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Name: Loki Laufeyson, (Alias) Lyndon 'Lyn' Frei
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Appears in the movies Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, The Avengers, and Avengers: Infinity War)
Canon Point: Taking him from Thor: Ragnarok, when Hela first arrives. After she shoved him out of the Bifrost's beam, he landed here in Khu Ioduan instead of on Sakaar.
Age: 1052, physically appears to be in his late twenties.
Type of Character: Canon
Reference: Wiki Link
Personality
Outward Presentation
Name: Loki Laufeyson, (Alias) Lyndon 'Lyn' Frei
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Appears in the movies Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, The Avengers, and Avengers: Infinity War)
Canon Point: Taking him from Thor: Ragnarok, when Hela first arrives. After she shoved him out of the Bifrost's beam, he landed here in Khu Ioduan instead of on Sakaar.
Age: 1052, physically appears to be in his late twenties.
Type of Character: Canon
Reference: Wiki Link
Personality
Outward Presentation
Loki has an aristocratic air, worn close and proud like a heavy fur coat, sometimes used as a sharp weapon, but never out of place. He was raised a prince in the golden, divine kingdom of Asgard, an aspiring king along with his brother as the only competition, and still could be considered one even if looking at his true bloodline. His royalty is vivid and shows in a number of the ways he expresses himself. Some are more self contained, a quiet dignity and fluent manners, often the initial way he presents when either keeping himself safely distant from a scene or trying to impress. This is how he acts in the beginning of the first Thor movie and what leads others to underestimate him.
Loki can be competitive to a fault, as it's almost hardwired into him from childhood to become annoyed and affronted at percieved challenges and anyone louder than he is after being in his brother's shadow. He wants to prove he's better or just as good, and doesn't believe he'll be acknowledged for himself and if he doesn't pull a stunt to show off. This can escalate fast and become too personal where someone else might see something as a friendly challenge or just a game. If Loki wins, he's going to gloat and never forget it, and if Loki loses, he's never going to forget it, but he's additionally going to keep trying to get back at you in ways that might even go further than how you initially "humiliated" him. At a certain point, it's a compulsive bad habit, such as when Loki repeatedly betrays Thor to the point that Thor can predict it and get him first, or when he and Valkyrie raise the stakes of a mission they're both trying to complete for the Grandmaster until the twelve hours Loki says he can complete it in turns into only one hour.
He's a snooty little punk. A spoiled, condescending prince. Although he can laugh at himself and the situation he's in, he usually retains an internal sense of status and will mock people for being lower than him or ask them why they aren't acting better if they're royalty themselves, such as with his brother, who he'll endlessly roll his eyes at and call an uncivilized brute. When he's rescued by Korg's revolution in Thor Ragnarok, he thanks them genuinely, but when asked if he wants to go with them on their escape spaceship, he follows his gracious thank you up with "Well, you do seem like you're in desperate need of leadership.", the cheeky bastard.
If the description on his competitiveness and all of his shenanigans didn't illustrate this point enough, Loki is an unrivaled pouter. If he's pouty, one way or another, he'll go out of his way to make sure you know about it, you can fully count on that.
While Loki has intense insight into the minds and secrets of others, he fails or refuses to turn it towards himself, usually either fearfully rejecting his soft emotions that'd trip him up or thinking he's already suffered enough and moving past his own trauma too quickly and without properly addressing everything. If he's going to address it, it's probably going to be in big, attention grabbing, vengeful stunts instead of quiet exposed conversation where he could be attacked or disappointed again. He also has his adoptive father's bad habit of ignoring or excusing his own faults or any illogical moves by turning it around on others or treating it as though it could be dealt with later, not now, because he has more important things to do. Loki would hate to think of it this way, so that's another reason to not think about it at all.
Lastly, even if something truly was for the greater good, or something was hidden from him as a kindness, Loki struggles to ever see things like this, his paranoia overwhelms it and he doesn't want to take the risk of buying into something like that. He'd rather break everything and expose himself to realities that could hurt him and ruin his relationships than try to be comfortable with something vague or kind by someone else's standards but not his own.
Appearance
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Loki is 6'2" and slender, with a graceful posture to match. His eyes are teal, appearing greener in darker lighting and bluer when it's brighter. His face shape is pointed but attractive and effeminate, making him resemble a pretty snake. He almost religiously wears shades of green, blue, gold, and silver, and his stylistic choices are always trendy and sleek with an androgynous flair. His hair length varies, but it's usually pushed back at the top and shakes out to looser waves at the bottom, and is an inky black color.
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At his most deeply vulnerable and unstable, or when coming in contact with Jotun magic, Loki's skin may turn blue with distinct markings, and his eyes shift to red, showing his Jotun roots.
