It’s Loki! A ref sheet thereof. Huzzah.
fig a. tattoos
Loki has tattoos around his biceps and across his back. I’m super-lame at drawing them, and so don’t really have a firm idea of what they’re supposed to look like other than “Viking knotwork”.
Loki’s tattoos are actually a spell — he refers to it as “the woad” on account of the colour— which keeps him in his human form and limits his natural magical ability. Large portions of the tattoos have been destroyed by scars (see fig b.), however, which allows Loki to comfortably assume the young-adult jotunn form as seen here. Complete removal of the woad — either physically (e.g. flaying) or magically — cause Loki to turn into the extremely powerful but difficult-to-manage godbeast.
Loki originally thought the woad was applied by Odin as a condition of him living amongst the Aesir, however he’s since come to realise he more likely applied it to himself.
Loki is still trying to work out the magic behind the woad, however it seems to remove knowledge of itself from the mind of whomever it’s applied to.
fig b. scars
Loki has a lot of scars, the most prominent being three large bands across his chest (leaving him with only one nipple; his left), groin and ankles. These scars bands have been caused by friction against his chains during the period he was bound underground. He also has significant scarification on his back from the same period.
The other scars are mostly from just random misadventures, though several are the result of deliberate harm caused by the now long-dead Aesir (see fig d.).
fig c. eye
Loki is technically blind; his eyes burnt horribly from the acidic poison of his thousand-year prison. As such, while he technically has irises and pupils, the details of both are mostly obscured behind a filmy veil of yellow-green. Because of the “blindness”, Loki’s pupils do not react to light and remain constantly tightly slitted (this remains true even when in human form and manifesting “normal” eyes; though his irises open to a more inconspicuous width).
Despite being “blind”, Loki can see perfectly well. Though this “vision” is magical in nature and relies on a multitude of non-visual stimuli to assemble, it only functions when Loki has his eyes open. Due to the nature of his “vision”, Loki has a slight problem with synesthesia, and cannot perceive colour at all unless humans are nearby (he literally reads a visual interpretation of his surroundings directly from their minds).
Loki’s eyes glow very faintly, though this isn’t usually noticeable unless he’s in near-darkness.
Loki’s sockets are naturally burnt a purple-black; a stain left by the poison in his prison. This band extends horizontally out from both eyes, as well as in a diagonal “tear track” across each cheek.
He also has eyelashes and eyebrows (black), though gods only know why or what for.
fig d. mouth
Loki’s lips are roughly the same colour as the bands around his eyes, for roughly the same reason, and his mouth is slightly larger than a human’s. His most noticeable feature here, however, are the four “leather stitches” — two on each corner of his mouth. These “stitches” are actually (now) a functional part of Loki’s mouth; if they are severed in any way, he looses the ability to move his jaw.
Loki’s tongue is long — he can touch the tip to the underside of his chin — and weirdly striped. It’s probably some kind of jotunn mating thing.
As jotunn are carnivorous, Loki’s molars are closer to those of a cat than a human. He also has four canines on his upper and lower jaws, as well as “gaps” in his gunline for the teeth to slot into when his mouth is closed.
Loki’s saliva is technically a very mild analgesic. In humans, it manifests as a sensation very similar to that of menthol or camphor.
fig e. hand
Loki has fairly large hands for his height (which, considering he’s around seven feet tall, is saying something). They’re thickly corded and very masculine in appearance, and each finger ends in a thick, blunt claw that makes fine manual dexterity somewhat difficult.
Loki’s fingers look “blood-splattered” up to around the first knuckle. This effect is a natural patterning in the skin, and is totally a holdover from when Loki looked strangely identical to Beetlejuice.
Since this is Loki’s left hand, he’s wearing his wedding ring.
fig f. wings
Loki has wings, and can fly. Like Loki’s eyes, which allow him to “see” without actually being physically functional, Loki’s wings aren’t actually aerodynamically sound and technically he floats via magic rather than flies via physics. Nonetheless, he has to have his wings “out” in order to fly; though oddly they don’t have to be able to actually open or flap (though his flight becomes significantly more clumsy if this is the case).
Because they’re a pain in the ass (and also because Sigmund finds bats extremely creepy), Loki can “retract” his wings. They don’t actually go anywhere per se when “retracted”; they just don’t manifest on him physically.
Loki’s wings appear and disappear in a puff of fire and smoke, and make a cool snapping noise when they open. It’s very dramatic.
