| Character Identity | Loki

| Age | 130 ( about human late twenties)

| Character Differences |
This Loki regularly uses his sword, Laevateinn, in this au. Also, he quite enjoyed being around humans and would sometimes form friendships with a family that would last generations. From that, he ended up caring about human cares and concerns, helping him to both become a hero among humans and to not be haughty when it came to Asgardians that were beneath him in rank. He still does his tricks and enjoys a good prank. He's still closer to his mother than his father, even with knowing that he's adopted. But people could also trust that he would help them if he could, see him as a guardian of the hearth and home who cared for his own. His time under Mojo though has caused his kindness to fuel his rage, vowing that he won't ever stop until Mojo and Thor are taken down for good.

| Brief World Background |
A basically fully Marvel universe with some Cyrano de Bergerac au elements thrown, a major difference is that while this Loki became a hero, Thor became more and more a villain. His banishment then lead to Asgard's fall. Loki's true biological parentage was known earlier and he use to have a daughter, Cyrania de Bergerac.

| Brief Character Background |
For a time, Loki had grown to loathe his life. Thor never wanted to spend time with him anymore. Those that were in the know about his true parentage looked down upon him except for their parents, and Odin still always kept his distance. Only his mother and the time they spent together with lessons helped at all, but he could only brace himself for the other shoe to drop. Sometimes, he'd try to spark it with some of his pranks, yet it only would disappoint and her disappointment was hard to bear. On a whim, he ended up visiting Earth in disguise to a small country called France just to get away from it all. Jeers came up though for his choice in disguise from some drunken fools. Before Loki could reveal himself however, he found himself being defended by a man, so full of bravado and daring that it was somehow enduring.

He soon quickly came to learn that the man's name was Cyrano de Bergerac and from that day on, Loki would sneak down to Earth to see more of him, eventually causing the two to become friends even if Loki had to swallow the bitterness of the wish that Thor could be more like this man. The man's moments though of sometimes being an extreme idiot helped distract him, causing Loki to secretly intervene in many cases where the man's pride caused him to suffer in silence. Overall though, he was a witty, engaging companion that he could enjoy talking with or simply listening to. Through him, he learned about both the highs of what humans could accomplish, and the lows of what they could suffer or do to each other. His times on Earth then started to come with fresh eyes, looking and seeing individuals where before he wouldn't have cared to. He would walk on to find Cyrano, but couldn't help but do something to leave things better in his wake.

Time passed. He intervened more directly to have Cyrano actually marry the love of his life instead of let her stay in mourning for a man she didn't love, but his trips caused him to run into and come to know other people as well. Sometimes, he'd only come as a stranger in the night to aid someone then disappear. Other times, he'd come to know people more directly then come back from time to time. And while there where people weren't grateful or that his help didn't actually end up helping, he still found that he always felt lighter after visiting Earth more often than not. His brother didn't understand it, but he hadn't been willing to understand anything about him for some years now. He wished he could breach the gap between them, but didn't know how anymore.

Then tragedy struck. Cyrano was killed by assassins while Loki was away doing other things, causing Roxanne to succumb to grief. All that remained of them now were their few possessions, and a daughter born the day he died, named by her mother Cyrania de Bergerac. After some time in shock, Loki ended up taking the daughter and bringing her to Asgard. He wouldn't fail this one's life like he'd failed her parents. Many protested him bringing a human to Asgard, most of all his brother. But Loki stood firm, with first Frigga's support, then finally Odin's reluctant support much to Loki's surprise. To his even greater astonishment, Odin helped him to awaken the magical powers that were locked within her and grant her a longer life, though with the stern warning that even with that, she wouldn't live forever. He accepted the fact, but still hoped to have many years with her.

And so she grew up, lively and so like her father. Loki couldn't help but love her, raising and teaching her everything he could. Frigga and Odin also came to love her, but Thor would not accept her, his hatred growing of her every day. Multiple times, he tried to convince Odin to force Loki to send her back where she belonged, but Odin refused, not wanting to cause unnecessary hurt to Loki like that. Thor though took it as a sign that Odin was growing more senile, far too old for the throne. And so over the years, Thor sought to arrange a rebellion that would finally make him king, also vowing to finally kill off all the Frost Giants once and for all since his father had been so soft as to take one in as his son.

