Steve Rogers

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Character Name: Steve Rogers/Captain America
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Character History: 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 many medical ailments, the most notable of which was asthma. The 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, 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, Erksine 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 Erksine 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 rag tag 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 a 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 fan boy. 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 helicarriers being worked on as part of Project Insight, an operation that would connect the helicarriers 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 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 used the time wisely, and with the Avengers, who were now funded by Tony Stark, began to slowly dismantle HYDRA bases all around the world. A man can be put in the modern world, but the 1940's can't be beat out of a man. He was teased by Tony after Stark swore during battle and he was told to mind his language.

All appears to be going well as the Hydra forces begins to crumbled under the might and cohesiveness of the teams assault, until Clinton Barton is taken down by unknown metahuman assailant with enhanced speed. Rogers orders a regrouping of the team to the Quinjet, while he goes after Strucker and Stark requires the scepter. Upon arriving at base, Rogers finds Strucker and encounters a second metahuman who is a woman with the ability of telekinesis who used her power to throw Rogers down a flight of stairs. Rogers quickly recovered from the attack and captures Strucker by knocking him unconscious with his shield and placing him into custody.

With their mission accomplished the team aboard the Quinjet make their way back to New York City to their headquarters at Avengers Tower. During their flight back Rogers, Thor and Stark converse on how their quest has come to an end with Thor preparing to leave earth with the scepter in toe back to Asgard. Tony request permission to conduit studies on the scepter for three days before Thor leaves and asked if he'd be attending the farewell party. Both Rogers and Thor agree to Stark's invite and grants him access to the scepter. Inside Avengers tower, Maria Hill brings Rogers up to speed information on the Twins known as Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff. Rogers realizes that they pose a danger as their intent on causing a war.


Steve also was one of the only Avengers that was able to move Thor's hammer even a little bit. He got into a conflict with Tony, when Tony failed to inform them that he created a super computer in the form of Ultron. Steve was never one to tolerate people who withheld the truth, so it put him into conflict with Tony. Even though Ultron was defeated, it came at the cost of the Avengers, who were disbanded and the New Avengers were formed.

Steve currently works with Natasha to train Wanda Maximoff, The Vision, Sam Wilson, and James Rhodey.






Character 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 is a definite right and wrong for Steve, and no grey. 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.


Powers and Abilities: Rogers is in a unique class by himself. While there are various elements to him that still make him human, the serum has enabled him to be more than human. Overall, Rogers possesses remarkable strength, speed, agility, stamina/endurance, reflexes, durability and extraordinary regenerative capabilities. In addition, he is a highly trained operative, trained in various forms of hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and other skills due to his experience during WWII and the Battle of New York, makes him formidable in battle. Despite his vitals being slowed, his old age and his having been frozen for almost seventy years, he is still in impressive physical condition.




Samples
Network:
[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?[slight pause as he looks around him, and then reaches behind him, feeling nothing. He feels naked without his shield.]

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. And I don't have my shield.

[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]

Is there anyway you can send.... someone, or something, so I don't have to feel like I'm talking to Tony's AI?

[Shakes the device a bit]

Third Person: Steve rubbed his hands over his face, as he sunk down on the couch. He was normally the person that people looked to in times like this. He was everyone's rock, but sometimes he needed a rock to.

He couldn't believe that they were all gone. His team, their family was gone, and he wasn't sure how to feel about that. On one hand he had the focus of the new team. There was a new team to mold and shape, and that was definitely in his wheelhouse. He was more than confident that he could succeed in training the new team fully. He wasn't like Tony though, where he thought that success was a foregone conclusion. It would take hard work but it was work that Steve was willing to do.

The team, his team, a team that that he had spent many hours bonding with and breaking in is now gone. His family is now gone, even Tony seems more distant than usual, and he doesn't know how he's supposed to just soldier on and let go.

"You do it, because you have no choice Steve. You were made for more than just this." Somehow he always imagines that being said in a distinctly British voice, one he has always listened to.

He stood up and looked up spotting his shield in the corner. He squared his shoulders again, the weariness shaken off for the moment. He paused at the door, his hand on the knob, his eyes faraway. "Thanks Peggy. You'll always be my girl. We'll get that dance someday yeah?"

He smiled as he left the room headed toward the training room, because no matter what life threw at him, he would make it out alright, because he believed in himself and what he did. Leave it to Peggy to give him the kick in the ass he needed.