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th3rightpartner[Player name] Selina
[Age] 35
[Personal Journal]selinamoonfire
[Character name] Margaret “Peggy” Carter
[Age] 28
[Canon] Captain America: The First Avenger
[Point in time taken from canon] The night of the date that she made with Steve Rogers during their conversation before the plane he was flying crashed. ‘A week from Saturday,’ so about a week after the crash.
[Background]
If the War had never broken out in Europe, Peggy Carter would have led a quiet life of carefully pushing society’s boundaries. She would have finished earning her degree in languages, perhaps going on to teach at the same respectable university that she’d attended, gotten married, and encouraged her children to defy convention.
But these options were never truly available; at least not after England entered the War. That changed everything for Peggy. Unable to stay in a relatively safe and sedate role on the home front, she enlisted as soon as the opportunity presented itself. She thought she would spend the duration of the war behind a desk, either assigned to some commander’s office staff or translating communications between the various factions involved in the War. Instead, she was given a small, seemingly unimportant mission, which she completed with a professionalism that her commanders hadn’t expected.
Her talent for languages combined with her ability to remain calm in the middle of a crisis eventually led her to be trained as an agent. She was assigned to progressively more and more important missions until she was given the assignment to assist the U.S. Army in their efforts to rescue Doctor Erskine from HYDRA’s stronghold. Erskine was a researcher who had been attempting to create a serum that would transform a person into the peak of physical human perfection. When Johann Schmidt, the leader of HYDRA, heard of the doctor’s work, he had his men capture Erskine and his family as they attempted to flee Germany, using them as leverage to force Erskine to complete his research.
Before Erskine could finish his work, Schmidt took the serum, which altered him both physically and mentally by giving the man heightened strength and intensifying the evil in his mind. Peggy observed the effects of the transformation as she prepared to rescue Erskine and saw the horror that Schmidt had became.
When she knew that Erskine was about to be killed for his ‘failure’ with the serum, Peggy used her cover as a servant to drug the HYDRA soldiers so she could save Erskine. Unfortunately, the drug she used only worked on some of them, forcing her to fight her way through the stronghold to get to the rooftop so that the rest of her team could rescue them. During the fight, she told Erskine that his family had died in one of the concentration camps, which caused him to want to seek out Schmidt for revenge. Peggy talked Erskine out of the suicidal attack, convincing him to help the Allies by giving them access to his research. This chance at redeeming his work convinced him to find revenge in another way and redeem his life’s work.
When they reached the rooftop, they were picked up by the American forces and Peggy was soon assigned to Project Rebirth, the programthat would use Erskine’s research to create an army of super soldiers. Because she was one of the few people who had seen the darker aspects of the serum, Erskine sought out Peggy’s opinion on the selection of a candidate for Project Rebirth. Peggy’s initial role in the process was to assist with the training of the recruits. This position gave her a unique insight into the candidates from her role as a woman in command in a male-dominated military to help the doctor make his choice.
She watched the recruits and one in particular caught her attention: Private Steve Rogers. The man was nothing like the other volunteers – short, asthmatic, weak-looking – but Rogers proved repeatedly that he was both clever and courageous. His actions during training, including throwing himself on a grenade to save the rest of his unit during a test, earned her respect and caused her to start having more personal feelings for Steve.
Erskine watched the volunteers, rejected them all except for Steve, knowing that the serum would enhance both the good and the bad traits of whoever was chosen. Steve was the only one that he trusted to understand the value of strength and to remain a good man after the procedure.
When they were finally ready to give the serum to Steve, Peggy was his escort to the secret facility where the procedure was to be performed. During this trip, they spoke of how they had both had been forced to deal with discrimination because of supposed physical limitations, which led to an awkward conversation about how Steve had never danced with anyone because women ignored him.
As they prepared Steve for the procedure, Peggy was reluctant to leave his side, having to be asked by Erskine to watch from a viewing booth. She reluctantly agreed, watching from there until it seemed that the experiment was harming Steve; she rushed back to him, demanding that they stop the procedure until Steve told them to continue. She was one of the first at his side when the experiment was complete, but any thought of celebrating their success ended when an HYDRA agent set off an explosion in the lab, stole a vial of the serum, and killed Doctor Erskine.
