question/discussion: Sam Wilson aka, Falcon

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It seemed to me this post is withing acceptable guidelines, b-but still a bit nervous. Hello, fellow community members. I'm currently writing an alternate universe Steve/Tony fic in which Sam Wilson/Falcon is a prominent supporting character, but unfortunately I haven't read enough canon he appears in.

So, if anyone has thoughts/characterization tips (or even recs for comics he appears in, though I can't vouch being able to find them if they aren't online somewhere) regarding Sam, I'd be very grateful if you could share them. Since it's an AU (set in medieval times) I'm especially interested in his personality, as that's not something I can read about on wiki very much. :')

Comments

[muccamukk]

A lot of that run was really terrible. It would have been so bad if people didn't keep bring it up. I like that Brubaker just pretends it never happened.

Yeah, I think you can get the Lee run in Captain America Essential, but the rest might be pricey trades. I like Book Depository for some of that stuff, brings the prices down a bit.

Sam does have a sense of humour, but it's more deadpan than anything else. Like he's not in your face snarky like Clint his, it's more of a statement of fact and letting the truth speak for itself.

I was thinking about Sam and Steve after I wrote that last (I only get Internet a couple times a week), and it seems to me that Sam is almost more of an idealist than Steve is. Because Steve has this American Dream thing going, and he tries to make everyone live up to it, and sure he has a lot of compassion for people who can't or don't or have lost hope along the way, but if things go too far off track he sulks mightily about how things shouldn't be that way. Whereas Sam knows that the world is going to disappoint him, and keep disappointing him, and he's just kind of gets on with trying to make it better. He doesn't have a lot of patience for Steve's sulking though.

I think Sam is a practical man. If you're writing in a time when everyone is religious because everyone is, he'll probably have the state religion from wherever he's from. I could see him as Muslim more than Coptic, but I don't think it really matters to his story. He's long since gotten over his teenaged angry at god so I'm not believing in him thing. Now he's just kind of low-level atheist, and it doesn't figure into the plot at all really.