Headcanons welcome

[awanderingbard]

So, I'm working on a Thor fic, and it suddenly occurred to me: how the hell did Odin and Frigga pass off Loki as their son? I mean, clearly Frigga wasn't pregnant, so it must have been a bit dodgey when they just announced 'oh look, we had another baby'. Especially since the view we have of baby!Loki is not of a newborn, so not only did a baby appear, but one at least a few months old. So, did Frigga go-off planet for a while and come back with Loki claiming she gave birth to him while she was away? Because if they presented him as an adopted baby, I really don't think Loki could have lived that many hundreds of years without someone letting it slip, even if the whole of the Nine Realms were asked never to tell him.

Am I thinking too much about this?

Comments

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Norse gods tend to turn up in really weird and unexpected ways. Loki himself gave birth to a couple of kids (once as a horse, gj Loki) and somebody got born from the sweat of someone's armpit, and yeah. I expect actual Asgardian childbearing isn't as weird as the sweat of someone's armpit, but the mythology had to come from somewhere.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. The fandom loves Sleipnir. :-P

My Norse mythology isn't very thorough, but I did wonder if it was like Greek Mythology and Odin could just show up with a baby and go 'erm, I gave Frigga an apple and a baby fell out of it, we're going to call him Loki', and everyone would go 'well, at least it's not as weird as when Odin tripped and cut his knee open and Thor crawled out of the wound'.

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I mean, slightly less weird than Greek mythology. The first humans in Norse mythology were made out of trees, so I assume that Odin could just be like "yeah, we decided Thor should have a baby brother so I found a handy tree and boom! Baby!"

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

"We painted him a bit wrong, that's why he's got the black hair and green eyes."
"Yeah, sounds legit. I see no reason to question it."

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Odin could just show up with a baby and go 'erm, I gave Frigga an apple and a baby fell out of it, we're going to call him Loki', and everyone would go 'well, at least it's not as weird as when Odin tripped and cut his knee open and Thor crawled out of the wound'.
Yes, I'd go with that!