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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Melissa
AGE: 18+
JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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IM / EMAIL: kreugan / yogilates@gmail
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RETURNING: Nick Cutler
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Bruce Banner (The Hulk)
CHARACTER AGE: 45
SERIES: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CHRONOLOGY: Post "Avengers" (and "Iron Man 3", though that's kind of moot)
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random
BACKGROUND:
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is basically like ours, just a little bit parallel in the sense that it's slowly starting to collect superhumans and superheroes, and has had a few notable encounters with extraterrestrial life. Science is generally more fantastic (and dangerous). There aren't many details about Bruce's childhood, but odds are he was always a nerd. Bruce studied several advanced fields (bio-medical, bio-tech, engineering) and became a prominent scholar in the field of gamma radiation research. While attending school, he met Betty Ross, who would become his long-term girlfriend, and also crossed paths with prominent astrophysicist Erik Selvig.
In 2005, he and Betty began work on a top-secret research project for the US Army. Unbeknownst to them, the project's primary goal was to create supersoldiers in the same vein as Captain America. It was overseen by General Thaddeus Ross, Betty's father. Bruce became overconfident in his work and made a life-changing mistake: he decided to test the technology on himself. This went terribly, of course, and resulted in Bruce's transformation into the Hulk. Essentially a child who possessed very little intelligence, the Hulk reacted to his sudden existence with fear and violence. He destroyed the lab and nearly killed Betty. When Bruce tried to visit Betty in hospital he was stopped by her father, who made it clear to Bruce that he was now a national threat.
Realizing that he posed a serious threat to Betty and everyone else, Bruce went on the run and became a fugitive of the US government. He spent most of his time laying low and avoiding others, favoring isolated regions or places of relative obscurity. There were several incidents in which Bruce, provoked either by strangers or government agents, transformed into the Hulk. Each incident resulted in massive swaths of destruction. Seeing no way out and no way to keep others safe, Bruce tried to end his own life, but was prevented from doing so by the Hulk's interference.
Unable to go home and unable to stop running, a desperate Bruce started to contact other academics in an attempt to develop a cure. Predictably, it didn't work. This culminated in an emotional reunion with Betty, but ultimately Bruce was forced to leave her to keep her safe. The government's attempt to capture the Hulk also failed, but they helped reinforce Bruce's distrust of the government and their motivations. He was ultimately forced to transform into the Hulk for the sake of battling a government agent who'd been exposed to a serum derived from Bruce's DNA. While this was theoretically an instance of Bruce using the Hulk for good, it still destroyed most of Harlem, and Bruce went on the run again immediately after.
While on the run, Bruce began to develop a new approach to his anger problems. He avoided "incidents" (transformations) successfully, and even managed to contribute to humanity in his own ways, offering his aid as a doctor to the people he encountered. This relatively peaceful existence was interrupted by the arrival of Natasha Romanoff, who informed him that SHIELD was watching him, and they needed his help. Reluctantly, Bruce went with her back to the SHIELD HQ and was introduced to the rest of the Avengers — Tony Stark, Thor, Natasha, Steve Rogers, and Clint Barton.
He joined the team with the understanding that he was there for his brains, not his brawn. This appeared to be mostly on the level, but things went downhill anyway due to the manipulations of Thor's brother, Loki. Bruce was tricked into transforming into the Hulk while on a hellicarrier, resulting in massive destruction and his separation from the rest of the team. When the others showed up in New York to confront an alien threat, however, Bruce willingly returned in order to help them fight. This was mostly thanks to Tony Stark badgering him about the Hulk being capable of good things; Bruce bought it, or at least bought it enough to figure the Hulk was less of a threat than a conquering alien army.
The Avengers won. As of his canon point, Bruce isn't on the run for once — instead he's a part of something, and he's chilling at the fancy new Avengers Tower with Tony Stark, working in the R&D department.
PERSONALITY:
BRUCE. Bruce has spent years in isolation in order to keep others safe, as well as to work on his own self-awareness and better control the impulses that pose a threat to others. For a long time after the accident, he reacted with fear and anger, and tried to solve his problems by leaning heavily on repression. In addition to a violent rejection of the Hulk and the emotional extremes he represented, this also meant withdrawing from human interaction, both out of a sense of guilt in more personal cases (Betty, and the harm he'd caused her) and a lack of trust in his own self-control.
