Player Name: Spuderific Spudinator!
Character You Wish To Play: James Buchanan Barnes
Alias: The Winter Soldier
Moral Alignment (Hero, Villain, Walking the Line): Villain
Affiliation (what group/team/organization, if any, is your character affiliated with?): Hydra
Character Origin & Backstory:
Bucky Barnes, born James Buchanan Banana-Bread Barnes, was a post-war baby boom child. Barnes lost his parents at a young age, much like his childhood friend Steve Rodgers.

In his youth, Barnes aspired to be a war hero, like all those brave soldiers who'd fought in the first world war who looked so spiffy on the recruitment posters. As things began to go south with Hitlers rise to power, trouble in Russia and Europe in general, Barne's enlisted and completed his basic training.

During WW2 Barnes found himself rising through the ranks and becoming the Sergeant of the Howling Commandos and was deployed on missions in Europe. While fighting in Europe, Barnes and his team were declared MIA presumed dead, at this time, Steven Rodgers underwent his transformation into Captain America, with the super soldier serum pumping through him, and the support of Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, Steve was able to infiltrate Nazi Germany and rescue Barnes from Hydra scientist, Baron Heinrich Zemo. What no one knew at that time was that Zemo had been conducting experiments on the soldier, pushing his body to the brink. Why Barnes in particular was suggested remained a mystery, but somehow he had the strength and the will to survive the experiments long enough for Rodgers, recently transformedby the Supersoldier serum, to rescue him. The former prisoner of war recovered to join Steve again to bring an end to the war but that final mission drastically and irrevocably changed Barnes' life forever.

During what would be their final mission together, Rodgers escaped and crashed into the ocean where he was frozen in ice for several decades until he was located and thawed out. Barnes, who was declared KIA along with Rodgers was never found.

In the decades that followed the end of the war, reports began to emerge of an elusive assassin. A ghost story named the Winter Soldier. That ghost was Bucky Barnes.

After his presumed death, Barnes was recovered, reconstructed and eventually indoctrinated by Department X, a covert branch of the Russian KGB, to use for all their dirty work as part of their Super Soldier program.

To keep the Winter Soldier under control, he was brainwashed and repeatedly tortured to ensure his complete submission to his masters. When he showed signs of returning memories or non-compliance, he was "wiped clean" and reset. When not carrying out missions, the Winter Soldier is kept on ice in cryo-sleep to prevent him collecting too much knowledge of the world around him and potentially betraying his masters.

((Since no one is playing Black Widow I figured its okay to put in some Red Room shit, lemme know if thats not cool and I'll scratch it out))
The success of the Winter Soldier, a ruthless, efficient assassin who carried out tasks effectively and without question or complications, spawned other operations within Department X, namely, the Red Room Academy which created super spy assassins such as Black Widow. The Winter Soldier was responsible for demonstrating combat and testing some (but not all) of the young Black Widows who were recruited in the program and later responsible for "dispatching" the failures.

Outside of the Red Room Academy, The Winter Soldier expanded his list of assassinations. Several high profile names were added to his list of successful hits spanning across decades. After the dissolution of the KGB, Department X lost the Winter Soldier who fell back into Hydra hands once more. He fell under Baron Strucker's control.

The Winter Soldier is back again but this time he's after a new high profile target.
Nicholas. J. Fury.

Season 1 Summary:Summary of what your character did in season 1 (not applicable to new players) Bucky was probably in cryo-sleep, whatevs.

Powers and Abilities (What can your character do? What can't they do?):
Bionic Arm: After losing his left arm, Bucky now has a metal super-powered prosthesis grafted to his soldier. The arm has enhanced strength and reaction/response times. The arm is also capable of emitting EMP and electrical discharges. One weakness of this bionic arm is that it can be temporarily KO'd by electrical shocks.

Master of Martial Arts: Bucky has extensive training in various kinds of hand-to-hand combat.

Marks-man Extrodinare: During WW2, Barnes was a proficient sniper. He's skilled with using multiple firearms and has deadly aim.

Super Assassin: He's skilled in espionage, he can hide in plain sight and conceal himself easily to prevent detection.

Multi-lingual: Bucky can speak several languages including Russian, English, French and Japanese and a few more.

