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Jul. 31st, 2017 10:53 pmNote: details can be changed to fit specific AUs; these are just some rough notes of things I've established.
Harry Potter
A Muggle-born Hufflepuff, Sam is in the same year as Steve and Bucky, and the three quickly become inseparable. Sam is truly gifted on a broomstick, and plays Seeker for the Quidditch team. He's chosen as a prefect in his fifth year at Hogwarts, to exactly nobody's surprise. Apart from Quidditch, his strengths include Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
(Optional: At some point, he becomes an unregistered Animagus. Like his Patronus, his Animagus form is a falcon. This can be because Bucky's a werewolf and he and Steve want to change with him, or just because he wants to.)
After Hogwarts, all three of them become Aurors. Bucky is lost during a fight against Dark wizards, and presumed dead, leaving Steve and Sam to work together as partners.
Werewolf
Sam was bitten by a werewolf who attacked him in a deserted village in Afghanistan. Not knowing what had happened, he continued about his daily life - and, on the next full moon, found himself changing into a wolf. He managed to keep this a secret for the rest of his deployment, and after he left the Air Force and returned home. As a wolf, his build is stocky, with dark brown fur.
(Also available in hereditary werepanther flavor, or I'm open to Sam being the newly changed shifter.)
Supernatural/urban fantasy
Supernatural creatures
Sam is part-seraph, with wings that can be summoned at will (unsurprisingly, these wings have falcon markings). To avoid all cracks about being an angel, he's accepted Falcon as his superhero moniker (in universes where he's also an Avenger). He has minor magical powers related to fire and light; these include the ability to summon small amounts of flame or light and minor healing (up to and including healing broken bones). He acts as a sort of social worker for other supernatural creatures a lot of the time, facilitating things for those who can't be seen in public.
Elemental magic
Sam's magic is related to air, to exactly no one's surprise. PROBABLY MORE DETAILS.
Valdemar/Velgarth
A Kaled'a'in of Haighlei descent, Sam finds himself traveling all over the face of Velgarth. As a young man, he spends a brief stint as a mercenary before returning to White Gryphon to train as a kestra'chern. Once he achieves the rank of full kestra'chern, he moves north, eventually settling in one of the Vales and bonding with a Tayledras bondbird. His Gifts include Empathy, Mindspeech, and some very minor Healing.
(His name isn't actually Sam, but a more complicated Haighlei name that conveniently shortens to Sam.)
Optional: At some point, he travels even farther north and ends up being Chosen as a Herald. God only knows why. (It probably has something to do with a pain in the ass Guardsman turned Herald.)
Wings
a) Sam is part of a government experiment to create winged soldiers. Rather than simply grafting them on, he undergoes painful procedures to grow them from his back. He's not entirely certain what was done to him, but in the end, he can fly, and he simply knows how to fly, without having to learn. Part of this involves a weird psychic bond with a falcon genetically engineered from an embryo.
Optional: Bucky rips his wings off in Winter Soldier and Tony has to devise cybernetic prosthetics.
b) Similar to a, but he's captured by HYDRA in Afghanistan. The wings part of their experiment is successful, but the brainwashing is not; he's kept in a cell and has an unfortunate tendency to kill anyone who goes near him.
Daemons
Sam's daemon is a kestrel named Addie. All of his flying gear is specially adapted to fit her into the harness with him, because obviously the jetpack goes faster than she can fly. Addie is, unsurprisingly, very sassy and just as blunt as Sam is. And you thought one of them was bad enough.
Soulmates
Usually specific to partners. However, tattoos representing Sam tend to be (unsurprisingly) bird-themed.
Pacific Rim
Blah blah something something experimental flying jaeger, Sam thought he would never drift again after he lost his first partner, something dramatic.
Rule 63
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samerica, the alternate version of Sam from Earth-65 (Spider-Gwen's world). She's not a true rule 63, as her backstory resembles Steve's more than Sam's. She's easy to work into things, though, because she's spent decades hopping from one universe to another. More info on journal.