Predictably, this doesn't work. Staying off the radar turns out to be nearly impossible, and when he's dragged back into the action against his will, the results are always catastrophic. More importantly, Bruce eventually comes to understand that flat-out denial of the Hulk is too dangerous to be a viable solution; rather than providing him control, it creates a larger dissonance between his two halves and makes the dynamic between them more unstable. The more Bruce tries to repress his own emotions, the stronger they are when they inevitably emerge, and the more hostile his connection to the Hulk becomes.
In the span between The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers, Bruce begins to adopt a method of acceptance. Rather than rejecting his anger and exacerbating his inability to process it, he embraces it. The trick is in opening himself up to his emotions and learning to tolerate them without losing control. At the beginning of the film, this approach is still a work in progress. He's established a baseline that allows him to interact with others and to feel a full spectrum of emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them — or, in some cases, he's simply learned to cope with being overwhelmed. It now takes a great deal more to push his limits and trigger an involuntary transformation into the Hulk, usually immense physical or emotional threat.
That said, he isn't stable. Bruce and the Hulk still have a complex and often antagonistic relationship. Although he's gotten better at control, he still struggles with the concept of give and take, and is still reluctant to view the Hulk as anything other than a threat and a curse. His discussions with Tony Stark make it clear that he views both the Hulk and himself as liabilities. When he willingly shows up at the battle of New York and transforms into the Hulk, it represents a significant turning point — he finally accepts that despite being deeply flawed and dangerous, he's still capable of doing good. Tony pitches the idea that the Hulk has a moral compass, and at the end of the film, Bruce is finally in a place to put faith in that concept. This boils down to both his own process of blurring the lines between himself and the Hulk, accepting his own flaws and anger, as well as his trust in the people around him to keep him on the right track.
In some ways, Bruce's experiences following the accident have made him bolder and more confident in general interaction. He still retains an arrogance and confidence in his intellect that's carried over from his previous life, though it's now touched by a sense of bitterness at the perceived loss of his own success and a happiness. A life on the run has fostered a highly adaptable personality that allows him to observe and adjust to situations with ease. Although he's obviously prone to being withdrawn, sometimes to a defensively hostile degree, Bruce isn't particularly awkward in social situations. To the contrary, he can be very easygoing, sometimes charming and almost always wryly clever. His social skills might get rusty, but the ghost of his former, confident self is still intact.
Deeper connections are what he struggles with. He has a lot of walls up, and he tends to shut people out when they try to get close. Bruce knows he's dangerous, and he doesn't believe his happiness is worthwhile enough to put others in danger; it's the reason he leaves Betty, and it's the reason he's so slow to see himself as a part of the Avengers. While he's finally starting to let some walls down, he's still hyper-aware of the threat he poses to others, and the potential for causing them harm and/or losing them is a constant fear.
THE HULK. The Hulk is generally considered to be a unique personality, or at the very least a repressed one caused by a splintering of Bruce's own personality and emotional control. Transformations into the Hulk can be triggered by physical stimulus, but for the most part it's connected to emotional distress. The Hulk's personality can vary depending on what, exactly, triggers the transformation; he has a tendency to be more hostile and reactive when the transformation is caused by general fear or danger, and more strategic and focused when the transformation itself is more controlled. When Bruce intentionally draws out the Hulk, he's even shown to be capable of teamwork, easily identifying friend from enemy. If the Hulk takes over because Bruce is in immediate danger, he's prone to be violent and defensive, regardless of who happens to be nearby. He is still capable of recognizing familiar faces, but it has to filter through the fear and anger, meaning it takes time and doesn't have great odds of succeeding.
When the Hulk's calmer, he's capable of speaking in full, though blunt, sentences. He also seems fully aware of emotional attachments, and even capable of forming new ones — when he saves Tony at the end of the Avengers, it isn't just because Tony's been a good friend to Bruce — he's also defended the Hulk. In either state, he's actually got a good knack for strategy in battle. While power's always his go-to, he's also quick to identify and take advantage of weak points when it comes to more challenging enemies.
