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Sample Application (Faith Lehane)
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Sample Application (Mors)
Sample Application (Vera de Barr)
Sample Application (Malkus Iverwelling)
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Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)
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Thor Odinson :: Marvel Cinematic Universe :: Reserved :: 2 (SPOILERS)
Until this moment, everything had not only always gone Thor's way, but he could never have conceived of a world in which that was not so.
It is, therefore, only natural that when his coronation is rudely interrupted -- interrupted by an attack by forces from Jotunheim, the realm of an ancient and supposedly long-defeated enemy -- Thor is stunned. Shocked. Outraged. And when his father, Odin, refuses to retaliate or even investigate, Thor reacts by literally flipping a table.
This first, childish response to not having gotten his way is telling, and it sets the stage for the rest of Thor's character arc. For the shortsighted actions that follow, Odin will call his son vain and cruel and greedy, unworthy of his heritage and the people he loves, but -- fortunately for Asgard and all the other realms -- the truth is that Thor is not and has never been a bad person. At his very worst, he is still willing and ready to lay down his life for his friends, his family: even strangers, if it comes down to that. Instilled in him alongside the right to rule was a duty to protect and defend his people.
All of the mistakes he makes in the opening of Thor are instead caused by a simpler character flaw: youth.
Pride and impatience, not callousness or malice, are what cause Thor to ignore his father's desire for peace and to storm Jotunheim with only his brother, Loki, and a few of his friends for backup. Inexperience and eagerness to prove himself in his father's eyes combine to create a situation where Thor endangers all their lives -- not deliberate cruelty. He is not indifferent to the pain of his friends when he provokes the King of Jotunheim or fails to notice that the tide of battle has turned against them, just overconfident of his and their abilities. In Thor's mind, war -- and Jotunheim itself -- are things he has only ever heard about in fairy tales; and when he attacks Jotunheim, he is not plunging his people into violence and horror but saving them from the monsters. How could that be anything but good and right and just?
When Odin arrives in Jotunheim, Thor's fundamental ignorance becomes crystal clear. Completely unaware that anything might be wrong, that he has been caught risking the lives of his brother and his friends in direct defiance of his king, Thor fully and joyfully expects that Odin will join him in slaying the monsters and saving Asgard. And again, when he doesn't get what he wants -- his father's approval, glorious retribution for the attack that ruined his coronation -- Thor's temper gets the best of him and he responds by stomping his feet and hurling insults at his king.
It really cannot be stressed enough how new the experience of being in trouble is for Thor, at this point in his life. Even after Odin strips him of his powers and banishes him to Earth, Thor's immediate reaction is to demand that Asgard's gatekeeper, Heimdall, bring him home. He really and truly has not processed what has been done to him, or why. He knows he needs to find his weapon, Mjolnir, in order to be restored to godhood -- so, presumably, he heard the spell Odin placed on the hammer: "whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor" -- but the thought that he might not, in fact, be worthy simply never crosses Thor's mind.
Only when he finds Mjolnir and is unable to lift it does the veil finally lift from Thor's eyes, and the change it brings about in him is immediate. The good person he is at his core comes to the surface, painfully, and by the end of the movie worthiness has become his defining trait.
Thor's pride and occasional shortsightedness don't completely evaporate, of course -- he is still young, still fully capable of being a brat, and frankly most of his pride is well-earned. But everything now is tempered by a sense of humility, and less likely to translate into serious consequences for those around him. Thor still enjoys the thrill of battle, and is still liable to lose himself in it -- but much of his bloodlust has been soured by empathy, and when he finds Loki about to destroy Jotunheim, slaughtering all of its inhabitants, Thor's response is not to cheer but to object. Even his ancient enemy has been humanized, in his eyes; no longer monsters to be slain for the good of all but people, and exterminating their entire race would be wrong. And war itself is no longer a fictionalized series of glorious victories in Thor's mind, but something terrible to spare even Asgard's soldiers from if at all possible, as we see in Thor: The Dark World.
