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HANDLE: Megan
CONTACT: corbieclook @ plurk
OVER 18? y
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: n/a
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NAME: Sam Wilson
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CANON POINT: midway through Infinity War; prior to the battle in Wakanda
AGE: 39
BACKGROUND: Wow look at this convenient wiki link!
PERSONALITY:
He puts helping others first, and his own well-being second. When Steve and Natasha come to his door, he doesn’t think twice about helping someone he's only just met, even though he probably knows they’re on the run from the law. Instead, he welcomes them in, lets them use his shower and makes them breakfast, and then offers them his help in infiltrating SHIELD. He got out of the military for a reason, as he tells Steve, but there's no better reason to go back into action and put the wings back on than to help Captain America. Later, when Steve tells Sam about his plans to go looking for Bucky, he immediately agrees to help him, without thinking about his job, his own life, or anything else. And, ultimately, this is what leads up to him joining the Avengers; though he’d initially turned Steve down because he didn’t need anyone else giving him orders, knowing that he can help people with his skillset, that he might make a difference in a situation like the Battle of Sokovia, is why he changes his mind. And even though he has his own troubles from his time in Afghanistan, he works with fellow veterans suffering from PTSD, trying to help them readjust to civilian life back in the United States.
Sam is also intensely loyal to his friends. His wingman and fellow EXO-7 pilot, Riley, had been his best friend; when he describes his death to Steve, he says that he felt like he was up there just to watch him die, because there was nothing he could do to save him. Riley’s death ultimately made him turn away from the military life, because he was more loyal to a single person than to a cause. Sam’s loyalty leads him to pick the wings back up (breaking into Fort Meade to do so) so that he can have Steve’s back when he infiltrates SHIELD and tries to rescue Bucky. He helps Steve chase cold leads for two years, because Steve is his best friend, and in his mind, that’s just what he needs to do. He accompanies him to Peggy Carter’s funeral, and ultimately follows him to Vienna, Bucharest, and Berlin, sticking by Steve’s side to fight his other teammates. And when he knows he can do more good to the cause by staying behind, Sam lets Steve and Bucky leave and allows Tony and Secretary Ross to imprison him in the Raft. (Sam knows that Steve will come back for him in the end, because that’s just what friends do, in his mind.) He spends another two years on the run from just about every government in the world - not just to stand by his conviction that the Sokovia Accords were wrong, but because his friends need him.
Determination and stubbornness are two of the traits necessary to make it through pararescue training, which pushes trainees to extreme physical limits. Sam is quietly stubborn, but stubborn nonetheless. In fights, he refuses to back down; when Bucky destroys his wings, he still manages to deploy his parachute and drop to the building below, continuing to fight Rumlow until the building literally collapses and he has to jump out a window into a helicopter. When Steve and Bucky need a distraction to get to the Quinjet, he keeps fighting in a fight he knows he can’t win, just to give them the chance to escape. Sam grew up on the streets of Harlem when it was still riddled with drugs and gangs, succeeded not only in getting into the Air Force, but also in getting into and making it through pararescue training (which has an 80% failure rate, the highest of all the military special forces), and then was selected for the EXO-7 test program, ultimately serving in combat. Whatever he starts, he sees it through.
But that doesn’t mean he lacks a sense of humor. After all, he makes it through several hours of Steve calling out “on your left” every time he passes him while jogging and still jokes about it at the end. Sam is sarcastic, always having a quip ready, sometimes even in the middle of a fight. (Although, as he points out to Peter Parker in Civil War, fights don’t usually have that much talking.) He’s irreverent enough to ask the king of Wakanda if he likes cats or something after his identity as the Black Panther is revealed, though he’s fully aware that he doesn’t have much room to talk about animal-themed secret identities. He can be serious when the situation calls for it, but he doesn’t mind lightening the mood with something funny, either. He takes the opportunity to pull off the ultimate troll in Endgame, when, after coming back from the dead, he makes sure to have Stephen (or one of the other sorcerers) open the portal on Steve's left just to get the last word as the reunited Avengers assemble for battle.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Regular old human, albeit regular human who's a trained fighter.
INVENTORY: EXO-7 jetpack, including drone, and the rest of his flight suit.
