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You may app up to two characters per round. The total amount of characters you may have at this time is four. You may have two characters from the same canon, however these characters can not have met or will have no reason to do so in the future. We will decide this on a case-by-case basis.
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Nick Fury • Marvel 616 (RESERVED)
Name: Yami /
Age: 21
Ways to contact: kefkanight@gmail.com, undeadyami on plurk, my AIM is kaizokuyacchan but I really don’t use it. Like I never use it.
Characters currently played: n/a
Character Info;
Character Name: Colonel Nicholas Joseph Fury
Canon: Marvel 616 (main comics continuity)
Canon Link: Fury at Marvel wikia! Also, this site has the most in-depth history I've found. It drops off prior to the Secret Invasion plotline, however, so here's the rest...
While in hiding, Fury had reinitiated contact with Contessa, and later, learned that SHIELD had planned on using her to extract secrets from him and kill him. Killing her first, she was revealed to be a Skrull and reverted to her Skrull body. Using old contacts, he then recruited Spider-Woman to act as a triple agent for him, SHIELD and HYDRA. What Fury didn’t account for was Spider-Woman being replaced by the Skrull Queen shortly after her initial recruitment. Planning for further contengencies, Fury had Daisy Johnson recruit a team of superpowered teenagers known to SHIELD’s records. Among those teenagers were Phobos (Alex Aaron), Yo-Yo Rodriguez and others who would eventually become part of Fury’s “Secret Warriors” or White Team. Fury’s team assisted in the big battle at Times Square against the Skrull Queen’s army and also teamed up with the Young Avengers, and Avengers Initiative (other teenybopper teams) during other altercations. Contessa and Dum Dum sought Fury out after their rescue (both had been replaced by Skrulls), but he had no idea how to deal with his former friends and quickly went into hiding again with his new team of youngsters.
Following the Skrull Invasion, Norman Osborn assumed power and disbanded SHIELD, reforming it as HAMMER. The two were essentially the same organization, though HAMMER’s actions and motivations were far more sinister and corrupt (as was everything involved in Dark Reign). Using his White Team (or Secret Warriors) Fury began attacking HAMMER bases only to discover that SHIELD had apparently been one of the puppet arms of HYDRA for its entire existence.
While that wasn’t entirely true, the revelation sent Fury into a frenzy. With Daisy Johnson in command of the White Team, Fury instructed them to combat HAMMER and HYDRA on various fronts. During this time, he also formed two other independent teams and contacted the remains of his old Howling Commandos turn SHIELD agents for help. Fury’s connections became increasingly valued and in the new, darker environment of the Marvel U, his past manipulations of various members of the superhuman community seemed to matter less. Mikel even agrees to assist his father and act as commander of the Grey Team, with Alexander Pierce (another former SHIELD agent) heading up a second caterpillar team similar to Daisy’s. During this time, Fury also contacted Contessa again and the two resumed a flirtation that was reminiscent of their previous relationship. However, after several communications and monitoring of HYDRA’s activities, it became apparently that Contessa wasn’t quite what she seemed.
Eventually, it was revealed that Contessa had, at some point, become the HYDRA leader known as Madam Hydra and had been aiding their organization, feeding them secrets from SHIELD and Fury himself. Fury was heartbroken by the betrayed but refused to show it. Instead, he brooded and quietly judged Daisy’s budding relationship with JT, another member of her team.
Eventually JT sold the White Team and Fury out to HYDRA, and also began feeding them secrets, most importantly that of the White Teams attack on HYDRA’s largest base. The information and HYDRA’s ability to prepare for the attack cost Alex Aaron (Phobos, the 13 year old son of Ares) his life, and in the chaos, Fury allowed JT to die in retribution. Fury showed Daisy photo evidence of JT’s betrayal, but she couldn’t take it and the White Team was disbanded soon after.
Contessa resurfaced again, this time as an agent of Leviathan. Leviathan and HYDRA began an open war, with Fury’s efforts more or less lost in the crossfire. Many of the remaining Howling Commandos died while caught in a large scale altercation with HYDRA, although they were able to effectively cripple the organizations infrastructure. HYDRA splintered, forming two groups. One led by Baron Strucker and another by Kraken and Viper who had assumed the identity of Madam Hydra. In another tragedy, Fury’s the entirety of Mikel’s team were also killed in a mission. The mission was a success, but the loss proved too much. Heartbroken at the loss of his son and still brooding over Contessa’s recent betrayal, Fury allowed himself to be captured by Kraken’s division of HYDRA.
