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Because girl!Loki is made of win.
There was a time, once, when they were all much younger, when she didn't hate her step-brother. One of the others would probably say that they were all more innocent then, but she has never been innocent, maybe because she was never really one of them.
He loved Balder more than he loved her, right from the beginning. So, naturally, she'd had to do something about that. One could take the view that that endeavor had backfired rather spectacularly. She preferred to think of it as a success; at least she'd managed to make Baldur pay for being everyone's favorite.
He loved Balder more than her. That was the first mark against him.
He was also destined to kill one of her children, and despite what others said of her, she did love her children. All of them. Monsters are only monsters to people who insist upon viewing the world through the narrow categories of good and evil.
He would have been the death of her favorite son. That was the second mark against him.
He was more powerful than she was, even when bound to spend part of his days trapped in a mortal body. She was forced to fight him through intermediaries, to send her pawns to face him instead of doing it herself. He defeated them all.
The games she played with him were much less entertaining when she lost. That was the third mark against him.
There was a time, once, when she hadn't hated her step-brother, just as there had been a time when she hadn't been female, but she hated him now. Still, when she looked into a mirror upon awakening and discovered how strong a resemblance she now bore to her step-brother's greatest love, she was pleased at the opportunities this offered.
She is the embodiment of chaos. She does not have to be consistent.
There was a time, once, when they were all much younger, when she didn't hate her step-brother. One of the others would probably say that they were all more innocent then, but she has never been innocent, maybe because she was never really one of them.
He loved Balder more than he loved her, right from the beginning. So, naturally, she'd had to do something about that. One could take the view that that endeavor had backfired rather spectacularly. She preferred to think of it as a success; at least she'd managed to make Baldur pay for being everyone's favorite.
He loved Balder more than her. That was the first mark against him.
He was also destined to kill one of her children, and despite what others said of her, she did love her children. All of them. Monsters are only monsters to people who insist upon viewing the world through the narrow categories of good and evil.
He would have been the death of her favorite son. That was the second mark against him.
He was more powerful than she was, even when bound to spend part of his days trapped in a mortal body. She was forced to fight him through intermediaries, to send her pawns to face him instead of doing it herself. He defeated them all.
The games she played with him were much less entertaining when she lost. That was the third mark against him.
There was a time, once, when she hadn't hated her step-brother, just as there had been a time when she hadn't been female, but she hated him now. Still, when she looked into a mirror upon awakening and discovered how strong a resemblance she now bore to her step-brother's greatest love, she was pleased at the opportunities this offered.
She is the embodiment of chaos. She does not have to be consistent.
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Also, it really amuses me that Straczynski went to the effort of coming up with a way to genderswap Loki just so that he could write Thor/Loki slash in canon and get away with it (I eagerly await a cover that has Loki making out with Thor on it; I know it will appear eventually, it's just a question of when).
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I love that it mixes traditional Norse mythology with Marvel canon.
And the last line!! Ugh! Kills me!! so good.
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