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science_of_control[- OOC Information -]
Name: Sera
Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? Atticus O’Sillivan
[- Character Information -]
Character Name: Dr. Robert Bruce Banner
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
OU, AU, or CR AU: OU
Canon Point: IM3 – post credits scene
Journal:science_of_control
Character History: Because of the conflict between the Bruce Banner shown in Marvel’s movieverse and the man that exists within the comics I am going to assume that the movieverse is an entirely separate entity. Therefore the only thing I will be keeping of the character’s comic self is his childhood and early life, things that are not touched upon by either of the movies.
Bruce Banner proved to be a very, very bright child. It was apparent from an early age that his intelligence was far greater than the average child’s. Rather than seeing this as a gift or being proud of his son’s abilities Brian Banner, himself an atomic physicist, took it as proof that his work, which involved high levels of radiation, had somehow altered his child. Not only was Bruce in some way unnatural but the boy also stole every moment of his mother’s attention, something that Brian quickly became jealous of. The more Rebecca doted on their son the more angry with him Brian became.
As such Bruce spent his early years caught between two vastly conflicting views. His father, who abused him both physically and psychologically with disturbing regularity, and his mother, who countered everything his father did with love and adoration. At least until the day Rebecca stepped in, attempting to take her son away from her husband. Fueled by rage and jealousy Brian turned his abuse to Rebecca just one more time, not because she stole away with Bruce as she’d planned or anything so lucky, but because this time when he raised his hand against her... he killed her. While a young Bruce helplessly looked on.
Terrified and more alone than ever Bruce had no choice but to keep his father’s secrets, to lie for him as instructed, to hide away and tell no one of what had happened. The lies did not last for long. Brian, half mad by this time, outed himself accidentally and was promptly put into a psychiatric facility for violent criminals. Bruce was sent to live with his aunt and her daughter where he spent the rest of his childhood. Withdrawn and unable to deal with his own grief and anger the boy had few friends, even fewer as his intelligence clearly earned him favoritism.
Finally free of his father’s abuse, he instead falls victim to the most violent acts of bullying. So much so that by the time he is in high school he uses that genius to build a bomb. A bomb that turns out to be a dud, whether by accident or design, which is still enough to get him expelled. The military had already taken note of Bruce’s intelligence, however, and it is through their intervention that he is able to finish school and he spends the next few years obtaining a doctorate in nuclear physics, an accomplishment which certainly happens at an accelerated rate as it is stated in Avengers that Bruce is, in fact, the 4th smartest man on the planet. (One rank below Mr. Tony Stark.)
He spends much of his time after his graduation working on a project under General Ross, alongside the general’s daughter who happens to be his girlfriend. They have been working on this project for close to ten years when it is set to have its funding pulled, invalidating all of their research and progress. The project was, as Bruce and Betty understood it, to take the concept of the super soldier serum that had created Captain America decades before and apply it to possible radiation resistance to protect US soldiers in contaminated areas. What neither of them knew was that the General’s pet project was, in fact, supposed to do far more than that. He’d hoped Bruce would find a way to recreate the serum, give them a super soldier once again.
But with the project at risk and funding about to be withdrawn Bruce, confident in his calculations, rushed a test run, hoping that physical results would be enough to stave off the closure of the project. With General Ross’ permission Bruce tested his process on himself... with dire consequences.
The radiation exposure immediately transformed Bruce into an oversized green monstrosity of a being, more animal than human with an uncontrollable need to destroy. He demolished the lab, destroyed everything in sight on a mindless rampage, and when he finally came back to himself he discovered he’d very nearly killed his girlfriend and her father.
Stricken and worried Bruce rushed to the hospital only to discover that the general was now talking about him as though he were a weapon, already speaking of harnessing the beast they’d created, pleased with the outcome of their work regardless of its volatile unpredictability. But all Bruce saw was destruction, saw himself very nearly doing the same thing his father had, killing the woman he loved in a fit of senseless rage.
He ran. Vanished from the country, dropped off the radar as best he could, disappearing into the jungles of South America, keeping a low profile, trying to escape the constant pursuit by the government. Most of all, he had to isolate himself, learn how to control the thing lurking inside him, keep himself separate lest he hurt anyone else, and try, desperately try, to find a cure.
Which is where the first movie picks up.
The years that follow are vague. The timeline follows the release dates of the movies so there’s nearly 4 years between them. We know Bruce was in Canada, that he mastered his control (with the help of the information Sterns gave him) to the point where he felt safe taking a commercial plane across the ocean. It is long enough for him to apply that brilliant mind of his to the field of medicine enough to work as a traveling physician and end up in India. After which point The Avengers movie tells the rest.
