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THIS A DOESN'T STAND FOR FRANCE, but it might stand for application.
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: win.
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: aatxe at lj.
IM: trauma ward (aim).
PLURK: arachnids.
E-MAIL: buddha.remix@gmail.com
RETURNING: returning, 2 characters: terry ward/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
demonspawn and julio richter/shakeandbake.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Steven Rogers, Captain America.
SERIES: Marvel-1610 (Ultimate Marvel).
CHRONOLOGY: The end of Ultimates, Vol. 2, after the Ultimates showdown with the Liberators.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
Steve Rogers was a skinny kid from New York who grew up during America's Great Depression and probably only survived to reach puberty because he was protected from bullies by James Buchanan Barnes, affectionately called Bucky. Bucky and Steve were best friends, through and through. And when Uncle Sam called for the young men of the nation to rise to the occasion and protect the world from the great Nazi threat in Europe, Bucky and Steve answered. Unfortunately, Steve was still just a skinny kid from New York, and he didn't pass the physical exam when he went to enlist. But hey, he was a skinny kid with heart, so he attempted to re-enlist over and over again, taking rejection after rejection. You know what they say about insanity. But hey, eventually his crazy American zeal paid off.
Noticing Steve's persistence, the military recruited the young scrawny patriot to participate as a volunteer in Project: Rebirth, under the supervision of scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine, who was working on developing a super soldier. Steve underwent a series of difficult experiments and medical treatments that he wasn't really expected to survive. Six months of steroids and surgery. But, 'lo and behold, the skinny kid from Brooklyn made it to the final treatment despite all the doubt. But like all things back then, it was ruined by the Nazis. Damn Nazis. Always busting in there when you want them the least and doing annoying things like murdering Dr. Erskine before Steve Rogers can stop them.
But, the tragic death of Dr. Erskine aside, Steve had successfully survived Project: Rebirth and was no longer that skinny kid from Brooklyn. He was now that tall, buff kid from Brooklyn. And he committed himself heart and soul to the American cause during the war, leaving behind sweetheart Gail Simmons to fight for his country. He spent the next few years as "Captain America," serving in covert missions, often alongside his old friend Bucky and, once in a while, some guy named Lucky Jim Howlett (spoilers: He's Wolverine). Everything was going as swimmingly as a world war can in any universe. As Captain America (the patron saint of Omaha Beach and the backbone of the battle of Normandy, etc.), Steve enjoyed relative success, never once losing a crew in any of his covert operations-- oh, and somewhere managing to get Gail pregnant during one of their few visits together. He even managed to ask her to marry him.
Fast forward to 1945, in a plane over the North Atlantic. Occupants: a crew of soldiers, Bucky Barnes, and of course, Captain America. Their mission: stop the launch of a prototype atomic bomb developed by the Nazis and get home alive ('cause everyone's invited to Captain America's wedding in a couple months). Unfortunately, the Nazis had been benefiting from a little extraterrestrial help-- some annoying jerks called the Chitauri, who infiltrated Earth and decided that in order to fulfill their mission to take care of disorder in the universe, they would help the Nazis take over the world. It was thanks to the Chitauri that the Nazis had this A-bomb and were able to successfully launch it, despite the efforts of the Allied soldiers. Too bad they were no match for Captain America's complete lack of self-preservation, because their plans to use their prototype A-bomb to destroy Washington, DC were thwarted when Steve jumped onto the launched weapon and used a grenade to blow it up before it could get too far. He was thrown into the ocean with the debris and assumed dead.
Fifty seven years later, a one-eyed government agent named Nick Fury was having lunch with a scientist named Bruce Banner. Fury was responsible for a division of the government called S.H.I.E.L.D., which was formed to respond to post-human threats, disasters, etc. And the reason he was meeting with Dr. Banner was because this fellow had some experience developing a new super-soldier serum. The government had been interested in the serum for some time, but the details of its success with Steve Rogers had died with Dr. Erskine and Rogers himself, forcing them to start from scratch. Unfortunately, Dr. Banner tested his version of the serum on himself and as the story goes, it turned out pretty badly. As in Dr. Banner now occasionally turned into a giant green monster called the Hulk. But his experience was still valuable (and he was still a genius, except when he was big and green), so Fury recruited him to work with two other scientists/superheroes, husband and wife Jan and Hank Pym. All of this was part of Fury's plan to create a superhero team, which would eventually also include Tony Stark as Iron Man, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Hawkeye, and (occasionally, when he's not angry at everyone for being so damn capitalist) the Asgardian Thor.
