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PLAYER INFO
Name: Dha
Contact: derecho @ plurk
Are you over 18?: yup
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name:James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (aka the Winter Soldier)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: Captain America: Civil War
Appearance: Beef Monster with the exception of his cybernetic arm. It will be "gently" sanded up to just below the shoulder and the star will also be sanded off so there's no messy wires and other things hanging around.
Age: 99 (chronologically), appears ~29.
Setting: Pre-brainwashing and after brainwashing
History: here!
Personality:
More than anything else, Bucky is loyal. Despite having his brain torn to pieces and slapped back together again, Bucky follows those he trusts. For example, in Civil War, he demonstrates during his surrender and consequent captivity. He surrenders at Steve’s prompting and allows himself to be restrained, despite his latter demonstration of his strength. He was able to break free of his holding cell at any time, but only did so when Zemo began to read the list of words to re-trigger his Winter Soldier programming. Additionally, at the end of the fight in Siberia, when Tony Stark is distracted with Steve, Bucky is at a distance he could flee as he’s been trying to do for much of the scene. Rather than run while Steve is clearly down and out, Bucky leaps to his aid. Even while missing his cybernetic arm, he reaches out to distract Tony to keep him from blasting Steve to bits. On a similar theme, in the fight at the airport, mid-movie, he shields Sam Wilson from a direct hit from Spiderman, showing that he’s capable of helping those he doesn’t necessarily know well.
However, Bucky is loyal to people, not causes. His time during World War II most certainly disillusioned him with the idea of serving some politicians sitting back in their ivory towers. For example, when Steve asks him to be one of his Howling Commandos, Bucky clarifies that he’s following Steve, not the shield. His time as the Winter Soldier only served to exacerbate these qualities, leading Bucky to become dramatically more individualistic than previously. As the Winter Soldier, he wasn’t allowed to make decisions for himself, so in Civil War, we see him making a series of individualistic choices. For example, he runs when confronted by Steve in Bucharest and continues to do so when T’Challa enters the scene as well. As the movie progresses, though, we see him losing his option to make big choices (i.e. choosing to fight or not, choosing whether or not to lead Steve to Siberia, etc). So, he makes a series of smaller ones, most apparently when he speaks (or doesn’t speak).
Bucky is naturally reticent. Even before his brainwashing at the hands of HYDRA, he was one to pick and choose his words carefully. He wasn’t exactly mute, but he certainly wasn’t a chatterbox. For example, after his rescue and return from the HYDRA Weapons facility in the Austrian alps, he doesn’t try to interrupt Peggy and Steve’s conversation. Instead, he sits back until they’re finished and then says one sentence to help boost the morale of the company. After serving time as the Winter Soldier, when he wasn’t allowed to say much of anything outside of briefs, Bucky rarely speaks unless spoken to, with a couple exceptions. Often, even when spoken to directly, he refuses to say anything at all or gives obtuse answers. This is most evident in his interactions with Tony Stark, particularly during the final fight. Tony talks through most of the fight and expresses his feelings very clearly. On the other hand, Bucky remains silent unless he’s asked a direct question by Tony while in a chokehold. Even then, he doesn’t spout off a litany of apologies. Instead, he replies with one sentence and doesn’t elaborate further.
That said, Bucky is not one to take the easy route in life and isn’t satisfied with simple answers. In Winter Soldier, after encountering Steve on the bridge in Washington D.C., he recounts again and again to his captors that he knew the man on the bridge. Alexander Pierce tells Bucky he ran into the man on a mission earlier in the week, but Bucky shakes his head and insists again that he knows Steve. After his escape, he learns to not take anything at face value. In Civil War, he distrusts the authorities who bring him in, he questions his allies, and, at the end, he determines that he can’t trust his own mind either. Additionally, he doesn't like leaving things up to fate. He would much rather take matters into his own hands than let some unknown power control him.
Canon Abilities/Skills:
+Master marksman - Between his time in World War II and his HYDRA training, Bucky is an elite sniper. He can judge factors that will interfere with his shot (i.e. walls in Fury's case and people in Natasha's case) and still make it. While his ability to make judgments for a shot will remain, he will be unable to handle a rifle without an extensive stock.
