Clint Barton is a prime example of the "everyman" superhero. He lives out of his Brooklyn apartment with a one-eyed dog, Lucky, tending to neighborhood disputes as he does to more menacing, worldwide threats. He doesn't have superpowers, but kicks ass alongside those who do, slinging arrows along the way. He has the cocksure attitude of a trick shooter. The humility of a family man. And when the world needs him, he steps up alongside the others who call themselves Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Personality
Clint is a kind and loyal man wrapped in the shell of a cocky superhero. He both talks and acts tough, even to the likes of the Hulk, but deep down he's the kind of guy yearning for something stable. A family, maybe, and a home-cooked meal. Just don't ever say that to his face.
Background
Clinton Barton, born in Waverly, Iowa, escaped an abusive father along with his brother when they were in their teens. The runaways found themselves joining a traveling circus, where Clint began training as an archer and acrobat. He spent his youth as a performer, eventually making his way to Coney Island, where he joined the permanent circus there and adopted the moniker, "Hawkeye, The World's Greatest Marksman."
After spending several years in this life, he felt it was time to buckle down and get a real job. He found one working security for Cross Technological Enterprises. During his time here, he fell into cooperation with the Avengers (a matter of chance). Most of his 20s were spent balancing growing responsibilities with these organizations, though he eventually left a high-paying job as Head of Security with CTE for a life of adventuring as an Avenger.
Today, still using the codename, Hawkeye, Clint has settled down in Brooklyn, NYC. He is an active Avenger and a neighborhood watchdog with a growing interest in starting and raising a family. This is something he finds tough to really dig into, though, considering how strongly he feels the allure of superheroism.
SKILLS
ACROBAT - Expert: Hawkeye's strength, endurance, stamina, reflexes, and agility are at the peak of human training. This, coupled with circus training as an aerialist and acrobat in his youth, makes him an exceptionally capable acrobat today.
APARTMENT MANAGER - Novice: Hawkeye recently bought the entire Brooklyn apartment building he's living in. He doesn't have much experience managing the place, but he's learning as goes, which means some both irritated and pleasantly-surprised tenants.
ARCHER - Expert: Hawkeye is a self-trained archer specializing in the use of regular bows, longbows, compound bows, and crossbows. He can hit small moving objects in the distance with ease, hit several targets within seconds, and fire multiple arrows at once. He practices daily to keep his skills honed.
COOKING - Novice: Since turning 30, Hawkeye has begun to settle down a bit and enjoys entertaining at home. He's been trying to learn to cook more interesting meals, but it's stil a new hobby so things can be a bit hit-or-miss for him in the kitchen.
HANDYMAN - Novice: Since he now has tenants buzzing in his ear, Hawkeye has taken to learning how to conduct home repairs. He's not certified in anything, but he fix a leaky pipe and figure out simple problems in the building.
LANGUAGES - Competent: Besides being a native English speaker, Hawkeye is also fluent in Italian and American Sign Language.
MARKSMAN - Expert: Hawkeye's keen eyesight and years of training has given him near-perfect precision not only with arrows, but also other aimed and thrown weapons (i.e. blades, balls, bolas, and boomerangs). He uses extreme accuracy and speed in both direct aims and more complicated shots involving rebounds and curves.
MARTIAL ARTIST - Expert: Hawkeye has trained with some of the (arguably) greatest hand-to-hand combatants out there as an Avenger and a security professional. He is practiced in many different forms and hones his skills daily, much like he does with his archery.
TACTICIAN - Competent: His work leading missions for the Avenegers, and running drills or operations for Cross Technological Enterprises in recent years has made him a highly competent strategist, tactician, and field commander.
WEAPONS DESIGN - Competent: Hawkeye stuck close by during the manufacture of his trick arrows, and manh of the designs were born from his own mind. Coming up with new arrow designs is a joy for him, and understanding their construction is something he finds facinating.
WEAPONS PROFICIENCY - Competent: While Hawkeye's weapon of choice is the bow and arrow, his hand-eye coordination and excellent reflexes make him an adept user of melee and ranged weaponry. He's been known to use projectile firearms as a backup for his security work, for example.
POWERS
ADVANTAGES
APARTMENT BUILDING Hawkeye recently became the owner of his very own! While this means pesky tenants asking him to fix things all the time, it also means a steady source of additional income.
CONTACTS Hawkeye is well-known in superhero circles. He's an active Avenger with close contacts in that and partnering organizations. He's also not above making connections a little bit closer to home, such as on the streets in Brooklyn, where he lives.
VEHICLE Hawkeye has a custom sky-cycle in storage at the top of his apartment complex. It's voice activated and allows him to zip through the sky and take on his combatants aerially.
WEAPONS Hawkeye has loads and loads of weapons, particularly bows and arrows. Many of these are trick arrows with special properties. Some of these include cable, electrical, flare, glue, magnetic, explosive, net, smoke, sonic, and gas arrows.
WEAKNESSES
BRAZEN Hawkeye considers himself brave and strong-willed, but what that often means is that he jumps into fights no matter what. He doesn't jump in without a plan, but because he's always willing to help, he's often thrown into situations that are more dangerous for him than many others. Even after getting injured, he'll do it again and again.
HEARING LOSS Hawkeye needs to use specially-designed hearing aids in order to hear as well as others, because of an injury sustained during his childhood. This is not an advertised weakness, but can be seriously debilitating in certain situations.
ONLY HUMAN While Hawkeye is no doubt a skilled combatant and hero, he's only human. When facing superhuman threats, this can be a major disadvantage, because it often makes him comparably squishy.
TARGET As an Avenger with plenty of experience under his belt, Hawkeye has made quite a few enemies over the course of his career. He shouldn't be surprised if any of them come knocking one day.
