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Thor Odinson | Marvel Cinematic Universe | Not Reserved, Challenge

[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-07 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
OOC Info;
Name: Jen
Age: 23
Ways to contact: AIM (Wuzzafuzzle), Plurk (Wuzzafuzzle)
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Character Info;
Character Name: Thor Odinson
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)
Canon Link: Thor (Film) | The Avengers (Film) | Thor Odinson (Earth 199999) | Thor Odinson (Earth 616)
Canon Point: Post-Avengers, just after activating the Tesseract to return to Asgard
Character Age: 1000+
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[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-07 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Personality:
Thor may seem very straight forward, but there's a lot of nuances, especially after is exile to Midgard to be taken into when looking at him. We'll first discuss how Thor is pre-exile seeing as that personality is the foundation that gets tempered to a more well rounded, balanced individual after his exile and subsequently, his time in The Avengers.

The first thing you'll notice about Thor is his overwhelming arrogance and pride. He struts around like he is the highest level of awesome the nine realms have ever seen and he's not exactly unjustified in that belief, but it does make him a prick. This will be lessened as he learns humility in exile, but it will still always be a present factor. At this time he does believe himself to be above mortals, not to the extreme Loki does, but just to the point of what Asgardian culture would have him believe. Thor will always rise to a challenge, no matter what it is. It's part of his pride as an Asgardian and as a warrior, even if it's so small as eat this entire box of poptarts without stopping to breathe. Stupid, yes, but partly he sees it as being in a good spirit of competition (and oh is he competitive, oh lordy is he) and partly as being a proud warrior, unafraid and unintimidated.

He's impatient and hot-blooded - quick to anger and quick to act rashly and extremely, do whatever he wants and damn the consequences. When the Jotuns sneak in to attempt a theft, he immediately wants to commit an act that would start a war over a minor incident. He starts proclaiming 'As King of Asgard', trying to through around title, but once shut down, he goes into a rage, flipping a table like a petulant child tossing around toys in a fit. He still goes along with the plan after some convincing and idea-planting on Loki's side, despite the better judgment warnings of his friends. So you can see there, that part of him is not a trait of Asgardian culture, it's a trait of Thor's spoiled prince self wanting to run after glory and revenge and domineering manliness in battle. And as a note: Thor is always combat ready. It's a huge part of his life to be, so even after his exile, he'll still always be ready for a fight - excited, even.

Stubborn and insistent, Thor is often very domineering of things. He'll swoop right on in and take something and swoop away because he needs it and you don't really need an explanation for that do you. That really never changes, even in The Avengers. He's not the best person to work with, because while his judgment might improve, his people skills don't really. When something goes badly or looks like it's going badly, it's I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, not 'man i really hope I can stop this'. If someone is being a dick it's 'I will not allow you to do this' not 'I disagree with everything you are'. Allow is an important thing to note - Thor, likely more subconsciously - just believes himself to be in control of situations and have the final say on things, half because of his noble birth and half because, most of the time, if he wants something he's strong enough that no one will be stopping him to get it. There's a definite confidence in his abilities.

If you understand the concept of what a paladin is, you'll understand the ideal that Thor strives for in his demeanor and disposition. He attempts to be noble, upstanding, and absolute in how he does things. Partially it's for the glory of the ideal and partially its for the warrior's code he was raised with. The Norse gods are supposed to be something like armor weighted titans of noble and glorious battle, completely overwhelming in both strength and character and that's what he shoots for. His personality is an obnoxious level of strong and out there, valuing battle and glory and after that is achieved, loud and boisterous reveling and merry-making.

Energy, energy, energy, Thor is like the ADHD energizer bunny, and it sort of goes with the whole high energy lightning thing, but he has absolutely no shame in being bright eyed and bushy tailed and in everyone's face with it. He's loud, outspoken, incredibly restless and wears his emotions on his sleeve most often. If Thor is pissed, it'll be obvious. If he's happy, that'll be obvious too - and that's usually what he is - the bright smiling, winking prince of Asgard. When he pauses to think or seriously contemplate things is about the only time he's really muted - a silent kind of calm passing over him and a void expression. Pre-exile, he's shown to sit and pout when contemplating and isn't too prone to deep moments of thought and weighing of options, more self-centered about things and action, action, action. He's also quick to anger about things pre-exile - easily insulting friends and Loki when pissed and not offering an apology, just assuming he'll be forgiven and they'll understand.