However, Dr. Banner continued to be unable to crack the super-soldier formula. And just when it looked like he might have to give up, his prayers were answered, and Steve Rogers was fished out of the middle of the ocean in a block of ice, just when his country needed him the most. He was perfectly preserved and hadn't aged a day since 1945. It was like Christmas had come early for S.H.I.E.L.D. Under the supervision of Nick Fury and a medical team, efforts were made to revive Cap. And he slowly awoke to Bruce Banner's grinning face and a small squad of soldiers armed to the teeth. Tied down and confused, Steve responded to the situation the way any normal person would -- by going completely ballistic, elbowing Nick Fury square in his nose, and taking everybody else in the room out before busting through a window. Luckily for S.H.I.E.L.D, Hank Pym was around and used his growing power to become a giant before squashing Steve under his hand. That, apparently, was enough to get Steve to cooperate.
The hardest part of it was realizing he'd missed out on nearly six decades. The world was a different place. Foreign. He was an outsider. Bucky had married his sweetheart, Gail, and they'd grown old together. Bucky now had grandchildren. And cancer. But at least that didn't change what he and Steve had been through together. They were still best friends at heart, even though Bucky was now a sick old man and Steve was a temporally displaced super-soldier. After seeing Bucky and Gail, Steve struggled with feeling so out of place, like a fish out of water in modern New York. But Fury convinced him that the one thing he had left that he loved was America, and if he wanted to use his abilities as a super-soldier to serve his country, he would join the S.H.I.E.L.D. superhero task force. Steve agreed, once again taking on the costume, shield, and title of Captain America, leader of the Ultimates.
Of course, this is Ultimate Marvel, so nothing ever actually goes right ever, and it wasn't long before Bruce Banner lost control and went all Hulk on New York. Seeing as the Hulk is a monster in literally all respects, he couldn't simply be allowed to roam around New York killing hundreds of civilians. It was a chance for the Ultimates to take their first mission and prove themselves to the watching world. (Nevermind that the whole fiasco was really their fault, for emotionally abusing and insulting Banner until he snapped and injected himself with a crazy concoction of Cap's blood and Hulk serum!) It was, of course, a disaster. The Hulk was so powerful that, even with the help of Thor (either a god or a delusion male nurse), Cap was only able to slow down the Hulk a little. And by the time the Ultimates finally got him to revert to Bruce Banner, most of Manhattan was in ruins. On top of that, if word got out to the media that the Hulk's secret identity was Bruce Banner, a member of their very own Ultimates, things would get even worse.
While they managed to keep Banner's involvement in the Hulk incident under wraps as the Ultimates shoot into celebrity status, our heroes continued to have internal problems. Banner had to be kept in custody, his mental and physical health unstable. Domestic disputes between Hank and Jan Pym escalated until Hank became brutally violent with her, torturing her in her inch-tall Wasp form with an army of ants until she nearly died. Being an old school gentleman, Cap couldn't let this stand and made it his personal mission to hunt Hank down and beat the living daylights out of him. Which he does. Even though there's bigger things going on like, I don't know, an alien invasion. Possibly.
And hey! It's Cap's good old buddies the Chitauri. Who apparently pulled out after World War II (Cap's fault) and regrouped before coming back to Earth to try and wipe out them pesky humans again. Too bad for them, because Captain America is still around and still has no sense of self-preservation. Even when the leader of the Chitauri -- a being that called itself Kleiser and was responsible for the prototype atomic bomb Cap faced off with in World War II -- does a pretty good job of punching Cap's face in, he's no match for the Hulk. Especially not when Cap's convinced good ol' Hulk that Kleiser wants a piece of Bruce Banner's sometimes girlfriend, Betty Ross. Apparently Hulk's jealous streak is a mile wide. And it helped the Ultimates demolish the Chitauri forces, making our heroes bigger celebrities than the Beatles.
Then everything went to hell when it was leaked that Bruce Banner was the Hulk. There was a traitor in their midst, nobody was safe. Thor was framed for leaking Banner's identity and exposed as not a god, but a deluded human who believed his brother was actually Loki, a villainous Asgardian. Thor is imprisoned, Banner is given the death sentence, Hank Pym gets in cahoots with the mysterious traitor, and in the midst of all this turmoil, what remains of the struggling Ultimates attempts to take on nuclear weapons and terrorists in the Middle East. In retaliation, these Third World countries make their own superhero team -- the Liberators.
