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Hawkeye App
Feb. 15th, 2012 11:35 am[Player]
Name/Handle: El
Age: 32
AIM/YIM/MSN/Plurk/Etc: AIM: thisisel
Email: bittereloquence@gmail.com
Current Characters: N/A
[Character]
Character Name: Clinton Francis “Clint” Barton
Source: Marvel Comics
Personality:Clint Barton is a bit of an impulsive hot head. His temper is prone to flaring up quickly and blowing over just as swiftly. At heart, he's a pretty decent guy, one who is loyal to a fault and passionate about what he does. He grew up in an abusive household with a drunken father who beat the crap out of their mother and both Clint and his brother Barney. From an early age Hawkeye tried to keep his head down and win his father’s approval. That abusive relationship left its mark on the young man who would one day become Hawkeye.
Now, when faced with an authoritarian figure such as Captain America, who despite being everything Clint idealizes, Hawkeye is prone to contradictory emotions of both needing to buck that authority and secretly hope for that person’s approval. This caused lots of problems when he originally joined the Avengers. Having thought himself more geared towards leadership than a man who’d been stuck in ice for the past few decades, Clint constantly questioned Steven’s directions and was an all around pain in the ass. Thankfully, Captain America saw something in Clint beyond the angry bravado and poor attitude problems and instead of washing his hands of the young man, helped channel Hawkeye’s resentment and anger into something productive. Clint Barton wouldn’t be the man he is today if not for Steve.
Because loyalty is such an important thing to Clint, he doesn’t react well to being put into a situation where he has to choose one friend over the other. Despite his unhappy childhood and loss of innocence, Hawkeye has managed to avoid turning bitter and mistrustful like those who influenced him from childhood. A strong sense of honor runs deep through Clint and that personal integrity is what helped steer him back onto the straight and narrow after falling to a life of crime.
Clint’s most prevalent personality trait however is both his greatest asset and weakness. He is stubborn to the point of stupidity. Surrounded by mutants, Gods, super soldiers and a whole host of other enhanced people, Clint is one of the few Avengers without any kind of superpowers. This means he has to work twice as hard to keep up with the others. Refusing to back down or be seen as weaker, it’s nearly impossible to shake Hawkeye from his chosen path be it mastering a new skill-set or giving up on a losing battle.
He’s a bit of a ladies man and is known for flirting and has even falling in love with his fellow Avengers teammates a time or two. Unlike Tony however, Clint is always careful never to break a woman’s heart and usually ends up being close friends with his exes such as the Black Widow, his ex-wife Bobbi Morse. Generally, he’s attracted to strong women, women who are totally unlike his easily cowed mother who never defended herself against his father’s mistreatment.
Clint tends to view himself as a sort of rebel inside the Avengers ranks and has more than one time struck out as a lone wolf in order to make his own attempts at independence but generally ends back in the fold once again. The Avengers are his family now and the thing he uses to define himself. If Clint were to lose that bond, he probably wouldn’t be able to recover from such a blow.
History/Pull Point: Pull point: Six months after joining up with the Avengers. Born in Waverly, Iowa the younger of two sons to Harold and Edith Barton, Clint’s childhood was not what one would call picturesque. His father ran the local butcher shop and had a fondness for drinking and using his fists. When things would go bad for Harold, he’d take it out on his family. The physical abuse starting at an early age for Clint. Unlike his older brother Barney, Clint tried to placate his father’s bitter modes and strove to work hard in the family business to take some of the strain off his father. Their mother Edith was a rather weak-willed woman unfortunately who could do little to protect her children or herself from Harold’s rages.
When he was eight years old, his father wrapped the family car around a tree in a drunken accident that killed both him and Edith. Barney and Clint were placed in an orphanage where they found themselves too old for the system to work for them. Young couples wanted babies, not two half-grown boys. Barney especially hated the orphanage and took his anger out on Clint who tried to curry his brother’s favor by covering his chores and the like. After six years at the orphanage, Barney was the one who came up with the idea of them running away and he convinced Clint to come along with him After a few days on their own, they stumbled upon the Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders where Barney convinced the owner to take him and Clint on as roustabouts.