He loves too easily, too openly, trusts people will treat him well because he's spoiled as all hell and trusts that he'll only be getting a slap on the wrist when he does something wrong - this changes after his exile and he learns that actions not only have consequences for himself but for others around him. He learns responsibility for what he does and how he acts.

Though he does have a genuine want to make his father proud, to serve his kingdom and to be a good, noble and fair king. At this point, however, he just has a very immature idea of how to go about that due to the manner in which he was raised and the effects of Asgardian war culture on him. He's a perfect warrior. He's not a perfect king.

Now that all makes him sound like a dick, right? Well he kind of was a dick before his time on Earth, so it works. So now that foundation is taken care of, we'll discuss in more detail how his exile changes him and in what ways, along with The Avengers.

After his exile to Earth, the more extreme parts of Thor personality become tempered, such as his arrogance, impatience and disregard for the havoc he causes as well as his belief that he's above those around him. He develops not only a love for humanity and their simplicity, their flaws, their honesty about it, but a philosophy of needing others, and that's what ultimately brings him to become a better ruler - this fact that you are not above the people you rule, but beside them. Serving them, even. When you fight, it is not a fight for you, it is a fight for the people you are protecting, not the glory or name of yourself and your kingdom, for the people within it and their interests and their safety. Having to depend on others while he was weak and mortal taught this to him, as well as the love for Jane Foster that he learned the value of sacrifice for and the admiration for humanity.

Thor is simple, not too intellectual, but more so that others think he is. Even post-exile, he's naive and idealistic about things, not understanding the issues that Loki has or the reason for his extreme actions. To Thor, things should be simple and direct, so he tends to think in that line of reasoning, not taking too incredibly long to come to decisions about things or overly worry about complications that aren't incredibly dire. In The Avengers, we see more of Thor having a deeper contemplation, having to deal with Loki, what to do with him, and what he's prepared to do with him. He wants to refuse that he's irredeemable, still telling people that they should have care for how they speak about him, even while he's locked in the other room for being crazy as hell and trying to murder everyone ever. The relationship between the two is fairly obvious, as Thor always attempts reasoning with him first before straight up attacking - Loki is not an enemy, he's his misguided brother that he needs to take home and fix and make all this better. The Avengers tests that greatly, and there's some moments you can see Thor seriously struggling with it in the face of what all Loki is doing, but it usually always ends with 'I am fucking pissed at you, but come on, we're going home now, I don't care how crazy you are.'

Still, despite this deep contemplation he gets into on the aircraft Avengers base, he still has moments of joking and laughing. He's got a good ol' boy kind of disposition of always being able to do this despite serious circumstances. It's an I'm In The Middle Of Stopping My Brother From Global Domination But Hey Let's Go Have Shawarma With Tony kind of thing. If that makes any sense.

So basically, what we have here is the story of Prick to Prince with a dash of Norse hilarity and extreme old noble paladin style beliefs of etiquette, behavior and disposition with about a large bucket's worth of sunshine in the happiness that sticks around him despite all this change he goes through and despite his crazy, crazy brother and the constant battle to get him back home.


Powers & Abilities:
↯ Aesir :: As an Aesir, Thor is privy to a huge amount of superhuman abilities and traits. To name the majority, superhuman strength, agility, speed, stamina, denser tissue, invulnerability to a point, a regenerative healing factor at some points and extended longevity. Aesirs live for thousands and thousands of years, seeing as they were around for the time of the Norse pagan pantheon to develop based on them. He also possess a superhumanly dense tissue, so he can be slammed into my a semi truck and he's likely to just get back up and walk it off. He can, of course, be injured, but it takes a good amount to get him to that point. This can all be found in more detail on the Earth 199999 wiki page for Thor.

↯ Warrior of Asgard :: Thor is a master combatant, raised for centuries upon centuries to be a warrior. The comics give much more detail on the vast array of battles he's fought in over the years, but he's developed a master level synchronicity with fighting with a hammer and alongside Sif, Loki and the Warriors Three, as seen in the battle at Jotunheim, as well as just in a team, as seen in the final battle of The Avengers. He's also capable of hand-to-hand combat, as per fighting the Hulk before he managed to summon Mjolnir, but there's no great manner of finesse to it, like Loki, perhaps.

