Bruce's Wake App: Revised
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Name: Jackie
Age: 34
Personal Journal: Don’t have one
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: Email: pinnskyj6444@gmail.com, AIM: doctor_wells, Plurk: captain_flyboy
Current Character(s): N/A
Character Information
Character Name: Bruce Banner
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe with some elements of the Hulk comics mixed in.
Character History:
Bruce was born the only child of David and Edith Banner. David was a genius level scientist with his work focusing on genetics and cellular biology. He was also mentally unstable, making Bruce’s home life volatile and abusive. David did nothing to encourage Bruce’s emerging genius choosing instead to use his son as a test subject and deny that Bruce himself had any scientific interest at all. In fact, the more Bruce fought for his father’s approval the more David experimented on and abused his son.
Bruce’s mother because his guiding light providing the young boy with a cheerleader, a friend and one of the few people who actually cared about him. He adored her in return and when Bruce was ten, Edith decided to leave her husband and take Bruce to live with her parents. David discovered the plan and murdered Edith in front of Bruce as they stood outside on their driveway. David tried to convince Bruce not to testify against him and took Bruce on the run for a year continuing his experiments. Bruce finally decided to stand up for himself and turned his father in bravely testifying against him in court. David was declared insane and Bruce believed for twenty years that his father had died in the mental hospital.
Bruce spent that of time being shuttled from foster home to foster home. He became shy and withdrawn believing that there was no one in the world who wanted him or saw him as anything more than another mouth to feed. He gave up on his interests and resigned himself to a life of invisibility. But a teacher by the name of Martin Free saw Bruce, saw his genius and encouraged it. Bruce blossomed under Free’s tutelage and decided to pursue science as his career focusing on cellular biology much like his father did.
After attending Culvers University and getting two masters degrees in biology and genetics, Bruce got a job there teaching the same subjects and met Betty Ross, the great love of his life. Through her he met General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. While the two didn’t exactly get along, Ross recruited Bruce for a government project to recreate the Super Soldier Serum.
Bruce was told the serum would be used to augment soldiers’ natural skills when Ross planned to use it to create an army of super soldiers. Remembering his father’s experiments, Bruce believed gamma radiation was the key to unlocking the new serum. He built a machine he believed could give a test subject a safe dose of gamma radiation after they had been injected with the serum. Unable to find a willing test subject and with time and funding running out, Bruce decided to test the machine using himself as a guinea pig. The experiment backfired and Bruce received a dangerous dose of radiation that instead of killing him were absorbed by cells primed by his father experiments years ago and helped to create an eight foot tall green monster nicknamed the Hulk.
Both Ross and Betty were injured in the attack much to Bruce’s horror. After the Hulk’s first appearance, Bruce went to Ross and demanded the truth. Ross confessed that much of what Bruce was actually doing was based on David Banner’s work and also revealed that David was still alive. Looking for answers Bruce hunted David down and learned that David too had abilities and wanted Bruce to replicate his work so that David could steal it and become stronger and faster.
David and Bruce confronted each other, and David confessed that he had murdered Bruce’s mother in front of him when Edith threatened to take Bruce and leave. Bruce repressed the memory in an effort to protect his own mind from the truth. The Hulk ended up killing David when the older man’s own abilities got out of hand and threatened Betty’s life. Despite the Hulk saving the day and millions of lives, Ross demanded Bruce return to the nearest military base so that the Hulk could be ripped away from him and replicated. Bruce’s answer was to go on the run doing his best to stay away from Ross and his so called “Hulk Buster” units.
After five years with only a few incidents, Bruce settled in Brazil where he began to search for a cure. He corresponded with Dr. Samuel Sterns at New York University and worked at a nearby bottling plant as a mechanic and janitor. An accident where Bruce cut himself and a few drops of his radiated blood wound up in a bottle of soda, brought Bruce back to Ross’ attention. A unit was sent to capture him, which resulted in the Hulk appearing inside the bottling plant and both Bruce and the other guy managing to escape.