It was by sheer dumb luck that Clint came to the attention of the Swordsman. After the performer’s assistant quit the act abruptly, he demanded to know if either of the Barton boys if either had the guts to appear in his knife-throwing act. Clint eager volunteered himself and impressed the Swordsman with his steady nerves so the performer decided to take him on as his assistant. It was the Swordsman who initially taught Hawkeye the tricks of the trade, starting him out on throwing knives when the boy showed an almost eerie talent and hand eye coordination. Unfortunately, things went awry when the crooked archer known as Trick Shot joined the circus and knocked the Swordsman out of the star attraction spotlight.
Embittered, the Swordsman attacked the paymaster and stole the night’s take to help pay for some gambling debts. Clint caught him in the act and ran away to alert the owner when the enraged Swordsman pursued him and chased him into the big top. Clint tried to climb a high wire to escape his mentor because the Swordsman was trying to beat him to death and the older man cut the rope and the net, thus causing him to fall at a great height. The fall broke both of Clint’s legs in compound fractures; it was only the intervention of Trick Shot and Barney that saved Hawkeye’s life.
Upset by the incident and wanting to escape the carny lifestyle, Barney left the circus when Clint was in the hospital. The brother’s had one last fight and misunderstanding which ended with Barney leaving to join the military. Trick Shot stepped in to mentor Clint and taught the young man his impressive knowledge of archery and the use of ‘trick’ arrows. Things continued like this for a while and Trick Shot even brought Clint in on his illegal activities. Unbeknown to Clint, his mentor was a wanted killer and he convinced Clint to go on a job to raid a man known as Marco. Trick Shot murdered Marco and in the confusion, Clint shot one of the man’s guards. Only afterward did he realize it was Barney whom he had shot. Horrified at his actions, he and Trick Shot parted on bitter terms and Clint took Barney to the hospital where they saved his brother’s life.
Ashamed of himself, he fled the hospital without reconciling with his brother and instead took to wandering and traveling from circus to circus under the guise of the stage name ‘Hawkeye’. Seeing Iron Man on the television one day pushed Clint to want to become a masked hero himself. But on his very first night on patrol, things went wrong and he was instead mistaken as a robber. Around this time, he crossed plans with the Russian spy known as Black Widow. Hawkeye fell madly in love with the femme fatale and was once more unknowingly dragged into a life of crime as he convinced him to help her steal StarkTech. This brought him to blows with Iron Man himself. After a few such incidents, Natasha was wounded in battle and Clint took her to the emergency room against her wishes. This cause their relationship to founder and she disappeared from the ER and Clint’s life.
Rudderless and hunted by the law, Clint had nearly resigned himself to his poor lot in life when he saved Tony Stark’s personal butler Jarvis and his mother from a mugging. Jarvis saw something in Clint and followed the young man, prying his sorry story out of him. Jarvis is the one who suggested Clint apply to the Avengers and aided the young man in breaking into the Avengers mansion and cleared his name. When Clint stated his case to the Avengers, it was Tony Stark who spoke up for him and sponsored his entry into the superhero group.
He joined the twin ex mutant terrorists known as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch and along with Captain America, they formed a brand new Avengers team, one that was at first looked down upon because of their less than auspicious ranks. The team became known as Cap’s Kooky Quartet.
Abilities/Special Powers/Non average skills: Clint is a world class archer. Having been trained by Trick Shot who was one of the foremost archers in the world Hawkeye’s almost preternatural hand eye coordination has been hones to peak human level. In addition to his archery abilities, he is skilled in handling just about any kind of projectile from throwing knives, bolas and boomerangs.
He is a skilled acrobat who has trained his body to peak physical standard, endurance and agility. Hawkeye has also been trained in handling a sword thanks to his apprenticeship beneath the Swordsman and has been under the tutelage of Captain America learning how better to handle himself in hand to hand combat.
