| Introduction
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xxxxxHe's the all-American boy next door of bygone days. He's the scrappy little kid who didn't know when to quit. He's stubborn, but willing to listen. He'll challenge anyone, whether to discourse or to fisticuffs. He's Captain America.
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| History
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xxxxxThe only child of poor Irish American parents, Steve grew up frail and sickly. This didn't stop him from standing up for what he believed was right, even when it earned him regular beatings at the hand of other children. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother died when he was nineteen, leaving him with only the support of his best friend, James 'Bucky' Barnes.
xxxxxWhen the US entered WWII, Steve tried to enlist in the Army with Bucky but was rejected repeatedly because of his poor health and small stature. He finally caught the attention of Dr. Erskine of the Strategic Science Reserve, an was recruited as a subject in an experimental supersolider program codenamed Project Rebirth. After a brief but grueling procedure, Steve was transformed from the proverbial 90lb weakling to what the military of the time considered the ideal soldier: 6'2" and 240lb of solid muscle. However, with the untimely assassination of Dr. Erskine, the formula of the supersoldier serum was lost, leaving Steve its sole beneficiary.
xxxxxHe was initially sent on the USO circuit, portraying a character named Captain America. While performing for the troops in Europe, however, he discovered that Bucky's unit had been cut off behind enemy lines. He mounted a solo rescue operation and managed to liberate 400 POWs (including Bucky) while destroying the secrete Nazi research lab where they were held.
xxxxxAfter that, he was given free rein by the Army to assemble his own special operations team: the Howling Commandos. For the remainder of the war they took on the most elusive and elite of Nazi special forces, often going deep behind enemy lines for long periods of time. On one such mission in the winter of 1944, Bucky was lost and presumed dead.
xxxxxIn late March of 1945, the Howling Commandos infiltrated an R&D facility in Norway, but the immense protoype bomber housed there took off before they could destroy it. Steve boarded the plane and fought his way to the cockpit, but then realized the aircraft was too big and its payload too volatile to land safely. In order to keep the monstrous craft away from inhabited areas, he steered it into the arctic ocean. Captain America was declared killed in action hardly more than a month before V-E Day.
xxxxx70 years later, he was discovered and revived by a secretive organization called S.H.I.E.L.D. The agency's director, Nick Fury, has assured Steve that he is needed to deal with a great of entities that pose an existential threat to humanity. This danger was unknown in Steve's own day, but now they are a household word: mutants.
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| Powers
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xxxxxProject Rebirth imbued Steve with superb strength, speed, and endurance. He can bench press 1,200lb, sustain a running speed of 25mph (he can run as fast as 57mph in a sprint, but cannot keep this up for long), and achieve 36ft laterally in a running jump (or 15ft vertically). He can withstand a great deal more blunt-force trauma (punching, falling, etc.) than unaugmented humans without sustaining injury, and recovers more rapidly from all forms of damage (by human standards; he still does much better with rest and medical care). His metabolism is exceptionally fast, as a result of which he requires more food than even other humans of similar size and musculature. He has an elevated resistance to many toxins and infections, and although he can still fall ill he tends to recuperate fast.
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| Skills
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xxxxxSteve is an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant, and not solely on the merits of his experimentally achieved abilities. He is actually a very talented haptic learner and gains proficiency in physical tasks very rapidly. His close-quarters fighting style is a mix of bare-knuckles boxing and various martial arts that he encountered during his years of service, and makes heavy use of improvised weapons. Though he has a particular fondness for fighting with targe shields, he is proficient with a variety of bladed weapons and firearms as well.
xxxxxHe has both an innate talent for and extensive practical experience with small unit tactics. In this regard his specialty is guerilla warfare, or other long-term missions with minimal logistical support and no supply lines. He is a skilled navigator and excellent at operating a wide range of land vehicles from the early 20th century.
xxxxxIn addition to his native English, Steve is proficient in French and passably conversant in German, Russian, and Italian. He sang lead in his barbershop quartet, though he is a bit out of practice. He is also a self-taught illustrator with a particular knack for sketching people in motion.
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| Connections
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Friends
Foes
And everything in between
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| Trivia
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- He loves apple pie and doesn't understand why people think he's joking when he says so.
- Though a devout Roman Catholic, he keeps relatively quiet about his faith.
- He does not know how to dance.
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| Gallery
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| Steven Grant Rogers
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| Codename
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Captain America
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| Birthdate
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July 4th, 1920
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| Birthplace
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Brooklyn, NY
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| Species
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Human
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| Affiliation
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
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| Alignment
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way
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| Powers
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Strength, speed, durability
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| Occupation
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Supersoldier
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| Registration Status
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None
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| Played By
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Chris Evans
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| RP Hooks
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| Living Legend - During the 1940s, Captain America featured prominently in USO shows, propaganda films, and military recruitment posters. Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with him, but probably do not believe the part about him being a 'supersolider.
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| Shield - His weapon of choice is a not-overly-subtle reflection of his inclination to protect others. Though he is proficient with firearms, he does not like using them.
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| Man Out of Time - Declared killed in action in 1945, he woke up 70 years later to find the world radically changed. Even after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intensive (if selective) crash course in recent history, he still has no access to suble and pervasive social cues like pop cultural allusions.
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| My Country, Right or Wrong - If right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right.
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