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raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-08-23 11:24 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-08-23 11:24 pm
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I miiiight be projecting.
Hey, who's up for another round of Moogle's Headcanon Theater? :D
Headcanon: MCU!Natasha is asexual-maybe-shading-toward-demisexual. I know she apparently hooks up with Bruce in AoU, but that doesn’t necessarily Joss me. A lot of aces do have sex with their partners for various reasons, and Natasha’s been using sex for her own purposes probably since her boobs developed - to manipulate people, one way or the other, though in some cases at least they were probably willing to be manipulated.
A lot of it is tied into her upbringing. Natasha was raised and trained by people who literally saw her as a commodity - so of course they saw her developing ‘feminine wiles’ (*gag*) the same way and taught her to use it the way she does. …that kind of makes it sound like I’m saying she’s broken and that’s why she’s ace, but that’s not how I see it. My thinking is she would’ve been somewhere on the ace/demi/low sex drive spectrum if she’d been allowed to grow up the ordinary way, but the way she actually did grow up kind of shaped how her ace-ness shook out in the end. If that makes any sense. She flirts with everyone as a kind of cover/social lubricant, experiences few to no ladyboners, and can count on one hand the number of people she feels close enough/comfortable enough with to even think about taking her pants off when it’s not part of an op. (That Bruce has apparently made the short list kind of makes me go ‘whut?’ a little, but I reserve judgement until I actually see the thing and see how it actually comes about.)
I think most of this comes from how Nat acts toward Steve in TWS. Especially towards the beginning, she’s blatantly trying to manipulate him with flirting, and when it falls flat with him she’s almost left floundering. Then when she realizes that Steve doesn’t need to want to bang her to have her back and all she needs to do is be herself at him, she relaxes and drops the act. Well - maybe not ‘relaxes’. Leaping off a metaphorical bridge and trusting your Steve-shaped parachute to catch you is never relaxing. ;) It was kind of a profound development for me-in-the-audience, is all.
Headcanon: MCU!Natasha is asexual-maybe-shading-toward-demisexual. I know she apparently hooks up with Bruce in AoU, but that doesn’t necessarily Joss me. A lot of aces do have sex with their partners for various reasons, and Natasha’s been using sex for her own purposes probably since her boobs developed - to manipulate people, one way or the other, though in some cases at least they were probably willing to be manipulated.
A lot of it is tied into her upbringing. Natasha was raised and trained by people who literally saw her as a commodity - so of course they saw her developing ‘feminine wiles’ (*gag*) the same way and taught her to use it the way she does. …that kind of makes it sound like I’m saying she’s broken and that’s why she’s ace, but that’s not how I see it. My thinking is she would’ve been somewhere on the ace/demi/low sex drive spectrum if she’d been allowed to grow up the ordinary way, but the way she actually did grow up kind of shaped how her ace-ness shook out in the end. If that makes any sense. She flirts with everyone as a kind of cover/social lubricant, experiences few to no ladyboners, and can count on one hand the number of people she feels close enough/comfortable enough with to even think about taking her pants off when it’s not part of an op. (That Bruce has apparently made the short list kind of makes me go ‘whut?’ a little, but I reserve judgement until I actually see the thing and see how it actually comes about.)
I think most of this comes from how Nat acts toward Steve in TWS. Especially towards the beginning, she’s blatantly trying to manipulate him with flirting, and when it falls flat with him she’s almost left floundering. Then when she realizes that Steve doesn’t need to want to bang her to have her back and all she needs to do is be herself at him, she relaxes and drops the act. Well - maybe not ‘relaxes’. Leaping off a metaphorical bridge and trusting your Steve-shaped parachute to catch you is never relaxing. ;) It was kind of a profound development for me-in-the-audience, is all.
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Mind you, I tend to see her behaviour at the beginning of TWS as less flirty and more teasing - with the obvious provisos that 1) Steve isn't all that good about being teased these days; and 2) Natasha isn't that good at actually teasing people - it's not a mode of interaction she's all that comfortable with, because it assumes friendship as the default, and my head-canon is that Natasha has a lot of trouble recognising who her friends and allies actually are.
(There's a missing scene or three in Iron Man 2 where presumably Natasha makes the call to Fury in the aftermath of Stark's party, and points out that Stark has really gone off the rails, and they need to change tack and bring Pepper in on the op. It's the only thing I can think of to explain why Pepper Potts, who was busy blaming Natasha's manipulation for the disaster of the party and who is ostensibly her boss, would keep "Natalie" on as a PA after that whole mess. Which is a pity, since if Pepper had been brought in on the whole thing a lot earlier, things would have probably shaken out rather differently.)
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