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NAME/HANDLE: Mara
PERSONAL JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cerebel
ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: Yep
CONTACT: cerebel.r@gmail.com, fishicopter
OTHER CHARACTERS: David Valespaceguy
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CHARACTER NAME: Clint Barton/Hawkeye
SERIES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_(comics)
CANON POINT: Right after the Avengers movie.
AGE: early 30s (not established in canon)
APPEARANCE: PB is Jeremy Renner
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: n/a
PERSONALITY: The key to Clint's personality is loyalty. Fierce, intense loyalty, to whomever he chooses to be loyal to. Currently, this manifests as loyalty to Phil Coulson, to Fury, to SHIELD, and, more specifically, to Natasha Romanoff. Clint's a born soldier, and that's part of what makes him so valuable as an agent of SHIELD. He can kill, he can torture, he can steal, and he does it because of loyalty, out of devotion. Because of his loyalty, he's survived doing a lot of terrible things with his moral instinct pretty much intact -- simply because he trusts his superiors to make the overall moral calls, for the most part. Not that he trusts them automatically; Clint gives his trust to very few, but when he gives it, he gives it completely.
In terms of how this manifests: he's focused, good at following orders, good at taking specific missions. He's solitary, preferring to keep a distance between himself and the world. That gives him a clearer view. It means that he doesn't have to get involved, doesn't have to get attached. This ties back into his loyalty: by keeping himself distant and obeying orders of superiors, he's abdicating his moral responsibility, and he's giving up closeness that would allow him to feel both joy and pain.
As a kid, he was orphaned, left alone with his brother Barney. Missing a father figure, Clint stepped up into the role, protected his brother, got them both somewhere safe. They made it into a traveling circus. This was where Clint learned how to be such a trick shot. When Clint got betrayed (an event that's detailed more in the wiki) and left for dead, Barney moved on with the circus, leaving Clint alone and furious, not interested in going after his brother. This leads into his desire for distance, his emotional armor, and his pickiness when it comes to people he's loyal to.
Clint went into a downward spiral, gambling, shooting for money, getting by any way he could. This is when he came to the attention of SHIELD, and he got recruited as a special operative by the military. Here, Clint found what he'd lacked: an authority structure that substituted for a father figure, and loyalty. Took him a while to get used to it, but when he did, he quickly became one of the best SHIELD operatives ever.
And this brings us to Natasha. He was sent to kill her, but he didn't. He decided to spare her life instead, and bring her back to SHIELD. This isn't an exception to the rule of loyalty. This means that Clint was to the point where he actually trusted his bosses to be okay with him making a different call. This is him growing into full maturity as an agent who can act independently and responsibly, and still follow the guidelines of his superiors. And it's him getting to the point where he can extend that trust to someone else: Natasha.
So Clint has found a place for himself, even if it is a distant, at arm's remove kind of place. He knows where he belongs in the hierarchy. So this is where Loki comes along and fucks it all up. Loki brainwashes Clint with his scepter, and Clint experiences, for the first time, perfect loyalty. All of his desires are subsumed by Loki's, and Loki lets him do everything he can to keep the mission going. This is something that Clint has vaguely craved all his life, the deeply unhealthy solution to all of his insecurities about being abandoned and being discarded.
Of course, then Natasha smacks him in the head and readjusts his worldview. For him, this is coming down from an intense high. It sucks, because the high exploited everything in his brain, deeply violated him, and Loki is responsible for that. But it also sucks because he touched everything that he wants and it turned out to be a complete lie. A complete manipulation. At this point, Clint is questioning everything about his loyalty, questioning everything about how he works. This is what leads him to get down and dirty in the fight with the Avengers. He wants revenge. What Loki did to him is personal, and it's the first thing that gets him out of his hawk's nest and down fighting with the rest of us.
Remains to be seen how these desires are going to balance out in Clint going forward.
ABILITIES: Clint is an archer extraordinaire, with an improbable and somewhat unrealistic ability to aim through all kinds of conditions. He is also a fully trained covert operative, including a facility with hand-to-hand combat, skills in a lot of weapons, talents in infiltration, security, exfiltration, and associated training and physical conditioning.
POSSESSIONS: Custom-crafted spring-loaded bow that can compact down, quiver of arrows (20), two knives, and a primarily functional set of clothes that one would wear to, say, go hunting in the forest for stress relief after killing hundreds of aliens in downtown New York City.
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE: A dear_mun entry. If you want me to write an original sample that's not d_m, I would be happy to!
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: Already in-game!
