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Character Name: Loki
Canon source: Marvel 616 (Current canon point the end of Journey Into Mystery 625, in which he descends into Limbo and...ends up at TPH instead, wondering if the afterlife did a great deal of redecorating.)
Personality:
Despite the fact that he was reincarnated as a somewhat blank slate, some things still remain consistent. Namely, that Loki is a god of wit and mischief. As the mostly amnesiac Serrure he drifted towards playing games of Find the Lady with foolish passerby while his accomplice pickpocketed the audience. As Loki, at one point he gambles with dwarves and...
He likes trickery, just as old Loki did. However, their general aims and goals tend to differ, namely that current Loki has no feud with Asgard and actually works to preserve it. Thus far, the most openly malicious thing he has done (that is to say, something malicious which didn't have an underlying positive goal, more on that shortly) was to trick dwarves out of their gold. He used this gold to not buy rockets or a legion of doom, but just a Stark smartphone so he could poke about on the internet and learn more about Midgard. The most wicked thing he has done in regards to the internet was getting upset that people called him a troll as he's a half-giant.
Could this possibly change? Maybe. His story arc in Journey Into Mystery thus far has entailed him playing the villain (though it's pretty blatant in the fact that he doesn't quite know how to behave as a villain) in order to trick Mephisto, Hela, and Surtur into destroying Dark Asgard and...defeating the Serpent. And he very much enjoys the villainous talk and manipulating said villains and the like.
But in the author's own words, “This initial arc is about what Loki needs to do for anyone else to have a chance of pulling anything off. This is secret, dark stuff, and when I say dark stuff I mean 'in the shadows,' not necessarily evil.” His methods might be ruthless, there will be massive fallout from his actions, Thor probably wouldn't approve, but his goals are far from simple straight out cut-and-dry evil. When he plays the game he plays the long game, and has a certain amount of belief in the ends justifying the means...but only to an extent. Loki sics the hel hound on Garm (operating under the belief that he had to do so in order to pass by and apologizing afterwards when he learned that was completely unnecessary) but was visibly upset when the hel hound later ate some uninvolved souls while he wasn't paying attention.
The major factor tempering Loki's mischievous instincts and general capacity for wickedness is his brother. Thor is the main reason Loki lives: Thor had made it clear that anyone attempting to harm his brother would answer to him, and if it weren't for that Loki would've very likely died rather quickly. But it goes beyond survival. Loki very clearly looks up to, loves, and needs his older brother Thor. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, when Loki saw the path which he would ultimately take, one which would 'cost [him] everything,' his thought was, “Before I do this, I need to break into Asgardian maximum security and ask my brother for advice. Are there other okay people around who I could maybe turn to? Yeah...no, I need to talk to my brother before I embark on this path.” It was only after consulting Thor that he committed to his path.
And Thor, in return, very clearly loves and needs Loki as well, and pretty much point blank bluntly says as much when he came for Serrure. He also apparently learned from the previous incarnation of Loki and appears to be rather liberal with the affectionate hair ruffling and brotherly banter. All in all, they currently have a relationship which is very much positive.
This isn't to say that Loki is benign and harmless. He's not, if the previous bit about manipulating some of the top villains in the Marvel hierarchy didn't give a hint. Rather, it's to stress that Thor is incredibly important to Loki, and if this incarnation of him was to fall to evil the most likely reason would be that someone harmed his brother (S.H.I.E.L.D., Odin, someone else) and Loki snapped and went on a roaring rampage of revenge. This is to the extent that when Thor's unjustly imprisoned and Asgard is being turned into a war machine to raze Midgard, Loki speaks out against it. And, more importantly, he does so unsubtly and badly. Given his later actions it seems to strongly suggest that at least part of the reason is because Thor is involved and he doesn't immediately realize that he'd have to be slick and convincing because, well, it's Thor.
He's got a streak of what could (bizarrely) be described as innocent sincerity (really!) which gets dialed up to eleven when Thor's involved, which generally manifests as him doing some very un-trickster like things (such as attacking a giant during training just to impress his brother) at times. Can Loki cheat? Yes. He can lie and he can scheme, and he's quite good at it. But he does love his brother.
History: Loki's history as seen on Wikipedia. The specifically relevant parts are Reincarnation onwards: in regards to the rest of his history all you generally need to know is that Loki's generally an evil manipulative bastard and thoroughly enjoys it.
Strengths:
Old Loki was a sorcerer, and was arguably the most powerful sorcerer in all of Asgard. Old Loki was capable of a great deal: shapeshifting, astral projection, energy blasts, illusion casting, flight through levitation, telepathy, hypnosis, and teleportation were all along his recorded feats. But that was after eons upon eons of practice.
