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Jane Foster | MCU
Name: Lupin
Are you over 18: yes
Contact: menos mente (aim) | omgsherlock (plurk)
Character Name: Jane Foster
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Background:
Jane Foster was born to George and Alice Foster, being their only child.
From an early age, Jane was an inquisitive and lively child, though her curiosity and stubbornness did at times alienate her from her peers, as did moving around due to her father’s job in the military. As a high-in-demand professor and instructor, she was not ever worried about him going to battle, but it did frustrate her to have to move just when she was starting to settle down and get used to a new area and school.
Still, it gave her a lot of experiences that others wouldn’t have—such as living in different areas and seeing lots of sights, something her mother loved to do each time they moved. Overall, Jane preferred the colder climates and living on the ocean. When she was seven, she and her family were moved to New Mexico, and her heart was captured by the clear desert skies once they drove far enough away from the city smog and lights.
No one knew that with this, and her mother telling her stories behind the constellations and other related myths (and giving her a love for science fiction too), it would inspire her to seek more knowledge about what was beyond their atmosphere. She spent much of the next three years looking through telescopes, learning all she could from the books at the library, begging her parents to go stargazing with her, and dreaming of the day when she could be with other scientists discovering new things and exploring the universe.
Even when they moved away to more congested areas, this interest became a life-long passion and life calling, no one could persuade her to another career.
Overall, her life was ordinary for a military brat. She had her friends and her bullies, the boys who would tease her, and the teachers who would be at a loss with her intelligence and curiosity, even when her parents put her into private school. This caused her to keep to herself for the most part, withdrawing into the night skies even more, but she always remained close to her parents who encouraged her to keep doing what she loved.
She and her mother were a lot alike in their stubbornness and love for learning, though her mother was more along the English Major rather than the science major. Alice was always able to cheer Jane up when she was frustrated about something or when she had what her father called “girl problems”: friends, crushes, and other social mysteries. She was the one Jane turned to when she needed a more delicate way to go about something than charge head in and screw the consequences (her father’s answer for everything).
George was there for her when she needed someone to tell her to stand up for herself, and being a military man, he expected her to not give up or let someone to put her down, knowing that she was made of tougher stuff than others would have liked to believe. He was also a great resource for her, introducing her to professors and scientists who wouldn’t scoff at her ideas and who more than enjoyed answering her questions, and providing her with “she’s my daughter and I say she can come in here” clearance to technology others wouldn’t usually be allowed to see, and books, of course.
Though he never told her, a main force behind him encouraging her passion for science stemmed from some of his colleagues suggestion he convince her to take a different route and leave the science to the men. It was a mixture of personal insult and slighted pride for her, but he told them to shut it and frequently rubbed her awards in their faces.
Her life made a drastic turn when her mother was diagnosed with an intense form of lung cancer despite no one around them smoking. The doctors were baffled by it and it hurt Jane and her father more than they would like to admit that there was little they could do.
For a while, her grades and friendships suffered, and her father refused to be moved again until she made improvements or died. Most of her time, when Jane wasn’t in school, was spent in the hospital by her mother’s side, doing what she could to keep all their spirits up. But just as suddenly as it was diagnosed, her mother died not too long after she turned sixteen, the infection spreading to nearly the rest of her body despite treatment.
Before she died, Alice made Jane promise not to lose sight of her dreams and to do her best to keep to the top of her studies. Two years later, Jane was graduating at the top of her class and going into Harvard and MIT with majors physics and astronomy, developing skills (and getting degrees in) computer science and engineering on scholarships and her own money from working during summer vacation. Soon, she was baffling the scientific community with her discoveries and theories, one of them being a new comet she saw through the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona on a “field trip”.
Being the one to discover it, she got to name it: Alice.
Moving onto more theoretical work, Jane bought a trailer and returned to New Mexico, sort of reliving the nights when her family went stargazing. By her side were long-time family friend and Erik who was an astrophysicist himself and a professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Darcy, who was their very keen and observational friend and assistant, even though she was studying for political science. It was about a year into their work that there was an odd magnetic storm and she ran over someone with her truck.
Personality:
The two most vital parts of Jane’s personality is her curiosity and stubbornness.
Her curiosity for the world and how it works is the driving force of nearly everything she does. Since she was little, she loved looking up at the stars and asking questions, learning answers through others or her own means. While some kids took to sports or art, she took to books and studying with an unrivaled passion—and anything that was up in the sky was her favorite subject.
Quick to pick up information and open-minded about anything that could be learned, she was either loved or hated by her teachers through her school years, mostly because they enjoyed a child who paid attention or were at a loss with all of her questions.
Some people contemplated that she often went beyond mere curiosity and interest—it was like she had to know every detail about whatever knowledge she was seeking at the time. They’re not wrong. It’s a pure and honest kind of curiosity: she’s not learning for some angle or agenda, or for anyone besides herself and the personal satisfaction of knowing. As she enjoys learning, it’s not likely that she will ever stop.
However, while some people encouraged her, like her parents did, there were others who did the exact opposite. This is where her stubbornness comes in.
Growing up with such a huge appetite for knowledge earned her a lot of attention, not all of it positive. Many of her classmates thought her off for being so smart at an early age, and didn’t quite understand why she liked math of all things, or enjoyed being behind a book than on the playground. Some teachers would dismiss her questions, saying that there wasn’t enough time to answer them or that they had to be saved for another lesson. Needless to say, this caused endless frustration for her when she tried to explain herself or tried to get the question answered—making her seem disruptive at times when she would get into arguments about anything, not caring who she was arguing with.
