The apple of your eye

OOC Info
Name: Shade
Age: 29
Contact: Light_shade/Discord: Lightshade#4738
Current Characters: Impmon/Beelzemon


IC Info

Name: Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
Canon: Vikings
Age: 21ish, given the time spent in games and canon updates.
Appearance: Pic
Canon Point: 5x20
Background: Link!
CRAU: Ivar's first game was Riverview. Set on a moon in a universe where people drawn there were quarantined in a city surrounded by jungle for five years, he had quite a few significant pieces of CR, and stayed there for over a year, during which time he also went home for a canon update from the end of Season Four to the middle of Season Five. He met Letha, a pregnant necromancer, with whom he soon formed a relationship with. When her daughter Winter was born, she developed post-partum depression and returned home, leaving Ivar to raise the little girl alone in his heartbreak. He became fiercely protective of her, finally finding someone he could care about. He also met two versions of the same man: Tony Stark, a genius who developed a pair of leg braces for the Viking to be able to walk for the first time in his life, as well as gave him some "toys" in the form of weapons for him to use. He gained a pair of Pokemon during this time, which allowed his softer side to come out as they cared for him, and whom became devoted and dangerous pets that would defend Ivar with their life.

Others who made an impact were the Norse gods Thor and Loki, who Ivar took to looking on as a pair of surrogate uncles, seeing as how he himself in his own universe had Odin as his grandfather. He also found a mentor in the damaged ex-assassin Bucky Barnes, who took the Viking under his wing. In exchange for teaching him how to fight better, he also tried to instill a proper sense of empathy in the Viking, with limited results. Ivar in turn tried to help stabilize the man's unsteady personality and get him to socialize more. Thor and Bucky became two of the only people who he would listen to in the city. But there was two more to come.

Eventually, part of Ivar's family arrived: his sister Gyda who had died before he was born and a version of his father Ragnar brought in years before Ivar was even born in his personal timeline. He grew close to them very quickly and it helped stabilize his mind. A family friend, a priest named Athelstan who had died when Ivar was only a baby arrived as well. He showed such genuine kindness to the Viking that Ivar became devoted to him immediately. Ragnar and Athelstan likewise became two of the only people he would listen to. Apparently, he has a thing for collecting father figures.

During this time, Ivar met a mutant named Dodger who he developed an immediate and immense hatred of. The two had several fights, where much to the mutant's shock and dismay, Ivar kept coming out on top. Ragnar got involved with Dodger sexually, even after a heated argument with Ivar warning him the man was like fire and would only burn him. Ragnar didn't heed his warnings until Dodger raped Athelstan. Ivar didn't bother telling Ragnar 'I told you so', instead setting on a path of vengeance with his father against the man. They skinned him alive as punishment.

During this time, Ivar became involved in a relationship with Marco from the Animorphs universe. Marco, after an incident of seeing how Ivar's brittle bone syndrome could be painful, entrusted him the power to morph from his home universe. Ivar acquired several Earth animals and aliens, including a mission where he acquired a powerful alien that resembled a bull-large cat crossbreed.

Towards the end of his time there, Dodger became something of a servant and general dogsbody for the Viking teen, having finally learned to respect him. They especially bonded after Ragnar and Athelstan returned to their own time period, sleeping together for the first time. A slave from Ivar's home, a priest named Heahmund showed up, and Ivar instructed Dodger to watch him. Unbeknownst to him, Dodger set about trying to recruit Heahmund in a plot to kill Ivar. Shortly after this, he, Winter, and his Pokemon returned to his own world for a short period of time.

He then entered The Sphere, an underwater complex deep beneath the ocean. There was horror scenarios that popped up every other month, with the other being devoted to a memory share that was broadcast to the whole network. His Pokemon and Winter were left back in his own world.

His sister Gyda came from Riverview, as well as few kids from the movie It, Bev and Stan. Most importantly, Ivar met his brother Ubbe again, whom he had disowned in canon. The two repaired their relationship and Ivar learned to forgive others when he held a grudge against them. He canon-updated to the end of Season Five during this time. He also made friends with Rhys, who repaired Ivar's braces when he got into a fight during which they were damaged. A new version of his baby mama Letha showed up for a short period of time, dredging up old feelings, as well as a new version of Dodger. Dismayed that his dog no longer seemed to remember him, he set about "retraining" him with the usual methods Ivar had (i.e. psychologically terrorizing the man until he was molded into what Ivar wanted), which led to the two of them entering a sexual relationship again. It is at this point where Ivar will be taken from.

