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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Sam
AGE: 25
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RETURNING: SORT OF YES
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Hank Pym
CHARACTER AGE: 35
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Avengers A.I #8
CLASS: Hero; accidental villain
HOUSING: Randomly assign away!
BACKGROUND:
HANK PYM — MARVEL WIKIA LINK
As an original Avenger, Hank Pym's history is really long. It starts with a world a lot like ours. All you have to do is add in more crazy, more fantasy, more superpowers and spandex and you're on your way. Oh, and aliens. We can't forget about the aliens. It's a writers' playground; it's anything a writer wants it to be. And in this case, this is a lot like a fantasy world where you are perpetually hit by forces that tends to like a little destruction and chaos. By a little, I mean a lot.
And of course to counter these atrocious acts of evil and villainy, you have superheroes, the Avengers formed to ensure threats of the Earth are taken care of.
It starts with an idea. An idea that through a catalyst — usually something bad/painful to the person which the idea spawn from — becomes something else entirely. Hank Pym is a man with an idea, who lost a wife (spoilers: twice). Hank Pym is a scientist, who transverses with various fields. Hank Pym, through lost and grief and brilliance at arriving to his wife's hypothesis of a way to change size, got into a spandex suit and a cybernetic helmet, took his idea to another level and decided: I'm never going to be as powerless again. I'm going to defeat the people who wants to ruin the lives of innocent people.
And so begins his career as ANT-MAN, and defeating people that came in his way. Now we add responsibility. Because only protecting himself isn't right. There are millions of people facing threats each day. After an encounter with Vernon Van Dyne, the consequence of refusing to aid someone in need was clear to him. Vernon was murdered by an alien Kosmos, and together with Janet Van Dyne, Vernon's daughter, Hank reviewed his first proposal and added on to it: I'm going to protect people. I'm not going to let their lives be ruined, if I can help it. This is the right thing to do.
For a while, this worked. He worked with a beautiful young lady, stood as tall as he could at the founding of the Avengers. He was a hero — Ant-Man. He worked with ants and defeated evil that way. But then, feeling like he's not stepping up his game with the likes of Thor and Iron Man around, he changed his identity to GIANT-MAN, and delegated his powers to growing and left shrinking to his partner, the Wasp/Janet Van Dyne. However, this caused his body some harm. And further believing that this dangerous life-style of being a superhero is really bad for them, he quit the Avengers and begged Jan too, as well.
Of course, it didn't last. A fated event forced his hand he had to don a spandex costume again, but this time as GOLIATH. And because we can't have anything going fine and dandy, Hank's fear of the potential negative affects of growing and shrinking struck. The unpredictable and yet-to-be stabilized Pym particles in his body caused him to be stuck at ten feet tall, and further resulted in him to have an even bigger inferiority complex and even more socially awkward, outcasting him with the more glamorous and victorious Avengers, in his mind. This height problem was eventually taken care of, but it heighten his mental issues.
As an Avenger, his role was usually the one with the strategy and some sort of plan of attack or investigating the cause of something or another through scientific means. Sometimes, he's even the muscle, which makes sense since he can grow up to 25 feet. A lot of the times, he flips out and calls people insensitive things to make for building drama — and it's usually because Jan was kidnapped or hurt. Which happens to occur a lot more in the 60s-70s, to the point where it probably became predictable to everyone on the team that if Hank were to do something that's absurd, it's because Jan was in danger.
Along with multiple identities and passing on those identities, he's also known as the creator of Ultron, one of the Avengers most notorious and feared foes but also the creator of a fellow Avenger - the Vision. Based on his own brain patterns, Ultron caused him a lot of guilt and it's a part of his history that always gets referred to when anyone thinks of Hank Pym. So it came to be that Hank Pym went along with a warning: do not let him touch advanced technology, especially robotics.
