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Character

Name: Margaret “Peggy” Carter
Fandom: Captain America: The First Avenger (MCU)
Gender: Female
Age: Born 9 April 1919; aged 30
Time Period: Her last appearance in the film, coinciding with the end of the war and the SSR (circa 1949)
Wing Color: Olive drab like her uniform
History: http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Margaret_Carter
http://marvel.wikia.com/Margaret_Carter_%28Earth-199999%29
http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger

Work Record:
British Air Force Nurse
1934-1936

Special Air Service
1936-1940

Strategic Scientific Reserve
1940-1949

S S R
1950-1985

Personality: In the movieverse, Margaret “Peggy” Carter is first seen as the officer in charge of the training camp where Steve Rogers is chosen as the candidate for the Super Soldier program. One man on the line of recruits gives her a hard time about being British, following his rude words up with sexist remarks and Peggy, in a classic display of her character, calmly asks him to put his right foot forward before sending him sprawling with a swift punch to the face. This pretty much embodies what most people get to see and know about the woman named Agent Carter.

She is a strong willed, intelligent, confident, competent woman in an age where female worth was generally measured in how well they could bake a cake or be housewives and she will take absolutely no flack whatsoever from those who measure her for her gender rather than her merits. Her sharp wit and quick tongue compliment her frank and straightforward attitude, and she’s just as likely to send off a one-liner as she is to decide that battling wits with those not on her level is simply beneath her and leave people to stew with a scathing look and an exasperated exit.

To most people, she’s all business and considering what her business is, that doesn’t always fare well for them. Peggy is one of the original members of the Strategic Scientific Reserve, and the one who was sent into Germany to rescue Abraham Erskine from Johann Schmidt, the man who later became the Red Skull and maniacal head of HYDRA. Skilled in espionage, hand to hand combat and marksmanship, she infiltrated the HYDRA hideout as a maid named Eva and got Erskine out before Schmidt was able to get his hands on the doctor’s super soldier serum. She showed considerable fortitude of mind, intelligence and cunning when she slipped drugs into most of the staff’s food to knock them out and then fought her way out of the castle with Erskine in tow.

Her fortitude shows again in the movie when a HYDRA agent manages to infiltrate the proceedings overlooking the administration of Erskine’s completed formula. The agent rocks the laboratory with an explosion, shoots and kills Erskine, and Peggy is the first to act in the danger – standing and firing upon the man as he escapes. She gives chase while a still addled Steve is tending to Erskine, and shows her talent with guns by shooting and killing the driver of the agent’s escape vehicle from a distance. Even when an explosion rocks the street right behind her, she isn’t deterred and quickly gets back to aiming at the agent who is aiming to run her down with the car. Even when Steve pushes her out of the way, she doesn’t thank him for saving her life, but rather admonishes him for messing up her shot. Even if, according to her military record, Peggy started as a nurse, she has the aptitude and mind of a soldier and is more than willing to lay down her life for what she believes is right.

Sometimes, what is right is not always what is in the rules, however, and Peggy can and will go around her orders to do what is necessary. She provided Steve with better gear when he went after the remains of the 107th, taking a helmet and convincing Howard Stark to fly them behind enemy lines. She also provides Steve with a great deal of advice, sometimes that which leads him to do great albeit risky things, that steers him from being a war bonds promotional poster boy to becoming Captain America, the hero. When she meets him in Italy in 1943, she mentions to him that both she and Erskine thought he was meant for something more and following that, he goes to find the prisoners of war.

When it comes to Steve, Peggy lets her business side fall away. Although she is brisk and skeptical when she first meets him on the line, his heart and the fact that he is not like the other soldiers she’s met, warms her to him. Beneath her tough exterior, she is still female and Steve is the one to somehow or another find his way into her heart. Even if she gives him a hard time over how he is utterly clueless about women, his sincerity is endearing and eventually she falls for him – but not without a few hiccups along the way.

Because Peggy has a no-nonsense personality, it bleeds into her personal relationships as well. When she becomes upset with someone, she is quite dry and curt with them. Part of it is a defense mechanism – a mental beating for letting things affect her – and part of it is to thoroughly eliminate any threats to her strong female persona. Without that barrier, the rampant sexism of the 40s could very well crush her and she has learned to make sure they don’t ever think of crossing her. When she sees Steve kissing the secretary at SSR headquarters, her scathing remarks after reflect not only jealousy, but also disappointment. She had her hopes raised for him due to his sincerity and his charm, and then he became “a soldier just like (he) always wanted to be.”

Her method of dealing with her feelings isn’t always the best, either. When Steve tries to break the tension by showing her the prototype shield and asking her opinion, Carter picks up a gun and fires at him without so much as a blink of an eye. As a method of releasing stress and venting frustrations, it certainly worked, but it was also a terrifying experience for both Steve and Howard Stark, who was watching. She proves her strength to them then, sending a secondary message that she wasn’t someone to be trifled with.

