Various Thor Headcanons
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Thor sleeps strewn across the entire bed. He sleeps like a log, heavy and unmoving, apart from when he overheats. At those times he'll kick off the covers. If there's another in his bed, he'll surround them with his warmth. He's not a morning person. He generally prefers to sleep in the nude (the maids always giggled about catching glimpses of him in the morning).
Thor’s spent so much time among the people, none of them find it odd to see him strolling casually by. He’s made it clear he expects no displays of deference in passing, or anything more than the polite courtesies they’d extend to others. It would be ridiculous to expect more and a waste of everyone’s time.
Pre-Thor
Thor 100% spearheaded debates over which weapons and warriors would triumph over one another. Mjolnir vs. Gungnir. Mjolnir vs. Dragonfang. He gets very scientific about it. He may not know the name of every scholar and their contribution to Asgard’s civilizational prowess (like Loki does–he can recite them alphabetically and chronologically), but he knows just about everything there is to know about weapons and battles and cool stuff. He likes cool stuff. And his Valkyries are action figures, not dolls! Thor's smart and nerdy. Not in Loki's budding academic, "Let me write 100 pages on how bullshit this magic theory is," sort of way. More in the, "Oh, that's interesting! Let me memorize everything about it ever!" sort of way. He's a geek with something akin to fandoms that he invests time and effort in.
Circa TDW
Thor first braided the mourning braid into his hair after Loki's sentencing. He'd come to realize (or convinced himself to protect himself from true despair) that his brother Loki was dead. That the person imprisoned wasn't really the Loki Thor remembered and never could be. So, he braided a black cord into his hair. He rebraids it with a strand of Loki's actual hair that he cuts from Loki's corpse on Svartalfheim. He's distraught that there's no more he can do for Loki (he can't return to Asgard yet because he'd be subjected to Odin's judgement and unable to stop Malekith if he did). He's ashamed that he mourned his brother while he was fucking there in the city, within Thor's reach, for all those months. Rebraiding the hair is a way for Thor to feel a bit better about that and like he's honoring Loki the way Loki deserves to be honored after his sacrifice.
Post-TDW
The other Avengers or various Midgardians mention Loki and Loki's crimes on occasion. This elicits a response from Thor akin to a storm brewing on the horizon. He doesn't tolerate hearing Loki disparaged well, which he knows is unreasonable, so he keeps his mouth shut. Unfortunately, he can't help that the air develops an unnatural charge. He can't help if he grips his glass a little to tightly and shatters it. Others learn to tiptoe around mentions of Loki in Thor's presence, and in return Thor doesn't expect them to console him about Loki's loss the way they do about his mother's.
Post-Ragnarok
The eyepatch bothers Thor. It really does. He’s never looked much like Odin–he always resembled his mother–but now there’s the eyepatch. The comparisons are unavoidable, and all the harder to stomach now that he knows what Odin was. A few subjects call him "Allfather", and it doesn’t sit well with him. Loki, when they’re arguing, will call him "Odin" (he won’t apologize for it later, per se, but he does lift Thor’s spirits and shore him up when they arguments are concluded–he knows that Thor feels tremendous guilt and worries he will fall back into the habits he learned from Odin).
Post-IW (Alternate MCU Universe)
Thor's exceedingly grateful for the eye Rocket gifted him, but learns over time that it's an imperfect solution to the eyepatch, which, for all the discomfort it caused Thor, never physically incapacitated him. The prosthetic eye causes him migraines, which Thor's never experienced really as an Asgardian without first sustaining a head injury. These migraines are accompanied by nausea, dizziness, and light sensitivity. The eye's imperfect (Rocket's not exactly known for spending time with high society people, so it's not a huge surprise that there would be issues with any of the prosthetic body parts he... acquires). The colors Thor sees don’t quite match. The prosthetic eye sees colors more vibrantly than his real eye. Due to the damage to his eye muscle, Thor has strabismus. This results in double vision since his eyes can’t always play nice with one another. The prosthetic eye is farsighted. Thor must take it out to clean it, like the prosthetic eyes we have in real life (even though his is far more advanced, obviously). Sometimes, when he removes it for cleaning, he'll leave it in a little container and wear the eyepatch for a few days. He alternates between the two options. The eyepatch becomes a somewhat less distressing option after Clint makes a joke about Thor taking fashion advice from Fury. That not everyone sees Odin when they see it is a relief.
Thor appreciates the concept of the round table from Arthurian legend. He decides that his council will sit around a round table. It's a table with no head, implying that everyone sat at the table is equal. Loki's a large part of this decision.
Thor learns to cook in earnest. He's always had enough skill to keep himself fed while hunting big game, but he develops that skill further after Asgardia's functioning well. He loves Midgardian barbecue and dedicates himself to mastering the art of the barbecue. There are Americana-style cookouts in the palace gardens of Asgardia. Thor probably also experiments with new rubs and such.
Loki often reminds Thor that it’s not proper for the king to personally train the new recruits (plus, Val, Sif and Fandral don't like their job being usurped). Thor struggles to relinquish the freedom to enjoy and exhaust himself in the training yards that he had as a prince. He most often gets exercises his restlessness and aggression fighting alongside the other Avengers. (He's kind of like a dog that needs to be walked, only he needs a good fight, whether against an enemy or in a sparring match.)
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Date: 2019-01-04 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-01-05 11:30 pm (UTC)See, given his valkyrie crush, I think he'd be pretty torn. When he was a kid, and wanted to be a valkyrie, and was probably imagining getting one of their swords! At some point he would probably transition into thinking Mjolnir would win, but the doubt would always be there, in the back of his mind...
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Date: 2019-01-06 05:00 pm (UTC)(And then Val schools him every single time they spar, even when Thor's lightning powers are out in full force, because my headcanon is that Dragonfang can suppress/repel magic, so if she catches the lightning on her blade (which she has the skill to do) it dissipates, robbing Thor of any advantage. Also, magic can't close the wounds that Dragonfang inflicts. I imagine Thor arrives at the library door where Loki is all sliced up and pitiful, and Loki has to use old-fashioned methods like *gasp* actually literally cleaning the wound with soap and water.)
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Date: 2019-01-07 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-08 04:26 pm (UTC)Thor wakes up hours later in a rickety chair in the library, marches out to find Loki, and takes him over/against the nearest surface (wall, table, sofa, etc.). Thor zaps him several times during their rough lovemaking. Loki's absolutely delighted (the self-imposed sexual frustration was worth it, after all).
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Date: 2019-01-17 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-04 08:37 pm (UTC)I also really like the circa & post-TDW headcanons. Oh, the mourning braid... I gotta write something about that because it makes me feel so many feels.
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Date: 2019-01-05 04:05 am (UTC)Thanks! Because Thor has the braid so early on, I kind of had to play around with how I could make it Loki's hair in the end without it being too... difficult to work out in my head. I feel like if Thor had cut a bit of Loki's hair before imprisoning him there would be a bunch of additional pain and rejection felt on Loki's part that I don't really want to try reconciling in my canon-set fics because Loki's very sensitive and already has to deal with Thor never visiting him. This way, he only sees the mourning braid after Frigga's died, so he probably assumes it's for her and doesn't have to know right away that Thor's been mourning him despite him being alive and right there.
It is such a good source of feels... bittersweet feels at that.
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Date: 2019-01-05 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
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