KATE.

I have no powers and not nearly enough training, but I'm doing this anyways. Being a super hero is amazing. Everyone should try it.

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I have no powers and not nearly enough training, but I'm doing this anyways. Being a super hero is amazing. Everyone should try it.

► GENERAL INFORMATION

FULL NAME & ALIAS: katherine elizabeth “kate” bishop / hawkeye CURRENT TEAM(S): none PREVIOUS ALIASES: lady hawk / hawkette AGE: mid 20′s SPECIES: human MULTIVERSAL ORIGIN: earth-616

GENDER IDENTITY: cisgendered female SEXUALITY: heterosexal ( token straight ) NATIONALITY: american  ETHNICITY: vietnamese

► APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: lana condor SPECIAL / RECOGNIZABLE FEATURES: butterfly bandages and cuts on face HAIR COLOR: black EYE COLOR: brown ACCENT: new york CURRENT COSTUME: as seen in her last comic run ( goodbye cut-outs! )

► BACKGROUND

CURRENT HOME: new york, new york PAST OCCUPATION: young avenger / west coast avenger / heiress  CURRENT OCCUPATION: partner to hawkeye / private investigator SNAP STATUS: survived in another reality

► RELATIONS

SIBLING(S): susan bishop PARTNER(S): none currently CHILDREN: none PARENT(S): eleanor & derek bishop / heather bishop ( step-mother )

► HEADCANONS/FUN FACTS

before she was estranged from her father and cut off from the fortune, kate made anonymous donations to charities that helped rape victims

she considers lucky to be her dog even though he’s clint’s technically

she secretly doesn’t mind watching dog cops

her step-mother went to high school with her and she’s not close to her sister, so kate feels like clint is her only family

she thinks the hard drive arrow is kind of stupid but goes with it

her favorite color is purple ( duh )

it really pisses her off when people call her lady hawk or hawkette because her gender isn’t relevant here

after realizing her dad was a criminal, kate confronted him and the two became estranged, resulting in her becoming broke. she hasn’t told this to anyone yet except for clint

after her rape, kate locked herself in her room for months battling depression before she threw her memory into archery and training. she talked to someone to process the feelings, but she’s still reminded of what happened at times. very few know of it

captain america is her favorite avenger after hawkeye and she has a crush on him

as a child she was shipped off to boarding schools and ignored when she went home

she was trained in ballet as a child

hawkeye saved her life when she was younger and he has been her hero ever since

her therapist and jessica jones were initially the only ones kate told of her assault

right now she can shoot five arrows at a time accurately

her lists of exes / flings is pretty impressive

she had to branch away from clint and the young avengers to find herself and coming onto the west coast avengers kate felt like she had been successful

new york will always be her home but she learned to appreciate california

kate’s recently brought her p.i. business back to new york & it feels good to be home

► WANTED CONNECTIONS

america chavez (616) -- her best friend in the world who always has her back.

madame masque (616) -- probably her main arch-nemesis. 

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@bcrtonhawk​​

It’s a surprisingly nice day out. Sunlight filters through the trees as it dapples the leaf strewn ground. Spring air smells different than winter; the crispness of fall is absent and the humidity of summer has yet to set in like a sticky second skin. Instead, it’s some middle ground that sees some New Yorkers in sweaters and others still in their puffer coats. Kate herself has found a happy medium and walks with her hands tucked into her purple pockets. 

Normally, Lucky would be on the walk with them. Taking the dog out has become a routine way for Clint and Kate to both be active and spend time together. With her former mentor on the Thunderbolts, time has become inconsistent. Kate herself has only just finished acclimating from her cross country move. She misses the smell of the sea that lodges itself into your nostrils and follows you home, but she had missed her friends more. Being gone had been good for her in a number of ways. She had branched out, worked some things out. Now, she was home. Home was, apparently, the place where your friends were blown up without reason.

Reaching the door first, the archer pulled it open. The smell of pizza instantly smacked her in the face. If she had missed anything from the east coast, it had been some of the food. The California tacos were far superior, but she had always referred to herself as a “pizzie girlie” before cringing at the blatant gen-zness of the terminology.

