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PLAYER
↠ Name: Bethany
↠ Age: 41
↠ Characters Played: (Hermione Granger)
CHARACTER
↠ Name:Steve Rogers/Captain America
↠ Canon: MCU with previousboomtown memories
↠ Journal:icannotlie
↠ Canon Point: Post Winter Soldier
↠ Reserve: (http://sinfulmods.dreamwidth.org/2145.html?thread=136033#cmt136033)
↠ Age: 97 but looks 31
↠ Appearance: Steve Rogers is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. He is one honking beefcake of a man. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. The one thing to note about Steve is that he did not always look like Greek God. When Steve looks in the mirror he sees the pre-serum Steve, the sickly kid from Brooklyn, who never thought he would get into the army. His style is sharp chic casual. He is much more comfortable in a uniform then his civvie's, but after living in New Dodge for a little over a year, jeans and t-shirts became his friend.
↠ Reference/History: here and here
Steven Grant Rogers was born on July 4, 1918, to Sarah and Joseph Rogers in Brooklyn New York. Steve was a sickly child who suffered from many medical ailments, the most notable of which was asthma. Asthma alone is what precluded him from enlisting in the army, even though that didn't convince him to give up trying. He got beaten up on a regular basis, but he was unwilling to back down to bullies. His best friend, James Buchanan Barnes, often was bailing him out of jams. He wanted nothing more than to join the army and defend his country just like his father and best friend. He got that opportunity when he ran into Dr. Erksine, the man who saw Steve for who he was on the inside and accepted him into project rebirth.
"Project: Rebirth" was designed to create the perfect soldier to fight the Axis powers. Steve went through basic training, and even though he didn't know this, Erskine had basically pre-selected him to go through with the procedure. In his mind, the rest was just a formality. Rogers didn't have the hearts of a lot of the people at the training camp, specifically Captain Phillips, but Rogers didn't seem to be bothered much by it. I fact he ignored it, for the most part, and strived to be everything that Dr. Erksine expected him to be. The crowning moment came when he threw himself on what he thought was a live grenade in order to protect everyone else. The experiment was successful and Rogers was pushed to the peak of human ability. After the operation, a HYDRA saboteur called Heinz Kruger, assassinated Erskine and henceforth prevented the creation of any more Super Soldiers. Rogers felt passionate about Peggy Carter, an English military officer over watching his progress. He was denied recruitment into the Army and was used as a propaganda tool. When on tour in Italy performing for active servicemen, Rogers learns that Bucky's unit was MIA in a battle against Schmidt's forces. Steve refused to believe that there was nothing he could do to save Bucky or the rest of the 107th, so with the help of Peggy, who had developed feelings for, went behind enemy lines, and rescued what was left of the 107th with all the glory that Erskine hoped for him. It was the first time that he was called Captain America and it garnered the respect that the title deserved.
Steve assembled the ragtag team of the Hollowing Commandos with what was left of Bucky's unit. Steve led them aboard a HYDRA train, trying to stop it, and HYDRA in the process. Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and the man that he had entered the war to save ended up falling to his supposed death. It changed Steve's view of the world and gave him an even bigger resolve to defeat HYDRA. He ended up defeating Red Skull, but in the process ended up crashing the HYDRA ship, and he was frozen in the ice for 70 years.
Steve woke up in the world 70 years later that was very different from the world that he left. The world had moved on without him, and he felt like he was in a time loop, a relic lost in a modern world. He found an ally in Agent Coulson, who for all intents and purposes was a Captain America fanboy. Coulson took a keen interest in Steve, in all of the Avengers really. Steve's view of the world, caused him to get into conflicts with Tony and Thor, but even though he viewed getting the tesseract back from Loki as a cut and dry mission, he was able to band together with the rest of his team after Phil was killed to defeat Loki and save the world.
He left New York after the battle, just took off on his motorcycle, when we saw him again two years passed and he was running in Washington DC with an ex-military man named Sam Wilson. They seemed to form some sort of connection, even in that short period of time.
