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Player Information:
Name: Poppy
Age: over 18
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Game Cast: N/A
Character Information:
Name: Loki Laufeyson (his aliases are many, but predominately include God of Mischief/Evil/Lies/Chaos and similar stylings)
Canon: Marvel 616 Young Avengers comics
Canon Point: Young Avengers Vol 2, Issue 8 at which time Loki is falling between Mother’s dimension and another one.
Age: Complicated. He’s currently approximately the physical equivalent to a 13 year old, but he's lived for thousands of years in assorted incarnations.
Reference: 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.
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.
Setting: Earth of the 616 universe is very much like modern day Earth with a bit of altered geography except where it's incredibly not. You've got most of your major modern cities where people go on through their day-to-day lives, and a few extra countries and borders changed with assorted different regimes. There are plenty of people that have never actually met an alien or a god or an eldritch horror in person!
But, on the other hand, there are a lot of people that have and everyone’s lives have been touched in some way by assorted fantastic forces. There are even quite a few people that are these things, including some world leaders. This should be no surprise, given that Atlantis is a real place and Hell is a literal construct. There are also strange little interstellar planetoids like the Nine Realms that host assorted life forms (and dead souls, in some cases), and one of them ended up teleported down to Earth. Because of assorted shenanigans, a relatively newly erected Asgardia along with Yggdrasil, the World Tree, float just outside of Broxton, OK and it is the home to a variety of Norse gods among others.
Earth has a significant population of super-powered beings of all sorts. There are mutants, people with random super powers, magicians, geniuses of almost unimaginable scope, and alien forces that routinely try to jack the planet up and/or conquer it for funsies here. There are even sorcerers with their own countries and assorted forces that have vowed to either protect the world or break it until it fits into their own personal design. The tradition of the costumed hero and its counterpart of the villain is firmly embedded. There are some major forces of superheroism out there; the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men are some of the biggest names out there. Villains occasionally cooperate and there are organizations like AIM and such, but most major villainous names work in smaller groups with fewer chances for team ups. The government has long since thrown its hat into the ring, and state-supported groups to protect the peace like SHIELD are not uncommon. People love their acronyms in this world, that’s for sure.
Beyond all this, Earth is just one of many. There are countless worlds, and this main one is known as 616. Someone with the right powers or magic or just plain bad luck can come to find that the other dimensions have a wide variety. Some are wastelands, others almost utopic, and yet more are almost entirely the same. Beyond those, there are the horrific and hardly imaginable dimensions of nightmare and terror right alongside those filled with fluffy cute things that worship a young reality warper as their god. This is one complicated place.
Major setting-related events that closely affected Loki tend to primarily involve his homeland of Asgard, but not solely. His machinations against his brother lead to the creation of the Avengers, an event that helped shape the history of the world from then on out. He’s also spent way too much time trying to wreck the Asgard in assorted ways, and was even responsible for Ragnarok. Yes, the Ragnarok in which he led the enemies of his people in battle and was responsible for the deaths of the gods. (But it’s okay, they got better.)
In later events, because of that whole Ragnarok thing, it’s also his fault that Asgard ends up floating just outside of Broxton, Oklahoma. Sometime later, again it was Loki’s fault when his schemes led to the wholesale destruction of Asgard. Because of all of this, Asgardia was then erected as a brand new floating city for the Asgardians as a mixture of technology and magic. For some reason, people don't trust him after all of that.
Here is a handy flow chart to help aid your understanding, except Loki doesn't usually fix things in the Marvel universe. He’s something of a mover and shaker in the world of causing cataclysms.
Currently, he's a member of the superhero group known as the Young Avengers. (The formation of Avengers is his greatest hit, after all.) The team came together through some unusual circumstances involving an interdimensional parasite and Loki's own meddling. They aren't functioning as a particularly traditional superhero group at present, and their time is currently spent dimension hopping in an attempt to rescue one member's brother from the clutches of the parasite known as Mother.
