Siren's Pull application
Player Information
Name: Maggie
Age: 21
AIM SN: anigrl2008
email: anigrl2003@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes. I'm currently playing Kate at A_Facility.
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Conditional: Activity Check Link: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Young Avengers/Marvel Comics
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: Katherine (Kate) Bishop || Hawkeye
Character's Age: 16
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played: N/A
What form will your character's NV take?
Something like this. Maybe a slightly darker purple.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Kate is basically just a normal teenage girl, so she has no superhuman powers to speak of. She does however have a photographic memory, is trained in several forms of hand to hand combat like boxing and jiu jitsu, can wield several types of weapons, is trained in fencing and is a master archer. She also plays the cello.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
I prefer to play her as powerless so I'll probably never use it but let's give her x-ray vision, the ability to see through buildings and all that fun stuff.
Weapons:
Kate is usually armed with a bow she inherited from the first Hawkeye, a quiver of trick arrows designed by him, a sword she took from Avengers Mansion when she and the Young Avengers fought Kang the Conqueror and a pair of battle staves that used to belong to Mockingbird.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Kate Bishop was born to Derek and Eleanor Bishop, a wealthy couple in New York City. She was the second child for the couple with an older sister named Susan. She had a fairly normal childhood, getting pretty much everything she wanted as was common for children who cam from wealthy backgrounds. She had all the best toys, went to all the best schools and was basically spoiled to death. She came to resent her family's wealth because of this though, feeling that they were wasting their money on themselves when they could have been giving to others. That didn't come about until later in her life, as she spent most of her childhood just enjoying the benefits.
When she was 15 her mother died after far too many years of not taking care of herself and working too hard on her charity work. Kate's mother wanted to save the world, just like Kate did, but that ended up being what led to her death. After Eleanor died Derek completely invested himself in his work, leading to the Bishop empire extending even more and the family to become even wealthier. This is about when Kate really began to resent her family's wealth and when she began to really want to save the world like her mother had. She saw her family's spending on luxury items to be a waste and thought there were so many better things that could be done with that money. She even encouraged her sister to give the money that was going towards her money to charity, though Susan waved off that idea.
Then, one night while she was walking home after trying on her bridesmaid dress with her sister, she was grabbed in Central Park and attacked. The experience left her traumatized and she spent quite a while being depressed over it. There was a long time where she just didn't feel safe at all and didn't know what she was going to do with herself. After spending a little time with a therapist though, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She began training in self defense, boxing and martial arts, determined to be able to defend herself if a situation like that ever came up again. This combined with her summers at archery camp made her quite the fighter, something which she took pride in and just made her desire to save the world even stronger.
Months later was when she met the other Young Avengers, a group of teenage super heroes who had modeled themselves after the adult superhero team known as the Avengers. A group of thugs had crashed her sister's wedding and were using all of them as hostages to negotiate with the police. They wanted safe passage out of the city in exchange for the wedding party's lives and the police were just about to give it to them until the Young Avengers showed up. They intended to save Kate and her family but really just ended up making things worse. A few badly aimed lightning bolts from the team's wizard resulted in a fire in the church, which was quickly put out, and things kind of got worse from there. However, Kate managed to form a distraction that gave the Young Avengers time to get the upper hand. She fought the thugs off with them and then followed them to Avengers Mansion, the Avengers' headquarters in the city.
After a confrontation with the Avengers, who weren't happy with a group of kids trying to do work that was dangerous even for adults, Kate pretty much forced the Young Avengers into letting her join the team. She armed herself with Hawkeye's bow, a sword from the mansion and Mockingbird's battle staves. She fought Kang the Conqueror, a time traveling villain who had taken over many planets, with the rest of the team, earning herself her place on the team after impressing them with her fighting skills and skills with the bow. When questioned just where she learned to handle a bow so well she revealed that she had spent many summers at a music camp where she had learned not only archery but also how to play the cello. After the fight they promised Captain America that they would never put their costumes on again though Kate, not willing to let go yet, found a loophole in that promise. She used her father's money to make the team new uniforms and even let them use a warehouse that her father's company owned as their base of operations. She argued that they had promised Captain America that they wouldn't put their old costumes on ever again, but they didn't say anything about new costumes.
The team continued working after that, dealing with small time criminals throughout the city and operating under the Avengers' noses. It wasn't until the day that they appeared in the paper after stopping a bank robbery that the Avengers even noticed what they were doing. They decided to call in the kids' parents in hopes that that would stop them from putting themselves in any more danger. Meanwhile, Kate and the rest of the team tracked their then leader Eli to an abandoned warehouse where he had gotten himself into trouble with some Mutant Growth Hormone dealers. Mutant Growth Hormone is a drug in the Marvelverse that is capable of temporarily giving people superpowers and is a very dangerous thing to have on the streets as a result. It turned out that the leader of the group was Doctor Hyde, a criminal who actually manufactured the drug. During the fight with Doctor Hyde it was discovered that Eli, the team's leader at the time, was actually using the drug to make up for the fact that he didn't actually have the Super Soldier abilities that he claimed to have. He quit the team after the fight and Kate became the leader, though she tried to convince Eli to stay with them. She tried to tell him that you didn't need powers to be a hero but he just wouldn't listen.