Steve goes off with Natasha and along with the team of Strike agents, led by Brock Rumlow, to liberate an S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel, the Lemurian Star, which had been taken over by pirates, led by Georges Batroc, who were holding hostages, including Agent Jasper Sitwell. During the mission, Steve found Natasha extracting files from the ship's computer using an S.H.I.E.L.D. flash drive. He called her out on this as she was supposed to be helping Rumlow get hostages out and placed the whole mission in jeopardy not knowing she had been assigned to this by Fury. Steve didn't like being kept in the dark at all and told her and Fury so when they returned. Fury took Steve into an elevator down to the underground level where there were three new state-of-the-art help carriers being worked on as part of Project Insight, an operation that would connect the helo carriers to spy satellites used to prevent any possible terrorist attacks. This was a reaction to the events that took place in New York, it left Steve feeling very uneasy, trading Loki and the Tesseract for another form of domination.
Steve was feeling very conflicted when he returned to his apartment later that night. He never expected to find a very injured Fury on his couch. Out loud, Fury said that his wife had kicked him out, but he showed Steve through text on his phone that anybody could be listening. Before he could say anything else, Fury was shot three times. Steve looked out the window for the shooter. Fury handed him the flash drive and told him not to trust anybody. Sharon came in, armed with a gun, admitting she is really an S.H.I.E.L.D. agent tasked with keeping an eye on Steve. She tended to Fury as Steve ran after the assassin, smashing through the walls to catch up. He threw his shield, but the assassin caught it with one swift move then threw it back. When Steve looked up, the assassin had disappeared.
Steve went to the hospital with Fury and Hill, flash drive in hand, and watched as Fury died. He was immediately taken back to Shield to meet with Pierce. He managed to deflect his questions about what Fury was up to when he died. He thought he had Fury convinced, but he didn't. That led to him being attacked by an entire elevator full of agents, Rumlow included. Steve managed to escape and made his way back to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive. Disguised, Rogers returned to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive when he noticed that the USB was gone. Natasha appeared behind him. Angrily Rogers demanded to know what she knew, Natasha told him that the masked shooter was known to the intelligence world as The Winter Soldier and she had encountered him before in her past. Rogers concluded that there must be valuable intel on the flash drive which was why The Winter Soldier was tasked with the assassination of Fury.
Steve and Natasha went to New Jersey after they had gained access to the flash drive and evaded the Shield agents. There they learned that SHIELD was actually HYDRA, and that was who they had been working all this time. Again they were attacked by HYDRA and managed to escape to Sam Wilson's who offered to help them take down Hydra, with the help of his Falcon wings of course.
Through the course of their investigations, it was discovered that the Winter Soldier was actually Steve's best friend Bucky Barnes, who he thought died when he fell off the train. Steve felt nothing but guilt and remorse over this. His focus shifted to not only taking out HYDRA but also saving his friend, who had no memory of him thanks to HYDRA. Steve and his team managed to take down the hellicarriers, but not before Steve was shot several times, and despite that managed to save his trapped best friend, before he was beaten to a pulp. He managed to get out the phrase to the end of the line before losing consciousness and falling into the Potomac. Bucky, regaining some feelings for Steve, rescued him, throwing him onto the shore of the Potomac before disappearing.
Steve made a vow to find him, and with Sam's help he set about finding Bucky and dismantling hydra.
Steve arrived in New Dodge, directly from the ending of CA: WS, which meant he was searching for Bucky. He desperately wanted to find his friend. It was really the only thing that mattered to Steve at that moment. He was incredibly lucky on one hand that his friend was alive and well, if not a bit battered, still suffering from PTSD. The two former best friends formed a tentative friendship, both willing to try and learn how to be friends again. Steve started working for Bucky both the gym and the construction site.
Steve also ran into Natalia Romanova, who was not "his" Natasha, she still shared some of the same memories he did, especially their deep concern for Bucky. Steve found that he could confide in Natalia, much like his partner from back home. Steve did have some trouble adjusting to the differing timelines but did his very best to acclimate quickly. He got set up on a date with Julia, and since he didn't have anyone to watch over, took a shine to her. Steve even went as so far as to admit that he loved her, even though she never felt worthy enough to return his feelings.
