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▒ Character Name: Loki Laufeyson
▒ Canon Name: Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
▒ Canon Point: Post-Avengers. Some info for abilities/post-Avengers circumstances gleaned from Thor: the Dark World trailers.
▒ Age: ~1050
▒ Appearance: Usually like this, but sometimes he turns blue.
▒ Setting: Thor 2011, The Avengers, Loki.
▒ Abilities: As a baby, Loki was able to change his form from that of a Jotun to that of an Asgardian, showing an inborn talent for shape-changing. He grew up unaware of this ability, however, and only recently learned how to switch between the two forms, done largely through the power of the Jotunheim's Casket of Ancient Winters. Whether Jotun or Asgardian form, Loki is stronger than a human would be. Additionally, both Jotun and Asgardians live for millennia.
Due to his Jotun heritage, Loki is immune to the effects of cold, specifically along the lines of frostbite and hypothermia. In his Jotun form, his touch would cause frostbite to those not immune to the cold. He is also able to wield ice in this form.
Asgard is a society that focuses a lot of its attention upon martial ability, and so Loki has a great deal of familiarity with weapons and combat. His weapon of choice is daggers, and he is just as good at throwing them as stabbing with them. He has also been shown to be proficient with stave-type weapons. He would be able to make at least some use of most basic weaponry, however. Loki can also leap longer distances than a human could, an ability he shares with at least several Asgardians, whether this is a natural ability or the product of training.
The ability Loki relies upon most is his magic. It has been stated that in Asgard, magic and science are the same thing, making Loki's magic less a mystical ability and more a way of understanding the universe and using that knowledge to shape the world around him. As such, there are many applications Loki has for his magic.
-He often uses it to create doubles of himself. Sometimes these doubles are used as decoys while he himself remains out of sight, and other times he has created crowds of them to mask his own movements. These doubles are largely illusion, however, and do not stand up to attacks.
-He can summon objects to himself, as well as dismiss them.
-He can use magic as a force to push objects.
-He can use illusion to make himself invisible.
-He can project his image far distances, either to spy unseen or to communicate with those across space. In the later example, this projected self seems able to transfer damage to his physical body in a way his usual doubles do not, being perhaps more of a presence than an illusion.
-He has the ability to find secret ways through space, to go between the worlds.
▒ Personality: Loki is a person of extremes and contradictions. He's a scholar and a prankster, an attention seeker who works best behind the scenes, a cutthroat and a diplomat, a narcissist with an inferiority complex. He isn't the type to give away what he's truly thinking.
Loki is and always has been a mischievous person. He loves tricks and pranks, jokes and repartee. Mostly it's a way to amuse himself, but if others can enjoy it, all the better, for Loki craves attention. The problem with this method, of course, is that his humor usually comes at someone else's expense, and thus most of the attention it garners him is disapproving.
And so he learned to cover it. He became the well-behaved child, to all appearances. He found that a polite word can do much, and a bit of charm can get you far. With practice he became eloquent, able to wield words to gain what he desired. He is now famous in Asgard for his silver tongue, able to persuade people of almost anything. Everyone might still know him for his mischief, but by and large they'd be hard-pressed to get him to admit it, and harder still to prove anything he didn't want proven.
As subtlety showed Loki its advantages, he came to value things that warrior culture of Asgard looked down upon. He is clever and curious, taking to studious pursuits easily. He learned magic despite it being thought the method of cowards. He seeks knowledge of all sorts, wherever it's to be found. Loki believes himself a superior intelligence in a land full of stupid, boisterous braggarts.
Loki is naturally cautious. He is careful to plan everything ahead, as many steps as he can foresee. He plans contingencies. He's alert for anything that can be of use to him, and able to use most anything to his advantage.
