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Name: Kore
Age: 34
Contact: PM or Discord (Kore Macaria#3531)
Current Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Thor Odinson
Journal: https://assemble-the-lovbacken.dreamwidth.org/
Age: 1,500-ish years old
Appearance: Brown hair; his left eye is blue while his right is covered with a patch; extremely muscular.
Canon: MCU
Canon Point: Right after the Blip in Infinity War.
History: Thor, the God of Thunder, was the "first-born" child of Odin, the Allfather, and Frigga (the quotation marks are due to later finding out that the true first-born was his sister, Hela, who was banished for her bloodlust and hunger for destruction and power). He was primed as Prince of Asgard, destined to take over the throne. Because of this, he had a great amount of hubris, and due to his irresponsible behavior regarding a conflict between Asgard and Jotunheim, he was banished to Earth, stripped of his powers, and deemed unworthy to wield his hammer, Mjolnir.
While on Earth, he befriends and forms a romantic relationship with Jane Foster, one of the planets leading astrophysicists. When Loki sends a Destroyer, he helps to save his friends, learning humility and selflessness. His father considered him redeemed, and his powers were reinstated, allowing him to defeat Loki's schemes of genocide.
After Loki had survived a fall through a black hole and began to try his hand at world domination thanks to the Tesseract, Thor, newly welcomed back to Asgard, returned to Earth. He joined the Avengers and stood with them to stop the schemes of his brother, eventually following the newly formed team as they battled against Loki's army of the Chitauri during the Battle of New York until Loki was eventually defeated, captured, and returned onto Asgard to await justice for his crimes against Earth.
Thor then helped the Asgardian Armies restore peace during the War of the Nine Realms. The peace proved to be short-lived as Thor then fought the Dark Elves during the Second Dark Elf Conflict after they had attempted to plunge the Nine Realms into eternal darkness. During these events, Thor was reunited with Jane Foster who had become host to the Aether and a target of the Dark Elves. Thor was forced into freeing Loki from imprisonment for his aid. Eventually, the Aether was removed from Jane's body, and the Dark Elves and Malekith's were eventually defeated, though not before Frigga, Thor and Loki's mother, sacrificed herself to keep Jane safe. Thor renounced his claim to the throne and left Asgard for Earth.
During his stay on Earth, Thor helped the Avengers once again, this time in their attempts to locate Loki's Scepter. This also lead to him joining the fight against HYDRA. Following HYDRA's defeat and the capture of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, the team had to stop the newly created Ultron, a rogue invention inadvertently created by Tony Stark, which had threatened to wipe out all of humanity and replace it with its own Ultron Sentries. Once Ultron had been defeated, Thor promised his Avengers allies that he would return and went back to Asgard to investigate the visions of the Infinity Stones that he saw when being manipulated by Scarlet Witch. During his investigations, Thor also discovered that Loki was still alive and had usurped Odin's royal throne during Thor's absence.
To aid in both pursuing his brother and finding his father to return peace to Asgard, Thor sought help from Doctor Strange. However, Thor was too late to save his own father from his ascension into Valhalla. Shortly afterwards, Thor met Hela, the Goddess of Death, and his sister. In the wake of his first encounter with Hela, Thor's hammer, Mjølnir, was destroyed, and he was banished to Sakaar. He was forced to compete in the Contest of Champions. After a reunion and subsequent fight with the Hulk, the pair allied with the rogue Valkyrie in order to escape Sakarr to save Asgard. After battling with Hela and losing an eye to her, Thor then had Loki unleash Ragnarök and destroy Asgard, killing Hela in the process. Declaring that Asgard was all its people and not a place, Thor accepted his newfound position as king and decided to relocate the Asgardians to Earth.
Abilities: Thor, being a god, has many, many powers and abilities. They include:
Asgardian Physiology: incredible supernatural powers and superhuman attributes far surpassing many other Asgardians, with only his father and older sister being superior in power. He is recognized as relying solely on his incredible fighting ability, strength, and invulnerability. Thor is capable of decimating much of his surroundings, such as when he shattered an entire ice shelf during a battle on Jotunheim and destroyed a powerful being empowered by an Infinity Stone, such as Malekith.
