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[PTabbedContent][PTab=GENERAL INFORMATION] CHARACTER INFO: NAME: Katherine Elizabeth Bishop ALIAS: Kate AGE: 19, birthdate November 17, 1996. OCCUPATION: Executive Officer of Operations, Bishop Publishing, a key shareholder in the company MEMBER GROUP: Civillian POWERS AND ABILITIES: Expert Marksmanship with a Bow, fencing, sword fighting, jiu jitsu, kickboxing, and other forms of combat. PLAYBY: Ksenia Solo OOC INFO: PLAYER NAME: danisaur AGE: 22 soon to be 23 GENDER: lady TIMEZONE: MST OTHER CHARACTERS: Bobbi and Hela [/PTab][PTab=PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT] PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: LIKES: Archery - Archery was one way for her to escape the grasps of what her family wanted of her and what society expected of her being at the age she is at. There was nothing associated with her family when she was at the range. Nothing was expected of her except her natural talent for it. She finds a solace in it, and it helps ground her when she feels like there is nothing else going for her in her life, or rather helps her feel like any other person. Cello - It was something that she found helped her stay connected to her mom, even after she passed away. Kate and Eleanor spent many Friday nights at the New York Philharmonic when they had concerts and Kate really took a liking to the deep earthy sound of the cello. It made her pick it up when she was in school for band class. She can follow music, but generally likes playing by ear if she can. Food - Who doesn’t love food? She finds it comforting, even if she has to work most of it off after. But with the amount of working out that she does to keep on top of her game, she feels that she can afford to delve into the awesomeness of whatever she feels like eating. Along with this, Kate also really likes cooking when she has a chance, because then she knows exactly what’s in it and knows she can avoid an allergic reaction. Dance - Kate did a lot of ballet as a child, and tried to continue with classes and such once her mom passed away but it didn’t feel the same so she gave up on it and really only dances recreationally when she wants to physically wear herself out and clear her head better than she can at the archery range. Martial Arts (specifically jiu jitsu and kickboxing) - She is a good student in it, but no where near a master in the subject. That doesn’t mean that she still can’t take someone down with a few well placed hits. Mostly it’s basics, after her assault, she wanted to be able to protect herself a bit better, and with her strong upper body she needed to work on the strength in her legs. Sarcasm - Most people tell her it’s a defense mechanism. In part they are right, but the other part is that she likes sassing off. It’s not to be disrespectful or anything, it is just the way she had to grow up. Kate found it helpful to defuse situations with her father more often than not. Fencing/blade work - She loves the finesse and focus it takes to work the knives and swords. It also plays in to her favoritism of dance and the movements to be able to get out of the way of the blade when needed, and still be able to parry back. She carries one knife in her boot at all times, and she had modified her wrist protector to have a sheath for a small throwing knife. Her friends - Without her small group of friends, Kate wasn’t sure what she would really be doing with her life, even though she was only nineteen. When she was in school, she hadn’t been sure who her true friends really were and after she was attacked, it became apparent that the only true friends she had were the few she had found outside of school. DISLIKES: Elevators - Maybe this came from watching too many movies where people got stuck in them, or the ones where the elevators tended to fall and people died, but Kate hates elevators and will only use them if absolutely necessary. She will literally take the stairs as much as possible. Which sometimes was more of a waste of time than anyone wanted. Crime - This came with the whole being a Young Avengers thing. But she hates that people feel the need to resort that low of a point in their lives that they have to maim and steal. Green Peppers - Kate has a severe allergy to sweet peppers. So red, yellow, orange and green peppers are all out. The hot ones she is fine with, there is something in the sweet ones that she reacts to and will go into anaphylactic shock if she so much as sniffs one. So she carries an EpiPen with her at all times, just in case. Guns - They are noisy and more hostile than any of the weapons she uses. She’s not scared of them, and could easily learn to use one, but she just trusts the weapons she has. Stupid Nicknames - Her nickname is Kate, not Katie, or any variation there of, it is just Kate. Call her anything else and get the Death Glare, or possible a hard punch, maybe both. There are a couple of exceptions. Being called useless or weak - Just because she is a girl does not mean that she is useless. To use the bow she has currently, she needs a hell of a lot of upper body strength, and all the leg strength she has is from