MaLoki 20 themes: father

3. Parenthood

Misao Daidouji would not consider himself an overprotective parent. Far from it, really, considering how he lets his daughter spend most of her free time with a strange little boy and his far-too-dedicated manservant, pursuing mysteries that could be more dangerous than ‘fushigi’. When he worries about her, which happens on a fairly regular basis, he wonders why exactly he trusts that Loki with his daughter’s welfare.

Then again, Misao Daidouji is sensitive to more than just the supernatural, even if only on a subconscious level; and Loki’s parental instincts, while subtle in manifestation, aren’t all that hard to miss.




18. Fire

They’d only had a while to spend with their father in Asgard, but Fenrir’s certain that things have changed. Loki’s mischief has grown petty, the spark in his eyes dulled by complacency and the drowsiness of the mortal world, and he spends his days in his study even as -- Fenrir knows -- Odin’s plans move onward, inexorable.

This afternoon it is no different: Loki flips through a thick leather-bound volume, ignoring the cup of tea that cools on his desk. Fenrir whines, restless; paws at one of Loki’s boots and wishes he could bring the fire back to his father’s eyes.




Bonus theme 3. Possessiveness

Hel wonders at her mother’s silence, as they wait for Loki. It is a foreign idea to Hel: to have been so close to Loki – to have been perhaps the only person to ever get so close – and still be able to wait out his absence so patiently. Hel still remembers the reassuring heaviness of the dagger in her hand.

Utgard Loki's soul is a foreign weight inside her. She smiles a little when she finally gives it to her father, her lips cold against his -- it is, she thinks, the closest she has ever come to having a part of him.




6. Ouroboros

This is not quite identical to coming full-circle, but that is fine. He has sunlight, now, and the warmth of gentle fingers against his scales. The ocean holds nothing worth recalling; his time as a human could not have been anything but temporary, and the gods live on enough borrowed time as it is.

Still, acceptance is not the lack of regrets. Loki tells him, sometimes, that he has nothing to feel guilty about. He still thinks that he would gladly live another eternity in Midgard’s waters, if only he could be Yamino-kun for as long as Loki needed him.