At this point, the team's parents all knew about what they had been doing thanks to Captain America and the rest of the adult Avengers going around telling them. Most of them promised their parents that they would stop but that of course was a promise that none of them ever intended to keep. Kate led the team to the library where Eli worked after he quit, trying to convince him to come back. He refused though and while they were talking the Super Skrull, a powerful member of an alien warrior race, came and kidnapped Teddy, the team's shapeshifter. Teddy managed to get away and the team escaped to Billy's apartment. The Super Skrull tracked them there, however, and took Teddy again. Realizing that they were out of their league, the team headed to Avengers Headquarters to talk to the Avengers. After being told that they were not in the kids decided to ask Vision, a robot who had been fused with the memories and emotions of the person who originally brought the team together, for his help instead. Vision opened up the Avengers failsafe program, which was created in case anything ever happened to the Avengers. It listed all the people with connections to the Avengers or just with powers in general so that a new team could be formed. Iron Lad, a former member of the team who was actually Kang the Conqueror as a teenager, had used it to bring the original four Young Avengers together. It showed that there were more people out there, one of which the team took particular interest in, and the kids headed off to New Jersey. Their goal was to break this other person, a speedster named Thomas Shepherd, out of the juvenile detention center where he was locked up in hopes that he could help save Teddy.
They did this by having Vision disable the power dampeners in Tommy's cell, allowing him to blow up the wall and escape. After being freed he immediately wanted to kill the guards that responded to the explosion as revenge for keeping him locked up but Kate tackled him to stop him. She informed him that Young Avengers didn't kill (except Iron Lad, that one time) and they all headed back to New York to save Teddy. What resulted was the revelation that Teddy was actually half-Kree and half-Skrull, followed by a small scale Kree-Skrull war. Both races wanted to claim Teddy as theirs and wouldn't stop until their was a clear winner, the people of Earth being caught in the middle of it all. In order to stop the fighting, Captain America wanted to hand Teddy over to the aliens. Kate and the other Young Avengers stood by him though and refused to let that happen. The result of this was Captain America saying that Teddy was staying on Earth and the fighting continued. The heroes of Earth eventually contained the two alien races and made a deal with them, convincing them to leave.
After the fight due to Eli being badly hurt in all the chaos, Captain America again wanted the Young Avengers to stop being superheroes. Kate stood up to him, telling him that fighting crime was who they all were and that none of the bad things that had happened would have happened if the Avengers had just trained them instead of trying to push them aside. Impressed with her courage, Captain America granted her the codename "Hawkeye" and the first Hawkeye's bow. The first Hawkeye, who was a former Avenger and at the time thought to be dead, was the only one who ever stood up to Captain America and so he felt that Kate deserved to take his place since she had done the same. Tommy officially joined the team at this point, which Kate was happy about and Eli very much was not. The team continued to operate as a group of heroes with Kate as their leader, this time with the Avengers' blessing.
Things were normal for a while after that, at least until the Civil War began. Basically, the Civil War was a time where the world's heroes collected onto two teams and fought against each other, much like when a country has a civil war. This was caused by the government deciding that it would be safer to know who the world's heroes were behind their masks, demanding that they all register their real names and begin to work as government agents. On one side you had the pro-registration, who supported the government's decision to make heroes register their secret identities and work as government agents. On the other side you had the anti-registration, who felt it was unfair for the government to ask this. Both sides spent months during the conflict fighting against each other, throwing the world into chaos until it ended. Eventually, this even led to the Skrull invasion, as the world's heroes were too busy fighting each other to notice the aliens moving in on the Earth. The whole conflict started with a group of superpowered reality stars messing up a fight with a villain and blowing up a school. This led to widespread hostility towards costumed heroes and the government passing of the Registration Act, which called for all heroes to register with the government and reveal their secret identities. Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man and one of the founding members of the Avengers, took the side of the government and began working to convince all heroes to register like the government wanted. Captain America, however, took exception to being treated like a criminal and formed a team against the registration. Kate and the rest of the Young Avengers, with the exception of Vision and Stature, joined Captain America's side of the issue.
For a while both sides worked without much conflict but things quickly started to escalate. Kate mostly worked behind the scenes for her team, though she was involved in a couple of the big conflicts. At one point she met Bucky, Captain America's former sidekick, and helped him with one of his missions for the Anti-Registration side. She also met the original Hawkeye shortly after Captain America was killed. At the time he was dressed in Cap's costume and Kate took exception to this, yelling at Hawkeye for impersonating Captain America and working as a puppet for the government. It wasn't long after this that Kate encountered Hawkeye again, this time going by the new codename of Ronin, which resulted in an impromptu sparring session. It was then that she learned she had been fighting Hawkeye all along. After being told by him that she wasn't worthy of the codename or the bow she had both taken from her by him. When Eli found out he was angry and yelled at her for being careless, though Tommy calmly offered to help her get her bow back from Avengers Headquarters.
The two actually broke into the building and stole the bow back, ending up accidentally catching Hawkeye's attention. Impressed that Kate didn't give up and stood up for what she believed in, Hawkeye gave her her bow back as well as his blessing to continue using the Hawkeye name. Not long after this, as a result of the Earth's heroes being distracted with fighting each other, the Skrulls invaded Earth. The Young Avengers were one of the first teams on the scene, though they were defeated by the alien forces and had to be rescued. Her next major effort during the crisis was in the battle with the Skrulls in Central Park, where she ended up getting blasted with a Skrull gun and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment.
