Your comment made me do A LOT of thinking about Kate and her baggage and her masks. Because you're totally right, while Kate Bishop is fairly normal compared to other superheroes, she is:
-a survivor of rape -her mother died -her father is an absentee dad -her relationship with her sister is loving but not easy -her best friend is dead -her team was fractured and either explicitly or implicitly she's been lying to Billy and Teddy about being a superhero
So she has plenty of baggage. But the thing about Kate is, she presents a fucking amazingly competent front. When I think about Kate, I think about her as the Batman of the Young Avengers set. She was the one bankrolling and encouraging the other YA to keep fighting, she's rich and kind of emotionally isolated, she presents this perfect in control facade that is both true and not true.
And I don't think, since Cassie (and possibly Eli left) that she has anyone about to look at her and go, 'okay, you're not being straight about this aspect of your life.'
I love that Clint and Kate are kind of accidental best friends, but I think Clint buys the image that Kate presents to the world when he should know better. (He also consistently undervalues his own importance to her, which cases him to act in ways that I bet Kate reads as him not caring about her, which makes her even less likely to confide her vulnerabilities to him.)
This makes me really interested to see an arc about Kate needing help or support and not being able to reach out for it (because let's face it, Kate-Katie is bad with emotional vulnerability) and seeing what happens next.
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-a survivor of rape
-her mother died
-her father is an absentee dad
-her relationship with her sister is loving but not easy
-her best friend is dead
-her team was fractured and either explicitly or implicitly she's been lying to Billy and Teddy about being a superhero
So she has plenty of baggage. But the thing about Kate is, she presents a fucking amazingly competent front. When I think about Kate, I think about her as the Batman of the Young Avengers set. She was the one bankrolling and encouraging the other YA to keep fighting, she's rich and kind of emotionally isolated, she presents this perfect in control facade that is both true and not true.
And I don't think, since Cassie (and possibly Eli left) that she has anyone about to look at her and go, 'okay, you're not being straight about this aspect of your life.'
I love that Clint and Kate are kind of accidental best friends, but I think Clint buys the image that Kate presents to the world when he should know better. (He also consistently undervalues his own importance to her, which cases him to act in ways that I bet Kate reads as him not caring about her, which makes her even less likely to confide her vulnerabilities to him.)
This makes me really interested to see an arc about Kate needing help or support and not being able to reach out for it (because let's face it, Kate-Katie is bad with emotional vulnerability) and seeing what happens next.