I'm me. You seem to be having trouble aligning that if I shapeshift or mention I died, but gods don't work like that, Hiccup. I'm Loki, I have been and ever will be. Think of me as a new iteration at my own behest.

[ murdering his own childself along the way, but that's a whole can of worms he doesn't want to open up over his pancakes tyvm. ]

I grew, I aged, I did all those things you've heard about, albeit with a bit of extra flair here and there most likely, and then when I died I happened to come back; a renewed cycle.

So I didn't do any of the things I definitely did do. Do you see?

[ hiccup did ask. ]