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stepinandfixit) wrote2018-05-23 11:26 am
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History
Yvonne Carmen Rogers was born on the 4th of July, 1918, and spent most of her young life trying to outrun the fancy name. A frail child, weakened from a bout of scarlet fever, she stopped trying to keep up with the neighborhood kids and just watched and listened from the front steps, keeping track of friends and enemies, alliances and rivalries, but she was always prepared to stand up and limp into an unfair fight. With her best friend, Bucky Barnesโrumored by many to be a secret childhood sweetheart, though denied by the both of themโalways there behind her, Eve Rogers went after bullies wherever she could find them.
With war on the horizon, knowing she could never serve as a soldier herself, Eve's frustration only grew, reaching a tipping point when Barnes himself received his orders. On his last night Stateside, immediately after a playful but stiff goodbye, Eve fairly threw herself once again into an unfair fight, three street toughs against an old man with a German accent. Though now a young woman, Eve was still slight and fragile, but her temper raged hot enough to frighten them off.
The man she'd rescued eventually got a word in edgewise, interrupting her angry tirade to introduce himself as Dr. Abraham Erskine, a German-American scientist working on what he called a cure for frailty, a serum that would transform anyone into a super-human. It was meant to go to a soldier, this serum, an enlisted man, but the Army was so full of bullies itself that Erskine had been reluctant to test it until he found a suitable subject. Once burned, twice shy. If even a scientist had been overwhelmed by its power, why take that risk at all? Why not move in a different direction?
Eve was no stranger to surprise or anger, and there was plenty of both when she arrived with Agent Carter at the facility in Brooklyn (in her own neighborhood, no less) that would transform her life, quite literally, forever. She reacted to neither, reining in her temper and rising to nothing, and the experiment went ahead.
The thing Eve remembers most about those first few moments is the full breath of air she'd taken, filling her lungs and making her lightheaded after the pain of the transformation. She'd taken several breaths before even realizing she'd undergone a transformation at all, but her mettle was tested almost immediately as she chased a would-be HYDRA assassin through the streets of Brooklyn. The incident caught the imagination of the public and the USO swept her up immediately, putting her into a show in a garish costume to appeal to the hearts (and wallets) of America.
It wasn't enough, not for her. She might be able to lift motorcycles over her head without smearing her lipstick, but that was a sideshow act, not the symbol Dr. Erskine had hoped she would be. After discovering her superior eyesight and stamina let her work long after dark, she cut and stitched and transformed the costume overnight into something closer to a uniform, and argued and persuaded her way into a title. When she took the stage as Captain America, war bonds tripled during the initial press coverage.
The European tour was less successful. Her reception by the troops couldn't be covered by most family-friendly newspapers. She might have boosted morale across the States, but her own was dragging behind her, until she found Peggy again. The two women lifted each other's spirits constantly, and Peggy became an immediate ally when Eve launched herself across no-man's land to rescue Bucky's unit from Azzano. She got her best friend back that day, and earned herself the loyalty of a squadron of madmen that rampaged across the European theater and left HYDRA bases smoldering in its wake.
Revenge had motivated their mission to take the train and capture Arnim Zola, the high-level HYDRA scientist who had carried out experiments on Bucky and his men, and when Bucky fell from the train just inches from Eve's outstretched hand, revenge motivated everything that followed. She found comfort in Peggy's presence, but restraint had never been the strongest quality in either woman, and their battles grew fiercer and more vicious until the assault on Red Skull's base, and the fight on the Valkyrie, and a final decision.
"I gotta put her in the water. I'm sorry, Peg."
With war on the horizon, knowing she could never serve as a soldier herself, Eve's frustration only grew, reaching a tipping point when Barnes himself received his orders. On his last night Stateside, immediately after a playful but stiff goodbye, Eve fairly threw herself once again into an unfair fight, three street toughs against an old man with a German accent. Though now a young woman, Eve was still slight and fragile, but her temper raged hot enough to frighten them off.
The man she'd rescued eventually got a word in edgewise, interrupting her angry tirade to introduce himself as Dr. Abraham Erskine, a German-American scientist working on what he called a cure for frailty, a serum that would transform anyone into a super-human. It was meant to go to a soldier, this serum, an enlisted man, but the Army was so full of bullies itself that Erskine had been reluctant to test it until he found a suitable subject. Once burned, twice shy. If even a scientist had been overwhelmed by its power, why take that risk at all? Why not move in a different direction?
Eve was no stranger to surprise or anger, and there was plenty of both when she arrived with Agent Carter at the facility in Brooklyn (in her own neighborhood, no less) that would transform her life, quite literally, forever. She reacted to neither, reining in her temper and rising to nothing, and the experiment went ahead.
The thing Eve remembers most about those first few moments is the full breath of air she'd taken, filling her lungs and making her lightheaded after the pain of the transformation. She'd taken several breaths before even realizing she'd undergone a transformation at all, but her mettle was tested almost immediately as she chased a would-be HYDRA assassin through the streets of Brooklyn. The incident caught the imagination of the public and the USO swept her up immediately, putting her into a show in a garish costume to appeal to the hearts (and wallets) of America.
It wasn't enough, not for her. She might be able to lift motorcycles over her head without smearing her lipstick, but that was a sideshow act, not the symbol Dr. Erskine had hoped she would be. After discovering her superior eyesight and stamina let her work long after dark, she cut and stitched and transformed the costume overnight into something closer to a uniform, and argued and persuaded her way into a title. When she took the stage as Captain America, war bonds tripled during the initial press coverage.
The European tour was less successful. Her reception by the troops couldn't be covered by most family-friendly newspapers. She might have boosted morale across the States, but her own was dragging behind her, until she found Peggy again. The two women lifted each other's spirits constantly, and Peggy became an immediate ally when Eve launched herself across no-man's land to rescue Bucky's unit from Azzano. She got her best friend back that day, and earned herself the loyalty of a squadron of madmen that rampaged across the European theater and left HYDRA bases smoldering in its wake.
Revenge had motivated their mission to take the train and capture Arnim Zola, the high-level HYDRA scientist who had carried out experiments on Bucky and his men, and when Bucky fell from the train just inches from Eve's outstretched hand, revenge motivated everything that followed. She found comfort in Peggy's presence, but restraint had never been the strongest quality in either woman, and their battles grew fiercer and more vicious until the assault on Red Skull's base, and the fight on the Valkyrie, and a final decision.
"I gotta put her in the water. I'm sorry, Peg."
EVE ROGERS
CAPTAIN AMERICA
CAPTAIN AMERICA
I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.