He was instantly attracted to her because of the magic thing at first. She also sounds immensely vulnerable to someone like him, and she seems like the perfect victim. She obviously wants positive regard and acknowledgement from others, and he's capable of offering that in a very convincing manner. He just planned on investigating the possibility of using her kind of as his replacement for Billy from canon, but what he didn't expect was that she really wants to like him. He didn't have to launch a murderous multidimensional eldritch horror at her in order to get her to work with him.
He's not comfortable with the idea of friendship like the sort that she just offered to him. He wants it to just be a natural outcropping of using her to get something that he wants, but it isn't. He didn't make it happen, and he knows it. It's enough out of his control that it scares him because he can't justify it.
More than that, she takes care of him in certain ways. He doesn't quite understand where she's coming from or how familiar she is with dealing with crazy supernatural beings, but I think it'd freak him out even if he did know. She recognizes when he's upset or getting himself into trouble when she's around to see it, and she intercedes. More than that, even if she doesn't like it, she respects his autonomy when he pulls away.
He's so lonely so much of the time, and she doesn't let him be even though he's entirely aware it's just because she doesn't understand what he is. He's still an awful enough person to use her to accomplish his goals, but I don't think he'd be willing to let anything happen to her in the process at this point if he can at all help it.
She's rather landed in the "people Loki would straight up murder someone for" category. Despite his lack of compunctions about murder, that's a very exclusive category.
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He was instantly attracted to her because of the magic thing at first. She also sounds immensely vulnerable to someone like him, and she seems like the perfect victim. She obviously wants positive regard and acknowledgement from others, and he's capable of offering that in a very convincing manner. He just planned on investigating the possibility of using her kind of as his replacement for Billy from canon, but what he didn't expect was that she really wants to like him. He didn't have to launch a murderous multidimensional eldritch horror at her in order to get her to work with him.
He's not comfortable with the idea of friendship like the sort that she just offered to him. He wants it to just be a natural outcropping of using her to get something that he wants, but it isn't. He didn't make it happen, and he knows it. It's enough out of his control that it scares him because he can't justify it.
More than that, she takes care of him in certain ways. He doesn't quite understand where she's coming from or how familiar she is with dealing with crazy supernatural beings, but I think it'd freak him out even if he did know. She recognizes when he's upset or getting himself into trouble when she's around to see it, and she intercedes. More than that, even if she doesn't like it, she respects his autonomy when he pulls away.
He's so lonely so much of the time, and she doesn't let him be even though he's entirely aware it's just because she doesn't understand what he is. He's still an awful enough person to use her to accomplish his goals, but I don't think he'd be willing to let anything happen to her in the process at this point if he can at all help it.
She's rather landed in the "people Loki would straight up murder someone for" category. Despite his lack of compunctions about murder, that's a very exclusive category.