Superhuman Strength: His incredible high-level of superhuman strength enables him to easily overpower hordes of Humans, Enhanced Humans, Asgardians, Frost Giants, Chitauri, Marauders, Dark Elves, Ultron Sentries, Outriders, and various other species within or beyond the Nine Realms. He can lift or move immensely heavy objects effortlessly, such as when he was able to easily catch a falling car with one arm during Battle of Sokovia, saving the family trapped inside it. He can also easily crush extremely durable objects, such as Iron Man's gauntlets. Thor's strength extends to his ability to leap great distances. With his strength, Thor is able to take on multiple enemies at once, using Mjølnir to send large groups of enemies, like the Frost Giants, the Chitauri, or Ultron Sentries. Thor's strength is so great that he can throw his hammer with enough force to break through nearly any barrier. Thor was also strong enough to overpower the Destroyer, which had overwhelmed the likes of Sif and the Warriors Three combined.
Superhuman Durability: Thor's skin, muscle, and bone tissue have many times the density of the same tissue in the body of a human being and is nigh-invulnerable, much more so than regular Asgardians. Even when he was stripped of his powers, Thor was still amazingly resilient due to his dense body, withstanding being hit by a van with ease and only being seemingly killed by a punch from the Destroyer. When he is at full power and armed with Mjølnir, Thor possesses near invulnerability, including high resistance to powerful energy blasts, immense blunt force trauma, falls from great heights, explosions, and various other opposing forces.
Superhuman Reflexes: Thor can react and dodge objects traveling at high speeds.
Superhuman Stamina: Thor's advanced musculature is considerably more efficient than that of a human and most other Asgardians. As a result, his muscles produce far fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity compared to those of humans and most other members of his race.
Superhuman Agility: Thor's agility, dexterity, balance, and bodily coordination make him a great warrior for battle. He moves with incredible grace and speed despite his considerable size and body density.
Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his astounding resistance to injury, it is still possible to injure Thor. However, due to his Asgardian physiology, Thor is able to heal at a rate significantly faster than a normal human.
Longevity: Thor, like all other Asgardians, is not truly immortal. It is possible to kill an Asgardian and other beings in the Nine Realms. However, Thor ages at a pace far slower than a normal human and is somewhere around 1,500 years old.
Weather Manipulation: Thor was born with the power to control weather storms, hence his being called the "God of Thunder". He is able to generate rather large storm clouds and create thunder.
Electricity Manipulation: Thor was born with the ability to generate, control, and project electrical energy. Even while unable to personally harness it and needing Mjølnir to focus his powers over electricity, Thor's electric bolts were already strong enough that it was able to blacken an Aether-enhanced Malekith and take down two Chitauri Leviathans and a large amount of the aliens. Thor has the ability to generate incredible amounts of electrical energy from his own body and summon thunder and lightning from the sky, all without the use of Mjølnir. He is able to use lightning to pull and hurl enemies, blast projectiles to pieces, and infuse his weapons with electricity.
Master Combatant: He is one of the most skilled fighters in the Nine Realms as he has been trained in the arts of war and various Asgardian fighting techniques. He is extremely masterful in hand-to-hand combat, swords, and spears. He is also known to be very cunning and intuitive in battle and in warfare.
Marksman: Thor is a skilled marksman despite not being known to use a gun in battle. Thor was able to gun down several Sakaaran Guards with a Sakaaran Laser Rifle with little effort during the Escape from Sakaar.
Expert Tactician: Thor is an excellent strategist due to centuries of combat training and experience.
Multilingualism: Thor seems to possess the power of Allspeak, allowing him to speak to any creature in the known universe.
Questionnaire:
Samples:
Summer TDM
(Other Game) Thread with Bucky Barnes
(Other Game) Thread with Steve Rogers
Why are you interested in this game?
I have a friend who has raved about this game and the premise. I've also taken a long break from DWRP and have been looking for an active, inclusive, welcoming game to get my feet wet again!