Following the defeat of the Skrulls Norman Osborn, who had somehow landed the killing blow on the Skrull's Queen, took over the national security department. This led to the Young Avengers facing a rival team of superpowered teenagers and Kate having to fight the team's weapons master known as Executioner. After thinking that he discovered Kate's secret identity, Executioner managed to weasel his way onto the Young Avengers. In order to get rid of him and protect Kate's secret identity, the team stages a fake villain fight. Kate took Executioner to a charity ball as her date, during which the Young Avengers showed up to fight a villain who was really Billy using an illusion spell. Hawkeye was present, though it was really just Vision using a hologram, and this caused Executioner to think he was wrong about Kate. The Young Avengers fought Executioner's team after this and won, which protected Kate's secret identity once and for all.
By now Norman Osborn's forces were moving in on Asgard, the home of the Gods, and actually ended up defeating it's residents. Kate and the rest of the Young Avengers went to Asgard to help, though an explosion knocked Kate unconscious and trapped her underground with Eli. They pretty much argued about everything while they were down there and got out when Kate used an exploding tip arrow to make a hole in the ground above them that their teammates could pull them out from. Things went back to normal for a while after this, the Civil War ending and the government being restored to normal. The Young Avengers continued fighting crime as usual, ending up facing a group of terrorists on New York City. During the fight one of the terrorists grabbed Teddy and claimed to have a nuclear bomb. The Avengers were on the scene by this point, just in time to see Billy lose control of his powers and cause an explosion that incapacitated Kate and everyone else on the scene. When everything calmed down and everyone had regained their senses, Billy was in the sky surrounded by a bright blue light.
After this he was confronted by the Avengers and told that he might be a threat. Angry with his friends and the Avengers, Billy left and stormed off home. He was met there by Captain America, who took him away to Avengers Headquarters to be tested by Doctor Strange. Fearing that the Avengers meant to harm Billy, the Young Avengers later broke him out and were met outside by Magneto. This led to a confrontation with the Avengers and Billy transporting the team plus Magneto away to Mount Wundagore to get away from the Avengers. Once there, it was decided that they would go looking for the Scarlet Witch. Eli was, of course, skeptical about this whole plan but Kate told him that they were doing it whether he liked it or not. Billy was their friend and if he wanted to do this, they needed to support him. After this, Kate stopped talking to Eli for a while and focused instead on the task at hand.
They arrived shortly in a small village on the mountain and immediately met a woman they believed to be the Scarlet Witch. The woman was killed shorty after they arrived though and was revealed to just be a Doombot. Believing the Scarlet Witch to be a prisoner of Doom, they decided to check into an inn on the mountain and make plans. Billy tried to leave for Doom's castle by himself but was stopped by Magneto and his friends. Later that night though, when everyone was sleeping, he transported himself alone into the castle anyway after leaving a not for Teddy, which his friends would discover in the morning.
Point in Canon: Issue 3 of Children's Crusade
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
Kate's strongest quality, one that sort of wavers between being good and bad, is how stubborn she is. She likes to have things her way and is hard to sway when she makes up her mind. If she has formed an opinion about something or made a decision it will be hard to change her mind no matter what you have to say on the subject. She has her own way of thinking and will not change for anyone, even if her way of thinking proves to be wrong or not up to the same standards of everyone else. The negative side of this trait is that she sometimes doesn't listen to what others have to say, thinking that she is right and not liking hearing the ideas of others. She generally tries to include everyone in decision making and listen to everyone's opinions but there are those admittedly not that rare moments where she really gets set in something and refuses to listen. On top of this she tends to say exactly what she's thinking, not really bothered by what other people think of what she thinks or willing to repress herself for them.
One positive side of this trait, though, is that she doesn't let anyone push her around. She is more than capable of standing up for herself and will do so without any hesitation. If someone attacks or insults her she will easily bite back, not willing to let anyone put her down. She won't let anyone make her feel bad for being who she is or doing things the way she wants to do them. She won't let anyone bully her into thinking or acting their way. She is her own person with her own opinions and she doesn't let anyone give her orders. She will willingly fight for what she believes in and won't back down until she believes she's won. To her there is nothing too small to argue about when it comes to her beliefs or opinions, which usually ends up getting her in a lot of arguements with other strong willed people.
Kate is very giving besides this, her biggest goal being to make the world a better place. She is very concerned with charity and helping other people, going so far as to encourage her own sister to give the money for her wedding to charity. Before joining the Young Avengers she spent a lot of time volunteering in shelters and soup kitchens, doing whatever she could to help others. That was the biggest reason she even become a hero, she wanted to keep others safe. She realized the world was a dangerous place and wanted to try her best to make a difference, to give others a reason to feel safe. She wanted to try to keep bad things from happening to innocent people, even if she herself was never really safe again. To make this idea a reality she happily spends her father's money on the Young Avengers, buying them everything they need to keep operating since she sees that as a much better use for the money. She's never quite been comfortable with her family's wealth and so would rather spend it on other people than on herself.
Her friends are more important to her than anything else and she will do just about anything for them. While she may be suspicious of people she doesn't really know and will sometimes question their motives, she never questions the motives of her friends. She trusts them no matter what and if they tell her something, she will believe it. She is very loyal and will always be on their side, even if everyone else is against them. It doesn't matter to her what other people say about them, they are her friends and she will always be there for them. She knows they would do exactly that for her and so she sees no reason not to return the favor. This is basically her relationship with the rest of the Young Avengers and she will defend them no matter what, even if every other hero in the world was to turn against them. They are her friends and she trusts them no matter what happens.
