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Player Name: Kelly
Player Contact: crashtheclouds / techwhiztosh#4249 @ discord
Above 18?: Yes
Reserved?: Yes
Characters in Game: N/A

CHARACTER

Character Name: Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter.
Character Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe/Agent Carter.
Character Age: Approximately 27.
World / History: wiki link
Canon Point: Post Agent Carter season 1, episode 8: "Valediction".
AU Details: N/A.

Personality: Initially, all Peggy Carter wanted was to live a quiet life; all that abruptly changed when her brother suddenly died while fighting in World War II. She found herself accepting the position of field agent for an espionage agency before joining up with another agency, MI5. Eventually, she received an assignment to work with the American agency known as the Strategic Scientific Reserve. This assignment is important because it's during her work with the SSR that Peggy really came into her own and grew as an individual.

I don't need a congressional honor. I don't need Agent Thompson's approval or the President's. I know my value. Anyone else's opinion doesn't really matter.

The most important thing about Peggy is that she is very much her own person who does not care very much about what people think about her. And what people think about her is that she is a woman prone to flights of fancy and can't be counted on when the going gets tough. Her coworkers from the SSR gradually change their opinion of her and begin to respect her more, but the fact is that at the time period in which she's from, women really don't garner a lot of respect. Nevertheless, she has no problems shaking off the condescension from her male coworkers and refusing to hesitate when important leads cross her path. She is incredibly loyal in a pinch, a fact that is demonstrated most clearly in the way she jumps in feet first to help out Howard Stark, who was, at one point, being labeled as a traitor and guilty of treason.

It's Peggy's tenacious nature and refusal to give up on a friend that leads her to try and clear Howard's name, without a second thought about what might happen to her and her own reputation. The saying about leaving no stone unturned definitely applies to Peggy, who follows the clues and the evidence wherever they go, regardless of the risk and regardless of the high cost to her personally or to those that she knows. One unfortunate casualty of Peggy's attempts to help out Howard was her friend Colleen O'Brien, who was murdered when the room she shared with Peggy was searched. Peggy grieved Colleen's death heavily, which points to the fact that despite her occasional austere demeanor and stern expression, she is someone who values her friends very much and views all life as incredibly valuable. Also, I believe that friendship means even more to Peggy because of her association with Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.

Going back to what I mentioned about the lack of respect that Peggy receives from those in her life, Steve Rogers was the exception to all that. He treated her as an equal, in spite of her being a woman, and the respect he gave her meant the world to her. Over time, she fell in love with him, so when he was sadly lost after a deadly crash into a frozen ocean, Peggy was absolutely devastated. But as a result of that love for him and because she lost him, she began to cling on even more tightly to the relationships she still had. But by that same token, Peggy is not a woman who clings to memories from the past. As far as she knows, Steve died the day that he flew the plane into the ocean, and life has to go on. A life that is lived in the past isn't a life lived at all. That being said, although she's said her goodbyes to Steve and done her best to move on, she hasn't exactly made room for love in her life, at least not a romantic kind of love. She might as well be married to her career at this point in her life, because there's a significant part of her that's apprehensive about falling in love again. So, while she may appear to have moved on outwardly, inwardly her thoughts on that score are a little bit more complicated.

Steve is gone. We have to move on, all of us. As impossible as that may sound, we have to let him go.

Above all, Peggy Carter is the most determined woman you'll ever meet, but she's also one of the most loyal. Her own experiences with her coworkers from the SSR and also with Steve Rogers has taught her that it's important to treat people how you want to be treated, regardless of their experiences, looks, and gender. She tries to see the best in people, even though she's well aware that everyone has their own demons and skeletons in the closet. Still, even with that, she's well aware that evil exists in the world, and that a person who may appear squeaky clean and incredibly polite and kind on the outside may not be that way on the inside. Life may be harsh and cruel, but Peggy is the sort of person who believes that even if life deals out the worst hand imaginable, it's possible to rise above the difficult circumstances and make the best of them.

Integration Questions

how will your character handle being assigned a leadership role:

Peggy is accustomed to having to lead, or having to decide for herself how best to act or not act. While she may have immediate supervisors to whom she has to report, not to mention her commanding officers during her wartime involvement, she is very much her own leader, knowing how to conduct herself and how to direct others. She has a firm hand and a no-nonsense approach, and given the way she punched out an unruly soldier who mouthed off at her, she has no qualms about putting a person in their place, if they've done something to deserve that.

But she isn't at all unfair; while she is wholly confident in herself and her decisions, she values others' input, because decision-making can sometimes be a group process. She may be accustomed to situations in which one person has to make the decisions for the group as a whole, but I believe in a situation in which she has to work with and potentially lead a group of strangers, she might find herself willing to accept that there are others who have valuable insights and perspectives different from her own.

Regardless, Peggy is a capable leader in her own right, and her service during World War II has exposed her to some terrible and unthinkable things. And even her experiences after the war further exposed her to more inconceivable experiences, such as the time 47 people inside a movie theater turned on each other and essentially mauled each other to death following exposure to a toxic gas. She and the other agents from the SSR investigated the crime scene in the aftermath, and the sight of the 47 dead individuals, while shocking and horrifying, didn't stop Peggy from doing her job: investigating and drawing conclusions based on the grim facts in front of them. If the sight of recently deceased individuals didn't rock her, then I believe that speaks to an ability to compartmentalize even the most horrible and unthinkable things.

So, with that in mind, I believe that Peggy might find herself not easily shocked, and if she is taken aback by in-game events, she'll manage to keep her head and keep others focused as well.

how will your character handle being assigned an antagonist role:

While Peggy would like to say that she's firmly on the side of good, she accepts and understands that the world is not strictly black and white. There are absolutely gray areas, and she herself has been one of those. Although it was perceived as a treasonous action by her coworkers at the SSR, when Peggy was approached by Howard Stark, who was being framed and made to appear guilty, she ultimately decided to help clear his name.

Despite the fact that doing so eventually caused her some personal grief and regret, at the time, she believed it was the right thing to do. She also gained a negative reputation because of it, although in all honesty, her reputation among the other SSR agents wasn't sparkling to begin with.

Espionage and covert operations are in Peggy's wheelhouse, and she handles them masterfully. Her brand of intelligence and ability to read a situation and use it to her advantage only assist her in those areas. So if she were to be assigned an antagonist role, while she might not be completely thrilled with it, she would ultimately rise to the occasion and make use of her existing skills to fulfill the role to the best of her ability.

how will your character handle the implication that they’re not real / are a clone:

Peggy is someone who is very much grounded in reality. She knows who she is and what her place in the world is. Of course, she has a vision of what she'd like her place in the world to be, but again, she's not really a dreamer. The world may not be black and white, but Peggy is under no illusions in terms of her identity and the role she plays. Change can happen, and she's well aware that she's carved out a place for herself in her world and amongst her contemporaries, but still, she has a job to do and she does it well.

So with all of that taken into account, I believe Peggy may find herself just a bit shaken by the idea that she's not real or that she's a clone. There are unthinkable/unimaginable things out there in the world, but those implications aren’t ones that manifest themselves in Peggy's daily life. She will eventually come to terms with them, of course, because she is very much the type of person who takes the unexpected in stride.

Initially, however, she will most likely experience a brief period of questioning and disbelief, because her world is very cut and dry and things like clones don't just happen.

Powers

Powers / Enhancements: None. Peggy has no extraordinary powers besides having excellent deductive reasoning skills and the ability to fire a gun, not to mention her formidable right hook.

Nerf Details: N/A.

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