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Nov. 28th, 2018 12:48 amPlayer information
●Name: Shade
●Age: 28
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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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●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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● Prose sample: Link
