Marvel

marvel

art

art is a shield agent that gets kidnapped from his apartment one night. he is taken by hydra agents and administered with a dose of howard stark’s super soldier serum. they want to turn him into the next winter soldier, they tell him. they want to restart the wolf spider program, they tell him. they succeed at doing both. shield gives up the investigation after three years. art, at this point, has undergone severe brainwashing and memory wiping to ensure that he doesn’t run. being a shield agent, he was already skilled in combat and reconnaissance, but hydra ensured that he became a skilled assassin in the three years that shield was looking for him. he is extremely good at what he does and he hasn’t gotten caught once. ten years later, a shield agent is murdered in her apartment. the investigation leads to an underground bunker in new rochelle, new york. in the bunker are hydra agents, a cryostasis chamber, and art donaldson. art is rescued and taken into shield’s custody, where he begins to attempt to undo all of the trauma that hydra put him through.

dodge

dodge is a shield agent that’s searching for the mercenary that killed his sister. he joined the agency at eighteen and he’s been working his way up the ranks ever since. he’s seen as an incredible asset to the agency and is typically the first one on the scene whenever there’s trouble. the younger agents say that he’s fearless, but dodge knows better. it’s easy to be fearless when you have nothing to lose.

NEWSIES (1992) dir. kenny ortega

Steve Rogers // Captain America

and his habit of putting his hands on his belt

star wars

riff

riff is a smuggler with a small network of people working for him. he's force sensitive and he's managed to figure out the general logistics of how the force works through trial and error. riff's gang, the jets, are the only ones that know riff is force sensitive. they call themselves the jets because they're fast and quick and pretty good at evading the law. they all have a tattoo somewhere of either a j or the silhouette of riff's ship. the sharks are a group that's sort of a smuggling group. they're more well off than riff and the jets, but not by much. they just want the jets to stop terrorizing the galaxy with their escapades. they get into fights a lot and the local authorities consider both groups an equal nuisance.

dodge

dodge is force sensitive and mostly does odd jobs around the outer rim. he has a small ship that he'll occasionally smuggle with but he mostly keeps to himself. he's trying to find and kill the bounty hunter that killed his older sister, dayna. while he tends to stick to small jobs in the outer rim, he will venture into the more expensive cities if he's paid well for it.

art

in the early days of the republic, there was a jedi known as art donaldson. he was a brilliant jedi knight, and those that knew him said he was one of the best jedi they had ever seen. when order sixty six was executed, art donaldson disappeared. the jedi that survived the purge assumed that he’d gone into hiding as they had. and then, a year after the execution of order sixty six, there were whispers of a new sith lord attacking camps in the outer rim. darth kyros, they call him. there aren’t typically survivors of his attacks, so the information on him is limited. all that’s known about him is that he’s dangerous and not someone to be crossed. somehow, a former jedi manages to survive an attack. darth kyros is art donaldson, he says. it sounds impossible. but another former jedi comes forward and says the same thing. after at least five have agreed, there can be no more denying it. art donaldson must be returned to the light side of the force. it takes a long time, but he is eventually returned to the light. art doesn’t talk about his time as darth kyros. if pressed for information, he says that the sith captured and brainwashed him until he broke. he becomes a member of the rebellion and is a valuable asset when it comes time to target the death star.

connor

connor is a jedi padawan. he’s an extremely volatile jedi padawan. he doesn’t have control of his emotions yet and he lashes out in anger a lot more than his master would like. the other masters are worried. the other padawans fear his anger and mock his lack of control. he’s too susceptible to the dark side, the masters say. he must get his emotions under control. connor doesn’t know if he can do that, but he’s not really willing to try. eventually, he is banished from the jedi order. he makes a living in the outer rim as best he can. when the rebellion starts, he keeps his head down. he doesn’t want to get dragged back into the order. they didn’t want him, after all.

NOW PRESENTING: ARTHUR ART DONALDSON, VICTOR OF THE SIXTY THIRD HUNGER GAMES!

this verse is heavily affiliated with and is single ship with @cannotfly.

pre games

art is the son of george and kayla donaldson. george is the mayor of district four, and because art is the mayor’s son, he doesn’t have to participate in the career training that the other children partake in. art spends most of his time inside, learning how to one day take over the mayorship from his father. he sneaks into the kitchen and learns how to cook, and sneaks down to the dock behind his house to teach himself how to swim. he learns a little bit about knots and ropes and boats, but not as much as an ordinary citizen of four would know. he knows how to fish, though. he’s pretty good at it. he’s also fairly good with a knife. his father had deemed it necessary for art to know how to defend himself should he ever be attacked, and so art had decided to learn how to properly wield a knife. he knows how to handle a trident to some extent, but he’s much better with knives.

when art is thirteen, he and his family go to the reaping ceremony like they always do. when art is thirteen, he gets reaped for the hunger games. his father had never paid anyone off to keep his son’s name out of the reaping bowl—he believed that was a dirty and cowardly thing to do—but he never thought art would get reaped, either. art is put on a train with his district partner, a seventeen year old girl named coira sobek, and they are whisked off to the capitol. coira becomes protective of art, warding off the worst of the attention he receives from the capitol elite and drawing it to herself.