At his current canon point, Bruce and the Hulk are fairly well in-sync. Bruce has begun to very tentatively trust in the Hulk's having a sense of right and wrong. He seems aware of the direct relationship between his own level of acceptance and the Hulk's volatility, and continues to work towards embracing his anger and faults so that the dissonance between his personality and the Hulk's are not always at extremes. It's still very touch and go, however, and Bruce still favors isolation and avoiding incidents entirely in order to keep others safe. His interactions with Tony have opened him up to the idea that it's possible to let others in without making a gigantic mess, but he's been at ground zero of far too many disasters to fully trust himself, or the Hulk, anytime soon.
POWER:
Bruce is super smart, though that isn't really a superpower. The obvious one is the outcome of the gamma radiation. Bruce can turn into the Hulk at will. Upsides are being massively strong and durable; downsides are being difficult to control, and not being able to turn back at will. The other obvious weakness is the fact that the Hulk can be brought out by extremely hostile situations, or as a result of manipulations by others, and the resulting transformations tend to be more emotionally unstable.
The Hulk is super duper strong and also super duper durable. While he is capable of using strategy in fights, however, he's pretty reactive and is almost 500% brawn with a very small amount of brains. I'm happy to run any Hulk incidents by the mods in order to discuss specific outcomes!
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
You know, this isn't the first time the government's kept files on me— but I think it might be the first time they've let me read them.
[ Bruce isn't looking at the camera when he speaks. The view's a little askew, too, propped up on the desk at which he's sitting, and a little obscured by what looks like a small stack of papers in the foreground.
He takes a second to remove his glasses before casting a glance towards the screen, offering a very small smile that's a match for his wry tone. He seriously doubts the files he's read are the full ones; that's the joke, though he doesn't elaborate. ]
It isn't the first time they've given me access to their projects, either. I realize the skepticism is probably a dead horse, at this point, but I'd suggest taking the general human decency with a grain of salt.
[ It's been said a thousand times, sure; maybe this is just for posterity, so he's got the right to say 'I told you so' later. He moves on smoothly enough. ]
Does anyone know what the status is on travelling? I tried checking the network, but apparently it's a fluid arrangement. I know what the brochures say— I'm looking for any firsthand experience.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive & test drive!
NAME: Melissa
AGE: 18+
JOURNAL:
awarewolfIM / EMAIL: kreugan / yogilates@gmail
PLURK:
RETURNING: Nick Cutler
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Bruce Banner (The Hulk)
CHARACTER AGE: 45
SERIES: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CHRONOLOGY: Post "Avengers" (and "Iron Man 3", though that's kind of moot)
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random
BACKGROUND:
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is basically like ours, just a little bit parallel in the sense that it's slowly starting to collect superhumans and superheroes, and has had a few notable encounters with extraterrestrial life. Science is generally more fantastic (and dangerous). There aren't many details about Bruce's childhood, but odds are he was always a nerd. Bruce studied several advanced fields (bio-medical, bio-tech, engineering) and became a prominent scholar in the field of gamma radiation research. While attending school, he met Betty Ross, who would become his long-term girlfriend, and also crossed paths with prominent astrophysicist Erik Selvig.
In 2005, he and Betty began work on a top-secret research project for the US Army. Unbeknownst to them, the project's primary goal was to create supersoldiers in the same vein as Captain America. It was overseen by General Thaddeus Ross, Betty's father. Bruce became overconfident in his work and made a life-changing mistake: he decided to test the technology on himself. This went terribly, of course, and resulted in Bruce's transformation into the Hulk. Essentially a child who possessed very little intelligence, the Hulk reacted to his sudden existence with fear and violence. He destroyed the lab and nearly killed Betty. When Bruce tried to visit Betty in hospital he was stopped by her father, who made it clear to Bruce that he was now a national threat.
Realizing that he posed a serious threat to Betty and everyone else, Bruce went on the run and became a fugitive of the US government. He spent most of his time laying low and avoiding others, favoring isolated regions or places of relative obscurity. There were several incidents in which Bruce, provoked either by strangers or government agents, transformed into the Hulk. Each incident resulted in massive swaths of destruction. Seeing no way out and no way to keep others safe, Bruce tried to end his own life, but was prevented from doing so by the Hulk's interference.