Harry Potter
A Muggle-born Hufflepuff, Sam is in the same year as Steve and Bucky, and the three quickly become inseparable. Sam is truly gifted on a broomstick, and plays Seeker for the Quidditch team. He's chosen as a prefect in his fifth year at Hogwarts, to exactly nobody's surprise. Apart from Quidditch, his strengths include Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
(Optional: At some point, he becomes an unregistered Animagus. Like his Patronus, his Animagus form is a falcon. This can be because Bucky's a werewolf and he and Steve want to change with him, or just because he wants to.)
After Hogwarts, all three of them become Aurors. Bucky is lost during a fight against Dark wizards, and presumed dead, leaving Steve and Sam to work together as partners.
Werewolf
Sam was bitten by a werewolf who attacked him in a deserted village in Afghanistan. Not knowing what had happened, he continued about his daily life - and, on the next full moon, found himself changing into a wolf. He managed to keep this a secret for the rest of his deployment, and after he left the Air Force and returned home. As a wolf, his build is stocky, with dark brown fur.
(Also available in hereditary werepanther flavor, or I'm open to Sam being the newly changed shifter.)
Supernatural/urban fantasy
Supernatural creatures
Sam is part-seraph, with wings that can be summoned at will (unsurprisingly, these wings have falcon markings). To avoid all cracks about being an angel, he's accepted Falcon as his superhero moniker (in universes where he's also an Avenger). He has minor magical powers related to fire and light; these include the ability to summon small amounts of flame or light and minor healing (up to and including healing broken bones). He acts as a sort of social worker for other supernatural creatures a lot of the time, facilitating things for those who can't be seen in public.
Elemental magic
Sam's magic is related to air, to exactly no one's surprise. PROBABLY MORE DETAILS.
Valdemar/Velgarth
A Kaled'a'in of Haighlei descent, Sam finds himself traveling all over the face of Velgarth. As a young man, he spends a brief stint as a mercenary before returning to White Gryphon to train as a kestra'chern. Once he achieves the rank of full kestra'chern, he moves north, eventually settling in one of the Vales and bonding with a Tayledras bondbird. His Gifts include Empathy, Mindspeech, and some very minor Healing.
(His name isn't actually Sam, but a more complicated Haighlei name that conveniently shortens to Sam.)
Optional: At some point, he travels even farther north and ends up being Chosen as a Herald. God only knows why. (It probably has something to do with a pain in the ass Guardsman turned Herald.)
Wings
a) Sam is part of a government experiment to create winged soldiers. Rather than simply grafting them on, he undergoes painful procedures to grow them from his back. He's not entirely certain what was done to him, but in the end, he can fly, and he simply knows how to fly, without having to learn. Part of this involves a weird psychic bond with a falcon genetically engineered from an embryo.
Optional: Bucky rips his wings off in Winter Soldier and Tony has to devise cybernetic prosthetics.
b) Similar to a, but he's captured by HYDRA in Afghanistan. The wings part of their experiment is successful, but the brainwashing is not; he's kept in a cell and has an unfortunate tendency to kill anyone who goes near him.
Daemons
Sam's daemon is a kestrel named Addie. All of his flying gear is specially adapted to fit her into the harness with him, because obviously the jetpack goes faster than she can fly. Addie is, unsurprisingly, very sassy and just as blunt as Sam is. And you thought one of them was bad enough.
Soulmates
Usually specific to partners. However, tattoos representing Sam tend to be (unsurprisingly) bird-themed.
Pacific Rim
Blah blah something something experimental flying jaeger, Sam thought he would never drift again after he lost his first partner, something dramatic.
Rule 63
Check out
samerica, the alternate version of Sam from Earth-65 (Spider-Gwen's world). She's not a true rule 63, as her backstory resembles Steve's more than Sam's. She's easy to work into things, though, because she's spent decades hopping from one universe to another. More info on journal.
