19 October 2012 @ 04:42 pm
All the things Friday: The Team edition  
hello dearest bar, I shall be your Friday host for the day. Today? Today we're going to discuss* all the things Clint/Natasha plus team (* discussion, but also welcome are fic recs, fanart, cast photos, videos, icons, comment fics, anything you find fun and nice and happy inducing and it has to do with our two favorite assassins and the team!Avengers). :)

Few thoughts from me at the beginning - one of the best things in The Avengers, in my opinion, is group dynamic between all main characters - I wouldn't even call it team dynamics, at least not until the final battle. The film presented us a group of truly extraordinary (and also quite frakked up) individuals who really had to struggle to reach a common ground and fight the mayhem at the same time. It's always interesting to notice that, among these people, two of them already have an established connection - once we got Clint back it was obvious, oh so obvious, that he and Natasha feel good around each other. They're already a team within a team, and it shows. During the final battle we saw all the pieces sliding into place. One of the interesting things I always notice and think about is how seamlessly Clint fits in, even though he just "jumped in" among the rest of them. I'd say it shows a lot about Clint's skills, training, and confidence; and also that he is capable being a flawless team player. (Also. I always find it interesting, how Natasha's primary motivation is to get Clint back, but the further the plot goes, the more she seems to realize that she needs to do the right thing, aka help the rest of Avengers to defeat Loki. After Clint wakes up, he seems to follow her (into the war), and in a way they become each other's motivation to join the fight, and Avengers.)

So. What do you think about the team? Do you think Clint and Natasha fit into the team easily, or are there bumps along the road' What do you think about team dynamic, which are your favorite friendships? Who is the prankster and who is the grumpy cat? Do you like team!fics, do you have any recs? If you write fics yourself, do you like writing about teamy moments, various Avengers friendships, jokes, bickering and so on? Who will adjust to the team with more ease, Clint or Natasha and why? There are more topics, I am sure, these are just the first things that pop to my mind. Feel free to add more things to the table, I don't want to overwhelm you.

Happy Friday and rock on!
 
 
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[identity profile] sunny-serenity.livejournal.com on October 19th, 2012 08:49 pm (UTC)
he's lived in a circus, he has less trust issues than Natasha does

i love that this is not established in the MCU but fans latched on to that almost immediately. also, the circus clint was in wasn't exactly all sunshine happiness and glitz! there was some deep fucked up shit like exploitation, betrayal of trust, loss of a brother, extortion, being made to do things you didn't want to, being moulded into a person you shouldn't be etc etc etc. so if anything clint has the same amounts of trust issues that natasha has, just in different ways.
[identity profile] anuna-81.livejournal.com on October 20th, 2012 04:40 am (UTC)
Hm, yes. my comment sounded too simplistic I guess? But I think he's had somewhat better past that she did. I think different people tend to write Clint differently, which is the beauty of fanfiction. Ultimately he turns out less damaged than Natasha; in a way that he knows who he is. He has certain stability, and I think lot of us treat it as headcanon - he brings stability into her life once they start working together. It's hard to give something you never received (when it comes to these psychological things), and I suppose he did learn sometime, somewhere about basic trust, because he and Natasha operate on trust, and I think it's him who initiates it when they first get to know each other. He makes a different call, that's the fist step. I think he picked up everything good that showed up along his way (every kindness, every good lesson), and it was... a survival strategy. But my point was, he knows how to fit in among larger groups of people, find his place when he's working with them - I don't think it *doesn't* make him uncomfortable or alert regarding what people's intentions are. That's also a survival strategy.

(Besides circuses? I tend to look at them more like... large unhappy places full of problematic things, than happiness and glitz.)