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PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: Alyssa
✖ Contact: screeches @ plurk | pohmelyatsya @ dw
✖ Are You Over 16: aye aye captain
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: none in this here boat

CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Barton, Clint ( Barton, Clinton Francis )
✖ Canon: The Avengers; somewhere between post-movie and Iron Man 3
✖ Character Appearance:



✖ Character Age: While not mentioned in movie, according to supplementary S.H.I.E.L.D. files, Clint’s birthday is January 7, 1971, which places him at 41 during the Chitauri attack.
✖ Pick A Number: 100 | 29

✖ Canon Setting:

The world of Marvel Cinematic Universe -- or Earth-199999 if you’re one of those who believe in multiverses -- is not so different from our own. Both universes share the same geography, the same political situations for the most part, and the same pop culture. For instance, Tony Stark calls Clint “Legolas” at one point mid-battle, and there are references to Galaga, The Wizard of Oz, and several other movie tie-ins. Of course there are probably other specific pop culture that MCU has that our world doesn’t, most notably things referring to Captain America, but in general these have not been mentioned during the films and are not likely to do so.

So for the most part, we can assume that the universe progressed on a largely parallel pattern to ours up until the 1940s, when Steve Rogers was dosed with the Super Serum and became the very first superhero. Due to Captain America, it becomes apparent that the technology in MCU is more advanced than our own. Even in the 1940s, there is weaponry that seems to merge magic and science, guns fueled by a cosmic cube that evaporates anybody it hits into blue dust, not to mention the serum that turned Steve Rogers from a 90 pound weakling into a supersoldier. This is furthered in other movies with Bruce Banner attempting to replicate the serum and becoming the Hulk, with Tony Stark being capable of surviving shrapnel in his heart with help of an electromagnet placed in his chest and the technical marvel that s the Iron Man suit. There are other examples: The Winter Soldier’s arm and sheer existence, Sam Wilson’s EXO-7 FALCON jetpack, the phase 2 weapons, the helicarriers, ect.

In essence, MCU is a world that has tasted the unusual and impossible, even if it has not necessarily grown used to it. In response to this, on the heels of Roger’s “death” in the 1940s, an counter-terrorism and intelligence agency named the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division was born. S.H.I.E.L.D. handles the supernatural cases, the things that are kept hidden away and secret from the mass population. In short terms, they’re the Men In Black of MCU. They will continue in this role for years, largely unchecked until the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which is becomes apparent that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been infiltrated by HYDRA, a fictional Nazi organization that had been Captain America’s enemy, from nearly the beginning of it’s conception.

But this is a discovery a couple years ahead of Clint’s time. In fact, until Thor crash landed in the middle of a New Mexico desert and triggered a chain of events leading up to the alien invasion of Manhattan, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s biggest problem was probably Stark’s enormous ego. ( At least, he probably likes to think so. ) The truth of the matter, however, is that though S.H.I.E.L.D. now knew the guy with crazy hair talking about aliens on history channel wasn’t wrong, it also realized that humanity on a whole was wildly unprepared for the destruction and war these alien beings could bring with them. Following this, Nick Fury and the World Council came up with a few plans, one of which was the Avengers Initiative -- a so called boy-band made up of people with uncommon abilities -- and the other being Phase 2, weapons created utilizing the infinite power of the Tesseract.

So in essence, MCU is a world built up on the backs of legends, with superheroes stepping up to stand up for those who can’t in the face of incredible danger. It is not a world viewed through rose colored glasses: people are tortured, people die, people have their senses of identity rifled through and tossed out, only to be be replaced with something else. That said, the superhero aspects of this world do not really affect Clint up until his brain is hijacked by a Norse god and he’s used as a weapon against his own people. For Clint, this is a turn about on who he is -- he is just an ex-carnie turned assassin that prefers to use a bow and arrow to the typical gun. There’s nothing super about him, and he rather prefers it that way.