For most of his life, it suited Loki to act as a dutiful son and brother. Being deferential kept him below notice, free to work toward his own goals in secret. He was someone his brother Thor could rely on, capable support and a voice of reason. He could always be expected to be calm and in control. He was the discretion the father, Odin, once cautioned them a king must know, the only one with any hope of balance Thor's rashness. It's just too bad most of Loki's relationship with his brother was a facade, albeit one he wore easier than any mask for centuries.
In truth, Loki's divergent interests left him largely isolated. His only company, besides books, was his family and Thor's friends. If he occasionally preferred the solitude it provided, he still felt the ache of loneliness. He knew he was different, and blamed it on being overshadowed by Thor.
Loki has long been jealous of Thor. He blames him for being the ideal Asgardian prince, for the love of their people, and for Odin's approval of him. All the attention Loki craves is freely given to Thor. It has given him a strong need for approval, and he believes if he can show that he is Thor's equal, he can get it. Everything he says and does is about Thor, one way or another.
But Loki long ago let his anger at Thor twist him, but he kept it inside. Instead of working things out while they were still young, he let all his grudges roil and build until it was a dark and dangerous mass. His very thoughts were tainted with hate, unable to see anything but slights and insults.
Loki sees everything throw the fog of his own misery. Because his jokes are more likely to be malicious than not, he assumes everyone means them that way. Affectionate teasing he takes as contempt. He is extremely sensitive to everything everyone says to him. Perhaps it's because he knows the power words have, but he is more likely than most to feel the cut of them. Thor's friends do, in fact, try to include him, but as an outsider to the more straightforward manner of most Asgardians, he reads levels into things that people never meant, creating within himself a certain martyr-like complex. It makes him feel like they deserve anything he puts them through, and probably more.
What used to be innocent pranks Loki now does maliciously. He more often uses his words to cut than to persuade. He is hateful and spiteful. He is apologetically cruel, with no compunction toward seeking out people's weakest points and using them to wound. He is harsh, and mean.
When he found out Odin had lied to him his entire life, keeping secrets from him, he felt betrayed, and angry, and all those emotions are still poisoning him, as well. He is the monster Asgardians feared. He wants to betray and hurt so everyone feels as terrible as he does. He is tirelessly rebellious, willing to go against anything to have his own way, even if it isn't in his best interest. He is now violent and aggressive where he used to be the voice of reason. But the dangerous thing is that he can flip between the two in speech and action at any time, whatever most suits him.
Loki is changeable. He is unstable from his recent failures, and even he is unclear about his goals. He wants power, but inside is still the lesser brother who wants to be accepted an equal. His actions suit his purpose of the moment as often as the suit his more thought-out plans. Because he is resourceful, most of the time Loki's issues don't stay in the way of his goals.
Loki's plans are always meticulously thought out. He is a shrewd observer and a good judge of others' negative motivations. He's unscrupulous, willing to use anything he can to achieve his ends. His own whims are built into his plans, leaving himself room to act based off emotion. Everything falls apart, however, when he underestimates people's abilities to grow, and overcome their issues and insecurities. When he plans to help, he can't believe others might not approve of his solutions, and when he plans to hurt, it's when others rise above than he meets with failure.
But Loki is ambitious, and where one plan fails, there are always more to take its place. In persistent in reaching his goals, even if those are subject to change. He is confident in his abilities, and always holds on to the knowledge that there will be another chance, another way to turn things to his advantage.
Loki is never satisfied with his current situation. He views things in a such a warped way that nothing can ever be enough. If he were to succeed in any of his plans, it wouldn't keep him from an uneasy feeling that there should be more. Despite the appearance he tries to project, he is actually immature and greedy. He's only patient when it serves his ends, and endlessly selfish.
Loki looks down on everyone. Even Thor, his shining example, isn't exempt for disparaging comments. Loki is conceited and vain, believing himself above others. But the truth is that it's something of an inverted inferiority complex. His own shortcomings make him hate himself, but Loki isn't able to deal with that, and so he has turned it around in his own mind. It's that others are lesser, they can't understand him, they don't see his good points, they are the ones who are inferior.
