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Reuse 2020 promo with no changes except for new PSD, laziest bitch award goes to me. 💚
#🐍 𝑻𝒂𝒈 : ooc#to be fair.... I lost most of lokis graphics bc ive had like 2 laptops since then LOL#but I have gotten lazy to the point of barely bothering with new graphics bc im just!!!!!!!!! old!!!#tbd
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𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙼𝙾𝙶𝚁𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 ::
Things I wanna mention for no particular reason: Loki has green eyes. I know Tom’s are more blue but Loki’s are like a jade green. ( Also described as emerald but like fair/pure emerald. Yea they’re most def green for me lol. )
He doesn’t grow a lot of body hair, this seems to be a Frost Giant thing. They grow almost no body hair probably due to evolving this way in the freezing climate and being literal ice beings they don’t have much need for it. They don’t need to warm themselves with it, it serves little purpose other than to pick up unneeded frost or icicles. This is also the reason most Frost Giants seem to shave their heads or It could also be possible that they don't develop hair at all naturally and Loki’s only exists to give him a more Asgardian appearance. ( we didn't see ONE Frost Giant with hair )
Loki didn’t revert to their Jotun form at the TVA because he never developed as one. I don’t really have a science-y smart explanation for any of this other than to say I think Odin’s enchantment affected Loki on more than just a superficial level and I believe an “”enchantment”” ( Using the term because I don’t know a more suited one. Its more of an augmentation, or better yet a transmogrification. I think the term enchantment gives people the impression its something less than it is, imo ? ) that powerful and that long standing couldn’t have been undone by the TVA like any other simple spell or mystical manifestation.
When I say I think the enchantment affects Loki in more than just a superficial way I think it affects him biologically as well. He didn’t develop as a Frost Giant. He developed as an “Asgardian.” Even if he was naturally a Frost Giant he’s been altered on a level beyond the superficial. If Loki was never enchanted and developed as a frost Giant he would have developed ridges and hard “crests” of bone on his body, his natural markings would have became more prominent/defined. Loki does not possess these things because the “Jotun form” we’ve seen Loki have is really just a shallow reflection of their lost natural self. Loki would also be far, far more adapted to and preferential to the cold.
Loki has no idea what he would really look like. In fact, Loki’s never even seen their full self in “Jotun form”. They've seen their skin on their arms / hands is blue, but they've never seen their full self. Either way, whatever we see of this form is incomplete. Immature. They're similar to the way they were as an infant. Blue skin, red eyes, faint markings. They don't have any of the characteristics of a “mature” frost giant because again, he didn’t develop them.
Furthermore extreme cold doesn’t revert Loki back to their Jotun form. He can be in a freezing environment and never change. He also DOES feel the cold but not entirely to the extent of others, which he isn’t aware of because he could not know what extent someone else is feeling something. Someone might say “its cold” and Loki would agree, but that doesn’t mean he’s feeling it to the same extent, nevertheless there isn’t an extreme difference here. Loki’s skin may also be also slightly cooler to the touch, and he may have a cooler core temperature but again nothing of this is extreme or overly noticeable
The only way you would tell the difference between Loki and a normal anyone is prolonged exposure to freezing cold would have a negative effect on a normal being, frost bite, etc, it wouldn’t really have an adverse effect on Loki though. He would be cold but not in the same way they are, and that would eventually show. Nevertheless, he dresses warmly when its ‘cold’, he takes warm baths, he sits by the fire, he notices when its “cold”, etc, He might not notice a sharp drop in temperature as quickly as someone else.
Extreme heat does effect Loki but extreme heat effects everyone. The more obvious difference is that extreme heat quickly makes him catatonic and sick and can still be very dangerous to him in prolonged instances. Again, though this isn’t exactly uncommon for anyone. While someone else might be able to sweat it out, Loki’s more likely to just shut down and possibly die, meaning he’s a little less tolerant but this really depends on circumstance.
