“there are things from the winter soldier days that i'm just remembering. weapons left in the field... dangers i can still prevent. i think maybe that's the path... a way to the redemption i've been looking for.”
name ― bucky barnes / jahan bhakta .
alias ― winter soldier .
age ― thirty .
gender / pronouns ― cismale / he/him .
faceclaim ― dev patel .
occupation ― spy .
affiliation ― ( cautiously ) the avengers .
canon ― blend of comics 616, some mcu , personal headcanons .
what was your character's life like in 2024 ?
honestly when has bucky’s life ever been great ? he wasn’t the winter soldier anymore , right at that point where he was just deprogrammed so like . he wasn’t doing great but he was also doing much better than where he currently is now in 2012 ( we’ll go into this later. ) he was captain america once ! he hated every second of it like why did steve think that was a good idea ! ( he knows why but he truly does not wish for it to happen again <3 ) but uh he was on the track to doing good . trying to be better than what he was . he was getting there and then well . we’re back to 2012 .
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
hazy flashbacks & nightmares , i fear . during this time in 2012 he would have been the winter soldier so he’s truly #Going-Through-It right now , getting attacked with the future and wondering why it looks like that . he’s not doing great like he’s really not doing great at all ! have y’all ever seen rabid dog backed into a corner ? i haven’t -- but i can’t imagine that it’s a nice sight to see ! he will be struggling with himself so <3 fun stuff !
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
literally right now not even close to joining the avengers again , like i actually do not know what this man is going to be doing other than trying not to give into impulses <3 man’s is a hot ass mess and not in a sexy way !
good to see you, THOMAS "TOMMY" SHEPHERD / SPEED. you are TWENTY-TWO years old, your pronouns are HE/THEY, and you look just like RUDY PANKOW. you’ve come from MARVEL with NONE of your memories intact, but even now we can recognize you by bleached hair with dark roots, the ache to climb out of someone else's shadow, scuffed up nikes. by day you are a WAITER, and by night you’re affiliated with N/A. welcome back to new york. we missed you.
name ― thomas alexander “tommy” shepherd
alias ― currently speed, in the future quicksilver
age ― twenty two
gender / pronouns ― non-binary / he/they
faceclaim ― rudy pankow
occupation ― waiter with too many responsibilites at a diner in brooklyn
affiliation ― none at the moment, though they’ll always hold their old young avengers teamates closely
canon ― 616 based with many many headcanons. tommy shepherd ≠ tommy maximoff
family ― frank shepherd ( father ), mary shepherd ( mother ), william kaplan ( reincarnated twin )
what was your character's life like in 2024 ?
a trouble-making adolescent turned speedster hero. while once a member of the young avengers, thr group found itself disbanded as grander duties called each hero, tommy found himself welcomed into mutantkind with open arms. under the guidance of his ‘grandfather’ magneto, tommy found himself in the ranks of the x-men. the title of ‘quicksilver’ was passed down from uncle to nephew as the true crowing moment tommy became an x-men. he was happy to be back on a team, going on missions to help those who needed help. tommy would never say it aloud but his favorite missions were the ones that ended up in space: his favorite court wizard usually making an appearence.
it was always easy to feel like he fell into the shadow of his seemingly no-power-limit twin, billy; but training with the likes of northstar and the original quicksilver, tommy finally felt like an individual.
and he had david alleyne. his best friend, partner, and overall favorite person to exist ever. while tommy might have had everything they dreamed of, they were not one to settle down. life had always been bouncing from one battle to another, just tommy had something to fight for and protect now. he was there when thanos attacked and he disappeared with the snap. five long years went on without tommy shepherd. he returned to a world that was vaguely familiar yet totally different.
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
while he has no memories, tommy can’t help but be overtaken with deja vu at almost every turn he makes. it feels as if sometimes they’re just watching a repeat of their own life.