+Master armsman - Before HYDRA, Bucky wielded pistols, mid-sized semi-automatic rifles, and sniper rifles. After his extensive time as the Winter Soldier, he can use nearly any type of weapon, including knives in close quarters and grenade launchers at mid-range. However, many of these require two arms to operate, so most are now unusable to him.
+Hand to hand combat - Bucky is extremely well trained in close-quarters melee combat. Before enlisting in the army, he was a boxer and his training under HYDRA only increased his finesse. However, his style very much still resembles a boxer's with very little acrobatics. Again, with the loss of his arm, his abilities in this area have greatly decreased.
+Languages - As he mentions when describing the other winter soldiers, he knows up to 30 different languages. OOCly, this will mean that he's very quick to pick up on nee languages, but will largely use English unless he's triggered. His broodmates are welcome to more or less use his brain like a babelfish.
+Increased healing - Due to his experimentation at the hands of Armin Zola, Bucky developed both an increased hardiness and healing. He can fall from great heights, take crippling hits, and grapple with death and survive.
+Super strength - Again, due to his experimentation, Bucky is able to lift airport signs and throw them like they're paper, tear steering wheels out of cars, and otherwise wreak quite a bit of havoc.
ON STATION 72
Symbiote Specialization: Iota.
Symbiote Ability:
Electrical current manipulation
RANK I
(+) The host can channel up to 50 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object. However, it requires two points of contact and a complete circuit, meaning that the host cannot arc the current. For example, Bucky would need to touch someone with a foot and a hand or stand in a pool of water with them. The voltage, however, is completely dependent on the target material's conductivity and resistivity. At its most basic, the host can give someone anywhere from a mild shock to defibrillation (interrupt the heart's electric signals, not restart it).
(-) Electricity is a funny thing, especially in combination with a brain full of electrical signals. Hosts will experience, at the least, a blip in their memory surrounding the use of the power. They may also suffer from mood swings, muscle twitches, seizures, extended short-term memory loss, insomnia, and burns. Additionally, the current will follow the path of least resistance more often than not, meaning it will more likely go through a human than glass, etc.
RANK II
(+) The host can channel up to 100 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object. At this rank, the ability only requires one point of contact, but still requires contact and a complete circuit. The voltage is less dependent on the target material's conductivity and more on whether or not the material is connected by metal or not (i.e. copper) or water. The host can create sparks independent of a complete circuit, but still cannot arc or otherwise focus the current.
(-)The host will suffer from blistering burns at the contact point, especially if used for a duration. Muscle twitches are expected to occur up to a few weeks later. Seizures are less common, but not unusual. Memory loss can be anywhere from a few minutes to days at a time. The host will not be able to sleep until 12 hours after using the power. Loss of consciousness is possible and fibrillation of the host's heart (uncoordinated pulses of the heart that can lead to death).
RANK III
(+) The host can channel 150 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object without direct contact, but requires the host to be within a foot of their target. They can induce burns in their target or otherwise superheat the material. With extended contact, they can kill a human being.
(-)The host will lose consciousness and suffer significant memory loss at a minimum. How anyone will get to this rank in the first place is a wonder, but it certainly comes with consequences. Seizures are common up to three days after use. The host will not be able to sleep for at least 24 hours after use. The host will suffer tremendous burns beyond the contact point. Chance of fibrillation of the host's heart is at 50%.
Inventory:
+A puffy black snow vest
+Super tactical black thermal shirt with one sleeve cut off
+Black cargo pants
+Steel-toe black hiking/combat boots
+One black fingerless glove
SAMPLES
Samples:
bakerstreet: random scenario meme
test drive meme
Rescue Write-up:
The Siberian wind whipped across Bucky’s face, numbing the broken nose and torn skin. Catching his breath somehow seemed easier with the gale freezing his senses. He didn’t have to think about anything but putting one foot in front of the other. The warm body under his remaining arm supported more of his weight than he should, their places switched from a distant past he can’t quite remember. A distant past that included Howard and Maria Stark dead and 1991. Maria cried and choked, Howard questioned and gurgled.
And yet, here he was, still alive, though he didn’t deserve it.
All the other winter soldiers died in their sleep when Bucky should’ve moved faster, thought quicker. They couldn’t cripple the world in one night anymore, but that didn’t mean they should be put down like animals.
He was the animal, the one to be caged and locked away, the one to be taken out back.