The Arrival of Peggy Carter threw Steve for a loop, because he too was suffering from PTSD, and the fact that his girl was from 1945, and he was from 2014 was very difficult for Steve to handle, so the two decided to be friends. Although, he hated hurting Peggy more than anything in the world, he just couldn't deal with what happened to him in the years since walking up, and the fact that he now remembers her as elderly was too much for him to handle as well as adjusting to a new place... again.
Steve eventually settled into life in New Dodge and even forged a relationship with Bucky. The other man going so far as to throw a surprise party for him with the help of Natasha. It was overwhelming for Steve but with the help of Boyd and Natasha managed to have a nice time. Things seemed to move along nicely, until one day, Bucky had a flashback and beat the crap out of Steve. The event landed him in the clinic and set him back some emotionally.
Natasha fluxed out, and Steve really missed her presence in his life, and slowly began to move forward and build a life for himself. Steve gained some support though when Sam Wilson and Bruce Banner showed up. Steve was happy to see his friends and began a relationship with Sam. It was new for Steve, but Sam was comforting, and brand new, which Steve needed. He came to the quick realization that he couldn't have nice things because Sam left almost as quickly as he came.
Steve did his best to maintain his balance with his life in New Dodge, but some of his relationships became strained. The one that didn't was his relationship with Killian Jones. He genuinely liked the pirate, and could often be found hanging out with his roommate. He enjoyed the good Captain's company and when not at the gym or at the construction site, he could be found with his sketchpad or doing yoga with his new friend Kurt Hummell.
Even though Steve had a nice life in New Dodge and was starting something with Peggy he felt the pull of wanderlust and fluxed out, instead of arriving in DC, he will be in The City of Sin. He will be disorientated for sure, but the feeling is nothing new. Seeing his old friends, and making new ones will help him settle in.
↠ Personality: (Steve Rogers to his very core is a noble and honest person. He does not hesitate to stand up for what he believes in or put himself in harm’s way to save someone else. This started at an early age and continued all the way up to and including him becoming Captain America. The one example that comes to mind is when Steve throws himself, on what he believes is a live grenade in order to save the other men. He never even blinked or hesitated a truly noble act. Steve believes in honesty, more so after the serum since he lied on various enlistment papers to get into the army. He was at heart an honest person, and just lied to achieve something that he wanted more than anything, to protect and serve his country. Steve is a proud American Patriot, and always had been. He fought long and hard because he wanted to get into the army in order to help defend his country from injustice. As Captain America Steve embodied patriotism, and the American way of life that the government tried to project. He may think that the stars and stripes are cheesy at times, but the rest of his country does not. Steve has always had an intolerance towards bullying and injustice, maybe because he was bullied when he was skinny, and is even less tolerant of bullies or weaker people being bullied as an adult. He took great personal offense and became the champion of the underdog.
Being frozen for 70 years can definitely change a person, add to that a super soldier serum, you are guaranteed something different. The serum heightened his intelligence, not that he wasn't smart, and inventive before, he had to be in order to invent so many ways to enlist. The serum just heightens his natural intelligence. The 70-year ice nap, also made him slightly naive of the new time he now found himself in. The ways of the new world were strange and very foreign to him. He struggled to adapt in the beginning, but after deciding to keep a list of everything he needed to know, he found acclimating a bit easier. He still struggles with not being in the 1940's, being in a different time, and the toll it has taken on Steve emotionally is something that can be seen if you know him well enough. His teammates seem to respect him and defer to his judgement in most battle situations. He is a mentor of sorts to the younger members, and a source of comfort and strength to the more seasoned members.
The term set in his ways is definitely something that could apply to Steve. A little of this stubbornness can be seen when he is arguing with Bucky at the State fair. He felt very justified in the fact that he was right to try and keep enlisting, despite Bucky saying that he would get himself killed. There are a definite right and wrong for Steve, and no gray. It causes him to come into conflict with his teammates, especially Tony and Nick Fury. There is little wiggle room in Steve's world when it comes to right and wrong. He has always been really determined, so time has not changed that.