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Loki is as genderfluid as they come, and shifting from a stereotypical masculine to feminine form is the easiest shapeshifting he has up his sleeve. He can also present as fairly mixed. It all depends on mood and advantages given. Her typical female look has long waves of hair reaching down to her hips and a generously curvy shape.
Abilities
Basics
Scholar - Loki is a quick and ravenous learner. His primary area of expertise is in Arcane Lore, but he's adaptable in others and related fields. Combat Skills - Loki isn't as much of a warrior as he is a sorcerer, but he's nothing to scoff at, and can hold his own well in war. He's best in using his magic, weapons, and agility to help him, but he can do hand-to-hand fights if it's really needed. There are plenty of people better at the last thing than him, but he tries to keep up. Pilot - Loki's great at flying spaceships, even those he isn't initially familiar with.
Jotun, called Frost Giants by Asgardians, are a race of people who live on the planet Jotunheim. They used to be a powerful force, with an artifact capable of freezing over enemy territory to ease invasions-- but they lost that after clashing with Asgard over Earth, and fell from glory,. Their civilization was left a husk of its former self without its power source. Loki was taken from the fresh wreckage as an infant and had his true appearance covered by Odin's magic. At this point, he competently holds the concealment up himself as almost a second-skin, as he's been using it for the majority of his life.
Superhuman Strength/Speed/Agility/Durability/Stamina - Loki's not as tough as his brother Thor, but he can keep up, and is much stronger than a regular human. He couldn't throw a column at you, but he could throw a large chair without breaking a sweat, possibly a couch with some strain. He can run as fast as a human professional athlete with less strain. Agility is one of his best skills, he's very acrobatic and flexible, and can make long leaps, what he lacks in pure muscle is made up for here. His durability and stamina are fit for a species with a history full of war, and he could be in a few battles in a row before tiring, though he will eventually tire.
Healing Factor - Loki regenerates at a moderate pace, and although it won't bring him back to his best health, it's enough to let him stand up and limp around a short while after a really heavy beating. (Even one given by the Hulk.) Let's say this takes around twenty minutes.
Longevity - He should live to be around five thousand years old if left alone, and his still fairly young by his realm's standards.
Cold Immunity - Loki isn't at all bothered by the cold, he was born on a planet completely covered in ice. He wears those dramatic coats purely for the aesthetic, this man could walk through several inches of snow barefooted without a shiver. He's more likely to be overwhelmed by heat. Normal summer weather variations he's gotten used to, moderate amounts of direct heat will be a bit dizzying, and heavy amounts will start being painful fast.
Master Sorcerer
Illusion Manipulation - This is Loki's biggest power, and a bit fancier than regular shapeshifting. He can shift into convincing replications of other people, voice included, and have it hold up under touch. I wouldn't expect it'd hold up under something like DNA testing, however, but scent and taste? Yes. Loki can project these illusions outward to create clones of himself or change the appearances of others, but these are fragile and more easily broken under strain. He can also use this for quirkier things, like changing his outfits on the spot or turning into animals. Just as he can project his normal shapeshifting on others, he was noted to have once changed Thor into a frog. He can even push his illusions across an entire room, and once used this to hide that he'd wrecked his prison cell and was sitting on the ground miserably. Lastly, and only for himself, Loki can have a hologram of himself appear in other locations, not too far away from himself, I imagine relatively in the same building and area and only somewhere he's familiar with, and this clone can speak and seem solid like any other but with that same fragility. Anything that isn't constricted to his own physical form and holding it up more intensely and with consent, should be fragile.
Presence Concealment - Loki can hide himself or even only make himself visible to specific people, though I'm going to say it has a cooldown period. He can do this for a few hours, and then has to wait a day until doing it again, and if anyone was trying to find him at the location he was in, they'd spot him, but you wouldn't be able to tell where he was from a distance-- such as when he was hidden from Heimdall, who can see about everything from afar. Imagine trying to use a tracking beacon on him and it failing, while if you notice something banging in your house and go looking, if Loki's there and he's knocked over a box, you're going to see him. When he visited Thor while he was caught by Shield in the first Thor movie, only Thor was able to see him, and afterwards, he walked straight up to Thor's hammer and pulled on it to no avail. But since he didn't cause much visible disruption, he was able to creep around under people's noses.
Conjuring - Loki can conjure and dispel small items not much larger than his head from what I'll say is tiny personal pocket dimension. Daggers and magic stone artifacts, oh my!
