PLAYER Name: Glass Personal Journal:mariner E-mail: glasssubway@gmail.com AIM/MSN/etc: AIM- glasssubway
CHARACTER Name: Leah of Hel Canon: Marvel-616 Timeline: The end of Journey Into Mystery 644 If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Sacrifice is in a handmaid's nature. Leah of Hel, in both her incarnations, began life as the cut off hand of Hela, goddess of the dead, in a strange sort of extension of her as well as her loyal servant, which leaves her entire fate tied up in Hela's will. Leah is committed to her loyalty to Hela and her duty to death even when she raises objections, and that above all else ends up guiding her actions through the first incarnation of Leah of Hel, because she has no choice to do otherwise.
Stern and stoic, Leah is not much for frivolity. While she might be dutiful and loyal, she's not easily impressed and not afraid to speak her mind and voice her objections and concerns, either to her mistress or her "BFF" the reincarnated Kid!Loki, to whose side she's glued, much to her displeasure. While she assists him as Hela commanded, she's frequently sarcastic and insulting and not afraid to let him know when she thinks he's being an idiot (which is pretty much 99.99% of the time) and refuses to be impressed by anything he does to try and charm her. Or much of anything he has to show her, really, likely in part because it's Loki and likely in part because Leah is simply difficult to rattle or shake or sway. Towards other people she can be polite, if she wants to be (or if forced to be), but when irked nothing stops her from casually throwing people through plate glass windows or lashing out even towards Loki, earning her the nickname "Scary Girl" more than once. She has a pronounced fondness for "bad boys" (but not actual boys, who are bad) and she isn't afraid to her to openly express her appreciation for such and their lack of shirts.
Despite the fact that she's constantly bickering with Loki and would deny that she cares anything about him or even likes him, her protectiveness and her assistance seems at times to go beyond the bounds of her orders to stay with him and help him until he can repay his debt to Hela. She watches him when he sleeps to keep an eye on him, and insists that it's only because she has nothing better to do. She constantly mocks and teases him for almost everything, but manages to support him anyway. Even if she rarely expresses anything like kindness or sympathy for what he has to do, she's not entirely unsympathetic or uncaring about him- but she's the handmaid of Hela, and she has a job to do, and her friendship with him can't compromise her duty. The first Leah goes to her death telling him that, though she appreciates the sentiment, they could never really ever be Best Friends Forever- not exactly the kindest way to say goodbye, even as she's sort of consoling him and telling him not to be sad, that it was always going to happen. Even Leah at her kindest knows how to drive in the knife, and twist it.
The second Leah has her origins in the first, and she's much the same as the first Leah, because up until a point she was the Leah who was Hela's handmaiden. However, in her very first adventure with Loki he wrote a version of Leah into the ancient past, using her care and sympathy for the villain to create an exploitable weak spot, never imagining that by doing so a version of her would be consigned to live in the story he created for her. It's this Leah, the Leah written into the history of The Serpent, who has a future outside of being Hela's handmaiden. But at first it's a future that leaves her bitter and frustrated and actively plotting against Loki for thousands of years, setting up a plan to catch him and ruin everything he's ultimately worked for, a thousand times more vengeful and scary than she ever was as Hela's handmaid…until finally she has him in her clutches.
It's then she really shows the depth of her feelings and bond with Loki, and how much Leah is capable of caring and does care, in the end. When he offers her a chance for them to reunite and take revenge on everyone who's wronged them, offering her a better life than just revenge on him, she returns to his side instantly. When he finally frees her from the being forced into the story he wrote for her and gives her the freedom to choose for herself she openly thanks him for the first time and nearly kisses him when she thinks they're about to die, the first open admission of her true feelings for the first time. The Leah who was written into the story and then written into being able to choose her fate has the opportunity to be more open than the Leah who was simply Hela's handmaid, something she seems to be truly grateful for and makes a point of making a distinction about- she's no longer part of the story but a real person from now on, and it seems to mean quite a lot to her as well as allow her to be slightly warmer and more emotional than her stoic, dutiful other incarnation. And when he betrays her yet again, and refuses to speak with her, she takes this rejection harder than ever and swears to hate him forever, proving that she's just as capable of feeling strongly and being scary and holding onto a grudge as she ever was. Though of course, by the time she grows up and becomes Hela, the very person she originated from, she's become more than capable of pulling Loki's strings right back and handling him.
