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Name: Loki Door: Door pass Canon: Marvel Rivals Canon Point: Season 0 Age: 1,047-ish Appearance: here History: here CR AU (Optional): N/A Personality: Positive Trait: Intelligent Loki is highly intelligent and not just because he's a schemer. He has great capacity for picking up on small, subtle aspects and working with those to his advantage. His sense of foresight and scope for the future is vast and wide, leading him to planning and considering multiple branching aspects to a situation at any given time in great detail to try and anticipate the best possible outcome. While 'trickster' carries the assumption of something negative, Loki's skill at trickery is rooted in knowledge, awareness, tactical thinking, and anticipating likely actions of others and surrounding circumstances. While he is often seen to be using this skills for his own gain, Loki's complexity lies in the fact that his desires are not uniformly and irrevocable grounded in a desire to cause harm without reason; his desire to usurp the throne of Asgard, for example, lies in the belief that his home would thrive further under his rule (of logic) than of his brother's (of force). Others in the Marvel Rivals universe comment on Loki's intelligence specifically, for example, Hela notes that she has vision, Thor has courage, but that Loki is the one who possesses intellect out of the three Asgardian siblings. This is further shown in Marvel Rivals where Loki's keen mind is what first draws his attention to the presence of Chronovium (a by-product of the present and future versions of Doctor Doom vying against each other in a battle to reshape reality in their images and thereby creating the Timestream Entanglement) in Asgard seeping out of the world tree, Yggdrasill. Loki, through his sharp mind, is able to harness the time-based power of the Chronovium to enable him to witnesses countless versions of Asgard's future, many of which lie in ruins. By continuing to watch these ruined futures, he finally finds one future where he is upon the throne and Asgard has not only survived but is a thriving city with happy citizens and a bright path ahead of it and from this Loki makes it his mission to see that this future comes to pass and that he is upon the throne, not simply because he wants to rule, but because he can't stand the thought of any potential future where Asgard does not stand tall. This is a motivation he keeps close to his chest though, leading many to believe he is merely wanting this future for his own sake. Loki's potential for using his intelligence for good is therefore not only possible, but often at play behind walls of carefully crafted imagery that present himself as the villain many expect him to be. To play both parts in a way that obscures one while fronting the other takes immense intellect and skill. Negative Trait: Jealous As the adoptive son of Odin, Loki was raised in the shadow of his golden older brother, Thor, and from this Loki has developed a tremendous amount of jealousy in numerous different ways. The most obvious being that while Thor is large, strong and beloved by their parents and many Asgardians around them, Loki is seen as the smaller, weaker, and overall more out of place of the family. While Thor is very much the image of their father, Odin, Loki's biological background as a Frost Giant and his disposition toward being someone who uses hism mind over force has made Thor the core blueprint of Loki's jealous tendencies and leading him to become especially fixated on want that which has been extended to Thor--the throne of Asgard. This jealousy manifests in such a way that while Loki is searching for a way to save Asgard from the many awful futures that are potentially ahead in Marvel Rivals, rather than enlist Thor's help to find a solution together, Loki instead uses Chronovium to cast Thor into the timestream to a mysterious and distant time and place rather than see any possibility where them working together could possibly lead to a future where Thor sits upon the throne instead. Coveting that which others have extends beyond just Thor though to things he sees others gain that he believes he desires. He wants love, respect, loyalty and trust, and when he sees these things being given to others it fills him with a need to undermine it; if he can't have it himself, why should anyone else get to experience it? Jealousy manifests in a literal sense within an area of Loki's core abilities where he can take on the form of others, coveting their appearance, voice and mannerisms to such an extent that he has mastered embodying them himself as part of his shapeshifting powers. Coveting in general is just part and parcel of Loki's nature. In Marvel Rivals, in a conversation with Wanda Maximoff, he asks her to teach him some of her chaos magic and becomes pouty and petulant when she turns him down. He doesn't need to learn this power, either from her or in general, he just wants something he doesn't have that she posses, and because of that covets it all the more purely on principle. Negative Trait: Arrogant As a god and a prince (and in his mind, a king), Loki's sense of self is inflated immensely. He is highly aware of himself as a man of great standing and believes that it absolutely right he be in that position of power and reverence without question. He speaks to people with great pomp and haughtiness, often introducing and announcing himself as a king and/or god to command the space he is in and