Steven Hawkeye

Official portrait, 2022

**Steven Martin Hawkeye** (born 10 August 1991), also known as **S. Hawkeye** to distinguish him from his younger brother, is a South African-born FR Euronian musician and politician who served as the first and only president of the Republic of Eurono from its creation on 19 July 2022 until his overthrow by Leonard during the Euronian Civil War on 15 April 2023, after which he spent a month in a coma after being shot in the head. He is the older brother of Matthew Hawkeye, the incumbent president of Eurono's successor, the Federal Republic of Eurono.

Prior to entering politics, he gained initial fame for being the keyboardist of the progressive rock band Reddish Silver, which achieved major success worldwide in the early 2010s. Hawkeye was the second oldest continuous member of the group, only younger than drummer Michael Moolman. His younger brother was also a member of the band, with S. Hawkeye also being the keyboardist of Reddish Silver's spinoff band, Twentydust.

Born in 1991 in what is now Southern FR Eurono, Hawkeye disagreed with the recolonization of Africa by the United Kingdom during the first period of 2022, and fought back, gaining a large support from many citizens in Africa. Upon hearing about the collapse of the first Eurono in North America following the Mexican War, Hawkeye pledged to bring the now dissolved country back into Africa, and successfully managed to unite nine northern African countries to reform Eurono in Africa. The newly reformed country, led by Hawkeye, fought back from British power and eventually gained entire control of the African subcontinent as well as the Sinai Peninsula and the island of Madagascar.

A wildly popular politician, he is considered the hero of Africa by many Euronian citizens, and at his peak popularity had an approval rating of 99.2%, the highest of any current power at the time, and is considered one of the greatest politicians of all time.

During the Euronian Civil War, Hawkeye was shot and wounded by the opposition leader, who was killed by Jason Nouw. Five days later, he was shot in his hospital room by Commander Leonard of what was then Lenonoder (now Stacksland.) Originally believing to have been killed, he was given a state funeral two weeks later. However, one month after his overthrow, he was mysteriously found alive in his coffin. Doctors at a local hospital later determined that the shot fired by the now deceased Leonard had actually sent Hawkeye into a deep coma rather than killing him. Doctors are currently trying to determine how Hawkeye managed to survive in a deep coma for so long without any food or drink.

In July 2023, Hawkeye announced he would be partially stepping away from politics with the re-formation of Reddish Silver. He remains in the FR Euronian Senate as an independent politician, and is known to be a supporter of his brother's policies.

## Early life

Hawkeye was born in Johannesburg on 10 August 1991, the first child of Martin and Jessica Hawkeye (both born 1967). He has one two younger brothers, Matthew (b. 1996) and Daniel (1998 - 17 March 2023), and one younger sister, Maria (b. 1994). He enrolled in the University of South Africa in Pretoria (now called the University of Eurono) in 2009, aged 18, and graduated in 2015.

## Career

### As a member of Reddish Silver (2006 - 2014; 2023 - present)

Hawkeye formed the rock band Reddish Silver with three of his secondary school friends in early 2006. Although primarily being the band's keyboardist, Hawkeye sings on three of the band's songs. He shares lead vocals with frontman David Beckin on the group's biggest song, Time, the lead single from their highly acclaimed fourth studio album, The Fourth Dimension, which was released in March 2010. Hawkeye also sings backing vocals (the line *"The face of a pretty girl"*) on the group's 2013 smash hit, Isn't It Midnight, and alongside the rest of the band with the exception of his brother, sing backing vocals on the band's 2023 track "Mystified", with Hawkeye and lead guitarist Zander Goldberg sharing lead vocals during the track's outro.

Although not a singing role, Hawkeye provides the spoken line "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" on the opening track to Wonders Of The World (2009), "One Of These Days" as well as the spoken message at the end of "Thank You", the closing track to their 2014 album of the same name.

Hawkeye was also known for a specific dance he normally did during Reddish Silver concerts and in Reddish Silver music videos.

Reddish Silver achieved worldwide success in the early 2010s when their fourth and fifth studio albums, the latter of which was titled No Guarantees, topped the charts and were critically acclaimed by both listeners and critics, being described as some of the best albums ever made. The success allowed Reddish Silver to become the best selling South African band in history, with roughly 230 million sales worldwide. The group abruptly broke up in 2014 after having released two further studio albums of slightly less success, but reformed in 2023 by popular demand.