When the day came, Thor lead his followers to the palace and sought to overthrow them all. All too quickly though, the revolt was squashed, and Thor was brought in for judgement. Instead of death or imprisonment though, Odin stripped him of his powers and banished him to Earth, also sending the hammer locked with his powers for the one worthy enough to wield them, hoping that his son might become the same type of great man he'd seen Loki come to be. But Thor didn't. Instead, Thor and Mojo met. And in his fury, Thor told Mojo how to conquer Asgard, only asking for the throne in exchange.

As it happened though, Loki and Cyrania were both on Earth when the conquest happened, Loki having always sought to bring her to Earth every so often to let her keep a connection to her heritage and to allow her to visit her parents' graves. Neither had no way of knowing anything had happened back home until Loki called to Heimdall for transport back, but received no answer. Soon after, Mojo invaded Earth. Both of them fought as hard as they could, trying to at least get some people to safety, but they were soon overrun. Cyrania was killed, and Loki was captured and imprisoned.

For some months now, he's somehow managed to survive the games, feeling his soul drift further and further away with every day that passed, every soul he killed. He can't allow himself to die though. Not until Mojo's reign is ended, and he can be sure Thor received a proper traitor's reward.

| Character Identity |

Steve Rogers, AKA Nomad

| Age |

40

| Character Differences |
The primary difference between this version of Steve Rogers and most others is what he's experienced. His life has been characterized by a constant, unwinnable battle against fascism, and that has shaped his worldview considerably. Steve still holds true to all his beliefs about liberty, equality and justice- but he finds his faith in man waning. Can his country ever truly get better? Can they really overcome this dark period of their history, or are they forever damned to ignorance and hate? In his lowest moments Rogers oft thinks the answer no, and wonders if he might put the shield down and live out the rest of his days in peace with the woman he loves. The heavy guilt and sense of responsibility keeps him from pulling the trigger, but its always there, gnawing at the back of his mind.

In terms of power levels Nomad is a few steps above peak human. He's able to perform incredible feats of speed and strength, and seems remarkably able to shrug off punishment, but he's not going toe to toe with the big boys anytime soon. Much of his strength lies less in physical might and more in quick, tactical thinking and decades of leadership experience under his belt. He's led both a military unit and partisans to great success back on earth, and he'll bring it to bear out here as well.


| Brief World Background |
Steve comes from a world trapped under the jackboot of the Großgermanisches Reich. His timeline diverged at the Battle of Dunkirk, where the evacuation attempts were halted by HYDRA built super weapons, and the British Expeditionary Force was completely and utterly destroyed. This defeat laid the groundwork for Operation Sea Lion: the German army landed along the southern beaches of Great Britain and began their push toward London, only for FDR to unilaterally declare war on the Axis Powers- without the approval of congress and against the Neutrality Acts he had signed himself just a few years earlier.

The American intervention in the United Kingdom saw the first deployment of Captain America, the one and only successful subject of Project: Rebirth and the singular superhuman in that timeline. His presence was celebrated by the men on the ground, as well as by the civilian population of the United Kingdom, yet he was oddly controversial back home. Many powerful people opposed the war, and they saw Captain America as an easy target for their propaganda: soon half the rags in the U.S were claiming the man behind the shield was a secret communist, or that his unnatural abilities were the creation of 'Jewish science.' Of particular controversy were the men he chose for the Howling Commandos, including a number of black and Japanese soldiers in a time where segregation was still army policy.

Instead of opening up the western front in the Mediterranean and North Africa as advised by the British, the less experienced American command staff opted to go with Operation Sledgehammer: an ill-advised invasion of the Cotentin Peninsula in Northern France, where the Germans would have numerical superiority. Major General Walker Price, a young and inexperienced leader, lost nearly half his entire division after pressing ahead into German lines and getting himself surrounded; the only reason his unit survived at all was due to the timely arrival of Captain America and a commandeered armored column, who held open the line long enough for a full rout back to the coast. Price was stripped of his command and shipped back to the States. Angry, humiliated, and heart beating with a desire for revenge, Price was the perfect candidate for what came next...

