WHATEVER IT TAKES.

dependent steve rogers for @latverionhq ; loved by claire.

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( BRUISED KNUCKLES AND INK-STAINED FINGERS, WELL-WORN LEATHER JACKETS, THE ASH LEFT BEHIND BY FIREWORKS )▸ welcome to latverion, STEVE ROGERS (CAPTAIN AMERICA). it’s time to be gracious, for in this vast multiverse, you have been saved by emperor doom. according to records you are 104 and use HE/HIM pronouns. emperor doom expects you’ll enjoy your career as a SUPPORT GROUP LEADER, or else. excellent. we look forward to your contribution. ( CLAIRE, GMT, 24, SHE/HER, CHRIS EVANS )

ABOUT BASICS

FULL NAME: steven “steve” grant rogers

ALIAS: captain america

AGE: 104 (july 4, 1918; cancer)

AFFILIATIONS: the avengers

GENDER AND PRONOUNS: cis male, he/him

FACE CLAIM: chris evans

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

POINT OF ORIGIN:

as always, i pull from a mix of canons! steve is from the same universe as tony (which i guess is the same universe as peter, which is ?? whatever we want it to be), and i use a combination of 616 and mcu for backstory and influences. basically! comics childhood, mcu becoming cap, mix of everything after (no secret empire lmao; also not mcu-dead) ; i’m always very happy to shift stuff around/specify/work with y’all for plotting to make things fit!

ABILITIES/SKILLS:

super soldier serum: artificially enhanced physiology; peak human strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, stamina, recovery, mental processing, senses; advanced longevity (the wikipedia page literally says he has “perfect cells.” this includes perfect teeth and very good hair.)

master tactician & strategist; martial artist; shield fighter; advanced military officer; weapons proficiency; vehicle handling; very good artist!!

HAVE THEY BROUGHT ANY FAMILY OR PETS WITH THEM:

no :( someone get this man a dog he could use one (he’s also on the lookout for bucky, who he very much considers his brother)

ANY HEADCANONS YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW:

more tbd but! for now! (TW DEATH, WAR, ALCOHOLISM)

although he grew up in brooklyn instead of the lower east side, i otherwise take steve’s family history/dynamics from 616 instead of the mcu--steve’s parents, joseph and sarah, were poor irish immigrants. his dad was Not Great TM and died when he was pretty young; his mom passed away when he was a teenager. he had a semester of art school, but dropped out to join the army, partly because he couldn’t afford to stay, partly because fighting for the country his family had given so much for felt like the right thing to do

steve’s got a bit of a complex about the steve/cap divide. he loves being captain america, most of the time. but he knows he’s more of a monument than a man to most of the world. he’s made his peace with it, and he’s played along, but it’s nice when he can just be steve. very few people see him that way (see: bucky, who he grew up with as a brother; tony, who was instrumental in helping steve adjust to life after the ice, and is one of the few people to treat him like a regular person; peggy, who knew him before he was cap, etc)

along those lines! captain america doesn’t swear. steve rogers does. exactly 2 people know this (bucky and tony), as far as he’s aware. he’s a scrappy little new yorker at heart. of course he’s got a foul mouth.

he doesn’t drink. some of this is because the serum means he can’t get drunk. some of it is the good old clean-cut image they drilled into him back when he was on the uso tour. a lot of it is because of his father

he’s an artist! this is very important! it’s pretty much just a hobby, but he’d love to be able to make a living on it. is that an impossible dream? yeah, probably, but so was turning into a genetically engineered super soldier. he particularly likes sketching faces and memories; he has been trying but failing miserably at learning digital art (he was also color-blind before the serum, which i like to think means his relationship towards colors and paints tends towards the abstract and stylized, because he basically taught himself color theory twice)

he spends quite a bit of time at memory lane. please don’t make me explain this too much if i think about it too long i will start to cry

that story from she-hulk about him and a girl on the uso tour in ‘43? i’m not entirely convinced he didn’t make it up so the team would stop bullying him change my mind

yes sometimes he signs his texts! this comes from canon he’s old and learning please be nice to him he’s trying his best and doing great

he’s currently living with thor in an apartment above frigga’s

QUESTIONNAIRE

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT EMPEROR DOOM?

You’re asking Steve Rogers, Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty, how he feels about a masked megalomaniac self-proclaimed emperor? Sure. Okay. The answer, of course, is absolutely not. Steve’s lived for a very long time, and he doesn’t have any more time for Doom. Sarah Rogers raised her son to do no harm, but take no shit, and Steve’s taking no shit. He’s up there in the resistance working to take him down. He was, quite literally, made for something like this. A different time, a different world, a different tyrant, maybe, but it’s all the same. Tyranny is tyranny; freedom is freedom.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT THE BATTLES? ARE THEY TRYING TO AVOID THEM? OR ARE THEY EAGER TO JUMP IN?

The battles are barbaric. No one should be forced to fight in a gladiatorial contest. It’s inhumane. He’s been the dancing (punching) monkey before, so many lifetimes ago, and he wouldn’t wish it on anyone. He’s neither actively avoiding nor seeking them out, but Steve is absolutely using them as yet another reason Emperor Doom is extremely bad news. He’ll fight if he has to, and he’s not too worried about winning, but he doesn’t want to have to. He’s a soldier, not a gladiator.

WHY HAS YOUR CHARACTER ACCEPTED THEIR JOB POSITION? WILL THEY USE IT TO GET CLOSER TO DOOM? OR WILL THEY USE IT EXPLOIT HIM? OR DO THEY SIMPLY LIKE THEIR JOB? 

Steve runs a support group for people struggling with multiversal displacement (and living under the omnipresent gaze of Emperor Doom). They meet twice a week, sometimes in Frigga’s, which Thor has generously lent out (and provided complimentary fruity mocktails with the little umbrellas). Steve knows what it’s like to leave behind a life, to wake up in a new, unfamiliar world, to lose everyone and everything you knew and loved and have to keep living. He’s done it. It’s awful. No one should have to go through that alone. Steve can fight Doom as Captain America all he likes; as Steve Rogers, the least he can do is try to make the rest of their lives a little bit better.

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@offollies​​ | steve rogers + natasha romanoff

He hated the Killiseum. The air here felt wrong. Dark, harsh, thick with cheering. The battles set his teeth on edge: the sight of them all, trussed up and trotted out, made to fight for nothing but a horrible little man’s fragile little ego. He knew the feeling. He wouldn’t wish it on anyone. (And don’t get him wrong; Steve Rogers loved a good fight. But you had to be fighting for something, and it was better if you picked it yourself.) He avoided the place as much as he could, but it was a surefire way to find Natasha.

He held a crumpled paper bag up by way of greeting. “I brought you muffins,” Steve said. “Thought you could use a break. We’ve got blueberry, lemon poppyseed, and... to be honest, I think it might be bran.” Instead of opening the bag to check, he looked at her; then glanced up towards the ceiling, where he was sure Doom must have arranged a complex set of cameras; then back to her, raising his eyebrows ever so slightly. Can we go somewhere Doom’s not watching? 

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@shiclded​ | steve rogers + thor odinson

“Thor?” Steve called over his shoulder back into the apartment. It was strange, roommates, especially when said roommate was a literal Norse god, especially at his age. Weren’t roommates something you were supposed to do in college? By the time you cracked one hundred, you were supposed to have a house and kids, he’d thought. It would have been nice: a picket fence, a golden retriever--or maybe it was a German shepherd--a woman with dark hair and a full crimson smile. Another world, another time, another life. For now, it was him and Thor. Considering he’d skipped the college thing, gone straight to army barracks, then to Avengers Tower, it wasn’t so bad. Mostly.

It had been right here: neatly stacked against the hall table next to the closet, right where it always was, ready for an emergency. He’d taken it with him for a run that morning, and he was sure he’d put it out when he’d gone out to get a coffee. But it wasn’t there now. It wasn’t anywhere. Steve inhaled deeply, clenched his jaw, then sighed. “Thor, buddy, have you seen my shield?”

[americanhero]

captainxpryde | steve rogers + kate pryde​

Starter: @americanhero

“Know. Your. Mutants.” Kate had a captive audience of non mutants for the first time in a while. “We are all…” her mind trailed off to several members of her team, “mostly all there to protect lives. But it helps us when you stay calm and know who can best get you out of a given situation. I can phase you through walls, Wolverine breaks things. Nightcrawler can teleport you away, Wolverine breaks things.” Attending support groups wasn’t her usual, but Kate had agreed to give a small presentation from one Captain to another. It was one of the few chances she had to make a positive impression on humans that didn’t immediately require saving. She would never say no to that. It was also important for her to take perspective on the other side from time to time.

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He’d admit that mutants were a blindspot. Steve had handled the Avengers, the X-Men had dealt with their own business, and never the two should meet. More or less. They were people with powers; he and his team were people with powers--and he liked Kate. She was a smart kid, a good kid, a welcome new face in the group that night. Someone who wasn’t a designated historic monument to give a crash course on this universe. (It happened. Someone had asked Steve about Doom’s rebranded Pokemon last week, and he’d hemmed and hawed for a good five minutes before finally moving on.)

Steve watched her presentation with his arms crossed, his eyebrows drawn, a bemused smirk playing at the edges of his mouth. "Wolverine’s a good guy,” he said. “Fought with him in the war. Bit of a grandstander, but you want him on your side.”

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@ormenace​ | steve rogers + tony stark

Ankle-biting gremlins. Yeehaw zombies. A megalomaniacal self-proclaimed emperor. Sure, why not. He’d seen weirder. Hell, he was weirder, if he really wanted to get into it. Latverion set his teeth on edge, but something about it--he’d done this before. Woken up a lifetime, a world away from what he’d known, found everything foreign where it should have been familiar. Learning that the Dodgers had moved out West wasn’t quite landing in the middle of a multiversal incursion (reminder: check with Tony about what the scientific term for this was), but it wasn’t not. 

Tony had helped him through it. When Steve was fresh out of the ice, still unable to shake off the chill of decades under the Arctic, Tony had walked him through: Berlin Wall, Moon Landing, Obama, iPod (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, and Touch). Steve could never return the favor, but the least he could do was check in. Make sure the guy hadn’t been eaten by gremlins or spent three straight days in his workshop listening to AC/DC on loop again. 

So he stood in the doorway, two steaming paper cups in hand. He’d meant to bring bagels, too, but whatever had made New York bagels bagels apparently hadn’t made the jump with the rest of the city. Maybe it was the water. “Hey,” he said. “Figured you could use a coffee.”

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tag drop !

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rogueann | steve rogers + rogue​

closed: “ i don’t know if this is my place to say this–” rogue said with a grin, but she always dreamed of this day. “ but this suit doesn’t do anything for your ass.” she let out a laugh as she fixed her hair.   @americanhero​

“What, this?” Steve looked down at his outfit. He’d tried to dress nicely in preparation for the night’s group session: khakis, a button down, an old jacket (after some deliberation, he’d decided the waistcoat was too much). Leading a counseling group out of the back corner of Thor’s bar wasn’t exactly a black-tie affair, but he could at least put in a little effort. He’d slipped up once and come in his gym clothes, and. Well. He wasn’t completely oblivious. “I thought it was kind of... what was it? Vintage? Retro? That bad, huh?”

[jesicajones]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011) / THE AVENGERS (2012)

[sersi]

His life had been punctuated by horrible awakenings, in and out of cold sleep as the ark ship conducted its centuries-long odyssey. Each time he had found himself in another time, another world, less fit for human habitation. That was what the nightmares were about: not the cold itself, which was only a trigger. Not even that he might not wake, though that had been a real possibility with the Gilgamesh’s failing life support. He feared waking once more into a world he didn’t understand, where everyone else had rushed ahead and left him behind. - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

[sersi]

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ↳ Screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely

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Avengers (2016)