Thor (Shimmer Animus)

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You’ve heard the stories, haven’t you? Listened to the rumors and legends. They were all true, and he’s been here forever… 
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he/him | male | night sea | god
T H O R
Thor was made by Shimmer Animus for a contest. Please note that my version of Thor deviates from all previous depictions of him.
Thor 	Thor
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	Shimmer Animus
Coder 	Weiss
Names 	Thor, Thunder God
Attribute 	loyalty
Element 	water
Color 	gray, diluted colors
Animal 	hawk
Song 	the Immigrant Song!
Character 	Character
Age 	unknown; immortal
Gender 	male
Orientation 	aromantic
Occupation 	god of thunder, king of Asgard
Tribe 	NightWing SeaWing
Goal 	Keep the world from ending. Again.
Residence 	Asgard
Relatives 	Odin, Loki, Frigga
Allies 	Those that the throne deems allied
Enemies 	Those who wish to destroy the world/ evil dudes
Likes 	peace, IceWings, Marshmallow, straw and barns, Asgard, thunder, rain, clouds, fish, swimming, shadows, Mjolnir, things with big innocent eyes, sometimes Loki
Dislikes 	more war, IceWings, Marshmallow, the rainforest, Pantala, lions, sometimes Loki
Powers 	Dimensional transportation; electric manipulation; weather manipulation, superdragon speed, strength, endurance and resistance to injury
Weapons 	Mjolnir the magical war hammer
Love Interests	Previously Marshmallow
Quote 	“This drink, I like it! Another!”
A P P E A R A N C E
Thor is a large dragon whose muscles stand out; his strangely pale sand-colored scales usually covered by the thick metal armor he wears. He's tall and sturdily built, towering over normal dragons even in his mortal form. In his god form, let's just say Darkstalker's short.
From the SeaWing side of Thor’s genes come six large, bulbous and circular luminescent scales (three evenly spaced along his belly and three parallel on his back) that, when not lit up, are colored like golden metal. When he lights them up, they all are bright at once, and they glow with stunningly bright blue-white light, reminding most of small half-balls of lightning. The light from them doesn’t glow much, only lighting the space around it for an inch or so, instead arcing out like lighting. These bolts of energy are lightning, and upon hitting somebody will do exactly what lightning would do.
Thor does not have heterochromia (an eye condition), but due to events in his past, his right eye is light brown while the left is blue. However, when his scales are brightened his eyes become the same color and brightness—the very same as his luminescent scales. Often when his scales are lit up, bolts of energy flicker between his eyes and luminescent scales, which is quite intimidating. These blue and brown eyes are capable of expressing quite a wide range of emotions, despite what one might think of a god; everything a mortal is capable of feeling and more, feelings we've never felt or have a name for.
Thor’s armor is in a vest-shape, allowing his massive dark wings to unfurl as well as leaving his tail free; his forearms and legs are both unrestricted in motion due to the shape. Some think that a vest-shape as armor looks stupid, and on most dragons it does, but when the god wears it the design becomes truly impressive. There are also six large, circular holes that were tailored to fit over his raised luminescent scales, so that he can light up at any moment. Occasionally he will also wear chain mail underneath his armor-vest, and it covers his legs and forearms, but his SeaWing tail has thick, armor-like scales and is fine on its own.
He has one turquoise wing and one black wing, and both are scattered with silvery NightWing scales, and become the same shade and brightness as his luminescent scales when they light up, just like his eyes, and if he flares them open they often stun his assailant/anybody nearby. They do not send out bolts of energy, only glow extraordinarily brightly. Small, white patterns along the edges of his wings in the shape of thunderclouds make people think of SeaWing royalty, but he's not.
However, his body is a little mismatched, with a SeaWing-like face with NightWing scales and one small gill half hidden by his sandy colored scales, a paler underbelly, and a nearly always-present blue shell-shaped necklace are an odd match. Thor’s spines are deep grey with a tint of blue, mostly NightWing, but he has a small ridge on his underbelly like SeaWings with webs between them that fold up. A clump of sharp spikes on the end of his tail are nearly unseeable until Thor is angry or feeling dangerous, when they rise up and bristle dangerously- not that he ever really fights with them. The god of thunder hates his stormy grey-purple claws, thinking they look weird, and he’s not too wrong. His horns are nearly black, with a feathery pattern and gold along the tips. He has two parallel red stripes that start on the tip of his right horn and go down to the bottom left of his snout, beginning nearly black and ending closer to lime. Thor’s SeaWing barbels are rather long, but he can roll them up like SilkWing antennae, and the tips can glow.