A coalition of businessmen, politicians and other officials formed a plot to unseat Franklin Roosevelt as president and end hostilities with the Axis powers. Their reasons were their own: ranging from those who wanted to reverse Roosevelt's economic policies to full-blown Nazi sympathizers. This plot had all the money and manpower it needed, but they wanted someone with the charisma, reputation and pull to ensure their plans would succeed, and Walker Price was that man. Since coming home he'd waged his own war in the press against Captain America and the U.S government, blaming them for the failure at Cotentin- and making allusions to unknown persons who were sabotaging the war effort to ensure the fighting went on longer for the sake of their own profits and power. He was all too happy to join in on this coup.

Walker arrived in Washington, D.C with a veritable army of demonstrators, many of them armed former veterans or soldiers who had abandoned their posts to join in the march; also among their number were anti-war protesters, fascists and Nazi sympathizers, and a slew of other folk who took issue with the current administration. Undercover HYDRA agents assured that the gathering was large, the presence of American fascists was undersold by the papers, and agitated against capitol police and the national guard wherever possible. What followed was several weeks of protesting and rioting, running street battles between all manner of factions and the government, and the eventual arrest of the president- ending with Major General Price instituting martial law across the nation.

An armistice was signed with the Axis powers, and America was drowned in civil unrest. The country was divided sharply on the events of that year. There was widespread violence along all sorts of lines: political, racial religious. Insurrections against the new government popped up across the nation but were quickly stomped out. These acts were used as justification for an extension of military rule, and the violence was blamed on communist agitators.

Its been twenty years since the war ended in an Axis victory: the Greater German Reich is a bloated slave empire suffering under the weight of constant civil strife and international pressure, Spain and Italy have formed a political bloc in opposition to the Reich and its puppet states, and the Co-Prosperity Sphere seeks to oust its former allies and their colonies from the eastern hemisphere.

The United States has developed its own strand of fascism, characterized by a faux democracy, intense racial segregation, and the merging of business, church and state into one, cumbersome behemoth. They collaborate openly with the Reich, and ‘National Socialist’ is as common a political identity as Democrat or Republican.

| Brief Character Background |
Much of Steve Rogers' history remains unaltered: he was just a kid from Brooklyn who wanted to make a difference. After a dozen failed attempts at enlisting in the U.S Army he was picked as a candidate for Project: Rebirth, America's super soldier program. Doctor Erskine's serum was successful in transforming Rogers into Captain America, the first superhuman in mankind's history. Erskine's death at the hands of HYDRA assassins would ensure Steve was the only superhuman as well. Handed a shield made of rare, vibration-absorbing metal and an appropriately patriotic costume, Rogers would begin his training: both as America's greatest soldier and its poster boy.

Then he was off to Europe to fight the Nazis with his own handpicked team, starting with the liberation of the United Kingdom where he met the love of his life. His role as Captain America proved far more complicated than he'd expected it to be, receiving just as much hate as he did admiration. A frightening number of Americans didn't see him as the symbol of justice and liberty that Rogers had been told he'd be- they saw him as a radical, a tool of warmongers, and even a race traitor. But Steve always believed in people. Always had hope that his country's flaws could be overcome. Most people were, in his mind, fundamentally decent.

When he finally came home from the front, however, Rogers was met with a starkly different nation from the one he'd left. He and his fellow veterans were spat on, assaulted. Called all sorts of nasty things. Segregation had intensified, there was widespread sectarian violence, and hatred and bigotry was everywhere he looked. It disheartened him, but he wasn't a man to give up when things got difficult. He resolved to do his part to fix his country: interviews, rallies, and peaceful demonstrations; get connected with other influential folks who believed in the dream.

Things only got worse.

