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Age: 28
CHARACTER.
Name: Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
Canon: Vikings
Canon Point: 5x20, after he flees Kattegat and starts traveling to Rus
Age: 19
Background: Wiki!
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.
Abilities: Able to use swords, knives, axes, and bows with a stunning amount of accuracy. Lots of upper body strength due to using his arms to maneuver around. Speaks Old Norse and Old English. Master tactician in battles. Very good at chess.
Inventory: A pair of very cumbersome leg braces, hand crutch, one throwing axe, and three knives.
Suitability: Ivar is a very independent character despite having a physical disability. He's survived a lot of things already in his life, and despite the strange circumstances he'll find himself surrounded by, he's not going to just give into fear and despair. He'll do his best to adapt to this new world and survive whatever is thrown at him. Given that he has a huge language barrier between himself and most of the other characters, he'll need to find a way to communicate, and learn a measure of trust in people despite not being able to understand them.
Samples: TDM thread 1, TDM thread 2
Handle: Shade
Contact:
Age: 28
CHARACTER.
Name: Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson
Canon: Vikings
Canon Point: 5x20, after he flees Kattegat and starts traveling to Rus
Age: 19
Background: Wiki!
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.
Abilities: Able to use swords, knives, axes, and bows with a stunning amount of accuracy. Lots of upper body strength due to using his arms to maneuver around. Speaks Old Norse and Old English. Master tactician in battles. Very good at chess.
Inventory: A pair of very cumbersome leg braces, hand crutch, one throwing axe, and three knives.
Suitability: Ivar is a very independent character despite having a physical disability. He's survived a lot of things already in his life, and despite the strange circumstances he'll find himself surrounded by, he's not going to just give into fear and despair. He'll do his best to adapt to this new world and survive whatever is thrown at him. Given that he has a huge language barrier between himself and most of the other characters, he'll need to find a way to communicate, and learn a measure of trust in people despite not being able to understand them.
Samples: TDM thread 1, TDM thread 2
