| Identity |Carol Danvers, better known to the universe as Green Lantern of Sector 2814.
| Origin & Backstory |Carol Danvers was an accident. Seventeen years after Joseph and Marie Danvers had their first child, Joseph Danvers Jr., Marie fell pregnant for the second time and given their traditional background abortion wasn’t an option. Joseph Danvers was a contractor and young “Joe” had followed his father into the trade whilst he prepared for college and a hopefully a future career in architecture. Joe was the apple of his father’s eye. Hard working, generous, funny, and popular with the girls to boot. That’s why it struck Carol’s father so hard when, barely six months into Marie’s pregnancy, Joe was taken from them in an automobile accident. Driving back from a friend’s house one night a drink-driver had crashed into Joe’s car and killed him on impact. In that instance he had stripped the Danvers household of any and all the joy it had once had and set the tone for the as of yet unborn Carol’s life.
Carol’s childhood was loveless and cold. Her father had been an affectionate man by nature before Joe’s death but not even Carol’s first steps or her first word could provide him with more than a superficial happiness. Joseph took to the bottle early and often to dull the pain he felt about his son’s passing and the family contracting business went broke. Despite her father’s spiraling alcoholism his wife stood by him and Carol endeavored endlessly to earn his approval at every turn. She pushed herself academically and physically to prove herself worth of her father’s affections but no matter how hard she tried, no matter what she achieved, in Joseph’s eyes she would always be a distant second to the son he’d buried.
When it came time for Carol to leave for college her parents forbade Carol from leaving. The insurance money from Joe’s death had been all but burned through and her father was in such a state that he couldn’t support himself or pay Carol’s way through college. Reluctantly Carol stayed, convinced it would have been what Joe would have done, and tended bar around Boston to support her parents. Everyone in Boston knew old Joseph Danvers, they knew who he’d been once and what had happened, and they knew what he’d become. A drunk, one that staggered into the bars that Carol worked to demand free alcohol and embarrassed his daughter at every turn. Once the smartest girl at her high school, Carol worried she’d waste her life away toiling after her father’s approval and paying down her parents’ debts.
Then the Towers came down. Suddenly everything that had come before it felt meaningless. Her sense of duty and obligation to her family dissolved was displaced only with a sense of duty towards her country and the freedoms it provided her with. She gave what money she had managed to save to her mother in the hopes it would be enough to tide her parents over and signed up for the Air Force. In doing so she hoped that finally her parents, her father especially, might see she was her brother’s equal, his better even, and treat her with the regard that she deserved.
It didn’t take long for Carol to make a name for herself in the Air Force. She would regularly out pace the men on endurance tests and she was a better pilot than all of them, much to their chagrin. So when she was called up for action in Iraq it came as little surprise to her or the other recruits. She’d been ready the second she had walked through the door and had aced every simulation and test she had been put through. The real deal however would turn out to be something completely different. On only her second run Danvers was shot out of the sky by hostile fire and somehow managed to survive the crash though not without great cost.
Carol’s legs were amputated. Her left beneath the knee and her right slightly above, and she sustained heavy burns to her thighs and some of her torso. She returned to Boston, hailed by most to be a hero, but was met with cold indifference from her father who considered her injuries an inevitable consequence of her misguided foray into the Air Force. A dejected Carol broke contact from her father once and for all and recognized that his approval would never be hers and that she didn’t need it anymore. Carol found her own place in Boston and set about trying to figure out what to do with the rest of her life.
Luckily for her, Abin Sur’s crash landing on Earth took that decision out of her hands.
| Attributes |Carol is a Green Lantern. Everything that comes with being a Green Lantern: constructs powered by the ring-holder’s willpower, the ability to create force fields, flight. You name it, the ring can probably do it. Where once Carol relied on prosthetic legs to get around she now uses her Green Lantern ring to construct prosthetics that are infinitely more comfortable for her to walk on, though she is careful about her use of them.
Carol is also an incredibly proficient and well-decorated pilot.
| Character Notes |She works out of Boston. Was friends with James Rhodes and Nathaniel Adams in the Air Force and
potentially Hal Jordan should the need ever arise/someone wish to play him. As of the IC thread, Carol will have been a Green Lantern for a short period of time and Sinestro will have assumed mentorship of her, having seen her potential to be a great Green Lantern. I do not intend to get into the different coloured/emotion Corps if only because I'd like to be involved in the game as opposed to being a self-contained corner of it. Also and most importantly Carol's disabilities are tertiary to her character and hopefully I can write her without them or her gender being defining qualities.
| Character Goals |I definitely have something of an arc in mind for Carol in terms of her progression through the Green Lantern Corps, her relationships with other Green Lanterns, and her personal life. I want to establish the Green Lantern Corps as a thing pretty early on and I'll likely start with a (fairly) lengthy solo arc on that and then try to bleed into the wider universe but hopefully Carol the person and Carol the Green Lantern will clearly be characters in their own right.
| References |#1 - The Pickett County War - Gus vists Renee Hamilton.#2 - Maximum Comics - Nathaniel Adam and Clint Barton have a drink.#3 - DC: Gods Amongst Us - Even in the 21st Century, Booster Gold is still a loser.#4 - Guardians of Infinity - Quill and Howard the Duck spoil a romantic dinner. 
As I said, won't be home for most of the day today, BUT I will be home at around 8 EST and I'll get working on her CS. I'll probably harass you a lot, because I do love me my BatCat interactions, so be prepared.
