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> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Kate Bishop
CANON: Marvel Comics (616 specifically)
AGE: 21
CANON POINT: Hawkeye Vol.4 #22, after rescuing Clint and defeating the tracksuit guys.
HISTORY: Here!
PERSONALITY:
Kate grew up the quintessential rich girl, with an amazing penthouse in Manhattan, a disgustingly rich father, and every opportunity to succeed. She went to the best boarding schools and fancy rich kid summer camps, all with the constant assumption that she would grow up to do great things. In many ways, Kate rose to meet those expectations. An overachiever, she got great grades, participated in a crazy amount of extracurriculars, and dazzled her father’s friends and colleagues at endless dinners and gala events. To most, Kate was the perfect daughter, but a lot of this ridiculous drive originally developed from a deep desire to please her father. Kate’s mother, Eleanor, instilled in her daughter a humble view of money and a knowledge that they were incredibly positioned, and she often spent time volunteering or organizing charity events. However, Eleanor was rarely home, and Derek was distant and emotionally unreachable. As a result, she grew up incredibly lonely, and with a fierce independent streak.
Kate always knew things weren’t quite right in her family. It started with her parents. Eleanor and Derek rarely spent time together, and that all clicked when one day, Kate came home unannounced and accidentally saw her father beating someone in his office. It took a while for her to see the scope of her father’s corruption, but from that moment on, Kate was determined to follow her mother’s path. She threw herself into charity work and even started scolding her older sister for her more extravagant taste. Eventually, this odd dissonance led Kate to follow her father to a secret meeting, where she was captured and held for ransom. Coincidentally, Hawkeye managed to save her, and Kate was blown away by his skill and by the idea that someone without powers could go toe to toe with super heroes and villains.
Eventually, a turning point came when Kate was sexually assaulted while walking at night in Central Park. From then on, her illusions of relative safety were shattered, and she isolated herself for a time. At some point, though, it made something click; even if she never felt safe again, she could make sure other people never experienced what she did. This is what originally motivated Kate to learn self-defense, and she threw herself into it with the same obsessive need for perfection as she has everything else in her life. One villain says that Kate is “a well-above average combatant, and overcompensates for a lack of experience with an unpredictable bravado”, which is an on the nose assessment.
Kate’s upbringing has instilled in her a fierce sense of pride and independence, and when Clint says “she’s like nine years old and spoiled rotten”, it isn’t just affectionate hyperbole. Kate was spoiled, and is used to being listened to. This means she’s incredibly opinionated, and often blunt and brash. She doesn’t mince words, and is often unwilling to back down. On one hand, this is a great thing. Kate’s morals are rock solid, and she’ll never turn down a person in need. On the other hand, she thinks being a super hero is the most important thing she’s ever done, and she just doesn’t get when her fellow heroes aren’t willing to put themselves in as much danger as she is. She can be inflexible, and will argue endlessly if she thinks she’s doing the right thing to the point of close-mindedness. For this reason, Kate and Clint end up butting heads a lot.
During Fraction’s run, it’s clear at times that Clint is being unfair to her and treating almost everyone badly due to a breakdown of self-esteem and depression, and Kate gets fed up with it. While she does try different tactics such as talking to him openly, cajoling him, and finally flat out arguing with him, her final solution is to take his dog without his permission and impulsively leave for Los Angeles after a huge fight. Her decision to get distance is understandable, but she tends to do things like this in very aggressive, destructive ways. She can also be a bit of a bully, pushing teammates and friends to do things her way and getting upset when they don’t give her a good enough reason for refusing. More accurately, she gets upset when she thinks their reasons aren’t good enough, even if they’re logical. She is also utterly unafraid to sever relationships when she feels the other person has crossed a line she can’t accept. The perfect example of this is her father. At first, she looked the other way despite having an idea of his shady dealings, but when she found out he was part of a plot to kill Clint and fully understood the scope of that corruption, she completely cut him out of her life and promised to stop him.