Telekinesis - This is something Loki can use with small objects, like his throwing knives, and the objects used will glow a green light. It can only go a small battlefield's distance from him, and is more a launching power than used to delicately float objects places. He doesn't have to be holding something to do this. More rarely, it'll explode from him as a tiny earthquake when he's deeply distraught, making the room he's in shake, furniture break, and lights flicker without much control on his part.
Mind Intrusion - Though he had advanced mind control abilities in The Avengers, this was only granted by having the Mind Stone in special scepter. Loki himself appears to only be able to invade someone's mind when they're already emotional and caught off guard and when he has skin contact. When he fights with Valkyrie in Thor Ragnarok, he first provokes her, then if very briefly able to press his hand to her forehead and make them both flash back to a traumatic memory from her past. This only lasts about a minute, but it's enough to get some good information and shake the other person up. If given the time, energy, and once again surprise opportunity, he can manage bigger manipulation spells, like the one that made Odin stay on Earth, but that eventually wore off so this is only for temporary use.
Suitability: Loki is desperate for safety and a fresh start, far, far away from his old life, reputation, and countless enemies that are unlikely to ever give up hunting him to the very ends of his own original dimension (Hela, Thanos, The Avengers, and more!). Loki had resigned himself to hiding, but knew he'd still have to keep fleeing to different corners, and what was going to happen to him if he ran out of corners? He'll be throwing himself into this wholeheartedly, but there's no guarantee he won't repeat any old mistakes. Loki, with all his curiosity, ambition, and connection-hoarding, will have much to do here and engage the world in a very hands-on manner. He's going to do some good, do some bad, and everything in the grey area. Strong bonds, dramatic friend and foe, are also inevitable. Loki is opportunistic and feeds off of using people, so he'll attempt a little of everything and to have something any group can want. Plus, he wants to impress everyone. Probably won't work every time, and strange mixed connections may backfire, but that's what makes this fun. I'm interested in big heavy plots, everyday life fluff/shenanigans, exploration, and anything else that can be thrown at me. Loki has a real lust for life and digging his claws into it.
Inventory:
x7 Small Throwing Blades - About the size of his hands.
x2 Daggers - Longer knives, about the length of Loki's forearms.
x1 Spear - A long, gold, staff-like spear tall enough to reach Loki's height.
x1 Horned Helmet - A golden helmet with long, curved, sharp horns, Loki's signature and favorite. Ref.
Talent Preferences: Alteration, Destruction, Conjuration
When he speaks up in those cases, he's usually one of the most reasonable, steady, and soft spoken voices in the room and can retain a moral superiority at first glance. There's more cunning and personal anger tucked underneath this that either explodes in outbursts or when he's alone. In Thor, after Thor is exiled, he reveals he was the one who had told a guard to warn Odin their group was headed exactly where Odin had told them not to go. While underhanded, he still has the right to remind everyone that was what saved their lives, that they'd be trapped on an ice planet with a bloodthirsty army surrounding them without his tattling, and he's not really wrong. Once Loki leaves, Thor's friends bring up Loki's jealousy motivating this move, and both motives seem equally, inseparably present in his actions. While Loki is extremely petty, he builds a hard to shake fortress of logic around it that makes it harder to break in comparison when one is handling any idiotic or purely malicious individual.
His stubbornness and intelligence, and the fact that he's aware of both traits, is what makes him truly dangerous. You'd think he'd be at his lowest when captured, but it's actually when he utilizes the aforementioned things best. He has nothing to lose, freedom and ability to fight both gone, so what remains is his own will. While caught by the Avengers, Loki seems to be in less of a cage than they all are, and comments on it gleefully, watching their differences clash and secrets awkwardly hang in the air around them when he was already forced to confront the big secrets in his life and become more disillusioned to them. He taunts the Avengers and Shield members one by one, using research he's done and on the spot observations he's made, making his insightfulness notable as well as his bitter humor. And however many witty quips they throw back at him, the damage is usually already done. Loki is used to being shoved aside, seen as the weaselly sidekick to his brother and brother's friends since a young age-- that couldn't possibly be as useful as their warrior spirits and loud, blunt energy-- but the built up rage and strong character that can't be completely snuffed out helps him twist that old stereotype to his benefit and to go above it.