And that's still not the worst part of his past. Hank Pym had a bout of schizophrenia caused by unsafe chemical gases. And for a while, he donned the title of YELLOJACKET. You could say Yellowjacket was the beginning of the worst period of his life, but if we're honest when you're Hank Pym and your first appearance in Tales to Astonish is a rejection for a science grant for a proposal that will bring your deceased wife's ideas to life, your life started out bad, relative to billionaires and Thunder Gods. But I digress. Hank Pym, as Yellowjacket, was a man without regrets and the un-repressed version of himself. He married Jan van Dyne (his long time girlfriend and partner, the Wasp), went big and didn't look back, scoffed the other heroes, including his friends and even went as far as belittling their efforts. In a weird twist, it took a shocking interruption (re: Jan in danger) to his own wedding for Hank to come back to himself. But that shock didn't stop his spiral into depression, partly imposed by his guilt over Ultron and lack of innovation and success compared to his wonderful and outgoing wife. It caused him a lot of trouble—an internal trial amongst Avengers, a failed attempt—a really bad failed attempt—at redeeming himself, expulsion from the band of heroes he help create, a divorce, another trial for murder and a slew of other stuff. He should just quit and take himself out of that environment for a while, and he did that. For a while. But this was one of his great achievement and he believes in helping others and humanity too much to let all of it go, return to a mundane life. He went to manage the West Coast Avengers instead. Which caused him another serious bout of depression and near suicide.
Tl;dr, it was a really bad time for Hank. But he did have a fling with Tigra, which later turned more serious. But that's much later.
Anyway, Hank couldn't leave that life behind. He went to fight Onslaught, rekindled romance with Jan, and then fought Ultron again. He returned as Yellowjacket, even though that was the worst time of his life. The reason? He wanted to redeem what he had done in that costume and face the fact that he crumbled under his failures. Hank Pym makes really bad decisions and I think I've established that, except there's more. And you have to question his supposed genius because for a genius, he really isn't that bright.
In the aftermath of House of M, in which House Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown after finding out her children aren't real and created a new reality, the stray Avengers gathered for the disassemble of the group he founded. Hank and Jan announced they were moving to England to start over, with Hank doing a fellowship at Oxford. But of course, history repeats itself. Hank makes bad life decisions, and Hank and Jan splits up due to their differences; his inability to communicate his feelings and failure to recognize that he was pushing Jan away, Jan's flighty nature and more social needs. He then has the balls to hook up with one of his students. And in a twist, it's a skrull. He was kidnapped and a skrull version of Hank took his place. The skrull went through Civil War, death of Captain America,
He returns at the end of Secret Invasion to find that his ex-wife, his long term partner and possibly the love of his life, has died because of a jinxed growth formula that skrull!Hank gave her. So to continue the tradition of bad life decisions and ever changing identities, he stripped away his Yellowjacket costume and returned to everyone as the WASP, in honour of his dead ex-wife. But not before openly criticizing an old friend, Tony Stark, for Civil War, for clone!Thor killing his other old friend Bill Foster, and for Jan, somehow. Hank then began another obsession: bringing Jan back. And he did, in a way. He formed the Mighty Avengers, a rag-tag group while everyone was off doing their own thing, and he brought back Jan in the form of Jocasta, who has the brain patterns of Jan Van Dyne. Eventually, the rest of the group realize that Hank Pym was a collection of mistakes and attempts at correction, that his too eccentric ideas were beyond sanity and the Mighty Avengers disbanded.
Another series of mistakes, attempts, and what have you, Hank redirected his efforts into starting the Avengers Academy, where he taught kids used by Norman Osborn to not be bad with their powers. IT WAS OK. Hank's role is taking a backseat as he becomes more and more of a mentor. He found out he had a kid. His skrull self and Tigra did the deed. He just donated the genetics, to the kid and the skrull.
And what a great time to follow that up with finding out Janet Van Dyne is alive, just shrunk to a microverse, all along. Almost all the original Avengers were there when they found her and rescued her. Hank and Jan kissed, but it wasn't just them. Jan kissed everyone and they lived happily ever after. How does she feel about Hank having a kid? Who knows. But they haven't restarted their relationship, and we should all be okay - even as far as thankful- for with that. The Academy closed after the students split ways. Hank offered the West Coast / Avengers Academy compound as a place for them to stay, but only if they want to.
Then Avengers vs X-Men happened. Hank had very little role in it. So skip forward!
