On the flip side, I have more trouble with her than I do him. Though it could be the heartwashing, like you say. I know that the one I ended up with is as much or more a product of fic I've read than the movie itself. With Tasha I have to kind of work through a combination of seeing her through Clint's eyes and trying to sift through her cover identities, so I'm always asking myself "is this actually Natasha?" when I'm writing.

And then every so often she'll suddenly throw me a bone and I'll get this one glimpse or scene or line or feel and scramble to get it down into workable form before it goes away again.

There's a fic I'm working on where I have almost the whole thing from Clint's POV, only *he* isn't even sure what's actually going on with her most of the time, and it took me twelve forevers to get anything at all from her about it so I could finish it. Because of course, with Clint I only have half the story, and the follow-up can't be done without her half, too.