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OOC Info;

Name: Abi
Age: 20
Ways to contact: dragonpunch @ plurk or journal PM.
Characters currently played: N/A.

Character Info;
Character Name: Eames
Canon: Inception.
Canon Link:

Eames at the Inception wiki, which really isn't very detailed in terms of history, so have a Plot Synopsis at IMDb. Even then, let's just elaborate a little more on Eames and his role in the film.

In terms of his pre-canon history, not an awful lot is revealed in canon, but some things can be inferred. He has worked with Cobb and Arthur before, and likely quite a few times, judging by his familiarity with either of them. Whether or not he considers them friends is a different matter, and given the nature of Eames's personality, he's much more likely to view them as repeat business partners -- not exactly with animosity, but they aren't really buddies, either. Still they have built up a significant rapport, and Eames does trust the both of them more than he would trust the average coworker. The three of them are all the best in their respective fields, they work well together, and Eames can at the very least trust them not to screw things up.

An unfilmed exchange between Cobb and Eames ( in the shooting script, page 41 ) has Eames stating that he would be willing to sell him out, despite Cobb's apparent faith in him. He's probably just fucking around, but it's quite heavily implied that his relationship with any member of the team is purely professional, and even then, since their work involves a lot of questionable activity, anyway, his loyalty probably only extends so far.

Onto the actual movie, Eames is gambling around in Mombasa when Cobb comes up and offers him a spot on his team to perform inception, which is something considered basically impossible by just about everyone in the business. Eames accepts the offer anyway, likely because of the very pretty price tag and his rapport with Cobb and Arthur -- but also because while he's tried inception once with a different team and failed, he does believe it's possible. Just exceedingly difficult.

On the team, Eames's creative, resourceful nature also means he's a key part of brainstorming their exact approach to the plan, with his unique abilities providing a certain flexibility in how the team can choose to approach the job. He thinks out of the box to find solutions to their problems, though outside of that, Eames seems like he would be more involved in his own specialized preparation than those of his coworkers, needing careful observation of whoever he's planning to impersonate. He ends up being largely responsible for at least the concept of the overall plan, given that the entire point of it is to manipulate someone into believing something, and that just happens to be what he's good at. Within the dream itself, Eames primarily serves the role of the forger, using his abilities at impersonation to ease the process of tricking the mark by pretending to be someone he trusts -- in this case, Fischer's godfather, Browning. While forgery is obviously a specialization, for him, he also functions along with the rest of the team as a regular old extractor when the job doesn't call for forging, and is more than capable of taking on trained and militarized projections.

To put it simply, Cobb ends up fucking him and the rest of the team over, pretty damn badly. He tricks them into taking a ridiculous risk that none of them were aware of ( save for Yusuf, he took a bribe ) , and Eames does not take it lightly. At that point he's basically automatically decided that the job isn't worth it, choosing to sit it out, and the only reason he continues with it at all is because Cobb's managed to get them stuck in a situation where carrying on is the only solution. It all works out well enough in the end, with Eames getting a touch of personal satisfaction in getting to see how his own personal manipulation of Fischer through impersonating Browning plays out, and the whole team gets to prove that inception is possible after all.

Cobb's eventual reunion with his family -- as well as his eventual retirement -- really doesn't affect Eames in the slightest, and it's most likely that he simply continues on with his life and his work post-movie. If not for the whole being drawn into another reality thing.

Canon Point: Post-movie, on leaving the LA International after completing the Fischer job.
Character Age: 37.

Character Suitability: HE IS VERY SUITABLE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Personality:

"That price on my head, was it dead or alive?"
"Don't remember. See if he starts shooting."
Cobb and Eames, Inception.
Eames is one of those men who's so perfectly suited to his job that he defines his work in the exact same way it defines him -- and Eames, by profession, is a liar.

A very talented liar, at that, and in every possible way, from lying to running cons to forgery and his personal specialty of impersonation and identity theft. He doesn't think of himself as amoral or unethical, so much as someone who just happens to have talents that apply to industries that others might find distasteful, and who's to blame him, really, to using them to his advantage? He's not a bad person, but he's far from the hero of the story, either, and he's perfectly fucking okay with that. He'll be exactly whoever he needs to be at any particular moment, nothing more and nothing less, and he'd become anyone you need him to be, too -- for the right price, of course.

He's by nature manipulative, constantly on the lookout for anything he can exploit and filing it all away for future reference. By trade, he's essentially a thief, and the kind who'd shake your hand with a smile and be your best friend, if that's what it took, until one day you woke up with all your valuables gone without a single lead to follow and the creeping realization that the man already fencing off all your things probably never even told you his real name. He'd do it all without a second thought, either, because this is business, and there's no room for sentiment when it comes to business. No matter how much of a charmer he might be, the pleasant conversationalist with a sharp tongue and a curiosity to match, he's capable of being absolutely ruthless. There's nothing personal about it -- you just have to be, when it comes to this kind of shit. It's not so much that he doesn't care about people, not at all that he can't -- he can, and he does. It's just that he'd barely even hesitate to drop all of it, if he had to.

Eames is fiercely independent, yet not adverse to working in a team -- his work is impossible to do alone, really, and Eames is nothing if not professional, as capable of a follower as he is a leader. He's not about to pretend that the team is anything but a task force put together to get a specific job done, though, there's no bonding, no friendship, just a group of business partners. He thrives with that sort of unspoken agreement, that they're all in this together for now, sure, and they'll look out for each other as long as work requires it, but in the end it's every fucking man for himself, and anyone who thinks otherwise is probably going to end up dead, sooner or later. It's important to realize that there's a difference between being unafraid to leave people in the dirt behind him and actually doing it -- when he enters a contract, when he joins a team on a job, his focus is on getting the fucking job done, not on selling out everyone around him. It's also important to realize that doesn't mean he's trustworthy, because while taking a bribe to fuck over his team may not be his focus, but it's always, always an option.

Still, he's warm and personable, even if it might just be because he's a cunning little bitch who likes digging his fingers into other people's business and it's much easier to pull that off when you're sociable. He does actually like people and is genuinely curious about them, and when it comes to his co-workers, especially, when he has no need to pretend to be anyone but his own cheerfully manipulative self, and he probably spends a little too much time teasing them and pushing at their buttons just to see how they react to them, and because he can. Mostly because it's funny, though.

For all his playfulness and cheek, Eames is sharp, intelligent, and surprisingly focused when it comes to his work -- and very, very resourceful. He genuinely loves what he does, and he'll spend weeks and months getting to know every last detail about his mark. It's an art, and Eames knows it well enough that he doesn't just read people like open books; he reads them like open books, then reads between the lines, rips out all the subtext and hidden little secrets they weren't even sure of themselves and then pockets all the information for later. Everything gives something away, from the way they talk to the way they move and the way they react to everything around them, and Eames has trained himself to see and interpret every little detail. He's not a miracle worker and it still takes weeks, probably months of careful observation before he can really be sure of everything in a target's mind, but he's still able to make quick, spot-on analyses far more accurate than the ordinary person's first impression would be. While he prefers to stick to his specialties when it comes to a job, he's resourceful, creative, and capable of coming up with the kind of solutions to problems that people have difficulty deciding whether or not to label "brilliant" or "completely fucking ridiculous". It's usually some measure of both.

