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Aug. 19th, 2019 01:07 pm
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Aug. 18th, 2019 04:14 amOUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Jamie
Contact: natalia_vdova @ Plurk
Other characters: Laura Barton
DF Alum: N
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: James Rogers
Character journal: thelegacy
Series name: Marvel Comics \ Earth-10071
Canon notes: After murdering Immortus (he deserved it, it's fine)
Species: Enhanced Human
Age: Rough guess puts him at 18/19 at the end of the arc I'm taking him from!
Arrival Condition: Very fit, peak of health, etc etc typical super-soldier stuff
History: This is the best I've got, so let me write you a bunch of words, too.
James is casually referred to as “Captain America and Black Widow's son” but, we get the reveal that Steve and Natasha never knew he existed before their death which makes his origins likely far more sinister. Headcanon is that he was a test tube baby in some Nefarious Experiment. Ie, their genetics got nasty; there was no actual banging in the creation of their child. Yes, it's weird.
So, Tony builds Ultron to protect the world, but this eventually goes sour with Ultron deciding that the best way to protect the world is to completely control it. Nearly all of the Avengers die, along with a sizable portion of the world's population. Tony survives and somehow finds and rescues James and adds him to his small collection of guilt orphans: Torunn (Thor and Sif's daughter), Azari (Storm and T'Challa's son), and Henry Pym Jr (Wasp and Giant-Man's son). They're all raised basically as siblings in a hidden base under the arctic circle and kept from seeing the effects Ultron was having on the world, unlike the orphaned son of a certain Archer. James seems to be the only one with no memories of his parents and no gifts/mementos/cool gear.
James' impatience and inability to sit still, along with his intense desire to know more about his parents, ends up compromising the base so it gets attacked by Ultron. Tony sends the kids away so they have a chance at safety. But, Ultron doesn't kill him because he wants him to suffer, and the kids meet Francis, Clint's son. James decides that he's going to rescue Tony despite Francis assuring him that Tony is Definitely Dead because Ultron doesn't take prisoners. Francis lets them leave, refusing to accompany them, though he does give them directions so they can go get themselves killed, which James is more than willing to do.
The Next Gen Avengers fight their way to Tony, but shockingly end up in trouble. Ultron determines James to be the most dangerous because he has the power to inspire hope and belief in people, and thus he needs to die first. But Francis shows up with people from the Underground and manages to pull James and his Avengers and Tony Stark out of Ultron's and back to some degree of safety.
They find out that Bruce Banner/the Hulk is still alive and hiding out in the desert, and after much hijinks Banner changes into the Hulk (Maestro version) and punches some robots. James steals Cap's damaged shield when his generator gets damaged. Superheroics all around, although Ultron still has plenty of robots to bounce his code through so their victory is not as permanent as they'd like, but it does get Thor to acknowledge his daughter's existence, so... there's that?
When next we see James and the rest of his Avengers team, they've been living in Maestro's cave in the desert with Tony and Spider-girl long enough that Henry comments about how “mom and dad are fighting again” when Stark and Banner start arguing. Which is when all the nonsense with Kang and the broken space-time continuum happens.
(Just as a note re: the wiki-- I'm not convinced that the WMD Tony talks about designing is actually what Ultron uses. Tony talks about how he was never going to make it and it's his older self that convinces him to do so for the express purpose of getting rid of Ultron no matter the cost before things get bad if things go down that road. Which... doesn't make any sense if that was the weapon Ultron used in the first place. Also, there are enough people left for the world to recover in the span of a few years to be worth stealing tech from.)
Picking up where the wiki leaves off: so the 616 Avengers go and convince Ultron to lose against Kang, with Tony appealing to his intellect: everyone loses if Kang shatters the timeline, and the timeloop continues. The Next Avengers go to watch the confrontation, during which Ultron loses to Kang, who is disappointed by an easy victory and so fucks off to somewhere else in the timeline, but Ultron's defeated, everything is great. Except that Immortus attacks and kills Maestro, Tony and spider-girl, for which the Next Avengers promptly murder him. The 616 Avengers actually watch this happen before going to their world/time; it's what convinces them in the first place, and Hawkeye refers to it as an execution.
So turns out Immortus wasn't entirely lying after all.
Personality:
Reckless- So, James is kind of an idiot, in that he doesn't always think things through, although he seems to have a decent grasp on tactic when he does. But instead, he largely thinks with his emotions and feelings instead of logic. He is impulsive, stubborn, easily bored and has very little tolerance for not doing things. He will throw himself face-first into danger without so much as a second thought, whether that's rescuing Tony, or pushing Banner to become the Hulk, and a half-dozen other dumb ideas.
