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If you right-click the links, you can listen to the tracks in a different page. I don't have any of his official soundtrack songs yet. I'll probably add more songs later, as this was most of the list I got over the past two years, only searching down through the albums beginning with A to E, on my iTunes, and using any other songs that just happened to come up, that I thought would fit.
Songs from infancy
Celtic Dream (by Matt Ender)
Cradle Song (The Sanshin Cafe Orchestra, on the CD Dreamland)
Sammasati (Deva Premal)
Kucap-Kicup (by Gentra Pasundan)
An tSean Bhean Bhocht (by Ceoltoiri)
Early childhood
Tullochgorum - Murdo MacKenzie Of Torriedon (by Ceoltoiri)
Coilsfield House - Jig Of Slurs (by Ceoltoiri)
Cradle Spell of Dunvegan (by Lynn Morrison, on the CD Dreamland)
Mother Joy (from Ancient Isle, by Matt Ender)
A Lullabye (by Teresa Doyle, on the CD Dreamland)
Marquis of Huntley (by Ceoltoiri)
Scotch Cap - Glenlivit (by Ceoltoiri)
Carnival of the Animals (the Finale from Disney's Fantasia 2000)
Adolescence
Children of the Glen (by Matt Ender)
Ancient Isle (by Matt Ender)
Skye (by Matt Ender)
Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 - 3rd movement (Presto)
Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 - 1st movement
Beethoven: Symphony #8 In F, Op. 93 - Movement 3 Turn the sound up for this one? It's quiet.
These Hills I Roam (by Matt Ender)
Adulthood
Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C, Op.21 - 3rd movement
Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C, Op.21 - 1st movement
Prologue
The Encounter by Yo-Yo Ma and Tan Dun I set this to the battle in Jotunheim.
Howard Makes it All Go Away by Jon Brion When Odin shows up and Thor is awkward.
Big Fish (Titles) by Danny Elfman Thor shows up in New Mexico and meets Jane. A new story begins.
Growing and learning to show love
Pilgrim (by ENYA)
Sidewalk Flight (by Jon Brion) Everyone else and Thor are repeatedly confused by each other.
Bookstore (by Jon Brion) But they keep growing closer.
The Voice (by The Moody Blues)
Falling for the First Time (by The Barenaked Ladies)
Wild Child (by ENYA)
Unyielding Rain
Beethoven's 8th Symphony, 1st movement Thor infiltrates the SHIELD compound, trying to retrieve Mjolnir. He ends up fighting several people who will later be his friends.
Underwater (by Danny Elfman) Mjolnir!
Utopia (by Within Temptation, featuring Chris Jones) Thor cannot lift Mjolnir. His wails drive the rains, and SHIELD agents capture him. Loki tells Thor that Frigga has exiled him in the wake of Odin's death because of Thor.
Mairi Bhan Og (by Ceoltoiri) Between the loss of self he's experienced with Mjolnir, the death of his father, and his exile, Thor has a mental breakdown.
In the Tub (by Danny Elfman) Trying to rebuild a life for himself, he finds that his friends have come to bring him home. Thor wanders off to a bar, but does not allow himself to drink until he can come to some conclusion first.
Dream a Dream (by Doc Powell) Selvig follows him, and they end up having a heart-to-heart. He tells Thor that sometimes it's the strongest thing, to admit that you don't have the answers. To ask for help. Selvig then tells him that for Jane's own good, Thor must leave. Selvig has always been like a father to her, and he doesn't think she needs Thor messing up her life like this. Still reeling from his breakdown, Thor agrees. They proceed to get incredibly drunk.
Dancing in the Moonlight (by Órla Fallon) Even in the midst of his breakdown, Thor had remembered to retrieve Jane's research book for her, and now tries to show her the shape of Yggdrasil. In the light of the fire and the moon, Thor truly cherishes this life he has with her. Realizing how much he'll miss her, he watches the stars until he falls asleep.
What Have We Wrought?
Nita's Rambles - McHugh's - The Legacy (by Ceoltoiri) From the beginning to 1:17, Thor spends one last morning with Jane and his friends, having breakfast before heading away. From 1:17 to the end, Thor's friends from Asgard show up, and their reunion is very excitable and happy.
I Fall in Love Too Easily [Live, "Friday Miles" version] (by Miles Davis) But then they tell him that Odin is still alive. That Loki has been named Allfather as Regent, and that it appears that Loki has gone mad.
Sandra's Theme (by Danny Elfman) Having learned a little about what's going on, the friendly reunion is cut short at 1:35, when the Destroyer shows up. And Thor walks up to speak to Loki through it, regardless of his fear.
Pictures (by Danny Elfman) Thor no longer just assumes. In fact, he's learned to intuit so well, that it's now all he has to go on. There is no hint whatsoever for why Loki has chosen to do this, but Thor remembers his brother and tries to bridge that gap. He wants to understand, and apologizes for not paying attention before.
Lindblum (by Nobou Uematsu) After being smacked, falling unconscious, regaining his powers and fighting the Destroyer, Thor calls Heimdall and asks to be brought back home. But Heimdall doesn't answer right away. Because he's frozen in an ice block. Soon afterward, he breaks out and brings Thor back. Into the middle of an invasion.
Leaving Spectre (by Danny Elfman) Thor makes his way back to the palace. It's surreal to him, because he thought he'd never be allowed back home, but now it has become a place of danger. Because of his little brother? What happened?
The Sword of Doubt (by Nobou Uematsu) The brothers challenge each other at Odin's bedside. Loki uses Gungnir to shoot Thor through the wall. Thor flies to land outside while Loki heads to the Bifrost.
The Other Side of Antarctica (by Vangelis) The Observatory battle.
Fade (by Staind) The climax of the movie, for Thor, is just continually "What?", followed by "What???", followed by "WHAT????", but the feeling that he got from Loki in this scene was just that Loki had always been hiding this secret side of himself and that Thor had never really prodded or asked him anything, to discover it. So the song really worked for what Thor feels that Loki is saying to him, here.
The Change (by Evanescence) Thor reflected others' emotions, even before he really learned to intuit. And in this scene, we get to see a lot of that. Loki's tears make him cry. Loki's anger brings out his own. Even when Thor isn't sure what Loki's crying about. So this was really the part of the Observatory battle that Thor understood, and could hear loud and clear from Loki. He could tell that every time he tried to reach out, Loki felt further pushed away, even without knowing why. And as with Odin's anger and disgust becoming Thor's anger and disgust at himself, at the beginning, Thor reflected each one of Loki's emotions, tried to live it for himself to understand it. He didn't know yet, why Loki felt like he'd never been a part of their family. But he could tell that was the feeling. He didn't know why Loki was threatening all of this.
Sandra's Farewell (by Danny Elfman) Loki's last moment with Thor, is spent giving Thor a look of apology before letting go. Though Loki comes back later, and might not have tried to die, Thor thought he had. For over a year. Thor had always known Loki, for every moment of their lives. They'd spent most of their lives side by side, and Thor now blamed himself for Loki's death. And that look of apology really stuck with him. You can see the way that the pain spreads from Loki's face to Thor's in the scene, and Thor knows what he's going to do, long seconds before Odin does. With as often as the Odinsons tended to twin, I think Thor thought the look of apology was more about Thor losing his little brother, than about any of Loki's deeds. Certainly Loki later made it appear that way, even more.
Forgiven (by Within Temptation) Thor later learns about Loki's adoption, and about what his parents had done to his little brother in hiding the truth. The older brother is heartbroken and still doesn't really trust Odin, even when they're both in mourning. With his mother mourning the death of her youngest, and his friends not seeming to feel the same pain, a lot of Thor's grief and guilt were repressed and went unspoken. As extroverted as Thor is, unspoken means undealt with. For nearly a year. By the time he'd found his Midgardian friends again, he'd already known Loki was alive for about a month.