Also captured by Kraken, Strucker and Fury found themselves locked (and tied to chairs) in a room together. Strucker gloated, remarking that even though they were both dead men, he’d still taken everything that Fury loved and thus won. Fury didn’t really comment, and when Kraken returned revealed that actually, no, he was good. (Drum roll please…) Kraken was actually Jake Fury, Nick’s brother who was long believed to be the dead villain Scorpio. In fact, Jake Fury had been replaced by an LMD which became Scorpio, while Jake himself had remained loyal to Fury and SHIELD. Through this infiltration, Nick, Jake, and a SHIELD technician were able to feed information to HYDRA, prompting all of their computer systems to feed information to SHIELD. In effect, HYDRA had believed SHIELD to be the puppet organization, but the reverse was actually true. Nick executed Strucker, shooting him in the head (repeatedly. Like really, why repeatedly.) effectively destroying HYDRA. Meanwhile, just as HYDRA’s computers systems were based off of SHIELD’s Leviathan’s were based off of HYDRA’s. As such, the same failsafe that Nick and Jake had originally planned for HYDRA were in place for Leviathan. Using them, Nick and Jake destroyed Leviathan for once and for all. (Maybe. Comics, folks.)
Fury left, and on instructions from his brother, Jake left to recollect Daisy Johnson and Sebastian Druid. Daisy was placed in charge of a training facility for potential SHIELD agents, manned by what remained of Fury’s teams and the Howling Commandos. Meanwhile, in an effort to lure Fury out, Contessa allowed herself to be captured by Interpol.
The two talked and rekindled something or another and Fury more or less made up his mind to bust her out. Returning stateside, he discussed the recent HYDRA/Leviathan drama with Captain America and the two came to an understanding. Fury promised to never try something so risky again, and Cap promised to take him out if he ever did. After that, Fury returned to Europe, presumably to free Contessa.
Canon Point: Following Secret Warriors #28, prior to busting Contessa our of Interpol.
Character Age: Old as dirt. Nick Fury was a sergeant in WWII. I put him as being around 93 as of SW #28 (2011), but comic book ages being what they are, that could be slightly off. The important thing is that he was around as an adult in WWII, but doesn’t really age normally. Physically, he looks to be in his late-50s. Also due to comic books, though, he’s in amazing shape. While he might complain about being an old man sometimes, 90% of the time he’s just as capable as any of them youngin’s.
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Personality: Nick Fury does what he wants.
No, not really. But he may have a bit of a messiah complex.
At his point, Fury believed himself to be the “one man” who could turn the tide in the battle against HYDRA and Norman Osborn. He had to trust in his abilities and in his ragtag team when it seemed like everyone else had lost faith and sold out. Despite their lack of training and maturity, he had to cultivate them as actual agents and put them into difficult situations, probably before they were really ready for them. He didn’t take the ricks lightly, but someone had to do it and better it be them because then he could at least guarantee that the job would get done.
He has a knack (either purposefully cultivated over time, or just a natural talent) for planning and manipulation. It served him well through his SHIELD career and continued to assist with his team. To Nick Fury, everyone is a tool meant to be used. He can like someone, hell he can even love someone but that will not stop him from manipulating them to further his goals. He doesn’t view this as a betrayal, he views it as hyper-practicality. His loved ones and friends are by and large SHIELD agents. They’re already putting themselves at risk, he’s just making them more useful even if they’re entirely unaware how.
Contessa noted this , and called him on it. Surprisingly enough, after the initial sting of her betrayal he got over it, illustrating that he’s not unaware that he can be manipulated as well.
At many points in Fury’s narrative, they’ve introduced the concept of being a “man out of time”. While Fury doesn’t revel in the misty-eyed memories of the America of his youth like Captain America might, he definitely has a certain jaded take on the spy games thing. That same manipulation that he’s so good at makes it hard for him to connect with people the same way he did as a young man in the army. As such, Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones remain his two closest friends. He probably can’t make anymore like them, even if you take the fact that they served together out of the equation. I’d hazard to say that Fury is so trained to see people as tools, he can’t unsee them that way, to a point.
