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Clint, you shithead! Where are you?
Meet Grace Carnegie, AKA Kate Bishop
This is Kate Bishop.
Kate Bishop grew up as the youngest daughter of a rich Manhattanite family. Although her father Derek was an emotionally distant publishing magnate with ties to organized crime, Kate admired him, and tried to gain his attention and approval. Meanwhile, her mother Eleanor was frequently absent on vacations until she died while during a skiing trip in Boulder, Colorado when Kate was still young. Kate was close to her older sister, Susan, but she developed a very independent, blunt, and stubborn personality.
A few months prior to her sister's wedding, Kate was sexually assaulted while walking in Central Park. The event initially left Kate traumatized and isolated. However, the ordeal eventually motivated her to learn several forms of combat fighting and self-defense. She quickly became proficient in swordplay, archery, and martial arts. She also met with a therapist during this time to work through some of her issues.
Kate first encountered the Young Avengers when they attempted to save her and two hundred other guests at her sister's wedding in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Unfortunately, the Young Avengers were only successful in starting a fire and becoming hostages themselves. It was Kate that saved them using one of Patriot's throwing stars. The Young Avengers were able, however, to escape the scene before the police arrived.
Later, Kate and Cassie Lang invited themselves to join the Young Avengers. When the "real" Avengers refused to train them, Kate used her money and connections to set them up with a space and equipment. When Captain America later came around to accepting the Young Avengers, he officially passed on to her the codename Hawkeye.
Which became a long-running joke when she eventually met Clint Barton, original holder of the name, and later became his friend and partner. Two Hawkeyes, one cup. Despite neither of them having powers, they made a pretty awesome crime-fighting duo. When she wasn't running off to LA on her own. Or being an Avenger. Or whatever.
Now Kate is Grace Carnegie.
Okay, so her real name is Katherine Grace Carnegie, but as that's also her mother's name, she's pretty much always been called Grace. Grace has lived a pretty pampered life--she's one of those Carnegies, after all--and has always had anything she needed and most of what she wanted. Except one thing: the ability to forget.
Grace is hyperthymistic, meaning she remembers every day of her life in perfect detail, at least since the age of 11 or so. Sure, having perfect recall of the past ten years comes in handy sometimes, but it also makes it really hard not to dwell in the past and become bogged down by endless associations instead of being able to stay in the present. So she's had to come up with a few coping mechanisms over the years.
One is physical activity. Intense physical activity tends to keep her focused in the moment, so she spends a lot of time in the gym or similarly occupied. She runs, she takes kick-boxing, she'll play a pick-up game of just about anything as long as people are willing to put up with her competitive nature, and just generally prefers doing things to sitting around.
The other is focusing on other people instead of herself. She'd much rather talk about your problems than deal with her own. She volunteers a lot with vulnerable populations because 1. she has the money and privilege to do so, and 2. focusing on people with life experiences she's never had means she doesn't get stuck in an endless loop of memories.
She does date, though she's never been seriously involved with someone. Who wants to dwell on past mistakes and how things went wrong for the rest of their lives in picture-perfect detail?
She's 21 and a senior at Columbia.
Kate Bishop grew up as the youngest daughter of a rich Manhattanite family. Although her father Derek was an emotionally distant publishing magnate with ties to organized crime, Kate admired him, and tried to gain his attention and approval. Meanwhile, her mother Eleanor was frequently absent on vacations until she died while during a skiing trip in Boulder, Colorado when Kate was still young. Kate was close to her older sister, Susan, but she developed a very independent, blunt, and stubborn personality.
A few months prior to her sister's wedding, Kate was sexually assaulted while walking in Central Park. The event initially left Kate traumatized and isolated. However, the ordeal eventually motivated her to learn several forms of combat fighting and self-defense. She quickly became proficient in swordplay, archery, and martial arts. She also met with a therapist during this time to work through some of her issues.
Kate first encountered the Young Avengers when they attempted to save her and two hundred other guests at her sister's wedding in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Unfortunately, the Young Avengers were only successful in starting a fire and becoming hostages themselves. It was Kate that saved them using one of Patriot's throwing stars. The Young Avengers were able, however, to escape the scene before the police arrived.
Later, Kate and Cassie Lang invited themselves to join the Young Avengers. When the "real" Avengers refused to train them, Kate used her money and connections to set them up with a space and equipment. When Captain America later came around to accepting the Young Avengers, he officially passed on to her the codename Hawkeye.
Which became a long-running joke when she eventually met Clint Barton, original holder of the name, and later became his friend and partner. Two Hawkeyes, one cup. Despite neither of them having powers, they made a pretty awesome crime-fighting duo. When she wasn't running off to LA on her own. Or being an Avenger. Or whatever.
Now Kate is Grace Carnegie.
Okay, so her real name is Katherine Grace Carnegie, but as that's also her mother's name, she's pretty much always been called Grace. Grace has lived a pretty pampered life--she's one of those Carnegies, after all--and has always had anything she needed and most of what she wanted. Except one thing: the ability to forget.
Grace is hyperthymistic, meaning she remembers every day of her life in perfect detail, at least since the age of 11 or so. Sure, having perfect recall of the past ten years comes in handy sometimes, but it also makes it really hard not to dwell in the past and become bogged down by endless associations instead of being able to stay in the present. So she's had to come up with a few coping mechanisms over the years.
One is physical activity. Intense physical activity tends to keep her focused in the moment, so she spends a lot of time in the gym or similarly occupied. She runs, she takes kick-boxing, she'll play a pick-up game of just about anything as long as people are willing to put up with her competitive nature, and just generally prefers doing things to sitting around.
The other is focusing on other people instead of herself. She'd much rather talk about your problems than deal with her own. She volunteers a lot with vulnerable populations because 1. she has the money and privilege to do so, and 2. focusing on people with life experiences she's never had means she doesn't get stuck in an endless loop of memories.
She does date, though she's never been seriously involved with someone. Who wants to dwell on past mistakes and how things went wrong for the rest of their lives in picture-perfect detail?
She's 21 and a senior at Columbia.