Rosamund Barton

**Rosamund Virginia Barton** is an Avenger and the firstborn child of Laura Barton, which makes her the stepdaughter of another Avenger, Clint "Hawkeye" Barton.

## Biography

Rosamund Barton was born as Rosamund  Langford, the first child of Laura (Cooper) and her high school sweetheart, Malcolm Langford. Her birth was not planned, and Malcolm did not hesitate to remind his now ex-girlfriend about it during most of her pregnancy. However, shortly after the baby's birth, he and his parents made sure that Laura did not have the slightest chance to be near her. Rosie spent the first years of her life in Villach, Austria, where her father's family went shortly after the last custody case. For the most part, the girl did not see her father, and instead, her grandparents were there to raise her. Nevertheless, it would be an exaggeration to call it proper upbringing: her grandfather was always angry because of the presence of a child nearby, her grandmother increasingly abused alcohol over the years, and her father, if staying at home at all, constantly cursed the kid for his spoiled life. Rosie dreamt of leaving this place as soon as possible, but all she knew about her mother from the words of her family was that the woman abandoned her and never regretted it.

When the girl was not even seven years old, her grandfather suddenly decided to take up her upbringing. As it turns out later, he had his own selfish goals. She trained day and night, supervised by the best martial arts experts Mr. Langford could find, and at first, it seemed like a game to the child. It lasted exactly until the first injury. Rosamund was eight, and her grandfather, obviously not caring about her young age, decided to arrange a sudden test for his granddaughter in order to check whether the training was giving any results. He staged a night attack, watching the progress of the case on CCTV cameras. As a result of a brawl in which she fought back more than desperately, Rosie was thrown out of her bedroom window in the middle of the night right on her grandmother's favorite hydrangeas bushes. Mr. Langford did not even bother to ask about her well-being, and if it had not been for a neighbor who had been suffering from insomnia that day and noticed the kid through the slightly open gate, there is a high probability that everything could have ended much more deplorably than it actually turned out. The girl was soon hospitalized, and her relatives showed up at the hospital only in the morning, when a sobered Mrs. Langford demanded an explanation from her husband for her destroyed flower beds. Rosie suffered serious injuries to her back and legs, and doctors even expressed doubts about her future life. Nevertheless, her grandfather (having dealt with the police quickly enough) said that he himself would take up her treatment "with his own methods". The girl just kept silent and nodded to his words, knowing full well that if she did not do it, everything would only get worse. She has already lied to the doctors that she decided to explore the roof at night and fell without anyone's help. And although other numerous bruises did not give the doctor confidence in her words, he was not too professional to develop this topic and add this information to his report for the arriving policemen. Returning home after a couple of weeks of "rest" in the hospital, the girl was faced with another portion of training, which did not come easy to her at all. No one cared about what she had just gone through, and that if she was injured again, it would at best chain her to bed for the rest of her life. Her grandfather needed a result as soon as possible and he definitely was not going to listen to "the exculpatory babble of an eight-year-old".

In March 2002, after receiving another injury that stopped her countless training sessions for a while, Rosie realized that she could no longer live in someone's submission. She decided for herself that she would rather wander the streets or go to an orphanage than spend another day next to her crazy grandparents. She snuck into Mr. Langford's office to steal her documents and some money from his safe when she came across her own birth certificate along with a whole folder of court orders. She was too young to understand all the details, but it became obvious from the papers that her mother had never given up on her. In fact, she fought long and hard for the right to raise her child away from this family, but she simply did not have enough power to fight the Langfords on equal terms. Hastily stuffing all the papers into her backpack, Rosamund left the family estate. This time she had a goal, and although she did not know how she could accomplish it yet, she was going to reunite with her mother and finally live a normal life she definitely deserved.

## Personality

> **"We've never been friends and we're lousy allies. And yet, even I admit that you've been right about everything so far. You can keep on being skeptical, but if your instincts scream to get everyone out of this damn place... I'd do it."**
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Rosie is a truly gifted yet too hot-tempered young woman. She can keep cool in any situation and even sacrifice her own people for the sake of achieving a "higher goal", but when it comes to her immediate family, an uncontrollable fear takes hold of the brunette and she makes a lot of hasty decisions one after another, which ultimately leads to chaos.

From time to time, she suffers from the scenes she often witnessed as a child. When she was younger, Rosie hid all panic attacks that she used to have, as well as inexplicable trust issues towards everyone around, bordering on paranoia, and disproportionate outbursts of anger even from her own mother out of fear that the older woman would give up the "defective" child. At such moments, the brunette feels that she can't control herself and her own actions, and although sometimes it helps her in battle, in most cases she's just being extremely vulnerable. As a result, she doesn't trust this secret to most people in her surroundings, including her family.

Excluding those minor drawbacks, she often relies on her intuition, the so-called "inner voice", which repeatedly helped a young woman when other people's lives, as well as her own, were at stake. She's also very passionate when it comes to studying or training of any sort and desperately tries to achieve good results in any of her endeavors. However, Rosie prefers to claim that it's not about her and that all her achievements are purely the merit of her mother and father.

## Abilities

* Master Martial Artist
* Knife Mastery
* Archer
* Sharpshooter
* Weapons Designer
* Polyglot:
	+ English, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Croatian
	+ ASL
	+ Morse code

## Facilities

* Barton Homestead
* New Avengers Compound

## Relationships

* Laura Barton (mother)
* Clint Barton/Hawkeye (stepfather)
* Barney Barton † (step-uncle)
* Lillian Barton (step-aunt)
* Frankie Barton (step-brother)
* Cooper Barton (half-brother)
* Lila Barton (half-sister)
* Nathaniel Barton (alleged half-brother)
* Alec Barton (son)
* Josie Barton (daughter)
* Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver † (love interest)
* Nico Melderis (boyfriend) †
* Steve Rogers/Captain America †
* Tony Stark/Iron Man †
* Bucky Barnes
* Sam Wilson/Captain America
* Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
* Scott Lang/Ant-Man
* Hope van Dyne/Wasp
* James Rhodes/War Machine
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man
* Bruce Banner/Hulk
* Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
* King T'Challa
* Princess Shuri
* Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
* Wong
* Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
* Pepper Potts/Rescue
* Kate Bishop (situational rival)

## Trivia

* Rosamund suffers from inebriphobia. In other words, she has the irrational fear of being around drunk people. This comes from childhood, where baby Rosie often witnessed her drunken father and grandmother in some rather unpleasant situations.