While Kate’s morals are generally inflexible, they’re not quite the squeaky clean set of rules that the Avengers like to (pretend) they’re known for. Her mentor is Clint Barton, after all, who started out as a villain in his own right and only straightened out later. Kate is generally against crime, but makes exceptions, such as breaking into buildings to find evidence or stealing her bow and arrows back from the Avengers. At one point, she shoots a few baddies in their eyes, and insists to Clint that they’ll live, which he acknowledges, even though they’ll never see again. Then again, Clint’s modus operandi is generally “they’ll live, even if it’s not well”, so it’s no wonder Kate does the same.
Overall, though, Kate is an incredibly caring person. She tends to be the stereotypical “heart of the team” in most of the team ups she’s placed on. During her time with the Young Avengers, she took on a big sister role with Cassie and later kid Loki, teasing them affectionately and also giving them advice and pushing them when they needed it. With Clint, she constantly tries to get him to be better because she believes he can be better, and because she believes they balance out one another's flaws. Clint is more laid back where Kate is more of an intense Type A personality, and he counters her lack of experience with his years and years of super hero-ing. Generally, Kate is sarcastic and teasing, ribbing her friends affectionately. Still, she has genuine, compassionate conversations with Clint and with many of her other friends when they need it, to the point that America Chavez once says that she prefers when Kate insults her over “sincere Kate”. Kate is the type of person who will move heaven and earth when her friends need her.
She tends to get along with a ton of people, and has impressed a lot of other heroes in the Marvel Universe. Captain America first gives Kate permission to use the name Hawkeye after Kate dresses him down in a way he claims only Clint ever really did, and Spider-Woman similarly agrees that Kate deserves the title. Clint, while initially believing Kate wasn’t a good enough marksman to claim the name, eventually tells her they can both use it, and later calls her “without a doubt the finest and most gifted bowman I’ve ever met” and “perfect". When Kate decides to do something, she sticks to it until she excels at it. When she thinks she can help, she does everything she can to be of use, even to the point of jumping into situations in brave, but incredibly reckless, ways. In other ways, she’s your usual 20-something year old—she’s very extroverted, a bit of a flirt, and pop culture obsessed. She ends up absolutely broke and struggling to make ends meet, and she has a love of food and fashion, it’s just that she spends the vast majority of her time fighting bad guys and occasionally saving the world.
CRAU: n/a
SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: Here!
SKILLS:
Marksman - Kate's been training in archery for years, and was then taught one-on-one by Clint Barton, which means she is a really great shot with incredible accuracy. She's been shown to pull off somewhat ridiculous feats, such as the "Robin Hood shot", as well as being able to shoot multiple arrows simultaneously and accurately. Kate also knows how to use firearms, although she isn't as comfortable with them as her bow. She can also use other projectile weapons, such as throwing knives.
Combat - Trained in various martial arts. Kate's really good at hand-to-hand combat, and she knows how to fence as well as use various weapons like batons/escrima sticks and swords.
Strategy - In grand Hawkeye tradition, Kate sometimes uses trick arrows to great effect. She's also shown a talent for using tricks and intelligence to make up for her relative lack of experience and superpowers.
Superhero stuff - Kate's picked up a lot of random skills that I don't know where to list! She's been shown to be able to drive cars in incredibly dangerous situations, such as high speed chases. She has experience infiltrating enemy buildings and can be pretty damn sneaky, and she knows how to pick locks. She's also a capable leader!
NEW POWER: Luck Manipulation
Basically, Kate will start off being able to alter her own luck, causing very fortunate but slightly improbable things to happen (such as making a particularly difficult shot more easily, catching a glass she drops, dodging a blow, etc.) Over time, I'm thinking she could begin to alter other people's luck, too, to both positive and negative effects. Eventually she could be able to cause someone's gun to jam or make them trip, or maybe even grant someone a sort of temporary luck boost, like an innate form of the felix felicis potion.
Kate will never be able to control the specific effects, and nothing that her ability causes will even be impossible, only more and more improbable as her abilities improve.
POWER REASONING: It's a running theme throughout the comics that both Hawkeyes have terrible luck and the odds are always stacked against them, but Kate has always prided herself on making her own way in a world full of superheroes with powers. A luck based power would be interesting for Kate to deal with, as she'd have to confront the idea that she might be besting baddies because of a super power and not her own hard won skill.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: Thread with Jason
SAMPLE TWO: TDM toplevel
NAME: Jenny
PRONOUNS: She/her
AGE: 27
CONTACT:
> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Kate Bishop
CANON: Marvel Comics (616 specifically)
AGE: 21
CANON POINT: Hawkeye Vol.4 #22, after rescuing Clint and defeating the tracksuit guys.