Furious, Ross decided his only option was to create his own super solider and he chose Emil Blonsky, a career soldier who had led the unit in Brazil and who wanted another crack at the Hulk. Meanwhile, Bruce returned to Culver’s to gather data for Dr. Stern and to check on Betty who discovered Bruce had returned home and attempted to convince him to stay. Ross made Bruce’s mind up for him when Blonsky and his Hulk Busters unit attacked forcing another “incident” and nearly resulting in the destruction of the school and Betty getting hurt.
Bruce and Betty decided to head to New York to speak to Dr. Stern, who had created, what he claimed was a cure using a sample of Bruce’s blood and an unknown flower Bruce had found in South America. Inducing a Hulk appearance, Stern injected Bruce with the cure and revealed he’d replicated Bruce’s blood. Before Bruce could tell him to destroy it all, Ross attacked and managed to catch Bruce off guard. Bruce was tranquilized and taken onto a helicopter by Ross while Blonsky decided to take the Hulk out for good by combining the serum inside him with an infusion of Bruce’s blood.
This action created another hulk like creature called the Abomination, which then went after Ross. Bruce realized innocent people could die unless he and the Hulk interceded. Bruce willingly fell out of the back of the military plane and “Hulked Out” resulting in a battle in the middle of Harlem that “broke” the neighborhood. The Hulk would have killed the Abomination, but Betty begged him to stop and he did choosing instead to chain up the other creature and escape to Canada.
Bruce used the next year to gain control over the Hulk and his own anger. He also traveled to India and began working with Doctors without Borders in Calcutta. While he was there, Natasha Romanoff approached Bruce asking for help in tracking Loki and the tesseract. Despite his reluctance to leave the safety of his quiet life, Bruce agreed to help and met Tony Stark, Thor, Steve Rogers and Clint Barton. Bruce was among people who understood him and the Hulk for the first time in years.
Loki attempted to use the Hulk against the newly minted Avengers only to have it backfire and the Hulk became a valued member of the team saving Tony Stark and smashing quite a few alien warriors during the Battle of New York. Bruce himself became a good friend to Tony Stark and moved into Avengers Tower after the fall of SHEILD designing new weaponry and medical technology for the Avengers. He and Natasha began to grow closer both emotionally and physically.
Sometime between the Battle of New York and the opening battle in “Age of Ultron” they designed and implemented a lullaby that calmed the Hulk after a mission and brought Bruce back with a minimum amount of pain and fear. They also flirt with each other and talk frankly about a future together.
During a raid on a Hydra base, Tony comes across technology that would allow him to create a robotic peacekeeping force called Ultron. He ropes Bruce into helping despite Bruce having deep reservations about the project. Ultron gains self awareness and attacks the team. This starts off a worldwide chase as the Avengers try to stop Ultron before innocent people get hurt.
Bruce and the Hulk end up getting caught in the crosshairs when Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlett Witch uses her abilities to focus the Hulk’s rage on Johannesburg South Africa. Both Bruce and the Hulk are horrified by their actions and consider the incident a major setback in their quest for acceptance. Natasha being kidnapped by Ultron inspired Bruce to help Tony create Vision, a robot using the JARVIS program and the vibrainuim body designed by Ultron.
He then snuck into Ultron’s headquarters to rescue Natasha and attempts to convince her to run away and hide. Natasha pushes him off a cliff instead resulting in an appearance from the other guy. The Hulk goes after Ultron after Natasha is injured, yanking the robot out of the Quinjet and into the path of the Vision. When Natasha tries to call the Hulk back using the lullaby, the Hulk tunes her out and pilots the jet to points unknown.
Character Personality:
Bruce is almost zen-like in his approach to life, and prefers to avoid a fight rather than charging right into one as Steve Rogers or Tony Stark would do. However, that does not mean he just lays back and let’s people walk all over him. If he feels he is being wronged or that people are being harmed, then he will fight back--he just does so in a calm manner. Sarcasm is his weapon of choice; he isn’t afraid to use it to get what he wants or to make a point. And just because he can’t fly into a rage, it doesn’t mean he cannot get angry at all. Bruce comments to Quicksilver in Age of Ultron that he could kill him without turning a shade of green and states in the Avengers that he is “always angry,” so Bruce clearly feels emotions and feels them constantly.