When in custody again and brought to Asgard, this time he's for what he's told will be the rest of his life, his father tries to talk him down and shame him. Loki walks in already cracking jokes, asking his mother if he's made her proud, telling Odin he doesn't know what the big deal is. While Odin isn't as vulnerable as the Avengers, Loki turns a lot of the man's own history back against him and mocks him for his hypocrisy, and Odin doesn't quite deny this, instead only hammering in Loki's misbehavior. This only serves to confirm Loki's judgement and make them more concrete. To contrast, he shows the most emotional instability and doubt when others are caught in lies or misdeeds and try to paint themselves as remorseful. He's a sobbing, confused mess when confronting Odin on his true heritage, but as soon as he gets a logical footing and Odin tries to make excuses, the more rage he gives and the less he allows the man's explanations to get away unshredded. And when they're far past this, back to that scene of meeting again to discuss Loki's imprisonment, as Odin stays firm Loki throws him nothing but rebellion and vicious dressing downs of his supposedly wise statements. You can trip Loki up with emotions, but not with half-assed greater good or in a battle of wills, where he can see and attack every minuscule flaw he perceives you to be arrogantly shoving down his throat. He can handle poison, he lives surrounded by it, constantly aware of it, but he won't swallow it without doing you the same favor. With how traumatic the lies he's lived with were, lies meant to be helpful, it's safe to assume he finds his cruel delivery of truths to be an improvement and perhaps even an escape.
While some of his skillset is borne from how he's been overlooked, or how he tries to set himself apart from his rambunctious brother, he's prideful of it in his own right and has fun being himself when he's not under the weight of familial pressure. Loki was taught in magic and cunning by his adoptive mother Frigga and presumably spent more time with her than Odin, taking after her in most areas that aren't his copying Odin's conquering days or quickness to make questionable deals with enemies instead of facing problems directly. His manners and charm come from her, as does the arguably feminine aesthetics and disposition. Loki is happier and more honest around his mother, loving and mourning her openly when she dies, talking to her openly even when he's agitated, and their closeness is shown too in how she's the only one who visits his jail cell and does much to make him comfortable there. And something that's almost entirely Loki's own is his playfulness. Again, some of this is from rejecting taking things seriously when they've betrayed him, and being brought down enough that he copes through humor, but while those are worthy notes, Loki loves being flamboyant, dramatic, and playing pranks. He's good at it, too. When he and Thor were eight years old, he knew Thor loved snakes, so he shapeshifted into a snake, waited until Thor picked him up, then transformed back and stabbed him. It's a fond memory for Loki, not so much for Thor. He adores teasing Thor in general, getting him flustered and not so big and tough. He's a terrible backseat spaceship driver, snarky on everything Thor tries to do while they're making a daring escape, and also enjoys Thor's alarm when he steers a ship straight into a barely visible tunnel in cliffs to escape Asgard.
Loki loves knowing about things others don't and that he's dug up with his never-satisfied nosiness. He finds many secret exits to Asgard, is a know it all about magical artifacts and other worlds, ends up finding out all of the Grandmaster's ship passwords in Thor Ragnarok, and is always nosy for more. He dangles this above others heads to use against them or make them need his assistance, but he's obviously passionate about it himself, else he'd never dig around for so much. He hoards information and advantages like a madman and giggles when it's pointed out, with either smugness or victory at catching someone off guard with how far he went.
Loki's impishness and dramatics are two sides of the same coin. He savors attention since he was starved of it in his youth, and he's great at showmanship, encouraging others to be entertained and indulgent, so why shouldn't he embrace that? Two birds with one stone. When Loki finally gets to take over Asgard after the end of Thor 2 and the start of Thor Ragnarok, pretending to be Odin, he builds himself statues, writes plays that are arguably hilarious while also glorifying himself and his tragic backstory for the public, and spends most of his free time drinking wine in a bathrobe. He's undoubtedly corrupt and lazy here, but the citizens do seem safe, happy, and emotionally moved by his play. When he's in Sakaar, the very first scene with him finds him holding a group of people captivated with a story about himself, being egotistical but easily making them laugh. And in Avengers, though being terrible, he acts his role well and with flourish, making for quite the photogenic supervillain, going from intimidating to hammy and back with no trouble, twirling his scepter before hitting a man in the face with it, and smiling as he causes chaos. In any situation where you could picture imaginary or literal cameras on him, Loki goes all out, not one to disappoint that theatrical tone. He's definitely acutely aware of it.
Loki's fond of others with a spunky energy. When Jane Foster meets and instantly slaps him, he's thrilled and a little surprised, declaring that he likes her. This isn't to be mixed up with him being fond of arrogance, as when something seems to be less rebellion or boldness based, more smug, flippant I'm-better-than-you behavior such as the type Tony Stark displays, or a dull but forced upon you righteousness any Shield employee and Captain America shows, it annoys the hell out of Loki. This may feel more dry and expected, remind him of his brother and father, or both.
