Personality: Between growing up with two brothers and a father who favoured them over her, and then joining the United States Air Force fresh out of high school, Carol has been strong-willed and independent (and some would say stubborn as a mule) her whole life, and has only become more so since gaining her superpowers. She is take-charge and assertive whenever the situation calls for it, wields authority the way only a military woman can, and never backs down from a confrontation. As a matter of fact, she's been known to start her fair share of them -- she's got a strong set of morals and opinions, and more fool you if you think you can oppose them and get away with it. Add to this package a healthy dose of the typical flyboy cockiness and arrogance and snark, and you'll get somebody you really don't want to see angry. Or you'll get a loyal and formidable friend, depending on whose side you're on. You better hope it's hers.
That said, she tends to be friendly and comfortable around strangers and makes friends without too much trouble. She's very extroverted and direct, not one for shyness or hedging around a subject, and is always sincere and up-front with her intentions; she's not gonna lie to you. And Carol is compassionate -- she loves fiercely and often. There are a mountain of people she'd consider important to her, and she would do anything, endure anything, in order to protect them. Because of this openness toward other people, she is easily hurt by betrayal, and is prone to a sense of self-loathing when she sees herself as having betrayed or failed to protect someone she cares about.
This emotional vulnerability never makes itself readily apparent -- you have to know Carol, really know her, to know when something is really affecting her, and because she keeps this stuff closed-off, it can manifest itself in ways that are extremely harmful to her psyche and even her health. The death of her friend and lover Mar-Vell, the physical and emotional torment she endured from Rogue on Mystique's orders, and the kidnapping, mind-control and rape she suffered at the hands of Marcus Immortus all left their scars on Carol, and in the end the weight of them, and the sense of isolation they caused, drove her to alcoholism. She would spend every night drinking, and turn up to Avengers meetings and even battles partially or totally intoxicated. That was the low point of her life, the most despair she had ever felt or has ever felt since, and it's something she is still ashamed of. With Tony Stark as her AA sponsor she managed to dig herself out, and now she's happy and healthy and totally functional, but she hasn't forgotten what it all felt like, and what it took to drive her to that. She won't let it happen again.
Something that still weighs on Carol is the aforementioned incident with Rogue -- back when Rogue was evil, under the influence of her mother Mystique, she attacked Carol and absorbed all of her powers and memories, leaving Carol powerless and emotionally empty. Although she later regained her abilities, she has forever lost the emotional connection to her past. Memories of her mother and father, her family, her childhood -- she still has them, but when she looks back on them it's as if she's a stranger, looking in from the outside. She feels nothing for her family or her past. She felt nothing when her father died, because she couldn't remember what it was like to care about him. If nothing else, though, this has made the relationships she has now all the more important to her.
No amount of hardship has ever been able to make Carol abandon her passion. She has such a deeply-ingrained zest for life, for helping people, for saving the world and protecting the innocent and all that amazing superhero stuff, and she considers it such a gift that she couldn't imagine doing anything else with her life. More than anything, though, Carol is passionate about flying. Ever since she first clapped eyes on a plane, there has been nothing else she's wanted to do more than fly. Her mentor when she was a young woman was a female pilot named Helen Cobb, who once told her that "the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky, and when a soul is born with that kind of purpose, it'll damn sure find a way". That's Carol in a nutshell, and it never feels more true to her than when she's in the air. Flight gives her a kind of clarity of thinking that she can't get anywhere else, and there's no way she'd trade it for anything.
So all in all, Carol tries to live in the now. Her now is pretty awesome, after all; she's got a great life, a great job, great friends who are as close to her as any family. Hell, she's a freakin' Avenger, and she can fly whenever she wants, and she's strong enough and experienced enough that nobody can ever, ever make her feel weak or helpless again, not if she has any say in it. That's what Carol holds on to, that's what buoys her up past all the awful things she's been through.
She is Carol Danvers. She is Captain fucking Marvel. And she is Earth's mightiest hero.
Abilities: Due to an incident with a Kree device called a Psyche-Magnitron, Carol's DNA was fused with that of the Kree warrior Mar-Vell (the original Captain Marvel), giving her all of his abilities. Her power set was further augmented when she was captured by the alien Brood and experimented on, turning her for a period of time into the hero Binary, whose almost godlike energy-projection power was connected to a binary star-system -- a connection Carol doesn't have anymore, but a few choice abilities from that time stuck around, and under extreme (we're talking EXTREME) circumstances she can temporarily regain the full extent of her Binary powers. Her normal powers, though, include:
Superhuman strength - Carol is capable of lifting a weight of almost 100 tons, although it's been speculated that she could handle more. This makes her punches pack a... punch. Yeah. Her strength can also be increased by absorbing enough external energy.
Superhuman durability - her skin is impervious to bullets and most other ordinary weapons, and she can take a severe amount of physical punishment. She also possesses a moderate healing factor, although hers isn't as impressive as, say, Wolverine's.
Superhuman speed & agility - while in flight, Carol has broken the sound barrier and been clocked at speeds upwards of mach 3. She also has killer reflexes and mad acrobatic skillz.
Flight - definitely one of her favourite abilities. As mentioned above, Carol can hit insane speeds while flying, and is also capable of leaving Earth's atmosphere and flying unharmed through space.
Energy manipulation - Carol's body is capable of absorbing enormous amounts of all kinds of energy. She can also generate photonic energy which she shoots from her hands as a means of attack (her "photon blasts", as she calls them). The more energy she absorbs, the more powerful her attacks and the more effective her healing factor -- however, although it's nearly impossible to achieve, she does have a limit. Going over said limit results in energy overload and death.