It wasn't long before he was denounced as a dissident, stripped of his rank, and declared a 'person of interest' in unspecific criminal activity. HYDRA agents helped federal agents track Rogers, his friends, and even those he loved. Anyone who wasn't willing to give him up got prison time or worse. Again and again his faith was tested as he was forced to go underground, to continue his activities under a different name. It'd become obvious that this was a war he couldn't win with ballots and speeches, but bullets. He would lead a prominent resistance organization for the next fifteen years as Nomad, the man without a country. Every single day would see his hope for change tested, would show him evidence that all he did was for naught; it was as if the universe conspired to tell him mankind was fundamentally anything but good.

A few days ago things did finally change, though not for the better, but certainly for the stranger. Little green men descended from the sky and took him unawares from his home in the Appalachian mountains, dragging Nomad up into their UFO and transporting him to a place far, far away. It was a bewildering experience, to be sure, and part of him wondered if he'd just finally snapped- or was he actually in space?

| Starfire |

| 191 |


| Character Differences |
Cheerful, friendly, optimistic, and naive when it comes to human social interactions, this Starfire is similar to many others. Her powers are based on emotions. She loves deeply and openly, and has a fiery, dangerous temper. She also has a tendency to be calmer and subdued, especially during the night when almost everyone else is asleep. Thanks to the people she met on Earth, Starfire has also developed a wry, sarcastic sense of humor to accompany her usual love of 'videos about cats failing to make jumps'. She was raised in a homogenous warrior culture of honesty, honor, and warfare, and thus is inexperienced when it comes to the wide array of emotions available to her. Because of this, often times she is introverted and quiet, choosing not to act out of fear of embarrassment.

Secretly, she's traumatized by a violent falling out with her sister, and the loss of her homeworld. As well as her time in horrible captivity. PTSD isn't something a warrior princess is supposed to have, though, and she merely ignores this part of her life as best as she can. Starfire wants above all for her friends and the people she cares about to be happy. This, in turn, will grant her peace of heart.



As a Tamaran, her powers are also quite different. She is a being of starlight energy, more akin to a golem than an organic being. In her body are three organ crystals that need to be powered by sunlight in order for her to survive. Starfire also cannot fly, instead launching herself with extreme precision with explosions. Given a day of build upm she reaches a state of pure energy and travels several hundred times faster than the speed of light. She also creates simple, floating shapes in the air that she can manipulate to give her more purpose. Starfire can be creative and clever, but when need be she can lay the smackdown with her explosive abilities.

Edit: Starfire's kryptonite is a great amount of black light. In small, natural amounts it increases her power like normal but artificial black lights in great amounts can sap her abilities.

Starfire cannot eat or drink, and doesn't need to sleep. She can only heal when does sleep, and then her regenerative abilities are quite potent, but she is vulnerable while doing so. If she goes too long without the warmth of a star, she becomes more and more tired until she eventually dies.

| Brief World Background |
Thirty years ago, Earth was ravaged by a being known as the Three Horned God, known in other multiverses as Trigon. Superheroes and supervillains, such as the Avengers and the Justice League, rose to defend the planet. They succeeded, but huge swathes of the Earth have been made unlivable. Monsters and demons roam wastelands, and tears are opened in reality. Even now, the cult of Blackthorn that unleashed Trigon in the first place plot and scheme to free their banished overlord. Earth is on the brink of destruction, but humanity is rebuilding. There are also many species of creatures from other dimensions that were brought in unwillingly and now try to lead peaceful lives among the humans, but face hatred and discrimination due to the actions of the Blackthorn Coven, and the fear of the humans.

Tamaran is a prosperous planet, abundant in natural resources due to their people being powered exclusively by the sun. They never shared what they had, and many envious, decaying empires sought what they had. Thus generations of children are raised for glorious battle, and Starfire was raised to lead them. Blackfire, her estranged, hateful sister, betrayed Tamaran and Starfire. Now Tamaran is under Blackfire's rule.

| Brief Character Background |

Princess Koriand'r is not the name she uses anymore, but it was the one she was born with. She was raised from birth to be a soldier, and she took pride in her birthright to rule the land. When she turned 140 she began to battle the many enemies of Tamaran, jealous of its unused natural bounties. Perhaps, Starfire thinks now, Tamaran could have been more generous to its galactic neighbors. But back then, she hated them, and sought to destroy them. Her kill count is such that she doesn't keep track, instead going by battles won instead. Plus, many enemies used robots to fight in their stead, and the ones that didn't wore heavy armor, so it became difficult to tell, anyway. Everything looked the same when it was incinerated into ash.

