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Sep. 18th, 2021 02:34 amPAIRING: Here
User Name/Nick: vilify
User DW: vilify
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Lark, Annie
Character Name: Clint Barton
Series: Marvel Comics - Hawkeye
Age: 30-ish
From When?: From leaving the hospital after he was deafened
Warden: Clint is a flawed person, a bit commitment-phobic and prone to self-hatred, but he is also a deeply caring, loyal person who encourages people to figure out their best path and then go for it hard. He does not hold mistakes against people, having made a lot of them in his own life, and so he's very willing to listen even when someone might otherwise be written off.
Item: an extremely well-worn, perhaps even threadbare purple hoodie
Abilities/Powers: He is an expert acrobat, an adept hand to hand fighter, and perhaps the best archer in the world. Otherwise he is simply human.
Personality: Clint has a sense of humor that carries him through a lot of harsh situations. He can joke about his life, whether it's when he's falling off a building to end up in traction for several months, or that he falls into the 'orphan prodigy' trope category, or when little nuisances get in his way through the day (coffee burned? pants broke? car died? he'll just fondly grumble at them).
He knows he is very, very good at what he does. He is the world's best sharpshooter, and he wouldn't be able to 'cowboy around', as he puts it, with the Avengers if he wasn't. But he knows he's not perfect. He can dissect his mistakes as he makes them ("arm too high, shoulder too tense, going to miss this shot, etc.), and he is humble enough that he calls Kate Bishop--the other Hawkeye, and his best friend--'perfect' as he watches her save their lives using his exact same skillset.
He is overall a cheerful, friendly person who is admittedly a bit of a goof. He can strike up conversations with random people on the street, and sometimes those people are quick to adopt him into their lives, and sometimes those people turn out to be violent gangsters who spend the next year trying to kill him. It doesn't stop him from reaching out to anyone else, and though he's a man who really likes people and animals, he's capable of great violence to protect them. Kick a dog? He will beat the everloving hell out of you and then take that dog to the vet.
His relatively well-adjusted demeanor is counterweighted by impulsive, poor decision-making. He will rob the world's most wealthy criminals without a second thought, he will cheat on the girlfriend he struggled to commit to, he will follow his then-wife across the world just to hang around her then leave when something else comes up. These decisions then knock him into a spiral of depression and self-loathing which is only broken when a crisis shows up and he has adrenaline to keep him going. Then, of course, more impulsive decisions later, followed by depression and self-loathing. This is especially marked when he is deafened and Gil ends up dead because of him, with his whole apartment building now marked for death instead of simply eviction. While the injury was understandably difficult, it was the sense of failure that flattened him.
This all likely goes back to the fact that he and his brother, Barney, were severely abused by their father. After being orphaned, Clint was adopted into the unstable world of circus life--and a circus run by a master thief, at that. Later on when he was reunited with his brother, Barney only let him live so that he could fight him again someday.
He is deeply empathetic thanks to his upbringing, but it also has made him unable to form very many committed relationships, platonic or romantic, and though he continues to love his people he will also leave them or allow them to leave him without a word. Kate Bishop, the person he is arguably closest to, grows tired of his pattern of behavior and takes his beloved dog Lucky with her when she leaves; Clint says nothing about it.
At the same time, he readily gives chance after chance to people, notably the ones who hurt him. Clint readily accepted Barney into his life to help protect the people in his building around his canon point, and is unsurprised when Barney double-crosses him again. He even allowed his old mentor, the man who turned him into a criminal, back into his life for a time.
All of this paints a picture of a man who is simply doing his best in a world full of people with greater power than he will ever have, who loves the people affected by the madness of life with supervillains running rampant, and who views putting his life on the line for them as simply a day job.
Barge Reactions: The Barge will not be a shock to Clint's system. He has already had his mind controlled, lived in an alternate universe, and fashioned a double life for himself. He's going to be concerned about how people adapt to it though, since he knows it is not easy to adjust. He's going to be very invested in his own inmate, but he'll always have space for other people who might need his help.
