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Applications Two
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SAM WILSON | CA:TWS | RESERVED
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Requested apartment: 18.1, or near Steve Rogers if at all possible.
Character Name: Sam Wilson
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: Post Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Background/History: Please see Sam’s Wiki article.
Personality: Being a soldier requires having grit, being able to operate under pressure, and knowing when to trust your gut instincts. Sam Wilson has all of these traits, and additional traits of empathy that are harder to teach. Having been a member of an elite para-rescue battalion during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Sam has seen a lot of things, and he’s learned from them. Sam then went on to become a counselor for the VA, to help his fellow soldiers cope with PTSD.
When we first meet Sam, he has the unfortunate luck of going on a run through DC while Steve Rogers is taking his morning run. Despite being outclassed by him, Sam enjoys the challenge, and jokes around easily with Steve. He’s easy to trust, especially when he can make note of someone’s character. Just from that one moment, he becomes fast friends with Steve, and invites him to visit the VA. Though he says it’s to impress the girl at the front counter, he knows it’s probably something that Steve needs, having been a soldier thrown out of his time.
This is our first look into Sam’s empathy, and it gives us a window into the type of calm, collected person he is. It also shows his desire to help, which he reaffirms the next time that he sees Steve. But I mentioned that being a soldier requires a certain level of toughness, and this is true. When Steve asks for his help, Sam quickly accepts the challenge, even when Steve tries to talk him out of it. Sam has accepted Natasha and Steve into his home, despite the danger that came with fighting against an organization like SHIELD, because Sam isn’t afraid to fight when he sees the need.
While Sam is somewhat sarcastic, loves his Marvin Gaye, and works with an organization known for its layers of bureaucracy and slowness, he quickly throws whatever issues he has aside, and ultimately trusts the words and opinions of good people. He trusts Steve to know what the right thing to do is, and thus has no issue with following him… He definitely would trust him and Natasha to watch his back, just as much as he’d return the favor.
He also has a pretty good knack for candidly dealing with uncanny situations. He makes Steve and Natasha breakfast after they come to him to seek shelter like it’s not really that big of a deal. When he offers to help them, he suggests they bust out the last version of the EXO-7 FALCON wings from an armory near-by like it’s not really that big of a deal and he isn’t testing Uncle Sam.
Sometimes, though, you just really have to know when to trust your gut instincts that maybe, maybe, Uncle Sam would understand when the fate of the world is at stake.
Abilities/Powers: Sam has standard pararescue training: He knows self aid buddy car tricks, as well as more important stabilizing measures. He knows how to operate in covert environments, and has a pretty extensive weapons knowledge. He’s an effective shooter, as well.
Other than that, he’s a normal human. He runs fast, and can bench and squat more than your average guy, but he has not extra powers.
He is also a pilot for the EXO-7 Falcon wings, which give him the ability to fly and maneuver quickly in tense situations. They were designed to be better able to evade hostile fire/RPGs in MEDEVAC situations.
Items/Weapons: EXO-7 Falcon wing pack, a semi-automatic pistol with one ammo pack, and his headphones for his ipod, because why not.
Sample Entry: TDM Top level
Sample Entry Two: Voice test with Steve
-> REVISE
The reason for this is that we don't feel enough explanation has been given as to how the events of the movie change him and his motivations, and the personality currently listed focuses on the surface traits without delving more deeply. So we would like to see an expansion on what has already been provided, please.
We apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions, thank you.
Re: -> REVISE
Sam is the kind of guy that wants to help in whatever way he can. Perhaps his choice in career, being a counselor for the VA, is inspired by his past as a soldier… but even in the military, where your career choices are much more out of your hands than you’d think, he was still a highly skilled pararescue operator. To emphasize, a pararescuer goes to the places where other solders are trapped, while under heavy rocket and small arms fire. Helicopters are not as maneuverable as you might think, and one lucky bullet can destroy the whole aircraft, not to mention the effect that a rocket might have. But they still have to go in and not only save soldiers, up to and including providing just-in-time medical care, but also get out of dodge when the enemy knows where they are and are looking for them.
It’s a perilous job that requires a certain amount of insanity and care towards others to perform, basically, and Sam has that in waves. It doesn’t matter that he lost his best friend in the war, and suffers the same scars as any person that he counsels for PTSD. If anything, Sam views those scars as making him more able to help. It’s one thing to have training, another entirely to have training and experience and credibility. While Sam is ‘out of the fight’ from a war fighting standpoint, he doesn’t feel himself completely disconnected from it, as he’s still helping the soldiers home fight the war in their minds.
That’s what attracts him to Steve, as Steve is the perennial American Soldier. Frozen for 70 years, Steve is already back in the fight while still trying to deal with everything that he left behind. Sam doesn’t phrase it that way when he invites him to the VA, instead going with ‘impressing the girl at the front desk’, but when Steve takes him up on his offer, Sam takes the time to explain what he’s seen war do to soldiers, and how they never quite leave everything behind. It’s an important friendship with someone that Sam can tell is a kindred spirit in his willingness to help others and do the right thing.
It’s that certain amount of insanity that causes him to jump at the chance to help Steve when all of SHIELD is looking for them (while still making Steve and Natasha a hearty breakfast!). He knows the risks, he knows how insanely capable SHIELD is, and that the odds are stacked against them. But “Captain America needs my help, and there’s no better reason to get back into the fight than that.” It's the sort of thing that has always driven Sam when he needs it. But even Sam has some differences with Steve, especially when it comes to the Winter Soldier—Bucky Barnes. Sam doesn’t have the past history to cloud his opinion on the man that he sees today. While he trusts Steve, he wants to make sure that Steve makes the right decision instead of trying to save someone Sam isn’t sure can be saved after all of HYDRA’s brainwashing. While he ultimately trusts Steve’s judgment, it’s not to say that Sam doesn’t have misgivings of your current enemies… even if in the past they were your friends.
Besides being a deeply empathetic and practical person, however, Sam loves cracking jokes, and he loves Marvin Gaye. He has to workout regularly to keep in shape. It’s doing his morning run that allows him to meet Steve, who at the end of it he tells to go run another 13 mile lap. When he meets Natasha, he practically gives her a nod and a wink, with a ‘How you doin’?’ I bring all this up to emphasize that Sam has a switch. When it’s not time to be a soldier, or a counselor, he’s relaxed and prone to good-natured teasing and flirting. But when things get real, he casually suggests stealing a prototype military weapon from a fort in Maryland. He’s the one that leads the kidnapping of the SHIELD operative, and helps with scaring the truth out of him.
He’s the one that provides cover fire (at the expense of his lovely Chevy Malibu), while Steve and Natasha try to take care of business… and to not get killed.
Sam’s really just another perennial American Soldier, when you put it like that.
-> ACCEPTED