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Stats.
Hair/Eye Color. Black/Bright, bright green
Homeworld. Asgardia; Earth-616
Age. Mentally/physically 20 – 21ⁱⁱ
Canon point. Agent of Asgard no. 12
Dominion. Depends on what you're going by. Chaos, lies, mischief, fire. He says quite a lot about "change" and "new starts" being givens for the idea of chaos. (Formerly the God of Evil.)
Visual. Pretty much looks like trouble; he has a face that people want to punch. Inhumanly green eyes. Around 6'1". Weighs in at about 450 lbs. He has a density that's 3x any normal human, and it invokes a "presence" about him where he's denser than most of the objects/people around him.
Tall, lissome and limber, he's small for an Asgardian, especially in comparison to some of the larger ones (COUGHS THOR COUGHS). He's longer-legged and smaller shouldered, and tends to look more elegant. He has the kind of face that makes him look like he's always up to something. Think sinister David Bowie. He's pretty pale, dark-haired and has very inhumanly green eyes. He has a very shaggy, pretty basic hair cut, but it can be styled a few different ways. Fun fact, he's a lefty. He's also a shapeshifter, which means that he has various forms. One of these forms includes a female presentation, which looks quite similar in frame to Loki's male one; same body type: small-shouldered, a little lanky, and elegant.
Dexterity. A preferred lefty, but is most likely ambidextrous.
Demeanor. Loki is incredibly expressive and prone to theatrics. He hardly has any drawbacks when it comes to his confidence in social situations, and puts off an aura that just might even be arrogance. He has good posture, confident stance, and has a very curious swagger when he walks. He uses his hands a lot, gesturing here and there and wiggling his fingers to emphasize certain words or phrases. He knows when to keep himself closed off and when to put himself dangerously at the edge of someone's personal space to illicit responses. He uses various physical gestures and techniques during conversations to either coax someone into giving him what he wants, or to turn a situation favorable. And sometimes he's just generally being an asshole to make people react. He can also get very playful and whimsy, and quite a bit flirty.
Language. Mother language is Old Norse (but he can speak all languages). A fairly normal speaking voice with a slight Norwegian accent that makes harsher sounds a little softer (and that goes for whatever language that he's speaking). There's a candace to how he speaks, either like the punchline of a joke, or a measure of a poem. When he strings together words, there's a candace involved that can emphasize wordplay. There's a lot of subtleties and vocal cues in the way that he speaks. He also can lie pretty flawlessly, as in there's no change to his body when he does so (usually, there are a few that will trip him up). The more emotional he gets, the more clipped he gets and the less measured. He can go between sassy, cutting, flirty and playful like no one's biz.
Reality Warping (aka sorcery aka magic). Any sorcery/magic/reality warping (whatever we want to call it) is based on the idea of telling lies and making them the truth, and finding a very good way of being so convincing that the universe can’t tell the difference between the two. Loki can use a mishmash of different magic words/runes/etc. to his disposal, and he’s good at adapting. Any way of convincing, whether it be "abra cadabra" or verse from a grimoire doesn’t really matter to him. I’ve pulled out a few of his abilities here, but it ranges depending on what he decides to do with it. Illusion, shapeshifting, and teleportation are his main go-tos. He also has a few magical artifacts that have come along for the ride (that I added in the final notes section). He bases most of his abilities very heavily in illusion, trickery and convincing lies, which is appropriate for someone who definitely rides the gray area between lies, truths and telling stories.
Illusion. Masquerading around cloaked in illusion, tricking the senses, fiddling with reality just enough that it's disorienting. He can mask himself as another person, or mask the environment to reflect something different. He can get pretty creative with the way that he uses it to trick the senses. When his abilities are fragmented, he accidentally creates a construct of the best friend of a former incarnation to punish him. Generally his abilities are more reined in, but when fueled with the wrong emotions, they can run amok. Illusions will "cancel" one another out if they're close together, creating negating effect.
Shapeshifting. Changing into anything/anyone as long as "Loki is still Loki." He can't really change to a shape that's not "Loki," and there's a cost depending on the strain. Loki is genderfluid, and can present as a woman depending on Loki, really. Animals that he can shift into include foxes, magpies, snakes, and most forms associated with being a trickster. He's also shapeshifted into a normal body with a fox's head.
Teleportation. This is basically teleporting people/objects anywhere that he can locate/picture in his head. General details are up in the air, but if Loki's driving he has to know where he's going. He can also teleport more than one person at once.
Tracking. Putting sorcerous trackers on people that can actually track them just about anywhere, even multidimensionally. When his powers are unconstrained he can leave a metaphorical breadcrumb trail through dimensions.
