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✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal: Daemyn & corrupts
Birthdate & Age: 3/7/1993 & 19
Characters played in Zodion: Tohru Adachi

✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Loki of Asgard
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe ( Thor and The Avengers )
PB/Image: Tom Hiddleston
Info links: Loki at the Marvel Movies Wikia
Canon Point: Post The Avengers
Gender & Sex: Male
Age: Over 1000
Birthdate/Sign:

Considering Loki is not of Earthly origin, he has no star sign in canon. He'll be given the birthday of December 25, due to December being the beginning of Winter, but the end of the year. Loki being a Frost Giant, or a Jotun, makes him a good fit with the Winter season. And due to his fatalistic personality and destructive ways, the end of the year is also appropriate. The 25 is chosen for its Earthly significance, and to signify Loki as a gift for his family, for Odin and Frigga. This would give him the sign of Capricorn, the sea goat. It is the sign of the status seeker, of the egotistical and unforgiving. It is the sign of the longest night, of the winter solstice. It is a sign of extreme, and thus it is appropriate for one such as Loki, who has throughout the course of his life been driven to greater extremes than he imagined.

✩ STRENGTHS

Although Loki is by no means entirely fearless, what man is? He appears outwardly calm and collected, as if there is nothing that can faze him. In the Avengers, he is seen mostly enjoying himself and marching head on right into battle without a shred of fear. What has he to fear, after all? He asks Tony Stark that very question, and it rings true: he is a god, after all, and there is not much they as mortals can do to hurt him. Once he has a goal in mind and it's set in motion, there's little for him to fear.

Realistic seems a bit comical when compared to Loki, who comes from a glittering planet full of magic. However, his ability to look at situations and see what can be achieved, what can be expected, is a good indication of how realistic he can actually be. That is, realistic in what he sees as reality, glittering magic and horses with eight legs all.

Thor is where we see him the most concerned. Mind, they're not for any altruistic reasons, or for any reasons for the well being of anyone. He is anxious of his brother's return, something that he says is bad for Asgard but it's easy to see it's for his own selfish purposes. Troubled is another good synonym that he embodies quite well, because of his own inner struggle throughout the movie. Ultimately he falls into the abyss to escape all that.

To say one is scrupulous is to invite a certain positive type of connotation. That should not be the case with Loki, but with the denotation of the word it does indeed fit. His plans are so thorough and twisted, how can he not pay attention to detail? How can he not be thorough? This goes hand-in-hand with how hard working he can be in order to see long-term goals and plans realized. Although Loki is usually in the background of things, we can see him come to the forefront in the Avengers to do what needs to be done.

Conventional is a word that can only describe Loki in the literary sense. Of a work of art or literature, conventional means to follow traditional forms and genres, and Loki does a very good job of upholding the traditional definition of what it means to be a God of Mischief. In Thor, he is what you expect of a mischief maker and a trickster. In the Avengers, he becomes more of a forefront player, his mischief a might more malevolent, but nonetheless remains silvertongued and keeps a hint of something more about him.

He may perhaps be a good organizer, but we don't see many examples of this. The only thing we have is his many twists and turns, which he is able to follow in his mind when to us it may be a bit over our heads. This implies good mental organization, even in the mist of chaos and convolution.

The only time we see him anywhere close to being loyal to tradition is when he is King of Asgard, and makes a point not to undo what his father had done before him (that is, ending Thor's banishment). This is for selfish reasons, however, and simply the excuse he uses on the Warriors Three and Lady Sif in order to give them some sort of explanation aside from "I'm a selfish git who wants what's rightfully my idiot older brother's."

✩ WEAKNESSES

Though we see Loki more anxious in Thor than the Avengers, he is very prone to wanting something very much without being absolute certain of the outcome he will ultimately get. Strangely we see less anxious behavior in the Avengers despite the stakes being higher. He's much more assured than he was in Thor, where he deals with the unease of self-realization and doubt.

Loki would not be a proper Asgardian without at least a bit of fatalistic attitude. We can see it best during the scene where his brother steals him away from the helicopter and they talk upon a rock in the Avengers. He speaks of how he was meant to be king, and that implies a heavy belief in destiny, or fate. On top of that Odin is shown speaking to his sons in the very first part of Thor, saying how only one an take the throne but they were both made to be kings. Again, destiny, and thus, fate, something passed down from his father onto him.

Egotistical is a bit of an understatement. He's a downright megalomaniac, and even without his power trips his ego is something that is always out of balance. Tony said it the best, referring to Loki as a diva who wants his name up in lights.

