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Contemporary Cap: the man IN time
Accidental posting of substance to Tumblr again...
Context: I got an anonymous 'ask' about setting Captain America in contemporary times, which happens a bit in fic, usually as a precursor to a romantic story. I clearly have no interest in going toward romance, but I suspect the ask originated more for the military/realism angle. Regardless, I figured a quick bullet-point background sketch would be enough. Two thousand words later....
(Bring back the Prolix Lass icon....)
* Steven Grant Rogers, born in 1983 to Joseph and Sarah Rogers in Brooklyn, NY. Joe is a postman, having been medically retired from the Army, Sarah is a nurse. Joe dies when Steve is a boy, Sarah is a working single mother and is happy to send Steve over to the Fort Hamilton USO after school to keep him out of trouble and have him be around other youngsters — and soak up a little of the military culture and masculine influence that a fatherless boy could use. They lead a lower-middle-class life, Sarah being clever and resourceful and having more options than she would have in the 1920s. Steve’s got his asthma, but he’s got proper medication for it and his mother has him swimming because it’s supposed to be good for his lungs, so while he’s skinny, he’s not quite as frail as he might have been.
* It’s at the USO where Steve meets James Buchanan Barnes, born 1982 in Indiana but living in Brooklyn where his father George is stationed at Ft. Hamilton, having switched to an MOS that allows him to be home at night and be a single parent to Bucky and Rebecca. Bucky and Steve become BuckyandSteve (with occasionally parentally-required BuckyandSteveandRebecca) for the usual reasons.
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Context: I got an anonymous 'ask' about setting Captain America in contemporary times, which happens a bit in fic, usually as a precursor to a romantic story. I clearly have no interest in going toward romance, but I suspect the ask originated more for the military/realism angle. Regardless, I figured a quick bullet-point background sketch would be enough. Two thousand words later....
(Bring back the Prolix Lass icon....)
* Steven Grant Rogers, born in 1983 to Joseph and Sarah Rogers in Brooklyn, NY. Joe is a postman, having been medically retired from the Army, Sarah is a nurse. Joe dies when Steve is a boy, Sarah is a working single mother and is happy to send Steve over to the Fort Hamilton USO after school to keep him out of trouble and have him be around other youngsters — and soak up a little of the military culture and masculine influence that a fatherless boy could use. They lead a lower-middle-class life, Sarah being clever and resourceful and having more options than she would have in the 1920s. Steve’s got his asthma, but he’s got proper medication for it and his mother has him swimming because it’s supposed to be good for his lungs, so while he’s skinny, he’s not quite as frail as he might have been.
* It’s at the USO where Steve meets James Buchanan Barnes, born 1982 in Indiana but living in Brooklyn where his father George is stationed at Ft. Hamilton, having switched to an MOS that allows him to be home at night and be a single parent to Bucky and Rebecca. Bucky and Steve become BuckyandSteve (with occasionally parentally-required BuckyandSteveandRebecca) for the usual reasons.
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