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OOC PREFERENCES
journal- itsamysterio
discord- Devon#4359
plurk- silversomber
THREAD-JACKING: Sure!
FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Check first
BACKTAGGING: Yes
AVOIDED TOPICS: None
PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: She

IC CHARACTERISTICS
CURRENT CANON POINT: Spider-Man: Far From Home- Just after E.D.I.T.H. has been transferred to his possession and he's made his big reveal.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: He puts on the appearance of being someone you can trust. Strong, but friendly. Approachable. When it shuts off there's a certain deadness behind his eyes.

His costume may have familiar elements to some, having referenced other Avengers in creating his look.
DEMEANOR: Sure, casual, confident. Very smooth. Always in control.
ABILITIES: None. He will be insisting his powers have been cut off.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: N/A
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Tony Stark
OTHER: BECK IS NOT NICE, HOWEVER FRIENDLY HE MIGHT APPEAR.

IC PERMISSIONS
MENTAL: Yes, BUT please check with me first, would like to avoid his intensions being outed straight away.
MIMICRY: He would not like it, but feel free
VIOLENCE: Beck fights dirty, but currently doesn't have any 'powers' so you'll probably be alright unless he's aiming to kill you.
MAGIC: Go for it.
DEBATE: Please do.
OTHER / NOTES: Will be added to, check back.

Comments

fun with ~illusions~

[sinistral]

No but really just some imagery that Beck is welcome to use against Superhero City Captain America™ Bucky Barnes:

WWII. Fighting in the trenches, battles that don't go well. War is its own kind of hell, etc., etc.

Capture by HYDRA. Buck was captured at Azzano, just as he was in canon. Imagery includes forced labor, living in cells, torture and experimentation by Zola. Buck was injected with HYDRA's version of the serum along with who-knows-what-else; whatever it all was, he was delirious when rescued by Steve. Unlike canon, his super strength started manifesting not long after this rescue.

Bucky falls. On the train in the attempt to capture Zola, Bucky falls as in canon. The fall doesn't kill him though, thanks to the advanced effects of the serum, and he's able to cling to and scale the cliff back to the train tracks. He makes it back to camp a few days later; news of his death has already been published, and the army decides not to rescind it just yet, believing it could be a useful intimidation tactic. You willed Captain America's best friend, etc., etc. Unlike canon, Bucky never loses his left arm in this accident and remains entirely flesh-and-blood.

Steve dies. In the assault on HYDRA bases, Steve takes a bullet meant for Bucky, and it slows him enough to take a few more in the ensuing fight. He dies in Bucky's arms, and something feral in Bucky breaks through. He decks the first person who says that Captain America is dead, hard enough to break the guy's jaw; Cap is not dead because Bucky takes up the shield and uniform, continues the missions. Bucky himself is a bloodier fighter than Cap ever was, more willing to kill as opposed to disarm or disable, and Schmidt taunted him with those inclinations in their battle.

Bucky freezes. Bucky goes after Red Skull at that final fortress and lands the Valkyrie in the ocean. The plane sinks into the Arctic Ocean; Bucky experiences both drowning and freezing to death. Fun times.

Bucky wakes. Twenty-first century. Attack on New York. iPods. Starbucks. Tinder. Yikes. But seriously, since Bucky-in-game is post-TWS/pre-CW, for Cap!Bucky the canon events cutoff is going to be after the first Avengers movie, to keep in line with things Bucky would actually know about.

[on_repeat]

I meant to do this earlier, but then I walked away and things happened LET ME SEE HERE

For funions Hero-AU world: I'm riffing off of Echo's canon Rishi Moon Base experience, so it's basically him and the guys at their military base except the outcome is a lot worse. More casualties, more blood, more explosions. Loud noises, that lingering panic and desperation to survive the ordeal.

Does guilt play into this? Maybe? If you need more info, ping me on Discord! Because I know I may not be explaining this very well! aaaaaa

So scare!

[dr_riley]

There is SO much to attack Drake with, it's ridiculous! I've already commented with one scenario he's faced, which I can provide some more context on:

Sekhmet and Andrea
The man in his illusion is his team lead, Jace (RAF Squadron Leader). The woman is Drake's wife, Andrea, who is under the influence of a parasitic alien which hijacks the host's body for its own use. Its name is Sekhmet, as in the famously bloodthristy Egyptian goddess, and she has captured Drake's team. (These alien symbiotes are called Goa'uld, and have historically either taken on the identities of human dieties, or else inspired them.) Once a symbiote has taken a host, their minds are open to each other, and since Sekhmet now knows everything about Andrea, and Andrea knows everything about Drake, she knows precisely where to strike to make him hurt. The kiss was a forced display, and a part of Sekhmet overtly sexualizing her host and implying that she's interested in or has been with other men. She's attacking his insecurities, which Andrea is aware of because she caused them by becoming cold and disinterested over time. "I just miss the cats," is prrrrooobably one of the single most hurtful things she has said to him because it was her answer when he asked why she was suddenly so affectionate and cuddly one morning. (He was hoping she'd say she loved him.)

Related to this is the intense guilt of his perceived responsibility: he feels that it's his fault she was taken by Sekhmet because she was looking for him and Andrea was in the wrong place at the wrong time. (Also, he had to shoot her, so that was great.)

Shortly after she was rescued, he moved out and leased a little townhouse for himself so he could have the space he needed to heal while they tried to work out their mutual trauma and fix their marriage, and a little bit of why he had to leave was because seeing her was a trigger for ptsd that developed while he and his team were her prisoners. He's always had crazy nightmares, but they've graduated from being swallowed by the ocean and all the deep, unknown things in the blackness, to shooting his shaking, crying wife in the shoulder and being tortured by her while her eyes glow.

Open bodies of water
Drake is also terrified of open water. Lakes, oceans, rivers - he doesn't want anything to do with them. He was attacked by a shark as a child and while he was fine aside from some minor scratches (it clamped down on his boogie board and he was dragged down with it because it was tethered to his wrist), he just sees any open water as being filled with writing, Lovecraftian terrors that he can't see, but want to kill him. He would rather go on dangerous missions off-world than go swimming at the beach.

Work related adventures!
There's a lot of leniency here. He's been mind-swapped with his best friend's wife, infected with a frequency transmitted electrical virus, died a couple times (woke up shivering in a mortuary 'fridge in the infirmary), been whole-ass disembodied, destroyed a black hole (but also destroyed the technology capable of creating and precisely placing the vast number of quantum-entangled particles required for accelerating the evaporation of Hawking radiation which causes a black hole to lose mass, oops), been kidnapped by space wizards, rival governments, a satellite hacker, private research lab-hired thugs, etc., gone total supervillain and tried to kill his best friend (and a number of other people), gone crazy a couple times, yadda yadda.

Those are the big ones! Themes include survivor's guilt, worthlessness and self-loathing, overwhelming responsibility, suicidal ideation, masking, stress and overworking, substance abuse (he started overdoing it on sleeping pills), and struggling with his ego and social unpleasantness.