Name: Waffle Age: 28 Contact Info:withsyrup Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Steve Rogers Canon: Captain America: The First Avenger Age: 28 Gender: Male Canon Point: The car ride over to the secret SSR base in NYC, just before getting the serum administered. Background Link:Here! Inventory: His army dress uniform, a small pocket-sized sketchbook, pencil, and a half-used package of asthma cigarettes.
Personality: One of the first times we see Steve Rogers, he’s getting beaten up in a back alley because a guy in front of him at the movie theater was disrespecting the news reel about the war. He’s clearly doing terribly, can barely throw a punch, but even after he gets hit badly, he gets right back up and says “I can do this all day.” Later on, he tells Dr. Erskine “I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.” These two sentiments really encapsulate a lot of who Steve is as a person, both before and after the serum. Before the serum, he undesirable: he’s small, he’s physically weak and has a huge list of ailments, and he absolutely refuses to sit down and shut up the way the world wants him to.
Steve wants to fight for what’s right. Not because he thinks he’s perfect, or that what he says goes, or that he knows for sure what is right, but because he knows what it’s like to be oppressed. He knows what it’s like to be hurt and downtrodden and not taken seriously, because it’s happened to him. It’s happened to him every day of his life, and if he can keep that from happening to other people, then he will. He doesn’t want to be a hero, he just wants to help and protect people.
That desire to protect others is one of the reasons why he’s so desperate to enlist. The other is that he’s desperate to prove himself. His whole life he’s been told he’s worth less, that he can’t do as much, won’t achieve as much as others because he’s small and weak. Steve heard all that and turned around and said “that’s not true and I’ll prove it to you.” He thinks that the only way to prove it is by showing that he can do everything everyone else can do, just as well as they can do it. He doesn’t want to be a hero, he just wants to show everyone that he’s worth just as much as they are.
The same stubbornness and determination and need to prove himself that leads him to attempting to enlist over and over and eventually getting chosen by Erskine is also what leads him to getting into fights over and over. Steve is smart, clever, has a natural gift for strategy and working things out, but he also has a tendency to rush headfirst into situations without giving it much thought. This only gets worse once he gets the serum and figures out just how much he is capable of physically, but even before that it’s bad. He talks about how many fights he gets into, both with Bucky and Peggy, and it’s clear he doesn’t care about his own well being as long as someone’s standing up for what’s right. It just happens that most of the time that person is him.
His desire to prove himself also leads to him being a pretty prickly person at times, generally unwilling to accept help from others. Lifelong rejection has led him to being a little difficult up front, terse and not overly friendly to people, though he is polite and helpful to those who need it. Before the serum, people tend to show him their worst sides, because they don’t think he’s worthwhile--either they reject him and ignore him, like the date Bucky set up for him, or they mock him and beat him up, like the guy in the alley outside the movie theater. Because he sees the worst in people up front, it’s hard for him to open up and let people in, as evidenced by the fact that his best friend Bucky Barnes is his only friend. But their friendship is unparalleled. They’ve been friends nearly all their lives, and are loyal to each other to a fault. It’s implied that Bucky going to war is another reason why Steve is so desperate to enlist: after Bucky tells him he’s in the 107th, Steve tells the enlistment officer that he’d like to be in the 107th too. The excuse he gives is his father, which might be true, but it’s definitely no coincidence that that’s where Bucky’s headed too.
Even with Bucky though, Steve tends to try to keep what’s really going on inside. He doesn’t want to burden anyone, with his needs or emotions, so he keeps to himself, convinced he can get by on his own. Bucky keeps trying to tell him he doesn’t have to, but it’s never fully sunk in. Steve wants to help those who need it, prove his worth, fight for what’s right, and never burden anyone.
Flavor Abilities: Steve at this point has zero abilities that aren’t totally human and normal. He’s a good artist, though. He’ll probably be making a lot of maps.
Suitability: Steve is definitely not suited for the weather in Norfinbury, but he is too stubborn and determined to let that stop him. He’s small and weak but he’s also sharp and clever and naturally gifted with strategy, so he’ll do his best to explore, draw maps, and help figure out the mystery of what’s going on. Everything else that happens? The worse it gets, the more determined he’ll be to figure out what’s happening and make sure everyone gets home.
