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worthallthis) wrote2025-08-31 09:30 pm
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Entry tags:
Noanga: Application
OOC INFO
Name: Gail
Contact: PM this journal
IC INFO
Character Name: Bucky Barnes
Canon Name: MCU
Age: Early 30s in appearance/maturity, 98 based on birthdate
OC, AU, or CRAU History:
After running away from Steve Rogers and HYDRA, the asset scrounged up some clothes and a backpack and a place to hide, scavenged some dinner out of a trash can, and went to sleep, hoping to heal up from his injuries from the fight and hopefully wake up less confused and conflicted.
He woke up, instead, in a summoning circle in another world, all alone, with a Jeep waiting for him outside the empty, abandoned gas station he woke up in. He left immediately, because what else was he going to do, sit around waiting to be found by HYDRA? It didn't occur to him that it wasn't HYDRA that brought him to a new world, or even that it was another world, so his first thought for why he was moved was, in fact, his former owners.
It wasn't, of course. He never found another person in the strange new place, though he did find plenty of monsters, and started turning into one himself in some ways. He grew great curling horns from his forehead, broad and powerful bat wings from his back, and a prehensile tail from his spine. A few behavioral changes took place, too, but he doesn't necessarily recognize them as odd, because, after all, he doesn't remember anything but leaving the HYDRA base and fighting Steve Rogers. Maybe he's always been fond of shiny objects, preferred to nest in high places, and hummed idly under his breath when he feels safe enough to do so. He's a bit more feral than even a straight-from-canon Bucky might be, but also a bit more solid in his sense of self.
Personality:
James Buchanan Barnes, known around Brooklyn as Bucky, was a friendly young man, ready with a smile and a joke to lighten the mood, good with people to the point of being charming. Of course, the flip side was he was vain, particularly about his hair, and tended towards over-confident when it came to his relationships with other people, particularly ladies. His sense of humor leaned to the sarcastic side, but he was as quick with a compliment as snark, and he had an optimistic view of the future, fascinated with science fiction and new breakthroughs in actual science.
The most important person in his life was Steve Rogers, a boy one year younger with a list of health problems as long as his arm, and a heart and sense of courage far bigger than his small stature. Bucky was protective of Steve, even over-protective, and often wound up rescuing Steve from fights he couldn’t win and then bawling him out after for getting into trouble. They both grew up relatively poor and spent their adolescence and young adulthood in the Great Depression, which certainly left its mark. He hated waste, always needing to mend and re-use and scrounge rather than buy new, and put up with a terrible tenement apartment first with his family and later on with Steve just to save up for things like medicine and the occasional trip to Coney Island. It helped teach him patience. Above all, he was loyal to a fault and felt things deeply, from wonder to anger to love.
Then Bucky was drafted, sent to training, and then into World War II. Sergeant Barnes was a different person than the Bucky from Brooklyn. He was more guarded and less friendly, because everyone in wartime was more guarded and less friendly, but his confidence and patience translated into innate leadership skills and extra training as a designated marksman, which was its own kind of torment as a dedicated killer. After his capture and torture at Azzano, he grew even more withdrawn, using his former cocky, sarcastic demeanor as a shield against anyone seeing just how off he felt. He still felt everything deeply, and after Azzano he was feeling wrong.
He still had Steve-- albeit a Steve who didn’t seem to need him like he used to-- and he was still steadfastly loyal even to this new Steve, turning down an honorable medical discharge in order to watch his friend’s back. His over-protective streak grew from just Steve to include the entirety of the Howling Commandos, as Steve’s second in command and the sharpshooter watching above them all.
Then Bucky fell from the train and was captured by HYDRA yet again. The Winter Soldier, also called the Asset, came from what they did to him, and he was again a different person. Implacable, ruthless, calculating, endlessly patient, highly skilled... and literally stripped of the ability to choose beyond the parameters of his mission. He no longer thought of himself as a person, just a pair of hands attached to triggers, knives, and a set of orders. If left out of cryo too long, or left too long between personality wipes, he was susceptible to flashes of memory, spurts of defiance, and moments of compassion, but even those were severely punished. He learned how to anticipate the moods of his handlers and avoid punishment as much as possible, but he still never entirely believed the lies they fed him about how what HYDRA was doing was right. He was just too afraid, confused, and alone to ever do much about it-- he didn’t remember anything else.
There will be a fourth person, starting to emerge now that the Soldier has escaped captivity and the constant threat of getting his brains scrambled, with memories slowly starting to come back, but just what that person will be like is hard to say.
