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Name: The Winter Soldier
Alignment: Neutral
Alias(es): Bucky | The Asset
Secret Identity: James Buchanan Barnes
Looks: Bucky possesses handsome features and neck-length unkempt hair, and a particularly muscular physique. His bionic left arm resembles natural musculature as well, being made of an extremely durable metal. Bucky wears a combat outfit designed by HYDRA, them being the ones that designed and fitted Bucky with the bionic arm.
Personality: Bucky Barnes was extremely devoted, loyal, headstrong, patriotic and had a strong moral center. He was a good and close friend to another young man during their youth; he helped him when he got into fights and tried to cheer him up and look after him when his mother died. Best friends since childhood, they went through many trials and tribulations together. He was also protective of the boy, as when he planned to enlist in the United States Army. Barnes tried to talk him out of it, as he knew he would die because of his physical condition and poor health. Out of the two friends, Barnes would be considered the more attractive and the more flirtatious.
After his apparent death from falling off a train, Bucky returned as the Winter Soldier, an elusive, dangerous and amnesiac assassin. He was ruthless, brutal and under the complete control of HYDRA. Nothing mattered to him but the directive that HYDRA gave him. After the siege on SHIELD, he realised his wrongdoings and abandoned HYDRA, maintaining his silent and brooding behaviour. However, there are times when his Winter Soldier persona resurfaces, and he becomes ruthless once again.
Rank // History
Rank: 4 - Hunter
Origin Type: Science
Origin Story: Prior to his transformation into the Winter Soldier, Bucky was already captured once by HYDRA and experimented on. His physiology was altered, but before further treatment was done, he was rescued. When a strike operation went south during World War II, Bucky seemingly fell to his death from a HYDRA train. However, he survived at the cost of his arm. His nearly lifeless body was discovered by a Soviet soldier, and eventually was handed over to HYDRA. He was kept their prisoner for many years, until the man responsible for previous experimentation on him was released from custody. In the care of the newly recreated HYDRA, Barnes underwent further experimentation.
In 1991, he was unfrozen in Siberia, where he was given prosthetic arm to replace the one he lost. Bucky was also subjected to multiple mind control methods to keep him under their command; HYDRA conditioned him to respond to Russian codewords, which would cause him to act on whatever action was associated with that spoken command. Over time, Bucky would lose all memory of his former life and became nothing more than a weapon for his greatest enemy. However, there would be remnants of his former life in the back of his mind; if left by himself for too long, his true memories would come back and spell trouble for HYDRA.
With his body at the peak of physical perfection and his arm at the highest level of weaponized technology, HYDRA put Barnes to use as their personal weapon for many years. They had him frozen in suspended animation to prevent him from ageing after every mission. Whenever Barnes completed a mission, HYDRA would have his mind wiped to ensure he remained memory-free and emotionless towards those he killed.
Receiving vast training from HYDRA, Barnes became a formidable fighter and an even more ruthless killer. His experiences with the KGB would earn him the name of the "Winter Soldier". The Winter Soldier would remain frozen for long periods of time until HYDRA saw fit to unfreeze him for certain missions. Over the next 50 years, the Winter Soldier would be responsible for numerous assassinations, killing all sorts of targets, from scientific minds to political figures. Due to his expertise on the field and the shadowy nature of his existence, the Winter Soldier became something of a ghost story, with intelligence agencies doubting he even existed.
History: James Buchanan Barnes was born on March 10, 1917, as the oldest child of four, growing up to become an excellent athlete who also excelled in the classroom. During his childhood, he met a boy when bullies were trying to steal his money. The two became best friends and stuck together for years.
In 1940, his friend's mother died of tuberculosis. After the funeral, Barnes walked him home and tried to offer him help with rent, but he refused, saying he could get by on his own. Seeing him struggling to find his house keys, Barnes revealed his secret key and told him he did not have to because, as he placed a caring hand on his friend's shoulder, he was with him "'til the end of the line", something they'd both keep to heart for a long time. A year later, during an art class, Barnes and his friend found out that America had joined the Second World War. By this time, Barnes was a three-time YMCA welterweight boxing champion. He then spent two weeks training the boy at Goldie's Boxing Gym. They visited the US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City where his friend was classified as 4F and rejected from service. Barnes was later drafted in the Army.
