got tagged by the lovely @d-esmond, @kyberinfinitygems and @tommyarashikage on this cute picrew and decided to try my hand at making some of my ocs!
(it's 105. it's 105 again. i fear the current phase is 105 so we are gonna keep seeing the same people and the same family tree!!!!!! i promise i have more ocs than them)
in order: mad jack, cisneros, macfoy, lady, manny, nana, and amalia
amalia is nana's wife and i love her so i wanted to include her can't wait to get to those two they are awesome (working on gen 2 intro as we speak). haven't talked a lot about amalia here but she's a college professor teaching history and they are the reason each other hasn't gone insane already. not everyone would be able to mentally deal with the fact that your wife is dealing with superpowered threats on a daily basis
idk who to tag so feel free to do this as you please!
back to thinking about how i'm gonna fit the 105 children and grandchildren into the mcu continuity because i love these folks and they're an entire family tree now! but i want to have a little bit of a plotline before i give them a proper introduction here (and find faceclaims/have concepts for the rest of them)
for now i can't wait to introduce nana and eddy (+ their tbd children
commando 105 🫵🏻 for the oc questions (either every question for all of them or you can obviously feel free to choose which question to answer for which member!!)
6, 7, 14, 11, 16
took me a second to write the whole thing but thank you so much for being curious about these guys!! love them missed them fr
6. Something they are better at than they think? Something they are worse at?
mad jack does not realize how abysmal his advice often is. he will just say shit.
cisneros grew up with dogs and is very good with them, so he thinks that extends to all animals. the animals do not agree with that statement.
macfoy really downplays his cooking skills but he can hold his own in the kitchen.
lady thinks she can lip read conversations from afar, and will often attempt to do so when they are observing an interaction. she is often very wrong.
manny doesn't trust his own socialization skills, but he is fantastic at playing cards and has earned a lot of both social credit and money from betting among the company.
7. How much do they curse?
they all curse like sailors. if we put them in order from most to least it's macfoy, cisneros, lady, mad jack, manny, but that difference is minimal.
14. Do they have/want tattoos?
none of them have any tattoos at the height of their activity; macfoy gets a tattoo of his daughter's handwriting as soon as she learns to write.
11. Are they spiritual or religious?
most notably, lady is jewish; she is fairly spiritual in that sense and keeps her family's culture and tratitions, even if not orthodox or strict.
macfoy, cisneros, and manny grew up catholic; as opposed to the other two, who keep "going to church on sunday" as a family thing, macfoy still has a personal connection/believes in god but is not particularly attached to religious structure (thus his + lady's kid nana grows up exposed to both parents' religions, but ends up a very cynical atheist). cisneros does not actively practice but his wife is catholic and they had a religious marriage after the war.
mad jack's family was very waspy but he is casually an atheist with how much he does not really care.
16. Do they have scars or other physical injuries?
got tagged by the lovely @kyberinfinitygems and decided to use this as an opportunity to soft launch my girl nana!! it's still a bit inconsistent as i get her character and plotline down, which is why i haven't properly introduced her, but i couldn't not think of her when talking oc parentage. lovechild of the two most insane people to ever love each other this much. you look at her and go damn with parents like these how did you end up normal? and up close realize oh she's NOT fucking normal.
"parents like these" is /pos by the way they loved each other and her so so much and were such a loving family they're just. them. and nana has some emotional issues. but who doesn't.
she's actually supposed to be a more relevant mcu oc by herself, for the rest of the mcu chronology since the 105 is during wwii, but i haven't been able to really match her up with a movie/plot/event in time yet.
mad jack will not stop explaining something once he's started. most of the time he leaves his actions unexplained, yes, but that might be because mad jack explaining is a whole unskippable event. you might have gotten it already, and told him that you got it and it's fine now, but he will see his explanation through the end. it's not really mansplaining because he does this to everybody. jacksplaining.
cisneros will still try to talk even if he has something on his mouth. he firmly believes his words will be understood and he is wrong.
macfoy does not put things back in place. it's not out of malice or laziness, but if he's reading a book and he has to put it away he will just set it down at the nearest surface because according to his logic when he comes back he'll know it's there anyway.
lady does not knock before opening a door. she knocks as she's opening the door, which doesn't really do anything other than announce her entrance.
manny frequently pulls out expressions that no one has ever heard. they're not entirely sure what they mean, if he's using them right, or if they even exist. he does not explain any of them.
