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Random thoughts - Marvel's Jotuns and Cannibalism

You know... I just realized something while rewatching Earth's mightiest heroes.

The jotuns in that show clearly try to eat people, right?

Do you think- ...do you think Loki ever gets cannibalistic urges because of that?

I mean, Loki is a jotun, right? Or half-jotun in some universes (The universes where he's Thor's half-brother, for instance). So since Jotuns seem to have that same instinct to prey on humans and Asgardians like in the original mythology, it only stands to reason Loki would, too, right?

Obviously, this wouldn't apply to MCU Loki, because it pretty much does everything it can to characterize them as basically just 'taller icy Asgardians with blue skin'. (Or maybe it does apply, who knows, we didn't get that much world building with the nine realms in the MCU universe before phase four ruined everything.)

But for universes like Earth's mightiest, where it's blatant that they eat people?

I mean, I obviously haven't read all of the comics, so maybe something in a comic I haven't read yet disproves that, but from what I'm currently aware of? It's not impossible.

Watch him roll.

image of me politely not engaging with an interpretation of a character from my shows which i do not agree with and find to be in slightly poor taste

Character opinion bingo (Send characters please, haha.)

I wanna do this, too! Send an ask with a character from one of my fandoms (And the words ‘character bingo’ or something similar so I know) and I’ll do one for them, lol.

By default, I’ll also fill in the free space and give a small word vomit thing about my feelings about them.

Fandoms I’m part of/I’ll fill out a bingo card for:

Marvel comics

DC comics

The Boys

DHMIS

FNAF

Cuphead

She-rah and the Princesses of power

Disney? Dreamworks? Other similar companies? (Idk, do those count as fandoms?)

He-man/She-rah (Original, haven’t seen any of the He-man remakes, yet.)

Thundercats (Original, haven’t seen any remakes, yet.)

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

Cookie Run

Boku no hero academia/My hero academia

Doctor Who

Dragon Ball (Note: I haven’t seen all of DBSuper yet.)

MLP:FIM (Note: Nothing from 'a new generation’ or ‘Pony life’.)

Pokemon (Note: Haven’t played Scarlet/Violet yet.)

Undertale/Deltarune

Kipo: The age of Wonderbeasts

Arcane (Note: I don’t play League of legends, oops.)

The Dragon Prince

Jurassic Park/World

Slasher movie/Horror

Dead by Daylight

Loki x Male!Shapeshifter!Reader - Trick ‘r Treat (OLD)

Loki was somewhat familiar with other holidays like Christmas. But Halloween was one of those things that he needed (Y/N)’s help to understand. Though the idea of trick or treating intrigued him when (Y/N) mentioned it.

Sadly, (Y/N) had to explain to him that trick or treating was something children did, not adults. Loki obviously found that a bit ridiculous, but it was a custom here, so why bother trying to argue it?

...That is until Halloween actually rolled around.

(Y/N) was in the tower’s kitchen, everyone else was out. Bucky was with Sam, Thor was in Asgard, Peter and his friends were no doubt out at a Halloween party...or something and the rest were at some big ‘event’ on TV, but Loki?

Truth be told, (Y/N) had no idea where Loki was, which was strange since Loki usually told him if he had somewhere to be. So, (Y/N) was alone in the tower, with nobody but his thoughts for sole company.

Until (Y/N) found him in the living area. 

“Wha-? What are you wearing?” (Y/N) laughed. It was the cheapest-looking costume he’d ever seen like it was taken straight from a dollar store shelf.

“My costume, of course.” Loki had a look on his face that (Y/N) was very familiar with. A mischievous smirk as he held up two pillowcases.

Before (Y/N), with a raised eyebrow, could remind him that only children trick or treated, suddenly Loki was engulfed in green light and was replaced with a child.

“Are you coming?” He asked, holding out the second pillowcase with a sly look. (Y/N) hesitated for a second, but it was hard to deny the urge to break such a silly rule. (Y/N) morphed and changed into a child-like version of himself, taking the pillowcase with an eager grin.

The next thing he knew, Loki and him attached themselves to some group of children and were soon stocked on candy. Loki, of course, wore a mask. To avoid being caught, knowing the other Avengers would show up eventually. It was actually a bit scary, seeing as Steve appeared and almost recognized the two. But, he was thankfully pulled away by some fans before he could put the pieces together.

By the end of the night, (Y/N) and Loki had enough candy to last until next April. ...Or at least it would be that much if they were the type not to eat quickly. It would probably only last until Christmas at best.

