Hey potential apper here! I've got a few ideas for Bucky Barnes, but I'm having a hard time deciding which way to go and what seems the most realistic. So any and all input would be appreciated!
Canon Background: Basically, Bucky is a warden of the state. He's kept out of the system and raised on a military base in New Jersey to honor his father who died in a freak accident during instructing. He becomes a mascot of sorts for the base and also starts a smuggling business for all the enlistees. At age sixteen, some of the enlistees sneak him into a dance hall, where he (as per usual) gets into a fight with a local and it turns the entire bar into a brawl. He gets arrested, but a General bails him out because he sees potential in him. He's trained by the British SAS in England and becomes Captain America's partner in the War who does all the dirty work Cap can't do (interrogation, recon, assassination) for the next four years.
So, I'd like to retain his background as a soldier and since he was trained in England, I figure maybe that can be fudged somehow to allow him to stay in London at one of the barracks.
Now here's where I can't decide a route:
I think he would be a good fit as a meta human or a werewolf.
As a meta human I think it'd be cool if he got his powers from being cursed. I was thinking that, since all his problems always seem to stem from bar fights in canon, maybe the guy he starts a fight with is a witch/fae/something supernatural and, of course, curses him. I'm still waffling on what he'd be cursed with. I was thinking something like emotional empathy; however, while he may be able to sense other people's emotions, he would in turn be able to project his own emotions on others. And since he's a complete hot head and rather insensitive, it would disrupt everyone around him a lot.
The Army wouldn't appreciate that or all the money they wasted into making him a super special snowflake, so they may send him to Redbright Institute for help controlling his powers in the guise of further air force training??
BUT I AM ALSO TORN WITH HIM BEING A WEREWOLF!! If he were a werewolf, he would be in that bar fight and on his way out, likely bitten by whomever he started the fight where no one could see them. Which, you know, is all well and good except he's a soldier so obviously once he's deployed for his first tour that curse is going to activate.
Again, this is a problem because an Army can't exactly control a werewolf on the field or off it. So maybe they send him back for "air force training" in order to find a way to control Bucky as a tool during full moons.
I think being a werewolf would be a good fit for him, especially since he already has the anger issues and also because the ATP said you guys are a little low on 'em...
My biggest problem here is if this is realistic? Rebright, I'm assuming, can't house him since he would be of the East End pack. Would he be allowed in as part of a pack if he's still got ties and duties to the military?
Bucky Barnes | Marvel 616
Canon Background: Basically, Bucky is a warden of the state. He's kept out of the system and raised on a military base in New Jersey to honor his father who died in a freak accident during instructing. He becomes a mascot of sorts for the base and also starts a smuggling business for all the enlistees. At age sixteen, some of the enlistees sneak him into a dance hall, where he (as per usual) gets into a fight with a local and it turns the entire bar into a brawl. He gets arrested, but a General bails him out because he sees potential in him. He's trained by the British SAS in England and becomes Captain America's partner in the War who does all the dirty work Cap can't do (interrogation, recon, assassination) for the next four years.
So, I'd like to retain his background as a soldier and since he was trained in England, I figure maybe that can be fudged somehow to allow him to stay in London at one of the barracks.
Now here's where I can't decide a route:
I think he would be a good fit as a meta human or a werewolf.
As a meta human I think it'd be cool if he got his powers from being cursed. I was thinking that, since all his problems always seem to stem from bar fights in canon, maybe the guy he starts a fight with is a witch/fae/something supernatural and, of course, curses him. I'm still waffling on what he'd be cursed with. I was thinking something like emotional empathy; however, while he may be able to sense other people's emotions, he would in turn be able to project his own emotions on others. And since he's a complete hot head and rather insensitive, it would disrupt everyone around him a lot.
The Army wouldn't appreciate that or all the money they wasted into making him a super special snowflake, so they may send him to Redbright Institute for help controlling his powers in the guise of further air force training??
BUT I AM ALSO TORN WITH HIM BEING A WEREWOLF!! If he were a werewolf, he would be in that bar fight and on his way out, likely bitten by whomever he started the fight where no one could see them. Which, you know, is all well and good except he's a soldier so obviously once he's deployed for his first tour that curse is going to activate.
Again, this is a problem because an Army can't exactly control a werewolf on the field or off it. So maybe they send him back for "air force training" in order to find a way to control Bucky as a tool during full moons.
I think being a werewolf would be a good fit for him, especially since he already has the anger issues and also because the ATP said you guys are a little low on 'em...
My biggest problem here is if this is realistic? Rebright, I'm assuming, can't house him since he would be of the East End pack. Would he be allowed in as part of a pack if he's still got ties and duties to the military?
What do you guys think?