LOKI
COURT Unseelie
INFO Overview, abilities & inventory
TITLE None
OCCUPATION Trickster
ABLE TO FAST-TRAVEL Teleporting within the boundaries of Dorchadas
RESIDENCE IN 2,701 tba
RESIDENCE IN 2,702 tba
MAJOR EVENTS
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PLANS
Mostly building a CR base. Reuniting with Billy Kaplan, possible adventures with Magneto, and building both of those relationships. He'll be possibly teaching some low-level sorcery to a few select students, depending on how the idea itself is received. Otherwise, he plans on traveling around to see some of the sights along Dorchadas (and further, depending). He'll be looking into the sorcery within the world, as well as various kinds of sorcerous explosives, and different kinds of poisons. He'll want to examine the political structure, myths and find out more of the details about the war itself. There may be some rebellions and messing-up-of-things included in this, possibly with anti-shardbearer sentiments.
SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS
✖ Part-time adjunct professor of illusion at a mage uni. Spreading the general illusion bits around town. Gaining some very interesting information from said exploits.
✖ Saber's super super super secret R&D project. There will be trials and errors.
✖ Possible dabblings with the Midnight Court.
✖ Rin, Johnny, Magneto, Zuko, Sansa, Sam, Maleficent
QUESTS
✖ REDGATE | The Walking Dead
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May) |
- MARCH—Roc, the king of the birds, throws some awful snowstorms across drabwuld. Since Loki's a frost giant, he likely won't become a Lokisicle, but he'll try to find some creative ways to get people un-frozen.
- MARCH—Boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons.
- APRIL—Histrionic Loki with a crazy emotionally-driving harp in his dreams. He'll find it and destroy it. This also might be an interesting time for his CR, since he'll be a little more sensitive and vulnerable.
- APRIL—Boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons.
- MAY—Golden swans migrate, devouring and destroying. Loki will be capturing and collecting them to gain some wealth.
- MAY—Possibly beginning to find a place to settle after the monarchs leave. Teaching some low-level chaos magic to a few new faces that he's possibly bunking with.
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| SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug) |
- OVERVIEW—Refining his own abilities (depending on his boons) and continuing to foster the chaos magic abilities of those who may be around him during that time. Also helping Billy Kaplan with his finesse.
- JUNE—Checking on some of the Jabberwock sites that are affected with the rot. He can't do much in regards to healing, but it'll be a good opportunity to meet CR with the people who may have a better those abilities.
- JUNE—pOSSIBLE MAGICAL TOURNEY?? Using magic? Probably not, but he's very curious to see what other people in the world can do, so he may check it out for observational purposes, and to see if he can learn any new tricks.
- JULY—The sudden violence wrought by the anti-shardbearer demonstration hits a head, and Loki heads to investigate. Possible meetings with Magneto about this, as well as Acts of Vengeance 2: Electric Bugaloo, but with more good intentions.
- AUGUST—That sure is a bazaar, Sansa. Insert domestic bazaar stuff here.
- AUGUST—Leathann's Festival of Lights. SCREW THAT, WE'RE GOING TO THE FESTIVAL OF SHADOWS. Domestic festival stuff here.
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| FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov) |
- SEPTEMBER—The magic that allows everyone to understand Drabbish goes nuts. Loki has the All-Tongue and can translate. Who am I kidding? He's going to mistranslate everything for everyone. Enjoy your miscommunications.
- SEPTEMBER—Drunk.
- OCTOBER—Drunk.
- OCTOBER—Oh Black Shuck too.
- NOVEMBER—Rounding up some of the mages/sorcerers from the Leathann prison break—but he's more willing to make deals than he is to turn them in. He'll be looking to gain whatever he can experience-wise/magic-wise/knowledge-wise from the escaped criminals. He also isn't against rounding them up, depending.
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| WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb) |
- DECEMBER—Drunk hunt.