Steve is a very social person to the people that he is closest to him, which counts his team. Steve definitely feels like his team is his family, perhaps because he has no other family to speak of. He is quick to offer advice, comfort, and support to his teammates. His walls are definitely down when he is around his team. He is much more relaxed and at ease with himself.
↠ Languages: English, French, German, a smidge of Italian.
↠ Reason for Playing This Character: Steve is an all up good guy on the outside. I like exploring the conflict within him, though. He will do his best to settle in, but with all the sins floating around, it's hard not affected. He will also be so confused, so that will be fun to play out.
↠ What is Your Character's Sin?: Steve is hard to pin down as far as sins go, as he fits into both wrath and pride, however, pride is the sin that has been most prevailent throughout his life. Steve didn't grow up as a super soldier, in fact, it was just the opposite. He grew up small and weak, so, therefore, he had to fight for everything he wanted in life. His pride wouldn't let him give up getting into the army to serve his country, it also wouldn't let him let Red Skull get away. He paid for that however by being frozen for 70 years. His pride also stopped him for asking for help to fit in. He couldn't allow himself to be weak. Captain America wasn't weak.
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(We ask that at least one of the samples be set in the City of Sin setting, so we can get a good idea of exactly how your character might fit in.)
↠ First Person: [Steve is not the type of person to automatically pick up a piece of Technology and find out where he is. He is much more methodical than that. He would rather speak to a person rather than a device. It had taken him about a day to figure out he wasn't in New York, and about another 2 days to figure out that there was no way off the island.]
Looks like I have no choice but to talk into this thing. [He didn't look overly happy to have that choice taken from him.] I just got used to the technology back home, and honestly? I'd much rather talk face to face if we're being straight.
I'm Steven Rogers, but my friends usually call me Steve. We're not friends though are we? Somehow I don't think you have friends do you? Anyway, I'm from Brooklyn. [yes he still thinks of himself as that skinny kid.He could be just Steve since he was taken during some down time.]
Pardon me, Ma'am? or Sir I suppose. I don't rightly now where I'm at right now, although I'd be grateful to find out?[He didn't know who had him, but given the fact the place was not familiar, he was thinking that it wasn't a good thing. ]
Right. Well here's what I know.
I'm in some strange place, and God only knows when, there is no way out of this place, not for lack of trying mind you. I was in a place called New Dodge, and given the lack of dust I would say I'm not there now.
[His arms cross, his stance and expression tight, formal. He took a breath rubbing his empty hand across his face, his face now looked slightly more relaxed but no less curious.]
Look, I just want to know what's going on here. The truth if you please. So, would anyone care to fill the new kid in? I work better knowing what I'm dealing with.... rather who I'm dealing with.
[Steve always did like a straight shooter]
↠ Third Person:
Steve wasn’t a man who asked for help, in fact he was man who didn’t ask for help. He didn’t need it, he could do anything he wanted on his own. He sat down heavily in his brand new suite, in a brand new city. He scrubbed his hands over his face, staring down at them as he pulled away. They has callouses on them from his work in, Construction, work that he had never intended to do, but couldn’t say no to because that would be admitting that he didn’t want to do something, and Steve just didn’t do that.
He never did and maybe that was the problem. He never asked for help, or wanted to bother anyone. It made him sick to think that the people around him might find him weak, and not up to the job of being Captain America, and to him that was everything. His pride at being Captain America is also something that makes him lash out at people. He doesn’t have the luxury of being weak. He needs to be in control all the time, to make sense of the world that he now finds himself in. Steve’s world is very Black and white in his eyes, there is no room for gray.
He stood, walking to the window in his room in the tower, looking out at the gray sky. This was just a speed bump in his life, one that he would figure it out himself, because everything that he had ever depended on had been taken away.
