Player's Name:
Jackie


Characters Played Here:
Malcolm Meryln, Tony Stark, Leonard “Leo” Snart



Character:

Bruce Banner

Series/Canon:

Marvel Cinematic Universe

From When?
Post Infinity War

Previous Game(s):
He was in Boomtown a few years ago, but I have decided to not use his previous CR as I would like to start fresh since the town has changed so much.


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 He became shy and withdrawn believing that there was no one in the world who wanted him or saw him as anything more than another mouth to feed.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.

Those points unknown end up being the planet Sakarr where the Hulk becomes the champion of the planet’s Game Master. He is happy and loved and when he is founded by a displaced Thor he has no plans on leaving and he refuses to hear any talk of Banner at all. Hulk also formed a friendship with another displaced Asgardian named Valkyrie.

Thor pushes the issue and he and the Hulk wind up back on the Quinjet where they trigger Natasha’s last message, which brings Bruce back to himself and he reveals he’s been the Hulk for two years, the longest period he’s been transformed that even Bruce knows of. He expresses the fear that if he turns back into the Hulk, he Bruce will be gone forever.

Thor gives Bruce a pep talk, needing the Hulk’s help to defeat his sister Hela and Bruce agrees to join Thor, Loki and Valkyrie in the defense of Asgard. He even risks losing himself to transform back into the Hulk who happily fights Fernier, Hela’s wolf and the fire demon who ends up causing the death of Asgard. The Hulk then joins the refugees on their ship only to have the ship then attacked by Thanos.

The Hulk attacks Thanos at one point only to be soundly beaten down and then sent back to Earth by Henidall before the former dies of his wounds. Crashing into roof of the New York Sanctum Bruce attempts to warn Stephen Strange, Wong and later Tony Stark about the danger of Thanos and his search of the Infinity Stones. He also attempts to help when the Black Order attacks New York only to find he cannot Hulk out.

Once Strange and Tony vanish into the Black Order ship, Bruce uses the phone Tony dropped during the battle to call Steve Rogers where he is reunited with Natasha, Steve, Falcon, Vision, Wanda and Rhodes. They all agree to head to Wakanda for help in extracting the Mind Stone from Vision’s head before Thanos can kill him. Bruce helps Princess Shuri work out a way to extract the stone, but then joins the distraction battle in the Hulkbuster armor since he still cannot release the Hulk despite several attempts during the battle to do so. He does however cheer the return of Thor and give his all to protect the stone watching in horror as the Avengers fail and Thanos kills off half the population of the galaxy.

Does your character have any close ties to existing canon characters? (Canon OCs and AUs only.)

Bruce’s main connections in the game include most of the MCU characters in game all of whom are aware I am bringing Bruce in.


Why do you think your character would work in this setting?
After the events of Infinity War, Bruce will be desperate for an escape. He will jump at the chance to come to New Dodge though he will feel slightly guilty for running away again. While he will attempt to hide how damaged he was by the events he’s been through sooner than later the truth will come out and Bruce will be forced to face the trauma he underwent.

He will also be forced to face the fact he’s been in town before and what happened then even though he won’t remember having been in town before. This may give him the confidence to be a better person and may even strengthen his connection to the Hulk. His time in New Dodge will allow Bruce to finally realize that he is as much of a hero as the Hulk is something that Bruce has always struggled with.

How do you plan to expand their CR?

Bruce will be reaching out to his friends for help in shattering the mental block that is keeping him from becoming the Hulk. He will also be attempting to reconnect with Natasha as he misses her and still cares about her. He will also be reaching out to the people who knew him from New Dodge before and trying to connect with them in an effort to gain more confidence in himself and his abilities.


What will your character do for work?
Bruce will hopefully joining the clinic as a doctor.



Inventory:

Bruce will have nothing on him but the ragged clothes he wore throughout Infinity War.

Samples:

Third-Person Sample:
Bruce stared at the man in front of him like he’d grown a second head. “You want me to go where,” he asked like he hadn’t heard Eli the first two times he’d made his offer. “New Dodge needs you Dr. Banner,” the man replied his tone even. “Needs me or the Hulk,” Bruce asked bluntly. Eli smiled slightly. “You,” he replied easily and Bruce simply shook his head.