Eames' main weakness is probably, well, his pride. And it's not that he's too egotistical to ever consider that he might not ever be anything but the best at his job or something, but it's more that he just doesn't like being bested. Being lied to, manipulated, and otherwise stabbed in the back is something of an everyday reality in his work, something that you can take for granted, but as someone who very rightly considers himself an expert in reading people and their intentions, Eames is usually pretty damn good at telling when he's being played. No matter how good he is, no one is perfect, sometimes something slips up -- Cobb and his little three-layers-deep gamble, for example. Cobb and Arthur are other extractors who are the best in their respective fields, and Eames has works with them many times, developed a rapport with them and a certain amount of trust, enough that Eames was completely blindsided by Cobb's betrayal. His trust in Arthur remains, since it was extremely apparent that Cobb had lied to him as well, but he's unlikely to get over that grudge against Cobb any time soon, and the sting to his pride from being successfully tricked into the whole thing is probably going to stay for a while, too.

He's also one of those guys who relies on talent and instinct, and tends to skip over the technical details in the process. He has more than enough talent that this is never really much of a problem, but it's still a failing, of his -- he probably couldn't tell you much about the technicalities of dream-sharing, not because he's too dumb to understand it or something, but simply because he never found the need to. He's very aware of his shortcomings, at least -- it's one of the reasons why he works on a team, where specialists are specialists and left to focus on their specific task, and he has boring nerds like Arthur around to pick up his slack in details and specifics.

As frighteningly capable as all these people are, in dreams, their wealth of time and experience in the dream world leaves them at least a little doubtful as to where to draw the line of reality, and at worst, completely incapable of telling dreams from the real world. That's why they have to rely on little tokens, on totems, and Eames, with his poker chip, isn't an exception. He's pretty grounded when it comes to the whole reality thing, and definitely doesn't spend too much time agonizing about whether or not he needs to wake up and be somewhere else, but it's impossible to get rid of the nagging little doubt at the back of his mind. He trusts himself and his totem to be right, because he has to, because he knows that if he starts doubting that, everything falls apart -- but in a situation where his judgment and his totem are compromised, he's going to be left kind of stranded.

All in all, as long as you don't get in his way or happen to have a very nice pricetag on some valuable information in your head, Eames is a pretty nice guy. He'll have coffee with you and even do you a favor, if he likes you enough -- but don't ever fool yourself into thinking that he won't ever put a bullet through your skull if he had to, because he would. And he wouldn't regret it in the slightest, because business is business, and honestly?

You should never have trusted him, anyway.

Powers & Abilities:

"There are plenty of good thieves."
"We don't just need a thief. We need a forger."
Arthur and Cobb, Inception.
A B I L I T I E S
DREAM INFILTRATION. Through use of the PASIV Device, Eames is capable of entering a shared dream which is in many ways literally entering a person's subconscious. There's a lot that can be done through dream sharing, including but not limited to extracting information straight from a target's subconscious mind, something known quite fittingly as extraction. Eames has had extensive experience with dreamshare, and is one of the most talented extractors in the business.

FORGERY. Eames himself has a particular talent within the dreamscape, something referred to as forgery. He's able to change the way he's perceived within the dream, altering both his appearance and voice as necessary. Combined with his natural talent for reading and impersonating people, in a dream he can function as a perfect doppelganger of anyone required for the job ( provided he's done his research beforehand, of course ). It's a very flexible ability and while the film isn't clear if it's unique, it's clear on two things: that the ability to forge in a dream is at the very least, rare, and that Eames is regarded as the best in his field when it comes to it.

COMBAT EXPERIENCE. The exact extent of any training Eames may have had isn't given, but it can be assumed that Eames has received extensive military training one way or another. He's knowledgeable in a wide variety of firearms and is just as capable in hand-to-hand combat. It's notable that in the film he was basically able to single-handedly take out the equivalent of a small private army.
P O W E R S
Eames is entirely human, and has no supernatural powers beyond his rather specialized skillset as detailed above.

Items on their Person:

[1] Heckler & Koch P2000
[2] spare magazines
[1] passport of questionable authenticity
[1] wallet containing ID and various cards of equally questionable authenticity, and approximately $100 USD in cash
[1] duffel bag he had with him as his carry-on luggage, containing a fresh change of clothes
[1] forged red "Mombassa District Casino" 100-shilling poker chip

Samples;

First Person Sample:

VOICE;

-- To whomever it may concern --

[ And a sudden crash, and another, a murmured curse as the recording erupts in scratches and static. There are other sounds in the background, the terrible screeches of an impending horde, and Eames scrambles a little for the phone as he picks himself up off the ground, his voice harsh and breathless as he runs, holding the phone just near enough to his mouth to speak into the mic. ]

-- That is, to the good fellows holed up in that building just outside the town gate. [ A pause, the sound of rushing wind coming to an abrupt halt as he ducks behind a wall, pressing himself back against it, trying to catch his breath. ] I can't help but notice that your door is barricaded. Very sensible thing, barricading your door.

I hope that you understand that I am currently leading a sizable group of our dearest friends in your direction. And while I'm sure you'd like to keep them out, I would very much appreciate it if you could let me in. Or open up a window, toss me a loaded gun, something like that.

[ A pause, and another hissed curse under his breath followed immediately by a gunshot. The screeches and groans are sounding in the background again, getting louder, louder, and -- he's actually laughing, breathless and harsh. ]

I'll be the one running ahead of everyone else.

[ Another rush of wind as he starts running again, the sound of his frantic footsteps scraping across the dirt and a rustle of fabric as he stuffs his phone roughly back into his pocket, and the recording cuts off. ]

Third Person Sample:

The thing ambles past him slowly, a slow, shambling corpse, with sunken eyes and pale mottled skin peeling from it's flesh. It's fucking terrifying, seeing something that was so clearly human, once, but isn't quite anymore -- it doesn't notice him, at least, and Eames presses back against the wall with his heart pounding in his chest thinking fuck fuck fuck, he can't remember the last time he's seen some goddamn zombie movie, they aren't supposed to be able to see all that well, are they. And so far, so good, even with Eames dressed in his rather tattered suit pressed up against a broken down fence, none of them have noticed him, not even the one barely two feet away.

His fingers curl tighter around the cool grip of his gun, sweat beading from his palms. It's hard to see in the dark, but there are a lot of them, too many of them, even if he manages to kill ( how do you kill a damned zombie ) one with each shot he's going to run out of bullets. He can't stay here forever, god, should he try and call for help, maybe use that phone in his pocket, would that be too much movement? Too much light? If he did it slow enough, would he survive, maybe if he just made a run for it right now, maybe if he just moved slowly, kept following the fence, maybe he'd make it to some kind of shelter.

( or maybe it doesn't matter, right, maybe none of this matters, maybe all he has to do is put the gun to his head and pull the trigger and he'll wake up in a hotel room somewhere because none of this is possible -- )

It stops. Raises it's head. Eames stops breathing, lungs twisting impossibly hard in his chest when the thing raises his head, turns slowly to look at him, jaw hanging wide, one eye terribly out of place in it's socket, bare rotten flesh visible on it's cheek where the skin has peeled away, and he can't think enough to stop himself, just raises his gun and fires. The gunshot is too loud in the silence, too loud for anything, and a second later a dozen more dead eyes are turning to look at him, moving forward with an unnatural speed, and Eames thinks about putting a gun to his head again, thinks about the shitty little poker chip tucked away in his wallet and how little or how much it means.

