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P L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name: Cass
OOC Journal: sifface
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: Nope
Email + IM: coradevlin.bsc@gmail.com, no AIM
Characters Played at Ataraxion: James "Logan" Howlett (aka future Wolverine)

C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Kate "Hawkeye" Bishop
Canon: Marvel Comics Earth-616
Original or Alternate Universe: Original universe
Canon Point: After the after-party at the end of Young Avengers vol. 2
Number: No preference

Setting: Earth-616 is the main Marvel Comics universe, which means it's pretty much like our own modern day world except that it's full of mutants, superheroes, aliens, and the like.

History: Katherine Elizabeth Bishop was born in New York, NY to Derek and Eleanor Bishop, a pair of wealthy corporate titans and philanthropists. She and her older sister Susan grew up very privileged, attending Hawthorne Academy (a prestigious private school), and Interlochen (a fancy camp) in the summers. In Kate's early teens her mother died while on a trip to Colorado and her father subsequently withdrew further into his work and charitable ventures. He later remarried a woman named Heather who had attended school a year or two ahead of Kate, a choice that further strained his relationship with his daughter.

Not long after her mother's death Kate was attacked while walking home through Central Park. She never reported the crime to the police but did eventually work with a therapist and she also became motivated to study self defense and martial arts to supplement her proficiency in fencing and archery. This came in handy when her sister's wedding was held hostage by thieves. The Young Avengers arrived to try to help but ended up setting the cathedral on fire and getting captured themselves before Kate was able to help initiate an escape. Afterwards she ran into Cassie Lang and joined her in seeking out the Young Avengers and inviting themselves to join the group, which had formed to help fill the hole left by the (adult) Avengers disbanding. Kang the Conqueror attacked and Kate and her new friends fought back, armed with weapons scrounged from the abandoned mansion, including Hawkeye's bow. Together, the Young Avengers defeated Kang but the adult Avengers still insisted they disband.

The kids reluctantly agreed, but Kate used her family's resources to set them up with a new headquarters and uniforms and the group continued training and fighting crime. Eventually Captain America rescinded his objections enough to gift Kate Hawkeye's bow and codename. The Young Avengers participated in battles during the civil war, the secret Skrull invasion, and the siege of Asgard, along the way convincing the original Hawkeye, now returned, to let her keep his bow and name. She also participated in the children's crusade, Billy Kaplan's effort to find Wanda Maximoff, which led to battles between the Avengers and X-Men, invasions of Latveria, a briefly all-powerful Dr. Doom, and the deaths of Cassie and the Vision and transition of Iron Lad towards becoming Kang. Afterwards, the Young Avengers disbanded, though Kate reassembled at least briefly some time later when the adult Avengers requested.

After finishing high school, Kate began working with Clint Barton, fighting street crime of the sort usually ignored by the Avengers. Though they developed a close partnership, Kate eventually grew frustrated with Clint's self-destructive behavior and took off for Los Angeles. Her vacation was thwarted by Madame Masque looking for revenge on Kate after an earlier encounter. Though she escaped capture, Kate found herself broke for the first time in her life, and took up heroing for hire. She found it more difficult than anticipated but she persevered and gradually learned to make her own way both as a young adult and as a superhero.

The Young Avengers reconvened to deal with an interdimensional parasite called "Mother" and the apparent kidnapping of Tommy. They spent a while traveling across space alternately pursued by and pursuing a group of Skrulls, and then ended up spending months travelling between dimensions before a climactic battle and last ditch plan defeated their adversary and saved their friends and their universe. And then they had an epic after-party, of course.

Personality:

Kate Bishop is independent, driven, and bold. After spending most of her formative adolescent years with a detached father, no mother, and a preoccupied older sister she learned to look after herself on a day to day basis. Throughout her canon appearances, she's shown striking out on her own, making brave and decisive choices - to join the Young Avengers, to work with Clint Barton, to move to California, to take off with her friends across galaxies and universes. She adapts well and quickly to new situations and environments, and despite her young age has already seen more of the world(s) than most people ever will. It makes it easier to take the strange and unlikely and dangerous in stride, rolling with the punches thrown at her and figuring out how to make her way.