In a mix of his perceptiveness and fondness of attention, Loki's a renowned manipulator, actor, and huge suckup. He knows what people want to hear and can either say the exact opposite to salt wounds, as discussed already, or he can shower them with praise and customized companionship. In the first Thor movie, he sets off a brilliantly concise scheme by knowing his brother well enough to know one conversation where he backs up Thor's ideas and then uses reverse psychology, playing the supportive but more cautious role to get Thor to plant a bad idea in his mind and have him snap up the bait. It's almost too easy, in fact, and the plan ends up getting Thor in more trouble than Loki had even wanted. When he fakes his own death at the end of Thor 2, he shapeshifts into Odin and gives Thor another very convincing, well set up conversation. Thor had ruminated over Loki's previous words in the very same movie warning him that humans had a short lifespan and he wasn't going to be able to handle both being king and with his girlfriend Jane Foster. So Thor comes to "Odin" heeding that advice seriously, and tells him he doesn't want to be king any longer. Odin scolds him in an official capacity, but encourages him to follow his heart with an unofficial, fatherly sentiment, and Thor leaves-- after having complimented and defended Loki to fake Odin, to boot. This is a marvelous play on Loki's part, and when he takes a subtle route, he usually wins. He can mimic those around him with uncanny accuracy, and calculate his setup and payoffs a long time ahead of the actual events. Thirdly, in Thor Ragnarok, Loki arrives on Sakaar earlier than Thor and becomes the Grandmaster's-- the man who rules the entire planet, and who is a lunatic, but amenable-- lapdog. It's implied Loki slept his way to the top here, gaining his favor and trust in only a few weeks, which is impressive when you're dealing with such an eccentric and unpredictable person. Of course, Loki is that himself. And his scheme this time is that eventually, an "accident" may befall the Grandmaster, and then Loki can take over from him. To put it shortly, Loki's one smooth, pretty snake and when others have a need or anger in them, he steps right in to poke at it.
Deeper Psyche
Most of Loki's capriciousness centers around the lies he was shamelessly fed in the formative part of his youth. His father Odin told him that both he and his brother had equal chance to be king, if they worked hard for it, but only one could do it in the end. This was a huge lie, but Loki's efforts and anxieties revolved around it entirely as though it was plain truth. It always seemed as though Thor was more popular, more heroic, more loved by their father, and no matter how much Loki clawed to show his own worth, to be smarter and more thoughtful on leadership methods in particular, it didn't matter. It was apparent that Thor was going to be king, and Thor, without much formality, expected to be king. Everyone always knew it'd be Thor, and Loki felt like he'd been left out of a sick inside joke. He had.
When Loki concocts his fairly innocent scheme to humiliate Thor a little on his big inauguration day, he doesn't expect for it to go as far as it does, nor does he expect to get a nasty surprise of his own. When Loki is touched by a Jotun, unlike the others but outside their field of vision, he isn't hurt, and his skin even briefly turns blue. He's as shocked as anyone else would be-- he wasn't secretly in the know about this or evil all along TM, he'd just pretty much been a kid screwing around up until this point, not off the deep end. When he's back in Asgard and alone, he sneaks into Odin's secret treasure room to test his suspicions, and possibly wishing that they'd just turn out wrong. They don't. When Loki takes hold of the Jotun artifact, the Casket of Ancient Winters, he starts to take his complete, unmistakable Jotun form.
Odin arrives, and Loki begins to confront him. First, vulnerable, confused, miserable and showing self-hatred. He's hurt and lost and terribly alone. Odin reveals-- and only after Loki started to theorize and forced him to reveal it, Odin tried to shrug this off at first-- that Loki was abandoned in a temple after Odin attacked his birth planet and had killed or caused many Jotun to flee. A runt of a child for an Ice Giant, and their leader Laufey's son, suffering and left to die. Loki's reasonably horrified at being picked up when Odin was already "knee deep in Jotun blood". Odin claims it's because he was an innocent child, but Loki persists, and makes Odin tell him that he was taken as a bargaining chip for future peace between Asgard and Jotunheim. You can see Loki's heart shatter in this moment. No amount of explanation Odin offers now can move Loki. He states he would've preferred to know from the beginning instead of being kept in the dark and fed false hope. And it stings to be the monster under the bed for Asgardians, but hiding it makes his existence seem extra shameful. Odin was protecting him from himself, and that's traumatizing to hear. While Loki is done believing anything Odin says, when Odin passes out there and falls into Odinsleep, Loki still freaks out, touching his hands and shakily calling for the guards help. He still cares. Loki becomes a nastier and nastier person with time, but he's never been an unfeeling, insensitive one. He started out a scared, betrayed child.