Powers:
* Super-soldier serum, the evil version: Not quite the kind that was given to Captain America, but rather one that's gone through some variations and remixes due to lack of resources, creative thinking, and indifference to the suffering of the subject. This increases his metabolism to the point where he heals from damage in about 1/4 the time of an unenhanced human and gives him increased strength, speed, and stamina. His memory has improved to the point of being nearly edetic and he has slightly enhanced senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Due to his increased metabolism, drugs in general do not work on him except in large doses and he can no longer get drunk. It also means he needs to eat a lot after using too much strength or regeneration.
* Metal arm: Bucky's left arm from the shoulder down has been replaced by a machine. It has limited haptics, wired directly into his spine, and it is bulletproof. It can overheat or be overloaded with electricity and needs to be rebooted (this is done by a wide vertical swing, which does not look quite humanly possible), and it is much heavier than a normal arm, causing internal damage when used that his serum must constantly heal, and is anchored to his skeleton on the left side by a series of painful metal welds. The only reason he can bear it at all is the serum.
* Advanced training: Bucky Barnes' trained skillset includes basic army training and advanced sniper training, as well as an understanding of guerilla tactics and some mechanical expertise, and a lot of trial-and-error scrounging for food in Europe's forests. The Winter Soldier's skillset is much broader, including advanced hand-to-hand techniques, proficiency with firearms and close-combat weapons of an incredibly wide variety, fluency in multiple languages, enhanced bodily control and flexibility, subterfuge, stealth, and standard mission skills such as looking after the basic necessities, obtaining supplies, and seeking out intel. He has crazy-high pain tolerance and the ability to do some first aid on himself (and others), he can do basic maintenance on the mechanical arm, and he presents a damn good poker face.
* Pre-War skills: Some simple mechanics, for fixing up old-timey machinery, and mending clothing. Bucky spent time both working in construction and on the docks, so is at least passingly familiar with building things and ships.
* Gargoyle skills: Bucky can fly, though he has trouble getting lift sometimes given he's really quite heavy, and prefers to jump off of things than take off straight from the ground. He can grab things with his tail. He can climb walls like a lizard, clinging to them by some magical means. He also has extremely good eyesight at a distance, meant for swooping down on prey from high above them, though this trades off by making it harder for him to see things up close. Attempting to read, for example, will involve a lot of holding books at arm's length to make out small details, and he may start associating people as much with scent and voice as with their face, unless he can see them from several feet away. He has some mild affinity for earth magic, which mostly just amounts to growing stone claws or manipulating the metal of his own arm, though may affect other stone or metal objects with practice.
Dependents:
Nope!
Sample:
A PSL with gargoyle Bucky
TDM thread
Name: Gail
Contact: PM this journal
IC INFO
Character Name: Bucky Barnes
Canon Name: MCU
Age: Early 30s in appearance/maturity, 98 based on birthdate
OC, AU, or CRAU History:
After running away from Steve Rogers and HYDRA, the asset scrounged up some clothes and a backpack and a place to hide, scavenged some dinner out of a trash can, and went to sleep, hoping to heal up from his injuries from the fight and hopefully wake up less confused and conflicted.
He woke up, instead, in a summoning circle in another world, all alone, with a Jeep waiting for him outside the empty, abandoned gas station he woke up in. He left immediately, because what else was he going to do, sit around waiting to be found by HYDRA? It didn't occur to him that it wasn't HYDRA that brought him to a new world, or even that it was another world, so his first thought for why he was moved was, in fact, his former owners.
It wasn't, of course. He never found another person in the strange new place, though he did find plenty of monsters, and started turning into one himself in some ways. He grew great curling horns from his forehead, broad and powerful bat wings from his back, and a prehensile tail from his spine. A few behavioral changes took place, too, but he doesn't necessarily recognize them as odd, because, after all, he doesn't remember anything but leaving the HYDRA base and fighting Steve Rogers. Maybe he's always been fond of shiny objects, preferred to nest in high places, and hummed idly under his breath when he feels safe enough to do so. He's a bit more feral than even a straight-from-canon Bucky might be, but also a bit more solid in his sense of self.
Personality:
James Buchanan Barnes, known around Brooklyn as Bucky, was a friendly young man, ready with a smile and a joke to lighten the mood, good with people to the point of being charming. Of course, the flip side was he was vain, particularly about his hair, and tended towards over-confident when it came to his relationships with other people, particularly ladies. His sense of humor leaned to the sarcastic side, but he was as quick with a compliment as snark, and he had an optimistic view of the future, fascinated with science fiction and new breakthroughs in actual science.
The most important person in his life was Steve Rogers, a boy one year younger with a list of health problems as long as his arm, and a heart and sense of courage far bigger than his small stature. Bucky was protective of Steve, even over-protective, and often wound up rescuing Steve from fights he couldn’t win and then bawling him out after for getting into trouble. They both grew up relatively poor and spent their adolescence and young adulthood in the Great Depression, which certainly left its mark. He hated waste, always needing to mend and re-use and scrounge rather than buy new, and put up with a terrible tenement apartment first with his family and later on with Steve just to save up for things like medicine and the occasional trip to Coney Island. It helped teach him patience. Above all, he was loyal to a fault and felt things deeply, from wonder to anger to love.