The young man we met at the beginning of Thor has, in short, grown. Older and wiser than two years should have made anyone, he has gone from a boy excited to be king to a man so aware of the burdens of ruling that he longer wants to be king at all. Instead of glory, Thor now wants to be a hero -- to protect not only Asgard but all the realms from harm, and he fears that he would be unable to do that if he ascended the throne. He fears that the pragmatic sacrifices ruling demands would be beyond him, that they would change him, or both, and so he tells [what he believes to be] his father: "I would rather be a good man than a great king."
He cannot tie himself to Asgard and its affairs and still be available to all the realms, wherever they might have need of him, and the choice is not even particularly difficult for the man Thor has become: one of the universe's mightiest heroes.
Abilities/Powers: Thor is Aesir, from a race of people who are all supernaturally strong, durable, and so long-lived (with 5000 years being the apparent average) that they consider the people of other realms "mortal" by comparison. As the God of Thunder, Thor also has full command over the weather, and is capable of such subtle control that he can literally choose to spare individual people from rainfall. He can also fly, and is essentially bulletproof unless you can fire your gun with the right amount of force.
(For Asgardians, it's a matter of scale: They can stab one another, and a more powerful creature like the Hulk can shake them around like rag dolls, but ordinary and even extraordinary humans should probably expect to do very, very little damage.)
Additionally, as mentioned briefly above, Thor wields Mjolnir, a mysitcal nigh-indestructible warhammer forged in the heart of a dying star. Mjolnir moves to its wielder's will, and can be summoned into Thor's hand across literally any distance, a feature which allows Thor to wield it like an intelligent boomerang, with all the pain that implies for anyone or anything standing on the wrong end of a nearly unstoppable force.
Thor's centuries of practiced skill and natural talent make him a force to be reckoned with even without the above powers, though, and he's also a natural leader, and after quelling the Nine Realms and stopping Malekith is even almost sort of experienced with the actual art of war. He knows how to strategize, although -- as above -- is not quite willing to make the kind of pragmatic sacrifices required by a large-scale battle. Thor will sacrifice his own life without hesitation; but no one else's.
(Note about Mjolnir: Once, Thor and Odin were the only ones who could lift Mjolnir -- but Odin's enchantment on it means that anyone who is worthy of Thor's power can lift it... and, once they do, they will have all of Thor's abilities for as long as they continue to wield it. When "activated" in this manner, Mjolnir also provides its wielder with armor, in a sort-of "transformation sequence".)
Items/Weapons: Mjolnir! He would probably have nothing else on him, at his canonpoint.
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When he thinks ahead, to what he is about to do, Thor feels a sense of tightness in his chest -- of nerves -- that he has not felt since the day of his ill-fated coronation, two years and a lifetime ago
Again, he will go before his father -- his king -- not as son but as successor. Again, the outcome of their meeting will irrevocably change his life. And while he hopes it will end less disastrously this time, he has none of his younger self's brash surety. He is all too aware of the dangerous line he is about to cross.
To give up the throne... to renounce it, possibly forever...
He knows his father will blame this all on Jane. Everyone in his life, it seems, has been eager to make her and her alone responsible for his choices since he fell to Earth. But while Thor owes much to her kindness and even more to her firm hand, in his heart he is certain he would be doing this regardless.
He has not given his whole heart to Midgard. He is not blinded or even motivated in this moment by the love he has for her.
No: this is about his duty, and he must make his father see that if his choice has any hope of being accepted -- let alone respected.
It is time. Thor would swear he almost hears his mother's voice in his ear, and then Loki's; teasing him, as they had on the day of his coronation, about the nerves he had not then been willing to admit to -- and it is with both the loss and the love of them fresh in his mind that he goes to see the only family he has left.
This is the right thing to do, Thor tells himself. For his mother, for his brother, for Jane, for all the realms -- and for himself.
Re: Thor Odinson :: Marvel Cinematic Universe :: Reserved :: 2 (SPOILERS)
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