Meanwhile, Cap's relationship with Jan Pym is on the rocks because let's face it, he's kind of a crotchety old man, so she secretly gets back with her abusive ex-husband, Hank, and Steve finds out about it. Things hit an all time low when Hawkeye's wife and young children are brutally massacred -- and Cap is framed for the crime. With Cap and Thor both imprisoned, Hulk supposedly dead, and Hank Pym with the bad guys, the Ultimates are in bad shape with the Liberators attack. Turns out, everything was a big set-up by Thor's brother Loki, and both of them actually as Asgardians, not crazy people. Fortunately, Cap is able to escape and with Jan's help, the Liberators are defeated after a brutal battle. Cap personally faces off with his Middle Eastern counterpart, the Colonel -- a seventeen-year-old boy who signed up to become a super-soldier because he felt that Americans had invaded his country. Though he's able to kill the Colonel, Cap's perspective is changed by their encounter.
While he still believes in his America, Steve reconsiders the role America is playing in the world as a whole. He sees how the Ultimates have become a global police force, operating under the whim of a government whose motives aren't always about American ideals or the American people. He sees why boys like the Colonel become angry and lash out at America and what it stands for. So, under his leadership, the Ultimates leave S.H.I.E.L.D. behind and become independent. And that's where I'll be taking Cap from!
PERSONALITY:
Steve Rogers is three things: an American, a Christian, and a soldier. And he's very stubborn about all of the above. To the point that he will ignore you if you tell him that taking on an impregnable fortress full of Nazis alone is impossible, because his damn country is at stake, and anyway Steve Rogers doesn't believe in "impossible." He'll jump onto a launched missile to stop it. By God, he'll do whatever it takes, and he'll do it dressed in the stars and stripes, armed with nothing but a shield and a utility belt with enough pockets to make Batman jealous. You can take him and torture him in a remote Vietnamese village for months, and he'll refuse to back down from his American ideals. (Just ask the psycho that tried.)
But just because he's gungho about America and steadfast in his patriotism doesn't mean the guy isn't confused. He really is. He kills people, sometimes mercilessly, but he still goes to church every Sunday, as long as the world isn't being destroyed. As a soldier, he's aggressive, he'll look for a fight, and he's not afraid to punch you in the crotch to get you down. But on the flip side, he's also a gentleman (unless you're Carol Danvers and you imply that he should go renegade, in which case he will after he punches you). He's loyal. He's sentimental. And he's still the kind of guy that remembers the things his momma taught him good boys should do. He's an aggressive, stubborn, manly super-soldier with manners. And issues. Lots of them.
He embraces his Captain America identity because in a lot of ways, he's still that guy from 1945. He's from a time when racism was still rampant in the United States and dates mostly meant walking hand in hand through the park. He's a sort of Rip Van Winkle, and he feels left behind by the world. Everything he ever knew or loved is gone in this modern era-- everything, except his country. Without "Captain America," Steve doesn't know who he is or what his purpose in life is. He knows more people who are gone and buried than people who aren't. His only real friend is an old man who's dying of cancer.
That constant awareness of how out of place he is affects him and his mentality frequently. He straight-up cries about it. (But don't tell anybody that.) Without the Ultimates giving him purpose, Cap would feel completely lost-- he sometimes still does. Being from the 1940s and having that perspective on life makes his sense of basically everything different from everyone else's. He's an old, old man in a young man's body. He doesn't understand your cell phones or Jersey Shore or hip hop music. He squints when he sees girls with body piercings and tattoos. He believes in courting a lady proper and buying her flowers and not beating her up just 'cause she belittled your stupid ant-controlling helmet, Hank Pym.
Steve Rogers is Old School. And if you screw with America or the Ultimates, he will give you an old school beating.
POWER:
As a super-soldier, Steve is basically a physically ideal human being, as fit as humans have the potential to be. However, he does seem to also possess some superhuman attributes. His strength is beyond that of his 616 counterpart -- enough to be considered "super strength," since he can bend mental and punch the Hulk hard enough to throw him. Additionally, he's been shown to have some sort of mild regenerative factor, which may have helped preserve him in the ice, since he's able to heal minor wounds in a matter of hours.
He is also an excellent hand-to-hand fighter with a high degree of martial arts skill, acrobatic ability, and combat knowledge.
