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Player —

Player Name: Marie
Pronouns: She/her/them
Are you over 18? Yes
Contact: seemarierun
Current Characters: Tim Drake and Nico di Angelo
Who Invited You?: Shikki, originally

Character —

Character Name: Connor Hawke
Character Canon: DC Comics (Rebirth)
Character Age: 24 (ish)
Canon Point: Green Arrow #1 (2023)
Link to History: Here
Inventory: Connor will arrive in his uniform, with his bow and a quiver half-full of arrows (if they are permitted). The pouches of his belt contain a few two meter strands of Kevlar 7-11 (used for stringing bows), a sharpening stone, some extra plastic vanes (YOU wind up on your last arrow in a fight to find out the vanes have been knocked off it and see if you don’t start stocking them), enough money to get home the next time the gangsters turn out to be aliens and he winds up hundreds of miles away by morning, his cellphone, and a comms device.

Powers —

Skills:
Archery: I hate to use the term master archer, but it probably applies here. Connor has been studying kyudo archery since he was a kid and had additional training under his father, and he's very, very good at it. He's not the greatest archer in the world - Ollie and Roy have him beat there, but he's good enough to win an illegal best-of-the-best archery tournament (without those two in the field). He's generally shown using either a recurve bow or a yumi (a type of longbow), but is also proficient with compound bows and crossbows - even if he considers them inelegant.

Unlike the first Green Arrow, Connor does not regularly use "trick" arrows, although he does seem capable of using Ollie's ridiculous assortment (up to and including the boomerang arrow). He hates them. The only ones that have anything on a simple, pointed arrow are the ones with grappling lines, incendiary devices, or fire-extinguishing foam - and even then, only in specific circumstances.

Martial arts: Specifically, the aikido discipline, although he incorporates other fighting styles as needed. It's considered one of the soft arts, with lots of throws and blocks, but that doesn't mean that he can't throw a damn good punch when he wants to. Connor is actually better at hand-to-hand combat than he is with a bow, and he's been canonically called one of the best martial artists in the world.

Other weaponry: If that isn't enough, Ollie got it in his head one day that the Arrows all needed to cross-train more. As a result, Connor has some skill with a katana and is more than proficient with throwing stars.

Look, the bottom line is, if you don't know how to fight, don't attack him.

Superpowers:

Probability manipulation. I’m quoting a definition for this, because it’s more succinct than I could be. It’s “the ability to subliminally and psionically initiate random kinetic phenomena that affect probability in [his] favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things to occur within line of sight.” This has the effect of giving Connor “good” luck and other persons or things that he’s opposed to “bad” luck, provided he takes some action in it. Examples include:

• In a coin toss, Connor will win if he flips or calls the coin. 
• If Connor tries to dodge a blow, if there’s any way possible for him to dodge, he will. 
• His accuracy level will be ridiculous.
• Within a single room, Connor could be responsible for an entire Rube Goldberg device's amount of serendipitous cause-and-effect to improve his situation.
• Connor would win bingo to the point of being kicked out of the hall.

Limitations:

The luck limitations are:

• it can only effect what's in range (line of sight)
• he must do something to sway the event.  Complete inaction will not activate the probability manipulation field. 
• Luck in the sense of this power is a zero sum gain.  For Connor be lucky, someone or something around him must be less lucky.  For those million-to-one odds, someone may be very unlucky indeed.  
• Examples of the bad luck that can be caused, using similar examples to the above:
  • The other person loses the coin toss (Not so bad).
  • Connor flips out of their way when they put all their weight on a loose floor board that trips them, and then knocks them out.
  • Someone gets shot in the shoulder because he managed to shoot through the space between the cars of a moving train.
  • The end of the game Mousetrap plays out in real life.
• Examples of the power failing to activate are:
  • In a coin toss, if a referee does the flip and the other person calls it, it’s a random chance as Connor has taken no action.
  • If Connor’s unconscious and therefore makes no move to avoid the blow, it will hit.
  • His accuracy level won't be able to make arrows go around corners like he's Diego Hargraves in Umbrella Academy (unless he's using a boomerang arrow, which he's not fond of).
  • In the event of a meteor striking the city that he's in, Connor's presence or whatever will not suddenly bring an alien tugboat into Earth's space to catch the meteor in a tractor beam and save us all.
  • Connor would NOT win the lottery, as he is not in the room where the balls are drawn.