Unable to go home and unable to stop running, a desperate Bruce started to contact other academics in an attempt to develop a cure. Predictably, it didn't work. This culminated in an emotional reunion with Betty, but ultimately Bruce was forced to leave her to keep her safe. The government's attempt to capture the Hulk also failed, but they helped reinforce Bruce's distrust of the government and their motivations. He was ultimately forced to transform into the Hulk for the sake of battling a government agent who'd been exposed to a serum derived from Bruce's DNA. While this was theoretically an instance of Bruce using the Hulk for good, it still destroyed most of Harlem, and Bruce went on the run again immediately after.
While on the run, Bruce began to develop a new approach to his anger problems. He avoided "incidents" (transformations) successfully, and even managed to contribute to humanity in his own ways, offering his aid as a doctor to the people he encountered. This relatively peaceful existence was interrupted by the arrival of Natasha Romanoff, who informed him that SHIELD was watching him, and they needed his help. Reluctantly, Bruce went with her back to the SHIELD HQ and was introduced to the rest of the Avengers — Tony Stark, Thor, Natasha, Steve Rogers, and Clint Barton.
He joined the team with the understanding that he was there for his brains, not his brawn. This appeared to be mostly on the level, but things went downhill anyway due to the manipulations of Thor's brother, Loki. Bruce was tricked into transforming into the Hulk while on a hellicarrier, resulting in massive destruction and his separation from the rest of the team. When the others showed up in New York to confront an alien threat, however, Bruce willingly returned in order to help them fight. This was mostly thanks to Tony Stark badgering him about the Hulk being capable of good things; Bruce bought it, or at least bought it enough to figure the Hulk was less of a threat than a conquering alien army.
The Avengers won. As of his canon point, Bruce isn't on the run for once — instead he's a part of something, and he's chilling at the fancy new Avengers Tower with Tony Stark, working in the R&D department.
PERSONALITY:
BRUCE. Bruce has spent years in isolation in order to keep others safe, as well as to work on his own self-awareness and better control the impulses that pose a threat to others. For a long time after the accident, he reacted with fear and anger, and tried to solve his problems by leaning heavily on repression. In addition to a violent rejection of the Hulk and the emotional extremes he represented, this also meant withdrawing from human interaction, both out of a sense of guilt in more personal cases (Betty, and the harm he'd caused her) and a lack of trust in his own self-control.
Predictably, this doesn't work. Staying off the radar turns out to be nearly impossible, and when he's dragged back into the action against his will, the results are always catastrophic. More importantly, Bruce eventually comes to understand that flat-out denial of the Hulk is too dangerous to be a viable solution; rather than providing him control, it creates a larger dissonance between his two halves and makes the dynamic between them more unstable. The more Bruce tries to repress his own emotions, the stronger they are when they inevitably emerge, and the more hostile his connection to the Hulk becomes.
In the span between The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers, Bruce begins to adopt a method of acceptance. Rather than rejecting his anger and exacerbating his inability to process it, he embraces it. The trick is in opening himself up to his emotions and learning to tolerate them without losing control. At the beginning of the film, this approach is still a work in progress. He's established a baseline that allows him to interact with others and to feel a full spectrum of emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them — or, in some cases, he's simply learned to cope with being overwhelmed. It now takes a great deal more to push his limits and trigger an involuntary transformation into the Hulk, usually immense physical or emotional threat.
That said, he isn't stable. Bruce and the Hulk still have a complex and often antagonistic relationship. Although he's gotten better at control, he still struggles with the concept of give and take, and is still reluctant to view the Hulk as anything other than a threat and a curse. His discussions with Tony Stark make it clear that he views both the Hulk and himself as liabilities. When he willingly shows up at the battle of New York and transforms into the Hulk, it represents a significant turning point — he finally accepts that despite being deeply flawed and dangerous, he's still capable of doing good. Tony pitches the idea that the Hulk has a moral compass, and at the end of the film, Bruce is finally in a place to put faith in that concept. This boils down to both his own process of blurring the lines between himself and the Hulk, accepting his own flaws and anger, as well as his trust in the people around him to keep him on the right track.
