1. Player Information
Name: Mara
Username: fishicopter, cerebel.r@gmail
Current characters in ToS: None, but formerly Arkady.
Reserve: http://shadowmods.dreamwidth.org/1162.html?thread=66954#cmt66954
2. Canon Character Information
Name: Loki (Odinson, Laufeysone, Silvertongue, etc.)
PB: Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Journal:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sorcerous
Age: approx. 30 in appearance; ~1000 in actual age.
Appearance: Tall, slicked-back dark hair, green eyes, favors gold, green and black in his wardrobe. He is a figure often unobtrusive, keeping part-concealed, keeping to shadows, watching. When he wants to be seen, he is regal and tall, holding himself with the dignity of someone who was raised to royalty but who also isn't quite as dignified or charismatic as he thinks he is.
History: http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)
Powers/Talents: First, he is a Frost Giant, and as such has great bone and muscle density, supernatural resistance to disease and ability to take damage, supernatural healing, and he thrives in cold climates. (In my headcanon, this also includes him having trouble in 85+ degree temperatures Fahrenheit, as his body isn't as able to cool itself off. He's susceptible to heatstroke.) He is also able to manipulate ice and frost, forming weapons and freezing others in it.
Second, he is a shapeshifter. His own physical form is flexible; his skin turned Asgard-pink after just being touched by Odin as a child. He's gender-flexible, too; he's taken a female form in comics canon for an extended period of time. Possibly in part to spitefully mess with Asgard's idea of gender roles. In legends, Loki is renowned as a shapeshifter with numerous animal forms, and Marvel echoes this.
Third, he is a sorcerer. (I separate this from 'shapeshifter' because, though shapeshifting is magic, he seems to have an innate flexibility and knowledge of shapeshifting that doesn't require study; magic, on the other hand, does.) He can create illusions, double himself and wield magic offensively.
Personality: Loki is a strange creature. He's born of the Frost Giants, but he's not like them; he's a runt, a weakling, more powerful in magic than they usually are. He's raised in Asgard, but he's not quite like them either: he is a dark, fey little thing, clever and tricky and playful, and with entirely too honed a sense of self-preservation. Asgard is left with a prince who prefers thinking to acting, speaking to thinking. He's a lawyer in a room full of Vikings. Even the ones who know his bravery and who fight alongside him don't really trust him.
Still, when he was young, this didn't seem to matter. He played tricks; he was one for mischief, for providing comeuppance to those with what he viewed as too much hubris. He was sweet and he loved his brother Thor (who was everything that Asgard wished a prince could be) and it was a long time before this began to sour.
Loki learned to detest his own position in Asgard. Some of the loathing turned internal: was it his fault that he wasn't good enough? That he was feminine, in a world that worshipped masculinity? That he favored illusion more than blunt force? -- And then that loathing turned outward, at Asgard, at his brother, his father. It didn't diminish the love. No, on the contrary; Loki became more determined than ever to love his family even as his self- and outward-loathing pushed him away. His tricks became more malicious and less fun. And he watched his brother with new, disillusioned eyes and decided that he was not the man that Asgard needed as a king. No, it needed someone like Loki.
Not that Loki wanted to be a figurehead. He didn't. Thor was perfect for leading battle, for holding celebrations, for being the beautiful, golden god. Loki, on the other hand, thought things through. He learned actions and consequences. And he couldn't let Thor get on the throne.
Thus he sabotaged Thor's chance. And thus he learned a terrible, terrible thing about himself: his lineage, his nature as a Frost Giant, which Odin had covered up for so many centuries.
This knowledge sent Loki into shock. He began to wonder if his own treasonous thoughts and tendencies were because he was a monster, because he had always been something inferior and twisted and horrible. At the same time, he blamed Odin, blamed Frigga and Thor and anyone who had never treated him the same, because now he knew the truth, and now his life took on a sinister bent. They had never treated him equally because he wasn't equal.
Caught between horrific, tempestuous hatred of what he was and what others had done to him, Loki sprang into action. He pushed Thor out of the way, concocted an elaborate scheme to prove his worth and save Odin's life, and attempted to destroy Jotunheim itself. Wiping it out felt to Loki as though it was wiping out the impurities in his own blood, in his own self. Saving Odin proved that he was a loyal son. Getting rid of Thor meant -- well, that was the most difficult part of the whole plan. Thor was a convenient outlet for Loki's rage. But striking against Thor was what damned him the most, in the end, because Thor was not the one who had done him wrong, and he knew it. He struck against Thor because there was a part of him that wanted to be that monster. If he couldn't be respected, if he couldn't be loved, then he would be feared.