✖ Character History:

“ Well, I see better from a distance. ”

Not much is known about Clint’s early history in the movies. Thor serves as his introduction, and by the time that rolls around he’s already in his late 30s, well entrenched in the life and world of S.H.I.E.L.D.But extrapolating a bit from various Hawkeye comics, and by looking back on things we already do know about Clint, it’s a bit easier to paint a picture. Somewhere in his childhood, he became part of a circus and was trained in the way of throwing weapons and archery, as well as skills as an acrobat and aerialist. In the comics, Clint’s parents die in a car accident while he is young, leaving his older brother Barney and him to be set to orphanage and foster homes one after another. There is no mention of Barney in MCU as of yet, but it’s pretty easy to adopt this as canon for Clint’s early life regardless. While he undoubtedly made a place for himself in the circus, given his martial arts abilities and training, it’s also highly likely that Clint parted ways and joined some military branch at some point before being poached by S.H.I.E.L.D., arguably because of his skills. In any case, Clint found himself working for S.H.I.E.L.D. and would eventually be tasked with the mission of tracking down and taking out one Natasha Romanova, more commonly known as the Black Widow. He makes a different call and brings her into S.H.I.E.L.D., in the process gaining a partner and trusted friend. From this point on, there is a gap in space, but one can assume he takes missions with S.H.I.E.L.D. and does some cool spy things in the background. Eventually, a Norse god and his legendary hammer crash land in some tiny town in the middle of a New Mexican desert, and Clint makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut.

Thor’s landing does not go unnoticed, and S.H.I.E.L.D. is on the scene within a day. Though S.H.I.E.L.D. does not seem to realize that there is much to the site beyond Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer, they set up shop alarmingly fast. Thor is unnoticed at first, but after Dr. Jane Foster’s research on the wormhole he’d fallen through is confiscated, and it becomes apparent Mjolnir is within S.H.I.E.L.D.’s grasp, he busts into secure government holdings to retrieve both. In Thor’s defense, he manages to take out Agent after Agent, running through them all as if they’re paper. Eventually, it becomes apparent that the whole time Hawkeye has been high up in a vantage point with an arrow trained on Thor’s big blonde head. But the longer Thor goes, thrashing all the Agents he comes across, the more Clint seems to like him. He remarks on an off hand to Agent Coulson that the longer this is running the more he’s rooting for the guy, which shows a keen insight into not only Clint’s own awareness of his strength ( his best shot is by having a vantage point, and certainly not in facing Thor on the ground. ) but also his sense of humor. Perhaps he even finds something of a kindred spirit in Thor, liking him as an underdog coming up against big, bad, vaguely menacing government agencies.

In any case, Clint doesn’t get called to make the shot, and the next we see of him is in The Avengers. Following the awareness of humanity’s status as not-actually-alone-in-the-universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. has come up with a secret research facility named PEGASUS, run by Dr. Erik Selvig, a colleague of Dr. Foster and a forerunner on cosmic energy. Project PEGASUS is meant as a way to research the Tesseract, a blue cube of inordinate power and unlimited energy that could fuel weapons and create things far beyond normal ken. While the Tesseract was once a power source guarded by the Asgardians that were Thor’s forebearers, it was lost upon Earth centuries before, and eventually wound up being found by Johann Schmidt ( the Red Skull ) in the 1940s who used it as a means to destroy the Allied Powers and then conquer the world. He would have succeeded, had Captain America not decided to crash the plane carrying it in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Eventually, both the Tesseract and later Captain America himself are found, but it is in the present day when they make a comeback. Captain America gets settled in a 1940s look alike hospital, but the Tesseract is researched with hopes of creating WMDs that would protect Earth against alien invaders should they come. This is, of course, known by little to nobody, and winds up being a contention point later on in the movie. Whatever the case, Clint once again found himself on security detail, and is first shown high up, again. When called down by Fury, he simply states that he “sees better from a distance”, and follows up by pointing out the main problem with the Tesseract that nobody else had thought to consider. This being that perhaps the problem wasn’t on their side, but rather on the other, because if the Tesseract was a door, then it would make sense that it opened both ways. Almost as if to prove him right, a portal appears nearly immediately after and spits Loki -- Thor’s brother -- into the room. After a quick battle in which Loki manages to down most of the people in the room, and takes a few others under his scepter controlled mind-control, Loki declares Clint to “have heart” and places him under his control with a simple press of scepter to heart. After realizing that Fury is stalling for time so that the Tesseract might bring down the building around them, Clint shoots his boss and leads Loki out of there with Tesseract in hand. Following this, Clint serves as the getaway driver and manages to get himself, Loki, Selvig ( also mind controlled), two other mind-controlled agents and the Tesseract out of the base without further injury.