The key is controlling his anger and allowing himself to feel his emotions in levels rather than all at once, which Bruce has become very, very good at over the years. Bruce’s approach to the Hulk, and conversely the Hulk’s approach to Bruce, have changed from their introduction in “Hulk” to “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” When he reappeared after the events of “Hulk”, Bruce wanted nothing more than to cure himself and return to his normal life. He even risked discovery by returning to Culvers to retrieve his data in an effort to get rid of the Hulk.
In “Avengers”, he has better control over the other guy, even though he still sees the Hulk as a problem. The Hulk responds to Steve’s command to “smash” and saves Tony Stark without being prompted. In “Ultron”, Bruce and the Hulk seem to have an uneasy truce going on. While Bruce still doesn’t trust himself not to hurt people, he is more relaxed after a “Code Green” and more open to letting people close to the Hulk as he calms down. The Hulk, too, shows much deeper awareness of his surroundings, clearly reacting to his rage in South Africa with pain and grief and choosing to let the Quinjet go down rather than allowing Bruce to return and land the plane.
As a victim of child abuse, Bruce shies away from close contact with complete strangers. He also doesn’t open up about his past with anyone, not even people he knows and trusts. Part of him is deeply ashamed of this--because it happened so long ago, he should be able to talk about it, but he just can’t. Doing so would be admitting that the Hulk’s creation was partly due to what his father did, and it’s easier to deny it ever happened and blame the Hulk on his own work.
Bruce’s work with disadvantaged people has made him a very patient and gentle soul, which is reflected in the Hulk as well. He is willing to spend months getting someone to open up for a piece of information and when he falls in love with someone, he falls in love deeply and completely. His childhood shyness has stuck around, though, so just because he feels for someone or loves them doesn’t mean he’ll say anything right away; he has to be eased into by an equally willing soul. Finally, Bruce is very loyal and will defend his friends to the very end, even risking “Hulk-outs” to protect them.
Powers and Abilities:
Bruce Banner: Genius level intellect, speaks seven languages fluently and knows words in half a dozen more, speed reading.
The Hulk: Immense superhuman strength and endurance and disease immunity, extended longevity and accelerated healing.
Samples
Network:
[Bruce appears on camera shirtless, soaking wet and wearing nothing but a pair of ragged pants meant for someone twice his size. He grabs at the pants trying to preserve his dignity somewhat. His voice is shaking as he speaks.]
Is anyone out there? Everything went all pear shaped back on the plane. Colors got very bright and I heard this voice say “WAKE.” Wasn’t I awake before? Natasha, Tony…Clint? Is anywhere out there? Did we win…is Ultron gone?
[His voice softens slightly.]
Did I make up for what I did…what we did in South Africa? Please say no one else got hurt.
Third Person:
The city was being attacked. Back home a situation like this would have sent Bruce into a Code Green without hesitation. But in Nautilus things were different the Hulk was gone and Bruce felt like he wasn’t useful enough to jump right into a fight and help the people who couldn’t help themselves. The rage was still there as was the desire to help innocent people. Bruce could feel both rising inside him like a white hot flame. Looking around him, he could see people running away from the danger some screaming in fear others frozen and staring upward as if they couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
It was reminding him of the final battle with Ultron and how the Avengers had tried their best to stop people from getting hurt. Guilt joined the rage now and Bruce had to duck his head for a second as he fought it. If Natasha hadn’t pushed him off that cliff he would have grabbed her hand and run leaving his teammates and all those people behind. Bruce looks up his eyes focusing on the danger and he could almost sense Natasha beside him watching too. “I adore you,” she’d said the last time they had been together, “but I need the other guy more.”
This is a case where the other guy was needed, but all these people had was Bruce Banner to help them. “If all they have is me then I’m the one who is going to have to help them,” Bruce said aloud. And the one thing he had going for him was that he had a strong will and the willingness to use it for the cause of good. This thought brought a smile to his face and any feelings of guilt vanished leaving behind that desire to help and the rage to focus until he made it happen. Raising his hand he thinks about the Hulk and thinks about him appearing to help. With a roar, the Hulk appeared and turned to smile at Bruce who smiled at the construct and winked. “Go get them big guy,” Bruce said, “time to smash up the bad guys and save the day."
