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Applications, along with the game, have MOVED to Dreamwidth, and will open again at 12:01 a.m., January 8, 2012 here.Applications may open here in the future, during application periods where open account creation is not available on DW. A form will be posted here at those times, and we will provide regular updates as we can ( Read more... )
User LJ: greencat3
AIM/IM: TeriyakiPickle (AIM), greencat3 (GTalk)
E-mail: greencat3 [at] gmail [dot] com
Other Characters: Josiah Bartlet (nobelprez), Alec Trevelyan (bloody_cossack), Jason Bourne (brokenweapon)
Character Name: Loki
Series: Dogma/View Askewniverse
Age: Old. Roughly as old as creation.
From When?: After Bartleby stabbed him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Even though he did try to stop Bartleby from ending existence in the end, he did kill a lot of people (on God’s orders) as the Angel of Death - and killed a few more before trying to redeem himself because he thought God would like it. And flipping God the bird in person is probably enough to have him sent here anyway, regardless of all other transgressions.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: The ability to “spot a commandment-breaker from a mile away” (which I assume he still retains, although it won’t be used without player permission - it’ll go haywire on the Barge anyway), although his is based more in logic and reasoning than Bartleby’s omniscience of sins. When he was the Angel of Death he could rain sulfur down from the sky and lay waste to entire populations, which he claims is the most exhausting thing in the world, barring soccer. He also had the ability to unveil his wings and armor, but now that he’s a mortal, he doesn’t have either of those things to reveal. (He does have stubby, bloody wingbits that he’s going to fight like hell to keep, though; any surgical removal would really piss him off.)
Personality: Loki’s not quite the brightest crayon in the box; though he’s not dumb, he’s no genius. (Bartleby: “They’re trying to stop two angels from getting into a church!” Loki: “What, you think they mean us?”) He’s actually kind of a jerkass with a penchant for the dramatic - as the Angel of Death, he’s got to inject a little theatricality into the smiting he carries out. Often described by Bartleby as a “simple creature” and “a little flaky”, Loki just wants to enjoy the good things in life - like watching his cartoons, Run DMC, and visiting divine justice upon the wicked. He’s also got a twisted sense of humor, since one of his favorite pastimes is messing with the clergy. He likes to keep them on their toes.
Loki doesn’t like being upstaged when he’s in the middle of working, getting obviously irritated when Bartleby was interrupting him during the Mooby Incident. He is almost always chewing gum, possibly to relieve tension caused by not killing people. (After all, he is how God made him.) When he met Jay and Silent Bob, he expressed reservations about killing them, saying that they were “all right”, even though Silent Bob had thrown them both from a moving train. He likes people and does want to make friends, especially now that there’s no Bartleby for him to trade stupid jabs about Run DMC and E.T. with.
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He’s not going to understand why the wardens have any authority - in his eyes, they’re acting as God’s intermediaries, and he’ll refuse their judgment, at least initially, because the only one who can absolve him of his wrongdoing is God Herself. So his warden will have to explain to him…or lie…that this is how God is helping him redeem himself and get his wings back. (Once Loki is redeemed I may keep him on as a warden.)
History: Loki used to be the Angel of Death, the smiting arm of God. The flood of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc., all that was his work. Then after he smote the Egyptian firstborn, his friend Bartleby took him out for a celebratory post-smiting drink. Bartleby, quite a bit smarter than even a sober Loki, convinced his friend to give up smiting after a long talk about the morality of killing humans in the name of God. So Loki, drunk as hell, decided it’d be a good idea to tell God that he quit, throw down his flaming sword, and flip God the bird. Result: Banned to Wisconsin with Bartleby and the new decree that angels now cannot drink alcohol.
A couple thousand years of Wisconsin passed by, so Loki picked up some stuff. He read a lot. When the TV came along, he started watching cartoons. Basically, he was a bored fallen angel with not a whole lot to do but hang out with Bartleby, talk nuns into becoming atheists, and contemplate his nonexistent navel. Oh, and think about people outside Wisconsin who deserve a good smiting. Like the Mooby board of directors.
So one day he was at the airport with Bartleby, using the power of Lewis Carroll to make a nun seriously reconsider her belief structure, when Bartleby showed him a news article they had received in the mail. A Catholic church was celebrating its centennial in New Jersey, and anybody who passed through the arch on that day would have their sins forgiven. This was a clear way for the two angels to get a ticket back to heaven, if they could leave Wisconsin. They found to their surprise that they could, but Loki wanted to take care of something first. He picked up a gun at a shop, and they got on a bus headed to Mooby Headquarters. While they were on the bus, Bartleby told Loki that he didn’t have what it took anymore to be the Angel of Death. Loki claimed he could spot a commandment-breaker a mile away and correctly identified an adulterous man, who he then shot. Panic broke out on the bus, and everyone abandoned it due to the gun-wielding psycho. The two angels had to hitch rides to Mooby Headquarters in Chicago from there.
They proceeded to make a grand entrance into the boardroom the next morning, Loki carving an onion into a little voodoo doll while Bartleby did the talking. The board members, the angels claimed, were idolaters (worshiping “Mooby the Golden Calf”). While Bartleby, the omniscient Grigori, enumerated the board’s sins, Loki put on a cheerful Mooby CD (perhaps for maximum cognitive dissonance). Bartleby left the room while Loki shot all of them except for the female board member, to whom he offered gum because she led a pretty decent life. Loki changed his mind about her because she didn’t say “God bless you” when he had sneezed earlier, but Bartleby stopped him.