In the end, Loki could have neither respect, nor love, nor fear. All he had was pity, from Odin, and from Thor, some desperate wish to save him.
Loki did not want to be saved.
And so he let go of the Bifrost, dropped away into the vastness of space. It's unclear whether or not it's an attempt at suicide. Most likely, even Loki didn't truly know what he wanted -- he only knew what he couldn't want, and that was his family.
In his appearance in the Avengers, Loki has pushed himself much further towards darkness. He has convinced himself over the course of the year he spent recovering from the fall that Thor was responsible for Loki's fall. He blamed his brother thoroughly for all that had befallen him, and determined to make his own way, to conquer and to twist in his image.
And yet, Loki couldn't completely commit himself to this. He wasn't able to entirely convince himself that he deserved to succeed. Loki's own self-hatred, fostered in his adolescence and deepened with his discovery of his own nature, made him weak. It sabotaged him again, and left places of emotional vulnerability where his long-repressed love for his brother could break through. Loki's plan was clumsy and inelegant, and even though he manipulated the Avengers masterfully on an individual level, all he succeeded in doing, in the end, was ushering in his own destruction.
Now I'd like to talk about what all of this means for Loki, as a god and as a being of many different influences. Marvel uses a reboot of the Thor universe, in comics, to talk about how the gods aren't necessarily beings separate from humans, how humans dream the gods into existence, how gods are a part of the human psyche. Because of this dreaming, even after Ragnarok Thor was able to find the gods hidden in different mortals and free them. So I would submit that Loki is not simply an alien figure from a planet called Asgard, but is a creature that shares qualities with the Loki of myth and with certain archetypal views of gods.
Loki in myth is a peculiar figure. He's not of the Asgard gods, but he is tolerated by them, needed by them. Where they are constrained by civilized methods, by honor and law and procedure, he has no such compunctions. He wins by whatever means necessary. He is the one that the inhabitants of Asgard turn to when they have no other option. He is a visceral, primal survival instinct, pre-civilization, a Darwinian impulse that pushes to preserve the self above all else. This makes sense; Frost Giants are a very primal group, and Loki has a lot of instinct and biology from them. Loki is not one of the golden gods. He is a thing of ice and violence, raised among the gods. It makes it ironic, then, that he is such a good speaker: the Aesir are honest, and they overcome their baser instincts to be so honest, so honorable, but Loki speaks words that cut straight to the quick. He is such a good liar and such a silver-tongued orator because he knows what the Aesir do not say. He knows what is in their hearts.
This isn't to say that Loki is entirely unconstrained by civilization. His instincts and his genetics all pull him in that direction, making him markedly and clearly different from the other gods. But he was raised among them, in a warrior culture, and there is a part of him that feels he should value the things that he does not. He wishes that he could be a part of the Aesir as fully as the others are, but he is not.
With Loki's added psychology of betrayal, this force of survival that goes against civilization's lines becomes an active force of sabotage. He exists as a foil to Thor, the upright and direct warrior (how much more direct can you get than a hammer to the face?). Loki, then, becomes a story about how living with hatred, with betrayal, living only for yourself will always lose against living for another, as a hero, for love. What makes Loki so complicated is that he isn't just that anti-civilization force. He loves Thor just as much as he hates him. He is never sure about the fights he undertakes, and, in fact, often expects to lose. (I would say that in the movie, when Thor defeats him on the Bifrost, the look on his face is just this inevitable dread -- it seems as though he never expected to truly win in the first place. Same in the Avengers, when Thor confronted him on the rooftop of Stark Tower, and Loki wavered before stabbing Thor in the ribs.) This is what makes Loki such a tragic figure, especially in movie-verse.
Outwardly, Loki is a tempestuous, inscrutable, sweet-tongued lying son of a bitch. Inwardly, what he truly wants is to be loved, accepted, given a chance. But he has a great deal of issues to overcome before he could ever even remotely get to that point. He has a twisted sense of responsibility and duty that lends itself better to necessity than honor, and a poetic and ironic way of looking at others, both of which lead to him taking action that seems inexplicable and bewildering. He fancies himself capricious and unpredictable, but, in fact, often self-sabotages in highly predictable ways. He has a slightly sociopathic, Loki-centric view of the universe, and any possible chance at redemption is pretty far away on the horizon.
