Captain America

Real Name: Steve Grant Rogers

Alias: Captain America

Identity: Secret

Age: 97

Species: Human




Physical Appearance: Ninety-seven. Most would interpret the age with the face of a haggard, crippled, wrinkled, old man who was far passed his prime. Where every motion was shaky, walking only worked with a cane, and the closest thing to bravery would be when they shouted, likely in a half-Alzheimer induced stupor, 'get off my lawn'. It would include large, outdated glasses, perhaps clothes that went out of style ages ago, and to some even a musty odor that could only be the accumulation of possibly years of not bathing. Eyesight all but gone, hearing decayed to nonexistence, and a memory following very quickly after.

Steve Rogers, Captain America, a veteran of more battles than most and a legend of a war, was none of those things.

In fact, he was just the opposite. To start with his face, he boasted an appearance any man in the prime of their life would want. An unblemished face, scars absent where there should be many, a strong chin, blond hair that meshed perfectly with his light but tanned skin, and piercing blue eyes that combined kindness and understanding with boldness and unrivaled courage. He bore an expression that could easily shift from warm and inviting, to fierce and promising pain. 

Of course, the differences between his age and how he actually seemed didn't stop there. On the contrary, they only grew below the neck. With the super-soldier serum coursing through his veins, and he himself having employed a thorough and intense regimen to emphasize physical strength, Steve Rogers was always in the best of shapes. His body was toned with strong and powerful muscles one could only find in the most dedicated of body builders, and yet somehow in attaining them he never lost his athleticism and flexibility. Though bulky by most consideration, still he was also slender.

Now, with all that said, it's finally worth noting that he was also six foot, two inches tall, and always stood straight and tall. Hardly the ninety-seven year old anybody would ever expect.





Personality: Steve Rogers had always fit the definition of "patriotism". At least, in the form of the original American ideal. From the time of his childhood, he had always dreamed of doing everything he could for his country, and his people. Even at a young age, his sense of duty drove him to at least attempt to enlist in an army destined to fight in the bloodiest war the world had ever seen, even though at the time his body could never hope to keep up. He was ingrained with an almost genetic work-ethic and desire to do good, and he'd never stop at anything to help others when they needed it. Even at the cost of his own.


He was courageous, stupidly brave, and had the attitude any warrior could ever want. Yet, he was not without a softer side. For years, he spent his life knowing his desires, yet being too frail, too poor, too sick, and too impaired to ever do anything about them. His experiences, and his upbringing, provided him not just a moral sense of honor, but also an understanding of those around him. It gave him a kindness that many could never have, that sense of looking at someone and knowing, really knowing their pain and hurt. As if a counterbalance for all his valor, he possesses also an empathy for others.

Sometimes, however, his sense of justice can intrude on his ability to see the big picture. He would focus on the present and what he saw in front of him, and if it didn't agree with his morals or ethics, he would oppose it. Usually, it was to everyone's (or, most of everyone's) benefit. Sometimes, it was to their detriment. His unwillingness to bend, to compromise even a little, would cause him to involuntarily create rifts between life-long friends, disrupt something that may very well have improved the status-quo, and even create divisions in an entire culture.

But of course none of those outcomes were ever his intent. Above all he wished to create peace, not war, and to do everything he could towards the betterment of mankind as a whole. Though stubborn in his ideals, they were nothing if not dedicated to protecting the people, safeguarding freedom for all, and maintaining and encouraging a righteous, kind, hard-working, God-fearing society. And though it may cause pain for some, though it may break bonds and sever ties, Steve Rogers believed in nothing else but in standing by his ideals to the point where he would die for them.

Perhaps it was that, more than his legendary status, more than his superhuman physical abilities, and even more than the costume itself, that turned him into the leading, influential figure that he was.





Powers: While Steve Rogers does not posses any superhuman abilities technically, at times the combination of all his abilities makes him seem far beyond human. And, in some senses, he is. More information can be found at marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Steven_Rogers_(Earth-616) -- but what follows is a summarized format.


Peak Human Strength - Can lift in excess of 2,000 lbs., can leap 20 ft. across and 10 ft. into the air, and can break steel and other metals with his bare hands. He has been shown to be able to overpower a helicopter, smash his shield through a tank's armor, and easily overpower a large number of combatants on his own.


Peak Human Speed - Can run between 60 - 80 miles per hour.


Peak Human Durability - Is able to break a metal bat; with his skull. Can take hits from foes many times stronger than he, and has even survived falling from over 2,000 feet without being injured.


Peak Human Agility - Is able to perfectly coordinate his body to achieve the absolute highest amount of balance and flexibility possible.


Peak Human Reflexes - Has been able to dodge gunfire from multiple directions at point-blank range with little to no difficulty.


Peak Human Stamina - Can be active at full steam for up to an hour without showing any signs of exhaustion. Can also hold his breath for a really, really long time.