She very quickly ends up taking an unofficial leadership role in the group just based on her natural confidence, strong opinions, and willingness to make calls. She can be blunt, often stating her opinions very plainly and without hesitation, but isn't entirely without tact when she cares to use it. And while she's not the warmest of people, she isn't shy and easily forms close friendships with her new teammates. (The only partial exception is Eli, with whom she frequently butts heads over decision-making for the group, but with whom she also has an on-again off-again relationship for a while.) In her day to day interactions outside the pressures of super-heroing she's outgoing and personable, quickly making friendly acquaintance with her neighbors in California and repeatedly convincing people to hire her almost out of the blue.

Her determination also means the disapproval of authority figures never slows her down for long. When Captain America orders the YA to disband, Kate makes sure they continue by finding a new HQ and new uniforms and convincing the others to join her in keeping up their efforts. When Hawkeye takes his bow from her, she sneaks into Avengers Mansion to steal it back. She's never afraid to tell Clint exactly what she thinks of his behavior and she is ultimately unwilling to let him drag her along on what she sees as a downward spiral. This is all despite the fact that she is a fan of the adult heroes. She looks up to Clint and his fellow Avengers, but doesn't let that prevent her from contradicting them when she believes they're wrong.

She's clear-headed and possessed of common sense, even in the face of danger. She's always good at keeping her head in battle even with foes that have troubled the adult heroes, as seen when she assists in taking on Kang the Conqueror only hours after first inviting herself to join the Young Avengers. She has a tendency toward dry sarcasm in these instances, but from the start nearly always has something to contribute to strategy planning, even in tight spots. Whether it's captured alone by Madame Masque, or saving Clint from thieving circus goons, or dealing with Magneto and Doom and warring teams of superheroes, Kate can be relied on to keep her cool, often improvising successfully. Where other teammates sometimes let their emotions get the better of them, Kate tends to mostly act with her head before her heart, often enough that she's frequently called 'the sensible one' by her friends, particularly in later adventures. By the time they're running across space and dimensions, Kate is the undisputed (if perhaps still unofficial) leader of the group, the one the others trust to make responsible decisions.

But she's also, as Clint says, "about nine years old and spoiled rotten". He's joking, but for all her experience and leadership ability Kate is still young and has grown up in immense privilege. She can be extremely stubborn, determined to get her own way no matter how unlikely or bad an idea it may be. For all their good intentions, Captain America isn't exactly wrong about the Young Avengers - it would be safer and smarter for them to disband and go back to focusing on high school. Kate in particular, possessed of no superpowers, is often outmatched by powered opponents (especially in the early days) and could easily have ended up dead, as several of her teammates did.

Her insistence on becoming a hero anyway is brave and selfless but also the sort of risk-taking that's supported by the arrogance of youth. "I have no powers and not nearly enough training," she says at one point, "but I'm doing this anyways. Being a super hero is amazing." While she's realistic about her own capabilities, she can occasionally underestimate the difficulty of situations and get caught up in the excitement. The vast majority of the time this has worked out for her, which can only exacerbate that mild sense of invincibility.

This isn't to say that she's completely oblivious to or ignoring the dangers of heroism. Kate was deeply affected by the deaths of two of her teammates, enough that for a time she quit being Hawkeye and let the Young Avengers disband. Cassie was her best friend and the mission that killed her had been one Kate led in part. She felt more than a little guilt, and it was that and fear for the safety of her other teammates more than fear for herself that led her to give up superheroing for a time.

But when it comes down to it, as fun as it might often be Kate didn't become a superhero to have a good time. She takes it very seriously, in her way, and is equally serious about her responsibility to her teammates. She joined the Young Avengers to help keep people safe, and to try to prevent other people from experiencing trauma like she did, whether it's from the massive planetary scale threats the Avengers deal with or from the more common day to day crime she fights with Clint. It's that commitment that keeps her returning to being Hawkeye again and again despite all manner of dangers and setbacks.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Kate possesses no superhuman powers or abilities. She is a baseline human, limited to the peak athletic capacity of a young woman her age and size. What she does have is exceptional hand-eye coordination, which makes her "the finest and most gifted bowman" that Clint Barton has ever seen - and he's seen them all. Her combination of raw talent and lifelong training mean she can perform feats that seem ridiculous, like firing five arrows at once and hitting her mark. She's also a highly skilled fencer and martial artist, and because of her extraordinary coordination tends to pick things up more quickly than the average practitioner. (It's been suggested that she possesses a Taskmaster-like ability to replicate any physical feat she sees performed but I'd prefer not to go that route since she clearly doesn't suffer from the memory issues that balance out the Taskmaster's abilities.)

