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semistableman) wrote2018-11-26 09:51 pm
semistableman) wrote2018-11-26 09:51 pm
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Character Information
Name: James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes
Series: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Appearance: here, he’ll be arriving in this outfit
Age: 99 chronologically, 30-ish biologically
Canon Point: the beginning of Captain America: Civil War
Canon History: here
Personality: The biggest, and most glaring thing about Bucky is that he’s actually kind of a huge mess. He’s spent 70 years as a pawn for HYDRA, sapped of his will through brainwashing and cryostasis. Having spent the last two years on the run, he’s not entirely in the best shape mentally. The apartment complex he has been staying in appears to be abandoned, or at the very least quite run down: the windows of his apartment are papered up (along with the curtains being drawn constantly), probably because Bucky is paranoid, and also broken in at least one place. He keeps his bed, a mattress on the floor with a single blanket, and his few possessions all seem to be in a backpack he keeps under the floorboards. Strewn about the apartment are notebooks filled with things he has remembered, and while the contents of his backpack are never shown, there are likely more notebooks in it.
Given the culture he’s from—he was born in 1917— getting Bucky to admit he actually has a problem was probably like pulling teeth. Americans were bad enough about post-traumatic stress during the war, and that’s not including all of the problems that Bucky faces that are unique to him, the countless assassinations he was forced to commit. The fact that he did terrible things while brainwashed by HYDRA means Bucky is incredibly prone to accidentally triggering a memory of one of the many awful things he did—and end up conflicted because while he was brainwashed, he was still ultimately the one pulling the trigger.
The guilt eats at him, and due to the circumstances of being on the run, and hiding in a foreign country where people are hopefully unlikely to recognize him, means that Bucky hasn’t exactly been able to get help he desperately needs. The result is a lot of self-loathing on his part, but at the very least he’s taking care of himself. While he has a beard, it’s trimmed in a way that indicates he’s intentionally grown one, and his hair isn’t as unkempt as one would expect after two years of constant moving locations. There’s indications here and there that he wants to keep on going, however little the indications really are.
Considering how bold and brash he was once upon a time, it’s probably shocking to people who either know him, or can pick up on his military training, how timidly Bucky can behave. He doesn’t often carry himself with confidence, even after the help he’s gotten. There’s still a lot of him that doesn’t believe he’s someone who is worth saving; that doesn’t mean he’s suicidal, shown by how he was able to keep himself alive without resorting to self-harm on his own, but his life of barely living in a run-down apartment with little furniture and a mattress in the middle of the living area makes it clear he isn’t enjoying life.
While he’s bound to come across as reserved, Bucky is an incredibly loyal friend; he’s the sort of person you absolutely want by your side, because when he’s decided he needs to protect someone, he will protect them, including literally throwing them out of harm’s way if need be. He might be someone who has a strict no-kill rule, but that doesn’t mean Bucky doesn’t understand that sometimes fighting really is the only option.
He might be slow to trust people, but once he does, it’s going to be a friendship that lasts; Bucky doesn’t befriend just anyone, but the bonds he makes are all the more meaningful because of that. The people Bucky befriends are quite likely to be the friends-for-life sort of people; he’s going to be watching their backs, and possibly also throwing an unexpected snowball at said backs.
When Bucky has warmed up enough to a person, they’ll see a side to him that he doesn’t shown often. While he doesn’t smile much, even among people he considers friends, he becomes lighter, happier. He’s able to tell jokes, including jokes at his own expense. It might be self-deprecating, but it’s not unlike the joking he used to do, ribbing his friends as much as his friends ribbed him. He’s not all self-loathing and sadness; when it comes down to things, he’s still the friendly man who wants to do the right thing.
In his heart of hearts, he is absolutely one of those guys to tease people he knows well. Being able to exchange insults with his friends is something of a rite of passage. It might take a long time for him to show it, but once it’s there, it’s there, and not something he’ll hide.