What magical power Loki currently has is debatable. It's undeniably little, though. As his horcruxesque past-self said to him...
The way I plan on playing him out is that he currently has no real magic ability. Given the opportunity and time he might gain a level or two in a metaphorical Sorcerer class and put skill points into illusion casting. However, old Loki was a level 97 Sorcerer, current Loki will be ascending to level 5 at best.
He has some skill with weapons. Not enough in which he's a keen master and his spear arm is his greatest asset, but enough so that if a hel hound were to charge him and someone were to throw him a spear, Loki wouldn't accidentally kill himself before the hel hound got to him. Not only that, but he'd stand a chance of being able to use that spear to keep the hel hound from killing him long enough for him to either devise a plan or for someone who's stronger and more skilled at weapons to show up and kill the hel hound. But he's hardly good enough to, through the strength of his spear arm alone, vanquish the hel hound.
Due to his heritage, Loki's naturally long lived, stronger, and more durable than an average human. Which doesn't say a huge deal, honestly, as...
Weaknesses:
...it's a different continuity, but compare Chris Evans to Tom Hiddleston. Loki was and will never be a massive hulking mass of sheer muscle. Magic was his forte, physical confrontations not, and look at his past magic skill set: illusions, telepathy, hypnosis, shapechanging...direct confrontation isn't his forte. If things came down to a direct fight, one without some underlying plan driving things forward, things likely went terribly wrong.
And really, despite being billed as a god, if Loki were to arrive at Middle Earth, his magic aside, people would likely assume that he's a very tall hobbit, an elf with deformed ears, or something along those lines. With his magic, they'd probably assume that he's a wizard and take him in stride.
Preferred drop-in point: Seattle, mainly because I live here. I'm a bit biased.
What are some of your plans for this character in their new environment? At some point I want to find an excuse for Loki to make the most stereotypical of stereotypical villainous speeches with a smirk on his face.
This is mainly so that he can ham it up, turn off the communicator or whatever, and then gush to the nearest person who's in the know about how sounding like Norman Osborn is just so fun.
First Person Journal Sample:
[And the communicator switches on, like communicators have a tendency to do.
The boy on the other end is...it's hard to describe his expression at the moment, as he has mixed feelings about the entire matter. (So many feelings and problems.) Curious, mainly. Entertained, somewhat. A bit concerned and annoyed as well, because as entertaining as this was last Loki knew Midgard was going to be razed and his brother set up to be killed unless he did something about it, and he basically had other things to do.
He's sitting on a giant stone finger, legs swaying ever so slightly. Go figure.]
Oh. Hello! [Said cheerfully. This is awesome, what are you talking about?]
The pamphlets I was given weren't awfully useful in explaining things. [And here he indicates a handful of pamphlets he grabbed on the way out of the arrival building, with titles such as 'DIMENSIONAL BLEEDING AND YOU: A Primer' or 'Life As An Import' or things along those lines.] They did cover the basics of our predicament, but I imagine there are some small details they neglected to mention. Isn't that always the way of things? Undoubtably a simple oversight on someone's part.
But I'm sure someone else out there knows more about what is going on. I would ask the authorities, but it seemed quicker to just ask my fellow imports. [He gives a big smile at the last.]
Third Person Sample:
For lack of anything better to do, Loki had fallen back on old habits and older tricks and had managed to acquire some money by midday. But only some. Seattle tourists were much more begrudging than those of Paris, or at least had less love for card games, and the take had been...well, if modesty was a virtue, than Loki was morally enriched just being near his coins as it was very modest. It was almost insulting, given that his prating was as excellent as usual and his shuffling fine and...what was so wrong with Find the Lady?
But he avoided the police and sorely missed his accomplice as it had been easier with two...how was he doing back in Paris? It was odd realizing how much time had passed between Serrure and Loki. Glibly insisted that he was Locke from Oklahoma and ready to rhapsodize about Broxton if anybody asked. Had come out with a little something for his trouble. The sensible thing would be to save it somehow, put it towards a good cause, anything gravely important. He could imagine his brother insisting on doing as much.
Instead, he was contemplating if it were better to attempt to put it towards worming his way into the good graces of his fellow imports or put it towards...something. Loki wasn't quite sure what. It was similar to why he hadn't just pickpocketed marks for money: he was reluctant to do so...yet, it hadn't even been a month and he didn't have a project in mind. Yet. Besides, Find the Lady was much more fun, and that too was important. It was not like there was any harm in it...really!
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And here is my intro thread else-game for more prose.
Canon source: Marvel 616 (Current canon point the end of Journey Into Mystery 625, in which he descends into Limbo and...ends up at TPH instead, wondering if the afterlife did a great deal of redecorating.)
