King Of Asgard

Anonymous asked:

prompt: the ice giants won, instead of the asgardians. the king of the ice giants, loki’s father, found thor when he was a baby, and decided to adopt him and bring him up as an ice giant, along with Loki. how would things be different?

Oh wow that prompt could take so many routes. I got kind of excited thinking about it, so I had to write a little blurb that doesn’t even begin to describe all the things I would want in this world. I would think that they would be closer than they would be in Asgard, because really, I’m not sure Laufey would have a lot of love for either of them so they would only have each other. He’d be a neglecting father and Thor and Loki would join together and usurp him. A summary of my fantasy would be something like:

Loki was abandoned during the war because his size was thought to be a weakness. Laufey didn’t think he’d survive until he was found years after the war, a clever child with strong magic.

Thor on the other hand was taken from Asgard for the purpose of keeping the peace, a hostage. His appearance was changed into that of an ice giant, his origins were kept from him and he was raised alongside Loki as a brother.  Even though Laufey could alter Thor’s appearance, he could not change his abilities so while Thor’s strength and ability to fight was on par with the other ice giants, he could not control ice and could not touch the others without getting frostbitten. The exception was Loki. Loki was different.

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Loki when he sees Hulk actually punching the living daylights out of Thor

Loki when he realises that his brother did it on purpose and big brother's going to punish him later for being such a brat

Ooh. That’s a good question. At first I was thinking it could go either way, but after ruminating on it further, I came to the conclusion that Loki might be the first one to realize he was in love with Thor.

Loki is a bit more tuned in to his emotions than Thor, I think, even though he’s sometimes more perceptive about the people around him than he is about himself. (So we’ve been told.) I envision Thor as more of a direct, linear-thought kind of guy, very straightforward and literal (man of action), and Loki being more comfortable with the abstract and theoretical (man of ideas), but this is just my opinion.

I’m kind of basing my answer on some of their complementary characteristics here: Loki being more ethereal and shape-shifting while Thor is solid, trustworthy; Loki embodying chaos and Thor being more ordered and structured; Loki’s intellectual strength versus Thor’s physical strength; the dark and the light, feminine and masculine (or nonbinary and binary) and so on and so forth.

But as far as affecting their relationship goes… 

Upon realizing that he loves Thor, I think Loki could react in many ways. He could be disgusted with himself and panic and flee, leaving Thor to wonder why he suddenly disappeared; he could still be disgusted with himself and remain, hiding it deep inside him and allowing his relationship with Thor to become awkward and neutral, neither improving nor deteriorating; or he could embrace the revelation and subtly, in his own indirect way, reveal the truth of his feelings to Thor. It’s a huge risk, a giant vulnerability for Loki (possibly the biggest weakness he has), but for a chance at sharing a mutual love (and a life) with Thor, I think that’s a risk he’s willing to take. He probably thinks himself mad for wanting to do this, but at some point I imagine he wouldn’t be able to live with himself for any longer. It’s just eating him up inside and he’s got to let it out.

Thor would be stunned at first. Perhaps Loki, full of fear and anxiety and tortured by a lack of confidence in himself all his life, would immediately interpret that as Thor not wanting him. He may try to retreat, humiliated and ashamed—in his mind, he had only one chance and he just blew it forever—but at the last moment, Thor reaches out and catches him.

“Don’t go,” he says gently. “Please.” His thumb rubs the back of Loki’s hand, a soft smile appearing on his lips. “Don’t you want to hear what I have to say?”

Loki stares at him, eyes brimming with tears, his mouth curling up at the corners despite the worried lines on his forehead.