### Presidency (19 July 2022 - 15 April 2023)

#### Unification of Africa and appointment of Stack Stackerton (1 August 2022)

Eurono officially reformed in Africa on 19 July 2022 when the African countries of Egypt, Libya, Algerocco, Sunni, West Olkitron, East Olkitron, Sudan, Palaos, and Mitoghanda united to form a single country. Hawkeye was unanimously voted by the legislature to be the leader, and set out many acclaimed policies, such as mainly driving British rule out of the country and uniting all of Africa to become a single country. At this point, Hawkeye was more unrecognizable to Reddish Silver fans, having ditched his trademark 1950s greaser look in favour for a more political look.

Only weeks into his presidency, on 1 August 2022, the UK was finally ousted out of power in Southern Africa, and it, alongside the remaining countries in Africa, all united to become a single country, making Eurono by far the largest country in the roleplay world. On the same day, Stack Stackerton of Stacksland, an ally to Eurono, was appointed prime minister by Hawkeye following the fleeing of Stackerton from Stacksland during a coup d'etat, and the subsequent collapse of Stacksland soon after.

#### World War III (8 September 2022)

On 8 September 2022, weeks after the collapse of Incognitoland following its area being flooded, former leader Artist Incognito overthrew Stackerton's government in the recntly reformed Stacksland, and invaded nearly the entire Eurasian subcontinent, proclaiming it as Incognitoland. By 16 September 2022, the new Incognitoland's borders had reached the Euronian border with what was originally Israel. That same day, Hawkeye ordered an invasion of what was now Incognitoland during a ceremony in Jerusalem about it being proclaimed the new capital of Incognitoland. Eurono's allies later carried forward and invaded Incognitoland, restoring many of the occupied countries governments. On 18 September 2022, Incognito surrendered to Euronian authorities, and was taken to Kinshasa, dissolving Incognitoland (which at the time of its collapse controlled parts of China, as well as Southeastern Asia.) When questioned about why he invaded Eurasia, Incognito stated that he was devastated that his land has flooded, and just wanted at least some power somewhere. Euronian president Steven Hawkeye decided to appoint Incognito as the second prime minister of Eurono in an attempt to make him happy, while Stack Stackerton took the position of the newly formed vice president.

#### Assassination attempt (8 October 2022)

*Main article: Attempted assassination of Steven Hawkeye*

On 7 October 2022, Hawkeye was delivering a speech in Kinshasa, Eurono, and at one point, announced to the crowd that Wales, which was the successor to the United Kingdom, who had colonized Africa throughout the start of 2022 and earlier, had collapsed. Following this, an unidentified person in the crowd opened fire on Hawkeye, as well as vice president Stackerton and prime minister Incognito. Five shots were fired, with one of the shots striking Hawkeye in the chest. Hawkeye collapsed onstage as Stackerton urged someone in the crowd to call an ambulance, before he himself ducked to avoid being hit by a bullet. The perpetrator was eventually tackled to the ground, after which Incognito announced that Hawkeye was being taken to a hospital. By the next day, Hawkeye had recovered from his injuries and was released from the hospital.

#### Possible second assassination attempt (30 October 2022)

On 30 October 2022, Hawkeye was in Lima, Democratic Republic of South America to sign a pact with the country. Both he and DRSA president Alejandro Lopez appeared onstage during the public signing conference and gave speeches. During this, a member of the Lokinskos, a terrorist organization based in the DRSA, later identifed to be Martin Garcia, opened fire with an M2500, the most powerful assault rifle ever made. One of the bullets struck Lopez in the head, decapitating and killing him instantly. At the same time, Hawkeye ducked underneath his pew to avoid being shot as well. Moments later, he reappeared from underneath the pew with and AK-47 on his back and opened fire on the Garcia, striking him several times and killing him almost instantly. After this, Hawkeye walked to Lopez's pew and announced to the crowd that until further notice, to keep civilians safe, that the DRSA would be under temporary occupation by Eurono. The occupation ended following the election of Laura Macedo on 14 November 2022. It is unknown if Garcia also targetted Hawkeye during the assassination of Alejandro Lopez.

#### World tour (9 November 2022 - 7 December 2022)

On 9 November 2022, Hawkeye, Stackerton, and Incognito all embarked on a world tour to visit every country in the roleplay world and meet their leaders. They started off in Bangladesh, and progressed until 7 December 2022, finishing in the now dissolved Republic of the Stans.. During this time period, one of the countries, Israel, wrote to Hawkeye requesting to join Eurono. On 1 December 2022, the three had reached Israel, where that night, near the border of Eurono outside of the community of Nitzanei Sinai, Hawkeye announced the official annexation of Israel into Eurono and signed the annexation paper. During this, a UME missile struck the community, killing ten. As the annexation speech and signing occurred outside the community, Hawkeye, Stackerton, and Incognito, were all unharmed.