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
he’s living a life with no real direction. a superhero in his teen years, forced out of that role as the young avengers crumbled. tommy took the breakup the hardest. he tried going to college: they ended up bored and understimulated by all their classes. instead of forcing themself to suffer through a degree they had no interest in, they dropped out of school. the shepherds weren’t too happy with this outcome, truly their last straw with their now grown child. tommy getting kicked out was a long time coming, didn’t make it hurt any less. with really nowhere else to turn to, tommy found himself on the kaplans’ doorstep.
while the fact they’re reincarnated twins is currently unknown to tommy, he still always felt an unexplainable connection towards billy. while it’s a full house in the kaplan home, with six people, tommy is happy to have a roof over his head and some kind of family unit to fall back onto. he’s currently saving up the money he makes working at a nearby diner to move out and get his own place.
good to see you, HARRY OSBORN / HOBGOBLIN. you are 22 years old, your pronouns are HE/THEY, and you look just like ZETHPHAN SMITH-GNEIST. you’ve come from MARVEL with SOME of your memories intact, but even now we can recognize you by fake smiles carefully concealed to the world, a heavy burden weighing down constantly on shoulders, and a determination to be better than what everyone expects. by day you are a CEO, and by night you’re affiliated with N/A. welcome back to new york. we missed you.
name ― harold theopolis osborn
alias ― harry, hobgoblin, the green goblin
age ― 22
gender / pronouns ― non-binary / he/they
faceclaim ― zethphan smith-gneist
occupation ― ceo of oscorp
affiliation ― spiders, mainly
what was your character's life like in 2024 ?
ha, complicated. extremely complicated. things really began to spiral for harry once his dad started on the path of the green goblin. there was a time in his life before harry knew what norman had truly become, and he always desperately tried to make his father proud of him. but no matter how hard he worked, how smart he proved himself to be, it never was enough. that need to make norman proud, however, was the perfect path to manipulate him -- and harry found himself as a tool to be used. norman created hobgoblin, the suit, and all the weapons that came with it and put harry into it as an effort to dismantle spider-man. of course, harry eventually caught on and everything came out. and that was when he began to spiral.
while harry took over as the ceo of oscorp, and believing his father to have been dead for a brief stint of time, he turned down a darker path and became the new green goblin after dosing himself with a better, stronger version of the green goblin serum.
during this time, he did a lot of terrible things. hurt people that were close to him and that he loved. it eventually resulted in his death after a brief moment of sanity where he sacrificed himself.
he was, however, brought back to life and held no memories of his time as the green goblin. harry went on with life as normal, running oscorp, trying to distance himself from his father. but he had no memories of anything.
what point were they at in their personal life / hero career / occupation? you can make this as long as you wish.
harry was at a pretty terrible point in his life. his hero career as hobgoblin was going really good once he broke free from norman’s influence after the supposed ‘death’ of his father, and he was trying to help people through his hero work and his work with oscorp. of course, that all changed when he spiraled and became the second green goblin.
when he was brought back to life, harry had no memories. he didn’t remember who spider-man was, didn’t recall norman being the green goblin, held absolutely no memory of himself being hobgoblin or the green goblin. he just went back into life as it had once been, trying to make things better with his work as the acting ceo of oscorp.
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
faintly. he remembers things with hazy flashbacks, mostly. nightmares as well. sometimes harry will wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and in a sweat when he remembers how he was changed after injecting the green goblin serum. some nights he’ll get nightmares of some of the horrible things he did, or his death. but once he wakes, harry tends not to recall the details only the feeling of panic and dread pooling in the pit of his stomach.
he does, however, remember a bit more about being hobgoblin as of late. those memories seem to be trickling back even after coming back from the dead, though harry isn’t quite sure what it means or what’s happening. he’s never wanted to be a hero or surround himself by heroes or villains, but these fuzzy flashbacks he’s getting clearly tell a different story. for now, he’s trying to ignore them and pretend like it isn’t happening.