Accelerated Healing - Can recover from serious wounds such as broken limbs and bones in a matter of days. Bruises, cuts, and other surface wounds have been shown to heal in just a few hours. Is also immune to diseases, disorders, infections, toxins, gases, drugs, alcohol, and even hypnotism.


Peak Mental Processing - His brain works as efficiently as is humanly possible. Has perfect problem solving, perfect memory, and perfect observation. He can learn far faster than any normal human being without their own unique abilities, and can keep track of multiple events at the same time and is able to react to each of them as needed. In addition to his perfect memory, he can also instantly recall anything he has seen or heard, he can read faster than any normal man, has perfect deductive skills, and has an incredible intuition.


Peak Human Senses - His sense of sight, sound, scent, taste, and touch are at the very peak possible for a human being.


Advanced Longevity - Due to his perfect body, Steve is virtually ageless, and even after a hundred years still possesses the mind and body of a man in the absolute prime of his life.



Abilities: 


Master Tactician and Strategist - A combination of his vast experience and his perfect brain, Steve has been able to memorize and adapt every strategy and tactic he has ever seen, either through first-hand or through reading. His mind is fast enough that he can adapt strategies to fit with any situation he comes across.


Master Martial Artist - Steve has mastered an absolutely huge number of different fighting disciplines throughout the years, incorporating them with his enhanced physical abilities to create his own unique and deadly combat style.


Master Shield Fighter - Once more utilizing his highly efficient brain, Steve has mastered the use of his special shield in combat situations. In addition to using it in combination with his unique fighting style, he is able to perfectly and instantaneously calculate the exact trajectory his shield would take should he throw it, allowing him to hit his foes from any number of directions and almost always return the shield back to his hand.


Advanced Military Operator - Simply put, with his vast experience as a special forces operative, Steve knows and can perform just about any activity any other operator can. Intelligence gathering, escape tactics, assassination, demolition, survival training, hunting, map making and reading, decoding and creating secret messages, disguise, interrogation, explosives, vehicles -- Steve knows it all.


Master Acrobat - His perfect body and years of experience make Steve a match, if not superior, to any Olympic gold-medalist.


Indomitable Will - Steve has a heart of gold, and a will of iron. He can resist and overcome most forms of temptation, fighting through pain that would cripple most other men, refusing 'power' for himself, and even resisting mind control.


Professional Sketch Artist - For all his talents, Steve found the greatest joy in art. His artistic skill when it comes to sketching is a match for even the most accomplished of artists, and if there was one thing that could be his hobby, this would be it.


Expert Weapon Proficiency - Though he does not often use them, Steve can use, and is very skilled with, swords, daggers, staffs, axes, maces, and many other types of melee weapons, and even firearms.


Multilingual - Steve can freely understand and speak English, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, French, and some Italian.


Expert Vehicle Driver - Steve is skilled at driving cars, motorcycles, trucks, jets, helicopters, motorboats, and even tankers, submarines, and trains.




Weapons/Equipment:



The Captain's Garb - Worth mentioning is his uniform, which is fire and water retardant, has a certain amount of resistance to electricity and impacts, is made specifically to ward off sharp objects commonly found in shrapnel, and can help Steve resist extreme temperatures. It also contains a wireless communicator which is very difficult to track.


The Captain's Belt - Steve wears a utility belt around his waist, which contains numerous items and materials useful for his every day operations. It holds such things as a portable first aid kit, military cable, lock picks, and all manner of other things a soldier might need in the field.


The Captain's Shield - The nearly indestructible shield that is almost as iconic as Captain America himself, Steve almost always carried the vibranium-steel alloy constructed disk wherever he went into action. Given to him early in his career, the shield has served both as a weapon and a symbol all at once. With his great experience and efficient mind, Steve is able to utilize the shield to achieve effects many would think impossible, often utilizing it in combat in ways that baffle friend and foe alike, but always proving to be effective.





History: Steve Rogers was born in the middle of 1920, in the unstable years between the two World Wars and right during the crises widely known as the Great Depression. His parents were Irish by descent and had immigrated to the United States during the War to End All Wars, though Steve himself quickly grew out of his natural accents and tendencies as he was exposed to American society as a child. He was an excited, studied, and brave boy who understood the meaning of having to work even at a young age, and he would have been a model citizen if only it weren't for his frail and weak body. Joseph and Sarah Rogers both were fraught with health problems, and they passed their genetics on to their son.

The problems didn't start until Steve approached puberty. First, his father passed away from an unknown illness, but likely spurred by hunger. His mother didn't last long after, falling to pneumonia when Steve was a teenager. Suddenly he was left alone, and if it weren't for his drive to fight and live for America, his story likely would have ended there. But it didn't. Steve pressed on, and his life would take a turn for the better in the year 1941.

After a tense and hardly honest peace between the allies and Germany, the second World War had finally started. Not only that, but unlike the previous war, Germany was winning. Paris had fallen, and Great Britain stood alone against the military might of the blitzkrieg armada and their allies. But they wouldn't be alone for along. Diplomacy had all but broken down between the United States and Germany, and after Japan launched a raid on American holdings, they too had entered the war. The government began recruiting en mass in preparation for the war, and as soon as they hit the streets, Steve Rogers had stepped in line to be enlisted.