Steve Rogers | Captain America: The First Avenger
Name: Waffle
Age: 28
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Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Steve Rogers
Canon: Captain America: The First Avenger
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Canon Point: The car ride over to the secret SSR base in NYC, just before getting the serum administered.
Background Link: Here!
Inventory: His army dress uniform, a small pocket-sized sketchbook, pencil, and a half-used package of asthma cigarettes.
Personality: One of the first times we see Steve Rogers, he’s getting beaten up in a back alley because a guy in front of him at the movie theater was disrespecting the news reel about the war. He’s clearly doing terribly, can barely throw a punch, but even after he gets hit badly, he gets right back up and says “I can do this all day.” Later on, he tells Dr. Erskine “I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.” These two sentiments really encapsulate a lot of who Steve is as a person, both before and after the serum. Before the serum, he undesirable: he’s small, he’s physically weak and has a huge list of ailments, and he absolutely refuses to sit down and shut up the way the world wants him to.
Steve wants to fight for what’s right. Not because he thinks he’s perfect, or that what he says goes, or that he knows for sure what is right, but because he knows what it’s like to be oppressed. He knows what it’s like to be hurt and downtrodden and not taken seriously, because it’s happened to him. It’s happened to him every day of his life, and if he can keep that from happening to other people, then he will. He doesn’t want to be a hero, he just wants to help and protect people.
That desire to protect others is one of the reasons why he’s so desperate to enlist. The other is that he’s desperate to prove himself. His whole life he’s been told he’s worth less, that he can’t do as much, won’t achieve as much as others because he’s small and weak. Steve heard all that and turned around and said “that’s not true and I’ll prove it to you.” He thinks that the only way to prove it is by showing that he can do everything everyone else can do, just as well as they can do it. He doesn’t want to be a hero, he just wants to show everyone that he’s worth just as much as they are.
The same stubbornness and determination and need to prove himself that leads him to attempting to enlist over and over and eventually getting chosen by Erskine is also what leads him to getting into fights over and over. Steve is smart, clever, has a natural gift for strategy and working things out, but he also has a tendency to rush headfirst into situations without giving it much thought. This only gets worse once he gets the serum and figures out just how much he is capable of physically, but even before that it’s bad. He talks about how many fights he gets into, both with Bucky and Peggy, and it’s clear he doesn’t care about his own well being as long as someone’s standing up for what’s right. It just happens that most of the time that person is him.
His desire to prove himself also leads to him being a pretty prickly person at times, generally unwilling to accept help from others. Lifelong rejection has led him to being a little difficult up front, terse and not overly friendly to people, though he is polite and helpful to those who need it. Before the serum, people tend to show him their worst sides, because they don’t think he’s worthwhile--either they reject him and ignore him, like the date Bucky set up for him, or they mock him and beat him up, like the guy in the alley outside the movie theater. Because he sees the worst in people up front, it’s hard for him to open up and let people in, as evidenced by the fact that his best friend Bucky Barnes is his only friend. But their friendship is unparalleled. They’ve been friends nearly all their lives, and are loyal to each other to a fault. It’s implied that Bucky going to war is another reason why Steve is so desperate to enlist: after Bucky tells him he’s in the 107th, Steve tells the enlistment officer that he’d like to be in the 107th too. The excuse he gives is his father, which might be true, but it’s definitely no coincidence that that’s where Bucky’s headed too.
Even with Bucky though, Steve tends to try to keep what’s really going on inside. He doesn’t want to burden anyone, with his needs or emotions, so he keeps to himself, convinced he can get by on his own. Bucky keeps trying to tell him he doesn’t have to, but it’s never fully sunk in. Steve wants to help those who need it, prove his worth, fight for what’s right, and never burden anyone.
Flavor Abilities: Steve at this point has zero abilities that aren’t totally human and normal. He’s a good artist, though. He’ll probably be making a lot of maps.
Suitability: Steve is definitely not suited for the weather in Norfinbury, but he is too stubborn and determined to let that stop him. He’s small and weak but he’s also sharp and clever and naturally gifted with strategy, so he’ll do his best to explore, draw maps, and help figure out the mystery of what’s going on. Everything else that happens? The worse it gets, the more determined he’ll be to figure out what’s happening and make sure everyone gets home.
RP Samples: TDM threads, including both network and action samples.