MOONBLESSING: Cordis
HANDLE: Megan
CONTACT: corbieclook @ plurk
OVER 18? y
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: n/a
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Sam Wilson
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CANON POINT: midway through Infinity War; prior to the battle in Wakanda
AGE: 39
BACKGROUND: Wow look at this convenient wiki link!
PERSONALITY:
He puts helping others first, and his own well-being second. When Steve and Natasha come to his door, he doesn’t think twice about helping someone he's only just met, even though he probably knows they’re on the run from the law. Instead, he welcomes them in, lets them use his shower and makes them breakfast, and then offers them his help in infiltrating SHIELD. He got out of the military for a reason, as he tells Steve, but there's no better reason to go back into action and put the wings back on than to help Captain America. Later, when Steve tells Sam about his plans to go looking for Bucky, he immediately agrees to help him, without thinking about his job, his own life, or anything else. And, ultimately, this is what leads up to him joining the Avengers; though he’d initially turned Steve down because he didn’t need anyone else giving him orders, knowing that he can help people with his skillset, that he might make a difference in a situation like the Battle of Sokovia, is why he changes his mind. And even though he has his own troubles from his time in Afghanistan, he works with fellow veterans suffering from PTSD, trying to help them readjust to civilian life back in the United States.
Sam is also intensely loyal to his friends. His wingman and fellow EXO-7 pilot, Riley, had been his best friend; when he describes his death to Steve, he says that he felt like he was up there just to watch him die, because there was nothing he could do to save him. Riley’s death ultimately made him turn away from the military life, because he was more loyal to a single person than to a cause. Sam’s loyalty leads him to pick the wings back up (breaking into Fort Meade to do so) so that he can have Steve’s back when he infiltrates SHIELD and tries to rescue Bucky. He helps Steve chase cold leads for two years, because Steve is his best friend, and in his mind, that’s just what he needs to do. He accompanies him to Peggy Carter’s funeral, and ultimately follows him to Vienna, Bucharest, and Berlin, sticking by Steve’s side to fight his other teammates. And when he knows he can do more good to the cause by staying behind, Sam lets Steve and Bucky leave and allows Tony and Secretary Ross to imprison him in the Raft. (Sam knows that Steve will come back for him in the end, because that’s just what friends do, in his mind.) He spends another two years on the run from just about every government in the world - not just to stand by his conviction that the Sokovia Accords were wrong, but because his friends need him.
Determination and stubbornness are two of the traits necessary to make it through pararescue training, which pushes trainees to extreme physical limits. Sam is quietly stubborn, but stubborn nonetheless. In fights, he refuses to back down; when Bucky destroys his wings, he still manages to deploy his parachute and drop to the building below, continuing to fight Rumlow until the building literally collapses and he has to jump out a window into a helicopter. When Steve and Bucky need a distraction to get to the Quinjet, he keeps fighting in a fight he knows he can’t win, just to give them the chance to escape. Sam grew up on the streets of Harlem when it was still riddled with drugs and gangs, succeeded not only in getting into the Air Force, but also in getting into and making it through pararescue training (which has an 80% failure rate, the highest of all the military special forces), and then was selected for the EXO-7 test program, ultimately serving in combat. Whatever he starts, he sees it through.
But that doesn’t mean he lacks a sense of humor. After all, he makes it through several hours of Steve calling out “on your left” every time he passes him while jogging and still jokes about it at the end. Sam is sarcastic, always having a quip ready, sometimes even in the middle of a fight. (Although, as he points out to Peter Parker in Civil War, fights don’t usually have that much talking.) He’s irreverent enough to ask the king of Wakanda if he likes cats or something after his identity as the Black Panther is revealed, though he’s fully aware that he doesn’t have much room to talk about animal-themed secret identities. He can be serious when the situation calls for it, but he doesn’t mind lightening the mood with something funny, either. He takes the opportunity to pull off the ultimate troll in Endgame, when, after coming back from the dead, he makes sure to have Stephen (or one of the other sorcerers) open the portal on Steve's left just to get the last word as the reunited Avengers assemble for battle.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Regular old human, albeit regular human who's a trained fighter.
INVENTORY: EXO-7 jetpack, including drone, and the rest of his flight suit.
MOONBLESSING: Cordis