She doesn't believe in letting other people help her, preferring to worry about them instead of letting them worry about her. If something is bothering her or she is sad about something, she won't say anything to anyone unless pushed. Her problems are something she wants to deal with on her own and she usually thinks it isn't something worth bothering other people with. She doesn't like talking about things that upset her and doesn't like asking for help unless it's a matter of life or death. She tries not to let the bad things get her down and instead works to overcome them. Bad things are going to happen, that's just life. You can't let them destroy you, you have to overcome them and become stronger. This is her biggest philosophy in life and how she deals with all her problems. This is also another reason she won't ask for help. She believes that if she can overcome on her own, she will be stronger for it. After all, if she can't even be strong for herself, how can she possibly be strong for others?
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans:
Kate will most likely stick with her friends in trying to get out. She'll probably go with whatever Billy has going on since they're a team and not even this situation will change that.
Appearance/PB:
Kate stands at 5'7" and weighs 130 pounds. Her body is fairly normal for a girl her age who engages in regular physical activity, slim and not overly muscled but instead lightly toned and strong. Her hair is a dark inky black, wavy and thick, falling down just past her shoulders. Her eyes are a dark blue and her skin is a smooth healthy shade, slightly tanned but also slightly pale. She dresses fairly typically for her age when not in costume or in her school uniform, dressing in nice blouses and skirts or very rarely pants. Her school uniform consists of a black blazer, white blouse, black tie and a blue skirt. Since I can't think of a way to describe it, have a picture of her in costume.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The video turns on to a view of Kate's face and a nondescript wall behind her. She looks decidedly calm about all this, as if it's just a common occurrence or something. Which it isn't but freaking out really never did anyone any good]
Well, I'd like to say this is the weirdest thing that's ever happened but it's really not. It's definitely in the top five but it's not the weirdest. Anyway, that's really not the important part here. I've gotten the explanation and all that lovely stuff, but any more information anyone could give me would be appreciated. Details about this place, how I even got here, basic stuff like that.
Also, out of curiosity, how many people here are from Earth? New York specifically.
[There's a slight hesitation before she adds:] Billy, Teddy, Tommy or Cassie. Please tell me my luck has held out enough that at least one of you is here. [She would even take Eli at this point]
Third Person Sample
Most people would be upset about being suddenly yanked from home by a force that they didn't understand and weren't totally convinced was real but not Kate. She was pretty cool with it actually. Nothing like waking up in a strange place all alone and being given vague information that really didn't help you all that much. Those were the best feelings in the world. Especially when there was absolutely nothing weird or threatening about the place that you had been dragged to. Nope, nothing at all. Sarcasm aside, this actually sucked quite a bit. How could some invisible force just grab her and drag her from home? That didn't make any sense. Sure, she had had her fair share of experience with time travel but this seemed to be different. Unless she was misunderstanding the way this place worked which was possible since the explanation she had been given had been sort of vague. Apparently it wasn't the welcoming committee's job to be all that helpful. She wasn't going to freak out about any of this though, that wasn't who she was. Freaking out just made everything worse. She could handle this. She'd just have to ask for information from one of the other people here, assuming they were willing to share and be helpful.
First though, there were a couple other things higher on her priority list. She wanted to explore this city and get an idea of what it was like. It was always important to get a handle on your surroundings after all. That was pretty much Superhero 101, not that it seemed like anything else she had learned during her time as a superhero would help her here but that really wasn't important. Or maybe it was. She still wasn't sure. Either way, she needed to take a walk through this town and see what it had in it. She had a few hours until dark, which she was told was bad to be out during because there were monsters or something, so exploring a little couldn't hurt any. Unless there were monsters during the day too.
"That seems like the kind of thing they would have added into the warnings," she commented, brushing herself off and starting to walk. Yes, she was aware that she was talking to herself. Did she care? No, she did not. She was alone right now so what did it even matter? Even if she had been around people, she still wouldn't have cared. There was nothing wrong with a person having a conversation with themselves and besides, she had never really been one to care what other people thought of her.
The city itself actually seemed to be a pretty normal place, despite everything that had happened. It was a relatively big place, with places to live, stores and basically everything else a normal city would have. Plus monsters, those were there too. That was an important thing to remember. The part of the city that she was currently in was sort of like the suburbs outside New York. There were houses, family places, a tall apartment building...actually, wasn't that the place she was told to go to? Oh well, that part could wait. She had more important things on her mind first. She wasn't planning on going too far from the place she had started right now, that seemed like a bad idea. She just wanted to walk around a bit and look at things. Which she...would finish doing later. She had another thing she wanted to do now. Namely ask a few questions and see if her friends had ended up here too. Since she was here, there was a good chance they had ended up here too. If that was the case, she wanted to find them as soon as possible. As pathetic as it was, she really didn't like being separated from them for too long.
"Shepherd at least needs some serious supervision," she commented to herself, puling the phone she had been given out of her pocket. This was of course true, or at least she thought so. Tommy really couldn't be left alone for too long, otherwise he just started indiscriminately blowing stuff up. Being handed a random phone when you arrived was another thing here that was kind of weird to her. She supposed it made sense to do so since you needed to communicate with the other people here but still. It was weird. Not that...that was the only weird thing about this place but it was the thing she was focused on right now. No one ever said that Kate's brain was a place that made sense.
"At least it's purple." Because she was a Hawkeye and that meant that everything had to be purple. No exceptions. It was in the handbook and everything. Or at least it should have been if there was such a thing as a Hawkeye handbook. She wouldn't put it past Clint to write one just to be annoying. He was pretty good at doing stuff just to be a pest after all. Not that Clint was important right now, unless he was here. What was important right now was finding out if her friends were here too and stopping with the conversations with herself. Right, getting on that right now.