Bright, light blue-green stripes and bright golden ones that look like lightning cover his body as well, and they shift into bright red when he's angry. Thor being calm results in the stripes being nearly invisible, only the slightest dark smudge, and if the god feels happy, the stripes are white. Every other emotion is just a slight variation of the bright, light blue-green and gold.
P E R S O N A L I T Y
Stir in a bit of moodiness, a pinch of cluelessness, sprinkle in some anger, maybe a bit of laughter if you want, love is optional, but courage, bravery and loyalty is absolutely necessary to complete the god of thunder. Fiercely loyal to the throne, Thor will defend his homeland with his lightning and thunder to his dying breath. No matter whose backside is upon the throne; as long as they got there legally, they will have the thunder god fighting on their side.
He can also be a quiet, mild dragon who is very calm, but this is his way to disguise absolute exhaustion. If he’s acting very nice and calm, know that he is either bored, tired, or just feeling mild-mannered.
The SeaWing-NightWing hybrid is rather paranoid, but calls it caution; he’s also extraordinarily wary of snakes. He’s pretty funny, but only when he’s not trying to be,- Thor’s jokes and puns are despicable, but him being himself is apparently funny enough for some dragons.
When it comes to it, Thor is a huge nerd about mainstream music, having fallen in love with the quickly fluctuating music styles that mortals seemed to enjoy, and he brought back a radio from his banishment to the mortal world. Somehow, with lots of magic and messing with it, the radio can faintly pick up nearly all the stations and blares static-y music into Thor’s room all day, much to the annoyance of anyone else nearby.
Music aside, the other thing Thor is obsessed with is his hammer. Mjolnir. Nobody else can lift it, and he makes sure Mjolnir is put in its little cradle every night and blankets pulled up. The giant hammer is heavier than the world, and inscribed with magic that’s nearly worn out with use by now. Thor has a strict schedule regarding the care of his hammer—polish every other day, practice every day, put it to bed every night, never let it out of sight, etc.
By “practice” with Mjolnir, I mean training. Or at least, redoing dangerous moves and flexing on everyone in sight who can’t summon lightning from their fingertips or throw the most famous hammer around. Thor loves showing off and boasting, but at the first sign of trouble in the kingdom, he’s there, stat. No joking around. He takes his title of "Protector of the Realms" quite seriously, and nothing will stop him.
That’s what confuses people most of the time. One second, you have a nice, fun loving dragon making bad puns, then you make an awkward joke about taking down the king and oops, you’re falling off a building, the dragon suddenly transformed into a narrow eyed, stone-cold, extremely dangerous killer.
Not to worry, Thor can also be quite caring, and can’t fight or harm anything innocent with big, adorable eyes. He also is quite into “honor”, in other words, he won’t kill a defenseless opponent. Thor practically lives by the rule “I’m unarmed and if you shoot me you’re a big jerk”, and would prefer to not be a big jerk in this situation.
It was mentioned that he loves showing off and boasting, but let me say it again: he loves showing off. Never let it be said that Thor doesn’t spend hours at a time flexing on everybody in his vicinity, though he refuses to fake stunts or pretend to do amazing things, out of fear that somebody will discover him and he’ll live in shame for the rest of his life. Unwarranted fear, but whatever. Thor doesn’t cheat.
A B I L I T I E S
Thor controls storms, but only as long as they already exist. He can't force a brand new storm out of the air suddenly, but he can make them stop and he can make them bigger, or rain more, or hail more, or whatever. If there is no storm in the area, Thor can summon one from wherever there is one, but it takes a while for it to show up. This ability tires him the most out of all his powers.
Lightning is his strong suit, he can make lightning from his talontips, lightning randomly come out of the sky, control where lightning lands, make lightning flicker through his body. It's really amazing to see him in action, twisting the threads of lightning and fate and striking. This power comes naturally to him, and tires Thor not at all.
Thunder is also controlled by Thor. He can make thunder not come after a lightning strike, he can make thunder rumble with no storm in sight, and he can gather the very matter of thunder itself-- it looks like a sparkling, dark cloud of magic.
The weather is influenced by Thor as well, mostly because of his storm-controlling abilities. He can also coax subtle changes in the weather, such as the clouds disappearing for a nice day, the wind blowing harder for a breezier one, so on so forth.
Like all major gods, Thor is very resistant to injuries of any kind. He does get hurt, though for mortal weapons, the wounds close nearly the same moment they're opened. As for poison, only dragonbite vipers have venom strong enough to make him throw up and feel nauseous. But also like all gods, godsbane is a rare, three-leaf plant with one bright purple flower. To make godsbane, it requires a long process of finding a godsband BUD, not flower, mashing, boiling, cooking, etc., before adding some dragonbite viper venom: it will knock out gods for long periods of time. However, it's extremely rare and the recipe has been lost to the ages.