Stubborn- He doesn't really seem to believe in the idea of impossible, and is incredibly stubborn when he gets an idea into his head. The upside to this is that this can also inspire others. His bull-headedness literally seems to change the world around him. Such as when he decides they should go punch Ultron, but touches Francis in such a way that the archer comes to their rescue in the end despite his aversion to that sort of needless danger. He gets them out, allowing them to rescue Tony Stark from Ultron and get him back to safety despite the sheer ridiculousness of his plan (or lack of).
Team Player- James actually does work well as part of team, however, if he can be convinced to see its worth, and his priorities align. He doesn't have that streak of being The Implicit Leader that Steve Rogers does in the comics. If anything, he seems to sort of share the title of "leader" with Francis. James might be the one that says Avengers Assemble and waves his shield like a beacon, but when Francis makes a decision they follow him, too. In Avengers World when Francis gets tired of Maria Hill dismissing their assistance, they all follow his lead and at the end, no one questions his judgement or calls him on being impulsive, and James backs him up. You only really see this between James and Francis, but between the two of them they seem to balance things pretty well between them. James seems to be the heart to lean into that old duality trope. He's supportive of his teammates, and when Francis and Torunn have moments of doubt it's James that pushes them through it.
Emotive- James is emotional, and tends to be reactive to what's going on around him. It sort of ties into his recklessness, in that he can be very driven by his emotions. This seems to gotten a bit better at his canon point, but the streaks of it are still visible. It also likely weaves in with how his childhood, while not the worst of them, was still rough. He grew up never knowing his parents at all, and while Tony raised them all and James seems to very much care about him like a father-figure, there is a line that reveals that Tony made it pretty clear to them as children that he wasn't their "real" father, which no doubt puts a degree of strain on his relationship there, and there's never any resolution to the fact that he wasn't a child born in peace after Cap and Widow's wedding, not even with Tony. And it's clear that these are all things that he struggles with. So when Immortus kills his last parental figure, and one of his friends? Of course they kill him. He has so few people left that his loyalty to the people that remain and what connections he can make is unfaltering.
Good but not Always Nice- So James is a good person, arguably the most so out of all of them save for maybe Pym. But he's definitely not always nice or sweet about it. He's disobedient, he does his own thing, and he certainly doesn't seem to shy from speaking his mind. He pushes people, like Francis, at one point bringing up his father when he was trying to get him to go with them and only backing off when Francis threatened to punch him in the face. He also is willing to make uncomfortable decisions like when Banner refuses to comes the Hulk because he's terrified of what might happen, James decides to work with Francis to intentionally sabotage Tony's shielding knowing that Banner would be forced to change once he was in danger. The kids also beat up and drag off the 616 avengers to get them away from Kang's active battle site and James is hilariously shrugemoji about it when they're less than thrilled about it. James is soft but his life has not been soft, so he is willing to make hard calls even if they hurt him. Immortus might have deserved to die, but that doesn't mean he's not going to struggle with having done it.
Abilities: He seems to have inherited the super soldier serum, which using comics logic actually makes some sort of sense since the serum is said to be self-replicating. So, brief breakdown of the SSS goes here:
Enhanced Physical Capabilities: Strength, Speed, Durability, Agility, Reflexes and Stamina are all at the peak of or above human maximum.
Enhanced Healing Rate: Heals far faster than a normal person would, high immunity to disease, can't get drunk, but also grants him a resistance to hypnotic suggestion and mental effects.
Enhanced Mental Processing: Processes information quickly, enhanced learning aptitude, eidetic/photographic memory, perfect recall, etc etc all that sort of nonsense.
Enhanced Human Senses: His senses including proprioception are all enhanced to the highest human potential.
Aging(?): It's unknown how the Super Soldier Serum's longevity will affect James- if it does at all. He seems to hit his growth spurt late, not until he's roughly 17 compared to the others. But his body afterward definitely has characteristics of the serum's perfected build, though not yet quite as filled-in as his father.
He's also been trained as a soldier from basically the time he was old enough to walk, the games that he and his siblings play are basically just more training exercises, and this clearly includes skill with the shield as his primary weapon. He can catch Steve's shield mid-throw and uses it perfectly, despite having never having touched it before. He's clearly tech savvy, both from being raised by Tony Stark, but we also see him disabling tech systems and after his canon point he references the tech wars that happen in the aftermath of Ultron's defeat by Kang, etc.
Real good at punching and throwing his shield and could probably rebuild a generator; kind of sheltered from pretty much everything else.
Personal Item: Zero-point energy generator (can I have it glitching at first for my own amusement?) It basically allows him to create Steve's Star Shield except out of energy. Totally able to be bounced off of things and into people, the size and shape can be altered, though it's unclear if the fact that it largely maintains its shield shape is due to James' preference or an actual limitation. When Steve has his zero-point shield Tony talks about its ability to change form entirely.