Instead of letting this discourage her, she often steeled her resolve and moved on, remembering how her father told her that holding onto anger didn’t help anyone. She quickly learned which teachers would answer her or dismiss her, and alienated herself from her classmates who didn’t seem to understand her through lack of maturity or because they just didn’t like the subjects she enjoyed. This stubbornness became a part of her by the time she was in middle school, a definition of who she was.
She never took no for an answer, never let herself give up on a project or theory, even if she had to set them aside for a later date to work on it. If someone said she couldn’t do something, it just made her all that more determined to prove them wrong.
Underneath this bullheaded scientist is a much simpler girl: she likes to hang out with her friends and enjoys phone calls from her dad, likes good food, works hard for what she has and has done in her life, and likes not worrying about where her rent will come from.
Thanks to her somewhat military upbringing, she has a strong sense of city and honor that is displayed when she goes to check on Thor after administering him to the hospital despite him being a total stranger and when she refused SHIELD’s hush money. She would never betray a friend or someone who earned her trust, nor would she do anything without a good reason—and even then she wouldn’t cross certain lines.
The thought of war, torturing someone, revenge, and vendettas are concepts she doesn’t fully understand, having not really experienced any of them from either side, but she does understand that they exist and sometimes are necessary, as unfair as they are. Some would say that this makes her a pacifist, but they didn’t see her back before she could control her anger and the impulse to tackle someone to the ground.
Jane is far from perfect, though. More often than not, she lets her curiosity go too far and she gets into trouble for it, from asking the wrong person the wrong questions to going where she isn’t supposed to go, like private government facilities. She rarely lets a question drop and as said before, has interrupted many a class or lecture. While she has never been arrested, there are quite a few people who know not to allow her access to places if they don’t want “an outsider” to gain insider information.
Jumping into something too quickly is another one of her vices, be it a project she can’t quite handle with all of the other projects on her plate, or getting herself into a dangerous situation for the sake of gathering data. She has little to no fear at times, and will say or do things that a more cautious person wouldn’t dream of doing. So far, she has been lucky that her worst injury was a broken leg from a misstep on a small plateau, but it worries the people who care about her greatly, as it seems like she has no sense of self-preservation and that she thinks that there are more important things than her life.
With her recent interactions with gods, super soldiers, and government agencies, this rashness and lack of self preservation has just come out more with the risks she is willing to take for what she wants and for others—though she is learning to control these impulses and make better, more careful decisions. It’s an odd process.
When she is not getting into trouble from it, her curiosity has her studying and observing well into the night, skipping means, and drinking too much coffee. She burns out from time to time, and is lucky that she has Erik and Darcy there to remind her that she is a human and not some sort of perpetual motion machine. Not that she has ever pushed herself too far, but there have been times where she has exhausted herself.
Jane also has a big, big heart that she would like to keep tightly wrapped up and hidden away, knowing how easily and badly she could be hurt or manipulated, but she has yet to be really able to. At most, she knows when to be suspicious and cautious of people, but if someone is in danger or needs help, she is unable to say no and not lend a hand, and if someone lies well enough, she’ll fall for it. Her faith in humanity is almost unwavering, and despite betrayals from friends and coworkers alike, she stubbornly holds onto the ideal that people will do what is right, and that if given a choice, they will choose the better path. Not that she has met too many people who hold themselves up to this standard.
She tries to do what she can to not become jaded as more and more people prove that they are not always good and do not always prove to be trustworthy. She does want to be able to trust people without worry, but she is slowly becoming more pessimistic towards others, guarding her heart more closely as time goes on. All of this results in a bundle of insecurities towards friendship and romance, and making her tendency to give second chances and the benefit of the doubt all the odder.
Thor, during the short time he spend with her on earth, has given her back a lot of her faith in her work by just crash landing in the middle of the desert. His existence proves that everything she dreamed of when she was little were true and that all of the sacrifices she made were not in vain—that there were other worlds and peoples out there, and that there was a way to reach and meet them. She now has her drive and focus back, increased tenfold now, and she’ll be forever thankful for meeting him.
Still, her lingering trust issues will undoubtedly affect any future relationship that becomes “serious” in her book, no matter who it is with.
Abilities:
Jane, as far as super human powers go, does not have anything extraordinary. All in all, she is a typical human being—if you don’t count her mind and her stubbornness.
Having quite a few degrees from various universities and making her own equipment out of scrap metal and old computers, it is obvious that she is quite intelligent and resourceful. The main skill sets that she puts on her resume include welding, computer programming (in about nine different languages), engineering, telecommunications, and a wide knowledge of mathematics, physics, space, astronomy, and the equipment needed to collect various data like radiation, x-ray, electromagnetism, radio waves, etc.
She can also drive and survive under extreme conditions, is good at networking and debate, knows automobile repair, and has a odd bad habit of running gods over with her truck.
Weaknesses:
Being human, Jane has a lot of weaknesses—she gets tired, gets hungry, has moods, doesn’t heal especially fast, can die and get sick, and likes her creature comforts. But when it comes to other weaknesses, she is a sucker for knowledge. Offer it, and chances are that she won’t be able to resist that temptation. If you are also someone who needs help, then she is going to give it to you despite the consequences she’ll face. Oh, and there is chocolate.
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