Abilities:
-A cybernetic left arm: Despite being made of some sort of advanced metal plating/wiring combination, it appears to be hooked up to his nerves to some capacity because he can use it to feel how ripe fruit is and clearly feel paint from it to the point of incapacitation if it’s damaged. He uses his hand primarily as a defensive item; if push comes to shove, he’ll use it to get himself out of a situation, but he’s more likely to push through the pain and use his hand as a shield than he is to punch people with it, or rip metal sheets apart.
I’m willing to wave away the super strength of the arm (stronger than he is otherwise) being taken from him due to the arm being partially broken due to prolonged exposure to saltwater or something like that, if it’s too overpowered. It’s not exactly like Bucky is going to be interested in rampant property damage.
-Enhanced physiology: due to the serum he was given, multiple things about Bucky’s biology have radically changed from both normal human biology and physiology. Even his human arm is shown having strength above that of a normal person—he’s easily as strong as Steve Rogers, a fellow supersoldier who was also given the serum. Though he fell from a train in the Swiss Alps, he survived with the worst injury apparently being the loss of his left arm. Not only was he able to survive losing an arm—and several arteries being severed— but he also heals wounds at a ridiculously fast rate. Serious wounds appear to only take a matter of days to heal over completely, and minor ones are likely only a matter of days or hours.
While it’s true that he was able to land on top of a car and walk it off, that was when he was brainwashed and was thus likely to be incapable of processing pain in a normal way. After being free of his brainwashing, he’s shown landing from heights in a proper way to minimize risk of injury by keeping weight on the balls of his feet.
Another aspect of his physiology is the increased speed and agility. He can move quickly, easily outpacing other people who use agility as fighting techniques. Not only that, but he doesn’t tire easily. It means that his endurance is good enough that long treks through the woods, or even leaping from rooftop to rooftop isn’t something that would tired him out at a normal rate, only reaching the state where he’s exhausted when other people would be well past their limits.
He’s also had some amount of enhancing done to his hearing, as he’s capable of pinpointing the locations of noises with ease.
A downside to all of this is the sheer amount of calories needed to support a body that’s as enhanced as his. He needs to eat a lot, and not only that, but as a result of the speed in which he metabolizes food, he’s unable to get drunk.
-Combat skills: In his youth, Bucky was a three-times winning boxing champion. It affects how he carries himself, and even his default combat skills when it comes to hand-to-hand. His time with HYDRA, however, means that he’s learned a fair amount of martial arts, though it’s unclear what styles he’s using, exactly, just that he uses a mixture of both hand-to-hand attacks as well as including kicks into his routine.
Along with the mixed-martial arts routine, Bucky is shown to be incredibly capable with a knife. He tends to incorporate it with his martials arts, keeping his bionic arm free to continue punching because he just needs to be really extra like that.
And of course, because he’s a Marvel character, being amazing at two types of combat is just not enough. He was a trained sniper while in the army in World War II. When imprisoned by HYDRA, he became their “Fist”, their finest assassin. He’s so good he was able to kill a target by shooting the person in front of said target such that the bullet went straight through her and killed the guy. How? I don’t know. That’s not how bullets work, but he did it. Having been in the US army during World War II means he doesn’t just know how to use a sniper rifle, but that he knows how to use a handgun, and likely smaller-capacity rifles as well. Due to his time with HYDRA, he’s also proficient with semi-automatic weapons.
He can pilot a quinjet (fictional fighter pilot in the Marvel movies used by the organization SHIELD) for some reason? He also can fly a helicopter, because why not! I’m so sorry about this character, I’m aware he’s ridiculously overpowered.
-Language skills: The final of his skills is the fact that he’s multi-lingual. The other Winter Soldiers know “over thirty languages” so one would surmise that he knows that many himself, though it’s not clear what languages those would be, besides European. In canon, he’s shown speaking his native English, Russian, and Romanian. He’s also shown being able to understand German, so it’s likely he can speak that was well.
Overall, I’m aware that his skillset is ridiculous so if his strength/speed/what have you needs to be toned down I’m fine with it.
