A/N: This is the result of a slightly meta weeks-long deliberation over the colors in the Thor movies.
Characters: Loki, Jane (indirectly)
Genre: um...slightly...'one-sided bonding over what might be called angst'...kind of...maybe...why do I love complex characters so much.
He likes her.
Not because she can stalk up to him while her world and every world crashes down around her because of her own curiosity. Not because she slaps him like he deserves it because she believes he does. Not because she loves Thor and Thor loves her and her mortality will hurt him like nothing else he could have done.
No, he likes her because she's wearing blue.
Dark blue, you understand. Dark blue hidden under an almost black Midgardian jacket. There's a hint of gold gleaming underneath; he suspects it's a breastplate.
Do you see?
Can't you see him?
Green-dark green-with black, and hints of gold.
He likes her, because she knows what it is like to be a shadow.
Look at them. Watch them fade into the background while Thor speaks imperiously with some other Asgardian. Thor is brilliant and gleaming and golden—
He is the sun.
They are the moons, the satellites orbiting around him.
For once, Loki isn't alone in the subdued position of not-Thor.
For once, someone else shares the shade of Thor's greatness.
Oh, he likes her.