Hope this makes sense here. What I’m trying to say is yes while there are minor differences they're not extreme or noticeable in normal situations. Loki’s not like a Frost Giant any more, he's more like an Asgardian. Yeah there are traces of his natural self but they’re just biological memories really. If that makes sense ?
Loki's further taught himself to handle fire and has a talent for elemental/mystical fire.
Generally though Loki likes warmth, they probably likes it more than others because they can use it as a kind of sedative. A warm bath ? Sitting by a fire ? Rugged up in a blanket ? They love these things because they can get a really strong relaxing effect from them.
What caused any change in Loki’s outward appearance was A) The Casket of Ancient Winters, presumably created by Frost Giant magic and B) The mystical touch of another Frost Giant who was TRYING to use his innate elemental magic to freeze-burn Loki. These are the 'abnormal' circumstances in when Loki's true self may actually briefly show.
So yeah, it takes more than ice or freezing weather to cause any change in Loki’s outward appearance no matter how cold and ultimately Loki’s “Jotun form”, when it is caused to surface, is more of like memory his body has as opposed to his actual state of being. He can’t just revert back to it. Nothing will revert him back to it. The “enchantment” can’t really be broken or undone because its so much more than superficial.
A frost giant Loki would be different to the Loki we know. It wouldn’t just be Loki w/ blue skin and red eyes AS FAR as my HC goes and I don't caaaaaare what the MCU or any other marvel stuff says.
ANYWAY THIS GOT LONG BUT YEA. Stuff I’ve been thinking about lately.
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𝙲𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽 𝙳𝙸𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 ::
I thought it was time to outline some of my Infinity War canon divergence. This starts for me obviously with Thanos attacks the Asgardian refugee ship and Loki does his little song and dance about pledging loyalty to Thanos. Instead however of trying to attack Thanos, Loki asks if he can prove his loyalty and do the honors of killing Thor. Thanos and the black order accepts. Loki knows Thor will try to pursue Thanos and that they will kill him for sure if he doesn’t do something to neutralize Thor as a threat to them for that time.
Loki approaches Thor and seemingly stabs him, although this is really no more than an illusion, incapacitating Thor long enough for Thanos and the order to consider him dead / dying. They teleport away with Loki and Thor’s bonds fall free. He’s not able to escape the explosion but he does survive it which Loki felt pretty confident in. The events thereafter follow the movie, with Loki begrudgingly ‘helping’ the black order and Thanos.
He’s deployed with Midnight, Obsidian, and Glaive on Wakanda to help aid against the hero’s defense force. Supposedly its his ‘second chance’ to right his failure in New York and help lead Thanos’ army to victory. Loki has little interest in this though.
When Thor arrives Loki begins to turn on the Outriders and the two meet each other on the battlefield. Loki makes his place known by taking out a few Outriders and tells Thor he must convince his friends to destroy the mind stone or they are doomed. Thor sternly tells Loki that they would “speak about” it later and continues to fight the outriders, obviously referencing Loki’s “betrayal” back on the refugee ship and Loki begrudgingly accepts and continues to aid Thor as the battle continues. For a moment it appears as if they were going to win. As soon as Thanos arrives, Loki informs Thor, once again reminding him of the mindstone and the two rush to meet Thanos in battle.
They arrive just after Thanos plucks the mindstone from Vision and Thor throws storm breaker into Thanos chest. Loki takes note of Visions body and examines it, horrified as he realizes Thanos has the stone. He attempts to tell Thor only to see they’re both too late and Thanos tells Thor he should have gone for the head. As Thanos zips away, Loki quietly tells Thor that he’s truly sorry. He fades away with Bucky and the others as Thor watches on in horror and realization, making Loki a victim of the snap.
In Endgame Loki is resurrected when the snap is undone. I have a bunch of different scenarios for Loki after this but generally he’s either eventually apprehended by Shield, winds up in Thor’s custody or simply goes into “hiding” to avoid it all. It really just depends in order to make interactions work what way we go. I’m waiting for the Loki series to fuck off before I incorporate any official elements of it into Loki’s main verse, and I probably will because I already have ideas. In general I’ll say Loki does get yoinked by the TVA but its obvs not because he picked up the tesseract, again I’m waiting for everything to finish before I officially go over everything but yeah.