Name: Jackie
Age: 34
Personal Journal: Don’t have one
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: Email: pinnskyj6444@gmail.com, AIM: doctor_wells, Plurk: captain_flyboy
Current Character(s): N/A
Character Information
Character Name: Bruce Banner
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe with some elements of the Hulk comics mixed in.
Character History:
Bruce was born the only child of David and Edith Banner. David was a genius level scientist with his work focusing on genetics and cellular biology. He was also mentally unstable, making Bruce’s home life volatile and abusive. David did nothing to encourage Bruce’s emerging genius choosing instead to use his son as a test subject and deny that Bruce himself had any scientific interest at all. In fact, the more Bruce fought for his father’s approval the more David experimented on and abused his son.
Bruce’s mother because his guiding light providing the young boy with a cheerleader, a friend and one of the few people who actually cared about him. He adored her in return and when Bruce was ten, Edith decided to leave her husband and take Bruce to live with her parents. David discovered the plan and murdered Edith in front of Bruce as they stood outside on their driveway. David tried to convince Bruce not to testify against him and took Bruce on the run for a year continuing his experiments. Bruce finally decided to stand up for himself and turned his father in bravely testifying against him in court. David was declared insane and Bruce believed for twenty years that his father had died in the mental hospital.
Bruce spent that of time being shuttled from foster home to foster home. He became shy and withdrawn believing that there was no one in the world who wanted him or saw him as anything more than another mouth to feed. He gave up on his interests and resigned himself to a life of invisibility. But a teacher by the name of Martin Free saw Bruce, saw his genius and encouraged it. Bruce blossomed under Free’s tutelage and decided to pursue science as his career focusing on cellular biology much like his father did.
After attending Culvers University and getting two masters degrees in biology and genetics, Bruce got a job there teaching the same subjects and met Betty Ross, the great love of his life. Through her he met General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. While the two didn’t exactly get along, Ross recruited Bruce for a government project to recreate the Super Soldier Serum.
Bruce was told the serum would be used to augment soldiers’ natural skills when Ross planned to use it to create an army of super soldiers. Remembering his father’s experiments, Bruce believed gamma radiation was the key to unlocking the new serum. He built a machine he believed could give a test subject a safe dose of gamma radiation after they had been injected with the serum. Unable to find a willing test subject and with time and funding running out, Bruce decided to test the machine using himself as a guinea pig. The experiment backfired and Bruce received a dangerous dose of radiation that instead of killing him were absorbed by cells primed by his father experiments years ago and helped to create an eight foot tall green monster nicknamed the Hulk.
Both Ross and Betty were injured in the attack much to Bruce’s horror. After the Hulk’s first appearance, Bruce went to Ross and demanded the truth. Ross confessed that much of what Bruce was actually doing was based on David Banner’s work and also revealed that David was still alive. Looking for answers Bruce hunted David down and learned that David too had abilities and wanted Bruce to replicate his work so that David could steal it and become stronger and faster.
David and Bruce confronted each other, and David confessed that he had murdered Bruce’s mother in front of him when Edith threatened to take Bruce and leave. Bruce repressed the memory in an effort to protect his own mind from the truth. The Hulk ended up killing David when the older man’s own abilities got out of hand and threatened Betty’s life. Despite the Hulk saving the day and millions of lives, Ross demanded Bruce return to the nearest military base so that the Hulk could be ripped away from him and replicated. Bruce’s answer was to go on the run doing his best to stay away from Ross and his so called “Hulk Buster” units.
After five years with only a few incidents, Bruce settled in Brazil where he began to search for a cure. He corresponded with Dr. Samuel Sterns at New York University and worked at a nearby bottling plant as a mechanic and janitor. An accident where Bruce cut himself and a few drops of his radiated blood wound up in a bottle of soda, brought Bruce back to Ross’ attention. A unit was sent to capture him, which resulted in the Hulk appearing inside the bottling plant and both Bruce and the other guy managing to escape.
