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NAME/HANDLE: Nini
PERSONAL JOURNAL: buccellati
ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: ohyeah.
CONTACT: AIM: LadyIverin; hotpants
OTHER CHARACTERS: Catherine Halsey | Halo | coffeebeforescience


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CHARACTER NAME: Clint Barton (Hawkeye)
SERIES: Marvel's Cinematic Universe, specifically Avengers, and have some wiki for your trouble!
CANON POINT: End of the battle for earth
AGE: 35
APPEARANCE: ENJOY!

PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: N/A

PERSONALITY:
Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, is a skilled assassin, highly trained in combat and and with the right constitution for the job. Usually assigned to espionage and infiltration, he's skilled in most projectile weapons (including makeshift ones) and maintains a solid regimen that gives him an edge in most close combat situations. These skills make him perfect for his job, something that requires a person to be detached from their actions and to maintain a broad outlook on morality. Though possessing only the normal build of a particularly athletic man, his strict practice regimen and uncanny eyesight make up for his lack of artificial enhancements or super powers. His adaptability and quick thinking are also a boon, keeping him alive in situations from simple assassination to all-out combat. He also relies on both exceptional observation skills and instinct, making split-second decisions that allow him to rapidly fire even with a conventionally slow bow and arrow.

He takes genuine pleasure in his job, and gets great enjoyment from the art and form of archery. The killing, though, is just part of the job. Like any soldier, he has to have distance between himself and the killing itself, and he can't personalize or internalize it. With some targets, he takes a more passionate interest. If the target somehow makes it personal, as Loki did, he becomes a bit more ruthless. Natasha points out that that's the usual Hawkeye, intent on taking out the target with little care for the methodology. In fact, the only true combat-related regrets we see him have concern the loss of life by his hand when he was under Loki's influence.

There's an interesting duality shown in that he has the same desire to find a way to clean up his past mistakes or to compensate for them that Natasha does, while still maintaining this enthusiasm for his work. As a soldier, he has to make difficult decisions, so the killing is inevitable. However, doing it for the greater good of mankind appeals to that better part of him. He sees the advances SHIELD and the Avengers make as things that do benefit all of humanity, and he'll stick to his guns on following those who lead the efforts.

Straightforward and stubborn, he keeps his emotional distance from most of the people around him. Clint speaks when he needs to, watches from the sidelines when that's more appropriate, and keeps things as succinct as he can. He's direct with people, and doesn't hesitate to make a move or a comment when it needs to be made. Instead of trying to hedge or overdo tact, he chooses to take the shortest route from point A to point B both in relations to others and in speech. Not without a sense of humor, though, he has moments of wit and sarcasm that can go toe-to-toe with Nick Fury.

People he is familiar with are treated differently than others. Notably, his closer comrades (Natasha, Nick Fury, Agent Coulson) are treated more casually, and are subject to his sense of humor to a much greater degree than any others are. Natasha, for instance, gets his affected flirtation during a training exercise, something that seems to play against his typical distance. Nick Fury and Agent Coulson get their own share of humor from him, and they also are offered his frank suggestions with little inhibition. He relates to them almost as friends. As he comes to know people, he can relax more with them, and begin to trust them to hear out his less business-related opinions and thoughts. Until then, he's frank with them, keeping it mostly professional. In the end, he is a loner, preferring the distance from most people to even the good rapport he has with his closest comrades.

When working with others, he demonstrates an uncanny ability to coordinate and support tactical and strategic decisions, as well as to facilitate a smoother flow of information. He's succinct and no-nonsense in the field of battle (likely attributed to his background as a "specialist"/soldier for SHIELD). He also accepts tasks he knows others can't do with little complaint, as long as they interest him. While working on a large team is not preferable to him, he does it well when asked to do so.

Many of the personality traits we are shown hinge on the words and actions of Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, who is his SHIELD partner in espionage and other specialized tasks. There is a deep and rich history between them, one that started with him being assigned to assassinate her. For some reason, perhaps seeing her potential, he decided to spare her and bring her back to SHIELD. From there, they became accountable for each other. This shows an immense level of trust between them, which is further illustrated by her reaction to his abduction and mind control by Loki. The relationship goes both ways; he cares deeply for her interests, and has been privy to many details of her life that she might not otherwise divulge. They have shared both successes and tragedies that others would never understand.


ABILITIES:
Excellent vision, excellent awareness, incredible aim and accuracy. Proficient with bow, gun, and hand-to-hand combat; learns new weapons readily. He is a spy, mercenary, and SHIELD agent, so he has excellent communications skills and an almost superhuman sense of awareness, as well as incredible intuition and strategic ability. Apparently he can also fly planes. Unlike the other Avengers, he has no supernatural or artificial powers; he's simply really good at what he does, and he practices a lot.

In other words, Hawkeye is a badass normal.


POSSESSIONS: His Avengers gear (uniform with all the trappings), a knife, his bow, and his quiver of trick arrows, fully loaded.


samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE: Here and here!

THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: Already in game :v