And then he thinks nothing but fuck, fuck, don't think just bloody move, and runs.

Additional Information: Nope, I'm good.

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OOC Info;
Name: Stacey
Age: 25
Ways to contact: thepenguinred - plurk and aim
Characters currently played: NA

Character Info;
Character Name:Darcy Lewis
Canon Link: Wiki!
Canon Point: Post Thor, before the Avengers
Character Age: Not stated in canon. I’ll go with 22
Character Suitability: NA

Personality:
Darcy is the is more or less one of the ‘straight men’ to the whole wacky world that is the Marvel Universe. Rather than having a heroic quest like Thor, or a deep love for exploring the unknown and finding sci-fi wonders like wormholes like Jane, or even suffering from a boat load of daddy issues like Loki, Darcy is just along for the ride. She’s only working on this project for some college credits, and is the first to state that maybe picking up the crazy man that fell out of a dust storm in the middle of the dessert isn’t such a good idea, even if it is for science. Really, of all the people in the film Darcy is very likely the most grounded, simply taking the punches as they come and doing what she can, in her own way, to handle all these insane events without getting too carried away in the drama or romance.

That doesn’t mean she does so stoically, however. Sarcasm is Darcy’s coping mechanism of choice, and her dead-pan humor doesn’t seem to have an off switch, even when she is visibly disturbed by what is going on around her. Hit a guy in the dessert? Comment how it was technically Jane’s fault. Have this guy claim he’s a god and watch him smash coffee cups? Take a picture of him eating a mountain of pancakes for Facebook. Have the government steal the life work of your boss? Throw in how they took your Ipod. No matter what it is, Darcy had the sanity reserves to face it with a dry wit and raised eyebrow. Which all means, basically, that Darcy doesn’t tend to take things too seriously unless it’s life and death, at which point she does become visibly rattled, but still does what is asked of her to help those around her (like save a puppy while Loki tried to murder Thor in front of her).

While she’s generally easy going and seems to get along with just about anyone (though if they don’t appreciate her MST3K commentary on life, that’s their problem), Darcy seems content to be a bit of a loner. She’s out in the middle of nowhere with just her bosses, after all, and doesn’t appear to have made many, if any, friends with the people in the town they’ve set up shop in, preferring just to work and hang out with her bad self in the meantime. All this shows her as more of a reactionary character than an active one, as she’s fine with people coming to her, and will (with only minor bitching) go along with mad plans and schemes, but is happier with someone else instigating them. Though this, of course, doesn’t stop her from speaking her mind on any topic at hand. Complaining about a problem and taking steps to fix it are two totally different things, after all.

Powers & Abilities: Using a taser? Seriously, she’s just a normal American girl with some basic self-defense and CPR under her belt. Also a political science major.

Items on their Person: Her taser and her normal outfit.

Samples; (All samples must be set in the game's universe)
First Person Sample:

[The voice that comes over the line is more than slightly freaking the hell out, but is trying to keep the shaky quality of her voice under control as she begins to ramble.]

Okay. So. Like, when exactly did I sign my life away to the Freaky Friday for Life club? Six credits. I only needed six science credits, and my gen reqs would be done. So I go live in the desert for the summer, whatever. Snoresville, right? Uh, no. Aliens, sci-fi specials, shadowy government people in suits...now this? Really? My philosophy and what the fuck creds are all filled up, I promise. Just slip me back in the crazy machine and I won’t mention it again. No kidnapping charges, no suits for emotional trauma, zip. Just send me home.

...Please?

Third Person Sample:
The sad thing was she’d planned for this. Not the ‘your life was just The Truman Show to the max, sux2bu lollercopter’ part. Be real, who even wanted to think about some old sleazy dude watching your emotional distress for his fun and jollies? Or worse in her case, in her very personal opinion, turning out to just be a sidekick in someone else’s epic story. She bet her character didn’t even get name dropped in the sequel. Lame. So. No. She didn’t plan for that.

The zombie apocalypse thing, though? Lady please. She’d grown up in the good old US of A when 28 Days later was a smash (and not just because of Cillian peen, no matter what anyone may say). She owned a copy of both How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse and How to Survive a Horror Movie. Discussions over shotguns vs sniper rifles vs machetes had been had and had until the vodka ran out. Darcy had figured she had this down.

Until actually showing up in one. Then? Hoo-boy. Like they said, life just wasn’t like the movies. And not only because (shock, gasp, awe) it turned out to be impossible to keep your hair perfectly light and curled and eyeliner in place when living in the middle of no-man’s land. Liberal interpretation of events were allowed in love, war, and the coming of the undead in film, she guessed. The real thing blew. It didn’t matter how cleverly she’d planned on using duct tape to secure herself to the ceiling (zombies never did seem that good at looking up, anyone else notice?), because it turned out that (sorry Republicans, wrong again) duct tape was a way more precious resource than gold when civilization bit the big one. And the whole lawn mower shtick wasn’t half as effective without a) gas, and b) some crazy upper body strength and endurance. Thor might be able to pull it off. For her? It was a life of hiding behind the guy with the biggest gun and hoping for the best.

Well, at least she had good practice at playing the smart-ass sidekick. That had to count for something in the end times.

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Name: Laura
Age: 24
Ways to contact: AIM: msLmcool
Characters currently played: None!

Character Info;
Character Name: Caroline Forbes
Canon: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Link: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: 3.22, after Tyler 'dies'
Character Age: 18
Character Suitability: N/A
Personality:

"Look, about Caroline, no matter what her flaws are, when push comes to shove, you’re going to want that girl on your side."

-Stefan Salvatore

Like every teenage girl, Caroline comes with her issues; she can be petty, immature, insecure, and jealous. She gets wrapped up in things that don't really matter to most when there are 'bigger things' happening. Outwardly, she seems sweet, peppy, in control but of course, some of that, later on, appears to only be skin deep. Caroline has a bit of a competitive streak too, especially where Elena is concerned. It feels like, to her, that she tried so hard, and yet, Elena doesn't have to try at all and she gets everything while making it seem so effortless. She can be gossip sometimes and has an uncanny ability to find out information from any source and fast. Her 'Little Miss Innocent' act comes in handy because she's good at providing a distraction on demand despite being a terrible liar.

She knows how shallow she is and she understands that this and her tendency to be a bitchy, control-freak are two very serious flaws. She very much wants to change and work on her flaws; she wants to be "abyss deep" and her "kiddie pool" level frustrates her. She's also admitted that at times, "I'm a terrible, awful person-but I'm working on it". She starts taking baby steps towards the grand understanding that it's not all about her.

But over all, Caroline is a fierce and loyal friend. Despite the bitchiness and the shallowness, she can be just as kind and caring and sweet. She's protective of her friends and is willing to take on whatever comes that keeps them safe. She saved Matt from dying, therefore exposing her secret and herself as a vampire because she loved him and couldn't stand by and watch him die. But she also puts a lot of stock in other people's loyalty, she expects it in return. When Tyler didn't help her and the rest of the vampire gang against the werewolves, after she helped him (which is risky considering a werewolf bite is deadly to a vampire) and kept his secret, Caroline told him they were done as friends, that their friendship was over. However she does forgive him because despite it all, she understands him and cares about him.

