15 May 2015 @ 12:22 pm
ATTF: Headcanons  
Greetings, Lovelies!

I’m glad I was stalking the community today because I completely forgot I offered to take over ATTF. Which would have been a bad thing because I’m 95% sure [livejournal.com profile] enigma731 is actually training attack birds. I don’t know how long it would take them to fly north and come after me, but I don’t want to risk it, SO.

Today’s discussion: headcanons! \o/

Now, headcanons are great things. For those of you who haven’t come across this amazing term, headcanons are the things we privately and not-so-privately muse about our characters until it’s either confirmed or denied by canon. Ways to fill in the gaps, as you do. I’ve been making them up for every movie character I find interesting for years (and books and TV, too!). They can be huge, life-altering events, or they can simply be how the character prefers their coffee (Clint: black; Natasha: enough sugar to make an elephant dance).

The great thing about headcanons is that canon sometimes comes along and confirms these and it’s a great feeling. The worst thing about headcanons is that sometimes canon comes along and stomps them into iiiiiiiitty bitty little pieces and you’re left with a broken heart and a broken headcanon. Each installment lives on that knife’s edge of thrill and terror.

Recently, we got a huge installment in our canon—aka one of our characters actually showed up on screen for the first time in three years and he got backstory. So I want to check in with everybody about how your headcanons came through.

Today’s discussion points:

  • What were your headcanons prior to Age of Ultron? How’d they fare? How do you feel about that?

  • Did Age of Ultron give you new headcanons?

  • What, in your opinion, is the best headcanon you’ve seen somebody else post? Did you decide to adopt it?

  • What do you feel are the most common headcanons about Clint and Natasha?

  • And—please keep this positive, please!—but which headcanons don’t you agree with?


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4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)
5) There are going to be Age of Ultron spoilers in this post, so if you haven’t seen it yet, probably best to skip it unless you don’t mind getting spoiled!
 
 
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[identity profile] spyforaday.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 09:03 pm (UTC)
Headcanons are fun and crazy things. Sometimes, say after something happens in a movie that breaks my heart, they tend to consume me until I find just the right combination. So, for the past two weeks, I've trying out a few. Here are the two that have floated to the top:

1. AoU happened in a parallel universe. When Thor was sent back to Earth at the end of The Dark World, he went with "Odin's" blessing. Unknown to Thor, however, "Odin" instructed Heimdall to send Thor back to a parallel universe of Earth. In this version, Clint has a family and Natasha was enamored of Dr. Banner. When he goes back to Asgard he will find out a lot of things the reason why those things seemed "off" and what became of the original universe he frequented. (I can't write an accompanying fic for this -- time travel/parallel universes/space-time continuum -- all that theoretical stuff hurts my head. I don't know how it works, I just know it was actually an easier explanation than some other options. ;)

2. Laura has been a part of Clint's life for about as long as he can remember. It's just always been Laura. She was the first person Clint (and Barney) met at the orphanage after his parents died. All the kids immediately started sizing up the two young boys as they walked into the common room. Only one, a young girl, smiled at them. She got up and walked over to Clint. "Hey, new kid. My name's Laura. What's yours?" were the first words she spoke to him. They always kept in touch and worked the system to see each other as much as possible through various foster homes, the Barton boys' stint in the circus, Clint's life of petty crime, and military service. Before Clint accepted recruitment by SHIELD, he negotiated a deal for the absolute secrecy and safety of his future wife and family. When that was granted, Clint asked Laura to marry him. "After all the years you spent taking care of my sorry ass, please let me take care of you," was his proposal. (I'm actually about half way done with a fic about this. It's told in a three-way conversation among Clint, Tony, and Natasha out in the barn while Tony "fixes" the tractor.)

There are more, but they're not formed well enough to be shared yet.
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 10:55 pm (UTC)
Oh! The Alternate timeline idea is interesting! :D I love that!
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on May 16th, 2015 03:41 am (UTC)
Love the Alternate Universe. Like a Star Trek reboot! Sign me up...