↠ Playing Sample: sample 1 Sample 2
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PLAYER
↠ Name: Bethany
↠ Age: 41
↠ Characters Played: (Hermione Granger)
CHARACTER
↠ Name:Steve Rogers/Captain America
↠ Canon: MCU with previous
boomtown memories↠ Journal:
icannotlie↠ Canon Point: Post Winter Soldier
↠ Reserve: (http://sinfulmods.dreamwidth.org/2145.html?thread=136033#cmt136033)
↠ Age: 97 but looks 31
↠ Appearance: Steve Rogers is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. He is one honking beefcake of a man. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. The one thing to note about Steve is that he did not always look like Greek God. When Steve looks in the mirror he sees the pre-serum Steve, the sickly kid from Brooklyn, who never thought he would get into the army. His style is sharp chic casual. He is much more comfortable in a uniform then his civvie's, but after living in New Dodge for a little over a year, jeans and t-shirts became his friend.
↠ Reference/History: here and here
Steven Grant Rogers was born on July 4, 1918, to Sarah and Joseph Rogers in Brooklyn New York. Steve was a sickly child who suffered from many medical ailments, the most notable of which was asthma. Asthma alone is what precluded him from enlisting in the army, even though that didn't convince him to give up trying. He got beaten up on a regular basis, but he was unwilling to back down to bullies. His best friend, James Buchanan Barnes, often was bailing him out of jams. He wanted nothing more than to join the army and defend his country just like his father and best friend. He got that opportunity when he ran into Dr. Erksine, the man who saw Steve for who he was on the inside and accepted him into project rebirth.
"Project: Rebirth" was designed to create the perfect soldier to fight the Axis powers. Steve went through basic training, and even though he didn't know this, Erskine had basically pre-selected him to go through with the procedure. In his mind, the rest was just a formality. Rogers didn't have the hearts of a lot of the people at the training camp, specifically Captain Phillips, but Rogers didn't seem to be bothered much by it. I fact he ignored it, for the most part, and strived to be everything that Dr. Erksine expected him to be. The crowning moment came when he threw himself on what he thought was a live grenade in order to protect everyone else. The experiment was successful and Rogers was pushed to the peak of human ability. After the operation, a HYDRA saboteur called Heinz Kruger, assassinated Erskine and henceforth prevented the creation of any more Super Soldiers. Rogers felt passionate about Peggy Carter, an English military officer over watching his progress. He was denied recruitment into the Army and was used as a propaganda tool. When on tour in Italy performing for active servicemen, Rogers learns that Bucky's unit was MIA in a battle against Schmidt's forces. Steve refused to believe that there was nothing he could do to save Bucky or the rest of the 107th, so with the help of Peggy, who had developed feelings for, went behind enemy lines, and rescued what was left of the 107th with all the glory that Erskine hoped for him. It was the first time that he was called Captain America and it garnered the respect that the title deserved.
Steve assembled the ragtag team of the Hollowing Commandos with what was left of Bucky's unit. Steve led them aboard a HYDRA train, trying to stop it, and HYDRA in the process. Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and the man that he had entered the war to save ended up falling to his supposed death. It changed Steve's view of the world and gave him an even bigger resolve to defeat HYDRA. He ended up defeating Red Skull, but in the process ended up crashing the HYDRA ship, and he was frozen in the ice for 70 years.
Steve woke up in the world 70 years later that was very different from the world that he left. The world had moved on without him, and he felt like he was in a time loop, a relic lost in a modern world. He found an ally in Agent Coulson, who for all intents and purposes was a Captain America fanboy. Coulson took a keen interest in Steve, in all of the Avengers really. Steve's view of the world, caused him to get into conflicts with Tony and Thor, but even though he viewed getting the tesseract back from Loki as a cut and dry mission, he was able to band together with the rest of his team after Phil was killed to defeat Loki and save the world.
He left New York after the battle, just took off on his motorcycle, when we saw him again two years passed and he was running in Washington DC with an ex-military man named Sam Wilson. They seemed to form some sort of connection, even in that short period of time.