In some ways, Bruce's experiences following the accident have made him bolder and more confident in general interaction. He still retains an arrogance and confidence in his intellect that's carried over from his previous life, though it's now touched by a sense of bitterness at the perceived loss of his own success and a happiness. A life on the run has fostered a highly adaptable personality that allows him to observe and adjust to situations with ease. Although he's obviously prone to being withdrawn, sometimes to a defensively hostile degree, Bruce isn't particularly awkward in social situations. To the contrary, he can be very easygoing, sometimes charming and almost always wryly clever. His social skills might get rusty, but the ghost of his former, confident self is still intact.
Deeper connections are what he struggles with. He has a lot of walls up, and he tends to shut people out when they try to get close. Bruce knows he's dangerous, and he doesn't believe his happiness is worthwhile enough to put others in danger; it's the reason he leaves Betty, and it's the reason he's so slow to see himself as a part of the Avengers. While he's finally starting to let some walls down, he's still hyper-aware of the threat he poses to others, and the potential for causing them harm and/or losing them is a constant fear.
THE HULK. The Hulk is generally considered to be a unique personality, or at the very least a repressed one caused by a splintering of Bruce's own personality and emotional control. Transformations into the Hulk can be triggered by physical stimulus, but for the most part it's connected to emotional distress. The Hulk's personality can vary depending on what, exactly, triggers the transformation; he has a tendency to be more hostile and reactive when the transformation is caused by general fear or danger, and more strategic and focused when the transformation itself is more controlled. When Bruce intentionally draws out the Hulk, he's even shown to be capable of teamwork, easily identifying friend from enemy. If the Hulk takes over because Bruce is in immediate danger, he's prone to be violent and defensive, regardless of who happens to be nearby. He is still capable of recognizing familiar faces, but it has to filter through the fear and anger, meaning it takes time and doesn't have great odds of succeeding.
When the Hulk's calmer, he's capable of speaking in full, though blunt, sentences. He also seems fully aware of emotional attachments, and even capable of forming new ones — when he saves Tony at the end of the Avengers, it isn't just because Tony's been a good friend to Bruce — he's also defended the Hulk. In either state, he's actually got a good knack for strategy in battle. While power's always his go-to, he's also quick to identify and take advantage of weak points when it comes to more challenging enemies.
At his current canon point, Bruce and the Hulk are fairly well in-sync. Bruce has begun to very tentatively trust in the Hulk's having a sense of right and wrong. He seems aware of the direct relationship between his own level of acceptance and the Hulk's volatility, and continues to work towards embracing his anger and faults so that the dissonance between his personality and the Hulk's are not always at extremes. It's still very touch and go, however, and Bruce still favors isolation and avoiding incidents entirely in order to keep others safe. His interactions with Tony have opened him up to the idea that it's possible to let others in without making a gigantic mess, but he's been at ground zero of far too many disasters to fully trust himself, or the Hulk, anytime soon.
POWER:
Bruce is super smart, though that isn't really a superpower. The obvious one is the outcome of the gamma radiation. Bruce can turn into the Hulk at will. Upsides are being massively strong and durable; downsides are being difficult to control, and not being able to turn back at will. The other obvious weakness is the fact that the Hulk can be brought out by extremely hostile situations, or as a result of manipulations by others, and the resulting transformations tend to be more emotionally unstable.
The Hulk is super duper strong and also super duper durable. While he is capable of using strategy in fights, however, he's pretty reactive and is almost 500% brawn with a very small amount of brains. I'm happy to run any Hulk incidents by the mods in order to discuss specific outcomes!
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
You know, this isn't the first time the government's kept files on me— but I think it might be the first time they've let me read them.
[ Bruce isn't looking at the camera when he speaks. The view's a little askew, too, propped up on the desk at which he's sitting, and a little obscured by what looks like a small stack of papers in the foreground.
He takes a second to remove his glasses before casting a glance towards the screen, offering a very small smile that's a match for his wry tone. He seriously doubts the files he's read are the full ones; that's the joke, though he doesn't elaborate. ]
It isn't the first time they've given me access to their projects, either. I realize the skepticism is probably a dead horse, at this point, but I'd suggest taking the general human decency with a grain of salt.
[ It's been said a thousand times, sure; maybe this is just for posterity, so he's got the right to say 'I told you so' later. He moves on smoothly enough. ]
Does anyone know what the status is on travelling? I tried checking the network, but apparently it's a fluid arrangement. I know what the brochures say— I'm looking for any firsthand experience.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive & test drive!