Essence ofCaptain America+

By drinking this brilliant clear blue serum, you will gain the physical and mental qualities of the most legendary super-soldier of them all.

• First and foremost, your body will be remade and reshaped into that of beyond a peak human. Your strength, speed, agility, etc. will be boosted to the point that you can use a motorcycle as a throwing weapon, do a sustained run at a faster speed than the world-record Olympic sprinter could do a hundred-yard dash, casually perform amazing feats of acrobatics, and have mental and physical reactions multiple times faster than human normal. You will have a tremendous combat aptitude that allows you to almost immediately learn any fighting style or master any weapon you are physically capable of using. Even your most immediate reflexive responses will be executed as smoothly and intelligently as if you had had sufficient time to think about and choose your next move. And all of this will be only your starting baseline, and may continue to improve over time as your body adapts to the serum.

• Your intellectual faculties will also be augmented by the serum, with a particular focus on tactics, strategy, and adaptability. You will be boosted into the 99th percentile of human intelligence if you were not already higher, and you will have a truly perfect and eidetic memory. Even without any training at all your tactical aptitude and instincts will be so exceptional that you could outmaneuver world-class professionals, and your situational awareness will be essentially perfect. If it would be at all possible to come up with a successful, actionable plan given your available knowledge and resources then you'd basically be guaranteed to.

• You will possess nigh-inexhaustible endurance and incredible resilience. You can fight all-out or run continuously for hours on end, go without sleep for several days, hold your breath several times longer than normal, and are almost entirely immune to exhaustion. You could take punches that would break bones on normal people and barely raise a bruise, do a terminal-velocity fall into the ocean and not even feel it, and fight an entire battle against invading aliens after being shot in the stomach. Your heightened metabolism laughs off diseases and poisons, and you will retain optimum health and physical fitness even into advanced old age. Your health and physical condition will optimize as if you were continuously practicing clean and healthy living throughout, even if you actually aren't. You can truly do this all day.

• Your mental and emotional endurance is matched by perhaps only one or two other people in the universe, and is inferior to none. No amount of pain, trauma, despair, fear, or anything else will be able to daunt you. Your willpower will be limitless and unbreakable, although you will still remain capable of changing your mind if you choose to or admitting fault if you are wrong. Even in the face of a cosmic crisis that shattered all others, if it came down to a contest of strength of spirit and/or will you would be the last man standing among an entire universe of heroes.

• You will gain exceptional charisma and natural social aptitudes. Even if you were an awkward loner it would only take you several months of adapting and learning to become an inspirational icon and exceptional leader. You will have an overwhelming sincerity that just convinces people that you're not lying regardless of the implausibility of your claims, so long as you are genuinely telling the truth as you know it. You could get an entire building full of loyal agents to believe that the agency they'd devoted their life to serving was actually the front for an undying Nazi conspiracy out to take over the world just by giving a brief speech over the intercom, without needing any actual proof.

• In addition, the serum will amplify virtually everything inside you – but only for the better. Good will become great, but unlike the original serum bad will not become worse. Upon first consuming the serum you will go on a sort of spiritual journey that will allow you to confront your flaws, break you out of your current bad habits and learned helplessness (if any), objectively see where you need to improve, and start you solidly on the path towards becoming the paragon that you could be, so long as you are willing to put in the effort.

• Your exceptional physical and mental qualities will give you exceptional capability to rapidly learn and master new skills of any kind. You could go from a raw recruit fresh out of boot camp to expertly leading a special operations task force through the most difficult missions of a world war with only a few months of on-the-job training, or thoroughly educate yourself on the history, culture, global threat analysis, etc. of an entirely strange time period with only a year or two of time after having been cryogenically frozen for decades. And once mastered you will never grow 'rusty' with any of your skills, regardless of lack of practice.

• As an icon of freedom, you will be unbound from any fate that you have no desire to achieve. No binding, prophecy, or precognition will be able to chain you to a bad ending that you refuse to accept. Your beliefs may be tested by the universe, but they will never be shattered. For as long as you remain sincerely committed to your ideals you will never be forced to break your personal code by a no-win dilemma, although the honorable alternative may still be significantly more painful, humiliating, or dangerous than the expedient option or lead to only an incomplete success.

• Optionally, you may be given thorough and comprehensive training making you skilled in essentially every advanced military skill, every weapon, every vehicle, and every technical specialty that an elite military super-soldier or SHIELD commando would be expected to know about. From radio operation to HALO jumping to flying jets and helicopters to foreign languages and more, you have been trained or cross-trained on all of it and can apply your lessons with ease. You will be particularly skilled in all forms of hand-to-hand combat; while you won't start out knowing any of the really esoteric tricks that involve things like chakra or chi you will be one of the world's greatest grandmasters in all known 'mundane' fighting styles, particularly military-oriented and Western styles.

• Optionally, you may be given your own version of the Mighty Shield, made of an unbreakable Adamantium-Vibranium alloy that could not even be scratched by anything short of the Power Cosmic and perhaps not even then. This shield will be perfectly balanced and weighted both for throwing and for hand-to-hand combat, and will have the curious property of absorbing energy when you wish it to and reflecting it when you wish it to. If ever lost or destroyed, circumstances will align so that a new and equally as good shield will somehow find its way to you soon. You will have complete mastery of using this shield both as a defense and as a weapon, and can do even the most complicated shield tricks with it with ease.

• Optionally, your adaptation to the serum may be so ideal that you stop aging entirely and remain in the prime of life indefinitely.

• At the time you first drink this serum you will receive an appearance upgrade to a perfectly handsome/beautiful paragon, customized to your wishes and idealized self-image. You will also have full control over your fertility and other related buffs.