Sample: https://revivalprojectooc.dreamwidth.org/511.html?thread=434431#cmt434431
Name/Handle: Jamie
Contact: natalia_vdova @ Plurk
Other characters: Laura Barton
DF Alum: N
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: James Rogers
Character journal: thelegacy
Series name: Marvel Comics \ Earth-10071
Canon notes: After murdering Immortus (he deserved it, it's fine)
Species: Enhanced Human
Age: Rough guess puts him at 18/19 at the end of the arc I'm taking him from!
Arrival Condition: Very fit, peak of health, etc etc typical super-soldier stuff
History: This is the best I've got, so let me write you a bunch of words, too.
James is casually referred to as “Captain America and Black Widow's son” but, we get the reveal that Steve and Natasha never knew he existed before their death which makes his origins likely far more sinister. Headcanon is that he was a test tube baby in some Nefarious Experiment. Ie, their genetics got nasty; there was no actual banging in the creation of their child. Yes, it's weird.
So, Tony builds Ultron to protect the world, but this eventually goes sour with Ultron deciding that the best way to protect the world is to completely control it. Nearly all of the Avengers die, along with a sizable portion of the world's population. Tony survives and somehow finds and rescues James and adds him to his small collection of guilt orphans: Torunn (Thor and Sif's daughter), Azari (Storm and T'Challa's son), and Henry Pym Jr (Wasp and Giant-Man's son). They're all raised basically as siblings in a hidden base under the arctic circle and kept from seeing the effects Ultron was having on the world, unlike the orphaned son of a certain Archer. James seems to be the only one with no memories of his parents and no gifts/mementos/cool gear.
James' impatience and inability to sit still, along with his intense desire to know more about his parents, ends up compromising the base so it gets attacked by Ultron. Tony sends the kids away so they have a chance at safety. But, Ultron doesn't kill him because he wants him to suffer, and the kids meet Francis, Clint's son. James decides that he's going to rescue Tony despite Francis assuring him that Tony is Definitely Dead because Ultron doesn't take prisoners. Francis lets them leave, refusing to accompany them, though he does give them directions so they can go get themselves killed, which James is more than willing to do.
The Next Gen Avengers fight their way to Tony, but shockingly end up in trouble. Ultron determines James to be the most dangerous because he has the power to inspire hope and belief in people, and thus he needs to die first. But Francis shows up with people from the Underground and manages to pull James and his Avengers and Tony Stark out of Ultron's and back to some degree of safety.
They find out that Bruce Banner/the Hulk is still alive and hiding out in the desert, and after much hijinks Banner changes into the Hulk (Maestro version) and punches some robots. James steals Cap's damaged shield when his generator gets damaged. Superheroics all around, although Ultron still has plenty of robots to bounce his code through so their victory is not as permanent as they'd like, but it does get Thor to acknowledge his daughter's existence, so... there's that?
When next we see James and the rest of his Avengers team, they've been living in Maestro's cave in the desert with Tony and Spider-girl long enough that Henry comments about how “mom and dad are fighting again” when Stark and Banner start arguing. Which is when all the nonsense with Kang and the broken space-time continuum happens.
(Just as a note re: the wiki-- I'm not convinced that the WMD Tony talks about designing is actually what Ultron uses. Tony talks about how he was never going to make it and it's his older self that convinces him to do so for the express purpose of getting rid of Ultron no matter the cost before things get bad if things go down that road. Which... doesn't make any sense if that was the weapon Ultron used in the first place. Also, there are enough people left for the world to recover in the span of a few years to be worth stealing tech from.)
Picking up where the wiki leaves off: so the 616 Avengers go and convince Ultron to lose against Kang, with Tony appealing to his intellect: everyone loses if Kang shatters the timeline, and the timeloop continues. The Next Avengers go to watch the confrontation, during which Ultron loses to Kang, who is disappointed by an easy victory and so fucks off to somewhere else in the timeline, but Ultron's defeated, everything is great. Except that Immortus attacks and kills Maestro, Tony and spider-girl, for which the Next Avengers promptly murder him. The 616 Avengers actually watch this happen before going to their world/time; it's what convinces them in the first place, and Hawkeye refers to it as an execution.
So turns out Immortus wasn't entirely lying after all.
Personality:
Reckless- So, James is kind of an idiot, in that he doesn't always think things through, although he seems to have a decent grasp on tactic when he does. But instead, he largely thinks with his emotions and feelings instead of logic. He is impulsive, stubborn, easily bored and has very little tolerance for not doing things. He will throw himself face-first into danger without so much as a second thought, whether that's rescuing Tony, or pushing Banner to become the Hulk, and a half-dozen other dumb ideas.
