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Current Characters: Pepper Potts
Character: Nick Fury
Fandom: MCU
Character Notes:
If we’re looking at the Marvel Comics version of Nick Fury he’s a white guy who was born during the Depression and achieved longevity by some serum… that apparently somehow turned him into Samuel L. Jackson somewhere along the way. So for sanity’s sake I’m going to disregard all of that and go solely by the movie!verse. (Also there’s a Nick Fury movie supposedly in the works so yay!)
History:
1. Nick Fury is Born
2. Nick Fury loses his eye.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Nothing is really known about Nick Fury prior to his time with SHIELD attempting to kickstart the Avengers Initiative (literally and figuratively). If the proposed movie is any indication he’s a former boxer from Hell’s Kitchen who joined the Army. Regardless of where he’s from, however, Nick has been a very VERY busy man in recent history. Let’s review, shall we?
- Fury sends Coulson to debrief Tony Stark on the circumstances of his escape from Afghanistan. When shit gets crazy and Tony decides to completely disregard the carefully crafted alibi provided for him he takes matters into his own hands and breaks into Tony’s house to have a little chat about the Avengers Initiative.
-Six months later he has the longest week of his entire life.
-Fury’s in Greenland on the Frostbite Mission trying to find the Capsicle… er… Captain Steve Rogers when he’s informed that the World Security Council has pulled the plug and he has a call with them in New York in 12 hours. There he is advised that SHIELD is to dedicate their efforts to researching the Tesseract and the funding is being cut for “wasteful programs” i.e. the Avengers Initiative. He’s told that his approach is “misguided” and if he doesn’t follow their new guidelines they’ll replace him with someone who will.
-Needless to say he’s unamused.
-He decides that to do what he wants anyway and just tell the Council that they’re doing what they want, telling Coulson that they’re going to “get creative.”
-Gets woken up at stupid o’clock with a phone call telling him Tony’s going to die in 3 days. Well, shit.
-Coulson tries to tell him there’s a weird electrical disturbance in New Mexico. STFU Coulson, more important things to deal with.
-Finds out more details about Tony’s condition and receives the Lithium Dioxide dose to ease his symptoms. Now what to do with it?
-Easy. Haul his ass out of the giant donut and have Natasha stab him with it.
-Interrupting Coulson what? Dude. Shut up about the electrical storm. Really.
-He pays a house call to Tony Stark, dropping off a box of dear old dad’s stuff and giving him just enough history and information to dig himself out of the palladium coated mess he’d dug himself into. Even though the SHIELD scientists can’t do shit to cure him or find a suitable replacement core he has every confidence that, given the right tools, Tony can do just that.
-WTF COULSON I TOLD Y- Oh. Yeeaaaah an Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the middle of New Mexico is kind of important. Why don’t you, you know, get on that.
-After Tony saves his own ass (like Fury knew he would) he instructs Natasha to take any Hammer tech that looks like it could be useful- well, anything that works, at least- and burn the rest.
-Rudely interrupts Clint Barton’s vacation to send him to New Mexico to give Coulson a hand.
-At this point it’s been a rough few days. With little sleep. And things blowing up and just going screwy across the country. Thankfully Natasha seems at least a little understanding at his testiness as he sends her to go baby-sit Bruce Banner.
-… or should we say Hulk…
-While Hulk is making life very difficult for General Ross Fury has a nice little sit down meeting with Tony where he offers him the position of “consultant” for the Avengers Initiative. That’s right. The Initiative that was scrapped. The one he’s working on as his own personal side project. What?
-Natasha’s filling him in on Bruce when he gets a call from Coulson to find out that there’s a giant metal thing blowing up a small town in New Mexico. As if this week couldn’t get any worse. Really.
-After the party’s over in Puente Antiguo he has Coulson bring the Destroyer to the base in Roswell with all the other crazy alien stuff they’ve got going on.
-If he didn’t have enough to deal with he finds out the World Security Council gave General Ross his own special encrypted codes to get into his system so he could track down Banner. The little weasel. Oh well, he’ll just have Natasha get Banner first so Ross doesn’t… well shit. Ross got to him first and now all he’s got is the deformed mess that’s what’s left of Dr. Sterns.
-Natasha fills him in on Banner’s escape and gives him a very depressing pep talk. She thinks that all of the crazy shit that’s been going on is too much for them to handle. Of course he agrees and he calls the World Security Council to break it down for them so she can see how ridiculous it all is.
