a_facility application
OOC Information:
Name: Silent Tristero
Age: 22
AIM: hodudududuh
MSN: easypeasyeasypeasy@gmail.com
Y!M: --
E-MAIL: easypeasyeasypeasy@gmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: No. I already play Sherlock Holmes.
IC Information:
Name: Loki Laufeyson a.k.a. Odinson
Fandom: Marvel (Film; Thor 2011)
Timeline: Sometime around the end of the first film.
Age: Unknown, assumed to be thousands of years. Appears to be in his mid-late 20s.
Appearance: Have a look.
Abilities: Loki, being Asgardian (or rather, a jötunn raised as an Asgardian), has strength and speed superior to that of the average human. He is also superhumanly durable and can heal very quickly, the latter augmented by his powers of sorcery.
In that vein, he is capable of shapeshifting to take the forms of animals or other people, though he can only take on their appearance, not their abilities. He has appeared as both male and female forms of himself in the comic canon as well.
He can create illusory duplicates of himself - images which are very detailed and look and behave exactly as he wants them to but which appear to have no real tangible form - they cannot be touched or, one assumes, interact with objects.
He also seems capable of summoning or banishing objects, or concealing them - the exact nature of this particular power as shown in the film is unclear - and manipulating things telekinetically. Also unclear is whether or not the bursts of energy he fires with his staff are a power of his or a feature of the staff itself, but in the comics, at least, he is capable of firing beams of energy.
Finally, he is capable of imbuing certain objects and people with powers, something like an enchantment which requires constant maintenance on his part.
(Note: I'm nerfing a lot of the abilities he's shown to have in the comics myself as they are not attested in the film - though I have included some of those as well, the shapeshifting in particular, as it is an essential aspect of his character.)
Personality: Loki is known as the god of mischief, and for good reason. When in a good mood, his pranks tend to be harmless, but he can quickly turn scheming and vengeful. He's clever and guileful, a very good liar.
On the other hand, he can also be very charming and flirtatious, though fickle in relationships and friendships. He's definitely not above betraying friends just to mix things up or have a bit of a laugh.
History: Loki was raised alongside his brother Thor on Asgard - a race of advanced extraterrestrial beings who discovered early on in Earth's history how to travel between it and their own realm via a 'bridge' of sorts, described in the film as an Einstein-Rosen bridge - in essence, a manipulation of spacetime to bring two points closer together, a wormhole. The Asgardians are superhumanly long-lived and possess capabilities far beyond that of the average human being. On Earth, they were often worshipped as gods.
Thor and Loki were raised by Odin, the king of Asgard, and both were groomed towards leadership, though only one could ascend the throne. Thor was shown particular favour early on as the eldest child, and Loki came to resent this. Early in the film, he plans to play a trick to spoil his brother's coronation day - he sneaks several jötunn (Frost Giants, historical enemies of Asgard) from their planet to his, ostensibly so that they can attempt to steal back a particular artifact of theirs, a casket which augments their powers of frost manipulation.
They fail, but Thor is furious and demands that Asgard retaliate. Odin refuses and forbids him from going to Jötunheim. Loki manipulates Thor into going anyway, and upon their return Thor is banished from Asgard, leaving Loki next in line for the throne instead. And, indeed, when Odin falls ill, he does ascend to the throne, though not before learning his true background.
During the fight on Jötunheim, he came in contact with a jötunn, and rather than being burned as another Asgardian would have been, he was unharmed and indeed began to take on their bluish colouration. Later on, after Thor's banishment, Loki confronts Odin and learns that he is not Asgardian, but rather the son of the leader of the jötunn, Laufey. This conversation, and the subsequent fight, seems to be what prompts Odin's illness and Loki's ascension.
To cement his position as king, he visits Thor on earth and informs him that their father, Odin, is dead, and the conditions of peace with Jötunheim included that he remain in exile. Upon his return, he makes a visit to Jötunheim himself and promises Laufey that he can sneak him and several of his men into Asgard to assassinate Odin, with the intention of stopping the assassination and manufacturing an excuse to retaliate and destroy Jötunheim entirely in order to earn his adoptive father's favour.