art becomes a capitol favorite incredibly quickly. they’ve never seen a tribute his age before, and everyone wants to know what his plan is once he gets into the arena. art’s honesty with the citizens of panem wins him sponsor after sponsor, a fact that he and coira will take advantage of in the games. art’s interview—where he talks of his family and not wanting to let them down—earns him the most money he’s ever gotten in his life.

he scores an eight in his training evaluation. it’s a feat that only serves to impress the capitol more. mags tells him to capitalize on the fact that he’s young and easily overlooked once he gets to the arena, and art listens and does so. on the day before the hunger games, he and coira stay up late, strategizing and planning who to go after first. art will lure their prey into secluded areas and keep them there, and coira will take care of them from there.

games

the arena for the 63rd hunger games was a flat, barren landscape with very little cover to hide. there were holes in the ground and cliffs with caves in them, but most of the tributes didn’t know how to scale the cliffs well enough to get to the caves, and the holes weren’t deep enough to provide any sort of hiding place. torrential rain would occur every day at the same time. it never rained long enough to fill the arena.

art and coira’s plan worked for the first three days. coira killed both tributes from twelve and ten, the male tribute from eleven and the female tribute from six in those first three days. on the fourth day, they were cornered by the male tribute from district two. coira distracted him so art could get away. he still regrets running to this day. he didn’t know what happened to her until the cannons went off that night. coira and the district two tribute were dead, along with the female tribute from seven, the male tribute from six and both tributes from district nine.

art hid as best he could over the next four days. most of the remaining tributes picked each other off. art had found a hole deep enough to hide in, and he left it only to get food and water. on the eighth day, he killed the male tribute from seven, both tributes from eight, and the female tribute from eleven. the tributes from five were killed by the female tribute from district one and the female tribute from district two. art managed to kill the male tribute from district three on the ninth day. on the tenth day, the female tribute from one killed the female tribute from three. art, the district one tributes, and the female tribute from district two were the only four tributes remaining.

the final fight lasted three days. the district one tributes cornered the female tribute from district two and killed her, and then they went after art. he still doesn’t know how he killed them, but he was standing with two dead bodies at his feet on the thirteenth day. he was crowned the victor of the 63rd hunger games two days later.

post games

after being crowned victor, all art wanted to do was go home and see his parents. he was told he couldn’t do that. there were people that wanted to see him and congratulate him on his victory. he stayed in the capitol for a week following his victory. at the end of that week, he was summoned by president snow. the president told art that he couldn’t leave the capitol. if he left, snow said, his parents would be killed. art didn’t want that, did he? art, even at thirteen, recognized blackmail when he saw it. snow wanted him to stay and train some more. they were implementing a new program, he said. capitol members could pay to see victors and spend time with them. art didn’t like the sound of that, but he agreed. it wasn’t bad at first. as he got older, he realized what he’d agreed to. no one laid a hand on him until he was sixteen, but that didn’t make it any better.

he was allowed to return to district four to mentor, but he was not allowed to see his family. when he was eighteen, he mentored johanna barker. she went on to win the 68th hunger games. they’d fallen in love during the mentorship and art made the mistake of kissing her when she returned from the arena. the capitol was crushed, and art and johanna had to scramble to sort out their feelings and what this meant for their relationship.

they were outed as a couple on johanna’s victory tour and married in secret shortly after her victory tour ended. johanna was sent for by her guardian, turpin. art was adamant that she refuse to go. they decided to flee to district thirteen in the hopes that he would give up. art went first, intending to see how safe the district was and then he would return for johanna. that plan went awry, however. one of art’s clients, patrick zweig, had noticed that art was missing. he told snow, and snow had johanna brought to turpin in the capitol as punishment for art’s disobedience.

art returns to the capitol with a small team to save johanna. they return to thirteen and attempt to heal. while in thirteen, art takes up cooking again. he also teaches the younger members of the district how to wield a knife. when the rebellion comes around, art and johanna help as much as they can.

when the 75th hunger games happens, art is reaped. he knows it’s a punishment from snow and patrick for leaving. he’s part of haymitch’s plan to get katniss and peeta out of the capitol and transport them to thirteen. the plan goes off as smoothly as it can, but he always regrets not being able to save peeta. art storms the capitol with the rest of katniss’ team and he lives to return to johanna and district thirteen.

art learns that he has a daughter, lily, from one of his former clients. he and johanna take her in and dote on her as much as they can. when the rebellion is over, the three of them return to district four. art’s parents are still alive and he visits them for the first time in twelve years.

art and johanna eventually welcome two girls, canary and mavis donaldson, into their family. all three girls are loved beyond measure, and art and johanna are working to ensure their daughters never have to endure the horrors they did.

to anyone that’s currently curious about mike faist bc of challengers, i think now is the time to say that i write six of his roles. so uh. if you want to write with a mike muse, lmk because i’ve got six of them.

also, i guess i can use this as a starter and plotting call? so if you’d like to plot with any of the six roles (riff, dodge, connor, art, jack twist, or arthur) like this post and i’ll reach out or write you a starter. please specify a muse or else you won’t get anything!