Steve goes off with Natasha and along with the team of Strike agents, led by Brock Rumlow, to liberate an S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel, the Lemurian Star, which had been taken over by pirates, led by Georges Batroc, who were holding hostages, including Agent Jasper Sitwell. During the mission, Steve found Natasha extracting files from the ship's computer using an S.H.I.E.L.D. flash drive. He called her out on this as she was supposed to be helping Rumlow get hostages out and placed the whole mission in jeopardy not knowing she had been assigned to this by Fury. Steve didn't like being kept in the dark at all and told her and Fury so when they returned. Fury took Steve into an elevator down to the underground level where there were three new state-of-the-art help carriers being worked on as part of Project Insight, an operation that would connect the helo carriers to spy satellites used to prevent any possible terrorist attacks. This was a reaction to the events that took place in New York, it left Steve feeling very uneasy, trading Loki and the Tesseract for another form of domination.
Steve was feeling very conflicted when he returned to his apartment later that night. He never expected to find a very injured Fury on his couch. Out loud, Fury said that his wife had kicked him out, but he showed Steve through text on his phone that anybody could be listening. Before he could say anything else, Fury was shot three times. Steve looked out the window for the shooter. Fury handed him the flash drive and told him not to trust anybody. Sharon came in, armed with a gun, admitting she is really an S.H.I.E.L.D. agent tasked with keeping an eye on Steve. She tended to Fury as Steve ran after the assassin, smashing through the walls to catch up. He threw his shield, but the assassin caught it with one swift move then threw it back. When Steve looked up, the assassin had disappeared.
Steve went to the hospital with Fury and Hill, flash drive in hand, and watched as Fury died. He was immediately taken back to Shield to meet with Pierce. He managed to deflect his questions about what Fury was up to when he died. He thought he had Fury convinced, but he didn't. That led to him being attacked by an entire elevator full of agents, Rumlow included. Steve managed to escape and made his way back to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive. Disguised, Rogers returned to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive when he noticed that the USB was gone. Natasha appeared behind him. Angrily Rogers demanded to know what she knew, Natasha told him that the masked shooter was known to the intelligence world as The Winter Soldier and she had encountered him before in her past. Rogers concluded that there must be valuable intel on the flash drive which was why The Winter Soldier was tasked with the assassination of Fury.
Steve and Natasha went to New Jersey after they had gained access to the flash drive and evaded the Shield agents. There they learned that SHIELD was actually HYDRA, and that was who they had been working all this time. Again they were attacked by HYDRA and managed to escape to Sam Wilson's who offered to help them take down Hydra, with the help of his Falcon wings of course.
Through the course of their investigations, it was discovered that the Winter Soldier was actually Steve's best friend Bucky Barnes, who he thought died when he fell off the train. Steve felt nothing but guilt and remorse over this. His focus shifted to not only taking out HYDRA but also saving his friend, who had no memory of him thanks to HYDRA. Steve and his team managed to take down the hellicarriers, but not before Steve was shot several times, and despite that managed to save his trapped best friend, before he was beaten to a pulp. He managed to get out the phrase to the end of the line before losing consciousness and falling into the Potomac. Bucky, regaining some feelings for Steve, rescued him, throwing him onto the shore of the Potomac before disappearing.
Steve made a vow to find him, and with Sam's help he set about finding Bucky and dismantling hydra.
Steve arrived in New Dodge, directly from the ending of CA: WS, which meant he was searching for Bucky. He desperately wanted to find his friend. It was really the only thing that mattered to Steve at that moment. He was incredibly lucky on one hand that his friend was alive and well, if not a bit battered, still suffering from PTSD. The two former best friends formed a tentative friendship, both willing to try and learn how to be friends again. Steve started working for Bucky both the gym and the construction site.
Steve also ran into Natalia Romanova, who was not "his" Natasha, she still shared some of the same memories he did, especially their deep concern for Bucky. Steve found that he could confide in Natalia, much like his partner from back home. Steve did have some trouble adjusting to the differing timelines but did his very best to acclimate quickly. He got set up on a date with Julia, and since he didn't have anyone to watch over, took a shine to her. Steve even went as so far as to admit that he loved her, even though she never felt worthy enough to return his feelings.
