foundlingmother:

Apparently I’m really into headcanons about Loki being a mostly harmless mischievous shit pre-Thor today, so here are a few more:

• The usual stuff. Soap that turns hands or hair different colors. Ruining meals by swapping sugar for salt (or more creative food and drink mix ups and mayhem).
• He used illusions to make the maids and kitchen staff think their were bug or rat infestations.
• He enchanted doors to make very loud, obnoxious noises when they were opened. Sometimes foreign dignitaries would come and doors to banquet halls would be screaming all the time. When Odin would make a grand entrance into the throne room, Loki would enchant the opening doors to sound like mating bilgesnipes.
• Odin mentioning the goat not belonging at the banquet table? That’s something Loki did (with Thor’s help–Thor thought of using a goat). Through illusions and potions Loki had one Lord convinced he was courting the most beautiful woman in all of Asgard, but it was a goat. He brought that goat as an escort to one of parties at the palace. Odin wasn’t nearly as amused as Thor and Loki.
• Loki steals Thor’s educational tomes and seals them away in pockets of space. This gets their tutors very frustrated with Thor. (On the Statesman these come in handy for teaching the surviving children.)
• Loki transforming into Thor and the two of them talking in unison or confusing someone by seemingly being in two places at once. This is, for a while, how they welcome new guards or maids: by creeping them the fuck out until they learn Loki’s a shapeshifter (look, they’re both little shits, ok–Thor laughs about the snakes).
• Releasing the horses from the stables and leading them through the streets of Asgard, much to the distress of the stablehands.
• He’s used magic to explode the public baths like geysers.

• The doors making loud noises became a little too obvious and easy to trace, but when Loki was feeling vindictive, he would enchant a door to make a quiet farting noise. Everyone who opened the door would look surprised and embarrassed and look around furtively.
• Also hidden in pocket dimensions: a collection of mismatched socks.
• When his illusion magic had become fairly sophisticated, he would enchant mirrors to show some flaw on the face of whoever looked in it: a lock of hair sticking up, a smear of sauce below the lip, a piece of spinach between the teeth. Now matter how much you try to fix it, it won’t go away. This was especially amusing when Thor started spending a lot of time with Fandral… but Fandral eventually figured out what was going on.