The wind stopped and a moment later, he lay sprawled across the ice, breath knocked out of him and staring up at a shadowy figure.
Stark? No.
Braided scales peeled back and a claw emerged, pincing Bucky’s neck before he could blink. In his head, his brain buzzed and ached and everything was suddenly too warm. He didn’t care, couldn’t care.
A shout from his left preluded the release of that heat and gifted him with air, sweet air.
Come with us. Someone said, not Steve, not familiar.
A cry of pain had Bucky attempting to upright himself, reaching out with phantom fingers to the snow, but landing on the mess of his arm instead. Get up, get up, get up. Something pushed him back down, something halfway between a boot and a talon curled about his neck. He couldn't see anything in the growing dark, in between stars and warped colors.
But he could hear distant screaming over the ringing filling his ears and closer yet intelligible growling. In his throat, his heart pounded against the lariat of scales tightening. Yet, he couldn't get his body to move, every muscle exhausted and agonized from the fight mere minutes before.
Fight.
He could breathe again and a hand reached down for him.
Come with us.
He reached up and accepted it.
Name: Dha
Contact: derecho @ plurk
Are you over 18?: yup
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name:James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (aka the Winter Soldier)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: Captain America: Civil War
Appearance: Beef Monster with the exception of his cybernetic arm. It will be "gently" sanded up to just below the shoulder and the star will also be sanded off so there's no messy wires and other things hanging around.
Age: 99 (chronologically), appears ~29.
Setting: Pre-brainwashing and after brainwashing
History: here!
Personality:
More than anything else, Bucky is loyal. Despite having his brain torn to pieces and slapped back together again, Bucky follows those he trusts. For example, in Civil War, he demonstrates during his surrender and consequent captivity. He surrenders at Steve’s prompting and allows himself to be restrained, despite his latter demonstration of his strength. He was able to break free of his holding cell at any time, but only did so when Zemo began to read the list of words to re-trigger his Winter Soldier programming. Additionally, at the end of the fight in Siberia, when Tony Stark is distracted with Steve, Bucky is at a distance he could flee as he’s been trying to do for much of the scene. Rather than run while Steve is clearly down and out, Bucky leaps to his aid. Even while missing his cybernetic arm, he reaches out to distract Tony to keep him from blasting Steve to bits. On a similar theme, in the fight at the airport, mid-movie, he shields Sam Wilson from a direct hit from Spiderman, showing that he’s capable of helping those he doesn’t necessarily know well.
However, Bucky is loyal to people, not causes. His time during World War II most certainly disillusioned him with the idea of serving some politicians sitting back in their ivory towers. For example, when Steve asks him to be one of his Howling Commandos, Bucky clarifies that he’s following Steve, not the shield. His time as the Winter Soldier only served to exacerbate these qualities, leading Bucky to become dramatically more individualistic than previously. As the Winter Soldier, he wasn’t allowed to make decisions for himself, so in Civil War, we see him making a series of individualistic choices. For example, he runs when confronted by Steve in Bucharest and continues to do so when T’Challa enters the scene as well. As the movie progresses, though, we see him losing his option to make big choices (i.e. choosing to fight or not, choosing whether or not to lead Steve to Siberia, etc). So, he makes a series of smaller ones, most apparently when he speaks (or doesn’t speak).
Bucky is naturally reticent. Even before his brainwashing at the hands of HYDRA, he was one to pick and choose his words carefully. He wasn’t exactly mute, but he certainly wasn’t a chatterbox. For example, after his rescue and return from the HYDRA Weapons facility in the Austrian alps, he doesn’t try to interrupt Peggy and Steve’s conversation. Instead, he sits back until they’re finished and then says one sentence to help boost the morale of the company. After serving time as the Winter Soldier, when he wasn’t allowed to say much of anything outside of briefs, Bucky rarely speaks unless spoken to, with a couple exceptions. Often, even when spoken to directly, he refuses to say anything at all or gives obtuse answers. This is most evident in his interactions with Tony Stark, particularly during the final fight. Tony talks through most of the fight and expresses his feelings very clearly. On the other hand, Bucky remains silent unless he’s asked a direct question by Tony while in a chokehold. Even then, he doesn’t spout off a litany of apologies. Instead, he replies with one sentence and doesn’t elaborate further.
