Hawkeye #009

[redbrunja]

I really, really enjoyed this issue. While I am still not okay with the cheating, Jess' conversation with Clint made that make sense to me in a way it hadn't before and I liked that Jess got angry and left him.

I liked her comment to Kate and Kate's response "he hangs out with me" was another example of why Kate is THE BEST but I think that she is super-naive with regards to her relationship with Clint. Like, I think she thinks that if she and Clint Went There he'd treat her differently (bad bet, sweetie) and I think she has A LOT of loyalty towards Clint (not all of which he's earned*)

*While the specifics are different, if Jess' interpretations of Clint's motivations is correct, Clint almost leaving at Christmas and Clint cheating on Jess are very, very similar actions.

I feel like waking up to Natasha, Bobbi, and Jess would be both amazing and terrifying.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wait, do you mean you think Kate thinks that if they enter a relationship he will treat her differently than he currently treats her or he would treat her differently than the other women he's been involved with?

I was referring to the latter, that he would treat her differently than the other women he's been involved with.

Now that you mention it, though, I go back and forth on whether Kate would believe that if she added sex to her partnership with Clint it would change things. On the one hand, I think she has an instinctive grasp on how sex changes relationships (see, her fears about dating Eli; see also her general issues with intimacy) but at the same time, she IS 19. She might have some naïveté about sexual relationships yet.