↯ God of Thunder :: Mjolnir offers Thor a wide range of things he can do, the most important of which is control lightning, thunder, and general storming - tornadoes and the like. He can summon it, absorb it and fire it elsewhere. It also grants him the ability to fly, as seen when he twirls the hammer around and then launches in upwards, holding on to the end of it. He can summon Mjolnir to himself and it holds an enchantment that it cannot be picked up by anyone but whomsoever is worthy of the power of Thor (generally only Thor or Captain America). So he can lie lay it on top of Loki and Loki will be pinned there until he can come back and pick it up. It's the best glorified paper weight ever. More details on this can also be found on the Earth 199999 wiki page for Thor.

↯ Limitations :: So obviously a lot of this needs to be dampened, though I'm not sure how much should be taken out of the regular Aesir powers for strength and invulnerability, and would like to hear what the mods would prefer on that. As for the thunder and lightning veryveryfrightening bits that Mjolnir allows for, I was thinking this will be more like little mage-like casts for electric bolts rather than OMFG LIGHTNING STORM ALL UP DESTROYING ERRYTHANG and such. I'd love to get input from the mods on this as well.
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[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-07 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Items on their Person:
→Asgardian Armor & outfit
→Mjolnir

Samples;
First Person Sample: (I'm pretending he doesn't come in with Mjolnir for the point of making this sample work, just fyi)
[ The feed opens on the very close, too close, face of Thor Odinson, blinking from the camera to the picture on the screen and back up to the camera. ] Fascinating mortal bauble... [ There might have been a little bit of glee in that. But anywho, on to business. He coughs, like he wasn't just completely caught eyeing the phone like a five year old in a toy store, and continues, voice proud and slightly booming. ]

I know not this term 'zombie' the Midgardians have coined, yet I know of the shambling undead and while I cannot surmise how they have made it to this realm from the shadows of Hel, the threat shall be no less tolerated. On my word, friends, you have the hammer of Thor at your aid.

As for what is stated in these documents, 'What To Do If You Aren't Real'... [ A soft chuckle leaves him, a grin slipping to his lips as eyebrows raise ] It is hardly the first time Midgardians have told tales of us and certain not to be the last, though the accuracy of the record is... ineffable. [ Perhaps a little disturbingly so, down to private conversations with Loki, Odin, and Jane. He takes a moment to clear his throat. ] Still, it matters not. While flattered your people would go to such lengths to glorify us in legend still, it is unnecessary. As Prince of Asgard and sworn Guardian of Midgard, I am bound by honor to assist in this task you've summoned me forth for, and will proudly do so.

Which I shall get to as soon as a proper weapon be found. As it is, I have found only this in my arrival package. [ And here Thor looks severely unimpressed as he holds up a goddamn shotgun. ] How I am expect to defend the people with metal tubing and a collection of small beads, I cannot say. [ looks like he's taken apart one of the shells to inspect it, too, but either way he's clearly not happy with this outcome as he tosses the gun and disassembled shell back into the duffle bag unceremoniously. ] Should one find themselves in possession of a hammer, ax or sword, I would wish a trade.


Third Person Sample:
Thor had fought frost giants, massive mystic beasts only held in Midgardian legend, he'd fought legions, fought wave after wave and decimated armies with Mjolnir at his hand, but he would not be able to tell the difference that day. The swarms came and went - always something to call them, set them off. A light left on too bright, a misfired weapon, an argument too loud. It wouldn't matter at that point, not with him past the rest, in the middle of the funnel created by the break in the barricade they'd set, those capable of longer range behind, picking off any that came through and attempting to thin the crowd. Thor had the misfortune of a weapon that required him to be up close and personal, but he would not complain - he would take his station with pride and valor and he would defend the point, hold the line, until someone could clog that whole in the defense. The people behind him counted on him to, and the people farther still inside - those not capable of fighting like this - civilians, friends, companions needed him to hold them until a patch could be made.