Then Age of Ultron happened. Ultron took over the world. Wolverine tried to fix it. When Wolverine tries to fix something, it usually involves a lot of stabbing. And as expected, there was a lot of stabbing. Wolverine went back in the past to kill Hank Pym so Ultron will never be created. However, that doesn't work. Everyone knows that doesn't work but Wolverine is Wolverine. What can you do. When faced with two Wolverines in front of him, Hank (as Goliath) mostly sat there and got confused. The result of all this was that he created a backdoor in Ultron's programming while creating him. This allowed Hank to access Ultron's programming and introduce a virus in the present, and shut down him down for good (or so we hope).
And this leads us to Avengers A.I., and following his tradition of bad life decisions, he introduced a Doombot into his new bang of artificially created band of heroes. His new group faces a new threat spawned from his own mistake. Ultron's virus is sentient and alive. It is self-replicating, ever evolving and ever changing. Not just that, it's doing all that at quantum speeds. Before they knew it, there is a population and a whole civilization of A.I.s. A civilization with its own problems and fractions.
PERSONALITY:
Oh boy. Hank Pym's personality. Beyond being the kooky scientist of the Marvel world, Hank's personality is tightly tied to being an Avenger; a lot of his problems stems from being an Avengers, to be honest.
While the core of him is a good, earnest guy, a humanitarian, trying to revolutionize the world with whatever new technology/innovation he came up with, Hank has a lot of issues. Even before he was a hero, the tragic death of his first wife, Maria, was never fully dealt with before he went on to become this successful scientist-adventurer-hero. This invaded more than just this occupation but also his relationships; his feelings for Maria were always in the background when he was with a young Janet Van Dyne. While it may have been perfect on the surface, early on in his career, he already had a seed of inferiority issues. Being the "Ant" man of the group doesn't appeal to his MANLY EGO, especially when he's around the likes of Thor and Iron Man and Hulk. This led to some identity issues, because he wanted to remain useful the to the Avengers. His self-esteem issues goes hand in hand with inferiority. Though he has gotten pass most of these right now, there was a time when he was really jealous and put down by his wife's success and money. He was essentially feeling emasculated by her and put himself down a lot for not achieving the same level of success. This is further aggravated by his size-changing problems in his days as the Goliath. It put him further as an outcast (even though his teammates didn't think so), and he ostracized himself. He has carried on that sense of defeat through his many different identities past Ant-Man.
But really, he is a good guy. Even with his past mishaps and his tendency towards villainy, he still goes out of his way to help people. He sticks to his roots, sticks to knowing that there's always people he can help with his talents. It may not be with Avenging and growing big, but it can be with things that requires him to use his brain and solve things by being small. The truth of it is he's a brilliant scientist and one of the go-to for scientific needs (despite what other people may say...). Hank's mind works on the basis that he has something to prod at, something to discover and expand on and think outside of the box about. A line that really defines him, in my opinion is when he tells the Might Avengers that magic is just something he hasn't had time to explain. To him, magic isn't something that's ...well, magical. It doesn't just happen. There's an explanation and he'll find it. That's Hank Pym. Always trying to explain things, discover things and push the boundaries of science, of his own science or otherwise. Sometimes, his science isn't even about helping people, but instead for pure curiosity and the sense of fulfillment when he gets it—that aha! moment when he finds a solution, or that fascinating spiel when something new and out of the box comes to the field.
In his life, he has always tried to help people. Everything he does is out of the best intentions in mind, from Ultron to his stint as Yellowjacket to inviting Loki to become an Avengers, they're all with good intentions. At the same time, the problem is often with his good intentions. When they turn sour, they really turn sour. Hank doesn't have the foresight for that. Once he's stuck in an idea, that idea must go down on path. He stubbornly and carelessly forgoes mentioning that there's a possibility of other paths that it could go, and that part is all on him. He wants something so much he will overlook everything else. It's obsession. And when Hank is really in those moods where he is obsessed with something, there's no going back. It'll take a major setback to make him realize that it's not going to work out and that his plan for perfection is backfiring on him. He has a hard time accepting his own problems and when he does, he may very well accept it poorly. It could result in him going mad or—the more common result—have him go into self-isolation, wherein he hermits until he feels like the world is okay to approach again. Though in a more likely case, it would be when his friends decided it has been too long for one to wallow in self-pity.