Why would your character be chosen? He's a god, a sorcerer, and a highly powerful and unpredictable person. Probably that's enough to be intriguing.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Quite a bit. I would say he's come across mentions of Nysgods before, and has some vague familiarity. It's up to you guys what this means.
Why this character: I'm looking for another game for Loki, and I'm also looking to hook back up with games where a lot of my friends play. Throne of Shadows
AU Addendum: n/a
Past Game History: Loki has prior game history at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
eswareinmal, a light-hearted game based on fairy tales. He was there for about ten months of IRL time, which in-game was about a month and a half, from a canon point immediately following Thor (2011).
I'm going to bullet point the in-game history here, as well as possible.
- Loki started off immediately with his ego flattered. Upon entrance, he was told that he was a hero called to this place to help them against a terrible foe. The fact that he was called and not Thor gave him some satisfaction, and led him to start acting the hero if only to prove that he could do it.
- He involved himself in several miniquests, among them a trip to a town called West Haven (that turned out to be a trick by the powers in the world to test the heroes), a journey up a beanstalk to a land of giants, a fight with a beast in the forest.
- Sif and Thor showed up. This caused Loki to get all huffy and decide that he would sabotage any chance they could have at truly being heroes. He started to play a villain on the orbs, their version of the network, so he could tempt them into coming after him.
- Loki saves Sif's life, and Thor disappears. The result of this is that Sif and Loki step into an extremely ill-advised hook-up, with Sif trying to drag Loki back from his idiocy and Loki attempting to bone Thor's best friend because Sif >>> Jane Foster. They end up making some genuine emotional connection despite themselves.
- Loki goes to check out the thorns threatening the kingdom, totally cutting out on Sif before she wakes up. He returns, after a few days. Sif gets sold a hat that turns her into a horse. Loki saves her from it. He and Sif argue again.
- The combination of Thor's disappearance and his thwarted plans, as well as depending on his shapeshifting far too much, renders Loki stuck in the form of a wolf. He roves around doing the Big Bad Wolf thing, killing livestock and kidnapping infants, until he attacks Sansa Stark. Sansa is saved by Sif; Sif, along with a brand new Thor, hunts the wolf, and eventually traps Loki in the forest. They remind him that he is not, in fact, the Big Bad wolf, undoing the fairy tale curse that was placed on him.
- …but he still can't figure out how to turn back human again. In an attempt to salvage his reputation, he emotionally manipulates Sansa back into liking him.
- And then Frigga arrives. Loki streaks over to her and curls up in wolf-form by her. And then Sif gives Loki another talking-to in the forest. As a result of her calling Loki out, Loki is able to transform back into being human.
- There's a fight against someone called the Hero of the Mountains, who's actually a bad guy. Loki is instrumental in organizing the fight, but he mostly stays out of the actual fighting. Loki and Cho go on this quest together and Loki exhausts himself accidentally saving Cho. Cho feels grateful, and drags Loki back to town and helps him recover.
- Loki's Role is changed from being a Wizard to a Foundling Prince. What this means for him is that his power of magic is taken away and his Jotunn powers are brought to the forefront. It also means that the townspeople begin to view him with suspicion. Foundling Prince, for these purposes, is an Oedipus-like story of a prince abandoned on a mountain and found and raised away from his family, thus causing a horrible fate later on because he wasn't killed as an infant. Loki resents this role, unsurprisingly.
- Loki, due to some prodding by a Power that Is in the game that basically took him as a pet (the avatar of Balance, as opposed to the avatars of Chaos and Order), and also due to the new Role, convinces himself that he needs to train up the heroes in Schwanheim by being a villain. He makes an ice maze and an ice tower and convinces Sansa to fake her own kidnapping so he can run some heroes through an obstacle course. It works, but in the process Cho Takahashi is severely wounded and Loki is exhausted.
- Cho and Loki wake up when people smash them together, Sleeping Beauty-style.
- Loki storms out of Schwanheim.
- At this point, Loki goes for a canon update through Avengers, and shows up in Dagaz.
