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Clint Barton | Marvel 616 | Reserved
Name: Flurry
Age: 24
Contact Info: @tahdis on plurk
Other Characters: Royce Melborn
Character Information
Name: Clint Barton (Hawkeye)
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: 30 something, comicsmumblegrumble
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post-Hawkeye #22
Background Link: Here!
Inventory:
- a purple t-shirt and jeans, a belt, socks, no shoes
- his apartment keys
- a cell phone, which is a flip phone with a cracked screen
- his quiver, which is attached to his belt
- a purple hearing aid, made by Tony Stark
His bow and arrows will be confiscated!
Personality:
You know when you drop something on the floor, but you're too lazy to pick it up, so you sort of just stare at the object on the floor like it's betrayed you? That's Clint Barton's approach to life.
It's not that he's lazy, because he isn't. Clint is incredibly hard-working, particularly in his superhero life. That's mostly because he's not exactly super; he's a regular, ordinary guy, which means he doesn't have powers, which means he has to do a hell of a lot to keep up with the other Avengers. He can’t be lazy. He does as much as he can to stay on the same level as his teammates, to the point of being reckless. Physically, mentally, and emotionally, he can take a hell of a punch. It's in his nature to bounce right back and come back for more abuse, and he does, especially with his teammates. He ends up being the brunt of the joke a lot, and he’s kind of okay with that, for the most part. He can take it, as long as they can take some ribbing in return.
But that’s work. That’s his life with the Avengers and being a superhero. When it comes to his own issues, to his own insecurities and personal problems, it's easier to run away, to take a nap, and escape the problem. Procrastinate his troubles away. It usually works, too! For a while. Until it builds up too far and then he hates himself for letting it get that bad. Which happens a lot.
Clint has a terrible tendency to let things build up. Kate Bishop, his close friend and the Other Hawkeye (the better one), accuses him of running away from his problems, and it's true enough. His first instinct is to run and hide. He’s creative and quick enough to figure out how to do it, how to get out of any situation he’s in, but that’s not always the best option. Sometimes he needs to actually deal; sometimes needs someone to sit him down and tell him that he’s being an idiot and he needs to sort out his problems.
Clint’s casual attitude and devil-may-care front can both put people at ease and infuriate them. There’s a lot more underneath than just that, though. Clint is a passionate person, and he feels very strongly about what he believes in. He’s stupidly loyal (to a fault). He won’t kill, and he doesn’t like it when other people do it, either. He doesn’t believe in plans, just in getting out there and getting the job done as best as he can, and he’s incredibly invested in just about everything relating to people, from saving them to loving them. Clint can be pretty charming, too. The guy knows how to get people to talk to him, how to be the center of attention if he needs to be, and sometimes that involves unintentional flirting. Or intentionally. And then getting married to them after knowing them for two days. Here’s looking at you, Mockingbird. People make him impulsive. It’s sort of why he makes a good hero - he doesn’t think twice before going all in for a stranger he barely knows, even going so far as to stretch the law to its limits in order to protect a girl he just met.
So Clint gets attached to people easily, and then he gets himself into trouble trying to fix all of that person’s problems while steadfastly ignoring his own. This happens with Bobbi, with Jessica, and with Natasha, and the various other women he’s dated over the years. And those are just the important romantic relationships he’s had. His platonic relationships end up this way as well - he’s eager to jump in feet first to protect everybody else, and he ends up sort of screwing himself over in the end.
(He’s also a romantic. Not that his love life is anything more than a giant, flaming trainwreck.)
He's a good person, at his core. Sure, his start wasn’t exactly on the straight and narrow - he starts his vigilante life working with the Black Widow in order take down Iron Man, half because he was jealous of Iron Man being a hero and half because he got swept up in immediately falling in love with her. Clint intended to do good, to help people, but his attachment to Natasha meant he got sidetracked. He’s offered the chance to redeem himself later, and he immediately takes it, because Clint truly does want to do good. He looks up to Captain America, to all the heroism that the Avengers do, and he wants nothing more than to be able to see a bad thing happening and be able to fix it. He tries, damn hard. He offers himself up as a decoy to smoke out a mole so that the Navy Seals responsible for killing a high profile target won't have their families harmed in retribution. He buys an apartment building to stop a bunch of Russian mobsters from kicking the inhabitants out, and defends those inhabitants with his life. Clint doesn't always make the best decisions, but he does always actively work towards what he thinks is right.