“No one needs me,” Bruce replied his tone slightly sharper then he means it to be. “You do yourself a disservice Doctor,” Eli said. “Your friends are lost without you and the town could use your brilliant mind as it once did.” Bruce laughed harshly. “You didn’t hear me the first time. No one needs me. Who they need is the Hulk and he’s currently still sulking in the back of my head.” Bruce started to turn away but Eli’s voice stopped him. “Natasha needs you,” he says bluntly, “she’s always needed you, but you’ve both been too afraid to admit it.”

Bruce sighed softly. “I miss her,” he said softly, “I miss them all.” Eli smiled sensing his hook. “Then come back and see them again. How do you know what you can do unless you try to do it?” Bruce saw the man’s point he really did, but would running away again really be the answer. It didn’t fix anything the last time why would now be any different? Still he would never forgive himself if he didn’t try. Glancing back at the dusty plains of Wakanada, Bruce Banner made his choice. “Alright I’ll come,” he said finally, “couldn’t be worse than right here could it?” Eli nodded his agreement. “It might actually be better,” he said drawing another laugh out of Bruce. “Anywhere is better than here,” he muttered softly.


First-Person Sample:

Hulk,

Look I know we’ve never gotten along. How could we? You are the worse parts of me and I’m…. I’m just me. But the fact of the matter is we’ve been stuck together for over ten years and maybe it’s time to stop fighting each other.

I know you want to live as much as I do and you are your own person. But I’m a person too and this shouldn’t be a one or the other sort of thing. You protect me from becoming him and I…I made you. We should be working together instead of pulling apart and maybe by going to New Dodge we can do that.

I’m not saying this should be a be all end all solution to the problem of us, but don’t we owe it to each other to try and live together. So let’s try. Maybe by working together we can both be the Avenger we were meant to be instead of the monster we and most of the world think we are. I know this all sounds hokey but it’s what she would want us to do.

Bruce

Bruce tucked the blanket gently around Bucky's little body and sighed. He couldn't believe that someone who used to be an assassin could be full of so much energy. And for some weird reason Bucky had taken a shine to Bruce after the accident. When he wasn't cuddling  and playing with Steve he was hanging on Bruce like a monkey. It had only been a day and he was already worn out and ready for one of his world famous Hulk like naps. "Clint," he whispers, "is Steve ready,. Bucky won't stay asleep long without him."

Bruce was used to breaking out of places with a little more....smashing then finesse, but it wasn't like he could or wanted to say no when Nat had tracked him down and told him what had happened to Clint. he couldn't not help. He had designed the Raft after all and so he was one of the few who could actually get in He was currently hacking into the prison system's computer and trying to clear the way for Cap to get to the others. "Six months of quiet," he grumbled quietly, "Clint Barton you do enjoy  driving me crazy."

Bruce hadn't expected to find anything in the post office box when he checked it. It was a force of habit really to just stop by at least once a month and see if Tony or any of the other Avengers had sent him anything.  He'd be lying to himself if he didn't sometimes hope to hear from Natasha. The fall of SHIELD had terrified him, not just for his sake but for hers as well. He'd thought of trying to find her, but he wasn't sure how welcome he would be given he hadn't spoken to her since their intimate night just post the Battle of New York. It was his fondest memory and one that had seen him through many lonely nights as he ran from country to country trying to find a safe place.

So when he opened the box and found the envelope inside he assumed it was Tony checking up on him or passing on something from one of the others. He opened it and pulled out photos....ultrasound photos.  He stared for a long time, not sure he was seeing what he thought he was. His eyes filled with tears when he pulled out a sheet of paper in Natasha's even writing that confessed the truth and included coordinates. "I love you, I miss you," was written on the bottom. 

There was no question what his next move would be. He packed what little he'd managed to accumulate in his bag and plugged the coordinates into his Stark phone. He found the house easily and stood on the porch suddenly nervous. Did she really want him here, what if she'd changed her mind  He tapped a soft few notes on the door and waits heart in his throat. What if he's missed the chance to walk this journey with her and the baby was already born. This might be his only chance to walk the path of fatherhood and he didn't want to miss a second of it.

Personal Information

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."

Player information

Name: Jackie
Contact: doctor_wells on AIM, captain_flyboy on Plurk or you can DM Bruce via Dreamwidth messaging.
Are you 18 or over? Yes
Other characters played: None yet

Character information
Name: Bruce Banner
Age: 35
Date of Birth: May 6, 1980
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe using some details from the Incredible Hulk comics as well

Species: Shape Shifter. I chose this species because I feel Bruce already shape shifts in canon. The Hulk is simply the physical manifestation of his emotions as a shapeshifer's animal is an extension of their natural personality.

