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□ Name: Loki Laufeyson

□ Journal: bacondivination

□ Series: Marvel 616

□ Canon point: Young Avengers Vol 2, Issue 8

□ History: http://marvel.wikia.com/Loki_Laufeyson_%28Earth-616%29 This is a somewhat disjointed history, and that's mostly because he does have a very long one over a variety of incarnations. Most relevant to his present incarnation would be what is covered from Trickster Reborn and on.
http://marvel.wikia.com/Kid_Loki_%28Earth-616%29 His reincarnation's history is relevant also. He's technically a different person that Loki subsequently tricked and murdered to take over his body, but it's also the role he assumed in doing so. Also, he was that Loki’s weird magpie familiar for most of it.

□ Personality: Outwardly, Loki is a charismatic and brilliant individual with a wealth of imagination topped off by a heavy dose of dubious morality. He’s charming, precocious, and a natural performer. He also has a body count that’s likely well in the millions, not that he could ever have been bothered to keep track of it.

"Gods are not like people. They are real. We are creatures of story."

Loki’s story is a long and complicated one that was ultimately dominated for most of his life by his lust for power and towering resentment of his family. Though he had once been a relatively accepted, he didn’t let it last. Over the course of millennia, he lived feeling as if he was owed something more. He was brilliant, but he never matched up to the ideals of Asgardian society. Instead, he only managed to become vile as time went on. He was a creature of chaos. He was abusive, misogynistic, and held very little sacred. He was a beguiler and lied his way through his very long life, stole forms that were not his own, and the one consistency he had was that he had become predictable in his murderous, capricious nature. Of course, he was crazy enough to come to what he thought to be the only natural conclusion. He demonstrated his desire to be truly chaotic by going so far as arranging to be removed from his final destiny of ending up in Hel, and then arranged to die in what seemed like a truly heroic effort to stop one of the very evils he had been part of unleashing.

“I stepped into your part, and now that part steps into me.”

In his efforts to change himself, he was reincarnated as a young boy of 12 or 13 that had very few consistencies with his original personality. He was still a liar, thief, and a con. Those seem to be forever his truest, most immutable traits, but he wasn’t a bad person despite being a trickster. He had left himself with the support of his brother, Thor, and no concrete memories beyond a healthy guilt that manifested as nightmares of his atrocities. It molded the young liar into an ultimately good boy that had been determined to redeem himself and do his brother proud. Without any of his original self’s incredible powers of sorcery, he demonstrated cunning and resourcefulness in his efforts to do what was right. He tried above all else to save people and he often did. Unfortunately, he was very much a child and was easy to manipulate because of that.

The only person that the original Loki could ever sacrifice himself for was Loki himself. Before he had died, he’d created a sorcerous fragment that seemed to act in support of the new Loki as an adviser. In reality, it was an intricate and truly cruel scenario designed to force his reincarnation to kill himself so that he could take over. He would have a new life to use, and planned to mercilessly follow through with abusing the good will that he had bought. This instance of trickery had unintended consequences.

"This body does not just confound my power. It confounds my nature."

If it isn’t entirely obvious yet, Loki is a brilliant long-game planner. The back-up copy of old Loki’s soul overwrote his reincarnation, but it came with some unintended side effects. He expresses a great deal of irritation at this fact, but he’s become an amalgamation of the two forms. He has been changed in a fundamental way that he only ever admits to himself, and actively attempts to keep up the appearance of being that reincarnation. To do so affects him far more deeply than he likes to admit.

While he let the young Loki die unmourned and unknown, he also developed an interesting affliction. This Loki is one with a guilty conscience, and it actively manifests itself in his mind as the adorable Loki that he’d killed. It cajoles him, frustrates him, and ultimately forces him onto what appears to be a less evil path. He regrets bad things that he does if his guilty conscience is any indication, and actively works against his own evil desires at times. When he tricked Wiccan into giving him his powers of reality warping, Loki had every possible chance to make a clean escape. He had everything lined up perfectly- Wiccan and the other heroes he used as pawns would die, the trouble he stirred up would cease, and he’d get away without consequence. He managed to guilt himself into going back at grave risk to himself, saving their lives, and losing his shot at obtaining such power for the time being.

