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APPLICATION - THE FLEET - CANON CHARACTER


Player Information
Name: Livi
Age: 30
Time Zone: I’m on EST, but I’m generally awake between about 11 in the morning until 2 to 4 in the morning.
Email: lividun@gmail.com
Other Contact Info: Plurk: FenrigealOdinson
Prefered method of contact: I’d prefer Plurk to anything else, or a note sent to a character journal instead. I don’t check my official email as often as I should.
Current Characters at The Fleet: None.
Reserve: None.


Character Information
Full Name: (State your character's full name, including titles, etc.) Prince Thor Odinson (he will likely eventually request a name change to Thor Friggason instead)
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
History:

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.


Gara Information
Images:

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
Special Abilities: Control of wind, rain, storms, thunder, lightning, etc. Ability to fly when using Mjolnir. Has large muscles and hits very hard, has high body density so weighs 640 pounds. Can clean himself and an immediate small area of about a half-meter around himself, with a spell. Has very quick healing; heals in about a tenth of the time it takes a human to heal. Due to the physical density and the quickened healing, it takes him about ten times the normal amount of alcohol to get drunk.

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.


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