Being angry at everyone all the time has made Loki argumentative. He might know how to easily smooth over any injury with a few words, but instead he's likely to ruffle as many feathers as possible. He knows how to throw out critical comments like no one's business, and he's worked haughty and judgmental into a fine art.
Loki is unbelievably stubborn. Hypocritically, it's a trait he has often condemned in Thor, but hypocrisy is a matter of course with Loki. He's too proud to admit someone else might have a point. No one could be right when he knows best. He relies on himself, and he does what he wants. Knowing his own motives are always based off self-interest, Loki is constantly suspicious of others. Above all, Loki is not ever willing to forgive.
The mischief and pranks of childhood have become malice in adulthood. In the best of times, Loki is witty. Sarcastic, if he wants it to sting. But most often he is caustic. He is crafty and inventive, and will always find some new way to torment people.
The most important thing to know about Loki, however, is that he's a liar. One can never expect to truly know him. He can persuade people of almost anything. He can make people act in his interests, or make them believe they have brought him around to their way of thinking. He's sly and sneaky, and nothing he says or does should be taken completely at face value. Manipulative and dishonest, there's a reason he's not to be trusted.
▒ Sample: - ▒ A 500+ word prose sample. Please write these in a game-specific setting.
A long time ago, when he was young and things had seemed like they could never go wrong, he had been told that a wise king was always prepared for battle, but he mustn't seek it. The advice had not been meant for him, but he had taken it anyway, extrapolating what he would from someone else's lesson. He had long believed it to mean it was not only possible but necessary to win battles long before your opponent had a chance to make their move.
He remembered the day he had heard those words clearly, and he held onto that. He grasped at anything he could remember, no matter how small, because there seemed to be so many things he could not recall, since he had awoken in this prison.
No matter how he strained his mind, there were things simply missing. How he had arrived here, for one thing, although being in a prison certainly seemed to fit some of the memories he did have. But that had not been this prison, he was reasonably certain.
Of course, it hardly mattered what prison, exactly, this was. It called itself the Machine, then so it must be. Far more worrisome was being unable to provide his own name. He had thought on it until his head felt like to burst, with no success. There was a number most thoughtfully provided upon his wrist, but only the greatest of fools would stoop to using a...designation. The very thought was distasteful.
No, if he could not have his own name, he had determined he would choose one. He had hit upon it with no trouble, an off-handed jab by one of His friends. More names he could not recollect. All unimportant but for Him, the others could be The Glutton, The Fop, The Mute, and The Harridan for all that it mattered.
Silvertongue. It felt true, inasmuch as anything did of late. He had spent days prodding his memories, trying to bring up any little detail he could summon, and so much of it seemed contradictory, he wanted to break things. He wanted to rage until everything made sense, to destroy everything, to dig memories out of the walls and the ceiling and other people's heads until he felt like himself again.
He swallowed it all instead, because once upon a time, when things had been so much simpler, someone had give Him advice, and Silvertongue had made it his own. And so he was watching, and waiting, and learning. He seethed and plotted and let his mind roil in the privacy of his own cell, and perhaps it did him no good, but at least no one would see the cracks and fissures and holes of his mind until he was ready to win.
Or so he had been telling himself, until the unlucky moment he turned a corner and ran into Him. Entirely metaphorically, of course, but it certainly felt much like a jab to the gut. The feeling was sickening, and he could not quite work out whether it had always felt like this to see Him. He was supposed the be good, and Silvertongue had been deadly certain he would never run into Him in a prison. Secure in that knowledge, he had not taken the time unravel that particularly complex knot in the web of his mind.
All the worse for him, now he was unprepared. Deadly, indeed. "Have you come to make mock?" he said with a sneer.
▒ Your Crime: THEFT - Loki is accused of breaking out of his prison in Asgard in order to break into the weapons vault, and there steal all of the Asgardians' most precious relics. A false crime, but he has enough others to land him here, regardless.