Thor arrives in time to thwart Loki's plan, and in response to his failure and Odin's disappointment in him, throws himself off into space - though it is unlikely that he actually dies, given his pending appearance in The Avengers.
Roleplay Sample - Log: This was not home. That much was immediately apparent and could only come as a relief. How very ignoble, though, how very base and humiliating to wake in a strange bed, collared like a slave or a criminal. Loki's fingers curled about the smooth metal of the collar and he pulled, straining. Nothing, no good, and he snarled, launching himself frustratedly to his feet. The shameful thing would have to stay for now.
No armour. No weapons. Just this room and its meagre contents and his own body, small and slight for an Asgardian, smaller and slighter still for a jötunn, worthless however one addressed the issue. Just this, and his brain, and his tricks in this place that looked like Earth but couldn't be. It seemed impossible that the collapsing bridge would land him on that planet when it had been aimed elsewhere, though who could fathom the unbending of spacetime?
No, it didn't matter. Either way, Loki had to get out, and when he did... then, then he'd have some fun. Why not? After all, he had millennia to kill.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: A quaint little device for a quaint place, how very fitting. It's charming, it really is. I've had a lovely time, but now I'm done.
Father, if this is you: terribly funny, very humorous indeed, well done, but the least you could do is have the decency to imprison me someplace interesting. In fact, the above stands regardless of who is responsible for this nonsense.
As for the rest of you sorry rabble, if someone could please direct me to the door and inform me as to the most expedient method of removing this horrendous collar, I would be most obliged, and obliged is something you would very much like me to be. Loki Odinson repays his allies most generously.
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
He's lived for thousands of years; I'd imagine learning to deal with trauma comes with the territory. Not that he necessarily manages it very well, clearly, given his current vendetta against former friends and family, but he's functional, yes.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here.
Thank you!
EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, I have one relatively small request: namely, that his shapeshifting capabilities not be nerfed entirely. I would totally understand a 'no large animals' caveat, that makes perfect sense to me, but I would really like to keep at least his genderbending ability intact, possibly his ability to change into smaller, functionally harmless animals if you're feeling generous... that along with his ability to produce illusory duplicates of himself strikes me as his most defining trait.
Name: Silent Tristero
Age: 22
AIM: hodudududuh
MSN: easypeasyeasypeasy@gmail.com
Y!M: --
E-MAIL: easypeasyeasypeasy@gmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: No. I already play Sherlock Holmes.
IC Information:
Name: Loki Laufeyson a.k.a. Odinson
Fandom: Marvel (Film; Thor 2011)
Timeline: Sometime around the end of the first film.
Age: Unknown, assumed to be thousands of years. Appears to be in his mid-late 20s.
Appearance: Have a look.
Abilities: Loki, being Asgardian (or rather, a jötunn raised as an Asgardian), has strength and speed superior to that of the average human. He is also superhumanly durable and can heal very quickly, the latter augmented by his powers of sorcery.
In that vein, he is capable of shapeshifting to take the forms of animals or other people, though he can only take on their appearance, not their abilities. He has appeared as both male and female forms of himself in the comic canon as well.
He can create illusory duplicates of himself - images which are very detailed and look and behave exactly as he wants them to but which appear to have no real tangible form - they cannot be touched or, one assumes, interact with objects.
He also seems capable of summoning or banishing objects, or concealing them - the exact nature of this particular power as shown in the film is unclear - and manipulating things telekinetically. Also unclear is whether or not the bursts of energy he fires with his staff are a power of his or a feature of the staff itself, but in the comics, at least, he is capable of firing beams of energy.
Finally, he is capable of imbuing certain objects and people with powers, something like an enchantment which requires constant maintenance on his part.
(Note: I'm nerfing a lot of the abilities he's shown to have in the comics myself as they are not attested in the film - though I have included some of those as well, the shapeshifting in particular, as it is an essential aspect of his character.)
Personality: Loki is known as the god of mischief, and for good reason. When in a good mood, his pranks tend to be harmless, but he can quickly turn scheming and vengeful. He's clever and guileful, a very good liar.
On the other hand, he can also be very charming and flirtatious, though fickle in relationships and friendships. He's definitely not above betraying friends just to mix things up or have a bit of a laugh.