Notably, he frequently speaks in the ways that people expect him to, altering mannerisms and vocabulary entirely. He seems to flip between sounding very Asgardian, and a great deal of modernity and silliness. Even when dealing with others in a distinctly villainous manner, he often comes across as the child he physically is. He talks a great deal and often even gets to the point where he sounds more like he’s rambling. He references pop culture and memes, and is very enamored with a variety of things from Midgardian culture.

It isn’t beyond him to engage in elaborate ruses that make him seem far less competent than he really is. When he first arranged for the Young Avengers to form as a part of the earlier mentioned “steal reality warping powers” plan, he was deliberately clumsy as he pretended to try to convince Miss America to murder Wiccan for him. He was thrashed soundly, but he got what he wanted—it had been a move designed to have her there to protect Billy when everything went horribly awry. He also has little problem with putting his penchant for mischief towards petty things. He steals and cheats quite casually, or puts other people on the hook for whatever costs he's rung up. Why pay for a meal that you used to create a divination circle in a diner when you could convince your newfound teammates and/or pawns to do it for you? He uses glamours to get into clubs, and likely never actually directly pays for anything he gets. On the other hand, he can't stand being shown up. It has to be part of his personal plan, or else he's immensely displeased. He very visibly expresses his dislike when someone outsmarts him even a little bit, enough so that he’s called out on it at times.

Ultimately, Loki is a complicated old soul in a very young body that turns on himself almost as easily as he does other people. He firmly believes that no one understands him, and doesn’t seem to understand himself either. He’s an erratic rollercoaster of emotion, and his current incarnation leaves him vulnerable in many ways that he hadn’t been before. He’s terrifyingly intelligent, charming, and not nearly half as homicidal as before. Most importantly, however, he’s a being of chaos and a god of mischief at his core.



□ Age: Physically, he’s roughly the equivalent of a 13 year old boy by human standards. His soul, however, is ancient as he’s lived thousands of years in assorted incarnations. Mentally, he’s something of a trainwreck with aspects of both but leaning towards more mature. See Canon Update

□ Gender: Male

□ Appearance: Loki is an absurdly tiny deity. His official height is at 4’4’’, though he may have grown a few inches, and he is of a lithe build. He had fair skin, dark hair, and unusually bright green eyes. Here’s a good example of his unusual usual clothing: http://tinyurl.com/q5otqqw See Canon Update



□ Abilities/Powers: Mastery of Sorcery (Too bad he's a minor.): Throughout his assorted lives, he's become a master sorcerer on par with some of the most dangerous entities out there. He still has the majority of that knowledge about magical augmentation of all sorts, shapeshifting, transmutation, bringing the inanimate to life, and so on. But for all his understanding, he isn't able to access every spell he knows because a sheer lack of magical strength and stamina that comes with being a child. Still, he's no slouch. He's actively shown to be able to perform teleportation spells, move objects, meddle with other peoples' spells, create glamours, and a few assorted things. He has an unfortunate tendency to outright faint if he tries to overcome his limitations.

Intelligence: This is at literal superpower levels here. He can learn dead languages in an evening, or master complex spells that would take most ages to accomplish. He's also earned his title of "God of Lies" and has thousands of years of practice applying them very, very well. Even after all he's done, he's managed to routinely convince the people that should trust him least to give him more chances. Sometimes he even outsmarts himself, but that's just the way the chips fall.

Unusual Physiology: Due to his half giant heritage and his nature as a deity, he has a differing physiology from humans. He weighs three times as much as a boy of his size. As a result, he's inhumanly durable and strong. (He's been thrown through a brick wall gotten back up with only his pride somewhat damaged, for example.) He can also naturally recover from whatever injuries he does acquire much more quickly than a human, and most illnesses do not affect him.

All Tongue: Another fancy trait of a deity, he has the ability to speak so that people perceive him as speaking a language that they understand.

Knowledge of Combat: In his previous form, he could fight very well with a variety of weapons. However, he only has the understanding and not the actual physical training at this point. Pre-reincarnation, he was able to literally beat a good sized group of soul-eating monstrosities into submission. Now? Well, he spends a lot of time getting punched, picked up, and thrown around. Regardless of his apparent lack of skill, he still has an appreciation of battle tactics.

□ Personal Items: His clothing, his gold circlet tiara, his Starkphone, and that's about it.