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Character Info
▒ Character Name: Loki Laufeyson
▒ Canon Name: Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
▒ Canon Point: Post-Avengers. Some info for abilities/post-Avengers circumstances gleaned from Thor: the Dark World trailers.
▒ Age: ~1050
▒ Appearance: Usually like this, but sometimes he turns blue.
▒ Setting: Thor 2011, The Avengers, Loki.
▒ Abilities: As a baby, Loki was able to change his form from that of a Jotun to that of an Asgardian, showing an inborn talent for shape-changing. He grew up unaware of this ability, however, and only recently learned how to switch between the two forms, done largely through the power of the Jotunheim's Casket of Ancient Winters. Whether Jotun or Asgardian form, Loki is stronger than a human would be. Additionally, both Jotun and Asgardians live for millennia.
Due to his Jotun heritage, Loki is immune to the effects of cold, specifically along the lines of frostbite and hypothermia. In his Jotun form, his touch would cause frostbite to those not immune to the cold. He is also able to wield ice in this form.
Asgard is a society that focuses a lot of its attention upon martial ability, and so Loki has a great deal of familiarity with weapons and combat. His weapon of choice is daggers, and he is just as good at throwing them as stabbing with them. He has also been shown to be proficient with stave-type weapons. He would be able to make at least some use of most basic weaponry, however. Loki can also leap longer distances than a human could, an ability he shares with at least several Asgardians, whether this is a natural ability or the product of training.
The ability Loki relies upon most is his magic. It has been stated that in Asgard, magic and science are the same thing, making Loki's magic less a mystical ability and more a way of understanding the universe and using that knowledge to shape the world around him. As such, there are many applications Loki has for his magic.
-He often uses it to create doubles of himself. Sometimes these doubles are used as decoys while he himself remains out of sight, and other times he has created crowds of them to mask his own movements. These doubles are largely illusion, however, and do not stand up to attacks.
-He can summon objects to himself, as well as dismiss them.
-He can use magic as a force to push objects.
-He can use illusion to make himself invisible.
-He can project his image far distances, either to spy unseen or to communicate with those across space. In the later example, this projected self seems able to transfer damage to his physical body in a way his usual doubles do not, being perhaps more of a presence than an illusion.
-He has the ability to find secret ways through space, to go between the worlds.
▒ Personality: Loki is a person of extremes and contradictions. He's a scholar and a prankster, an attention seeker who works best behind the scenes, a cutthroat and a diplomat, a narcissist with an inferiority complex. He isn't the type to give away what he's truly thinking.
Loki is and always has been a mischievous person. He loves tricks and pranks, jokes and repartee. Mostly it's a way to amuse himself, but if others can enjoy it, all the better, for Loki craves attention. The problem with this method, of course, is that his humor usually comes at someone else's expense, and thus most of the attention it garners him is disapproving.
And so he learned to cover it. He became the well-behaved child, to all appearances. He found that a polite word can do much, and a bit of charm can get you far. With practice he became eloquent, able to wield words to gain what he desired. He is now famous in Asgard for his silver tongue, able to persuade people of almost anything. Everyone might still know him for his mischief, but by and large they'd be hard-pressed to get him to admit it, and harder still to prove anything he didn't want proven.
As subtlety showed Loki its advantages, he came to value things that warrior culture of Asgard looked down upon. He is clever and curious, taking to studious pursuits easily. He learned magic despite it being thought the method of cowards. He seeks knowledge of all sorts, wherever it's to be found. Loki believes himself a superior intelligence in a land full of stupid, boisterous braggarts.
Loki is naturally cautious. He is careful to plan everything ahead, as many steps as he can foresee. He plans contingencies. He's alert for anything that can be of use to him, and able to use most anything to his advantage.