Personality: Ivar is a complicated Viking. On the surface, he looks like your average psychopath: burns people alive for shits and giggles and plays mind games to torment everyone around him. But dig a little deeper and he gets more complex. He's a product of the culture around him. The Norse are all about physical prowess and being born a cripple usually meant being put out in the woods to die of exposure, a merciful death rather then letting a child grow and suffer. Ivar grew up with almost everyone treating him with disdain and pity, seeing him as the poor weak runt that should have done the proper thing and died when he was a child.

Ironically, it was these sentiments that hardened Ivar's will. He decided he wasn't just going to live, he was going to thrive and prove he was just as good as any other Norse warrior. Being the youngest son of one of the most famous Vikings in the entire world also put added pressure on him to succeed. What became the core of his personality was his ever-present anger. Life dealt him a bad card and he responded with fury. Despite all this, there were a few people like his family who managed to get past all the rage and hurt, and he responded by giving them eternal loyalty and love. When he gains a friend in the young Prince Alfred while being held captive in the English court, who shows him kindness and no fear when no one else will, he holds onto the chess piece given as a symbol of that friendship even years after the fact.

He finally got his chance to prove himself when his father returned after abandoning his family and duties as king ten years earlier. He offered Ivar a chance to come on a raid with him and the teen jumped at the chance, forgetting the resentment he'd built up towards Ragnar for ten years. This also showed another facet of his personality: Ivar's so used to people treating him with cruelty that the moment someone shows him genuine kindness, they're immediately forgiven all faults and he will love them to a point of blindness.

Over the next several years, Ivar develops into a brilliant tactician on the battlefield, first used when he and his brothers invade England to avenge their father's death. He might not be able to walk, but he can plan six steps ahead of anyone he goes up against, out-thinking them completely. This is because he's very clever and good at reading people even after knowing them for only a short amount of time. At the same time, losing his father, mother, honorary uncle, and one of his brothers all within the span of about a year breaks him down. He comes to think that anyone who he loves and cares about will leave him eventually whether by choice or by dying. He decides pushing everyone away before they can hurt him is a good idea, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when the rest of his brothers start getting tired of his bullshit and do just that.

By his current canon point, he's become and then lost the position of being King of Kattegat. While a good warlord, Ivar makes for a terrible king, and this is where his blood lust and love of carnage come into full play, as he massacres anyone who speaks out against him and does so with glee. He gives into such delusions of grandeur as to think he's a god up until his son is born with a deformity. That brings him back down to earth hard. By the time he flees Kattegat, he's killed both his son and wife, and it's clear the loss of the family he'd wanted for so long and tried to create have hit him a lot harder then losing power and the crown have. He's hurting and reeling from his losses, but as always, Ivar is a survivor. He'll weather this storm out and come back strong as always.

Weaknesses/Temptations: Ivar is ruled more then anything else by his temper. Anger has sustained him his entire life and he clings to it as both a shield and strength. He reacts to any situation with a fury that seems to be without end. Because he doesn't put limits on himself, that includes reining in his temper. He's also unable to forgive anyone for the slights against him, whether real or imagined, major or minor in his mind. He's psychopathic and clever, two traits that make him ruthless enough to achieve any goals he wants while also being too proud to admit when he's wrong as well.

Sins: Fratricide: Killed his own brother Sigurd.
Uxoricide: Killed his wife.
Infanticide: Left his son out to die by exposure to the elements.
Live immolation: Has burned numerous people alive.
Sacrilege: Declares himself a god.
Torture: "Blood-eagled" a king and force-fed a priest molten gold.
Vengeful: Unable to let go of grudges or slights against him, particularly against the woman that killed his mother and the men that killed his father.
Selfish: Started and continued a civil war to kill the woman that killed his mother, even though it tore his remaining family apart.
Cruelty: Has a habit of saying nasty, biting things to people just to hurt them. Also just enjoys hurting people in general. Arbitrarily kills his own people for no reason.
Psychopathic: Has an inability to relate to anyone with sympathy and empathy.
Sadist: Seems to get off on torturing people, usually to death.
Incestuous ideation: There's some subtext in the show which suggests Ivar is attracted to his brothers.
Pride: Ivar boasted of himself being a god and being smarter then everyone around him.
Greed: He's never satisfied with what he has and always wants more, whether it's land, treasure, or power.
Lust: He covets much which he will never have, everything from a perfect body to conquering more land in England.
Envy: He's forever resentful of those around him who have normal bodies that allow them to be warriors while he will never have the chance.
Wrath: Anger and fury is what has sustained him for many years, allowing him to accomplish much, but burning him up inside at the same time.

