Was the little black-haired girl that TVA caught was Sylvie?
At the beginning of the Loki series episode 4, fans of this series are shown a sliver of memories of Judge Renslayer in the past when he was still an army of minutemen aka variant hunters. At the beginning of the episode, a little girl with long black hair is seen playing alone in a room.
The building where the little girl plays also resembles the kingdom of Asgard which was the home of Loki and Thor as a child.
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| While the little girl was playing, suddenly a time door appeared behind her. From that time door also appeared the TVA minutemen troops led by Renslayer and immediately arrested the little girl. |
At TVA's headquarters, the little black-haired girl had rebelled when she was about to go to trial. Even the little girl took Renslayer's place and escaped using the time door.
Sylvie and Loki who failed to board the ark at Lamentis-1 due to the plane being destroyed by a meteor from the planet fragment that would destroy Lamentis-1 finally gave up and just sat there in silence because the only chance for them to get out of the Lamentis-1 apocalypse had just disappeared. . This was where Sylvie told Loki how she was captured and brought to TVA.
According to Sylvie's story, she was caught by TVA as a child and doesn't know what happened to Nexus that led to her being arrested by TVA. After successfully stealing the place, Sylvie fled across various times and dimensions using the time door.
Every time he moves in the location and time he comes to, there will be a branching of the nexus in the sacred timeline because he really shouldn't be there. Until finally Sylvie found a way to avoid being detected by TVA, namely by hiding in the location where the apocalypse occurred.
That was how Sylvie had survived to this point. Compared to Judge Renslayer's memories of capturing the little girl who then ran away, Sylvie's story fits perfectly with the incident. It was just that the little girl had long black hair, while Sylvie's hair was blonde.
Loki and Sylvie fell in love
While gazing at the expanse of Lamentis-1 being showered with meteors, Sylvie and Loki could only helplessly await the apocalypse on the planet. Sylvie then grabbed Loki's hand, while Loki apologized for sending the two of them to the planet.
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| It was when Loki and Sylvie held hands that the Nexus branching in the timeline was detected by TVA. The branching is quite long and occurs in the area where the apocalypse will take place, even though it should not have been detected at the apocalypse because all variants were calculated to be destroyed in that area. |
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| The minutemen immediately rushed to the location of the nexus and captured Sylvie and Loki. The two were taken to TVA headquarters and interrogated in separate rooms. Loki is being interrogated by Mobius, while Sylvie is in a different room guarded by variant hunter (minutemen) b15. |
During the interrogation, Mobius asked about what nexus event Loki and Sylvie created in Lamentis-1 that caused a fairly high ramification in the timeline. Because he didn't understand what was happening, Loki couldn't answer and only gave information that Mobius had been lied to by TVA all this time because everyone who worked at TVA was not created by time guards but was kidnapped from the timeline and employed at TVA, or it could be said that all TVA officer is a variant whose memory has been erased.
During interrogation, Loki always asked Mobius about Sylvie's condition. Mobius explained that Sylvie had been exterminated. Loki's face looked sad and that's when Mobius burst out laughing.
Mobius says that Loki's sad attitude shows that Loki is in love with Sylvie, and that's why the nexus event in Lamentis-1 happened that Loki can't explain. Because how can the same person (still in one variant) fall in love with each other which means it will cause a timeline deviation because it will change history and be the cause of the emergence of branching nexus.
Laughing happily, Mobius said that he managed to fool Loki and explained that Sylvie was still alive. At that moment the sad look on Loki's face disappeared into a cheerful one knowing Sylvie's condition was fine.
The whole TVA is a variant?
Loki was also put in prison at a time where the incident was repeated over and over again when Loki was beaten by Lady Sif for cutting Lady Sif's hair for fun. While Mobius, who was a little curious about Loki's words that he had been lied to by TVA, immediately met with Judge Renslayer in his room.
It was then that Mobius quietly swapped his temps for Renslayer's. From Renslayer's template, Mobius watched the recording of the interrogation of C20's minutemen which he had saved from Roxxcart after being kidnapped by Sylvie.
It turns out that minutemen C20 has been destroyed by TVA because he knows he is a variant and Judge Rensleyer's panicked face can be seen in the video footage when C20 believes that he is a variant.
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| From here Mobius tried to save Loki, but his attempt failed because Judge Renslayer caught him. Mobius was annihilated using the minutemen's batons on the orders of Judge Renslayer. |
In another room, minuteman B15 who was guarding Sylvie was also curious about what had happened to her. If we go back to episode 2, minutemen B15 was affected by Sylvie's magic while at the Roxxcart shopping center with Loki at that time.
While under Sylvie's magic control, minutemen B15 had a chance to see some memorable memories. Trying to be brave, B15 met Sylvie and took Sylvie back to Roxxcart and asked what memory Sylvie was trying to instill in her mind while controlling B15's body.
Sylvie also explained to minutemen B15 that her magic can control other people but cannot create memories in the brain of the person she controls. So the memories that B15 saw when he was hit by Sylvie's magic were not Sylvie's creations, but B15's own memories that had long been buried or erased.
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| Hearing Sylvie's explanation earlier, finally the B15 minutemen put his hand on Sylvie to look back at her memories from the past. B15 was crying seeing his happy memories in the past. This proves that almost all TVA workers are variants taken from the timeline and their memories erased to serve TVA. Even if you look back at episode 1 when Loki asked Mobius how long he had worked at TVA, Mobius couldn't explain how long it had been because according to Mobius, the course of time at TVA was very different. |
Behind the golden door of the elevator
After Judge Renslayer wiped out Mobius, he rushed to Sylvie's room. Then Loki and Sylvie were led into the elevator by the golden door that Sylvie had been aiming for.
While in the elevator, Sylvie had time to ask why Renslayer caught her in the first place and what happened to Nexus Sylvie had done to get her caught by TVA. But again Renslayer couldn't answer it and said he couldn't remember why.
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| The golden elevator door opened and it turned out that in the room there were three ancient time guards who were about to execute Loki and Sylvie. It was clear that Sylvie's plan had been targeting the three time guards behind the golden elevator doors. |
3 Timekeeper turns android
Just as Sylvie and Loki were about to be executed, minutemen B15 barged in and gave Sylvie a sword. A fight ensued in the room between Judge Renslayer vs Loki's troops, Sylvie and minutemen B15.
Using the sword given by B15, Sylvie managed to slash the neck of one of the time guards. But what a surprise Sylvie and Loki, when the head of the timekeeper was cut off, it turned out that the timekeeper was just an android robot.
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| When conditions felt safe, Loki wanted to try to express his heart to Sylvie. But Judge Rensleyer got up and stabbed Loki in the back with a wand. Sylvie who was angry that Loki was annihilated finally grabbed the wand and managed to take Judge Renslayer hostage. |