Peggy Carter (Earth-81341)

Agent Carter

Name:	Margaret Carter
Gender:	Female
Place of Birth:	presumably London, England
Age:	36
Aliases:	Agent Carter, Peggy Carter
Origin:	Human
Origin Earth:	81341
Present Location:	New York City
Occupation:	Founder of SHIELD
Team:	SHIELD
Alignment:	Hero
Significant Other(s):	unknown
Powers and Abilities:	none
Portrayed by:	Hayley Atwell

Origin

Born in 1921 in London, England, Peggy received her education from St. Martin in the Fields High School for Girls. She was always quite brilliant and stubborn, so at the first rumors of war, she did everything she could to enlist. Through pure gumption and brains, she became a member of the British Royal Military by 1939 and quickly moved into an advisory role to the Strategic Scientific Reserve. She was an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service throughout the 1940s and, through this position, became exposed to the world of people more powerful than humans.

She infiltrated HYDRA during her service and, after successes, was assigned as a liason by the British government to help the Americans combat Nazis. In 1943, she ended up assisting with Project Rebirth. She served as Steve Roger's escort to the SSR facility to undergo the procedure. She assisted Steven - then known as Captain America - and friends with taking down HYDRA's original installation during this time period. It was also where she lost Steve in a doomed final flight. She ended up leading an SSR team to destroy several lingering HYDRA projects.

She remained working with SSR in New York even after the war until she, and some close allies, ended up founding the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. It was 8 years into service of this new division that she was investigating old Nazi technology and got into a fight with an enemy who was still at large. After injuring her, he tossed her into an old cryo-chamber with intentions it be her death prison. Out of sheer luck, some power remained routed through ancient lines to the forgotten facility where she was trapped, lost to time until she was rediscovered by SHIELD in late 2015. She re-entered service to SHIELD and began to catch up to the modern world.

Psyche

+ Spitfire

Peggy Carter is a spit fire, to say the least. She is as stubborn, stalwart and determined as a woman can get. If someone tells her she cannot do something she is thrice as likely to do it and do it better than that person. Something has built her to have a backbone like no one else even if this could greatly get her into trouble in the future. She rarely is scared, or at least doesn't show it, and is willing to run into situations where she is vastly out numbered just to what she feels is right.

+ Morally Good

That being said, Peggy very much fights on the side of things that are good, right and peaceful. She makes war so, some day, there will be peace. She wants to protect as many people as possible and do away with those that would use, abuse, harm or otherwise damage society on the whole. She has a very strong set of morals that always include protecting the little guy and doing whatever is necessary to see that innocents can sleep safely at night.

+ Wary of Men

There is something in Peggy Carter which is also highly defensive of men. While men and women fight along side in this place, she still feels like she's constantly proving herself to the men that are around. She is more likely to call a man on his bullshit, fight harder when men are around and do anything she can to prove she is a man's equal.

+ Self Reliant

Over the years, Peggy became very accustomed to needing to do things herself if she wanted them done right. Not to mention the amount of people she has lost, she has learned that often the only person she can depend upon is herself. She is working to change this now that the world has changed, but she's still often most comfortable when she must rely on no one but herself to get a job done.

+ Goals

Peggy's current goal is to help save the world(s) from themselves. As she understands more and more what happened to the multiverse, she will feel more obligated to ensure this world is stable and safe. If she can do that through SHIELD, great. If not, she will branch out on her own. Down the line, she has dreams of helping restore some of the other realities, but who knows if that will ever be possible.

+ Motivation

As ever, Peggy Carter is motivated by a great need to help protect those who cannot protect themselves. Be it the greater world from the Axis powers, or helping to found SHIELD to protect normals from superhuman threats, or more, she will always stand between danger at the weak, innocent or less powered. She also cannot resist a mystery.

Advantages

+ SHIELD Codes

While Peggy is not a part of this world's SHIELD (not yet, at least) she does know all the secret codes and passwords. She should be able to identify herself as a SHIELD agent fairly quickly, even if the codes are historical. That might at least get her foot in the door and get her access to SHIELD resources. Eventually.

+ Whites of their Eyes

Peggy is beyond an expert marksman. She's done it so long, practiced so much, and just breathes with her gun like it's another body part. She can make shots that would be impossible for many, especially at her size.

+ Cold Read

After almost two decades of being in the spy business, Peggy can read someone like a book, often upon first meeting. She knows how to pick apart all the details, the body language, way of speaking and little mannerisms that can tell her volumes about a person after first meeting. Some have accused her of being a telepath before but she's really just that good.