Peggy and Steve chased after the man, trying to stop him. She killed the getaway driver and would have attempted to kill Erskine’s murderer but Steve pushed her out of the way when the agent tried to run her down with a car. Steve caught the man as he tried to escape but the HYDRA agent killed himself before he could be taken into custody.
The SSR was given the task of finding and destroying Hydra’s forces. Steve was told that he could not accompany them to Europe and was eventually convinced by a senator to help the war effort, which eventually led Steve to become ‘Captain America,’ the star of propaganda films and stage shows.
The USO tour he was a part of toured in Europe where he encountered hostility from the troops and he again met Peggy. She told him that the soldiers had recently been in a disastrous battle that had led to catastrophic deaths and many of their comrades being taken prisoner. Steve realized that the unit that was captured was the same one his best friend, Bucky, had been assigned to and he decided that he had to try to rescue the captured soldiers.
As he prepared to go find the HYDRA prison, he asked Peggy if she believed in him. She did. Knowing that Steve would need help, she convinced Howard Stark to fly Steve into enemy territory. When Steve didn’t return immediately from the rescue mission, Peggy’s commanding officer reprimanded her for her actions, implying that she was partially responsible for Steve’s death, but Peggy was certain that Steve was alive and would return.
He did.
This was the start of their professional relationship and one the main building blocks of their friendship. Peggy provided both physical and emotional support for Steve during the War. Their friendship would have developed into something more if Steve’s shyness and military regulations against fraternization had not kept either one of them from acting on their feelings. They planned to go dancing when the War ended, but that date would never be kept.
Bucky was killed during a mission to capture Schmidt’s lead scientist. Steve blamed himself for his friend’s death and Peggy did her best to comfort him, reminding him that Bucky chose to follow him into battle and that choice should be honored instead of lamented.
The information gained from the scientist allowed the SSR to devise a plan to finally take out Schmidt. Peggy fought beside the men in the unit and saved Steve from one of the HYDRA soldiers during the battle. Schmidt tried to escape in a plane with the intention of destroying the major cities of the world. Steve chased after him, sharing a desperate kiss with Peggy before leaping onto the plane. He was able to eliminate Schmidt, but there was no way to land the plane safely.
Instead of risking countless lives, he decided to crash the plane in the arctic. As he forced the plane down, he talked to Peggy over the radio. At first, she tried to convince him that there were other options, and then she realized that he had no other choice. The two of them planned a date that would not be kept. They would go to the Stork Club ‘a week from Saturday’ where she would teach him to dance. As she held back her tears, she warned him not to be late. He told her that the band would have to play something slow so that he wouldn’t step on her toes.
His voice was abruptly cut off during that warning and he was gone.
The week following that last message was one of the worst of Peggy’s life. She tried, and for the most part, succeeded, in maintaining hope as rescue efforts were launched. She kept up her usual professionalism though she was heartbroken by her loss, performing every task given to her quietly and efficiently while waiting for some news of Steve’s fate.
On Saturday, even though Steve had not been found, Peggy went to the Stork Club, wearing the red dress he was fond of, waiting for him to arrive even though she knew that Steve wouldn’t be there.
It is from this point in her timeline that she’ll be taken to Somarium.
[Personality]
One of the best descriptions of Peggy Carter comes from one of the cast interviews, which is a reference to a quote about Ginger Rogers: “she can do everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in high heels.” She also does it all without the super soldier serum and with a dignified poise that was necessary for a woman in the military during World War II.
She is a person who has to deal with prejudice and social norms regarding women’s roles with grace, composure, and the occasional punch to the jaw for her more vocal detractors. She is a woman in a man’s world, working in a post that many believe she should not have. Confronted with that bigotry, Peggy still remains positive, working hard to prove her capabilities and refusing to become bitter about the discrimination around her.
Despite her careful poise, Peggy does have a temper and is prone to jealousy. After speaking to Steve about dancing and how he was searching for ‘the right partner,’ she catches Steve being kissed by one of the women in the unit. They argue and even though she attempts to tell him she has no feelings on the matter, it’s obvious that she is hurt by what she perceived happened. Later that day, Steve and Howard are looking over the equipment that Steve will use as Captain America, Peggy walks into the lab. When Steve shows her the shield that would later become his trademark weapon, she picks up a nearby pistol and fires at the shield. When the bullets are harmlessly deflected away from Steve, she announces that it works.