Erase This (by Evanescence) In the second movie, Thor speaks about the end of the first one, as though the entire mess was one huge painful incident. One incident, involving his brother's death, exile, unworthiness and Thor's guilt in response to Loki and to having restarted the war with Jotunheim. Something had to be the release of all that pain. He couldn't just fight anymore, because he was trying really hard to be intuitive. He decided to help. He threw everything into helping other people, into being a superhero, and almost lost himself in the process for several months. He didn't feel like himself; his family was different, his life was different and he couldn't be the saint he was trying so hard to be. Self acceptance had to come later, from being able to voice and accept his pain, with his friends.
Epilogue
A Day Without Rain (by ENYA) After a breakdown, people rebuild themselves. Thor is extroverted, so his ways to find himself are in expressing himself to others. He had no way of doing that here, which compounded the intense grief, guilt and unworthiness that he already felt. He didn't know who he was, and couldn't express himself to learn in the expressing, so I think this highly implies that for a while he must have fallen into a deep depression. Until he could express himself to his friends. I also had a lot of songs of intense mourning set during this time period, but a lot of them were triggery, so I didn't post them.
Theme from Antarctica (by Vangelis) There's a scene near the very end of the film, when Thor walks up to Heimdall, standing at the edge of the shattered Bifrost, to ask how Jane is doing. And we get a glimpse into Jane trying to understand portals and trying to help Thor. The music sounded a lot like this track, so I just put this here. I like the twinkly sounds, like weaving together all these moments when they thought of each other, into a single song.
I Know You're Out There Somewhere (by The Moody Blues) Thor doesn't give up the hope of getting to see Jane again. If anything, it becomes a part of what keeps him going. He remembers how much they cared about each other, even in such a short time.
I'm a Loser (by The Beatles) Well I didn't set it to a romance, and Thor certainly thinks he can sometimes act the part of not being upset, but the rest of the song fits here. He's not really sure if he's crying for Loki or about him, really. It was a huge thing and really made Thor doubt himself quite often.
Journey to Tara (by Matt Ender) It always seemed to me that this song dealt with a journey out of depression, more than anything else. It starts out so sad and small, then becomes so twinkly and strong and awed. Basically I had it set to Thor becoming closer with his friends on Asgard, spending more time with them and confiding in them. It gives him the grounding he's needed, to move on.
Stand By Me (by Ben E. King) Thor's connection with his Asgardian friends deepens; he needs them now more than ever.
Following a hidden trail
Life of Antarctica (by Vangelis) From Thor's lines in the movie, Thor learned Loki wasn't dead a short time ago, and has seen enough to assume that his brother's search for the Tesseract is of questionable motives, and has apparently brought Loki to Earth. I'm assuming that in the two or three months before the movie, Thor, Odin, Frigga and Heimdall found out that Loki was alive, and started trying to track down where he was, finding out hints about Thanos here and there, but never enough to learn what was going on.
There was a song here, track 6 of "Early Music Sampler" that I couldn't find on youtube. The CD is of ancient music from before the Classical Era. It sounded cheerful/challenging/calculating and sounded a lot like the actual soundtrack, when Loki puts on a huge and frightening show in Stuttgart. I assume SHIELD showed Thor what had happened later, so while he didn't see it at the time, Thor would have known the time period when it had happened.
Who are you, anymore?
Somewhere (duet acoustic version) (by Within Temptation, Featuring Anneke Van Giersbergen) Thor hops onto the Avengers Jet, and takes Loki to a hillside where they talk, presumably intending to bring him back to Asgard afterwards. Their bond is still deep, and the conversation clearly pulls at both their hearts, but nothing is changed as Loki himself will voice nothing.
Return to Spectre (by Danny Elfman) Loki does not act like the little brother Thor knew. Occasionally something will be the same, but his words are different, his tactics are different. He's like an entirely different man and Thor has no idea how this happened in so short a time.
A Message (by Coldplay) Thor continues to be confused about why Loki never believes him, when he reaches out to his little brother.
Memory of Antarctica (by Vangelis) After Loki kills Coulson and drops Thor out of the sky, the elder brother heartbrokenly contemplates this entire mess amidst a field of sunflowers.
Showtime (by Jon Brion) Loki's behavior continues to baffle and disorient Thor. The Avengers, who have only known Loki through a few instances in half a week, can predict his brother better than he can.
Battle
Beethoven's 2nd, 1st movement
The Growing Montage (by Danny Elfman)
I couldn't find anything that went with the stabbing scene, when both brothers end up crying. I also couldn't find anything to set to the scene where Hulk smashes Loki, or the one where the brothers head home.
This Huge Divide
Path of Thorns (Terms of Endearment) (by Sarah McLachlan) Unable to get through to Loki in the dungeons, Thor keeps finding himself having to walk away.
[This is a link to someone else's playlist. Please skip to the last song on the list, song 29] Good Night (by The Beatles) Even while not at his brother's side, Thor hopes Loki is doing all right. He may not want to go back to the dungeons, but he won't ever really give up the hope that Loki would one day find himself and be kinder.
Sick (by Evanescence) It's when the situation in the dungeons really starts to resemble an abusive situation, that Thor finally gives up entirely. He may have hopes that Loki will stop trying to drive him away, but he won't keep returning if Loki's responses are always so intentionally awful.
Highland Road (by Matt Ender) Thor skips Loki's trial and instead fights on Vanaheim. He can't stand to face what his little brother has done and become. Of the many battles he could fight, protecting Hogun is the most important to him.
Only Time (by ENYA) Thor reflects that he really couldn't have seen any of this coming. Frigga's death, Loki's changes, Jane's introduction and then her absence... Thor has a lot of "what is my life?" moments in the next few days after Frigga's death. Everything has changed so quickly.
There were more songs of mourning here, that also got really intense, so I removed them from the listing due to being triggery. Frigga dies in front of Thor, and after her death, he feels terrible for having upset her by breaking away from Loki. To make matters worse, Odin denies Loki the funeral, and Thor fears to be banished again, amidst the funeral, if he goes to see Loki in person. So he's sort of forced to betray Frigga and Loki again by not telling him in person. I headcanon that he had a recording made of the funeral, to one day give to Loki.
Interplanetary Road Trip
Instrumental Piece II, from "Ancient Music for a Modern Age" (by Sequentia) The group needs Loki to guide them through the paths of Yggdrasil, so they can get to Svartalfheim before the convergence happens. If they can make it in time, Thor thinks he can stop Malekith.
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (by Beck) At first, Thor thinks that Loki's putting on a show about caring. But Thor heard Loki claim that Frigga wasn't his mother, before she died, and Thor himself can guess how much those last words must have destroyed Loki's confidence. The older brother doesn't bring it up the entire trip, and by the end of it he starts to wonder if it isn't that Loki is lying now, but that he was trying to run them away, before. That he gave up the lie after it wreaked so much emotional harm. Thor's learned not to trust Loki, but he wants an answer to this puzzle.
Let's Work Together (by Canned Heat)
End Titles to Big Fish (by Danny Elfman) The brothers talk a little more, while Jane is sleeping.
Rebuilding (by Danny Elfman) More songs set to them talking.
Beethoven's 2nd, movement 2 They talked a lot in this film, but I still feel like they only covered about 1/5th of the things they needed to talk about.
I removed more songs here that were triggery. I'd set them to the discussion about Jane, and how Loki got protective that she was going to die before Thor did, and break his heart. I also removed most songs from Loki's second "death scene".
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Collecting Things (by Jon Brion) Loki appears to die while saving Thor. He keeps apologizing over and over, before what Thor believes is his death, and Thor blames himself for not showing Loki enough love, and for getting into such danger in the battle that Loki felt the need to run in, instead.
