If you called it marketing or a PR scheme, I wouldn't argue with you.
[She has her cynical moments. Nothing would ever quite shake her worldview the way seeing a Black Widow doll in the window of a toy store after New York did. In some ways it was worse than the aliens.]
My boss described it as something like a group of remarkable people to fight the battles the rest of us never could.
[She is paraphrasing. She's also not trying to change his mind, just provide something like context.]
I wasn't really supposed to be one, either. [She adds then.] I was supposed to be a spy. When I got out, I found someone to work for. Someone I thought would be better. That didn't entirely work out, but it did put me in the right place at the right time, with the skills to keep something bad from turning into something much worse.
That can be a way to make sense of things.
[Natasha does know the term survivor's guilt, and while she wouldn't use it willingly, she also couldn't deny the way it colored her choices. Repaying her debt to Clint never meant doing good things to cancel out the bad. She knows that's impossible. There's nothing she can do to make amends to the people she's hurt. What she can do is try to make the world a little better for her still being alive in it present day.]
Seems like that might be the way for Rita too. Maybe there is something American about not being able to see past what works for them and making the assumption that including others in their coping mechanism will be welcome.
๏ผ he snorts, which is about the closest he ever really comes to laughter outside of wei wuxian and gwen's company. ๏ผ
You think I should have been kinder to her.
๏ผ she's very good, but their tactics are too similar for him not to notice the gentle herding she's doing. the willingness to explain the other side. ๏ผ
๏ผ like, don't get him wrong he will leave a person on read without a scrap of mercy, but he's usually polite enough not to ignore direct questions. usually!!! ๏ผ
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[She has her cynical moments. Nothing would ever quite shake her worldview the way seeing a Black Widow doll in the window of a toy store after New York did. In some ways it was worse than the aliens.]
My boss described it as something like a group of remarkable people to fight the battles the rest of us never could.
[She is paraphrasing. She's also not trying to change his mind, just provide something like context.]
I wasn't really supposed to be one, either. [She adds then.] I was supposed to be a spy. When I got out, I found someone to work for. Someone I thought would be better. That didn't entirely work out, but it did put me in the right place at the right time, with the skills to keep something bad from turning into something much worse.
That can be a way to make sense of things.
[Natasha does know the term survivor's guilt, and while she wouldn't use it willingly, she also couldn't deny the way it colored her choices. Repaying her debt to Clint never meant doing good things to cancel out the bad. She knows that's impossible. There's nothing she can do to make amends to the people she's hurt. What she can do is try to make the world a little better for her still being alive in it present day.]
Seems like that might be the way for Rita too. Maybe there is something American about not being able to see past what works for them and making the assumption that including others in their coping mechanism will be welcome.
Or maybe it's just extroverts.
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You think I should have been kinder to her.
๏ผ she's very good, but their tactics are too similar for him not to notice the gentle herding she's doing. the willingness to explain the other side. ๏ผ
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[Which is where her concern comes in.]
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Have I made so poor a showing of myself?
๏ผ like, don't get him wrong he will leave a person on read without a scrap of mercy, but he's usually polite enough not to ignore direct questions. usually!!! ๏ผ
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[That some people forgot how young he was.]
You know, you never really said if you were okay.
[And Natasha isn't quite asking again now.]
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๏ผ not quite a question, not quite an answer. ๏ผ
My concern is for others who may not be. I am not the only one from a culture where one's title has a weight.
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I can sympathize with that, I suppose. In that case thank you for letting me take up a little of your time.
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Thank you for being kind.
๏ผ from darkness on a shadowed path... ๏ผ