From this point, Clint is compromised. This is used by Agent Coulson to bring in Natasha, and within the frame of the film is the first hint of some measure of significant history between them. This is addressed later on in the film, but until then it is interesting to note that she immediately drops the job she is working and gets herself to her extraction point without fuss. In any case, this is the start of the assembling of the Avengers. Clint misses all of this, given that he is stuck underground alongside the other mind-controlled S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Selvig, enemies of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Loki, but he comes up with some excitement of his own. While Loki means to unleash the capabilities of the Tesseract alongside Selvig, they hit a roadblock and need Iridium to stabilize to cube. It is, however, something that is hard to get ahold of without drawing any attention, and Selvig notes that he hadn’t even realized he needed it until the Tesseract had “shown him the truth”. Clint, however, quips that the Tesseract had shown him his next target, rather than waxing poetic about the power of the Tesseract over him. It’s important to note that Clint looked sickly under the light of the Tesseract: skin sallow, deep circles under his red eyes, darker lines on his face. The control doesn’t agree with him, obviously. In any case, Clint winds up leading a successful mission to get the iridium, showing up at a fancy museum’s reception in the middle of Stuttgard, Germany. Clint takes care of the security within a blink, downing the two guards even as Loki manages to steal an eyeball to get them past the retina scan locking away the iridium.

Even as Clint escapes, Loki is being captured by Fury’s super secret boyband. This, later on, proves to be a cover. Loki utilized the capture as a means to infiltrate and sow seeds of discord among S.H.I.E.L.D. and is not found out until it is nearly too late. With regard to Clint, it is only Natasha’s talk with Loki that reveals some of the bond between the two spies. She mentions the debt she owes him given he saved her life and brought her to S.H.I.E.L.D., and Loki lets slip that Clint is perhaps the only one who knows her deepest, darkest fears. But ultimately, Loki and the scepter he brought with him has a presence that sparks an argument amongst the team that is meant to unleash the Hulk and split up the Avengers.

In the middle of this all, Clint arrives alongside his gaggle of soldiers and succeeds in taking the helicarrier out of the sky with just one trick arrow landed perfectly. After slipping aboard the helicarrier, Clint manages to down the nearly revived helicarrier with an arrow taking over the console and shutting down the other engines. It is luck that means Tony Stark had already been out there working on an engine, or else they might have really fallen from the sky. Whatever the case was, Clint made his way towards the detention cell where Loki was held, but instead found himself waylaid and knocked out by Natasha. Luckily, cognitive recalibration seems to jolt him out of the fugue of the mind-control used by Loki, but it requires a recovery period that is not dissimilar to sweating out a bad fever. While he eventually pulls himself together, it’s obvious that Clint is still somewhat addled. His head lolls to the side, his voice is dazed, and the question he asks is one he already knows the answer to regardless. But Clint’s first thought after wondering if he might actually be able to fight this off, is to ask about the people he might have killed with his actions while under Loki’s control. Fortunately, Natasha shuts that down, telling him not to punish himself for something he had no control over. This seems like simple platitudes, but in all honesty it’s the only point that sticks with him. A hint of Clint’s humor shines through as he mentions sleeping better if he put an arrow in Loki’s eye socket, and Natasha relaxes, citing that Clint is sounding like his old self. But in his moments of understanding and observation, Clint notices that she doesn’t, and seems to hold credence to the fact that she’s been compromised by Loki in some way. They do not speak of it, because it’s more important that they are there and alive, but it shows more awareness of the fact that Clint and Natasha are very important to each other.

Soon after this, Steve comes knocking at the door with a call to assemble, and Natasha vouches for Clint when silently asked. Neither of them are aware, at first, that this is because Stark and Rogers figured out where the next attack was, but they follow him on the vague mention that he’ll tell them on the way. There’s a quiet acceptance to Rogers and Clint reacts well to having a mission he’s needed for, so he suits up with the rest of them and helps steal a jet, piloting it with ease even when they’re shot from the sky and he needs to make an emergency landing. For the rest of the battle, the team assembles at Stark Tower in New York and fights to keep the damage caused by alien invaders locked down to six blocks rather than allowing them to run unchecked. This isn’t easy, as the Chitauri are well armed, have flying jet-ski like ships and much larger, living whale like transports that fly through the air and as as large as a skyscraper. In the ensuing battle, Clint runs out of ammo and is forced to repel off a falling room, kicking through a window and landing somewhat painfully in shards of glass. During the battle, however, Clint showcases his immense marksmanship, and the once again budding habit for making wisecracks during the heat of battle, or perhaps, because of it. But in the end, he’s back down facing Chitauri hand-to-hand, and Fury comes in with a call that his superiors have loosed the order for a nuke to be sent directly at Manhattan in an attempt to stop the invading force. Luckily, the Iron Man suit is capable of lifting said nuke, and Tony Stark flies it up and into the portal in the sky to take out the invading force yet to come through. Even more luckily, doing so seems to cut the rest of the Chitauri from some hivemind and they all drop like cards, neatly ending the battle where it is as Natasha manages to shut the device powered by the Tesseract holding the portal open. There is, of course, only one more thing left to do and the Avengers head up into the Tower proper to capture a prone Loki who had gone a round with the Hulk and lost. Following the end of the movie, Thor takes both Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard to face Asgardian justice and to be secreted away, respectively. With their job done, the Avengers break up and go their own separate ways.

