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Loki
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»PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Psi Yamaneko
Current AGE: 20s
Personal JOURNAL: psi_yamaneko
IM & SERVICE: Psi Yamaneko @ AIM
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Current CHARACTERS: N/A

»CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Loki Laufeyson
Canon & MEDIUM: Marvel 616 (Western comic)
Canon PULL-POINT: After the Asgardian pilgrimage to Latveria, shortly before the Siege itself (Thor 606).
Character AGE: Ancient

Character ABILITIES: The Aesir and Vanir of the 616 universe are deities in a much more literal sense than the Aesir of the MCU. Their world, rather than being based in technology, is based in magic and Loki is one of the most powerful magicians of all. Knowing everything from illusion to conjuration from healing to destruction, from dark arts to Runestones, he is a force to be reckoned with. He's a god.

[Super-Human Strength] While he is a powerful sorcerer, he's also no slouch in terms of physical might. Compared to Thor and other Asgardian warriors, he's no match (though he has fought his brother to a standstill before by enhancing his strength through magic), but compared to mortals he is incredibly strong. He's smashed boulders with his bare fists, taken down buildings with a single punch and effortlessly torn his way through steel doors. In terms of brute strength, he is able to lift about thirty tons.

[Durability] Loki can shrug off immense damage in ways no mortal ever could. He can take a direct blow from Thor; a blow powerful enough to shatter a mountain, and merely be staggered by it. Crushing blows in general have a significantly reduced impact on him. Magical attacks also have a reduced effect, since he can weather magical blows from powerful casters. Like other Aesir, his body is capable of recovering from grievous injury. He can survive decapitation and dismemberment and he can even survive having his heart wrenched out, provided it is returned to his body before the body fully passes. He is immune to all earthly diseases and toxins and barely feels pain, even when in the middle of a furnace. He is also able to survive in the vacuum of space. There are forces, such as the Void, which are strong enough shred even Loki's form. If his body is thoroughly destroyed in one go, he dies. This is easier to do now than it was prior to Ragnarok.

[Speed] While not the fastest of the Aesir he is certainly up there. He moves "at the speed of thought", able to take action as quickly as his mind allows. He's kept pace with Silver Surfer while being chased around the Earth and has, on rare occasion, been able to dodge Mjolnir. Mjolnir, however, can travel at the speed of light which is a speed he cannot achieve.

[Silvertongue] Loki is a talented diplomat where it serves him and is also a talented liar. His ability to lie is preternatural.

[The All-Tongue] Loki speaks in the All-Tongue, the magical, ancient language from which all other languages descend (in his universe, anyway). When he speaks, people are able to understand him as if he were speaking their language, regardless of what language that is.

[Intelligence] Loki has a genius-level intellect and is considered to be among the most intelligent and wise of the Aesir outside Odin himself. He is one of the very few Asgardians to have invented magical artifacts and complex machines to assist him in his schemes. Among his inventions are the Cosmic Transmuter, the Cold Condenser and the Psychic Beacon. In recent years he seldom relies on inventions, and this skill might be rusty at this point. His intelligence also allows him to be highly literate and a masterful strategist.

[Weapon Finesse] Along with his strength, Loki is surprisingly capable with many different kinds of weapons including a sword (his weapon of choice most of the time), war staffs, polearms, two-handed battle axes, claymores, bows, even a cat o'nine tails. He even once managed to disarm and grapple Lady Sif but this was in a very old story and he managed this by seizing her Standard Female Grab Area (her upper arm). By modern times he's a bit more humbled by the likes of Sif in melee combat.

[Magic; General] Loki is the most potent sorcerer in Asgard, a fact that is even grudgingly admitted to by the Norn Queen herself (though she, too, is exceptionally powerful). His power often rivals if not exceeds the power of the most potent magical beings in the Marvel Universe (which isn't to say there are no characters more powerful than Loki; there are). His magic gives him a very definite arcane signature that can be sensed by those sensitive to such things...unless he's choosing to cloak himself. He can also sense magic in others, sometimes by literally being able to smell it.

[Magic; Flight] Loki can fly! He uses magic to levitate and his flight speed, like his ground speed, is the "speed of thought".

[Magic; Energy Thrust] Loki can magically charge the very air around him and throw it out as a nuke. This nuke was strong enough to cause cracks in magical shields created by Dr. Strange's Amulet of Agamotto (Or "Lesser Eye of Agamotto"). He can channel this same energy into his sword or into arrows, filling them with arcane power. Using his body as the focal point, he can emit the energy as a blastwave that knocks enemies off their feet.