Personality:
Despite the fact that he was reincarnated as a somewhat blank slate, some things still remain consistent. Namely, that Loki is a god of wit and mischief. As the mostly amnesiac Serrure he drifted towards playing games of Find the Lady with foolish passerby while his accomplice pickpocketed the audience. As Loki, at one point he gambles with dwarves and...
Thor: Were you cheating, Loki?
Loki: Yes! But they were, too! Cheating was the game, and I triumphed unfairly most fairly!
He likes trickery, just as old Loki did. However, their general aims and goals tend to differ, namely that current Loki has no feud with Asgard and actually works to preserve it. Thus far, the most openly malicious thing he has done (that is to say, something malicious which didn't have an underlying positive goal, more on that shortly) was to trick dwarves out of their gold. He used this gold to not buy rockets or a legion of doom, but just a Stark smartphone so he could poke about on the internet and learn more about Midgard. The most wicked thing he has done in regards to the internet was getting upset that people called him a troll as he's a half-giant.
Could this possibly change? Maybe. His story arc in Journey Into Mystery thus far has entailed him playing the villain (though it's pretty blatant in the fact that he doesn't quite know how to behave as a villain) in order to trick Mephisto, Hela, and Surtur into destroying Dark Asgard and...defeating the Serpent. And he very much enjoys the villainous talk and manipulating said villains and the like.
But in the author's own words, “This initial arc is about what Loki needs to do for anyone else to have a chance of pulling anything off. This is secret, dark stuff, and when I say dark stuff I mean 'in the shadows,' not necessarily evil.” His methods might be ruthless, there will be massive fallout from his actions, Thor probably wouldn't approve, but his goals are far from simple straight out cut-and-dry evil. When he plays the game he plays the long game, and has a certain amount of belief in the ends justifying the means...but only to an extent. Loki sics the hel hound on Garm (operating under the belief that he had to do so in order to pass by and apologizing afterwards when he learned that was completely unnecessary) but was visibly upset when the hel hound later ate some uninvolved souls while he wasn't paying attention.
The major factor tempering Loki's mischievous instincts and general capacity for wickedness is his brother. Thor is the main reason Loki lives: Thor had made it clear that anyone attempting to harm his brother would answer to him, and if it weren't for that Loki would've very likely died rather quickly. But it goes beyond survival. Loki very clearly looks up to, loves, and needs his older brother Thor. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, when Loki saw the path which he would ultimately take, one which would 'cost [him] everything,' his thought was, “Before I do this, I need to break into Asgardian maximum security and ask my brother for advice. Are there other okay people around who I could maybe turn to? Yeah...no, I need to talk to my brother before I embark on this path.” It was only after consulting Thor that he committed to his path.
And Thor, in return, very clearly loves and needs Loki as well, and pretty much point blank bluntly says as much when he came for Serrure. He also apparently learned from the previous incarnation of Loki and appears to be rather liberal with the affectionate hair ruffling and brotherly banter. All in all, they currently have a relationship which is very much positive.
This isn't to say that Loki is benign and harmless. He's not, if the previous bit about manipulating some of the top villains in the Marvel hierarchy didn't give a hint. Rather, it's to stress that Thor is incredibly important to Loki, and if this incarnation of him was to fall to evil the most likely reason would be that someone harmed his brother (S.H.I.E.L.D., Odin, someone else) and Loki snapped and went on a roaring rampage of revenge. This is to the extent that when Thor's unjustly imprisoned and Asgard is being turned into a war machine to raze Midgard, Loki speaks out against it. And, more importantly, he does so unsubtly and badly. Given his later actions it seems to strongly suggest that at least part of the reason is because Thor is involved and he doesn't immediately realize that he'd have to be slick and convincing because, well, it's Thor.
He's got a streak of what could (bizarrely) be described as innocent sincerity (really!) which gets dialed up to eleven when Thor's involved, which generally manifests as him doing some very un-trickster like things (such as attacking a giant during training just to impress his brother) at times. Can Loki cheat? Yes. He can lie and he can scheme, and he's quite good at it. But he does love his brother.
History: Loki's history as seen on Wikipedia. The specifically relevant parts are Reincarnation onwards: in regards to the rest of his history all you generally need to know is that Loki's generally an evil manipulative bastard and thoroughly enjoys it.
Strengths:
Old Loki was a sorcerer, and was arguably the most powerful sorcerer in all of Asgard. Old Loki was capable of a great deal: shapeshifting, astral projection, energy blasts, illusion casting, flight through levitation, telepathy, hypnosis, and teleportation were all along his recorded feats. But that was after eons upon eons of practice.
