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OOC Information:
Name: Batty
Age: 38
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IC Information:
Name: Margaret "Peggy" Carter
Fandom: Marvel Live Action
Timeline: After cleaning out the files for Steve and the Super Soldier Project.
Age: 28
Appearance:
Biologic stats:
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Aesthetic appraisal:
Peggy is average in height, weight and build, to look at her she would seem to be any woman you might pass on the street if a bit prettier than most. Her complexion is fair, being of British descent and never much for beaches she has retain a creamy skin ton which by trade off does tend to burn in prolonged exposure to the sun. Her hair is slightly longer than shoulder length, often in a modified 'victory roll' or other style of the 1940's. She's not a high maintenance woman though she does tend to keep her appearance neat and clean as per military doctrine. More often than not she'll be found in uniform, either a pencil skirt or gentleman style military pants, she's equally at home fighting in either attire, in heels or boots.
If she is off duty and gets the chance to dress up, she is leans to dramatic red, greens or blues. Deep vibrant colors seems opposed to her usual quiet strength and it off sets her otherwise militaristic personality. She is always neat and seems to have the ability to apply flawless red lipstick no matter what her situation.
Abilities: Peggy has been thoroughly trained by MI-6 to a level of fighting that equals Steve Rogers himself. She lacks any super soldier serum to enhance her natural abilities but usually manages to do just fine on her own. She is a moderately trained pilot, paratrooper, and very skilled at hand to hand combat. She has impressive power behind her for being a smaller female and has been known to drop men double her weight in a single punch.
As of 1941 trained in all fire arms commonly used, familiar with technology beyond the 40's through friendship with Howard Stark.
Personality: It takes a hell of a woman to be a man. Peggy had to be a dogged and determined woman to rise in the ranks of the MI6; British Secret Intelligence Service. She had to be tougher, stronger, faster and more able than other woman and many men. Going through her paces to move up as not only a soldier but a special agent for her country, Peggy has learned the value of personal discipline. She's rigorously attentive and nearly obsessed with her own performance. She has been compared to Ginger Rogers in that she can 'do everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in heels.' She refuses to let something so simple as her gender limit her ambitions or accomplishments.
Having seen the face of racism, sexism, and general unfairness, Peggy refuses to accept people at face value alone. She judges people equally upon meeting them and allows them to raise or lower her estimation of them based on their own actions.
History: Margaret Carter was not the normal little girl. She did not play with her dollies like a good girl. She did not sit quietly for tea and smile prettily for company. to any who knew her later in life it would have been obvious that she was born to be more than a sedate English housewife. She studied hard, made excellent marks in school and proceeded to Oxford on scholarship, but that was before the war. News of it stirred even the quiet eddies of small town England. After finishing University she surprised her parents with her announcement that she was going to make a difference, she saw the coming storm of war and would not simply accept it.
She'd always been a fighter so when she had to fight her way to be accepted into the British military she continued until she was ensconced in Intelligence. she proved her metal and her worth in covert and overt operations. As tensions with Germany did blow into full scale war she was one of the first put into contact with the United States government. She helped the defecting Dr. Erskine evade German recapture and saw to him being safely housed in the U.S. After the success of that operation Dr. Erskine asked to have her brought on as liaison for his project of enhancing humans to super soldiers. MI6 granted this request so long as she remained active in reporting back to them and held respect equivalent of her rank, thought technically only deemed an agent in the US she was afforded all due military respect and authority.
Peggy reported directly to Colonel Chester Phillips who was to oversee the Super Soldier Project. She, along with Phillips and Erskine were responsible for monitoring the men brought in for the project and selecting the best suited candidate. Immediately upon meeting the men Peggy to a shine to a very undersized Steven Rogers. The man was scrawny, but what he lacked in physical capacity he more than made up for in intelligence and heart. Erskine agreed with her assessment and soon the project was underway, with Rogers as it's first test case. Tragedy unfolded at the test site and Dr. Erskine was fatally wounded by an agent of Hydra, a branch of the Nazi war machine. Though the serum was not lost to enemy hands, the scientist who created it died without passing his secrets on.