[Game Specific]
Character class: Knight
Why your character would be that class: Loyal and steadfast, Clint has dedicated himself to the Avengers cause. He cannot sit idly by when someone is preying upon those weaker than them. Despite his somewhat shady history, there is a deep running code of ethics and honor that rules Hawkeye’s life. Being brave and selfless, he would willing lay down his life in the defense of what he believes in.
Powers/skills to be gained by being that class: None, Clint is a baseline human.
[Samples]
Log sample:
Clint woke up feeling like he’d swallowed a fifth of Jack Daniels. His stomach twisted and turned queasily. Instead of the nice, feather soft pillow he remembered going to sleep on last night, something hard and uneven pressed uncomfortably against his cheek.
Someone nuzzled at the back of his head, breath blowing almost uncomfortably against his ear and that finished dragging Clint back into wakefulness. He didn’t remember picking anyone up. Cracking open a blood-shot eye, Clint looked up into the limpid brown eyes of a black horse. The blond man yelped in a very unmanly way and scurried back from the horse’s huge hooves as the animal danced back snorting in alarm.
“Whoa, easy there big fella,” Climbing to his feet, the blond snagged the trailing reins hanging down from the stallion’s bridal. The style of the bridal was a little strange but thankfully, the mount didn’t object to the strange man holding onto his tack. Hawkeye had some experience caring for and riding horses thanks to his carnival days and could tell this was a very finely bred horse.
The stallion stood at close to 15 hands and had the classical lines of a Baroque horse. Judging by the feathers on the horse’s legs, he was going to go with a Friesian or something similar. “Easy there, where did you come from, boy?” The horse just shook its head and the armor protecting its neck and chest rattled quietly. There was also some strange armor hanging over the horse’s hindquarters as well. All in all, it was tacked up like some horse from Medieval Times. Hawkeye was rather amused by the touches of purple and blue barding the horse was wearing underneath the armor. Much to his confusion, he actually found the Avengers logo branded into the leather stapes of the saddle configuration and embroidered onto the saddle pad.
Abruptly, he realized the horse wasn’t the only dressed up in strange armor. The clothing he was wearing most definitely wasn’t his own. Some kind of strange leather tunic and breeches combination was worn underneath what had to be forty pounds of heavy armor. Chainmail rattled distractingly and made his balance feel rather sluggish. All in all, Clint felt kind of like a RenFaire reject.
“What the hell is going on here?” His companion just prickled its ears forward and cocked a lazy hoof. Clint’s elbow smacked painfully against the pommel of the sword he hadn’t really been paying attention to strapped to his waist until then. Swords weren’t really Hawkeye’s weapon of choice though he did find an unstrung bow and a quiver of arrows tied to the barding of the horse’s saddle which made Clint feel a little better about all this.
“Well, I guess this sure beats walking, huh? Let’s go see if we can find your owner and figure out why I’m dressed like I escape from a Renaissance Fair.” Swinging up into the saddle, Hawkeye took a moment to get used to the downright uncomfortable design of the saddle before slipping his feet into the bulky stirrups.
“I see smoke, let’s head that way.” Clicking his tongue, he squeezed the horse’s sides and it broke out into a trot.
Orb sample: [The orb showed Hawkeye’s rather suspicious and unimpressed expression clearly.] Okay, someone told me I’m just supposed to talk into this crystal ball and some kinda magical mumbo jumbo is supposed to make it work? You’ll pardon me if I just politely call this whole thing a crock of shit.
[Clint drawled, the Midwestern twang in his voice thick with suspicion.] Look, I dunno what you people want or why you’ve kidnapped me and dressed me up like some kind of RenFaire reject but ya need to stop it. I got obligations and don’t have time to be indulging you people and your SCA obsession.
Hell, if ya’ll have all this time and money to recreate your own Renaissance Festival, you don’t need to be kidnapping Avengers. Sorry if I seem a little cheesed off but my head is freaking killing me and I’m kinda having a bad trip through Wonderland here. [Frowns down at the orb as though it could provide him with answers.]
God I’m talking to a freaking crystal ball. I must be crazy. [Scoffing at himself, Clint let go of the orb, ending the transmission.]
