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?


And as always, here are your ATTF guidelines:
Things to remember:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
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] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 09:27 pm (UTC)
Ah, head canons.

The Old

Well, the one about Clint living in a mid-town Manhattan apartment over a Chinese take-out has been resoundingly blown to bits. (Unless he has a city apartment for when he doesn't have time to go to the farm....?)

The one about Clint being ferociously protective of children (enunciated most clearly in chapter 3 of "In the Service (http://archiveofourown.org/works/543070)"), I'm happy to say, has been borne out -- albeit with a twist I wasn't quite ready for. But that final scene in AoU, where he goes after the little boy? Straight out of the inside of my head.

A Natasha one that I saw spring to glorious life in Cap 2 was "Natasha puts her feet on the dashboard when someone else drives." I wrote that into "Going to Ground (http://archiveofourown.org/works/520261)," and when I saw it in the movie I was convinced (for about 5 seconds) that the writers must have read my story...

The New

Laura is a former SHIELD analyst, later executive assistant to Nick Fury. The latter role she still fulfils, which is why Clint is thinking of building her a workstation out of the dining room. Basically, she runs Fury's affairs for him from the Farm.

She got interested in Hawkeye and made Maria Hill check with his various exes to see if he was a jerk, or someone worth having a go at (I'm currently working on a story to that effect based on a prompt [livejournal.com profile] tielan left me at one point...

Natasha came to stay on the farm for quite a while after those congressional hearings, to decompress and avoid the attentions of the press.





Edited 2015-05-15 09:27 pm (UTC)
[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 09:37 pm (UTC)
I think it's possible he has an apartment. Barney is staying in it at the moment ;).
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on May 16th, 2015 03:44 am (UTC)
Oh, but of course. After HYDRA tossed it looking for intel on how Clint kept finding (and eliminating) their surviving agents, Natasha told him he couldn't possibly move in again. At least not for a while. Barney makes the perfect subtenant (except Clint figures that his bourbon collection will be toast by the time he gets back.)
[identity profile] happilydancing.livejournal.com on May 20th, 2015 12:44 am (UTC)
And he doesn't always pay the rent. But that's ok, he keeps the place safe from thugs, at least that's what he tells Clint and Laura.
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 10:58 pm (UTC)
YES! THANK YOU, I <3 the idea of Laura also being employed by SHIELD - that popped up independently in my headcanon for her, too. (Not being Fury's EA, but that's a fantastic twist, yes. love it.)