steve can play the piano. although they couldn’t bring it with them on their move from ireland to america, his mother used to own a grand piano, and she taught him how to read sheet music at an early age. he found he could play the piano at dance halls when he was older and scraped up extra money playing for others when he wasn’t sick or attending school. seventy years later, he still knows how to, and he finds piano music very soothing for his anxiety, whether he’s listening or playing.
steve is sterile. not knowing all the side effects to it, the super soldier serum altered everything in his body and demolished his fertility, as most genetic alterations do.
since he couldn’t do heavy duty work in the factories or on the docks, steve was a newspaper boy during the 30′s.
sitting in a restaurant or at a dinner party, steve must have the seat that faces the door. he gets anxious having his back to entrances, as he prefers to be very aware about his surroundings and not run risk of being ambushed, as he likes to believe.
steve’s a dog person. absolutely adores them. the bigger the dog, the better.
one of steve’s biggest triggers of his ptsd is flashes, such as flash photography or light glinting off a watch and into his eyes. anything that rids him of his vision, even for a moment, can throw him into a panic attack.
although steve knows many martial arts, his primary technique is krav maga, a military self-defense system developed for the israel defense and security forces, which focuses mainly on extreme efficiency and brutal counter-attacks.
steve learned many home remedies fending for his sickly self during the 30′s after his mother died. some were trial and error, but others his mother had taught him.