Skills

+ Combat

Peggy Carter has trained in combat since she joined the SOE at the age of 19. Now, fighting comes as naturally as breathing. She knows how to use her opponent's weight and size against them, taking advantage of her generally slightly smaller stature. She routinely practices and has combined techniques from a wide variety of martial arts. After her time with the SSR, she went out to find more unique training and took opportunities to learn in several dojos over New York City, expanding her military combat training.

+ Guns

While she's an expert Marksman, Peggy is good with a wide range of firearms. She knows how to shoot them, clean them, balance them, take them apart, put them back together and do anything an expert military man would know how to do with a gun. She often has said she knows how to do it better because she had to in order to prove herself as good as the men.

+ Spycraft

Peggy has been a spy for nearly twenty years. This means she can put on any number of excellent disguises, blend into the background, talk a good game about any number of subjects, and generally slip in and get information any way necessary. She's developed several techniques in spycraft that she taught at the beginnings of SHIELD's trainings.

+ Stealth

When she needs to be, Peggy is very good at being VERY quiet. She can sneak into and out of buildings almost unseen and unheard. She knows how to use walkways, walls, vents and any rafters to her advantage. She has learned the proper clothing and shoes to wear to never leave a mark that she had ever been there.

+ Lockpicking

A part of being an expert spy is knowing how to get into places one is not supposed to be. If it's any sort of old fashioned or traditional lock, Peggy is an expert at picking it. She also knows how to listen to and crack old style vaults. She has started learning modern spycraft (stealing finger prints off of devices using certain silicones, using an unconscious guard's hand or eye to pass a scan) but she's not quite expert at those techniques yet.

+ Languages

Peggy fluently speaks Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Polish. She has picked up a smattering of other languages over her time with SHIELD and was just beginning to study Mandorin and Cantonese when she was frozen in the 50s.

+ Speak to Me

Peggy just has that air about her which encourages people to speak to and trust her. She's learned over years of spycraft how to get the information out of someone that she wants and she knows how to direct a conversation to get the most information out of it possible. She just seems trustable and has learned so many tricks over the years to get more information from someone than they want to spill.

+ Interrogation

Deeper than just talking, Peggy is an expert at the art of interrogation. Whether it's intimidation, silence, or a false death threat, she knows how to get information out of captives better than most of the men she worked around most of her early career.

+ Codebreaker

The first thing which ever secured Peggy a job within the military was her ability to break a code. She always had a natural knack for it, especially with her skill for languages and code processing. However, over the time of the war, she saw more codes, one time use pads, language differentials and hidden messages than most people do in several life times. She is still one of the most skilled code breakers in SHIELD to this day.

+ Biology

As shown during her threatening someone's brachial artery with a fork, Peggy knows enough about the human body to understand weak spots and the best way to use them against an opponent. This also translates to her being able to do basic first aid, but her life has lent itself to using such knowledge in a threatening manner more often.

Disadvantages

+ Defensive

Having grown accustomed to most men in her life disregarding her for being a female, especially in a professional capacity, Peggy can read into things that aren't meant to be slights and becomes rather defensive around the male gender.

+ Overconfident

Peggy has often been able to hold her own quite firmly, but the world has changed and the villains out class many she knew in her day. She is overconfident of her old abilities and can get into deep trouble for it. Even worse, she often gets her friends in trouble too.

+ Bad Cook

For all her talents, Peggy is AWFUL in the kitchen. Bucky tells the story of how she burned a whole dozen eggs trying to make him an omlette. She's awful in the kitchen and it shows.

+ Stranger in a Strange Land

Peggy Carter is a very recent transplant to this new world, replacing her older, far more experienced, retired self. She has some access to SHIELD codes, but she doesn't know if they will work across worlds and, otherwise, she has little knowledge of anyone or anything here. She is quite out of sorts and is going to spend quite some time getting settled.

+ Stubborn

Having gotten used to people thinking her the 'weaker' sex, Peggy has learned to be entirely TOO stubborn for her own good. She will fight through injury, get into situations far over her head, and not always listen to reason when she thinks she is right. This puts her in quite a bit of danger rather often.

+ Only Human

While she is highly trained and very talented, Peggy Carter is still only human in a super powered world. She does all she can to stand up against powered individuals, but in the end of the day she will lose a fight against someone who has super speed or strength on their side.

Reputation

Young Margaret Carter is not from this place and, while she seems comfortable in modern reality, clearly is a new addition sue to the conclusion of this Secret War.

IC Events

Logs tagged with "peggy-carter" or "re:peggy-carter" will appear below. Logs before January 17th, 2017 are from a previous instance of the character.

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