Then Bucky was drafted, sent to training, and then into World War II. Sergeant Barnes was a different person than the Bucky from Brooklyn. He was more guarded and less friendly, because everyone in wartime was more guarded and less friendly, but his confidence and patience translated into innate leadership skills and extra training as a designated marksman, which was its own kind of torment as a dedicated killer. After his capture and torture at Azzano, he grew even more withdrawn, using his former cocky, sarcastic demeanor as a shield against anyone seeing just how off he felt. He still felt everything deeply, and after Azzano he was feeling wrong.
He still had Steve-- albeit a Steve who didn’t seem to need him like he used to-- and he was still steadfastly loyal even to this new Steve, turning down an honorable medical discharge in order to watch his friend’s back. His over-protective streak grew from just Steve to include the entirety of the Howling Commandos, as Steve’s second in command and the sharpshooter watching above them all.
Then Bucky fell from the train and was captured by HYDRA yet again. The Winter Soldier, also called the Asset, came from what they did to him, and he was again a different person. Implacable, ruthless, calculating, endlessly patient, highly skilled... and literally stripped of the ability to choose beyond the parameters of his mission. He no longer thought of himself as a person, just a pair of hands attached to triggers, knives, and a set of orders. If left out of cryo too long, or left too long between personality wipes, he was susceptible to flashes of memory, spurts of defiance, and moments of compassion, but even those were severely punished. He learned how to anticipate the moods of his handlers and avoid punishment as much as possible, but he still never entirely believed the lies they fed him about how what HYDRA was doing was right. He was just too afraid, confused, and alone to ever do much about it-- he didn’t remember anything else.
There will be a fourth person, starting to emerge now that the Soldier has escaped captivity and the constant threat of getting his brains scrambled, with memories slowly starting to come back, but just what that person will be like is hard to say.
Powers:
* Super-soldier serum, the evil version: Not quite the kind that was given to Captain America, but rather one that's gone through some variations and remixes due to lack of resources, creative thinking, and indifference to the suffering of the subject. This increases his metabolism to the point where he heals from damage in about 1/4 the time of an unenhanced human and gives him increased strength, speed, and stamina. His memory has improved to the point of being nearly edetic and he has slightly enhanced senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Due to his increased metabolism, drugs in general do not work on him except in large doses and he can no longer get drunk. It also means he needs to eat a lot after using too much strength or regeneration.
* Metal arm: Bucky's left arm from the shoulder down has been replaced by a machine. It has limited haptics, wired directly into his spine, and it is bulletproof. It can overheat or be overloaded with electricity and needs to be rebooted (this is done by a wide vertical swing, which does not look quite humanly possible), and it is much heavier than a normal arm, causing internal damage when used that his serum must constantly heal, and is anchored to his skeleton on the left side by a series of painful metal welds. The only reason he can bear it at all is the serum.
* Advanced training: Bucky Barnes' trained skillset includes basic army training and advanced sniper training, as well as an understanding of guerilla tactics and some mechanical expertise, and a lot of trial-and-error scrounging for food in Europe's forests. The Winter Soldier's skillset is much broader, including advanced hand-to-hand techniques, proficiency with firearms and close-combat weapons of an incredibly wide variety, fluency in multiple languages, enhanced bodily control and flexibility, subterfuge, stealth, and standard mission skills such as looking after the basic necessities, obtaining supplies, and seeking out intel. He has crazy-high pain tolerance and the ability to do some first aid on himself (and others), he can do basic maintenance on the mechanical arm, and he presents a damn good poker face.
* Pre-War skills: Some simple mechanics, for fixing up old-timey machinery, and mending clothing. Bucky spent time both working in construction and on the docks, so is at least passingly familiar with building things and ships.
* Gargoyle skills: Bucky can fly, though he has trouble getting lift sometimes given he's really quite heavy, and prefers to jump off of things than take off straight from the ground. He can grab things with his tail. He can climb walls like a lizard, clinging to them by some magical means. He also has extremely good eyesight at a distance, meant for swooping down on prey from high above them, though this trades off by making it harder for him to see things up close. Attempting to read, for example, will involve a lot of holding books at arm's length to make out small details, and he may start associating people as much with scent and voice as with their face, unless he can see them from several feet away. He has some mild affinity for earth magic, which mostly just amounts to growing stone claws or manipulating the metal of his own arm, though may affect other stone or metal objects with practice.
Dependents:
Nope!
Sample:
A PSL with gargoyle Bucky
TDM thread