History: Loki was raised alongside his brother Thor on Asgard - a race of advanced extraterrestrial beings who discovered early on in Earth's history how to travel between it and their own realm via a 'bridge' of sorts, described in the film as an Einstein-Rosen bridge - in essence, a manipulation of spacetime to bring two points closer together, a wormhole. The Asgardians are superhumanly long-lived and possess capabilities far beyond that of the average human being. On Earth, they were often worshipped as gods.
Thor and Loki were raised by Odin, the king of Asgard, and both were groomed towards leadership, though only one could ascend the throne. Thor was shown particular favour early on as the eldest child, and Loki came to resent this. Early in the film, he plans to play a trick to spoil his brother's coronation day - he sneaks several jötunn (Frost Giants, historical enemies of Asgard) from their planet to his, ostensibly so that they can attempt to steal back a particular artifact of theirs, a casket which augments their powers of frost manipulation.
They fail, but Thor is furious and demands that Asgard retaliate. Odin refuses and forbids him from going to Jötunheim. Loki manipulates Thor into going anyway, and upon their return Thor is banished from Asgard, leaving Loki next in line for the throne instead. And, indeed, when Odin falls ill, he does ascend to the throne, though not before learning his true background.
During the fight on Jötunheim, he came in contact with a jötunn, and rather than being burned as another Asgardian would have been, he was unharmed and indeed began to take on their bluish colouration. Later on, after Thor's banishment, Loki confronts Odin and learns that he is not Asgardian, but rather the son of the leader of the jötunn, Laufey. This conversation, and the subsequent fight, seems to be what prompts Odin's illness and Loki's ascension.
To cement his position as king, he visits Thor on earth and informs him that their father, Odin, is dead, and the conditions of peace with Jötunheim included that he remain in exile. Upon his return, he makes a visit to Jötunheim himself and promises Laufey that he can sneak him and several of his men into Asgard to assassinate Odin, with the intention of stopping the assassination and manufacturing an excuse to retaliate and destroy Jötunheim entirely in order to earn his adoptive father's favour.
Thor arrives in time to thwart Loki's plan, and in response to his failure and Odin's disappointment in him, throws himself off into space - though it is unlikely that he actually dies, given his pending appearance in The Avengers.
Roleplay Sample - Log: This was not home. That much was immediately apparent and could only come as a relief. How very ignoble, though, how very base and humiliating to wake in a strange bed, collared like a slave or a criminal. Loki's fingers curled about the smooth metal of the collar and he pulled, straining. Nothing, no good, and he snarled, launching himself frustratedly to his feet. The shameful thing would have to stay for now.
No armour. No weapons. Just this room and its meagre contents and his own body, small and slight for an Asgardian, smaller and slighter still for a jötunn, worthless however one addressed the issue. Just this, and his brain, and his tricks in this place that looked like Earth but couldn't be. It seemed impossible that the collapsing bridge would land him on that planet when it had been aimed elsewhere, though who could fathom the unbending of spacetime?
No, it didn't matter. Either way, Loki had to get out, and when he did... then, then he'd have some fun. Why not? After all, he had millennia to kill.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: A quaint little device for a quaint place, how very fitting. It's charming, it really is. I've had a lovely time, but now I'm done.
Father, if this is you: terribly funny, very humorous indeed, well done, but the least you could do is have the decency to imprison me someplace interesting. In fact, the above stands regardless of who is responsible for this nonsense.
As for the rest of you sorry rabble, if someone could please direct me to the door and inform me as to the most expedient method of removing this horrendous collar, I would be most obliged, and obliged is something you would very much like me to be. Loki Odinson repays his allies most generously.
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
He's lived for thousands of years; I'd imagine learning to deal with trauma comes with the territory. Not that he necessarily manages it very well, clearly, given his current vendetta against former friends and family, but he's functional, yes.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here.
Thank you!
EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, I have one relatively small request: namely, that his shapeshifting capabilities not be nerfed entirely. I would totally understand a 'no large animals' caveat, that makes perfect sense to me, but I would really like to keep at least his genderbending ability intact, possibly his ability to change into smaller, functionally harmless animals if you're feeling generous... that along with his ability to produce illusory duplicates of himself strikes me as his most defining trait.