Role: As a member of the Hillingdon Clan, Bruce is used to a less strict hierarchy when it comes to his role in life. His medical training and research skills will remain making him useful as a doctor to other supernatural beings and humans as well.

Rank: Level One

Background:

Bruce was born the only child of Edith and David Banner. His mother could shift into the form of a panther and his father's form was a lion. David Banner was a genius and spent most of his time researching ways to make clan members stronger and faster. Bruce took after his mother in terms of his animal form becoming a panther for the first time when he was five years old.

He also inherited his father's genius, managing to take apart and reassemble the toaster at the age of three and building a working robot at age ten. David, however, made no effort to encourage his son, in fact, he seemed more interested in his own scientific pursuits then he was in his own family. This led Bruce to become shy and withdrawn as he struggled to seek his father's approval and make friends.  His mother attempted to combat it through gentle encouragement and Bruce began to emerge from his shell as he grew older. 

Bruce attended medical school at 18 specializing in the care of supernatural beings as well as humans and set up his own practice in the heart of London after graduation. At age 25, Bruce, his mother and father went on a vacation to Russia and vanished. Bruce was found three months later naked kneeling next to his mother's body. There was no sign of his father and Bruce could only remember a beautiful redheaded woman who could speak to him in his panther form when asked what had happened.

That redheaded woman was Natasha Romanoff, a meta human and ex-spy with the ability to speak to shape shifters like Bruce. They formed a connection that Bruce never forgot even as he struggled to deal with the events that resulted in his mother's death and his father's disappearance. He did attempt to search for his father but the trail ran cold five years ago and Bruce decided that his father did not want to be found.

He returned to his practice after healing from the events in Russia he still could not remember. He became even more quiet and withdrawn then he was as a youth, though his dedication to his craft seemed even stronger. If asked about this, Bruce would say that his experiences in Russia taught him how important it was to take care of himself and others. He also began to prefer his own company to the company of clan members or co-workers. He longs to remember what happened when his mother died, but he is deeply afraid of finding out the truth. 

Personality:

Bruce is very calm and almost zen like in his approach to life. However, that does not mean he just lays back and lets 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 in a fight, he isn't afraid to use wit to get what he wants and he can often shut an argument down with a well placed quip.

Bruce’s work as a doctor has made him a very patient and gentle soul. 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.

Bruce is very loyal and will defend his friends to the very end even risking his own life to protect those he loves. This loyalty stems not just from the clan like nature of shape shifters as a whole, but from Bruce's own gentle manner. He wants to protect everyone he meets from the horrors of the world and give them the best things in life no matter who they are.

Bruce's major weakness is his difficulty in trusting people he doesn't know. His memory loss and difficult childhood make him wary of strangers and he often misses out of emotional connections because of this fear. Once you have earned his trust however you have earned a steadfast and loving friend who would give you the shirt off his back if you asked him to. 

Powers & Possessions:

For a level one, Bruce has good control over his ability to change thanks to his mother's teaching. Given that he is shy sometimes his strength can get the better of him leading to broken tables and chairs. Other than those skills, Bruce has the same skill set and power level as any other shape shifter. He speaks French, Spanish and Russian fluently and can pick out words in Italian, Punjab and Portuguese.

Bruce's greatest skill is his mind. He has the same genius level intellect as his father and was doing complicated math equations in his head by the time he was six. He could be applying his mind to research, but Bruce enjoys helping people as a doctor despite not enjoying the company of others in his personal life.

Samples:

One

Test Drive

Two

Dear Nat,


I’m not quite sure how to start this letter since it’s been a long time since I've had to confess something like this . But before I left I wanted to tell you how much you meant to me. I can hear you laughing now, but it's true. Out of all the Avengers you are the one who matters the most to me. You are patient, kind and beautiful it makes my heart hurt.


I love you Nat, truly deeply love you. I know I don't often say it out loud but I do. I have no idea why you have attached yourself to a shy, nerdy genius with anger management issues but I'm so glad you did. Without you I'm not sure I would still be here. So thank you, thank you so much for seeing me, not just the Hulk but me. I hope one day to read this letter when we are old and gray and we can laugh about how stupid I was.

For now though this piece of paper is going to have to express how I fell and I'll hope you'll see it for the loving gift it is.

Love,

Bruce