That said, Bucky is not one to take the easy route in life and isn’t satisfied with simple answers. In Winter Soldier, after encountering Steve on the bridge in Washington D.C., he recounts again and again to his captors that he knew the man on the bridge. Alexander Pierce tells Bucky he ran into the man on a mission earlier in the week, but Bucky shakes his head and insists again that he knows Steve. After his escape, he learns to not take anything at face value. In Civil War, he distrusts the authorities who bring him in, he questions his allies, and, at the end, he determines that he can’t trust his own mind either. Additionally, he doesn't like leaving things up to fate. He would much rather take matters into his own hands than let some unknown power control him.
Canon Abilities/Skills:
+Master marksman - Between his time in World War II and his HYDRA training, Bucky is an elite sniper. He can judge factors that will interfere with his shot (i.e. walls in Fury's case and people in Natasha's case) and still make it. While his ability to make judgments for a shot will remain, he will be unable to handle a rifle without an extensive stock.
+Master armsman - Before HYDRA, Bucky wielded pistols, mid-sized semi-automatic rifles, and sniper rifles. After his extensive time as the Winter Soldier, he can use nearly any type of weapon, including knives in close quarters and grenade launchers at mid-range. However, many of these require two arms to operate, so most are now unusable to him.
+Hand to hand combat - Bucky is extremely well trained in close-quarters melee combat. Before enlisting in the army, he was a boxer and his training under HYDRA only increased his finesse. However, his style very much still resembles a boxer's with very little acrobatics. Again, with the loss of his arm, his abilities in this area have greatly decreased.
+Languages - As he mentions when describing the other winter soldiers, he knows up to 30 different languages. OOCly, this will mean that he's very quick to pick up on nee languages, but will largely use English unless he's triggered. His broodmates are welcome to more or less use his brain like a babelfish.
+Increased healing - Due to his experimentation at the hands of Armin Zola, Bucky developed both an increased hardiness and healing. He can fall from great heights, take crippling hits, and grapple with death and survive.
+Super strength - Again, due to his experimentation, Bucky is able to lift airport signs and throw them like they're paper, tear steering wheels out of cars, and otherwise wreak quite a bit of havoc.
ON STATION 72
Symbiote Specialization: Iota.
Symbiote Ability:
Electrical current manipulation
RANK I
(+) The host can channel up to 50 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object. However, it requires two points of contact and a complete circuit, meaning that the host cannot arc the current. For example, Bucky would need to touch someone with a foot and a hand or stand in a pool of water with them. The voltage, however, is completely dependent on the target material's conductivity and resistivity. At its most basic, the host can give someone anywhere from a mild shock to defibrillation (interrupt the heart's electric signals, not restart it).
(-) Electricity is a funny thing, especially in combination with a brain full of electrical signals. Hosts will experience, at the least, a blip in their memory surrounding the use of the power. They may also suffer from mood swings, muscle twitches, seizures, extended short-term memory loss, insomnia, and burns. Additionally, the current will follow the path of least resistance more often than not, meaning it will more likely go through a human than glass, etc.
RANK II
(+) The host can channel up to 100 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object. At this rank, the ability only requires one point of contact, but still requires contact and a complete circuit. The voltage is less dependent on the target material's conductivity and more on whether or not the material is connected by metal or not (i.e. copper) or water. The host can create sparks independent of a complete circuit, but still cannot arc or otherwise focus the current.
(-)The host will suffer from blistering burns at the contact point, especially if used for a duration. Muscle twitches are expected to occur up to a few weeks later. Seizures are less common, but not unusual. Memory loss can be anywhere from a few minutes to days at a time. The host will not be able to sleep until 12 hours after using the power. Loss of consciousness is possible and fibrillation of the host's heart (uncoordinated pulses of the heart that can lead to death).
RANK III
(+) The host can channel 150 mA of alternating current through their body and into another material/body/object without direct contact, but requires the host to be within a foot of their target. They can induce burns in their target or otherwise superheat the material. With extended contact, they can kill a human being.
(-)The host will lose consciousness and suffer significant memory loss at a minimum. How anyone will get to this rank in the first place is a wonder, but it certainly comes with consequences. Seizures are common up to three days after use. The host will not be able to sleep for at least 24 hours after use. The host will suffer tremendous burns beyond the contact point. Chance of fibrillation of the host's heart is at 50%.