Name: Maggie
Age: 21
AIM SN: anigrl2008
email: anigrl2003@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes. I'm currently playing Kate at A_Facility.
Currrently Played Characters: N/A
Conditional: Activity Check Link: N/A
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Young Avengers/Marvel Comics
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: Katherine (Kate) Bishop || Hawkeye
Character's Age: 16
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played: N/A
What form will your character's NV take?
Something like this. Maybe a slightly darker purple.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Kate is basically just a normal teenage girl, so she has no superhuman powers to speak of. She does however have a photographic memory, is trained in several forms of hand to hand combat like boxing and jiu jitsu, can wield several types of weapons, is trained in fencing and is a master archer. She also plays the cello.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
I prefer to play her as powerless so I'll probably never use it but let's give her x-ray vision, the ability to see through buildings and all that fun stuff.
Weapons:
Kate is usually armed with a bow she inherited from the first Hawkeye, a quiver of trick arrows designed by him, a sword she took from Avengers Mansion when she and the Young Avengers fought Kang the Conqueror and a pair of battle staves that used to belong to Mockingbird.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Kate Bishop was born to Derek and Eleanor Bishop, a wealthy couple in New York City. She was the second child for the couple with an older sister named Susan. She had a fairly normal childhood, getting pretty much everything she wanted as was common for children who cam from wealthy backgrounds. She had all the best toys, went to all the best schools and was basically spoiled to death. She came to resent her family's wealth because of this though, feeling that they were wasting their money on themselves when they could have been giving to others. That didn't come about until later in her life, as she spent most of her childhood just enjoying the benefits.
When she was 15 her mother died after far too many years of not taking care of herself and working too hard on her charity work. Kate's mother wanted to save the world, just like Kate did, but that ended up being what led to her death. After Eleanor died Derek completely invested himself in his work, leading to the Bishop empire extending even more and the family to become even wealthier. This is about when Kate really began to resent her family's wealth and when she began to really want to save the world like her mother had. She saw her family's spending on luxury items to be a waste and thought there were so many better things that could be done with that money. She even encouraged her sister to give the money that was going towards her money to charity, though Susan waved off that idea.
Then, one night while she was walking home after trying on her bridesmaid dress with her sister, she was grabbed in Central Park and attacked. The experience left her traumatized and she spent quite a while being depressed over it. There was a long time where she just didn't feel safe at all and didn't know what she was going to do with herself. After spending a little time with a therapist though, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She began training in self defense, boxing and martial arts, determined to be able to defend herself if a situation like that ever came up again. This combined with her summers at archery camp made her quite the fighter, something which she took pride in and just made her desire to save the world even stronger.
Months later was when she met the other Young Avengers, a group of teenage super heroes who had modeled themselves after the adult superhero team known as the Avengers. A group of thugs had crashed her sister's wedding and were using all of them as hostages to negotiate with the police. They wanted safe passage out of the city in exchange for the wedding party's lives and the police were just about to give it to them until the Young Avengers showed up. They intended to save Kate and her family but really just ended up making things worse. A few badly aimed lightning bolts from the team's wizard resulted in a fire in the church, which was quickly put out, and things kind of got worse from there. However, Kate managed to form a distraction that gave the Young Avengers time to get the upper hand. She fought the thugs off with them and then followed them to Avengers Mansion, the Avengers' headquarters in the city.
After a confrontation with the Avengers, who weren't happy with a group of kids trying to do work that was dangerous even for adults, Kate pretty much forced the Young Avengers into letting her join the team. She armed herself with Hawkeye's bow, a sword from the mansion and Mockingbird's battle staves. She fought Kang the Conqueror, a time traveling villain who had taken over many planets, with the rest of the team, earning herself her place on the team after impressing them with her fighting skills and skills with the bow. When questioned just where she learned to handle a bow so well she revealed that she had spent many summers at a music camp where she had learned not only archery but also how to play the cello. After the fight they promised Captain America that they would never put their costumes on again though Kate, not willing to let go yet, found a loophole in that promise. She used her father's money to make the team new uniforms and even let them use a warehouse that her father's company owned as their base of operations. She argued that they had promised Captain America that they wouldn't put their old costumes on ever again, but they didn't say anything about new costumes.
The team continued working after that, dealing with small time criminals throughout the city and operating under the Avengers' noses. It wasn't until the day that they appeared in the paper after stopping a bank robbery that the Avengers even noticed what they were doing. They decided to call in the kids' parents in hopes that that would stop them from putting themselves in any more danger. Meanwhile, Kate and the rest of the team tracked their then leader Eli to an abandoned warehouse where he had gotten himself into trouble with some Mutant Growth Hormone dealers. Mutant Growth Hormone is a drug in the Marvelverse that is capable of temporarily giving people superpowers and is a very dangerous thing to have on the streets as a result. It turned out that the leader of the group was Doctor Hyde, a criminal who actually manufactured the drug. During the fight with Doctor Hyde it was discovered that Eli, the team's leader at the time, was actually using the drug to make up for the fact that he didn't actually have the Super Soldier abilities that he claimed to have. He quit the team after the fight and Kate became the leader, though she tried to convince Eli to stay with them. She tried to tell him that you didn't need powers to be a hero but he just wouldn't listen.
