"Preposterous!" I can already hear you saying. And, you're right, it does sound a bit out there. Also, considering that Marvel Studios knows this fandom... Well, they'd be crazy not to. 2013 Comic Con, Avengers fan response allowing Loki to live past Dark World, fan response in general allowing the series to even have the green light... What I'm saying is that Marvel probably knows how obsessive and clingy this fanbase can be, so doing something like this seems like commercial suicide.

Now. Before I continue, I have to mention that you should take this information with a grain of salt. I got this info second hand and Idk how reliable the original source is or how true the claims are. But here is the alleged report:

Now, my thoughts.

First and foremost, if this is the direction Marvel wants to go, I trust their judgement. These people that are going to be guiding these stories understand the character to an intimate degree. There are things that they know that we don't. Obsessive fangirls don't scare them, and I applaud that.

And something that I would like to mention is that this is the sheer beauty of the Multiverse. Marvel may want to go in this direction, but that's just one multiverse out of infinite multiverses. No one multiverse is strictly canonical, that's just the story they want to tell. I like to think that every fanfiction that you write is you discovering a multiverse. That's your multiverse and you can do what you will with it.

Now, that was a small digression. But let's talk about the other eye-grabber.

A female and male love interest.

My bi ass will sing. Not to mention, the director of the series herself is bi as well, so this shouldn't really be coming out of left field.

Now, the female love interest could mean that Amora could be making an appearance. She and Loki have had flings in the past in other sources, so she's like, the number one suspect.

Male love interest, I have no fucking idea. Some fangirls may have their ships, but I doubt any of those will be it.

But to tie those two points together, allow me to introduce you to this:

Y'all probably have heard me mention this a few times in other things I've done. But it is genuinely an awesome book. I finished it in like, three hours. I literally couldn't put it down. I haven't read it all the way through since, but I occasionally go through it to meme it and look for conspiracies (see: "Cue the X-Files Theme).

But something in it is that Loki has both a male and female love interest.

Amora is the female one. The book starts on Asgard and they're super close friends in their misfit and chaotic nature. Amora gets banished to Earth for reasons I'm not gonna explain because that would take literally forever. But when people start to mysteriously "die" on Earth, Loki is sent to help this society (yes, the hilariously named SHARP society) figure out what it is. Avoiding spoilers as much as possible, he finds Amora again and they very quickly pick up where they left off years ago.

I'm saying the book says they fuck.

Okay, so, female love interest. But what about the male love interest?

Allow me to introduce you guys to the most precious little bisexual cinnamon roll ever, Theo Bell.

There's no picture of him anywhere, but the verbatim description is this:

"A young man was standing behind [Loki], his ruddy-brown hair curling out in unruly tendrils from under a flat cap, and his pale skin covered in so many freckles it looked like he had been splattered with mud. Perhaps he had been-- Loki didn't trust this filthy city. Loki was no expert in judging the age of Midgardians, but the man must have been young, though he was leaning on a cane, his weight carefully balanced on one leg."

This man is such a precious cinnamon roll, I can't take it.

Basically to sum up, Theo clearly has an attraction to Loki and in a world where it's basically illegal to not be straight, Theo was arrested for this at one point. Though, after Amora goes kinda crazy, he and Loki do kiss and it's so fucking adorable. Loki does have to leave Theo behind, however.

Now, Theo is probably not gonna be that male love interest for Loki in Phase 4. If he was, that would be a miracle as Theo is most likely long dead at this point. Which sucks, but my point is that in other sources, Loki can have both.

Now what does this mean for Phase 4?

I have a guess that's probably kind of out there, but I think it's funny, and another one that's probably more plausible.

Theory #1

The male and female love interests are from two different multiverses that meet up as a result of the timeline issues because of the Endgame stuff and Loki's timeline jumping (again, the time cops need to get involved)

I think that one is funny because it would be pure chaos.

"No, he's my lover!"

"No, he's my lover!"

And so on.

Theory #2

A Loki Book situation: Loki finds a female love interest during his adventures that he leaves for some reason to pursue the male love interest. Or the other way around.

Either way, it's gonna be chaotic and make it either more fun or more easy for me when I write my version of events. If it's the former theory, then it'll be a third level of chaos added. If it's the latter theory, then half of the Loki/Olivia interactions will be there for me on a silver platter; I'd just need to change the names and probably some situations.

Anyways, tl;dr, if Loki gets a love interest, I'm not gonna be that upset about it because it has happened before and you shouldn't be either because the Multiverse is vast and unique. In fact, embrace the LGBTQA+ representation.