For most of his life, it suited Loki to act as a dutiful son and brother. Being deferential kept him below notice, free to work toward his own goals in secret. He was someone his brother Thor could rely on, capable support and a voice of reason. He could always be expected to be calm and in control. He was the discretion the father, Odin, once cautioned them a king must know, the only one with any hope of balance Thor's rashness. It's just too bad most of Loki's relationship with his brother was a facade, albeit one he wore easier than any mask for centuries.
In truth, Loki's divergent interests left him largely isolated. His only company, besides books, was his family and Thor's friends. If he occasionally preferred the solitude it provided, he still felt the ache of loneliness. He knew he was different, and blamed it on being overshadowed by Thor.
Loki has long been jealous of Thor. He blames him for being the ideal Asgardian prince, for the love of their people, and for Odin's approval of him. All the attention Loki craves is freely given to Thor. It has given him a strong need for approval, and he believes if he can show that he is Thor's equal, he can get it. Everything he says and does is about Thor, one way or another.
But Loki long ago let his anger at Thor twist him, but he kept it inside. Instead of working things out while they were still young, he let all his grudges roil and build until it was a dark and dangerous mass. His very thoughts were tainted with hate, unable to see anything but slights and insults.
Loki sees everything throw the fog of his own misery. Because his jokes are more likely to be malicious than not, he assumes everyone means them that way. Affectionate teasing he takes as contempt. He is extremely sensitive to everything everyone says to him. Perhaps it's because he knows the power words have, but he is more likely than most to feel the cut of them. Thor's friends do, in fact, try to include him, but as an outsider to the more straightforward manner of most Asgardians, he reads levels into things that people never meant, creating within himself a certain martyr-like complex. It makes him feel like they deserve anything he puts them through, and probably more.
What used to be innocent pranks Loki now does maliciously. He more often uses his words to cut than to persuade. He is hateful and spiteful. He is apologetically cruel, with no compunction toward seeking out people's weakest points and using them to wound. He is harsh, and mean.
When he found out Odin had lied to him his entire life, keeping secrets from him, he felt betrayed, and angry, and all those emotions are still poisoning him, as well. He is the monster Asgardians feared. He wants to betray and hurt so everyone feels as terrible as he does. He is tirelessly rebellious, willing to go against anything to have his own way, even if it isn't in his best interest. He is now violent and aggressive where he used to be the voice of reason. But the dangerous thing is that he can flip between the two in speech and action at any time, whatever most suits him.
Loki is changeable. He is unstable from his recent failures, and even he is unclear about his goals. He wants power, but inside is still the lesser brother who wants to be accepted an equal. His actions suit his purpose of the moment as often as the suit his more thought-out plans. Because he is resourceful, most of the time Loki's issues don't stay in the way of his goals.
Loki's plans are always meticulously thought out. He is a shrewd observer and a good judge of others' negative motivations. He's unscrupulous, willing to use anything he can to achieve his ends. His own whims are built into his plans, leaving himself room to act based off emotion. Everything falls apart, however, when he underestimates people's abilities to grow, and overcome their issues and insecurities. When he plans to help, he can't believe others might not approve of his solutions, and when he plans to hurt, it's when others rise above than he meets with failure.
But Loki is ambitious, and where one plan fails, there are always more to take its place. In persistent in reaching his goals, even if those are subject to change. He is confident in his abilities, and always holds on to the knowledge that there will be another chance, another way to turn things to his advantage.
Loki is never satisfied with his current situation. He views things in a such a warped way that nothing can ever be enough. If he were to succeed in any of his plans, it wouldn't keep him from an uneasy feeling that there should be more. Despite the appearance he tries to project, he is actually immature and greedy. He's only patient when it serves his ends, and endlessly selfish.
Loki looks down on everyone. Even Thor, his shining example, isn't exempt for disparaging comments. Loki is conceited and vain, believing himself above others. But the truth is that it's something of an inverted inferiority complex. His own shortcomings make him hate himself, but Loki isn't able to deal with that, and so he has turned it around in his own mind. It's that others are lesser, they can't understand him, they don't see his good points, they are the ones who are inferior.