Now, I'll cover a few characters he's familiar with as a result of prior game history, and his impressions of them. All of these are pretty basic because Loki just hasn't really had time to get to know anyone. In most cases, his knowledge truly is passing, such as a name and a face and maybe one or two facts.
It is worth noting that if you go back on Loki's tag in the community, you will find posts in which he interacts with Avengers. These Avengers all intro'd together and immediately idled out together, and I got permission from the mod to retcon these encounters, as they had a disproportionate effect on Loki's emotional state.
CANON:
Obi-Wan Kenobi / Star Wars - Some hero guy.
Bakura Ryou / Yuugiou - Some hero guy that's obsessed with archetypes and is pretty socially inept and annoying.
Bay Kennish / Switched at Birth - Little girl and thief.
Gretel / I don't actually know, some version of the Hansel and Gretel story in which the witch trains Gretel as a little evil witch herself - A tiny witch and sorceress, possibly wicked, certainly one with potential. Loki taught her a magic thing or two.
Sansa Stark / A Song of Ice and Fire - A sweet but completely hapless girl, easy to manipulate.
Coyote / Gunnerkrigg Court - Fairly intimidating actually chaotic being, shares some traits with Loki but mostly just makes Loki feels like a bad god of mischief.
Rupert Giles / Buffy the Vampire Slayer - A sorcerer who would be quite intelligent if he would stop stammering. Loki got a hint of a darker side but never was able to explore it.
Eliot Spencer / Leverage - Met the man briefly.
Liara T'Soni / Mass Effect - A fellow blue person and also quite intelligent.
Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark / The Hunger Games - Met both of them briefly. Is aware that Peeta is a baker and that the two are probably romantically involved but knows nothing else.
OC:
Faolan - A young werewolf pup who considered Loki a pack-father once he found out Loki could shapeshift. Consistently brought out Loki's softer side, even though Loki tried to smack him down.
Cho Takahashi - A sorceress, very powerful, works very well with Loki on quests, somewhat standoffish, but actually a bleeding heart.
4. Samples
First-Person: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/4759732.html#comments
Third-Person:
Third Sample http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/555896.html?thread=376986744#cmt376986744
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/491246.html?thread=339739630#cmt339739630
Name: Mara
Username: fishicopter, cerebel.r@gmail
Current characters in ToS: None, but formerly Arkady.
Reserve: http://shadowmods.dreamwidth.org/1162.html?thread=66954#cmt66954
2. Canon Character Information
Name: Loki (Odinson, Laufeysone, Silvertongue, etc.)
PB: Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Journal:
sorcerousAge: approx. 30 in appearance; ~1000 in actual age.
Appearance: Tall, slicked-back dark hair, green eyes, favors gold, green and black in his wardrobe. He is a figure often unobtrusive, keeping part-concealed, keeping to shadows, watching. When he wants to be seen, he is regal and tall, holding himself with the dignity of someone who was raised to royalty but who also isn't quite as dignified or charismatic as he thinks he is.
History: http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)
Powers/Talents: First, he is a Frost Giant, and as such has great bone and muscle density, supernatural resistance to disease and ability to take damage, supernatural healing, and he thrives in cold climates. (In my headcanon, this also includes him having trouble in 85+ degree temperatures Fahrenheit, as his body isn't as able to cool itself off. He's susceptible to heatstroke.) He is also able to manipulate ice and frost, forming weapons and freezing others in it.
Second, he is a shapeshifter. His own physical form is flexible; his skin turned Asgard-pink after just being touched by Odin as a child. He's gender-flexible, too; he's taken a female form in comics canon for an extended period of time. Possibly in part to spitefully mess with Asgard's idea of gender roles. In legends, Loki is renowned as a shapeshifter with numerous animal forms, and Marvel echoes this.
Third, he is a sorcerer. (I separate this from 'shapeshifter' because, though shapeshifting is magic, he seems to have an innate flexibility and knowledge of shapeshifting that doesn't require study; magic, on the other hand, does.) He can create illusions, double himself and wield magic offensively.
Personality: Loki is a strange creature. He's born of the Frost Giants, but he's not like them; he's a runt, a weakling, more powerful in magic than they usually are. He's raised in Asgard, but he's not quite like them either: he is a dark, fey little thing, clever and tricky and playful, and with entirely too honed a sense of self-preservation. Asgard is left with a prince who prefers thinking to acting, speaking to thinking. He's a lawyer in a room full of Vikings. Even the ones who know his bravery and who fight alongside him don't really trust him.
