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Character Name: Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Series: Marvel-616 (specifically featured in Young Avengers, Children’s Crusade, and Hawkeye comics)
Timeline: After the events in the Hawkeye Annual #1.
Canon Resource Link: Marvel wiki entry and Regular wiki entry
Character History: Although Kate grew up the daughter of a wealthy New York socialite, she never felt all that comfortable with her family’s wealth. Like her mother, she spent her time prior to joining the Young Avengers working with charities – donating time and money to shelters and soup kitchens and other humanitarian causes. While most New Yorkers would walk by a homeless beggar, Kate was the type to stop to give them change. After the death of her mother, about a year prior to the formation of the Young Avengers, she became more involved in activist work. Determined to make a difference in the world, it’s perhaps no surprise that she eventually forces her way on to a team of teenaged superheroes.
Most of her life, prior to her mother’s death, was that of a rich debutante. She attended Interlochen National Music Camp every summer as a child, where she learned cello and guitar. One of her father’s friends even gave her a pony for a childhood birthday. She attended a prestigious New York private high school where she excelled as a student. Kate’s life was lacking for nothing; picture perfect really. Or, at least, as picture perfect as you could get growing up in the Marvel-616 universe; a universe where superheroes, alien invasions, mutants, and all sorts of comic book insanity was kind of commonplace. Especially within New York, where teams like the Avengers and Fantastic Four kept their home base.
Though she was teasingly called a spoiled brat, she rarely acted like one. As stated, she acted more like her mother - more interested in helping out others than herself. Prior to joining the Young Avengers, Kate was subjected to the violence and harsh realities of the world. After opting to take a shortcut through Central Park at night, she was violently assaulted by a stranger (definitely sexually; hints in comics suggest rape without ever using the word). Though she saw a therapist to work on the emotional repercussions, it was not enough for her. In her eyes:
“Life is short. And it doesn’t matter how good your grades are – or how many hours you put in at the soup kitchen… You’re not safe. Bad things happen. Things you can’t control. Things that have nothing to do with you. And they will destroy them if you let them. Or you can try to learn from them, so that the next time you’ll be prepared. So that – even if you never feel safe again – you can do your best to make sure that what happened to you never happens to anyone else.”
She took up kickboxing and jujitsu and other forms of combat so that she wouldn’t be caught off guard ever again. And when her sister’s wedding was interrupted by an armed robbery attempt, followed by the Young Avengers attempting to save the day, she refused to let the teenage superheroes do all the work. Headstrong and determined, she jumped right into the fray and effectively saved the day without a second thought. It didn't matter to her that she lacked any superpowers where the Young Avengers all clearly did have some sort of special ability. She had grown up reading about heroic actions that made the newspaper day after day and even fangirled the Avengers to a degree. She refused to be a damsel in distress ever again.
When Ant Man’s daughter, Cassie, came to visit Kate at the hospital shortly after to see if she knew anything about where the Young Avengers are and how to join up, Kate agreed to help Cassie seek them out. Even though the boys were reluctant to let her and Cassie join at first, she essentially strong armed her way on to the team. In raiding the abandoned Avengers Manner, she found the original Hawkeye's bow and Mockingbird's mask and fashioned herself a quick superhero costume to go with the rest. She helped them defeat Kang the Conqueror and then, after Captain America and Iron Man attempt to break up the Young Avengers, convinced them to continue being superheroes. Using her father’s wealth, she provided them with better costumes and the hangout necessary to continue their extracurricular activities. Unlike the others, however, Kate never decided upon a codename.
Kate fought alongside the rest of the Young Avengers, even often lead them on their missions, despite her lack of any superhuman ability. She was more than willing to stand up to Captain America and the other Avengers that try to convince them to quit being superheroes. At the end of the Family Matters arc, after the death of Teddy’s mother, the discovery of Tommy (Billy’s spiritual twin brother person), and all the other chaos that occurred, she holds no hesitation in confronting Captain America when he attempts to tell them to quit being superheroes altogether. In her eyes, half the awful circumstances she and her team had just gone through could have been avoided if they had been supported:
“Sir, with all due respect, the minute Eli’s back on his feet, he’ll be chasing down bad guys, powers or no powers. That’s just who he is. It’s who we all are. The same as you. I know you and Iron Man don’t approve of us but I can’t help thinking if you guys had supported us – if you had taken the time to train us – maybe Eli wouldn’t be in surgery right now. Maybe Billy’s parents would still have a place to live, and Teddy’s mother would still be alive. That’s how it feels anyway. So if you really want to protect us… you’ll accept us.”