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
well, in 2012 harry was at a bit of a difficult time in his life. he was going to school in order to make norman proud by specifically going for business so he could take over oscorp one day. but that constant pressure in his life had sent him down a nasty rabbit hole and addiction started to become his coping mechanism. drinking, drugs -- he did anything he could to really numb the pain and try and pretend that he was fine. harry hid it away from peter, mj, and gwen. tried to pretend that he was okay, masked his pain with a smile. it was always easier than getting help.
name ― jonathan lowell spencer storm
alias ― the human torch !
age ― 23
gender / pronouns ― cis man / he/him
faceclaim ― evan roderick
occupation ― celebrity superhero & man about town
affiliation ― the fantastic four !
canon― 616 based, a wide range of the comics, probably with particular influence from hickman’s run ??? we live in fear of mcu fantastic four
what was your character's life like in 2024 ?
a superhero since he was sixteen, johnny never wanted any other life. then again, he barely actually knew any other life. it was sue and him, on their own, until they met reed richards & ben grimm, went to space and then bam: overnight, everyone in the world knew his name. for a lonely teenager, it was intoxicating. johnny never learnt how to put the brakes on, and his life was always all about excess. more fame, more parties, more clothes, more cars, more danger. he wanted it all. and then, before he knew it, he was thirty years old.
johnny always joked he’d consider his life over at 30, but he didn’t know how right he’d be. it wasn’t long after his thirtieth birthday that he made his final stand. alone, against the annihilation wave of the negative zone, all to prevent an invasion of earth. the invasion was stopped, but johnny storm was dead.
or was he? in the negative zone, life and death weren’t so simple. johnny was resurrected and forced to fight to the death in the zone’s gladiatorial ring. over and over and over again. two years passed for him until he made his escape, all to prevent a second invasion of earth. it’d been only two months for the rest of the world.
it’s a wake up call to be stuck in an endless cycle of death and resurrection, only to come back to safety and feel just as trapped, just as stagnant. who was johnny storm? the fourth-rater of the fantastic four. his sister, reed, ben, they had partners, they had careers, they had children: they’d done something with their lives. johnny’d spent his life being mediocre, and he had nothing to show for it but a string of failures. every time he’d tried to strike out on his own he’d come back, having crashed and burned, classic johnny storm style. it was a question he’d been asked over and over again from friends, from family, and especially from significant others: johnny, what do you really want? johnny, i like you, but i don’t think you know what you really want. in the negative zone, he had time to think about it. two years thinking about the opportunities he’d missed, the things he’d never done, all the potential he’d wasted. he was going to do better, be better, now that he was back, but then... blipped out for five years. and then ... back to a world that had come undone and reset.
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
johnny has flashes, mostly in his nightmares. memories of being torn apart and put back together by the resurrection bugs of the negative zone, horrifying dreams of dying, of fighting in the ring, of killing, of using his powers to burn and destroy. no one stayed dead long, but the smell of burning flesh is still all around him until he wakes back up again, heart pounding in his chest, terrified by a sense of a lack of control that hasn’t felt this bad since he was sixteen years old and went up in flames for the first time. he doesn’t understand any of it, and is afraid to even try. fortunately, he’s got a lot of practice in ignoring his problems and pretending to be fine, so he’s trying to not even think about it. if there’s anything left behind, it’s the burning desire to be more, to actually make something of himself.
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
really, johnny’s doing pretty good. the fantastic four are at the height of their fame, the world’s premier superhero team (and the us government has finally dropped all charges after they, y’ know, maybe stole a rocket ship. johnny, hands in the air, innocent smile: that was all reed’s idea, i swear). so johnny’s at the peak of his rising star and he doesn’t really know what it feels like to burn out yet. sure, he might have flunked out of college a few years back, he might have taken a few breakups a bit too hard, but he’s famous, he’s gorgeous, and oh yeah... he has superpowers. life’s hot! kinda like he is! it might have been years since he tagged along with his sister, her boyfriend and his best friend on an illegal ride to space, but he loves it as much as ever. being the human torch of the fantastic four is the best part of his life, the only thing johnny’s sure he’s good at. every day’s a new adventure, a new place to explore, to save the day. the ff are more likely found saving the galaxy lightyears away than on the streets, but they’re still a fixture of new york, part of the skyline. johnny currently lives in the baxter building, along with the rest of the ff, and has no intentions of leaving. as ever, they’re one not-so-big happy co-dependent messed up family.