16. Do they have scars or other physical injuries?
i think it's safe to say that all of them have many scars in a variety of sizes and graveness, from small injuries to full on shots in combat or something. notably, macfoy gets some pretty nasty shrapnel to his leg by the end of the commando's activities, and manny's hearing deteriorates due to constant loud noises from handling explosives.
34. Are they afraid of something?
here we have deep fears and we have common fears we have it all pick your poison
it is unknown if mad jack fears anything. everyone tries to guess and has no confirmation, who knows. (the truth? boredom. he cannot stop. he does not dare to even fear what will become of him if he does.)
cisneros hates bees. he will deal with that now and not freeze or something, but when he was a kid it was full on kicking and screaming. he has the deep complex fears (as everyone does) but the most notable one for the purpose of this ask is that he really, really, really does not like bees.
macfoy wears the cliché on his sleeve: his biggest fear is not being able to do right by the people he cares about — his friends in the commando, his family, wherever his loyalty lies and whomever he feels like he has to help/protect.
lady fears that the world will not change. that whatever they do, however hard they work their asses off, will result in nothing to anyone. they are an unstoppable force, but what if the world doesn't even need to try stopping them?
manny is genuinely terrified of ghosts. he will face most earthly dangers but he does not fuck with ghosts.
MCU OCs - Captain America: First Avenger / US Army special operations commando in WWII, allies to the Howling Commandos
When a group of American soldiers decided to go beyond enemy lines into a Hydra prisoner camp to free their friend and commanding officer — accidentally bumping into one Steve Rogers who had the same idea —, they already made it clear that they were not only courageous and skilled but also a little insane. So when the Allied forces assembled an elite combat unit to fight Hydra, they needed all the help they could get... Why stop at just one? Commando 105 might be less famous than their Captain America-led counterpart, but they're alright with getting the job done their way, in the background. People will ask less questions about the explosions, the longsword, and the bagpipes.
"I still remember the day I met that group — ragtag, determined, and to be frank really weird — that, unbeknownst to me, would become valuable allies and good friends."
— from the personal journal of Steve Rogers, Captain America
"Pleased to work with you, Rogers. I'm Captain John Churchill. The men call me Mad Jack, but don't take my word for it."
Captain John "Mad Jack" Churchill is the fearless leader that brought this team together. An officer that inspires his subordinates to follow him to the ends of the Earth, or in this case to a Hydra prisoner base, and into any outlandish and probably very dangerous situation. His nickname doesn't come from nowhere, as Mad Jack is known for his unwavering courage, strong instincts, and lack of hesitation or fear to follow them. Carries a longbow, a Claymore longsword, and his bagpipes into battle — yes, seriously. An officer is never well prepared for battle without a sword. And the bagpipes are a good battle cry, he says (to be fair it's been working).
"Cisneros is our radio operator, class clown, and smuggler of luxury goods, such as Hershey bars."
Corporal Tony Cisneros is the perfect guy to do the talking — charming, funny, quick-witted, a little talking here and a little joking there and you're already doing what he wants without even thinking about it. That's how he gets into most places, or ends up knowing most things, or gets the commando the most assorted contraband (cigarettes are an essential and chocolate is a luxury). Friendly, social, charismatic, incredibly likeable; in the darkest times, you'll find Cisneros as a central figure to boost morale and keep everyone together. You just can't not like him, what a cool, nice guy. Openly bisexual (to his friends, it's still the 40s) and incredibly smooth about it, he's a ladies' and gentlemen's man.
"No need to be scared of Macfoy unless you're an asshole. He might out-asshole you. Or punch you in the face, hard to know."
Technician 4th grade Roger Macfoy is most stereotypically the brawns of the team. The typical tough guy with a heart of gold, skilled close-combat fighter, with a mean right hook and an even meaner tongue if you deserve it. Deathly loyal and trustworthy, and would throw a punch or take a bullet for any of his companions without hesitation (not only would but has). If there's one key thing about Macfoy, it's his dead set stubbornness and drive to do things, take matters into his own hands, and win. Has escaped a hospital to rejoin the commando before and would do it again in a heartbeat. Said hospital stay, by the way, would have been way worse had a certain Lady sniper not focused on taking out the guy he was fighting.
"Now you do need to be scared of Lady, if she's looking at you through the scope. Best damn sniper the company never had, their loss."
