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Lᴏᴋɪ Lᴀᴜғᴇʏsᴏɴ ([personal profile] mischiefandlies) wrote2020-03-07 01:57 am

[Deer App] But I am a Liar without Lies, Verity.

"More sinned against than sinning, please
You're not above my suspicions
You're lamb and serpent just like me
It's more than just superstition
Then suddenly, I'm finding out
That it's me you'll be taking down with you"




IN CHARACTER


Character Name: Loki Laufeyson (Ikol)
Canon: Marvel 616 (Loki: Agent of Asgard)
Canon Point: Loki: Agent of Asgard vol. 7

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Inner right wrist
Current Health/Status: Alive
Age: Several Millennia
Species: Jotun

Content Warnings: Dark themes, suicide, manipulation

History:
Old Incarnation (Deceased)
"Serrure" Kid Loki (Also Deceased)
Ikol's History

Personality:
From the beginning, Loki's (Old Loki) plan was to set into motion a plan to kill himself and and have himself removed from Hela's list so that he could be reborn unbound. The scheme was twisted and involved manipulating countless people, including his reincarnated self, a young boy born in Paris, France named Serrure. This kid grew up with the intention of being better than his previous self. He wanted to prove that the name Loki wasn't all bad. Maybe it had been before, but he would make it better. He worked hard to repent for his past self's sins. He was innocent and naive, but he was still a trickster. Granted, his tricks were less harmful than his former iteration's tricks. They were usually all for the good of everyone or his mission.

But his previous self was far more intelligent and put in many safe-guards against failure. When the kid started showing his own personality and his own character development, the elder remnant (forced into the form of a Magpie by Kid Loki) finally left little Loki with no choice but to give in and destroy himself to save the lives of billions. Being the kind-hearted kid that he was, he eventually gave in but not before letting Evil Loki know just what he thought about this trickery. Evil Loki took over Kid Loki and the two were merged into one being. This being thought he would just carry on as he had before his death with the new identity of his innocent child self.

Loki desired change. Change is what he got, but not in the way he'd wanted. With the incorporation of everything his younger self experienced, he was changed. Things he'd never really experienced before, such as guilt over his actions became an ever-present thing. This new Loki tried very hard to keep up his manipulative and harmful ways. He continued to look out only for himself, damning anyone that got in his way. Using them like they were your common Red Shirts. But deep down, these actions started to build up. Loki began experiencing a gnawing guilt over the fact that he'd killed his younger iteration. Repeatedly, he was haunted by the kid's distorted face, screaming variations of "THE CRIME THAT WILL NOT BE FORGIVEN".

If it wasn't already obvious, he's severely manipulative. Loki is cunning and very intelligent. Both work to his advantage when he's manipulating others. He showed up just at the right time to just barely miss stopping Billy from pulling a dimensional parasite disguised as Teddy's mother into their Earth. Said parasite was someone he made a deal with and backstabbed. So he tricked Billy into thinking the attack on Earth by this creature was all his fault. He sure did let Billy take all that guilt and propose a plan to help him stop her. He spun the situation as if he were doing it all out of the goodness of his heart and made sure Billy continued to think the entire situation was all because of him. Meanwhile, he started teaching Billy to control his powers better and advance them so he could become the legendary Demiurge that he was destined to become. All so he could stop this parasite who was controlling all the adults they knew. He put in a lot of effort to get Billy ready, but it had nothing to do with defeating Mom. He knew Billy would eventually be strong enough to change the rules of Magic as they knew it and he wanted to have a say in how the rules were set. He plays to be a thousand steps ahead of everything and with his powers, he is often capable of getting what he wants.

Except, when his powers act against him. That guilt I mentioned? Yeah. So, as a being capable of warping reality to his will, usually he is in absolute control of this. Except now he was reborn with emotions and those emotions, guilt for example, put a wrench in the works. His guilt was so powerful that he manifested his own enemies without even realising it. He brought back another source of guilt that his younger self had about abandoning Leah. This guilt manifested into Leah herself coming after him. He also inadvertently manifested former enemies of his current allies to fight them while Billy was fighting Mom and losing. No one was really doing too hot as they were all, quite literally, fighting Loki's sorcery without any of them knowing it. When he finally figured it out, the only way for him to banish the deadly illusions was to admit his guilt. He collapsed to the floor and cried about how all of this was his fault. That he'd betrayed Mom and that's why she was angry. That's why she was attacking Earth and that's how she found Billy. That he'd been lying to them all the entire time. He begged America Chaves to end him before he could talk his way out of it. The guilt was too much. She denied him that and instead, encouraged him to help them finish this. So, he did. He cut into Mom's reality where she had Billy trapped and let Teddy through to talk to the young Demiurge (Semiurge) and help him fix the multiverse and get rid of Mom.