dance, martial arts and running. She will gladly give you an example if you try and point out that she’s useless. Feelings (with a capital F) - Talking about her Feelings and other emotional things is not her strong point. It can take a lot of pushing and prodding to get Kate to open up. Or it makes her clam up tighter. Either way it’s not something she finds fun to talk about, and prefers if it could be avoided at all costs. Hospitals - Kate has never particularly liked hospitals or doctors, and will quite literally do everything she can to avoid them as long as humanly possible. She would have to be severely injured, or almost dead to even be okay with the idea of being stuck in the hospital again. The smell of the sterile bleach clean makes her stomach churn and she will feel like she is going to be sick. Being on SHIELD’s watchlist - Okay she doesn’t exactly know it’s SHIELD but Kate does know that someone has been keep tabs on her and her family after the whole incident during Susan’s wedding. The non-descript unmarked black vehicles being where they were sometimes or outside their places, and she could have sworn she had seen camera flashes sometimes. She had checked her vehicle once for bugs or trackers and low and behold there was a GPS transmitter connected to it under the ass end of her car. So whatever was going on, she didn’t like it at all. STRENGTHS: Clever - She catches on to things fairly quickly, and it is one thing that most people recognise in her right away. Kate finds this to be a strength because it can help her get out of sticky spots fairly quick. Quick Thinking - Thinking on her feet was something she learned as the whole super hero thing came more and more a part of her life, and more often than not, she finds it better than well thought out plans. Because those always crash and burn. Leadership Skills - She knew when she needed to be in charge and would make it very clear that she was in charge and people would do as they were told. She also knew how to organize people and put them to their best use. Multilingual - Fluent: Spanish, Italian. Passable/Still learning: Russian, ASL. Languages, as far as her family was concerned were very important, and Kate understood why. If you spoke more than English you were more than capable of getting by in other places, so in school she took Spanish as her second language course and then Italian she learned from her mom as a child. This helped her learn music that much better and she just found the words to be beautiful. She decided to take up Russian in high school, just as a hobby and while it’s not great, it definitely could be worse. ASL was something her and her sister picked up as children so they could communicate without actually having to talk. Susan grew out of it but Kate thought it would also be a handy skill to keep up. So if someone does sign to her, it takes a little bit of memory jogging before she catches on to it again and can sign back, even if it’s rusty and some of the signs come out a bit broken. Dependable - Kate is a loyal and dependable as they come. If you need her she’ll be right there beside you through thick and thin. Even if it’s three am and she only just went to sleep. If you need her to be there, she will try her best. She is also good at keeping secrets if you ask her to. Notices A Lot - Actually a lot more than she probably should. WEAKNESSES: Stubborn - If she is set on doing something, good luck trying to change her mind. Kate is as stubborn as it gets, and sometimes she’s had to be dragged away from something before she got herself hurt, or worse, killed. Sometimes Thick Headed - While Kate tries to pride herself on being smart and decisive sometimes even she has dumb moments and it usually gets her into trouble. Not always fun trouble either. Doesn’t Always Think Things Through Fully - There are days when even super heros have really good ideas, but only partially thought them through and it leaves them stuck. See above point. Fear - Kate can get herself into some really tight, really sticky situations sometimes, and in those situations she will feel like the fear is overwhelming, and it makes her think back to when she was sexually assaulted when she was fifteen. It will make her tense up if it’s bad enough and she won’t move until she calms down. The Bishop Family Name - It is a little hard to stand on your own two feet when you’re practically a household name in Manhattan. Kate tries her hardest though to make her own name, and not just be Derek Bishop’s youngest daughter or Susan’s younger sister. She tries to find who Kate is, and so far she thinks she’s doing a pretty good job. Though to Kate it is a weakness to be connected to the name because while it can get her out of jail for fear of a lawsuit, she doesn’t want it to. GOALS: Be as good, if not better than, Clint Barton as an archer someday - Well maybe not better, but Kate knows that she can be as good. She has the drive and focus for it. That was something she knew. But if she could be better, than for sure she would be, in time. Prove to her father that she’s not useless - Kate doesn’t really care for his approval one way or another, but she wants to be able to shove it in his face like ‘Look what I did by myself without your help.’ FEARS: Failing in anything she does - The feeling of failure is probably worse than anything Kate could ever conjure up for herself. She will honestly keep trying and trying until she either gets it or she injures herself trying [depending on what it is, obviously.] This applies a lot to her archery, and martial arts, but can also apply to her dance as well. More than once as she actually sprained her ankle and kept going on it, only to cause more damage than she meant to. Dying - This is kinda of an overall fear, being that she is a squishy human and has a tendency to come very close, now and again. She was ready to die once of her own accord, by her own choice, but that choice was taken from her, and it landed her in the hospital on suicide watch for over a month. She doesn’t want to voluntarily go through that again. OVERALL PERSONALITY: Underneath the sarcasm and plastered on smiles she has to put on in public, Kate is actually a really fun loving kind of person, even though some call her an adrenaline junky due to the fact that she’s on the Young Avengers team. She will call you out on your crap if she knows you well enough, though if she thinks your a jerk or a creep, she will call you out on that too. But there is an angry streak in her too, that will gladly punch you in the face if she thinks you are in need of it. There’s a lot of things that she internalizes, because she doesn’t feel like she needs to burden other people with her problems, which was why she was going to a therapist for a long time, but since she quit, Kate learned to keep it all in. She lets it out and clears her head when shes doing things, like shooting at the archery range, or dancing until she physically can’t dance any more. If she trusts you and knows you are going to really listen, like you actually give a damn (because her father after her mom died, fell into that whole of ‘oh here honey go talk to someone else about your problems, I don’t have time,) she will spill quite a bit. At least until she feels better, and can function like a human being again. She does have a bout of depression, and it will hit her hard at times, though she also knows how to best hide that from people, this is roughly the same way she clears her head. But being that she is stubborn as an ox, sometimes it is better to leave her alone in her mind and let her work it out for herself. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: BIRTHPLACE: Manhattan, New York RESIDENCE: Upper East Side, Manhattan PARENTS: Derek Bishop, father, owner and CEO of Bishop Publishing. Eleanor Bishop, mother, deceased. SIBLINGS: Susan Bishop-West, married, sister. Quincy Z. West III, brother-in-law, IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Clint Barton - Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, was the reason why Kate wanted to be an archer. She had seen the news reports and she had heard all the stories and her mom told her once about when she was a kid, how amazingly good he was, at the circus. It seemed odd to her that he started off as a Carnie Kid, but had done so well for himself. Kate wanted to prove to herself that she could be just as good and still stand for something that meant something. In fact, she had heard so much about him that even when she took up archery at 7 years old, even the archery instructor, later her mentor, knew about him and his talent. That was her inspiration for staying an archer after everything that happened in her life. Jessica Jones - After her mom died, and after the attack, Derek made Kate start therapy. Jessica Jones was the first therapist she got along with and actually felt like she could talk to. It took a long time to get to that point, but Kate trusts her with her life, even if she doesn’t see Jessica all that much any more. She is still her therapist and a good friend to her. IMPORTANT PERSON: No other important person in her life, Kate looks out for her and her friends and she doesn’t really have a whole lot of time to be a normal teenager. Not that she was to start with. OVERALL HISTORY: Kate Bishop, even as a child, strived to do everything to the best of her ability. She wanted to live up to her parent’s expectations of what their youngest daughter should be like. Her dad pointed out little things to her even at an early age of ‘how come you can’t be more like Susan?’ She tried. God, did she try. But she wasn’t like Susan. She was a girly girl who wanted all the dresses and the princesses and the girly things. Kate liked ballet, and things like that, but she wanted to be out in the backyard, pretending to be a fairy or a pirate, or anything in between. Ballet was the one thing she thought her dad would be proud of her for, and it wasn’t him that was proud it was her mother. She was glad that Kate found something where she could thrive and smile more often than she did at home. Eleanor was a great mother to Kate and they had their own excursions to the places that Kate liked, and yes they would go shopping and so some girly things, but her mom saw her look at a bow in the window when she was six years old, on their way to another place. Eleanor knelt down and explained what a bow was and how it needed strength and accuracy. Focus. Which was when she also told her the stories of when she was about Susan’s age, maybe fourteen or fifteen, how her and her family went to the circus, where she saw the most talented young man. Clint Barton, she said his name was, and even at that age was had to be one of the best archers she had ever seen. Kate was enamoured with the story and wanted to try. She was told she had to wait until she was a little older. Her seventh birthday though, sure enough her mom had gotten her a starter bow, and a coach at the local range. Kate was ecstatic. And with that her and her mom had a new routine. Her dad was busy with taking Susan to things she wanted to go to, and work. That was fine with Kate though. She and her mom spent a lot of time talking about a lot of things and Kate asked her mom if they could go to the philharmonic orchestra for Eleanor’s birthday and it seemed like an excellent idea. Well that was where Kate fell in love with the sound of the string section and how smooth and free it felt.Even in the darkest moments it was a glimmer of something else. So she joined the school band, and began to learn how to play the cello. It was rusty at first, as are all things that are new but she caught on quick, and learned what sounds she liked, and those she didn’t. She learned how to play little melodies and harmonies and she was proud of herself. She had accomplished three things by the time she was eight. She could play all her scales on her cello, and rather well, she was getting better, and stronger at archery that they already had to move her up to a stronger bow, because once she was at he range she never wanted to leave. And lastly, she had found dance, pointe ballet. She was able to keep all three until two weeks before her ninth birthday. Her mother came down with meningitis, and severely. There was nothing the doctors found they could do at the time, except make her comfortable. They didn’t expect her to last more than a couple of days. This crushed most of Kate’s world because her mom, at that time had been her best friend and the one who helped her do everything she wanted to do. It hadn’t occurred to Derek at the time, because he was never home but the day they picked for his wife’s funeral had also been Kate’s birthday, which crushed her even more. She had to give up dance because he could only be in so many places at once, and archery had been her first true love. Dance she could go back to when she was older, if she wanted to. So between school and archery, Kate didn’t let herself feel much of anything. she trudged through the days more often than not. And it didn’t occur to her that Derek was having a harder time than he was letting on. He shut both the girls out and Kate took this terribly, because there was no one else she could go to. Susan was already out and gone off to college by this point so at home that left Derek and Kate. Now she’s ten and Derek moved her into a better private school, one that would pick her up from home in the morning and drop her off at the range after school so she could spend a couple hours there with the mentor she had found. She told him about the story her mom had told her about Clint Barton when she was little and the guy smiled, almost like he knew him, which Kate never did find out, but he nodded and said that Barton was the World’s Greatest Marksman and after he left the circus he hadn’t really been heard of, as far as he was aware. Most assumed he had died. But Kate had that drive now that she wanted to be better than him. Better than all of them. So what once was just an hour or two at the range after school became three of four hours, every day. Some days longer, like on weekends where she could be there from the time they opened until they closed, if she so pleased. The bows kept getting stronger and the draw weight higher as she went. The private school she was in though had a bunch of other things she had wanted to try, like fencing, and there was a kick boxing class. Both of which she wanted to try. They were during lunch hours so she found it didn’t take away from her archery time, which was great. Every year, on her birthday though, Kate goes to sit at her mom’s grave and tell her all the things that have happened to her in the past year. Some things are better than others, like she always asks why her dad always worked so much lately and she rarely saw much of him at all. There was never an answer but she knew that her mom heard her. She just did. It was in the early fall when she was fifteen that a lot of things changed for her. She was taking her shortcut across Central Park to get home after her time at the range when she was tackled to the ground and before she really knew what was happening she was on her back being pinned down by a much larger man who held her there with a knife and said if she screamed she would be dead. Well as much as she had been taking kickboxing it hadn’t prepared her for this kind of attack so she had to let it happen. She whimpered and cried as quietly as she could with the