“First slice, I buy.” Kate jutted her chin to the counter and glass display case. “A welcome back to life gift.” She orders for herself before sliding into the sticky booth. Chipped nails drum against the equally sticky table. It’s not a nice establishment, but it’s their speed. “So.” Kate hopes he can’t see her smile falter. “This is the part where I ask how you’re doing and you answer truthfully.” 

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mechanizedstark​:

“Those mutants sure know what they’re doing— I haven’t felt this good in years. Apparently all a guy’s gotta do to feel better is die. Who knew?”

Her Variant died in the same explosion that killed Tony. Kate’s still grappling with the conflicting feelings that come with that. She can’t imagine dying so horribly and waking up on a strange mutant planet. It’s worse when she thinks of Clint’s death. “Who knew?” Kate echoes. “You sound like Clint. You feeling good doesn’t change the fact that someone blew you guys up.”

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kitchensdevil​:

“Yeah, sand is the worst. I’ve never really been one for the outdoors in general, anyways. But I’m sure the view at the beach is lovely.” Matt chuckled softly as he nodded at her, and he grinned to himself at her suggestion. “I’ve tried, they’re usually too loud.” His heightened sense of hearing didn’t help with that. But Matt also needed to be able to clearly hear the city at night, in case something happened that he needed to help with. A noise machine would just be a distraction.

“My idea of outside is Central Park. If I’m feeling frisky and have some extra money I might even rent one of the rowboats.” The extra money thing has become more and more uncommon at this point. Besides, everyone knows it’s a tourist trap. “That settles it, then. You are simply not a beach or wave person, and that’s okay.”

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barneswinters​:

“You’d think that there’s at least one universe out there where we’re not constantly in the trenches.” Part of Bucky still didn’t really believe in the multiverse anyways. He was speaking to a variant from another Earth and he still couldn’t wrap his brain around it.

“I heard about a reality where everyone is animals. Maybe they’re better off than us.” What was his name? Spider-Ham? Spider-Pig? Kate can’t quite remember. “At this point, it doesn’t really matter. My reality is home. I could run off to some other one, but it wouldn’t be the same.”

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kitchensdevil​:

“The beach is significantly less fun when all you can focus on is the feeling of grating sand everywhere instead of the actual views.” Matt mused, realizing he sounded a bit cynical there as he flashed her a small smile. “I’ve never felt like I was missing out on much, there. My job keeps me a little too busy for beach days, anyways. I will admit, the sound of the waves is pretty calming.”

“That is incredibly valid. I didn’t consider that. I will say that sand, in general, is the devil. I hate getting wet and then getting sandy. It all sticks to you, and just — no.” Johnny had carried her from the water to the towel a few times when Kate was ( pretending ) to be a dick. She wasn’t high maintenance as a rule of thumb. “Maybe get a noise machine with waves included?”

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noh-vcrr​:

“I will not be that easy to fool again.” He chided. Listening to what she had to say he nodded. “Hell and back. Offer stands to take you across the galaxy and run away, as always.”

“Doesn’t mean I’ll ever stop trying.” Kate teases. She runs a hand through her hair before pulling it up into a ponytail. The elastic snaps around her fingers as she twists and tightens it. “Is it bad I’m debating taking you up on it? I know I shouldn’t, but they made other me a freaking dentist in Pleasant Hill. A dentist. I don’t know why, but it’s seriously weirding me out.”

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wizardstrange​:

“Thankfully for you, these other personalities the victims possess aren’t… violent. They’re housewifes, high schoolers, or in the other Kate’s case, dentists.”

“Other Kate is a dentist? Woof. That’s rough.” Kate wouldn’t have wished that on her other self, but she’s also very glad to not have been the Kate in Pleasant Hill. “Is that a yes on helping out?”

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barneswinters​:

“Yeah, I’m not sure it’s really the time.” Bucky sighed, his tone lightening a bit as he leaned back. “From the sound of it, things are about to get worse from here.”

“Don’t they always? That’s, like, standard textbook procedure at this point. I’m pretty sure it’s one of the few things that are multiversally consistent.” 

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destroyrofworlds​:

“Probably the understatement of the century there.” Daisy quipped back, giving an unsure shrug at the question as she rolled her eyes. “Until she’s deemed fit to return back to active duty.” With the stomp down Roz had given her, that could be awhile.