Inventory: Just the clothes on his back!
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Name: Nin
Age: 21+
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Current characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes
Series: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Appearance: here, he’ll be arriving in this outfit
Age: 99 chronologically, 30-ish biologically
Canon Point: the beginning of Captain America: Civil War
Canon History: here
Personality: The biggest, and most glaring thing about Bucky is that he’s actually kind of a huge mess. He’s spent 70 years as a pawn for HYDRA, sapped of his will through brainwashing and cryostasis. Having spent the last two years on the run, he’s not entirely in the best shape mentally. The apartment complex he has been staying in appears to be abandoned, or at the very least quite run down: the windows of his apartment are papered up (along with the curtains being drawn constantly), probably because Bucky is paranoid, and also broken in at least one place. He keeps his bed, a mattress on the floor with a single blanket, and his few possessions all seem to be in a backpack he keeps under the floorboards. Strewn about the apartment are notebooks filled with things he has remembered, and while the contents of his backpack are never shown, there are likely more notebooks in it.
Given the culture he’s from—he was born in 1917— getting Bucky to admit he actually has a problem was probably like pulling teeth. Americans were bad enough about post-traumatic stress during the war, and that’s not including all of the problems that Bucky faces that are unique to him, the countless assassinations he was forced to commit. The fact that he did terrible things while brainwashed by HYDRA means Bucky is incredibly prone to accidentally triggering a memory of one of the many awful things he did—and end up conflicted because while he was brainwashed, he was still ultimately the one pulling the trigger.
The guilt eats at him, and due to the circumstances of being on the run, and hiding in a foreign country where people are hopefully unlikely to recognize him, means that Bucky hasn’t exactly been able to get help he desperately needs. The result is a lot of self-loathing on his part, but at the very least he’s taking care of himself. While he has a beard, it’s trimmed in a way that indicates he’s intentionally grown one, and his hair isn’t as unkempt as one would expect after two years of constant moving locations. There’s indications here and there that he wants to keep on going, however little the indications really are.
Considering how bold and brash he was once upon a time, it’s probably shocking to people who either know him, or can pick up on his military training, how timidly Bucky can behave. He doesn’t often carry himself with confidence, even after the help he’s gotten. There’s still a lot of him that doesn’t believe he’s someone who is worth saving; that doesn’t mean he’s suicidal, shown by how he was able to keep himself alive without resorting to self-harm on his own, but his life of barely living in a run-down apartment with little furniture and a mattress in the middle of the living area makes it clear he isn’t enjoying life.
While he’s bound to come across as reserved, Bucky is an incredibly loyal friend; he’s the sort of person you absolutely want by your side, because when he’s decided he needs to protect someone, he will protect them, including literally throwing them out of harm’s way if need be. He might be someone who has a strict no-kill rule, but that doesn’t mean Bucky doesn’t understand that sometimes fighting really is the only option.
He might be slow to trust people, but once he does, it’s going to be a friendship that lasts; Bucky doesn’t befriend just anyone, but the bonds he makes are all the more meaningful because of that. The people Bucky befriends are quite likely to be the friends-for-life sort of people; he’s going to be watching their backs, and possibly also throwing an unexpected snowball at said backs.
When Bucky has warmed up enough to a person, they’ll see a side to him that he doesn’t shown often. While he doesn’t smile much, even among people he considers friends, he becomes lighter, happier. He’s able to tell jokes, including jokes at his own expense. It might be self-deprecating, but it’s not unlike the joking he used to do, ribbing his friends as much as his friends ribbed him. He’s not all self-loathing and sadness; when it comes down to things, he’s still the friendly man who wants to do the right thing.
In his heart of hearts, he is absolutely one of those guys to tease people he knows well. Being able to exchange insults with his friends is something of a rite of passage. It might take a long time for him to show it, but once it’s there, it’s there, and not something he’ll hide.