The Arrival of Peggy Carter threw Steve for a loop, because he too was suffering from PTSD, and the fact that his girl was from 1945, and he was from 2014 was very difficult for Steve to handle, so the two decided to be friends. Although, he hated hurting Peggy more than anything in the world, he just couldn't deal with what happened to him in the years since walking up, and the fact that he now remembers her as elderly was too much for him to handle as well as adjusting to a new place... again.
Steve eventually settled into life in New Dodge and even forged a relationship with Bucky. The other man going so far as to throw a surprise party for him with the help of Natasha. It was overwhelming for Steve but with the help of Boyd and Natasha managed to have a nice time. Things seemed to move along nicely, until one day, Bucky had a flashback and beat the crap out of Steve. The event landed him in the clinic and set him back some emotionally.
Natasha fluxed out, and Steve really missed her presence in his life, and slowly began to move forward and build a life for himself. Steve gained some support though when Sam Wilson and Bruce Banner showed up. Steve was happy to see his friends and began a relationship with Sam. It was new for Steve, but Sam was comforting, and brand new, which Steve needed. He came to the quick realization that he couldn't have nice things because Sam left almost as quickly as he came.
Steve did his best to maintain his balance with his life in New Dodge, but some of his relationships became strained. The one that didn't was his relationship with Killian Jones. He genuinely liked the pirate, and could often be found hanging out with his roommate. He enjoyed the good Captain's company and when not at the gym or at the construction site, he could be found with his sketchpad or doing yoga with his new friend Kurt Hummell.
Even though Steve had a nice life in New Dodge and was starting something with Peggy he felt the pull of wanderlust and fluxed out, instead of arriving in DC, he will be in The City of Sin. He will be disorientated for sure, but the feeling is nothing new. Seeing his old friends, and making new ones will help him settle in.
↠ Personality: (Steve Rogers to his very core is a noble and honest person. He does not hesitate to stand up for what he believes in or put himself in harm’s way to save someone else. This started at an early age and continued all the way up to and including him becoming Captain America. The one example that comes to mind is when Steve throws himself, on what he believes is a live grenade in order to save the other men. He never even blinked or hesitated a truly noble act. Steve believes in honesty, more so after the serum since he lied on various enlistment papers to get into the army. He was at heart an honest person, and just lied to achieve something that he wanted more than anything, to protect and serve his country. Steve is a proud American Patriot, and always had been. He fought long and hard because he wanted to get into the army in order to help defend his country from injustice. As Captain America Steve embodied patriotism, and the American way of life that the government tried to project. He may think that the stars and stripes are cheesy at times, but the rest of his country does not. Steve has always had an intolerance towards bullying and injustice, maybe because he was bullied when he was skinny, and is even less tolerant of bullies or weaker people being bullied as an adult. He took great personal offense and became the champion of the underdog.
Being frozen for 70 years can definitely change a person, add to that a super soldier serum, you are guaranteed something different. The serum heightened his intelligence, not that he wasn't smart, and inventive before, he had to be in order to invent so many ways to enlist. The serum just heightens his natural intelligence. The 70-year ice nap, also made him slightly naive of the new time he now found himself in. The ways of the new world were strange and very foreign to him. He struggled to adapt in the beginning, but after deciding to keep a list of everything he needed to know, he found acclimating a bit easier. He still struggles with not being in the 1940's, being in a different time, and the toll it has taken on Steve emotionally is something that can be seen if you know him well enough. His teammates seem to respect him and defer to his judgement in most battle situations. He is a mentor of sorts to the younger members, and a source of comfort and strength to the more seasoned members.
The term set in his ways is definitely something that could apply to Steve. A little of this stubbornness can be seen when he is arguing with Bucky at the State fair. He felt very justified in the fact that he was right to try and keep enlisting, despite Bucky saying that he would get himself killed. There are a definite right and wrong for Steve, and no gray. It causes him to come into conflict with his teammates, especially Tony and Nick Fury. There is little wiggle room in Steve's world when it comes to right and wrong. He has always been really determined, so time has not changed that.