This professionalism and her occasional temper might make it seem that Peggy is a cold, but the opposite is true. She is an empathetic person, worrying about Steve before the procedure that will turn him into a super soldier and ordering for the test to be stopped when she thinks it might be harming him even though the greater good would suggest allowing it to continue despite the pain it is inflicting on Steve. Her faith in him never wavers, even when he finds himself on a path that Doctor Erskine would never have imagined for the man he chose to receive the serum. She does not judge him for his missteps, helping him make decisions that are true to himself and offering support whenever needed.
When someone earns her respect and loyalty, she will stand beside them even in the worst of situations. She is steadfast in her beliefs and will fight for her friends no matter how dire the odds. Peggy Carter is lady, and even in the face of war and adversity, she will act as one no matter how dangerous the situation might be. She is willing to die beside her comrades if that is what is necessary, or as she must after Steve’s disappearance, live for them even if that seems to be one of the most difficult choices of all.
[Abilities]
For the most part, Peggy is a normal human being with the usual strengths and limitations of someone in her late twenties. She is more fit than most of the women of her era because of her military training. This training included hand-to-hand combat and experience with a variety of weapons. She is an excellent markswoman, which is shown when she kills a HYDRA agent by shooting him in the head through the back window of a car that was speeding away from her. Peggy fluent in a number of languages, a necessity for her work as a spy, and is able pick them up quickly when necessary.
[Other important stuff]
You mean other than the fact that Peggy can kick Nazi ass and still look poised and gorgeous while doing it?
[Sample post]
[First Person]
Note: The first person samples were written with the assumption that Peggy doesn’t know that Steve is on Somarium.
What were you doing before now?
Do you mean before I was kidnapped and brought here? [Her voice is sharp as she tries to mask the grief that she’s been fighting against for the past week.] I was standing outside the Stork Club. [The fact that she knew that Steve would not, could not, keep his promise didn’t matter. It had been impossible to give up that dim hope that he had somehow managed to beat the odds one more time.] Waiting for my date.
If I offered to save your soul for a price, would you go with it and why?
I would politely thank you for your offer, and then decline. I am the only person who can save my soul, if it is need of saving. Salvation isn’t something that can be granted so easily.
Would you consider yourself a hero or a villain? Why? Neither is an option as well, but still tell why.
I don’t see myself as either a hero or villain. I have seen true evil and the atrocities done to further its desires. I’ve also seen great acts of selfless heroism. I know that I am not evil, but a hero? [She pauses, glancing away for a moment before looking steadily at her interviewer.] I have done things that some might think of as heroic, but I was only doing what was necessary and right. That means that I’m not a villain, but those actions aren’t enough for me to be called a hero.
You are on the verge of death. You know there is no way to survive and there's no coming back. Choose any of the following to answer: What is your last wish? Your last regret? Last thoughts? How do you feel? Who is the last person you think of other than your killer?
[This is a question she’s been asking herself more times than she wants to consider, wondering what choices she would make in such a situation.] Most of my thoughts would involve my family and Captain Rogers. I would wish that I had a chance to say goodbye to my parents and brother. My last regret would be that I did not act on my feelings for Steve. I knew that every mission could be our last, yet I kept telling myself that I should wait until after the War was over to see if he felt the same way. My last wish would be that Steve and I had gotten our night at the Stork Club and I had a chance to teach him to dance.
Do you prefer adventure or the peaceful life?
Since the War began, I haven’t had an opportunity to have a peaceful life. I believe that I’d enjoy it, for a time at least. But, for now, I’m needed. Until Hitler and Hydra are defeated, I cannot consider a peaceful life.
Am I asking too many personal or strange questions?
Yes, you are, but I assume that there is a reason for this interview.
[Third Person]
Peggy should hate this place. Somehow, she had been taken from her reality, her home, and brought to a world that she didn’t understand, supposedly without any way to return. She was a prisoner. She should be fighting to find some way to get home.
