Post by Thor on May 26, 2008 20:35:25 GMT -5
Thor
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Cannon or your own: Cannon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Dr. Donald Blake
Code names/Aliases: God of Thunder
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]:
God
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Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Apparent Age: 25
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 6'6" , 640lbs
Appearance:
Picture [if available]:
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Super Powers: Superhuman Strength: He possesses vast superhuman strength enabling him to lift well in excess of 100 tons. The upper limits of his strength are unknown.
Weather Control: Control over the base elements of a storm, i.e. rain, wind, thunder and lightning. He can create raging electrical storms complete with thunder, lightning, hurricane-force winds, tornadoes and torrential rains. He can also create any of these phenomena individually. Another aspect of this power allows him to stop any of these weather conditions as well. The powers are shown as being channeled through Mjolnir.
Electrical Immunity: He is presumed to have the same immunity to the effects of lightning and electricity.
Superhuman Speed: The superhuman ability to move at speeds up to 115 miles per hour. Via Mjolnir, he can fly at light speed.
Superhuman Stamina: A highly efficient musculature produces almost no fatigue toxins, granting him almost limitless stamina in all physical activities.
Superhuman Durability: His body is able to withstand extreme temperatures and pressures, and virtually all toxins, corrosives, punctures, and concussions without sustaining injury. His flesh and bones are several times denser than a human's.
Disease Immunity: immune to all terrestrial diseases due to his god-like physical constitution.
Longevity: He is extremely long-lived (though not completely immune to aging)
Thor also has access to other powers provided by Mjolnir.
Learned Abilities: Thor is trained in the arts of war, being a superbly skilled warrior, highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship, and hammer throwing.
Due to his life as Don Blake, Thor possesses considerable knowledge and expertise in medicine.
Equipment: Mjolnir
Forged by Dwarven blacksmiths, Mjolnir is composed of the Asgardian metal Uru, and has a strange stone-like appearance. On the side of the hammer is the inscription: "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."
Mjolnir's enchantments:
1) No living being can lift the hammer from the ground unless he or she is deemed worthy by Odin. However, machines or robots that do not possess sentience can lift the hammer.
2) The hammer returns to the exact spot from which it is thrown after striking its target. The hammer will also return to Thor's hand when summoned.
3) Its wielder may summon the elements of storm (wind, rain, thunder, and lightning) by stamping its handle twice on the ground.
4) Mjolnir is able to open interdimensional portals, allowing its wielder to travel to other dimensions, such as from Earth to Asgard. The hammer can also be used to create portals to travel great distances within the same dimension.
5) The hammer enables Thor to transform into the guise of a mortal, by stamping the hammer's head to the ground once. A provision of this enchantment requires that the hammer cannot be out of physical contact of Thor for more than one minute without his spontaneous reversion to his mortal self. Fortunately, the hammer is small enough to carry in Thor's belt, and thus in physical contact with his body, when he wants both his hands free. When Thor transforms into Wayne, his hammer takes the appearance of a wooden walking stick. When disguised, the hammer's enchantments limiting those who could lift it are not in effect.
6) Previously, Mjolnir could be swung in such a way as to generate chronal displacement inertia enabling its wielder to travel through time. This property, separate from the hammer's dimension-spanning ability, was removed by Immortus, with Thor's consent. Thor, however, has since been shown to be able to stop time with Mjolnir.
Weaknesses (Must Have): Thor’s hammer cannot be out of physical contact of Thor for more than one minute without his spontaneous reversion to his mortal self.
Thor is also hot headed and makes rash decisions that might have been better if he thought about them first.
Thor is sometimes too preoccupied with his hammer, that he loses value on his other powers (strength, guile, etc.).
He is also vulnerable to some magical attacks.
Background: Thor is the bloodson of Odin, lord of the gods of Asgard, and Gaea, the elder goddess of the Earth. Odin sought to father a son whose power would derive from Earth as well as Asgard, and hence he sought to mate with Jord. Odin created a cave in Norway where Jord gave birth to Thor. Months after the infant Thor was weaned. Odin brought him to Asgard to be raised. From that time onward Odin's wife, the goddess Frigga, acted as Thor's mother. Not until recent years did Thor learn that Jord was his mother.
The young Thor was raised alongside Loki, who had been adopted by Odin after Loki's father, the Frost Giant Laufey, had been killed in battle. From childhood Loki was jealous of Thor, and his hatred of Thor grew over the years to a wish to destroy him. Thus began Loki's enmity for Thor, which persists to this day. When Thor was eight, Odin sent him to Nidavellir, the land of the dwarves, to bid the dwarves Brokk and Eitri to create three treasures for Asgard's ruler. Among the three treasures that Brokk and Eitri created was the uru hammer Mjolnir (although Loki sabotaged the creation of the hammer so that its handle was made too short). Odin bestowed various enchantments upon the hammer, including one that made it impossible for anyone to lift it except someone who was truly worthy of wielding it. Odin then declared that he was reserving the use of Mjolnir for Thor, who would receive it on the day that great deeds of selfless valor had proved him worthy of it. For years Thor strove to become strong and worthy enough to wield the hammer, and was responsible for many heroic deeds. Finally, when Thor was sixteen, Odin presented him with the hammer, declaring he was indeed worthy of it.