Two days later, on 3 December 2022, the three flew to the DRSA to meet up with newly elected president Macedo and sign the pact. The official signing took place later that day, near the same area where Alejandro Lopez was assassinated.

#### Second confirmed assassination attempt (10 April 2023)

*Main article: Second attempted assassination of Steven Hawkeye*

Hours after the Euronian Civil War broke out following a nationwide rant on the World Peace Organisation's WPO Great Powers Partition Initiative, on 10 April 2023, Hawkeye was speaking in Juba, Eurono on his plan to invade and reclaim the breakaway state of Northern Eurono, when at least eight shots were fired by de-facto North Eurono leader Muhammad al-Azan, who then attempted to pledge glory to Northern Eurono before being shot dead by then vice-president Jason Nouw.

Seven hours after the shooting, Nouw reported that Hawkeye had died at 3:46 AM Juba Time on 11 April 2023, and declared himself the new president. However, many spectators reported seeing Hawkeye in the window roaming around his hospital room even after his death was announced, and upon being asked, an official for the hospital confirmed that Hawkeye was still alive. Nouw fled the country after news of his rumours spread, but was detained in the UME and exiled to Siberia, Incognitoland.

## Overthrow and post-presidency (15 April 2023 - present)

### Erroneous death report (15 April 2023)

On 15 April 2023, Hawkeye, who had been improving from his assassination attempt, was visited by then deposed Stackslandian Stack Stackerton, in which the latter tried to convince the former to put an end to the war or agree to a ceasefire. Hawkeye, who had issued an invasion of North Eurono only a day prior, refused, stating that their leaders unilaterally declared independence and that their leader tried killing him. An enraged Stackerton left shortly afterward.

About fifteen minutes after Stackerton left, Commander Leonard of Lenonoder, who had arrived in Juba about ten minutes after Stackerton did, entered the hospital room and fired two shots at Hawkeye. One of the shots struck Hawkeye in the brain and apparently killed him. Leonard allegedly fled the scene after the shooting and went onto live TV to announce Hawkeye's death, claiming full responsibility and stating his reasoning being anger on Hawkeye's refusal to surrender to the WPO. On 16 April 2023, Leonard announced the dissolution of Eurono, with the Democratic Republic of Lenonoder taking its place. This nation didn't last long, with Leonard later being overthrown by newly elected DRL vice president Matthew Hawkeye, Steven's younger brother, on 21 April 2023, with the proclamation of FR Eurono occurring shortly afterward.

Hawkeye was given a state funeral on 28 April 2023, with many world leaders attending. He was buried in the Johannesburg National Cemetery beside his late brother, Daniel, who had been killed in a St. Patrick's day parade shooting less than a month prior to Hawkeye's overthrow.

### Found alive (17 May 2023)

On 17 May 2023, several visitors of the Kinshasa General Graveyard reported hearing yelling and banging near the location where Hawkeye was buried. FR Euronian officials, including current president of FR Eurono Matthew Hawkeye, visited the graveyard and heard the same yells and bangs. It was determined that they were coming from the exact spot where the former is buried. Hawkeye's coffin was exhumed, where Euronian officials found him in the coffin somehow alive. He was rushed to the nearest hospital, where it was determined that the gunshot he had received by the now deceased Leonard (who had killed himself and deposed Euronian vice president Jason Nouw one week earlier) had actually sent him into a deep coma, so deep that not even the most powerful heart monitor could detect a heartbeat. He had only awoken from the coma a few hours prior to his discovery.

### Post presidency (17 May 2023 - present)

Hawkeye remains in the Euronian Senate as an independent member, but is closely affiliated with the Labour Party and leader/FR Euronian vice president Sibabalwe Mbeki. He has openly supported his brother's presidency alongside his cabinet.

Reddish Silver agreed to reunite and perform a reunion concert in FR Eurono on 29 July 2023. Every member returned, including original member Zander Goldberg, who had left the group fourteen years earlier to pursue a solo career. Along with his brother, Hawkeye returned as the group's keyboardist, reintroducing his trademark 1950s greaser look he dawned while a member with Reddish Silver, having regrown his hair over the course of two months.

## Trivia

* Hawkeye is left handed, and is one of only few notable world leaders in the roleplay world who are. His younger brother, Matthew, is ambidextrous, and is the only world leader in the roleplay world who dawns this trait.
* Although being born in South Africa, he speaks with an American accent.