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STATISTICS

Name Ivar
Epithet The Boneless
Title Ragnarsson, Prince, Commander, ~~King~~
Canon Vikings
Pull Point Season 5A, end of episode 9

Height 6' (though it's rare that he can stand up straight)
Build ...topheavy
Eyes blue
Hair brown
Age 18

FIRST IMPRESSION

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ABILITIES & SKILLS

STRATEGIST

Ivar is intelligent, unpredictable and ruthless. Despite his age and physical deformities, he has contributed to the winning of several battles with his strategies in canon.

FIGHTER

He has mastered throwing axes/knives, as well as using the bow and arrow, and he is also skilled at close range with a sword, but like... who is he going to fight while sitting his whole ass down?

FAMILY TREE

PARENTS

Ragnar Lothbrok (†) & Aslaug (†)

SIBLINGS

Ubbe
Hvitserk
Sigurd (†)

HALF-SIBLINGS

Bjorn
Gyda (†)

Other

Rollo (Uncle)
Floki (Former Mentor)

RELATIONSHIPS

ABOUT NAME

Ivar the Boneless, so named because he was born with a disease that rendered his leg bones extremely brittle (then unrecognized, but now called osteogenesis imperfecta), is the youngest of Ragnar Lothbrok's six (known) children, the forth son of Aslaug. He was born a viking prince, became the commander of the Great Heathen Army... and in very near future, will take his father's former throne and name himself King of Kattegat (for however long that lasts.)

PERSONALITY

Ivar is wicked, vicious, and terribly insecure: both completely mad and a genius. He is, in the words of his actor, "a drama queen." He is also extremely intelligent, a shockingly charismatic and ambitious leader, good at predicting the behavior of other people and even better at using all of that to manipulate them. His strategic mind is frequently lauded by other characters, and he has a real knack for inspiring fear in his enemies and fervor in his followers, despite his lack of ability to use his legs. He has a mean, sarcastic sense of humor, a deep reverence for the Norse gods and magic, a sadistic streak a mile wide, and a very terrible, very real fascination with pain and death.

He is also an embarrassingly easy sell for literally any act of kindness or intimacy. The moment someone treats him gently, it is so foreign to him that it acts as a shock to his system and he turns into useless mush, at least for a few seconds before he can catch himself. The first girl to flatter him of her own volition, to call him special and not flinch in the face of his physical deformity, he freed from slavery immediately. When his father tells him for the first time that he was wrong to try and kill Ivar the day he was born, he is shocked and moved (and actually stops insulting him for a whole like 20 seconds, amazing.) Because of his overwhelming insecurity and the almost insurmountable harshness of life as a cripple in a viking warrior society, he is incredibly susceptible to the stroking of his ego, or to people treating him with dignity instead of pity or derision over the state of his legs.

When he was growing up, Ivar's mother literally (literally!!!) let him get away with murder, and as a result of both that and of the way he was isolated due to his inability to move around on his own/interact with anyone else in his formative years he basically never developed any social/moral boundaries. He has deep, intense anger issues, suffering from something close to rage blackouts when pushed far enough, which is a shortcoming he once admitted to being troubled by and wanting to change. Unfortunately for literally everyone else, his father's advice on the matter (without anger, you would be nothing) drove him to embrace that flaw in himself rather than work on overcoming or controlling it, even when it began to absolutely consume his life... even when it caused him to snap and murder his own brother Sigurd over an insult to their dead mother. In general, he has some difficulty treating other people as fellow humans deserving of respect and consideration, because in his experience, no one treats him that way either. To him, nearly everybody is just a plaything, to be maneuvered about on the slightest whim so Ivar can have whatever he wants. Surely, it's only fair.

A big contributor to Ivar's unstable moods is the fact that he is in an unending, constant state of physical pain due to his disability. He has become accustomed to it and doesn't wail constantly like he did when he was a baby, but he still cries out when moved suddenly, and can't walk with his crutches without grunting in effort or pain at nearly every step. Still, his pride and his desire to be seen as more than a cripple make him gravitate towards walking with his crude crutches and leg bracers as often as possible, even though he moves more steadily while crawling, and more quickly when he asks other people to carry him.

He is intensely lonely, but that is as much his own doing as it is the fault of the harsh society he was born into. There are very few people Ivar ever loved in a way that anyone on the outside looking in might actually recognize as love, his mother and Floki... and perhaps his father, but that relationship was Very Complicated all the way up until its end (he himself never called it love, only admiration.) He absolutely does love his brothers though, make no mistake, but he also hates them, is bitterly jealous of them, and views any negative reaction they might have to him — whether he pushed them to that point purposefully (usually) or not (much less likely) — as a terrible betrayal, holding them to an impossible standard that he certainly wouldn't pass if the shoe was on the other foot.

Ivar inherited his father's vicious cunning and extremely asshole tendencies, but none of his accompanying mercy. His mother's haughtiness and piety, but not her grace. There was no exaggeration in Aslaug's prophecy that she would bear Ragnar a monster, but beneath that he is also just a damaged, lonely boy who is desperate to be loved, even if he isn't terribly good at returning it in kind.l

FLAWS

The Door was right on in claiming Ivar the Boneless, who might actually be Chaotic Evil incarnate. Even when compared to a society as unrepentently violent as Viking society, he's excessively cruel and vicious. He has occasional bloodlust-induced psychotic frenzies (during which he believes himself immortal, and appears not to feel pain or fear), and in fact his first murder dates all the way back to a tantrum he threw at age six when another child his age was bullying him, so he slammed the blade of his axe into the boy's skull (why did he have a sharpened axe at the age of six? Honestly, vikings.) He later attempted to and then actually murdered his own brother Sigurd during an argument, a symptom of his quickness to anger and the ease with which people can provoke him to act extremely stupidly if they know which buttons to push. During his first storyline as a teenager, he spends a few episodes personally terrorizing a slave girl because he was angry and ashamed over his own impotence, in an attempt to frighten her into never telling anyone else about his shortcoming. He is shown to be the most unrelentingly vengeful of all his brothers especially over the deaths of their parents (the others can be reasoned with and see a bigger picture, but not Ivar: even if he appears to be thinking things over, he is really only biding his time.) He's more interested in raiding and conquering than in building settlements or ensuring the prosperity of his people, and aggressively seeks positions of power even though he's only interested in the fame that comes with titles rather than being a ruler, good or otherwise. He holds grudges absolutely past the point of sanity, and he never comes quite so alive or looks anywhere near as happy at any other point in the show as he does while watching people die. He's like, not a good guy, in general.

HISTORY

http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Ivar

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