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27 January 2017 @ 10:32 pm
ATTF: Families  
Happy ATTF Friday, best bar! (Hey, it's still Friday on the East Coast of NYC...)

So. Families. Long before AoU came into the mix and gave Clint his own family and backstory, we all had our headcanons as to how Clint and Natasha grew up. The bad thing about them not having their own movies is that we have no idea what kind of story the MCU had in store for them. The good news? We got to make up our own headcanons.

Do you have any favorite headcanons for our favorite assassins that you absolutely stand by? Was Natasha always an orphan, raised in the Red Room? Or did she have a family she was taken away from in Russia? Does your headcanon for Clint's family include the comicsverse of Barney and the circus, or something else entirely?

Of course, found family is one of the MCU's favorite things...and one of mine, too. It's no secret that the Avengers (especially Natasha) have found more of a place with their friends than with any family they ever had growing up.

Share your own headcanons, fic (do you have really good origin stories?) and thoughts!

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[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on January 28th, 2017 05:08 pm (UTC)
Well, my head canon for Clint aligns pretty much with the comics canon, although there are variations in there as well, I gather. So, abusive father, early orphaning, protective older brother (up to a point), failed foster families, circus as first found family but not much better in the end than the real one, going it alone. At that point it becomes all about the found family - eventually - plus of course the divergent canon where he and Laura create a real one for themselves.

As for Natasha, I like (if that is the right word) the idea of her having been stolen from her real family by the apparatus of the state. This is not necessarily conditional on her parents having been killed; I think the coercive power behind the Black Widow program is possibly more horrifying if it is seen as part of a state that can simply take possession of a human life as if it were a commodity.

[identity profile] findthesea.livejournal.com on January 28th, 2017 09:25 pm (UTC)
I always headcanoned that Nat's parents gave her up, too, and either were killed later by Red Room folk or died after however many years. (I may or may not be working on a post-WS pre-CW fic with Bucky and Nat that explores this).

Clint's harder for me to headcanon now since I have such love for Laura and the family, but I do headcanon he had Barney and the circus even before he met Laura. And had no real family thanks to his abusive dad. So I mix comics and MCU, but I think most people do. :)