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APPEARANCE Kate is 5'5" and around 120 pounds, with long black hair and blue eyes. She is, in a lot of ways, your usual 20-something, and she's almost always wearing purple unless she absolutely can't get away with it. ABILITIES Kate has no superpowers, but is an exceptional archer and marksman, and is also trained in hand to hand combat and martial arts. She picks up new skills very quickly and is constantly pushing herself and training. She can also play the cello! PERSONALITY tl;dr - Determined to the point of being stubborn, brave and persuasive, Kate is a good leader and pretty damn good superhero. She has a tendency to be sarcastic and very blunt, and that along with her strong personality can sometimes make her seem like a bit of a bully, but she really just wants to make a difference in the world around her. Kate is loyal and caring, but doesn't let people walk all over her, and she'll make her opinion known even if you're not asking for it, which can cause friction. Kate is confident and has a tendency to be impulsive, always jumping in to help if someone needs it even if it isn't the greatest idea.

AU HISTORY Kate’s false memories make her a Leithian, and her father, Derek, one of the many more prominent members of society working for the Nine. Because Derek had a high position, largely working in publishing and propaganda for the Company, he was able to give his family almost anything they could want. Derek had a tendency to be distant and a workaholic, while Kate’s older sister was happy to spend their family’s money as she wished, Kate grew up feeling for those less fortunate and grew increasingly uncomfortable with the trappings of their wealth and status. Despite this, Kate grew up relatively happy, although she always felt the need to seek out her father’s attention and approval and was painfully aware that her parents were essentially estranged. This fostered Kate’s independent streak and her insistence to rely on herself. Kate’s mother died when she was young, leaving Derek to raise the two girls. Kate poured most of her time into school and into athletics. From a young age, she took fencing, archery and ballet classes, as well as cello lessons, and her father did his best to keep his daughters sheltered from the truth of the company. There were a few times growing up when Kate overheard conversations she shouldn’t, and she began to realize that her father wasn’t quite who she thought he was. A huge turning point came, however, when Kate was out late at a park and was assaulted. This completely shifted her worldview and made her feel truly powerless for the first time in her life. She refused to share the event with her family, though, and simply added martial arts classes to the list, vowing to do anything to keep anyone from feeling the fear and helplessness she had. Eventually, as Kate grew older, family relations broke down further. Derek married a former classmate of Kate’s, only three years older, and insisted that Kate call her “mom”. She found herself unable to reconcile her morals with her father’s choices and the truth of the company, and after an explosive argument, she ran off, using her money to get herself to Westerley, where she thought she could do the most good. Kate’s father was not at all pleased with this, and cut her off monetarily, although at that point Kate would have rather cut her own foot off than ask for his help. She started off in Old Town, running what she called a detective business but what amounted more to taking any money she was offered in order to help people in need, whether that boiled down to investigating thefts or disappearances or just finding lost pets. Kate was talented though, and clever, and it didn’t take long for her to fall in with the resistance in Old Town, where she felt she could do the most good. It was there that she ran into an older member of the movement, a talented archer himself, who took her under his wing and provided a sort of familial connection she’d longed for for years. Things went on this way for about two years, until a few crushing resistance defeats caused her mentor to distance himself from her, and when Kate could no longer handle his self-destructive and defeatist attitude, the two had a falling out as well. Kate currently still lives in Old Town running her sort of detective business and working with the resistance, and her family has no idea where she is.

IN GAME NAME: Kate Bishop, a.k.a. Hawkeye CANON: Marvel 616 CANON POINT: Hawkeye Vol. 4 #14 AGE: 23 (21 + 2 years established in-game) CITIZENSHIP: Leith LOCATION: Westerley FACTION: Resistance OCCUPATION: "Private Investigator" MEMORIES CHAPTER ONE: x CHAPTER TWO: CHAPTER THREE: CHAPTER FOUR: CHAPTER FIVE: CHAPTER SIX: CHAPTER SEVEN: CHAPTER EIGHT: CHAPTER NINE: CHAPTER TEN: OOC NAME: Jenny PLURK: cephalopods APPLICATION: x