I liked and felt a connection with both AoA Loki and Kid Loki, now we’re just said to accept this new Loki and move forward.
Fine, he’s dangerous and badass, but he feels hollow of everything else. One of the reasons MCU Loki is so popular it because of how emotionally complex he is and we can identify with his reasons and emotions.
New Loki as yet to show any of this.
He dismisses Verity’s worries about her friend and just tells her he’s not coming back and that they learn and move forward. This isn’t Doctor Who, we don’t just move forward from one version to the other.
This issue left me with a issue sense of loss and I can’t seem to connect with New Loki at all. He may be Loki, but he feels like a stranger.
Okay, I am gonna share a little secret about myself, actually not so much a secret as something i just don’t discuss much. I am autistic. High functioning, obviously, what most people would probably call Aspergers (though that’s technically not a thing any more) and it’s not some self diagnosed thing, I have been diagnosed by a doctor, go to support groups, the works. And you know what? in real life situations, I act a LOT like Loki here in a lot of ways. I am very bad about picking up on the social cues that I am supposed to ask about a person right then, and when I do, i may do it in a kind of bizarre way, I also do not like sharing things about myself, and a lot of times people dismiss me as cold and uncaring because of it, but that is not the case. I also get obsessive about certain things. I often get stuck in self-destructive routines and patterns. My emotions and reactions to things tend to be described as ‘extreme’ and can result in me flipping out over minor things. Does any of this remind you of a certain character? A lot of these same traits are also shared with psychopathy, many of the diagnosis criteria are similar, but one of the key differences is that ASD people do care about others and empathize with them, just have trouble expressing it appropriately, and psychopaths don’t care about others, or at least not very much, but are able to fake it more easily in order to get what they want. So sometimes a psychopath, who has complete disregard for others, can come across as more caring than a person with ASD who DOES care, but doesn’t know how to express it. In the past, Loki was a psychopath. Even in Agent of Asgard, just… not an evil one. He wanted to be better for selfish reasons, and acted in a way that he thought would get him what he wanted. He was faking the warmth. I am not saying he didn’t care at all about Verity or Thor, but… it didn’t prevent him from acting in a shitty way towards them and disregarding their wants to get what he wanted. Look how he manipulated Verity into helping him when he knew she would not want to. Now, I see him as moving more towards ASD by changing that one thing. But it may result in some odd behaviour.
He asked about Verity’s history. Something King Loki pointed out to her as something Loki never did before. He may have done it in a strange way, and thrown in a lot of rambling about himself and other oddness, but he asked.
Basically, you are coming across as saying he is not behaving in a neurotypical way, and that you can’t wrap your head around it. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any depth to him, he is just not displaying it in a ‘normal’ way. Not everyone forms relationships in the same way. Also, the whole point was that he had to change, or he would end up just becoming evil yet again. Of course he’s acting differently. If he was acting the same, then he failed.
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