After the Avengers Bruce is shown with Tony, presumably getting a ride to an airport or train station, possibly after a day or two to see some of Tony’s toys and pet projects. It’s almost a year later when Bruce returns to the US again, lured back by Tony with promises of scientific breakthroughs. Breakthroughs Tony has already made and likely did a little misleading in getting Bruce to come back. Exasperated though he is there is an unlikely kind of friendship between the two of them, even with Bruce’s distance.
Personality:
Bruce Banner is a man defined by his past.
In his youth he was quiet and withdrawn, making few friends and due to both his history and his intelligence, finding it very difficult to relate to people his own age. He took no great pride in his brilliance, seeing it as something of a borrowed talent since he was lead to believe by his father that the only reason he obtained such intelligence was due to his father’s work. In a way Bruce’s father led the boy to believe he had something to make up for, some kind of atonement he needs to earn simply for existing. That guilt and self-loathing only increase over the span of his life.
Over the years his social skills have never really improved. He’s not very good with people, first and foremost being too engrossed in his work usually. It’s not that he doesn’t understand people, behavior, psychology. The man is a genius and, especially as he ages, he learns a lot about the way people function. The problem is that he’s never really seen himself as a part of that. For a few improbably happy years in college and directly after he was better about it. Partially through Betty’s coaxing and partially just because for that time he truly was happy. After that, however, it has been far easier to stop trying, to use his own natural awkwardness to alienate people more.
That time in his youth when he was happy wasn’t just because of Betty, though she was a large part of it. He was doing something productive with his work, he was making up for things that he truly had no reason to feel guilty for. As he understood it the work he was doing with gamma radiation would do wonders for the protection of soldiers and civilians alike. In the end it turned out to be just one more thing he had to atone for but that doesn’t change the fact that contributing some good to the world is something that Bruce takes pleasure in, though not for entirely altruistic reasons.
From a very young age Bruce has had a measure of anger inside him, a bitter festering kind of wound opened by his father, deepened by his mother’s death, and it has never truly healed. But it was a quiet, self-contained anger, an ingrained sense of disgust with himself and a continual frustration for his perceived inadequacies. Upon completion of his gamma test run and the horrors that resulted that deep well of pain and anger became something fresh and raw that would take him years to overcome even in the slightest degree.
That anger, hurt, betrayal, it never leaves him. Just as when he was a child he can lock it down, bury it and hide it behind layers of awkward and stoic brilliance but it never goes away.
From the moment “the other guy" comes about Bruce’s already hard life becomes impossibly harder. And each failure leads him to become more and more jaded. His already somewhat pessimistic outlook becomes downright cynical and that sharp mind later boasts an even sharper tongue. Though he will often catch himself immediately snapping back a poisonous retort it is primarily with people that know about his condition.
Part of the reason he separates himself is because in small cities in third world countries there tend to be plenty of places to disappear into if need be. More than that though, even if he wasn’t constantly living in fear of having the government swoop in and drag him back to some lab to torture and experiment on him and force the monster inside of him into other people, it puts him at ease having people around him that don’t know his secret. Feeling normal, having people interact with him like he is nothing more than a brilliant doctor or scientist. That is invaluable to him.
Being with SHIELD, having his condition be a commonly known fact. It terrifies him, it makes him anxious. It makes him dangerous. Having people constantly walking on eggshells, tiptoeing around him like the tiniest thing will make him explode. That’s what gets to him, that’s what bothers him, being seen only for the monster and not for the man inside.
He’s spent nearly a decade training his body and his mind to handle stress, physical abuse, and any number of other potentially triggering things. But the one thing that brings it out in him the most is being treated like a monster. He makes a point not to put himself in dangerous situations but when he is pulled into one he becomes nervous, skittish. He’d just as soon keep to himself and not have to speak to anyone else in such an instance because he doesn’t trust himself, doesn’t trust his own barbed words or his temper.
He is cynical and expects deception at every turn, truly aside from his cousin growing up and Betty it’s all he’s ever known. So it never surprises him to be lied to or betrayed but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still hurt, doesn’t still add to that well of pain inside him. He hides it as well as he hides everything though. If anyone were to take the time to get to know him though, they’d notice that he has dozens of little tells.