Powers/Abilities: While in Riverview, Marco from the Animorphs used technology from his home world, the blue box, to give Ivar the power to morph into any living creature that possesses DNA for up to two hours. The specifics of morphing are here and a list of morphs he currently has are here.

Items: -4 knives
-1 longsword
-A pair of leg braces

SAMPLES

Network: Memshare with the entire network!
Log: Inbox thread with Dodger, NSFW towards the end.

OOC INFO;
Player Name: Shade
Contact Info: Light_shade or Lightshade#4738 on Discord

IC INFO;
Character Name: Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
Canon: Vikings
Canon Information: The series and Ivar himself.
Canon Point: 5x20
Age: 19
God Houses: Odin: One of Ivar's greatest strengths is his mind. Despite not being able to walk, he's very clever and smart, with his father noting he's unpredictable in how he thinks, which allows him to put his knowledge to good use. He's not just street smart either, being one of the few Norse who can read and write runes.
Tyr: Ivar is fearless most of the time, a quality he learned from always pushing his limits. He's got a very large amount of charisma that enables him to manipulate people rather easily when he puts forth the effort.
Mimir: Ivar's always been an excellent strategist when it comes to planning battles for war, able to think outside the box and plan several moves ahead of his opponents as if he's in a chess game.

Personality: Ivar is a complicated Viking. On the surface, he looks like your average psychopath: burns people alive for shits and giggles and plays mind games to torment everyone around him. But dig a little deeper and he gets more complex. He's a product of the culture around him. The Norse culture was all about physical prowess and being born a cripple usually meant being put out in the woods to die of exposure, a merciful death rather then letting a child grow and suffer. Ivar grew up with almost everyone treating him with disdain and pity, seeing him as the poor weak runt that should have done the proper thing and die when he was a child.

Ironically, it was these sentiments that hardened Ivar's will. He decided he wasn't just going to live, he was going to thrive and prove he was just as good as any other Norse warrior. Being the youngest son of one of the most famous Vikings in the entire world also put added pressure on him to succeed. What became the core of his personality was his ever-present anger. Life dealt him a bad card and he responded with fury. Despite all this, there were a few people like his family who managed to get past all the rage and hurt, and he responded by giving them eternal loyalty and love. When he gains a friend in the young Prince Alfred while being held captive in the English court, who shows him kindness and no fear when no one else will, he holds onto the chess piece given as a symbol of that friendship even years after the fact.

He finally got his chance to prove himself when his father returned after abandoning his family and duties as king ten years earlier. He offered Ivar a chance to come on a raid with him and the teen jumped at the chance, forgetting the resentment he'd built up towards Ragnar for ten years. This also showed another facet of his personality: Ivar's so used to people treating him with cruelty that the moment someone shows him genuine kindness, they're immediately forgiven all faults and he will love them to a point of blindness.

Over the next several years, Ivar develops into a brilliant tactician on the battlefield, first used when he and his brothers invade England to avenge their father's death. He might not be able to walk, but he can plan six steps ahead of anyone he goes up against, outthinking them completely. This is because he's very clever and good at reading people even after knowing them for only a short amount of time. At the same time, losing his father, mother, honorary uncle, and one of his brothers all within the span of about a year breaks him down. He comes to think that anyone who he loves and cares about will leave him eventually whether by choice or by dying. He decides pushing everyone away before they can hurt him is a good idea, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when the rest of his brothers start getting tired of his bullshit and do just that.

By his current canon point, he's become and then lost the position of being King of Kattegat. While a good warlord, Ivar makes for a terrible king, and this is where his blood lust and love of carnage come into full play, as he massacres anyone who speaks out against him and does so with glee. He gives into such delusions of grandeur as to think he's a god up until his son is born with a deformity. That brings him back down to earth hard. By the time he flees Kattegat, he's killed both his son and wife, and it's clear the loss of the family he'd wanted for so long and tried to create have hit him a lot harder then losing power and the crown have. He's hurting and reeling from his losses, but as always, Ivar is a survivor. He'll weather this storm out and come back strong as always.