After Caroline is turned into vampire, her personality and neurotic quirks seem to go haywire, which is standard vampire fare. To quote her from the show, "[N]ow I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?" Although at times, she seems to be a tad more mellow, taking more things in stride. It probably helps that becoming a vampire has made Caroline a lot more confident. (And Stefan seems to help keep her calm). Though she can definitely still be high-strung like before. And with all the vampire strength and 'live forever' factor, she's not 'girly Caroline' anymore, she can handle herself.

Unfortunately even as she starts to become a more accepting and understanding person herself, she doesn't get it back from the person she really loves, Matt. He rejects her once he finds out who she is and after a series of events they break up because of it. Heartbroken about being dumped for who she is, something she can't change, it pushes her back towards Tyler, who understands what it's like to be different 'against your will'. Tyler becomes the boy she loves, they have their ups and downs, but ultimately, he's the one who'd do anything for her, the one she'd run away with.

Caroline is still really good at the whole denying her true feelings thing as well as getting petty and jealous despite growing as a person since she was turned into a vampire. Caroline always seems to remain positive and strong despite the horrible things that happen to her (like being turned into a vampire, being rejected on all sides for being a vampire, for being kidnapped and tortured more than once). She's quite confident in her vampire-ness but she's always been confident in her own way. But even when her father tortures her for being a vampire, trying to torture the blood lust from her, she accepts that she cannot change, that she can't be changed but that she has a good grip on her need for blood, that the only time she screwed up was the first time she killed. And even though she liked it, it scared her enough for her to strive to never do it again. But despite appearances, it's a struggle every day.

Powers & Abilities: As a vampire, Caroline gets the usual perks of living forever and never aging, she heals faster too. She's got super human strength, speed, and heightened senses. She's got the ability to control someone, remember certain things or forget them entirely (aka compelling). Because Caroline is a newer vampire and drinks animal blood, her ability to compel (as well as her physical strength) is less effective than older, stronger vampires.

The only way to kill in the TVD-verse vampire is sunlight, a werewolf bite, fire, or a stake through the heart. Anything involving wood or the herb vervain is extremely painful and debilitating for a vampire. Caroline has a ring made by her best friend Bonnie, who is a witch, that allows her to go out in sunlight, but very few vampires have this thus helping her hide the fact that she is a vampire.

I think that a good way to limit her abilities would be that any time she tries to use her super strength or speed or healing, it weakens her for a while, maybe a few hours or she has to get blood into her before she can do it again.

Items on their Person:
Caroline would be wearing her daylight ring which allows her to be in the sun. She'd also have her purse with money, some makeup, sunglasses, one blood bag, and her tablet/cellphone. (Which I assume will probably be useless for internet and phone calls but it'd have movies and pictures on it.) Of course, that can be taken away if that's not okay with the game's aesthetic.

Samples;
First Person Sample:

[Here, have a Caroline, brow furrowed, eyes narrowed as she looks into the device.] Okay, seriously, zombies are gross. They're gooey and drippy and they smell. And they have this annoying tendency to want to gnaw on everything. [She mutters something that might sound like 'like someone else I know'. Hint: She's talking about Klaus.] Then they don't die unless you do some stupid crazy move, like stab them in the head.

[She sounds especially annoyed at that before she pans the camera to show a zombie on the ground, a curling iron sticking out of it's face. You can practically hear the glare she's giving the motionless zombie in her voice--] Do you know how hard it is to find a curling iron? [She turns the camera towards her and gives the camera a chipper smile even if her next question is the most dire and important of questions.]

Does anyone have an extra one? [Priorities, she has them.]

Third Person Sample:

This is not the way our lives are supposed to be.

She'd heard Matt say it once to himself before he… It's a mantra for her, it's been that way before all this happen, before the world went to hell, before being part of the 'living dead' and being 'undead' were two different things. And before being a vampire was far better than the fate most of her 'fellow man' had met. But life wasn't supposed to be this way, she was supposed to be Miss Mystic Falls two years running, be prom queen, head cheerleader, to rock her senior year.

Not even being turned into a vampire, being a pawn in a twisted and dangerous game were going to stop her from that, she managed. But zombies? They were kind of a different story. How could you be prom queen when everyone who'd vote for you just wanted to eat your brains?

It had been hard enough for her to smile, to grin and bear it when she'd first been turned and realized all the things she wouldn't do because of it. But she always smiled, always found something to be excited about, to throw herself into, to pretend to live a normal life, for a little while longer. The future used to be filled with endless possibilities. Now it was just plain endless. And not the good kind of endless. Full of death and mayhem, loneliness and desolation, as that handy thing called 'civilization' kinda crumbled before her eyes. And smiling is difficult when you're fighting for your life but she manages.

She should be some kind of thankful and most of the time she is.. You're being selfish, Caroline Forbes. That's the old you, not the new improved, vampy you. She could be dead, she could've been ripped to pieces, eaten like so many other countless people she's seen. Everywhere seemed dead, no pun intended, no where feels truly safe. She's got friends, if you can even call them that. It's just people, people who aren't shells of them former selves that aren't craving a brain milkshake. You don't ever get to close to each other because tomorrow you might have to shoot them in the face. It's not like the movies, where people band together and there's camping and stories, and some rando guy who's a comic relief. But laughter is as hard to come by as food or even more important, blood but she manages. Caroline's not being picky by refusing to drink from those zombies, she's not stupid, there's something wrong with their blood. Better safe than sorry.

The only real comfort she gets is when she can't hear the sounds of screams, gun shots, or the constant groan and moan of the dead as they search for a meal. Gone are the days of gossip magazines, mani-pedis, and staring at hot guys as they walk by. Now her days were filled with scrubbing blood out of her blond curls and mini-skirt and discussing the values of the double tap or various other ways to kill a zombie.

Living is hard to do when everyone else is dying and the air smells of grief but she manages.

OOC Info;
Name: GJ
Age: Over 18
Ways to contact: Email: gentlejester at gmail | AIM/Plurk gjbreakingithero
Characters currently played: N/A

Character Info;
Character Name: Castiel
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Link: This is a concise history of Castiel by season of his appearance.
Canon Point: Season 5 finale.
Character Age: Unknown, has been alive since the Big Bang. His vessel appears to be in his 30s.
Character Suitability: N/A
Personality: Castiel is an Angel of the Lord. Among the Host of Heaven, he is a warrior of God, a captain of the Garrison... executing the will of their Father through the upper management -- the Archangels -- with unquestioning loyalty and dedication. When God commanded him to carry a message, he did so. When He ordered the destruction of a settlement, Castiel carried this out personally as an avenging angel sending a very different kind of message. Castiel was a good, obedient soldier.

...That is, until he met Dean Winchester. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.

Castiel is a man of subtleties. When he is first encountered in the series, his mannerisms and speech were stoic, oddly serene and practically alien. As time goes on and he spends more time with his 'charge', he gradually begins to show more emotion, the depth and range of his expressions expanding greatly, but only in subtle shifts of tone and expression. In a way, the slightest lean of his head and a hesitant reply becomes as obvious to read as a sign saying, "I'm not sure I follow you." Castiel would open his mouth and speak the blunt, honest truth -- no matter the consequences. It was out of deep respect and love for his Father that he admired mankind, despite their flaws, simply because God chose them to rule the earth. But after spending time with humans on earth, his admiration for his Father's "works of art" had become more empathetic.

