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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Bucky Barnes
Character Age: 106
Character Species: enhanced human
Current Health: excellent
Outfit: here

Character Canon: MCU
Link to History: here
Canon Point: end of Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Canon Iteration: canon

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:

excellent marksman

speaks over one dozen languages

excels in hand to hand combat

broad knowledge in general areas of trivia (geography, political events, art, etc)

Canon Abilities:

enhanced strength

slowed aging

healing factor

enhanced stamina

enhanced reflexes

enhanced agility
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Bucky will be able to shift between himself and the animal familiar form of a white wolf.
Role Reasoning:

Bucky, before becoming the Winter Soldier, would have most certainly have been a Legend without question. However, years of being forced to first be an assassin for HYDRA and later to be on the run and fend for himself against the government and other enhanced individuals has made him more wary of things being truly good anymore. He believes strongly in justice but does not feel that he has the capability to administer it himself because his hands are bloody from all the crimes he's committed.

As a familiar, he will be able to take on the mantle given to him by his Wakandan friends as a literal identity and become the white wolf and it not just be a name that someone calls him that is meaningless. He will be able to distance himself from being the Winter Soldier - something he hates - and make himself into something that belongs to himself even if it isn't something he ever expected to have before. This is something I plan to tie in with Bucky's character development as a lot of his development is going to be focused on fully letting go of his guilt and moving forward as a new person.

❥ Personality

Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:

Option 1.

The Ghost. The Asset. Bucky is a man on a journey to rediscover who he is. Unlike Steve, who stayed frozen in ice for 70 years, Bucky was found by HYDRA and turned into the ultimate weapon. The super-soldier serum was used on him along with extensive brainwashing so that Bucky could be controlled by a set of Russian codewords and sent to complete any mission, at any cost. Between these times, he was put back on ice and Bucky has memories that he cannot place, times that he's been merely a passenger in his body while he's done horrific things. He's been the hand to turn the tide of history when things aren't going HYDRA's way - JFK assassination, murder of Howard and Maria Stark, taking out a nuclear scientist in Odessa. Horrific acts for a man who doesn't want to be horrific and it only complicates matters that each time that Bucky started waking up and questioning his programming, he'd gotten frozen again and reprogrammed. There's gaps in his mind that he doesn't think he'll ever recover and, truly, Bucky is a little afraid of what he might see.

It's getting better now. He's been recovered by the Avengers and after a stint by himself in Romania and later, in Wakanda, Bucky is starting to put together his own identity. Before HYDRA and before the war, he'd been kind of a ladies man and the consummate flirt, the smooth-talking charmer to Steve Rogers' earnest man. Some of that is still buried deep within Bucky and can come out occasionally but there's other things, dark things, that make him wary to be close to anyone. He doesn't know when someone is going to inadvertently trigger one of the land mines in his memory and he doesn't want to be responsible for hurting anyone else; he's hurt too many people and the guilt is almost too much to bear.

Bucky wants to be a force for good. When he'd first gotten orders for the Army, he'd been optimistic about his role in the war and had hoped to help America win it. Being a prisoner of HYDRA and the Nazis the first time around cured a little of that wide-eyed optimism but being a part of the Howling Commandos brought it back full force. Bucky wants to do his share in a fight and he wants to make sure the people around him are safe - even if it means pushing them away because he is the unsafe thing.

It’s about making amends now. He’s helped to save the world, sure, but that doesn’t make up for 80 years of blood on his conscience and he has to make up for every bad thing he’s ever done. When he tries to say he’s not the Winter Soldier any longer, people remind him that he is: the Smithsonian, his therapist, the people he’s trying to apologize to. He's not as fragile as he once was and he has a firmer grip on his sense of self but he still stumbles from time to time. He struggles with intimacy because he doesn't know himself, so how can he know someone else? How can he give himself over to another person when he doesn't know what there is to give? How is that fair? It’s not.

To be able to have the parts of himself back that he's missing, the puzzle pieces that got lost when HYDRA had taken him apart and reassembled him would mean everything to Bucky. He's jaded enough to realize he'll never be the person he was before the war but he would fight any fight or give any part of himself he needed to give in order to have the peace and contentment of knowing that he's doing okay and that he's someone that isn't a monster any longer. He wants peace, plain and simple, and he's willing to get his knuckles bloody for whoever offers that to him. Bucky is willing to contort himself into any role as long as he's given the promise of freedom at the end and there's truly few limitations on what he'd do if it were offered to him (murder and harm of innocents aside).

❥ Player Information

Player Name: Cerie
Pronouns: she/her
Are you over 18?: yes
Contact(s): tessituras
Who Invited You?: Lauren
Current Characters: n/a
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Writing Samples: here