Which isn’t to say that they’re the only people he cares for. Nick cares deeply about Daisy and Mikel. He views them both as his family. He kills JT to protect Daisy, not just out of revenge for Alex, and he basically kills Strucker over Mikel. However, they still fall under the category of people who put themselves on the line, and thus are still open for manipulation and use in the spy games. That’s just the reality in which Nick Fury chooses to exist.
On the surface, he’s gruff, demanding, kind of a hard ass and not uncommonly described as a “motherfucker”. None of those things are probably surprising in someone trained to be the biggest superspy in a world with people like the Red Skull, and Doctor Doom. Still, they’re worth noting if only for the fact that Fury really doesn’t care how he comes off. Much like his attitude with the manipulation, he views it as something people can either choose to accept or not. Either way it’s not like he’s going to change anything.
Powers & Abilities: In the Marvel Univers, there’s this stuff called Infinity Serum. It has the ability to slow aging to almost imperceptible levels and decrease the progression of wounds or diseases. Depending on who you ask (or who’s writing the book) it also has some healing properties on its own, completely independent of it’s “time stopping” sort of capabilities. Nick Fury was given the Infinity Serum following a particularly bad injury. He continued to use it and eventually became dependent on it. He used (and arguably abused) the drug so much that eventually, he didn’t need it any more. His blood had started producing it, or mimicking it entirely on its own. As such, Fury doesn’t really age. Or if he does, he does it very slowly.
Items on their Person: Fury would be wearing what was considered a SHIELD uniform and a typical trench coat looking thing. Within the uniform and coat are keys to a flying car that’s been left back in the world of 616, a Cuban cigar, a small caliber handgun, and limited ammunition for said handgun.
Samples;
First Person Sample:
[The feed clicks on to someone sighing heavily. It’s not a bored sigh, or an annoyed sigh. If anything it seems resigned. And if it’s not possible to enfir so much from a sigh alone, the gruff, matter-of-fact tone that quickly follows helps out a bit.]
There’s a pretty high amount of information on my life that’s public record if the right parties are interested. It’s not somethin’ I take lightly, but it’s there. Most governments on the planet have records on me, hell, ‘pretty sure I’m still on the president’s list of highly dangerous domestic targets.
[There’s the sound of pacing and rustling, it echoes and reverberates in the mostly empty room.]
So you boys will have to understand why, while I’m impressed by the effort you went to cookin’ up all this fictional character bullshit, I’m not about to accept it right off the bat. The comics were a nice touch, though. I might wanna keep a few, if it’s all the same. But seeing as how I got a date, and you probably want somethin’ I’m not willing to tell a microphone, what say we discuss this whole thing man to man?
[There’s a pause, and when he speaks again, Nick’s voice has a little more edge to it.]
Believe me, son, better we meet on your terms than you make me come to you.
[And with that ominous note, the transmission ends]
Third Person Sample:
If Nick were being completely honest with himself, the things bothered him. He was used to the grizzly and gruesome, but there was nothing quite like seeing rotted flesh animated and coming at you. The Nazi’s had tried it once or twice with limited success and every time it had made his stomach turn. People like Strange were a special brand of heartless, the way they could deal with death presenting itself so openly like that.
He clutched the gun a little tighter than he probably meant to, thoughts of the creature he was trying to avoid mingling with his training, and the recent Leviathan creatures. Hadn’t they been trying to reanimate soldiers? Maybe this was their game.
It made a play for him, and he ducked behind a half collapsed doorway. The ruins made for an interesting field with equality interesting cover. The lack of security probably shouldn’t have been so upsetting, but it was what it was, and Nick’s sometimes had trouble separating his training from a growing sense of paranoia that this recent abduction was in no way going to help alleviate.
For its part, the creature apparently wasn’t that bright and seemed to have lost him, at least momentarily. Pausing in its inhuman gait, it twisted its head around, searching for him while he watched from his shelter behind the rotted out building. The stench of sweat and death hung in the air around them, and Fury was again reminded of the war. If this was Leviathan, he’d have to remember to thank them for the trips down memory lane special after he found a way out.
Finally, after a good five minutes of the creature eying the sky, and Fury trying to avoid breathing too deep or heavy, seemed to give in, resuming its shuffle down the path he’d been walking prior to the assault. Stepping out from his shelter enough to aim, he emptied half a round into the things head, watching as it fell and shook once. Twice. Done.
No, on closer inspection, he could safely say this was not a typical interrogation abduction. Not at all.
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