Ohh, Thank You, I Didn't See Those Before, But Still, He Has Had So Many Cool Designs Like I Can't With

ohh, thank you, i didn't see those before, but still, he has had so many cool designs like i can't with this man

I want to give all of the SpiderVerse designers a kiss

pls i need more boops

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Sanctuary and Loki's "adoption"

I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before now, but… Odin said he found Loki in the temple in Jotunheimr. Of course that didn’t fit very well with his claim of Loki being abandoned there, buutt…

What if the Jotun had some concept like the old Christian “Sanctuary”, in which holy places were refuges where even the bitterest enemy could not touch you or force you out? (Not without risking their soul, as the lore had it.) Even when babies were abandoned to sanctuary it was specifically so they would not die, so that they would be kept safe until a home was found for them.

If that’s the case, then the explanation for Loki being there could have been totally different from what Odin claimed: he could have been put there in hopes of keeping him safe. In the midst of an attack by bitter foes like the Aesir such a move would make perfect sense, the only flaw being the assumption that the Aesir would know and respect the sanctuary.

If that was true, then the best case scenario for Odin is that he found baby Loki and just didn’t know Jotun custom enough to understand why the infant was there. It would show a woeful lack of knowledge of their enemies’ customs, but sadly it’s not very farfetched that he might be so ignorant of their culture, considering the blatant contempt many Asgardians exhibited toward frost giants.

Unfortunately it’s more likely he did know (witness the fact that he knew whose child Loki was) and simply took the child anyway.

So if the Jotun rules are anything like the old church rules - which they’d pretty well have to be just to make the sanctuary concept work - then going in the temple and taking Loki out of it was one of the vilest things Odin could do. Even on the scale of war crimes it would be, well, monstrous.

Yet we’re supposed to believe that Loki is the monster in the House of Odin?

i love that they kept his hair the way it is in all of the concept art bc that was one of the best parts of his physical characteristics, especially in conjunction with the rest of his design it just fits so well i love it

I want to give all of the SpiderVerse designers a kiss

Hi! Can you explain waiting rooms please? Like how to script them, what they do, etc

Hello friend!! I sure can ☺️ (long post incoming)

What is a Waiting Room?

A waiting room (or WR) is a (non-mandatory) place that you can script to shift to and it’s a sort of in between for your CR and DR. You usually shift to your WR to kind of collect your thoughts and get ready to fully enter your DR. A lot of times your WR is a simple and rather empty room that just has you in it. (It can include whatever you want I’m just giving an idea)  And a lot of people have a door in their waiting room that they can open and step into their DR “portal”

Why do people use Waiting Rooms? 

As mentioned above, WR are a space to calm down and “process” your shifting before continuing into your DR. It helps people not feel so startled by just opening their eyes and being DIRECTLY in the action of their DR. Also, for some people, visualizing a single room is a lot easier than your whole DR world.

How do you script a Waiting Room?

I mention this a lot (but I know newer shifters don’t always know this) but scripting is NOT necessary to shift. It is a helpful tool to organize your thoughts, just like methods are, but you do not 100% need one in order to shift. If you do still want to write a script for your WR, it can be whatever you want! It could be simple bullet points with description of the room, it could be a single paragraph, it could be a drawing, ANYTHING!  Whatever helps you visualize or however you like to set up your script is what you should do!

Thanks for the ask and I hope this helps!! If you have any other questions, send them my way!!!