So, for the game, Steve's powers will be: super strength, mild regenerative ability, and the ability to summon his basically indestructible adamantium shield.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ Some fiddling. This is more complicated than a cell phone, and God knows he doesn't even get along too well with those. Finally, the video clicks on to reveal a scruffy, strong-jawed man with a pointedly displeased scowl on his face. ]
Back in my day, a man didn't have to worry none about being abruptly teleported around different universes by machines with no manners. If you're going to kidnap a man to do your dirty work, you could at least do him the courtesy of telling him what his mission is. Or ask his permission. I assume America is still a free country.
If it isn't, I quit now.
[ A gruff, annoyed noise. ]
If there are any Ultimates out there, this is Captain America. And I'd appreciate a real explanation that isn't in pamphlet form. [ A bit tightly: ] Please.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Time jumps never stop being disorienting. At least this time, it isn't upwards of fifty years. At least this time he isn't waking up to an armed squadron of soldiers pointing their guns in his face. He could have done without being teleported to an alternate universe in the first place, but the situation is surprisingly familiar. Except instead of an angry black man with an eye-patch, he's been summoned by a machine. A machine that greets him as "hero." In a familiar language, too -- good old English, thank God, and not German or French. It asks him for his name. Well, fortunately that's something he knows no matter what era it is. He's not so ancient that he's started forgetting his own name. Yet.
The dog tags it gives him are familiar too. Too bad he doesn't trust familiarity. He knows better. And even if he didn't, he sure as hell doesn't trust machines that talk.
The newspapers -- thank God they still have newspapers -- say the year was 2012. He tries not to think too hard about how he should be closing in on his nineties. He has more pressing problems now -- like figuring out how to get home, or if that fails, figuring out exactly what being a "hero" here entails.
He only has to walk two blocks from the building he arrived in before he sees it, fluttering in the wind outside a pawn shop. The stars and stripes. Now there's familiarity that he trusts. Guess this dimension has something going for it after all. When he manages the to turn on the communication device, he knows exactly what he'll say.
"This is Captain America."
FINAL NOTES:
As a part of his powers and on account of him being Captain America, Steve'll have his shield with him when he shows up, if that's cool by ya'll.
Oh, and because this application isn't patriotic enough:
NAME: win.
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: aatxe at lj.
IM: trauma ward (aim).
PLURK: arachnids.
E-MAIL: buddha.remix@gmail.com
RETURNING: returning, 2 characters: terry ward/
demonspawn and julio richter/shakeandbake.[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Steven Rogers, Captain America.
SERIES: Marvel-1610 (Ultimate Marvel).
CHRONOLOGY: The end of Ultimates, Vol. 2, after the Ultimates showdown with the Liberators.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
Steve Rogers was a skinny kid from New York who grew up during America's Great Depression and probably only survived to reach puberty because he was protected from bullies by James Buchanan Barnes, affectionately called Bucky. Bucky and Steve were best friends, through and through. And when Uncle Sam called for the young men of the nation to rise to the occasion and protect the world from the great Nazi threat in Europe, Bucky and Steve answered. Unfortunately, Steve was still just a skinny kid from New York, and he didn't pass the physical exam when he went to enlist. But hey, he was a skinny kid with heart, so he attempted to re-enlist over and over again, taking rejection after rejection. You know what they say about insanity. But hey, eventually his crazy American zeal paid off.
Noticing Steve's persistence, the military recruited the young scrawny patriot to participate as a volunteer in Project: Rebirth, under the supervision of scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine, who was working on developing a super soldier. Steve underwent a series of difficult experiments and medical treatments that he wasn't really expected to survive. Six months of steroids and surgery. But, 'lo and behold, the skinny kid from Brooklyn made it to the final treatment despite all the doubt. But like all things back then, it was ruined by the Nazis. Damn Nazis. Always busting in there when you want them the least and doing annoying things like murdering Dr. Erskine before Steve Rogers can stop them.
But, the tragic death of Dr. Erskine aside, Steve had successfully survived Project: Rebirth and was no longer that skinny kid from Brooklyn. He was now that tall, buff kid from Brooklyn. And he committed himself heart and soul to the American cause during the war, leaving behind sweetheart Gail Simmons to fight for his country. He spent the next few years as "Captain America," serving in covert missions, often alongside his old friend Bucky and, once in a while, some guy named Lucky Jim Howlett (spoilers: He's Wolverine). Everything was going as swimmingly as a world war can in any universe. As Captain America (the patron saint of Omaha Beach and the backbone of the battle of Normandy, etc.), Steve enjoyed relative success, never once losing a crew in any of his covert operations-- oh, and somewhere managing to get Gail pregnant during one of their few visits together. He even managed to ask her to marry him.