Steve is a very social person to the people that he is closest to him, which counts his team. Steve definitely feels like his team is his family, perhaps because he has no other family to speak of. He is quick to offer advice, comfort, and support to his teammates. His walls are definitely down when he is around his team. He is much more relaxed and at ease with himself.
↠ Languages: English, French, German, a smidge of Italian.
↠ Reason for Playing This Character: Steve is an all up good guy on the outside. I like exploring the conflict within him, though. He will do his best to settle in, but with all the sins floating around, it's hard not affected. He will also be so confused, so that will be fun to play out.
↠ What is Your Character's Sin?: Steve is hard to pin down as far as sins go, as he fits into both wrath and pride, however, pride is the sin that has been most prevailent throughout his life. Steve didn't grow up as a super soldier, in fact, it was just the opposite. He grew up small and weak, so, therefore, he had to fight for everything he wanted in life. His pride wouldn't let him give up getting into the army to serve his country, it also wouldn't let him let Red Skull get away. He paid for that however by being frozen for 70 years. His pride also stopped him for asking for help to fit in. He couldn't allow himself to be weak. Captain America wasn't weak.
SAMPLES
(We ask that at least one of the samples be set in the City of Sin setting, so we can get a good idea of exactly how your character might fit in.)
↠ First Person: [Steve is not the type of person to automatically pick up a piece of Technology and find out where he is. He is much more methodical than that. He would rather speak to a person rather than a device. It had taken him about a day to figure out he wasn't in New York, and about another 2 days to figure out that there was no way off the island.]
Looks like I have no choice but to talk into this thing. [He didn't look overly happy to have that choice taken from him.] I just got used to the technology back home, and honestly? I'd much rather talk face to face if we're being straight.
I'm Steven Rogers, but my friends usually call me Steve. We're not friends though are we? Somehow I don't think you have friends do you? Anyway, I'm from Brooklyn. [yes he still thinks of himself as that skinny kid.He could be just Steve since he was taken during some down time.]
Pardon me, Ma'am? or Sir I suppose. I don't rightly now where I'm at right now, although I'd be grateful to find out?[He didn't know who had him, but given the fact the place was not familiar, he was thinking that it wasn't a good thing. ]
Right. Well here's what I know.
I'm in some strange place, and God only knows when, there is no way out of this place, not for lack of trying mind you. I was in a place called New Dodge, and given the lack of dust I would say I'm not there now.
[His arms cross, his stance and expression tight, formal. He took a breath rubbing his empty hand across his face, his face now looked slightly more relaxed but no less curious.]
Look, I just want to know what's going on here. The truth if you please. So, would anyone care to fill the new kid in? I work better knowing what I'm dealing with.... rather who I'm dealing with.
[Steve always did like a straight shooter]
↠ Third Person:
Steve wasn’t a man who asked for help, in fact he was man who didn’t ask for help. He didn’t need it, he could do anything he wanted on his own. He sat down heavily in his brand new suite, in a brand new city. He scrubbed his hands over his face, staring down at them as he pulled away. They has callouses on them from his work in, Construction, work that he had never intended to do, but couldn’t say no to because that would be admitting that he didn’t want to do something, and Steve just didn’t do that.
He never did and maybe that was the problem. He never asked for help, or wanted to bother anyone. It made him sick to think that the people around him might find him weak, and not up to the job of being Captain America, and to him that was everything. His pride at being Captain America is also something that makes him lash out at people. He doesn’t have the luxury of being weak. He needs to be in control all the time, to make sense of the world that he now finds himself in. Steve’s world is very Black and white in his eyes, there is no room for gray.
He stood, walking to the window in his room in the tower, looking out at the gray sky. This was just a speed bump in his life, one that he would figure it out himself, because everything that he had ever depended on had been taken away.
↠ Playing Sample: sample 1 Sample 2
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