Her bravado masks a certain amount of vulnerability, though. When she meets Steve at the club before the shield test, she wears a casual red dress and it’s obvious she’s wearing it for him. She can’t outright say her feelings, but she doesn’t exactly hide them either. It isn’t until Steve goes to hijack the Schmidt’s plane that she finally kisses him, sending him off to be the hero. She believes in him to the same extent, if not more than Erskine did, and while she understands his final decision to force the plane down, it’s obvious it also hurts her a great deal. Rather than face the truth that they will likely never meet again, Peggy is willing to cling to a false hope that he might survive. She had seen him go behind enemy lines once and come back, so the hope is there that he would again. It breaks her heart and, if her file shown in the Avengers movie is any indication, she never fully recovers. Peggy dives into her work, finishing up with the SSR (still holding out hope for Steve until she sees his file being put into the Inactive classification), and moving back to Britain. It’s indicated that she never marries and remains with the SSR and its off-shoots until she retires from the military completely.


Strengths
Physical: Peggy has excellent marksmanship even under stress as seen when she shoots the HYDRA agent at the Brooklyn facility, and again when she takes out the driver from a distance. She has comparatively good vision considering she’s using a standard issue type gun without a scope and lines up her shot with a normal aim. She’s in good physical condition since her file notes that she has standard military training and combat experience, and she is seen running with the invading force when the SSR charges Schmidt’s HYDRA base at the end of the movie. She’s able to use machine guns as well as she does hand guns, and she’s shown to be strong enough to take a man off his feet with a single punch (seen when she punches Hodge after he taunts her).

Mental: Peggy is trained in espionage and must have at least a passable grasp of foreign languages considering she was able to infiltrate Schmidt’s base as the housemaid Eva (it is likely she would have been required to speak German). She is intelligent and skilled enough to have risen from the ranks of British Air Force as a nurse to becoming the British Royal Military’s Intelligence liaison to the Strategic Scientific Reserve. She’s been shown to be mostly involved in intelligence gathering and the behind-the-scenes work of the SSR and commands a certain amount of respect for it.

Emotional: Despite living in an age of sexism, Peggy has the emotional and mental fortitude needed to both put up with and overcome male chauvinism in a male dominated military environment. She is loyal to her work, her cause and her country, but she also knows when to put rules aside and do the right thing, even if it’s the risky thing. She’s compassionate as shown when she goes to see Steve after Bucky dies to talk with him, and again when she earlier talks to him about how Erskine wanted something more for him. She presents a strong female character in a time when not many females served in the military and is ready and willing to fight for that role.

Weaknesses
Physical: Physically, Peggy is only human and has no physical enhancements besides wearing some awesome heels to kick people with. Also, despite being 5’6, she is still female and thus has the usual physical limitations of being female and not a bodybuilder or someone focused on physical strength. She relies more on firearms than hand-to-hand combat.

Mental: Although intelligent, she is not the best the SSR has to offer and she is more of a field and espionage operative, leaving the invention and mechanical geniuses to other people like Howard Stark. She also uses her wit and intelligence to disarm people and eliminate them as threats, making her somewhat difficult to approach. Her frank nature can also be unpleasant to people who aren’t used to having their faults pointed out.

Emotional: Peggy must struggle with being female in a male dominated society and while she appears to do well with it, her defense mechanisms include things like building walls that keep others out of her personal life. She has a hard time getting her true feelings across to other people, preferring never to say them out loud, but show them in her actions. As with Steve, sometimes people have a hard time picking up on her nonverbal clues which results in a frustrating situation for her. Her default mode for when she feels hurt is to bottle it up and that can cause her to find somewhat inappropriate methods of release, such as when she shot at Steve to “test his shield” after catching him kissing another girl.

Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)

First Person: Training Wings Post

Third Person: It was impossible to describe how seeing him again made her – well, no, feel, was likely too strong a term. It opened up doors into things she didn’t wish to think about, especially now that time had passed – not just for her, but for him it was decades. It had been hard enough that night, listening to the radio, lying to herself and to him that they’d ever get that dance, but it was worse when the next week, she’d gone anyway, hoping beyond hope that she hadn’t opened her heart just to be left behind.

Peggy stood at the door of Seventh Heaven, contemplating going in for a drink, when she finally settled on the phrase “how shocking it was to meet him again." That was it - it was simply an unexpected shock to see him, living life here as if nothing had gone wrong, talking and breathing and simply being as if he hadn’t disappeared off the face of the planet, despite Howard Stark’s best efforts at locating him, despite what a good man he was and how she knew he wouldn't break a promise without a good reason. To say nothing of seeing Stark and even Barnes again, being here was a plethora of experiences she had thought she had put behind her so long ago.

“I’d hate to step on your t-“

Peggy bowed her head, closing her eyes. She had put this thing behind her, or so she had convinced herself, moved on with her career, with her life, for the war, the betterment of the world. The end of the war had brought an end to her work as liaison with the Strategic Scientific Reserve for the most part. She had packed away his file and the files of his Howling Commandos and that been the end of it. It had ended – all of it.

And yet here she was, trying to deal with it again. All opened new and fresh and ready for her to do something completely stupid again. Phillips would have scolded her, but Erskine? He would have smiled.

She'd take the smile over the scolding any day.

With a sigh, she cursed her own self for being such a sentimental fool, and continued on. She had firing practice to conduct and a fresh batch of, admittedly scrawny, recruits to teach about the proper use of a firearm. He had been scrawny when she had first met him, too, but that's what had made him so great. Never underestimate the scrawny and scrappy. Just as one should never underestimate a pretty face with a deadly aim and something to prove. She had training to conduct and so she moved forward, knowing that he would likely be waiting there for her, and she would be waiting to see him.