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 advisor. 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.
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.
Tu Shanshu Reaction: Loki’ll go along with it all without an obvious tantrum right up until he’s in his newfound home. This has tangled up all of his plans, and just generally inconvenienced him. On the other hand, nothing is trying to eviscerate and/or eat him or rip his soul from his body. It’s really an improvement. This won’t stop him from trying to spell his way out of the place, and he’ll probably inadvertently dunk himself in the ocean and need fished out a few times in his efforts to dimension hop. Dealing with a variety of different dimensions is not a foreign concept to him, so he's not going to hesitate much.
Loki only has so much stamina for things that seem futile, however, and will default to playing the long game instead. Loki knows he needs new allies, pawns, and what have you and will take advantage of any situations that present themselves. More than that, he’ll also cause an appropriate amount of trouble given that he is the God of Mischief. Theft, pranks, and con games are all entirely valid uses of his time here until he’s managed to find a way to slip free.
Appearance: Loki is a ridiculously tiny deity. The official word on his height is that he stands at 4'4'' though he seems to have grown a little bit since then, and he appears quite lithe. He has fair skin, dark hair, and very bright green eyes. He also has the most adorable smile.
Abilities:
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 can 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.
Inventory: Not much! He's got his clothing, his cute little circlet, his phone, and not a lot more than that going for him right now.
Suite: A single floor suite in the Fire Sector is all he really needs. He’d pitch fits if he ended up in a poorer area, and he has a distinct preference in his life for a certain level of luxury.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Loki felt strange in this new giant floating turtle land, dazed and unsure of himself. It was a feeling of which he was not entirely unfamiliar, and he hated it with a distinct passion.
The young god’s expression was bleak when he was finally left to his own devices. He’d spent the past hours smiling as he asked a variety of curious questions of his new hosts, and it had worn on him to do so. He was a god and they had no right to infringe upon him like this. Any plans he had prepared, and any careful threads of soft lies alongside ungentle truths had been quite thoroughly annihilated by his sudden separation from his team. He had been snatched away to this world between dimensions, and his Young Avengers would have to abide a while longer.
That wasn’t going to do at all. He wasn’t going to allow this to be an issue.
"Damn. Damn, damn, damn," he muttered, frustrated. He rubbed at his eyes with the heels of his hands, slowing his breathing even as he tried to organize his too-rapid thoughts and come up with a provisional plan. He could sort this out. It was ust a temporary inconvenience. “If it were any but myself, I’d be truly worried. They are mistaken about my circumstances, for I am far too awesome to be trapped.”
He should have thought to take time to rest and recover, but no. He had already decided to go out and find something to eat first, and then he would be off to obtain both information as well as supplies. The Young Avengers could only be left to their own devices for so long, and he didn't believe that his removal truly didn't affect them. If he wasn't there to coax them along, no one would get anything done. With one last long, slow breath to settle himself, he stripped himself of his circlet and cowl to better fit in. There were things to do now, and he went forward to get to work with a smile that looked quite genuine.
Network:
[ Loki is leaning a bit too close to the terminal screen when he starts to record his little post. He seems a little too bright-eyed given the circumstances, and there’s a certain odd rapidity to his speech when he starts talking. ]
I have to admit, I am disappointed. [ He holds up a touchscreen phone so his audience can get a look at it. ] These Starkphones are simply not designed for the rigor of interdimensional travel, and the lack of service is a failure I cannot abide. How will I chronicle my doings without the aid of Instagram and Facebook? Nor can I go on to spread knowledge of this failing with a review!
[ He huffs as if to demonstrate how offensive this turn of events is to him. ]
At least the natives of this realm are accommodating, though I don’t think this makes for an adequate replacement of my phone. Now, moving onto more important matters… I have a few questions about the quality of native cuisine and where the best breakfast can be found.
