anshinwrites:
jotunnqueer:
lokisergi:
Thor: Son of Asgard game. Oh Loki description… You started of so well with the foster- brother bit, but then you came right round back to the half brother thing. Shows up so often that I think we should just call Odin/Laufey canon now.
I know that I’ve addressed this before but I NEED AN EXPLANATION SRSLY.
Because if he’s Odin’s ‘foster son’ that implies they aren’t biologically related but if he’s still Thor’s ‘half brother’ that would seem to imply that Frigga got knocked up by Laufey???
Then again I know that in the comics Thor’s mother isn’t really Frigga in which case I guess both Thor and Loki’s mother is Gaea with Thor’s father being Odin and Loki’s father being Laufey???
But then Farbauti is also supposed to be Loki’s mother in the comics…
LOKI WHO IS YOUR OTHER PARENT BECAUSE THERE SEEMS TO BE A CHOICE OF FOUR HERE.
#Loki has a case of the Heimdalls
Oli that is the best tag. XDD
I don’t understand it either, though. I mean, the MarvelU has done several different takes on Thor and Loki’s relationship in various universes/story arcs, but this is mixing terms and being really confusing. :\ Plus it appears to be MCU Loki, in which case as far as I know they’re brothers by adoption, not blood, so I’m not sure why sources keep calling them half-brothers unless there’s something the people at Marvel aren’t telling us.
Or else people just don’t know their terminology.
I could have sworn, though, that in some cultures/languages, the term “half-sibling” could also refer to adopted siblings or siblings you’re otherwise not blood-related to, but now I can’t find any evidence of it and I might have just made that up to justify why I keep seeing confusing terminology about it. @_@
But I mean the easiest thing to do at this point is to separate out the variations in the canon based on their origins. In the comics, Thor’s mother is Gaea, but in the MCU, it’s Frigga (as far as we know, anyway). Farbauti is never brought up in the MCU, so all we really know is that Loki’s father is Laufey. And it’s suggested, never made explicit but the possibility seems highly unlikely, that Frigga is not, in fact, Loki’s biological mother, so I’m really not sure where they’re coming from.
Unless Laufey is Loki’s mom and Odin’s his dad and you know what I’m okay with going with that theory. :|
Yes, come to the terribledad’s ship side. It makes every time Loki gets called Thor’s half brother just a beautiful shining moment. And you can use it to justify so. much.
Loki is undersized and has hair and no pointy teeth? That’s because his dad is non-Jotun.
Why did Odin take the kid from the temple? He knew it was his and kept THAT a secret too. (Also, Odin in Myth, Odin is Half Jotun too, so do with that what you will)
Why did marvel switch the genders on Loki’s myth parents, where in myth, Laufey was actually Loki’s mother? Because Laufey is Loki’s Dam. (Also, given Loki’s proclavities for getting pregnant, lots of Jotunfandom tropes assume that they are intersex)
In unfilmed script scenes, Laufey mentions that he thought Odin would have killed ‘the bastard’, which is interesting because you figure if Laufey had left the kid in the temple to die, he wouldn’t have cared about what Odin did with it. (I like to think that Laufey assumed Odin was ashamed of their rivalmance, and would have killed the kid to erase the evidence of it. As it is, I think Odin is ashamed enough that he’ll still insist that Loki is his son, but not reveal the WHOLE truth)
In my terribledad’s headcanon, Laufey attacked earth after getting pregnant by Odin, because he knew Odin had a soft spot for the realm after Odin went and knocked up that Hussy Geia who gave birth to his heir Thor. The retreat back to Jotunheim happened because 1, they were losing, and 2, he wanted to get back to Jotunheim so he could give birth in secret. Given how small Loki was, Laufey was able to keep the pregnancy a secrecy due to little noticable baby bump. Then when Odin got to Jotunheim, Laufey was easily defeated because the labor had robbed him of his strength, and then Odin realized that the kid was his, saw his ex-was extra cray, took the kid, and closed the bifrost as a sort of mystical restraining order.