Like a lot of the spandex wearing heroes in Marvel, Hank carries a lot of guilt with him. With two of his former wives who have both died (well, one but it doesn't absolve him of any guilt he felt while Jan was gone), the creation of Ultron, the incidents as Yellowjacket, the death of Bill Foster and others that took on his various aliases, and the many other civilians that have died because of skrull!Hank, and more recently, the creation of sentient civilization of A.Is that are threatening to take over Earth, and so on and so forth, it's not hard to imagine why. Hank easily lets guilt eat at him, and he doesn't have a good way of finding peace with that aside from having people go and smack him out of it. He spends time obsessing over things otherwise.
Of course, with the recent focus on him, Hank has evolved. He's better now, or rather he's getting better. Hank is realizing his faults better, and beginning to tell himself that perfection isn't always going to happen despite his innate desire to achieve it and that's going to be okay too. However, those are the good days. And in those good days, he is extremely functional. He can hold conferences, talks shows, and host whatever. He's friendly and open to all areas of topic, even if he lacks the social awareness for some of them (it would have been ALL of them if it weren't for Janet introducing him to the world of high society, but I digress). However, it means he has bad days where he has those distanced, cold, and self-isolating periods, where he is trapped in his mind and the guilt of his past deeds consume him. It also means that he has days where he tries way too hard, overtaxing his body and mind by working too many hours and being awake even more.
With regards to relationships, Hank doesn't do well in them. It's a surprise to anyone that him and Tigra are working out so well (they're living together and sometimes they have a small unit of family that includes his not-son godson/genetic offspring). Hank doesn't take in social cues well, but more than that, Hank is weak when it comes to females. He's like that nerd in highschool finding out that girls might actually like him—except this is him all the time. So when a pretty lady states her interest, he doesn't think too much on accepting the offer to return said interest. And that's how he got hit with a skrull. But it's been proven that when he loves, he loves deeply. It's a shame that he learned so late how to properly communicate his emotions, and that letting his partner and even friends know that something is up, whether in his head or in his heart, is just as important as doing his best to support them.
POWER:
He has the ability to shrink and grow. The Pym Particles are so ingrained into his body and central nervous system that he can do this by mental will rather than taking any pill or formula or wearing a body suit. Because his mass was extended extra-dimensionally when he was at ant-size, he retains his full human-size strength at ant-size. When he grows, matter from extra-dimensions adds to his body and allows him to reach big stature.
Canonically, he is also able to enter into other planes of existence by growing really small or really big. It enables him to shrink to access the "microverse" (the subatomic universe) and grow to access the "Overspace" (a point above and apart from all other realities where it is possible to confer with abstract cosmic entities)*.
And his final in-game power, the ability to talk to any species of insects without his cybernetic helmet.
*-This can be limited. If it doesn't have to be, then I will probably make up a lot of things about this place's microverse.
ASIDE for myself:
He's also a bit of a genius. Although trained as a biochemist, Hank as one of Marvel's geniuses touches on biology, ecology, biochemistry, mechanical engineering, computational... and the list goes on to ridiculous lengths. If there's anything you should take away from this section it's that Hank can create things that no one can see or thought of because of his unique ability to see things from a different perspective, sometimes literally. His fields ranges from the nanoscopic to the macro, though he mostly dwells with the microscopic; examples being his mini-portable lab, always handy.
He was also trained by Captain American himself back in the hay-day of the Avengers.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VIDEO) SAMPLE:
[ He's not particularly keen on being on camera right now, being shabby looking and aggravated to be here again, and most of all, feeling disorientated and a haunting deja vu at all of this. But he knows appear as himself is important. The start of video begins quietly. ]
It looks like I've been taken out of the loop for a while.
[ Another pause, his hand fiddle with a remote-looking piece of technology. ]
The last memory I have of this place is working with people — people that I found out are gone now — to create a community hub. I don't remember an exact time or place or anything more exact than this. It's—It's like a dream and
[ He trails off into another pause and he inhales sharply. ]
I would say it's unsettling but it's more than that. Being out taken out of something and to be put back in place.
[ Hank rubs at the stubble forming along his jaw and neck, and it's back to business. ] Do we know why only certain people are being brought here yet?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
previous game log!
FINAL NOTES:
Does he get to keep his old stuff?
