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Ryan Barton / Dart (arrowcraft) wrote,
@ 1982-07-12 14:57:00

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…BASICS;
	FULL NAME: Ryan Barton CODENAME: Dart AGE: 24 DATE OF BIRTH: HOME TOWN: Boston, Mass. Home Reality: The year is 2033 and the world, in general, still doesn't love mutants. – Sure, in the past few years, mutants have got a lot of good press, but people still can't seem to get over the whole 'they have freaky powers, and some of them try to take over the world from time to time' thing. In the past few years, anti-mutant sentiments have been on the rise again, and while no one is out and out suggesting that giant robots be built to exterminate the mutants, there is, once again, talk of having mutants register their powers. The X-Men no longer are a team of simply mutant heroes, but also are a team of gifted heroes, trying to show the world that those with powers can be an asset, and that not everyone with powers has designs on world domination. FAMILY: Clint Barton(Hawkeye) [Father], Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) [Mother], Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) [Uncle] LIKES: Cats, family, archery, being a mechanic, DISLIKES: magic, when Wes plays pranks on him

…POWERS;
Ryan is weapon savvy, if it's got an edge to it, he can use it to his advantage. He's got excellent hand and eye coordination, and is an excellent archer. That comes from his dad, his mom's genes, well they haven't gifted him with any mutant power . . . Wanda did however tutor her kids in magic, and Ryan was an avid, if not exceptionally gifted learner. He's more of an academic spell caster than anything else, knows in theory what to do, but has a hard time putting that into practice. His spell casting tends towards giving other objects characteristics of one of the four elements. He enchants his arrows, so he has "fire arrows". "Water arrows" and so on. Weaknesses: Ryan is human – yes he’s good with weapons but he’s bleeds if shot, breaks if thrown into a wall, and drowns if his head is held down under the water, ect. He also has crap mental shielding – no matter how hard he tries to work on it, Ryan just has pretty weak mental shields. This results in him being kind of uneasy around telepaths, as he’s always worried they might be looking around in his head. Ryan is not a fast spellcaster. In an ideal world he needs quiet, and about five minutes to enchant an object. Due to this he likes to have the arrows he uses prepared in advance. So once he uses up all his arrows that he has enchanted he has to stop and take the time to enchant new ones. And Ryan? Has a really hard time trying to do that when there is a lot of action going on around him.

…PERSONALITY;
Ryan's not a huge fan of non superhoric confrontation, he can (and will) keep an argument going for a while, but when he's he had enough? He just turns around, and walks away leaving the conversation. This signifies that he's done and as far as he is concerned, the conversation is over. He might wander back in a few minutes time, but if he does, it's not to start the fight up again, but rather to act like everything is OK, and maybe ask if the person he was formerly snarking with, wants to go see a movie or something. He really likes to be around people. He hates to be alone, and you can chock that up to the fact that he grew up with a twin, and therefore pretty much always had someone around when he was growing up. He can sometimes get a tad … possessive about those he considers his friends. He's the type of guy, who finding himself awake and alone with nothing to do, will phone you at 1:00 AM in the morning to be all 'so, what's up, want to go get some late night fast food?'. He has no concept of things like 'alone time', and if he finds himself alone, he's going to go seek out people to be with. In general, Ryan lets Wesley do the talking. He feels very much in the shadow of his twin brother, and tends to view Wesley as the person who exists to pull Ryan's fat out of the fire when need be. He does care about his brother, but he has a funny way of showing it sometimes. Ryan is a big believer in mutant rights, and very vocal about this. Sure, he might not be a mutant, but his brother and his mother are. Sure, a lot of the time he wants to kill his brother, but that's just it. Ryan wants to kill Wesley, and he's going to make sure that Wesley stays alive, and no one else gets the pleasure of taking him out. He also has a streak of compulsive behavior, and tends to zone out when he's working on something. He's been known to forgo things like, sleeping, and eating when he's in the middle of a project.

… APPEARANCE ;
Ryan is a tall guy who stands at about 6”, and has brown hair and brown eyes. His hair is a bit – unruly. In fact his hair is a source of annoyance to Ryan. It curls in the humidity, and is just generally unmanageable. He could cut his hair shorter, but that requires hair maintenance, and Ryan isn’t up for that – so Ryan mostly wears baseball caps. Once when he was a kid, he wore a headband (and Wesley has never let him forget that). Clothing wise Ryan loves his sunglasses, and tries to wear them as much as he can. Otherwise he wears whatever is clean, and whatever he needs to wear to blend in on the various realities that he finds himself visiting.