Name/Handle: El
Age: 32
AIM/YIM/MSN/Plurk/Etc: AIM: thisisel
Email: bittereloquence@gmail.com
Current Characters: N/A
[Character]
Character Name: Clinton Francis “Clint” Barton
Source: Marvel Comics
Personality:Clint Barton is a bit of an impulsive hot head. His temper is prone to flaring up quickly and blowing over just as swiftly. At heart, he's a pretty decent guy, one who is loyal to a fault and passionate about what he does. He grew up in an abusive household with a drunken father who beat the crap out of their mother and both Clint and his brother Barney. From an early age Hawkeye tried to keep his head down and win his father’s approval. That abusive relationship left its mark on the young man who would one day become Hawkeye.
Now, when faced with an authoritarian figure such as Captain America, who despite being everything Clint idealizes, Hawkeye is prone to contradictory emotions of both needing to buck that authority and secretly hope for that person’s approval. This caused lots of problems when he originally joined the Avengers. Having thought himself more geared towards leadership than a man who’d been stuck in ice for the past few decades, Clint constantly questioned Steven’s directions and was an all around pain in the ass. Thankfully, Captain America saw something in Clint beyond the angry bravado and poor attitude problems and instead of washing his hands of the young man, helped channel Hawkeye’s resentment and anger into something productive. Clint Barton wouldn’t be the man he is today if not for Steve.
Because loyalty is such an important thing to Clint, he doesn’t react well to being put into a situation where he has to choose one friend over the other. Despite his unhappy childhood and loss of innocence, Hawkeye has managed to avoid turning bitter and mistrustful like those who influenced him from childhood. A strong sense of honor runs deep through Clint and that personal integrity is what helped steer him back onto the straight and narrow after falling to a life of crime.
Clint’s most prevalent personality trait however is both his greatest asset and weakness. He is stubborn to the point of stupidity. Surrounded by mutants, Gods, super soldiers and a whole host of other enhanced people, Clint is one of the few Avengers without any kind of superpowers. This means he has to work twice as hard to keep up with the others. Refusing to back down or be seen as weaker, it’s nearly impossible to shake Hawkeye from his chosen path be it mastering a new skill-set or giving up on a losing battle.
He’s a bit of a ladies man and is known for flirting and has even falling in love with his fellow Avengers teammates a time or two. Unlike Tony however, Clint is always careful never to break a woman’s heart and usually ends up being close friends with his exes such as the Black Widow, his ex-wife Bobbi Morse. Generally, he’s attracted to strong women, women who are totally unlike his easily cowed mother who never defended herself against his father’s mistreatment.
Clint tends to view himself as a sort of rebel inside the Avengers ranks and has more than one time struck out as a lone wolf in order to make his own attempts at independence but generally ends back in the fold once again. The Avengers are his family now and the thing he uses to define himself. If Clint were to lose that bond, he probably wouldn’t be able to recover from such a blow.
History/Pull Point: Pull point: Six months after joining up with the Avengers. Born in Waverly, Iowa the younger of two sons to Harold and Edith Barton, Clint’s childhood was not what one would call picturesque. His father ran the local butcher shop and had a fondness for drinking and using his fists. When things would go bad for Harold, he’d take it out on his family. The physical abuse starting at an early age for Clint. Unlike his older brother Barney, Clint tried to placate his father’s bitter modes and strove to work hard in the family business to take some of the strain off his father. Their mother Edith was a rather weak-willed woman unfortunately who could do little to protect her children or herself from Harold’s rages.
When he was eight years old, his father wrapped the family car around a tree in a drunken accident that killed both him and Edith. Barney and Clint were placed in an orphanage where they found themselves too old for the system to work for them. Young couples wanted babies, not two half-grown boys. Barney especially hated the orphanage and took his anger out on Clint who tried to curry his brother’s favor by covering his chores and the like. After six years at the orphanage, Barney was the one who came up with the idea of them running away and he convinced Clint to come along with him After a few days on their own, they stumbled upon the Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders where Barney convinced the owner to take him and Clint on as roustabouts.
