ooc: application

[majestikili]

Name: Mhairi
Personal Journal: Original
Contact: plurk&aim: deathwailart, email: starkhavenmalt[at]gmail[dot]com
Other Characters Played:
Tanis | drageridder | Original
Isaac Acker | haveblood | Original
Desmond Miles | failscendant | Original
Newton Geiszler | kaijupie | Pacific Rim

Character: Kíli
Series: The Hobbit
Age: 77 (aka wee precious babby)
History:
I'll be using the film for most of his app but the book will be used to expand on details not shown. The film greatly expands on the characters (as many are referred to only as the company in the book) but there are of course little details that have been left out of the films (at least until Peter Jackson releases the extended edition.) The visual companion will also be used for providing extra little insights such as the weapons carried as they can be difficult to see in the film.

History @ lotr wiki
The Hobbit @ lotr wiki (book)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey @ lotr wiki
The Hobbit @ wiki (book)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey @ wiki

Canon Point: End of The Desolation of Smaug

Personality:
Kíli is one of the youngest dwarves in Thorin's company and is extremely eager to prove himself. He is an heir of Durin and due to the fact that Thorin has no children of his, he's heir to Erebor after his older brother Fíli. The main reason Kíli is even on the quest in the first place because of his uncle. Kíli is described as being carefree, somewhat reckless and unlike the life his uncle lived after Smaug destroyed Erebor, his life has been charmed and untroubled. Kíli is noted as being handsome (one of the hot dwarves, heirs of Durin can get it) and courageous. It's lucky he's skilled because his confidence in his abilities and in being a youth would probably land him in trouble if he couldn't put his money where his mouth was. Kíli is determined to prove himself to the company on the journey to the Lonely Mountain.

Kíli clearly cares for the people he's on the quest with, not just his blood relations but also Bilbo, very early on as he is the first to jump to rescue him when the trolls catch him although part of that could be down to the fact that Kíli got him into that situation. Still, he's brave enough to charge in with just a sword to rescue Bilbo despite the fact that there are three trolls who are all much bigger than him. He looks incredibly upset when Bilbo is grabbed by the trolls to the point that Thorin has to retrain him and when they are instructed to throw down arms, he almost seems unable to believe that they'll go along with it. Another moment that shows how much he cares for others is when the cliff face they are on turns out to be a stone giant – his brother desparately shouts for Kíli to grab his hand and it's the first time Kíli honestly looks terrified, not because he's on a stone giant, not because he could fall to his death any second but because he's been separated from his brother. Overall, when those he cares about are in peril, he doesn't hesitate and will fight until he is commanded to stop. (Or until convenient eagles swoop in.) Kíli is also shown to carry a talisman gifted to him by his mother before he left home which comes with a promise: that Kíli will return. Family is greatly important to dwarves and Kíli is no exception as an heir of Durin so when Thorin, in his hurry to reach the the hidden door of Erebor tells Kíli that, due to his orc wound received saving the company, he is to wait in Laketown until they're in because he'll slow them down, he's utterly crushed. Kíli managed to keep going the whole time with the poison from a Morgul arrow in his veins but now he is told to wait even though he insists that they were all meant to gaze upon Erebor together. Kíli is left behind though along with Oin who'll heal him, Bofur who was hungover and missed the boat and Fíli who despite being the future king after Thorin says his place is with his brother.

He isn't above moments of immaturity such as when he takes the lead in teasing Bilbo by saying he hears orcs, elaborating on what they might do, creeping into the camp to kill them all in their sleep before he starts sniggering about it with his brother. Until Thorin promptly wakes up and gives him a gruff telling off leaving him to look suitably ashamed – there's a lot to live up to with Thorin and it takes an older dwarf, Balin, stepping in to reassure Kíli in the end with a story about why joking about orcs in front of Thorin probably isn't a good idea.

Like every dwarf, Kíli enjoys a good drink and a good meal as witnessed at the party in Bag End, as loud and boisterous as everyone else around the table, knocking back ale. He's the first one to start the singing too and shows, like pretty much everyone else, a strange sense of rhythm and enjoyment for bouncing and throwing dishes around. He isn't always the brightest spark – after all not only did he lose the ponies alongside his brother, he took a good while to understand Bilbo's plan to stall for time after hotly arguing that he didn't have parasites (even going so far as to basically shout 'no you' like a child.) It took a kick in the back from Thorin to make him catch on.

When it comes to fighting, Kíli is shown to be more than capable of looking after himself and others as well as being able to take the initiative such as using a ladder in Goblin Town to keep them at bay as the dwarves escaped and in being the one to get out of his barrel to pull the lever that would open the gates in Mirkwood to let the dwarves escape. He has determination too because even when struck by a Morgul blade he keeps fighting and manages to pull the lever, get back in his barrel and keep going with the quest as well as helping to save Bard's family from an orc ambush in Laketown despite being gravely ill from his wound.