…HISTORY;
Growing up, Ryan was aware that his parents had once donned tights and capes and some seriously regrettable headgear once upon a time, and gone out to save the world. Or in the case of his mother, gone out to destroy the world, until she switched sides, and then went out to save the world. Well, by the time that Ryan was born, his parents had mostly given up the super hero thing. Having relocated to Boston, they had a nice house, and sure sometimes they commuted into New York, that hotbed of super heroes and villains, but for the most part they stayed in Boston, handling the things that happened in that city, and raising their kids. This meant, that growing up, Ryan spent his early years thinking that his parents where the coolest people ever and than by the time he hit early adolescence, he was kind of embarrassed by them. Ryan was fascinated from an early age, by his father’s collection of bows and arrows. Clint encouraged his fascination, and Ryan showed that he had a natural affinity for archery. When it came to talents inherited from his mother however . . . well, Ryan showed less aptitude. No one was expecting him to display mutant powers at such a young age (after all, the X-gene tended to show up in adolescence) , but Wanda did show him how to cast a spell or too. One of the spells that Wanda showed Ryan? How to make mystical fire. Ryan used this newly acquired skills, to go and set the kitchen table on fire. That little misadventure, well that proved to Ryan that magic was unstable, and he wanted nothing to do with it. Cause and effect he understood, he shot the arrow, it hit the window, the glass broke. But with magic, well with magic you didn’t always know what you were going to get. Although his parents watched him closely, Ryan just never showed any signs of having any kind of mutant "gift". He himself, spent several months after the development of Wesley's powers, analyzing every feeling he had, and everything that happened around him, trying to determine some sort of link between his actions, and the world around him. In the end though, Ryan had to face facts, he wasn't a mutant, he was a human. Ahh the teenage years. Ryan got through these turbulent times with a minimum of fuss, and a minimum amount of teenage angst. He had a rather 'whatever' attitude towards school, and the more people lectured him on his academic shortcomings, the more he slacked off. He couldn't help it; it's just in his nature to do the opposite of what people wanted him to do. He let his spell casting seriously slide during these years, and chose to focus more on his archery skills. He had never really been that good at the spell thing anyways, and he used that as his reasoning for not practicing. Not to mention, lugging around spell books? Well it didn't exactly make one look 'cool', and Ryan went through a very appearance conscious stage, at this age, and didn’t want to be the 'guy with the magic books' at school. When the time came to peruse some sort of higher learning, Ryan opted out of the university route, instead deciding he was going to learn a trade. A non super heroic, secret identity, tights wearing trade. Ryan decided that he was going to become a mechanic. It made sense to him, after all he had a natural (although non mutant) affinity for gadgets, and machines, and he did love cars. So he took a few courses through a community college, and got a job working at a local Boston garage. Having established himself somewhat, in his chosen career path, Ryan took a few night courses, and debated about going to school, and maybe getting an English degree -- he liked to read, and liked the idea of going to school, and only having to read. The concept of writing papers however, that kind of deterred him from perusing any type of degree in English. He did however get to live vicariously through his twin brother, showing up every weekend at his brother’s school, and going to the college parties, and hanging out with the college girls. The general populace's anti mutant feelings? Well that's been an issue for Ryan, since he was a kid. Hard for it not to be an issue, what with his mother being the Scarlet Witch, and his brother having an active X-gene of his own. Although not really that interested in joining the fight for mutant rights, Ryan kind of hung around the edges a bit. Practiced with is bow and worked on his spell casting. Both his parents tried to gently (and not so gently in the case of his mother) get him involved in the fight for mutant rights. His father might not have been a mutant, but he supported mutant rights, and well Wanda, her stance on the issue was rather obvious. Ryan reacted in typical Ryan fashion, the more they pushed him, the more he dug in his heels. He was a mechanic damnit, a mechanic who happened to be a crack shot with his bow and arrow, and who happened to be able to cast a spell or too … but he was a mechanic first. That was what he told his parents. When he was at work, it was a bit of a different story. At work, Ryan had gained a reputation for being a bit outspoken on mutant rights. There was murmurings amongst his co-workers about how maybe Ryan was "one of the mutants", and Ryan? Well he neither confirmed or denied it, just kept pointing out that mutants should have the exact same rights as everyone else. During these non college years, Ryan occasionally would help out the X-men, acting as a kind of reserve, reserve member. Mainly, if Wesley asked for help, Ryan would lend a hand, or an arrow, and then when everything was said and done, head back to Boston. He didn't want to be a superhero, he wanted to be a mechanic after all.
…WHY;
[Why Ryan is here]

…OUT OF CHARACTER;
	PB: Zachary Levi Character Base: N/A [Son of Scarlet Witch + Hawkeye] Player: Kelly CDJ: kellsbells Contact: Drop Box Info Credit: [splott [@] rp_tutorials]