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Player Info

Name: Rose
Age: 27
Contact: aroseblazing on AIM, milanobutterfly on plurk
Characters Already in Teleios: None
Reserve: here

Character Basics:

Character Name: Steve Rogers (Captain America)
Journal: valuedstrength

History: here

Personality:

Steve Rogers never gives up. This is clear to see from his first appearance in the movie. Steve is shown to be a fragile, sickly young man. Despite this, he is determined to join the Army. When he is rejected numerous times for his health that only temporarily delays Steve. He keeps applying in different cities hoping someone would change their mind about him. It is during one of these interviews we discover part of the reason why. His mother worked with TB patients and fell to the illness herself. His father was in the Army and died in combat. Both of his parents spent their lives serving the greater good and instilled the same values in their son. Being able to do the same is incredibly important to him. Unfortunately for him, every doctor he encounters while applying has the good sense to reject him from service.

 

Steve also does not take kindly to bullies. When a young man repeatedly interrupts the videos of the war before the movie begins after he failed to enlist again, Steve calls him out on it. Eventually they have an altercation in the alley behind the theater. Steve, clearly outmatched against the bigger man, repeatedly gets struck. Every time he gets up, saying in response, “I can do it all day.”

 

He is a brave and stubborn. He is smaller and weaker than everyone around him but, he never stands for disrespectful behavior. If anything the challenge encourages Steve to stand his ground. He makes the point that no one should accept that kind of behavior through his actions. That is a strong message coming from a ninety-pound asthmatic.

 

Fortunately for Steve he does not have to fight all day. His best friend Bucky shows up to rescue him. Afterward they discuss his habit of getting into fights with bullies (or more accurately getting beaten to a pulp for standing up to them) while on a group date. This leads to Bucky revealing another side to Steve; his eagerness to prove himself. It is not enough to simply help. He needs to be able to prove everyone wrong. He could be strong and important like the idealized solider of the time. Reluctantly they part after that confrontation. Bucky has girls to entertain and Steve is eager to try again at enlisting.

 

Little did Steve know at the time a scientist responsible for creating a super solider formula was eavesdropping on the argument. Certain he discovered the best candidate for the super solider program, he offers Steve a chance to join after brief questioning. Steve eagerly accepts and begins training. What he lacks in physical prowess compared to the other recruits, Steve makes up for in creativity and guts. When given the challenge to get a flag from a pole in order to win a ride back to base during a long run, Steve simply takes out the screws, folds up the flag, and accepts his ride. Later when a (fake) grenade is thrown into the training area Steve uses his body to take the brunt of it. He only stops to inform Peggy to step back.

 

Those actions seal his fate. He is definitively chosen to be the first super solider in the program. While the process is intimidating, Steve jokes before it begins. When it actually starts and it's clear he is in a great pain from the changes, Steve refuses to let them stop. The results are what everyone there could have hoped for. Steve was now taller, more muscular at a glance. The celebration is cut short by an assassin attacking the facility, stealing the remaining serum, and killing the doctor.

 

Steve gives chase and manages to catch up with the killer. Although the assassin kills himself before Steve can learn anything, the incident makes others consider him a hero. Steve becomes the poster child for the war effort. While he resents it, Steve stays because he can see it does some good and his only alternative is being a lab rat. This changes after he meets with Peggy again. She encourages him to become the great man she is sure he can be and leads him to discover what became of Bucky. He races off with Howard Stark and Peggy to rescue his best friend and the rest of the troops.

 

While it was considered reckless since Steve was a valuable symbol, his successful return with all the men captured and enemy equipment literally changes his life. Afterward, he finally is allowed to fully join the war effort with his best friend at his side and a team to support them. Steve becomes a capable leader and everything he dreamed he could be. For a while everything seems alright. He grows closer to Peggy, he is part of the effort to keep the world safe from HYDRA, but that all changes when Bucky tragically is killed on a mission. Steve takes his loss hard and blames himself for not being the one to take all the risks. Thankfully Peggy snaps him out of it and he moves forward to a final confrontation with HYDRA; specifically, its leader, Red Skull who plans to destroy major cities.

 

Steve prevents it (and in a very noteworthy moment asserts to Red Skull that he wasn't special at all despite his abilities which rivaled the head of HYDRA). Ultimately ends up sacrificing himself to be sure the ship they were fighting in does not land anywhere people may be. He is frozen alive and woken up seventy years later in SHIELD custody. Upon discovering this, Steve only laments on missing the chance to take Peggy on the date he promised before his sacrifice.

 

As the movies progress, it becomes clear that Steve has not changed at his core. He is still an idealist that remains determine to fight for what he believes to be right. He is incredibly passionate about human rights and respecting people in general. While he can be difficult and stubborn at times (ask Nick Fury) his heart tends to be in the right place. His actions always benefit the greater good because Steve is selfless. He truly wants what is best for the group rather than for himself. Like many adults he discovers the hard way that not everyone is so noble.

 

There are people with agendas as Steve puts it. He discovers throughout Avengers, The Winter Soldier, Age of Ultron, and Civil War that other people will do anything to meet them. SHIELD proper wanted its weapon of mass destruction while the rest of the enemies wanted control. By the time Civil War comes around, Steve knows a power grab when he sees one. While he too believes in accountability and respecting the boundaries, he is afraid that the Accords is really about taking control of the Avengers rather than place necessary limitations after Ultron. He wants the dignity of choice for all. He’ll be damned if anyone tries to fight him on that.