What magical power Loki currently has is debatable. It's undeniably little, though. As his horcruxesque past-self said to him...
Horcrux Old Loki: Power corrupts. Therefore, you will have little. You must become a new Loki, with naught but your wits to guard the nine realms.
The way I plan on playing him out is that he currently has no real magic ability. Given the opportunity and time he might gain a level or two in a metaphorical Sorcerer class and put skill points into illusion casting. However, old Loki was a level 97 Sorcerer, current Loki will be ascending to level 5 at best.
He has some skill with weapons. Not enough in which he's a keen master and his spear arm is his greatest asset, but enough so that if a hel hound were to charge him and someone were to throw him a spear, Loki wouldn't accidentally kill himself before the hel hound got to him. Not only that, but he'd stand a chance of being able to use that spear to keep the hel hound from killing him long enough for him to either devise a plan or for someone who's stronger and more skilled at weapons to show up and kill the hel hound. But he's hardly good enough to, through the strength of his spear arm alone, vanquish the hel hound.
Due to his heritage, Loki's naturally long lived, stronger, and more durable than an average human. Which doesn't say a huge deal, honestly, as...
Weaknesses:
...it's a different continuity, but compare Chris Evans to Tom Hiddleston. Loki was and will never be a massive hulking mass of sheer muscle. Magic was his forte, physical confrontations not, and look at his past magic skill set: illusions, telepathy, hypnosis, shapechanging...direct confrontation isn't his forte. If things came down to a direct fight, one without some underlying plan driving things forward, things likely went terribly wrong.
And really, despite being billed as a god, if Loki were to arrive at Middle Earth, his magic aside, people would likely assume that he's a very tall hobbit, an elf with deformed ears, or something along those lines. With his magic, they'd probably assume that he's a wizard and take him in stride.
Preferred drop-in point: Seattle, mainly because I live here. I'm a bit biased.
What are some of your plans for this character in their new environment? At some point I want to find an excuse for Loki to make the most stereotypical of stereotypical villainous speeches with a smirk on his face.
This is mainly so that he can ham it up, turn off the communicator or whatever, and then gush to the nearest person who's in the know about how sounding like Norman Osborn is just so fun.
First Person Journal Sample:
[And the communicator switches on, like communicators have a tendency to do.
The boy on the other end is...it's hard to describe his expression at the moment, as he has mixed feelings about the entire matter. (So many feelings and problems.) Curious, mainly. Entertained, somewhat. A bit concerned and annoyed as well, because as entertaining as this was last Loki knew Midgard was going to be razed and his brother set up to be killed unless he did something about it, and he basically had other things to do.
He's sitting on a giant stone finger, legs swaying ever so slightly. Go figure.]
Oh. Hello! [Said cheerfully. This is awesome, what are you talking about?]
The pamphlets I was given weren't awfully useful in explaining things. [And here he indicates a handful of pamphlets he grabbed on the way out of the arrival building, with titles such as 'DIMENSIONAL BLEEDING AND YOU: A Primer' or 'Life As An Import' or things along those lines.] They did cover the basics of our predicament, but I imagine there are some small details they neglected to mention. Isn't that always the way of things? Undoubtably a simple oversight on someone's part.
But I'm sure someone else out there knows more about what is going on. I would ask the authorities, but it seemed quicker to just ask my fellow imports. [He gives a big smile at the last.]
Third Person Sample:
For lack of anything better to do, Loki had fallen back on old habits and older tricks and had managed to acquire some money by midday. But only some. Seattle tourists were much more begrudging than those of Paris, or at least had less love for card games, and the take had been...well, if modesty was a virtue, than Loki was morally enriched just being near his coins as it was very modest. It was almost insulting, given that his prating was as excellent as usual and his shuffling fine and...what was so wrong with Find the Lady?
But he avoided the police and sorely missed his accomplice as it had been easier with two...how was he doing back in Paris? It was odd realizing how much time had passed between Serrure and Loki. Glibly insisted that he was Locke from Oklahoma and ready to rhapsodize about Broxton if anybody asked. Had come out with a little something for his trouble. The sensible thing would be to save it somehow, put it towards a good cause, anything gravely important. He could imagine his brother insisting on doing as much.
Instead, he was contemplating if it were better to attempt to put it towards worming his way into the good graces of his fellow imports or put it towards...something. Loki wasn't quite sure what. It was similar to why he hadn't just pickpocketed marks for money: he was reluctant to do so...yet, it hadn't even been a month and he didn't have a project in mind. Yet. Besides, Find the Lady was much more fun, and that too was important. It was not like there was any harm in it...really!
---
And here is my intro thread else-game for more prose.
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