Loki wants to redeem himself or at least gain a grand acknowledgement that'd bandage up the deep wounds to his sense of self and connections. His scheme in the first Thor movie is to doublecross his own biological father and destroy his birth planet to do what Thor couldn't and win Odin's love, and perhaps remove all evidence of his initial roots so he could fully fit in Asgard. He fails, and it only makes Odin harshly exile him with no foreseeable path back. In The Avengers, Loki is in a very dark place, spiraling, cut off from his home and people, influenced by Thanos. He has nothing to lose now, so he goes a bit nuts and extraordinarily violent when it wouldn't typically be his strategy. In fact, it's blatantly stated that he's copying Odin, whose old habits were to wage war and conquer. He tries to steal the planet his brother Thor loves too much in another revenge move and rule over humans, who he finds stupid and notices fight among themselves endlessly. He says he can do better, take away their freedom and have them happier, but his underlying desire seems to be watching things burn. And with the way he sometimes talks about foolishly wanting freedom, it all appears as though it might be Loki unhealthily reenacting not only Odin's war days, but also Odin's unpleasant, lying, greater good excused iron-grip control over others and especially Loki. It's a way for Loki to reverse the roles, but it's awful and similar to what you'd see with a cycle of abusive parents raising children to do the same to their own offspring.
Another aspect of Loki is "fuck it". If he's a monster, fine, so be it. He's had enough turmoil over everything in his own mind and with his family that he's been pushed far enough to just let go. Give in to bad impulses, hurting people like he's been hurt, reveling in purposeless chaos. It's cathartic. But only temporarily cathartic. These are all shitty coping methods and not really a good sign for Loki, however uncaring he acts. It doesn't line up with his natural state and is more of a reflection of what's happened to him. It's extremely valuable to note that when Odin's far away and out of his life, and when Thor is too, Loki ends up fairly harmless and even happy. He can be monstrous, no doubt about it, no sadness can whisk that away, but negative, dangerous environments and his obsessions with some people, hateful but codependent obsessions, cause Loki to be more erratic than he'd ever be if left alone to breathe.
Loki feels betrayed enough that he'll now consistently betray people first if he doesn't feel they're one hundred percent reliable. And it's hard to convince him you're reliable. His suspicions may be exaggerated, but they're for self protection. Loki shields himself with cruelty and being two steps ahead of everyone, even when that creates self sabotage. Being hated seems comfortable and familiar and not quite as big and up in the air as being unconditionally loved and trusted, so he doesn't open up for these things and reacts with revulsion to them.
Despite of this broken narrative, Loki still seeks happiness. Sometimes it's in terrible ways that throw others under a bus, sometimes just mildly manipulative, sometimes earnestly, but he acts like he's exhausted and looking for something. He comes closest to this when separated from the expectations that have been imposed to him and he's clung to himself, which poison him. He doesn't quite know how to find his happiness though he's needy for it, and makes many missteps and incorrect judgement on what'll bring it. He says himself, as well, that satisfaction is not in his nature. This is because he's had placation handed to him too often without much consideration towards what he wanted and he's never again going to shut up and submit to it. He knows it won't ever make the restless feelings go away, and people won't thank him for it, either.
Despite of this broken narrative, Loki still seeks happiness. Sometimes it's in terrible ways that throw others under a bus, sometimes just mildly manipulative, sometimes earnestly, but he acts like he's exhausted and looking for something. He comes closest to this when separated from the expectations that have been imposed to him and he's clung to himself, which poison him. He doesn't quite know how to find his happiness though he's needy for it, and makes many missteps and incorrect judgement on what'll bring it. He says himself, as well, that satisfaction is not in his nature. This is because he's had placation handed to him too often without much consideration towards what he wanted and he's never again going to shut up and submit to it. He knows it won't ever make the restless feelings go away, and people won't thank him for it, either.
Faults
Loki can be competitive to a fault, as it's almost hardwired into him from childhood to become annoyed and affronted at percieved challenges and anyone louder than he is after being in his brother's shadow. He wants to prove he's better or just as good, and doesn't believe he'll be acknowledged for himself and if he doesn't pull a stunt to show off. This can escalate fast and become too personal where someone else might see something as a friendly challenge or just a game. If Loki wins, he's going to gloat and never forget it, and if Loki loses, he's never going to forget it, but he's additionally going to keep trying to get back at you in ways that might even go further than how you initially "humiliated" him. At a certain point, it's a compulsive bad habit, such as when Loki repeatedly betrays Thor to the point that Thor can predict it and get him first, or when he and Valkyrie raise the stakes of a mission they're both trying to complete for the Grandmaster until the twelve hours Loki says he can complete it in turns into only one hour.