He never says the Hulk, he always calls him “the other guy" and on the rare occasion he does say it he has to pause before he continues, swallowing hard almost as though saying his name gives him some kind of power, strains Bruce’s careful control. Whenever his control does flicker his first instinct seems to be to remove his glasses, almost protectively. Too many years in third world countries have made him learn to value such things far more.
That nervousness he has around people, whether they know or not, means that he rarely makes eye contact. Partially this is likely to be because most animals consider direct eye contact a sign of challenge and the monster within him sees it as exactly that. However, this was likely a habit before “the other guy" as it becomes more pronounced when he’s thinking. It seems as though his mind is usually running at such a fast pace that to process everything, and listen to what others are saying or explaining he can’t be distracted with things like looking someone in the eye, not until he’s ready to speak his mind.
Despite how anxious being with SHIELD makes him, Bruce does his best to stick with them because, regardless of how many people he treats or how many cities far from civilization that he helps bring basic medical advances to, none of it is enough to make up for the destruction caused by the Hulk. But maybe, just maybe, working with the Avengers could be. But first that means he has to admit that he and the other guy are one in the same because to take responsibility for saving lives and helping destroy an alien invasion he also has to take responsibility for all of the people the Hulk has killed over the years.
Powers/Abilities:
Bruce Banner is a genius. He doesn’t flaunt this the way some people would but he is still a brilliant man, well versed in medicine and science. He is a physicist, an expert on radiation, a physician, and possibly the most resourceful man on the planet. He was able to build himself a lab out of trash off the streets in the lowest part of a rural town in Brazil (including a centrifuge that he made out of a broken record player and some old bike tires.)
In the years he’s been on the run he’s also used martial arts as a form of meditation as well as physical discipline, helping to condition himself to any number of physical stressors. He does much less of it than he did when he was younger, partially because he doesn’t need to, but he still has knowledge of a lot of different techniques, primarily jiu-jitsu and capoeira due to the length of time he spent in South America. He has never applied any of them, however. They are all strictly methods to maintain the stability of his control despite physical exertion or pain.
More notably, though, there is the matter of the Hulk. In this second form he becomes completely green, skin, blood, hair, eyes, all of it if green though in recent years Bruce has been able to exert enough control that his eyes remain brown sometimes. The Hulk is a terrifying thing to behold, roughly 9’ tall and impossibly wide, built out of solid muscle and covered in a skin so thick that he can take a missile to the chest with no ill effects. He can be hurt but it takes a lot and even then it is very rare that anything actually pierces that thick skin of his.
The downfall with the Hulk is that Bruce is not in control of his actions. At all. There is a vast difference in the level of control Bruce has over the Hulk when he willingly and intentionally turns rather than it being pain or emotions that bring on the change. But even with the advances he’s made in the years since the incident it is still impossible for him to completely control it. He doesn’t remember much when he does come back to himself, usually passing out for hours at a time after he changes back.
The fragments of memories he does have are terrifying and it is partially because of this that he doesn’t try to hold onto his control once the change begins. He cannot control the Hulk, he doubts he will ever be able to truly keep his mind when he changes and with that... he’d rather not have vivid memories of the things he cannot stop himself from doing.
Possessions:
The only thing Bruce will have with him is a small leather duffel bag (the one Natasha is seen handing to him at the end of the film that he’s been carting around with him since) containing some basic toiletries, a change of clothes, and most importantly some basic medical equipment and a vastly outdated laptop. There is a weapon in the bag as well, a revolver, old and battered with a single bullet missing. For Bruce, though, it is less a weapon and more a thing of sentimental value, something comforting in a twisted way, a reminder of why he does what he does... Because he has no other way out.
Arrival:
On the ship
[- Writing Samples -]
Network Sample:
[When the feed comes on there’s a familiar face on it! But before anyone gets too excited it might be wise to note that he’s looking particularly frazzled and even as the video begins rolling his fingers are sliding under his glasses to pinch the bridge of his nose.]
Okay, time paradoxes and alternate realities aside… I guess there was someone here before that…
[An exasperated sigh because this is too weird and he’s still trying to wrap his head around this idea of multiple versions of the same person. There better not be any freaky alien mind-wipe kind of shit going on. Brain washing… He wouldn’t put it past Fury, actually.]
Well so far as people here seem to be concerned it was me. So, I’m setting the record straight. It wasn’t me. Got it? [And there’s something almost threatening about the way he says it. Bruce Banner is not one to make friends easily and people recognizing him like this is starting to freak him out in a bad way.]
Log Sample: In which post-nap Bruce has some awkward conversations with Miss Potts.
