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Name: Sam Wilson Door: Door Pass: Submissive Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe Canon Point: Post "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" Age: 40 Appearance: 1 | 2 | 3 History: Sam Wilson @ MCU Wiki CR AU (Optional): --- Personality: Positive Trait: Compassion Core traits of Sam's personality are perhaps best summed up in the pararescuemen motto: "These Things We Do, That Others May Live". Sam is a man dedicated to helping others and doing what he believes to be right. Sam is ready to extend a helping hand, empathy and understanding - sometimes even to those who oppose him and seek to do him harm, willing to hear others out and stick up for the little people, the disenfranchised, the ones left behind by the world. Not ready to stop at just feeling with and for people, though, he's ready and willing to take action. If he sees something done that he considers wrong, he will speak up about it, make his stance known and act if he is able to act. If in doubt, he refuses to take the easy way out. He's a man who lives his life in service to others - from being a pararescue to becoming a counselor at the VA, to jumping back in the fight to help Captain America, to giving up his career to search the world for Bucky Barnes and eventually become an Avenger, to pushing for the betterment of the world when taking up the mantle of Captain America. Negative Trait: Self-Sacrificial His refusal to stand idly by in the face of injustice or people in need can lead to Sam putting himself in harm's way physically and emotionally. He gives up his career and personal life in DC without second thought to do the right thing, throws himself at enemy combatants with reckless abandon for a man who flies through the air in nothing but light tac gear and a glorified jet pack. We see him invested in setting wrongs right, but we also see that in order to do that, Sam will put himself on the line - the biggest example is when during the events of Civil War, Sam is the one who makes the call that he and the team will stay behind to cover Steve's and Bucky's escape, knowing that it would get him arrested and thrown into prison without trial. We also see this when he spends hours at a police station waiting for Bucky's release despite having been racially profiled and despite being justifiably angry and upset with Bucky, and when Sam refuses to fight back against Karli Morgenthau in their final confrontation, when she eventually has a gun on him and he still refuses to hurt her. He's not a pacifist, but he'll fight and die for the right cause, and give more of himself than he should by any right in order to help people - and he will not rest until he's done so. Negative Trait: Anti-Authoritarian Sam's sense of justice and morality can easily put him in conflict with authority figures, whom he does not blindly follow. Optimistic when it comes to other people, he is jaded when it comes to people in authority.This wariness of authority figures can of course easily become detrimental to Sam himself. He says of himself that he's happy with his civilian life because "no one is giving him orders" anymore, and rejects an offer to be recruited by Nick Fury himself after impressing him on the battlefield. It's when he's treated as an equal - as a partner - that he joins the Avengers as a team. He also openly flaunts orders to operate in a 'subtle' manner when doing contract work with the Air Force in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier", mocking the Air Force general bossing him around, and later having little more than open disdain and sharp words for the newly minted Captain America, John Walker. And most famously, at the end of Falcon and the Winter Soldier he very publically and vocally dresses down a group of politicians and demands that they have to do better with the power they hold in the world. Sam will gladly work alongside people he respects, but have an authority figure in charge, be it law enforcement, military personnel or politician, and Sam will absolutely become more sharp tongued and display a habit of flaunting their regulations and the respect many would assume they're owed due to their station alone. Negative Trait: Closed Off While being open towards others, Sam rarely if ever opens up about his own feelings, trauma and needs. Even close friends are left in the dark about much of his inner life. Patient with others far beyond what many would put up with if he considers a person worth it, Sam can and will be hurt by others, letting them close but ever kept at arm's length without getting pushed away - and often without noticing that's what he's doing. Sam is able to remain level-headed and firm without portraying the full extent of the anger or hurt he might feel, often willing to diffuse a situation with humorous remarks, often to the detriment of his ability to share his hurt and trauma unless he's using it to relate to others. We can see this in how he brings up his most traumatic personal loss only once in canon in order to show sympathy with a loss Steve Rogers suffered. Likewise, in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam spends much of the runtime deeply hurt and affected by Bucky Barnes' actions, without ever explaining this to him properly other than shutting