demand praise and awe. He often speaks down to people, especially those he deems to be mortals, and very much believes this is the correct thing to do as par a hierarchy that he is very much entitled to purely through the circumstances of his birth. For example, in Marvel Rivals, he has an exchange with Ororo Munroe, who he addresses as the Mutant Goddess of Kraoka, but when she asserts that her ascension to godhood was achieved through belief and worship, Loki's retort is condescending as he informs her that (unlike her) he was born a god and it was not something that was bestowed upon him by others. Negative Trait: Deceptive As the god of lies, it's perhaps no great shock that Loki is a lying liar who lies. And he lies about almost anything, great or small, with tiny or monumental consequences. In part, this relates to his schemer tendencies where he doesn't want anyone to know his true intentions, and therefore he lies, but he will also lie as a method of achieving what he wants and as a component of manipulation as his means to an end. Sometimes, he lies simply to protect and conceal his own emotions from others rather than risk exposing some kind of vulnerability. In Marvel Rivals, Mantis informs Loki that the Collector has Asgardians held captive in his collection. When Loki dismisses the matter and claims it's a small price to pay in order to keep the Collector's attention away from him. Due to her empathic abilities, Mantis is able to immediately identify that Loki is lying. The fact is that Loki is unrepentant in his lies and contradictions where at one point he comments "God of lies? If you wish. What society can exist without lies?" and seems to truly believe this. Not only this, but arguably Loki lies not only to everyone else, but to himself via others. At one point in Marvel Rivals comments that he sees himself as more of a destructive force and how he has been accused of loving chaos, but this contradicts his secret motivation of wishing to save Asgard from ruin. Loki, in truth, loves Asgard and doesn't wish to see it destroyed--he wants to rule it, and he cannot rule something that ceases to be, so in actuality he lies, and lies, and lies to the point where the truth is sometimes obscured even from himself. Powers and Abilities » Frost Giant / Asgardian Physiology As a Frost Giant who has been raised as an Asgardian and is a god, Loki has a range of physical attributes that exceed that of a regular human with superhuman strength, durability, stamina, healing factors and long life expectancy. Despite not being as physically strong as his brother, Thor, Loki is still skilled in physical combat in his own right, preferring staves, daggers, and other small blades. Being the biological son of the Frost Giant, Laufey, Loki also possesses great resistance to freezing temperatures, having been born in the harsh forever winter of Jotunheim. » Sorcery Loki is a powerful sorcerer whose core magical skillset revolves around trickery and illusions. In addition to the abilities listed below, Loki is a skilled sorcerer who can perform miscellaneous other general use spells like conjuration and defense against mental assault or mind control. Clones Loki is able to project illusionary clones (no more than 2 at a time) of himself, however they are easily broken and mirror the actions of Loki himself exactly, they cannot move or act independently and are entirely restricted to mirrored movements like two reflective sides of a kaleidoscope. Loki can both swap places with a clone and leave one in the spot he was standing in. Each clone can only exist for one minute before it breaks down and would need to be recreated. Shapeshifting Loki is highly adept at shapeshifting, but with some limitations. Loki can change into whatever he interprets as a version of Loki. That can be a version of Loki that is a woman, or a version of Loki that is fox, or snake, or horse, but the key factor is that it must always be what Loki considers to be Loki. He can't, for example, transform his long-term appearance into Thor, because Thor is not Loki. He can't turn into anything larger than a horse or smaller than a mouse. While in the Marvel Rivals gameplay, Loki can copy other characters so perfectly that he's able to perform their 'ultimate' attack move, in Duplicity, he won't be able to copy powers in this way. Instead, while he can temporarily copy the form of someone else, it will be purely a visual illusion. He is not transforming literally into them. While he may sound and look like them on the outside, he cannot use their powers, he has to manage their mannerisms himself, and it is entirely possible to shock, pressure, or shake him out of the glamour if discovered. Invisibility Loki is able to turn invisible for sneaky, trickster reasons. In Marvel Rivals, he is able to do this without a time limit, but he's also not able to do anything but move and create clones. The moment he speaks, casts other spells, or bumps into someone, he is revealed. In Duplicity, I would also say he's not able to do this for more than fifteen minutes consecutively. Healing & Protection Magic Loki can create runes to produce temporary well of protective magic to absorb damage. If the runes are destroyed, so is the protection well. Loki can also use these runes to heal allies with the same magic, but in both the case of healing and for the protection well, once they are used the runes must be manually recharged. Inventory: His staff, a dagger, a few lumps of Chronovium. Samples: tdm #39 & tdm #40