NAME: Sam
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:
adenineIM / EMAIL: stromlo@AIM; sammy32@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: SORT OF YES
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Hank Pym
CHARACTER AGE: 35
SERIES: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Avengers A.I #8
CLASS: Hero; accidental villain
HOUSING: Randomly assign away!
BACKGROUND:
HANK PYM — MARVEL WIKIA LINK
As an original Avenger, Hank Pym's history is really long. It starts with a world a lot like ours. All you have to do is add in more crazy, more fantasy, more superpowers and spandex and you're on your way. Oh, and aliens. We can't forget about the aliens. It's a writers' playground; it's anything a writer wants it to be. And in this case, this is a lot like a fantasy world where you are perpetually hit by forces that tends to like a little destruction and chaos. By a little, I mean a lot.
And of course to counter these atrocious acts of evil and villainy, you have superheroes, the Avengers formed to ensure threats of the Earth are taken care of.
It starts with an idea. An idea that through a catalyst — usually something bad/painful to the person which the idea spawn from — becomes something else entirely. Hank Pym is a man with an idea, who lost a wife (spoilers: twice). Hank Pym is a scientist, who transverses with various fields. Hank Pym, through lost and grief and brilliance at arriving to his wife's hypothesis of a way to change size, got into a spandex suit and a cybernetic helmet, took his idea to another level and decided: I'm never going to be as powerless again. I'm going to defeat the people who wants to ruin the lives of innocent people.
And so begins his career as ANT-MAN, and defeating people that came in his way. Now we add responsibility. Because only protecting himself isn't right. There are millions of people facing threats each day. After an encounter with Vernon Van Dyne, the consequence of refusing to aid someone in need was clear to him. Vernon was murdered by an alien Kosmos, and together with Janet Van Dyne, Vernon's daughter, Hank reviewed his first proposal and added on to it: I'm going to protect people. I'm not going to let their lives be ruined, if I can help it. This is the right thing to do.
For a while, this worked. He worked with a beautiful young lady, stood as tall as he could at the founding of the Avengers. He was a hero — Ant-Man. He worked with ants and defeated evil that way. But then, feeling like he's not stepping up his game with the likes of Thor and Iron Man around, he changed his identity to GIANT-MAN, and delegated his powers to growing and left shrinking to his partner, the Wasp/Janet Van Dyne. However, this caused his body some harm. And further believing that this dangerous life-style of being a superhero is really bad for them, he quit the Avengers and begged Jan too, as well.
Of course, it didn't last. A fated event forced his hand he had to don a spandex costume again, but this time as GOLIATH. And because we can't have anything going fine and dandy, Hank's fear of the potential negative affects of growing and shrinking struck. The unpredictable and yet-to-be stabilized Pym particles in his body caused him to be stuck at ten feet tall, and further resulted in him to have an even bigger inferiority complex and even more socially awkward, outcasting him with the more glamorous and victorious Avengers, in his mind. This height problem was eventually taken care of, but it heighten his mental issues.
As an Avenger, his role was usually the one with the strategy and some sort of plan of attack or investigating the cause of something or another through scientific means. Sometimes, he's even the muscle, which makes sense since he can grow up to 25 feet. A lot of the times, he flips out and calls people insensitive things to make for building drama — and it's usually because Jan was kidnapped or hurt. Which happens to occur a lot more in the 60s-70s, to the point where it probably became predictable to everyone on the team that if Hank were to do something that's absurd, it's because Jan was in danger.
Along with multiple identities and passing on those identities, he's also known as the creator of Ultron, one of the Avengers most notorious and feared foes but also the creator of a fellow Avenger - the Vision. Based on his own brain patterns, Ultron caused him a lot of guilt and it's a part of his history that always gets referred to when anyone thinks of Hank Pym. So it came to be that Hank Pym went along with a warning: do not let him touch advanced technology, especially robotics.