- JANUARY—Heading back to Caer Scima to blow raspberries at the Seelie from a long ways away. IT'S REBUILT, TAKE THAT, SEELIE.
- FEBRUARY—Murder mystery at the children's festival.
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On a scale of eh to supremely awesome? Ten the best, one the more unfavorable part of the spectrum? I'd say at least an eight. Probably a nine if you want to play it right.
Usually different kinds of people have different affinities for different kinds of magic. It's kind of a to-mae-to or to-mah-to thing. There's elemental—and then we get into the more abstract. That's what I do. Illusion, mostly. You know, trickery. The kind of thing that no one likes.
[ and it's true, no one really liked being duped (Thor most of all, but that was a story for another time), and Loki's abilities were exactly that. he was supremely good at being annoying and pissing people off. ]
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[Still, he's following what Loki's saying. Jason wonders if he really has a gift for that. Picking up fire magic was as easy as breathing. The destructive quality of fire was something that he took to rather easily, fire forming over his hand readily enough. He intends to learn more from Lemina, but it's only a matter of time.
He just hopes he isn't dragged into that stupid magic guild.]
But see, I get elemental. Make something burn. [He waves a hand at himself.]
It's obvious I can do that. What you're talking is more abstract. [But Jason isn't saying he doesn't want to learn.]
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[ there's a hint of amused irony in that, but it's dismissed as he continues. ]
Making something burn is easy. Put some magic words and focus a little and—bam! Forest fires.
Illusion, the abstraction, takes more finesse. It's more challenging. Harder to control, of course, because like all magic, it's about a thought and making the thought real. It's just less of a spark and more of a carefully woven lie. A lie so well written that fools the perceptions of others.
[ as if to demonstrate, his hand comes from his pocket and drags along beside them in the air as they walk. for a moment the reality around his fingertips ripples, small green tendrils flickering and catching. he snaps his fingers and in a split second it looks like they're heading in the opposite direction than they were walking. ]
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Jason isn't a king of self-control, but those lessons still remain instilled in him. He has to hold on to reality, and he's even had to beat it back into Bruce. What if he handles it in the other direction, taking blunt force and moving it the other way?]
Have you met anyone who can't be fooled?
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One person, but she is—ah, a special case.
[ that makes me wonder just what she's doing right now. he's been gone since the minor mission to Asgardia's dungeon, and he hasn't seen her since. first, caught up in finding a long lost sister, and now at the crux of all resonance. ]
She sees through all lies. Small white lies, lies of comfort, everything that consists of any falsehood, no matter how convincing it might be. Other than that? No one.
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Of course, he doesn't actually know Loki that well, so what he gives him credit for varies. He doesn't know if he deserves that much credit. Then again, Loki thinks he has some magical potential for illusions right now, so who knows?]
How'd she get a shitty power like that? [he asks, already defining it as "not good." He can see the use for it, but ... it would make living difficult.]
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he's in a different place, somewhere far away from the reaches of Manhattan, far from his own universe, and here he is, pondering back on it. it brings light discomfort, but he did ask. ]
She's always had it. Forms of entertainment, mortal traditions, declarations of love, they all fell flat in her presence. She saw through all of them. I think she grew just a bit bitter, with all the lies mount around her.
[ despite that, he's thinking about that. thinking about Verity, and a pang hits him. he misses her. ]
I met her wearing an illusion, and when we spoke, knowing who I was and that I wasn't lying about it—well—it's like meeting what you never thought to be real and suddenly it is. I am. The whole Loki thing.
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Plus, "Captain America" sounds like what Hawkman always wanted to call himself, but never got around to it. His files on being truly conservative always stood out to Jason, like Bruce wanted to make sure that people would take that as a sign of him potentially being a gun-toting maniac if someone struck the right chord.]
Must be different for you then. To be able to ... put it all out there here.