At this point, the team's parents all knew about what they had been doing thanks to Captain America and the rest of the adult Avengers going around telling them. Most of them promised their parents that they would stop but that of course was a promise that none of them ever intended to keep. Kate led the team to the library where Eli worked after he quit, trying to convince him to come back. He refused though and while they were talking the Super Skrull, a powerful member of an alien warrior race, came and kidnapped Teddy, the team's shapeshifter. Teddy managed to get away and the team escaped to Billy's apartment. The Super Skrull tracked them there, however, and took Teddy again. Realizing that they were out of their league, the team headed to Avengers Headquarters to talk to the Avengers. After being told that they were not in the kids decided to ask Vision, a robot who had been fused with the memories and emotions of the person who originally brought the team together, for his help instead. Vision opened up the Avengers failsafe program, which was created in case anything ever happened to the Avengers. It listed all the people with connections to the Avengers or just with powers in general so that a new team could be formed. Iron Lad, a former member of the team who was actually Kang the Conqueror as a teenager, had used it to bring the original four Young Avengers together. It showed that there were more people out there, one of which the team took particular interest in, and the kids headed off to New Jersey. Their goal was to break this other person, a speedster named Thomas Shepherd, out of the juvenile detention center where he was locked up in hopes that he could help save Teddy.
They did this by having Vision disable the power dampeners in Tommy's cell, allowing him to blow up the wall and escape. After being freed he immediately wanted to kill the guards that responded to the explosion as revenge for keeping him locked up but Kate tackled him to stop him. She informed him that Young Avengers didn't kill (except Iron Lad, that one time) and they all headed back to New York to save Teddy. What resulted was the revelation that Teddy was actually half-Kree and half-Skrull, followed by a small scale Kree-Skrull war. Both races wanted to claim Teddy as theirs and wouldn't stop until their was a clear winner, the people of Earth being caught in the middle of it all. In order to stop the fighting, Captain America wanted to hand Teddy over to the aliens. Kate and the other Young Avengers stood by him though and refused to let that happen. The result of this was Captain America saying that Teddy was staying on Earth and the fighting continued. The heroes of Earth eventually contained the two alien races and made a deal with them, convincing them to leave.
After the fight due to Eli being badly hurt in all the chaos, Captain America again wanted the Young Avengers to stop being superheroes. Kate stood up to him, telling him that fighting crime was who they all were and that none of the bad things that had happened would have happened if the Avengers had just trained them instead of trying to push them aside. Impressed with her courage, Captain America granted her the codename "Hawkeye" and the first Hawkeye's bow. The first Hawkeye, who was a former Avenger and at the time thought to be dead, was the only one who ever stood up to Captain America and so he felt that Kate deserved to take his place since she had done the same. Tommy officially joined the team at this point, which Kate was happy about and Eli very much was not. The team continued to operate as a group of heroes with Kate as their leader, this time with the Avengers' blessing.
Things were normal for a while after that, at least until the Civil War began. Basically, the Civil War was a time where the world's heroes collected onto two teams and fought against each other, much like when a country has a civil war. This was caused by the government deciding that it would be safer to know who the world's heroes were behind their masks, demanding that they all register their real names and begin to work as government agents. On one side you had the pro-registration, who supported the government's decision to make heroes register their secret identities and work as government agents. On the other side you had the anti-registration, who felt it was unfair for the government to ask this. Both sides spent months during the conflict fighting against each other, throwing the world into chaos until it ended. Eventually, this even led to the Skrull invasion, as the world's heroes were too busy fighting each other to notice the aliens moving in on the Earth. The whole conflict started with a group of superpowered reality stars messing up a fight with a villain and blowing up a school. This led to widespread hostility towards costumed heroes and the government passing of the Registration Act, which called for all heroes to register with the government and reveal their secret identities. Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man and one of the founding members of the Avengers, took the side of the government and began working to convince all heroes to register like the government wanted. Captain America, however, took exception to being treated like a criminal and formed a team against the registration. Kate and the rest of the Young Avengers, with the exception of Vision and Stature, joined Captain America's side of the issue.
For a while both sides worked without much conflict but things quickly started to escalate. Kate mostly worked behind the scenes for her team, though she was involved in a couple of the big conflicts. At one point she met Bucky, Captain America's former sidekick, and helped him with one of his missions for the Anti-Registration side. She also met the original Hawkeye shortly after Captain America was killed. At the time he was dressed in Cap's costume and Kate took exception to this, yelling at Hawkeye for impersonating Captain America and working as a puppet for the government. It wasn't long after this that Kate encountered Hawkeye again, this time going by the new codename of Ronin, which resulted in an impromptu sparring session. It was then that she learned she had been fighting Hawkeye all along. After being told by him that she wasn't worthy of the codename or the bow she had both taken from her by him. When Eli found out he was angry and yelled at her for being careless, though Tommy calmly offered to help her get her bow back from Avengers Headquarters.
The two actually broke into the building and stole the bow back, ending up accidentally catching Hawkeye's attention. Impressed that Kate didn't give up and stood up for what she believed in, Hawkeye gave her her bow back as well as his blessing to continue using the Hawkeye name. Not long after this, as a result of the Earth's heroes being distracted with fighting each other, the Skrulls invaded Earth. The Young Avengers were one of the first teams on the scene, though they were defeated by the alien forces and had to be rescued. Her next major effort during the crisis was in the battle with the Skrulls in Central Park, where she ended up getting blasted with a Skrull gun and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment.