Name: Kore
Age: 34
Contact: PM or Discord (Kore Macaria#3531)
Current Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Thor Odinson
Journal: https://assemble-the-lovbacken.dreamwidth.org/
Age: 1,500-ish years old
Appearance: Brown hair; his left eye is blue while his right is covered with a patch; extremely muscular.
Canon: MCU
Canon Point: Right after the Blip in Infinity War.
History: Thor, the God of Thunder, was the "first-born" child of Odin, the Allfather, and Frigga (the quotation marks are due to later finding out that the true first-born was his sister, Hela, who was banished for her bloodlust and hunger for destruction and power). He was primed as Prince of Asgard, destined to take over the throne. Because of this, he had a great amount of hubris, and due to his irresponsible behavior regarding a conflict between Asgard and Jotunheim, he was banished to Earth, stripped of his powers, and deemed unworthy to wield his hammer, Mjolnir.
While on Earth, he befriends and forms a romantic relationship with Jane Foster, one of the planets leading astrophysicists. When Loki sends a Destroyer, he helps to save his friends, learning humility and selflessness. His father considered him redeemed, and his powers were reinstated, allowing him to defeat Loki's schemes of genocide.
After Loki had survived a fall through a black hole and began to try his hand at world domination thanks to the Tesseract, Thor, newly welcomed back to Asgard, returned to Earth. He joined the Avengers and stood with them to stop the schemes of his brother, eventually following the newly formed team as they battled against Loki's army of the Chitauri during the Battle of New York until Loki was eventually defeated, captured, and returned onto Asgard to await justice for his crimes against Earth.
Thor then helped the Asgardian Armies restore peace during the War of the Nine Realms. The peace proved to be short-lived as Thor then fought the Dark Elves during the Second Dark Elf Conflict after they had attempted to plunge the Nine Realms into eternal darkness. During these events, Thor was reunited with Jane Foster who had become host to the Aether and a target of the Dark Elves. Thor was forced into freeing Loki from imprisonment for his aid. Eventually, the Aether was removed from Jane's body, and the Dark Elves and Malekith's were eventually defeated, though not before Frigga, Thor and Loki's mother, sacrificed herself to keep Jane safe. Thor renounced his claim to the throne and left Asgard for Earth.
During his stay on Earth, Thor helped the Avengers once again, this time in their attempts to locate Loki's Scepter. This also lead to him joining the fight against HYDRA. Following HYDRA's defeat and the capture of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, the team had to stop the newly created Ultron, a rogue invention inadvertently created by Tony Stark, which had threatened to wipe out all of humanity and replace it with its own Ultron Sentries. Once Ultron had been defeated, Thor promised his Avengers allies that he would return and went back to Asgard to investigate the visions of the Infinity Stones that he saw when being manipulated by Scarlet Witch. During his investigations, Thor also discovered that Loki was still alive and had usurped Odin's royal throne during Thor's absence.
To aid in both pursuing his brother and finding his father to return peace to Asgard, Thor sought help from Doctor Strange. However, Thor was too late to save his own father from his ascension into Valhalla. Shortly afterwards, Thor met Hela, the Goddess of Death, and his sister. In the wake of his first encounter with Hela, Thor's hammer, Mjølnir, was destroyed, and he was banished to Sakaar. He was forced to compete in the Contest of Champions. After a reunion and subsequent fight with the Hulk, the pair allied with the rogue Valkyrie in order to escape Sakarr to save Asgard. After battling with Hela and losing an eye to her, Thor then had Loki unleash Ragnarök and destroy Asgard, killing Hela in the process. Declaring that Asgard was all its people and not a place, Thor accepted his newfound position as king and decided to relocate the Asgardians to Earth.
Abilities: Thor, being a god, has many, many powers and abilities. They include:
Asgardian Physiology: incredible supernatural powers and superhuman attributes far surpassing many other Asgardians, with only his father and older sister being superior in power. He is recognized as relying solely on his incredible fighting ability, strength, and invulnerability. Thor is capable of decimating much of his surroundings, such as when he shattered an entire ice shelf during a battle on Jotunheim and destroyed a powerful being empowered by an Infinity Stone, such as Malekith.