Shapeshifting is something that Thor is extremely good at, and he can turn into anything he's seen before. Which means, he can shift into anything except a shark, a racoon and a select few other things. Shapeshifting is as easy as smiling for Thor, but he rarely shifts.
Another thing the thunder god can do is teleport. He does it all the time, preferring it over any other method of transportation (except maybe flying). It doesn't drain Thor's energy, but he is pretty bad at it. Four out of ten teleports he misses his mark and lands a foot or two away from where Thor wanted to be, or across the world exactly, or some random place he's never seen.
More things that Thor has, in fact all gods have, is extreme speed and strength, far beyond those of a mortal. However, the gods don't view themselves as strong, they simply call the mortals weak.
Oh and, of course, Thor commands all of Asgard, full of powerful deities. He's the king and all, but who's keeping track?
H I S T O R Y
The first millennia or so of Thor’s life were pretty nice, considering he was a god it was a very peaceful childhood. His adopted brother, Loki, was the same type of hybrid, Sea-Night, but his coloring was green and black with hints of gold; the two got along alright. However, they had bumpy times in their relationship where Loki would annoy Thor and Thor would prank Loki in a dangerous way to make up for it, or vice versa. Now, Thor has an irreversible fear of snakes because of one of Loki’s pranks.
Besides that, everybody practically pampered him. His mother loved him and spoiled him, and Thor looked up to his father, the king, Odin, with respect. Whenever he could, Odin fueled his son’s worshipfulness by letting him into his throne room, watching the king deal with criminals and such, and let him touch his sacred staff. Soon enough, Thor came to think of Odin as an amazing god, and was extremely loyal to Odin. Loki, however, completely disagreed. He thought Odin was a terrible ruler and somebody else should take this place. Whenever he talked about it to Thor, Thor would always laugh. “Yeah, and you’d want to be leader next,” he’d tease, but with a serious edge to his joking demeanor. The look that Thor would give his stepbrother after one of said “jokes” was so severe and so full of contempt that Loki rarely brought it up. Nonetheless, as the two got older, the more tension was between them, to the point that the two couldn’t spend more than a few forced minutes in a room at a time.
When the first mortal dragons were created, the brothers had an insatiable curiosity about the strange little mortals. Why did they die? Why did they look like the gods, yet be infinitely smaller and less knowledgeable and, most importantly, how come they were so easily killed? In time, they learned that mortals bounced back. They knew how to get better, because they’d been worse.
Fascinated with the mortals, Thor used his powers plenty to gift the little dragons the frequent rain that they so strangely revered. Loki, on the other hand, thought that mortals were amusing little creatures for the entertainment of the gods. It wasn’t long before he had a bunch in his palm, watching them run. Angered, Thor pushed Loki.
He hardly had time to register Loki’s shocked face, screaming, before it disappeared into the clouds of the mortal world and kept falling.
Thor was banished to the mortal world for doing what he had done. He was actually quite excited for the trip, until— “If you don't find your brother by sundown in two weeks exactly, I'll never let you come back. You'll be on your own as a mortal forever,” Odin said, pointing his royal staff at his son, and suddenly Thor was standing in a forest. Pine needles crinkled under his talons. Evergreens and pollen mixed their scents. He could hear birds, crickets, and... what was that? It sounded like rushing water. Thor picked his way through the trees, emerging into the bustling streets of Possibility. He looked around in shock, eighty percent sure he couldn't actually be here, but-- an old RainWing trader was yelling out her wares. A quiet SkyWing guarded his jewelry stall.
Thor wandered through the market all day, buying all sorts of things. At one point, he saw a brief flash of Loki's face. He started making a commotion, flailing through the crowds until he was where Thor had been certain he'd seen Loki. The only dragon there was a small green statue. Filled with disappointment, he warily began picking his way back to an old barn he'd seen. He spent the night there. When Thor woke up, it was to a soft crunch of a talonstep in straw. He froze, alert, and slowly reached for his weapons. It was only then that he realized Odin had taken his weapons when he'd banished Thor to the mortal world. Now, in a pure panic, Thor decided.... he could no longer love Odin and worship him the way he had. He had dumped Thor with no supplies in an unfamiliar world.
Though, he had to admit that that was kind of what Thor had done to Loki.
He shook his head. Thor had to be on alert for whatever danger was creeping nearer. Peeking through half-closed eyes, he spotted a flash of white scales whipping behind a bale of hay. A slight creak behind him gave Thor half a second to register that somebody was behind him before a knife pressed against his neck.