Death and Rebirth (by Masashi Hamauzu) Thor fights Malekith amidst a series of portals. I removed the songs I set to Thor's attempted suicide, depression/mourning and becoming further distanced from "Odin".
Prologue: Two Little Princes
Songs from infancy
Celtic Dream (by Matt Ender)
Cradle Song (The Sanshin Cafe Orchestra, on the CD Dreamland)
Sammasati (Deva Premal)
Kucap-Kicup (by Gentra Pasundan)
An tSean Bhean Bhocht (by Ceoltoiri)
Early childhood
Tullochgorum - Murdo MacKenzie Of Torriedon (by Ceoltoiri)
Coilsfield House - Jig Of Slurs (by Ceoltoiri)
Cradle Spell of Dunvegan (by Lynn Morrison, on the CD Dreamland)
Mother Joy (from Ancient Isle, by Matt Ender)
A Lullabye (by Teresa Doyle, on the CD Dreamland)
Marquis of Huntley (by Ceoltoiri)
Scotch Cap - Glenlivit (by Ceoltoiri)
Carnival of the Animals (the Finale from Disney's Fantasia 2000)
Adolescence
Children of the Glen (by Matt Ender)
Ancient Isle (by Matt Ender)
Skye (by Matt Ender)
Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 - 3rd movement (Presto)
Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 - 1st movement
Beethoven: Symphony #8 In F, Op. 93 - Movement 3 Turn the sound up for this one? It's quiet.
These Hills I Roam (by Matt Ender)
Adulthood
Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C, Op.21 - 3rd movement
Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C, Op.21 - 1st movement
Thor 1
Prologue
The Encounter by Yo-Yo Ma and Tan Dun I set this to the battle in Jotunheim.
Howard Makes it All Go Away by Jon Brion When Odin shows up and Thor is awkward.
Big Fish (Titles) by Danny Elfman Thor shows up in New Mexico and meets Jane. A new story begins.
Growing and learning to show love
Pilgrim (by ENYA)
Sidewalk Flight (by Jon Brion) Everyone else and Thor are repeatedly confused by each other.
Bookstore (by Jon Brion) But they keep growing closer.
The Voice (by The Moody Blues)
Falling for the First Time (by The Barenaked Ladies)
Wild Child (by ENYA)
Unyielding Rain
Beethoven's 8th Symphony, 1st movement Thor infiltrates the SHIELD compound, trying to retrieve Mjolnir. He ends up fighting several people who will later be his friends.
Underwater (by Danny Elfman) Mjolnir!
Utopia (by Within Temptation, featuring Chris Jones) Thor cannot lift Mjolnir. His wails drive the rains, and SHIELD agents capture him. Loki tells Thor that Frigga has exiled him in the wake of Odin's death because of Thor.
Mairi Bhan Og (by Ceoltoiri) Between the loss of self he's experienced with Mjolnir, the death of his father, and his exile, Thor has a mental breakdown.
In the Tub (by Danny Elfman) Trying to rebuild a life for himself, he finds that his friends have come to bring him home. Thor wanders off to a bar, but does not allow himself to drink until he can come to some conclusion first.
Dream a Dream (by Doc Powell) Selvig follows him, and they end up having a heart-to-heart. He tells Thor that sometimes it's the strongest thing, to admit that you don't have the answers. To ask for help. Selvig then tells him that for Jane's own good, Thor must leave. Selvig has always been like a father to her, and he doesn't think she needs Thor messing up her life like this. Still reeling from his breakdown, Thor agrees. They proceed to get incredibly drunk.
Dancing in the Moonlight (by Órla Fallon) Even in the midst of his breakdown, Thor had remembered to retrieve Jane's research book for her, and now tries to show her the shape of Yggdrasil. In the light of the fire and the moon, Thor truly cherishes this life he has with her. Realizing how much he'll miss her, he watches the stars until he falls asleep.
What Have We Wrought?
Nita's Rambles - McHugh's - The Legacy (by Ceoltoiri) From the beginning to 1:17, Thor spends one last morning with Jane and his friends, having breakfast before heading away. From 1:17 to the end, Thor's friends from Asgard show up, and their reunion is very excitable and happy.
I Fall in Love Too Easily [Live, "Friday Miles" version] (by Miles Davis) But then they tell him that Odin is still alive. That Loki has been named Allfather as Regent, and that it appears that Loki has gone mad.
Sandra's Theme (by Danny Elfman) Having learned a little about what's going on, the friendly reunion is cut short at 1:35, when the Destroyer shows up. And Thor walks up to speak to Loki through it, regardless of his fear.
Pictures (by Danny Elfman) Thor no longer just assumes. In fact, he's learned to intuit so well, that it's now all he has to go on. There is no hint whatsoever for why Loki has chosen to do this, but Thor remembers his brother and tries to bridge that gap. He wants to understand, and apologizes for not paying attention before.
Lindblum (by Nobou Uematsu) After being smacked, falling unconscious, regaining his powers and fighting the Destroyer, Thor calls Heimdall and asks to be brought back home. But Heimdall doesn't answer right away. Because he's frozen in an ice block. Soon afterward, he breaks out and brings Thor back. Into the middle of an invasion.
Leaving Spectre (by Danny Elfman) Thor makes his way back to the palace. It's surreal to him, because he thought he'd never be allowed back home, but now it has become a place of danger. Because of his little brother? What happened?
The Sword of Doubt (by Nobou Uematsu) The brothers challenge each other at Odin's bedside. Loki uses Gungnir to shoot Thor through the wall. Thor flies to land outside while Loki heads to the Bifrost.
The Other Side of Antarctica (by Vangelis) The Observatory battle.
Fade (by Staind) The climax of the movie, for Thor, is just continually "What?", followed by "What???", followed by "WHAT????", but the feeling that he got from Loki in this scene was just that Loki had always been hiding this secret side of himself and that Thor had never really prodded or asked him anything, to discover it. So the song really worked for what Thor feels that Loki is saying to him, here.
The Change (by Evanescence) Thor reflected others' emotions, even before he really learned to intuit. And in this scene, we get to see a lot of that. Loki's tears make him cry. Loki's anger brings out his own. Even when Thor isn't sure what Loki's crying about. So this was really the part of the Observatory battle that Thor understood, and could hear loud and clear from Loki. He could tell that every time he tried to reach out, Loki felt further pushed away, even without knowing why. And as with Odin's anger and disgust becoming Thor's anger and disgust at himself, at the beginning, Thor reflected each one of Loki's emotions, tried to live it for himself to understand it. He didn't know yet, why Loki felt like he'd never been a part of their family. But he could tell that was the feeling. He didn't know why Loki was threatening all of this.
Sandra's Farewell (by Danny Elfman) Loki's last moment with Thor, is spent giving Thor a look of apology before letting go. Though Loki comes back later, and might not have tried to die, Thor thought he had. For over a year. Thor had always known Loki, for every moment of their lives. They'd spent most of their lives side by side, and Thor now blamed himself for Loki's death. And that look of apology really stuck with him. You can see the way that the pain spreads from Loki's face to Thor's in the scene, and Thor knows what he's going to do, long seconds before Odin does. With as often as the Odinsons tended to twin, I think Thor thought the look of apology was more about Thor losing his little brother, than about any of Loki's deeds. Certainly Loki later made it appear that way, even more.
Forgiven (by Within Temptation) Thor later learns about Loki's adoption, and about what his parents had done to his little brother in hiding the truth. The older brother is heartbroken and still doesn't really trust Odin, even when they're both in mourning. With his mother mourning the death of her youngest, and his friends not seeming to feel the same pain, a lot of Thor's grief and guilt were repressed and went unspoken. As extroverted as Thor is, unspoken means undealt with. For nearly a year. By the time he'd found his Midgardian friends again, he'd already known Loki was alive for about a month.