First Person: [Leah's not the best with technology. Thousands of years she might have spent waiting for the modern age to come around, but Loki didn't introduce her to the internet and this isn't anything like a Stark phone. All she can do is poke at the buttons, trying to figure out what does what with a helpless frustration that clearly shows on her face, narrow-eyed and furious, when the video rises up--]
- what trick is this-
[And then it flicks off again, as she struggles with it some more. It doesn't tell her anything. Not how she got here or where she really is or what she's doing here. But her immediate suspicion, always, after so many years and so much experience- and she does know his character better than her own- ]
- Loki, what have you done now? [With her voice full of irritation, exasperated and on edge with the confusion. She doesn't take well to feeling so very out of sorts all again, not knowing what's going on, really, but she has hser suspicions on who to blame, and she's usually not wrong.] Where the Hel are you?
Third Person: Leah's no stranger to the strange and unusual. Being the handmaiden and the hand of the goddess of death will do that to you, and she spent so much time being so much more than that. A living story, a lie made flesh, and by anybody's standard that would qualify as strange and unusual. But it's not until she's standing on the train station when she realizes that something's gone terribly awry.
She remembers the cave, and Daimon Hellstrom, shirtless as usual, ranting, and Loki's back retreating from her, and the confusion when he'd suddenly disappeared- what had he realized? And now she's who the Hel knows where, and she came her on a train, and where did that come from?
The power rises to her fingers before she can even think about it, whirling to throw green fire after the train and bring it to a halt, intending to demand answers from whoever's running it. And she just sat there, in a dreamlike stupor, and let it take her away from Daimon and Loki and her freedom to choose- no, no, she wasn't having it, she didn't have to stand for it-
But no matter how fast she gives chase, no matter how she blasts and tries to bring it down, it doesn't take her back to where she came from, and it doesn't stop. Frustrated and furious, she stops at the edge of the forest, lost who knows where with nowhere obvious to direct her rage and concern. Summons a portal, and tries to return to her cave, to Asgardia, to Hel, to anywhere she can recognize, and she gets nowhere that helps.
The station. Nobody stops in the middle of nowhere. Whoever brought her here did it for a reason, and the best place to find them and demand answers, with fire and brimstone if necessary, is there. She could choose to keep running, and she feels it clearly, off into the wilderness until she came to somewhere she knew. Loki might do it. He doesn't always have to think everything out, because he always landed on his feet, because she was always there to catch him. But now it's only her, and Leah of Hel knows better than that. With the power and means at her disposal, she doesn't necessarily need to run to get back where she needs to be.
This time the portal takes her where she wants to go. With the faintest of grim smiles, Leah of Hel descends on the city.
[CANON] Leah of Hel || Marvel-616 || Reserve
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CHARACTER
Name: Leah of Hel
Canon: Marvel-616
Timeline: The end of Journey Into Mystery 644
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Sacrifice is in a handmaid's nature. Leah of Hel, in both her incarnations, began life as the cut off hand of Hela, goddess of the dead, in a strange sort of extension of her as well as her loyal servant, which leaves her entire fate tied up in Hela's will. Leah is committed to her loyalty to Hela and her duty to death even when she raises objections, and that above all else ends up guiding her actions through the first incarnation of Leah of Hel, because she has no choice to do otherwise.
Stern and stoic, Leah is not much for frivolity. While she might be dutiful and loyal, she's not easily impressed and not afraid to speak her mind and voice her objections and concerns, either to her mistress or her "BFF" the reincarnated Kid!Loki, to whose side she's glued, much to her displeasure. While she assists him as Hela commanded, she's frequently sarcastic and insulting and not afraid to let him know when she thinks he's being an idiot (which is pretty much 99.99% of the time) and refuses to be impressed by anything he does to try and charm her. Or much of anything he has to show her, really, likely in part because it's Loki and likely in part because Leah is simply difficult to rattle or shake or sway. Towards other people she can be polite, if she wants to be (or if forced to be), but when irked nothing stops her from casually throwing people through plate glass windows or lashing out even towards Loki, earning her the nickname "Scary Girl" more than once. She has a pronounced fondness for "bad boys" (but not actual boys, who are bad) and she isn't afraid to her to openly express her appreciation for such and their lack of shirts.
Despite the fact that she's constantly bickering with Loki and would deny that she cares anything about him or even likes him, her protectiveness and her assistance seems at times to go beyond the bounds of her orders to stay with him and help him until he can repay his debt to Hela. She watches him when he sleeps to keep an eye on him, and insists that it's only because she has nothing better to do. She constantly mocks and teases him for almost everything, but manages to support him anyway. Even if she rarely expresses anything like kindness or sympathy for what he has to do, she's not entirely unsympathetic or uncaring about him- but she's the handmaid of Hela, and she has a job to do, and her friendship with him can't compromise her duty. The first Leah goes to her death telling him that, though she appreciates the sentiment, they could never really ever be Best Friends Forever- not exactly the kindest way to say goodbye, even as she's sort of consoling him and telling him not to be sad, that it was always going to happen. Even Leah at her kindest knows how to drive in the knife, and twist it.