Inventory:
1 pair jeans, blue
1 skirt, black
3 tops, black, purple, striped
1 hoodie, grey
3 sets underwear & socks
1 pair converse lowtops, purple
1 headband, purple
1 pair aviator sunglasses, silver
1 bow, not hers, of frustratingly cheap quality
1 quiver + 12 trick arrows - 1 each of: net arrow, bola arrow, acid arrow, putty arrow, sonic arrow, explosive tip arrow, cable arrow, smoke bomb arrow, rocket arrow, suction tip arrow, electro-arrow, boomerang arrow

Appearance: Early 20s, average height (5'5"), athletic but slender build. Dark brown hair, blue eyes. I'll be using Katie McGrath as a pb in lieu of comics images if that's alright.

Age: Just turned 21.

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

Kate has made it out of the tubes and to the lockers, slipped into a jumpsuit and shoes, collected a communicator. The initial rush of shock and fear has ebbed and she's fighting through the lingering grogginess, forcing herself to focus, to notice detail. She's still massaging her throat with one hand while she tries to pull up a signal on the staticky little device, eyes flicking constantly from its blank screen to the blank inside of the lift around her. She's antsy, she wants to be bouncing on the balls of her feet, eager to get on with it and find out where this is, who's snatched her, why she's here, but on the off pretty likely chance there's a camera in this elevator and someone watching her on it she maintains an almost aggressively casual posture, one hip cocked, half-slouched like she's still out of it even as her brain whirls through the fog.

It doesn't seem like Mother's style, the dark industrial-plated surrounding not resembling her little realm at all. Could it be the Patri-not? Had she somehow finally tumbled into his hidey hole now, after all their searching? Nothing about it struck her as particularly Skrull-ish or Kree-like and there wasn't enough stone and torches for Doom. Maybe one of the mayfly dimensions, but none that she remembered visiting. That pretty much runs down the obvious options and reaching the end of the list Kate drums her fingers against the bottom of the communicator's case out of sight, a quick tattoo that gains speed as she goes.

The lift begins to slow, and she drops the device into a pocket, freeing up her hands and clearing her head. Figuring out where she is is important, but not top priority. First things first: find her teammates, if they're here, and then they can work out a plan of escape together. America can kick their way out (however the hell she does that), or Billy can wish them home. They'll fight their way out if they have to, god knows they've done it enough times lately. She'd sort of looked forward to a little bit of a break, maybe a chance to check in on Clint and visit the tenants, but ah well. The lift stops and the doors slide open. Time to go to work.

Comms Sample:

[ The device is already properly situated when the transmission starts, a young woman framed from biceps up. She lifts a hand and gives a wave, at ease with this technology if little else. ]

Hi, [ she begins, with a smile that's on the friendly side of polite but neither bubbly nor open, ] My name is Kate, I just got here in the last jump or whatever. I'm looking for a couple of people, and hoping somebody might be able to help me out. I don't want to waste anyone's time, I'm sure I'm not the only one looking for someone, but I put together a quick list that's attached to this message and if you have a minute to take a look, I'd really appreciate it. They're-- [ here her smile briefly warms, and widens lopsidedly, ] --sort of distinctive? So you'll probably know if you met them. Anyway, let me know if any of them sound familiar, I'll owe you one.

[ It's not a casual toss-in, that last line. She looks quite seriously at the camera as she says it. She will owe you one, potential future friend-spotter, and she will deliver on that debt. After a moment to let the important message sink in, she starts to reach to turn off the camera, saying, ] Thanks for your time.

[ Just before she hits stop, though, she pulls back, adding, somewhat less seriously, ] Oh, also: anybody know where I could find some pancakes around here? Pancake mix? Pancake ingredients, griddle, stuff like that? I'd owe you for that one, too. Not as much, obviously, but I could pay you in pancakes. Thanks again!