Technician 4th grade Irene Wajnberg got the nickname "Lady" fighting alongside the lines of men, after sneaking her way into the 107th pretending to be a nurse and proceeding to outmatch the entire regiment in marksmanship with a scope rifle. Raised in a Russian-Jewish immigrant family with a hunting and military tradition, with the steadiest hands and most leveled head known to man, Lady is an enigma to some. But there's really no secret; whoever cares to dig deeper will see her usual stern silence is not coldness, and she is first and foremost driven by kindness. To the folks of the 105, Lady is, beyond an outstanding sniper, a friend. And to a certain Macfoy she's the most amazing woman in the world.
"The shifty ginger is Manny. He might be quiet, but the explosives make a hell of a noise."
Technician 5th grade Hugh "Manny" Manilow is used to being the odd man out; a bit too quiet, a bit too paranoid, a bit too worried, with a laser focus on what he does best — explosives — and a constantly alert state. But surrounded by friends who are just as fucking weird, he has been able to chill and let loose a bit more. Now he's the one who's actually a mystery; no one really knows what's going on with Manny, as his state oscillates between a deer in headlights and completely unbothered. In true Commando 105 fashion, he will casually take any impossible mission with an air of "why not?", and his expertise and excitement about explosives are always welcome. Interpersonal relationships were never Manny's forte, so the few bonds that are formed are held very close to his chest — like one with Bucky Barnes from the Howling Commandos, for example.
more ocs!!!!!! oh commando 105 my beloveds <3 these are such old ocs and i'm ECSTATIC to be thinking about them again. in all truth this started mostly as an excuse to use band of brothers actors as fcs; and then it evolved into an entire family tree spanning the mcu chronology that will be elaborated on later. yes i know rachel weisz is already in the mcu however if they can double cast single movie roles that don't interact i also can! also mad jack was a real person that i took inspiration from but this guy has no relation to the real mad jack. and do i know anything about the us army beyond what i gathered from watching band of brothers religiously? no. do i care? no. actually i do i will be doing research but very basic research for the caring is basic too
please tell us more about the 105!! where do they come from, what‘s their deal, what‘s (lovingly) wrong with them??
THANK YOU FOR BEING INTERESTED IN THEM the 105 is such an old group of ocs and i love coming back to them <3
a timeline of the history of commando 105 + character blurbs:
macfoy, manny, and cisneros met in training bootcamp after enlisting in the army for the war; the three of them joined the 107th regiment, where they also met bucky barnes. after they went to europe, they were joined by lady, who snuck into the ship pretending to be a nurse and then forced her way into the company once they were too far from home and too deep into the chaos to go back. it's likely the only reason she was able to join them was mad jack, their company leader, who was impressed and vouched for her stay (and probably bribed/threatened/bypassed the authority of several people). so the four of them united under the unorthodox, but effective, leadership of mad jack, who definitely lived up to his nickname. they stood out by working well with whatever he threw at them and became a little friend group.
their union was solidified, then, when the 107th regiment was brutally defeated in azzano, italy; cisneros, macfoy, manny and lady managed to retreat, but mad jack was captured with the majority of the regiment. they all at that point would raise hell for their fearless leader, and at least lady felt like she owed him one, so they decided to just. go there. through enemy lines. illegally. and the craziest part is not even that they did it, but rather that they weren't the only ones to think that up — because this guy you might not know about called steve rogers was also doing it for his best friend bucky... and the rest is history. that would be the beginning of steve rogers' history of collaboration with the madmen of the 105, but they weren't a unit yet.
rogers did most of the impressive stuff in the rescue, and got the fame for it; but it's chill, they just gave him backup, don't really care about fame/reputation, and what matters is that they got their friend back. but steve values greatly a helping hand, so when he's recruited to put together a special combat unit to destroy hydra bases, he puts in a word for the five of them and gets them detached into a unit as well. and that's how commando 105 is officially born! to do the jobs too odd or too small for the howling commandos, to be there when they need backup, and to go on missions that "only a madman would go on". unfortunately they don't get a cool nickname (believe me, cisneros tried).
mad jack is the leader; an officer with such a nickname already leaves quite an impression. dude carries a longbow, claymore longsword, and bagpipes into battle (and he was inspired by a real guy who did that btw). his leading is as inspiring as it is unorthodox, and he was probably admired by these four because they were the only ones in the company who absolutely got what he was saying and just went with it. they matched his freak. probably the most confident and least worried person to ever roam the earth. just unwavering. unstoppable force.
