>>123676928Fun fact: Loki isn't actually a trickster deity at all. He's the protagonist of a story where he brings about the downfall of the norse gods and thats a Good Thing.
If you go back far enough, Loki vanishes from the panetheon entirely. There isn't a single mention of Loki in any norse myths until well after the christianization of the region. He just sort of shows up in the accounts written by one particular christian monk, and got more and more screentime as the myths were retold.
Its entirely possible that references to Loki just didn't survive as a quirk of fate, but the myths we get about Loki are full of things that seem to paint him as the good guy if you are operating from the perspective of 'old gods bad, new Christ God good'. Punishments taken against Loki and his children DIRECTLY result in creating the very threats that kill off the major norse gods during Ragnarok in ironic ways. Half the time, the other gods come to Loki with a problem to solve and its his cleverness and mischief that solves it. And, eventually, Loki brings down the norse gods by kicking off Ragnarok, clearing away the old to make way for the new hotness that is Jesus.