[Magic; Force Barrier] Loki can use that same technique to charge the energy around him and create barriers of magical force that deflect incoming attacks, both magical and physical. A particularly powerful blow can crack the barrier.

[Magic; Imbuement] Loki can grant powers to others, as he did with Absorbing Man, Sandu and Storm back home. His power can also animate entirely new beings, born entirely from magic.

[Magic; Simulacrum] Loki can create multiple physical copies of himself to join in his attacks.

[Magic; Illusion] As God of Mischief, he is a master of illusions. They take on many forms and can fool even the wisest characters, such as Odin. His illusions in game will be handled on a case-by-case basis in terms of their limits. I'm always okay with limits.

[Magic; Invisibility/Non-Detection] Using Norn spells Loki can make himself completely invisible. He has enough control over this that he can even pick who can see him and who cannot. He can turn others invisible as well.

[Magic; Phasing] Loki can turn intangible to avoid attacks or pass through walls. He can also phase others.

[Magic; Shapeshifting] Loki did not gain the kenning "The Shape-Changer" for nothing. He is a powerful shapeshifter, able to assume any organic form. He can shift from one form to another without having to take on his true shape in between. He can turn into anything from a fly to a wolf to a swarm of insects to a great dragon. Being in a beast form does not lock him out of the rest of his spells, either. He was able to cast a silence charm while in the form of a fly. The ability to alter shape also extends to size. He can shrink himself and others. He can alter the form of something not alive into something alive, which allows him to animate statues or turn objects into animals. Creatures created in this way are only able to last for a short time before reverting back to their true form and are magical constructs, not actual life.

[Magic; Binding] Loki can use his spells to bind people either by creating magical cages or animating things around them, like fabric or branches, into bonds. He can also use his power to reinforce doors or simply "bind" a person by making them unable to move.

[Magic; Enchantments and Curses] Loki can grant power to objects and people, usually by using Rune Magic. He can enchant weapons to be stronger, or charm mirrors so that people looking into them fall in love with the ones holding them. He's even enchanted doors so that they open up on different locations. As a reverse to enchantments, he can create curses just as easily.

[Magic; Dispel/Spellbreak] Loki can use his magic to crack through the magic of others and remove enchantments and curses created by less powerful sorcerers than himself.

[Magic; Elemental] Loki can utilize frost magic to create ice barriers, slow enemies down or freeze enemies solid (temporarily). He can also conjure magical flame and use geomancy to encase himself in solid stone. He also has limited control over weather.

[Psionics; Clairvoyance] Loki can use his power to scan entire worlds and see individuals that walk upon them. He is fond of using this ability to spy on Thor. He can also see into people's pasts by using temporal magic and a good deal of focus. Clairvoyance also grants him the passive ability to know when people are watching him which makes him very hard to sneak up on. This ability will never be used without player permission.

[Psionics; Psychoportation] Teleporting at the speed of thought! Loki can teleport himself across universes and take others with him. He can teleport individual targets from one place to another without even being present. He can also create portals people can walk through to go from one place to another. Teleporting between universes requires him to be in full possession of his power, so the ability hasn't saved him from spending time in exile.

[Psionics; Astral Projection] By going into a trance, Loki can leave his body and travel in an astral form. In Astral form he is able to travel any distance, and can even move between worlds. In astral form he can whisper to other people, affecting their minds, and he can even possess other people. He can still use his spells in astral form, but they are weakened. While using this ability, Loki's body is left vulnerable.

[Psionics; Hypnosis] Loki is able to hypnotize people and animals and even entire crowds. He can use this ability to place people directly under his control for short periods of time or to give simple suggestion. This is an ability that will never be used without player permission.

[Psionics; Psycho-Projection] Loki can project images with his mind, allowing him to show other people what he's talking about. He can project images of entire, animated scenes or small "holograms" of individuals.

[Psionics; Psychokinesis] Loki can move objects with his mind, allowing him to break free of non-enchanted bonds such as ropes, knock down walls and shatter weapons. He can also use this ability to fling enemies around like ragdolls.

[Psionics; Telepathy] Loki can scan the minds of others and also communicate with them using telepathy. He can project images, sometimes nightmarish, into the minds of other people. He can also use this ability to draw minds together and unify them in strength, as he did with himself, Thor and Balder to pierce the reality-warping spells of the Enchantress.

[Spell; Silence] "Silence" has been used both to prevent people from speaking and to remove all sound from a given area. The spell can also be used to prevent people from saying certain things.

[Spell; Reanimate] Loki can animate the dead. This is not the same as bringing people back to life-they merely rise as animated corpses under his control.

