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Applications Three
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Teddy Altman | Marvel Comics Verse | Reserved
Contact Info: fallenappleinc @ Purk
Other Characters Played: N/A
Requested apartment: 28.3 (I have spoken to Bucky's mun about this)
Character Name: Theodore "Teddy" Altman, also known as Hulkling, sometimes referred to as Prince Dorrek VIII
Background/History: Teddy just wanted to be a normal teenager. What teen doesn't? He wanted to just get on with school, graduate with good grades and go to college. He wanted to look after his mom. Coming out as gay during high-school didn't much help with some of those goals, not until his growth-spurt suddenly hit and he was a good head or so taller than most of the other seniors, and broader, stronger too for that matter. And that was when the bullies started leaving him alone, picking on smaller kids. Teddy wasn't about to let that happen. Not only had he been through that himself, but none of his super-hero role models would have allowed that to happen when they could prevent it.
For most kids, that would have been enough, that would have been normal. But whatever Teddy did, he was never going to be normal. Being the out, tall, geeky nerd who liked comic-books and pokémon was going to make his life difficult enough, but being the out, geeky nerd with super-powers was just going to make his life impossible. He might have admired Spiderman and Wolverine and the Beast but that didn't mean he wanted to be like them. But considering the powers he possessed, he knew he just couldn't pretend to be normal. He hid it as best as he could though. At least from his mother.
He couldn't hide it from his friends. Or rather, the people who would become his friends, his very best friends. The kids that came together because they shared these unwanted gifts, and they wanted to help. They wanted to be like the others, not super heroes, but good people, doing what they could do to help. They became, through trial and error, the Young Avengers, and everything good that had ever happened in his life.
And by extension, everything bad.
They'd not been... supering for long. They hadn't at all before the world seemed to go to hell. The Avengers and the other super heroes who Teddy had spent his whole life looking up to were determined to strop them, to tell their parents. Why, Teddy has no idea. But soon they aren't only fighting crime, they're fighting the Avengers and to some degree, their parents.
Of course, Teddy's only got his mom. The woman who has always supported him, no matter what bombshells he dropped on her.
She is killed in front of him, in a moment that will stay with him always. A Super-Skrull, tasked with finding the young prince of their Empire, seeks them out. And while trying to reveal Teddy's true nature, unmasks the fact his mother is actually not his mother at all. She's not even human, or even his mother. He is the son of the Skrull Princess Anelle, and of Captain Mar-Vell.
But he gets no chance to process all of this, no chance to adjust before the Super-Skrull demands to take Teddy back to the Skrull Empire to take his place as Prince. That's when a Skrull army descend on New York and they have no choice but to fight alongside the Avengers to save the city.
At that point, dreams of being normal went out the window.
Personality: Teddy is a nice kid. There are people that might scoff at that, but he is. He grew up reading comics about Captain America and the Avengers- a very real presence in his world- and he always tried to be just like them. He wanted to help people, and do his best. As a kid, he helped elderly neighbours carry their shopping home and did his chores at home with very little complaining.
Unfortunately, geeky kids who are friendly and quiet don't always make friends easily, and that was very true of Teddy. He was bullied a lot, and that only got worse when other kids worked out he was gay.
And like a lot of kids, Teddy found himself doing things that he might not otherwise have done to try and make people like him. The first time his powers really manifested themselves, he was in High School, and he fell in with someone who was decidedly a bad influence. Greg Norris was a popular kid- the captain of the Basketball team as well as class president but he took advantage of Teddy's powers, getting him to impersonate people like Tony Stark so they could get into exclusive parties. If that wasn't bad enough, Greg was soon coercing Teddy to break into abandoned buildings around the city, including the Avengers Mansion.
That was when Teddy grew a backbone. The Avengers had always been his heroes, and stealing from their old Head Quarters was not something he was going to do, or let Greg get away with. There are things that are more important than being popular, and Teddy realised that then. Being nice didn't have to mean being a push-over, and it didn't mean he had to sacrifice what he believed in.
That was why he started heroing. When he was approached by Iron Lad, Patriot and Asguardian to help them fight crime and keep the people of New York safe, he jumps at the chance. Not only because Asguardian- also known as Billy Kaplan- was cute. When Kate Bishop joins them, they become a close group of friends, and after the loss of his foster-mother, Teddy begins to rely on them. He and Billy start a serious relationship, one that Teddy throws his all into. They go through so much together, that Teddy can't imagine life without them, and will do anything to keep them together. His loyalty to them is unbelievably strong in one so young, but Teddy is a boy made of ideals.
Even knowing his childhood heros, the Avengers, aren't at all as he imagined doesn't hold him back for long. If they aren't the heroes he imagined them as, then he will be. He'll be everything that a hero should be. He will look after his friends, and he will do what he believes in his heart to be the right thing.
Abilities/Powers: Due to his nature as half Kree and half Skrull, Teddy has a range of abilities, some of which manifest as stronger than others. As an alien, he's also immune to some things that would effect humans, such as pheromones. He's never had a cold in his life.
Items/Weapons: Teddy will arrive with his messenger bag. It's got a comic in it, and his wallet, and that's it. He doesn't have anything else with him apart from his clothes.
Sample Entry: Teddy at the Haven Test Drive
Sample Entry Two: Maybe this was a silly idea. He'd had a surprising number of bad ideas recently- but it was too late to turn back now. He'd crossed town to do this, and having come so far just to turn back seemed pathetic. He hadn't promised anyone of course, he'd just taken it upon himself to go and look for this stuff. But it would be a nice surprise for Bucky to have stuff from home, and Teddy is sure that it might help him relax a little. Of course, there's no guarantee that the rumours are true- there may not be an old record player and some records in one of the tumble-down buildings out here, but Teddy isn't the sort to write the idea off.
He can just imagine Bucky's face when he sets the record player up in the apartment. He can listen to records from back home, and maybe he'll feel better for it.
There's no real proof that backs up any of these thoughts, but that isn't stopping him. He scrambles up over the pile of tumble-down building debris and tries to get his bearings. The directions he was given weren't great, but he's sure that after living in New York all his life he can find his way just about anywhere. Even here.
He finds what he's looking for just over an hour later. Or at least, part of what was a record-player, once. Maybe it can be salvaged. He's not sure. But the smashed and broken records are beyond help. It's disappointing, but he takes it with him. Maybe it will be useful. Maybe they can even find someone who knows how to fix it.
-> REVISE
The personality section as it stands reads as an extension of the history section. It doesn't go into his behavior, his fears, his desires (past being a hero), and a lot of what is in it (such as biographical info, like joining the Young Avengers and how he first stood up to his bullies) is better fitted for a history section in general.
In addition you neglected to add in the "Canon" and "Canon Point" sections into the app. Please add these into your revision. Canon Point is especially important between what Teddy goes through in Young Avengers v1 and Young Avengers v2.
We apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions. Thank you.
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