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beyondriftmods) wrote2015-01-02 08:27 pm
beyondriftmods) wrote2015-01-02 08:27 pm
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Please, fill out the following and comment to this post with it. If you'd prefer, you can send in your application via e-mail (mods@beyondtherift.com) where the entire process will remain private. Refer to this post for an explanation of what we're looking for. Remember when applying, you have a week from your acceptance to intro within the game.
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Please, add the name of your character in the subject line. You can place part #s beside the name in the subject if you'd like but make certain the name is there.
This is for AU applications only. Please check our AU Guidelines before applying.
We will wait two weeks before processing applications in casts that are over the size of ten. In addition, there is now a two week wait between applications for the same mun. You apply for one and get accepted, but then have to wait two weeks to apply for another character.
When you have two active characters in game, you can apply for a cameo character. Information about what kind of characters qualify for cameo status is here.
If you've been on hiatus, please, don't apply until you have returned to full activity (there's a two week wait generally).
Please, direct any questions regarding the application to this post or to the mod e-mail.
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED
Stephanie Rogers | Marvel Cinematic Universe (AU)
Revisions
We would like you to consider the following questions in your revision/expansion:
1) This Captain would have to be more rebellious than the original, because her existence in the military is essentially breaking rules—something Steve likely would not do. Can you address this in greater detail?
2) What about Bucky? Would he really treat Stevie the same as he would treat Steve?
3) How did she meet the doctor who decided to use her for the super soldier experiment? What made her more desirable than a white male? In canon, Peggy is as capable and badass as Steve, yet she is overlooked in favor of a man. Why would the government use their money on Stevie?
4) Women were not seen as heroes/soldiers in that time period. How does Stevie change that?
Re: Revisions
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Revisions
Her relationship with Bucky was a very close, siblingly relationship, perhaps more obviously than if she'd been born a boy. She met Bucky when she was seven and he was only three, and sort of took charge of looking after him when the neighborhood kids were running around, since he lived across the hall from her and her mother. When her mother died the next year, Bucky's family took Stevie in and looked after her. They attempted to make her a bit more ladylike, but it never really took, and when she was 12, Bucky's parents were killed, leaving them on their own. Having heard some horror stories about orphanages that she couldn't tell the truth of, she decided that she and Bucky (who she by this point considered to be her little brother) were not going into one of them and decided that she would make sure they stayed fed. They fell through the cracks as kids in those days did, scrounging a living as best they could. They were extremely protective of each other. At various points in their teenaged years, Bucky would sometimes try to tell her that she should do something more suited for a woman and that he could handle the other stuff. She always told him to stuff it and that she wasn't going to limit herself with how she could get them clothed and fed just because she was a woman. She would get into fights very rarely, though she never threw the first punch, but Bucky went to the mat for her many times even when she didn't want him to - she wasn't bullied TOO often more because Bucky was a tough kid and a good fighter and anyone who messed with her messed with him than because she was a girl. When he enlisted, Stevie was taken aback, and then realized that he was going to be sent overseas - somewhere she wouldn't be able to help him if he got in trouble. On top of that, she'd been trying to figure out how she could best help the war effort, and in her mind, letting in women like her who wanted to help however they could, even if it meant being soldiers, could only provide more soldiers and a better chance for them to win against the nazis. He tried to dissuade her from trying to enlist, but didn't think that anything would ultimately come of it, since she was obviously a woman.
When Erskine found her at a recruitment center in New York, the super-soldier program had kind of ground to a halt. They had chosen a likely candidate a few months prior, and it had been a disaster - though they'd thought they picked a good, balanced candidate, he reacted badly and had to be taken out. Though he had no proof that it was a factor, Erskine had started wondering if perhaps the testosterone in males was a factor, and had been quietly looking at the nurses coming in as well as the new enlisted men. He stumbled upon Stevie quite by accident, and was taken by not only her determination to prove she could be a soldier but by the reasons she wanted to fight. She wanted to protect her family, such as it was. She didn't like bullies. She wanted to stop the horrible things that were happening in Germany from happening anymore. While she wasn't enlisted immediately, Erskine spoke with her and told her that he'd get back to her, after which he went to Col Phillips and argued for the right to bring her in for basic training and evaluation, if nothing else. If she proved unable to handle the strain of training, of course, she would not be a candidate. Col. Phillips allowed it only to pacify Erskine and hoping to prove the doctor wrong. While Stevie was physically less capable than the other recruits, she pushed herself as hard as she could and always finished, though she often took longer. Phillips' attempt to show Erskine that Stevie was a poor choice by throwing a dummy grenade into the group of potentials was foiled when she immediately threw herself down on it in an attempt to save the others. Additionally, during the same time period, the Russians were running the Red Room, aka the Black Widow project, which was basically a different version of the same sort of "super soldier" project with women, though they were intended to be a bit more covert. Their Wolf Spider program, for men, turned the men psychotic, which - if Erskine had had access to any information about the project, that may have made him more inclined to attempt his serum with a woman. (Regarding Peggy, even if Erskine had approached her about being part of the project, she would have turned him down, as being a soldier was not what she wanted to do.)
Though it was a reluctant decision, they did eventually agree with Erskine to attempt using the serum on her. After the procedure and Erskine's death, they took blood from her in an attempt to recreate the serum. (It was found, over the years, that testosterone had no effect on the effects of the serum, it was simply a bad reaction in the first subject.) Though Stevie pleaded to be sent overseas to help with the war, she was denied because she was the only one (and probably in part because "super soldier" or no, she was still a woman), and instead began working with Senator Brandt to sell War Bonds. Especially in the costume designed for her, with her naturally low-pitched voice, Stevie was more androgynous than feminine, and she soon became an icon, a symbol of the US Military's dedication to winning the war, an idealization of all the soldiers overseas, instead of a soldier in her own right.
Until she found out Bucky was potentially being held prisoner behind enemy lines. Peggy helped her because she, too, believed that women were more than capable of doing the things men did, and because she knew that Stevie would go off regardless, and the least she could do was help. After she successfully raided the Hydra base and freed hundreds of soldiers, Phillips couldn't really deny that Stevie was extremely capable. Her team was all volunteers, as he didn't think forcing soldiers to serve under a woman if they weren't prepared to do so of their own free will would end well. Many soldiers that Stevie had rescued volunteered, and Phillips narrowed it down to the best - Bucky included.
In America, she wasn't really seen as a woman as much, even after she became a proper soldier, though there were still women who took inspiration from her. There were just as many little boys as little girls running around playing at Captain America, and because next to nothing about her real identity was revealed, in the decades following her disappearance a lot of people assumed that Captain America was a man - historically untrue, but that fact was one of those "shocking trivia" facts that more and more people didn't realize was true as the years went by. It became much more common knowledge as the internet became popular, however, and by the time she was thawed, it was hard to find someone who knew of Captain America and didn't know she was a woman.
For the record, even with this I realize it's a TAD bit unbelievable that in the real world a woman would be able to become a soldier... but keep in mind that this is Marvel, and they had laser blasters and super soldier serums in WWII.
Accepted!
If you have any questions or need any help at all, the mods are here to help.
For the record, we fully understand there are unrealistic aspects to the Marvel universe and comics as a whole, but we would be remiss if we did not ask for critical examination and an expansion to Stevie's universe due to the real struggles women of that time period faced.
Re: Accepted!
Because I'm crazy like that.