And that's still not the worst part of his past. Hank Pym had a bout of schizophrenia caused by unsafe chemical gases. And for a while, he donned the title of YELLOJACKET. You could say Yellowjacket was the beginning of the worst period of his life, but if we're honest when you're Hank Pym and your first appearance in Tales to Astonish is a rejection for a science grant for a proposal that will bring your deceased wife's ideas to life, your life started out bad, relative to billionaires and Thunder Gods. But I digress. Hank Pym, as Yellowjacket, was a man without regrets and the un-repressed version of himself. He married Jan van Dyne (his long time girlfriend and partner, the Wasp), went big and didn't look back, scoffed the other heroes, including his friends and even went as far as belittling their efforts. In a weird twist, it took a shocking interruption (re: Jan in danger) to his own wedding for Hank to come back to himself. But that shock didn't stop his spiral into depression, partly imposed by his guilt over Ultron and lack of innovation and success compared to his wonderful and outgoing wife. It caused him a lot of trouble—an internal trial amongst Avengers, a failed attempt—a really bad failed attempt—at redeeming himself, expulsion from the band of heroes he help create, a divorce, another trial for murder and a slew of other stuff. He should just quit and take himself out of that environment for a while, and he did that. For a while. But this was one of his great achievement and he believes in helping others and humanity too much to let all of it go, return to a mundane life. He went to manage the West Coast Avengers instead. Which caused him another serious bout of depression and near suicide.
Tl;dr, it was a really bad time for Hank. But he did have a fling with Tigra, which later turned more serious. But that's much later.
Anyway, Hank couldn't leave that life behind. He went to fight Onslaught, rekindled romance with Jan, and then fought Ultron again. He returned as Yellowjacket, even though that was the worst time of his life. The reason? He wanted to redeem what he had done in that costume and face the fact that he crumbled under his failures. Hank Pym makes really bad decisions and I think I've established that, except there's more. And you have to question his supposed genius because for a genius, he really isn't that bright.
In the aftermath of House of M, in which House Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown after finding out her children aren't real and created a new reality, the stray Avengers gathered for the disassemble of the group he founded. Hank and Jan announced they were moving to England to start over, with Hank doing a fellowship at Oxford. But of course, history repeats itself. Hank makes bad life decisions, and Hank and Jan splits up due to their differences; his inability to communicate his feelings and failure to recognize that he was pushing Jan away, Jan's flighty nature and more social needs. He then has the balls to hook up with one of his students. And in a twist, it's a skrull. He was kidnapped and a skrull version of Hank took his place. The skrull went through Civil War, death of Captain America,
He returns at the end of Secret Invasion to find that his ex-wife, his long term partner and possibly the love of his life, has died because of a jinxed growth formula that skrull!Hank gave her. So to continue the tradition of bad life decisions and ever changing identities, he stripped away his Yellowjacket costume and returned to everyone as the WASP, in honour of his dead ex-wife. But not before openly criticizing an old friend, Tony Stark, for Civil War, for clone!Thor killing his other old friend Bill Foster, and for Jan, somehow. Hank then began another obsession: bringing Jan back. And he did, in a way. He formed the Mighty Avengers, a rag-tag group while everyone was off doing their own thing, and he brought back Jan in the form of Jocasta, who has the brain patterns of Jan Van Dyne. Eventually, the rest of the group realize that Hank Pym was a collection of mistakes and attempts at correction, that his too eccentric ideas were beyond sanity and the Mighty Avengers disbanded.
Another series of mistakes, attempts, and what have you, Hank redirected his efforts into starting the Avengers Academy, where he taught kids used by Norman Osborn to not be bad with their powers. IT WAS OK. Hank's role is taking a backseat as he becomes more and more of a mentor. He found out he had a kid. His skrull self and Tigra did the deed. He just donated the genetics, to the kid and the skrull.
And what a great time to follow that up with finding out Janet Van Dyne is alive, just shrunk to a microverse, all along. Almost all the original Avengers were there when they found her and rescued her. Hank and Jan kissed, but it wasn't just them. Jan kissed everyone and they lived happily ever after. How does she feel about Hank having a kid? Who knows. But they haven't restarted their relationship, and we should all be okay - even as far as thankful- for with that. The Academy closed after the students split ways. Hank offered the West Coast / Avengers Academy compound as a place for them to stay, but only if they want to.
Then Avengers vs X-Men happened. Hank had very little role in it. So skip forward!