Barnes, along with the rest of the 107th Infantry, was trained during the winter at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Eventually, Barnes rose to the rank of Sergeant. The day before his shipment out to England, Bucky found his best friend being beaten up by a bully. Barnes came to his defense and quickly sent the bully running away. Barnes learned that he'd had been attempting to enlist in the army again, using false documents to try and get deployed. Barnes informed him that he had received his orders and would be going to war the next day. At first, his friend seemed upset, as he was not shipping out to war with his best friend. Barnes, however, was determined to cheer his friend up. They both then went to the Stark Expo together, with Barnes determined to enjoy his last day in the city before shipping out. What Barnes did not tell him, however, was that it was in fact a double date; when asked what he had told his date about him, Barnes simply replied, "only the good stuff." While exploring the Expo, the group watched an inventor demonstrate a prototype flying car, which greatly impressed Barnes, until it malfunctioned and fell to the ground. When Barnes turned around to suggest the group go dancing, he saw that his best friend had walked away from the group.
Though Barnes was having fun, his best friend was interested in attempting to enlist for the fifth time. Barnes found him trying to enlist, and first tried to persuade him to rejoin him on the double date. When that did not work, he reminded him that he wasn't going to be fighting in a back alley, but in a war. Despite Barnes' protests, he went through with it, but said a heartfelt goodbye to Bucky before doing so. His friend told him not to win the war until he got there, and Bucky left. Barnes and his unit, the 107th then shipped out to England the next day.
On the battlefields of Europe, Barnes and his unit, including Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones, were ambushed by the Nazis at Azzano. Though the battle seemed hopeless as they were outgunned with no reinforcements on the way, the battle turned when another German unit appeared and used an extremely powerful tank to kill the Nazis. The tank then turned to Barnes' unit and they were soon captured by HYDRA. They were sent to work at the HYDRA weapons facility in the Austrian Alps, halfway between Kitzbühel and Klagenfurt. He was later experimented on, his physiology being enhanced greatly, but was rescued by his newly enlisted friend.
Towards the end of 1944, Barnes prepared for a mission in which he would board a HYDRA train carrying a HYDRA scientist, with the aim of capturing him. Looking at the danger of the mission, Barnes joked that his friend was getting payback for a time Barnes made him ride a roller coaster that made him throw up. When Jim Morita intercepted a radio signal from HYDRA confirming that the scientist was on the train, Barnes and two others used a zip wire to board the train as it traveled through the mountains. While one stayed on the roof of the train, Barnes and his friend entered and began exploring the carriages. Moments after their arrival, they were split up and ambushed by a team of HYDRA soldiers. While his friend was forced to fight a heavily armed HYDRA guard, Barnes became pinned down by three soldiers; although he was able to kill two, he quickly ran out of ammunition and feared he would soon be killed. His friend however was able to open the door and throw him a new gun which he used to kill the final soldier when distraced. Barnes claimed that he had him on the ropes. Before they could relax, another HYDRA soldier appeared behind them and fired at them with a HYDRA Assault Rifle, blowing a hole through the side of the train. Barnes fired at the soldier, but he was shot again with the assault rifle, the power of the blast throwing him off the train. His friend was able to dispatch the soldier and attempted to rescue Barnes as he hung off a rail on the side of the train. However the rail snapped before his friend was able to save him, which resulted in Barnes falling into an icy river below.
Abilities // Equipment
- Strength: 21
- Intelligence: 21
- Speed: 18
- Durability: 18
- Energy: 0
- Technology: 71
Description of Powers: Due to the experiments of HYDRA, Bucky's physical attributes have been greatly increased. This makes for a deadly weapon when combined with his assassin-like mentality. His reflexes, agility and speed have also been enhanced.
Equipment:
- Bionic Arm [will be made as technique]
- Combat Uniform
- Gerber Mark II Combat Knife
- COP .357 Derringer
- Vz.61 Skorpion
- RGN Hand Grenade [will be made as technique]
Other Information
Allies: N/A
Enemies: N/A
Other: N/A
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