Memes are fun

[kaitou]

Stolen from aphelion_orion...

Name a character and I'll tell you four facts about them from my own personal headcanon.


(And no, I haven't forgotten anyone's fanfic from the last meme, I just need to type them up, mostly)

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[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

Steve. :) History buff, GO!

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. You know, I snub WWII the way hipsters snub a band that becomes popular. WWI is SO where it's at, don't you know.

Anyway I dust off the best of my history nerd geekery for you.

1. Steve Rogers didn't vote in a popular election until well after he was thawed out. He was too young to vote in the 1940 election and in 1944...well, he didn't get his absentee ballot done in time. He tries not to feel guilty about it because it's not like Roosevelt didn't win ANYWAY.

2. His 5th grade teacher took his class on a field trip to the recreation of the Brownstone that Teddy Roosevelt was born in. He learned how Teddy had been asthmatic, and so sickly that he couldn't even go to school most of the time. But he worked hard and made himself strong and tough. Steve decided that he would do the same thing.

3. Steve grew up speaking Irish Gaelic at home. The law back in Ireland said you had to speak fluent Irish if you wanted certain jobs, and back then his parents still thought they'd move back. He doesn't remember much of it any more, but he still remembers most of the dirty words and insults.

4. He can't feel guilty about becoming Captain America. He's so lucky that in his case 'be careful what you wish for' didn't apply. But he felt just an uncomfortable edge of shame during the war when he saw the ways that so many people were contributing, no matter what their lives were like. From WASP pilots, to Coca Cola Colonels, to the cartoonists making the training films. Everyone's pitching in, and maybe he didn't need to become a Super Soldier just to be useful in the fight.