Secret son of the original Green Arrow, Connor Hawke spent several years in a monastery to develop his skills.
Personality
Connor is possessed of many layers. On the surface, many see gentle kindness and a soft-spoken, delicate young man. Certainly concern for others shows through in his relations with them. He rarely raises his voice. He tries not to be unnecessarily confrontational, considering that it might be hurtful.
Connor is not deceptive, but he is not an open book, by any means. To most, he shows a disciplined, deeply focused individual, able to withstand whatever could be thrown at him. Even if others cannot be strong, his unique position forces him to try. If allowed to become more familiar with him, his friends will find a perhaps surprisingly vulnerable man, one who must maintain his strength so that he of all people can believe in it. He would like to be cared for, but more important on his list of priorities is the protection of others, caring for others so that they will be able to live fully.
He is very sensitive to the things that others will respond to, naturally, and tends to employ this empathy in his relations with others. Yet he carefully makes it so that most will not get too close to him, for their safety and his own. He often maintains himself as an outsider until or unless he can be persuaded otherwise.
Background
Connor Hawke is the son of actress Sandra "Moonday" Hawke and Oliver Queen, although Oliver never knew about him. He grew up idolizing his father as Green Arrow and even entered into a monastery, to become more like him in a way. After defeating an assassin who came after him, Connor then decided to leave the monastery and to find the rest of his family and get to the bottom of the mystery. After meeting Ollie and the others, he became part of Team Arrow and works as a costumed adventurer.
SKILLS
ACROBATICS - Expert: Connor has trained in acrobatic maneuvers to a high level which, coupled with his martial arts expertise, makes him a formidable opponent indeed. Some techniques may be extensions of already-known moves, and others are distinctively their own.
ADAPTATION - Competent: Connor has cultivated a unique skill that allows him to analyze and assimilate the skills and techniques of others that he sees performed before him. He can also do this with things outlined in theory. There is naturally a chance of error that rises with the complexity of the action and how completely it may be described or observed; a simple acrobatic stunt observed multiple times will present significantly less challenge than a complicated one punctuated by complex weapon and fire observed once. Generally Connor only attempts this on things he has either completely been made to understand on a theoretical level, or which he has seen enough times to try with a reasonable expectation of success. Naturally, he can only assimilate techniques and stunts in this way, not actual powers and superhuman abilities.
ARCHERY - Competent: Connor is excellent at archery, even in a high-pressure combat situation. He can hit targets easily, and his superlative ability to focus helps him to avoid serious injury or worse to targets. Though he does not consider himself an archer on a masterful level, he is certainly world-class and could compete at a high level if he wished. He is also able to use his archery equipment as hand-to-hand weapons when engaging another through martial arts.
EMPATHY - Competent: Connor is deeply empathic, so much so that it takes almost no effort at all for him to really understand others, once he has learned some amount of their circumstances. While others can identify, others can express their sympathy, Connor is oftentimes able to sense it himself. He can put himself in the place of another and act accordingly, which makes it easy to win people's trust, easy to say what people want to hear, and easy to persuade others to cooperate with him. Unlike many with this ability, Connor generally always acts on altruistic motivations, as to manipulate irresponsibly is completely anathema to his being.
ENHANCED SENSES - Expert: From his days at the Ashram, Connor has become much more capable in terms of sensory interpretation. He is more aware of his surroundings and less prone to being distracted by superfluous things, which makes him a formidable foe. Even without the use of one or more of his senses, he has a definite understanding of and resonance with his body and, for lack of a better term, the energy of those things around him. Some might label it intuition, but with concrete application to the training and focus of his conventional five senses. His high level of ability makes him, at times, almost supernaturally capable.
INVENTION - Competent: While he is not a scientific genius by any means, Connor is a talented inventor, especially when it comes to archery equipment and related gadgetry. Being able to take regular arrows and turn them into powerful trick arrows whilst still keeping them balanced and viable for use is no easy feat, and Connor has become able to do this fairly easily. The more complicated the gimmick, the more difficult it is to make into a usable arrow, of course.
Connor can also invent other simple gadgets, and he can alter some gadgets too. Most of what he makes is to be used in his adventuring and directly applicable to his role as the Arrow.
LIGHTNING REFLEXES - Competent: Connor has amazing reflexes. This can save him from a wound that might have been serious in other circumstances. He can assess a situation and react almost instantly, which is partially due to his training at the Ashram; his body and mind are trained so that he may react as quickly as others simply think of it.
MARTIAL ARTS - Expert: Connor has trained to a superlative level in martial arts, and he is especially talented at aikido and judo. His focus is primarily on defensive fighting, but he is also able to go on the offensive if necessary. The great discipline instilled in him by his time at the monastery contributes to his excellence in fighting, and without exaggeration it can be said that he is one of the most formidable practitioners of aikido in the world.
TRAINING - Competent: Connor's days at the monastery have assisted him immensely in being able to advise others with gentleness and care. He can soothe others' emotional pain and even help them through difficult periods, rendering objective advice and help as he can. Assisting with focus and meditation, he might even be able to try and help others to transcend some physical pain temporarily, such as if he needed them to stay awake or to stay coherent to help their treatment.
