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[captain_america]

OOC INFO;
Player Name: Courtney
Contact Info:

Discord: Court#2195

Plurk: Courtings

Current Character: N/A



IC INFO;
Character Name: Steve Rogers
Canon: MCU
Canon Information: Captain America Wiki
Canon Point: Avengers Endgame- before he leaves to bring the stones back.
Age: 105 or 38
God Houses:

Heimdall
• Steve is the definition of a soldier who is ready to give his life for his beliefs...and he did once. He is a soldier through and through and he is also a protector- he protects not only the people he cares about but also the world when it’s needed. Even when faced with everyone telling him he is wrong and to sign the Accords Steve stands on his beliefs and says no.

Tyr
• Daring enough to take risks in the name of progress? Super Soldier Serum anyone? Steve is charismatic, inspiring others to follow him and a pro at making pretty motivational speeches. He would use that for diplomacy as long as the diplomacy doesn’t go against his beliefs.

Personality:

Stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

No other words could be truer when describing Steve Rogers than “a good man”. In a world where most things and most people aren’t one things or another, but various shades of gray, Steve Rogers breaks the mold on what is normal. He holds himself and the world up to higher standards and he expects to reach those standards by doing what is right; whether is be fighting bullies, hydra or even his brain washed best friend.

Steve Rogers is a true hero. Heroes are meant to be tested, they are meant to go through trials and come out the other side victorious, but also bruised and battered and never the same. Steve has persevered a lot in his life. His father died in World War One before he was born, he grew up in Brooklyn during the Great Depression to a single mother, and food and work was scarce. On top of that Steve was an extremely sick child and young adult. There were many times in his life where he could have given up, but he kept going, kept to his ideals.

It was those ideals that lead him to his best friend, Bucky. Steve hates bullies, and spent a great deal of time being beat up in alley ways, in parks, and on sidewalks, but he never backed down, he never let them win. This caught the eye of Bucky Barnes at a young age and he admired Steve’s tenacity (read stubbornness) and he would come to Steve’s aid, fighting off the bullies. Even when Bucky would urge him to just let it go Steve wouldn’t back down fighting for what he believed in- standing up to people who picked on the little guy.

Start running they’ll never let you stop, you stand up and punch back they can’t say no forever.

Its this tenacity (still stubbornness) that pushes him to try to enlist in the army five times before he catches the eye of Dr. Erskine and gets Steve into the project rebirth program. It gets him through basic training when anyone else with his health conditions would have given up. And it gets him to endure the pain of becoming Captain America even when Dr. Erskine wanted to shut the experiment down before it was completed.

His ideals also serve to make him self sacrificing. He will lay down on the line to save people at the cost of his own life, and he has. The final decision to pick Steve for the super soldier serum testing comes after Steve threw himself on what he thought was a live grenade to save the troops surrounding it. While everyone ran from the grenade Steve ran towards it- lucky it wasn’t live. But the type of man that would sacrifice himself for those around him- even those that had spent the whole time looking down on him- was the kind of man that would take his new found abilities and use them to do good, and he does.

Perhaps the most famous sacrifice comes after he defeats Red Skull. He’s in a hydra aircraft that’s going down and headed fast for populated areas. He doesn’t have time to wait for Howard Stark to get on the line or to give his coordinates, he has to put the plane down in the water, sacrificing himself, his future and a life with the woman he loves to save many. He does so without hesitation.

Steve is intelligent and a brilliant tactician. Even before the serum he could look at a problem and get around it. While in basic training his drill sergeant stopped his squad in the middle of a run in front of a flag pole telling the men that whoever can get the flag down and hand it to him will get a ride back to base. The men practically fall on top of each other trying and failing to climb the flagpole. Once everyone gives up and moves away Steve walks up the pole and takes the pin out, making the fall pole fall to the ground. He then picks up the flag and hands it to his dumbfounded sergeant. After the serum that intelligence is magnified. He is able to plan strategy for his attacks on Hydra bases, he runs S.H.I.E.L.D missions and he leads the Avengers into battle.

Waking up after being frozen for almost seventy years could take its toll on anyone, but Steve is resilient. To wake up to find that the world around him has changed in ways he can’t begin to believe, that everyone he loved is either dead or has moved on, and the country he gave his life to protect doesn’t really seem to be doing any better than when he left it is disheartening. He doesn’t know his place in the world yet, he doesn’t really know who he is. When asked what he would like to do if he gave up his job as Captain America, Steve is forced to admit that he doesn’t know. He is a man out of time and he is lonely. But he goes on, he tries to keep up good humor and look on the bright side (No polio is a very good thing, and the internet- very helpful).

Steve Rogers as Captain America is a natural leader, he knows how to command a room and make people listen and want to follow him. He garners the respect of those around him through his actions and words and inspires people to do better, be better. His Howling Commandos signed on to follow him after he saved them and they would have laid down their lives for him (Bucky did). When the Avengers finally assembled there wasn’t a question of who would lead them, Steve took up the position with no questions asked and they followed him.

When it all comes down to it, Steve is brave. He goes out and faces unknown threats, he throws himself into harm's way to save other people, infiltrates Hydra bases to find his best friend and save missing troops and he faces off against an alien invasion, never giving up, never surrendering no matter how many times he gets pushed down. Even through all of that, he never loses sight of who he is- a kid from Brooklyn, who didn’t like bullies and just wanted someone to give him a chance to do good. And he does.

I’m just a kid from Brooklyn.

Just because Steve is a good man doesn’t make him a perfect person. Far from it at times. He is not above lying, even if he thinks its for the right reasons. He lied on his enlistment papers five times before he was recruited because he felt it was the right thing to do. He also lied to Tony about how his parents died because he felt he was protecting Tony and Bucky, and maybe even himself a little.

His stubbornness while sometimes a benefit can also be a huge flaw, especially paired with his moral code. He sees the world as black and white when it really is more different shades of gray. This can lead to conflicts, see the entirety of Civil War. Sometimes compromise is in order but Steve doesn’t always bend to that.

You don’t give up, do you?
Nope.

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