 

This puts him into conflict with much of his team proving just how powerful Steve’s beliefs are. While he is uncertain initially, tempted to cave in to the pressure of the group to secure aid for Bucky and make peace with Tony, he cannot go through with it once he realizes that would mean leaving Wanda in internment as he so powerfully puts it. He cannot compromise anymore because the consequences of doing so are too great for him. He is willing to sacrifice his freedom and reputation for a young woman’s rights. He does it again when Tony spirals out in a fit of rage after it is revealed HYDRA used the Winter Soldier to kill the Starks. He prevents Tony from avenging his parents, throws away his shield, and all the expectations that come with it because he knows it’s meaningless in a world that rather kill a victim and imprison a young woman than pursue true justice. Everyone is too consumed by vengeance for Sokovia, Lagos, King T’Chaka, the Starks, and so on to do things the hard but, ultimately more just way. Steve is done trying to appease them by being the good soldier who follows orders and fights their battles.

 

What the final film in the Captain America trilogy drives home is that the struggle for Steve between being Captain America, being what people perceive him to be, has to end. This is the film where he makes a choice on who he will be going into Infinity Wars. Steve decides to be the skinny kid from Brooklyn who hates bullies. He decides that he will be the one who plants himself beside the river of truth and tells everyone to move. It is not easy as it sounds when even friends question his choice at every turn. He questions his choices since he knows he is partially motivated by saving the final link to his past.

When it’s all said and done, he believes in what he is doing. He is willing to sacrifice the life he had with the people he cares for in order to keep fighting for others to be treated with human dignity. In some ways, things stay the same. It all comes down to a sacrifice. What changes is that Steve is done trying to fit into the mold the world created for him while he was asleep. Steve is back to being Steve. No more sucking it up in a desperate bit to belong somewhere. He knows he doesn’t. All he can do is try to help people on his own terms; invest in individuals who will maybe have it better than he did.  It is not a happy ending, but a fitting one that honors who Steve truly is: not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

Powers/Abilities: Thanks to the super solider serum, Steve is at the peak of his natural human abilities. He is essentially an Olympic level athlete or what Marvel thinks one would be capable of who can chase after cars, perform stunts that would make Indiana Jones jealous, and pry steel doors off without too much effort. His body or cells to be specific have a cycle of healing and rejuvenation. This is important to remember since it is how he survived being frozen alive for seventy years or so without aging a day. He is also an accomplished strategist and martial artist who finally learned how to fly a plane. We’re all very proud of him.

Appearance: Chris Evans as Captain America

CR AU

Game You’re Transferring CR from: paradisa + teleios 
http://paradisa.dreamwidth.org/tag/steve+rogers
http://paradisalogs.dreamwidth.org/tag/steve+rogers
http://teleios.dreamwidth.org/tag/steve+rogers+%28captain+america%29

How has your character changed from their canon self?
Paradisa-wise: Steve's changes since entering paradisa have unsurprisingly been small as he is nothing if not consistent. The first that comes to mind is how he deals with woman. In both The First Avenger and in a deleted scene of the Avengers it is very clear Steve does not know how to deal with women who do not have a clearly defined role in his life like Agent Carter (at first) and Natasha Romanoff. He can be their coworker or subordinate and he respects them, but talking to them casually is a serious challenge for him. In short, he is awkward turtle personified. The castle forced him to change that a little. While there he worked at a restaurant/bar called the Lux with an entirely female staff and women were the ones to primarily befriend him. He had to get used to interacting with them regularly and it worked out fine. He got a little dance lesson from a coworker, gained a sister figure, sparring partner, and a best friend who built him a bike for his birthday. The second romance comes up he is back to being awkward and still can't take a compliment to save his life, but baby steps.

The next thing to note is the fact that he is well aware of his future which had a more significant impact. Steve knows he will watch his best friend die and that shortly after he will try to sacrifice himself to save the world only to end up in a new time where he will fight aliens alongside some strange and somewhat shady people. As funny and unbelievable as it was at first, it has become something that weighs on him. It makes him appreciate the present more since he knows that everything in his life at home is destined to slip away with him. Steve tries even harder than usual to be helpful for people since he has come to believe that is the only thing that will get him through the future; his ability to help others. It is a more tragic addition to who he is currently though like his issues with women it is something small and subtle.

On a final note, he has a high tolerance for weird now thanks to losses and world changes common in the castle. He won't be making a fuss over being in this new place. The debt system might be a little worrisome though.

Teleios-wise:
Steve’s journey in the movies is in many ways mirrored in Teleios. At first, Steve believed Teleios to be a port in the storm. This was the place where he grew to truly care for the Avengers and make new friends. This is the place where he realized that while he would always love Peggy Carter, he could never be with her in the long run because fate would always tear them apart. He fell in love with someone else romantically as his feelings for the others deepened. Slowly, but surely he learned who he was all over again.

Like home, he became disillusioned with those in power. As he watched the Indebted suffer and die for causes that had nothing to do with them, old grudges that were never resolved, resentment grew in his heart. Meeting the Two did little to appease him. Through the help of his girlfriend Faith, Steve learned that he had to stop trying to fit the box others put him in. He stopped trying to fight others battles and focused his attention on individuals. He plotted to overthrow Loki with Team Hades and leave Teleios altogether with the Avengers.

He made it to the same point as he did in Civil War, but as part of a unit rather than alone. As a result of Civil War, this will once again become a port in the storm for him. While he’s no less disillusioned with the Agents or the Two, he knows what bad end looks like. He is grateful to the Two in a weird way for giving him another chance.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them Steve regained his Paradisa loss! And Steve only gained items he can reclaim in Teleios so yeah.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample: Wanda and Steve bc I'm totally not picking on Emma

Prose Sample: Literally my favorite Steve log