But this prison wasn’t as desolate as one would expect. She was beginning to find a purpose here, one where she could be an equal to the men around her. It was strange and liberating, and something that she hadn’t experienced in the service. She was beginning to develop friendships and ties to the people around her.
And…there was Steve.
Almost everyone had thought he was dead. He’d been listed as missing in action, presumed dead. Her faith had been shaken, but even as she had expected to have her heart broken as she waited for him at the Stork Club, she hadn’t been able to completely give up hope that he would keep his promise to her. He’d managed to beat the odds so many times; perhaps he could manage to do it once more.
And, somehow, he had, though she never would have thought that this was how he would escape his fate. Nor would she have expected that she would find him again in such a strange place, but she had.
After Bucky had died, she’d told Steve that he wouldn’t have to fight alone and she meant to keep that promise. If what Steve had told her about the various monsters that resided in this place was true, then they both were needed here. Steve would never back down from a fight if lives were in danger. And neither would she. Here she could fight beside him without her gender being seen as a weakness. It was just another detail of her physical appearance, no more important than the color of her hair or her eyes. It was her skills that mattered.
And now, they could see where their friendship might lead. She’d loved him from almost the beginning, denying her feelings because she’d known that acting upon them would threaten the roles that they both valued so much. She would have been discharged from the service and Steve…she wasn’t sure what would have happened to someone who had become such a public hero, but it had been a risk that she hadn’t been willing to take.
Now they had a second chance and she wasn’t going to risk losing him again.
So perhaps she should feel guilty that she wasn’t in the trenches of Europe. But she wasn’t going to allow herself to despair over a situation that, at this time, she could not change. Instead, she was going to wear a red dress and put on her dancing shoes so that she could keep another promise.
The war might not be over, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t celebrate, especially now that she had again found the right partner to dance with.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] This is all Steve!mun’s fault. If she hadn’t enabled me and said Steve needed Peggy to be there or he’d never quit moping… Actually the game looks fun and the people I’ve talked to that play here seem nice so I thought it’d be a good place for me to play Peggy.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Be nice to other players. A game should be fun. We can write enough drama for our characters if we want to. We shouldn’t have it happening between the people who play on a community.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] From Steve!mun.
[Any questions?] None that I can think of right now.
[Age] 35
[Personal Journal]
selinamoonfire[Character name] Margaret “Peggy” Carter
[Age] 28
[Canon] Captain America: The First Avenger
[Point in time taken from canon] The night of the date that she made with Steve Rogers during their conversation before the plane he was flying crashed. ‘A week from Saturday,’ so about a week after the crash.
[Background]
If the War had never broken out in Europe, Peggy Carter would have led a quiet life of carefully pushing society’s boundaries. She would have finished earning her degree in languages, perhaps going on to teach at the same respectable university that she’d attended, gotten married, and encouraged her children to defy convention.
But these options were never truly available; at least not after England entered the War. That changed everything for Peggy. Unable to stay in a relatively safe and sedate role on the home front, she enlisted as soon as the opportunity presented itself. She thought she would spend the duration of the war behind a desk, either assigned to some commander’s office staff or translating communications between the various factions involved in the War. Instead, she was given a small, seemingly unimportant mission, which she completed with a professionalism that her commanders hadn’t expected.
Her talent for languages combined with her ability to remain calm in the middle of a crisis eventually led her to be trained as an agent. She was assigned to progressively more and more important missions until she was given the assignment to assist the U.S. Army in their efforts to rescue Doctor Erskine from HYDRA’s stronghold. Erskine was a researcher who had been attempting to create a serum that would transform a person into the peak of physical human perfection. When Johann Schmidt, the leader of HYDRA, heard of the doctor’s work, he had his men capture Erskine and his family as they attempted to flee Germany, using them as leverage to force Erskine to complete his research.
Before Erskine could finish his work, Schmidt took the serum, which altered him both physically and mentally by giving the man heightened strength and intensifying the evil in his mind. Peggy observed the effects of the transformation as she prepared to rescue Erskine and saw the horror that Schmidt had became.