A roar of a cry ripped from his throat as Mjolnir slammed into the side of one of the grotesque undead's head, knocking the thing back into the throng, hopefully not to rise again. He didn't have time to check - onto the next. It's not a battle for glory or reputation, not in the name of honoring Asgard or earning a place in Valhalla. It's dirty, perverse, wrong - it's a battle for mere survival. If they make it, it will be by the skin of their teeth, clawing their way on a driving notion of self-preservation - the screaming need to live. And a couple weeks later? The same. Another rotted corpse slammed back to the masses and Thor's head whipped to check the sides of the barricade, seeing another abomination crawling along one side of it, raising up below were one of the long ranged fighters stood. Senses screaming urgency, he called to him, focus split between the legion and the warning shouted.

"Archer! They come to your left!" The man didn't appear to hear over the rabble and his own mind's panic. A gritting of the Thunder God's teeth and he called again, hoarse and gruff - soreness the least of his worries at the moment. "Archer!"

He wouldn't hear him. Not now, not during the desperate struggle to defend the broken point. If left unchecked, if another point would be broken, it would be the end of them. You cannot fight a war on two fronts, and Aesir as he was, there Thor was merely a man with a particularly hard swing, nothing more. An curse spoken in an ancient lilt was lost in the static roar of screeches and groans of battle, and power thrummed around the once-god, pulling electricity to himself, and it expelled - not nearly what it should be, what it could have been, but enough to grant him room to send Mjolnir sailing at the enemy encroaching on the archer, slamming it away and off the barricade.

But it wouldn't be enough - enough to save one, but not two.

Hand still held out to recieve Mjolnir as it boomeranged back, his skin nearly crawled and time seemed to freeze as he felt grubby, blood encrusted, dirty matted hands with jagged nails wrap around an arm and it would be in a kind of paralyzed horror as time seemed to drip by like molasses, that a sharp pierce of teeth sinking in came to him, followed by a ripping that pulled up an intense burn and unease with it, a sickening pull of muscle being torn as the teeth drag. And as slow as time had been in that moment, an instant later it sped - hammer in hand and the offending ghoul already beaten to a pulp along with several around it before Thor could spare a moment to glance at the wound.

A cold chill traveled up his spine, scratching and jarring each vertebra on the way, and it was like a hand around his throat as the realization of infection set in. Even should he fight off the lot, should the barricade be mended, should the horde be thinned to nothing, Thor would not survive this battle. Not now. He was only allotted a fraction of a second to make the decision - he would defend. He would protect. There would be no retreat to die slowly and change in something heinous. Another roar, like the one before but with a pitch of abandon to it, came pulled from the man as lightening surged in a compact web around Mjolnir and he threw himself full at the crowd, unconcerned for the danger of a scratch or bite any longer, there was only the spirit of a warrior of Asgard in it. A true warrior of Asgard - not the naivety he'd had before in thinking that glory in battle was merely waging war and getting the highest death count, but of a man possessed with the burning need to serve his purpose, to bring an iron fisted finality to end the conflict, to preserve those that needed him to stand between them and the oncoming forces.

He would be that heavy, absolute, protecting wall, and should he still live after that, he would walk into the wastes and hunt what he could until overwhelmed or unable to go on. I death truly worthy of Valhalla.


Additional Information: Aside from looking for help with power dampening, nothing :3 hihi
jumpscare: PEE-WEE HERMAN ("Gospel")

ACCEPTED + mod note

[personal profile] jumpscare 2012-07-09 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
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 a boomerang. Feel free to peruse the arrival post to know what to expect upon revival.


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Mod Note: Thor's physical abilities will be limited to the normal human spectrum. He will now be slightly stronger, faster, and more durable than most humans - within the human limitations, but above average for a man his size.

Thor's lightning powers will also be limited to creating sparks and static electricity in the air.

Do these limitations sound acceptable to you?
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Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-09 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Lmao, sounds lovely to me. Thanks!
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Re: ACCEPTED + mod note

[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-09 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
OH. QUESTION. Mjolnir - would it retain the same boomeranging and heavy as fuck to anyone that isn't Thor properties that it does regularly, or is that nerfed as well?
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[personal profile] jumpscare 2012-07-12 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
My apologies for the delay! I didn't see this here.

Mjolnir will be a little heavier to everyone who isn't Thor, but as it is, the hammer will seem just as a normal hammer.
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[personal profile] godofshawarma 2012-07-13 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
No worries! Thanks a bunch!
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