Requested by anon: All my “Bad Parenting Odin” memes
I still reckon Odin needs to turn out to be the Big Bad. That Ineffectual Old Man garbage? Yeah, not buying it, Bölverkr, Ginnarr, Glapsviðr…
(To be fair: Regarding the second one, technically Loki was born to be a king. I mean, Odin never said king of where, right? It’s not Odin’s fault Loki got the wrong idea because he was, like, six-in-god-years and no-one bothered to tell him he was a monster or whatever.)
(Also, what was the deal with the “Odinsleep”? Is that actually A Thing and if so… why? Or did someone just get halfway through writing a Dramatic Scene and was just like, “Man there’s no good comeback to this where the hell do I go now— ah well I’ll just have the guy faint and spent the rest of the film AWOL and just kinda forget this scene occurred. That works, right?”)
I suspect Odin left telling Loki about his true lineage until too late; I can kind of see where he was going (if Laufey was the King of the Frost Giants, it makes sense that he’d want his next-in-line to be Asgard-friendly, even if he completely ballsed it up), and like you said, he never said exactly what he’d be king of.
It actually kind of reminds me of an indie comic I was given when I was young, where these two Asian criminal families exchanged sons in an effort to broker peace between the two; each would come back with the experience of the other group, and thus stop the constant fighting. Unfortunately in Odin’s case he didn’t swap, he took, and now Loki wants to be GOD KING OF WHATEVER I WANT THOR because he’s basically been jerked around liek whoa.
(And yeah, the Odinsleep is A Thing - he has to undergo it every year to maintain his Godliness, it basically makes him a mortal, and it can last for varying periods of time. In the film they said he’d been putting it off for too long, and thus was born a convenient Get Out Of Conversation Free Card.)
okay im about to leave
i think i have everything
my coach arrives at midnight
and by the time i get to the airport
i will be there waiting for her
shitpanicshitpanicshitpanic
How do I turn? What’s the button to look up? Why is the sky dirt colored?
Dude
Guys
Listen to this while looking at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WP2exZurfc
Yeah, no, okay
Totally freaking out now
Worrying about money and time and everything
I’m fucking praying everything is going to be okay
Just let this all go well