Runes & Relics. Loki can create and maintaining magical relics, including jars to put nasty spirits and possibly ghosts in, up to the larger, like putting protective wards on a room. He has an array of abilities to futz certain objects up to make them a little more magically containing. This isn't just limited to containers, but also extends to other items of interest that he wishes to have other sorcerous properties. He can create protective runes, teleportation runes, and weave together spells that are rune-based. Most of these runes are meant to either contain or protect, or possibly cause a little bit of mischief.
Astral Projection. An "image" of himself that he can project over a distance in real time. It acts pretty much like a sorcerous phone call, except instead of a phone, the person that he's talking to over said distance just sees a projection that Loki's making of himself. He can't do anything in this state to affect the place around him. He can generally take a stroll with the person that he's projecting to, and has free movement around the area (he's eavesdropped on people before). During the time of astral projection, he's pretty much stuck where ever it is that he decides to project from, making him vulnerable while he conducts the spell itself.
Energy manipulation & Spellcasting. This is Loki's all-around ability that's either known as sorcery or reality manipulation. He can utilize the mystic/cosmic energies of the universe to facilitate small spells from different sources of magic, to make small objects (like cups, etc) float, and to create little force fields. He can also weave spells of protection from extreme elements, such as the vacuum in space.
Asgardian Traits. These traits come along with an all around "triple than normal-person density" Asgardian rule, where their tissue density is three times that of a normal human. This puts Loki at around 450 lbs. and gives him a heavy presence in the reality around him. It also partly contributes to his other insane Asgardian abilities.
Superhuman strength, healing factor & durability. This is exactly what it sounds like. This isn’t something that he normally uses at his disposal, but he is still a god. Asgardian strength seems to have limits around 50 tons. Durability sort of umbrellas into immunity from normal (mortal) diseases. I want to say "most," because there have been exceptions when it's come to diseases purely contracted by the divine. It also makes him incredibly physically durable (try stabbing someone through the middle when their density is triple of a normal person). He can be smacked into walls, through windows, and fall from some pretty hefty heights and still be okay. Punching by the Hulk does still give him a black-eye, though. A lot of his wounds can be self-sustained depending on his emotional state and how much he believes he deserves it. This also encompasses his his accelerated healing factor, his tissue density heals him up quick.
All-tongue. This is also known as the Allspeak. Not one of the density things, but this is the ability to hear/speak every language and have mortals (and others) generally hear it as their own.
Heightened perceptions. Loki's perceptions aren't limited to the normal five senses. He has a very intimate relationship with reality, and can feel the weave of little vibrations and stories so he knows exactly where to implement his own brand of sorcery.
Meaning anger, also known as Asgard's Bane, Gram is a sword birthed in blood and malice, once held by Sigurd the Ever-Glorious, and a manufactured narrative device plotted by Loki's future evil self, King Loki. The sword is a sword of truth, provoking anyone who gets cut by the blade to painful candor. First forged as an exceptional blade, it was given to the Asgardian hero, Sigurd, by Regin Hriedmarson as a device to both retaliate against King Loki for killing the shapeshifter Otr, and to slay Regin's brother, Fafnir, who had been consumed by greed for the gold King Loki had delivered upon Otr's death. The gold given to Fafnir's, having been cursed by the dwarf Andvari to reveal "the truth about people," slowly sunk into Fafnir, transforming him into a massive dragon upon a hoard of gold. Once Fafnir was slain by Sigurd, and bathed in Dragon's Blood, the sword itself drank the curse, turning it into lie-banishing blade.
It went through a few hands, including Sigmud, but was later collected by Odin and locked away from present-day Loki to find upon being "worthy." Loki was contracted to find it, and now wields it while enjoying the irony.
The blade itself has several unique qualities; here's the cheatsheet: the blade is cursed one, it's said to be capable of piercing any "lie" (to the right Loki's using the blade as a failsafe for the Queen of the Angels to be certain that what he's saying is the truth), and it can free individuals from corruption and telepathic influence (if the thoughts planted are false).
Those pierced or cut with the blade, depending to which degree, are forced to face all the lies that they tell themselves; the amount of pain inflicted by it depends on the degree of lie the victim is telling themselves. The falsehood does more damage than the blade itself. For example, King Loki is immune to the effects the blade, as he doesn't lie to himself about his nature, in contrast Regin was killed by the realization that he wasn't pursuing justice, and instead just a lowly murderer. The degree of how the blade affects someone is up to the player, I won't ever have Loki stab anyone with it without discussing it first.
ⁱⁱ Though his body and mentality are around an Asgardian 20 – 21, he has memories and a personality that's over a millennia old. Those memories can be patchy due to some existential complications. It's hard to tell by looking at him (given the whole divinity thing).