The second Leah has her origins in the first, and she's much the same as the first Leah, because up until a point she was the Leah who was Hela's handmaiden. However, in her very first adventure with Loki he wrote a version of Leah into the ancient past, using her care and sympathy for the villain to create an exploitable weak spot, never imagining that by doing so a version of her would be consigned to live in the story he created for her. It's this Leah, the Leah written into the history of The Serpent, who has a future outside of being Hela's handmaiden. But at first it's a future that leaves her bitter and frustrated and actively plotting against Loki for thousands of years, setting up a plan to catch him and ruin everything he's ultimately worked for, a thousand times more vengeful and scary than she ever was as Hela's handmaid…until finally she has him in her clutches.
It's then she really shows the depth of her feelings and bond with Loki, and how much Leah is capable of caring and does care, in the end. When he offers her a chance for them to reunite and take revenge on everyone who's wronged them, offering her a better life than just revenge on him, she returns to his side instantly. When he finally frees her from the being forced into the story he wrote for her and gives her the freedom to choose for herself she openly thanks him for the first time and nearly kisses him when she thinks they're about to die, the first open admission of her true feelings for the first time. The Leah who was written into the story and then written into being able to choose her fate has the opportunity to be more open than the Leah who was simply Hela's handmaid, something she seems to be truly grateful for and makes a point of making a distinction about- she's no longer part of the story but a real person from now on, and it seems to mean quite a lot to her as well as allow her to be slightly warmer and more emotional than her stoic, dutiful other incarnation. And when he betrays her yet again, and refuses to speak with her, she takes this rejection harder than ever and swears to hate him forever, proving that she's just as capable of feeling strongly and being scary and holding onto a grudge as she ever was. Though of course, by the time she grows up and becomes Hela, the very person she originated from, she's become more than capable of pulling Loki's strings right back and handling him.
First Person: [Leah's not the best with technology. Thousands of years she might have spent waiting for the modern age to come around, but Loki didn't introduce her to the internet and this isn't anything like a Stark phone. All she can do is poke at the buttons, trying to figure out what does what with a helpless frustration that clearly shows on her face, narrow-eyed and furious, when the video rises up--]
- what trick is this-
[And then it flicks off again, as she struggles with it some more. It doesn't tell her anything. Not how she got here or where she really is or what she's doing here. But her immediate suspicion, always, after so many years and so much experience- and she does know his character better than her own- ]
- Loki, what have you done now? [With her voice full of irritation, exasperated and on edge with the confusion. She doesn't take well to feeling so very out of sorts all again, not knowing what's going on, really, but she has hser suspicions on who to blame, and she's usually not wrong.] Where the Hel are you?
Third Person: Leah's no stranger to the strange and unusual. Being the handmaiden and the hand of the goddess of death will do that to you, and she spent so much time being so much more than that. A living story, a lie made flesh, and by anybody's standard that would qualify as strange and unusual. But it's not until she's standing on the train station when she realizes that something's gone terribly awry.
She remembers the cave, and Daimon Hellstrom, shirtless as usual, ranting, and Loki's back retreating from her, and the confusion when he'd suddenly disappeared- what had he realized? And now she's who the Hel knows where, and she came her on a train, and where did that come from?
The power rises to her fingers before she can even think about it, whirling to throw green fire after the train and bring it to a halt, intending to demand answers from whoever's running it. And she just sat there, in a dreamlike stupor, and let it take her away from Daimon and Loki and her freedom to choose- no, no, she wasn't having it, she didn't have to stand for it-
But no matter how fast she gives chase, no matter how she blasts and tries to bring it down, it doesn't take her back to where she came from, and it doesn't stop. Frustrated and furious, she stops at the edge of the forest, lost who knows where with nowhere obvious to direct her rage and concern. Summons a portal, and tries to return to her cave, to Asgardia, to Hel, to anywhere she can recognize, and she gets nowhere that helps.
The station. Nobody stops in the middle of nowhere. Whoever brought her here did it for a reason, and the best place to find them and demand answers, with fire and brimstone if necessary, is there. She could choose to keep running, and she feels it clearly, off into the wilderness until she came to somewhere she knew. Loki might do it. He doesn't always have to think everything out, because he always landed on his feet, because she was always there to catch him. But now it's only her, and Leah of Hel knows better than that. With the power and means at her disposal, she doesn't necessarily need to run to get back where she needs to be.
This time the portal takes her where she wants to go. With the faintest of grim smiles, Leah of Hel descends on the city.