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Character Basics:

Character Name: Steve Rogers
Journal: valuedstrength
Age: 25 (He aged a year mentally in Paradisa which keeps its residents from getting older physically. Steve is still physically twenty-four for all the difference it makes.)
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: after Steve returns from rescuing Bucky and the other four hundred men in the HYDRA camp + Paradisa canon
Debt:

Class A: 25 years

• 25 counts of murder (estimated during the rescue mission to retrieve Bucky)
  
  Class B: 1,569 years and six months

• 523 counts of assault (20 pre-canon, 500 counts in canon, and 3 in game) *pre-canon and canon counts are rough estimates
• 4 counts of fraud while filling out army enlistment forms
• 2 counts of breaking and entering (1 in canon during the rescue, 1 in the game to retrieve an item that could save castle residents)
  

  Class C: 2 months
  
  1 count of attempted murder
  1 count of ignoring a direct order by a superior
  
  
  GRAND TOTAL: 1,594 years, 8 months
  

Canon Character Section:

History: The First Avenger wiki

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.

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.

Steve is also a trained solider even if he is not as experienced as someone like Bucky or Agent Carter. He can fire a gun, use a shield, and put up a decent fight thanks to training from Bucky and his former sparring partner, Faith Lehane, in Paradisa.

Appearance:
Chris Evans as Captain America

CR AU

Game You’re Transferring CR from: paradisa
Steve posts
Steve logs


How has your character changed from their canon self?
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.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them?

Steve does have a loss from his time in Paradisa; his tolerance to alcohol. He can get drunk again.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

Steve entry

Prose Sample: Sample from Paradisa logs

It is a quiet day in Cair Paradisa. Nothing has been falling from the sky, the residents are not trapped in each other minds, and no one is magically ten. Sitting up in his apartment above the Gallery, Steve can forget this is not his place in Brooklyn so he does. The solider quietly sketches away in the silence of his adopted home. Some of his sketches come straight from his head; memories of people come and gone, different places he has seen, and the results of stranger losses he never quite got the point of.

At the present moment, he is drawing the inside of an icy castle. He remembers how Nata- no, Agent Romanoff, worried about how he was handling it. Ice was one of the more unpleasant parts of what laid ahead of him. Before Steve realizes it he is drawing her; short curls, strong eyes, strong everything along with the ice. He will have to show it to her later. Somehow Steve can see her appreciating receiving a small gift no particular reason. Maybe after he sees her, Dairine would be up for a visit. After their latest round of space movies, maybe he could show her some cartoons from his time. The one about the princess might appeal to her.

That chain of thought ends abruptly as Steve looks around the apartment. It is not his place in Brooklyn, but he is happy enough here. It is better to go spend time as part of this world than pretending to be back home. Strange as it is, this is now his life. He can think of better ways to spend it.