Erase This (by Evanescence) In the second movie, Thor speaks about the end of the first one, as though the entire mess was one huge painful incident. One incident, involving his brother's death, exile, unworthiness and Thor's guilt in response to Loki and to having restarted the war with Jotunheim. Something had to be the release of all that pain. He couldn't just fight anymore, because he was trying really hard to be intuitive. He decided to help. He threw everything into helping other people, into being a superhero, and almost lost himself in the process for several months. He didn't feel like himself; his family was different, his life was different and he couldn't be the saint he was trying so hard to be. Self acceptance had to come later, from being able to voice and accept his pain, with his friends.
Epilogue
A Day Without Rain (by ENYA) After a breakdown, people rebuild themselves. Thor is extroverted, so his ways to find himself are in expressing himself to others. He had no way of doing that here, which compounded the intense grief, guilt and unworthiness that he already felt. He didn't know who he was, and couldn't express himself to learn in the expressing, so I think this highly implies that for a while he must have fallen into a deep depression. Until he could express himself to his friends. I also had a lot of songs of intense mourning set during this time period, but a lot of them were triggery, so I didn't post them.
Theme from Antarctica (by Vangelis) There's a scene near the very end of the film, when Thor walks up to Heimdall, standing at the edge of the shattered Bifrost, to ask how Jane is doing. And we get a glimpse into Jane trying to understand portals and trying to help Thor. The music sounded a lot like this track, so I just put this here. I like the twinkly sounds, like weaving together all these moments when they thought of each other, into a single song.
I Know You're Out There Somewhere (by The Moody Blues) Thor doesn't give up the hope of getting to see Jane again. If anything, it becomes a part of what keeps him going. He remembers how much they cared about each other, even in such a short time.
I'm a Loser (by The Beatles) Well I didn't set it to a romance, and Thor certainly thinks he can sometimes act the part of not being upset, but the rest of the song fits here. He's not really sure if he's crying for Loki or about him, really. It was a huge thing and really made Thor doubt himself quite often.
Journey to Tara (by Matt Ender) It always seemed to me that this song dealt with a journey out of depression, more than anything else. It starts out so sad and small, then becomes so twinkly and strong and awed. Basically I had it set to Thor becoming closer with his friends on Asgard, spending more time with them and confiding in them. It gives him the grounding he's needed, to move on.
Stand By Me (by Ben E. King) Thor's connection with his Asgardian friends deepens; he needs them now more than ever.
Avengers 1: Avengers Assemble
Following a hidden trail
Life of Antarctica (by Vangelis) From Thor's lines in the movie, Thor learned Loki wasn't dead a short time ago, and has seen enough to assume that his brother's search for the Tesseract is of questionable motives, and has apparently brought Loki to Earth. I'm assuming that in the two or three months before the movie, Thor, Odin, Frigga and Heimdall found out that Loki was alive, and started trying to track down where he was, finding out hints about Thanos here and there, but never enough to learn what was going on.
There was a song here, track 6 of "Early Music Sampler" that I couldn't find on youtube. The CD is of ancient music from before the Classical Era. It sounded cheerful/challenging/calculating and sounded a lot like the actual soundtrack, when Loki puts on a huge and frightening show in Stuttgart. I assume SHIELD showed Thor what had happened later, so while he didn't see it at the time, Thor would have known the time period when it had happened.
Who are you, anymore?
Somewhere (duet acoustic version) (by Within Temptation, Featuring Anneke Van Giersbergen) Thor hops onto the Avengers Jet, and takes Loki to a hillside where they talk, presumably intending to bring him back to Asgard afterwards. Their bond is still deep, and the conversation clearly pulls at both their hearts, but nothing is changed as Loki himself will voice nothing.
Return to Spectre (by Danny Elfman) Loki does not act like the little brother Thor knew. Occasionally something will be the same, but his words are different, his tactics are different. He's like an entirely different man and Thor has no idea how this happened in so short a time.
A Message (by Coldplay) Thor continues to be confused about why Loki never believes him, when he reaches out to his little brother.
Memory of Antarctica (by Vangelis) After Loki kills Coulson and drops Thor out of the sky, the elder brother heartbrokenly contemplates this entire mess amidst a field of sunflowers.
Showtime (by Jon Brion) Loki's behavior continues to baffle and disorient Thor. The Avengers, who have only known Loki through a few instances in half a week, can predict his brother better than he can.
Battle
Beethoven's 2nd, 1st movement
The Growing Montage (by Danny Elfman)
I couldn't find anything that went with the stabbing scene, when both brothers end up crying. I also couldn't find anything to set to the scene where Hulk smashes Loki, or the one where the brothers head home.
Thor 2: The Dark World
This Huge Divide
Path of Thorns (Terms of Endearment) (by Sarah McLachlan) Unable to get through to Loki in the dungeons, Thor keeps finding himself having to walk away.
[This is a link to someone else's playlist. Please skip to the last song on the list, song 29] Good Night (by The Beatles) Even while not at his brother's side, Thor hopes Loki is doing all right. He may not want to go back to the dungeons, but he won't ever really give up the hope that Loki would one day find himself and be kinder.
Sick (by Evanescence) It's when the situation in the dungeons really starts to resemble an abusive situation, that Thor finally gives up entirely. He may have hopes that Loki will stop trying to drive him away, but he won't keep returning if Loki's responses are always so intentionally awful.
Highland Road (by Matt Ender) Thor skips Loki's trial and instead fights on Vanaheim. He can't stand to face what his little brother has done and become. Of the many battles he could fight, protecting Hogun is the most important to him.
Only Time (by ENYA) Thor reflects that he really couldn't have seen any of this coming. Frigga's death, Loki's changes, Jane's introduction and then her absence... Thor has a lot of "what is my life?" moments in the next few days after Frigga's death. Everything has changed so quickly.
There were more songs of mourning here, that also got really intense, so I removed them from the listing due to being triggery. Frigga dies in front of Thor, and after her death, he feels terrible for having upset her by breaking away from Loki. To make matters worse, Odin denies Loki the funeral, and Thor fears to be banished again, amidst the funeral, if he goes to see Loki in person. So he's sort of forced to betray Frigga and Loki again by not telling him in person. I headcanon that he had a recording made of the funeral, to one day give to Loki.
Interplanetary Road Trip
Instrumental Piece II, from "Ancient Music for a Modern Age" (by Sequentia) The group needs Loki to guide them through the paths of Yggdrasil, so they can get to Svartalfheim before the convergence happens. If they can make it in time, Thor thinks he can stop Malekith.
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (by Beck) At first, Thor thinks that Loki's putting on a show about caring. But Thor heard Loki claim that Frigga wasn't his mother, before she died, and Thor himself can guess how much those last words must have destroyed Loki's confidence. The older brother doesn't bring it up the entire trip, and by the end of it he starts to wonder if it isn't that Loki is lying now, but that he was trying to run them away, before. That he gave up the lie after it wreaked so much emotional harm. Thor's learned not to trust Loki, but he wants an answer to this puzzle.
Let's Work Together (by Canned Heat)
End Titles to Big Fish (by Danny Elfman) The brothers talk a little more, while Jane is sleeping.
Rebuilding (by Danny Elfman) More songs set to them talking.
Beethoven's 2nd, movement 2 They talked a lot in this film, but I still feel like they only covered about 1/5th of the things they needed to talk about.
I removed more songs here that were triggery. I'd set them to the discussion about Jane, and how Loki got protective that she was going to die before Thor did, and break his heart. I also removed most songs from Loki's second "death scene".
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Collecting Things (by Jon Brion) Loki appears to die while saving Thor. He keeps apologizing over and over, before what Thor believes is his death, and Thor blames himself for not showing Loki enough love, and for getting into such danger in the battle that Loki felt the need to run in, instead.