[ He ends it there, satisfied with what he’d shared. It said nothing at all, just the way he’d wanted it. ]
Name: Poppy
Age: over 18
Contact:
Game Cast: N/A
Character Information:
Name: Loki Laufeyson (his aliases are many, but predominately include God of Mischief/Evil/Lies/Chaos and similar stylings)
Canon: Marvel 616 Young Avengers comics
Canon Point: Young Avengers Vol 2, Issue 8 at which time Loki is falling between Mother’s dimension and another one.
Age: Complicated. He’s currently approximately the physical equivalent to a 13 year old, but he's lived for thousands of years in assorted incarnations.
Reference: 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.
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.
Setting: Earth of the 616 universe is very much like modern day Earth with a bit of altered geography except where it's incredibly not. You've got most of your major modern cities where people go on through their day-to-day lives, and a few extra countries and borders changed with assorted different regimes. There are plenty of people that have never actually met an alien or a god or an eldritch horror in person!
But, on the other hand, there are a lot of people that have and everyone’s lives have been touched in some way by assorted fantastic forces. There are even quite a few people that are these things, including some world leaders. This should be no surprise, given that Atlantis is a real place and Hell is a literal construct. There are also strange little interstellar planetoids like the Nine Realms that host assorted life forms (and dead souls, in some cases), and one of them ended up teleported down to Earth. Because of assorted shenanigans, a relatively newly erected Asgardia along with Yggdrasil, the World Tree, float just outside of Broxton, OK and it is the home to a variety of Norse gods among others.
Earth has a significant population of super-powered beings of all sorts. There are mutants, people with random super powers, magicians, geniuses of almost unimaginable scope, and alien forces that routinely try to jack the planet up and/or conquer it for funsies here. There are even sorcerers with their own countries and assorted forces that have vowed to either protect the world or break it until it fits into their own personal design. The tradition of the costumed hero and its counterpart of the villain is firmly embedded. There are some major forces of superheroism out there; the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men are some of the biggest names out there. Villains occasionally cooperate and there are organizations like AIM and such, but most major villainous names work in smaller groups with fewer chances for team ups. The government has long since thrown its hat into the ring, and state-supported groups to protect the peace like SHIELD are not uncommon. People love their acronyms in this world, that’s for sure.
Beyond all this, Earth is just one of many. There are countless worlds, and this main one is known as 616. Someone with the right powers or magic or just plain bad luck can come to find that the other dimensions have a wide variety. Some are wastelands, others almost utopic, and yet more are almost entirely the same. Beyond those, there are the horrific and hardly imaginable dimensions of nightmare and terror right alongside those filled with fluffy cute things that worship a young reality warper as their god. This is one complicated place.
Major setting-related events that closely affected Loki tend to primarily involve his homeland of Asgard, but not solely. His machinations against his brother lead to the creation of the Avengers, an event that helped shape the history of the world from then on out. He’s also spent way too much time trying to wreck the Asgard in assorted ways, and was even responsible for Ragnarok. Yes, the Ragnarok in which he led the enemies of his people in battle and was responsible for the deaths of the gods. (But it’s okay, they got better.)
In later events, because of that whole Ragnarok thing, it’s also his fault that Asgard ends up floating just outside of Broxton, Oklahoma. Sometime later, again it was Loki’s fault when his schemes led to the wholesale destruction of Asgard. Because of all of this, Asgardia was then erected as a brand new floating city for the Asgardians as a mixture of technology and magic. For some reason, people don't trust him after all of that.
Here is a handy flow chart to help aid your understanding, except Loki doesn't usually fix things in the Marvel universe. He’s something of a mover and shaker in the world of causing cataclysms.
Currently, he's a member of the superhero group known as the Young Avengers. (The formation of Avengers is his greatest hit, after all.) The team came together through some unusual circumstances involving an interdimensional parasite and Loki's own meddling. They aren't functioning as a particularly traditional superhero group at present, and their time is currently spent dimension hopping in an attempt to rescue one member's brother from the clutches of the parasite known as Mother.