Only to be denied.

His body was too weak, his health, too sick. He met none of the requirements they had, and so he was barred from entering into service. He was distraught, but that too was not the end of Steve Rogers. Instead, he was approached by another man, a certain General Phillips, who offered Steve an alternative solution to his problem. His body wasn't strong enough, but his will was. They simply needed to make his body stronger. Jumping at the opportunity to follow his dream, Steve agreed, and shortly after was introduced to the man that would change his life forever. His name was Abraham Erskine, and this doctor had created a serum that could alter a human's body to the absolute peak of their abilities.

Steve Rogers was to be the test subject. Seeing no other solution, and desperate to serve his country, Steve went through with the experiment. It was a success, and Steve Rogers became the first successfully created superhuman; and unfortunately, he would also be the last. Moments after the experiment ended and Rogers emerged, perfected and entirely different, than Erskine was murdered by a German spy. He hadn't written down his notes or discoveries; the serum died with him. But Steve Rogers lived on, as a living testament to Erskine's genius and as a changed man. Not letting the opportunity go to waste, he went on to serve the United States Army with distinction, eventually earning himself the moniker, with help from government propaganda, of 'Captain America'.

His early adventures would lead to him fighting against Germany, coming to blows with the Red Skull, who would be his worst enemy, and meeting others such as Bucky Barnes, the immortal Wolverine, Nick Fury Sr., and many more. The crux of his World War Two adventures would be when, at the end of a mission gone wrong, Captain America plunged deep into frozen waters, where he would remain for almost an entire century with his vibranium shield.

Eventually, he would be thawed, and join up with the Avengers; and his adventures would continue. He would serve, but now as a hero more than a soldier. It was after a long career with the Avengers that, in his universe at least, the portals began to appear.

For them, it was an almost spontaneous thing. Certainly there hadn't seemed to be anything too abnormal prior. Captain America, for his part, was pursuing Baron Zemo and a small squad of HYDRA soldiers and AIM scientists across the piers of New York. For a while before, the Earth's Mightiest Heroes had split up after a series of abductions occurred in a wide range of different and far apart districts, in an attempt to stop the next string of attacks before they began. Tony and Steve had put their heads together and had produced a list of possible locations, going by HYDRA's pattern up to that point, and it was to those locations they went. Unfortunately, that also meant that none of the other heroes were anywhere close enough to assist Steve, when he was lucky enough to come into contact.

AIM was known, far more than HYDRA, for their often gruesome and inhumane technology. In this case, they used long and heavy rifles that, when fired, produced a shock wave that shattered whatever it was they shot into. Chasing them proved to be difficult, especially when everything kept exploding around him. But eventually, he'd gotten just close enough that he could throw his shield to at least counter-attack; it proved to be a costly mistake. As a matter of chance, at just the right time when the Captain's shield hit one of the AIM technicians, the trigger on his rifle had been pulled. The subsequent explosion had been massive, engulfing the entire dockyard and most of the warehouses in the general vicinity, and creating a gaping hole in the very fabric of space.

Most of those caught in the blast were ripped to shreds. Steve was lucky, since he was merely thrown. Or, was he? After all, it didn't make much sense to still be conscious considering how far he was thrown. He was by the ocean, on the docks. So how on earth did he wind up in Central Park?



Weaknesses:



Mortality - Though he is a peak human being, and though he is strong and smart, he is still only just a man. He can be killed, whether by gunshot, or beheading, or being crushed to death, or any other way any normal human being could be killed. The only exception being his inability to fall ill, or to age; anything that could kill a normal human being can rid the world of Steve Rogers as well.


Mortality + Bravery = Dead? Often times, Steve's courage can get the best of him. He'll rush head first into combat to protect others around him, to protect those who can't protect themselves, and all too often in doing so he risks getting himself killed. Of course it's a decision he gladly makes, and he doesn't fear for his own life, yet to others it can seem a weakness, as it could be far too easy for him to take on a foe more than capable of killing the legend of a man.



Stubborn Idealist - Captain America is many things, and one of them is definitely stubborn. He often refuses to compensate for the evolving society around him, holding firmly onto the notion of freedom and liberty, and everything he believes the founding fathers stood for. However, this can sometimes lead to him coming to odds against his fellow heroes who may have a slightly different idea of justice, or may be willing to cut some corners where Steve would find it unacceptable. Sometimes, this can lead to him being isolated from his friends and comrades, though all the same it never fails that at least someone manages to agree with him and take his side.




Other Information: Most information gathered by the 616 Captain America wiki, however I have slightly combined the classic Cap with the Cinematic Universe Cap. Personality wise, I'll be playing him closer to the movies than the comics.



OOC Information


OOC Name: Duckmeister!


Face Claim: Using Chris Evans in his Cap'n persona, if that's okay!