Fast forward to 1945, in a plane over the North Atlantic. Occupants: a crew of soldiers, Bucky Barnes, and of course, Captain America. Their mission: stop the launch of a prototype atomic bomb developed by the Nazis and get home alive ('cause everyone's invited to Captain America's wedding in a couple months). Unfortunately, the Nazis had been benefiting from a little extraterrestrial help-- some annoying jerks called the Chitauri, who infiltrated Earth and decided that in order to fulfill their mission to take care of disorder in the universe, they would help the Nazis take over the world. It was thanks to the Chitauri that the Nazis had this A-bomb and were able to successfully launch it, despite the efforts of the Allied soldiers. Too bad they were no match for Captain America's complete lack of self-preservation, because their plans to use their prototype A-bomb to destroy Washington, DC were thwarted when Steve jumped onto the launched weapon and used a grenade to blow it up before it could get too far. He was thrown into the ocean with the debris and assumed dead.
Fifty seven years later, a one-eyed government agent named Nick Fury was having lunch with a scientist named Bruce Banner. Fury was responsible for a division of the government called S.H.I.E.L.D., which was formed to respond to post-human threats, disasters, etc. And the reason he was meeting with Dr. Banner was because this fellow had some experience developing a new super-soldier serum. The government had been interested in the serum for some time, but the details of its success with Steve Rogers had died with Dr. Erskine and Rogers himself, forcing them to start from scratch. Unfortunately, Dr. Banner tested his version of the serum on himself and as the story goes, it turned out pretty badly. As in Dr. Banner now occasionally turned into a giant green monster called the Hulk. But his experience was still valuable (and he was still a genius, except when he was big and green), so Fury recruited him to work with two other scientists/superheroes, husband and wife Jan and Hank Pym. All of this was part of Fury's plan to create a superhero team, which would eventually also include Tony Stark as Iron Man, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Hawkeye, and (occasionally, when he's not angry at everyone for being so damn capitalist) the Asgardian Thor.
However, Dr. Banner continued to be unable to crack the super-soldier formula. And just when it looked like he might have to give up, his prayers were answered, and Steve Rogers was fished out of the middle of the ocean in a block of ice, just when his country needed him the most. He was perfectly preserved and hadn't aged a day since 1945. It was like Christmas had come early for S.H.I.E.L.D. Under the supervision of Nick Fury and a medical team, efforts were made to revive Cap. And he slowly awoke to Bruce Banner's grinning face and a small squad of soldiers armed to the teeth. Tied down and confused, Steve responded to the situation the way any normal person would -- by going completely ballistic, elbowing Nick Fury square in his nose, and taking everybody else in the room out before busting through a window. Luckily for S.H.I.E.L.D, Hank Pym was around and used his growing power to become a giant before squashing Steve under his hand. That, apparently, was enough to get Steve to cooperate.
The hardest part of it was realizing he'd missed out on nearly six decades. The world was a different place. Foreign. He was an outsider. Bucky had married his sweetheart, Gail, and they'd grown old together. Bucky now had grandchildren. And cancer. But at least that didn't change what he and Steve had been through together. They were still best friends at heart, even though Bucky was now a sick old man and Steve was a temporally displaced super-soldier. After seeing Bucky and Gail, Steve struggled with feeling so out of place, like a fish out of water in modern New York. But Fury convinced him that the one thing he had left that he loved was America, and if he wanted to use his abilities as a super-soldier to serve his country, he would join the S.H.I.E.L.D. superhero task force. Steve agreed, once again taking on the costume, shield, and title of Captain America, leader of the Ultimates.
Of course, this is Ultimate Marvel, so nothing ever actually goes right ever, and it wasn't long before Bruce Banner lost control and went all Hulk on New York. Seeing as the Hulk is a monster in literally all respects, he couldn't simply be allowed to roam around New York killing hundreds of civilians. It was a chance for the Ultimates to take their first mission and prove themselves to the watching world. (Nevermind that the whole fiasco was really their fault, for emotionally abusing and insulting Banner until he snapped and injected himself with a crazy concoction of Cap's blood and Hulk serum!) It was, of course, a disaster. The Hulk was so powerful that, even with the help of Thor (either a god or a delusion male nurse), Cap was only able to slow down the Hulk a little. And by the time the Ultimates finally got him to revert to Bruce Banner, most of Manhattan was in ruins. On top of that, if word got out to the media that the Hulk's secret identity was Bruce Banner, a member of their very own Ultimates, things would get even worse.