-He basically tells the Council that not only has he completely disregarded their orders but by doing so he’s brought them leagues closer to discovering the secret of the Tesseract than he would have if they’d just stayed huddled in their bunker like lab rats and poked at it with a stick. Between meeting Thor, getting their hands on the Destroyer, becoming buddy buddy with Erik Selvig, Tony finding a new element that’ll help them and getting closer to finding Steve Rogers, the only man on the planet who’s had firsthand experience with the thing he’s gotten them pretty damn far. He uses that as a bargaining chip to throw down and tell them that they not only need more money but more jurisdiction and more authority for himself.
-They tell him he’ll get everything by the end of the month.
-That went better than expected. No really.
-Well now they’ve got the money, the brains and some new toys to play with. Now they’ve just got to find Captain Rogers so Coulson will stop pouting at him.
Personality:
Nick Fury will not suffer fools quietly. Although it may take him a while to get there, if he doesn’t like someone or what they’re doing they will know it. be they a genius playboy philanthropist, the World Security Council or a Norse God he will tell them where to go and what to do with themselves when they get there. He has his own special brand of snark I like to call smartass chic. Not only will he come out of left field with it it will be specially tailored to be simultaneously condescending, rude and oftentimes hilarious (i.e. “let me know if ‘true power’ wants a magazine or something). But he rarely, if ever, says it with any more attitude than he already has which isn’t actually saying much since the man is basically snark, subterfuge, intelligence and badass rolled up and tied up with an eye patch.
Tony Stark actually called it pretty accurately when he called Fury “The Spy.” His secrets have secrets and he likes it that way. There are only a select few he would show all his cards to and their names are Hill and Coulson. Everyone else is on a need to know basis and he decides what they need to know. He uses the flow of information to control what direction things go and how quickly they get there. So he might twist the facts a little to get the result he wants. If things work out in the end is that such a bad thing?
He’s incredibly good at reading people, understanding them. It’s part of the job description, yes, but he makes an art form out of it. For example, the best way to get Tony Stark to want to do something is to tell him he can’t do something… like join the Avengers for example? He knows the right amount of BS to feed the World Security Council to keep them off his back long enough so he can do what he needs to behind theirs. It also means that he knows just what buttons to push to motivate people to do what’s needed… no matter how bad a light it casts himself in. Nick Fury is like the motherfucking batman in that he knows that sometimes people need someone to blame. That people need someone to point fingers at and be angry at and act like angry teenagers and storm out on. He’s more than willing to step up and be that guy if he needs to be if it motivates people to move in the right direction. It’s just one more sacrifice he’s willing to make for the greater good.
As much as he makes himself appear as the domineering badass he does legitimately care about the people he works with. He might not, you know, always show it but he does. He does put thought into how he speaks with and deals with each one of them. Some more than others, but there you go. For example, setting Steve up with a gym that’s looks like it belongs in the 40s instead of 2012 and approaching him with a paper file as opposed to a computer.
Nick Fury is not afraid to get his own hands dirty. He may not be a front line soldier anymore but he can still kick ass and take names if it comes down to it. That sidearm isn’t filled with water, you know. If shit goes down he’s not going to stand back and bark out orders he’s going to wade right into the fray and fight right alongside everyone else.
Overall, he’s a fan of the big picture. He may have a million balls in the air and be juggling furiously to keep them airborne and not touching each other, but he knows where every single one of them is at every time. He doesn’t like not knowing things and he doesn’t like when someone shows up and throws a new ball into the mix. It throws off his balance and makes him very very irritated. And if someone tries to take one of those balls without asking? Forget it. Some might call it being a control freak. I call it being The Boss.
Other:
Fury is an expert at all things that can kill you. Hand to hand combat and firearms especially. Oh, and he can hit a moving jet with a rocker launcher. He’s got an eye patch on his left eye but that doesn’t seem to inhibit him in the least (no matter what Tony says).
The extent of his military training is unknown at this time and using the comics!verse laundry list of accomplishments seems excessive given the fact that with the aforementioned serum he’d been in the military about as long as Steve had without the benefits of a 70 year nap. At this time there is a proposed origins movie for him but there’s no set release date… or year… or much of anything for that matter. If need be I’ll come up with some headcanon but at this time I’d rather leave it vague which honestly works since he’s not the type to dish about his history, anyway.
