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Loki (Norse mythology)
| Character | |
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| Name: | Loki |
| Occupation: | Trickster |
| Relationships: | Fárbauti and Laufey (parents), Helblindi and Býleistr (brothers), Sigyn (wife), Angrboða, Svaðilfari (love interests), Narfi and/or Nari, Hel, Fenrir, Jörmungandr and, according to Prose Edda, Váli (children) |
| Fandom: | Norse Mythology |
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Loki is a demi-god and shapeshifter in Norse mythology. He is a Jotunn (Frost Giant) by birth, his parents are Fárbauti and Laufey. He has two brothers, Helblindi and Býleistr.
Loki is canonically married to Sigyn; the fannish name of the pairing is Logyn. He also has three children with the Jotunn Angrboda. They are called Fenris, Hel, and Jörmungandr.
Contemporary Interest in Loki
Quotations
I love how in the Lokasenna half the time the gods don’t even deny the accusations thrown at them, just give a responding insult. Like“You’re a filthy coward who only cares about sex!”
“Ha ha, you got me there, but, I mean, so are you.”norsemythologyanimated-blog, 2015 [1]
Norse Deity ~Vibes~
UPG, but since I was just asked to describe this, here you go:
Loki: Weird. The feeling of fireworks at a fun carnival while strange music plays and the earth moves beneath you. Spencer’s Gifts meets ’00s Hot Topic. Shifting, the way you can’t quite hold water. Adapting, always finding a way forward, the missing piece of a puzzle. The sound of a fly.queenofswords, 2021 [2]
Without loki, most norse myths would br very very short. It would be:"Thor arrived. His epic hammer smashed all the heads. The end"
Sooo, one could say, that loki schemes. Saves lives? On the bigger scale!
(Except ragnarök but sssh)
norsesuggestions, 2021 [3]
Fanworks
Fanart
Loki and Fenrir by yanagoya (2011)
Loki's Offspring by Develv (2013)
Prophecy by Sceith-A (2014)
I Just Think He’s Neat by papasmoke (2019)
16 Photos Taken Seconds Before Desaster by worstloki (2020)
Fanfiction
- Glass as a slow-flowing liquid, Archived version by Milieu (2018)
Loki in Popular Culture
- Loki is Luke in the YA novel Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones (1975)
- Loki appears in issues #21-28 of Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman (Season of Mists, 1990-91)
- In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, Loki sometimes calls himself Low-Key Lyesmith (2001)
- Loki is the protagonist in Mackenzi Lee's young adult novel Loki: Where Mischief Lies (2019)
- 'By Loki's balls!', a reference to an occurance in Norse mythology, is an exclamation from the TV show Beforeigners (2019-?)
Links and Resources
References
- ^ See: Lokasenna, Archived version by norsemythologyanimated-blog on tumblr, December 27, 2015
- ^ Norse Deity ~Vibes~, Archived version by queenofswords on tumblr, June 10, 2021
- ^ Without loki, most norse myths would br very very short., Archived version by norsesuggestions on tumblr, June 14, 2021