❥ Character Information

Character Name: Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk
Character Age: 34
Character Species: Human/Hulk
Current Health: Fitter than most fiddles
Outfit: Purple spandex suit

Character Canon: MCU
Link to History: History
Canon Point: End of Season 1
Canon Iteration: Original Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: n/a

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:
⚖️ Law
⚖️ Judo
⚖️ Gymnastics
Canon Abilities:
⚖️ Enhanced Physiology/Hulk Transformation:
Superhuman Strength, Durability, Speed, Agility, Stamina, Reflexes; Regenerative Healing Factor; Radiation Immunity
⚖️ Technically she also has awareness of the 4th Wall and depending on how pissed she is at who's writing her, she can also break it. This won't really come up except as like. A side gag in brackets kind of thing. For a canon example, she says at one point in episode 8 "Doesn't it feel like this episode should be over by now?" and the entirety of episode 9 is her breaking the 4th wall by going through a hole in the Disney+ menu, going to Marvel Studios, shaking down the actual writers of her show (they did not hire actors), signing an NDA before security attempts to escort her out, and talking to Kevin Feige (who is a giant robotic AI named KEVIN - but try to stay with me here) to get her story's ending changed. What I'm going to do with this is shit like this: "She says to herself. And to her captive audience reading this. (Hi, guys.)" She's not going to tell anyone from her universe they're fictional, she's not Deadpool (she very much had this ability first, actually); she knows that would naturally cause panic and chaos and she'd like to avoid that, thanks.
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Jen will transform in to a North America House Hippo (pit bull), while She-Hulk will transform into a (green) spotted hyena.
Role Reasoning: Jen is so emotionally stable she's able to completely control her Hulk transformation from basically the very beginning of her getting it. She's not emotionally distant nor is she overly emotionally driven. She's very in control of her emotions but also acknowledges them. Addionally as a lawyer, she understands that good and bad and the law itself are constantly in flux. She's very open to listening, even when she's superheroing and in the mode to punch first rather than listen first, such as when she joined up with Daredevil after a quick fight with him. That said, even though she's in a better spot than Bruce ever was with regard to her dual identity, she still views the Jen Experience as intrinsically different than the She-Hulk Experience, so I wanted to give her a fairly distinct, but similar Familiar transformation for each version: One that people fear and legislate against unjustly and unfairly, and the other one, which could actually really fucking hurt someone.

❥ Personality

Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:

Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?
Jen's a defense lawyer. And she'll defend anyone because she believes everyone has the right to a fair trial, even Emil Blonsky/the Abomination/the guy who tried to kill her cousin. That said, while her moral code might lean less "lawful" good than some, because it is ultimately her job to get her clients the lightest/fairest sentence possible, she does have a very strong moral code. And as a result of this, she takes her job extremely seriously. I think it's because she grew up without getting to see Bruce much because he was constantly on the run and later doing Avenger's business. In her mind, she would've been able to defend Bruce and get him the freedom to not get locked up in a lab somewhere.

What does your character feel like they struggle with still? Where could they improve? This could be physically, mentally, emotionally, or otherwise.
In a word, balance. Being a Hulk is a constant balancing act between being too angry, not angry enough; being too emotional, or not emotional enough. Even though Jen has her transformations down pat - thank the constantly-angering misogyny women deal with for that - she still struggles with when she should hulk out. For example, there's an episode where her friend asks her to not be She-Hulk while Jen's in her wedding party so that She-Hulk doesn't show this friend up at her wedding. Titania shows up, Jen transforms, and they fight. The friend ends up not being too mad about it (minus Titania stealing the groom's cake), but the first thing Jen starts doing when confronted about it is to apologize because she knows that while not exactly her fault, all smashing and no lawyering doesn't tend to pay off for her.

What would your character sacrifice to get what they want or to reach their potential? What have they sacrificed already?
Jen is very driven - mostly by her job, which she doesn't quite realize she's been in a committed marriage with for a number of years. But when people are in danger, she (admittedly reluctantly at first) does step up and sacrifice things - job included. The end of the first episode has She-Hulk stopping Titania, who punched her way into a courtroom, and promptly getting fired from the DA's office first thing in the second episode as a result of turning that case into a fucking circus. At the end of the day, Jen's just trying to help people - if she can do that better in a law office, great, but if the solution needs smashing, she's mostly good with that too. Just make sure she ends back up in a courtroom eventually; those student loans were no joke.

What famous folklore, legend, or myth would you associate your character with? Are they literally inspired by Snow White? Do they have similar struggles or energy as Red Riding Hood?
The Hulks are absolutely inspired by a number of gothic horror stories, the most obvious two being Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. It's more obvious in Bruce's backstory, where he's a scientist making OSHA violations. But because his backstory is so tied up with Jen's, it definitely deserves a mention. Her own backstory is slightly more inspired by werewolf lore: Boy is werewolf + gets hurt, girl accidentally gets his blood on her, girl transforms into a werewolf and eats a guy who catcalls her. ...Okay, maybe not eats in Jen's case, unless she's had a really bad day first 😏

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