When she knew that Erskine was about to be killed for his ‘failure’ with the serum, Peggy used her cover as a servant to drug the HYDRA soldiers so she could save Erskine. Unfortunately, the drug she used only worked on some of them, forcing her to fight her way through the stronghold to get to the rooftop so that the rest of her team could rescue them. During the fight, she told Erskine that his family had died in one of the concentration camps, which caused him to want to seek out Schmidt for revenge. Peggy talked Erskine out of the suicidal attack, convincing him to help the Allies by giving them access to his research. This chance at redeeming his work convinced him to find revenge in another way and redeem his life’s work.
When they reached the rooftop, they were picked up by the American forces and Peggy was soon assigned to Project Rebirth, the programthat would use Erskine’s research to create an army of super soldiers. Because she was one of the few people who had seen the darker aspects of the serum, Erskine sought out Peggy’s opinion on the selection of a candidate for Project Rebirth. Peggy’s initial role in the process was to assist with the training of the recruits. This position gave her a unique insight into the candidates from her role as a woman in command in a male-dominated military to help the doctor make his choice.
She watched the recruits and one in particular caught her attention: Private Steve Rogers. The man was nothing like the other volunteers – short, asthmatic, weak-looking – but Rogers proved repeatedly that he was both clever and courageous. His actions during training, including throwing himself on a grenade to save the rest of his unit during a test, earned her respect and caused her to start having more personal feelings for Steve.
Erskine watched the volunteers, rejected them all except for Steve, knowing that the serum would enhance both the good and the bad traits of whoever was chosen. Steve was the only one that he trusted to understand the value of strength and to remain a good man after the procedure.
When they were finally ready to give the serum to Steve, Peggy was his escort to the secret facility where the procedure was to be performed. During this trip, they spoke of how they had both had been forced to deal with discrimination because of supposed physical limitations, which led to an awkward conversation about how Steve had never danced with anyone because women ignored him.
As they prepared Steve for the procedure, Peggy was reluctant to leave his side, having to be asked by Erskine to watch from a viewing booth. She reluctantly agreed, watching from there until it seemed that the experiment was harming Steve; she rushed back to him, demanding that they stop the procedure until Steve told them to continue. She was one of the first at his side when the experiment was complete, but any thought of celebrating their success ended when an HYDRA agent set off an explosion in the lab, stole a vial of the serum, and killed Doctor Erskine.
Peggy and Steve chased after the man, trying to stop him. She killed the getaway driver and would have attempted to kill Erskine’s murderer but Steve pushed her out of the way when the agent tried to run her down with a car. Steve caught the man as he tried to escape but the HYDRA agent killed himself before he could be taken into custody.
The SSR was given the task of finding and destroying Hydra’s forces. Steve was told that he could not accompany them to Europe and was eventually convinced by a senator to help the war effort, which eventually led Steve to become ‘Captain America,’ the star of propaganda films and stage shows.
The USO tour he was a part of toured in Europe where he encountered hostility from the troops and he again met Peggy. She told him that the soldiers had recently been in a disastrous battle that had led to catastrophic deaths and many of their comrades being taken prisoner. Steve realized that the unit that was captured was the same one his best friend, Bucky, had been assigned to and he decided that he had to try to rescue the captured soldiers.
As he prepared to go find the HYDRA prison, he asked Peggy if she believed in him. She did. Knowing that Steve would need help, she convinced Howard Stark to fly Steve into enemy territory. When Steve didn’t return immediately from the rescue mission, Peggy’s commanding officer reprimanded her for her actions, implying that she was partially responsible for Steve’s death, but Peggy was certain that Steve was alive and would return.
He did.
This was the start of their professional relationship and one the main building blocks of their friendship. Peggy provided both physical and emotional support for Steve during the War. Their friendship would have developed into something more if Steve’s shyness and military regulations against fraternization had not kept either one of them from acting on their feelings. They planned to go dancing when the War ended, but that date would never be kept.
Bucky was killed during a mission to capture Schmidt’s lead scientist. Steve blamed himself for his friend’s death and Peggy did her best to comfort him, reminding him that Bucky chose to follow him into battle and that choice should be honored instead of lamented.
The information gained from the scientist allowed the SSR to devise a plan to finally take out Schmidt. Peggy fought beside the men in the unit and saved Steve from one of the HYDRA soldiers during the battle. Schmidt tried to escape in a plane with the intention of destroying the major cities of the world. Steve chased after him, sharing a desperate kiss with Peggy before leaping onto the plane. He was able to eliminate Schmidt, but there was no way to land the plane safely.