"Don't. Move." a slightly raspy voice said. The voice was slightly feminine, but also a bit deep and had an odd, snappy ring to it. Thor froze, already analyzing who was behind him; the talon holding the knife was white and cold, probably an IceWing; it had a ring sporting a circle with a jagged slash through it, suggesting that the IceWing had been kicked out of the kingdom or they were a rebel; the dagger itself was a silvery tint and mostly generic except for a few gems embedded on the hilt. Thor suspected that the gems were fake, considering how little they glittered, so he also guessed that the IceWing was a diva and liked to pretend they were rich to other dragons. Likely to hide the shame for being kicked out of the Ice Kingdom, or to prove that rebels could flourish.
"What are you doing in my barn?" the voice asked again. Thor didn't detect a single trace of fear in the voice.
"Spending the night?" he ventured. "I was, very tired and couldn't find my house." 
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R E L A T I O N S H I P S
O D I N 
At the beginning of his life when he was young, Thor adored Odin and thought him to be amazing. As he got older, he ceased to see his father as an amazing overlord, but still listened to him and obeyed him out of respect. Now that Odin is dead, he is a bit more open about how bad of a ruler Thor's father really was. During Morganite's Hell hallucination, Odin told Thor to kill Loki instead of him. Later, Odin expressed his disappointment in Thor for killing his brother.
F R I G G A 
Honestly, Thor doesn't know much about his mother. His only memories of Frigga are warm but distant, Frigga having disappeared several millennia into his life. He hasn't seen her for a while now, but Thor has never stopped searching for her. When he was having Morganite's Hell hallucination, he didn't recognize his mother and when told to pick between killing her, Loki, and Odin, Thor picked her first. After that, her ghost told Thor that she should have killed him when he hatched.
L O K I 
Things are pretty tense between the god of thunder and his adopted brother, but so long as Loki isn't in another one of his "take over the world, kill everyone, yada yada yada" fits, Thor's pretty friendly. The god of mischief doesn't quite act friendly towards Thor though, but that's understandable considering how he thought Thor was amazing and great while Loki lived in the shadow. When Morganite had Thor seeing things in Hell, he thought Odin ordered Thor to kill Loki instead of Odin, he did. Later on, Loki's spirit told Thor about how he felt about living in his big brother's shadow.
M A R S H M A L L O W
The white IceWing is definitely on Thor's enemy list. She's manipulative, cold, and only kept him around for her own reasons. Every time Thor thinks of her, he feels worse and worse for being sucked into her trap. When he was in Morganite's Hell hallucination, he pushed Marshmallow off a cliff after she shoved Sphex off.
M O R G A N I T E
Definite hate. Thor made the goddess of storms and death a little bit angry, and she shoved him into a special area of Hell where he alternately saw his dead kingdom, killed his family, and his loved ones scorned him. It was a very defining moment for Thor, and she topped it off with trying another godsbane recipe on him. When nothing happened, she did something else very rude; she's the real reason why Odin is missing an eye. Morganite wanted to know the dragonsbane recipe and threatened it out of the king before taking his eye. She then returned to Hell and poisoned Thor before letting him back into the mortal world. He now calls the incident "Morganite's Hell hallucination".
S P H E X
The young Hive-Night hybrid that works for Marshmallow is quite mellow towards Thor, and the two get along very well. Thor is quite affectionate towards Sphex, and Sphex likes Thor as well. When Morganite put Thor in Hell, one of the scenes he went through was that manipulative Marshmallow had "accidentally" pushed Sphex off a tall cliff. Thor had been unable to move past the cliff, but he grabbed Sphex's tail. However, his tail slipped out of Thor's grasp and Sphex fell. Shortly after, Thor pushed Marshmallow off.
T R I V I A
-If you hadn't figured it out already, Thor's the god of thunder.
-He hates snakes with a burning passion (he calls it hate, but it's actually fear)
-Thor won't admit it, but he's getting pretty tired of doing the whole saving-the-world thing
-Protecting his people is his main focus and drive
-He's the king of Asgard now, ever since he challenged his father Odin and won. He deeply regrets it, and blames Loki for it. After all, his brother did put a spell on his soup to make Thor rebellious and wanting to fight his father for the throne.
G A L L E R Y
File:Thor tapestry by alphaofotakus.png|"Tapestry" by AlphaOfOtakus!
File:Thor by scrollreader.jpg|by scrollreader, tysm!
File:Thor by mythcats.jpg|by Mythcats! it's awesome! thanks!
File:Thor by angelofmadness.png|by angelofmadness! thanks!
File:Thor by valkyrie patronous.png|by valkyrie patronous- non armored thor our beloved
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