This discussion was a turning point in Kate’s role in the superhero community. While she had been consistently in between codenames prior, after standing up to Captain America, she earned the codename of Hawkeye. It was this stubbornness and pride that earns her Hawkeye’s bow and codename; Clint Barton being the only other Avenger who ever stood up to Captain America the way she did.
Eventually, she took Eli’s place as the team leader altogether. At heart, she was a natural leader. And while Eli had been in charge when the team had originally formed, Kate never hesitated to make decisions when he did. The team split during the events of the Civil War arc and the Superhero Registration Act. She went underground with most of the team (minus Cassie and Vision) and fought on Captain America's side in the conflict. The conflict ended with Cap's death, but the Young Avengers remained strong.
When Clint Barton donned Captain America’s costume and shield for a trial run after Captain America's death, Kate easily told him off for what she believed to be disrespecting Cap’s memory. When he asked how what she does – taking up the name Hawkeye – was any different, she explained that she did it to honor him (unbeknownst to her that she was talking to Clint the entire time). She encountered Clint again sometime after - this time when he interrupted a pseudo-date Kate was on with fellow teammate Eli to test her abilities. He eventually played against her pride and self-confidence and bet her for his bow back. It was a bet that Kate cockily accepted and then lost, calling it "her greatest shame ever." Upset that she lost both her bow and codename to a better archer, she recklessly agreed to go out drinking with another teammate, Tommy. This ultimately resulted in the two of them breaking into the Avengers HQ and Kate stealing the bow back. Clint rewarded her for the impudence and lets her keep the bow, as well as gifting her with a photo of the original Avengers. Though Kate might not have had the previously existing connection to the Avengers that her teammates did (Cassie as Ant-Man's daughter, Eli as the grandson of the black Captain America, Tommy and Billy being the reincarnated lost souls of the Scarlet Witch's children, and Teddy being the son of Captain Marvel), she now found the start of a kinship with Clint.
The team continued fighting as a group for some unspecified time after. Among other events, they helped with the Skrull invasion and at the Siege of Asgard and ultimately obtained a good degree or respect from the rest of the superhero community. This time lasted until after the events of Children’s Crusade, when her decisions to lead the team in helping Billy (and Tommy) find the Scarlet Witch ultimately resulted in the death of her best friend, Cassie, and fellow Young Avenger, Vision. At this point, she decided to quit the superhero gig. Unlike the rest of the Young Avengers, she held no prior connection to the actual Avengers and, therefore, had no right to continue to masquerade as a superhero. For approximately the next two years, it can be presumed Kate lives her life as any normal citizen of New York would.
When Clint called her to take up working alongside him a couple of years later, she was reluctant to at first. After failing her team, and more importantly – her best friends, she didn’t want to dress up in costume anymore and fight bad guys. What right did she have to live that sort of life? But he eventually convinced her otherwise and despite her promise not to take up being a superhero to Billy and the rest of the team, she started to work alongside Clint as his partner. Their relationship becomes full of snark on both ends, a lot of teasing and name calling. It becomes a comfortable friendship that borders on the same familial relationship that she had formed with the Young Avengers. Again and again, she comes to his need – both as physical backup and emotional support. Nor does she hesitate to yell at him when he deserves it.
The Marvel-616 timeline can be really difficult to follow and I'm going to say that the following (the most recent Young Avenger arc) took place after the events of Hurricane Sandy in the Hawkeye books. Kate had a one night stand with Kree Noh-Varr that turned into a longer relationship when they rescue Billy and Teddy from an interdimensional parasite posing as Teddy's dead mother. They also met up with the kid version of Loki and a dimension-travelling superhero named America Chavez. Ultimately, the run can be summarized as hopping around the multiverse for a couple of months prior to Kate's 21st birthday. They eventually defeated the parasite and set things back to normal - all before the New Year. Kate broke up with Noh-Varr after he was ready to dump her for a chance to be with his ex (who wound up being a figment of the imagination projected by Loki's mind), celebrated the New Year with her best friends and then went back to working alongside Clint.
