( BRUISED KNUCKLES AND INK-STAINED FINGERS, WELL-WORN LEATHER JACKETS, THE ASH LEFT BEHIND BY FIREWORKS )⸠welcome to latverion, STEVE ROGERS (CAPTAIN AMERICA). itâs time to be gracious, for in this vast multiverse, you have been saved by emperor doom. according to records you are 104 and use HE/HIM pronouns. emperor doom expects youâll enjoy your career as a SUPPORT GROUP LEADER, or else. excellent. we look forward to your contribution. ( CLAIRE, GMT, 24, SHE/HER, CHRIS EVANS )
ABOUT BASICS
FULL NAME: steven âsteveâ grant rogers
ALIAS: captain america
AGE: 104 (july 4, 1918; cancer)
AFFILIATIONS: the avengers
GENDER AND PRONOUNS: cis male, he/him
FACE CLAIM: chris evans
IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
POINT OF ORIGIN:
as always, i pull from a mix of canons! steve is from the same universe as tony (which i guess is the same universe as peter, which is ?? whatever we want it to be), and i use a combination of 616 and mcu for backstory and influences. basically! comics childhood, mcu becoming cap, mix of everything after (no secret empire lmao; also not mcu-dead) ; iâm always very happy to shift stuff around/specify/work with yâall for plotting to make things fit!
ABILITIES/SKILLS:
super soldier serum: artificially enhanced physiology; peak human strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, stamina, recovery, mental processing, senses; advanced longevity (the wikipedia page literally says he has âperfect cells.â this includes perfect teeth and very good hair.)
master tactician & strategist; martial artist; shield fighter; advanced military officer; weapons proficiency; vehicle handling; very good artist!!
HAVE THEY BROUGHT ANY FAMILY OR PETS WITH THEM:
no :( someone get this man a dog he could use one (heâs also on the lookout for bucky, who he very much considers his brother)
ANY HEADCANONS YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW:
more tbd but! for now! (TW DEATH, WAR, ALCOHOLISM)
although he grew up in brooklyn instead of the lower east side, i otherwise take steveâs family history/dynamics from 616 instead of the mcu--steveâs parents, joseph and sarah, were poor irish immigrants. his dad was Not Great TM and died when he was pretty young; his mom passed away when he was a teenager. he had a semester of art school, but dropped out to join the army, partly because he couldnât afford to stay, partly because fighting for the country his family had given so much for felt like the right thing to do
steveâs got a bit of a complex about the steve/cap divide. he loves being captain america, most of the time. but he knows heâs more of a monument than a man to most of the world. heâs made his peace with it, and heâs played along, but itâs nice when he can just be steve. very few people see him that way (see: bucky, who he grew up with as a brother; tony, who was instrumental in helping steve adjust to life after the ice, and is one of the few people to treat him like a regular person; peggy, who knew him before he was cap, etc)
along those lines! captain america doesnât swear. steve rogers does. exactly 2 people know this (bucky and tony), as far as heâs aware. heâs a scrappy little new yorker at heart. of course heâs got a foul mouth.
he doesnât drink. some of this is because the serum means he canât get drunk. some of it is the good old clean-cut image they drilled into him back when he was on the uso tour. a lot of it is because of his father
heâs an artist! this is very important! itâs pretty much just a hobby, but heâd love to be able to make a living on it. is that an impossible dream? yeah, probably, but so was turning into a genetically engineered super soldier. he particularly likes sketching faces and memories; he has been trying but failing miserably at learning digital art (he was also color-blind before the serum, which i like to think means his relationship towards colors and paints tends towards the abstract and stylized, because he basically taught himself color theory twice)
he spends quite a bit of time at memory lane. please donât make me explain this too much if i think about it too long i will start to cry
that story from she-hulk about him and a girl on the uso tour in â43? iâm not entirely convinced he didnât make it up so the team would stop bullying him change my mind
yes sometimes he signs his texts! this comes from canon heâs old and learning please be nice to him heâs trying his best and doing great
heâs currently living with thor in an apartment above friggaâs
QUESTIONNAIRE
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT EMPEROR DOOM?
Youâre asking Steve Rogers, Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty, how he feels about a masked megalomaniac self-proclaimed emperor? Sure. Okay. The answer, of course, is absolutely not. Steveâs lived for a very long time, and he doesnât have any more time for Doom. Sarah Rogers raised her son to do no harm, but take no shit, and Steveâs taking no shit. Heâs up there in the resistance working to take him down. He was, quite literally, made for something like this. A different time, a different world, a different tyrant, maybe, but itâs all the same. Tyranny is tyranny; freedom is freedom.
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT THE BATTLES? ARE THEY TRYING TO AVOID THEM? OR ARE THEY EAGER TO JUMP IN?
The battles are barbaric. No one should be forced to fight in a gladiatorial contest. Itâs inhumane. Heâs been the dancing (punching) monkey before, so many lifetimes ago, and he wouldnât wish it on anyone. Heâs neither actively avoiding nor seeking them out, but Steve is absolutely using them as yet another reason Emperor Doom is extremely bad news. Heâll fight if he has to, and heâs not too worried about winning, but he doesnât want to have to. Heâs a soldier, not a gladiator.
WHY HAS YOUR CHARACTER ACCEPTED THEIR JOB POSITION? WILL THEY USE IT TO GET CLOSER TO DOOM? OR WILL THEY USE IT EXPLOIT HIM? OR DO THEY SIMPLY LIKE THEIR JOB?Â
Steve runs a support group for people struggling with multiversal displacement (and living under the omnipresent gaze of Emperor Doom). They meet twice a week, sometimes in Friggaâs, which Thor has generously lent out (and provided complimentary fruity mocktails with the little umbrellas). Steve knows what itâs like to leave behind a life, to wake up in a new, unfamiliar world, to lose everyone and everything you knew and loved and have to keep living. Heâs done it. Itâs awful. No one should have to go through that alone. Steve can fight Doom as Captain America all he likes; as Steve Rogers, the least he can do is try to make the rest of their lives a little bit better.
