Pepper Potts (mspotts_) wrote, @ 2012-09-20 20:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | application, game: apokolips now |
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Player info
Player name: Jess
Player age: 26
Character LJ: This can be created after you are accepted, but if you already have one, please link to it here.
AIM/Email/Contact: Lena7623 / Lena7623@gmail.com
Character info
Name/Alias: Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts
Age: Late 30’s.
Canon: This Pepper is strictly from the Marvel movies Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. She is from the end of The Avengers.
Personality: To most people that meet her, Pepper Potts is the extreme version of efficiency and responsibility. She is one of those that thrive in a work situation. She is happiest when she’s working, arguing with people over the phone or possibly even in person, shoving Tony around and making him do what he needs to do (including eating), and being a great business woman. Outside of that, Pepper has a tendency to be very ordinary, for lack of a better word. She sometimes still gets rattled by things like her boss and now boyfriend running around in a metal suit and nearly getting killed, people trying to kill her, and even more crazy things like aliens invading and nearly destroying parts of New York. She used to be rattled by things like fancy parties, but, in the face of aliens, seems rather mundane.
History: Virginia Potts was born to a regular family, a businessman father and a stay at home mother. Her father worked long hours, so she was mostly raised by her mother. However, she looked up to her father, and knew that when she grew up, she wanted to be just like him. She knew that she wanted to be a great business person. After she graduated college, she went to business school, then ending up in Stark Industries secretarial pool. It wasn’t the job that she wanted, but she didn’t mind having to start at the bottom. She thought it was her lucky day when Tony Stark noticed her and hired her as his PA, although she would later sometimes claim that it was an unlucky day, although she was usually only teasing. Being Tony’s PA was like running a company and being a babysitter all in one. She ended up having to take on some of his duties as CEO not long after getting hired by him, as he tended to like the high life but not always the work that it took to get it. Everyone around Tony quickly realized that if they wanted to get Tony to truly do anything, they would have to go through Pepper.
Their relationship slowly started to change after he was kidnapped in the Middle East. Pepper almost went insane trying to find a way to get Tony back. She was amazed but not really surprised when he managed to break out of there himself by building some sort of mechanical suit. She was horrified to see that he now had to use the arc reactor to keep shrapnel from entering into his heart, but it was something she quickly got used to, especially when she had to help him change it out once. What she couldn’t possible get used to was Shane betraying Tony, trying to take the company from him just because he didn’t want to produce the weapons that nearly killed him anymore and having him kidnapped in that desert hell. She helped him learn the extent of Shane’s betrayal, and then helped him get rid of the man. It felt like there might be something starting to develop between them, but she was worried that changing their relationship would end badly (he was a playboy, after all), so she didn’t let it happen then. She was highly exasperated when he decided to reveal that he was Iron Man rather than going with the story of him being a bodyguard, though. Irritated, but not surprised. Tony could do little to surprise her at this point.
She thought so, anyway. When he asked her to be the full CEO of his company, she was floored. She already did many of the duties that he was supposed to be doing, but actually being the CEO was something completely different. It was what she had always wanted, after all. Something didn’t seem right, but, when she tried to question him about it, he would just brush her aside. So, instead of thinking too hard about her worry, she instead threw herself head first into the company, pulling twenty hour days of work sometimes to keep her worry about Tony buried. However, when he threw the party and destroyed half his house, fighting with Rhodey, and seemingly trying to really drink himself into an early grave, she couldn’t help but wonder if he had simply lost his mind. Still, she was too exasperated with him to want to deal with him. It was only later, the night of Hammer’s presentation at the Expo, that she found out the truth, that Tony had been dying of palladium poisoning. She felt like killing him, she really did. They managed to somehow survive the night again, and she tried to quit, she really did. This was all just too much for her. Tony had become one of her one true friends and she was too freaked out by finding out that he had nearly died and then nearly dying herself in one night that she just…had a little break down. The only reason that she shut up at all was because Tony kissed her. It was something that she had been wanting for a while, although she hadn’t admitted that to anyone but herself.
Much of the next year was spent working alongside Tony now. He had focused his genius on figuring out clean energy, something that would benefit the world far more than weapons. She loved working on Stark Tower with him, even though she wanted to kick him for the ‘12%’ comment. Finding out that there was an alien invading the planet with an army was utterly terrifying on a whole new level than everything before. She hated that she had missed his call when he thought that he would die, too. She had been watching the news, and for some reason had left her phone on silent. To say that she was relieved to get the call from Tony that he was alright was an understatement. They came back together at the tower, although they didn’t bother to fix the sign. Tony had kind of taken a liking to the new simple ‘A’ sign.
Writing sample
First person:
Did I really just get kidnapped? I don’t have time for this.
Whomever brought me here, I’d like you to know that neither Tony nor I are known for negotiating with kidnappers.
Also, you’re terrible. I can’t believe you’ve let me roam around a city with no one to watch over me.
Third person:
Grabbing her purse, Pepper headed out the door to get in the car waiting for her. Happy was supposed to drive her to a meeting at Stark Industries. While she and Tony were sharing more of the CEO duties for the company now, she was still the one who did most of the meetings. Not that she really minded. He wasn’t going half mad because he was thinking that he was dying, and she wasn’t throwing herself so far into work that she could barely breathe. It was a nice balance.
She slid into the car, letting Happy know where she needed to go. She kept mostly to herself during the drive, mentally going over what she needed to do and talk about during the meeting. There was all sorts of things that needed to be dealt with, most of them dealing with the energy reactor that Tony had built for Stark Tower. Everyone was wanting a look at it, wanting one of their own without realizing just what all that entailed.
She rubbed her eyes as she got out of the car, purse on her arm. When she blinked in the sunlight, she realized that she wasn’t in front of Stark Tower, but some sort of library. “Happy, where are we?” she asked, turning around to stick her head back in the car, only to find that there was no car there. She reached into her purse, grabbing her phone to dial Happy. When she got a message saying that the number wasn’t in service, she got nervous, then dialing Tony. When she got the same message, she got REALLY nervous and actually dialed the number to SHIELD that Phil had once given her. When THAT didn’t even work, she had to swallow the panic that was boiling inside of her. Not seeing any other way around it, she sighed and headed into the library, figuring she should at least figure out where the hell she was.