Name: Sera
Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? Atticus O’Sillivan
[- Character Information -]
Character Name: Dr. Robert Bruce Banner
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
OU, AU, or CR AU: OU
Canon Point: IM3 – post credits scene
Journal:
science_of_controlCharacter History: Because of the conflict between the Bruce Banner shown in Marvel’s movieverse and the man that exists within the comics I am going to assume that the movieverse is an entirely separate entity. Therefore the only thing I will be keeping of the character’s comic self is his childhood and early life, things that are not touched upon by either of the movies.
Bruce Banner proved to be a very, very bright child. It was apparent from an early age that his intelligence was far greater than the average child’s. Rather than seeing this as a gift or being proud of his son’s abilities Brian Banner, himself an atomic physicist, took it as proof that his work, which involved high levels of radiation, had somehow altered his child. Not only was Bruce in some way unnatural but the boy also stole every moment of his mother’s attention, something that Brian quickly became jealous of. The more Rebecca doted on their son the more angry with him Brian became.
As such Bruce spent his early years caught between two vastly conflicting views. His father, who abused him both physically and psychologically with disturbing regularity, and his mother, who countered everything his father did with love and adoration. At least until the day Rebecca stepped in, attempting to take her son away from her husband. Fueled by rage and jealousy Brian turned his abuse to Rebecca just one more time, not because she stole away with Bruce as she’d planned or anything so lucky, but because this time when he raised his hand against her... he killed her. While a young Bruce helplessly looked on.
Terrified and more alone than ever Bruce had no choice but to keep his father’s secrets, to lie for him as instructed, to hide away and tell no one of what had happened. The lies did not last for long. Brian, half mad by this time, outed himself accidentally and was promptly put into a psychiatric facility for violent criminals. Bruce was sent to live with his aunt and her daughter where he spent the rest of his childhood. Withdrawn and unable to deal with his own grief and anger the boy had few friends, even fewer as his intelligence clearly earned him favoritism.
Finally free of his father’s abuse, he instead falls victim to the most violent acts of bullying. So much so that by the time he is in high school he uses that genius to build a bomb. A bomb that turns out to be a dud, whether by accident or design, which is still enough to get him expelled. The military had already taken note of Bruce’s intelligence, however, and it is through their intervention that he is able to finish school and he spends the next few years obtaining a doctorate in nuclear physics, an accomplishment which certainly happens at an accelerated rate as it is stated in Avengers that Bruce is, in fact, the 4th smartest man on the planet. (One rank below Mr. Tony Stark.)
He spends much of his time after his graduation working on a project under General Ross, alongside the general’s daughter who happens to be his girlfriend. They have been working on this project for close to ten years when it is set to have its funding pulled, invalidating all of their research and progress. The project was, as Bruce and Betty understood it, to take the concept of the super soldier serum that had created Captain America decades before and apply it to possible radiation resistance to protect US soldiers in contaminated areas. What neither of them knew was that the General’s pet project was, in fact, supposed to do far more than that. He’d hoped Bruce would find a way to recreate the serum, give them a super soldier once again.
But with the project at risk and funding about to be withdrawn Bruce, confident in his calculations, rushed a test run, hoping that physical results would be enough to stave off the closure of the project. With General Ross’ permission Bruce tested his process on himself... with dire consequences.
The radiation exposure immediately transformed Bruce into an oversized green monstrosity of a being, more animal than human with an uncontrollable need to destroy. He demolished the lab, destroyed everything in sight on a mindless rampage, and when he finally came back to himself he discovered he’d very nearly killed his girlfriend and her father.
Stricken and worried Bruce rushed to the hospital only to discover that the general was now talking about him as though he were a weapon, already speaking of harnessing the beast they’d created, pleased with the outcome of their work regardless of its volatile unpredictability. But all Bruce saw was destruction, saw himself very nearly doing the same thing his father had, killing the woman he loved in a fit of senseless rage.
He ran. Vanished from the country, dropped off the radar as best he could, disappearing into the jungles of South America, keeping a low profile, trying to escape the constant pursuit by the government. Most of all, he had to isolate himself, learn how to control the thing lurking inside him, keep himself separate lest he hurt anyone else, and try, desperately try, to find a cure.
Which is where the first movie picks up.
The years that follow are vague. The timeline follows the release dates of the movies so there’s nearly 4 years between them. We know Bruce was in Canada, that he mastered his control (with the help of the information Sterns gave him) to the point where he felt safe taking a commercial plane across the ocean. It is long enough for him to apply that brilliant mind of his to the field of medicine enough to work as a traveling physician and end up in India. After which point The Avengers movie tells the rest.