It was by sheer dumb luck that Clint came to the attention of the Swordsman. After the performer’s assistant quit the act abruptly, he demanded to know if either of the Barton boys if either had the guts to appear in his knife-throwing act. Clint eager volunteered himself and impressed the Swordsman with his steady nerves so the performer decided to take him on as his assistant. It was the Swordsman who initially taught Hawkeye the tricks of the trade, starting him out on throwing knives when the boy showed an almost eerie talent and hand eye coordination. Unfortunately, things went awry when the crooked archer known as Trick Shot joined the circus and knocked the Swordsman out of the star attraction spotlight.
Embittered, the Swordsman attacked the paymaster and stole the night’s take to help pay for some gambling debts. Clint caught him in the act and ran away to alert the owner when the enraged Swordsman pursued him and chased him into the big top. Clint tried to climb a high wire to escape his mentor because the Swordsman was trying to beat him to death and the older man cut the rope and the net, thus causing him to fall at a great height. The fall broke both of Clint’s legs in compound fractures; it was only the intervention of Trick Shot and Barney that saved Hawkeye’s life.
Upset by the incident and wanting to escape the carny lifestyle, Barney left the circus when Clint was in the hospital. The brother’s had one last fight and misunderstanding which ended with Barney leaving to join the military. Trick Shot stepped in to mentor Clint and taught the young man his impressive knowledge of archery and the use of ‘trick’ arrows. Things continued like this for a while and Trick Shot even brought Clint in on his illegal activities. Unbeknown to Clint, his mentor was a wanted killer and he convinced Clint to go on a job to raid a man known as Marco. Trick Shot murdered Marco and in the confusion, Clint shot one of the man’s guards. Only afterward did he realize it was Barney whom he had shot. Horrified at his actions, he and Trick Shot parted on bitter terms and Clint took Barney to the hospital where they saved his brother’s life.
Ashamed of himself, he fled the hospital without reconciling with his brother and instead took to wandering and traveling from circus to circus under the guise of the stage name ‘Hawkeye’. Seeing Iron Man on the television one day pushed Clint to want to become a masked hero himself. But on his very first night on patrol, things went wrong and he was instead mistaken as a robber. Around this time, he crossed plans with the Russian spy known as Black Widow. Hawkeye fell madly in love with the femme fatale and was once more unknowingly dragged into a life of crime as he convinced him to help her steal StarkTech. This brought him to blows with Iron Man himself. After a few such incidents, Natasha was wounded in battle and Clint took her to the emergency room against her wishes. This cause their relationship to founder and she disappeared from the ER and Clint’s life.
Rudderless and hunted by the law, Clint had nearly resigned himself to his poor lot in life when he saved Tony Stark’s personal butler Jarvis and his mother from a mugging. Jarvis saw something in Clint and followed the young man, prying his sorry story out of him. Jarvis is the one who suggested Clint apply to the Avengers and aided the young man in breaking into the Avengers mansion and cleared his name. When Clint stated his case to the Avengers, it was Tony Stark who spoke up for him and sponsored his entry into the superhero group.
He joined the twin ex mutant terrorists known as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch and along with Captain America, they formed a brand new Avengers team, one that was at first looked down upon because of their less than auspicious ranks. The team became known as Cap’s Kooky Quartet.
Abilities/Special Powers/Non average skills: Clint is a world class archer. Having been trained by Trick Shot who was one of the foremost archers in the world Hawkeye’s almost preternatural hand eye coordination has been hones to peak human level. In addition to his archery abilities, he is skilled in handling just about any kind of projectile from throwing knives, bolas and boomerangs.
He is a skilled acrobat who has trained his body to peak physical standard, endurance and agility. Hawkeye has also been trained in handling a sword thanks to his apprenticeship beneath the Swordsman and has been under the tutelage of Captain America learning how better to handle himself in hand to hand combat.
