Clint Barton
Sept 17, 2015 13:30:58 GMT -7
Post by Clint Barton on Sept 17, 2015 13:30:58 GMT -7
Clinton Francis Barton
“We're fighting an army of robots... and I've got a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.”
“This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark.”
Name:
Finbar
Age:
Fifteen
How'd you find us?
Your add on my own site! <3
RP experience:
Uhm... Less than ten years, more than five? Honestly, I've lost count by now...
“Who are these people?”
Full Name:
Clinton Francis Barton
Nicknames:
Clint, "Legolas", "Hawkguy", The Hawk
Alias:
Hawkeye
Age:
Forty-four
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Race:
Human
Occupation:
SHIELD Agent; Avenger
Class:
SHIELD
Play-By:
Jeremy Renner
“We have left humanity behind...”
Any special talents?
By far, Barton's most notable talent is his skill with a bow and arrow. His aim and accuracy make him one of the greatest marksman in the world. Of course, his combat skills do not end with the bow; he is also a fairly skilled martial artist, and is also capable with various other forms of weaponry, such as knives, and, admittedly, a master of darts, much to chagrin of teammate Tony Stark. He didn't get his code name with SHIELD for nothing, after all.
Superpowers:
No, no, none of these. You're thinking of his teammates. They've got the powers.
Other Abilities:
Barton's SHIELD files note him as multilingual, fluent with Russian, Arabic, Chinese, and American Sign Language, the last largely because he's eighty percent deaf when lacking his hearing aids.
Anything else we should know?
“That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry.”
Personality:
Personality, huh? Well, there's an interesting thing to explain. One of the first things to stand out is that he's typically on the more reserved side of things - quiet, calm, collected, focused, a man of a few soft-spoken words. He's more of a listener than a talker, although he will do whatever he can to support and help those that mean something to him. He is hardly one to wear any part of his life on his sleeve; he's more the type that you'd find playing his cards close to his chest.
He's not cold, nor heartless. He might have a tough-guy sort of exterior, but he's not a brick wall. He's actually rather compassionate, and fiercely loyal to those he trusts and cares about, probably to a fault. The only thing is that he's been through things in his years. It's entirely understandable, you can imagine, leading the life he has as a SHIELD operative and then getting thrown in the midst of the Avengers.
Long story short, trust is a big thing when it comes to Clint. How much does he trust you? How comfortable is he around you? Odds are that that is the big deciding factor in what side of him you see. In general, he's respectful and easy enough to get along with. He takes life as it comes, the good and the bad, for if there's anything he can promise you from experience, it's that the world is a crazy place, and more often than not, you can't really trust it to be your best friend.
Then you have his friends, people he'd literally march through hell for because he's that kind of man. He's got a good heart, and the friends he does have are people he considers extended family. The list of people he has at this level isn't too terribly long, but he's alright with that. The majority of those people have damn sure proved they deserve their spot on that list and have earned it several times over, after all. Besides, it's better to have a few true friends and people who actually have your back than a lot of friends who you can't count on at all when shit starts to go down.
When you really get down to it, you'll also learn fast that he can be stubborn. Rather extremely so. And, while he doesn't typically have issues with authority, he isn't afraid to go against it when he thinks another way and another path would be better. His loyalty can also make him extremely defensive and protective, and he's definitely capable of giving all he's got for someone he cares for if they need it.
“Cause I'm with you to the end of the line.”
Family:
- Edith Barton - Mother
- Harold Barton - Father
- Barney Barton - Brother
- Laura Barton - Ex-Wife
- Nathaniel Barton - Youngest Son
- Lila Barton - Daughter
- Cooper Barton - Oldest Son
History:
Born Thursday, January 7th, 1971, Clinton Francis Barton is one of two sons to Edith and Harold Barton, and he spent much of his childhood on his family's homestead. Growing up, he developed exceptional marksmanship skills, becoming thoroughly skilled in the use of a bow and arrow, and he later put these skills to use in the military arm of SHIELD, where he earned his codename, Hawkeye.
It was early in his career with SHIELD that he met a woman named Laura, whom he formed a relationship with and later married. At the time, SHIELD Director Nick Fury was the only one that knew of the relationship. Details about her and the children they had together was kept off of Barton's SHIELD files in order to protect them.
Later in his career with SHIELD, Clint was tasked with the orders to track down and eliminate a young Russian Assassin going by the codename 'Black Widow.' When he did catch up with her, he opted to disobey orders and instead let the redhead live, learning her name to be Natasha Romanova. Barton instead recruited the redhead to SHIELD, and their relationship developed into what is now a long-standing partnership as some of SHIELD's top operatives. Together they ran many missions in a number of locations, including Budapest and Abidjan.
