Clinton Barton
| Clinton Barton | |
|---|---|
| File:Clint01.jpg Portrayed by Steven R. McQueen | |
| Codename: | Hawkeye |
| Affiliations: | New Mutants |
| Birthdate: | December 6, 1996 |
| Journal: | x_hawkeye |
| Player: | Cai |
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Contents
Details
Character Journal: x_hawkeye
Real Name: Clinton Barton
Codename: Hawkeye (eventually)
Aliases: Clint, Barton
First Appearance: September 19, 2012
Date of Birth: December 6, 1996
Place of Birth: Poughkeepsie, NY
Citizenship: United States
Relatives: Parents were Harold and Edith Barton, both now deceased. Also has an older brother, Bernard, that he hasn’t seen or heard from since Bernie aged out of the foster system and left NYC.
Education: Sophomore in High School
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Student
Team Affiliation: New Mutants
Biography
Childhood
Clint was born the second son of a normal middle class family, his parents both hardworking and loving. Unfortunately, his mother passed away shortly after giving birth to him due to complications with the pregnancy. His brother, Bernard, was ten years old at the time and, with the help of his grandparents, Clint and Bernie managed to stay with their father while he worked two jobs to ensure they were adequately supported. However, when Clint was four, his father was in a car accident and passed away.
Shortly before his father’s death, Clint was diagnosed with color blindness, though it didn’t run in his family on either his mother’s or father’s sides. Concerned that it could indicate something more serious, his father had him tested for a variety of things, which was the point at which they discovered he had the x-gene. Clint was too small to understand what was going on at the time and then his father was gone. His grandparents assumed custody of both the Barton boys, but his grandfather passed away when Clint was six and his grandmother followed a year later, when Clint was seven. With no other family to take them in, he and Bernie were passed into the foster system and separated. Clint stayed with the first family for three years, until he was ten, occasionally getting letters from his brother, but those letters tapered off and finally stopped altogether after Bernard aged out of the system. However, when the people Clint was staying with had a baby of their own, they asked that he be placed elsewhere, as they couldn’t financially support him and their little girl.
Clint was then placed with a family in Manhattan. They were fostering a girl as well and, almost a year later, a boy was brought into the home – Matt Murdock. Clint and Matt roomed together for a few months, but after an incident involving a baseball bat and a court hearing for Matt, Clint was removed from the family. His caseworker assured him that the girl was alright and that Matt was “getting help.” It took Clint several years to understand what that meant, but he eventually put all the pieces together. Though he and Matt shared the same caseworker, Clint never really got all the details – he never really asked for them. At age 11, he was moved into his third home, where he remained for the next five years.
Middle school was uneventful for Clint, though it did allow him to figure out which subjects he particularly enjoyed and he excelled in Math and Science. Social Studies bored him and he could get through Language Arts, but it wasn’t his favorite class. His color blindness didn’t automatically exclude him from any art related classes – in fact, he took a sculpting class purely for the credit requirement, but it had basically no impact on his participation in PE. He did well, particularly enjoying games like dodge ball, since he was always pretty good at nailing people on the opposite team. He also wound up holding the record for rope climbing every year and, though it wasn’t allowed, could more often than not be found in one of the trees near the track if they were given free time outside. Since he was usually reading rather than causing trouble and he never encouraged others to follow him up into the branches, his teachers didn’t see any particular reason to scold him – he never fell.
His first year of high school was uneventful, for the most part. Having received high scores on his testing in elementary and middle school, Clint was allowed to take more advanced math and science classes, which he enjoyed because he found them both more interesting and challenging. Outside his preferred classes, Clint did well enough, though English and History were certainly not nearly as entertaining for him as Honors Biology and Honors Geometry. He rounded out the year with solid grades and the promise of being able to take a test over the summer to see whether or not he could take Chemistry at the same time as Astronomy.
While putting the finishing touches on his final project for the science camp he attended over the summer, Clint overheard some of the boys from the summer school session bullying one of the students in his camp. He intervened and managed to get the boys to stop, but that brought him to their attention. The last few weeks of his summer camp were fairly difficult for him, given the amount of bullying he was subjected to, the situation coming to a head when the councilors had to break up a physical altercation between Clint and the other boys. Given he was defending himself, he managed to avoid drastic punishment, but his caseworker was far more concerned with the fact that he hadn’t approached an adult on his own behalf. After discussing the situation with him and his therapist, his caseworker contacted Professor Xavier. The information about the testing in his early childhood as well as his being x-gene positive was in his file. So, since Matt had stabilized during his time at the mansion and Clint’s therapist believed his distrust of adults was getting worse, she opted to move him from his current foster home to Xavier’s.