After the Avengers Bruce is shown with Tony, presumably getting a ride to an airport or train station, possibly after a day or two to see some of Tony’s toys and pet projects. It’s almost a year later when Bruce returns to the US again, lured back by Tony with promises of scientific breakthroughs. Breakthroughs Tony has already made and likely did a little misleading in getting Bruce to come back. Exasperated though he is there is an unlikely kind of friendship between the two of them, even with Bruce’s distance.
Personality:
Bruce Banner is a man defined by his past.
In his youth he was quiet and withdrawn, making few friends and due to both his history and his intelligence, finding it very difficult to relate to people his own age. He took no great pride in his brilliance, seeing it as something of a borrowed talent since he was lead to believe by his father that the only reason he obtained such intelligence was due to his father’s work. In a way Bruce’s father led the boy to believe he had something to make up for, some kind of atonement he needs to earn simply for existing. That guilt and self-loathing only increase over the span of his life.
Over the years his social skills have never really improved. He’s not very good with people, first and foremost being too engrossed in his work usually. It’s not that he doesn’t understand people, behavior, psychology. The man is a genius and, especially as he ages, he learns a lot about the way people function. The problem is that he’s never really seen himself as a part of that. For a few improbably happy years in college and directly after he was better about it. Partially through Betty’s coaxing and partially just because for that time he truly was happy. After that, however, it has been far easier to stop trying, to use his own natural awkwardness to alienate people more.
That time in his youth when he was happy wasn’t just because of Betty, though she was a large part of it. He was doing something productive with his work, he was making up for things that he truly had no reason to feel guilty for. As he understood it the work he was doing with gamma radiation would do wonders for the protection of soldiers and civilians alike. In the end it turned out to be just one more thing he had to atone for but that doesn’t change the fact that contributing some good to the world is something that Bruce takes pleasure in, though not for entirely altruistic reasons.
From a very young age Bruce has had a measure of anger inside him, a bitter festering kind of wound opened by his father, deepened by his mother’s death, and it has never truly healed. But it was a quiet, self-contained anger, an ingrained sense of disgust with himself and a continual frustration for his perceived inadequacies. Upon completion of his gamma test run and the horrors that resulted that deep well of pain and anger became something fresh and raw that would take him years to overcome even in the slightest degree.
That anger, hurt, betrayal, it never leaves him. Just as when he was a child he can lock it down, bury it and hide it behind layers of awkward and stoic brilliance but it never goes away.
From the moment “the other guy" comes about Bruce’s already hard life becomes impossibly harder. And each failure leads him to become more and more jaded. His already somewhat pessimistic outlook becomes downright cynical and that sharp mind later boasts an even sharper tongue. Though he will often catch himself immediately snapping back a poisonous retort it is primarily with people that know about his condition.
Part of the reason he separates himself is because in small cities in third world countries there tend to be plenty of places to disappear into if need be. More than that though, even if he wasn’t constantly living in fear of having the government swoop in and drag him back to some lab to torture and experiment on him and force the monster inside of him into other people, it puts him at ease having people around him that don’t know his secret. Feeling normal, having people interact with him like he is nothing more than a brilliant doctor or scientist. That is invaluable to him.
Being with SHIELD, having his condition be a commonly known fact. It terrifies him, it makes him anxious. It makes him dangerous. Having people constantly walking on eggshells, tiptoeing around him like the tiniest thing will make him explode. That’s what gets to him, that’s what bothers him, being seen only for the monster and not for the man inside.
He’s spent nearly a decade training his body and his mind to handle stress, physical abuse, and any number of other potentially triggering things. But the one thing that brings it out in him the most is being treated like a monster. He makes a point not to put himself in dangerous situations but when he is pulled into one he becomes nervous, skittish. He’d just as soon keep to himself and not have to speak to anyone else in such an instance because he doesn’t trust himself, doesn’t trust his own barbed words or his temper.
He is cynical and expects deception at every turn, truly aside from his cousin growing up and Betty it’s all he’s ever known. So it never surprises him to be lied to or betrayed but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still hurt, doesn’t still add to that well of pain inside him. He hides it as well as he hides everything though. If anyone were to take the time to get to know him though, they’d notice that he has dozens of little tells.
