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Character Name: Samuel Joseph James “Joe” Rogers aka Nomad/U.S. Agent
Character Journal: the_next_avenger
Physical description (face, build, weight): Joe is 6’4, 215 lbs with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He’s almost the spitting image of his father, except with darker hair and a few days’ worth of stubble. He cleans up very well when he chooses to, which isn’t that often. Joe has the physique of an Olympic –level athlete who engages in regular rigorous physical exercise.
Age: 24
DOB: December 22, 1988
PB: (If using one.) Jensen Ackles
Character location/Home: Mobile (will be New York)
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Relatives (living/dead?): Captain America (Steve Rogers) ( father, living), Sharon Carter-Rogers (mother, living)
Abilities: Joe has inherited the Super-Soldier serum through his blood on his father’s side, though in a slightly diluted form. The formula enhances all of his metabolic functions and prevents the build-up of fatigue in his muscles, giving him endurance far in excess of an ordinary human being. He can exert himself for nearly an hour before fatigue sets in, but he can only bench-press 900 pounds and run a mile in 90 seconds. Rogers cannot become intoxicated by drugs, including alcohol, or by impurities in the air and is immune to terrestrial diseases. He is also highly resistant to hypnosis or gases that could limit his focus.
Joe was trained in hand-to-hand combat by his father and Uncle Sam Wilson and can face four opponents in combat without difficulty. He is also capable of using pistols, shotguns and knives with expert efficiency, though he does not wield swords.
Joe is also a capable acrobat and has knowledge of small-unit military tactics and maneuvers, but not on the level of his father. He is also a military history buff and has studied several wars from colonial times up to Korea.
Due to his mother’s influence, Joe can read and write Spanish, German, Farsi and French fluently. He is conversational in Mandarin Chinese but cannot read or write it.
Joe is also very wealthy; his mother invested money and set aside a sizable trust fund for him to draw from once she and his father sign off on it and he is the sole heir to her remaining fortune upon her death. He is also his father's heir in the event of his demise.
Weaknesses and flaws: Joe cannot use a shield and has no real intention of learning to do so. He also suffers from self-doubt as he doesn’t believe he can measure up to his father’s legacy. He is still vulnerable to bullets, knives and other human frailties.
Personality: Joe was raised to be respectful to women and his elders as a boy, but maintains a somewhat snarky attitude with people his own age and younger. He is a deeply feeling young man, but constant comparisons to his father and mother have left him brooding when he thinks people aren’t looking. Deep down, Joe is an idealist who believes that America, and the world, can and should be better if people start looking out for each other and focusing on the common good but his travels have shown him that people still need a hero to look up to. He doesn’t think that he’s that guy but he’s going to try, because his father is his hero even as he runs from Steve’s legacy.
Backstory:
Samuel Joseph James Rogers was born in the winter of 1988 to Steve and Sharon Rogers at 9:30 pm. Named for three of the best men that Steve ever knew, Joe had great expectations placed upon him at an early age. When he was younger, he never minded the comparisons to his father from several of his father’s friends and his childhood playmates, but as he got older, Joe understood the heights of his father’s fame and the depth of the shoes he was someday expected to fill.
The idea of someday being Captain America terrified him beyond words. When he turned 18, he was accepted to Colorado Springs Air Force Academy and intended to go into the military like his father.
An event during that time left him disillusioned with the service and he was ejected from the school at 21, shortly before he would have graduated. This led to an argument with his father when Joe admitted that he couldn’t be Captain America’s son. Joe got on his bike and traveled the United States. With little money, he often relied on the kindness of strangers to stay a step ahead of his old life, deciding that he’d make his way as his own man without his parents’ help.
Without meaning to, Joe began fighting small-time thugs in various cities and helping the less fortunate. The young drifter gained a reputation for blowing into a city, nailing a major player or two and then vanishing as suddenly as he appeared. Though Joe didn’t know it, he was still following in his father’s footsteps, and the people began referring to him by the name of a similar drifter from long ago in a America’s history.
The Nomad.