Death and Rebirth (by Masashi Hamauzu) Thor fights Malekith amidst a series of portals. I removed the songs I set to Thor's attempted suicide, depression/mourning and becoming further distanced from "Odin".
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Age: 30
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Email: lividun@gmail.com
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Nicknames: The Thunderer
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically the Thor and Avengers series.
Sex/Gender: Male
Age: About 1,500 years old, looks/acts about 25 in human years.
PB: Chris Hemsworth
Journal: hamm3rtime
4th Walling: (Can your character be 4th walled/canon punctured? Yes or no. If necessary, be detailed.) Yes.
Canon Point: After “Avengers 2: Age of Ultron” by about a month.
Physical description: Tall and very muscled. Long blond hair falling to about 1/3 of the way down his back. Light blue-grey eyes. Alternately appears warm and loving or determined and rugged, banters about it either way. When unhappy, he rolls his shoulders and sometimes curls inward. He tends to express a lot through touch and physical gestures.
Canon Information
I feel like this needs a warning: this series deals with multiple cases of racism, suicides, violence, torture and deaths. And one case of entities which devour life forces.
Early Life
When Loki was rescued from the ice and brought home, Thor was too young to even remember the introduction very well. They were raised together from a very young age, and formed their skills around each other; a perfect match in opposition of both personalities and talents, generally with very similar wishes. Thor’s extroverted methods worked alongside Loki’s introverted ones. Loki’s skills with seidr, stealth and speed were bolstered by Thor’s directness and non-ranged attacks. Asgard’s society, basically that of the Vikings, but with much more modern amenities and space things, was highly focused on fighting. As with any monarchy, it was also crucial that the princes learned to defend themselves, so Thor was trained to fight fairly early. I’m going to guess at around adolescence, but they’d obviously fought quite a few battles before the first movie even opened.
Frigga, their mother, made efforts to get them to understand themselves and each other, whereas their father wanted them to fit his ideas of an ideal. Their father, Odin, was alternately loving or extremely harsh, causing Thor to want his approval from a young age.
The First “Thor” Movie:
In the opening scenes of the first movie, Thor is shown in the way that he acted, throughout all his 1500+ years of life, before then. He's from a battle-driven society, where physical mightiness means a lot, and he'd never really paid much attention to what others wanted or felt, back then. It's not that he didn't care; he has a very giving and loving heart. But he barely noticed anyone else. He knew what others told him, but he was terribly unobservant and self-involved. He simply acted and was then surprised if such actions upset those he loved. Even characters staring at him like "Wth is wrong with you???" also went blatantly unnoticed in the prologue. At that point, Thor had never really learned how to be observant enough or gentle enough to show his care. He was so caught up in what he wanted and how he felt, that he never really noticed that he was upsetting everyone by being so harsh and tactless.
Such obnoxious naivete came to an end fairly quickly, however, when Thor got banished for restarting an ages-long war. King Odin, the Allfather, told Thor that he had proved himself unworthy. That he was unworthy of his name, unworthy of his station... Unworthy of his armor is sort-of implied, as Odin ripped this off of him, leaving him in the casual clothes beneath it. Odin's list of everything Thor was unworthy of, really stuck with the Thunderer, the last resounding line of it being "YOU ARE UNWORTHY of the loved ones you have betrayed." Especially when said loved ones later die, such words had a devastating impact. To find that he then could not lift his thunder hammer, Mjolnir, during his banishment, was another loss-of-self. Thor is the Thunderer, and the inability to lift the object which he saw as a symbol of himself, would later be among his worst memories. Yet it was kind-of a necessity, being that he was blind as all hell at that point, and adding superpowers to that mix, was probably a very bad idea.
Upon being banished to a desert on Earth, with no food, water or shelter, Thor meets Jane Foster, an astrophysisict who takes him in. They fall deeply in love with each other, while Jane and her friends teach Thor how to be more tactful and gentle.
Thor did learn his lesson in the first movie, and generally holds himself to being gentler and more observant, now. He is still a battler in a very visceral sense; fighting has always been a part of him, and always will be. But now he understands, even when currently distracted, that he's not the only one with feelings. Telling him that he is being arrogant, inconsiderate, cruel, crass, uncaring, etc., is generally a way to worry him very quickly, and he will do all he can, to prevent himself from coming off that way. The guilt has done a number on him, as well as the embarrassment of having been so foolish. Add to this, the trauma of being again and again told he was unworthy, as he set off a course of events that he'd thought had killed his brother... And "worthiness" will never again hold the same meaning to him. Just a mention of the word is enough to make him wince.
The end of the first movie was massively confusing for him. Thor’s friends came to him, telling him that his brother had gone mad. The Destroyer, a massive fire-shooting robot, arrived after them and began blowing things up. He managed to return to Asgard, to find it under an invasion, presumably a battle that Loki had set up, before his brother threatened an entire planet and then attempted suicide off of a bridge. While Loki lived, Thor was understandably quite shaken and seems to see the entire first movie as one terrible traumatic incident, when asked about it later. He seems to greatly blame himself for Loki’s attempted suicide.
Avengers 1: “Avengers Assemble”:
Between the first Thor movie and now, Thor has joined a team of other superheroes, known as the Avengers, under the direction of Nick Fury and Agent Coulson, operating for a bit under "the Avengers Initiative".
Most of the movie, again for Thor, is spent going "What, no... Loki, why???" The Thunderer finds out that his brother is still alive! ....because he was alive to invade the planet of Thor's friends, while claiming to conquer them as a god. Loki killed Coulson and used a sceptre to attempt to possess three of Thor's friends, yet was only successful with two. Thor did notice that Loki's eyes, during this time period, occasionally glowed a turquoise-blue, as did the eyes of each person he possessed. The Mind Gem, when currently housed in the sceptre, was the same color, and canonly when each Gem is wielded, that gem changes the wielder's eyes to the glow of the stone.
The Avengers, amidst many battles and difficulties within the group, did manage to succeed in their task of sending Loki back to Asgard and away from Earth. In one of the last battles, Loki stabbed Thor, then dropped to the floor crying. As with everything else regarding Loki, Thor is still trying to figure out what even happened there.
Thor 2: “The Dark World”:
Between Avengers 1 and Thor 2, Loki was placed in a cell, albeit one with every amenity and comfort. Frigga still visited him, Odin seemed to lose all care for him and Thor... left. After two movies of claiming that he'd never back down, regarding their brotherhood. He canonly doesn't want to visit Loki, nor attend his trial. When their mother speaks of his little brother, Thor is honestly surprised that she might see any hope at all, in continuing to speak with him. Something happened between movies. I headcanon that Loki continued to act as he had before, and that eventually drove Thor away.
Between the choice to help his friends in yet another battle, or attend his brother's sentencing, Thor chose to fight. He later learned from their mother that Loki had been sentenced to spend the rest of his life without visitors. But their mother found a way around it. Although Loki was not to ever have another conversation with someone, or see them ever again, the decree did not technically prevent the use of a hologram. In the movie, Thor stands in the doorway as his mother, via hologram, finishes her current conversation with Loki. The younger brother's last words to Frigga, that she was not his mother, were overheard by Thor.
When the Dark Elves attacked, Asgard was not forewarned. While they had defenses, most of them failed. Several Asgardians died, including Queen Frigga. Thor was down the hall, within view of her as she was killed. He cried out and rushed to try to save her, but it was too late.
Odin decreed that Loki not be present for the funeral, which devastated both brothers. Thor, too afraid to counter his father after his own banishment, did not visit Loki to inform him of Frigga's death; he sent an einerjar to briefly deliver the message instead.