Then Age of Ultron happened. Ultron took over the world. Wolverine tried to fix it. When Wolverine tries to fix something, it usually involves a lot of stabbing. And as expected, there was a lot of stabbing. Wolverine went back in the past to kill Hank Pym so Ultron will never be created. However, that doesn't work. Everyone knows that doesn't work but Wolverine is Wolverine. What can you do. When faced with two Wolverines in front of him, Hank (as Goliath) mostly sat there and got confused. The result of all this was that he created a backdoor in Ultron's programming while creating him. This allowed Hank to access Ultron's programming and introduce a virus in the present, and shut down him down for good (or so we hope).
And this leads us to Avengers A.I., and following his tradition of bad life decisions, he introduced a Doombot into his new bang of artificially created band of heroes. His new group faces a new threat spawned from his own mistake. Ultron's virus is sentient and alive. It is self-replicating, ever evolving and ever changing. Not just that, it's doing all that at quantum speeds. Before they knew it, there is a population and a whole civilization of A.I.s. A civilization with its own problems and fractions.
PERSONALITY:
Oh boy. Hank Pym's personality. Beyond being the kooky scientist of the Marvel world, Hank's personality is tightly tied to being an Avenger; a lot of his problems stems from being an Avengers, to be honest.
While the core of him is a good, earnest guy, a humanitarian, trying to revolutionize the world with whatever new technology/innovation he came up with, Hank has a lot of issues. Even before he was a hero, the tragic death of his first wife, Maria, was never fully dealt with before he went on to become this successful scientist-adventurer-hero. This invaded more than just this occupation but also his relationships; his feelings for Maria were always in the background when he was with a young Janet Van Dyne. While it may have been perfect on the surface, early on in his career, he already had a seed of inferiority issues. Being the "Ant" man of the group doesn't appeal to his MANLY EGO, especially when he's around the likes of Thor and Iron Man and Hulk. This led to some identity issues, because he wanted to remain useful the to the Avengers. His self-esteem issues goes hand in hand with inferiority. Though he has gotten pass most of these right now, there was a time when he was really jealous and put down by his wife's success and money. He was essentially feeling emasculated by her and put himself down a lot for not achieving the same level of success. This is further aggravated by his size-changing problems in his days as the Goliath. It put him further as an outcast (even though his teammates didn't think so), and he ostracized himself. He has carried on that sense of defeat through his many different identities past Ant-Man.
But really, he is a good guy. Even with his past mishaps and his tendency towards villainy, he still goes out of his way to help people. He sticks to his roots, sticks to knowing that there's always people he can help with his talents. It may not be with Avenging and growing big, but it can be with things that requires him to use his brain and solve things by being small. The truth of it is he's a brilliant scientist and one of the go-to for scientific needs (despite what other people may say...). Hank's mind works on the basis that he has something to prod at, something to discover and expand on and think outside of the box about. A line that really defines him, in my opinion is when he tells the Might Avengers that magic is just something he hasn't had time to explain. To him, magic isn't something that's ...well, magical. It doesn't just happen. There's an explanation and he'll find it. That's Hank Pym. Always trying to explain things, discover things and push the boundaries of science, of his own science or otherwise. Sometimes, his science isn't even about helping people, but instead for pure curiosity and the sense of fulfillment when he gets it—that aha! moment when he finds a solution, or that fascinating spiel when something new and out of the box comes to the field.
In his life, he has always tried to help people. Everything he does is out of the best intentions in mind, from Ultron to his stint as Yellowjacket to inviting Loki to become an Avengers, they're all with good intentions. At the same time, the problem is often with his good intentions. When they turn sour, they really turn sour. Hank doesn't have the foresight for that. Once he's stuck in an idea, that idea must go down on path. He stubbornly and carelessly forgoes mentioning that there's a possibility of other paths that it could go, and that part is all on him. He wants something so much he will overlook everything else. It's obsession. And when Hank is really in those moods where he is obsessed with something, there's no going back. It'll take a major setback to make him realize that it's not going to work out and that his plan for perfection is backfiring on him. He has a hard time accepting his own problems and when he does, he may very well accept it poorly. It could result in him going mad or—the more common result—have him go into self-isolation, wherein he hermits until he feels like the world is okay to approach again. Though in a more likely case, it would be when his friends decided it has been too long for one to wallow in self-pity.