Abilities:
-A cybernetic left arm: Despite being made of some sort of advanced metal plating/wiring combination, it appears to be hooked up to his nerves to some capacity because he can use it to feel how ripe fruit is and clearly feel paint from it to the point of incapacitation if it’s damaged. He uses his hand primarily as a defensive item; if push comes to shove, he’ll use it to get himself out of a situation, but he’s more likely to push through the pain and use his hand as a shield than he is to punch people with it, or rip metal sheets apart.
I’m willing to wave away the super strength of the arm (stronger than he is otherwise) being taken from him due to the arm being partially broken due to prolonged exposure to saltwater or something like that, if it’s too overpowered. It’s not exactly like Bucky is going to be interested in rampant property damage.
-Enhanced physiology: due to the serum he was given, multiple things about Bucky’s biology have radically changed from both normal human biology and physiology. Even his human arm is shown having strength above that of a normal person—he’s easily as strong as Steve Rogers, a fellow supersoldier who was also given the serum. Though he fell from a train in the Swiss Alps, he survived with the worst injury apparently being the loss of his left arm. Not only was he able to survive losing an arm—and several arteries being severed— but he also heals wounds at a ridiculously fast rate. Serious wounds appear to only take a matter of days to heal over completely, and minor ones are likely only a matter of days or hours.
While it’s true that he was able to land on top of a car and walk it off, that was when he was brainwashed and was thus likely to be incapable of processing pain in a normal way. After being free of his brainwashing, he’s shown landing from heights in a proper way to minimize risk of injury by keeping weight on the balls of his feet.
Another aspect of his physiology is the increased speed and agility. He can move quickly, easily outpacing other people who use agility as fighting techniques. Not only that, but he doesn’t tire easily. It means that his endurance is good enough that long treks through the woods, or even leaping from rooftop to rooftop isn’t something that would tired him out at a normal rate, only reaching the state where he’s exhausted when other people would be well past their limits.
He’s also had some amount of enhancing done to his hearing, as he’s capable of pinpointing the locations of noises with ease.
A downside to all of this is the sheer amount of calories needed to support a body that’s as enhanced as his. He needs to eat a lot, and not only that, but as a result of the speed in which he metabolizes food, he’s unable to get drunk.
-Combat skills: In his youth, Bucky was a three-times winning boxing champion. It affects how he carries himself, and even his default combat skills when it comes to hand-to-hand. His time with HYDRA, however, means that he’s learned a fair amount of martial arts, though it’s unclear what styles he’s using, exactly, just that he uses a mixture of both hand-to-hand attacks as well as including kicks into his routine.
Along with the mixed-martial arts routine, Bucky is shown to be incredibly capable with a knife. He tends to incorporate it with his martials arts, keeping his bionic arm free to continue punching because he just needs to be really extra like that.
And of course, because he’s a Marvel character, being amazing at two types of combat is just not enough. He was a trained sniper while in the army in World War II. When imprisoned by HYDRA, he became their “Fist”, their finest assassin. He’s so good he was able to kill a target by shooting the person in front of said target such that the bullet went straight through her and killed the guy. How? I don’t know. That’s not how bullets work, but he did it. Having been in the US army during World War II means he doesn’t just know how to use a sniper rifle, but that he knows how to use a handgun, and likely smaller-capacity rifles as well. Due to his time with HYDRA, he’s also proficient with semi-automatic weapons.
He can pilot a quinjet (fictional fighter pilot in the Marvel movies used by the organization SHIELD) for some reason? He also can fly a helicopter, because why not! I’m so sorry about this character, I’m aware he’s ridiculously overpowered.
-Language skills: The final of his skills is the fact that he’s multi-lingual. The other Winter Soldiers know “over thirty languages” so one would surmise that he knows that many himself, though it’s not clear what languages those would be, besides European. In canon, he’s shown speaking his native English, Russian, and Romanian. He’s also shown being able to understand German, so it’s likely he can speak that was well.
Overall, I’m aware that his skillset is ridiculous so if his strength/speed/what have you needs to be toned down I’m fine with it.
Inventory: Just the clothes on his back!
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