Loki Laufeyson

Subject Facts

Full Name: Loki Laufeyson
Codename: N/A
Age: Physically in his twenties
Gender: Genderfluid (fluid pronouns)
Archetype: Neutral
Aliases: Ikol, God/Goddess of Stories, Lord of Lies
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: Young Avengers (formerly)

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities: 

• Asgardian/Frost Giant Physiology: Loki is part Frost Giant and part Asgardian, though his physical traits seem to be geared toward Asgardian rather than Frost Giant.
• Superhuman Strength: He's able to lift up to fifty tons of weight.
• Superhumanly Dense Tissue: His body tissues have roughly three times the density of that of a regular human. Because of this, his body is actually several hundreds of pounds heavier than he physically appears to be.
• Regenerative Healing Factor: His metabolism allows him to be able to regenerate damaged body tissue when he gets injured.
• Superhuman Stamina: His physical stamina is at superhuman levels, allowing him to exert himself at peak capacity and not get fatigued for twenty-four hours.
• Superhuman Longevity: He ages at a rate far slower than that of humans, allowing him to appear much younger than his physical age at any time. This also makes him immune to Earthly diseases and infections.
• Sorcery: He's a highly skilled sorcerer and master of illusion. He's able to use magic for a variety of reasons, including enhancing his already superhuman strength, durability, and stamina. He's also able to create objects out of thin air, avoid telepathic detection, and create powerful illusions with his sorcery.
• Shape-Shifting: His shape-shifting is at a highly developed level. His shape-shifting, however, is limited to forms that are still technically him.
• Allspeak: He can communicate and be understood by all races no matter the language he speaks.

Standard Abilities: 

• Genius Intelligence: Though he is capable of miscalculations, Loki has a genius level intellect as well as a lot of knowledge on the mystic arts. He uses this to be extremely cunning and a skilled battle strategist and charismatic manipulator.
• Skilled Combatant: He has all the memories of his past lives and thus has the same knowledge and skill in combat that he had in those lives. He's specifically skilled as a swordsman.
• Hacker: Often using the identity of Trixie the Hacker, he's been able to hack into places ranging from casinos to even the most secured database of the Avengers.
• Cook: A more mundane skill of his, he's an excellent cook and enjoys preparing Midgardian food.

Paraphernalia: 

• Seven-League Boots: These allow Loki to walk in and on what's considered impossible surfaces, such as waterfalls and rainbows. These also allow him to walk vertically, such as scaling up the side of a building.
• Sceptre: Morphed into it's current form by King Loki out of Freyja's staff, his sceptre currently holds the essence of King Loki in it.
• Coat: One of three invisibility equipment that he possesses, this coat was created by shadow-thread stolen from the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim and allows him to be invisible when he wishes to be.
• Lorelei's Amulet: The second of three invisibility equipment that he possesses, he stole the amulet from Lorelei and can use it to make himself invisible at any time.
• Lightbender-Tech Belt: The last of the invisibility equipment that he possesses, he stole the belt from Sigurd, though it was originally created by A.I.M. Unlike the coat and amulet, the belt is technology, rather than running on some sort of magic or sorcery.

Subject Weaknesses: 

• Distrusted: Due to his past and his trickster nature, Loki isn't trusted by many people. Even when he does something good, it's often believed he's doing it for his own gain - which isn't often far from the truth. This can lead him to having very few, if any, allies.
• Pariah: Because he's distrusted, he can often feel like a pariah among other Asgardians or any heroes. And because he's not entirely evil, he can often feel like a pariah among villains. This leads him to most often deciding to handle things himself rather than rely on someone else.
• Haunting Past: Going hand in hand with the above weaknesses, his past as a villain - and his murder of Kid Loki - follows him around no matter where he goes. Even if he has made some peace with his past, sometimes that very past is all that people see when they look at him.
• Other Asgardians: Asgardians as well as those at a similar or stronger strength level are able to physically harm him.
• Immortal Yet Mortal: While it can be hard, it's not impossible to kill him.
• Manipulations: His manipulating of other people can and often does come back to bite him in ways he doesn't appreciate.
• Magic: Though he's a sorcerer himself, he has shown no immunity against other people's magic or sorcery.