He began to feel attachment, to forge strong bonds of companionship and friendship. Where his relationships were previously purely of a professional nature, one of superiors who acted as leaders and those who followed their orders, he had begun to sympathize with their pain. He would grieve (in his own way) when those closest to him did. He would offer a little smile when his friend laughed. He'd rest a hand on his shoulder in comfort when Dean seemed lost in despair. Despite the concerns that he'd grown too close to the humans he protected, and despite the fact that angels were not supposed to feel such strong emotions and ties with mankind, he began to learn how.

But that doesn't mean he was particularly good at it, either. Castiel is often at a loss as to how to properly behave in an emotionally charged situation. While he can comfort, it is limited -- He fails to lie to spare someone's feelings, only to fumble through an attempt far too late to be at all effective.

Castiel was one of the remaining angels directly involved in the lives of the Winchesters who still had faith that their Father had not abandoned them, seeking him out when all seemed lost and going at any length to find him to ask him to fight Lucifer. All of this to save Dean from the extraordinarily heavy burden on his shoulders as the 'Sword of Michael', or the Archangel Michael's vessel and to save the world from being burned to a cinder by Lucifer, knowing that it would mean pitting brother against brother.

Although eventually, he fell into despair and lost faith in God when his request for aid was refused as essentially 'not his problem', he went on a 'bender', turning to drink to drown away his frustration and feelings of betrayal and abandonment. It must have been the very thing that had caused so many of the other angels to despair and lose their way, resorting to bringing out the Apocalypse just because they were tired of caring for the world without God’s help.

Orders. Goals. He worked best under such conditions. Given a path and his renewed faith, he felt his resolve strengthen, giving him renewed confidence and patience. From this point in canon at the end of season 5, Castiel has renewed confidence and sense of mission, but has not yet returned to Heaven to see what this new sense of free will has done to it.

Powers & Abilities: NOTE: I realize he has a lot of potentially twinky powers. I am a firm believer of obtaining consent from players prior to using powers, because I'd rather have fun than 'win'. :3 And let's face it, Cas gets his ass beat on a regular basis.

Angel Cavity Search - More painful than it sounds, if you believe it. Castiel can shove his hand and forearm deep into a person's chest, lighting up what appears to be scattering vein-line paths of burning light just under the skin. This excruciating experience might cause permanent physical damage in some people. The results of this ability is being able to read someone's soul -- specifically if someone has a 'mark' on it (kind of like a deed, someone signed the soul to own it) or to detect if someone's soul is intact or even present. Alternatively, he can use this to touch the soul of a human being -- gingerly -- to siphon off some of it's pure energy. This is very dangerous and leaves both the angel and the human feeling frazzled after the painful, stressful process. (Perhaps touching a human soul is the only means for Castiel to regain full power on a very temporary basis, but he would hate doing this, as seen later in canon -- if he ever resorts to this, he would have no desire to attempt it a second time.)

Enhanced Senses - Angels are able to see things that are invisible to humans, such as Enochian sigils, Reapers and other things outside the range of human perception. In addition, Castiel can locate anyone not obfuscated from angelic sight as a sort of 'angelic GPS'. (Powered down, his 'angelic GPS' doesn't work. He must be present in order to sense anything.)

Enochian/Blood Magic - Banishing and Exorcising are more commonly used, as are Locating spells. Castiel can exorcise demons with a touch, although some are too powerful. The Banishing sigil works on angels, regardless of rank. In desperate times, he can even carve the sigil on his body and become a mobile banishing 'bomb' -- At the risk of banishing himself to some random location. He can also create a warding sigil against angels, preventing any to enter where he's marked it in blood. (I sincerely doubt angels and demons will be something he runs into very often, so its likely never to come into play. I would say that banishing sigils for angels and exorcisms for demons are up to whomever might be affected by it and the same goes with locating spells. I suspect that if these are ever to be used in game, it would be player vs. player.)

Pyrokinesis/Incinerate - Not one to normally resort to such strictly destructive powers, Castiel does have the ability to set things ablaze with divine fire with a gesture, which seems to have the same effect as salting and burning something to destroy a demon or spirit. He can also extinguish flame... even a circle of Holy Fire, as long as he's outside of it. (This has been reduced to manipulating/starting small fires, like lighting torches or allowing someone to escape a burning building by lowering the intensity of fire in a doorway, or extinguishing a fireplace quickly.)

Increased Strength/Stamina - Castiel is stronger and more resilient than appearances would lead one to believe. He can easily pick up and throw a fully grown man, crush brick and mortar with a punch into a wall, etc. Normally, punching an angel is like punching an iron wall. In fact, you can quite clearly hear a clank if you attempt it, like Dean once did. Furthermore, as an angel, he does not require food, sleep or water to survive. Injury sustained by mundane (and even some supernatural) means have little effect on him, and wounds heal very quickly (for example, Castiel is stabbed in the heart and shot multiple times, and he simply looks amused). In addition, angels are immune to all diseases and plagues. Oddly, he is not completely immune to the effects of alcohol, but it seems to take as much alcohol as a liquor store contains to get him heavily intoxicated. (Immunity to disease and toxins are still in effect, and he still doesn't require food, sleep or drink to survive. However, he's not like hitting metal anymore.)

Invisibility - Just like it sounds. (Powered down, I suggest he becomes obfuscated... eyes tend to slide right over him as long as he doesn't do anything attention grabbing, like attack someone or climb a lamp post, or talk. Furthermore, any sounds he makes are muffled, his heat signatures are lessened, and any scent he gives off is muted. Instead of the all powerful invisibility, he's got a stealth mode.)

Lay On Hands - With a touch Castiel can heal, render unconscious, alter memories, carve Enochian sigils into bones or organs without damaging anything else... even resurrect a dead person to life. In addition, Castiel can self-heal instantly and restore his clothes to a pristine state. (He is permitted to perform minor miracles -- restoring his clothes to their original state, making broken glass whole again -- and his vessel remains in that eternal five-o'clock shadow state. His healing ability is slowed greatly; minor cuts and wounds heal instantly but otherwise he benefits only from an accelerated natural healing process. A broken leg would take a few weeks rather than a few months, for example. With player consent, he can alter memories or put to sleep, but he can no longer resurrect the dead to life again.)

Possession - An angel can possess a willing vessel, as long as they give their consent and as long as they have that special 'something' in their blood that makes them a suitable vessel (generally, it runs in the family). No angel, not even fallen angels like Lucifer, can possess an unwilling host. The experience of being possessed by an angel is reported by one as like 'being chained to a comet' and you can lose all sense of time. (It would be ill-advised for Castiel to leave his vessel, so I'm going to say that he cannot vacate his vessel at all... which in and of itself has very distressing implications.)

Salvation - Castiel can rescue humans from Hell, although it may leave a hand print seared into the skin where his hand 'gripped you tight and raised you from perdition'. It did not in the case of Sam Winchester, strangely. (Seeing as this is unlikely to ever come into in-game play, I don't think this one matters.)

Smite - Castiel can, with the touch of his hand, cause someone... or something (like a vampire or a demon) to burn from the inside out by planting his hand on their head as bright, burning light fires from their eyes, nose and mouth. The ranged version of this comes in the form of a bolt of lightning from the sky... even on a clear day. (I am open to suggestions on how to power this one down.)

