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Fandom: Thor (film)
Name: Loki
Canon Point: At the end of the film (before post-credits). Loki escapes from Asgard via alternate means and ends up here.
Is this character dead? No.
History: Wiki. If you want/need additional history, please let me know and I'll be happy to type one up.
[Optional] Character Development and Relationship Transfer from previous RP: None.
Personality:
Loki is a complicated fellow. While the first viewing of the film might suggest that he's evil or had wicked intentions, the truth is that Loki really was trying to do the right thing, he just happened to try to do it in his own misguided way. He is, inherently, a mischievous type of person who, as Thor comments, is skilled in deceit and talking his way out of things. The god will often try to remain on good terms with as many people as possible, despite that he may try to use them against each other or his schemes may target one. If he finds someone who is simple-minded or naïve, he will go out of his way to be closer with them in order to make his games of manipulation easier to execute. Most of his schemes, deceit, etc. are extremely subtle and he tries always to appear benevolent for his deeds.
Still, he manipulates for what he believes, as mentioned, to be the right reasons. He manipulated the Frost Giants and some Asgardians against each other in order to destroy the Frost Giants as he believed was better for Asgard and to get his own opportunity to prove his worth. Loki is actually an extremely insecure individual and often tries to prove his merits, more so when he realized his past as a Jotun. Most of his actions are provoked by this need to prove himself, yet he can be fierce when his weaknesses are prodded.
A tear falls down his cheek as he yells at Thor to fight him, trying to have an actual battle with his brother rather than to stab him in the back. This shows he has honor, is hurt by his brother's seemingly natural ability to be loved (something he has always struggled with), and is not afraid of a fight. Generally, he prefers to be quiet and allow others to do most of the talking in order to obtain as much information as possible. He's also not afraid of speaking his mind when it becomes important to do so.
Loki has a healthy respect for fear and the possibility of dying, but he also teases those boundaries he knows he shouldn't cross, pushing them to see how far he can go. When he's confident of an escape plan or a plan B, he'll more often stride into potentially reckless situations. This also means that, when the god has lots of information (which he perceives as power), he'll tend to be more confident than when his schemes are lacking.
The younger son was always jealous of Thor and this penchant for envy remains still. Though most of his jealousy was directed toward Thor, he still envied some of Thor's basic traits in others as well - such as his ease in being personable or his natural confidence. That said, Loki can be charismatic as well when he tries, it's just in a very different way than Thor, and he has a quiet pride that he rarely boasts of with the same candor as Thor possessed (a pride in his people and his abilities, not contradictory to his natural insecurities).
Cunning and extremely intelligent in general, he enjoys making deals and toying around with people more than anything else really. That is, Loki would rather pull the strings of others because he can rather than for any particular need of power (as he says in the film, he never craved the throne, just equality).
“I look at someone who is damaged, broken, alone. That's kind of who Loki is.” -Tom Hiddleston on Loki.
Skills | Powers:
Loki is a reasonably skilled fighter with the staff he carries around, the throwing knives (seen in the Jotunheim fight near the beginning of the film), and some other weapons. Being a front giant (though of human stature), he has increased physical attributes (durability, agility, strength, etc).
He has fantastic abilities to create false images of himself (like clones) but, like most with this ability, the images will disappear when the original is harmed -- or when the image itself is attacked. He also has the ability to disguise himself to some extent (the extent in the film is not shown beyond his skin tone, hair, eyes, etc) and can project an image of himself across long distances (ie on Earth, speaking to Thor); these projections have some tangible quality (he attempted to return the Mjolnir to Asgard). He also has the ability to either teleport or conceal items (seen in his hiding of the Casket after freezing Heimdall).
Because the film gives so little explanations of Loki's abilities and limitations, I would like to base Loki's powers on the comic version (taken from here, but cut down to those hinted at/shown in the film):
Loki is a member of the race of Frost Giants of Jotunheim, although not a giant in stature. He possesses physical attributes equal to a fit average member of the race of superbeings known as Asgardians, such as superhuman strength; stamina (his Frost Giant metabolism grants him superhuman levels of physical stamina in practically all activities); durability; some resistance to magic.
Loki has extensive training in magic, and possesses the ability to manipulate magical forces for a variety of purposes: creation of force fields, illusion casting, and inter-dimensional teleportation [I would use this as short-distance only, meaning a maximum of thirty feet].
Loki possesses some extrasensory abilities and is capable of astral projection and casting his thoughts across great distances-even across dimensional barriers, like that between Asgard and Earth-even if he is unable to move.
Loki is an adept shapeshifter and can impersonate other people, such as Thor. However, he does not gain the abilities of whoever he turns into. [I would also like Loki to have the ability to shapeshift into lesser/smaller animals as is in legend and the comics, though it was not shown in the film, because it's directly synonymous with the trickster ways of the Norse god].
He is sometimes armed with a sword or a whip, and has used magical items (such as the Norn Stones) to enhance his powers.
First Person Sample:
[There's a pause before the video feed appears and Loki stares for a moment.]
This is new. I had no idea that when I left Asgard without the Bifrost that I might end up here. This is reminiscent of the Eighth Realm, but there's no sign of Hel. Where is it that I have landed?
First Person Sample #2: (Because the first was short)
My father explained Yggodrasil to me like this: it is the tree of differing dimensions, connecting the Nine Realms together. I lived in Asgard, the First Realm. We watched the other Realms, to ensure that they remained peaceful together. Aside from the Frost Giants of Jotunheim, the Realms did not war in my lifetime. I did what was necessary to end that war in my brief rule as King of Asgard.
Most of you come from Earth, or Midgard, as we call it; the Fifth Realm. Most mortals are oblivious to the nature of the cosmos at large, but I trust that you have come to believe in these things more than those you left behind. We are, after all, in an entirely different place now.
Third Person Sample:
Loki flicked one throwing knife from what appeared to be thin air and then another, both appearing in a flash of green and launching with expert precision toward the Jotun they had come to kill. He spun around in time to duck out of the way of a slew of ice crystals, then pressed his hands to the ground to quickly regain his balance and darted toward the catacombs nearby. He flickered from sight for a moment and then paused and turned back to face off with the pursuing Frost Giant. With only a single, brief glance back to the spiked rocks behind him, he waited for the charging beast to come closer.
Of course, when the Giant dove to tackle him, the illusion of the trickster vanished and the Jotun met face-first with an unpleasant end. Loki glanced out from the catacombs and sent another flying knife into the same Giant's side, to ensure that he could not survive. Then he cast his eyes toward his brother and fellow warriors, taking a moment to consider the battle overall. It played out as a scene from one of father's stories, only far less necessary and with Thor's arrogance cascading around for public mockery. The guard or, aesir willing, Odin himself would be coming soon, but whoever was meant to stop this ludicrous situation was already far too late.
So long as Loki and at least two of the others survived, he didn't much care. He might wish that the others could all die if the situation wouldn't make him appear as a coward, but all of them surviving would be acceptable as well. Truly, the god had already ruined Thor's crowning and now would see that his brother was punished in some way, at least, so the rest was simply a bonus of circumstance.
Ah, but how dreary to fight a battle he had no desire to when there were such better uses of his time.