WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Loki, "For All Time. Always.," streaming now on Disney+.
While most season finales offer a degree of closure for the characters involved, the season finale of Loki actually closes one door to open up an infinite amount of others. In the closing scenes, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) finally finds He Who Remains (Johnathan Majors), the man in charge of the Time Variance Authority, and kills him. This sets off a chain of events that bring about the multiverse and free his much more deadly variants in the process. Now, Sylvie is left in his position with a chance to make a change. This could ultimately lead to her changing her title from the Goddess of Mischief to the Goddess of Stories.
In the comics, Loki discovers that most of his life was spent with people controlling his destiny. His final act of defiance as the God of Mischief entailed him changing his moniker to the God of Stories. With a new title, he is free to show the world that he is his own person, free of the meddling of others and capable of writing his own story. In a way, this ties directly into the theme of Loki, which revolves around the concept of free will and how free it truly is.
For most of her life, Sylvie never had a chance to create her own story because she spent most of it on the run. Being taken by the TVA at an early age never left her with many choices because everywhere she went, she caused a Nexus event. As a result, she often hid in apocalypses to avoid detection. Interestingly, this meant that she was destined to see the end of so many stories but didn't even get a chance to create her own.
For this reason, finding He Who Remains became an obsession, and when she finally discovers him, she realizes that keeping countless realities safe means that her own story could have no place. This leads to her killing him and letting freedom reign. But in doing so, she alienates the one person who cared for her, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), and is left alone in the Citadel at the End of Time. Much like He Who Remains, Sylvie is now in the perfect position to curate the timelines but in a way never done before.
Rather than lead an assault against the branched timelines, pruning variants and cutting off new timelines, she can do the opposite. As the Goddess of Stories, Sylvie now has the power to let each reality flourish so that everyone has an opportunity to have a story to tell. While the plan may seem chaotic, it fits perfectly with Sylvie's personality, as she believes chaos is a necessary force of nature.
For now, Sylvie's future in Loki and the MCU as a whole remains unknown. But since she has pushed away everyone who cares and found herself in the most powerful place in the multiverse, she has the power to create her story in ways she never thought possible. As the Goddess of Stories, the many tales of the multiverse will have someone safeguarding them. Even with the threat of war looming, she won't stop to ensure that the narratives within the chaos are told and no one suffers as she did.
Loki Season 1 is available to stream on Disney+. A second season is currently in development.
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