Furious, Ross decided his only option was to create his own super solider and he chose Emil Blonsky, a career soldier who had led the unit in Brazil and who wanted another crack at the Hulk. Meanwhile, Bruce returned to Culver’s to gather data for Dr. Stern and to check on Betty who discovered Bruce had returned home and attempted to convince him to stay. Ross made Bruce’s mind up for him when Blonsky and his Hulk Busters unit attacked forcing another “incident” and nearly resulting in the destruction of the school and Betty getting hurt.
Bruce and Betty decided to head to New York to speak to Dr. Stern, who had created, what he claimed was a cure using a sample of Bruce’s blood and an unknown flower Bruce had found in South America. Inducing a Hulk appearance, Stern injected Bruce with the cure and revealed he’d replicated Bruce’s blood. Before Bruce could tell him to destroy it all, Ross attacked and managed to catch Bruce off guard. Bruce was tranquilized and taken onto a helicopter by Ross while Blonsky decided to take the Hulk out for good by combining the serum inside him with an infusion of Bruce’s blood.
This action created another hulk like creature called the Abomination, which then went after Ross. Bruce realized innocent people could die unless he and the Hulk interceded. Bruce willingly fell out of the back of the military plane and “Hulked Out” resulting in a battle in the middle of Harlem that “broke” the neighborhood. The Hulk would have killed the Abomination, but Betty begged him to stop and he did choosing instead to chain up the other creature and escape to Canada.
Bruce used the next year to gain control over the Hulk and his own anger. He also traveled to India and began working with Doctors without Borders in Calcutta. While he was there, Natasha Romanoff approached Bruce asking for help in tracking Loki and the tesseract. Despite his reluctance to leave the safety of his quiet life, Bruce agreed to help and met Tony Stark, Thor, Steve Rogers and Clint Barton. Bruce was among people who understood him and the Hulk for the first time in years.
Loki attempted to use the Hulk against the newly minted Avengers only to have it backfire and the Hulk became a valued member of the team saving Tony Stark and smashing quite a few alien warriors during the Battle of New York. Bruce himself became a good friend to Tony Stark and moved into Avengers Tower after the fall of SHEILD designing new weaponry and medical technology for the Avengers. He and Natasha began to grow closer both emotionally and physically.
Sometime between the Battle of New York and the opening battle in “Age of Ultron” they designed and implemented a lullaby that calmed the Hulk after a mission and brought Bruce back with a minimum amount of pain and fear. They also flirt with each other and talk frankly about a future together.
During a raid on a Hydra base, Tony comes across technology that would allow him to create a robotic peacekeeping force called Ultron. He ropes Bruce into helping despite Bruce having deep reservations about the project. Ultron gains self awareness and attacks the team. This starts off a worldwide chase as the Avengers try to stop Ultron before innocent people get hurt.
Bruce and the Hulk end up getting caught in the crosshairs when Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlett Witch uses her abilities to focus the Hulk’s rage on Johannesburg South Africa. Both Bruce and the Hulk are horrified by their actions and consider the incident a major setback in their quest for acceptance. Natasha being kidnapped by Ultron inspired Bruce to help Tony create Vision, a robot using the JARVIS program and the vibrainuim body designed by Ultron.
He then snuck into Ultron’s headquarters to rescue Natasha and attempts to convince her to run away and hide. Natasha pushes him off a cliff instead resulting in an appearance from the other guy. The Hulk goes after Ultron after Natasha is injured, yanking the robot out of the Quinjet and into the path of the Vision. When Natasha tries to call the Hulk back using the lullaby, the Hulk tunes her out and pilots the jet to points unknown.
Character Personality:
Bruce is almost zen-like in his approach to life, and prefers to avoid a fight rather than charging right into one as Steve Rogers or Tony Stark would do. However, that does not mean he just lays back and let’s people walk all over him. If he feels he is being wronged or that people are being harmed, then he will fight back--he just does so in a calm manner. Sarcasm is his weapon of choice; he isn’t afraid to use it to get what he wants or to make a point. And just because he can’t fly into a rage, it doesn’t mean he cannot get angry at all. Bruce comments to Quicksilver in Age of Ultron that he could kill him without turning a shade of green and states in the Avengers that he is “always angry,” so Bruce clearly feels emotions and feels them constantly.