✖ Character Personality:

Clint is, in simple terms, a good person and a good soldier. This is not to say he’s a great, morally upright person, and neither is he a submissive soldier who follows orders to a ‘T’, but Clint works on a personal moral code that he doesn’t go against. For the most part, this moral compass of his points in the right direction, and sometimes it seems to do so in ways that go against what his orders might be. Most apparent of these is the fact that he brought in Natasha Romanoff, when he’d been sent out to kill her. As Natasha states, “Barton was sent to kill me, he made a different call.” It isn’t apparent if this was the first call he went against, but it’s certainly not the last one. During Thor, Clint shows a hint of his humor and his ability to read people when he sasses Agent Coulson on whether or not he should take the shot and take down Thor. In the end, Coulson doesn’t make the call, and Thor is taken in rather than put down, but it goes to show just how comfortable Clint is with questioning orders and forging his own path.

Clint is a good agent, but it is not because he follows blindly. Rather, it is because at his base, Clint is one to question authority and rely heavily upon his own assessments and observations. Because he’s got such good vision, and such a habit of observation, this is one of his strengths. This all culminates in the fact that, given credence by his title: Hawkeye, Clint is extremely observant. He picks up on facts nobody else does or has -- the Tesseract, Natasha’s subtly unusual behavior, the Chitauri weaknesses, ect. -- and he works with it, easily changing his plans and his reactions to fit these new parameters. But while Clint is known for his sight and his aim, there is nothing augmented or superhuman about either. In fact, he must work hard to keep his skills with a bow sharp and easily wielded.

But as I mentioned above, Clint did not spend the first half of the movie in full control of himself. In fact, he spent a large portion of The Avengers brainwashed and following Loki’s orders, and while some hints of himself shone through ( he shot Nick Fury in the chest where he knew he would have a vest, rather than taking a head shot ) for the most part Clint’s personality was muffled in favor of his skill and ability as an agent. And it becomes clear that he is a very good agent. It was apparent from the get go, simply because Clint was the first ( and only, aside from Loki ) to realize that if the Tesseract is a portal then it can open from both sides, further, he immediately threw himself at Fury to knock him out of harm’s way when Loki showed up and started assaulting the agents. While under control, he comes up with and leads two successful missions, getting Selvig the iridium he needed to stabilize the Tesseract, and leading a party to invade and take down the helicarrier base S.H.I.E.L.D. was staying in. During the Battle in Manhattan, he finds the weakness of the Alien aircraft and the easiest way to take them out without direct contact ( by banking hard, since they cannot turn as quickly or easily as the Iron Man suit ) and also takes out plenty of Chitauri with his arrows before he runs out and is forced to evacuate.

Backtracking and speaking on the effects of the mind control, however, it’s important to note that nearly as soon as Clint sweated out the fever he was asking about the damage he’d caused, and the amount of people he’d killed while he was under. It’s obvious Clint is dealing with some heavy duty guilt due to his actions, even if they were under his own volition, and though he doesn’t seem to start coming back to himself until halfway through the battle of Manhattan, it’s apparent that the after effects will take a long while to wear off completely. This is repeated by Natasha -- “We don't have that long, it's gonna take time.” -- and further still by Erik Selvig in Thor: The Dark World who seems to have gone completely over the deep end due to his time spent under Loki’s control. Admittedly, Clint was under for a shorter time frame than Selvig and his job and the help offered by Natasha lends credence to the fact that Clint probably has a better chance of coming out without being just as unhinged as Selvig was. But a few months isn’t necessarily enough to fix that, and I’d like to have Clint continue to deal with this issue in-game.