Superhuman Strength: His incredible high-level of superhuman strength enables him to easily overpower hordes of Humans, Enhanced Humans, Asgardians, Frost Giants, Chitauri, Marauders, Dark Elves, Ultron Sentries, Outriders, and various other species within or beyond the Nine Realms. He can lift or move immensely heavy objects effortlessly, such as when he was able to easily catch a falling car with one arm during Battle of Sokovia, saving the family trapped inside it. He can also easily crush extremely durable objects, such as Iron Man's gauntlets. Thor's strength extends to his ability to leap great distances. With his strength, Thor is able to take on multiple enemies at once, using Mjølnir to send large groups of enemies, like the Frost Giants, the Chitauri, or Ultron Sentries. Thor's strength is so great that he can throw his hammer with enough force to break through nearly any barrier. Thor was also strong enough to overpower the Destroyer, which had overwhelmed the likes of Sif and the Warriors Three combined.
Superhuman Durability: Thor's skin, muscle, and bone tissue have many times the density of the same tissue in the body of a human being and is nigh-invulnerable, much more so than regular Asgardians. Even when he was stripped of his powers, Thor was still amazingly resilient due to his dense body, withstanding being hit by a van with ease and only being seemingly killed by a punch from the Destroyer. When he is at full power and armed with Mjølnir, Thor possesses near invulnerability, including high resistance to powerful energy blasts, immense blunt force trauma, falls from great heights, explosions, and various other opposing forces.
Superhuman Reflexes: Thor can react and dodge objects traveling at high speeds.
Superhuman Stamina: Thor's advanced musculature is considerably more efficient than that of a human and most other Asgardians. As a result, his muscles produce far fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity compared to those of humans and most other members of his race.
Superhuman Agility: Thor's agility, dexterity, balance, and bodily coordination make him a great warrior for battle. He moves with incredible grace and speed despite his considerable size and body density.
Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his astounding resistance to injury, it is still possible to injure Thor. However, due to his Asgardian physiology, Thor is able to heal at a rate significantly faster than a normal human.
Longevity: Thor, like all other Asgardians, is not truly immortal. It is possible to kill an Asgardian and other beings in the Nine Realms. However, Thor ages at a pace far slower than a normal human and is somewhere around 1,500 years old.
Weather Manipulation: Thor was born with the power to control weather storms, hence his being called the "God of Thunder". He is able to generate rather large storm clouds and create thunder.
Electricity Manipulation: Thor was born with the ability to generate, control, and project electrical energy. Even while unable to personally harness it and needing Mjølnir to focus his powers over electricity, Thor's electric bolts were already strong enough that it was able to blacken an Aether-enhanced Malekith and take down two Chitauri Leviathans and a large amount of the aliens. Thor has the ability to generate incredible amounts of electrical energy from his own body and summon thunder and lightning from the sky, all without the use of Mjølnir. He is able to use lightning to pull and hurl enemies, blast projectiles to pieces, and infuse his weapons with electricity.
Master Combatant: He is one of the most skilled fighters in the Nine Realms as he has been trained in the arts of war and various Asgardian fighting techniques. He is extremely masterful in hand-to-hand combat, swords, and spears. He is also known to be very cunning and intuitive in battle and in warfare.
Marksman: Thor is a skilled marksman despite not being known to use a gun in battle. Thor was able to gun down several Sakaaran Guards with a Sakaaran Laser Rifle with little effort during the Escape from Sakaar.
Expert Tactician: Thor is an excellent strategist due to centuries of combat training and experience.
Multilingualism: Thor seems to possess the power of Allspeak, allowing him to speak to any creature in the known universe.
Questionnaire:
1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
Thor was raised to be the future King of Asgard. That is a very heavy mantle to bear, and it dictated much of his development and childhood. He was taught that he was destined for greatness, and there was a burdensome emphasis on his worthiness and its related concepts: self-worth, altruism, compassion, tactical intelligence, justice.
