Yamino, Ryuusuke

闇野竜介

Loki's second son appears as a polite, bespectacled boy in his late teens, serving as his housekeeper, cook, and assistant. He takes pleasure in cooking, cleaning, and other domestic tasks, and in the anime, he also has an amusing habit of ordering useless items from mail-order catalogs. His real name is Jormungand, also known as the Midgard serpent, because his true form is that of a giant serpent encircling the Earth. Loki rescued Yamino from the bottom of the sea by casting a spell on him (thus giving him a human form) so that he could accompany his father on Earth; for this, he is eternally grateful. The revelation of Yamino's true identity occurs earlier in the manga than in the anime, and seems to play a larger role in his characterization in the first manga series. He probably wears glasses as a reference to the Indian cobra (meganehebi, or "glasses snake", in Japanese).