Stubborn- He doesn't really seem to believe in the idea of impossible, and is incredibly stubborn when he gets an idea into his head. The upside to this is that this can also inspire others. His bull-headedness literally seems to change the world around him. Such as when he decides they should go punch Ultron, but touches Francis in such a way that the archer comes to their rescue in the end despite his aversion to that sort of needless danger. He gets them out, allowing them to rescue Tony Stark from Ultron and get him back to safety despite the sheer ridiculousness of his plan (or lack of).
Team Player- James actually does work well as part of team, however, if he can be convinced to see its worth, and his priorities align. He doesn't have that streak of being The Implicit Leader that Steve Rogers does in the comics. If anything, he seems to sort of share the title of "leader" with Francis. James might be the one that says Avengers Assemble and waves his shield like a beacon, but when Francis makes a decision they follow him, too. In Avengers World when Francis gets tired of Maria Hill dismissing their assistance, they all follow his lead and at the end, no one questions his judgement or calls him on being impulsive, and James backs him up. You only really see this between James and Francis, but between the two of them they seem to balance things pretty well between them. James seems to be the heart to lean into that old duality trope. He's supportive of his teammates, and when Francis and Torunn have moments of doubt it's James that pushes them through it.
Emotive- James is emotional, and tends to be reactive to what's going on around him. It sort of ties into his recklessness, in that he can be very driven by his emotions. This seems to gotten a bit better at his canon point, but the streaks of it are still visible. It also likely weaves in with how his childhood, while not the worst of them, was still rough. He grew up never knowing his parents at all, and while Tony raised them all and James seems to very much care about him like a father-figure, there is a line that reveals that Tony made it pretty clear to them as children that he wasn't their "real" father, which no doubt puts a degree of strain on his relationship there, and there's never any resolution to the fact that he wasn't a child born in peace after Cap and Widow's wedding, not even with Tony. And it's clear that these are all things that he struggles with. So when Immortus kills his last parental figure, and one of his friends? Of course they kill him. He has so few people left that his loyalty to the people that remain and what connections he can make is unfaltering.
Good but not Always Nice- So James is a good person, arguably the most so out of all of them save for maybe Pym. But he's definitely not always nice or sweet about it. He's disobedient, he does his own thing, and he certainly doesn't seem to shy from speaking his mind. He pushes people, like Francis, at one point bringing up his father when he was trying to get him to go with them and only backing off when Francis threatened to punch him in the face. He also is willing to make uncomfortable decisions like when Banner refuses to comes the Hulk because he's terrified of what might happen, James decides to work with Francis to intentionally sabotage Tony's shielding knowing that Banner would be forced to change once he was in danger. The kids also beat up and drag off the 616 avengers to get them away from Kang's active battle site and James is hilariously shrugemoji about it when they're less than thrilled about it. James is soft but his life has not been soft, so he is willing to make hard calls even if they hurt him. Immortus might have deserved to die, but that doesn't mean he's not going to struggle with having done it.
Abilities: He seems to have inherited the super soldier serum, which using comics logic actually makes some sort of sense since the serum is said to be self-replicating. So, brief breakdown of the SSS goes here:
Enhanced Physical Capabilities: Strength, Speed, Durability, Agility, Reflexes and Stamina are all at the peak of or above human maximum.
Enhanced Healing Rate: Heals far faster than a normal person would, high immunity to disease, can't get drunk, but also grants him a resistance to hypnotic suggestion and mental effects.
Enhanced Mental Processing: Processes information quickly, enhanced learning aptitude, eidetic/photographic memory, perfect recall, etc etc all that sort of nonsense.
Enhanced Human Senses: His senses including proprioception are all enhanced to the highest human potential.
Aging(?): It's unknown how the Super Soldier Serum's longevity will affect James- if it does at all. He seems to hit his growth spurt late, not until he's roughly 17 compared to the others. But his body afterward definitely has characteristics of the serum's perfected build, though not yet quite as filled-in as his father.
He's also been trained as a soldier from basically the time he was old enough to walk, the games that he and his siblings play are basically just more training exercises, and this clearly includes skill with the shield as his primary weapon. He can catch Steve's shield mid-throw and uses it perfectly, despite having never having touched it before. He's clearly tech savvy, both from being raised by Tony Stark, but we also see him disabling tech systems and after his canon point he references the tech wars that happen in the aftermath of Ultron's defeat by Kang, etc.
Real good at punching and throwing his shield and could probably rebuild a generator; kind of sheltered from pretty much everything else.
Personal Item: Zero-point energy generator (can I have it glitching at first for my own amusement?) It basically allows him to create Steve's Star Shield except out of energy. Totally able to be bounced off of things and into people, the size and shape can be altered, though it's unclear if the fact that it largely maintains its shield shape is due to James' preference or an actual limitation. When Steve has his zero-point shield Tony talks about its ability to change form entirely.
Sample: https://revivalprojectooc.dreamwidth.org/511.html?thread=434431#cmt434431