Still, when he was young, this didn't seem to matter. He played tricks; he was one for mischief, for providing comeuppance to those with what he viewed as too much hubris. He was sweet and he loved his brother Thor (who was everything that Asgard wished a prince could be) and it was a long time before this began to sour.
Loki learned to detest his own position in Asgard. Some of the loathing turned internal: was it his fault that he wasn't good enough? That he was feminine, in a world that worshipped masculinity? That he favored illusion more than blunt force? -- And then that loathing turned outward, at Asgard, at his brother, his father. It didn't diminish the love. No, on the contrary; Loki became more determined than ever to love his family even as his self- and outward-loathing pushed him away. His tricks became more malicious and less fun. And he watched his brother with new, disillusioned eyes and decided that he was not the man that Asgard needed as a king. No, it needed someone like Loki.
Not that Loki wanted to be a figurehead. He didn't. Thor was perfect for leading battle, for holding celebrations, for being the beautiful, golden god. Loki, on the other hand, thought things through. He learned actions and consequences. And he couldn't let Thor get on the throne.
Thus he sabotaged Thor's chance. And thus he learned a terrible, terrible thing about himself: his lineage, his nature as a Frost Giant, which Odin had covered up for so many centuries.
This knowledge sent Loki into shock. He began to wonder if his own treasonous thoughts and tendencies were because he was a monster, because he had always been something inferior and twisted and horrible. At the same time, he blamed Odin, blamed Frigga and Thor and anyone who had never treated him the same, because now he knew the truth, and now his life took on a sinister bent. They had never treated him equally because he wasn't equal.
Caught between horrific, tempestuous hatred of what he was and what others had done to him, Loki sprang into action. He pushed Thor out of the way, concocted an elaborate scheme to prove his worth and save Odin's life, and attempted to destroy Jotunheim itself. Wiping it out felt to Loki as though it was wiping out the impurities in his own blood, in his own self. Saving Odin proved that he was a loyal son. Getting rid of Thor meant -- well, that was the most difficult part of the whole plan. Thor was a convenient outlet for Loki's rage. But striking against Thor was what damned him the most, in the end, because Thor was not the one who had done him wrong, and he knew it. He struck against Thor because there was a part of him that wanted to be that monster. If he couldn't be respected, if he couldn't be loved, then he would be feared.
In the end, Loki could have neither respect, nor love, nor fear. All he had was pity, from Odin, and from Thor, some desperate wish to save him.
Loki did not want to be saved.
And so he let go of the Bifrost, dropped away into the vastness of space. It's unclear whether or not it's an attempt at suicide. Most likely, even Loki didn't truly know what he wanted -- he only knew what he couldn't want, and that was his family.
In his appearance in the Avengers, Loki has pushed himself much further towards darkness. He has convinced himself over the course of the year he spent recovering from the fall that Thor was responsible for Loki's fall. He blamed his brother thoroughly for all that had befallen him, and determined to make his own way, to conquer and to twist in his image.
And yet, Loki couldn't completely commit himself to this. He wasn't able to entirely convince himself that he deserved to succeed. Loki's own self-hatred, fostered in his adolescence and deepened with his discovery of his own nature, made him weak. It sabotaged him again, and left places of emotional vulnerability where his long-repressed love for his brother could break through. Loki's plan was clumsy and inelegant, and even though he manipulated the Avengers masterfully on an individual level, all he succeeded in doing, in the end, was ushering in his own destruction.
Now I'd like to talk about what all of this means for Loki, as a god and as a being of many different influences. Marvel uses a reboot of the Thor universe, in comics, to talk about how the gods aren't necessarily beings separate from humans, how humans dream the gods into existence, how gods are a part of the human psyche. Because of this dreaming, even after Ragnarok Thor was able to find the gods hidden in different mortals and free them. So I would submit that Loki is not simply an alien figure from a planet called Asgard, but is a creature that shares qualities with the Loki of myth and with certain archetypal views of gods.