The country had what it wanted, and trotted Rogers out like a show pony to raise money and moral for the war. Bitterly disappointed, Peggy joined Colonel Phillips to work with the remaining members of the project and continue to make them into the best solders they could be without enhancement. Eventually the goodwill tour of "Captain America" brought Steve back into Peggy's life. He was shocked at the reception he got from the troops, being booed off stage, and she could see he wanted to do more than sell war bonds. With news of his best friend missing in action, possibly dead, Steve was enraged at the waste of his abilities. Peggy offered him a way to make a difference.
With the help of Howard Stark, Peggy got Steve to the factory where prisoners of war were being forced into slave labor for Hydra's latest creation. Steve liberated the camp, and returned again to Peggy. The bond between them was growing deeper, she'd been in his corner since the beginning and now he was starting to feel like he'd earned his place. The war raged on and both Captain America and Peggy Carter were involved in skirmishes, successfully driving back Hydra and destroying work camp after work camp. Finally they narrowed in on the central hub of Hydra's organization, with the devastating realization that the villainous agency's newest weapon could wipe out any enemy it chose.
Steve had to stop the Red Skull, Hydra's leader, from destroying the United States and shared his first and only kiss with Peggy before heroically leaping onto the massive air ship Skull was piloting. Peggy remained with Colonel Phillips and the rest of the team to mop up what remained of Hydra at the installation. After his defeat of the Red Skull, Steve contacted the Army base to let them know the bad news. The plane had to be put down, and the only way to ensure it happened safely was if he did it himself. Peggy begged him to find another way, but as a true hero, Steve couldn't risk something going wrong. She refused to say goodbye, rather electing to give him a rain check for their dancing date, she heard the last few words he spoke on this earth before crashing into the ice.
Brokenhearted and grieving Peggy pulled herself together to close out the project. Filing all the documents away and excused herself from the base. MI6 was calling her back and the war still raged on so many fronts that a death, even one as impacting as Steve's could not keep her out of commission for long.
Roleplay Sample - Log: Bucky and Peggy during the F-3 event
Peggy:
Where..
Would someone kindly inform me where exactly I am?
Bucky:
[voice]
[That voice... It seems like a blast from the past, and he remembers her speaking French, not with an accent that is distinctly British, but... Well, his French always was rusty. God, first Jim and now maybe...]
The Facility, specifically the construct town of Hope's End. It's a torture facility, but if your collar is anything but black, you won't be here for long before they send you back. [He isn't the Bucky she knows, but his voice probably sounds quite similar.]
Peggy:
[This is Peggy Carter here, she can do damn near anything.]
The Facility. I knew I was never a fan of jewelry for a reason. So I am not to be a permanent resident, not exactly disappointing considering as you say it's a torture facility.
You sound familiar, if I could get this blasted thing to work I could see more. Oh..oh there it is.
[and there is Peggy in her alternate universe glory]
Dear god..... Barnes?
Bucky:
[Video]
[Bucky smiles slightly when the video switches on, a little flustered. First they bring in Steve, then Tom, then Jim, and now Peggy... What is this, an old folks' convention?]
Yeah. Hey Peggy. It's been a long time.
Peggy:
[He's fortunate she can't read thoughts or he'd be tasting knuckles for the old bit. Still he's not exactly the Barnes she knew. She already had the run down though so she knew the multilateral nature of this place. Still his background would shock her. A boy in battle? Perish the thought.]
I am guessing longer for you than me, good to see you alive though--
Steve! Is Captain Rogers here as well?
[Contain yourself woman, he might not even be there, Lord Willing he was safe elsewhere]
Bucky:
[Video]
[Oh, Peggy. It's more like the "old folks who aren't really all that old" convention up in here.]
God, it has been, I don't think I've seen you since... [A thoughtful frown.] Since the liberation of France. Steve used to think about you a lot, up until the explosion. His sketchbook was full of drawings of you.
[His expression grows grim, and he glances away.] He's... He should be here. But he isn't, at the moment. The people in charge of this place have him- somewhere else. Somewhere we can't get to.