He never says the Hulk, he always calls him “the other guy" and on the rare occasion he does say it he has to pause before he continues, swallowing hard almost as though saying his name gives him some kind of power, strains Bruce’s careful control. Whenever his control does flicker his first instinct seems to be to remove his glasses, almost protectively. Too many years in third world countries have made him learn to value such things far more.
That nervousness he has around people, whether they know or not, means that he rarely makes eye contact. Partially this is likely to be because most animals consider direct eye contact a sign of challenge and the monster within him sees it as exactly that. However, this was likely a habit before “the other guy" as it becomes more pronounced when he’s thinking. It seems as though his mind is usually running at such a fast pace that to process everything, and listen to what others are saying or explaining he can’t be distracted with things like looking someone in the eye, not until he’s ready to speak his mind.
Despite how anxious being with SHIELD makes him, Bruce does his best to stick with them because, regardless of how many people he treats or how many cities far from civilization that he helps bring basic medical advances to, none of it is enough to make up for the destruction caused by the Hulk. But maybe, just maybe, working with the Avengers could be. But first that means he has to admit that he and the other guy are one in the same because to take responsibility for saving lives and helping destroy an alien invasion he also has to take responsibility for all of the people the Hulk has killed over the years.
Powers/Abilities:
Bruce Banner is a genius. He doesn’t flaunt this the way some people would but he is still a brilliant man, well versed in medicine and science. He is a physicist, an expert on radiation, a physician, and possibly the most resourceful man on the planet. He was able to build himself a lab out of trash off the streets in the lowest part of a rural town in Brazil (including a centrifuge that he made out of a broken record player and some old bike tires.)
In the years he’s been on the run he’s also used martial arts as a form of meditation as well as physical discipline, helping to condition himself to any number of physical stressors. He does much less of it than he did when he was younger, partially because he doesn’t need to, but he still has knowledge of a lot of different techniques, primarily jiu-jitsu and capoeira due to the length of time he spent in South America. He has never applied any of them, however. They are all strictly methods to maintain the stability of his control despite physical exertion or pain.
More notably, though, there is the matter of the Hulk. In this second form he becomes completely green, skin, blood, hair, eyes, all of it if green though in recent years Bruce has been able to exert enough control that his eyes remain brown sometimes. The Hulk is a terrifying thing to behold, roughly 9’ tall and impossibly wide, built out of solid muscle and covered in a skin so thick that he can take a missile to the chest with no ill effects. He can be hurt but it takes a lot and even then it is very rare that anything actually pierces that thick skin of his.
The downfall with the Hulk is that Bruce is not in control of his actions. At all. There is a vast difference in the level of control Bruce has over the Hulk when he willingly and intentionally turns rather than it being pain or emotions that bring on the change. But even with the advances he’s made in the years since the incident it is still impossible for him to completely control it. He doesn’t remember much when he does come back to himself, usually passing out for hours at a time after he changes back.
The fragments of memories he does have are terrifying and it is partially because of this that he doesn’t try to hold onto his control once the change begins. He cannot control the Hulk, he doubts he will ever be able to truly keep his mind when he changes and with that... he’d rather not have vivid memories of the things he cannot stop himself from doing.
Possessions:
The only thing Bruce will have with him is a small leather duffel bag (the one Natasha is seen handing to him at the end of the film that he’s been carting around with him since) containing some basic toiletries, a change of clothes, and most importantly some basic medical equipment and a vastly outdated laptop. There is a weapon in the bag as well, a revolver, old and battered with a single bullet missing. For Bruce, though, it is less a weapon and more a thing of sentimental value, something comforting in a twisted way, a reminder of why he does what he does... Because he has no other way out.
Arrival:
On the ship
[- Writing Samples -]
Network Sample:
[When the feed comes on there’s a familiar face on it! But before anyone gets too excited it might be wise to note that he’s looking particularly frazzled and even as the video begins rolling his fingers are sliding under his glasses to pinch the bridge of his nose.]
Okay, time paradoxes and alternate realities aside… I guess there was someone here before that…
[An exasperated sigh because this is too weird and he’s still trying to wrap his head around this idea of multiple versions of the same person. There better not be any freaky alien mind-wipe kind of shit going on. Brain washing… He wouldn’t put it past Fury, actually.]
Well so far as people here seem to be concerned it was me. So, I’m setting the record straight. It wasn’t me. Got it? [And there’s something almost threatening about the way he says it. Bruce Banner is not one to make friends easily and people recognizing him like this is starting to freak him out in a bad way.]
Log Sample: In which post-nap Bruce has some awkward conversations with Miss Potts.
