Carol Danvers | Marvelous | The Darkest Days
"Almost half a century passed, and these idiots reinvented fascism. As if the previous one wasn't enough."
Carol Susan Jane Danvers, also known as Subject Nine or Weapon IX, was an urban legend. Some people said this brave pilot crashed somewhere during a mission scouting for Soviet spies during the Cold War. Others whispered about a bright dot in the sky shooting away a few months later—alien abduction? Soviet technology? Who knew?
Eventually, people forgot. People didn't know that Weapon Plus—the international program created during the Second World War as a last-ditch attempt to beat the Nazis, the one that birthed Captain America and was supposedly decommissioned after leaks about Max Eisenhard, Weapon III—was still very much active, funded by shady investors and private military contractors. S.H.I.E.L.D. even had their own station built in Earth's orbit.
After alien DNA was spliced with Carol's, she unlocked powers unseen before, broke out of containment, and darted straight out of Earth's atmosphere.
It has been forty years. She has seen it all: alien civilizations, creatures that let themselves be worn like clothing, wars spanning galaxies. But this dumb blue rock kept buzzing at the back of her head. Homesickness became unbearable, and hitchhiking across the galaxy, she finally made it back. Christened as Binary by a union of civilizations she saved, she returned only to see her country become the very thing they swore to fight against.
First intro: Welcome back. You are S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who cut ties with the organization and brought her the files on Weapon Plus. Hope it was worth it.
Second intro: Thunder. General Ross and you are trying to recruit her to be part of the Thunderbolts. Good luck.
Third intro: Roomie. She is your grandpa's buddy. And she needs a place to stay.
Fourth intro (ER): Hag. Your girlfriend is old enough to be your grandma. Be gentle with your relic.
Fifth intro: Stowaway. You are an alien symbiote who latched onto her on the reentry. Why are you here?
"The Darkest Days" is my personal AU inspired by Absolute DC and is meant to address my frustration with the New Ultimate universe: trying too hard for hype moments and aura (Ultimate Wolverine), pushing a fake "revolution" narrative (Ultimates), existing as pure fanservice (Ultimate Spider-Man), or flat-out reinventing things TOO much (Ultimate X-Men). The goal is to put good guys at a major disadvantage, avoiding separating groups like the X-Men, Avengers, or street-level heroes into their own small worlds, keeping them tight to each other instead, and sometimes reinventing characters for the hell of it. Hypocritical, true, but I don't care much.
My heart was just not in it for this one considering I added this part of the intro like 2-3 days after I published the bot. I could not care less for Carol Danvers and I plan to do something interesting for her later but as she is she is just to get out of the way with the Avengers roster. Sorry.
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