Barton was deployed to New Mexico after unnatural atmospheric events led to the discovery of an unmovable hammer in the middle of an impact crater. Fury handpicked Clint for the mission, and he was assigned there as part of a security detail put in place to keep the locals back off of the object. Soon after his deployment, an intruder broke into secured compound and fought his way towards the hammer. Barton responded to the alarms by grabbing a compound bow and securing a high vantage point on a platform suspended by a crane. Once there, he made several radio transmissions that the intruder was reaching the hammer, but he was never given the order to shoot, therefore forcing him to leave the target. This stranger would later be discovered to be Thor, son of Odin and the Norse God of Thunder.
He was also later picked by Fury to be stationed at the main base of Project PEGASUS as a guard to the Tesseract. Before arriving on site, Barton ran background checks on all of scientists working there, including Erik Selvig. Sometime after his being stationed at the base, the Tesseract began acting strangely, leading to the calling in of Nick Fury and Maria Hill. When Fury spoke to him, the Director asked if he believed the Tesseract had been tampered with. Barton replied saying that, if there was tampering, it couldn't be "on this end." When asked to explain, Clint clarified that the Tesseract acted to a door through space and pointed out "doors open on both sides."
That was when Loki arrived via the Tesseract. The Asgardian shortly used his staff to put Clint under a mind control spell, effectively switching Clint's allegiances and making him work for Loki. Orchestrating an escape from the facility by shooting Fury and confronting Maria Hill and various other agents, Clint and a mind-controlled Selvig escaped the facility with the Tesseract as the portal that had brought Loki to Earth collapsed and wiped out the facility.
At the command of various other brainwashed SHIELD Agents and Mercenaries, Barton would lead the hunt for resources for the brainwashed Selvig to use to stabilize the Tesseract so that Loki could use that portal, which wouldn't collapse in on itself like it had at the SHIELD facility, to bring an assembled army of Chitauri aliens to Earth to take over the planet.
Later, when Loki was captured by the newly gathered Avengers, Barton led an assault on the Helicarrier using a stolen SHIELD Quinjet to get close to the flying fortress and then using his specialized arrows to take out several of the engines and board the carrier. During this assault on the carrier, Clint came back into contact with Natasha and the two got into a confrontation. Able to gain the upper hand, Natasha knocked Clint unconscious in a move she later called 'Cognitive Recalibration' that broke Loki's spell and control over Clint's mind, restoring him to his own control.
He then suited up with the rest of the assembled Avengers to head to New York City and the awaiting battle that was there for them. Clint flew a Quinjet into the city with himself, Natasha, and Steve Rogers aboard to start the fight against the Chitauri forces Loki had begun to unleash upon the city, and, later in the battle, was stationed by Rogers on a rooftop to call out patterns and take care of Chitauri forces there with his bow and arrows. After the battle, Clint joined his fellow Avengers in capturing Loki from Stark Tower. He joined the team in assembly the next day in Central Park to see Thor and Loki back to Asgard with the Tesseract, and later left with Romanoff to eventually head back home to spend time with his family, also resuming his work with SHIELD while the team went out off call.
Then along comes the team-effort assault on a HYDRA base run by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.
Then along comes the team-effort assault on a HYDRA base run by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.
Using his explosive arrows, Clint managed to take out several of the HYDRA bunkers and tanks. One of his arrows, however was strangely intercepted by an enhanced on the playing field. The enhanced then threw Barton into the air before revealing himself as a speedster by the name of Pietro Maximoff, who made a game of taunting the archer, asking him, "You didn't see that coming?" Clint was shortly shot and wounded in the side. Assistance from Natasha and Thor got Barton back to the Quinjet in order to recover from the injury.
Later, back at Avengers Tower, repair work on Clint's injured side was done by Docotor Helen Cho, the archer joking during the process that he was now made of plastic and responding to a tease made of him that "I don't have a girlfriend." He did, however, make a full recovery.
Later, their celebration party was interrupted when Ultron, a secret project of Stark's, and several of his sentries attacked the Avengers. They managed to win the fight, but Ultron had capabilities that allowed him to escape elsewhere and take on new and upgraded forms.