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At this point, the cogs in Bartleby’s head were turning. He and Loki had a conversation in a parking garage where Bartleby railed against the unfairness that humans were shown “infinite fucking patience” and angels weren’t, that angels weren’t given a choice to ignore the pain of being away from God, and that it was too much to bear anymore. He decided to kill all four of their would-be dispatchers, causing Loki to remark that he sounded a lot like Lucifer. Loki didn’t want to deal with the consequences that Rufus had mentioned on top of being marked by both heaven and hell. He said he was going back to Wisconsin, but Bartleby bullied him into going along, saying that they were going home, and there wasn’t anything he or God could do about it.
The angels walked the rest of the way to New Jersey and made a dramatic entrance into the church’s rededication ceremony, revealing their wings and killing people. Bartleby soon tore off Loki’s wings, making him transubstantiate to human. Loki proceeded to get drunk. When Bethany and the rest of them showed up, he was pleased to see them. Now absolutely smashed, he decided Bartleby had gone too far - as he was now human, he had gained a conscience. He went to go talk Bartleby out of it. The other angel hugged him like a brother, and then stabbed Loki in the side where his angelic armor had a gap, killing him.
Sample Journal Entry:
[Voice, inadvertently activated.]
Is this-is this fucking purgatory?! Oh, come on! The Mooby thing wasn’t good enough? Those guys were fucking assholes, I was trying to get back on Your side! Hey - I tried to stop him, okay? I tried. Not my fault he fuckin’ shivved me. That shit was low.
Man, being mortal sucks cock. This is the cheapest fucking shit-what happened to forgiveness, huh? I never made it through that damn arch but I tried to stop him, that isn’t enough? Fuck that guy.
He wanted a fucking war on You. I just wanted to go home.
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It was a Saturday morning, and Bartleby was still asleep in his own room. Loki had gotten himself a bowl of sugary cereal, adding lots of whole milk - he was an angel, what did he have to worry about health? - and sat down in front of the TV to watch children’s cartoons. He liked to watch them, something Bartleby didn’t quite understand. There was a certain black-and-white morality to them, bad guys against good guys. It reminded him of the old days.
He also liked to watch the Travel Channel, checking out places he knew he would never be able to visit. There had been a point where he’d been obsessed with going to Paris, and of course there was always Rome and Jerusalem. But the damn cosmic ankle bracelet on him and Bartleby, God’s own decree, was keeping them stuck in Wisconsin. Sometimes it was just too depressing to look at those things. Cartoons were safer because they weren’t real.
So he lounged on the couch, the spoon sticking out of his mouth as the Cocoa Puffs slowly turned the milk brown and sludgy, waiting for 8:00 AM to roll around so Mooby would come on.
When he heard the theme song, actually listening to the lyrics for the first time instead of doing something else while he waited for the show to start, he sat up abruptly. Couldn’t be. Not that simple…was it? Oh sweet Bovine, our lives to you we vow? Idolatry. Idolatry! And with a golden calf, no less! He was even called that in the song! Oh, man, they were gonna burn for this!
Spoon still in his mouth, Loki bolted from the couch, dashing upstairs to get his book of sinners. This was the First Commandment they were breaking here. Oh yeah. If he ever got the chance, if he ever got out of Wisconsin, he knew where he was going first. Jerusalem could wait.
Special Notes: Loki will arrive with bloody stubs of wings on his back. (He might want to get those checked out.) I’ll be informed by the screenplay as well as the movie, since the movie cut a lot of things, like his explanation to Silent Bob of theocracy in terms of Star Wars.
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I see Glinda is inmate-less...?
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Also, I totally approve and Gabriel is gonna stare at him and go, "WHO NAMES AN ANGEL AFTER A PAGAN GOD? I MEAN, REALLY?"
I also approve of Loki/Glinda, but my opinion there does not matter.
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"Hey, they named the pagan god after ME."
I think the Barge might spontaneously combust if that happened. WHO CARES I LOVE IT.
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Thank you!
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He’s lonely, especially now. Bartleby was his only consistent friend - as angels, they knew any mortal friends would grow old, die, and notice their conspicuously consistent youth. Now that he’s mortal, Loki doesn’t have that problem anymore. During ports, he is going to go hog-wild, especially if they’re anything exciting, such as…not Wisconsin. If he never even hears the word “Wisconsin” again, he’ll be happy. At first he will be angry, but once he settles into Barge life he’ll be at least decently cooperative, and willing to make all sorts of new friends (and enemies) to take his mind off of Bartleby’s betrayal. He’s also totally going to enjoy the fact that since he is no longer an angel, he can both imbibe alcohol and get laid, so…women of the Barge, beware, a wild Loki approaches.
Loki knows how to do a lot of things - being stuck in Wisconsin for so long has left him with little recourse from boredom but to learn new skills unrelated to smiting. It’s possible for him to be bullied and browbeaten by someone he looks up to - for example, Bartleby’s insistence that they were going to go through the arch even after Loki’s doubts about the whole thing after hearing about the consequences. There’s some empathy for humanity in him, especially now that he has a conscience. He still feels that people who have done horrible things need divine justice visited upon them…and he’s not going to feel too bad about being the guy who dishes it out.
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