Jane Foster, after becoming the weilder of the Aether, joins forces with Thor, Sif and the Warriors Three, in an effort to break Loki out of the dungeons so that he might aid them in saving the universe. Odin's decision to just continue sending his armies at the Dark Elves, only saw more and more of them die, as the battle to keep the Dark Elves from stealing all light from the universe was somehow ignored. Nearly every character defies Odin simultaniously, and Thor breaks Loki out.
Both brothers were cranky, weary, and in mourning. Yet still, they embarked on an interplanetary road trip in which they had to actually deal with each other. Jane got the joy of watching them attempt to do so. But when they arrived at their first destination, the Aether was resistant to Thor's thunder-strike.
Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves, escaped, and attempted to use the Aether during the convergeance of the portals to all nine realms, in order to bring infinite darkness to the universe. Loki, in stopping Algrim/Kurse, was thought dead. Thor mourned his little brother once again, within the same week as losing their mother.
Given the strained relationship he had with his father, Thor took heart that he'd at least rediscovered his relationship with Jane, over the past few days. But when it seemed that his prior neglect of their relationship had caused her to look elsewhere, Thor was left with a problem. She cared, and Thor knew she cared. But if she wasn't happy with him, so soon after the deaths of half of his family... it was possible that she might feel obligated to remain with him.
Thor tempered his rage and fought Malekith with grim determination as they battled amidst portals to other worlds. Yet at the end of it, when Thor had to walk through a maelstrom of aether and debris, he looked completely numb. Not fearless in the sense of doggedly seeking a goal, but fearless because he felt he had nothing left to lose.
Once the final battle was won, multiple creatures from other worlds were running about London. Parts of Vanaheim were on fire. A giant ship of the Dark Elves began to topple towards Thor, and not knowing that it would stop without crushing him, Jane ran towards him, under a falling ship, amidst all the carnage, to lift him completely off the ground and pull him to safety. A character who weighed 640 pounds before his platemail was taken into account.
When Thor awakened a few hours later, it was to discover what Jane had done to save him. With enough adrenaline to lift about 700 pounds, it was no longer possible for him to deny that she cared for him.
Soon after, he returned to his father -- actually Loki in disguise -- who was surprisingly lenient about everyone's betrayal. Thor offered up his hammer and was told to keep it. Still pretending to be Odin, Loki even went so far as to offer Thor the throne, yet Thor refused.
Avengers 2: “Age of Ultron”:
So two of Thor's superhero companions, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, created a robot about 4 times the size of a human being. Theoretically, it was supposed to protect the world, but then it was driven homicidal by the Mind Gem, and proceeded to try to kill everything with many robot copies of itself. Bruce Banner, the Hulk's alter-ego, was so horrified by what he could do both as the Hulk and without, that he fled the group and went into hiding.
Of a synthetic human body, shoved together with an AI's mind and the Mind Gem socketed in his forehead, Vision was born. With a thunderstrike, Thor fuzed the components together. One of Vision's first actions was to lift Thor's hammer, proving himself worthy. He also imitated Thor's cape, forming his own unique version of it.
Scarlet With also became an Avenger in this movie, but Thor was not given many interactions with her. Later, they probably got to know each other, but her first intoduction to Thor was to give him a nightmarish vision of an afterlife in which all of his Asgardian friends and family blamed him for their deaths.
Thor felt certain that the glimpse was not one simply of nightmares, but instead a hint of the future to come. With a friend there to watch him do so, he entered the Norn Pool, giving up years off his life, as his life force was gradually ripped away from him and devoured by the Norns for the information they gave in return. That information was that the Mind Gem was among the Infinite Six stones, forged at the beginnings of the universe. And someone was trying to gather them all. The power held would be tremendous, and the Norns mocked them for not seeing enough to understand the risk.
The Avengers came together and saved the world by defeating Ultron. Who apparently was attempting to slowly drop one city on top of another, even though he had access to every computer on the planet.
Thor continued onward, concerned about the glimpse he'd seen into his future. He left Vision with his friends.
Personality: Extroverted and optimistic, Thor is the type that shatters and rebuilds under pressure, not the type that bends. This does mean that he doesn't twist himself out of shape, mentally; he doesn't like denials and he doesn't try to be anything he doesn't feel. But it also means that he doesn't deal well, when situations aren't resolvable in the ways he'd like. He tends to be stubborn until he has to give up, and has canonly tried to explain that he doesn't know how to make himself give up. Sadly enough, he learned how, later in that same movie, but the quote still stands; Thor will occasionally drive himself into the ground because giving up is extremely difficult for him.
One of the few comics' references that I always hoped would make it into the movies, was that Thor was like the sunlight, while his brother Loki was like the moonlight. Thor's personality is generally warm and bright, with a tendency to reveal everything and to wear his heart on his sleeve. Thus he has trouble on the rare occasions where he does try to lie. The downside of his exuberance and determination, though, can be that he is sometimes overwhelming or demanding.
Social drinking escapades, complete with dancing and norse drinking ballads, are common. Be forewarned: silliness this way comes.
Strengths Thor weighs 640 pounds on his own, without his effectively-43-pound hammer, and his metal/leather plate armor. He's also very muscled and tall. Aesir have a higher density than humans and appear to heal in about a tenth of the time that humans do. When Thor had his powers, he had a connection with storms, capable of controlling wind, thunder and rain both purposely and accidentally. He also had the ability to fly, when using Mjolnir to do so. The only seidr spell he ever learned to do, was a spell which cleaned himself and his immediate vicinity.
Weaknesses At any point, Odin's spell upon Mjolnir could activate, finding Thor to be unworthy to wield it, or allowing it to be wielded by another. With the spell in place, the 43-pound hammer is also effectively unmovable by almost all other characters. Yet Thor too, could lose that ability either through his own choices, or through some affect upon him. Once Mjolnir is not his, Thor can only affect the weather accidentally. He can't hurl thunderbolts, but things may become very windy and rainy. He wouldn't be able to control the wind or rain either, except for trying to calm himself down.
Number of gara: Two.
Primary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Vii. Mostly orange, with bits of rose, schoolbus, yellow and red.
Secondary Type and Color(s)/Color Patterns: Lea. Mostly brown, fading off into lighter browns and purples.
Shapes/Configuration: The vii is in the shape of a thunderstrike from clouds. The lea is in a little crescent squiggle that is an approximation of the shape of a half-heart.
Other Information
Notable/Unique Needs: Thor eats a lot. Canonly, he has a stack of 15 or 20 pancakes after eating "an entire box of poptarts" as one slightly large meal.
Anything else? Nope.
Writing Samples
Short responses: http://boomtown.dreamwidth.org/426872.html?thread=34408824#cmt34408824
Breaking 4th wall, short responses: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/12331441.html?thread=357599153#cmt357599153
Breaking all the 4th wall, normal length responses for me: http://dear-player.dreamwidth.org/1588676.html
Third Person:
http://boomtown-logs.dreamwidth.org/169364.html?thread=9746324#cmt9746324
http://boomtown-logs.dreamwidth.org/183767.html?thread=9377751#cmt9377751
http://boomtown-logs.dreamwidth.org/180136.html#comments
http://boomtown-logs.dreamwidth.org/160447.html
http://boomtown-logs.dreamwidth.org/156828.html
It was odd enough, for someone as large as Thor to be knocked to the ground, especially as he was currently in full armor.
It was several times odder, to find that he'd been knocked to the ground by his little brother, after having seen Loki die in his arms.
The Trickster didn't look entirely well, but that could possibly be attributed to the violent collision with Thor's chestplate. Breathlessly, Thor boggled uncomprehendingly at the man before him. It felt like a dream. It had to be. Loki was gone, along with their mother. Thor had been mourning them for so long.
Sprawled upon the ground, Thor managed a single, quietly broken query. "...Brother?"
It was several times odder, to find that he'd been knocked to the ground by his little brother, after having seen Loki die in his arms.