When the team later relocated Ultron and the Maximoff twins, Pietro and Wanda, on a ship off the coast of South Africa retrieving a supply of Vibranium from Ulyssess Klaue, Clint joined up with them in the attack, hanging back with Natasha to provide cover as Tony, Steve, and Thor confronted Ultron directly. The twins, Ultron, and Klaue's soldiers attacked the Avengers, and, in the following battle, Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, put most of the team in a sort of trance, causing them to see and feel like they were experiencing terrible visions. When she tried to do the same to Clint, the archer was ready for her, and incapacitated her, saying, "I've done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan," referencing the time Loki had put him under his spell.
Remaining as the only member of the team who never went under the influence of Wanda's powers and with the whole team becoming unpopular with the public after a battle between Hulk and Iron Man in South Africa, Clint flew the entire team back to his family's farm knowing that they all needed time to regroup and recover. The farm was kept off of Clint's SHIELD files by his personal request, therefore leaving the fact that he had a family of his own and the farm as a sort of shocker for the majority of the team, minus Natasha, who Clint had told previously and who had already met the two kids and Laura, Clint's wife.
In private, Laura expressed a concern to Clint about him staying with the Avengers. Clint originally took it as her expressing that she didn't believe they needed him, but she corrected him, saying that she believed they needed him too much and wouldn't properly recognize the effort he gave them.
Nick Fury arrived later to speak with the team, offering them motivation in their fight against Ultron. Banner revealed information on what Ultron's plan would be - to create a new form made of synthetic tissue through using the Cradle, the tool used to patch Clint's wound from earlier, with forced assistance from Helen Cho. As the team prepared to leave, Clint paused to say farewells to Laura, promising her he would return.
With that, Barton took to the skies piloting the Quinjet over Seoul, alerting the team of movements from Ultron from the skies. He had Natasha in tow, and, when Rogers required assistance in battling with Ultron, Clint dropped Nat out on a motorbike to join the fighting on the ground, telling her, "Give 'em hell." Ultron was using a truck to transport the Cradle, and, when Natasha boarded the truck, several of his sentries attempted to fly the Cradle to safety. Natasha pushed the Cradle out for Clint to collect with the Quinjet, but she was captured by the sentries in the process. Clint was hesitant to leave without her, even when Rogers ordered him to get the Cradle back to Avengers Tower.
When he reached the Tower once more, Barton quickly began his search for his partner, trying to find out where Ultron could've taken her. He learned not too long after that, while in Seoul and during the battle with Ultron, Steve had managed to recruit the Maximoff twins after they had willingly betrayed Ultron. Later, Clint was present as Tony and Bruce, but mainly Tony, were confronted as they tried to upload JARVIS into the body that Ultron had begun creating. Thor arrived after a brief fight among the team, activating the being that had been created with his power with lightning. The being briefly attacked Thor, before he reached the glass and gazed out at the city. This was met with an apology and an offer to fight on the team's side. As proof to his honor, Vision, the being, was able to hand Thor his hammer.
Clint had managed to track Nat's location to Sokovia, sending the team there and after Ultron. Their first priority was to evacuate the citizens, and Barton overlooked the evacuation from a clock tower to ensure that no sentries of Ultron's attacked the citizens as they were evacuated. Ultron was the first to make a move, and the team went into yet another of their wars, battling while maintaining a focus on protecting the civilians. At one point in the battle, Clint pulled Wanda aside, the pair of them taking brief cover in a building as the archer attempted to calm her down, explaining to her, "Doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight, and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good. I'll send your brother to come find you, but if you step out that door... You are an Avenger." He then returned to the fighting, Wanda joining him shortly after. Destroying the sentries they were confronted with, Pietro arrived and took his sister in his arms to run her back to the center of the city, mocking Barton to, "Keep up, old man!" Irritated, Barton jokingly aimed an arrow after the speedster, making a playful threat, "No one would know... Yeah, last time I saw, Ultron was sitting on him. He'll be missed, that quick little bastard... I miss him already," before trudging after them to make his own way back to the city's center.
As the fighting escalated, Nick Fury and Maria Hill arrived with a Helicarrier to continue evacuations of the city. Barton had just stepped away to join in the evacuation of the now-floating city, thanks to Ultron's device, when he saw a mother searching for her missing son. Spotting him back on land, Clint ran back to retrieve him, and found himself under fire from Ultron, who had stolen a Quinjet. Seeing no possible way to escape, Clint turned to shield the young boy as best as possible with his own body, but found himself and the boy saved by Pietro, who ran into the line of fire and was killed. Ensuring the boy got back to his mother, Clint made sure to take Pietro's body back as well.