Peggy:
[Video]
[Her memories are different, but oddly she can understand what he is referencing. Like levels of lives built on top of one another, some only slightly off from others and some massively differing. She guessed this place had reasons for letting her in on the great cosmic flip chart of her lives]
That was.. will be my future. Where and when I am from you passed before that. So did Steve.
[and hearing about Steve drew a scowl that might hint at just what this woman was capable of.]
Can't get to him? what has been tried? Where is he? What are the resources we have to work with?
Bucky:
[Video]
[Oh hell. This is an alternate Peggy, isn't it? Well, why the hell not, he's already met an alternate him.]
Did we? Hn. You must be from a different timeline. I met another version of me a few days ago...
[His expression hardens slightly.] Steve and I have been here for months. When the doctors take someone out to put them in a coma, no one knows where they go. This whole facility is on a space station, and enclosed in a layer of metal stronger than vibranium alloy, the stuff Cap's shield is made of.
...If there was a way to get to him, I would have.
Peggy:
[Video]
[That did sound impossible, but then again half the things they did with Stark sounded impossible]
I'm sorry, of course you've already done everything that could be done. It's just difficult to lose him twice so to speak.
Bucky:
[Video]
Believe me, I... I know. [This'll be the third time he's lost Steve when he gets the news that he isn't coming back.] He'll... They'll throw him back in soon. They've got to. He's been out once before and he came back.
Peggy:
[Video]
Where are you? I can come to you, or meet you some where.
[She got the feeling neither of them particularly wanted to be alone at the moment. They were both in a singular position to empathize with each other]
Bucky:
[Video]
[Part of him wants to go mope by himself, but the bigger part of him knows he can't do that. And Peggy is here, Steve would- would want him looking out for her, even if she can handle herself. He doesn't think she's prepared for the Joker, anyway...]
I can come meet you, and take you to the safehouse we've set up. Where are you?
Peggy:
[Video]
[Easier to show than say, she panned the small device around slowly letting him get a good look at the surrounding area. Seemed to be an old water well beside her and a stable across the way]
I'll wait here, this place has an unsettling quiet.
Bucky:
[action]
[He's been over this town a million times by now; he knows exactly where that is, and it doesn't take him long to get there. He's got a Luger pistol at his hip and... a familiar shield on the left arm. Gloves and long sleeves so he doesn't startle anyone he should know with the steel arm.]
Peggy. Hey. [Just ignore that he looks about ten years older than he did during the war.]
Peggy:
[The age throws her a bit, not as bad as maybe he thinks it should. She'd met a grown James Barnes. He carries himself differently though, her training making her immediately assess him. He favored one arm, and looked all too comfortable and used to the weight of the shield. It told her all she needed to know, he'd stepped in because Steve was unable to be Captain America. Her heart sank.]
It's good to see you, even under the circumstances.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[The screen is turned and finally centers on a pretty if solemn woman's face. She looks up and around her and back down with the air of someone who has reached a sort of acceptance.]
It's always good to have ones thoughts down and clear I suppose. But I admit this is beyond even Howard's technological genius. I'm sure he'd love to get a look inside this little device. He was always curious about how things worked, I think he preferred mechanical things to people most of the time.
I'm... I'm doing well. As well as anyone could under the circumstances I think. It seems easier to confess things here, feels like I'm talking to someone other than myself. Steve's gone. I can't quite fathom it yet. He died saving others, saving all of us. That shouldn't surprise me, I suppose it doesn't. He was a good man, he deserved better, he deserved more. More time, I wanted more time with him. There was so much I wanted to say, he'll never know just how many lives he touched or how much better he inspired people to be.
But you see, that was the thing about Steve. He could inspire just by being himself, he made us all better.
I still won't say goodbye, I'll just... I'll just hold that dance for him.
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? This will be difficult for her, more so watching others suffer. Peggy has a hard time with needless loss and suffering.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Due to the nature of the drastic character alterations made for the movie there is less here than I would normally include and some has been taken on faith as head canon made canon. I hope that's ok.