#and adult loki is juuust shorter

[tyrannuspitch]

random overthinking thought i need to purge from my brain:

whatever spell makes loki look asgardian probably doesn't just change his skin tone and maybe suppress his ice magic / change his temperature / etc. it probably also limited his growth in childhood. because like... typical adult jotuns stand at, what, 10'? 12'? so just having a baby who is currently very small by jotun standards, even if you know there is already a medical condition (ie alien dwarfism or something) suppressing his growth... that still doesn't guarantee that he won't end up like. 7 or 8 foot. which is still pretty damn conspicuous on asgard. so whether he ever actually threatened to grow that tall or not... they probably had measures in place to prevent it.

#space viking tag #fucked up and invasive but it was already all of those things :/ #and i mean i guess they COULD have just got rlly lucky #but idk... i would need to check and it's probably hard to tell... but i'm pretty sure young loki was taller than young thor #and adult loki is juuust shorter #so. #there's that. #also just what are the chances? this one jotun alone among jotuns can FLAWLESSLY pass for asgardian with nothing but a change of skin tone #and he also happens to be exactly the one we need for our political machinations? #:/ #meta #ch: loki #th: mirrors + masks #th: disability #th: abuse + empire #th: ethnicity