POWERS
TOUGHNESS - Basic: Although it is almost inconsequential -- he never relies on it and was unaware of it for some time -- Connor has increased bodily toughness. He can take a gunshot from a street-level armament and come away with only bruises, albeit painful ones, at close range. However, automatic weapons of higher caliber, as well as armor-piercing bullets and, of course, higher level weaponry, can certainly pierce his skin and give him more than a bruise.
ADVANTAGES
BOWS Connor has a variety of bows that he uses, although his favorite is his own custom bow that he has developed. It is balanced to be most suitable to him, his body, and his strength, and it is usable as a bludgeon if necessary. He possesses various other bows, including ones with gimmicks such as gas jets at the front, ones that are collapsible and easy to store, and a treasured bow given to him by Oliver. Any bow he has personally crafted is able to be repaired or duplicated, which of course takes time and resources. Because of this, he tends to keep several backups, in case of emergency or accident. Some of these are painstakingly-crafted duplicates of his favorite balanced bow, but others are less perfect and exist purely for practice or emergency, where there is no other alternative.
CONTACTS Connor maintains various contacts that are useful to him in his private and public life. Team Arrow and its members are usually able to help him, and vice-versa. Of course he maintains strong ties with his mother, who is not involved in or privy to his private life, for her own safety; she is always eager to help him if needed. Last but not least, Connor keeps strong ties with certain informants and sources of underworld information, to help keep him a step ahead of the criminals in his domain.
HEADQUARTERS Connor has access to a secret headquarters complete with archery range and a small laboratory for developing his trick arrows and related gadgets. It is carefully hidden and secure, although it is accessible to him through a few means, also providing quick and easy entrance and exit to the building and his own living area.
RESOURCES Connor's parents are both of considerable means, and his mother regularly sends or gives him money on top of what he receives from working with Sky High. Since Connor generally eschews luxury and excess, he lives in humble means and has accumulated some reserves. He can rely on either or both parents if he should need financial support.
SKY HIGH As an instructor and advisor attached to Sky High, Connor can reasonably expect access to resources and technology of the school and some of its personnel.
TRICK ARROWS With his admiration for Green Arrow, naturally Connor has worked at developing his own trick arrows. Though he did not start out this way, he has become very fond of incorporating the trick arrows into his own adventuring. Some examples of trick arrows that he carries, besides the regular arrows (blunt and sharp varieties) he carries for utilitarian purposes, are: rubber-tipped arrow, grappling line arrow, net arrow, electric stun arrow, flash arrow, smoke arrow, gas arrow, sonic screamer arrow, bola arrow, cable arrow, flare arrow, boomerang arrow, explosive tip arrow, and acetylene arrow. He can generally invent any arrow that he deems useful, although more complex and complicated gimmicks will require much more work and development to be usable.
WEAKNESSES
ALOOF Most heroes have a completely different outlook to Connor's. Some simply cannot understand his personal philosophy, which has become a lifestyle for him and not just the casual manner by which most people address their beliefs. His time in the monastery kept him from being indoctrinated into the same things that those outside were, during those years, and so as a result he is often distinctly separated from others. Some will find him inscrutable, some might dislike that aspect of his nature, or they might mistake him as being something that he is not. He can work well with groups, but even during such a time he remains distinct.
AWKWARD Connor can at times be awkward. It's simply because, due his experience earlier in life, he didn't have much exposure to outside culture. In the years he spent on holy ground, the rest of the world changed without him and left him behind. He doesn't know all of the things assumed to be universal knowledge by someone his age, and he was never exposed to much of popular culture.
EMPATHIC Although it is a powerful advantage, it is also at times a powerful disadvantage; part of Connor's empathic nature means that he is often reluctant to cause significant harm to others. He may also, at times, be put at a disadvantage by wanting to explore methods alternative to violence wherever possible, and it can cause him to clash with allies who have no such tendencies.
GOOD-NATURED Connor is generally good-natured, and he tends to believe that people are fundamentally good. This can of course be used against him; he will be reluctant to adopt a stance that anyone is irredeemable, although he can be persuaded. It's not to say, of course, that he will not act against others if they present a clear threat or are acting in a clearly malicious way. But when investigating, if circumstances are in doubt and he feels there is a chance that someone involved is just caught up in bad circumstances, he will usually try to remedy the situation so that it can be improved.
INNOCENT Connor is not so much naive as innocent, which means that he is sometimes simply unaware of certain things that a more weathered -- or perhaps jaded -- hero might be. It can be used against him, especially by the unscrupulous who wish to mislead him. Connor is, of course, not without detective skills and great empathy, so he can only be deluded for so long. However, there are things that might be easy for others to pick up on that escape him, simply because he is inexperienced with them.
RELATIONS His childhood made it so that Connor never had friends of any stability or long-term persistence, and his time in the monastery, while providing an entire community of intimate and trustworthy friends, did nothing to prepare Connor for being in the outside world. Since leaving the company of the monks, Connor has found it very challenging to maintain any kind of interpersonal relationship of any depth; he can do it, of course, but it takes much more effort and energy than it would an average person. He works at something of a disadvantage to improve this in his life.