Instead of risking countless lives, he decided to crash the plane in the arctic. As he forced the plane down, he talked to Peggy over the radio. At first, she tried to convince him that there were other options, and then she realized that he had no other choice. The two of them planned a date that would not be kept. They would go to the Stork Club ‘a week from Saturday’ where she would teach him to dance. As she held back her tears, she warned him not to be late. He told her that the band would have to play something slow so that he wouldn’t step on her toes.
His voice was abruptly cut off during that warning and he was gone.
The week following that last message was one of the worst of Peggy’s life. She tried, and for the most part, succeeded, in maintaining hope as rescue efforts were launched. She kept up her usual professionalism though she was heartbroken by her loss, performing every task given to her quietly and efficiently while waiting for some news of Steve’s fate.
On Saturday, even though Steve had not been found, Peggy went to the Stork Club, wearing the red dress he was fond of, waiting for him to arrive even though she knew that Steve wouldn’t be there.
It is from this point in her timeline that she’ll be taken to Somarium.
[Personality]
One of the best descriptions of Peggy Carter comes from one of the cast interviews, which is a reference to a quote about Ginger Rogers: “she can do everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in high heels.” She also does it all without the super soldier serum and with a dignified poise that was necessary for a woman in the military during World War II.
She is a person who has to deal with prejudice and social norms regarding women’s roles with grace, composure, and the occasional punch to the jaw for her more vocal detractors. She is a woman in a man’s world, working in a post that many believe she should not have. Confronted with that bigotry, Peggy still remains positive, working hard to prove her capabilities and refusing to become bitter about the discrimination around her.
Despite her careful poise, Peggy does have a temper and is prone to jealousy. After speaking to Steve about dancing and how he was searching for ‘the right partner,’ she catches Steve being kissed by one of the women in the unit. They argue and even though she attempts to tell him she has no feelings on the matter, it’s obvious that she is hurt by what she perceived happened. Later that day, Steve and Howard are looking over the equipment that Steve will use as Captain America, Peggy walks into the lab. When Steve shows her the shield that would later become his trademark weapon, she picks up a nearby pistol and fires at the shield. When the bullets are harmlessly deflected away from Steve, she announces that it works.
This professionalism and her occasional temper might make it seem that Peggy is a cold, but the opposite is true. She is an empathetic person, worrying about Steve before the procedure that will turn him into a super soldier and ordering for the test to be stopped when she thinks it might be harming him even though the greater good would suggest allowing it to continue despite the pain it is inflicting on Steve. Her faith in him never wavers, even when he finds himself on a path that Doctor Erskine would never have imagined for the man he chose to receive the serum. She does not judge him for his missteps, helping him make decisions that are true to himself and offering support whenever needed.
When someone earns her respect and loyalty, she will stand beside them even in the worst of situations. She is steadfast in her beliefs and will fight for her friends no matter how dire the odds. Peggy Carter is lady, and even in the face of war and adversity, she will act as one no matter how dangerous the situation might be. She is willing to die beside her comrades if that is what is necessary, or as she must after Steve’s disappearance, live for them even if that seems to be one of the most difficult choices of all.
[Abilities]
For the most part, Peggy is a normal human being with the usual strengths and limitations of someone in her late twenties. She is more fit than most of the women of her era because of her military training. This training included hand-to-hand combat and experience with a variety of weapons. She is an excellent markswoman, which is shown when she kills a HYDRA agent by shooting him in the head through the back window of a car that was speeding away from her. Peggy fluent in a number of languages, a necessity for her work as a spy, and is able pick them up quickly when necessary.
[Other important stuff]
You mean other than the fact that Peggy can kick Nazi ass and still look poised and gorgeous while doing it?
[Sample post]
[First Person]
Note: The first person samples were written with the assumption that Peggy doesn’t know that Steve is on Somarium.
What were you doing before now?
Do you mean before I was kidnapped and brought here? [Her voice is sharp as she tries to mask the grief that she’s been fighting against for the past week.] I was standing outside the Stork Club. [The fact that she knew that Steve would not, could not, keep his promise didn’t matter. It had been impossible to give up that dim hope that he had somehow managed to beat the odds one more time.] Waiting for my date.