HISTORY: Here!
PERSONALITY:
Kate grew up the quintessential rich girl, with an amazing penthouse in Manhattan, a disgustingly rich father, and every opportunity to succeed. She went to the best boarding schools and fancy rich kid summer camps, all with the constant assumption that she would grow up to do great things. In many ways, Kate rose to meet those expectations. An overachiever, she got great grades, participated in a crazy amount of extracurriculars, and dazzled her father’s friends and colleagues at endless dinners and gala events. To most, Kate was the perfect daughter, but a lot of this ridiculous drive originally developed from a deep desire to please her father. Kate’s mother, Eleanor, instilled in her daughter a humble view of money and a knowledge that they were incredibly positioned, and she often spent time volunteering or organizing charity events. However, Eleanor was rarely home, and Derek was distant and emotionally unreachable. As a result, she grew up incredibly lonely, and with a fierce independent streak.
Kate always knew things weren’t quite right in her family. It started with her parents. Eleanor and Derek rarely spent time together, and that all clicked when one day, Kate came home unannounced and accidentally saw her father beating someone in his office. It took a while for her to see the scope of her father’s corruption, but from that moment on, Kate was determined to follow her mother’s path. She threw herself into charity work and even started scolding her older sister for her more extravagant taste. Eventually, this odd dissonance led Kate to follow her father to a secret meeting, where she was captured and held for ransom. Coincidentally, Hawkeye managed to save her, and Kate was blown away by his skill and by the idea that someone without powers could go toe to toe with super heroes and villains.
Eventually, a turning point came when Kate was sexually assaulted while walking at night in Central Park. From then on, her illusions of relative safety were shattered, and she isolated herself for a time. At some point, though, it made something click; even if she never felt safe again, she could make sure other people never experienced what she did. This is what originally motivated Kate to learn self-defense, and she threw herself into it with the same obsessive need for perfection as she has everything else in her life. One villain says that Kate is “a well-above average combatant, and overcompensates for a lack of experience with an unpredictable bravado”, which is an on the nose assessment.
Kate’s upbringing has instilled in her a fierce sense of pride and independence, and when Clint says “she’s like nine years old and spoiled rotten”, it isn’t just affectionate hyperbole. Kate was spoiled, and is used to being listened to. This means she’s incredibly opinionated, and often blunt and brash. She doesn’t mince words, and is often unwilling to back down. On one hand, this is a great thing. Kate’s morals are rock solid, and she’ll never turn down a person in need. On the other hand, she thinks being a super hero is the most important thing she’s ever done, and she just doesn’t get when her fellow heroes aren’t willing to put themselves in as much danger as she is. She can be inflexible, and will argue endlessly if she thinks she’s doing the right thing to the point of close-mindedness. For this reason, Kate and Clint end up butting heads a lot.
During Fraction’s run, it’s clear at times that Clint is being unfair to her and treating almost everyone badly due to a breakdown of self-esteem and depression, and Kate gets fed up with it. While she does try different tactics such as talking to him openly, cajoling him, and finally flat out arguing with him, her final solution is to take his dog without his permission and impulsively leave for Los Angeles after a huge fight. Her decision to get distance is understandable, but she tends to do things like this in very aggressive, destructive ways. She can also be a bit of a bully, pushing teammates and friends to do things her way and getting upset when they don’t give her a good enough reason for refusing. More accurately, she gets upset when she thinks their reasons aren’t good enough, even if they’re logical. She is also utterly unafraid to sever relationships when she feels the other person has crossed a line she can’t accept. The perfect example of this is her father. At first, she looked the other way despite having an idea of his shady dealings, but when she found out he was part of a plot to kill Clint and fully understood the scope of that corruption, she completely cut him out of her life and promised to stop him.