On top of that, his unforgiving nature is apparent when he attempts to kill an older gentleman for refusing to kneel before him. Despite time passing, he still holds a heavy grudge against Thor, and refuses to let them return to where they were prior, and on top of that, his father issues wouldn't nearly be where they are if he'd been understanding and forgiving of his father's position. Instead, he stews on it and doesn't let it go.

When it comes to Loki, the term slave driver isn't exactly figurative. We can see this at play during the Avengers where he gathers an entire team of researchers to work on how to stabilize the cube so that the portal may open in a way that it will not collapse on itself like it did in one of SHEILD's buildings, and so that it may stay open for an indefinite length of time. Although he does not have to do much yelling or shouting at them due to his converting their heart with the power of his staff and thus, their hard work is injected right into them. He's content that they're busy at work, and in fact, even helps them achieve their goals. Though he is a slave driver, he is an understanding one. They all have the same goal, after all.

We don't have a very good example of how very critical Loki is, but he is critical in at least one way: sentiment receives much of his disdain and judgement. It may come from the fact that he's also a perfectionist with the belief that he is above mortals, with the belief that due to his godhood he is a perfect being with the intense desire to wipe out any imperfections or weaknesses he may have left.

Due to his intense desire to be king, we can also see how easily status seeking fits upon his shoulders as a descriptor. He was not originally this way, but once he got a taste of what it was like to hold the throne, to hold power... Well, let's just say New York City paid the price of that one.

Tattoo:

On his sternum, just over the area where his heart would be, and about the size of a plate.

Suitability: N/A
Power:

He will remain with the ability to project a single illusion of himself as he so often does, only to have it disappear as soon as his attention is called elsewhere. Focus and intent are the key to this sort of illusion.

Personality:

Loki is a master of mischief. He is known as the god of such by Scandinavian legend. As a member of Asgard's royal family and an alien who is assumed to be immortality, it's implied he ventured to Earth many years ago along with his brother and father where they were revered as gods and the inspiration for Norse mythology. Fast forward to modern day on Earth, and very little has changed for Asgard. It is the eternal city, a place of timelessness in which advanced aliens choose to take up spears, hammers, swords, magic.

Loki himself is a master of magic, of tricks and slights of hand. He is the Deceiver, known as Silvertongue and names with similar meaning. And he does indeed have a way with words - they are but another tool in which he uses to trick and manipulate. It is his game in which he excels, having in fact a much broader and subtler range of power than that of his brother, who simply has a hammer with which to summon lightning and thunder.

Understanding Loki without first keeping in mind the family by which he was raised is but a folly. Perhaps it's due to the fact that for at least a thousand years he's done nothing but be in their company, or perhaps it's due to his own shaping and twisting of events that happened in his past that he attaches so much importance to them, thus ensuring himself to forever be shaped by them. One cannot understand Loki's view without first taking a look at his brother, Thor, and his father, Odin. Even his mother, Frigga, plays an important part in his shaping, but has no stark opposition to him and holds only love, and thus remains lesser in terms of influence. That is due to the fact Loki is most defined by that which he detests: his family and personal sense of sentiment related to them.

Throughout Thor, we see a Loki who has not yet dismissed that sentiment. We see a Loki who's desperation for his father's approval and love blinds him to all else. Initially, he only intends to put a pause to Thor's ascension to the throne, but soon his ambition grows, and with the discovery of a new element, a rewriting of all that he has known throughout his life, his plans change.

Learning of his true parentage, that he is but the discarded son of Laufey and not of Odin's blood, instills him with the desire to prove himself an equal more than ever before. It's something he's always wanted, but now it grows and festers in his mind: he is just as worthy a son as Thor. His desire to prove this to his father evolves rapidly with this new development, and he is unable to think of little else as he formulates a new plan, a new goal in his mind.

Wipe out the Jotuns. It is exactly the sort of boyish want that Thor began the movie wishing for, but as the movie progresses and Thor learns humility, Loki sets his sights on the annihilation of the species he's a part of. Thor's intention to wipe out the Jotuns was to keep Asgard safe, while Loki's intention is to show his father his completely devotion, that Laufey and the Frost Giants - his parentage - mean nothing to him. It is to show Odin that he only cares about Odin and his family in Asgard, but Odin says no. No, Loki.

And so Loki lets go. Odin is no father of his, not anymore. Once the Avengers continues his story, Loki says outright that Odin is Thor's father, not his. (Your father.) He is no Odinson; he is no one's son. With one father dead at his hands and the other disowned, Loki is without a home. Asgard is no place for him, not as a tiny Frost Giant. Jotunheim is out of the question, as well, what with his attempt to destroy it entirely and his murdering of Laufey.