Telepathy, Telekinesis, Teleportation (Time & Space) - Castiel is able to enter the dreams of humans and speak to other angels in Enochian, or to psychics telepathically. Angels can also implant visions into the mind of a prophet. He can also speak through EVP. Angels can move objects with their mind, and can increase their focus on even the most delicate manipulations of objects with a gesture. Lastly, Castiel can travel instantly to whatever location (in space or time) he desires as well as teleport someone else with a touch. (Teleportation through time should be only a means to go on hiatus, or it just doesn't work at all. Teleportation through space is limited to short distances, such as navigating through a building, limited to a few miles distance. Repeated teleportation to go across greater distances via shorter ones will prove to be exhausting, and after about a dozen attempts in a row, he will collapse from exhaustion until the next day.)

True Form - An angel's true form and voice is overwhelming at best, fatal at worst. It can instill fear, can burn out the eyes of those who look upon it or deafen with it's piercing quality, or kill mortals outright. There are some who are unaffected, however. Castiel's true visage is approximately the size of the Chrysler Building. He can apparently focus this into a destructive explosion of blueish white light from his hands, which can clear a room of living beings/monsters if they don't take care to shut their eyes. (Castiel cannot vacate his vessel at this time, so he will not be able to assume his true form unless someone else has the ability to force him to 'show his face' as Pamela the psychic did in canon. Lastly, the massively destructive area-of-effect ability is not available when powered down.)

Items on their Person

Sword of Lucifer - The fancy name for that short-sword all angels come equipped with. The only blade that can kill another angel, and it can apparently kill other supernatural creatures as well... such as a Hellhound.

Jimmy's wedding band - Tucked away in his breast pocket, because it reminds him of what Jimmy sacrificed to be his vessel.

Aside from a cellphone and his attire, Castiel carries nothing else.

Samples;
First Person Sample: I am not a work of fiction!

[ An unassuming man in a well-used beige overcoat appears, hair dishevelled and expression distantly sullen. He drops a pamphlet titled, Fictional Realitities and YOU with an air of stoic distate. ]

I am at a loss, I -- [ This wasn't supposed to happen. They'd won and he was going to return to Heaven as the new sheriff, as Dean put it... so why was he suddenly trapped here? ] I'm not supposed to be here.

[ The angel applies a bit too much force to the buttons of his cellphone before pursing his lips, his tone lowering. ]

Although it would appear I am... outside of my coverage zone.

[ Snapping shut his cellphone, he returns his attention to the feed, his expression tight and vaugely perturbed. ]

This device has informed me that I am to participate in a Human Regenesis Program, despite the fact that I am not human. I am expected to believe that these -- [ The man gestures to a pile of books titled Supernatural, as well as a series of video cases. ] Are evidence of my existence is but a figment of a human's imagination, not the Winchester Gospel as I know it to be.

[ Yeah, Castiel's denial might be more than problematic. ]

Third Person Sample: Castiel had entered the ruined structure without question, seeking out his friend simply because he had been asked, and the urgent tone in which the request was delivered gave him reason to feel... concerned. They'd been through much together, he and the hunter. It wouldn't do to abandon him in his time of need now. Not while he is so filled with a sense of mission and accomplishment from having averted the apocalypse, even if it did end with their arrival in this strange place.

Each scrape and stomp of his footsteps echoed as the angel picked his way through the dusty, abandoned ruin of a long-forgotten farm, littered with broken skeletons of rotting, wooden furniture and crumbling brick fireplaces and surrounded at all sides by overgrown, wild fields. Each step disturbed layers of dust, clouds of aged, powdered mortar snaking around his ankles, moonlight filtering through shattered and filthy windows to illuminate every particle suspended in the air.

He listened to the silence that hung in the air for a while, the only sign of life being the way his blue eyes scanned the room, his form rigid and still in the darkness.

"Dean?" Castiel asked into the empty halls. This was the spot, wasn't it? The 'rendezvous point' the hunter had requested? He wasn't able to sense his presence, not by the usual means at least -- those sigils he'd carved into his rib cage worked rather effectively to obfuscate him from even his detection, forcing him to seek Dean out by more traditional means (using his eyes) or ask using more of the modern (using a cell phone). Except those didn't work either.

Castiel turned sharply, alarm etching itself in creases around his eyes as he focused into the darkness, squinting to pick out the form nearly indistinct from the shadow it stood in. The angelic blade slipped from his sleeve, his fingers grasping the hilt easily enough.

"Show yourself."

Additional Information: N/A

Thank you for your interest in Dead Weight! Your personality section and samples are both very good, but we must request further nerfing of Caroline's powers.

As with the case of Damon and Stefan, their strength, speed, and healing were taken down for them to only be slightly stronger and faster than the average human's abilities. Since it wouldn't be entirely fair for Caroline to be able to keep her powers, even if they do weaken her upon use, we would like to request that she be brought down to a similar state. Strength and speed are slightly better than that of a human, while healing is only slightly accelerated (minor cuts and bruises only take a couple of days, broken bones take about four weeks, etc). In the same vein, compelling also won't really work; it will be inconsistent at best and only able to implant minor things for short periods of time.

Also, as a note, Caroline's daylight ring will be reduced to an ordinary piece of jewelry, but she will already have immunity against sunlight upon arrival.

Are these guidelines for her powers acceptable?

Oh yes, of course! I'm sorry I didn't think to say that her powers would be weakened like it said in the game info, I was just rattling off what her powers were. My bad! So yes, that's absolutely fine!

I don't know if this is where to ask, but I was also curious as to zombies and their blood. Would drinking from a zombie kill a vampire or something like it?

It's not a problem at all, please don't worry about it.

We are pleased to accept your application to Dead Weight. Welcome to Kingswater. You have been chosen for the Human Regenesis Project. Your starter weapon is Shotgun and 15 Bullets.

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• There is an intro log as well as a NPC post to respond to, and backtagging into it is perfectly acceptable.

MOD NOTE: Zombie blood and flesh are infected, and drinking or eating either will cause the person in question to turn. If you want, you can have Caroline keep her scent for blood, as I believe both Stefan and Damon have chosen to do so.

Good luck in the Real World.

OOC Info;
Name: Chanel
Age: 21+
Ways to contact: emailnumbertwelve @ cmail . com
Characters currently played: None

Character Info;
Character Name: Loki Laufeyson (Formerly Loki Odinson)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Link:
Thor | The Avengers
Canon Point: Post Avengers
Character Age: Around 1212 years old. (Old Norse began to make villages and suitable homes around 800, so I just took that from the current date. It's an approximation to the best of my abilities.)

Personality: How He Presents Himself:

"I was a king, the rightful king of Asgard! Betrayed!"

In a land where brute force and a willingness to run into battle are valued, Loki is seen as weak. While he is a master sorcerer and has the cunning to match he is still viewed as a coward and a sneak amongst his peers. Asgard is a society that is ruled upon these sorts of principles, the belief of might is right is prevalent. Loki is viewed as a coward as he finds more value in planning and magic than force, he often clashes with Thor and co. because of this. It's easy to see this in the way Sif is far more accepted, as she is a warrior-- though she did have to prove herself-- than Loki who is a sorcerer. Even when he lends his hand to battle it's often discredited because Magic is not viewed as anything other than cowardice and he grows resentful because of it.

