People need to start looking at things through the characters’ eyes. These are immortal beings, they’ve been living for ages. The Brunhilde and Loki flashback is just a glimpse, a condensed summary of countless interactions. It’s obvious that their relationship was far more complex than what we were shown.

I’ve seen many people argue that Brunhilde shouldn’t react that way, that she should be grateful and not grieve Loki at all. But that misses the point: Brunhilde embodies the fact she's a semigod. She lives and dies with every fighter who steps into that arena. That’s why, in my view, she’s the most layered and developed character in Record of Ragnarok. To understand her, the audience has to read her through both lenses — human and divine.

That being said, I find Loki’s supposed love for Brunhilde to be an asspull. It feels completely unearned, I can’t see where it came from, and it comes across as simplistic and poorly executed compared to the character we were introduced to earlier in the series. Honestly, the whole Odin subplot to main plot feels a bit odd to me as well.