While they managed to keep Banner's involvement in the Hulk incident under wraps as the Ultimates shoot into celebrity status, our heroes continued to have internal problems. Banner had to be kept in custody, his mental and physical health unstable. Domestic disputes between Hank and Jan Pym escalated until Hank became brutally violent with her, torturing her in her inch-tall Wasp form with an army of ants until she nearly died. Being an old school gentleman, Cap couldn't let this stand and made it his personal mission to hunt Hank down and beat the living daylights out of him. Which he does. Even though there's bigger things going on like, I don't know, an alien invasion. Possibly.
And hey! It's Cap's good old buddies the Chitauri. Who apparently pulled out after World War II (Cap's fault) and regrouped before coming back to Earth to try and wipe out them pesky humans again. Too bad for them, because Captain America is still around and still has no sense of self-preservation. Even when the leader of the Chitauri -- a being that called itself Kleiser and was responsible for the prototype atomic bomb Cap faced off with in World War II -- does a pretty good job of punching Cap's face in, he's no match for the Hulk. Especially not when Cap's convinced good ol' Hulk that Kleiser wants a piece of Bruce Banner's sometimes girlfriend, Betty Ross. Apparently Hulk's jealous streak is a mile wide. And it helped the Ultimates demolish the Chitauri forces, making our heroes bigger celebrities than the Beatles.
Then everything went to hell when it was leaked that Bruce Banner was the Hulk. There was a traitor in their midst, nobody was safe. Thor was framed for leaking Banner's identity and exposed as not a god, but a deluded human who believed his brother was actually Loki, a villainous Asgardian. Thor is imprisoned, Banner is given the death sentence, Hank Pym gets in cahoots with the mysterious traitor, and in the midst of all this turmoil, what remains of the struggling Ultimates attempts to take on nuclear weapons and terrorists in the Middle East. In retaliation, these Third World countries make their own superhero team -- the Liberators.
Meanwhile, Cap's relationship with Jan Pym is on the rocks because let's face it, he's kind of a crotchety old man, so she secretly gets back with her abusive ex-husband, Hank, and Steve finds out about it. Things hit an all time low when Hawkeye's wife and young children are brutally massacred -- and Cap is framed for the crime. With Cap and Thor both imprisoned, Hulk supposedly dead, and Hank Pym with the bad guys, the Ultimates are in bad shape with the Liberators attack. Turns out, everything was a big set-up by Thor's brother Loki, and both of them actually as Asgardians, not crazy people. Fortunately, Cap is able to escape and with Jan's help, the Liberators are defeated after a brutal battle. Cap personally faces off with his Middle Eastern counterpart, the Colonel -- a seventeen-year-old boy who signed up to become a super-soldier because he felt that Americans had invaded his country. Though he's able to kill the Colonel, Cap's perspective is changed by their encounter.
While he still believes in his America, Steve reconsiders the role America is playing in the world as a whole. He sees how the Ultimates have become a global police force, operating under the whim of a government whose motives aren't always about American ideals or the American people. He sees why boys like the Colonel become angry and lash out at America and what it stands for. So, under his leadership, the Ultimates leave S.H.I.E.L.D. behind and become independent. And that's where I'll be taking Cap from!
PERSONALITY:
Steve Rogers is three things: an American, a Christian, and a soldier. And he's very stubborn about all of the above. To the point that he will ignore you if you tell him that taking on an impregnable fortress full of Nazis alone is impossible, because his damn country is at stake, and anyway Steve Rogers doesn't believe in "impossible." He'll jump onto a launched missile to stop it. By God, he'll do whatever it takes, and he'll do it dressed in the stars and stripes, armed with nothing but a shield and a utility belt with enough pockets to make Batman jealous. You can take him and torture him in a remote Vietnamese village for months, and he'll refuse to back down from his American ideals. (Just ask the psycho that tried.)