Unfortunately, Clint Barton has a tendency to be self-destructive. And even the best of partners could only take so much. After the death of one of his friends, Kate and Clint get into a huge fight that ultimately lead to Kate stealing his dog to drive across country with so that she can get away from Clint and his stupidity for a while. Her time in L.A. was the first time in her life in which Kate attempted to make it on her own without the support of family or friends. After an encounter with Madame Masque – a villain whose dastardly deeds she had already interrupted once when saving Clint’s ass – she wound up cut off from her family fortune. Rather than letting that upset her too much, however, Kate quickly went and found work as a private investigator. Like with joining the Young Avengers, it was a job she pushed her way into despite L.A.P.D. not being all that pleased. Eventually, she wound up once again in over her head fighting the bad guys. The latest issue of Hawkeye ended with Kate discovering the same people she was busy fighting in California were plotting Clint's death back in New York. She left, determined to get back and save her partner from an untimely demise.
Abilities/Special Powers: Kate is extremely talented when it comes to archery. According to Clint Barton (the original Hawkeye), Kate is “without a doubt the finest and most gifted bowman I’ve ever met” – a part of the reason he allows her to keep both his bow and codename after revealing himself to still be alive. She’s also talented in a number of martial arts (jujitsu, kickboxing), fencing and sword fighting, and combat in general. Also, Kate can play the cello.
Third-Person Sample:
The music room had been an unexpected discovery. When was the last time Kate really had a chance to sit down with a cello and just play? Since high school, at least. Maybe even some time earlier. Living the life of a superhero didn’t exactly give someone a lot of time for other extracurricular activities. Most of the time, she had had no complaint. But as she sat down now, running her fingers gently over the strings of the cello bow, she almost regretted the decision to stop playing.
Sure, she was a better sharpshooter than she was a musician. And, when especially compared to the other Hawkeye, she did the superhero thing damn well for a girl with no powers. Still, there was a sort of peace you got from playing an instrument that you didn’t find fighting villains, super or not. And given the recent upheaval in her life, not the least bit her sudden and unexpected arrival in a world that was only supposed to exist in a children’s story, peace was something Kate found herself craving.
She steadies the cello between her knees, resting the upper bout against her chest. Her eyes close, blocking out the rest of the world around her. It’s a lot like shooting, if she stops to think about it. Nothing else exists except you, your target, your arrow, and your bow. But now, it’s nothing but herself, the cello, bow, and the music. Funny how a bow figured in to both. The pads of her left hand stroke the strings of the fingerboard, gently plucking each note. They’re not as well calloused as those of her right hand, the hand that typically pulled back the string of Hawkeye’s bow. But muscle memory steps in where actual memory briefly fails. She curls her right hand around the cello bow and, so slowly, draws it across the strings.
The sound is a little jarring at first. But she knows any fine instrument has to be properly tuned before expected to work. What goes for her bow goes for the cello. She continues to play, humming softly to herself as she makes the fine adjustments necessary, gently turning the peg until the note chimes true. It’s like fixing the site on her bow. Those tiny adjustments that are so necessary to make certain that each of her shots continue to ring true. In the heat of battle, you can’t miss. You can’t make a mistake. She has to be the best, as Hawkeye, as Kate Bishop.
Even if it’s strange to be here, even if the faces she recognize don’t recognize her, it’s nice to have a break. To be away from New York and Barton and even the responsibility of taking care of Lucky. She doesn’t have to worry about making ends meet or finding a place to live now that she’s been kicked out of her hotel room (thank you very much, Madame Masque). For a little while at least, as she starts to play Bach’s cello Suite Number 1, she can forget.
And relax.
First-Person Sample: Well, it’s not exactly Stark-level technology, but I guess it’ll have to do. Beggars can’t be choosers and all that.
[And, hey, at least she doesn’t have to worry about cellular or data service being shut off because she can’t pay the bills. Or, well, have access to her father’s credit cards. Or any of those responsible adult things she’d need to do back in California. The thought makes her pause for a second a she stares at the screen, brows creasing with worry. Lucky’s back there and Barton’s back in New York and it’s hard to stop the brief pang of guilt that hits her.
But it’s not like she had a choice in arriving in Wonderland. Some things, Bishop, she reminds herself, are out of our control.
The smile returns a split second later and she quirks an eyebrow.]
I hear we’ve all taken a trip down the rabbit hole together. Lucky us. I knew I needed to get out of New York for a while, but this is taking it to a little bit of an extreme, isn't it? [A shrug.] Well, since we’re stuck here, I should probably introduce myself. I'm Kate Bishop. Hawkeye – like this place needs anymore superheroes. You know, of the Avengers?
...well, practically anyway.
[She’d probably do a better job of it than Barton, if you ask her. At least she’s willing to take responsibility for her actions.]
So, what’s there to do around here? Because I was finally going to get a chance to experience that California dream lifestyle thing. Is there a beach? Someone tell me there's a beach.
