Loki gets it. More often than not, he's flippant about the worst things he's experienced, and only slightly more decorous about the worst acts he's perpetrated. Steeling oneself against crushing guilt is a thing.

"I was determined to prove to my father that I was capable of more than he believed," he says quietly. "I was also tortured and mentally altered, but how much of my behavior was my responsibility alone and how much was coerced from me is hard for me to say even now. Once you cross a certain line, I find, it's easier to keep going without weighing morality or consequences. To keep doubling down until you become your darkest possible self--or until some outside force stops you."

"It's something I think cannot be fully understood by people who have not been there."