NOTES: Today we're going to discuss Captain America. Have a good weekend.


Exceed

No one really knows his upper limits. He finds himself continuously pushing himself in battles to see if he can find the end of his rope at some point, but it has yet to happen. There are few times where he's been able to run faster than that first day, but he feels it's still possible. He just needs to wait for the right motivation. As for energy, he stayed awake for five days straight when roaming Europe with his troops. He could have gone longer but Bucky begged and threatened him to go to his bunk, so he did.

Corrupt

Everyone assumes that Captain America could never be turned to evil, and he lets them believe it. Granted, it would take a lot, but he won't ever discount the possibility. It would've been easy to slip into when he woke up from the ice. Why should he still care? Why would it matter? Whenever these thoughts enter his mind he remembers Erskine poking him in the chest, gives his head a quick shake, and grits his teeth. He reminds himself he's a good man, and accepts the challenge that bearing that title is the most difficult thing anyone could do.

Crunch

He focuses on the crunch of his boots through the rubble-filled streets. He gives into the sound for a split second in a calm moment mid-battle. The noise takes him back to moving through forests with his Howling Commandos. He can almost smell pine in the air for that brief mental break, hear his men cracking jokes or complaining about rations or revising the never-ending lists of things they were going to do and eat when they eventually made it back home to the States. But he only gives himself the escape for a second because those men are gone.

Panic

They can't raise Hawkeye on comms. Coulson is yelling at junior agents to get videos of rooftops in the area; Iron Man and Thor are flying about looking for visuals. Natasha is fighting with him on the ground, holding back AIM goons. He does his best to focus on the attacking yellow-clad enemies, but his serum-enhanced mind is too smart for that. It can easily compartmentalize combat maneuvers while simultaneously generating worry and concern for his missing teammate and remind him that he's fairly helpless right now in getting Barton back. It's times like this that he hates the serum.

Machine

His teammates are surprised he's handling this nonsense about fighting evil aliens, crazy mutants, and robots with magic and lasers so calmly. They obviously haven't read his file, at least not closely. Granted he shouldn't be facing these guys and their (still very much in his mind) futuristic weapons, but he definitely shouldn't have had a taste of it already before going into the ice.

So, no, he doesn't freak out during battles when new things come up to fight him because rarely have the men he fought in battles been completely human commanded by others who are completely human.