Eurgh... just... read it, alright?


It's not the gag that angers Loki, true, it irks him that they are making him wear it but that is not what makes him angry. He is angry because he has always born defeat in silence, not by force but by will, this time should have been no different, except it is because they are forcing silence upon him.

In the past when someone had told him to be silent or to know his place, he would give a small nod and stop talking, as they had wished, but it had always been his choice, and it had never been much of a choice to start with but he'd always been able to make it. No one had ever forced silence upon him, at least not like this, and even when his lips had been sown shut it had been his choice. This was not, this felt wrong, on so many levels.

It felt wrong because he did not need words to cast magic, he needed his hands for that and they'd already chained those. It felt wrong because he could not fight, was not strong enough to fight, did not have the will to fight and they knew it. It felt wrong because his only defence left was his words, his ability to speak, to warn, to apologize, to thank, to plead, to beg, to promise, to compromise, to lie, to admit, to agree, to disagree, to just voice an opinion, this was his only defence left and they took it away as if it were nothing. This is what angers him, angers and disgusts and hurts and annoys him like nothing else could have.

Even when he had believed he was going to die, he had chosen not to say goodbye, had chosen not to speak at all even though he had believed it to be his last chance to say anything. Even when he was hurting inside from all the scorn and disgust born his way by his fellows in Asgard it was still his choice to remain silent about the way he felt. No matter how bad the situation, he had always been able to make his own choice on whether he was silent or not, Odin had never taken that choice away from him.

In just one action the Midgardians showed Loki just how disgusting and cruel they could be and if he could speak he would tell them that there had always been a reason behind every action he had made or every word he had spoken that transcended his innate desire to cause chaos or upset. If he could speak he would tell them that no matter what they said or did from this moment on he would never again look on them as weak or deserving to be ruled, because they were the race who could take away a person's voice as if it were nothing for no reason other than that they could.

From this moment on, Loki Son of No-One will look upon the people of Earth as a race that deserves nothing more than to be destroyed, not even his kind, the monsters, would take away a person's ability to speak if it was the last thing they had to defend themselves with, and if they were monsters, what did that make the people of Earth?

This is what angers Loki; that they call him monster and do not give him the means to prove them wrong.