He's a snooty little punk. A spoiled, condescending prince. Although he can laugh at himself and the situation he's in, he usually retains an internal sense of status and will mock people for being lower than him or ask them why they aren't acting better if they're royalty themselves, such as with his brother, who he'll endlessly roll his eyes at and call an uncivilized brute. When he's rescued by Korg's revolution in Thor Ragnarok, he thanks them genuinely, but when asked if he wants to go with them on their escape spaceship, he follows his gracious thank you up with "Well, you do seem like you're in desperate need of leadership.", the cheeky bastard.
If the description on his competitiveness and all of his shenanigans didn't illustrate this point enough, Loki is an unrivaled pouter. If he's pouty, one way or another, he'll go out of his way to make sure you know about it, you can fully count on that.
While Loki has intense insight into the minds and secrets of others, he fails or refuses to turn it towards himself, usually either fearfully rejecting his soft emotions that'd trip him up or thinking he's already suffered enough and moving past his own trauma too quickly and without properly addressing everything. If he's going to address it, it's probably going to be in big, attention grabbing, vengeful stunts instead of quiet exposed conversation where he could be attacked or disappointed again. He also has his adoptive father's bad habit of ignoring or excusing his own faults or any illogical moves by turning it around on others or treating it as though it could be dealt with later, not now, because he has more important things to do. Loki would hate to think of it this way, so that's another reason to not think about it at all.
Lastly, even if something truly was for the greater good, or something was hidden from him as a kindness, Loki struggles to ever see things like this, his paranoia overwhelms it and he doesn't want to take the risk of buying into something like that. He'd rather break everything and expose himself to realities that could hurt him and ruin his relationships than try to be comfortable with something vague or kind by someone else's standards but not his own.
Summary
Loki's a beautiful mess, and as tangled up as he is, remains bright, engaging, and curious, keeps trying to tackle and wrestle life, and has potential for so much.
Appearance
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Loki is 6'2" and slender, with a graceful posture to match. His eyes are teal, appearing greener in darker lighting and bluer when it's brighter. His face shape is pointed but attractive and effeminate, making him resemble a pretty snake. He almost religiously wears shades of green, blue, gold, and silver, and his stylistic choices are always trendy and sleek with an androgynous flair. His hair length varies, but it's usually pushed back at the top and shakes out to looser waves at the bottom, and is an inky black color.
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At his most deeply vulnerable and unstable, or when coming in contact with Jotun magic, Loki's skin may turn blue with distinct markings, and his eyes shift to red, showing his Jotun roots.
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Loki is as genderfluid as they come, and shifting from a stereotypical masculine to feminine form is the easiest shapeshifting he has up his sleeve. He can also present as fairly mixed. It all depends on mood and advantages given. Her typical female look has long waves of hair reaching down to her hips and a generously curvy shape.
Abilities
Basics
Scholar - Loki is a quick and ravenous learner. His primary area of expertise is in Arcane Lore, but he's adaptable in others and related fields. Combat Skills - Loki isn't as much of a warrior as he is a sorcerer, but he's nothing to scoff at, and can hold his own well in war. He's best in using his magic, weapons, and agility to help him, but he can do hand-to-hand fights if it's really needed. There are plenty of people better at the last thing than him, but he tries to keep up. Pilot - Loki's great at flying spaceships, even those he isn't initially familiar with.
Jotun Physiology
Jotun, called Frost Giants by Asgardians, are a race of people who live on the planet Jotunheim. They used to be a powerful force, with an artifact capable of freezing over enemy territory to ease invasions-- but they lost that after clashing with Asgard over Earth, and fell from glory,. Their civilization was left a husk of its former self without its power source. Loki was taken from the fresh wreckage as an infant and had his true appearance covered by Odin's magic. At this point, he competently holds the concealment up himself as almost a second-skin, as he's been using it for the majority of his life.
Superhuman Strength/Speed/Agility/Durability/Stamina - Loki's not as tough as his brother Thor, but he can keep up, and is much stronger than a regular human. He couldn't throw a column at you, but he could throw a large chair without breaking a sweat, possibly a couch with some strain. He can run as fast as a human professional athlete with less strain. Agility is one of his best skills, he's very acrobatic and flexible, and can make long leaps, what he lacks in pure muscle is made up for here. His durability and stamina are fit for a species with a history full of war, and he could be in a few battles in a row before tiring, though he will eventually tire.
Healing Factor - Loki regenerates at a moderate pace, and although it won't bring him back to his best health, it's enough to let him stand up and limp around a short while after a really heavy beating. (Even one given by the Hulk.) Let's say this takes around twenty minutes.
Longevity - He should live to be around five thousand years old if left alone, and his still fairly young by his realm's standards.