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Though I think the circumstance was a tad different for her. People are far more used to seeing Thor waving his hammer around in an ostentatious fashion before taking flight to some corner of Midgard to bludgeon evil villains in the face than other gods. New York is full of superheroes, well—and an eclectic mix of others too.
[ there's a faint shrug that accompanies those words. ]
Alternate dimensions, extraterrestrial invaders, someone let the chaotic deity out of the box world ending, the fear lord is going to destroy us all world ending—ah, there's a few more ...
I don't really mask myself, the disbelief just comes with the package.
[ he puts his hands on his hips. ]
While it's best to keep a look out for those that can see through illusions, I've not seen many who bear the ability.
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But being here makes everyone superhuman; the fact that Jason can now form fire within his hand with just a thought is new and different. He has never seen himself as a meta, even after coming back from the dead. He knows there must have been some other force involved with such a thing.]
Just ... wondering. I know a guy, he'd hate this. [That forced casualness is there. But it comes across smoothly enough.]
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Generally yes. You're talking about mortal perceptions. Those are based only on a few aspects of reality, there would need to be something a little more extrasensory to break through it. Illusions are built on possibilities between those lies and those truths, but it's enough to make anyone wonder if reality that's experienced isn't based on the same.
[ there's a shrug from Loki, he kinda sorta had his own experiences with that one. lies and truths were second nature to them, weaving stories between what is and what could be was his MO. it was a form of trickery that he played to, just as well as he played all the grays that shaped his own world. ]
Ah, but it's always more fun when someone dislikes the prospect of trickery.
[ more of a reason to do it. ]
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But at the end of the day, Jason has to face up to the truth of himself. He knows there's a reason why he was Robin, and why Bruce didn't bench him right away. Even Jason finds himself stubbornly grounded in reality, even if his version is a lot more ... explosive than Bruce's.
Isn't that just it, though? Jason's the one who believes that Gotham's been enveloped in a fantasy for so long, and it's his job to change it.]
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You're no longer confined by that world. Only this one.
[ there's magic here—magic that Loki was familiar with. honestly, he had never really thought about teaching people, or even caring to teach people, but the more acquaintances that came with new starts warranted some broader thinking. ]
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[Then again, Jason is no longer the wide-eyed youth who believed in Batman's crusade against the evils of the world. He knows now that Batman's crusade is ineffective, and it wouldn't do a damn thing here.
If anything, it would just screw things up.]
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[ Loki wiggles his fingers to somehow further his point. he was about new things, new starts, and even if it was the same old song and dance, it was different with the added spice of this world's integrated sorcery. ]
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Then show me.
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Loki beckons to him, leading him around the corner where the cultist thin. he keeps talking like they're taking a friendly stroll. ]
Magic, at its most basic, is about taking thought and making it real. That's it, that's the secret. You can forget runes, grimoires and hocus pocus, even if some of the more old fogies of the magic world will tell you otherwise.
[ he twists his finger in the air, a disorienting green light following the motion. ]
So, you build a story. A lie. You tell reality what you want others to see, and it reflects back at them. Therein lies the tricky part—the lie has to fool them, your own senses, and the cosmos. It has to be perfect.
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He prefers certain parts of playing the fool, but he's flexible enough to do it in a lot of ways.]
I can handle that. But maybe not the way you need me to.
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[ there's hands on his hips and his cheeks puff out slightly in response. ]
Besides, you're not exactly about to win the prize for Mister Conformity. [ but he sounds all too pleased about that. ] Shall we get started?
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At least, it's the better part of all of that. There's still the tricky bit where he's died.]
But let's get moving, pal.
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[ and Loki whisks him off around the corner to find somewhere quiet to weave, pull and outright lie to the fabric of reality. it takes some getting used to—finding where the lie meets the truth and holding it. the cosmos ripples in response, and there are failed attempts that are all too real, as well as those that end in tears of laughter. Loki warns not "push the red button" too hard, 'less there be some kind of consequence that comes with it. ]