[Spell; Sleep] Loki can magically put someone to sleep by looking into their eyes, then awaken them later. This ability has been used to put some characters, like Sif, down so deep that they seem to be dead.

[Spell; Heal] Loki can heal others from grievous injury using his power.

[Undying] Loki made a deal with Hela, granting her a portion of Mephisto's Hell as her new underworld, and she struck him from the Book of Names. He is no longer bound to go to either Valhalla or Hel upon his death but, instead, will keep reincarnating. This will probably not come up unless it's part of a crazy, mod-approved plot of some kind.

With this many abilities, Loki is obviously a being of immense power. His magic is apparently capable of just about anything (he'll have a Permissions Post for this).

He does have some natural limitations, however. Despite his powerful psionics and position as a god, he cannot manipulate free will. He also cannot directly read minds, even with clairvoyance (telepathy allows him to do so only to a very limited degree). When he starts trying to bring his plans to fruition he is often met with failure thanks to his tendency to severely underestimate what mortals can actually do. Mortal races have, to him, always been "somebody else's problem" so he doesn't know many of the details of human history, which can also lead to some bad calls. He once tried to get a team of supervillains to switch dance partners and fight each other's heroes which involved asking Red Skull and Magneto to team up. Since Red Skull is a Nazi and Magneto is a Holocaust survivor, this did not end very favorably. He has spent less time on Midgard than his adoptive brother, Thor, and many modern conventions still confuse him. Pop cultural references go straight over his head and he isn't very good with technology that's not of his own design.

While he is probably destined to be among the more powerful characters in the game, he is also destined to play a villainous/antagonistic role. The bigger the baddie, the harder he falls. In his own universe Loki feels cursed to always lose, no matter how hard he tries. In game this means that I will always work with people to make sure he faces the IC consequences for his actions. Hopefully, him being a sneaky and powerful character means that victory over him will be all the sweeter when it comes.

It is also worth mentioning that the Aesir work differently than other super-powered humanoids. Some people in the Marvel mythology have power. The Aesir are power. Loki is no different. If a Void robs him of all supernatural power he won't just become human, he will become incredibly frail and sickly or possibly even catatonic. Only the Odin Force can safely strip a god of all godly power.



Character HISTORY:
[History]

Character PERSONALITY: Loki has, for much of his long life, been called the God of Evil. It is an alias he created for himself, so that he could earn respect. However, despite the countless aeons of suffering he's caused, and a tendency to revel in his own wickedness, and the many years of bloody carnage, he's never truly considered himself an inherently sinister creature. In the ongoing conflicts between good and evil he fights on his own side and will temporarily ally with good or with evil or drop from the conflict entirely as suits his needs. He thinks of himself as a naturally contrary creature; something he playfully blames on his Frost Giant heritage.

He is driven by a deep lust for power and a vindictive hatred for Thor and Odin. He rants, continuously, about wanting to kill Thor but there is still a part of him that remembers Thor from childhood, when they were close. He has a feeling that Thor stopped loving him at some point and this brings new feelings of rage to a boil. In his mind, Thor stole away glory and love that he believes should have been his. Loki will stop at nothing to see Thor emotionally and socially destroyed for these imagined wrongs. He is a deeply vindictive person.

Towards Odin, Loki feels venomous. Odin had always treated him harshly when he was a child. There had been a time that young Loki genuinely wanted to help Asgard, but people tended to not trust him due to his race. Eventually, he decided that the godhood and power he'd once been promised would have to be taken, not given, and he gave Asgard plenty of reasons to never trust him again. Odin rarely struck Loki, but was emotionally abusive (at least in Loki's mind he was) and often shrieked at him. It often fell to Loki to fix things when they went wrong and Odin never thanked him for his efforts, usually because Loki was the reason things went wrong in the first place. The fact that Loki caused many hardships for Asgard is something that he tends to gloss over when he looks back on his own life. From where he stands, he's always been treated unfairly and he feels like he's always been hated and mocked. Still, he does have some love and respect for Odin, it's just buried down very deep in his soul, to the point that he's not consciously aware of it.

While protective over Asgard itself, he feels little for the other people who live there. He is willing to sacrifice them in horrible ways if it means furthering his own goals. Ragnarok destroyed countless Asgardian lives even before Thor terminated the cycle and Loki was willing to let Dr. Doom perform torturous experiment on Asgardians. In fact, Loki assisted Doom in doing so. He looks out for number one above all things and if others have to die agonizing deaths for him to achieve greatness then so what? He legitimizes his own actions to himself by believing the Asgardians have no love for him. He's right about this, most of them don't, but that's because he's ensured it through his own bloody history. Being feared is actually something he enjoys, since he feels like fear is a form of respect; something he thinks he got little of growing up. He has a very "ends justify the means" way of looking at things. Sometimes he believes his ends are for the greater good of his people, though the rest of Asgard usually doesn't agree.