Molecular manipulation - this skill works only on an incredibly base level -- pretty much all she can do with it is instantly change her outfit and/or hairstyle.
Other abilities - Carol is an ex-USAF colonel and fighter pilot (call sign "Cheeseburger", don't ask), and as such is in peak physical condition, can handle any kind of aircraft with great proficiency, and is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter. She has also worked for the CIA, where she was trained in all forms of espionage; she has great knowledge of the Kree empire, including its culture, language and military traditions, due to her merging with Mar-Vell; and she is a talented writer, having written for magazines and published several novels. Also she is an expert in the field of defeating evil wizards by throwing cats at them.
Other: Carol's currently suffering from a nasty brain lesion in canon, which prohibits her from flying. It'll be cured in-game obv but I wanted to mention it because posterity and also I do what I want!!
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Between growing up with two brothers and a father who favoured them over her, and then joining the United States Air Force fresh out of high school, Carol has been strong-willed and independent (and some would say stubborn as a mule) her whole life, and has only become more so since gaining her superpowers. She is take-charge and assertive whenever the situation calls for it, wields authority the way only a military woman can, and never backs down from a confrontation. As a matter of fact, she's been known to start her fair share of them -- she's got a strong set of morals and opinions, and more fool you if you think you can oppose them and get away with it. Add to this package a healthy dose of the typical flyboy cockiness and arrogance and snark, and you'll get somebody you really don't want to see angry. Or you'll get a loyal and formidable friend, depending on whose side you're on. You better hope it's hers.
That said, she tends to be friendly and comfortable around strangers and makes friends without too much trouble. She's very extroverted and direct, not one for shyness or hedging around a subject, and is always sincere and up-front with her intentions; she's not gonna lie to you. And Carol is compassionate -- she loves fiercely and often. There are a mountain of people she'd consider important to her, and she would do anything, endure anything, in order to protect them. Because of this openness toward other people, she is easily hurt by betrayal, and is prone to a sense of self-loathing when she sees herself as having betrayed or failed to protect someone she cares about.
This emotional vulnerability never makes itself readily apparent -- you have to know Carol, really know her, to know when something is really affecting her, and because she keeps this stuff closed-off, it can manifest itself in ways that are extremely harmful to her psyche and even her health. The death of her friend and lover Mar-Vell, the physical and emotional torment she endured from Rogue on Mystique's orders, and the kidnapping, mind-control and rape she suffered at the hands of Marcus Immortus all left their scars on Carol, and in the end the weight of them, and the sense of isolation they caused, drove her to alcoholism. She would spend every night drinking, and turn up to Avengers meetings and even battles partially or totally intoxicated. That was the low point of her life, the most despair she had ever felt or has ever felt since, and it's something she is still ashamed of. With Tony Stark as her AA sponsor she managed to dig herself out, and now she's happy and healthy and totally functional, but she hasn't forgotten what it all felt like, and what it took to drive her to that. She won't let it happen again.
Something that still weighs on Carol is the aforementioned incident with Rogue -- back when Rogue was evil, under the influence of her mother Mystique, she attacked Carol and absorbed all of her powers and memories, leaving Carol powerless and emotionally empty. Although she later regained her abilities, she has forever lost the emotional connection to her past. Memories of her mother and father, her family, her childhood -- she still has them, but when she looks back on them it's as if she's a stranger, looking in from the outside. She feels nothing for her family or her past. She felt nothing when her father died, because she couldn't remember what it was like to care about him. If nothing else, though, this has made the relationships she has now all the more important to her.
No amount of hardship has ever been able to make Carol abandon her passion. She has such a deeply-ingrained zest for life, for helping people, for saving the world and protecting the innocent and all that amazing superhero stuff, and she considers it such a gift that she couldn't imagine doing anything else with her life. More than anything, though, Carol is passionate about flying. Ever since she first clapped eyes on a plane, there has been nothing else she's wanted to do more than fly. Her mentor when she was a young woman was a female pilot named Helen Cobb, who once told her that "the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky, and when a soul is born with that kind of purpose, it'll damn sure find a way". That's Carol in a nutshell, and it never feels more true to her than when she's in the air. Flight gives her a kind of clarity of thinking that she can't get anywhere else, and there's no way she'd trade it for anything.
So all in all, Carol tries to live in the now. Her now is pretty awesome, after all; she's got a great life, a great job, great friends who are as close to her as any family. Hell, she's a freakin' Avenger, and she can fly whenever she wants, and she's strong enough and experienced enough that nobody can ever, ever make her feel weak or helpless again, not if she has any say in it. That's what Carol holds on to, that's what buoys her up past all the awful things she's been through.
She is Carol Danvers. She is Captain fucking Marvel. And she is Earth's mightiest hero.
Abilities:
Due to an incident with a Kree device called a Psyche-Magnitron, Carol's DNA was fused with that of the Kree warrior Mar-Vell (the original Captain Marvel), giving her all of his abilities. Her power set was further augmented when she was captured by the alien Brood and experimented on, turning her for a period of time into the hero Binary, whose almost godlike energy-projection power was connected to a binary star-system -- a connection Carol doesn't have anymore, but a few choice abilities from that time stuck around, and under extreme (we're talking EXTREME) circumstances she can temporarily regain the full extent of her Binary powers. Her normal powers, though, include:
Other:
Carol's currently suffering from a nasty brain lesion in canon, which prohibits her from flying. It'll be cured in-game obv but I wanted to mention it because posterity and also I do what I want!!