Loki in myth is a peculiar figure. He's not of the Asgard gods, but he is tolerated by them, needed by them. Where they are constrained by civilized methods, by honor and law and procedure, he has no such compunctions. He wins by whatever means necessary. He is the one that the inhabitants of Asgard turn to when they have no other option. He is a visceral, primal survival instinct, pre-civilization, a Darwinian impulse that pushes to preserve the self above all else. This makes sense; Frost Giants are a very primal group, and Loki has a lot of instinct and biology from them. Loki is not one of the golden gods. He is a thing of ice and violence, raised among the gods. It makes it ironic, then, that he is such a good speaker: the Aesir are honest, and they overcome their baser instincts to be so honest, so honorable, but Loki speaks words that cut straight to the quick. He is such a good liar and such a silver-tongued orator because he knows what the Aesir do not say. He knows what is in their hearts.
This isn't to say that Loki is entirely unconstrained by civilization. His instincts and his genetics all pull him in that direction, making him markedly and clearly different from the other gods. But he was raised among them, in a warrior culture, and there is a part of him that feels he should value the things that he does not. He wishes that he could be a part of the Aesir as fully as the others are, but he is not.
With Loki's added psychology of betrayal, this force of survival that goes against civilization's lines becomes an active force of sabotage. He exists as a foil to Thor, the upright and direct warrior (how much more direct can you get than a hammer to the face?). Loki, then, becomes a story about how living with hatred, with betrayal, living only for yourself will always lose against living for another, as a hero, for love. What makes Loki so complicated is that he isn't just that anti-civilization force. He loves Thor just as much as he hates him. He is never sure about the fights he undertakes, and, in fact, often expects to lose. (I would say that in the movie, when Thor defeats him on the Bifrost, the look on his face is just this inevitable dread -- it seems as though he never expected to truly win in the first place. Same in the Avengers, when Thor confronted him on the rooftop of Stark Tower, and Loki wavered before stabbing Thor in the ribs.) This is what makes Loki such a tragic figure, especially in movie-verse.
Outwardly, Loki is a tempestuous, inscrutable, sweet-tongued lying son of a bitch. Inwardly, what he truly wants is to be loved, accepted, given a chance. But he has a great deal of issues to overcome before he could ever even remotely get to that point. He has a twisted sense of responsibility and duty that lends itself better to necessity than honor, and a poetic and ironic way of looking at others, both of which lead to him taking action that seems inexplicable and bewildering. He fancies himself capricious and unpredictable, but, in fact, often self-sabotages in highly predictable ways. He has a slightly sociopathic, Loki-centric view of the universe, and any possible chance at redemption is pretty far away on the horizon.
Why would your character be chosen? He's a god, a sorcerer, and a highly powerful and unpredictable person. Probably that's enough to be intriguing.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Quite a bit. I would say he's come across mentions of Nysgods before, and has some vague familiarity. It's up to you guys what this means.
Why this character: I'm looking for another game for Loki, and I'm also looking to hook back up with games where a lot of my friends play. Throne of Shadows
AU Addendum: n/a
Past Game History: Loki has prior game history at
eswareinmal, a light-hearted game based on fairy tales. He was there for about ten months of IRL time, which in-game was about a month and a half, from a canon point immediately following Thor (2011). I'm going to bullet point the in-game history here, as well as possible.
- Loki started off immediately with his ego flattered. Upon entrance, he was told that he was a hero called to this place to help them against a terrible foe. The fact that he was called and not Thor gave him some satisfaction, and led him to start acting the hero if only to prove that he could do it.
- He involved himself in several miniquests, among them a trip to a town called West Haven (that turned out to be a trick by the powers in the world to test the heroes), a journey up a beanstalk to a land of giants, a fight with a beast in the forest.
- Sif and Thor showed up. This caused Loki to get all huffy and decide that he would sabotage any chance they could have at truly being heroes. He started to play a villain on the orbs, their version of the network, so he could tempt them into coming after him.
- Loki saves Sif's life, and Thor disappears. The result of this is that Sif and Loki step into an extremely ill-advised hook-up, with Sif trying to drag Loki back from his idiocy and Loki attempting to bone Thor's best friend because Sif >>> Jane Foster. They end up making some genuine emotional connection despite themselves.
- Loki goes to check out the thorns threatening the kingdom, totally cutting out on Sif before she wakes up. He returns, after a few days. Sif gets sold a hat that turns her into a horse. Loki saves her from it. He and Sif argue again.
