Loki and Thor, Thor apologies to Loki

[jadehunter.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading The Great Subconscious Club, and was blown away by how the relationship between Thor and Loki was handled. It was pretty much the first fic I've read where Thor realizes Loki's actions didn't form out of a vaccuum and that he (and Asgard) also have a degree of accountability. Loki still made bad choices that he has to take responsibility for, but he didn't become this way overnight for no reason.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any other fics that explore this theme of Thor realizing his treatment of Loki before may have led to the events of the movies? In the Thor movie, he says something like, "I'm sorry for what I've done to make you mad," which is a total "Sorry you were offended" faux-pology, and none of the movies made it seem like he realized his behavior in the past ("know your place") was part of the problem. Any other fics where he gets it and makes a real apology?

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[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

Though Thor is not a big part of Nuances by FelicityGS, IMO his apology to Loki was pitch perfect. (I love the above series too).

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1097919?view_full_work=true

[jadehunter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. That was an interesting read, and I definitely liked the way the others kind of intervened to stop Thor from doing more damage without realizing.

Lol, it's kind of similar to The Great Subconscious Club in that Thor seems to need an outside perspective to realize what is going on with his relationship with Loki. It makes a lot of sense because even though he wants to do better, he's still used to a certain way of interacting with his brother and a certain way of thinking about things re: his brother, so he'll often fall back to default without help from others.

[(Anonymous)]

I literally just read a chapter of a fic doing sort of that, although I don't know if the story will go down that road the rest of the way. It def had an honest apology in it. (it just updated with this yesterday, why I thought of it)

fwiw it's part of a long-ass gen series which pretty much deals with Loki learning to be an actual person again while slowly making friends with Coulson and team. Lots of it gets into the stuff that made Loki this way and I like that Coulson doesn't seem to like Odin a whole lot whenever it comes up.

http://archiveofourown.org/series/181178

Snake Came Crawling is the one with the chapter I mean.