[Game Specific]
Character class: Knight
Why your character would be that class: Loyal and steadfast, Clint has dedicated himself to the Avengers cause. He cannot sit idly by when someone is preying upon those weaker than them. Despite his somewhat shady history, there is a deep running code of ethics and honor that rules Hawkeye’s life. Being brave and selfless, he would willing lay down his life in the defense of what he believes in.
Powers/skills to be gained by being that class: None, Clint is a baseline human.
[Samples]
Log sample:
Clint woke up feeling like he’d swallowed a fifth of Jack Daniels. His stomach twisted and turned queasily. Instead of the nice, feather soft pillow he remembered going to sleep on last night, something hard and uneven pressed uncomfortably against his cheek.
Someone nuzzled at the back of his head, breath blowing almost uncomfortably against his ear and that finished dragging Clint back into wakefulness. He didn’t remember picking anyone up. Cracking open a blood-shot eye, Clint looked up into the limpid brown eyes of a black horse. The blond man yelped in a very unmanly way and scurried back from the horse’s huge hooves as the animal danced back snorting in alarm.
“Whoa, easy there big fella,” Climbing to his feet, the blond snagged the trailing reins hanging down from the stallion’s bridal. The style of the bridal was a little strange but thankfully, the mount didn’t object to the strange man holding onto his tack. Hawkeye had some experience caring for and riding horses thanks to his carnival days and could tell this was a very finely bred horse.
The stallion stood at close to 15 hands and had the classical lines of a Baroque horse. Judging by the feathers on the horse’s legs, he was going to go with a Friesian or something similar. “Easy there, where did you come from, boy?” The horse just shook its head and the armor protecting its neck and chest rattled quietly. There was also some strange armor hanging over the horse’s hindquarters as well. All in all, it was tacked up like some horse from Medieval Times. Hawkeye was rather amused by the touches of purple and blue barding the horse was wearing underneath the armor. Much to his confusion, he actually found the Avengers logo branded into the leather stapes of the saddle configuration and embroidered onto the saddle pad.
Abruptly, he realized the horse wasn’t the only dressed up in strange armor. The clothing he was wearing most definitely wasn’t his own. Some kind of strange leather tunic and breeches combination was worn underneath what had to be forty pounds of heavy armor. Chainmail rattled distractingly and made his balance feel rather sluggish. All in all, Clint felt kind of like a RenFaire reject.
“What the hell is going on here?” His companion just prickled its ears forward and cocked a lazy hoof. Clint’s elbow smacked painfully against the pommel of the sword he hadn’t really been paying attention to strapped to his waist until then. Swords weren’t really Hawkeye’s weapon of choice though he did find an unstrung bow and a quiver of arrows tied to the barding of the horse’s saddle which made Clint feel a little better about all this.
“Well, I guess this sure beats walking, huh? Let’s go see if we can find your owner and figure out why I’m dressed like I escape from a Renaissance Fair.” Swinging up into the saddle, Hawkeye took a moment to get used to the downright uncomfortable design of the saddle before slipping his feet into the bulky stirrups.
“I see smoke, let’s head that way.” Clicking his tongue, he squeezed the horse’s sides and it broke out into a trot.
Orb sample: [The orb showed Hawkeye’s rather suspicious and unimpressed expression clearly.] Okay, someone told me I’m just supposed to talk into this crystal ball and some kinda magical mumbo jumbo is supposed to make it work? You’ll pardon me if I just politely call this whole thing a crock of shit.
[Clint drawled, the Midwestern twang in his voice thick with suspicion.] Look, I dunno what you people want or why you’ve kidnapped me and dressed me up like some kind of RenFaire reject but ya need to stop it. I got obligations and don’t have time to be indulging you people and your SCA obsession.
Hell, if ya’ll have all this time and money to recreate your own Renaissance Festival, you don’t need to be kidnapping Avengers. Sorry if I seem a little cheesed off but my head is freaking killing me and I’m kinda having a bad trip through Wonderland here. [Frowns down at the orb as though it could provide him with answers.]
God I’m talking to a freaking crystal ball. I must be crazy. [Scoffing at himself, Clint let go of the orb, ending the transmission.]
