Non-Controversial Loki Headcanons for These Trying Times
1.) Loki has had dozens of Midgard-based aliases over the years, for no other reason than the fact that he was bored and it was funny. DB Cooper was one of them. Hank Williams was another. He may or may not have even pretended to be a vampire at some point.
2.) Loki can definitely sing. Not just in a funny ironic way, but like.. he actually enjoys singing. It shouldnāt even come as a surprise considering heās such a fine arts nerd, but yeah. He plays the guitar too. Surprisingly folksy.
3.) Lokiās rooms in Asgard literally look like a witchās lair. I mean straight up spooky. All dark earth tones, spellbooks strewn everywhere, runes drawn on the walls to keep certain big brothers from messing with things they have no business messing with, vials of poisonous stuff sitting on every available surface, shelves full of strange little trinkets and talismans, a dramatic ass medieval-looking bed, a whole ass cauldronā¦ and then in the corner on a stand thereās his Hank Williams Guitar aasdfghhjkl-
4.) When people call Loki a witch, theyāre not joking. Heās. Like. An actual stereotypical, like.. witch. He doesnāt just do finger wavy magic- he mixes potions, he does rune work, he recites spells, he has a cauldron.
5.) He also used to dress super witchy. Used to. Past tense. Iām talking black nail polish, lots of necklaces, rings, eyes makeup (ok maybe I wouldnāt go that far, but Loki in eyeliner would be pretty hot, right?), clothes that were like.. 15% scarier yet more fashionable than the ones he wears in canon. The only reason he toned it down was because someone whose opinion he cared about (it was Thor) made a joking comment about his appearance looking āwickedā or āevilā and it made him feel self conscious, so he changed how he dressed. :(
6.) He was rocking the whole short hair look years before Thor in Ragnarok. In fact, by pre-canon Lokiās standards, his hair in Thor 1 was even a bit too long. He did this because a.) he hates how his natural curls soften him and will do anything to get rid of them and b.) in Asgard short hair wasnāt really worn by noblemen because it symbolised servitude, so this was Lokiās subtle way of being defiant and deviating from the norm.
7.) As Frigga said in Endgame, Loki is very good at sneaking. Even when heās not trying to. There have been many-an-accident in the Palace of Asgard because he unintentionally almost gave Thor a heart attack.
8.) Loki and Thor werenāt always at each otherās throats. They actually got along pretty well up until Odin started planning for the coronation. Loki was still jealous of the way Thor was treated compared to the way he was treated, but he knew that wasnāt Thorās fault- not really. And Thor was still arrogant and entitled, but that was mostly directed at other people and not his own family, so while Loki knew about Thorās character flaws, it didnāt really effect him personally. When the planning started, though, Thor gradually became even more superior and insufferable than normal, and Loki became even more bitter and unsettled, and their relationship just kind of went downhill from there.
9.) Loki absolutely joined the Mile High Club with that flight attendant from the first episode of the show. Her name was Florence and she was adorable, Loki thought so too.
10.) Lokiās the only person on Asgard who can beat Volstagg at an eating competition. He has a giantās metabolism, after all. And, contrary to his elegant and refined tastes in most other areas, heās actually a straight-up carnivore. I mean he eats other foods too, obviously, but meats are by far his favourites. Boar, fish, poultry, steak. Just meats. He doesnāt know it, but this is because frost giants are mostly carnivorous.
11.) His relationship with the Warriors 4 was always split down the middle. He and Sif always hated each other. Hogun never trusted him and Loki never had any interest in spending time with Hogun. Fandral and Volstagg, on the other hand, were always much nicer and Loki always sort of considered them his friends as well as Thorās. This is why they were more reluctant to believe that heād let the frost giants in in Thor 1.
12.) I refuse to believe Loki doesnāt have at least one tattoo somewhere. Probably more. Probably of a snake. The only parts of his body we didnāt see naked in Episode 1 were his thighs, lower back, knee area, pelvic region, and the back of his neck. So itās gotta be in one of those places. (Might I suggest: snake thigh tattoo, tiny nape tat, goth tramp stamp lol, rune tat behind his ear, Norse mythos leg tat, badass above-dick tattoo).
13.) Lokiās prickly and insecure and has layers like an onion, but once you get to the point of actually being friends with him, heās a total sweetheart. I mean a literal smol dork. A bit hyperactive and excitable, but still very very soft. Itās because heās had so few actual friends in his life.
14.) Sometimes Loki only goes a few days before his gender changes, sometimes he stays one gender for years at a time. And he tends to shapeshift his body to match. That being said, one of his biggest pet peeves is how his other-gendered clothes get all dusty and musty when they have to stay in the closet for long stretches of time. So heās taken to wearing luxurious gowns around the house when heās in his male form. You know, just to air them out.
15.) Loki hates sleeping with people. Sex is fine, but heās just so solitary and paranoid that heās never been comfortable sleeping in a bed with another person. This may or may not have gotten him in trouble a few times when his partners woke up and found him gone lol.
16.) Laufey is actually incredibly similar to Loki, the way Odin is very similar to Thor. He prefers smaller blades (ice daggers), heās very analytical and calculating, heās very calm and non-confrontational even when heās in a stressful situation, and tbh he seems like a better king than Odin- much like Loki probably wouldāve been a better kind than Thor. (Whoopsie this oneās a bit controversial)
17.) Loki adores animals! ā¦But heās also a bit obsessive about keeping his environment clean. Not organised, per se, just clean. And animals tend to be hairy and slobbery and feathery and slimy and poopy and dirty, so heās never been able to have a pet. He just takes a lot of nature walks to compensate :)
18.) All jotuns are naturally intersex, including Loki. This is a bit unusual for Asgardians, but because Loki is genderfluid and a natural-born shapeshifter- and has always had a tendency to change his body parts around as his gender changes (male, female, both, neither)- heās never had a reason to find it very odd. In hindsight, that was one of the many eccentricities that should have made him realise something was a little fishy with his āasgardianā genetics.
19.) The snake + stabbing story from Ragnarok was nowhere near as nefarious as Thor made it seem. What actually happened was: Someone accidentally mixed a real knife in with the blunted practice knives. Thor and Loki didnāt know this, of course, and when they were playing a battle game, Loki ended up with the real knife. When Loki āwonā and went to āvanquish his enemyā he ended up actually stabbing Thor for real. They were both hysterical and it took longer to calm Loki down than his brother. It ended up just being a flesh wound, though, so everything turned out fine.
20.) A lot of people think Loki discovered his āsecret passageways between worldsā from TDW through some sort of inter-realm questing or magical study or something, but in reality, he discovered them when he was like 16 and desperately trying to find a way to sneak out of Asgard without Heimdall telling his parents.
Tagging @natures-marvel & @little-s-creampuff for expressing interest. Thx for listening to my mad ravings lmao <3