Additional Links:
Wikia Page
First Person (entry type):
[A soft throat clearing precedes the recording]
I would like to make something abundantly clear. I understand that this “community” seems to be fueled by absurdity and I certainly enjoy humor as much as the next guy.
Be that as it may – my name is Director Nick Fury. Not “eye patch,” “cyclops,” “Solid Snake” or “Black Beard.” Nor is it any iteration of “Captain” or any of the multitude of pirate names you could come up with.
I have heard them all. You’re not original or funny so you may as well save your time and mine by giving up now.
Third Person:
Nick frowned as he looked over the screens surrounding him. Shots of chaos, disarray. Banner’s Hulk throwing a jeep at a tank, Iron Man flying through New York City with droids in hot pursuit, the Destroyer being sucked into Thor’s tornado….
He didn’t even try to hide the contemptuous glare as his eye raised to the screens formerly occupied by the World Security Committee arguing and spewing their bureaucratic bullshit at him. How these four nimrods came to be the deciding factor in SHIELD’s movements and initiatives was beyond him. Hell, if it were up to him he’d tell the lot of them to fuck off and make the right decision that all of them were too scared to make. But no. they were too worried about the bottom line and looking good in the eyes of their own countries than the safety of the god damned world. How could they sit in shadow and presume to make decisions “for the good of the world”? Meanwhile he was out on the front lines sending good agents out to the ends of the Earth, asking them to risk their lives fighting against threats they barely understood let alone had a prayer of defeating.
“PEGASUS Project,” he scoffed, “Who the hell comes up with these names?”
Tapping a few keys he brought up an image of the tesseract. A viable clean energy source is a good goal to be sure but what’s energy if you don’t have a world to power? He pinched the bridge of his nose as he thought. The initiative scrapped. The thing he’d sunk so much time and energy into. Did they seriously expect him to just step back? Fall in line like a good little toy soldier?
A slow smile crossed his face.
He’d never liked standing in line, anyway. He got antsy standing in one place for too long.
He would work on the council’s pet project but he didn’t need to put every agent on it. And the other agents would need something to do. He stood and the screens blanked as quickly as his face as he went for the door where Coulson was waiting.
Player LJ:
eternalferretWay to contact you: Plurk, email, AIM or PM
Email: eternalferret@gmail.com
AIM: eternalferret
Other: Plurk: eternalferret
Are you at least 15?: Y.
Current Characters: Pepper Potts
Character: Nick Fury
Fandom: MCU
Character Notes:
If we’re looking at the Marvel Comics version of Nick Fury he’s a white guy who was born during the Depression and achieved longevity by some serum… that apparently somehow turned him into Samuel L. Jackson somewhere along the way. So for sanity’s sake I’m going to disregard all of that and go solely by the movie!verse. (Also there’s a Nick Fury movie supposedly in the works so yay!)
History:
1. Nick Fury is Born
2. Nick Fury loses his eye.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Nothing is really known about Nick Fury prior to his time with SHIELD attempting to kickstart the Avengers Initiative (literally and figuratively). If the proposed movie is any indication he’s a former boxer from Hell’s Kitchen who joined the Army. Regardless of where he’s from, however, Nick has been a very VERY busy man in recent history. Let’s review, shall we?
- Fury sends Coulson to debrief Tony Stark on the circumstances of his escape from Afghanistan. When shit gets crazy and Tony decides to completely disregard the carefully crafted alibi provided for him he takes matters into his own hands and breaks into Tony’s house to have a little chat about the Avengers Initiative.
-Six months later he has the longest week of his entire life.
-Fury’s in Greenland on the Frostbite Mission trying to find the Capsicle… er… Captain Steve Rogers when he’s informed that the World Security Council has pulled the plug and he has a call with them in New York in 12 hours. There he is advised that SHIELD is to dedicate their efforts to researching the Tesseract and the funding is being cut for “wasteful programs” i.e. the Avengers Initiative. He’s told that his approach is “misguided” and if he doesn’t follow their new guidelines they’ll replace him with someone who will.
-Needless to say he’s unamused.
-He decides that to do what he wants anyway and just tell the Council that they’re doing what they want, telling Coulson that they’re going to “get creative.”
-Gets woken up at stupid o’clock with a phone call telling him Tony’s going to die in 3 days. Well, shit.
-Coulson tries to tell him there’s a weird electrical disturbance in New Mexico. STFU Coulson, more important things to deal with.
