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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!

The first jotun Ymir had both and mated with himself (the text literally say he had both) to create the jotun race. Then there’s King Godmundr who gave birth to nine wolf pups by his wizard werewolf boyfriend, which of course highlights that sometimes jotuns birth animals or monsters, the most famous instance being Angrboða giving birth to Hela, Fenrir and Jörmungandr by Loki.

But it also seems like not all jotun men can give birth naturally, Loki being one of them. Every time he gave birth he had to transform himself into a female form via magic. Most famously he was a mare when he gave birth to Sleipnir, but Odin also tells us Loki has taken the form of a human woman many times so he could sleep with men (and get pregnant) which suggests Loki likes sleeping with men but prefers to do it in the form of a woman (Loki then says Odin has done the same so he has no right to judge). Godmundr for example is called out for “being a man acting like a woman” because he likes to bottom so much but still in his male/intersex form.

And the stories are pretty clear on wether someone is a man, a man transformed into a woman, or a trans person. In one story we’re told Freyr’s house is filled with “men dressed and behaving like women”. Also the fact that Loki use his mother’s name as his last name could mean a million things. Maybe it’s because she was an Æsir goddess so he’d get more respect from the Æsir by taking her name. Maybe his mother was actually his father Fárbauti who gave birth to him. And maybe Loki isn’t intersex because he’s only half jotun.

I was working on a quick sketch of Ippolita bonding with some female yautja andddddddd found a way to connect yautja oc to killer of killers for some good old oc x canon stuff

Meet Gahn'tha, she belongs to the Ossa Clan.

I will throw her in situations with Jotun before his death (most of these situations will be very unserious, enemies to lovers sort of deal).

Now I just have to figure out how tall Jotun is so I can do some math for Gahn'tha's height, I would like them to be almost the same height or just with Gahn'tha a bit taller.

Bonus sketch of Gahn'tha friend, she still doesn't have a name but she is a cutie. Who said bad bloods can't be besties, have a girls night and every now and then break every rule of the honor code.