“Don’t worry, this isn’t the first big thing I’ve missed. I’m great at catching up quickly.” Kate’s nothing if not good at operating on the fly. “I’m guessing that still won’t be long enough? It’d be nice to fix everything before comes back to ruin things.”

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noh-vcrr​:

“No, because I’m refusing to play those games. I’ve grown to wise to them.” After she had already successfully used them on him several times.

“Boo. Fine. Whatever. You know that I’ll get you next time.” Kate pauses. “Games aside, we should talk about the fact that everything’s apparently gone to hell.”

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wizardstrange​:

An orange portal leading to the Sanctum dissipated behind Stephen as he turned around and faced the person in front of him. “This better be important. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but reality is still falling apart.” The bags that had plagued his eyes for the past few months were gone now, which was an improvement, but things were far from fine.

“It’s all anyone can talk about.” One hand moves to adjust the purple shades Kate’s taken to wearing. “A girl sits one mission out and missing everything. Not that I’m complaining about the fact that I wasn’t reality warped. I’m very thankful there.” Kate knows she’s wasting his time and her own. “I can’t do magic. I’m more of a street level person. If you need anyone in that range, I’m happy to help.”

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 barneswinters​:

“I guess it makes me all the more thankful for the differences.” There were several parallels that could be made between the realities, but Bucky was certainly grateful that mutants hadn’t made their way into his reality yet. From what he’d seen of them so far, it was a giant fucking headache. “He was a benefactor.” The whole thing made him feel sick, knowing that S.H.I.E.L.D. really stooped low enough to accept bribes from someone like Wilson Fisk of all people. But then again, the entire prison disguised down was enough for him to hate S.H.I.E.L.D. entirely at this point.

It’s no secret that Kate finds her Bucky Barnes very attractive. It’s something that all her friends makes fun of her about. The fact that she can sit there without conveying that fact is an accomplishment. She lets out a low whistle. “Just when you think they can’t get any worse. I know I should check on other Kate, but we’ve never actually met. This feels like a weird time to. Hi, Kate. I know you’ve just been reality warped, but let’s throw a multiverse twist in! It’s too much.”

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kitchensdevil​:

“Can’t forget about the pizza rat.” Matt chuckled softly, remembering the day Foggy burst into his office and vividly described the viral video. He wouldn’t shut up about it for at least a week. “No, I didn’t make it over to the beach. Come to think of it, I don’t remember the last time I’ve ever been to one.” Probably with his father, which was not something he wanted to dwell on.

“Oh, you missed out. You missed out big time. The beach is sixty percent of why I stayed.” Maybe not sixty percent, but it had definitely been a factor. “You never go out to Jones or Rockaway? Coney Island’s a tourist trap, but it also counts.”

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webheadmorales​:

“Is it really goo that they use for the resurrections?” Miles didn’t wanna think that it was really some sci-fi @#%!, but then again who knew when it came to the mutants and Krakoa as a whole. The entire thing was very mysterious and decidedly sci-fi. “Hold up, they changed the name of the moon too?”

Kate shrugs. “They don’t like to talk about it, so I have no idea. But no, the moon is still the moon. Mars is Arakko now. They have a bunch of mutants living up there or something. It looks like we’re both failing a mutant politics test.”

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destroyrofworlds​:

“Hill’s been taken care of.” When Daisy realized how final that sounded, she raised her eyebrows and quickly backtracked. “She’s not dead, though. Just on a mandatory medical leave.”

“I feel like I missed a lot.” Kate hadn’t been asked to enter Pleasant Hill on the rescue mission, but the fomo was real even though things had gone south. “How long does a mandatory medical leave last?”

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barneswinters​:

“That doesn’t sound that far off from our reality, then.” Bucky replied solemnly, his eyes taking to the floor as he thought of Steve for a few moments. It was just that, though, a few moments before he was looking back up and sighing. “You were in there, weren’t you? Pleasant Hill. I recognize your name from the dossiers.” At least, he thought he did. He was still getting used to telling the difference between some of the variants that were running around.

“There are some similarities that you just hate to see.” Kate sighs. Ever since things got merged, it’s been completely wonky. Kate really can’t think of a better descriptor than that. She frowns at his question. “Me? No. My variant from your reality was, though. I think she pissed off Kingpin or something.”