right now, johnny wants to make it in hollywood. he’s used to being tabloid fodder, splashed all over social media, but he wants to be a movie star. it’d be better if he could actually act, of course, but he’s going to see how far a famous for being famous name can take him...
EXTRA:
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good to see you, EMMA FROST / WHITE QUEEN. you are 30 years old, your pronouns are SHE/HER, and you look just like ABBEY LEE KERSHAW. you’ve come from MARVEL with ALL of your memories intact, but even now we can recognize you by a flawless manicure, the scent of Dior perfume and the sound of heels walking to the throne. by day you are an CEO OF HELLFIRE TRADING COMPANY & TEACHER, and by night you’re affiliated with THE X-MEN. welcome back to new york. we missed you.
name ― emma grace frost
alias ― white queen
age ― 30
gender / pronouns ― she / her
faceclaim ― abbey lee kershaw
occupation ― ceo of the hellfire trading company & teacher
affiliation ― x-men
what was your character's life like in 2024 ?
In 2024, Emma is a prominent figure among mutants and in the world. She was part of the Quiet Council on Krakoa, managing all financial trade and economy to and from Krakoa to the outside world as well as having a say in important mutant matters. She was also head of public relations, using her connections, wealth and beauty to keep mutants at the forefront.
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
Emma Frost remembers everything and, perhaps it was own sheer determination and arrogance, that she would. She liked to stay one step ahead of the game at all times. However, she does have a very loose theory that it is because she is a telepath and thus can protect her mind in other ways. She remembers everything as clear as day.
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
Though a member of the X-Men and their Ethics teacher, Emma does not hold the same position in the Quiet Council as Krakoa is yet to exist. Rather than wait for events to play out, Emma has already began doing big talks with important people as well as venturing into the world of politics, using her connections, wealth and intelligence to try and push for better conditions and rights for mutants.
good to see you, YELENA BELOVA / WHITE WIDOW. you are 25 years old, your pronouns are SHE/HER, and you look just like FLORENCE PUGH. you’ve come from MARVEL with ALL of your memories intact, but even now we can recognize you by sarcastic comments used to hide her hurt, a vest with far too many pockets & the song american pie blasting through the speakers. by day you are an SPY / BARTENDER, and by night you’re affiliated with N/A. welcome back to new york. we missed you.
pinterest // spotify
name ― Yelena Belova
alias ― White Widow
age ― 25 years old
gender / pronouns ― cisfemale / she/her
faceclaim ― Florence Pugh
occupation ― Spy // bartender
affiliation ― Herself. Sometimes the highest bidder. Depends on her mood.
(death tw)
what was your character’s life like in 2024 ?
Her life is a bit of a mess, to be completely honest. There isn’t much that can throw her off. The Red Room made sure of it. However, the news of her (adoptive) sister has completely thrown her off balance.
does your character have any memories from 2024 or their past ?
Yelena remembers everything and for once, she hates having the upper hand. She remembers disappearing, coming back after what felt like mere seconds and realizing that she lost five years of her life. She remembers exactly how she felt when she came back and realized that Natasha was dead. Dread, guilt, anger. The thirst for revenge.
what are they doing in the year 2012 ?
For once, Yelena is trying to live a normal life. Whatever normal means. She doesn’t know. She still does work on the side for the highest bidders, but she also bartends at the sketchiest bar in town. That’s what normal people do, right? She has a run down apartment. A ‘normal’ job. She’s even looking into getting a dog or a cat. Of course, she can’t live a boring, normal life for long before getting restless.