But just because he's gungho about America and steadfast in his patriotism doesn't mean the guy isn't confused. He really is. He kills people, sometimes mercilessly, but he still goes to church every Sunday, as long as the world isn't being destroyed. As a soldier, he's aggressive, he'll look for a fight, and he's not afraid to punch you in the crotch to get you down. But on the flip side, he's also a gentleman (unless you're Carol Danvers and you imply that he should go renegade, in which case he will after he punches you). He's loyal. He's sentimental. And he's still the kind of guy that remembers the things his momma taught him good boys should do. He's an aggressive, stubborn, manly super-soldier with manners. And issues. Lots of them.
He embraces his Captain America identity because in a lot of ways, he's still that guy from 1945. He's from a time when racism was still rampant in the United States and dates mostly meant walking hand in hand through the park. He's a sort of Rip Van Winkle, and he feels left behind by the world. Everything he ever knew or loved is gone in this modern era-- everything, except his country. Without "Captain America," Steve doesn't know who he is or what his purpose in life is. He knows more people who are gone and buried than people who aren't. His only real friend is an old man who's dying of cancer.
That constant awareness of how out of place he is affects him and his mentality frequently. He straight-up cries about it. (But don't tell anybody that.) Without the Ultimates giving him purpose, Cap would feel completely lost-- he sometimes still does. Being from the 1940s and having that perspective on life makes his sense of basically everything different from everyone else's. He's an old, old man in a young man's body. He doesn't understand your cell phones or Jersey Shore or hip hop music. He squints when he sees girls with body piercings and tattoos. He believes in courting a lady proper and buying her flowers and not beating her up just 'cause she belittled your stupid ant-controlling helmet, Hank Pym.
Steve Rogers is Old School. And if you screw with America or the Ultimates, he will give you an old school beating.
POWER:
As a super-soldier, Steve is basically a physically ideal human being, as fit as humans have the potential to be. However, he does seem to also possess some superhuman attributes. His strength is beyond that of his 616 counterpart -- enough to be considered "super strength," since he can bend mental and punch the Hulk hard enough to throw him. Additionally, he's been shown to have some sort of mild regenerative factor, which may have helped preserve him in the ice, since he's able to heal minor wounds in a matter of hours.
He is also an excellent hand-to-hand fighter with a high degree of martial arts skill, acrobatic ability, and combat knowledge.
So, for the game, Steve's powers will be: super strength, mild regenerative ability, and the ability to summon his basically indestructible adamantium shield.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ Some fiddling. This is more complicated than a cell phone, and God knows he doesn't even get along too well with those. Finally, the video clicks on to reveal a scruffy, strong-jawed man with a pointedly displeased scowl on his face. ]
Back in my day, a man didn't have to worry none about being abruptly teleported around different universes by machines with no manners. If you're going to kidnap a man to do your dirty work, you could at least do him the courtesy of telling him what his mission is. Or ask his permission. I assume America is still a free country.
If it isn't, I quit now.
[ A gruff, annoyed noise. ]
If there are any Ultimates out there, this is Captain America. And I'd appreciate a real explanation that isn't in pamphlet form. [ A bit tightly: ] Please.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Time jumps never stop being disorienting. At least this time, it isn't upwards of fifty years. At least this time he isn't waking up to an armed squadron of soldiers pointing their guns in his face. He could have done without being teleported to an alternate universe in the first place, but the situation is surprisingly familiar. Except instead of an angry black man with an eye-patch, he's been summoned by a machine. A machine that greets him as "hero." In a familiar language, too -- good old English, thank God, and not German or French. It asks him for his name. Well, fortunately that's something he knows no matter what era it is. He's not so ancient that he's started forgetting his own name. Yet.
The dog tags it gives him are familiar too. Too bad he doesn't trust familiarity. He knows better. And even if he didn't, he sure as hell doesn't trust machines that talk.
The newspapers -- thank God they still have newspapers -- say the year was 2012. He tries not to think too hard about how he should be closing in on his nineties. He has more pressing problems now -- like figuring out how to get home, or if that fails, figuring out exactly what being a "hero" here entails.
He only has to walk two blocks from the building he arrived in before he sees it, fluttering in the wind outside a pawn shop. The stars and stripes. Now there's familiarity that he trusts. Guess this dimension has something going for it after all. When he manages the to turn on the communication device, he knows exactly what he'll say.
"This is Captain America."
FINAL NOTES:
As a part of his powers and on account of him being Captain America, Steve'll have his shield with him when he shows up, if that's cool by ya'll.
Oh, and because this application isn't patriotic enough: