higher, further, faster

dependent carol danvers for @latverionhq. captained by claire.

[marvelling]

( A WORN-IN LEATHER JACKET, THE ROARING OF A COCKPIT, THE REFLECTION OF STARS IN YOUR EYES )▸ welcome to latverion, CAROL DANVERS (CAPTAIN MARVEL). it’s time to be gracious, for in this vast multiverse, you have been saved by emperor doom. according to records you are 57 (physically appears 30s) and use SHE/HER pronouns. emperor doom expects you’ll enjoy your career as BATTLE CHAMPION, or else. excellent. we look forward to your contribution. ( CLAIRE, GMT, 24, SHE/HER, BRIE LARSON )

ABOUT BASICS

FULL NAME: carol susan jane danvers / car-ell

ALIAS: captain marvel

AGE: 57 (april 24, 1965) (physically appears early 30s)

AFFILIATIONS: avengers, (alpha flight, carol corps)

GENDER AND PRONOUNS: cis female, she/her

FACE CLAIM: brie larson

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

POINT OF ORIGIN:

carol’s based on a sort of hybrid mcu/616 canon! the logistics are still a little rough around the edges so bear with me, but i’m taking some of her mcu backstory and role within the team, mixing it with her comics origins (she’s half-kree, got her powers differently, etc etc) and using more 616 to flesh her out

ABILITIES/SKILLS:

superhuman strength, stamina, agility, durability, & reflexes; flight; regenerative manipulation; decelerated aging; energy manipulation; master pilot & combatant

HAVE THEY BROUGHT ANY FAMILY OR PETS WITH THEM:

yes! chewie, my beloved -- she’s a cranky wonderful tabby cat who is ACTUALLY a flerken (cat-shaped extremely powerful alien don’t worry about it)

ANY HEADCANONS YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW:

(tw death, alcoholism, war)

she was born in boston in the late 60s to joe & marie danvers, a perfectly ordinary and in no way alien couple, no sir!

(turns out marie was, in fact, mari-ell, making carol half-kree, but she didn’t learn that for a pretty long time)

joe was… not the best dad & definitely favored carol’s half-brothers, stevie & joe, jr.

carol and stevie were really close growing up, and when he joined the military, she wanted to follow in his footsteps!

what she really wanted was to study literally rocket science in college and become an astronaut, but the family didn’t have enough money to pay for her to study; rather than being forced into a menial job, carol joined the air force. she earned her college degree through the us air force academy–she was one of the earlier classes of women to graduate, and a goddamn phenomenal pilot

not too long later, stevie was killed in military action, which made carol even more determined to honor his legacy, and she quickly rose to the top of her class

however, carol wasn’t allowed to fly in combat or become an astronaut due to Sexism TM! she was instead offered the opportunity to work as a special operative, and came onboard Project PEGASUS, a joint project between the air force, SHIELD, and NASA – headed by dr. wendy lawson, who quickly became a close mentor

lawson, was, of course, also a kree soldier named mar-vell, who, in carol’s presence, was attacked by her superior, yon-rogg

in the process, carol was knocked into a psyche-magitron machine, forever altering her genetic structure, rendering her amnesiac and unlocking her latent kree powers (she believed for a long time that she had somehow fused with mar-vell’s dna, but, nah, comics logic)

yon-rogg kidnapped carol, and for the next six years, she was trained as a kree soldier named vers, until she crash-landed on earth during a mission and managed to regain her memory

in the process, she allied with nick fury and basically became the on-call space girl/extraterrestrial superhero–first for shield, then for the avengers

at some point in there she was just entirely absorbed by rogue?? (tbd dependent on if/when we get a rogue), but that was a bad time for her, and she still has trauma from such a violating loss of identity

carol is a massive star wars nerd & has a pet cat (flerken) named chewie (chewbacca), who is a very good girl and we love her very much

in this house carol danvers is a lesbian !!

the combo of lightspeed travel & her kree abilities has dramatically slowed her aging–though she is well into her late 50s, she looks solidly 30 at most

this is a long rambling mess i’m sorry if you’ve made it this far i love you

QUESTIONNAIRE

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT EMPEROR DOOM?

Oh, fuck that guy. She doesn’t do well with authority (shut up, Tony), and she extremely doesn’t do well with overbearing megalomaniacal would-be emperors trying to build the entire world in their image. It’s not a great look. Carol has spent her life trying to reclaim power and autonomy from people who would try to take it away from her, just as she’s tried to do right by the little guy and keep people safe. The guy’s going down, and she’s not afraid to make some noise about it.

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

This is a woman who canonically regularly beats up the Hulk just to feel a little better. Carol’s a battle champion, and she’s good at it. She hates being used for these ends; it’s dehumanizing and humiliating, and she’s spent too much of her life as someone else’s soldier. She’s strong as shit, but she’d rather be using that for herself, to make her own choices, to be her own person. No one should be used as a punching bag for someone else’s pleasure, someone else’s agenda, without consent or autonomy. She knows what that’s like. It’s awful. Still, there’s a thrill in the fight. It makes her feel alive. It makes her almost feel sane. Almost.

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?

See above! She loves her job, but she hates her job, if that makes sense? Getting to just punch people is a terrific fit for her, and a great way to take out some of that pent-up energy and anger. But she hates why she’s doing it, and she hates that she has to do it. At least it’ll give her a ground-level view to see what’s going on--she’s never been very good on the ground, so it’s a change of pace. If she can get towards Doom’s good side, she can exploit him, and maybe fix this mess. Maybe. That implies getting on his good side, though, which, knowing her, isn’t about happen. She’s a damn good soldier, but a terrible spy.

[marvelling]

@ormenace​ | carol danvers + tony stark

“Hey, Tony.” She unfurled her helmet, blonde hair falling loose around her shoulders, her face open to his. One of the coolest powers they didn’t know about out there in the ring? That she could just warp her suit right into her street clothes (or vice versa), no need for strategic layering or finding somewhere safe and accessible to store it. It made coming out of the battle all that much easier: a thought, and she wasn’t all-caps, crowd-roaring CAPTAIN MARVEL, she was just Carol in jeans and a tank top. Grabbing a towel from the bin, she wiped sweat from her face and the back of her neck. “Didn’t think you were big into the Killiseum scene,” she said. “You come down here to see me win?” 

[marvelling]

offollies | carol danvers + valkyrie​

( @marvelling​ ) VALKYRIE & CAROL DANVERS

it was a little earlier than the proposed time that carol had stated for their dinner - six thirty, to be exact. she wasn’t nervous in any sense of the word, nor did she mind the wait - after all, frigga’s had become a particular haunt for her and she was certain thor wouldn’t dare try to kick her out. still, she wondered what got into the god of thunder’s mind to decorate the place in balloons. grabbing one, she admired it for a moment before popping it - watching as the air quickly deflated and as the rounded plastic orb decreased in size, a particularly welcomed face appeared on the other side of it. “fancy seeing you here,” she chimed, smiling brightly as she dropped the dead balloon to the floor, “we can always go somewhere else, but i figured this… weirdly decorated bar, could work for the time being. food’s not actually half bad, but don’t tell thor that.”

Thor Odinson, God of Thunder, Wearer of Capes, Haver of Great Hair, owning a bar. Who’d have thought? This world had brought out weirder and worse than a kitschy, enthusiastically themed bar (see: Colonel Carol Danvers, professional arena fighter). She hadn’t spent much time here--she hadn’t spent much time in bars in the past few years full stop, save trivia nights and karaoke with the friends back before--but the abundance of balloons, the Thorness of it all, made her smile. And, hell, she had a... was it a date? Was it a bet? Did she want it to be a date? Carol had a something with the very hot woman currently winning a grudge match against one of Thor’s balloons.

“Small world, huh?” Carol smirked, then shook her head. “No, no, this is great. He really put his whole heart into this place, didn’t he? If the burgers are even half this... passionate, I’m sold.”

[marvelling]

ofdevastation | carol danvers + sersi​

@latverionstarters​​ | SERSI & OPEN

despite it being a bit away from her work and current living arrangements, sersi quickly found that she enjoyed the open shoreline of arcadia. the waves crashed to shore in their own calming melody and the water splashed up, only coming up just high enough in the sand to touch her toes where she’d sat since the sunset, unable to get herself to move just yet. noticing someone in her peripheral view, she glanced up and offered a friendly smile. “you’re welcome to sit if you’d like. it’s an open beach, of course, though the rest of it is rather empty.” she glanced around simply to confirm that she was right, most other beach goers had already left. “i suppose that just depends on if you’d like company or not.”

She’d come to the beach to try to steady herself, finding somewhere quiet and open and starlit, but it hadn’t worked. The stars were different here. Of course they were; this horrible strange little universe they lived in was built from the patchworked remains of so many others. Their star systems, solar systems, galaxies had all been different from what she’d known. It was terrifying, really, wondering what was up there. Carol knew what the stars looked like this time of year from their little old house in Boston, from her family’s place in Casco Bay, from the shores of the Hudson (what few stars you could see in the city). She knew what the stars looked like from the stars, and she didn’t know them here. That was terrifying. But she was going to learn, goddammit. 

“Thanks,” Carol said, taking a seat. “Sorry to interrupt your, uh-- You doing the brooding by the ocean thing, too?”

[marvelling]

tag drop !

[frodo-sam]

I saw you crush 20 of my best men with your hands bound.

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019) dir. Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden

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Dreams again? Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

[ray-marisha]

Carol Danvers coming out of the closet

[userbrielarson]

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019) + Letterboxd, as requested by anonymous (insp.)