Finally, unlike some dwarves (step forward Thorin Oakenshield), Kíli is not shown to have the same mistrust and dislike of elves. In Rivendell he stares and winks at an elven maid playing a harp before issuing a suspiciously specific denial of doing just that to an unimpressed Dwalin. And the whole mistaking a male elf for a female elf much to the amusement of everyone else at the table. But in Mirkwood he meets Tauriel who saves him from a spider after Bilbo frees the dwarves from their webs, openly admiring her skill with a bow before deciding that, when captured and put into a cell, the best thing to do is flirt. By way of a double entendre of just what's in his trousers. Later, when she returns they discuss the talisman he carries - which she helps to save when, during Kíli discussing his own 'supposed' recklessness, he misses his catch and almost loses it - and the moon and stars, Tauriel discussing how much elves love stars whereas Kíli displays a deeper, almost poetic side of himself, talking about what he thinks of starlight and of the fire moon he saw once. It's Tauriel who saves Kíli's life and gives him the opportunity to open the gate after he's shot by the orc arrow during the escape from Mirkwood and clearly she has made a great impression on him. Whilst delirious from his fever from his wound, Tauriel heals him and Kíli starts to ramble about a beautiful elf maiden and starlight - not knowing that the glowing woman is real and that she's right there healing him - and wondering if she could love him. As Tauriel heals him. And looks touched. And in the end, they hold hands.

Skills and Abilities:
Kíli is a fighter having been trained from a young age in how to take up arms and he's skilled with a variety of weapons including the sword (that he uses to fight trolls and goblins) and folding knives (these are carried and discussed in the visual companion) but he is an expert with the bow, felling wargs and orcs with it. He can block arrows with his sword and defends himself well when they fight their way out of the Misty Mountains, using a ladder to keep the goblins at bay and to bridge a gap from one ledge to another.

As one of the youngest dwarves he has keen eyesight so he's said to do a great deal of the scouting along with his brother in the books. He and his brother seem to know how to scout around as they were able to creep about the woods with the ponies and hide easily as well as knowing bird calls (owls in particular) to be used as a code in case there was trouble.

He might not be the smartest boy around. He lost ponies and didn't notice trolls stealing said ponies and when looking for Bilbo looked down at his knees. He also is lacking in the majesty his uncle exudes from every pore. Also there is the whole plates thing. I don't know if that's a skill or ability but it's hilarious and impressive.

Again, like the rest of the dwarves he can sing and in the book he is described as playing the fiddle.

First Person Sample:
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(Kili's own + joint rune network posts)

Third Person Sample:
What was strange was the fact that that he hadn't recalled the havens when he'd been back on the quest.  The only dragon was Smaug, he hadn't been abducted and pulled away from one life waiting for others to arrive and leave and sometimes arrive again.  Even in the havens it had taken a few days for it all to come back to him even though the dragon had dropped him off in Figaro with what had passed for a smile, even being gentle which was actually appreciated because he felt awful still, weak and wobbly and his leg throbbed like nobody's business.  Someone had shouted his name, had half dragged him off and he'd woken properly with a healed leg, in clean clothes and his memories.  It didn't take long for the memories to come back as he scoured the rune but there was no Fili, no Thorin (maybe that was for the best, something twisted horribly in his chest when he thought of his uncle so he didn't), no Bofur, no Bilbo, no Thror, no Nori and no Legolas.  Legolas who'd imprisoned them.

He touched his leg and wondered if he'd dreamed Tauriel.  If she'd been half a world away then, how far from him was she now?

Still there was a life to pick up here.  The forge he'd set up, covered in a layer of dust and stone cold but he could set that to rights or he could up sticks and move, maybe go to Erebor at last even if Thorin wasn't there because Thorin clearly didn't care did he?  Or somewhere else less hot that they had need of a smith.  The chocobos were gone but it hadn't been too hard to catch them before and they were strong enough to carry most of what he needed; the coin from before was still there too so he could hire someone.

So perhaps not Erebor.  Not without Fili who'd stayed with him even when Thorin and his status as future king dictated that he should have gone to Erebor then.  There were plenty of other places in the havens that surely needed a smith and some of them had clearly popped up between his last stay and now. 

At least Blar remembered him.  From what he heard, Fili had taken in the lizard and then when Fili had gone, someone who'd done business had looked after him but apparently there was no one quite like his first dwarf because - larger than Kili last remembered - he'd launched himself at the dwarf, chirping with happiness as the connection flared in the back of Kili's head.  It was a little less lonely to sleep at the forge once more with the weight of Blar on his chest and his runestone clenched tight in his hand.

"What d'you say?  Stay here where it's nice and hot?  Get work where we can?  Maybe somewhere new with less memories?"  He asked the lizard, petting his belly.  "Smuggle you into Erebor and live like a commoner and not a prince of the line of Durin?"

Blar's contribution was a snore and, tired, unsure and still lonely, Kili had to agree that sleep was probably the best thing to do.