The key is controlling his anger and allowing himself to feel his emotions in levels rather than all at once, which Bruce has become very, very good at over the years. Bruce’s approach to the Hulk, and conversely the Hulk’s approach to Bruce, have changed from their introduction in “Hulk” to “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” When he reappeared after the events of “Hulk”, Bruce wanted nothing more than to cure himself and return to his normal life. He even risked discovery by returning to Culvers to retrieve his data in an effort to get rid of the Hulk.
In “Avengers”, he has better control over the other guy, even though he still sees the Hulk as a problem. The Hulk responds to Steve’s command to “smash” and saves Tony Stark without being prompted. In “Ultron”, Bruce and the Hulk seem to have an uneasy truce going on. While Bruce still doesn’t trust himself not to hurt people, he is more relaxed after a “Code Green” and more open to letting people close to the Hulk as he calms down. The Hulk, too, shows much deeper awareness of his surroundings, clearly reacting to his rage in South Africa with pain and grief and choosing to let the Quinjet go down rather than allowing Bruce to return and land the plane.
As a victim of child abuse, Bruce shies away from close contact with complete strangers. He also doesn’t open up about his past with anyone, not even people he knows and trusts. Part of him is deeply ashamed of this--because it happened so long ago, he should be able to talk about it, but he just can’t. Doing so would be admitting that the Hulk’s creation was partly due to what his father did, and it’s easier to deny it ever happened and blame the Hulk on his own work.
Bruce’s work with disadvantaged people has made him a very patient and gentle soul, which is reflected in the Hulk as well. He is willing to spend months getting someone to open up for a piece of information and when he falls in love with someone, he falls in love deeply and completely. His childhood shyness has stuck around, though, so just because he feels for someone or loves them doesn’t mean he’ll say anything right away; he has to be eased into by an equally willing soul. Finally, Bruce is very loyal and will defend his friends to the very end, even risking “Hulk-outs” to protect them.
Powers and Abilities:
Bruce Banner: Genius level intellect, speaks seven languages fluently and knows words in half a dozen more, speed reading.
The Hulk: Immense superhuman strength and endurance and disease immunity, extended longevity and accelerated healing.
Samples
Network:
[Bruce appears on camera shirtless, soaking wet and wearing nothing but a pair of ragged pants meant for someone twice his size. He grabs at the pants trying to preserve his dignity somewhat. His voice is shaking as he speaks.]
Is anyone out there? Everything went all pear shaped back on the plane. Colors got very bright and I heard this voice say “WAKE.” Wasn’t I awake before? Natasha, Tony…Clint? Is anywhere out there? Did we win…is Ultron gone?
[His voice softens slightly.]
Did I make up for what I did…what we did in South Africa? Please say no one else got hurt.
Third Person:
The city was being attacked. Back home a situation like this would have sent Bruce into a Code Green without hesitation. But in Nautilus things were different the Hulk was gone and Bruce felt like he wasn’t useful enough to jump right into a fight and help the people who couldn’t help themselves. The rage was still there as was the desire to help innocent people. Bruce could feel both rising inside him like a white hot flame. Looking around him, he could see people running away from the danger some screaming in fear others frozen and staring upward as if they couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
It was reminding him of the final battle with Ultron and how the Avengers had tried their best to stop people from getting hurt. Guilt joined the rage now and Bruce had to duck his head for a second as he fought it. If Natasha hadn’t pushed him off that cliff he would have grabbed her hand and run leaving his teammates and all those people behind. Bruce looks up his eyes focusing on the danger and he could almost sense Natasha beside him watching too. “I adore you,” she’d said the last time they had been together, “but I need the other guy more.”
This is a case where the other guy was needed, but all these people had was Bruce Banner to help them. “If all they have is me then I’m the one who is going to have to help them,” Bruce said aloud. And the one thing he had going for him was that he had a strong will and the willingness to use it for the cause of good. This thought brought a smile to his face and any feelings of guilt vanished leaving behind that desire to help and the rage to focus until he made it happen. Raising his hand he thinks about the Hulk and thinks about him appearing to help. With a roar, the Hulk appeared and turned to smile at Bruce who smiled at the construct and winked. “Go get them big guy,” Bruce said, “time to smash up the bad guys and save the day."