When left to himself, Loki has a deep hunger for knowledge, especially knowledge of magic. He can be found curled over books, even after so many years of study. He's learned dark magic from Eldred, what it's like to have infernal power from Surtur, and he's even hanged himself by the neck from the branches of the World Tree to learn Rune Magic. His search for knowledge of all kinds is never ending but his curiosity towards the arcane is insatiable. He needs magic to do mischief and he considers mischief his tool and weapon to shape the world.

Loki is an extremely self-aware man and has a vast understanding of the landscape of his own heart. This grants him a level of insight that few other Asgardians possess and it gives him the ability to easily manipulate others. He knows how other people work and how they think, he knows how he himself works and thinks. What he doesn't know is why. He doesn't know why people do what they do, and he doesn't know why he does what he does. When he watches mortal creatures interact he usually knows what they will do but finds himself baffled when he tries to determine the reason they do it. If others ask Loki why he is what he is; why he causes so much destruction, why he permits himself to be such an unrelenting source of chaos, he finds himself with no easy answer. He does these things because it's in his nature to do them. Why is it in his nature to do them? He's not sure, it just is. As he said to Heimdall and Balder during the Siege "I am Loki. The fire that burns. And why does the fire burn!? … I know not. But I am he…" Over his many centuries of existence he's resigned himself to being the villain of the people of Asgard and he takes on that "responsibility" willingly, albeit with some bitterness. He feels hurt that Norn (fate) dealt him this hand to begin with, which is why he had himself struck from the Book of Hel. He hopes, upon his death, to enter oblivion, find his way through, and reemerge as a new Loki. Usually, though, he doesn't seem care about the "why" of his own life.

In fact, Loki seems to care about very little. Mortals come and go and the other Asgardians, he thinks, hate him unjustly and are thus free to be manipulated. After all, he feels they'd do the same to him if only they were smart enough. That said, his apparent lack of care for all things is partially a lie in and of itself. He does care about family (in his own way), he cares what Odin thinks about him, he is curious about the fact of his own existence, and he cares about Asgard itself. When Asgard is under threat Loki will fight to protect it, like when Surtur attacked the city (in an event prior to Ragnarok) and during Seth's war. When Surtur attacked, he'd even signed an agreement that he would not help Asgard, but he did it anyway for his own reasons. He will fight for Asgard even if he was the one that placed it in harm's way to begin with. After all, how can he rule all things when all things are destroyed? He also has a surprising protective streak for his countless progeny on Midgard and refuses to let any of them know he's their father, in case they do anything foolish or gain enemies with such information. He gave Spider-man a Runestone to summon him if one of his daughters found herself in danger and Spider-man was convinced that Loki's concern was genuine. He also had some genuine fondness for Sigyn and used to come to her aid when she was in trouble because of him but their relationship remained a tumultuous and unhealthy one until the end.

After the events of Ragnarok, Loki's fiery temper cooled slightly. Even before the Twilight of the Gods, he was a man of immortal patience but he could still burst into moments of explosive anger and childish tantrums. After he'd achieved the cataclysm he'd been destined to bring, he grew a bit calmer. His plans were much more carefully laid, much more intricate, and in many ways were more subtle. Instead of being the cat leaping upon its prey he became the serpent waiting in ambush.

In the end, Loki is a chaotic and complicated being. He has no remorse for his countless sins and will repeat them if he feels it will place him in a position of power. He kills without regret. He's watched ages of mankind rise and fall and felt nothing. He is not a creature worthy of sympathy but he is not inherently evil, either. As the God of Mischief and Father of All Lies, he is cursed to fight a losing battle in any attempts he makes at being moral (in the widest sense of the word). Such is the way of Loki.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION

Chosen WEAPON: Loki will probably come with his own sword-the Eir-Gram-which he’d had big plans for back home. The Eir-Gram was forged in Hellfire from the soul of another Aesir and is designed to slay the otherwise insubstantial Disir. In game, it will eventually evolve to be able to become a bladed chain whip but it won’t ever develop a particularly amazing moveset or have any non-physical powers. Loki’s own spells are powerful enough on their own.

Chosen SKILLSET: Likely he’d go on missions but choose to be more subtle than fighting in the front lines.

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