Hiding the candy in their room once they arrived back at the tower, the two of them spent the rest of the night pulling pranks on Thor and the others once they all returned.

Sure enough, this would end up being a secret tradition between the two of you. Each one had some close calls being caught. But each time it would end with impish laughing, sweet treats, and snuggling.

Random Loki headcanons.

-Loki has a massive sweet tooth. It’s canon that Loki enjoys food from Midgard more than food from Asgard, but I headcanon that he’s also fairly partial to sweets.

This is...mostly due to irl offerings to Loki apparently being sweets, but-

-One of Loki’s love languages is physical touch...but- Loki is just one of those people who, regardless of context, will often respond to sudden displays of physical affection like a passing car splashed him with puddle water. Just- freezing up with wide eyes, arms lifted away from the person while he’s currently blue-screening on the inside.

...Thor is very used to this being his reaction when he hugs him.

-Loki’s usually wakes up at dawn. I literally don’t know what brought this thought on. Somehow my brain just said: “Loki wakes up at dawn and usually goes to bed really early.” and now that’s just in my brain. So, basically, Loki was/is usually one of, if not the very first person to be awake in the Asgard palace.

-Loki’s favorite colour isn’t green, it’s actually gold. He wears gold more sparingly because over-saturation is never a good thing.

-Loki is a light-weight. When it comes to alcohol and being able to hold alcohol, Thor definitely has him beat, along with...just about every other Asgardian. Besides being ‘Odin’s son’ and ‘The god of mischief’, Loki is also known in Asgard as being the easiest person in the realm to get drunk.

-Why is this so well-known is Asgard? Simple: Whenever he gets drunk, Loki turns into a party animal. Thus, Thor tends to make a habit of ‘gently persuading’ him to join Asgardian parties so he can try to get his brother drunk. That way, his brother will have a good time. Then, he (and Sif/the warriors three) can 1. relax and not have to worry about Loki pulling some mischief somewhere. and 2. Have some nice entertainment watching Loki parade around on the tables singing and dancing.

Loki hates it when Thor does this because Loki finds his actions when drunk humiliating.

-Loki knows how to ice skate and is actually good at it. So good that at one point he genuinely considered joining the figure skating portion of the Olympic games under an alias once. This was before the events of the Thor movie, during one of his visits to earth, of course. He ultimately decided against it, (Especially after realizing how much paperwork was involved.) but I’ll tell you with 100% certainty that if he’d gone through with it, he would’ve at least placed in the top 3.

-Loki once had a crush on Sif. I feel like this isn’t that uncommon. But yeah, I headcanon that Loki had a thing for her in the past, but either he told her and was rejected, or he just gave up/found out she wasn’t interested and just moved on.

-Loki’s favorites. Yes, I’ve even come up with this, haha. -His favorite food is cheesecake (Candied apples being a close second.) -His favorite season is Autumn -His favorite music genre is Classical/Broadway-style music -and finally, his favorite flowers are Tiger lilies.

-Loki doesn’t like coffee. Yup, he’s not a coffee drinker. He’s on team tea for sure, though he’s also on the unofficial third team of the argument: Team hot cocoa. He’s stubborn about this, he will die on this hill.

The best part: Thor is the opposite. He loves coffee and dislikes tea (As is also said in Ragnarok) so-

made a part 2 since people liked it so much!

Someone I randomly stumbled across on another site: *Makes an anti-loki show post* Me, reading along and nodding with every point so far: :) The post, suddenly: “- Even the TVA sounds like it came from someone’s bad fanfiction. Where did this idea even come from? It doesn’t belong in Marvel!” Me, knowing it was originally created in the mid to late 1980′s and wasn’t made up by the Loki show:

Using the novelization of movies as evidence for something in the movie itself is really stupid.

Mainly, I'm saying this because the writer of the novelization is often a different person, who is tasked with 'expanding' on the source in their own way. Sometimes given early versions of the script to work off of, which were already scrapped for one reason or another.

So, the writer of the novelization will have a different interpretation of the story/characters than the original writers, and the movie's ideas and entire point may end up getting muddled and overshadowed by the biases and perspective of the novelization's writer.

So, to me, novelizations of movies/tv shows are far more like remakes, not bonus scenes. It follows the same formula, but it's not the same. So it makes no sense to use them as evidence for something in the original movie, whether it be about character, plot, or worldbuilding.

Same with movie-tie in video games, etc. People don't use those as 'evidence' from what I've seen, but I've seen people use movie novelizations as evidence, and it bothers the hell out of me.

Idk, I just wanted to make this post, because I'm annoyed.