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 advisor. 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.
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.
Tu Shanshu Reaction: Loki’ll go along with it all without an obvious tantrum right up until he’s in his newfound home. This has tangled up all of his plans, and just generally inconvenienced him. On the other hand, nothing is trying to eviscerate and/or eat him or rip his soul from his body. It’s really an improvement. This won’t stop him from trying to spell his way out of the place, and he’ll probably inadvertently dunk himself in the ocean and need fished out a few times in his efforts to dimension hop. Dealing with a variety of different dimensions is not a foreign concept to him, so he's not going to hesitate much.
Loki only has so much stamina for things that seem futile, however, and will default to playing the long game instead. Loki knows he needs new allies, pawns, and what have you and will take advantage of any situations that present themselves. More than that, he’ll also cause an appropriate amount of trouble given that he is the God of Mischief. Theft, pranks, and con games are all entirely valid uses of his time here until he’s managed to find a way to slip free.
Appearance: Loki is a ridiculously tiny deity. The official word on his height is that he stands at 4'4'' though he seems to have grown a little bit since then, and he appears quite lithe. He has fair skin, dark hair, and very bright green eyes. He also has the most adorable smile.
Abilities:
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 can 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.
Inventory: Not much! He's got his clothing, his cute little circlet, his phone, and not a lot more than that going for him right now.
Suite: A single floor suite in the Fire Sector is all he really needs. He’d pitch fits if he ended up in a poorer area, and he has a distinct preference in his life for a certain level of luxury.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: Loki felt strange in this new giant floating turtle land, dazed and unsure of himself. It was a feeling of which he was not entirely unfamiliar, and he hated it with a distinct passion.
The young god’s expression was bleak when he was finally left to his own devices. He’d spent the past hours smiling as he asked a variety of curious questions of his new hosts, and it had worn on him to do so. He was a god and they had no right to infringe upon him like this. Any plans he had prepared, and any careful threads of soft lies alongside ungentle truths had been quite thoroughly annihilated by his sudden separation from his team. He had been snatched away to this world between dimensions, and his Young Avengers would have to abide a while longer.
That wasn’t going to do at all. He wasn’t going to allow this to be an issue.
"Damn. Damn, damn, damn," he muttered, frustrated. He rubbed at his eyes with the heels of his hands, slowing his breathing even as he tried to organize his too-rapid thoughts and come up with a provisional plan. He could sort this out. It was ust a temporary inconvenience. “If it were any but myself, I’d be truly worried. They are mistaken about my circumstances, for I am far too awesome to be trapped.”
He should have thought to take time to rest and recover, but no. He had already decided to go out and find something to eat first, and then he would be off to obtain both information as well as supplies. The Young Avengers could only be left to their own devices for so long, and he didn't believe that his removal truly didn't affect them. If he wasn't there to coax them along, no one would get anything done. With one last long, slow breath to settle himself, he stripped himself of his circlet and cowl to better fit in. There were things to do now, and he went forward to get to work with a smile that looked quite genuine.
Network:
[ Loki is leaning a bit too close to the terminal screen when he starts to record his little post. He seems a little too bright-eyed given the circumstances, and there’s a certain odd rapidity to his speech when he starts talking. ]
I have to admit, I am disappointed. [ He holds up a touchscreen phone so his audience can get a look at it. ] These Starkphones are simply not designed for the rigor of interdimensional travel, and the lack of service is a failure I cannot abide. How will I chronicle my doings without the aid of Instagram and Facebook? Nor can I go on to spread knowledge of this failing with a review!
[ He huffs as if to demonstrate how offensive this turn of events is to him. ]
At least the natives of this realm are accommodating, though I don’t think this makes for an adequate replacement of my phone. Now, moving onto more important matters… I have a few questions about the quality of native cuisine and where the best breakfast can be found.
[ He ends it there, satisfied with what he’d shared. It said nothing at all, just the way he’d wanted it. ]