Team Loki. Are You Qualified?

By Clare Dargin

I like my heroes not so perfect.  I guess you can call them Anti-Heroes.  They are often misunderstood by the people around them though they fight believe and fight for the same things- they just go about it in a different manner. 

The quintessential Anti-Hero is Loki Laufeyson.  And with Thor 2 set to be released in the fall and The Avengers 2 in 2015, I have some time on my hands before I receive my next Loki fix. 

Tall, pale and svelt, he is not the sun kissed beauty of his more well known brother, his raven black hair and smoldering eyes (hot enough to melt a Bifrost maiden's cold heart) still makes him a gorgeous hunk of Asgardian flesh.

Loki, as misunderstood as you are, I know you are not to be mocked nor underestimated in any way.

Ahh.....Loki, the God of Mischief, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways-- Three in fact.

1.(Ein) - My heart flutters at the way you torture your brother, Thor, crown prince of Asgard.  A foolish and impetuous man, his love for the humans is overshadowed only by his ardor for Jane Foster. <Hurl!>

2.(Tveir) - Then there is the Great Father, Odin the ruler of the Nine Realms and Asgard.  You loved and trusted him before discovering that you were merely a pawn in his dealings with  your adopted family's age old enemy the Frost Giants of Jotunheim.  He stole you, changed your body to match that of the rest of Asgard but 'forgot' to tell you that you were adopted and had no chance at inheriting the throne.

Nor did it help matters when you realized that the old man was too was blind, not just in the one eye mind you, but in the heart and mind to the arrogance of his golden haired (yet gorgeous..ahem...son) Thor.  Did he not see that it was you who, in the beginning at least, was truly obedient to his will.  If he could see would open his heart and allow your actions to bear witness to your desire for his love and approval.

3. (þrír) - Then there is your intelligence and wit.  Not only do you make wearing horns on a helmet look cool, you make me wish that I paid more attention to my teachers during their endless lectures about Shakespeare in English Literature.

Your tearful lament to your father over his deception was filled with a raw torment that would make the Bard himself weep.

  

On a related note, when asked about the nature of Loki's feelings regarding the betrayal he felt when his character finds out his true heritage and the perceived favoritism that has gone on between he and his brother their entire lives, Tom Hiddleston said, “if you're uncertain in your affection and in their affection for you, you can so easily be turned and possessed by the green-eyed monster of jealousy, which eats you up and ultimately destroys the love that was there in the first place.”  And when asked about the Shakespearean tone to most of Loki's speech, “...it's got some of the most heart-attack poetry that's ever been written in the English language.”

So like many fans before me, I am firmly in Loki's corner.  Hmm.... I wonder how a gal such as myself could help out a lonely Norse god such as he. 

When a fan asked during a recent online chat if she was qualified to be in Loki's army and if so where could she join?  Tom responded, “Last question first: I have no idea. And without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.”

I could almost see the mischievous gleam in his eye. I know I got them. Team Loki, All the Way!

Clare Dargin is a romance writer and thanks Empire Mag online for their very cool online chat with Tom Hiddleston that they so graciously transcribed for all of Loki's faithful minions.

Her latest novel Cold Warriors (no not a connection to Loki and the Bifrost, though it is a delectable notion) is available now from Decadent Publishing.

Blurb:

Left in cryogenic stasis for nearly a century, Caitlin Driskoll is awakened and drafted into a war she knows nothing about. Expected to defend a world where her kind is despised and expendable, she discovers love and respect from the one man who can’t be associated with her.

Lieutenant Colonel Medoro Keegan has spent a lifetime in the Marines. With no family to speak of, the Corps and his ship, the USS Blanchard, are all the loved ones he needs…until Caitlin sparks a fire within, that threatens to consume him if he doesn’t walk away.

Will he choose a life of certainty in the only world he knows or give it all to Caitlin and run the risk of losing someone, yet again?

Genre: Sci-fi, military romance, erotic futuristic, interracial/multicultural

The sequel Ice and Peace will be out soon.

If you'd like to chat in general or lust over Loki you can find her on

Facebook at www.facebook.com/clare.dargin  or

Visit her at her blog at www.claresblog2thehaven.blogspot.com

Also if you'd like a really cool character sketch of Loki, check out this article....http://amyfowler.weebly.com/1/post/2012/06/thor-avengers-and-thor-2-spoilers.html

Coming Soon!

Seen Any Hot Guys in Sci-fi Lately?

 by Clare Dargin

I love me some alpha males especially when they are in uniform!  I have to admit my lust for the type started with my interest or shall I say obsession with science fiction movies.

Who could resist the dashing Han Solo wearing his Corellian uniform?

Then there is Peter Weller in Screamers. 

And let's not forget the devastatingly handsome Karl Urban as Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick! 

But if I had to pick my all time favorite, it has to be James Morrison in the defunct Fox Scifi series Space Above and Beyond.  He played the tortured and consummately angry In-Vitro, Colonel T.C. McQueen.  

I must admit there is a bit of James Morrison in the hero of Cold Warriors and the sequel Ice Peace's Colonel Medoro Keegan. 

Keegan is a man tortured by his past but bound by duty and his love for cryo warrior Caitlin Driskoll to work for a better future. 

Cold Warriors and Ice and Peace will be released soon.

Who are some of your faves?

While you think, here is a blurb from Cold Warriors:

When Caitlin Driskoll is awakened from a cryogenic stasis, she’s got a lot of adjusting to do. It’s a new century and the planet is at war. Once married to a Navy JAG, she now experiences life from the viewpoint of a Jarhead, and the view isn’t pleasant.

Colonel Medoro Keegan lost the two most important things in his life during his Marine career: his wife to friendly fire, and his ability to fly combat missions. Now, he’s stuck aboard the Blanchard as the XO. The Corps is the only family he has left and he’s not about to lose the last thing he values.

Until he meets Caitlin, who isn’t shy about telling Medoro what she thinks about his Marines. How can such beauty wrapped in an icy body have so much fire?

It’s the future, and a new kind of prejudice has replaced the racial prejudice Caitlin experienced in the last century. After all, when you’ve been given a second chance at life, you are expendable.

And a blurb from the sequel Ice and Peace:

Peace is on the horizon for Earth and it's allies.  After a series of mysterious attacks on several military installations, retired Marine Colonel Medoro Keegan-who had left the Corps in a cloud of disgrace-- is called back to duty.  Eager to redeem himself, he jumps at the opportunity to serve again on the ship he always loved, the USS Blanchard.      

Caitlin Keegan, is the only survivor of a devastating battle that turned the tide of war.  Because of her status as an O-Cryo, she is bound by duty to serve a planet that refuses to grant her the freedom she desires.  

Because of the recent attacks, Caitlin is assigned to the Blanchard.  Once on board, she  has to fight for her planet, her marriage and her life. 

Bio

Clare Dargin is a an author of Science Fiction and Military Science Fiction Romance.  She has been writing stories all of her life before being published in 2007.  She is a great fan of all things science fiction and romance and loves promoting the genre.

She is an educator by profession and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from a major mid-western university.  She presently resides in the Midwestern United States and is pursuing a graduate degree.  In the future she hopes to expand her writings to include non-fiction, historical romance, and contemporary novels. 

Check out her release from Decadent Publishing- Kybernatia