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Name/Handle: Mara
Age: 22
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Current Characters: None!
[Character]
Character Name: Loki
Source: Thor (2011)/Marvel Cinematic Universe
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.
But when it did sour, it soured hard.
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.
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 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.
History/Pull Point:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki_Laufeyson_(Earth-199999)
http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)
Loki comes from the end of the Thor movie. As he sees it: he lets go, falls from the Bifrost, and wakes up here.
Abilities/Special Powers/Non average skills: Loki has a ridiculous number of powers, especially if you count comics-powers as well as movie-powers.
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 90+ degree temperatures Fahrenheit, as his body doesn't know how to cool itself off. He's susceptible to heatstroke and dehydration.) He is also able to manipulate ice and frost, forming weapons and freezing others in it. EDIT: All of this will be nerfed besides the temperature affinity, making him a equivalent in strength to a physically fit human.
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.
[Game Specific]
Character class: Wizard
Why your character would be that class: It's the obvious choice, given Loki's sorcery and his preference for magic. (I could also see him going towards being an ice mage, but wizard is more flexible and accommodates more of his powers.)
He would have a particular affinity with ice, illusion magic, and shapeshifting.
EDIT: Shapeshifting is limited to forms with mass equal or lesser to Loki's own. He cannot imitate another form with perfect accuracy (he maxes out at about 90%). Illusion and ice affinity are limited to ensure that he's not overpowered. (If anything iffy comes up, I'll absolutely run it by the mods first.)
Powers/skills to be gained by being that class: None; he loses power no matter what.
[Samples]
Log sample: The magic is clean. Sweet. Pure. So much lesser than what he knows, but unpolluted, young. The difference between a quick, chattering stream and a muddy-wide torrent.
He pauses, in a balcony, his eyes catching on the village below. There are no obvious observers -- and what if there were? There is no need to keep his shapeshifting a secret here. No need to keep it to the shadows, to turn back and forth in darkness and behind clouds. Here, he may have the opportunity to soar.
He closes his eyes and twists, thinking of free-fall and wing-flutter and dark feathers. And his own form dissolves.
Magpie-Loki flits up to the balcony's rail, spreads his wings, and drops.
He catches a draft from a fire, below, and sweeps into the sky. Slices his wings through the air. This is the fastest way to know a place; going on foot is slow, ponderous. Winging through the air is precious. It is quick. It is Loki's preferred.
In time, perhaps, he will slither through this realm's grass, taste its blood, sidle through its hidden places.
Until now… Well, perhaps he can fly high and hard enough to see these thorns.
Orb sample: [ The orb floats above him and Loki regards it with calm regality, with impassive green eyes. ]
A small thing… but well-crafted. The magic is strong.
[ He settles back: lounging, tense and casual. ]
I hear we have a community of heroes. Please; show yourselves. I am Loki -- [ and here his tongue trips, for the first time. A blink, a falter. ] -- Odinson, from Asgard realm, and I am ever so eager to make your acquaintance.
Name/Handle: Mara
Age: 22
AIM/YIM/MSN/Plurk/Etc:
Email: cerebel.r@gmail.com
Current Characters: None!
[Character]
Character Name: Loki
Source: Thor (2011)/Marvel Cinematic Universe
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.
But when it did sour, it soured hard.
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.
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 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.
History/Pull Point:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki_Laufeyson_(Earth-199999)
http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)
Loki comes from the end of the Thor movie. As he sees it: he lets go, falls from the Bifrost, and wakes up here.
Abilities/Special Powers/Non average skills: Loki has a ridiculous number of powers, especially if you count comics-powers as well as movie-powers.
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 90+ degree temperatures Fahrenheit, as his body doesn't know how to cool itself off. He's susceptible to heatstroke and dehydration.) He is also able to manipulate ice and frost, forming weapons and freezing others in it. EDIT: All of this will be nerfed besides the temperature affinity, making him a equivalent in strength to a physically fit human.
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.
[Game Specific]
Character class: Wizard
Why your character would be that class: It's the obvious choice, given Loki's sorcery and his preference for magic. (I could also see him going towards being an ice mage, but wizard is more flexible and accommodates more of his powers.)
He would have a particular affinity with ice, illusion magic, and shapeshifting.
EDIT: Shapeshifting is limited to forms with mass equal or lesser to Loki's own. He cannot imitate another form with perfect accuracy (he maxes out at about 90%). Illusion and ice affinity are limited to ensure that he's not overpowered. (If anything iffy comes up, I'll absolutely run it by the mods first.)
Powers/skills to be gained by being that class: None; he loses power no matter what.
[Samples]
Log sample: The magic is clean. Sweet. Pure. So much lesser than what he knows, but unpolluted, young. The difference between a quick, chattering stream and a muddy-wide torrent.
He pauses, in a balcony, his eyes catching on the village below. There are no obvious observers -- and what if there were? There is no need to keep his shapeshifting a secret here. No need to keep it to the shadows, to turn back and forth in darkness and behind clouds. Here, he may have the opportunity to soar.
He closes his eyes and twists, thinking of free-fall and wing-flutter and dark feathers. And his own form dissolves.
Magpie-Loki flits up to the balcony's rail, spreads his wings, and drops.
He catches a draft from a fire, below, and sweeps into the sky. Slices his wings through the air. This is the fastest way to know a place; going on foot is slow, ponderous. Winging through the air is precious. It is quick. It is Loki's preferred.
In time, perhaps, he will slither through this realm's grass, taste its blood, sidle through its hidden places.
Until now… Well, perhaps he can fly high and hard enough to see these thorns.
Orb sample: [ The orb floats above him and Loki regards it with calm regality, with impassive green eyes. ]
A small thing… but well-crafted. The magic is strong.
[ He settles back: lounging, tense and casual. ]
I hear we have a community of heroes. Please; show yourselves. I am Loki -- [ and here his tongue trips, for the first time. A blink, a falter. ] -- Odinson, from Asgard realm, and I am ever so eager to make your acquaintance.