Sample Story Arcs:
Story Arc 1: (Remembering Bucky Barnes): After being out of the freezer longer than usual, Winter Soldier's memories begin to return and he goes rogue during his mission to assassinate Nick Fury.

Story Arc 2: (Trial): Bucky breaks his programming and remembers things. Living on the run from the authorities and from Hydra, Bucky tries to evade SHIELD capture and also tries to evade Hydra recapture, for fear he'll be indoctrinated once again. Bucky, if captured, will have to face punishment for his actions or a return to his life of crime but just how much does he actually remember?

Story Arc 3: (Ready to Comply): Bucky is totally under control ... however, someone steals Bucky's "code words" and steals the master assassin for his/her/their own ulterior motives.

Story Arc 4: (End of Winter): Bucky wasn't the only Winter Soldier created by the KGB ... the supposedly "decommissioned" Wolf Spider operation which followed the Winter Soldier programme was not unsuccessful and a series of super assassins were created using similar tortures as those inflicted on Bucky, however, the Wolf Spiders have gone rogue and escaped. Hydra has sent Bucky on a mission to assassinate his would-be spy-brothers before SHIELD or anyone else can take advantage of their mistakes.

Marc Spector is the son of a rabbi from Chicago. Marc rejected his father’s religion from a young age, becoming an atheist instead. Marc had an impressive career as a heavy boxer as an adult, going on to become a Marine and then a “consultant” to S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time. There he met William Cross, becoming partners for a time, before he was betrayed by Cross to a terrorist, Raoul Bushman and leaving him for dead. S.H.I.E.L.D. felt that Spector was now compromised and released them from their services. Disillusioned with the concepts of morality and justice after this encounter, Marc became a mercenary, creating a tenuous partnership with Jean-Paul Du Champ or “Frenchie”.
After taking a job from an anonymous source to disarm a dig site in Selima, Sudan; Spector found out that the job was ordered by Raoul Bushman. Marc’s resurgence of conscious made him reject the assignment and went to the dig site to warn one Dr. Peter Alraune. However, he found he was too late and the bloodthirsty fanatic had murdered Dr. Alraune. Once Bushman had threatened to kill the rest of the dig crew and eventually the town, Marc attacked Bushman and fought him in 1-to-1 hand-to-hand. Despite his Marine and fighting background, Bushman destroyed him, leaving him for dead. Marc dragged himself into the nearest shelter and collapsed in front of a nearby statue- a statue of the moon god Khonshu. There, Marc had a strange vision of a crescent moon turning to blood red as a voice from a strange robed being boomed of Marc’s “destiny”. Marc awoke hours later, mysteriously healed under the statue of Khonshu…the statue looking identical to the being in his vision.
He left the tomb, finding Dr. Arlaune’s daughter Marlene trying to trying to reclaim the broken pieces of her father’s work and life and that Bushman and his men had taken over the nearby town of Selima. Donning a cloak he had found upon the statue Khonshu, he, with a little help of Frenchie, decimated Bushman’s men, and faced Bushman once again. Only after being accidently distracted by Marlene was Bushman able to escape.
Marc returned to the States with Marlene and Frenchie, taking the money he had earned from his years of merc work and establish a new entrepreneur company named Spector Innovations Inc., funding many young and genius inventors and developers, trying to make good on his past mistakes as a mercenary. Marc also took the statue back with him, keeping it with him in his new apartment. Over several weeks, he began hearing the voice from the temple again, continual reminding him of his “destiny” and for weeks, Marc ignored the voice, believing it to be a result of some form of PTSD from his encounter with Bushman. He kept this private for as long as possible. However, after seeing all of the events of the masked vigilantes, the voice began making some interesting propositions to Spector…

While he has not fully embraced the title of “Moon Knight” yet, the plan is a mix of supernatural gifts and technological marvels “borrowed” from his company’s patents and projects.
Supernatural gifts: The god Khonshu has decided to gift Marc with enhanced strength, endurance, and reflexes are enhanced depending upon the phases of the moon. The fuller the moon, the more power Marc can derive from it. Even on a new moon, his strength is higher than that of a normal human.
Tech: Once he realises that he’ll need more than strength to be in this vigilante game, Marc is going to dip into his company’s special projects and see what he can tailor to his new path in life. Special line cable mini-launchers, new omni-directional drones and concealable wrist launchers are all under the special projects of Spector Innovations Inc.