Still, he can be a dick. He’s got a terrible self-deprecating sense of humor and sometimes, putting himself down isn’t enough - he’s been known to turn it on other people. If he thinks someone is out of line or is wrong about something, he’s blunt and upfront with his accusation, and he’s not super inclined to sugarcoat it. Furthermore, he also has issues with authority; he’s not one for respecting someone just because they’re an authority figure. Clint has issues with following orders, particularly because he thinks he’s better at giving them than receiving them. This often causes problems with the teams that he’s on. For as much as he respects Steve Rogers, Clint still argues quite a bit about how to run things, and while he won’t ever really have the influence enough to undermine Steve’s authority, it still causes friction here and there. He has a fierce need to be independent, and yet, even when he’s trying as hard as he can to be on his own, he still needs reassurance. He’s always still quietly trying to impress people, to prove he isn’t incompetent. He knows he doesn’t make great decisions sometimes, but he’s gotta do it on his own, without being a burden on other people. He admits as much to Tony Stark, when he’s trying to pull his life together: “I know it's a mess and it's half taped together and it's old and busted, but it's mine. And you gotta make that work, right? You gotta make your own stuff work out.”
Which he can, and often does. For as much as he drags his feet or gets made fun of, Clint is a pretty damn good superhero. He’s quick-witted, he’s good at thinking on his feet, and for as much as people give him crap about not being great at boosting team morale, he’s a good leader when he puts his mind to it. His whole run with the Thunderbolts, a group of reformed villains trying to be heroes, ended up not only honing the skills of all of the team members, but also enhancing their reputations, ending with most of the villains-turned-heroes as trusted allies of the Avengers. He pulls off missions successfully for SHIELD all the time, and he quite often saves other heroes’ butts on a regular basis, including Captain America on an occasion or two. It’s just his social life that suffers, mostly.
Flavor Abilities: Nothing, really. He’s a normal guy, for the most part. He is deaf, though - that's not really a flavor ability, it's still relevant. The hearing aid, also, just gives him his normal hearing back, which isn't superhuman or anything.
Suitability:
A big reason I want to bring in Clint specifically is because he’s completely opposite from Royce in the sense of how he relates to people. Clint is a superhero! He likes helping people, to the point where he’ll injure or sacrifice himself to do it. He’s friendly and a little bit more tech friendly, and a hell of a lot less paranoid, so getting him out there and talking to people will be much easier. He’s going to be one of those types that is the first on the scene when people are in trouble, and much more reasonable when it comes to working together, sharing supplies and actually making friends. It’ll help me balance out the CR I want with people who Royce wouldn’t necessarily go to!
As for Clint in the actual game, this’ll be interesting. He’s not exactly used to a place where there isn’t any sort of formal law or order. He’s going to be very against people killing people and will do whatever he can to help people avoid doing it, but he’s also not against breaking the rules in order to get things done, either. I’d like to see him struggle with finding his place in a town where he can be independent and sort of flounder a bit with that independence. Clint’s not incompetent and he can take care of himself, but it’s been awhile since he hasn’t had someone to take orders from.
RP Samples:
Action sample
Network sample
Plus everything else here!
ACCEPTED
Most of this house appears pretty normal: there's a living room, kitchen, bedroom, and working bathroom. Of note, though, is the personal library on the upper floor; while it has hundreds of books, it seems like every one of them has had all of the pages torn out and lost somewhere. Some books remain on the floor, but many of them have been placed on the shelves again, even though they are empty. The covers seem to imply the library was mostly fiction. Some of the bookcases have had parts pried off. Some of the furniture in other rooms has also been toppled and thrown from their original locations.
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