Love is in the air for Loki. And Loki. In the ultimate narcissistic move, Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief has fallen for another version of himself – with head writer Michael Waldron confirmed what we all likely suspected.
"That was one of the cruxes of my pitch [for the series], that there was going to be a love story," Waldron told Marvel’s official site.
Waldron pinpoints Loki and Sylvie’s moment of connection on Lamentis during Loki episode 4 as the first real time that the pair realize they have feelings for each other – something cemented by Loki’s boyish stuttering during the episode’s final moments.
"As we were cutting it together in the studio, everyone was, ‘Oh, this [relationship] is really cool. Let's dig into that more. When we went back to filming, we added or tweaked scripts basically to [emphasize it]."
But the course of true love (or self-love) never did run smooth. Loki and Sylvie are now very much on the outs – but not through their own making. Tom Hiddleston’s Loki has been ‘pruned’ and finds himself face-to-face with a handful of new Lokis – including Richard E. Grant’s Classic Loki. Sylvie, meanwhile, has Ravonna Renslayer trapped in the depths of the TVA. For those shipping ‘Soki’, it might be some time before these star-cross’d lovers can find themselves once more.