NAME/HANDLE: Mara
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
cerebelARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: Yep
CONTACT: cerebel.r@gmail.com, fishicopter
OTHER CHARACTERS: David Vale
spaceguycharacter.
CHARACTER NAME: Clint Barton/Hawkeye
SERIES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_(comics)
CANON POINT: Right after the Avengers movie.
AGE: early 30s (not established in canon)
APPEARANCE: PB is Jeremy Renner
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: n/a
PERSONALITY: The key to Clint's personality is loyalty. Fierce, intense loyalty, to whomever he chooses to be loyal to. Currently, this manifests as loyalty to Phil Coulson, to Fury, to SHIELD, and, more specifically, to Natasha Romanoff. Clint's a born soldier, and that's part of what makes him so valuable as an agent of SHIELD. He can kill, he can torture, he can steal, and he does it because of loyalty, out of devotion. Because of his loyalty, he's survived doing a lot of terrible things with his moral instinct pretty much intact -- simply because he trusts his superiors to make the overall moral calls, for the most part. Not that he trusts them automatically; Clint gives his trust to very few, but when he gives it, he gives it completely.
In terms of how this manifests: he's focused, good at following orders, good at taking specific missions. He's solitary, preferring to keep a distance between himself and the world. That gives him a clearer view. It means that he doesn't have to get involved, doesn't have to get attached. This ties back into his loyalty: by keeping himself distant and obeying orders of superiors, he's abdicating his moral responsibility, and he's giving up closeness that would allow him to feel both joy and pain.
As a kid, he was orphaned, left alone with his brother Barney. Missing a father figure, Clint stepped up into the role, protected his brother, got them both somewhere safe. They made it into a traveling circus. This was where Clint learned how to be such a trick shot. When Clint got betrayed (an event that's detailed more in the wiki) and left for dead, Barney moved on with the circus, leaving Clint alone and furious, not interested in going after his brother. This leads into his desire for distance, his emotional armor, and his pickiness when it comes to people he's loyal to.
Clint went into a downward spiral, gambling, shooting for money, getting by any way he could. This is when he came to the attention of SHIELD, and he got recruited as a special operative by the military. Here, Clint found what he'd lacked: an authority structure that substituted for a father figure, and loyalty. Took him a while to get used to it, but when he did, he quickly became one of the best SHIELD operatives ever.
And this brings us to Natasha. He was sent to kill her, but he didn't. He decided to spare her life instead, and bring her back to SHIELD. This isn't an exception to the rule of loyalty. This means that Clint was to the point where he actually trusted his bosses to be okay with him making a different call. This is him growing into full maturity as an agent who can act independently and responsibly, and still follow the guidelines of his superiors. And it's him getting to the point where he can extend that trust to someone else: Natasha.
So Clint has found a place for himself, even if it is a distant, at arm's remove kind of place. He knows where he belongs in the hierarchy. So this is where Loki comes along and fucks it all up. Loki brainwashes Clint with his scepter, and Clint experiences, for the first time, perfect loyalty. All of his desires are subsumed by Loki's, and Loki lets him do everything he can to keep the mission going. This is something that Clint has vaguely craved all his life, the deeply unhealthy solution to all of his insecurities about being abandoned and being discarded.
Of course, then Natasha smacks him in the head and readjusts his worldview. For him, this is coming down from an intense high. It sucks, because the high exploited everything in his brain, deeply violated him, and Loki is responsible for that. But it also sucks because he touched everything that he wants and it turned out to be a complete lie. A complete manipulation. At this point, Clint is questioning everything about his loyalty, questioning everything about how he works. This is what leads him to get down and dirty in the fight with the Avengers. He wants revenge. What Loki did to him is personal, and it's the first thing that gets him out of his hawk's nest and down fighting with the rest of us.
Remains to be seen how these desires are going to balance out in Clint going forward.
ABILITIES: Clint is an archer extraordinaire, with an improbable and somewhat unrealistic ability to aim through all kinds of conditions. He is also a fully trained covert operative, including a facility with hand-to-hand combat, skills in a lot of weapons, talents in infiltration, security, exfiltration, and associated training and physical conditioning.
POSSESSIONS: Custom-crafted spring-loaded bow that can compact down, quiver of arrows (20), two knives, and a primarily functional set of clothes that one would wear to, say, go hunting in the forest for stress relief after killing hundreds of aliens in downtown New York City.
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE: A dear_mun entry. If you want me to write an original sample that's not d_m, I would be happy to!
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: Already in-game!