Following the defeat of the Skrulls Norman Osborn, who had somehow landed the killing blow on the Skrull's Queen, took over the national security department. This led to the Young Avengers facing a rival team of superpowered teenagers and Kate having to fight the team's weapons master known as Executioner. After thinking that he discovered Kate's secret identity, Executioner managed to weasel his way onto the Young Avengers. In order to get rid of him and protect Kate's secret identity, the team stages a fake villain fight. Kate took Executioner to a charity ball as her date, during which the Young Avengers showed up to fight a villain who was really Billy using an illusion spell. Hawkeye was present, though it was really just Vision using a hologram, and this caused Executioner to think he was wrong about Kate. The Young Avengers fought Executioner's team after this and won, which protected Kate's secret identity once and for all.
By now Norman Osborn's forces were moving in on Asgard, the home of the Gods, and actually ended up defeating it's residents. Kate and the rest of the Young Avengers went to Asgard to help, though an explosion knocked Kate unconscious and trapped her underground with Eli. They pretty much argued about everything while they were down there and got out when Kate used an exploding tip arrow to make a hole in the ground above them that their teammates could pull them out from. Things went back to normal for a while after this, the Civil War ending and the government being restored to normal. The Young Avengers continued fighting crime as usual, ending up facing a group of terrorists on New York City. During the fight one of the terrorists grabbed Teddy and claimed to have a nuclear bomb. The Avengers were on the scene by this point, just in time to see Billy lose control of his powers and cause an explosion that incapacitated Kate and everyone else on the scene. When everything calmed down and everyone had regained their senses, Billy was in the sky surrounded by a bright blue light.
After this he was confronted by the Avengers and told that he might be a threat. Angry with his friends and the Avengers, Billy left and stormed off home. He was met there by Captain America, who took him away to Avengers Headquarters to be tested by Doctor Strange. Fearing that the Avengers meant to harm Billy, the Young Avengers later broke him out and were met outside by Magneto. This led to a confrontation with the Avengers and Billy transporting the team plus Magneto away to Mount Wundagore to get away from the Avengers. Once there, it was decided that they would go looking for the Scarlet Witch. Eli was, of course, skeptical about this whole plan but Kate told him that they were doing it whether he liked it or not. Billy was their friend and if he wanted to do this, they needed to support him. After this, Kate stopped talking to Eli for a while and focused instead on the task at hand.
They arrived shortly in a small village on the mountain and immediately met a woman they believed to be the Scarlet Witch. The woman was killed shorty after they arrived though and was revealed to just be a Doombot. Believing the Scarlet Witch to be a prisoner of Doom, they decided to check into an inn on the mountain and make plans. Billy tried to leave for Doom's castle by himself but was stopped by Magneto and his friends. Later that night though, when everyone was sleeping, he transported himself alone into the castle anyway after leaving a not for Teddy, which his friends would discover in the morning.
Point in Canon: Issue 3 of Children's Crusade
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
Kate's strongest quality, one that sort of wavers between being good and bad, is how stubborn she is. She likes to have things her way and is hard to sway when she makes up her mind. If she has formed an opinion about something or made a decision it will be hard to change her mind no matter what you have to say on the subject. She has her own way of thinking and will not change for anyone, even if her way of thinking proves to be wrong or not up to the same standards of everyone else. The negative side of this trait is that she sometimes doesn't listen to what others have to say, thinking that she is right and not liking hearing the ideas of others. She generally tries to include everyone in decision making and listen to everyone's opinions but there are those admittedly not that rare moments where she really gets set in something and refuses to listen. On top of this she tends to say exactly what she's thinking, not really bothered by what other people think of what she thinks or willing to repress herself for them.
One positive side of this trait, though, is that she doesn't let anyone push her around. She is more than capable of standing up for herself and will do so without any hesitation. If someone attacks or insults her she will easily bite back, not willing to let anyone put her down. She won't let anyone make her feel bad for being who she is or doing things the way she wants to do them. She won't let anyone bully her into thinking or acting their way. She is her own person with her own opinions and she doesn't let anyone give her orders. She will willingly fight for what she believes in and won't back down until she believes she's won. To her there is nothing too small to argue about when it comes to her beliefs or opinions, which usually ends up getting her in a lot of arguements with other strong willed people.
Kate is very giving besides this, her biggest goal being to make the world a better place. She is very concerned with charity and helping other people, going so far as to encourage her own sister to give the money for her wedding to charity. Before joining the Young Avengers she spent a lot of time volunteering in shelters and soup kitchens, doing whatever she could to help others. That was the biggest reason she even become a hero, she wanted to keep others safe. She realized the world was a dangerous place and wanted to try her best to make a difference, to give others a reason to feel safe. She wanted to try to keep bad things from happening to innocent people, even if she herself was never really safe again. To make this idea a reality she happily spends her father's money on the Young Avengers, buying them everything they need to keep operating since she sees that as a much better use for the money. She's never quite been comfortable with her family's wealth and so would rather spend it on other people than on herself.
Her friends are more important to her than anything else and she will do just about anything for them. While she may be suspicious of people she doesn't really know and will sometimes question their motives, she never questions the motives of her friends. She trusts them no matter what and if they tell her something, she will believe it. She is very loyal and will always be on their side, even if everyone else is against them. It doesn't matter to her what other people say about them, they are her friends and she will always be there for them. She knows they would do exactly that for her and so she sees no reason not to return the favor. This is basically her relationship with the rest of the Young Avengers and she will defend them no matter what, even if every other hero in the world was to turn against them. They are her friends and she trusts them no matter what happens.