After everything was over, he slipped away quietly. He knew he deserved their anger and their blame. He knew he deserved every cruel word they would say to him. He knew it and he could face that. What he couldn't face was that they might actually forgive him. So, he funded a massive New Year's party for them behind everyone's back and decided to slink off into the darkness. David found him and they had a small heart-to-heart about how he'd done awful things, but this one thing, killing an innocent kid that was himself, was the most emotionally scarring to him. Everthing else he'd done, he'd been able to blame on someone else, even if he'd started the progression of events that would lead to deaths. But no, this one he did with his own hands. It was an existential crisis that was impacting him pretty severely. So, he didn't want the Young Avengers to forgive him for anything because he couldn't forgive himself. He couldn't even kill himself because he'd just come back now that he was written off of Hel's book. And what came next could be worse. So he decided to live life from here on out to the best of his abilities as something not terrible.

In a sense of repentance, he became the Agent of Asgard, taking missions from the All-Mother. He did what she/they asked, captured who she/they asked and generally tried living a normal, non-evil life on Earth. He enjoyed playing video games, the internet, memes, social media and so on. He was probably the most hip(ster) Godling from Asgard on Earth. He tried to stay on decent terms with his brother, and even went on a few private missions with Thor to do things like find their long-lost sister, Angela and rescue the All-Father. He met and became best friends with a human lie detector named Verity Willis. The challenge of having a lie detector as a best friend when you're the former God of Lies was that you couldn't lie to her. It was a literal ability of hers. She kept him going down the straight and narrow.

Now, his future self, Evil King Loki also began haunting him, scaring him down paths that might make him falter in his path to stay balanced. He found that if he used his magic, it corrupted and tainted him. So his magic was off limits for the most part. King Loki was something he didn't want to become, but fate seemed like a very difficult thing to escape when it was standing right in front of you, taunting you. These were struggles he had to overcome. It also lead him to being a bit sneakier about some of the missions the All-Mother sent him on. Withholding information pertaining to King Loki, not wanting them to know. At least, until he found out that they knew. King Loki had been whispering in their ears the whole time, trying to direct Loki down the path of darkness because it was something they knew. Something they were used to. This new, not evil Loki? He was something they didn't understand.

This left him feeling betrayed and abandoned. It made his path suddenly incredibly unclear and left him spiralling. The only thing that kept him any sort of grounded was Verity and her encouragement. He found out that King Loki didn't have her to guide him, and that gave him hope that he might not turn out to be like that old nutcase who seemed crazier than his previous self.

Verity continued to prove to him that he could, in fact, have friends. That he could do good. That he wasn't just a symbol of pure evil. She was his hope. His beacon. When captured by Doom and imprisoned in a timeless prison to be put on display, she was the one to save him. She was also the one to convince him that he could save Latveria from Red Skull's madness, despite the fact that he'd rather just leave Doom and his people to destroy themselves after trying to permanently imprison him. Their only chance was to stab his sword of truth into a psychic pulse generator that would cause a shockwave of "truth" to hit everyone in Latveria. It would let them see that Red Skull's attempt to control them was a lie and broke them free. He knew this would put him at the epicentre of the Truth Wave and that it would affect him as well. That terrified him, but his need to be good and his need to prove himself to Verity triumphed over his fear.

This leads to his current predicament. Having been at the epicentre of the Truth Wave, Loki is trapped in only being able to tell the truth. When he makes a joke or omits the truth, he is fiercely compelled to word-vomit the truth, despite his desire not to. This has left him conflicted as to his nature. He's the God of Lies. A liesmith without the ability to lie. Did that make him the God of Nothing?

He is quite prone to seizing opportunity as it shows itself and that often causes a bit of strife amongst people that are currently allied with him. This opportunistic nature has been part of him in every iteration, even his young, innocent self. Often times, he'll disguise this with aligning someone else's goals with his own underlying goal, but work as if he's aiming towards the theirs until his is presented to him. While that doesn't always cause harm to the other party, it does cause a massive slash of trust. For example, having Sigurd captured and imprisoned in Asgardia all so he could convince his "friends" to help him break into Asgardia's prison "to save Sigurd" but also so he could see what Asgardia was hiding down there. Even though he accomplished both, there was still a bit of broken trust between himself and Verity.