He cares deeply about always doing what he perceives to be the right thing, and any failures in doing so hit harder than they might for another being. There is a sense of being almighty and powerful in so much that there is little to no room for "failure," which can be conceptualized in a few different ways.
For example, when Thor fails to kill Thanos (Avengers: Infinity War), he puts the entirety of the blame on himself, despite the fact that he'd been the only Avenger to have gotten close enough to even attempt to stop the Blip. He fails to see that as proof of his might and instead focuses on his failure. He is the Almighty and Powerful God of Thunder, yet he couldn't do the one thing he set out to do, the one thing that was of the utmost importance.
He often uses humor to deflect his feelings, though there are times where those emotions become too much to ignore. When they reach that level, he retreats into himself and goes through an intense isolation, unable to convince himself that his company is worth anything to anyone else.
2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?
Best: Thor learns to accept his shortcomings and confronts his fear of failure. He works through his unsteady relationship with his brother, and he begins to lighten the load on his shoulders, understanding that being the God of Thunder does not mean the literal world is his to save. He understands that such a feat is not one that can be done alone. He needs to accept the help of others in sharing the burden.
Worst: His bitterness towards himself becomes so insurmountable that he transforms into an acrimonious asshole who pushes others away, refuses to create meaningful relationships, and is wholly unpleasant to be around. Or, conversely, he becomes so focused on his failures that they are the only thing on which he can focus. He practices a deep self-loathing that forces him into a barely-there existence, devoid of joy and love.
Most likely: Something closer to the best scenario. At least that is what I'm hoping. I want him to be able to work through his grief and trauma so he can get to the other side where he accepts his limitations and therefore himself.
3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?
He generally takes on a leadership position, though he is willing to step back should there be someone with greater expertise on a situation (for example, him deferring to Tony Stark when it came to time travel in Avengers: End Game).
The only thing that changes with regards to the group of people and his familiarity with them is that he is less formal with those he knows. He is able to joke around a bit more, poke fun at things in their shared history. With strangers, he's more likely to present himself as his Prince of Asgard persona: precise, ceremonial.
4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
I think that Thor needs both trust and respect in a relationship with someone else, regardless of what kind of relationship it is. He needs to feel like the other person can yield when necessary, just as he would do in the reversed situation. There's also an element of simply wanting kindness and compassion within the other person, someone in which Thor can believe wholeheartedly as a good person (e.g., Steve Rogers).
He goes about getting those things by showing the same in return. He has an unwavering faith in the abilities, goodness, and intelligence of other people, and it's only when someone goes above and beyond to show him that they're terrible that that faith weakens.
For example, after hundreds and hundreds of years of betrayal by his brother, Loki, he still clung to his fondness for him through it all. Even when he had said his goodbyes on Sakaar, it was a means of self-preservation. He'd forced himself to finally sever the ties between them, convincing himself that it was the best option. However, he never truly lost his love for Loki, as was clear in Avengers: End Game when Loki's life was taken.
5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?
As previously stated, he was raised the Prince of Asgard. This lends itself to having a bit of a high-and-mighty attitude about certain things, but his years of being on Midgard (Earth) have allowed him to grow in that way in thinking, understanding that humans, though limited in comparison to a god, still have their strengths and remarkable abilities.
6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?
Thor relies on his intellect for sure, mostly as it relates to his prowess in battle. He is not as much of a contemplator as others might be, however, preferring a more "brute force" approach. There is an element of relying on instinct, though it can often be a bit of a gut reaction rather than a thought-out path.
7. What is something others might find intolerable about them?
Based on the MCU movies, I don't believe there is anyone who overtly dislikes him or harbors ill feelings towards him, except for maybe Star Lord, but that was birthed from jealously, not anything Thor had done. He's well-liked, respected, and incorporated into the groups of which he is a part.
At his current canon point, he may be insufferably depressed, self-hating, and overall pessimistic.
Samples:
Summer TDM
(Other Game) Thread with Bucky Barnes
(Other Game) Thread with Steve Rogers
Why are you interested in this game?
I have a friend who has raved about this game and the premise. I've also taken a long break from DWRP and have been looking for an active, inclusive, welcoming game to get my feet wet again!
