman.

Of the four instances in which Loki takes the form of a woman, two of them are associated with clear, functional goals and two are so briefly described that we have no clear indication of why he did it.

Loki’s first child is with their wife in Asgard, whom Odin and the gods approve of, but Loki also has a giantess lover in Jotunheim and has sired three famous children with her:

• The World snake (Jörmungandr) who is the largest snake to ever live.

  Loki truly is full of confidence to be who they are regardless of the world around them.

  We can speculate, but we have to admit that we are speculating, no matter what we say about those instances.

  In response to being called argr by Odin, itʼs worth noting that Loki immediately fires back the exact same insult:

  En þik síða kóðu Sámseyu í, ok draptu á vétt sem vǫlur; vitka líki fórtu verþjóð yfir, ok hugða ek þat args aðal.

  But they say you practiced seid on Samsø, and struck on a drum(?) like the seeresses; in the likeness of a wizard (i.e., a seid-man) you went among mankind, and I thought that an argr way to be.

  The word seeresses here is translated from the Old Norse vǫlur, and references the socially-accepted role of certain female practitioners of seid magic.

  This was likened to weakness (men could even duel to restore honour after this “insult”), and a slang term was given to these men: “agr”. He has the right to kill in retaliation on their account over the same period as he has the right to kill on account of women, in both cases up the next General Assembly.

  Loki has been both a mother and a father in their time, as a masterful shapeshifter who transitions between the sexes as it suits them. So, what do you think about this lineup of LGBTQ Marvel characters? Loki’s repetition of this line in st. In this respect, they queer notions of the gods’ infallibility and omniscience. In another famous tale, Loki transforms into a mare and gives birth to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

  Loki becomes upset about this for some unstated reason and resolves to learn whether Baldr has any weaknesses. Does it expect you to fall in line, even if it costs you your selfhood? Because the transformation is designed in service of a goal, we do not have a clear reason to believe this is a reflection of Loki’s personal identity.

  Unfortunately the phrase kýr mólkandi is somewhat ambiguous here, and that ambiguity is frustrating because it substantially affects the mythological “canon” of Lokiʼs behavior. We need context to help us understand why decisions are made before we start applying labels to the characters making them.

  The context in Þrymskviða, of course, is that Asgard is on the line as long as the hammer Mjollnir remains in the hands of the jotuns.

  Nowadays, we just see this as a fun story, but at the time the Vikings would have understood it another way. Despite the connection to this disparaging slang term, the myth casts Loki in a heroic light.

  “Loki’s relations with Svadilfari [the stallion] were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”

  The Prose Edda by Jesse Byock

  Clearly, Norse perceptions of gender and sexuality were different from our own.

  His comfort around her reflects his own ease with his gender fluidity, and it’s not long before he’s fled the TVA at the end of Episode 2, in hot pursuit of his gender-swapped doppelganger.

  Gods only know where Loki will take the character, especially now that the queer-coded subtexts of the God of Mischief have been laid plain in the text of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

  In this post I will be discussing ancient ideas as they were preserved, with no desire to influence anyone’s personal beliefs.