Oh... Oh, yikes. Once again: nobody explained mind control to Thor, right? (And please tell me Loki hasn't been sitting with the gag on in Asgard, waiting for someone to frigging *ask him why* for all this time? Because that's even worse than Thor leading with "where is the tesseract?" And never getting around to "what happened to you?")
Yeah, this is pretty much the bunny I mentioned to you earlier where lack of inter-team communication became a key point. And no, Loki hasn't had the gag on this whole time (that's a different fic!) but as for waiting someone to ask the right question... well, that's trickier.
Oh thank goodness-- I wasn't clear on the gag point, or how much time had passed on Asgard. And I can see Loki almost using it as a test, to see if anyone would bother asking him any pertinent questions. Or assuming someone was going to get punished, and he was it.
Variable time passing is one of my headcanons in Thor fandom, it'll come up in several of my stories. I'm working on a basic ratio of nine to one Midgard/Asgard time... so for every day that passes in Asgard, nine days pass in Midgard.
Mostly this is because I just cannot, can*not* make it work in my head that Loki and Thor are over a thousand years old. Yeah, immortals or no, relative to their people's lifespan or no, I just can't accept that they'd have passed a millenium of life and *still not learned to talk with each other.* Similarly I have trouble believing that Asgard would have 'advanced' culturally and technologically right up until they were approximately on par with Visigoth-era Europe and then suddenly *stop* for a thousand years unchanged.
So in my headcanon Loki is one hundred and seventy-one years old, Thor is an even two hundred, and everyone on Asgard knows better than to befriend mortals because if you stop paying attention for four or five years those mortals just up and *die* on you, man, it's worse than gerbils. Also, Fury gets incredibly impatient with trying to work with Asgard because there's always a two to three day delay before they get back to you.
I've always kind of liked the idea that up in Asgard, they might get interested in something happening on earth ("hey, have you seen this guy Hitler? What's his problem?") and then get distracted for a little while and when you come back it's been over for years. Although I tend to write time passing in Asgard the same way it does on Earth, only the Aesir and Jotun age more slowly. Kind of like tortoises compared to mayflies.
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