-Finds out more details about Tony’s condition and receives the Lithium Dioxide dose to ease his symptoms. Now what to do with it?
-Easy. Haul his ass out of the giant donut and have Natasha stab him with it.
-Interrupting Coulson what? Dude. Shut up about the electrical storm. Really.
-He pays a house call to Tony Stark, dropping off a box of dear old dad’s stuff and giving him just enough history and information to dig himself out of the palladium coated mess he’d dug himself into. Even though the SHIELD scientists can’t do shit to cure him or find a suitable replacement core he has every confidence that, given the right tools, Tony can do just that.
-WTF COULSON I TOLD Y- Oh. Yeeaaaah an Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the middle of New Mexico is kind of important. Why don’t you, you know, get on that.
-After Tony saves his own ass (like Fury knew he would) he instructs Natasha to take any Hammer tech that looks like it could be useful- well, anything that works, at least- and burn the rest.
-Rudely interrupts Clint Barton’s vacation to send him to New Mexico to give Coulson a hand.
-At this point it’s been a rough few days. With little sleep. And things blowing up and just going screwy across the country. Thankfully Natasha seems at least a little understanding at his testiness as he sends her to go baby-sit Bruce Banner.
-… or should we say Hulk…
-While Hulk is making life very difficult for General Ross Fury has a nice little sit down meeting with Tony where he offers him the position of “consultant” for the Avengers Initiative. That’s right. The Initiative that was scrapped. The one he’s working on as his own personal side project. What?
-Natasha’s filling him in on Bruce when he gets a call from Coulson to find out that there’s a giant metal thing blowing up a small town in New Mexico. As if this week couldn’t get any worse. Really.
-After the party’s over in Puente Antiguo he has Coulson bring the Destroyer to the base in Roswell with all the other crazy alien stuff they’ve got going on.
-If he didn’t have enough to deal with he finds out the World Security Council gave General Ross his own special encrypted codes to get into his system so he could track down Banner. The little weasel. Oh well, he’ll just have Natasha get Banner first so Ross doesn’t… well shit. Ross got to him first and now all he’s got is the deformed mess that’s what’s left of Dr. Sterns.
-Natasha fills him in on Banner’s escape and gives him a very depressing pep talk. She thinks that all of the crazy shit that’s been going on is too much for them to handle. Of course he agrees and he calls the World Security Council to break it down for them so she can see how ridiculous it all is.
-He basically tells the Council that not only has he completely disregarded their orders but by doing so he’s brought them leagues closer to discovering the secret of the Tesseract than he would have if they’d just stayed huddled in their bunker like lab rats and poked at it with a stick. Between meeting Thor, getting their hands on the Destroyer, becoming buddy buddy with Erik Selvig, Tony finding a new element that’ll help them and getting closer to finding Steve Rogers, the only man on the planet who’s had firsthand experience with the thing he’s gotten them pretty damn far. He uses that as a bargaining chip to throw down and tell them that they not only need more money but more jurisdiction and more authority for himself.
-They tell him he’ll get everything by the end of the month.
-That went better than expected. No really.
-Well now they’ve got the money, the brains and some new toys to play with. Now they’ve just got to find Captain Rogers so Coulson will stop pouting at him.
Personality:
Nick Fury will not suffer fools quietly. Although it may take him a while to get there, if he doesn’t like someone or what they’re doing they will know it. be they a genius playboy philanthropist, the World Security Council or a Norse God he will tell them where to go and what to do with themselves when they get there. He has his own special brand of snark I like to call smartass chic. Not only will he come out of left field with it it will be specially tailored to be simultaneously condescending, rude and oftentimes hilarious (i.e. “let me know if ‘true power’ wants a magazine or something). But he rarely, if ever, says it with any more attitude than he already has which isn’t actually saying much since the man is basically snark, subterfuge, intelligence and badass rolled up and tied up with an eye patch.
Tony Stark actually called it pretty accurately when he called Fury “The Spy.” His secrets have secrets and he likes it that way. There are only a select few he would show all his cards to and their names are Hill and Coulson. Everyone else is on a need to know basis and he decides what they need to know. He uses the flow of information to control what direction things go and how quickly they get there. So he might twist the facts a little to get the result he wants. If things work out in the end is that such a bad thing?