Loki looks far different than the ideal Aesir, while he is tall, wiry, pale and dark-- the idealized look of the Aesir is far closer to Thor's own image. Bright, golden, powerful and muscular. Many expect, and want, Loki to be more like Thor; as the older brother is charismatic, boisterous, fearless, proud and open. Loki however prefers his silence, the shadows, magic and his privacy; and it is hard for many not to compare the two. Hard for Loki not to compare the two either.

"You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I shall not be bullied... "

Despite his insecurities and conflict Loki projects a sense of arrogance almost unmatched. He call humanity ants and believes that they crave subjugation, that it is his right to rule simply because he is 'a god'. He demeans the skills of others with words or actions. Pushes and uses these words to manipulate, to bend them to his will and finds a swell of satisfaction when things work out as he sees fit. He tries to disconnect himself from others and project a sense of apathy with it, as if he is above sentiment and sympathy all the while the little cracks in his facade show he is not.

He says poisonous things to get a reaction, pushes and pushes in hopes of raising the ire of others, to force them to lose their composure. Loki seems to delight in the control it give him, even amongst all the chaos he creates he likes to have a firm grasp on the outcome. His plans are generally thought out five or six steps ahead of average; planning so thoroughly that most would struggle to follow his leaps in logic. He knows people well enough that most times he can predict just what to say to rile them or to pacify them. He's that little voice in your ear whispering what you should do and lets you believe it was all your idea in the first place.

His True Motivations:

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
— Fernando Pessoa

There is a phenomenon in the Thor which I think speaks clearly of how he views his relations to other characters, particularly those who were supposed to be his friends or family; I mean of course the fact people frequently just tell him to shut up. I think this reaction is normal on their part-- as Loki is known for trickery or lying-- but to him it is just them dismissing his existence entirely. I think it also explains a lot of how he looks at himself on the inside. While he projects a sense of bravado and aloofness I think Loki is probably the most insecure character in Avengers.

Imagine this happens enough through the thousand or so years Loki has been alive-- as he spends most of his time with Thor, Sif or the Warriors Three. And while the lot of them tolerate Loki for Thor's sake, they are not as close to him as his brother (as is probably his fault) and instead favor to tolerate him, at least until everything goes to hell. In Loki's case his words are his biggest source of power; while he is not an incapable fighter, more often than not Loki uses his wit and cunning to win out. He uses these words to reason people into doing things they normally wouldn't, manipulates them into decisions they believe are their own with seeds of deceit carefully planted. The constant silencing of him through the film (when he attempts to speak to Heimdall, stall Thor with the Frost Giants or even speak to Odin during his fight with Thor) is a dismissal of his ability. He feels undermined because of this, compared to the others who are all known for being warriors, Loki values his words highly and being dismissed and ignored feels to him like them undermining him.

This is finalized at the end of Avengers when he is not just cuffed but gagged; his words are his power and they muzzle him. His words are dangerous and it is only after he uses them to manipulate the heroes that they finally realize this.

That isn't to say he's entirely a nice guy and a victim of circumstance; Loki is obviously off-kilter, from the negative way he twists things said to him to the chaos and mayhem he'll cause for attention. I believe Loki is a case of "any attention is good attention" and if he can't get the same positive attention as Thor-- who is the Crowned Prince, Golden Son, etc-- then he will be exactly what he feels people expect of him. The opposite. He'll cause chaos and cruelty, play tricks and pranks because he feels that behaving this way will equalize him to Thor in the sense he will be as bad as Thor is good.

"Because I am the monster who parents tell their children about at night."

Loki has a intense sense of self-loathing and much of it comes to the forefront in this line. He was told most of his life of the Jotun and how they are monsters, listens to his brother tell stories of ridding them all and watches his father fall into silence. He believes that they're monsters, that they would bring the fall of Asgard and then finds out that he is one. That those creatures most fear and despise are his kin, that he is not the true son of Odin and Frigga. It's in this moment that every slight he's felt (real or imagined) becomes part of this-- part of the fact that he is not a true Aesir.

He kills his real father and attempts to destroy all of Jotunheim in order to 'cleanse' himself of being a monster. If no other Jotuns remain than he feels he can be free of his true nature. On that same account he takes it so deeply as part of what he is. These stories about monsters and viciousness, that all Jotun are like this, and decides that he too will be like this. A vicious monster to be feared, because it's who he is. As if his birth was an explanation for his actions. Not to mention discovering that Laufey had abandoned him for being a 'bastard child' and had left him to die in a temple. He takes this as just another instance of being unwanted, unworthy, belonging in either Asgard or Jotunheim.

"And if I do, then what? I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you know what he is. He's arrogant, he's reckless, he's dangerous! You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its King?"

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"Is it madness? Is it? IS IT? I don't know what happened on Earth to make you so soft! Don't tell me it was that woman?... Oh, it was. Well, when we're done here, maybe I'll pay her a visit myself!"

Much of Loki's inner motivation is jealousy; jealous of his brother, of the way e relates to others, the way he is loved, the way he feels Odin prefers him and probably a dozen of other things.

It's apparent he's usually at his brother's side, attempting to talk sense into him, to reason with him; because he knows that Thor is brash, a brilliant warrior but not a man prepared to be king. It's obvious by the way Thor is more than willing to disobey Odin and go to Jotunheim, prepared to fight without the consideration of what it might do to their political relations, that Odin is tired or even that the lot of them can get killed. Thor thinks himself the best warrior, unable to fall as do many others that stand at his side. Loki, for all his love of Thor (and I do believe he loves him, which is why he also hates him so deeply), is not blind to his faults. Perhaps this is because he is so unlike Thor, a thinker first as opposed to a warrior, and while others all aspire to be like his brother Loki knows him best and has seen fool hearty mistakes in their youth.

I think he gets so enraged that Thor has changed on earth because for so long he has been trying to change Thor, to talk some sense into him. The thought that some mere mortal that Thor has known for three days can do what Loki couldn't in all the years they spent together on Asgard eats at him. Another thing that makes him feel disconnected from his brother, dismissed, forgotten. He already feels as if none will listen, but knows the Aesir are stubborn, but to have him changed so quickly and easily by what Loki considers a inferior being is painful.

It's in this moment he knows Thor has changed; but Loki has too. He went from brilliant plans to all out murder, ready to rid the realms of Jotunheim as his brother would have before. He has always wanted them to be equal, but while he has stooped to this Thor has risen up, changed himself, become a better person and it makes Loki crazy. For they will never be equal no matter what he does, in the end deciding that if he cannot be like Thor then he will be the opposite. The villain.

Headcanon territory:

"You lack conviction."

I believe in this instance that Coulson is right. Loki lacks conviction because there is no real reason he would want Earth. It's not a strategic advantage as it contains nothing (we've seen) that would offer him a way to take over Asgard or any of the other nine realms. Asgard which has always been Loki's true goal. In Thor we see how hard he pushes to try and prove himself once Frigga allows him to wear the crown and take over as king. How much he wants to be the hero, worshiped and respected as Thor would have been. Earth will offer him none of this, while he may have pushed the humans down to rise above it-- they mean nothing to him, they're ants, and not his true goal. The respect of ants means nothing, the respect of Aesir means all.

Stark even wonders about it at one point, why would Loki want to rule Earth? Of course he doesn't have time to think it through but it's a puzzling question to those who do not even know his true motivations.