Inventory:
+A puffy black snow vest
+Super tactical black thermal shirt with one sleeve cut off
+Black cargo pants
+Steel-toe black hiking/combat boots
+One black fingerless glove
SAMPLES
Samples:
bakerstreet: random scenario meme
test drive meme
Rescue Write-up:
The Siberian wind whipped across Bucky’s face, numbing the broken nose and torn skin. Catching his breath somehow seemed easier with the gale freezing his senses. He didn’t have to think about anything but putting one foot in front of the other. The warm body under his remaining arm supported more of his weight than he should, their places switched from a distant past he can’t quite remember. A distant past that included Howard and Maria Stark dead and 1991. Maria cried and choked, Howard questioned and gurgled.
And yet, here he was, still alive, though he didn’t deserve it.
All the other winter soldiers died in their sleep when Bucky should’ve moved faster, thought quicker. They couldn’t cripple the world in one night anymore, but that didn’t mean they should be put down like animals.
He was the animal, the one to be caged and locked away, the one to be taken out back.
The wind stopped and a moment later, he lay sprawled across the ice, breath knocked out of him and staring up at a shadowy figure.
Stark? No.
Braided scales peeled back and a claw emerged, pincing Bucky’s neck before he could blink. In his head, his brain buzzed and ached and everything was suddenly too warm. He didn’t care, couldn’t care.
A shout from his left preluded the release of that heat and gifted him with air, sweet air.
Come with us. Someone said, not Steve, not familiar.
A cry of pain had Bucky attempting to upright himself, reaching out with phantom fingers to the snow, but landing on the mess of his arm instead. Get up, get up, get up. Something pushed him back down, something halfway between a boot and a talon curled about his neck. He couldn't see anything in the growing dark, in between stars and warped colors.
But he could hear distant screaming over the ringing filling his ears and closer yet intelligible growling. In his throat, his heart pounded against the lariat of scales tightening. Yet, he couldn't get his body to move, every muscle exhausted and agonized from the fight mere minutes before.
Fight.
He could breathe again and a hand reached down for him.
Come with us.
He reached up and accepted it.
REVISIONS
re: memories!:
As he starts in the game, Bucky will be more or less brain-blended again. Between having the symbiote implanted and suffering a few kicks to the head, his mind will be in a similar state to the beginning of Civil War. He's got an overwhelming amount of data (bits of memories and details), but he doesn't know quite where to put them. Some days are better than others and connecting to a hivemind of people who know him will help bring organization to his memories faster than, say, if he were handling it alone. Since there is a pre-serum Steve in the game, Bucky will recall his pre-military memories (specifically, memories with Steve in them) sooner than any others. However, they will only come with Steve's emotions and motivations, not his own. That's the problem, really. He knows lots of bits and pieces of what has happened, but doesn't know why or how.
In the MCU comics (irony at its finest), we see that Bucky recalls those he murdered and in the movie he says he remembers all of them. After he's been triggered by Zemo, he indicates that he doesn't know what he did during his escape until he's asked by Steve. So, my take is that he remembers moments of intense negative emotion on his own (i.e. specifically the moment he takes the life of someone begging for mercy), but when it comes to the smaller things, he needs some kind of prompting. It's similar to having a puzzle without the picture it's supposed to look like. With help, he can start sorting them, but half the time, the edge pieces won't even belong to him.
Additionally, since he has some identity issues to begin with, not knowing who he is, etc, he will be more susceptible to shaping by the hivemind. Some days, he might wake up without any memories at all and know only the hivemind (i.e. believe he is the hivemind) until he gets some kind of hard reset (sleep, kick in the head, electrical pulse, etc). Over time, these incidents will become more frequent.
tl;dr
+In canon, he demonstrates that he knows concrete details and snapshots of things, but has difficulties piecing them together into one coherent picture without prompting or assistance from a third party.
+In the game, he'll have a hell of a time sorting through the flood of information from the other hosts and start having further issues with his memories vs others' memories. Some days he might forget who he is entirely (which is a plot I'd like to explore further at a later time).
+Additionally, if he uses his powers (or gets zapped with electricity), he will go blank for about 12 hours, if not more.