Loki can be pretty chaotic. His desires and goals are ever-changing, especially between iterations. This goes in line with his opportunistic nature. If he sees something that would further himself but may also make his current plan irrelevant, he will go for it if the outcome is even better for him. Shifting gears on the spot while not entirely letting on that he has changed his end goal. Lately, he is still completely against becoming the God of Evil and will do everything he can to prevent that outcome, despite his future self constantly undermining everything he tries to accomplish. That is his biggest fear; that no matter what he does, it won't be enough. He'll still become that insane being known as the God of Evil. He even tries to dispatch him with Gram, but the sword only pits you against the lies you tell yourself. If you don't lie to yourself, then the blade is essentially useless. King Loki, though skewered entirely through, came out unscathed because he doesn't believe he can be anything but a monster. He doesn't lie to himself about anything. He knows what he is and he embraces it. That seems to horrify Loki more than anything so far.

Slowly, he's been finding out that the evil King Loki has been controlling everything about him, including his past, long before he was even born. This future self manipulated key events in his past to put him on track. Right down to seeing Gram in action, then going back into the past and being the cause for its creation. Loki is a paradox in and of himself as he created himself, but doesn't want to even become the person that created him.

He has a closer relationship with his adopted brother, Thor due to gaining his trust as the reincarnated child. He has yet to tell him that that child is dead and he's a mix of the two. He still has an inferiority complex with the God of Thunder, but he seems to at least care more for Thor than he has in the past. They even go on a little field trip together to the Tenth Dimension where they locate and "free" their sister, Aldrif Odinsdottir (Angela). He occasionally calls upon Thor for help and the Thunderer usually obliges. He started out his run in the AoA comic by freeing Thor from a foreign darkness smothering his heart. That involved stabbing him with Gram, but it didn't hurt Thor. (Said Darkness turned out to be his Future self, King Loki.) This did, however, get him decked by the Hulk in the Avenger's home base.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:
Superhuman Strength, Durability, Stamina, Longevity.
Superhumanly Dense Tissue/Durability: Asgardian (and apparently Jotun) tissue is three times the density of a human's. This makes him much harder to damage and three times as heavy as a human of his size and stature.
Healing Factor: Loki has a faster passive healing factor than humans due to his high metabolism.
**Nerf-ish: Recovering from wounds that wouldn't be considered lethal for him but might be for humans will severely exhaust him.
Shapeshifter: Loki can shapeshift. He's currently limited to shifting into things that represent him. Man, Woman, Fox-thing.
**Nerf: His shapeshifting wears him out to a degree and he'll be essentially stuck in that shape until he recovers from his exhaustion.
Magic: He has a deep well of magic. His magic is already nerfed from his previous incarnation, but he still possesses the abilities of a reality warper. He's able to summon items from nothing. He's able to create massive illusions with the capability of hurting you. He can augment and temporarily give powers to others. He can also blast some sort of psyonic magic blast able to counter other magic blasts and use it to generate brief, temporary shields.
**Nerf: Loki is already not using his magic because it corrupts him, but, for whatever reason, if he does, his reality-warping spells and abilities will fail with a nosebleed and massive headache. His ability to teleport will only work on short distances to places he's already visited, else it will fail with, yes a nosebleed. The only thing he can summon out of thin air is his sword. Everything else will just fail. His telekinesis will only work half the time and if it fails, give him a nosebleed. He'll only be able to temporarily give/augment powers to someone with the consent of the player and doing so will give him a massive headache and nose bleed. He'll also be completely tapped dry for days after and likely bed-ridden. His magic-assisted healing will bounce the wound to someone nearby and healing someone else will give him a 1:1 injury. Fatal wounds for humans will not necessarily be fatal to him, but it'll still suck and wounds he heals from others can't be magically sped up. His psyonic blasts and shields will be something he can't sustain for very long and will drain him of power, leaving him weak.
Allspeak: Asgardians can be understood and understand all languages. (Unless, of course, a mod plot says otherwise)
Hacker: He's been seen hacking into the Avengers Tower and bank security.
Swordsman: He's a very skilled swordsman.
Brilliant: Loki's highly intelligent and possesses an incredible knowledge of magic and tech as well as how people think and act, making him a master manipulator with a silver tongue.

Magic Items:
Seven-League Boots: Allow Loki to walk on any surface.
**Nerf: Will periodically just fail and drop him on his arse.
Shadowthread Coat: Grants Loki invisibility.
**Nerf: Won't always work or as intended.
Gram: The Sword of Truth. Anyone cut or stabbed by the blade must face the truth and can only tell the truth. If you lie to yourself, the blade can hurt you. The more severe the lie, the worse the injury. If you don't lie to yourself, you can come through unscathed, even if you were stabbed.

Inventory:
The usual green, gold, and black scale-mail outfit with gold horned diadem.
Invisibility Cloak
Seven-League Boots
Weapon: Gram (Sword of Truth)

Writing Samples:
Billy's TDM
Loki's TDM Top-Level