http://alphaflyer.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] be_compromised2014-10-03 10:33 am

ATTF: Clint, Natasha and the Agents of SHIELD

“Barton and Romanoff never have an extraction plan.”  “Fury wanted a lie detector even Agent Romanoff couldn’t beat.”

Did you go EEEP!! the same way I did, when those throwaway lines got thrown away in Season One of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD?  And started to wonder whether we were going to see our assassins pop in on the show?   …  And (after spending a token few minutes being disappointed) felt your own creative gears start to crank up when they didn’t?  Well, here’s your chance to watch/make it happen!

SHIELD was/is a place where chances are pretty good that field agents would know one another.  Coulson is a given – we’ve seen him talking to both Clint and Natasha on screen.  And there's lots of fic involving him and our ship (or one of them ...) out there already. It’s the others I'd like to look at, or the group of them together.  Some thoughts:

-                Melinda May has been “in” for quite some time, but so has Clint (his service photo, which can be seen on one of the screens in “Avengers,” is dated 8/30/99). Do they have a history – as green recruits, partners, friends with benefits, colleagues, or did they get drunk at the SHIELD Christmas party and wake up in Bahrain? (Without prejudice to later relationships!)

-                Has Natasha trained with Ward, taught him what he knows, whupped him, maybe even noticed there was something not quite ... genuine with the guy?  Would Coulson ask her to interrogate him, after the fall of SHIELD?

-                What would happen if Natasha ran into Skye doing a hack job? Who learns from whom?

-                Did FitzSimmons design any of Clint’s arrow heads?  Are they starstruck by Hawkeye, or do they find designing his killware mildly distasteful?

-                Did Natasha ever take that lie detector test what's-his-face mentioned?

-                How do you think Clint would have gotten along with Victoria Hand, or John Garrett?

-                Would “Director” Coulson reach out to Clint and Natasha, now ensconced in Avengers Tower, to help him kick-start new!SHIELD?  Would Maria Hill act as liaison to make it happen?

-                Sitwell.  Go.

Give us your fics or fic snippets, meta, recs, self-recs, icons, idle thoughts! (No pro/anti-Ward wanking please – let’s leave that topic to tumblr…)

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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-10-03 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching the first two episodes of season 2, I finally want to fic this universe. Still eyeing it up though. I see parallels with Hunter and Barton (headcanon says Phil brought Clint in) and I can see Natasha and Clint working for this SHIELD but also being Avengers, so moonlighting for SHIELD? Seriously.

And I love, love, love the idea of Melinda and Clint being prank buddies when they were "green recruits"—though technically they weren't that green. :grins:

And then I also see Melinda and Natasha being great drinking, shoptalk buddies.

And I don't know why but I think Skye and Clint would really hit it off, but technically Natasha's the hacker, so...

I think I'm still osmosing Agents of SHIELD, judging by my rambles.
Edited 2014-10-03 19:29 (UTC)

[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com 2014-10-03 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I have only watched the first half of season 1 of SHIELD (tragic, I know!) but I may have thought at some point that it would be cool if Skye is Clint's daughter.
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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-10-03 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ack! I love it. Of course, you'd have to trash AoS canon to make it happen, but I admit to loving it. AUness must happen. I'm mid-ficcing something else or I'd stop, drop, and fic this. Oooh!

[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com 2014-10-03 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I would love to read that AU so whenever you get the chance, you will have a built-in audience ;)
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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-10-03 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This.

[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com 2014-10-03 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I am going to watch it once its on netflix in January...but the problem is I will always be 1 season behind on the show. I am excited to watch it though!

(We don't have "regular" tv, just netflix)
Edited 2014-10-03 20:46 (UTC)
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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-10-03 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Understandable. I'm Hulu only myself.

[identity profile] findthesea.livejournal.com 2014-10-03 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ummmmmm why have I never considered this AU possibility. Holy crap. Approve. WANT.

[identity profile] findthesea.livejournal.com 2014-10-03 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, it's okay. I posted from my phone before and the app was telling me I posted twice so I didn't even know if I deleted this comment by accident ARG. ANYWAY. WHY MUST YOU TEMPT ME WITH THESE THINGS. It's not like I just got back from vacation 24 hours ago and have Marvel Bang to finish and a convenient amount of time to think of some nice scenarios for this... ;) *shakes fist*
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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-10-03 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Care to share scenarios? I missed the front end of aos because the episodes expired on Hulu

[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com 2014-10-04 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
RIGHT?????