cisneros is the radio operator, local jokester, guy who does the talking. most popular guy of the company, knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who can get you what you want (and that's how he gets them anything from cigarettes to chocolate). bisexual, out to a certain extent; his friends know it, the army doesn't, but he'll probably be out and proud after it. charming, knows how to talk to people and has a way with words and a way to conquer you. physically cannot stop talking. funny as fuck. has a killer captain america impression.
macfoy is the close-combat fighter, punches first questions later guy. at first typically macho, runs his mouth, usually perceived as an asshole, but macfoy lives with no shame whatsoever to feel things strongly or about anything for that matter. incredibly excited about the world at large. also about fighting and adrenaline, he does tend to start bar fights to get a kick out of it. impulse control is not really good but blame it on the enthusiasm, and in such a group we need this energy. this man loves his friends so so so much. and he really loves women. like actually loves women. loves strong women. and at the moment there's a specific strong woman in mind.
lady is the team's sniper. her parents are russian-jewish immigrants with a military tradition and a hunting habit, so she grew up learning to shoot and eventually perfected it for the military due to getting it into her head that she needed to go to europe and fight against the nazis. doesn't matter that women can't enlist, or that she will not be a nurse over her dead body. incredibly determined and levelheaded, laser-focused on what she wants to/has to do, and no way in hell you will be able to throw her off. that steadiness might make her a bit scary — "you just can't understand women" — to the rest of the men, but it's actually very simple, she simply isn't going to be bothered by you saying no. the folks of the 105 embrace that energy and that makes them a very easy match. that focus might make her a bit too quiet or blunt or dry, but she's actually incredibly kind and guided by doing good. and she's smitten by a certain brawler.
manny is their explosives expert. has always had an affinity for things that go boom and volunteered to handle the mortar for the company. weird little guy. very paranoid and thus very alert, always fidgety and jumpy and actually aware of his surroundings, which makes him a great scout as well. not afraid of most earthly dangers but will not fuck with ghosts. with such an unstable sleep pattern, manny's default state alternates between deer-in-headlights stare of constant observance or tired beyond thought. incredibly smart, his mind works faster than anyone but him can keep track of, and more often than not the solution to a problem is just let manny cook. what he doesn't really get is social interaction, poor guy. but he means well, and the oddity can be endearing; it certainly drew the attention of one bucky barnes.
on what's wrong with them: a lot <3 mostly they have very little to no fear, notion of danger, hesitation, shame, or attachment to rules or social conventions. does this need to be done? well, we'll do it. why can't we? we'll find a way. almost everything works on "we'll find a way". the two commandos have cut communications with enemy fire between them? no problem we can run. great at not budging under pressure, no problem is too big. and no medic in the team they just raw dog it. they're also all incredibly attached to each other and are at varying levels not aware of, not worried about, or not willing to comply with social conventions or what would be considered normal vs. weird. they're going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this military equipment.
OK i think for this one i'm gonna drop a draft — for a while i've been answering that one "if your oc was canon" ask for the commando 105. ALL OF IT. it's probably never leaving my drafts at this point because of how much thinking it's taking and how long it is already despite not being even halfway through it 💀
but i do like a lot of what it made me think about for them, so if it doesn't see the light of day i'm sharing some now (and can will share more). i had SO much fun thinking about the meta aspect of their marvel chronology.
If there are multiple adaptions/If they are part of a multi-part franchise, which ones would your character appear in?
while the commando 105 are first avenger ocs, because they exist mainly in that period of time, i don't think they would actually appear in the captain america: first avenger movie at all except for like extras in the background or one-liners (since all the howling commandos' missions are a montage). but they would be a cult hit in tie-in comics, shorts, episodes of shows. commando 105 was probably introduced in a world war two era comic like sgt. fury and the howling commandos as "that batshit team that the howling commandos have to learn to work with for one issue", and were brought to the mcu at first only as an easter egg. but since they also stayed active for a couple years after the war, agent carter deals with that period and they would feature in some episodes probably (this is pure speculation since i have not watched agent carter). and if any of the marvel shows have howling commandos flashback episodes — again, i have not watched agent carter or agents of shield — they would be there. i also like to think that there is a what if? episode on "what if captain america led the commando 105?" and it becomes so popular that spawns several of those "who are the members of the commando 105?" blog articles, eventually gets them a fandom of their own, and leads to a commando 105 spin off tv show in the disney+ mcu shows era.
