Mmm. It was made very clear to me at a very early age- duck, by the way- I'd never be as strong as my brother. People used to go to great pains to remind me of it.

[It's easier to talk about his past like this, distracted as he is by remembering every hidden trapfalls, every invisible pendulum that might give Loki a headache and probably be rather worse for Eggsy.]

And of course, the endless games of "chase Loki down and pay him back for all the things the Loki before him did". You have to be fast and smart, when you're fleeing adults.

[Which hadn't really been him. It had been the Loki-who-was, his dead and gone child self- although Loki had been on his shoulder, metaphorically.]