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Day 5 - Deer

So, of the two options; Genetic disorder or magic?— I have a third to give you! Diet!

See, Frost giants in the comics and the movies have blue blood. Blue blood is based in hemocyanin, where as our red blood is based in hemoglobin. Now, Loki shapeshifting as a baby might’ve had an effect on his blood and, with it, a bit of his physiology.

I’m not going to get too scientific, I’m no Jane Foster, but Loki might have grown up with a severe Copper Deficiency. Hemocyanin bonds with copper like our Hemoglobin bonds with iron. When the human body doesn’t have copper, as a base for the very humanoid Loki, it stunts growth along with many other things that would make Loki the Asgardian equivalent of a sick Victorian child. And I say he would have grown up with this deficiency because his diet wouldn’t fit his needs as a Jotun! It would fit Asgardian ones where Lokis copper needs would be copper poisoning for their red blood!

But, when he’s raised on a probable Jotun diet? Well, we see a Jotun raised Loki in What If?

He is shorter than others, but he fits the bill for the Frost Giant! He’s over 12 feet! The only change is Odin never raised him, Laufey did!

So when growing up on Asgard, Loki blew everyone's mind by the shear amount of meat he could down,and that's one of the reasons why one one suspected he wasn't aesir. Sure, he wasn't like most asgardians aka built like a brick wall, and he wasn't a prodigy with a sword, didn't favor strength over cunning, and probably couldn't drink you under the table but DAMN THAT KID COULD EAT!

And it was soon common knowledge that you should absolutely not challenge him to a meat eating contest. Volstagg tried and learned the hard way that he had nothing on Loki when it came to eating meat (aka Volstagg quit after 3 whole boar, Loki was starting his fifth, Volstagg was sick for 2 days while Loki was prancing the halls like nothing happened...).

And of course, due to his biology, Loki didn't get any weigh because he metabolized everything, which had everyone like WHAT THE FUCK?! HOW COME THAT TWINK STAYS A TWINK AFTER OUT EATING VOLSTAGG ON REGULAR BASIS?!