It finished and boy did that suck. So, yeah, I've made a separate verse for TVA Loki. Loki is generally abducted by the TVA after being brought back from the snap, before he can be taken into shield custody.
Anyways ! While I'm here I'm going to talk a little about Loki and Thanos and that whole situation. Tom likens it to being kidnapped to a terrorist organization and that it was definitely a not a good time but there has been no real details there so while I have my ideas I’m not going to go too in-depth and just give the basic outline.
Loki started out as a captive and was certainly a receptacle to torture / abuse but he was able to align himself with the order, present himself as more of an asset than not and work as their ally which really lessened a lot of that and Loki did of course perceive any lessening of abuse with friendly feeling, because A) Present trauma and B) Pre-existing trauma means Loki's wired that way in the first place. I
've talked about it before but Loki def has a strong "fawn" mechanism when things go wrong, which again, linked to past trauma. If Loki’s conversations with the Other are anything to go off however, Loki's physical torture was simply replaced with threats and more emotionally / mentally intimidating behavior. My rough outline is Loki found himself alive in Chitahuri space after his suicide attempt. He was lost and disorientated and quickly realized wherever he was it wasn’t anywhere he knew and was a completely hostile environment.
Of course they initially tried to eat him but given Loki proved he wasn’t any kind of easy meal he got the attention of the Other. This changed things so they captured him soon enough and he was harmed simply for the enjoyment / thrill of it. The twisted interest in Loki being a little more "resilient" to pain than a lot of ordinary beings given his Jotun physiology made him a sort of play thing for a short period as they ensured Loki was who / what he claimed, like an interrogation.
Loki's stories were always of interest, especially so after relayed to Thanos himself. Loki soon stopped being teased as a snack for outriders and became an “ally”. Loki’s story of being the rightful king and cast from the Bifrost in Avengers wasn’t poor memory. It was part of the story he told the black order and it became something he had to believe not just for the sake of his sanity but for the sake of his life.
As a result, Loki has developed a form of Stockholm syndrome. Loki has complex feelings on Thanos and although his mindset can be somewhat verse dependent, he does fluctuate between a more clear aversion and thinking of him much more fondly in general.
Overall, Loki doesn’t necessarily agree with Thanos ultimate goal but outside of that he doesn’t think of him with as much negativity as one might think he should. It kind of depends on what he thinks he needs to feel to get by at the time often enough, but he does genuinely have some idea of him being not so bad - at least toward him - which was mostly untrue but its a coping mechanism to highlight and empathize any scraps of good he can find and minus the ‘truth’ / the negative.
He doesn’t often recall what he went through to be as bad as he simultaneously knows it to have been or he rationalizes it / justifies it. Having been through that experience made it pretty damn “easy” for Loki to “adapt” to the TVA in retrospect and also played a part in helping him adapt to sakaar with similar speed because while they are situations that are not near as bad, they have similar outlines for Loki. He was taken as a prisoner of the TVA and needed to align himself as an ally to avoid execution and on Sakaar he was somewhere hostile and unfamiliar and had to find a source of protection to similarly avoid death. Again, Loki is a professional fawner.
Stockholm syndrome can manifest in several ways, including when the victims:
perceive kindness or compassion from their captor or abuser or develop positive feelings towards the individual or group of individuals holding them captive or abusing them adopt the same goals, world views, and ideologies as the captors or abusers feel pity toward the captors or abusers refuse to leave their captors, even when given the opportunity to escape, have negative perceptions towards police, family, friends, and anyone else who may try to help them escape their situation
I thought I’d add this to highlight that these are all very true to Loki. Bold is stuff we saw explicitly in canon, italics is stuff that is suggested and can be found in my canon from place to place.
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