So Loki finds himself among the unscrupulous, finds himself a new purpose from wandering throughout the universe without one. The Chitauri, an army at his command and the Tessaract, a new unlimited power source he gets his hands on. All under the order of a distant being who wishes to be beloved by Death. How much we know of how much Loki knows about this being remains unseen and undefined. Any further plans aside from the initial getting his hands on the Tessaract and attempting to conquer Earth are a mystery, and Loki is a master of mysteries.

But enough on what is vague and uncertain; what we have from the Avengers is as much a tale to dig into as Thor. We see a new Loki here, a god reborn under his new way of life. Without a home, he's dingy and dirty. He claims to be burdened with a purpose glorious, and that is all that he is after. But what exactly is he after? First the unlimited power source, which he gets with the help of a new weapon, a spear able to wield what seems to be pure energy.

Now, compare this Loki, who is no longer in the shadows, but the front of a new threat, to the low key Loki we see in Thor, who is most defined by his cunning plans he concocts in the shadows. Loki is not a fighter, not at his heart. He's the sort you find at the right hands of kings, the advisor. The shadow you find behind every great ruler, that is the type of person Loki is at his core.

To say he is unsatisfied with that role would be an understatement. Once he's tasted what it means to rule, to be a king for himself, he wants more. He wants the Earth, and to be an equal to Thor. Thor, who's meant to be king of Asgard in time, and Thor, who would not change for him but would for a lowly mortal woman. Loki despises him, resents him with a great jealousy, but also still holds a great deal of connection with him. A connection he pays no mind to, not now. In fact, he casts it off, scoffs at it. He would cut himself free of it, if he could.

Sentiment of any kind is a cause for his disdain. It is but a naive thing; that which a child longs to hold onto and cherish. The anger he holds for it is a personal rage, something that was once close to his heart that he now deems worthless.

As for how he looks to others, he has no qualms betraying those he makes agreements with should it be for his intended goal. Mortals, humans, and such like those are seen as beneath him, as he admits to without a second thought to his brother - why would he not? - as well as to Nick Fury at the beginning of the movie. He says when told that the people Earth have no quarrel with the Asgardians: "An ant has no quarrel with a boot." It's his way of saying he will do as he pleases to the people of Earth, and that he cares for them not just as they care not for ants. The difference between them, in Loki's mind, is just as great.

Megalomania is another thing characterized by Loki in the Avengers, and is a notable difference than the more subdued Loki in Thor. He is consumed by his superiority complex, wishing the people of Earth to kneel to him in subjugation. In fact, he believes them to be more at peace in that state than any other. It may be a reference of his own experience - when he was free falling out of Asgard into the abyss, he was free and without a home, lost and wandering as a god without a purpose. Once he meets the Other, however, and he is given a new goal; he has focus and intent, something to calm his mind and make his life simpler. His belief that humans crave subjugation and rule may be him projecting onto them, in a way. Of course, it may just as easily be something he wants them to believe so that his rule is easier and smoother. It may be something he tells them and himself to help keep the distance between them, the ruled and the ruler.

Of course, that's when Captain America busts in and takes a stand against him, a stand for freedom. Loki has no special interest in the man out of time, nor in what he stands for. It's a simple rivalry there, a hatred he has for what Captain America stands for and the hypocrisy he has as a soldier of his country.

But enough about that. When it comes to detestable humans there are a number of them and most are considered his enemies. Natasha Romanoff, a spy with red on her ledger, so much red and yet she still attempts to be something more, to wipe out the red. She and Loki have a lot in common, and they have a strange sort of understanding between them which is unspoken but still understood. A spy and a trickster, sitting down for a chat. Both with a history of blood, of red and devastation. One, who's out and uncomfortable with her freedom, and the other, who's in and happy with his confinement. It's a strange inversion of what one would normally think, and yet they speak to each other in underhanded attempts to get under each other's skin.

What ultimately pisses Loki off about Natasha is her attempt to wipe out the red she's spilt. He, who has resigned himself to his red, who has resolved himself to have no choice in the matter, who is forced to live with his red and cannot wipe it out no matter how much he may like to. He who holds much disdain and anger towards her, who is so like him and yet so different in the fact that she's chosen a different side, a side he thought impossible for one with so much red.

She is perhaps his most profound interaction with a human being, with any of the Avengers. Sure, he manipulates Bruce from afar, watches with delight as he destroys the ship they're on. And yes, Clint he has on his side for a decent while, who he uses to get all the information on Natasha he desires. Tony he jests with, but who cannot be controlled and thus he wants to discard. Each of the Avengers in their own way have interactions with Loki, but the significance of their interactions vary.

