One x One Calling Captain America

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Cora Marie Matthews

• General
• Background
• Personality
• Writing Sample

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  Nicknames: Subject Zero, Project Crimson
  
  
  Abilities: Rapid cellular regeneration, multiple language fluency, HYDRA combat training and weapon proficiency, manipulation through sympathy tactics, increased pain tolerance
  
  
  Role: Ex-HYDRA Science Experiment/Avenger-in-training
  
  
  Age: 91 years old (Appearance of a 20-something year old)
  
  
  Gender: Female
  
  
  Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
  
  
  Relationship Status: It's complicated
  
  
  Height: 5'5"
  
  
  Weight: 119 lbs.
  
  
  Health and Well-Being: Other than constant operation and chemical experimentation by HYDRA operatives in the past, Cora has a clean bill of health
  
  
  Scars/Piercings/Tattoos: N/A
  
  
  Known Language(s): English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish
  
  
  Notable Relationships:
  
  
  
  
  • Irene Matthews
    
    - Mother (Deceased)
    
  • Nathaniel Matthews
    
    - Father (Deceased)
    
  • Alice Matthews
    
    - Sister (Deceased)
    
  • Ann Matthews
    
    - Sister (Deceased)
    
  • Benjamin Matthews
    
    - Brother (Deceased)
    
  • Nicholas Matthews
    
    - Brother (Deceased)
    
  • Lillie Matthews
    
    - Sister (Deceased)
    
  • Valerie Mathews
    
    - Sister (Deceased)
    
  • Christopher Mathews
    
    - Brother (Deceased)
    
  • Steve Rogers
    
    - Fiancé
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Birth Date: November 15, 1923
  
  
  City of Birth: Brooklyn, NY
  
  
  Criminal Record: Previous affiliation with HYDRA
  
  
  General Background: Cora was born into a large but poor family. She inadvertently got herself mixed into HYDRA when answering an ad looking for test subjects. Many people weren’t as opposed to experimentation as they used to be before Steve Rodgers had become Captain America. The company was offering much needed money so Cora answered. Upon arriving to the posted address, she was taken to an underground bunker. Little did she know, she wouldn’t leave that bunker for decades.
  
  
  Cora was, at first, entirely adverse to HYDRA for taking her captive. But years and years of brainwashing can take its toll on your rational thinking. She began to believe that Captain America and any of his associates were pure evil. HYRDA trained her to kill, as much as it was against everything she had believed before this became her life.
  
  
  Through many forms of painful experimentation, she had somewhere along the way gained the ability of what HYDRA called "rapid cellular regeneration." It essentially gave her the ability to live forever. Any wound was healed almost instantly, though larger ones (such as a severed limb) could take a few minutes. It was something HYDRA highly treasured and couldn't seem to replicate. In order to keep from losing their prized possession, they would move her from base to base constantly and keep her contact with the outside world as minimal as possible.
  
  
  Agents, soldiers, commanders... they would all come and go. They would age and die, but Cora stayed young. They constantly tested the extent of her abilities, watching her die and come back to life. They tried to replicate her abilities through repeating the same experiments on other subjects but they would all die far before they even got through half the tests she had survived. So they tried to transplant her blood, her tissues, her organs, anything but the subjects would get violently ill as their bodies rejected the transplant, often resulting in death.
  
  
  Cora was recently rescued from a HYDRA base by the one and only Captain America. After an HYDRA invasion to Avengers Tower in an attempt to retrieve her, Cora turned against them. She is currently under supervision through a tracking bracelet that records her vitals, location, and various other important elements to keep tabs on her.
  
  
  
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  Hobbies/Interests: Self-education, bring down HYDRA through any means
  
  
  Important Goals or Desires: To full retain her memories, to destroy any trace of HYDRA
  
  
  General Personality: Cora is a generally kind person, despite the circumstances she has gotten herself into. She loves to learn and spent the majority of her time studying everything from language to math to arts while imprisoned by HYDRA. She can be very manipulative and quickly turn a situation on its head. A conversation with her may seem like fun and games as she makes a constant stream of sarcastic remarks but she uses them as a device to encourage her enemy to let her guard down.
  
  
  Having been shown the worst of the Avengers and brainwashed for years, she was under the impression that they were everything that's wrong with the world. If she were given the chance, she would've gone after them herself. The leaders of HYDRA, however, refused to release her because she lacks the inhuman physical and mental advantages that would allow her to defeat them permanently and her emotional willpower was deemed "unstable".
  
  
  Her attitude toward the constant experimentation was quiet compliance. After all, compliance, she was told, would be rewarded. She was unaware that the members of HYDRA only viewed her as a pawn in their game, their brainwashing causing her to see them as the heroes. Having been locked in a bunker for decades, she was unaware of the actual passage of time despite watching people she once viewed as friends age and die.
  
  
  Having now met the Avengers and been unofficially officially dubbed an "Avenger in training," she no longer sees the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. as the enemy. Though her emotions are generally stable, she can experience episodes of intense aggression and lack of sympathy when it comes to members of HYDRA that played a key role in her imprisonment. She currently struggles with understanding her "memories" and trying to determine what is fact and what is fiction. Despite experiencing inexplicable emotions toward Steve Rogers, she has yet to piece together her past with him.
  