Once he comes out from under the control it’s easy to see that overall, Clint is just a regular guy. Humor is one of his coping mechanisms, and is a really core trait of his. It’s only when he lets some of wry humor slip in -- “Well, if I put an arrow in Loki’s eye socket, I’d sleep better I suppose.” “Now you sound like you.” -- that Natasha truly relaxes around him, and this is something that carries on. During the aforementioned part in Thor, Clint takes the time to make a few wisecracks at the expense of agents facing Thor, even when he’s got an arrow pointed at him, ready to take the god down. This humor is seemingly at odds when compared to Clint’s skill and efficiency when it comes to his job, and that is something he seemingly enjoys. This shines through later on, during the fight against the Chitauri, when he manages to pull off a few showy moves despite the gravity of the situation he’s found himself in.

Speaking of coping mechanisms, Clint only briefly shows any hint of regret and remorse for the actions he took while under Loki’s control, and by the time he hits the ground he is seemingly back to his old self. This is, perhaps, only because he has been offered a welcome distraction in the face of a battle for survival. But while Clint is part of a superhero team, he is painfully human. He has no healing abilities, no super strength or super speed; he is, in fact, a being built up of fault and missteps, and a whole lot of practice shooting arrows. He is, as noted by Loki, no more virtuous than Natasha, who was an assassin who didn’t particularly care where her jobs came from before Clint dragged her in to join S.H.I.E.L.D. But Clint doesn’t let this or his secrets show. He makes quips, and focuses on his work, not drawing any attention to himself and hiding under a seemingly easygoing persona.

And he’s truly, painfully, good at it. He’s just human after all, overshadowed by his superhuman teammates, and that’s kind of how he likes it.

✖ Character Powers & Skills:

1. RESPECT THE GEAR | ABILITY

Clint is as human as they come, but his so called “power”, is the fact that he’s the greatest living marksman on the planet, especially when it comes to archery. This is showcased throughout the entirety of The Avengers, with him taking down targets that are moving through midair at incredible speeds, sometimes without even having to look at them to do so. He is capable of firing multiple arrows at a single target within seconds, hitting multiple targets with a few quick movements, and hitting targets that are incredible distances away with unerring accuracy. However, this isn’t some divine gift, Clint practiced and must continue to do so to keep his skills sharp.

2. ORPHAN RAISED BY CARNIES | ABILITY

In addition to his skills in archery with different types of bows ( regular, longbow, crossbow, and compound bow ), Clint is a skilled marksman with any type of thrown weapon ( throwing blades, balls, bolas, boomerangs, ect. ) as he was trained in this from a young age. He is also an expert acrobat, and has peak human strength, stamina, and endurance. His reflexes and agility is top notch, and when combined with his training as an acrobat and aerialist, it becomes apparent that he is capable of some incredibly complex acrobatic maneuvers.

3. YOU GOT A SUIT? | ABILITY

Clint is also a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and a very good one too. He is proficient in various martial arts forms, and is able to fight Natasha Romanoff to a standstill until she gained the upper hand and bested him. He also took down a lot of Chitauri soldiers during the invasion and was able to keep them locked to a six block radius alongside the rest of the team. He’s also a good strategist, likely having been trained and operating under the military before S.H.I.E.L.D. snapped him up. In The Avengers, Clint lead a team of operatives in a vault heist in Germany, and an infiltration of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. Both missions were a success, even if the later culminated in him being hit on the head and taken out from under the mind control.

- 1. THIS LOOKS BAD | POWER LIMITATION

As mentioned before, there is nothing supernatural or superhuman about Clint. His eye sight seems to be nearly supernaturally good, but it’s not augmented or enhanced, and he is just as vulnerable to injury as the next guy. He has no real powers, just a lot of skills he worked hard to get.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV:

1. test drive meme; 2. gen bakerstreet threads

✖ Third Person POV:

It’s been a long couple of months. The world is different in parts, but mostly, there’s nothing different about the shift and turn of earth beneath his feet, nothing different in the scrape and skim of living month-by-month. And Clint can’t help but be grateful that with the dispersal of the Avengers, he’d faded somewhat into obscurity. Not too many cameras caught him losing arrow of arrow over head, and that saves him from being cornered by citizens, saves him from reliving the horror of Loki overriding his mind more often than he already does.

But Clint is a being not built for having nothing to do, and with himself still on suspension and delegated towards one -- or several, really, he’s not the best patient -- therapist, he hasn’t had any missions to distract himself with.

