Post by Captain America on Jan 30, 2011 9:43:57 GMT -5
I noticed that the other applicants here more or less submitted a brief bio, but did not include why they actually want to play the character they are applying to play.
I want to write Captain America because as a child, reading Captain America helped form many of the beliefs about America, what it is, what it should be, and what it can be, that I hold true to this day. I believe that Captain America doesn't just represent Americans, but all people, regardless of nationality, status, class, race, religion, or any other form of categorical description. Captain America, in my opinion, sees every life, from the most powerful to the most helpless as being of equal value. Captain America, again, in my opinion is not only what every American should aspire to be, but every person, everywhere.
In the last large-scale military conflict the world saw, America wanted an army of Super-Soldiers. They ended up with one. Endowed with the effects of the Super-Soldier serum, Martin Allen became Captain America, an icon for America's troops to rally around, and a living weapon so inescapably American that every blow he struck against his nation's enemies was not only effective from a tactical standpoint, but demoralizing to enemy troops, and their leaders. Every mission he was tasked with went according to plan, even his final mission, which shifted the balance in the conflict to the side of America and it's allies. The enemy, though, seemed to get the last laugh. The airplane That Captain America and his fellow soldiers were returning to their base on has been loaded with explosives, presumably by the enemy. Captain America discovers the explosives, rigged with timers, mere seconds before there were set to blow. Just as he managed to get the rear door open, the timers reached zero, hurling him from the plane in a ball of flame, and killing everyone else. Martin Allen did die that day, for all intents and purposes. The military found no bodies, and all aboard were presumed dead. It seems that only the infusion of the serum kept Allen from dying in truth. He has no memory to this day of the events immediately following the explosion. He doesn't know how he survived the blast, or why he didn't drown. The police found him, several days after the incident, wandering naked in an alley and muttering incoherently. They rushed him to a New York City hospital, where he remained for three weeks. When he was discharged, he signed all of his paperwork "Steve Rogers", and has gone by that name since. Why this is is not yet known.
I want to write Captain America because as a child, reading Captain America helped form many of the beliefs about America, what it is, what it should be, and what it can be, that I hold true to this day. I believe that Captain America doesn't just represent Americans, but all people, regardless of nationality, status, class, race, religion, or any other form of categorical description. Captain America, in my opinion, sees every life, from the most powerful to the most helpless as being of equal value. Captain America, again, in my opinion is not only what every American should aspire to be, but every person, everywhere.
In the last large-scale military conflict the world saw, America wanted an army of Super-Soldiers. They ended up with one. Endowed with the effects of the Super-Soldier serum, Martin Allen became Captain America, an icon for America's troops to rally around, and a living weapon so inescapably American that every blow he struck against his nation's enemies was not only effective from a tactical standpoint, but demoralizing to enemy troops, and their leaders. Every mission he was tasked with went according to plan, even his final mission, which shifted the balance in the conflict to the side of America and it's allies. The enemy, though, seemed to get the last laugh. The airplane That Captain America and his fellow soldiers were returning to their base on has been loaded with explosives, presumably by the enemy. Captain America discovers the explosives, rigged with timers, mere seconds before there were set to blow. Just as he managed to get the rear door open, the timers reached zero, hurling him from the plane in a ball of flame, and killing everyone else. Martin Allen did die that day, for all intents and purposes. The military found no bodies, and all aboard were presumed dead. It seems that only the infusion of the serum kept Allen from dying in truth. He has no memory to this day of the events immediately following the explosion. He doesn't know how he survived the blast, or why he didn't drown. The police found him, several days after the incident, wandering naked in an alley and muttering incoherently. They rushed him to a New York City hospital, where he remained for three weeks. When he was discharged, he signed all of his paperwork "Steve Rogers", and has gone by that name since. Why this is is not yet known.