He’s not driven be any unending mission. He’ll help for an issue or even a prolonged stint as a hero, but eventually he’s always like it’s time to focus on me and go running off to seek inner peace rather than deal with this superhero shit. 

Connor’s more of a solo act. He works well with others, but he’s not a team joiner (family doesn’t count).

He’s not stupid, but he’s not some great tech genius or detective.  A lot of common sense, localized expertise, but still just a GED.  Definitely outwittable.

Also in some ways he is stupid, because he will absolutely give someone a second chance.

Personality —

Connor has been trying to make the best of things with his loved ones as they are for a very long time, and he genuinely sees the best in people. He sees better than their best, and he often gets let down by them as a result. It's almost like he asks for the pain of disappointment.

He's a good soul. He's almost too nice. Connor has literally given someone the underwear off his butt. He's the kind of person who remembers the names of people that others forget, who holds the door in the rain for strange. Considerate.

If he hadn't fallen into this hero gig, he would be almost perfectly content to live out his days at the ashram. It suits his own serenity, though he's worked hard to become the calm, focused individual that he is. If flakiness is hereditary, he's inherited a double dose of the gene. Most heroes are in it for the long haul, but he's walked away from it multiple times and seems to be able to say “nope, I’m done” and head back to the ashram whenever he feels a need to live a more serene, introspective lifestyle. He doesn’t care that the overall job of “peace on earth, good will towards men” or whatever superheroes are after isn’t done - he knows that the job is never done and that it will be waiting should he pick up his bow again. Which he will, because he gets restless at the monastery and always winds up peacing out of there as well.

Another thing that he’s learned how to suppress - perhaps channel is a better word - is his anger and violent reactions. As a child, he’s shown to have been picked on due to his ethnicity and been kicked out of 4 regular schools and 3 military-institutions by the time he was about 13. He wasn’t expelled for starting the fights, but for the brutality he showed in defending himself. As an adult, it’s hard to anger him through personal insults. He finds them to be a waste of time. Threaten his family, though... that's another story.

In spite of that, he's a loving person. He's able to forgive people even before being asked, even if the transgression was huge, and he does it without saying so. Case in point, his father pretended for years to have only learned he had a son when Connor was a teenager. But Connor didn’t let that stand in the way of developing a good relationship as adults. Ollie might be an asshole, but Connor’s aware that people have faults and that his dad usually has good intentions. He believes in showing mercy and giving second chances.

He's honest and polite, but neither to a fault. He lies extremely well if it's called for, and the politeness doesn't extend so far as to make him incapable of pointing out another person's faults. He just tries to do it when there’s a pot of tea because a good chamomile can be soothing… but he knows that he’d probably have to drown people in it before it calmed them enough to handle the conversation.

A practicing Zen Buddhist, Connor regularly meditates to organize his thoughts and, perhaps, to keep from sinking to Ollie's everyone else's level of shouting when he has a problem. He takes the tenets as seriously as he can, for someone who regularly shoots people, and he tries to find resolutions that don't involve violence. 

Which means that Connor is really annoying to almost everyone in his life at one time or another.  He has a tendency to offer help and advice when the people that he cares about are hurting (or hurting themselves) and the hotheads he's surrounded by do not like that.

He doesn't have much of a sense of humor, or rather, he'll laugh at jokes but rarely tells them. Usually when he does, he's just speaking the truth at the right time. Pop cultiana goes right over his head. He doesn’t avoid tv entirely - he’s shown praying that the monastery will get a television because he’s getting bored. He watches Nova, history programs, travel shows.  His hobbies include going to secondhand bookshops and yoga. 

Connor doesn't curse often. In fact, he sometimes censors himself using terms like winky blink, though he's falling out of this habit more and more. He’s spending too much time with Ollie’s foul mouth.

Gameplay —

Areas of Interest / Brainstorming: What if I played someone who wasn’t a pain in anyone’s ass? Someone who bends rather than digs in his heels.  Someone who might convince literally anyone in this game to relax.

Samples: TDM