Having always been told that his eyes were different, Clint has never actually considered his eyesight as anything other than a result of his colorblindness. He doesn’t realize that there’s anything anomalous about his eyes beyond the obvious, a fact which will change once he and his caseworker have discussed his new placement at the mansion.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 150lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Other Features: None at the moment.
Powers
Enhanced Eyesight: Right, so. Clint’s eye parts. They work better than yours. (Frito dared me to put those as the opening lines of his powers section, that is totally her fault.)
More specifically, he has enhanced fovea – his are more like a bird of prey’s, which means he can focus better, more clearly, and on smaller things. He has no blind spot – his optic disc connects from behind, like a squid’s. Clint’s eye muscles are also more advanced than your average human’s in that the outer ones are more efficient and unconnected, so he can move his eyes independently of one another, and the internal ones allow him to focus better.
In addition, the rods and cones in Clint’s eyes (the specialized cells responsible for normal vision) are very different from a baseline human’s. While a regular human has around 150 million rod cells in his/her retinas, Clint has over 400 million, vastly increasing his visual acuity. He also has fewer cones than the average human, causing him to see mostly in black and white, increasing his visual contrast, and allowing him to better see “what’s real and what’s not.” For instance, he can see through a two-way mirror.
Clint’s pupils and irises react faster to light than a baseline human’s, meaning he doesn't get light dazzled nearly as much/easily as others – a flash bang grenade would do it, as would a laser pen shone directly into his eyes, but probably not much else. Last, but certainly not least, Clint’s eyes have nictating membranes, so he doesn't have to blink nearly as often as others and he doesn't have to close his eyes when he’s under water. Clint’s eyesight is 20/2 – what most people can see clearly at 2 feet, he can see clearly at 20.
Increased Agility: Clint has enhanced reflexes, allowing him a much faster reaction time than most others. For instance, he couldn't dodge a bullet, but he could see someone turning a gun toward him and move before they fired the weapon much more quickly than your average person. These reflexes will eventually tie into his ability to fire arrows (or other objects, if necessary) in quick succession (fairly close to, say, Kyle’s or Garrison’s). Currently, Clint doesn't really do anything with his increased agility aside from climb trees and avoid people in the hallways at school, since he doesn't know he has it. Eventually, once he’s made aware of it, he’ll be able to consciously utilize it during any number of situations, particularly hand-to-hand combat and other training scenarios.
Exteroception: Clint has a very strong sense of proprioception – the perception of his own position and the ability to detect externally imposed passive motion (both angular and linear), as well as muscle memory and hand-eye coordination. This, along with his extreme visual acuity, also gives him an inhuman exteroceptive sense, or perception of the world beyond his own body. Like a bird of prey, he is exceptionally strong at detecting movement, even of very small things at a distance. This means that like others (Artie, Scott, Remy), he tests off the charts on 'spatial awareness' tests. Thus, his aim with ranged weapons (either a bow, which will become his weapon of choice, or improvised thrown weapons) is more or less perfect unless impaired by some outside factor and hand-to-hand combat comes fairly naturally to him in a physical sense. He’s able to dodge things and block moves, for example, but he would need to study tactics and practice a great deal to build up true muscle memory. Given enough experiential data, he can even compensate for things such as magnetic fields or extreme gravitation imposed by other mutant powers.
Equipment
None.
Trivia
None.
Plots
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Meta
Player: Cai
E-mail: 
AIM: writteninsable
Player Icon Base: Steven R. McQueen
Meta Trivia
Meta - so much meta. So this started because Jeremy Renner played Hawkeye in 2012's The Avengers and Cai wanted a PB who looked kind of like him. Cat suggested Steven R. McQueen and Cai liked him, so that's who she went with. It was later discovered that Renner had been tapped to play Steven McQueen in an upcoming biopic. And later still, Dex mentioned that Hawkeye was originally based (physically) in the comics, off of Steve McQueen (for a "gunslinger" vibe as opposed to a Robin Hood one). As Cat says, the meta circle is complete.
