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PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Claire
AGE: 25+
CONTACT: slanndalous
CHARACTERS PLAYED: Kyle Conlen
RESERVED? No

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Steve Rogers
CANON: Marvel Comics (Universe 70105)
CANON POINT: His death at the hands of Peter Parker, the Hulk
AGE: mid 40s

HISTORY: Steve Roger's history takes a dramatic left turn when Dr. Erskine, creator of Project Rebirth's super serum, is assassinated en route to Camp Lehigh, New Jersey. A couple other soldiers are also killed in action by a Hydra agent, including Ben Parker (Peter Parker's uncle).

Richard Reeds, head of Project Rebirth, scraps the plan and sends all of its volunteers home. Steve remains behind and asks for another opportunity to prove himself and help the war effort. Reeds agrees and briefs him on another scrapped project—Project Iron Man. It is a prototype for a combat suit that runs on the physioneural energy of its pilot.

That means that the pilot has a chest plate surgically implanted, using the arteries of his heart to conduct the energy. The energy required to pump the heart and fire neural synapses is used to then power the suit. The advantage of this is no enemy can effectively steal a working Iron Man suit. Once the pilot is taken out or killed, the suit is completely inoperable. The disadvantage is that it takes an enormous amount of power and endurance to pilot the Iron Man effectively. And lastly, the surgery to implant the chest plate mandates that the pilot be conscious during the initial installation. All in all, the US Army nixed the idea because who would be crazy enough to go through open heart surgery conscious and sacrifice his golden years piloting a hulking piece of metal?

Surprise! Steve Rogers is totally ready for this. He is outfitted with the power supply and begins training to control the Iron Man in December 1941. He sees active combat in August 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific theater. He continues his tour until the end of the War. He is promoted to the rank of Colonel and is eventually awarded the Medal of Freedom.

A good decade and some change later, he retires; however, he stays on retainer and as a military consultant with the Pentagon. The Iron Man has taken quite a toll on him by this point. At only 40 he's gone completely gray. Reeds continues to encourage him to retire completely before the Iron Man takes his life, but lol Steve's not going to do that. He'll be needed again for some crazy mission like always. And that comes in the form of one very pissed off Peter Parker, who has turned into the Hulk from a freak gamma ray accident.

Steve suits up one last time in the Mark II in order to get through to Parker, but it doesn't work. His rage is too deep and Parker crushes Steve inside the suit. His legacy ends there and he is buried in Arlington cemetery shortly after.

PAST GAME MEMORIES: After his death, Steve woke up in the medical wing of the Zenith Corporation. He was told that he had died and had thus agreed to remain there in order to stay useful. He could do that by volunteering to find a cure for the plague that was devastating the multiverse.

During his short-lived stay at the Zenith Corporation, Steve was expected to become sexually intimate with other volunteers in order to find this cure; something he did not expect. He had to push himself out of his comfort zone in that regard, because most of his life revolved around serving his country, not finding a normal life for himself. On top of that, he had grotesque surgery that left him scarred and mutilated. Those few volunteers that did not mind his age or poor constitution became his trusted friends.

PERSONALITY: When a new, classified project—Project Rebirth—to enhance enlistees for military recruitment is nixed and shut down, Steve Rogers is the only volunteer that remains on premises to find an alternative way to help his country. That is the kind of man he is: selfless, courageous, and incredibly stubborn. This passion is what grants Steve a second chance to enter the war in spite of his poor physicality.

Before Project Rebirth there was Project Iron Man. The US Army had to 86 the project because the side-effects and consequences of the Iron Man suit were so grizzly they couldn't imagine any man willingly to try. But, of course, Steve would. In the face of the dark picture Richard Reeds paints for him, Steve doesn't bat an eye. Claustrophobic conditions moving half a ton of metal around? Fine. Painful surgery to guarantee a short lifespan? Great, where does Steve sign up!!

And while this ambition could be mistaken as a glory grab, Steve is no ordinary man seeking fame and fortune. It is clear by his explanation that he truly wishes to stop Germany at any cost to his own life because the War isn't going to stop without every last person helping. Reeds tells him that he wouldn't even last five minutes, but Steve counters, stating, "Maybe not, but I'd be serving my country."

During the rushed open-heart surgery, the doctor even comments that the miracle of this project isn't the suit's engineering or his handiwork, but "how God managed to fit a heart that big into [Steve's] small body." He is completely dedicated to the country's cause and his passion to support it in any way necessary. Perhaps too much.

Just as bravery got him accepted into the US Army and his very own Iron Man, stubbornness ultimately gets him dead. As the only Iron Man pilot, Steve constantly puts the safety and security of the US on his shoulders. Reeds repeatedly tells Steve to retire before the Iron Man drains him of all life, but Steve can't let go. He takes Iron Man out in order to stop the Hulk, but to no avail. Even at the end of his run, knowing full well he is too old to be using the Iron Man suit safely, he stands up to the Hulk's furious barrage around Manhattan because no one else can.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Nothing out of the ordinary. He has gone through combat training, but that's about it.

SAMPLES: PROSE SAMPLE, ACTION SPAM SAMPLE

ANYTHING ELSE? Nup