Subject History

The God of Mischief has lead many lives and assumed many forms. The current version came to be when his former self manipulated Hela into removing his name from the Book of Hel, allowing him to be reborn into this carnation upon his death rather than come under Hela's rule. This newly created Loki despised his past, selfish, arguably evil self and actively worked to gain Thor and other heroes's trust and forgiveness.

Loki hid the World's Heart to make Galactus give up his attack on Asgard; helped save Midgard from the War of the Serpent; brought Thor back from the dead through remembering him; helped Daimon Hellstrom save mortals from Nightmare; assisted the Manchester Gods; and helped Thor and his best friend, Leah, thwart Surtur. All in quick succession.

Tragically, the remnant of Loki's former self was meddling throughout these heroic events. That meddling came to a head after Surtur's defeat, forcing "Kid" Loki to let his former echo take over his body, subsuming his mind with his own, and effectively "killing" him to keep Mephisto from unleashing hell on earth. The original Loki's death, his observance and interacting with Kid Loki and a handful of other outlying factors irrevocably changed him, though, so that the new Loki was different than any flavor before. Arguably even with a conscience.

Using the other-dimensional parasite "Mother," Loki manipulated Wiccan and, by extension, the Young Avengers in a bid to control the future-Demiurge. When, at a pivotal moment in their time together, Loki fled with Wiccan's power to save himself, he was haunted by Kid Loki, who used his guilt to convince him to return and save the Young Avengers. Afterward, Loki stayed with the team and traveled the universe for three months. He trained Wiccan for his confrontation with Mother and hopped through the multiverse with the others to save Hulkling and Prodigy from the parasite.

Though under the guise of trust and friendship, Loki continued to manipulate and scheme for his own purposes. One of these included, in the continued fight against Mother, having Wiccan magically age him into his late teens. Though this didn't work and Loki seemed to have lost his powers afterwards. Ultimately in the final clash with Mother, Loki realized that the aged "Leah" working against them was a manifestation of his own guilt at having killed Kid Loki, animated by his lost powers, which he'd subconsciously given up as a symptom of that guilt.

Loki confessed what he'd done to Kid Loki, as well as all of the manipulations he'd been doing to the Young Avengers. With the admission, Leah and her group disappeared, allowing Mother to finally be defeated. Following the battle, Loki fled unceremoniously, still wracked with guilt. After this, trying to be the "best story he could be," Loki began working for the All-Mothers of Asgardia with each successful mission erasing one of the crimes on his lengthy record with the Realm Eternal. Unfortunately, Loki soon discovered that the All-Mothers were actively molding events to keep Asgard's destiny from changing, and quit working for them.

He was one of many to be affected by a morality-inversion spell that got out of control - though it was corrected not long after. It was after this that Loki discovered, without reason, he was unable to tell a lie, no matter how small or harmless. Because of this, he confessed the fate of Kid Loki to Odinson who, enraged, brutally beat Loki and brought him to Asgardia for punishment. He was found unquestionably guilty and Frigga banished him from the Ten Realms. Wandering the margins between realms, Loki found Odin, who admitted his love for Loki despite all his evil. Odin then sent Loki back to Midgard, but as soon as he arrived he was captured by his future self, "King Loki."

King Loki banished him to a fateful cavern where his evil former self and Kid Loki manifested, offering two paths: accepting his role as an evil Lord of Lies, or refusing to and destroying himself rather than succumb. Loki chose a third path, seeing lies as a way to tell a story. He apparently was consumed by magical flames and "died," but in reality this was a deception and, eight months later, he reappeared to his friend Verity as the God of Stories, trapping her in a piece of jewelry to save her from the Incursion. Loki traveled to Asgardia, where he opposed King Loki and his forces, but rather than take clear sides, he used his powers to trap the Asgardians and their enemies's essences, saving them from the annihilation that occurred as a consequence of the incursion.