He’s incredibly good at reading people, understanding them. It’s part of the job description, yes, but he makes an art form out of it. For example, the best way to get Tony Stark to want to do something is to tell him he can’t do something… like join the Avengers for example? He knows the right amount of BS to feed the World Security Council to keep them off his back long enough so he can do what he needs to behind theirs. It also means that he knows just what buttons to push to motivate people to do what’s needed… no matter how bad a light it casts himself in. Nick Fury is like the motherfucking batman in that he knows that sometimes people need someone to blame. That people need someone to point fingers at and be angry at and act like angry teenagers and storm out on. He’s more than willing to step up and be that guy if he needs to be if it motivates people to move in the right direction. It’s just one more sacrifice he’s willing to make for the greater good.
As much as he makes himself appear as the domineering badass he does legitimately care about the people he works with. He might not, you know, always show it but he does. He does put thought into how he speaks with and deals with each one of them. Some more than others, but there you go. For example, setting Steve up with a gym that’s looks like it belongs in the 40s instead of 2012 and approaching him with a paper file as opposed to a computer.
Nick Fury is not afraid to get his own hands dirty. He may not be a front line soldier anymore but he can still kick ass and take names if it comes down to it. That sidearm isn’t filled with water, you know. If shit goes down he’s not going to stand back and bark out orders he’s going to wade right into the fray and fight right alongside everyone else.
Overall, he’s a fan of the big picture. He may have a million balls in the air and be juggling furiously to keep them airborne and not touching each other, but he knows where every single one of them is at every time. He doesn’t like not knowing things and he doesn’t like when someone shows up and throws a new ball into the mix. It throws off his balance and makes him very very irritated. And if someone tries to take one of those balls without asking? Forget it. Some might call it being a control freak. I call it being The Boss.
Other:
Fury is an expert at all things that can kill you. Hand to hand combat and firearms especially. Oh, and he can hit a moving jet with a rocker launcher. He’s got an eye patch on his left eye but that doesn’t seem to inhibit him in the least (no matter what Tony says).
The extent of his military training is unknown at this time and using the comics!verse laundry list of accomplishments seems excessive given the fact that with the aforementioned serum he’d been in the military about as long as Steve had without the benefits of a 70 year nap. At this time there is a proposed origins movie for him but there’s no set release date… or year… or much of anything for that matter. If need be I’ll come up with some headcanon but at this time I’d rather leave it vague which honestly works since he’s not the type to dish about his history, anyway.
Additional Links:
Wikia Page
First Person (entry type):
[A soft throat clearing precedes the recording]
I would like to make something abundantly clear. I understand that this “community” seems to be fueled by absurdity and I certainly enjoy humor as much as the next guy.
Be that as it may – my name is Director Nick Fury. Not “eye patch,” “cyclops,” “Solid Snake” or “Black Beard.” Nor is it any iteration of “Captain” or any of the multitude of pirate names you could come up with.
I have heard them all. You’re not original or funny so you may as well save your time and mine by giving up now.
Third Person:
Nick frowned as he looked over the screens surrounding him. Shots of chaos, disarray. Banner’s Hulk throwing a jeep at a tank, Iron Man flying through New York City with droids in hot pursuit, the Destroyer being sucked into Thor’s tornado….
He didn’t even try to hide the contemptuous glare as his eye raised to the screens formerly occupied by the World Security Committee arguing and spewing their bureaucratic bullshit at him. How these four nimrods came to be the deciding factor in SHIELD’s movements and initiatives was beyond him. Hell, if it were up to him he’d tell the lot of them to fuck off and make the right decision that all of them were too scared to make. But no. they were too worried about the bottom line and looking good in the eyes of their own countries than the safety of the god damned world. How could they sit in shadow and presume to make decisions “for the good of the world”? Meanwhile he was out on the front lines sending good agents out to the ends of the Earth, asking them to risk their lives fighting against threats they barely understood let alone had a prayer of defeating.
“PEGASUS Project,” he scoffed, “Who the hell comes up with these names?”
Tapping a few keys he brought up an image of the tesseract. A viable clean energy source is a good goal to be sure but what’s energy if you don’t have a world to power? He pinched the bridge of his nose as he thought. The initiative scrapped. The thing he’d sunk so much time and energy into. Did they seriously expect him to just step back? Fall in line like a good little toy soldier?
A slow smile crossed his face.
He’d never liked standing in line, anyway. He got antsy standing in one place for too long.
He would work on the council’s pet project but he didn’t need to put every agent on it. And the other agents would need something to do. He stood and the screens blanked as quickly as his face as he went for the door where Coulson was waiting.