Being angry at everyone all the time has made Loki argumentative. He might know how to easily smooth over any injury with a few words, but instead he's likely to ruffle as many feathers as possible. He knows how to throw out critical comments like no one's business, and he's worked haughty and judgmental into a fine art.
Loki is unbelievably stubborn. Hypocritically, it's a trait he has often condemned in Thor, but hypocrisy is a matter of course with Loki. He's too proud to admit someone else might have a point. No one could be right when he knows best. He relies on himself, and he does what he wants. Knowing his own motives are always based off self-interest, Loki is constantly suspicious of others. Above all, Loki is not ever willing to forgive.
The mischief and pranks of childhood have become malice in adulthood. In the best of times, Loki is witty. Sarcastic, if he wants it to sting. But most often he is caustic. He is crafty and inventive, and will always find some new way to torment people.
The most important thing to know about Loki, however, is that he's a liar. One can never expect to truly know him. He can persuade people of almost anything. He can make people act in his interests, or make them believe they have brought him around to their way of thinking. He's sly and sneaky, and nothing he says or does should be taken completely at face value. Manipulative and dishonest, there's a reason he's not to be trusted.
▒ Sample: - ▒ A 500+ word prose sample. Please write these in a game-specific setting.
A long time ago, when he was young and things had seemed like they could never go wrong, he had been told that a wise king was always prepared for battle, but he mustn't seek it. The advice had not been meant for him, but he had taken it anyway, extrapolating what he would from someone else's lesson. He had long believed it to mean it was not only possible but necessary to win battles long before your opponent had a chance to make their move.
He remembered the day he had heard those words clearly, and he held onto that. He grasped at anything he could remember, no matter how small, because there seemed to be so many things he could not recall, since he had awoken in this prison.
No matter how he strained his mind, there were things simply missing. How he had arrived here, for one thing, although being in a prison certainly seemed to fit some of the memories he did have. But that had not been this prison, he was reasonably certain.
Of course, it hardly mattered what prison, exactly, this was. It called itself the Machine, then so it must be. Far more worrisome was being unable to provide his own name. He had thought on it until his head felt like to burst, with no success. There was a number most thoughtfully provided upon his wrist, but only the greatest of fools would stoop to using a...designation. The very thought was distasteful.
No, if he could not have his own name, he had determined he would choose one. He had hit upon it with no trouble, an off-handed jab by one of His friends. More names he could not recollect. All unimportant but for Him, the others could be The Glutton, The Fop, The Mute, and The Harridan for all that it mattered.
Silvertongue. It felt true, inasmuch as anything did of late. He had spent days prodding his memories, trying to bring up any little detail he could summon, and so much of it seemed contradictory, he wanted to break things. He wanted to rage until everything made sense, to destroy everything, to dig memories out of the walls and the ceiling and other people's heads until he felt like himself again.
He swallowed it all instead, because once upon a time, when things had been so much simpler, someone had give Him advice, and Silvertongue had made it his own. And so he was watching, and waiting, and learning. He seethed and plotted and let his mind roil in the privacy of his own cell, and perhaps it did him no good, but at least no one would see the cracks and fissures and holes of his mind until he was ready to win.
Or so he had been telling himself, until the unlucky moment he turned a corner and ran into Him. Entirely metaphorically, of course, but it certainly felt much like a jab to the gut. The feeling was sickening, and he could not quite work out whether it had always felt like this to see Him. He was supposed the be good, and Silvertongue had been deadly certain he would never run into Him in a prison. Secure in that knowledge, he had not taken the time unravel that particularly complex knot in the web of his mind.
All the worse for him, now he was unprepared. Deadly, indeed. "Have you come to make mock?" he said with a sneer.
▒ Your Crime: THEFT - Loki is accused of breaking out of his prison in Asgard in order to break into the weapons vault, and there steal all of the Asgardians' most precious relics. A false crime, but he has enough others to land him here, regardless.