pain she was in. He was trying to tell her that she wanted it and it was okay but she just wanted to hurl. Some other lady came upon them and he scrambled off leaving Kate on the ground to curl up and cry. She curled up as small as she was capable of while the lady called for the cops who took off after the guy but lost him on the other side of the park. in the midst of her crying she was pretty sure she had thrown up and was dry heaving at some point while a female officer tried to calm her down while they waited for her dad to come get her. There was a police report filed but there was no DNA to go off of because the man had been smart and while pinning her down he had put a condom on, as well as wore a mask so she couldn’t see his face. Even if she wanted to Kate wouldn’t have been able to pick him out of a line up. The case went cold and she just felt sicker and more disgusted with herself that it had happened. Derek didn’t sit and talk with her though, he shuffled her off to a therapist. And well that cycle went on until she just stopped going, Kate couldn’t connect with any of the therapists they tried and every time she had to recount what happened with a new therapist she clammed up and felt sick again. She stopped playing cello on her own time and only played it at school. When she was home she never came out of her room, and if she was out the only place she was, was at the range. Derek finally took notice when Kate looked like she hadn’t been sleeping and was thinner than usual, trying to make sure she at least ate when they were home. He would leave a plate of dinner in her room. It didn’t occur to him what was actually going on, but he knew she wasn’t okay. It was kind of a shock to Kate that it took him until she was in the worst rut of her life for him to notice something was wrong. She felt numb, most of the time. Numb and empty. That numbness landed her in the hospital after an incident with a kitchen knife. It had taken seventeen stitches to close the wound. It also left her on suicide watch in the hospital for a month until they knew she was calm and stable enough to be returned to her father’s care. It was after that, that Kate picked up a lot more things, and was pretty much never home. Fencing and learning to use a sword. Kickboxing and jiujitsu, still a couple hours a day at the archery range. Still pushing hard in school, though that wasn’t always pretty. She had been suspended three times due to picking fights and breaking noses with the other girls in her class. The answer always was, they brought it on themselves. Derek didn’t exactly approve, but he knew that if Kate was pounding on these girls like that there was a reason. Fast forward to age sixteen, almost seventeen; it’s 2012. It’s late in the summer season and Kate’s at her sisters wedding. In the wedding party, because Susan decided that even though they didn’t talk much she still should be in the wedding. She is family after all. They had just said ‘I do’ when something crashed into the park outside and too off the top corner of the roof on the church. Mass chaos ensued and she got separated from the wedding party when she made a beeline to get a couple of the kids out of the way of a falling rafter. There seemed to be a mass exodus outside to see if they either could figure out what was going on or get the hell out of there. Kate didn’t know which but what she did know was there were guys who looked like Feds ushering people off the street before the church was hit by some kind of weapon and it was her turn to dive out of the way to avoid getting hit by falling debris. She had touched one of the pieces that their alien tech had shot, though didn’t think anything of it at the time. A girl had to get up you know. She got out of the church and a couple of said Federal looking guys helped her down to the street where everyone else had been led. They told her to follow everyone else and get out of there. Well we all know how stubborn Kate is. So she lurked a while, not long because she didn’t have any of her gear with her, but now she wanted to know more. More of what they were and what they did. The more she dug the less she found. There were news stories of the Avengers and all that crap but there wasn’t anything about their federal associations. No counterpart in the background that was overseeing everything. It bothered her that sometimes when she got home there was one of those black vehicles outside her place. It was off and on. Sometimes she didn’t think they were there at all. Time passed and her curiosity stuck around though she started to think less and less on it until she spotted the black SUV again outside her apartment when she was coming back with her gear from the range. It came off to her at first as paparazzi, being who her father was and all, but it didn’t seem pushy enough? She never forgot though. Instead, she turned around and followed them back to the office they had come from. It looked like any plain old office building, and that made her even more curious. She wanted to find out what was actually going on. [/PTab][PTab=IMAGE]  [/PTab][/PTabbedContent={width:485px;border:0px;margin-left:-2px;}] |