Writing Sample: TDM thread!

Since Ivar is a CRAU and was played for over a year and a half at his last game, he encountered quite a few characters during that time period. Many were from popular canons, so there might be some overlap. He's familiar with the concept of the multiverse, so he'll grasp that your character is not the same as the previous one he knew. But if you'd prefer for him not to recognize your character at all, please let me know here!

Player information
●Name: Shade
●Age: 28
● Contact: light_shade or Lightshade#4738 on Discord
● Other characters: N/A

Character information.
● Character name: Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
● Canon: Vikings
● Canon point: 5x10
● Age. 18
● Canon background: Link
As a CRAU, he comes from Riverview, a sci-fi game set on a small moon. Ivar lived there for over a year and a half before he was sent home.
● Abilities: While he was in his previous game, Ivar acquired the morphing power from the Animorphs series. The specifics of what morphs he uses can be found here.

Ivar, despite not having use of his legs, is an expert at using the weapons of his time. He's shown to be as good a marksman as any of his brothers when using a bow and arrow, manages to fight one of his brothers to draw with a sword, and is very talented when it comes to using a throwing axe. Though he rarely participates in battles, due to his lack of mobility, when he does, he's shown not to just be a burden, actively killing people who think they've got the drop on him. Also, he's just really strong from a lifetime of crawling around using only his arms. He manages to crush a wooden chess piece with only one hand when upset.

● Strengths.: He is very clever and can easily think outside the box. Since he's had trouble moving his entire life, he's learned to observe before acting. He reads people very easily as well, able to predict what people are thinking, and what they'll do before they even know it themselves. He easily out-thinks his opponents on the battlefield, frequently outsmarting a king twice his age despite being a teenager, and in fact only loses one battle at this point in the series.

His anger is one thing his own father labels as a gift. Since Ivar was written off as "just a cripple" a long time ago, someone his culture would see as next to nothing, he had to forge his own path. He became angry at the way people saw him and decided he wasn't just going to live, he was going to thrive, becoming as good as he could possibly become with weapons, and being smarter than almost everyone around him. His fury is also what fuels his determination. When he has a goal in mind, nothing and nobody is going to stop him, whether that's becoming king or raiding all of England. He could have just wallowed in self-pity or fallen back on his title of being a prince during his life to take the easy route. He never did, instead pushing his limits as much as he could.

One trait he has that is almost solely positive is that Ivar never forgets someone who shows him kindness and tends to be very loyal as a result. Throughout the series, Ivar remembers every person who shows him even a modicum of kindness. His father, a man he hates for abandoning for ten years, receives his loyalty and love the minute he acknowledges Ivar as good as his other sons. He frees a slave girl because she shows no fear of him and gives him wise words that make him think he will win the upcoming battles.

● Weaknesses: Ivar can be extremely impulsive. Even as a child, when his temper gets the better of him, it results in the death of another child. But the best example of this is that he kills his brother in a moment when he snaps. One can see he regrets it immediately, but there's no going back after that. It isn't the first or last time that he acts recklessly, a white hot anger that he gives into immediately, and then has to look at what happens only afterwards.

On the other side of the coin of loyalty is his tendency to hold grudges way past the point where they are healthy. While some are understandable, like wanting to kill Lagertha, the woman who killed his mother, others are less so, like disowning his older brother Ubbe, who previously was one of his most staunch defenders and watched over him growing up.

He is also a very, very cruel and psychopathic man if he is angered or hates someone. He will think up sadistic ways to kill and torture someone, having no qualms about doing things like pouring molten metal down a priest's throat to kill him. He seems to be the one who enjoys the blood-eagling of King Aelle the most and would have done it if he could have stood up long enough.

● Nightmares: One of Ivar's biggest fears is that he's going to end up alone. After losing his mother, father, brother, and mentor all within a year or so, he thinks everyone will leave him. Paradoxically, he deliberately pushes away the family he has left, so that he won't be hurt when they leave, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when they finally do. At his current canon point, he's pushed away all but one of his brothers, and even that relationship is tenuous.

A more physical fear is water. Since his legs are all but useless, he can't swim, and if he gets into deep water, he might as well be dead. This is best seen when he goes with his father on a Viking longship. He vomits out of fear, and then, the worst happens when a storm comes upon them. The boat capsizes and Ivar would have drowned if not for the timely intervention of his father rescuing him.
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