She doesn't believe in letting other people help her, preferring to worry about them instead of letting them worry about her. If something is bothering her or she is sad about something, she won't say anything to anyone unless pushed. Her problems are something she wants to deal with on her own and she usually thinks it isn't something worth bothering other people with. She doesn't like talking about things that upset her and doesn't like asking for help unless it's a matter of life or death. She tries not to let the bad things get her down and instead works to overcome them. Bad things are going to happen, that's just life. You can't let them destroy you, you have to overcome them and become stronger. This is her biggest philosophy in life and how she deals with all her problems. This is also another reason she won't ask for help. She believes that if she can overcome on her own, she will be stronger for it. After all, if she can't even be strong for herself, how can she possibly be strong for others?
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans:
Kate will most likely stick with her friends in trying to get out. She'll probably go with whatever Billy has going on since they're a team and not even this situation will change that.
Appearance/PB:
Kate stands at 5'7" and weighs 130 pounds. Her body is fairly normal for a girl her age who engages in regular physical activity, slim and not overly muscled but instead lightly toned and strong. Her hair is a dark inky black, wavy and thick, falling down just past her shoulders. Her eyes are a dark blue and her skin is a smooth healthy shade, slightly tanned but also slightly pale. She dresses fairly typically for her age when not in costume or in her school uniform, dressing in nice blouses and skirts or very rarely pants. Her school uniform consists of a black blazer, white blouse, black tie and a blue skirt. Since I can't think of a way to describe it, have a picture of her in costume.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The video turns on to a view of Kate's face and a nondescript wall behind her. She looks decidedly calm about all this, as if it's just a common occurrence or something. Which it isn't but freaking out really never did anyone any good]
Well, I'd like to say this is the weirdest thing that's ever happened but it's really not. It's definitely in the top five but it's not the weirdest. Anyway, that's really not the important part here. I've gotten the explanation and all that lovely stuff, but any more information anyone could give me would be appreciated. Details about this place, how I even got here, basic stuff like that.
Also, out of curiosity, how many people here are from Earth? New York specifically.
[There's a slight hesitation before she adds:] Billy, Teddy, Tommy or Cassie. Please tell me my luck has held out enough that at least one of you is here. [She would even take Eli at this point]
Third Person Sample
Most people would be upset about being suddenly yanked from home by a force that they didn't understand and weren't totally convinced was real but not Kate. She was pretty cool with it actually. Nothing like waking up in a strange place all alone and being given vague information that really didn't help you all that much. Those were the best feelings in the world. Especially when there was absolutely nothing weird or threatening about the place that you had been dragged to. Nope, nothing at all. Sarcasm aside, this actually sucked quite a bit. How could some invisible force just grab her and drag her from home? That didn't make any sense. Sure, she had had her fair share of experience with time travel but this seemed to be different. Unless she was misunderstanding the way this place worked which was possible since the explanation she had been given had been sort of vague. Apparently it wasn't the welcoming committee's job to be all that helpful. She wasn't going to freak out about any of this though, that wasn't who she was. Freaking out just made everything worse. She could handle this. She'd just have to ask for information from one of the other people here, assuming they were willing to share and be helpful.
First though, there were a couple other things higher on her priority list. She wanted to explore this city and get an idea of what it was like. It was always important to get a handle on your surroundings after all. That was pretty much Superhero 101, not that it seemed like anything else she had learned during her time as a superhero would help her here but that really wasn't important. Or maybe it was. She still wasn't sure. Either way, she needed to take a walk through this town and see what it had in it. She had a few hours until dark, which she was told was bad to be out during because there were monsters or something, so exploring a little couldn't hurt any. Unless there were monsters during the day too.
"That seems like the kind of thing they would have added into the warnings," she commented, brushing herself off and starting to walk. Yes, she was aware that she was talking to herself. Did she care? No, she did not. She was alone right now so what did it even matter? Even if she had been around people, she still wouldn't have cared. There was nothing wrong with a person having a conversation with themselves and besides, she had never really been one to care what other people thought of her.
The city itself actually seemed to be a pretty normal place, despite everything that had happened. It was a relatively big place, with places to live, stores and basically everything else a normal city would have. Plus monsters, those were there too. That was an important thing to remember. The part of the city that she was currently in was sort of like the suburbs outside New York. There were houses, family places, a tall apartment building...actually, wasn't that the place she was told to go to? Oh well, that part could wait. She had more important things on her mind first. She wasn't planning on going too far from the place she had started right now, that seemed like a bad idea. She just wanted to walk around a bit and look at things. Which she...would finish doing later. She had another thing she wanted to do now. Namely ask a few questions and see if her friends had ended up here too. Since she was here, there was a good chance they had ended up here too. If that was the case, she wanted to find them as soon as possible. As pathetic as it was, she really didn't like being separated from them for too long.
"Shepherd at least needs some serious supervision," she commented to herself, puling the phone she had been given out of her pocket. This was of course true, or at least she thought so. Tommy really couldn't be left alone for too long, otherwise he just started indiscriminately blowing stuff up. Being handed a random phone when you arrived was another thing here that was kind of weird to her. She supposed it made sense to do so since you needed to communicate with the other people here but still. It was weird. Not that...that was the only weird thing about this place but it was the thing she was focused on right now. No one ever said that Kate's brain was a place that made sense.
"At least it's purple." Because she was a Hawkeye and that meant that everything had to be purple. No exceptions. It was in the handbook and everything. Or at least it should have been if there was such a thing as a Hawkeye handbook. She wouldn't put it past Clint to write one just to be annoying. He was pretty good at doing stuff just to be a pest after all. Not that Clint was important right now, unless he was here. What was important right now was finding out if her friends were here too and stopping with the conversations with herself. Right, getting on that right now.