I play Cap in an RPG, and I'd been taking cues from my grandfather on slang and personality and worldview and history to use for my version of Cap.
*nods* I've know I've done a bit of that with my former boss and one of the local instructor pilots from my working-at-the-county-airport days (ex-boss was a hard-hat diver in WWII, instructor pilot was a military flight instructor), so going by the airport today, where they were still manifestly alive and healthy, was good (plus, I got a glider flight).
I also have huge amounts of emotional over-investment in Tony Stark, because depression and drinking problems run in my family (it probably helps that I mainlined the entire alcoholism/depression run the week a cousin of mine committed suicide), so that feeds into it too. Tony is kind of a "there-but-for-the-grace-of-God" character for me--I wish I could be that driven, that good at meeting challenges, and that good at assuming an air of confidence (personal best-case scenario), but I also know that those kind of self-worth issues and self-sabotage would be so easy to succumb to under the wrong circumstances (personal worst case scenario). Which, of course, only gives me another level of emotional investment in Cap.
And it doesn't help that the current artist on CA draws a Sharon Carter that kind of looks like a slightly older and non-glasses-wearing version of me (well, if I had bigger breasts and armed combat training).
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Date: 2007-03-11 12:54 am (UTC)*nods* I've know I've done a bit of that with my former boss and one of the local instructor pilots from my working-at-the-county-airport days (ex-boss was a hard-hat diver in WWII, instructor pilot was a military flight instructor), so going by the airport today, where they were still manifestly alive and healthy, was good (plus, I got a glider flight).
I also have huge amounts of emotional over-investment in Tony Stark, because depression and drinking problems run in my family (it probably helps that I mainlined the entire alcoholism/depression run the week a cousin of mine committed suicide), so that feeds into it too. Tony is kind of a "there-but-for-the-grace-of-God" character for me--I wish I could be that driven, that good at meeting challenges, and that good at assuming an air of confidence (personal best-case scenario), but I also know that those kind of self-worth issues and self-sabotage would be so easy to succumb to under the wrong circumstances (personal worst case scenario). Which, of course, only gives me another level of emotional investment in Cap.
And it doesn't help that the current artist on CA draws a Sharon Carter that kind of looks like a slightly older and non-glasses-wearing version of me (well, if I had bigger breasts and armed combat training).