He doesn't want Earth, he wants a ride home.

A thing to keep in mind is Loki's plans usually have plans those plans have plans and schemes and so on and so forth. Coming in and blowing up a bunch of stuff after making the good guys bicker a little is quite flat for a person of Loki's skill sets.

He steals the tesseract in such a visible way-- which he's been keeping tabs on, as seen in the post-Thor credits scene-- which causes Fury to gather the Avengers and sets things into motion. If he intends for the Avengers to get involved at this point is negligent because he knows the power of the tesseract will draw the attention of Odin and therefor Thor.

It's then he allows himself to be captured-- even Stark and Rogers comment on how odd it is because he could have easily fled but choose not to. Of course then Thor shows up and Loki is sure he has the All-Fathers attention and his trick is already working against those involved. He slips information here or there and in the end he lands defeated-- a good smashing from the Hulk, sure, but he doesn't bother to draw himself away afterward.

He lets the heroes believe they've won, which is the easiest way for him to win. No one second guesses it because they all believe Loki to be weaker than Thor, crazed and a coward. In truth he just needed a way home and a way away from Thanos. They threaten him with pain, with finding him no matter where he may run and obviously have some sort of connection to him. In battling and losing as he did that puts him back in Asgard-- but not just that but under the protection of Thor and the others, not to mention in the position to usurp all that especially if he gets his hands on some of the things hidden in Odin's vault.

Why else would Selvig, while completely at a loss for his sense of self, still install a fail-safe into the portal? Why would Loki lie about possessing the cosmic cube to The Other? Loki isn't a team player and deigns no person worthy of ruling over him, that much is obvious, so why would he subject himself to Thanos' rule?

He wouldn't.

Powers & Abilities:
Superhuman Strength: Loki possesses a formidable strength as a result of his jotun lineage, that is comparable to his Asgardian contemporaries. He kicked a man several yards into a wall, and has thrown another across a room and through a window. He was able to overpower Captain America with ease. His strength also extends his ability to leap distances far in excess of human capability.

Superhuman Durability: As a Jotun, Loki has a resilient body with a tolerance for trauma that's similar to the Asgardians. Of particular note is his pronounced tolerance for cold. Loki has also shown extreme endurance against bullets which just bounce off him. Loki has also taken a blow from Captain America's shield which also failed to injure him. He has also withstood a full blast from a weapon based on the Destroyer. Loki has also withstood a blast from Iron Man's repulsors without being burnt or horribly scarred as well as a fierce beating from the Hulk which Loki walked away from with minor damage (of course being floored and out of action for a short while).

Superhuman Longevity: Loki has the capacity to live for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Loki was a baby at the end of the last great war between the Asgardians and the Jotuns over a thousand years ago.

Superhuman Speed/Agility: Loki is fast enough to catch Hawkeye's arrows in mid-flight, inches away from his neck. He also used his speed in his fight against Captain America, during which he easily gained the upper hand, at one point even smashing Cap's shield into the ground. Indeed, had Loki not intended to humiliate the supersoldier, he could easily have killed him.

Sorcery: Loki is a master of magic. He can create illusions, including copies of himself, can teleport others (and possibly himself) to wherever he wants, and can influence people with his mind and was able to exert a more potent hypnotic control when using his sceptre directly on people who were trying to stop him. He can also conceal himself and others from sight. Loki can summon objects out of thin air. When he summons the Casket of Ancient Winters and used it against Heimdall freezing him solid. He can also alter his appearance and attire whenever he wills it..

Cold Manipulation: As a Frost Giant, Loki can generate cold, like when he froze the lightning in the Bifrost Bridge to jam its functions.

Intelligence: Loki has shown that being an "god" of a different world, he has shown to be able to understand, learn and eventually utilize Earth and other alien technology to an excellent degree, such as using the eye device on the scientist, learning to use the control console that controls the cage and flying an Chitauri airship.

Expert Combatant: Loki has extensive combat training that allowed him to fight off and kill several Jotuns in Jotunheim, defeat several S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives, and hold his own against Thor and Captain America for a time.

Items on their Person:
One set Aesir armor,
One set of cuffs,
One gag,
One set of boots,

Samples;
First Person Sample:I know not how these poor creatures escaped from Hel; but if a creature can be killed once, then it can be killed again. [ It's that basic, as far as he's concerned. ] Pitiful, shambling creatures-- it'd be cruel not to put them from their mysery, don't you think? [ Though Loki manages to sound about as unsympathetic as possible, there might even be a bit of amusement brushing through his tone. ]

I know I should find no surprise in the fact that even the feeble souls of humanity are rejected, in all their rights forgotten by their Gods. Tell me, what do you think your chances at survival? [ A breathy sort of sound passes his lips, perhaps more tired than he lets on. ] Man cannot scrounge around, skitter through the darkness forever, and they will always continue to come-- you will be offered no salvation, no new beginning, because in the end you are destined to die. To fail.

Third Person Sample: Loki did not bleed, humans bled. Mortals bled. Pathetic little ants bled when they were crushed under his boot-- but he did not bleed. Yet, here he was pressed against the doorway of a safe haven, trapped with the creatures he had so tried to kill-- not the undead, no, the humans with a wound in his shoulder that felt as unpleasant as it looked. Blood bubbled from between pale fingers, a red stain across the grass green of his tunic, it reminded him of a dozen things-- the bright edges of the sun over Asgard, Thor, of the many he had killed, Germany. He was without such things now, instead forced to rely on his wit and in great desperation the lost souls he had so condemned.

Now he was forced to their level or as close as he had ever been and it filled him with a sense of desperation. How could one hate others if there was no fall back, no magic to curl around his fingers and use to his every whim. Was he still Loki without it? Of course. It is not magic that makes Loki, despite what those of Asgard would believe. He was a trickster far before he was a sorcerer and the power of his words could be as deadly as any blade offered. As a fire without smoke still burned, was still a flame and knew not why it did what it did, simply that it did it-- as was Loki, a trickster who did not need to second guess himself more than the brief moment allowed. He was Loki and it mattered not what power he had or where he hailed from because he always had power-- one he would not allow to be taken from him.

Let them think him weak, let them believe he cannot pry them apart bit by bit and word by word. He will use that, because he may rise far past where they underestimate him to be.

Additional Information: Please forgive my formatting if it looks weird.

Your application looks fantastic! However, the abilities section is a rather overpowered for the game. Upon arrival Castiel would be given a human form that will require food, water, and will essentially be toned down to the skillset of your average human. For all intents and purposes, he is in fact human while here. Of course he is free to keep remnants of these abilities, but he would not be able to siphon energy from other residents to restore their strength power.

For instance, his fire abilities would be reduced to starting a fire roughly equivalent to that of a lighter, perhaps a little more resilient to the wind. While he may be able to escape notice of the undead immediately due to what remains of his cloaking power, it would not last long and it would not affect other characters. His healing abilities would also be dampened as well. Bruises and minor cuts would not heal instantly, but they would heal a little faster than average, and his durability and strength would be just above the human average. For augmented healing, a broken leg would take four weeks to heal rather than your average six.

His teleportation and smiting powers would also no longer be available. Telekinesis would be limited to moving small objects and that in itself would feel quite taxing.

Are these guidelines for his powers acceptable?

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