OOC: background, for the curious
So, I felt like Thor had to be a student because nobody would ever make him a teacher. That's just a lawsuit waiting to happen. To accomplish that consistently, I de-aged him to around 17-18. HOWEVER, and I'm trying to say this in the least Edward Cullen way possible, he's been that age for a long time. Sort of arrested-development-y, gained more experience but hasn't become that much more mature. Jane, the old flame, was aged down to a college student because that's minimally creepy, and if she attends a large research institution and performs exceptionally well she could conceivably be working on real cutting-edge research.
So to recap, Thor has been a 17-year-old (ish) dude for a number of years, the last gazillion of which have involved wine, women and hitting things with a very large hammer. He meets Jane, the events of the movie Thor happen kinda-sorta as written, he learns his lesson, recovers Mjolnir, gets sent back, finds a way to return to Earth. Then, for whatever reason (in the comics Jane fails Odin's test... lol, wtf) he and Jane end up not working out. Maybe he was an insensitive boor once too often. So now he's Thor, 17-18 years old but aging now that he's on Earth (go with it), and it's time to squeeze in a year or two of high school -- two, as it turns out, because he doesn't place into his year.
So to recap, Thor has been a 17-year-old (ish) dude for a number of years, the last gazillion of which have involved wine, women and hitting things with a very large hammer. He meets Jane, the events of the movie Thor happen kinda-sorta as written, he learns his lesson, recovers Mjolnir, gets sent back, finds a way to return to Earth. Then, for whatever reason (in the comics Jane fails Odin's test... lol, wtf) he and Jane end up not working out. Maybe he was an insensitive boor once too often. So now he's Thor, 17-18 years old but aging now that he's on Earth (go with it), and it's time to squeeze in a year or two of high school -- two, as it turns out, because he doesn't place into his year.