One of the fun things about owning a time-travel device is that any day could be Sunday. Still, no matter what the calendar said, it took purpose to make a real Sunday: you had to be determined enough to spend a whole day doing nothing, and even more strong-willed to make sure your girlfriend would do the same.
Running from the TVA and planning the downfall of the Timekeepers, Sylvie never stopped moving. Even when you two were hiding in a perfectly safe apocalypse, the trickster couldn’t let her guard down. She claimed that a second would be enough time for the TVA to destroy everything she worked for, so she had to be ready all day, every day.
Sure, Sylvie had a point, but not even a goddess could be on high alert forever. If she kept that posture for much longer, she would end up breaking, and recovering from that would cost her way more time than one purposeful day off. Or, at least, that’s what you told her to convince her to join you in this Sunday. Maybe your logic got to her, or maybe she secretly wanted to indulge as much as you did. Either way, she finally agreed, so you set the plan in motion.
First, the tempad took the two of you to an empty mall. The place had been evacuated in an emergency, which meant it would have everything you needed once you broke into a few stores. That world wouldn’t actually end for another 48 hours, so you had plenty of time to relax without setting off any TVA alarms.
Once you were there, you had Sylvie help you ‘borrow’ some blankets and pillows from a fancy store and fairy lights from the early Christmas section of a supermarket. You built a pillow fort near the food court for convenience, and it only took you a couple attempts to figure out how make milkshakes, cookies and burgers for the two of you.
With a full plastic tray, you met Sylvie inside the fort. You were surprised to find her actually laying down, hands under her head, wearing light green pajamas with little golden stars on them. You jumped to her side among the pillows, offering her the tray.
“I have to say, you’re taking this more seriously than I expected. I didn’t know you even owned pajamas, Syl.”
She sat up, grabbing a cookie, which she patiently ate before giving you a reply.
“I didn’t. I found them in that bedding store while you were picking sheets for the roof of the fort. You know I take everything seriously.”
You couldn’t argue with that, nor did you intend to. Instead, you moved to sit closer to her, resting your head against her shoulder.
“It isn’t so bad, though, right? Just chilling for a bit, as if the world wasn’t about to end.”
Sylvie put her arms around you, pulling you even closer.
“Every world we go to is about to end. That’s kind of our whole strategy, but you’re right. I can see the appeal of… Doing nothing.”
You could hear the smile in her voice, and you looked up, kissing her softly.
“It doesn’t have to be absolutely nothing. We can still do some stuff on Sunday, just not stuff that involves overthrowing timeless organizations and all that.” You suggested, giving her a kiss on the neck.
“And what do you suggest we do with our free time?” She questioned, before pulling you back for a deeper kiss.
“Read my mind. I think you’ll like what I have planned.”
“I might even show you some ideas of my own. What do you say?”
“I say Sunday is definitely my favorite day.” You reply between kisses.
Based on my artwork from the past. Then I chose a Maleficent in Sylvie’s place. Back then I thought Loki would match someone with horns and… here we are. ;]
I literally gasped and shouted and squee’d and went through the whole rollercoaster of emotions during this last episode. Literal butterflies when they kissed, followed my immediate heart breaking angst.
Plus the colours of this episode were just too good not to play with!
Loki vs Spiderman No Way Home on tackling the Multiverse
This post will contain spoilers for Spiderman NWH!
I’m gonna need Feige to entrust certain writers on themes that are gonna be touched upon in movies later on to be used in their series. Let me explain.
Spider-Man No Way Home really displayed how BAD and HORRENDOUS the Loki show actually is. Like, plot and writing wise, the Loki show has really, really aged badly. So I’m sitting here wondering, since technically NWH explores the concept of variants (a lot better than a whole ass show was supposed to), why didn’t the writers of NWH dealt with the series instead of giving it to an inexperienced writer/director? Genuine question.
NWH made the concept of the multiverse a lot more digestible than a series was supposed to in a way where if you didn’t watch What if ? or Loki (especially), you could understand it…because in this case Doctor Strange admitted that it’s a concept that he still doesn’t know a lot about. So it makes the audience not only equally curious but entangles them to learn about it at the same time with them. But as someone who DID watch Loki, I can tell the writer(s) has some really odd ideas on handling the concept of multiverses and variants.
What I loved about NWH concept of multiverse is that there was no “sacred timeline”. Loki’s idea of Kang keeping a sacred timeline is very flawed simply because to keep it in one “line”, there shouldn’t have been any variant drastically different from our Loki to the point they posed a risk of tampering with Kang’s desires of keeping a “sacred timeline” (examples like Boastful Loki, Sylvie, Alligator Loki etc). Branches that come from that sacred timeline should be mostly the same except a few environmental changes/decisions where it causes the flow of time to expand. I reiterate this because the Loki show contradicts itself. TVA would go as far as prune someone for being late on their way to work; we’ve seen them arrest normal civilians who you could tell were scared and confused.
NWH concept of the multiverse is very matter of factly and unified; the Peters were variants of each other [which by the way, this concept of the Peters being variants makes a LOT more sense]that are in a way technically not related by DNA but are in essence still the same person, just not the same individual since they come from DIFFERENT universes and NOT a BRANCH of the SAME UNIVERSE like Loki does. Their universal destinies were meant to be as Spidermen/Peter Parker. And it was done in less than three hours. In which I feel like that’s what the Loki series tried to do; to make the Lokis feel like their own person/treat the name as if a title of some sort but they of course failed in that aspect.
When you compared all that said with a lame, fascist organization, that apparently previously captured Thanos and vampires before but was easily defeated by being bitten by an eight year old Asgardian, made by a (black ) dictator pruning branches of the same timeline, but then have said characters contradict the existing ways the multiverse works in your show then… especially when you have a writer and director going back and forth not knowing what to exactly describe Sylvie as…
Oh and speaking of Sylvie, so apparently Marvel CAN do siblings of the same variant relationships but it couldn’t be done with Loki and Sylvie ? I mean they kinda had the same amount of time together. They could have fallen in love (since apparently it can take less than 12 hours). Ah wait ? You say the are MALE? Wait one of them in underage ? No wait pause. Is it because they are loners and never had siblings so they related to each other more easily making the dynamic a lot more wholesome? Huh would you look at that. No self cest. Not even a hint. Interesting….
My expectations on dealing with the multiverse shenanigans are really high now. Especially with the knowledge that it CAN be done well. I don’t know how they’re going to go forward with Multiverse of Madness since Micheal Waldron, yes THE Micheal Waldron from the LOKI show I kept shitting on is the HEADWRITER. I’m also curious on how they are going to handle season two.