Deal: Clint wants to bring back Gilbert, his neighbor who was murdered due to Clint interfering with the gangsters in the city
History: Comics biographies are a beast
Sample Journal Entry: + Sample RP: Here
User Name/Nick: vilify
User DW: vilify
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Lark, Annie
Character Name: Clint Barton
Series: Marvel Comics - Hawkeye
Age: 30-ish
From When?: From leaving the hospital after he was deafened
Warden: Clint is a flawed person, a bit commitment-phobic and prone to self-hatred, but he is also a deeply caring, loyal person who encourages people to figure out their best path and then go for it hard. He does not hold mistakes against people, having made a lot of them in his own life, and so he's very willing to listen even when someone might otherwise be written off.
Item: an extremely well-worn, perhaps even threadbare purple hoodie
Abilities/Powers: He is an expert acrobat, an adept hand to hand fighter, and perhaps the best archer in the world. Otherwise he is simply human.
Personality: Clint has a sense of humor that carries him through a lot of harsh situations. He can joke about his life, whether it's when he's falling off a building to end up in traction for several months, or that he falls into the 'orphan prodigy' trope category, or when little nuisances get in his way through the day (coffee burned? pants broke? car died? he'll just fondly grumble at them).
He knows he is very, very good at what he does. He is the world's best sharpshooter, and he wouldn't be able to 'cowboy around', as he puts it, with the Avengers if he wasn't. But he knows he's not perfect. He can dissect his mistakes as he makes them ("arm too high, shoulder too tense, going to miss this shot, etc.), and he is humble enough that he calls Kate Bishop--the other Hawkeye, and his best friend--'perfect' as he watches her save their lives using his exact same skillset.
He is overall a cheerful, friendly person who is admittedly a bit of a goof. He can strike up conversations with random people on the street, and sometimes those people are quick to adopt him into their lives, and sometimes those people turn out to be violent gangsters who spend the next year trying to kill him. It doesn't stop him from reaching out to anyone else, and though he's a man who really likes people and animals, he's capable of great violence to protect them. Kick a dog? He will beat the everloving hell out of you and then take that dog to the vet.
His relatively well-adjusted demeanor is counterweighted by impulsive, poor decision-making. He will rob the world's most wealthy criminals without a second thought, he will cheat on the girlfriend he struggled to commit to, he will follow his then-wife across the world just to hang around her then leave when something else comes up. These decisions then knock him into a spiral of depression and self-loathing which is only broken when a crisis shows up and he has adrenaline to keep him going. Then, of course, more impulsive decisions later, followed by depression and self-loathing. This is especially marked when he is deafened and Gil ends up dead because of him, with his whole apartment building now marked for death instead of simply eviction. While the injury was understandably difficult, it was the sense of failure that flattened him.
This all likely goes back to the fact that he and his brother, Barney, were severely abused by their father. After being orphaned, Clint was adopted into the unstable world of circus life--and a circus run by a master thief, at that. Later on when he was reunited with his brother, Barney only let him live so that he could fight him again someday.
He is deeply empathetic thanks to his upbringing, but it also has made him unable to form very many committed relationships, platonic or romantic, and though he continues to love his people he will also leave them or allow them to leave him without a word. Kate Bishop, the person he is arguably closest to, grows tired of his pattern of behavior and takes his beloved dog Lucky with her when she leaves; Clint says nothing about it.
At the same time, he readily gives chance after chance to people, notably the ones who hurt him. Clint readily accepted Barney into his life to help protect the people in his building around his canon point, and is unsurprised when Barney double-crosses him again. He even allowed his old mentor, the man who turned him into a criminal, back into his life for a time.
All of this paints a picture of a man who is simply doing his best in a world full of people with greater power than he will ever have, who loves the people affected by the madness of life with supervillains running rampant, and who views putting his life on the line for them as simply a day job.
Barge Reactions: The Barge will not be a shock to Clint's system. He has already had his mind controlled, lived in an alternate universe, and fashioned a double life for himself. He's going to be concerned about how people adapt to it though, since he knows it is not easy to adjust. He's going to be very invested in his own inmate, but he'll always have space for other people who might need his help.
Deal: Clint wants to bring back Gilbert, his neighbor who was murdered due to Clint interfering with the gangsters in the city
History: Comics biographies are a beast
Sample Journal Entry: + Sample RP: Here
