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[laufeysons]

✉ Player Info
Name: Lindsey
Player Journal: papchuseyo
Contact: papchuseyo @ plurk
Other characters already at University: None

✉ Character Info
Name: Loki Laufeyson
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: 20
Year: Junior (skipped a grade in middle school)

History: Major deviation from canon history in that Loki isn’t adopted by Odin in this verse (and he's human).

Instead, he’s the bastard child of Laufey’s affair, who landed in the care of his father when he was two years-old. Loki's presence in the house drove out Laufey's wife, the mother of his two half-brothers Helbindi and Byleistr (they're more than a decade older than Loki and as a result he's never been very close with them). His father resented him and blamed him for all of his problems, from his failed marriage to his collapsing company (a modern interpretation of his ruined kingdom in Jotunheim). In the Marvel canon, Laufey is often portrayed as bitter, cruel, and violent (especially in the comics [not to mince mediums, but the Thor movie doesn’t provide much by way of Laufey’s characterization]). So for Loki in this verse, growing up under Laufey’s roof was perilous. As Loki got older, his cleverness aided him in avoiding his father; he learned how to sneak around his violent, usually alcohol-driven outbursts.

He was also aided by his best friend and neighbor, Thor Odinson. However unwelcome Loki felt in his own home, he always found a place in Thor's. Thor's mother treated him like her own son (going off of Loki and Frigga’s closeness in the mcu). Loki followed Thor around like a lost puppy when they were kids, and as they got older Thor dragged Loki out on all his adventures, childish explorations, then adolescent parties. They may not have been raised together, but they did grow up together. They were a year apart in school until Loki skipped a grade in middle school and they became actual classmates. Their interests ran in opposite directions: Thor was athletic, brash, charming, and popular; Loki, bookish, reserved, excelling at school, and much less liked by his peers. But they were never less close for it. If anything, it made them closer. They each had what they other lacked.

As they grew up, Thor discovered girls; Loki didn't.

It wasn't that he didn’t find them attractive, per se, but he had little interest in the dating scene in general, less than his peers did; much less Thor did. This occasionally strained their relationship, as Loki became jealous of the girls who stole his best friend from him (make of that what you will). He may have even resented Thor for it, though he continued to admire him and crave his attention. But all the love Loki held for Thor, conflicted though it was, couldn’t save them from the falling-out they had in the beginning of junior year. They didn’t reconcile again until the summer before senior year.

Losing his closest friend was rough. Most of his other friends had only been so by association with Thor (or so it seemed to Loki), and they dropped off like flies after Thor stopped talking to him (or he just became such an unbearable little shit that no one wanted to be around him). The pain was channeled into anger and became fuel for his ambitions. He focused on club activities (debate, robotics, etc), while he saved money for college by tutoring, but also by participating in other not-so-legal activities (doing people's homework/essays for them, stealing and selling test answers, etc). He fell in with people who were like him, who only used each other like ladders to advance their own goals.

By the time he and Thor became friends again, Loki was changed. A lot of what broke them apart in the first place had gone unresolved. So the friendship was necessarily different, but a friendship nonetheless.

It was enough that, when they wound up going to the same college, they became dorm roommates. They lived apart sophomore year, but junior year finds them together again in an apartment off campus. As for school, Loki shot to the top of his classes again in college. He's working as an undergraduate research assistant in the political science department, while continuing to tutor on the side. Anything else he does is nobody's business but his own.

Personality: Loki is the kid who got picked on all through high school (and probably middle school, too) for being different. He excelled in his classes and was always too clever for his own good, and his penchant for mischief made him more than a few enemies. Aside from being stigmatized by his classmates, he also had to deal hardships at home: an alcoholic father who didn't love him, and in fact blamed him for all of his own problems. These struggles impacted him, but he never let them define him. On the contrary, he always made an effort to defy them: to defy Laufey's opinion that he'd never amount to anything, to defy his peers who saw him as a nerd and a nuisance. He was defined instead by his strong will, his stubbornness, his pride, and his ambition. However much Loki always envied Thor for how easily everything came to him, for the love he got from family and friends alike (Loki included), Thor was also a pillar of support for him. Because even though everyone else looked down on him, Thor always looked at him as an equal.

After his falling-out with Thor, though, things got rougher. The pain of betrayal from his best friend hardened into an anger that he wore like armor. He learned to live in a new skin and to fend for himself, to support himself when no one else would. While inherently manipulative and distrusting, the time apart from Thor gave those qualities room to grow. By the time he and Thor picked back up again, he’d grown sharper, cleverer, and a better liar than he ever was before. He'd always been talented at talking his way out of trouble, and this talent manifested itself as a snake-like charm as he matured.

Between living under Laufey’s roof and losing his best friend for a while, he grew to hate showing weakness, and he sees attachment as a form of weakness. (Having something to lose makes you vulnerable.) His relationships outside of Thor hinge on personal or mutual gain. But he still likes to have fun, it's just that his idea of fun is different from that of most other people. He enjoys using people, lying and prevaricating, and playing tricks whether they're harmless or not. Most of all he enjoys getting his way, and being loved and praised and respected—and if not those things, then feared. He's very proud and has a huge ego, which is likely compensation for all the times people tried to put him down and all the years he lived in Thor’s shadow. His ego is not without reason, though, as he does possess praise-worthy intelligence and cleverness; he excels at almost any academic subject to which he applies himself.

Aside from his ego and his intelligence, he's also characterized by ambition and how he'll do almost anything to get what he wants.

Abilities:

Canon: master of magic; includes casting illusions, summoning objects, shape changing (i.e. wine into snakes), and traveling between realms by hidden passages
AU'd: nothing magical; but he is extremely bright and clever, hard to catch in any act; he picks up almost any subject with ease, especially foreign languages

Major/Minor: poli-sci/linguistics double major; history minor (might add philosophy too idk)

Club(s): academic team

Network sample: ( over here )

Entrance Essay:

[ Insert an essay that that is too long for me to write and for anyone to read (this app is long enough as it is), but that exactly meets the limit and was likely shaved down from twice its original length, talking about how Loki's experiences in high school, his club activities, his dedication to academics, his desire to travel, and his long-term goals of breaking into politics in order to improve the world through government make him a prime candidate for this university.

Note: At least fifty percent of this essay will be total lies. ]

Additional Notes:




this isn't a veiled threat. i swear.