Bucky out emotionally and snarking back at him, covering his real emotions behind angry snark or sullen silence - while also still regularly checking in on Bucky's wellbeing. Powers and Abilities: Pararescue: Sam has received the nearly two year gruelling Air Force PJ Training, also known as "Superman School" that includes training from multiple military branches and is designed to cover a wide range of special ops and rescue skills. Pararescuemen are combat medics that are dispatched into the field to rescue injured soldiers in a wide variety of situations. The training includes the following courses according to the US Air Force: Basic Military Training, Special warfare Preparatory, Assessment and Selection Course, Special Warfare Pre-Dive and Combat Dive Course, Airborne School (Parachuting), Military Free-Fall Course, SERE Training (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape), various Paramedic/EMT courses. Paramedic/Combat Medic: As part of his pararescue training, Sam is able to provide extensive on-site medical care. Flight/Pilot: Outside of his parachute/skydiving training, Sam is shown competently handling aircraft familiar to him. Most of his flight prowess is depicted with the EXO-7 FALCON wingsuit and follow-up models, however, a combination wingsuit and thruster pack that keeps its pilot airborne. Sam is extremely fast and agile with this. Canonically, the EXO-7 was still a prototype, with only Sam Wilson and his wingman Riley piloting the suits, implying they'd been testing the FALCON suits mark 1 through 6 as well. later, Stark Industries would improve on the prototype design, and at his current canon point, Sam as Captain America has instead received a new take on the suit as designed by Wakandan technicians. Martial Arts/Acrobatics: As part of his unique training and later combat outings as the Falcon and becoming Captain America, Sam has developed a unique fighting style. Trained in aerial and unarmed combat, his style includes a combination of firearm improvisation, flight maneuvers and modern army combat styles that are influenced by elements from Muay Thai, American Boxing and Taekwondo, relying on fast and acrobatic maneuvers over brute strength, often employing kicks boosted by momentum and his thrusters over punches. Additionally, in order to handle the shifting equilibrium of his fast flight speeds, Sam trains hard to be nimble and acrobatic. In addition to regular runs, we see his training including flips to keep his body in constant, fast motion. Marksman: While mostly seen using the retractable sidearms of his former Falcon suit, Sam has been shown using a variety of firearms with skill and accuracy, as befits his military training. Additionally, he's trained to use the vibranium shield offensively as well as defensively, throwing it with great skill and incredible accuracy. Engineering: Sam performs maintenance and calibrations on the advanced tech of both his wingsuit as well as his drone in between missions, not trusting specialised professionals over his own skills. He's also seen doing a variety of repairs on his family's boat. Languages: Sam speaks English and Arabic. Fishing/Cooking: Sam has spent his childhood and youth working on a fishing boat and for his parents' seafood business. He has reasonable skill at fishing and handling fishing related tools, can be seen fixing nets, is comfortable on boats, and has a good grasp of cooking especially surrounding seafood. Social/Community Work: Sam has attended LSU for a bachelor's degree that he would have needed to carry out the work we see him doing upon his first appearance in the MCU, when he works as a counselor at Veteran Affairs in DC, having worked with veterans and their families in need of professional help for an unknown number of years at that point. He has theoretical and practical knowledge in this area of social work. Furthermore from his time at home in Delacroix, he's used to lending hands to various community efforts, as his parents were and his sister still is considered a pillar of the community, often providing food for those less fortunate and packing meal kits for others in a soup kitchen esque setup. His parish is also known in real life for tending to the abandoned graveyards in the region so they don't fall into disrepair, and the Wilson family can be safely assumed to partake in work like that. Inventory: Captain America Wingsuit The suit includes a jetpack with retractable, flexible vibranium wings. The suit also includes combat goggles that interfaces with Redwing. Captain America's Shield A vibranium shield impervious to most damage from regular human weaponry, can be thrown and bounced off solid objects, becoming a versatile hand-held offensive and defensive tool. Recon/Combat Drone (Redwing) Recon and combat drone, Wakandan tech with a vibranium chassis. Redwing is able to split into three separate pieces to split up fire power, with only the central piece retaining full recon functionality. Although highly advanced technology capable of interpreting complicated voice commands as well as the wrist controls on Sam's Cap suit, and although Sam talks to Redwing as if it's a pet, the drone is not sentient and fully controlled by him. Samples: 1: Dup TDM - Heavier Focus on how Sam talks 2: Ximilia NPC Thread - heavier Focus on how Sam thinks |