Loki encountered Those Who Sit Above in Shadow in a blank void, but manipulated them into not desiring the Asgardian essences. He also found a defeated King Loki and reconciled with him, containing his future self's essence in his scepter before traveling forward in time to after the universe was brought back. Loki was secretly charged by Frigga to infiltrate Malekith's Shadow Council under the guise of having returned to his villainous ways. While under that fake pretense, Loki was delivered in chains to Asgardia after encountering the new, female Thor. Frigga was then being held to trial for aiding that same Thor in evading Odin's will, which was dissolving Asgardia into a civil war.

In the midst of this, Loki stabbed Frigga with a poisoned dagger which left her on the brink of death. Truly, he'd discovered Malekith was planning on killing Frigga, and used the dagger to neutralize her, save her life and keep his cover in the Shadow Council. Loki briefly ran in the presidential race in the US, but conceded, which was all a secret ploy from one of the candidates to help even the playing field. Next Loki began searching for the whereabouts of the Infinity Stones and, foreseeing the trials bound for earth, tricked Stephen Strange into thinking that the Vishanti had chosen Loki as the new Sorcerer Supreme in a ridiculously convoluted ploy to help prepare Stephen for those impending tribulations.

At the end of his stint as Sorcerer Supreme, Loki accomplished what he'd set out to, teaching Stephen out to break the rules, and using a spell that only the Sorcerer Supreme had access to to jump-start magic itself after its near-destruction at the hands of Imperator months earlier. Next came another vast, contrived and overly-dramatic scheme where Loki rallied together Dark Celestials in an attack to "purge" earth, forcing the Avengers to reunite in order to combat the threat - yet another thing the earth would need for what was coming.

Most recently, Loki was a pivotal figure in the Infinity Wars. On a quest to find the forces controlling his destiny, Loki and a scribe from Omnipotence City ended up trapped in Soul World by an Infinity Stone-powered Gamora. With the help of Emma Frost, Loki escaped and, tricking Gamora, entered the realm beneath the God Quarry to confront his future fate. Ultimately, Adam Warlock gave each Stone their own spirit, so they could dictate their own destiny, and Loki began looking into Warlock's motives and whereabouts, while still retaining his secretly traitorous position in Malekith's Shadow Council.

Subject Interview

No one appreciated the work he did, the mischief he weaved, the heroics he even managed to squeeze in there. He wasn't sure what would come from his research into Adam Warlock but he was certain that even if something good - something wonderful - came from it, it wouldn't be appreciated. It wouldn't be trusted. He wouldn't be trusted. But that was the life of the God - sometimes Goddess - of Stories, cursed to be seen as the God - sometimes Goddess - of Lies and Mischief still.

Of course it was a figurative curse. He liked to think he would know if he was actually cursed rather than simply being melodramatic. But what else was he supposed to do? He was a young adult again - Wasn't being melodramatic their thing? Or was that teenagers? Maybe it was teenagers.

Frankly he was also annoyed. He'd been trying to find Warlock's location for how long now and still had nothing to show for it. He wasn't always interested in being a hero but he was certain Warlock was up to something and a hero needed to stop it. Whether that hero ended up being him or someone else remained to be seen.

Maybe he should have given Warlock the benefit of the doubt and assume his motives were good, that there was nothing else at foot but just as being trusted wasn't for him, neither was blindly trusting someone else.

And this search was what lead him to walking vertically up to a certain apartment he wasn't entirely sure he was welcome at - though that wouldn't stop him from acting like he was welcome. And that lead him to magically entering the apartment, fully aware of the alarm system he'd just tripped. And that lead him to being magically wrapped up from head to toe like some Egyptian mummy with a blanket - seriously, did people forget what mythology he was from? - until the fellow sorcerer took a moment to recognize him.

Once he was free, he coughed, took in some air, than gracefully got to his feet and grinned widely, spreading his arms. The two of them were currently alone but he had a feeling that could change at any second so he had to get right to the point. After all, his magic was... More limited than the other man's. So to find Adam Warlock, he needed to go to someone whose magic was capable of such things. And who was more capable than someone who could bend reality to his will?

"Billy!" he greeted, fully aware of the threat of the other man's magic hanging in the air. But he continued to grin like they were the best of friends. "Is that any way to greet a friend?"

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Wiccan / Anna (she/they/he)

Other Characters: Billy Kaplan

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