The Trickster didn't look entirely well, but that could possibly be attributed to the violent collision with Thor's chestplate. Breathlessly, Thor boggled uncomprehendingly at the man before him. It felt like a dream. It had to be. Loki was gone, along with their mother. Thor had been mourning them for so long.
Sprawled upon the ground, Thor managed a single, quietly broken query. "...Brother?"
Thor waited until the evening of the day, when Jane would be relieved of her duties and at home. Flying over to meet her, he knocked gently upon her door. Such fragile things, were most Midgardian doors. Thor had no wish to upset Jane by breaking this one.
He had to see her. The need for affection was deep and painful. The need for love, when all of his family were either dead or cold to him. His spirit cried out for hers, bringing him back here, again and again, because their love was one of the last bonds which sustained him now.
The depth of that love was still there. His joy, at seeing her eyes flash with wonder and excitement. His wish to keep each memory of her, as her hair blew about in the breeze, or as she shuffled through her papers. It was only now, so soon after the losses he'd sustained, that his love for Jane had become a painfully needy clinging.
Months he had gone, without speaking to her, before. And once she slapped him for it, he'd vowed not to ignore such personal matters again. The realms were more important than himself, and his own wants. Yet he, as anyone, needed time to do as he wished.
And he wished to see her. Oh, how he needed to see her now. To hold her in his arms. To feel her lips upon his. To know she was yet with him, and to draw strength from her love.
He had to see her. The need for affection was deep and painful. The need for love, when all of his family were either dead or cold to him. His spirit cried out for hers, bringing him back here, again and again, because their love was one of the last bonds which sustained him now.
The depth of that love was still there. His joy, at seeing her eyes flash with wonder and excitement. His wish to keep each memory of her, as her hair blew about in the breeze, or as she shuffled through her papers. It was only now, so soon after the losses he'd sustained, that his love for Jane had become a painfully needy clinging.
Months he had gone, without speaking to her, before. And once she slapped him for it, he'd vowed not to ignore such personal matters again. The realms were more important than himself, and his own wants. Yet he, as anyone, needed time to do as he wished.
And he wished to see her. Oh, how he needed to see her now. To hold her in his arms. To feel her lips upon his. To know she was yet with him, and to draw strength from her love.
Alric met Thor here. This is the continuation of that thread.
Laughing quietly, Thor considered that Loki probably would take better to being held in high regard than Thor would. In many ways, the younger brother needed the encouragement. In others, it might be unwise to feed his wishes to dominate and be pampered. In either case, whatever Loki had seen in such honors, Thor was unsurprised that the younger brother had happily accepted them.
"My brother enjoys his words. And accepts such titles far more readily than I. I thank you, for you have been most gracious."
Laughing quietly, Thor considered that Loki probably would take better to being held in high regard than Thor would. In many ways, the younger brother needed the encouragement. In others, it might be unwise to feed his wishes to dominate and be pampered. In either case, whatever Loki had seen in such honors, Thor was unsurprised that the younger brother had happily accepted them.
"My brother enjoys his words. And accepts such titles far more readily than I. I thank you, for you have been most gracious."
This post is a continuation of this thread
I swear to you: I will not, [Thor assured, seemingly bracing himself for a difficult discussion.]
This comes with bad timing, I am aware. I had meant to find a time to tell you, not have him post such personal matters to the network, where all could hear of them. [Shifting his shoulders in repressed annoyance, Thor sulkily reached for his tea. If he was honest with himself, all the annoyance felt less terrible because his mother was alive again. She was here with him, as he sipped his tea. Surreal it might be, but Thor was deeply grateful for her presence.]
[Remembering to be polite, he murmured a quiet,] I thank you, [gesturing gently towards the teapot to elaborate.]
I swear to you: I will not, [Thor assured, seemingly bracing himself for a difficult discussion.]
This comes with bad timing, I am aware. I had meant to find a time to tell you, not have him post such personal matters to the network, where all could hear of them. [Shifting his shoulders in repressed annoyance, Thor sulkily reached for his tea. If he was honest with himself, all the annoyance felt less terrible because his mother was alive again. She was here with him, as he sipped his tea. Surreal it might be, but Thor was deeply grateful for her presence.]
[Remembering to be polite, he murmured a quiet,] I thank you, [gesturing gently towards the teapot to elaborate.]
So upon Thor's introduction to the multi-universal hub of second chances that is New Dodge, he was also introduced to the concept of board games. Not just card games, like Jane or Sif-and-the-Three would play with him. Games played on actual gaming boards.
He was introduced to scrabble, which Loki defined as "a game of words", so Thor thought it would be a great idea to use such a game to help along with healing his dysfunctional family dynamic, with his brother. Since Loki is the Silvertongue, Thor thought that frequently playing word games with him, might bring them closer together as a family. It is, at least, slightly more affective than fighting each other.
Though not when Thor gets tiles like these:
Yeah, he could have spelled "adopt" or "rot". Because wabble apparently hates the brothers AND their feels. Though he could also have spelt "vat", "top" or "pot".
So then, this happened.
After Loki spelt "rule" in a couple of games opposite Chase, Cap, and Chase's friends. Loki again spelled "rule" in a game with Thor. And Thor decided he'd had enough with this theme, spelling "rule" himself, across it, for more points. Because Loki had used a blank tile as an E. So Loki made his own "rule", which gained him less than Thor's.
It was at this point, at which Thor acquired a D. And he could have made Loki's "RULE" into "RULED", but he decided not to rub it in. So he put the D on "rope" instead. While sharing a glance with Loki that said "I totally could have, AND YOU KNOW IT." Loki pretended not to understand what this meant, which made Thor feel awkward, so they dropped it.
It was in a game, opposite Captain America, when Thor had mentioned that he had a grudge against Chase, for inflicting a torturous curse, on Loki, for a week. Cap said he'd seen what had happened to Loki during that. Chase claimed he'd tell Cap everything, but only if Cap asked him directly.
Thor proceeded to be strictly polite to Chase throughout the rest of that game, but only because he cares about his teammate's feelings. Not because he doesn't still want to maim Chase.That was probably pretty clear from how he looked at everyone during the game, really.
Someone spelled "void" and Thor actively winced. Loki tried not to laugh at him for it. Caleb suggested that Thor did not have to play, if he wasn't having fun. Chase told Thor that he was being far too serious, because these were only words. But as "void" made Thor think of Loki's fall into the void, the word caused him a bit of distress. It was noted, either by Chase or by Caleb, that Thor looked like he might be constipated.
In another game, opposite Chase, Loki and Eve, Eve said that Thor was highly incorrect, if he assumed that Chase had a solid grasp on the world -- because Chase was a teenage boy. This made Thor start to question his wish to fight the kid, over what Chase did to Loki.
Thor still sees Chase as a very real threat, to himself, his brother, and New Dodge. But he admitted to Loki, in a private game between them later, that he wasn't exactly sure how to deal with the issue, as Thor himself had serious blindness about the galaxy, even as far as adulthood. So the thought of fighting Chase, when Chase was still so young, was something that was bothering Thor. He didn't like his options, either way.
Loki admitted to him, that he'd arranged things with Chase, so that Chase had agreed not to inflict him with harmful magic again, if Loki agreed not to speak with Caleb (when unsupervised by Chase). Thor's wish for vengeance was not sated by this agreement, though. Nor was his fear that Chase could just torture Loki again, the next time he wanted something from Loki.
It was at this point, that Loki asked Thor, if Thor could have come up with a better answer to all this. The elder brother had to admit that he couldn't. Loki helpfully suggested that Thor could simply scare the daylights out of Chase, if his sense of honor would prevent him from actually attacking the kid.
In another game soon after, Thor placed the word "bicep", hoping it wouldn't anger Loki. The younger brother only laughed.