As he had promised and agreed upon with Laura, Clint returned home after the battle, and, shortly after, their second son was born, whom they named Nathaniel Pietro Barton, in honor of both Pietro and Natasha.
As it were, Clint's "retirement" from the team wasn't destined to last, it seemed, much to the dismay of Laura, who wanted him to stay home; they had a family to raise and take care of, after all. The conflict led to something of a divide between the couple; they couldn't seem to find the comfort in each other that they once had, and that's how it all ended in a quiet agreement for divorce, to go their own separate ways since it seemed like they could no longer find enough common ground to stay together. Clint left all three of their children with her, not trusting that he'd be able to keep them safe if they went with him, and left with a final promise to Laura that, if she needed anything, she only needed to call. Just because he was leaving didn't mean he was going to drop all the responsibility on her with the kids; he's still their father, and he likes to believe he left Laura on good enough terms...
As he had promised and agreed upon with Laura, Clint returned home after the battle, and, shortly after, their second son was born, whom they named Nathaniel Pietro Barton, in honor of both Pietro and Natasha.
As it were, Clint's "retirement" from the team wasn't destined to last, it seemed, much to the dismay of Laura, who wanted him to stay home; they had a family to raise and take care of, after all. The conflict led to something of a divide between the couple; they couldn't seem to find the comfort in each other that they once had, and that's how it all ended in a quiet agreement for divorce, to go their own separate ways since it seemed like they could no longer find enough common ground to stay together. Clint left all three of their children with her, not trusting that he'd be able to keep them safe if they went with him, and left with a final promise to Laura that, if she needed anything, she only needed to call. Just because he was leaving didn't mean he was going to drop all the responsibility on her with the kids; he's still their father, and he likes to believe he left Laura on good enough terms...
“Dance-off, bro. Me and you.”
Custom Title
The Eye of the Hawk
RP Sample.
Date: Late August/early September
Location: Leaving the farm
Summary: Clint takes his leave, for better or for worse, and reflects on his uncertainties of if what he's doing is actually the right move. Life's not black and white though. The only way to find out is to keep moving forward.
A soft sigh broke the archer's lips as he leaned back in his seat, distant gray eyes focused to what clocked by on the other side of the glass. He'd left in the early hours of the morning, when the sky was still shifting from the deep black of night into the soft twilight as the world prepared for dawn to break over the horizon.
He couldn't decide if he liked that he had. A faint ghost of a frown was constantly flitting over his features, or at least threatening to, as he let his thoughts roam with the soft rocking of the train. He was heading back for New York, he guessed, hopefully to reconnect with his teammates at some point.
Hell, if he knew where he was actually going or what he was really after...
Everything was finalized where he was leaving from. The papers were signed and taken care of and it was all official. The kids would remain with Laura, where Clint prayed to whoever or whatever greater good existed in his chaotic life that they would be safe, happy.
It almost hurt to think of them. Honestly? He had no idea what to make of that. It was all just so damn complicated...
There was a part of him that insisted divorcing Laura and leaving them with her was no better than walking out on them, even if it was agreed that he'd be able to see them when he could. And that? That idea hurt. He did not want to be the man, the father, that walked out, never to return - one day there with open arms and a warm smile as they insisted he play with them and then gone the next with few words because he didn't know how to explain to them that daddy was going back to his team and that that had created enough disturbance between him and their mother that it had just seemed healthier to say that him leaving was the end of that road.
He wanted to hold on to the parental sense of "they're too young." It was a little difficult to manage that, of course, but they'd both tried. SHIELD work wasn't exactly the most normal of professions by far, but that had always been a part of why he cherished his family's homestead out there in the quiet. It was a secluded plot of land, quiet, and peaceful. It'd made for something of a perfect escape for the harsh reality that so often bared its fangs in their faces when he stepped back up, bow in hand, to the front lines when orders called him back.
Clint chewed softly at the inside of his lip, only half-listening to the music he had playing from his phone, earbuds tucked in as he continued to gaze out at the passing scenery.
"Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more!"
There'll be peace when you are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more!"
He'd always held a preference for some of the "older" songs, and now, the archer couldn't help but reflect on the lyrics he knew so well. It was times like these that he wished he knew where the hell he was actually going, but he'd never been able to spend too much time on such wishes. He didn't know if this path was the right one even as he walked it now but the only way to find out was to simply keep moving forward. He definitely couldn't go backwards... What had been done had been done. The only thing to do now was confront the results and hope for the best, hope that, somehow, everything would find a way to work out.
