OOTS #1176 - The Discussion Thread

[Sky_Schemer]

YLoki hasn't been shown to be this incompetent, and he clearly cares about Hel, so what is he getting here?

What he's getting here is a big lesson in unintended consequences, and how tricks at someone else's expense can have huge reprecussions.

Hel may be the antagonist here, but it was the bet that put her in this position. What we are seeing, and what Loki is seeing for the first time, is what happens when you literally strip everything away from someone: their power, their dignity, their future, and leave them feeling trapped and impotent. And then, when she comes up with a plan to get out of this cycle before she literally wastes away and improve her station in the process, that gets stripped from her too (not that we should root for her here, of course).

Take away everything from someone and then take away their hope, too, and this is what you get: someone who is so desperate, so miserable, so disenfranchised, that they will burn the world around them out of spite.

Crazy thought time: Hel really is a victim here, and is so far gone she will victimize others in turn.

Crazy thought #2: This may not be too far from how the Dark One felt about his people before ascending. It's heavily implied that they existed as canon fodder for PC's. And now he's in a position to do something about it.