He’s been going crazy, practicing for long hours of the day, honing until there’s no doubt that the next time someone so much as attempts to take away his free will he’ll settle a arrow neatly in their eye socket. And he knows he’s not the only one affected, Rogers is still off on his tour of the United States, Natasha had thrown herself back into work, Banner was hiding away from the world in Stark’s Tower and Stark -- well, the man had run off to California like he hadn’t moved his entire company out to New York.

Clint can’t blame them. As it is, he suffers not necessarily in silence for months until whatever crap the shrinks wrote down satisfies Fury and he’s called up to the boss man’s office. It’s a walk he’s taken often, whether it be for mission or reprimand, and Clint moves quickly, sparing no glance for the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents he can feel watching him. Not all of them are going to be comfortable with a man who nearly killed them all, and did in fact kill some of them, on board. But he doesn’t care -- fuck them, he thinks, vicious and snarling in the back of his mind.

And Fury doesn’t seem to care either, handing him back badge and gun and an order to go clean out the mess that was his office. There’s no warning other than “And stop scaring the new recruits, Barton!” and even that’s familiar in a way he hadn’t realized he’d missed. But it’s good, it settles the ache beneath his ribs and the achingly quiet rift in the dark of his mind. He takes a breath, stalks through the familiar halls of the Triskelion, and finds the darkened room of his office. Only, it’s not empty, there’s a person sitting there, creamy manilla folder in hand, and she looks up at him with muted warmth in her gaze and death upon her tongue.

She speaks of aliens, of the destruction of worlds, but there’s something desperate in the lines of her fingers as she holds her folder out to him and waits. Desperation in her voice, thick upon rounded vowels as she leans forward in her chair, mouth a serious little line.

“Agent Barton, we need you to join us.”

And oh, it’s been so long since he’s heard those words, since he had a new mission to set his teeth to and fill the aching emptiness of his mind with. He flips through papers, feels a cold sense of dread in the pit of his stomach and an eager grasping anticipation shoving it aside. She knows it, he thinks. It’s why she came to him, rather than any of the other Agents in this building, rather than any of the other Avengers, her mouth parts in a smile, all red lipstick and all those white teeth.

It doesn’t take him very long to turn, gaze sharp and lingering upon the sight of all those teeth, as he offers a steady "yes".

CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team:

> R E D

Red team is tasked with surveillance, and going through the short blurb seems to fall inline with what Clint was already doing as part of S.H.I.E.L.D. He’s a spy and an assassin -- infiltration and neutralization is his specialty. Further still, Clint’s working through the after effects of Loki’s brainwashing and he needs something to focus on and utilize his skills on. And having a sniper and weapons specialist of his caliber seems to fit in well here.

> O R A N G E

Same as above goes for this team. But because orange is tasked with reconnaissance, this team would play more on Clint’s background as a spy. He’s good at being one of the first going in and works well on his feet without an overabundance of information. He’s just also one to take action and ask forgiveness later; as evidence by his breaking the rules to bring Natasha in to S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than killing her.

✖ Reason for Joining the CDC:

There are a few reasons behind Clint’s decision to say yes. On one hand, he’s a newly minted superhero, and that’s kind of what they do. But Clint’s always been one to help those in need, and especially those who have nobody else to turn to. He goes against orders to help ( Natasha ), and he even fought against mind control to not kill someone important to him ( Fury ). This has been etched deep into his warped moral code and it’s something Clint doesn’t go against lest he become what he fights. This ties into the second point: if he fights, then his own world will be safe which is an easy thing to decide in the end. But thirdly, and finally, the fact is Clint’s been through a rough patch in his life following Loki’s mind control and the battle of Manhattan. He’s been seeking distractions, and this is a major distraction, in the end.

✖ Mission Freebie: He’d like some measure of protection against anybody getting in his mind and messing around again. If that’s not feasible, then some way to get more arrows -- trick ones or not -- would be cool.
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: His bow and quiver would be nice! It’s his main weapon after all.

✖ Character Inventory:

➸ one ( 1 ) uniform ( see character appearance. )
➸ two ( 2 ) specially designed hearing aids
➸ one ( 1 ) collapsible recurve bow
➸ one ( 1 ) specialized quiver, filled with arrows
➸ one ( 1 ) Heckler & Koch P30 ( confiscated )
➸ one ( 1 ) combat knife ( confiscated )