>> And I think Natasha is secretly jealous of Tony.
Why do you think she feels that way? <<
Because Tony engineered his own escape and killed the people who held him captive in Afghanistan, and it only took him a couple of months to do that. Natasha considers that an excellent success. She does not grasp that Tony considers it largely a failure on account of losing Yinsen in the process.
>> Because Tony did sustain crippling injuries and so is hurt "on the outside?" Leaving aside Tony's tendency to hide in plain sight and mask what really troubles him, is Natasha thinking that at least nobody will look at Tony oddly if he throws up a roadblock of some kind, or reacts to a trigger, because he wears at least some of his scars on his skin? <<
There might be an aspect of that, given that her own damage is invisible while his is visible. Often being able to hide weakness is an advantage, but there are time when the invisibility causes problems.
>>I could be way off; hope I haven't made myself look dumb here. But your comment intrigued me.<<
If you're deep-reading, you will never look dumb, because it's just not something that unintelligent people tend to do. Doesn't matter if you see the same things that I meant or not. You're looking for evidence and possibilities in the writing to clue things that haven't been said explicitly. That's cool. I love hearing what people are thinking, because sometimes those are ideas I can use in the future, or in another piece of writing -- and sometimes they do hit exactly what I was thinking, or even something that is true but I hadn't noticed yet.
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Re: Survivors
Date: 2013-12-26 07:56 pm (UTC)This article has the emotional abuse scale.
>> And I think Natasha is secretly jealous of Tony.
Why do you think she feels that way? <<
Because Tony engineered his own escape and killed the people who held him captive in Afghanistan, and it only took him a couple of months to do that. Natasha considers that an excellent success. She does not grasp that Tony considers it largely a failure on account of losing Yinsen in the process.
>> Because Tony did sustain crippling injuries and so is hurt "on the outside?" Leaving aside Tony's tendency to hide in plain sight and mask what really troubles him, is Natasha thinking that at least nobody will look at Tony oddly if he throws up a roadblock of some kind, or reacts to a trigger, because he wears at least some of his scars on his skin? <<
There might be an aspect of that, given that her own damage is invisible while his is visible. Often being able to hide weakness is an advantage, but there are time when the invisibility causes problems.
>>I could be way off; hope I haven't made myself look dumb here. But your comment intrigued me.<<
If you're deep-reading, you will never look dumb, because it's just not something that unintelligent people tend to do. Doesn't matter if you see the same things that I meant or not. You're looking for evidence and possibilities in the writing to clue things that haven't been said explicitly. That's cool. I love hearing what people are thinking, because sometimes those are ideas I can use in the future, or in another piece of writing -- and sometimes they do hit exactly what I was thinking, or even something that is true but I hadn't noticed yet.