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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Loki Odinson
Character Age: 1053
Character Species: Jotun
Current Health: Dead
Outfit: Well-fitted leather clothing with metal adornments, Full cape with green lining, soft leather boots, reinforced leather gauntlets

Character Canon:
Link to History: A Wiki for your thoughts
Canon Point: Beginning of Avengers: Infinity War
Canon Iteration: Original Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills:

• Brilliant intellect
  
• Cunning tactician
  
• Expert combatant
  
• Pilot
  
• Marksman
  
• Melee weapons training (daggers)

Canon Abilities:
Physiology:

• Superhuman Strength; As a Jotun, Loki is capable of standing toe-to-toe with humans, enhanced humans, and has really only been defeated in battle by Asgardians, the Hulk, and Thanos as far as contests of strength are concerned.
  
• Superhuman Durability; Also due to his ancestry, Loki can take blows that would kill a normal human and can heal wounds faster than a human.
  
• Superhuman Speed and agility; What Loki lacks in brute strength he makes up for in his superior speed, outmaneuvering the likes of Valkyrie, Thor, and multiple Dark Elven assailants.
  
• He also lives for hundreds of years, being 1053 and appearing in his mid-30s, possesses superhuman stamina, and, due to his frost giant physiology, is completely immune to cold.

Sorcery

• Illusion magic
  
• Shapeshifting (himself or just his clothing)
  
• Mental manipulation
  
• Presence concealment (he can hide and mask his sounds)
  
• Conjuration
  
• Telekinesis
  
• Astral projection

Role: Myth to begin with
Role Qualities/Attributes: Horns, small at first, but ultimately something akin to his helmet
Role Reasoning: Upon review, the role of Myth seems like it was made for Loki. That may seem a bit egotistical, but he is selfish, self-serving, and willing to manipulate even those closest to him to achieve his goals. He's difficult to sway in another direction, believing himself to be more right than anyone else may be on something to which he's put his mind.

That being said, Loki's life was cut short just shy of the beginning of a redemption arc for him, and I intend, eventually, to move him toward something more akin to a Legend as he begins to embrace the things his brother said, that he might be a Trickster, but he could be so much more, and to live up to Odin calling him son.

★ Personality ★

Option 2.
What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?
Always living in Thor's shadow, Loki grew up having something of an inferiority complex, but it wasn't until he learned that he was taken from the king of Jotunheim as a foundling and raised as a prince of Asgard without being told he was actually a frost giant (which were known throughout the Nine Realms as monsters), filled him with a need to prove himself worthy of ruling Asgard in Odin's stead more than ever before. Already having been possessed of a morality that was malleable, to say the least, Loki seized every opportunity to prove both that Thor was unworthy to rule Asgard and that he should be its rightful ruler. His narrow-minded focus on that one goal put him at odds with his former friends, his brother, and his adopted and birth fathers, and would ultimately lead to his being susceptible to Thanos' influence, as the Titan and the Mind stone spurred him into attempting to conquer Earth and rule it as king, just as his father ruled all the Nine Realms. It could be said that most, if not all, of his decisions and actions were spurred by the revelations of his true parentage.

What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?
The events of Ragnarok shook both the Odinsons to their cores, but during their flight from Sakaar, they finally had the chance to air their dirty laundry, so to speak. They were each grappling with the idea that Odin had deceived them their entire lives in their own ways, but due to the circumstances of their escape, they were forced to actually talk about things. The idea that Thor was finally tired of his antics disturbed him and filled him with a sort of dread. He loves his brother and the idea of never seeing him again was a guiding force in bringing him to steal someone else's rebellion to save their people, and ultimately Thor's lecture that he knew Loki could be more than a trickster led to his making the ultimate sacrifice to buy his brother and their people more time to escape Thanos.

What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?
Frigga, Thor's mother, and Loki's adoptive mother has always been fond of the cunning and intelligent infant her husband brought home from his war with the Jotun, finding in him a spirit very close to her own. They shared a love of knowledge, a natural curiosity, and a love of facing their problems with a bit more ingenuity than simply throwing a weapon at them. She encouraged Loki's mischievousness and embraced his intelligence, teaching the physically less powerful Odinson her Vanir magic, nurturing his inquisitiveness, even if also coddling him to a certain extent. As such, while he sought ever to prove himself worthy in Odin's eyes or to stand equal with his blonder, more boisterous brother, he always took solace in his mother's love.

If your character could change one thing about their past, what would it be and why? Or why not?
While imprisoned for his crimes against Midgard, Loki was visited several times by his mother via astral projections. During those visits, he tried to reason with him, to get him to see how he'd been wrong, to reconcile with Odin, but he was callous to her, dismissive, letting his hurt and denial dictate how he spoke to her. When the dark elves invaded Asgard, maliciously, he gave them directions to Odin's chamber, thinking they would find and slay the Allfather there. Instead, he unwittingly sent them to Frigga, and indirectly caused her death. While at the time, he wanted nothing but to cause Odin suffering, Frigga's death had a sublime impact on him, simultaneously bringing into focus all he'd done, and how much he'd made his family suffer for his own feelings of insignificance. He would do anything to take back giving those bastards directions.

★ Player Information ★

Player Name: Heather
Pronouns: she/her
Are you over 18?: Yes
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