Cameron, like many other Americans, watched in horror as the scene unfolded before her on the TV. The news channels all showed the same thing: aliens were invading New York. How was this even possible?
A camera zoomed in on a blurry figure, standing on top of Stark tower, his golden helmet shining brightly from the sun. Cameron squinted, trying to see him better. He was the cause of all this, so why does he look like he's desperate for something? Something else comes flying at him from the side, slamming him further back from the edge. The camera jostles, obviously whoever was holding it did not expect that to happen. There's a replay of what just happened, but slowed down. Is that... Cameron gasped. Was that a man? Wearing a red cape and flying? Like Superman? This was insane.
Later, Cameron learned that the man with the red cape was Thor. And that the aliens invading New York were stopped by a team of superheroes, The Avengers. But what she never learned was who was in charge of the attack. The news kept displaying it as a tragedy and that the Avengers had saved the day, but it never showed who exactly they saved it from.
It wasn't until a month later Cameron found the website online. The website explained that the reason aliens invaded New York was so Thor's brother, Loki, could rule over Earth. Although the website speculated over many reasons why, it held to one very specific reason: Loki wanted the attention so he could go back home. The website then provided some links about the Norse trickster god, Loki. Cameron read all she could. She was hungry for information; she needed to know more about this Loki.
Then the media found the website. And then everybody knew. They all knew Loki was the brother of Thor, how he was just trying to get back home to Asgard, from where he had been banished. And now, incidentally, he was back home, because Thor took him back. People were outraged, and the story quickly got shut down by unknown sources.
By then, it was too late. The majority of the people believed Loki was a horrible villain and deserved to die. But there were a few that didn't. Cameron was one of them. In fact, somebody had even started a group on Facebook labeled "Loki's Army." Cameron immediately joined. There wasn't much in the group, just a lot of members, and people rambling about how much they loved Loki and how he was their true leader; but there was a picture.
Somehow, during the chaos of battle, a close up picture had been taken of Loki. Long black hair, green eyes, a sexy smirk. It was like he knew he was getting his picture taken. And he was enjoying it.
Cameron wasn't obsessed. She just understood. Loki was like a political candidate. She may not agree with his policies (i.e. humans were made to be ruled, etc.) but she agreed with this: he was desperate to get back home. Something awful had happened to him while he was away, and he needed to go back home. Could he be a psychopath? Maybe. But he could also be something else too. Something nobody had really thought of yet.
He could be a person.