I've been miserable for most of my life and was informed time and again that the lack must have been mine. That I had enough power, position, whathaveyou, to have not been miserable in the first place. Couldn't I just be like my brother instead?

[ Loki shakes his head. ]

It's familiar. The misery. The self-hatred. Centuries of familiarity. Things are hard? What haven't I been doing, then? Things are hard for everyone. If I suffer overmuch it must be by my own hand.