Cold Immunity - Loki isn't at all bothered by the cold, he was born on a planet completely covered in ice. He wears those dramatic coats purely for the aesthetic, this man could walk through several inches of snow barefooted without a shiver. He's more likely to be overwhelmed by heat. Normal summer weather variations he's gotten used to, moderate amounts of direct heat will be a bit dizzying, and heavy amounts will start being painful fast.
Master Sorcerer
Illusion Manipulation - This is Loki's biggest power, and a bit fancier than regular shapeshifting. He can shift into convincing replications of other people, voice included, and have it hold up under touch. I wouldn't expect it'd hold up under something like DNA testing, however, but scent and taste? Yes. Loki can project these illusions outward to create clones of himself or change the appearances of others, but these are fragile and more easily broken under strain. He can also use this for quirkier things, like changing his outfits on the spot or turning into animals. Just as he can project his normal shapeshifting on others, he was noted to have once changed Thor into a frog. He can even push his illusions across an entire room, and once used this to hide that he'd wrecked his prison cell and was sitting on the ground miserably. Lastly, and only for himself, Loki can have a hologram of himself appear in other locations, not too far away from himself, I imagine relatively in the same building and area and only somewhere he's familiar with, and this clone can speak and seem solid like any other but with that same fragility. Anything that isn't constricted to his own physical form and holding it up more intensely and with consent, should be fragile.
Presence Concealment - Loki can hide himself or even only make himself visible to specific people, though I'm going to say it has a cooldown period. He can do this for a few hours, and then has to wait a day until doing it again, and if anyone was trying to find him at the location he was in, they'd spot him, but you wouldn't be able to tell where he was from a distance-- such as when he was hidden from Heimdall, who can see about everything from afar. Imagine trying to use a tracking beacon on him and it failing, while if you notice something banging in your house and go looking, if Loki's there and he's knocked over a box, you're going to see him. When he visited Thor while he was caught by Shield in the first Thor movie, only Thor was able to see him, and afterwards, he walked straight up to Thor's hammer and pulled on it to no avail. But since he didn't cause much visible disruption, he was able to creep around under people's noses.
Conjuring - Loki can conjure and dispel small items not much larger than his head from what I'll say is tiny personal pocket dimension. Daggers and magic stone artifacts, oh my!
Telekinesis - This is something Loki can use with small objects, like his throwing knives, and the objects used will glow a green light. It can only go a small battlefield's distance from him, and is more a launching power than used to delicately float objects places. He doesn't have to be holding something to do this. More rarely, it'll explode from him as a tiny earthquake when he's deeply distraught, making the room he's in shake, furniture break, and lights flicker without much control on his part.
Mind Intrusion - Though he had advanced mind control abilities in The Avengers, this was only granted by having the Mind Stone in special scepter. Loki himself appears to only be able to invade someone's mind when they're already emotional and caught off guard and when he has skin contact. When he fights with Valkyrie in Thor Ragnarok, he first provokes her, then if very briefly able to press his hand to her forehead and make them both flash back to a traumatic memory from her past. This only lasts about a minute, but it's enough to get some good information and shake the other person up. If given the time, energy, and once again surprise opportunity, he can manage bigger manipulation spells, like the one that made Odin stay on Earth, but that eventually wore off so this is only for temporary use.
Suitability: Loki is desperate for safety and a fresh start, far, far away from his old life, reputation, and countless enemies that are unlikely to ever give up hunting him to the very ends of his own original dimension (Hela, Thanos, The Avengers, and more!). Loki had resigned himself to hiding, but knew he'd still have to keep fleeing to different corners, and what was going to happen to him if he ran out of corners? He'll be throwing himself into this wholeheartedly, but there's no guarantee he won't repeat any old mistakes. Loki, with all his curiosity, ambition, and connection-hoarding, will have much to do here and engage the world in a very hands-on manner. He's going to do some good, do some bad, and everything in the grey area. Strong bonds, dramatic friend and foe, are also inevitable. Loki is opportunistic and feeds off of using people, so he'll attempt a little of everything and to have something any group can want. Plus, he wants to impress everyone. Probably won't work every time, and strange mixed connections may backfire, but that's what makes this fun. I'm interested in big heavy plots, everyday life fluff/shenanigans, exploration, and anything else that can be thrown at me. Loki has a real lust for life and digging his claws into it.
Inventory:
x7 Small Throwing Blades - About the size of his hands.
x2 Daggers - Longer knives, about the length of Loki's forearms.
x1 Spear - A long, gold, staff-like spear tall enough to reach Loki's height.
x1 Horned Helmet - A golden helmet with long, curved, sharp horns, Loki's signature and favorite. Ref.
Talent Preferences: Alteration, Destruction, Conjuration
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