Her amiable, cheerful demeanor meant Koriand'r made a multitude of friends on her homeworld. Kommandr, her sister, was not so lucky. She was born with a genetic defect. Her skin, pale, her hair, purple. She could only draw on the power of artificial lights she invented herself. She valued intelligence over strength, cunning over bravery. She was Koriand'r's older sister, and the throne was meant to be hers. But Kori was the favorite. Everyone loved Kori, not Kommandr. Using Kommandr's 'poor health' as an excuse, Kori was given the throne. Kori loved her sister, but she never supported her. No one did. Kommandr was all alone, the one thing she was raised to believe as important was stolen from her, and her family that was supposed to love her seemed to loathe everything she thought was good.

Starfire carries a great amount of guilt for allowing Kommandr to spiral down this dark path. When Kommandr betrayed Tamaran and seized the throne for herself with the help of Tamaran's enemies, Starfire was enraged. But she was defeated quickly and imprisoned for a year. Her family was slaughtered. Why Kommandr kept Kori alive, she couldn't guess. It was a miserable time, full of torture, interrogation, experiments. Kommandr came into Kori's room and rambled about bizarre things, justifying what hse was doing. She was...insane. And it broke Kori's heart. She couldn't bring herself to hate her sister any more, so instead she drove her anger inward. Towards herself. For being so blind, so careless, so focused on glory and battles that she could not see the desperate state of her own sister.

Starfire is also not a superhero name for her, but rather a title that is inherited by the Princess of Tamaran. She was raised a warrior princess and has 50 years of combat experience. Starfire also operates under a bizarre code of honor that clashes with occasionally with normal human social values. Such as always keeping a secret when promised, no matter what, and respecting one's family above all else. She is open about many things, but has never opened up to anyone about her past. Her temper also runs deeper than normal; she harbors an incredible amount of true rage within her loving heart. Resentment at her trauma, fury at her abusers, and self-loathing. But Starfire is strong of will and her heart is not, and will never be, hardened. It can't. Emotions are where she draws her power. The strength of her convictions are directly related to the strength of her abilities.

Which is perhaps why they faded in time. Koriand'r wasn't sure what exactly changed, but she managed to escape. She crash landed on a desolate Earth, and made her way to New York City. There she met Clio, her new best friend on Earth. Overtime Starfire came to appreciate this different, exotic culture of humans. She made friendships not based on shared battles, but genuine, emotional connections. As Clio struggled with her own issues, Starfire saw her own problems reflected. She learned to question her deeply held beliefs. Starfire isn't sure what she wants to do, now, but she likes being a superhero instead of soldier. Now hse knows killing in battle isn't glorious, it's sad. Life has value, and it should be preserved. Now she does not fight for a nation, but instead, for her friends. She still has a lot to learn, and is in many ways still selfish, but Starfire has always had an open mind and is well on her way to becoming a true hero.

That was, until once again, she found herself in captivity. It was only a few days ago. She and Clio had just finished a campaign against Clio's misguided family. On their way back to New York to meet up with the third member of their friend group, Karen, Clio stopped at a hotel to get some sleep. Starfire found herself alone as she did for the 8-12 hours most humans were asleep. So she began to wander around as she usually did, exploring and trying to meet interesting strangers. Distracted, she looked up at the stars and thought of home. Thoughts wavering, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them, was in a different place. Trapped. Imprisoned. Again. This triggered a panic response in Starfire and she has spent the last day, or several days, lashing out indiscriminately at her cell. This is her worst nightmare. She was captured and tortured once, and now, it looks like it's happening again.