Thor became Asgard's greatest warrior. Before Thor was twenty, he had fallen in love with the goddess Sif. however, at some point their romance came to an end, although they have renewed it in recent years. Sometime in the 9th Century AD, Thor journey to Earth for the first time and promoted his worship among the Vikings. Both the Norsemen and the Germans, who called him Donner, came to worship Thor and other Asgardians. Thor actively encouraged the adulation of his Viking worshippers for years, and also encouraged them to find glory in battle. But finally, Thor discovered that a part of his Viking worshippers had slaughtered the inhabitants of a Christian monastery. Shocked, realizing that some of his more zealous worshippers were committing atrocities like this one hi his name, Thor withdrew from Earthly activities altogether, and allowed the worship of the gods of Asgard to die out. Thor led an active, adventurous life in Asgard, doing battle with Frost Giants and other enemies of the realm. But Odin grew increasingly dissatisfied with Thor's headstrong behavior and excessive pride. On one occasion Thor violated a truce between the Asgardians and the Frost Giants, thereby nearly starting a war. finally, while Thor was engaged in a brawl in an Asgardian tavern, Odin summoned him to his presence. Odin had decided that it was time Thor learned humility.
Odin had Thor surrender his hammer to him, and then sent him to Earth in the mortal guise of a crippled young medical student named Donald Blake, stripped of his memory of his true identity. As Blake, Thor learned the value of humble perseverance in dealing with his injured leg, and he came to care for the sick and dying, first as a medical student, and later as a successful physician. After leaving medical school, Blake opened a private practice in New York, and quickly gained renown as a great surgeon. After Thor had spent ten years in the role of Blake, Odin planted within Blake's mind the suggestion to take a vacation in Norway. There Blake encountered a party of alien Kronans, also known as the Stone Men from Saturn. Blake fled from the Kronans into a cavern, the very same one that had served as Thor's birthplace millennia ago, where Odin had left Thor's hammer in the enchanted form of a wooden cane. Trapped in the cavern by a great bolder, Blake struck the boulder with the cane in frustrated anger, and was transformed back into his true godly form of Thor. As Thor he escaped the cavern and drove off the Kronans. At first Thor still had no memory of his past life as an Asgardian gods, although as months passed, more of his memories returned.
Finally, a few years later, Odin revealed to him the false nature of the Blake identity and the reason for it. Thor maintained his Blake identity on Earth and continued his medical practice. Part of his affinity for Earth was his subconscious realization that his maternal heritage was on this world. The other part was simply his love for humanity and his need to experience those things that only mortals could know. Thor came to divide his time between Earth and Asgard, and does so to this day.
Thor was faced with yet another Ragnarok threat when Loki teamed with Surtur using weapons created from the same forge from which Mjolnir was made. Determining that the gods above all gods known as Those Who Sit Above In Shadow had manipulated Asgard into the repeating cycle of Ragnarok, he sought them out and gave his life to destroy them. The Odinpower, having manifested itself as a young Asgardian, congratulated Thor on his final victory, the plan his father had always had for him.
Thor has returned, and is rebuilding Asgard. Donald Blake woke Thor from his sleep and they rejoined and are currently rebuilding Asgard and Thor is looking for his fallen friends in the hearts and minds of mortals. Blake has begun working with the Organization Doctors without frontiers. Thor was tricked into releasing Loki, The Enchantress, and other undesirables of Asgard, While he was fighting the destroyer.
Thor so far has recoverd most of the patheon of Asgard although he is still seaching for more.
Personality : In battle, Thor is a legendary braggart, which has long been accepted as a natural part of the character's charm. He will often use this as both a means of sustaining morale and to convince a lesser foe to yield, usually by adding commentary to a display of power. Outside of battle, he is an honorable, loyal, and courteous individual, in Asgard considered second only to Odin in terms of nobility. He is, however, rather short-tempered.
Donald Blake is a humble and patient man. He eventually graduated with top honors from New York College of Medicine, gained a reputation as a caring family doctor and a brilliant surgeon, and opened a private practice in New York City. Since his return he has been telling people he has been taking cases around the world and now is working with the organization, Doctors Without Frontiers.
Other: Thor's strength is uncalculated... Though Thor has admitted to Captain America that he only uses 1/3 of his strength and powers against human foes...even if it means to be defeated in battle for fear of killing them.
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Brief Sample Roleplay Thor is in a void, dreaming of his past. He is awoken by a voice from his past, the voice of Don Blake. Thor asks "How this can be, since Odin had undone you so that you had never existed at all." Don says "When Odin and the rest of the gods were gone, I came to be." Don tells him. "You are needed, but you have a choice. You can stay in the void and make your life and legacy a lie, or you can return to protect mankind. You have broken the cycle of Ragnarok your future is your own now. Thor asks. "What is there to return to? All I knew is dead and gone." Blake says "I not so sure. Maybe they, and Asgard, just need to be re-awakened. There are forces that want you to stay sleeping, and not return to the world." Demonic figures begin to rise up out of the ground, and begin to dog pile on Thor. Thor fights them off as much as he can, but he is soon overwhelmed. Just out of reach, Thor spies Mjolnir and reaches for it. He grabs hold, and a strike of lightning arcs down and obliterates the demons. Thor stands up, garbed in a new costume, and states "I am Thor, and I wish to live!"
In Oklahoma, a solitary figure walks along a deserted road, and picks up an old stick. He goes into a boarding house and rents a room, telling the woman that he's a doctor, he's got tons of baggage, and he finally got his ID back. He goes up to his room, and strikes the cane, summoning a thunderbolt from the sky.