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stillplaying)Character Name: Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Series: Marvel-616 (specifically featured in Young Avengers, Children’s Crusade, and Hawkeye comics)
Timeline: After the events in the Hawkeye Annual #1.
Canon Resource Link: Marvel wiki entry and Regular wiki entry
Character History: Although Kate grew up the daughter of a wealthy New York socialite, she never felt all that comfortable with her family’s wealth. Like her mother, she spent her time prior to joining the Young Avengers working with charities – donating time and money to shelters and soup kitchens and other humanitarian causes. While most New Yorkers would walk by a homeless beggar, Kate was the type to stop to give them change. After the death of her mother, about a year prior to the formation of the Young Avengers, she became more involved in activist work. Determined to make a difference in the world, it’s perhaps no surprise that she eventually forces her way on to a team of teenaged superheroes.
Most of her life, prior to her mother’s death, was that of a rich debutante. She attended Interlochen National Music Camp every summer as a child, where she learned cello and guitar. One of her father’s friends even gave her a pony for a childhood birthday. She attended a prestigious New York private high school where she excelled as a student. Kate’s life was lacking for nothing; picture perfect really. Or, at least, as picture perfect as you could get growing up in the Marvel-616 universe; a universe where superheroes, alien invasions, mutants, and all sorts of comic book insanity was kind of commonplace. Especially within New York, where teams like the Avengers and Fantastic Four kept their home base.
Though she was teasingly called a spoiled brat, she rarely acted like one. As stated, she acted more like her mother - more interested in helping out others than herself. Prior to joining the Young Avengers, Kate was subjected to the violence and harsh realities of the world. After opting to take a shortcut through Central Park at night, she was violently assaulted by a stranger (definitely sexually; hints in comics suggest rape without ever using the word). Though she saw a therapist to work on the emotional repercussions, it was not enough for her. In her eyes:
“Life is short. And it doesn’t matter how good your grades are – or how many hours you put in at the soup kitchen… You’re not safe. Bad things happen. Things you can’t control. Things that have nothing to do with you. And they will destroy them if you let them. Or you can try to learn from them, so that the next time you’ll be prepared. So that – even if you never feel safe again – you can do your best to make sure that what happened to you never happens to anyone else.”
She took up kickboxing and jujitsu and other forms of combat so that she wouldn’t be caught off guard ever again. And when her sister’s wedding was interrupted by an armed robbery attempt, followed by the Young Avengers attempting to save the day, she refused to let the teenage superheroes do all the work. Headstrong and determined, she jumped right into the fray and effectively saved the day without a second thought. It didn't matter to her that she lacked any superpowers where the Young Avengers all clearly did have some sort of special ability. She had grown up reading about heroic actions that made the newspaper day after day and even fangirled the Avengers to a degree. She refused to be a damsel in distress ever again.
When Ant Man’s daughter, Cassie, came to visit Kate at the hospital shortly after to see if she knew anything about where the Young Avengers are and how to join up, Kate agreed to help Cassie seek them out. Even though the boys were reluctant to let her and Cassie join at first, she essentially strong armed her way on to the team. In raiding the abandoned Avengers Manner, she found the original Hawkeye's bow and Mockingbird's mask and fashioned herself a quick superhero costume to go with the rest. She helped them defeat Kang the Conqueror and then, after Captain America and Iron Man attempt to break up the Young Avengers, convinced them to continue being superheroes. Using her father’s wealth, she provided them with better costumes and the hangout necessary to continue their extracurricular activities. Unlike the others, however, Kate never decided upon a codename.
Kate fought alongside the rest of the Young Avengers, even often lead them on their missions, despite her lack of any superhuman ability. She was more than willing to stand up to Captain America and the other Avengers that try to convince them to quit being superheroes. At the end of the Family Matters arc, after the death of Teddy’s mother, the discovery of Tommy (Billy’s spiritual twin brother person), and all the other chaos that occurred, she holds no hesitation in confronting Captain America when he attempts to tell them to quit being superheroes altogether. In her eyes, half the awful circumstances she and her team had just gone through could have been avoided if they had been supported:
“Sir, with all due respect, the minute Eli’s back on his feet, he’ll be chasing down bad guys, powers or no powers. That’s just who he is. It’s who we all are. The same as you. I know you and Iron Man don’t approve of us but I can’t help thinking if you guys had supported us – if you had taken the time to train us – maybe Eli wouldn’t be in surgery right now. Maybe Billy’s parents would still have a place to live, and Teddy’s mother would still be alive. That’s how it feels anyway. So if you really want to protect us… you’ll accept us.”