Then Loki placed these words:
, which made Thor sigh and proceed to be very unhappy.
And also, this happened:
Battle words just kept coming up, until both brothers were actually trying to add to the running joke.
He was introduced to scrabble, which Loki defined as "a game of words", so Thor thought it would be a great idea to use such a game to help along with healing his dysfunctional family dynamic, with his brother. Since Loki is the Silvertongue, Thor thought that frequently playing word games with him, might bring them closer together as a family. It is, at least, slightly more affective than fighting each other.
Though not when Thor gets tiles like these:
Yeah, he could have spelled "adopt" or "rot". Because wabble apparently hates the brothers AND their feels. Though he could also have spelt "vat", "top" or "pot".
So then, this happened.
After Loki spelt "rule" in a couple of games opposite Chase, Cap, and Chase's friends. Loki again spelled "rule" in a game with Thor. And Thor decided he'd had enough with this theme, spelling "rule" himself, across it, for more points. Because Loki had used a blank tile as an E. So Loki made his own "rule", which gained him less than Thor's.
It was at this point, at which Thor acquired a D. And he could have made Loki's "RULE" into "RULED", but he decided not to rub it in. So he put the D on "rope" instead. While sharing a glance with Loki that said "I totally could have, AND YOU KNOW IT." Loki pretended not to understand what this meant, which made Thor feel awkward, so they dropped it.
It was in a game, opposite Captain America, when Thor had mentioned that he had a grudge against Chase, for inflicting a torturous curse, on Loki, for a week. Cap said he'd seen what had happened to Loki during that. Chase claimed he'd tell Cap everything, but only if Cap asked him directly.
Thor proceeded to be strictly polite to Chase throughout the rest of that game, but only because he cares about his teammate's feelings. Not because he doesn't still want to maim Chase.That was probably pretty clear from how he looked at everyone during the game, really.
Someone spelled "void" and Thor actively winced. Loki tried not to laugh at him for it. Caleb suggested that Thor did not have to play, if he wasn't having fun. Chase told Thor that he was being far too serious, because these were only words. But as "void" made Thor think of Loki's fall into the void, the word caused him a bit of distress. It was noted, either by Chase or by Caleb, that Thor looked like he might be constipated.
In another game, opposite Chase, Loki and Eve, Eve said that Thor was highly incorrect, if he assumed that Chase had a solid grasp on the world -- because Chase was a teenage boy. This made Thor start to question his wish to fight the kid, over what Chase did to Loki.
Thor still sees Chase as a very real threat, to himself, his brother, and New Dodge. But he admitted to Loki, in a private game between them later, that he wasn't exactly sure how to deal with the issue, as Thor himself had serious blindness about the galaxy, even as far as adulthood. So the thought of fighting Chase, when Chase was still so young, was something that was bothering Thor. He didn't like his options, either way.
Loki admitted to him, that he'd arranged things with Chase, so that Chase had agreed not to inflict him with harmful magic again, if Loki agreed not to speak with Caleb (when unsupervised by Chase). Thor's wish for vengeance was not sated by this agreement, though. Nor was his fear that Chase could just torture Loki again, the next time he wanted something from Loki.
It was at this point, that Loki asked Thor, if Thor could have come up with a better answer to all this. The elder brother had to admit that he couldn't. Loki helpfully suggested that Thor could simply scare the daylights out of Chase, if his sense of honor would prevent him from actually attacking the kid.
In another game soon after, Thor placed the word "bicep", hoping it wouldn't anger Loki. The younger brother only laughed.
Then Loki placed these words:
, which made Thor sigh and proceed to be very unhappy.And also, this happened:
Battle words just kept coming up, until both brothers were actually trying to add to the running joke.
I have been in ALLLL sorts of games before, and I don't mind most stuff, really.
For the most part, just warn me what I'm getting into, if you want a scene to be rated R or higher. I will probably be all for it.
Can a character read Thor's mind or emotions?: Yep. Feel free to know all his stuffs.
Romance Thor?: I will not play incest. Yes, in my opinion, that includes Thorki. As long as your character is not of Thor's family, feel free to flirt with him. If Jane doesn't show up, he maaaaaay flirt back, but likely not. He's pretty devoted to her, after all.
Fight Thor?: Yes, of course. :) Check with me, though, if you want him to have a terrible "just a flesh wound" injury.
Rape scenes?: While I love writing drama (even torturous drama) and I will agree to write such scenes, my characters must always be the victims in them, not the willing perpetrators. Since rape is a quite serious concept, I expect it to be viewed with the same seriousness as a death scene, and if the other player (not their character) finds anything remotely attractive about the attack, I will drop the thread so fast. Along the same lines, I prefer such scenes to mesh with my characters' personalities. So if this sort of huge, serious thing happens to my character, I will wish to show how they mentally progressed from there, both with hurt/comfort scenes and with character developmental points.
Break 4th wall?: Sure.
Threadjacking? Go for it!
Backtagging?: ALWAYS. As in 3 years later, "OMG I totally forgot about this awesome thread! :D" sort of always.
Can Thor be killed?: I would definitely prefer it, if you didn't. I luffs him muchness, after all...
For the most part, just warn me what I'm getting into, if you want a scene to be rated R or higher. I will probably be all for it.
Can a character read Thor's mind or emotions?: Yep. Feel free to know all his stuffs.
Romance Thor?: I will not play incest. Yes, in my opinion, that includes Thorki. As long as your character is not of Thor's family, feel free to flirt with him. If Jane doesn't show up, he maaaaaay flirt back, but likely not. He's pretty devoted to her, after all.
Fight Thor?: Yes, of course. :) Check with me, though, if you want him to have a terrible "just a flesh wound" injury.
Rape scenes?: While I love writing drama (even torturous drama) and I will agree to write such scenes, my characters must always be the victims in them, not the willing perpetrators. Since rape is a quite serious concept, I expect it to be viewed with the same seriousness as a death scene, and if the other player (not their character) finds anything remotely attractive about the attack, I will drop the thread so fast. Along the same lines, I prefer such scenes to mesh with my characters' personalities. So if this sort of huge, serious thing happens to my character, I will wish to show how they mentally progressed from there, both with hurt/comfort scenes and with character developmental points.
Break 4th wall?: Sure.
Threadjacking? Go for it!
Backtagging?: ALWAYS. As in 3 years later, "OMG I totally forgot about this awesome thread! :D" sort of always.
Can Thor be killed?: I would definitely prefer it, if you didn't. I luffs him muchness, after all...
It had truly bothered Thor, to know that a version of his father had been usurped from the throne. Not only because it gave Loki free reign of Asgard (a frightening enough concept), but also because something had happened to a version of Odin.
As many problems as the crown prince had with Odin in the past few months, never would Thor risk a threat to the old man. Odin had raised them, had loved them, and had once bothered to show that love on a regular basis. Odin was their father and this... this was wrong. Thor had to know what Loki had done.
The knowledge that something was wrong, without knowing just what that 'something' was, brought Thor continually back to the dream-like place of alternate time.
It took a bit of asking around, but Thor was finally convinced that he had found the correct version of Loki. He had spoken with many, many versions of his brother, some of whom now wished to know how this meeting went.
"You. We will talk, brother."
As many problems as the crown prince had with Odin in the past few months, never would Thor risk a threat to the old man. Odin had raised them, had loved them, and had once bothered to show that love on a regular basis. Odin was their father and this... this was wrong. Thor had to know what Loki had done.
The knowledge that something was wrong, without knowing just what that 'something' was, brought Thor continually back to the dream-like place of alternate time.
It took a bit of asking around, but Thor was finally convinced that he had found the correct version of Loki. He had spoken with many, many versions of his brother, some of whom now wished to know how this meeting went.
"You. We will talk, brother."
