allofthefeelings:

sidewaystime:

things i will never be over, natasha romanoff edition:

• the increasing engagement with teammates, and specifically team-as-family as a steady character arc 
• i will yell forever about the Red Room spy/assassin training to lone mercenary to becoming an agent of shield and then an avenger and then to articulating that one of her priorities was staying with her team. 
• that she is putting in the work for the actual atonement part of a redemption arc 
• relatedly, she never balks from people’s criticisms of her. she’ll push back if she thinks they’re being unfair, but she doesn’t take offense
• for someone who said that love is for children, she has an awful lot of people in her life that she would sacrifice everything she’s worked for to save
• she accepts that other people’s choices are not her choices and that’s okay
• she doesn’t devalue herself. other people might, but she knows what she’s worth.

#guess who i am talking to #trick question it’s always amy

What I keep getting stuck on is how little of this is explicit text in the films. Like, it’s THERE- we’re not pulling this out of nowhere; there’s textual precedent- but if you aren’t looking for arcs across the films, these character traits and her overall growth are, it seems, pretty easy to miss.

Which I recognize is what happens when you’re not a title character, but this storyline is CATNIP and I cannot believe they’re not letting us get fan-stoned off it more blatantly.