While Kate’s morals are generally inflexible, they’re not quite the squeaky clean set of rules that the Avengers like to (pretend) they’re known for. Her mentor is Clint Barton, after all, who started out as a villain in his own right and only straightened out later. Kate is generally against crime, but makes exceptions, such as breaking into buildings to find evidence or stealing her bow and arrows back from the Avengers. At one point, she shoots a few baddies in their eyes, and insists to Clint that they’ll live, which he acknowledges, even though they’ll never see again. Then again, Clint’s modus operandi is generally “they’ll live, even if it’s not well”, so it’s no wonder Kate does the same.
Overall, though, Kate is an incredibly caring person. She tends to be the stereotypical “heart of the team” in most of the team ups she’s placed on. During her time with the Young Avengers, she took on a big sister role with Cassie and later kid Loki, teasing them affectionately and also giving them advice and pushing them when they needed it. With Clint, she constantly tries to get him to be better because she believes he can be better, and because she believes they balance out one another's flaws. Clint is more laid back where Kate is more of an intense Type A personality, and he counters her lack of experience with his years and years of super hero-ing. Generally, Kate is sarcastic and teasing, ribbing her friends affectionately. Still, she has genuine, compassionate conversations with Clint and with many of her other friends when they need it, to the point that America Chavez once says that she prefers when Kate insults her over “sincere Kate”. Kate is the type of person who will move heaven and earth when her friends need her.
She tends to get along with a ton of people, and has impressed a lot of other heroes in the Marvel Universe. Captain America first gives Kate permission to use the name Hawkeye after Kate dresses him down in a way he claims only Clint ever really did, and Spider-Woman similarly agrees that Kate deserves the title. Clint, while initially believing Kate wasn’t a good enough marksman to claim the name, eventually tells her they can both use it, and later calls her “without a doubt the finest and most gifted bowman I’ve ever met” and “perfect". When Kate decides to do something, she sticks to it until she excels at it. When she thinks she can help, she does everything she can to be of use, even to the point of jumping into situations in brave, but incredibly reckless, ways. In other ways, she’s your usual 20-something year old—she’s very extroverted, a bit of a flirt, and pop culture obsessed. She ends up absolutely broke and struggling to make ends meet, and she has a love of food and fashion, it’s just that she spends the vast majority of her time fighting bad guys and occasionally saving the world.
CRAU: n/a
SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: Here!
SKILLS:
Marksman - Kate's been training in archery for years, and was then taught one-on-one by Clint Barton, which means she is a really great shot with incredible accuracy. She's been shown to pull off somewhat ridiculous feats, such as the "Robin Hood shot", as well as being able to shoot multiple arrows simultaneously and accurately. Kate also knows how to use firearms, although she isn't as comfortable with them as her bow. She can also use other projectile weapons, such as throwing knives.
Combat - Trained in various martial arts. Kate's really good at hand-to-hand combat, and she knows how to fence as well as use various weapons like batons/escrima sticks and swords.
Strategy - In grand Hawkeye tradition, Kate sometimes uses trick arrows to great effect. She's also shown a talent for using tricks and intelligence to make up for her relative lack of experience and superpowers.
Superhero stuff - Kate's picked up a lot of random skills that I don't know where to list! She's been shown to be able to drive cars in incredibly dangerous situations, such as high speed chases. She has experience infiltrating enemy buildings and can be pretty damn sneaky, and she knows how to pick locks. She's also a capable leader!
NEW POWER: Luck Manipulation
Basically, Kate will start off being able to alter her own luck, causing very fortunate but slightly improbable things to happen (such as making a particularly difficult shot more easily, catching a glass she drops, dodging a blow, etc.) Over time, I'm thinking she could begin to alter other people's luck, too, to both positive and negative effects. Eventually she could be able to cause someone's gun to jam or make them trip, or maybe even grant someone a sort of temporary luck boost, like an innate form of the felix felicis potion.
Kate will never be able to control the specific effects, and nothing that her ability causes will even be impossible, only more and more improbable as her abilities improve.
POWER REASONING: It's a running theme throughout the comics that both Hawkeyes have terrible luck and the odds are always stacked against them, but Kate has always prided herself on making her own way in a world full of superheroes with powers. A luck based power would be interesting for Kate to deal with, as she'd have to confront the idea that she might be besting baddies because of a super power and not her own hard won skill.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: Thread with Jason
SAMPLE TWO: TDM toplevel