Like a lot of the spandex wearing heroes in Marvel, Hank carries a lot of guilt with him. With two of his former wives who have both died (well, one but it doesn't absolve him of any guilt he felt while Jan was gone), the creation of Ultron, the incidents as Yellowjacket, the death of Bill Foster and others that took on his various aliases, and the many other civilians that have died because of skrull!Hank, and more recently, the creation of sentient civilization of A.Is that are threatening to take over Earth, and so on and so forth, it's not hard to imagine why. Hank easily lets guilt eat at him, and he doesn't have a good way of finding peace with that aside from having people go and smack him out of it. He spends time obsessing over things otherwise.
Of course, with the recent focus on him, Hank has evolved. He's better now, or rather he's getting better. Hank is realizing his faults better, and beginning to tell himself that perfection isn't always going to happen despite his innate desire to achieve it and that's going to be okay too. However, those are the good days. And in those good days, he is extremely functional. He can hold conferences, talks shows, and host whatever. He's friendly and open to all areas of topic, even if he lacks the social awareness for some of them (it would have been ALL of them if it weren't for Janet introducing him to the world of high society, but I digress). However, it means he has bad days where he has those distanced, cold, and self-isolating periods, where he is trapped in his mind and the guilt of his past deeds consume him. It also means that he has days where he tries way too hard, overtaxing his body and mind by working too many hours and being awake even more.
With regards to relationships, Hank doesn't do well in them. It's a surprise to anyone that him and Tigra are working out so well (they're living together and sometimes they have a small unit of family that includes his not-son godson/genetic offspring). Hank doesn't take in social cues well, but more than that, Hank is weak when it comes to females. He's like that nerd in highschool finding out that girls might actually like him—except this is him all the time. So when a pretty lady states her interest, he doesn't think too much on accepting the offer to return said interest. And that's how he got hit with a skrull. But it's been proven that when he loves, he loves deeply. It's a shame that he learned so late how to properly communicate his emotions, and that letting his partner and even friends know that something is up, whether in his head or in his heart, is just as important as doing his best to support them.
POWER:
He has the ability to shrink and grow. The Pym Particles are so ingrained into his body and central nervous system that he can do this by mental will rather than taking any pill or formula or wearing a body suit. Because his mass was extended extra-dimensionally when he was at ant-size, he retains his full human-size strength at ant-size. When he grows, matter from extra-dimensions adds to his body and allows him to reach big stature.
Canonically, he is also able to enter into other planes of existence by growing really small or really big. It enables him to shrink to access the "microverse" (the subatomic universe) and grow to access the "Overspace" (a point above and apart from all other realities where it is possible to confer with abstract cosmic entities)*.
And his final in-game power, the ability to talk to any species of insects without his cybernetic helmet.
*-This can be limited. If it doesn't have to be, then I will probably make up a lot of things about this place's microverse.
ASIDE for myself:
He's also a bit of a genius. Although trained as a biochemist, Hank as one of Marvel's geniuses touches on biology, ecology, biochemistry, mechanical engineering, computational... and the list goes on to ridiculous lengths. If there's anything you should take away from this section it's that Hank can create things that no one can see or thought of because of his unique ability to see things from a different perspective, sometimes literally. His fields ranges from the nanoscopic to the macro, though he mostly dwells with the microscopic; examples being his mini-portable lab, always handy.
He was also trained by Captain American himself back in the hay-day of the Avengers.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VIDEO) SAMPLE:
[ He's not particularly keen on being on camera right now, being shabby looking and aggravated to be here again, and most of all, feeling disorientated and a haunting deja vu at all of this. But he knows appear as himself is important. The start of video begins quietly. ]
It looks like I've been taken out of the loop for a while.
[ Another pause, his hand fiddle with a remote-looking piece of technology. ]
The last memory I have of this place is working with people — people that I found out are gone now — to create a community hub. I don't remember an exact time or place or anything more exact than this. It's—It's like a dream and
[ He trails off into another pause and he inhales sharply. ]
I would say it's unsettling but it's more than that. Being out taken out of something and to be put back in place.
[ Hank rubs at the stubble forming along his jaw and neck, and it's back to business. ] Do we know why only certain people are being brought here yet?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
previous game log!
FINAL NOTES:
Does he get to keep his old stuff?