This discussion was a turning point in Kate’s role in the superhero community. While she had been consistently in between codenames prior, after standing up to Captain America, she earned the codename of Hawkeye. It was this stubbornness and pride that earns her Hawkeye’s bow and codename; Clint Barton being the only other Avenger who ever stood up to Captain America the way she did.
Eventually, she took Eli’s place as the team leader altogether. At heart, she was a natural leader. And while Eli had been in charge when the team had originally formed, Kate never hesitated to make decisions when he did. The team split during the events of the Civil War arc and the Superhero Registration Act. She went underground with most of the team (minus Cassie and Vision) and fought on Captain America's side in the conflict. The conflict ended with Cap's death, but the Young Avengers remained strong.
When Clint Barton donned Captain America’s costume and shield for a trial run after Captain America's death, Kate easily told him off for what she believed to be disrespecting Cap’s memory. When he asked how what she does – taking up the name Hawkeye – was any different, she explained that she did it to honor him (unbeknownst to her that she was talking to Clint the entire time). She encountered Clint again sometime after - this time when he interrupted a pseudo-date Kate was on with fellow teammate Eli to test her abilities. He eventually played against her pride and self-confidence and bet her for his bow back. It was a bet that Kate cockily accepted and then lost, calling it "her greatest shame ever." Upset that she lost both her bow and codename to a better archer, she recklessly agreed to go out drinking with another teammate, Tommy. This ultimately resulted in the two of them breaking into the Avengers HQ and Kate stealing the bow back. Clint rewarded her for the impudence and lets her keep the bow, as well as gifting her with a photo of the original Avengers. Though Kate might not have had the previously existing connection to the Avengers that her teammates did (Cassie as Ant-Man's daughter, Eli as the grandson of the black Captain America, Tommy and Billy being the reincarnated lost souls of the Scarlet Witch's children, and Teddy being the son of Captain Marvel), she now found the start of a kinship with Clint.
The team continued fighting as a group for some unspecified time after. Among other events, they helped with the Skrull invasion and at the Siege of Asgard and ultimately obtained a good degree or respect from the rest of the superhero community. This time lasted until after the events of Children’s Crusade, when her decisions to lead the team in helping Billy (and Tommy) find the Scarlet Witch ultimately resulted in the death of her best friend, Cassie, and fellow Young Avenger, Vision. At this point, she decided to quit the superhero gig. Unlike the rest of the Young Avengers, she held no prior connection to the actual Avengers and, therefore, had no right to continue to masquerade as a superhero. For approximately the next two years, it can be presumed Kate lives her life as any normal citizen of New York would.
When Clint called her to take up working alongside him a couple of years later, she was reluctant to at first. After failing her team, and more importantly – her best friends, she didn’t want to dress up in costume anymore and fight bad guys. What right did she have to live that sort of life? But he eventually convinced her otherwise and despite her promise not to take up being a superhero to Billy and the rest of the team, she started to work alongside Clint as his partner. Their relationship becomes full of snark on both ends, a lot of teasing and name calling. It becomes a comfortable friendship that borders on the same familial relationship that she had formed with the Young Avengers. Again and again, she comes to his need – both as physical backup and emotional support. Nor does she hesitate to yell at him when he deserves it.
The Marvel-616 timeline can be really difficult to follow and I'm going to say that the following (the most recent Young Avenger arc) took place after the events of Hurricane Sandy in the Hawkeye books. Kate had a one night stand with Kree Noh-Varr that turned into a longer relationship when they rescue Billy and Teddy from an interdimensional parasite posing as Teddy's dead mother. They also met up with the kid version of Loki and a dimension-travelling superhero named America Chavez. Ultimately, the run can be summarized as hopping around the multiverse for a couple of months prior to Kate's 21st birthday. They eventually defeated the parasite and set things back to normal - all before the New Year. Kate broke up with Noh-Varr after he was ready to dump her for a chance to be with his ex (who wound up being a figment of the imagination projected by Loki's mind), celebrated the New Year with her best friends and then went back to working alongside Clint.