  
  
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  Cora runs her fingers along the cracked spine of a leather-bound dictionary. It had been given to her as a birthday present a long, long time ago. Time hadn’t meant much to Cora but it seemed to mean plenty to things that saw a lot of use and to other people. Time would make their skin sag. It would make their wrinkles more prominent. It would make their voices sad and their bodies tired. In the grand scheme of things, time would kill them. Sometimes she would forget that they had died. Sometimes she would forget death was a thing, let alone a word. She would, on occasion, ask for this person or that person. The response would be short and emotionless. “They’re dead” and it would take her a moment to recall what dead actually meant.
  
  
  She flips idly through the book, skimming the pages as these thoughts crossed her mind. She was shaken from them as her gaze fell upon a certain word. “Cage. Noun. A structure of bars or wires in which birds or other animals are confined. A prison cell or camp. An open framework forming—“ She cuts herself off as she snaps the book shut, lifting her gaze to the bars that formed the fourth wall of the room she was in. She walks over to these bars, reaching through to tap one of the soldiers on the shoulder. He jumps slightly and looks over his shoulder to her, his face masked. “Excuse me. Am I in a cage?” Receiving only a grunt in response, she sighs.
  
  
  This was boring. They usually played a game by now. At least, that’s what they called it. It wasn’t much of a game, seeing as she always won and the titles were far too long to pay attention to. Something along the lines of “Let’s see who can withstand more electrocution” or “Who can lose the most blood and still be alive?” Just as she was beginning to contemplate a new game, the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps breaks the silence. The figured approaches quickly but stays in the straight-backed, even pace of soldier. After he whispers something to one of the guards, he exits and the pair of guards open her cell.
  
  
  Each takes her by an arm and they start off down the corridor. "Where are we going?" One jars her to the side a bit with a grunt. They certainly weren't being all too gentle. "But, why?" As they pass through various doors and locks, another pair of soldiers drops in to follow them and another pair to precede them, none of which seemed keen on answering her questions. They ascend a set of concrete stairs, all the soldiers steps, perfectly in time. This was a procedure the soldiers had practiced countless times but one with which she was unfamiliar. She follows along in silence being jostled this way and that or being shoved into a certain direction as they make a turn. It wasn't exactly fun but it was a lot less boring than things were before.
  
  
  

 

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Steve Grant Rogers



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Nicknames: Captain America, Cap (by close friends and associates)


Born: July 4th, 1918


Abilities: Peak human abilities (including super-strength, speed, enhanced reflexes and stamina), regenerative healing factor, highly trained mixed martial artist


Background: Born to Sarah and Joseph Rogers on Tuesday June 4th, 1918, Steve lived alone with his mother as a child due to the fact that his father had been killed before he was born during World War I, growing up as a kid with a "small stature" and a generally poor physical condition. Eventually, he came to befriend James "Bucky" Barnes after being attacked by bullies out on the street who poked fun at him for his appearance before being defended by who would eventually be his closest friend, having been inspired by Rogers' strong spirit. Even after his mother died from tuberculosis and attempted to close himself off because of it, Bucky stuck very closely with Steve and vowed to "be with him till the end of the line".


Sometime after World War II started, Steve became motivated to join the United States Military in order to help with the fight against the Nazis, but was rejected by numerous enlistment offices time and time again for being nowhere close to meeting their requirements. Eventually, he was finally accepted in an enlistment office at the Stark Expo in 1941 by Dr. Abraham Erskine for "Project Rebirth" after he overheard a conversation between him and Bucky involving his determination to assist in the war, and was then subjected to a gruelling training regime where he was often mocked by the other soldiers who trained there. It wasn't until he displayed an act of self-sacrifice upon being tested by Colonel Chester Phillips that he gained recognition for the person he was, making him stand out amongst others and made him become chosen to undergo the procedure that would turn him into a "super soldier".


Exhibiting amazing super strength amongst a host of other heightened abilities for Rogers to use at his disposal, he went on to be a very recognized figure as the world's first superhero and fought many battles against the HYDRA organization, fighting with the Howling Commandos and- much to his utter despair- losing Bucky along the way after going on a mission to take down HYDRA's lead scientist, Arnim Zola.


During his final mission to take down Johann Schmidt, also recognized as the Red Skull, Steve was eventually forced to crash a bomber-plane into the Arctic with him still inside it to prevent millions of people in New York City from dying, which led to him being preserved in the ice there for almost 70 years. In 2012, he was discovered by a S.H.I.E.L.D. team that went out looking for his body, and after being released from the ice he was trapped in he was thrust into a world he barely recognized, and was forced to adjust to modern customs and ways of the world that he was not already familiar with. After that, he went on to fight with Avengers for the Battle of New York and is now fighting a war against HYDRA after having managed to stop them from completely destroying S.H.I.E.L.D, following an uprising within the organization.

Rogers' most recent and current uniform.


Personality: Steve is recognized by the people around him as a very resilient and strong-willed man, always staying true to his beliefs and believing in the ideal of pure honesty and trust amongst people. It's a quality about him that can cause people to think of him as being naïve (this is most notable during some occasions where he interacts with Tony Stark), but that never stops him from enforcing these policies to the best of his ability. He's always putting the safety of everyone else before his own, and resolves to eliminate any threats to said safety before they can cause any significant damage. However, despite all this, he has grown to be a firm leader during his time with the Avengers and finds himself to be the one who mostly coordinates the team's actions during any battle they may be faced with.