A lot of Loki's actions come out of sheer perversity, which I certainly understand, since that's also much of Chess Pargeter's motivation: You can't control me! You can't tell which way I'll jump! I'll do what I want, even when I don't actually want to, and it'll work out JUST as badly for me! Case in point--when Loki joined the Aesir (as a blood-brother to Odin rather than his adopted son, and as a result of his own choice, in the original myth), they gave him an Aesir wife, Sigynn. Sigynn was beautiful, loyal (she's the one who holds a bowl to keep snake-venom from dripping on his face, once the gods get tired of his sorry ass and imprison him under a mountain) and an all-around nice chick, but Loki never had kids with her, possibly because he never had sex with her. Instead, he went back to Jotunheim and hooked up with the ogress Angrboda, by whom he had Hel, Fenris and the Midgard Serpent, putting everybody three more steps down the road to Ragnarok. Just 'cause.
My favourite Loki line from Marvel still has to be: "I am the fire that burn! And WHY does the fire burn?...I know not, but I am he."
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Date: 2011-05-11 05:47 pm (UTC)My favourite Loki line from Marvel still has to be: "I am the fire that burn! And WHY does the fire burn?...I know not, but I am he."