what's loki's view on puns????? various wordplay???
send me some heckin headcanon asks.
i mean, she invented ’em, so....
NAH. i mean, loki’s not responsible, but old nordic and proto-germanic languages are absolutely renowned for their understated complexity and capability for wordplay! i mean, if you look at skaldic poetry alone, it’s built entirely on alliteration/consonance and the interplay of sound and meter, and early germans are well noted for their sarcasm, especially documented in by-names. gorm the sleepy, first king of denmark? not a sleepy dude. known for swiftly and mercilessly crushing threats and seizing power. eric the memorable, further down the danish line, a complete fucking dick that all the danes wanted to forget as soon as possible. a figure we’re more familiar with, r/agnar l/oðbrók? loðbrók means shitty pants. it’s an inverse on him being fucking fearless. r/agnar don’t shit himself.
and then, you know, you have all this set up and then you take a god like loki who’s based entirely on wit and insight, of course she loves wordplay in all forms. puns probably delight her, and she’s incredibly prone to twisting language in general, particularly with a tendency to slip into alliterative/consonant styles of speech, since poetry is a big thing in the nordic world and it influences loki a lot. and with the above example, i mean, is it any surprise loki tends to say the exact opposite of what the hell she means, or come off so bitingly sarcastic that it’s kinda upsetting sometimes? she doesn’t mean it (all the time), she’s just used to manipulating language to worm in more meaning per word than people expect.