Unfortunately, Clint Barton has a tendency to be self-destructive. And even the best of partners could only take so much. After the death of one of his friends, Kate and Clint get into a huge fight that ultimately lead to Kate stealing his dog to drive across country with so that she can get away from Clint and his stupidity for a while. Her time in L.A. was the first time in her life in which Kate attempted to make it on her own without the support of family or friends. After an encounter with Madame Masque – a villain whose dastardly deeds she had already interrupted once when saving Clint’s ass – she wound up cut off from her family fortune. Rather than letting that upset her too much, however, Kate quickly went and found work as a private investigator. Like with joining the Young Avengers, it was a job she pushed her way into despite L.A.P.D. not being all that pleased. Eventually, she wound up once again in over her head fighting the bad guys. The latest issue of Hawkeye ended with Kate discovering the same people she was busy fighting in California were plotting Clint's death back in New York. She left, determined to get back and save her partner from an untimely demise.
Abilities/Special Powers: Kate is extremely talented when it comes to archery. According to Clint Barton (the original Hawkeye), Kate is “without a doubt the finest and most gifted bowman I’ve ever met” – a part of the reason he allows her to keep both his bow and codename after revealing himself to still be alive. She’s also talented in a number of martial arts (jujitsu, kickboxing), fencing and sword fighting, and combat in general. Also, Kate can play the cello.
Third-Person Sample:
The music room had been an unexpected discovery. When was the last time Kate really had a chance to sit down with a cello and just play? Since high school, at least. Maybe even some time earlier. Living the life of a superhero didn’t exactly give someone a lot of time for other extracurricular activities. Most of the time, she had had no complaint. But as she sat down now, running her fingers gently over the strings of the cello bow, she almost regretted the decision to stop playing.
Sure, she was a better sharpshooter than she was a musician. And, when especially compared to the other Hawkeye, she did the superhero thing damn well for a girl with no powers. Still, there was a sort of peace you got from playing an instrument that you didn’t find fighting villains, super or not. And given the recent upheaval in her life, not the least bit her sudden and unexpected arrival in a world that was only supposed to exist in a children’s story, peace was something Kate found herself craving.
She steadies the cello between her knees, resting the upper bout against her chest. Her eyes close, blocking out the rest of the world around her. It’s a lot like shooting, if she stops to think about it. Nothing else exists except you, your target, your arrow, and your bow. But now, it’s nothing but herself, the cello, bow, and the music. Funny how a bow figured in to both. The pads of her left hand stroke the strings of the fingerboard, gently plucking each note. They’re not as well calloused as those of her right hand, the hand that typically pulled back the string of Hawkeye’s bow. But muscle memory steps in where actual memory briefly fails. She curls her right hand around the cello bow and, so slowly, draws it across the strings.
The sound is a little jarring at first. But she knows any fine instrument has to be properly tuned before expected to work. What goes for her bow goes for the cello. She continues to play, humming softly to herself as she makes the fine adjustments necessary, gently turning the peg until the note chimes true. It’s like fixing the site on her bow. Those tiny adjustments that are so necessary to make certain that each of her shots continue to ring true. In the heat of battle, you can’t miss. You can’t make a mistake. She has to be the best, as Hawkeye, as Kate Bishop.
Even if it’s strange to be here, even if the faces she recognize don’t recognize her, it’s nice to have a break. To be away from New York and Barton and even the responsibility of taking care of Lucky. She doesn’t have to worry about making ends meet or finding a place to live now that she’s been kicked out of her hotel room (thank you very much, Madame Masque). For a little while at least, as she starts to play Bach’s cello Suite Number 1, she can forget.
And relax.
First-Person Sample: Well, it’s not exactly Stark-level technology, but I guess it’ll have to do. Beggars can’t be choosers and all that.
[And, hey, at least she doesn’t have to worry about cellular or data service being shut off because she can’t pay the bills. Or, well, have access to her father’s credit cards. Or any of those responsible adult things she’d need to do back in California. The thought makes her pause for a second a she stares at the screen, brows creasing with worry. Lucky’s back there and Barton’s back in New York and it’s hard to stop the brief pang of guilt that hits her.
But it’s not like she had a choice in arriving in Wonderland. Some things, Bishop, she reminds herself, are out of our control.
The smile returns a split second later and she quirks an eyebrow.]
I hear we’ve all taken a trip down the rabbit hole together. Lucky us. I knew I needed to get out of New York for a while, but this is taking it to a little bit of an extreme, isn't it? [A shrug.] Well, since we’re stuck here, I should probably introduce myself. I'm Kate Bishop. Hawkeye – like this place needs anymore superheroes. You know, of the Avengers?
...well, practically anyway.
[She’d probably do a better job of it than Barton, if you ask her. At least she’s willing to take responsibility for her actions.]
So, what’s there to do around here? Because I was finally going to get a chance to experience that California dream lifestyle thing. Is there a beach? Someone tell me there's a beach.