imagine that one day, Loki notices that you’ve started treating him differently after you woke up from a spell-induced coma. your previous relationship with Loki was one where the two of you were always bickering and trying to one-up each other. and now, while the two of you still bickered, he noticed a gentleness in your eyes when you looked at him sometimes.
Loki didn’t know that when you were in your spell-induced coma, your soul had ended up in a different time, one where you somehow didn’t exist. But you met the Loki there and got along with him much more peacefully, he was also one of the only few who could see you in your soul state. When you woke up from the coma, the feelings for that Loki had affected your feelings for the Loki of your own world.