If I offered to save your soul for a price, would you go with it and why?
I would politely thank you for your offer, and then decline. I am the only person who can save my soul, if it is need of saving. Salvation isn’t something that can be granted so easily.
Would you consider yourself a hero or a villain? Why? Neither is an option as well, but still tell why.
I don’t see myself as either a hero or villain. I have seen true evil and the atrocities done to further its desires. I’ve also seen great acts of selfless heroism. I know that I am not evil, but a hero? [She pauses, glancing away for a moment before looking steadily at her interviewer.] I have done things that some might think of as heroic, but I was only doing what was necessary and right. That means that I’m not a villain, but those actions aren’t enough for me to be called a hero.
You are on the verge of death. You know there is no way to survive and there's no coming back. Choose any of the following to answer: What is your last wish? Your last regret? Last thoughts? How do you feel? Who is the last person you think of other than your killer?
[This is a question she’s been asking herself more times than she wants to consider, wondering what choices she would make in such a situation.] Most of my thoughts would involve my family and Captain Rogers. I would wish that I had a chance to say goodbye to my parents and brother. My last regret would be that I did not act on my feelings for Steve. I knew that every mission could be our last, yet I kept telling myself that I should wait until after the War was over to see if he felt the same way. My last wish would be that Steve and I had gotten our night at the Stork Club and I had a chance to teach him to dance.
Do you prefer adventure or the peaceful life?
Since the War began, I haven’t had an opportunity to have a peaceful life. I believe that I’d enjoy it, for a time at least. But, for now, I’m needed. Until Hitler and Hydra are defeated, I cannot consider a peaceful life.
Am I asking too many personal or strange questions?
Yes, you are, but I assume that there is a reason for this interview.
[Third Person]
Peggy should hate this place. Somehow, she had been taken from her reality, her home, and brought to a world that she didn’t understand, supposedly without any way to return. She was a prisoner. She should be fighting to find some way to get home.
But this prison wasn’t as desolate as one would expect. She was beginning to find a purpose here, one where she could be an equal to the men around her. It was strange and liberating, and something that she hadn’t experienced in the service. She was beginning to develop friendships and ties to the people around her.
And…there was Steve.
Almost everyone had thought he was dead. He’d been listed as missing in action, presumed dead. Her faith had been shaken, but even as she had expected to have her heart broken as she waited for him at the Stork Club, she hadn’t been able to completely give up hope that he would keep his promise to her. He’d managed to beat the odds so many times; perhaps he could manage to do it once more.
And, somehow, he had, though she never would have thought that this was how he would escape his fate. Nor would she have expected that she would find him again in such a strange place, but she had.
After Bucky had died, she’d told Steve that he wouldn’t have to fight alone and she meant to keep that promise. If what Steve had told her about the various monsters that resided in this place was true, then they both were needed here. Steve would never back down from a fight if lives were in danger. And neither would she. Here she could fight beside him without her gender being seen as a weakness. It was just another detail of her physical appearance, no more important than the color of her hair or her eyes. It was her skills that mattered.
And now, they could see where their friendship might lead. She’d loved him from almost the beginning, denying her feelings because she’d known that acting upon them would threaten the roles that they both valued so much. She would have been discharged from the service and Steve…she wasn’t sure what would have happened to someone who had become such a public hero, but it had been a risk that she hadn’t been willing to take.
Now they had a second chance and she wasn’t going to risk losing him again.
So perhaps she should feel guilty that she wasn’t in the trenches of Europe. But she wasn’t going to allow herself to despair over a situation that, at this time, she could not change. Instead, she was going to wear a red dress and put on her dancing shoes so that she could keep another promise.
The war might not be over, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t celebrate, especially now that she had again found the right partner to dance with.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] This is all Steve!mun’s fault. If she hadn’t enabled me and said Steve needed Peggy to be there or he’d never quit moping… Actually the game looks fun and the people I’ve talked to that play here seem nice so I thought it’d be a good place for me to play Peggy.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Be nice to other players. A game should be fun. We can write enough drama for our characters if we want to. We shouldn’t have it happening between the people who play on a community.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] From Steve!mun.
[Any questions?] None that I can think of right now.