- The combination of Thor's disappearance and his thwarted plans, as well as depending on his shapeshifting far too much, renders Loki stuck in the form of a wolf. He roves around doing the Big Bad Wolf thing, killing livestock and kidnapping infants, until he attacks Sansa Stark. Sansa is saved by Sif; Sif, along with a brand new Thor, hunts the wolf, and eventually traps Loki in the forest. They remind him that he is not, in fact, the Big Bad wolf, undoing the fairy tale curse that was placed on him.
- …but he still can't figure out how to turn back human again. In an attempt to salvage his reputation, he emotionally manipulates Sansa back into liking him.
- And then Frigga arrives. Loki streaks over to her and curls up in wolf-form by her. And then Sif gives Loki another talking-to in the forest. As a result of her calling Loki out, Loki is able to transform back into being human.
- There's a fight against someone called the Hero of the Mountains, who's actually a bad guy. Loki is instrumental in organizing the fight, but he mostly stays out of the actual fighting. Loki and Cho go on this quest together and Loki exhausts himself accidentally saving Cho. Cho feels grateful, and drags Loki back to town and helps him recover.
- Loki's Role is changed from being a Wizard to a Foundling Prince. What this means for him is that his power of magic is taken away and his Jotunn powers are brought to the forefront. It also means that the townspeople begin to view him with suspicion. Foundling Prince, for these purposes, is an Oedipus-like story of a prince abandoned on a mountain and found and raised away from his family, thus causing a horrible fate later on because he wasn't killed as an infant. Loki resents this role, unsurprisingly.
- Loki, due to some prodding by a Power that Is in the game that basically took him as a pet (the avatar of Balance, as opposed to the avatars of Chaos and Order), and also due to the new Role, convinces himself that he needs to train up the heroes in Schwanheim by being a villain. He makes an ice maze and an ice tower and convinces Sansa to fake her own kidnapping so he can run some heroes through an obstacle course. It works, but in the process Cho Takahashi is severely wounded and Loki is exhausted.
- Cho and Loki wake up when people smash them together, Sleeping Beauty-style.
- Loki storms out of Schwanheim.
- At this point, Loki goes for a canon update through Avengers, and shows up in Dagaz.
Now, I'll cover a few characters he's familiar with as a result of prior game history, and his impressions of them. All of these are pretty basic because Loki just hasn't really had time to get to know anyone. In most cases, his knowledge truly is passing, such as a name and a face and maybe one or two facts.
It is worth noting that if you go back on Loki's tag in the community, you will find posts in which he interacts with Avengers. These Avengers all intro'd together and immediately idled out together, and I got permission from the mod to retcon these encounters, as they had a disproportionate effect on Loki's emotional state.
CANON:
Obi-Wan Kenobi / Star Wars - Some hero guy.
Bakura Ryou / Yuugiou - Some hero guy that's obsessed with archetypes and is pretty socially inept and annoying.
Bay Kennish / Switched at Birth - Little girl and thief.
Gretel / I don't actually know, some version of the Hansel and Gretel story in which the witch trains Gretel as a little evil witch herself - A tiny witch and sorceress, possibly wicked, certainly one with potential. Loki taught her a magic thing or two.
Sansa Stark / A Song of Ice and Fire - A sweet but completely hapless girl, easy to manipulate.
Coyote / Gunnerkrigg Court - Fairly intimidating actually chaotic being, shares some traits with Loki but mostly just makes Loki feels like a bad god of mischief.
Rupert Giles / Buffy the Vampire Slayer - A sorcerer who would be quite intelligent if he would stop stammering. Loki got a hint of a darker side but never was able to explore it.
Eliot Spencer / Leverage - Met the man briefly.
Liara T'Soni / Mass Effect - A fellow blue person and also quite intelligent.
Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark / The Hunger Games - Met both of them briefly. Is aware that Peeta is a baker and that the two are probably romantically involved but knows nothing else.
OC:
Faolan - A young werewolf pup who considered Loki a pack-father once he found out Loki could shapeshift. Consistently brought out Loki's softer side, even though Loki tried to smack him down.
Cho Takahashi - A sorceress, very powerful, works very well with Loki on quests, somewhat standoffish, but actually a bleeding heart.
4. Samples
First-Person: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/4759732.html#comments
Third-Person:
Third Sample http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/555896.html?thread=376986744#cmt376986744
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/491246.html?thread=339739630#cmt339739630