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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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] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on May 15th, 2015 11:44 pm (UTC)
Did Age of Ultron give you new headcanons?
- So.. AoU is a completely different verse for me. But yes, I have new ones! Because Laura is awesome (and decided to take up residence in my head, so what'm I supposed to do?)
- Laura and Clint grew up in the circus together. Her father trained the horses. She was never interested in performing, but once she got her hands on a computer, she started doing more and more of the administrative stuff, and mostly taught herself computers and some programming and hacking (such as it was at the time, anyway, since they would've teens in the 80s) - basically she liked them and kept learning about them, and when Clint ended up on SHIELDs radar they hired her as a tech and discovered she was great at analysis Bonus, she could do that from home, because Cooper came along pretty soon after that.
- Clint brought Natasha home because she needed a home. I'm honestly not sure yet how romantic/sexual vs. platonic the relationship between the three of them is yet - but if it's not overtly sexual it is still extremely close and intimate with quite a bit of physical affection there - most of this is from how easily Laura lets Nat into her personal space, particularly while pregnant.
- Natasha has her own room there, she does not use the guest room, it is Natasha's room, and Laura spent several years drilling this fact into Natasha's head when she would call it a guest room. She finally started bringing and leaving stuff and clothes and things in it, and when Lila was about three or four she let her "help" pick out the paint and wallpaper when they finally convinced her to redo it to her own tastes.
- Cooper was a baby when Natasha showed up, but she's been there for all of Lila's life. (I am in no small way letting this be colored by my experiences with my best friend's kids, here). In some ways, they all know this is the closest she will ever get to having children of her own, and she is really involved in their lives as much as she can be. She's the third parent when she's home with them.


What, in your opinion, is the best headcanon you’ve seen somebody else post? Did you decide to adopt it?
- In general? The characterization of Clint (though not all the details necessarily) in SciFiGrl47's Toasterverse, and her entire Tony backstory from "The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation" excepting the Tony/Steve bits (because I mostly 'ship Tony/Pepper and Steve/Bucky in my headcanon).
- My Clint and Natasha headcanons developed in the crucible of the first Prompt-a-Thon, so I'm not entirely sure where or how they all came about now, though many of y'all were absolutely instrumental in creating them! I just can't point to one particular fic or time for most things, though now that I'm thinking about it, QueenRiley's "Of Languages" is the origin for both of them being polyglots.