Of course, Natasha cannot even hope to come close to Thor, Loki's one and only brother. Family is so much more than any brief interaction with humanity, even discarded family, and Thor is not so much that as the Allfather, Odin. Thor still has a place in Loki's heart, but he is uncomfortable with this truth and determined not to succumb to it. When Thor can look at Loki's heart and see the truth of it, when Thor can reach out and let's work together, brother, Loki is initially shocked but stabs him in retaliation. Sentiment between them, sentiment that has no use and will only lead to more pain. Loki says no and stabs, and it is the perfect example of their relationship: Thor who hopes and dreams and wants to be with his brother once more, and Loki, who is uncomfortable with how easily Thor can see through him, and angry and jealous and resentful towards his brother. Every time Thor reaches out a hand, a chance to trust, he will always stab. Even if he plays at compliance, at agreement, in the end Loki will always betray the trust Thor puts in him.

In the end, Loki ends up defeated. The Chitauri are destroyed, and the Tessaract is given to Thor to return to Asgard, along with Loki in chains. We see a glimpse of the layer above the Other in command, a simple smile to the notion that to face humanity is to court death. While the heroes are eating shawarma and celebrating their victory, it's hinted there is more to the story than the simple black and white Loki has been defeated and the Avengers are victorious. How much Loki knows of that smile or how much scheming he may be up to, however, remains a mystery.

And Loki is, after all, a master of mystery.

✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry: video.

[It begins with a click, as any other feed would. A simple click on, and a man dressed in dapper clothing and a scarf who seems at first confused, but then speaks.]

Am I to believe I am speaking to the realm at large? No, this is but a distraction. A way with which we will occupy ourselves so that our captors do not get our full attention. This is a folly, and all of you so muddled within it are nothing but what they wish you to be. Mindless, within yourselves, so disorganized and so easily kept that way. I can see why these Twelve have yet to be stopped, and are continuing to take more and more from unsuspecting realms if this is all you have done to stop them from doing so.

[And just like that, his demeanor changes. Instead of confused, or thoughtful, he glows with glee. A smile crosses his face, one that seems to be born of genuine delight.]

This is what I like to see. You are remarkable in your comfort here, and yet so controlled and caged as if you are sheep. Not quite entirely human, and yet it seems you possess quite humane qualities. What are you? A collection of beings from across this universe, the next, and beyond? And yet you take it willingly, you find happiness in this. I must say thank you, for you have given me a new hope. This example, glistering before me, is one I shall not forget.

Thank you, people of Zodion. I believe with people as docile and well-mannered as you I will enjoy my stay here. It's quite refreshing to see that some people still --

[He doesn't get to finish his thought, because he's been interrupted by a bird dropping landing in an unfortunate place. And so the feed ends abruptly.]

"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:

When the water lifts, there's no doubt in his mind that this is a place of magic, of power. He barely has to look to know where the dull pain comes from. There is no effort expended to find the area where he's been marked. There is but one thought that crosses Loki's mind when he stares at his reflection in the water:

Branded.

Naked, like an animal, with magic well versed in what its design and purpose is, so he can see. Exactly where he can see: to be worn on his chest, as a sign of allegiance and ownership. Him, Loki, once an Asgardian, now branded in exile into the ownership of some higher power. To think, he was once a higher power himself, and now look at him. At the mercy of whatever this is, whatever this will do to him. What he thought was to be a trip back to Asgard is now a trip to a new realm, a land he has no familiarity with. A place he has not seen before, but looks familiar in a strange way, in a way he has to wonder if he's seen before.

He hasn't, but either way it is no matter to him. It is an unknown. It's all an unknown, and there is no brother beside him. No chains, no gag, no Tessaract. He is free, and yet he is branded with the sign of a new power. In that moment, he swears to get to the bottom of this, and he looks to the box, now calmed of its glow, and opens it to find the communication device and letter within.

As he suspected, beings of great power. As they must be, to render one such as him this way. And with a communication device such as this... It reminds him of Midgard, and for that reason it both amuses and angers him. This new realm, a completely unknown, and it shares the same fondness as Thor. This new world, this realm, already has his disdain and bane. Where is Thor? Where is the Tessaract? What's become of Asgard that he can so easily be swiped from his brother's hands into a realm yet unknown? Where is the Allfather? And how long until he sends whosoever to fetch his lost would-be son?

This scroll makes a mockery of answering questions, but it seems he is not the only visitor. Perhaps these twelve have taken Thor as well, and the Tessaract with them. A block, yes, but not one that is insurmountable. Loki will find out the truth, and find where they have taken Thor. For once, perhaps, they are in the same situation. Lost and without the Tessaract, in an unfamiliar world. Perhaps they could even work together...

Thor would like that, wouldn't he? Loki can play on that desire. In fact, he intends to.