Like look I have good reasons to default to the hc of the Barton's have an open policy, beyond just bc it's more freeing and fun that way, but idk if that says anything about the romance side of things? lol
Also like, he doesn't bring it up unless prompted to make a wry remark but. Clint realized he liked guys too as a teenager and boy figuring that out in the 80s was a trip
Maybe he thought he was straight but with Exceptions bc everyone had those right and then after Whatever Happened To The Wife he figured since things out
If I can find it I will show you the Daredevil/Charlie Cox gif set on tumblr with aaaaaallllll the text comments about "Turns out I like dudes too" that happened when Daredevil first aired because I think you will find it hilarious.
stares into the sun mobius can speak every language in the universe the other lokis translate gatorki for variant-loki therefore can mobius speak gator..................... or at least understand it..............
moon boys are boys, but in that like, marc is a Manly Man Dude, steven is Soft and he's a Man but not in a masculine way, like his gender is male but if someone called him babygirl he'd be only very slightly offended/confused, jake is [STATIC NOISES]
they are bi and have come to realize being poly at least with themselves is pretty cool. marc and steven are probably more leaning toward the ladies, marc more than steven, but like dudes are good too. especially when those dudes are each other. (if harrow wasn't an irredeemable douche maybe steven could've been about that--)
steven's just not used to anyone At All giving him attention so it perhaps has never been the biggest deal to him since it's not mattered altogether too much
alpha is A Dude, but just, like, A Ghost Dude; epsilon thinks gender's kind of an altogether silly concept when you're made of numbers, but his pronouns are he/him. he's got the memories of people who were Men, so like. it's a little complicated sometimes
I think my only characters that truly fucks around with gender are my fallen london character rudi aaaand pidge. and like--kind of my star trek oc raqiin? but only in the sense of Alien Genders
he's still 'whatever's funniest atm' but like he defaults to a man. but like. what does it matter. he's also a sacrificial lamb. you seem him bleating?
I think my exceptions to the bi rule aaaare... ignis, probably stone lbh, kaiba, malcolm is on the fucking fence bc he's extremely gay but also he can sleep with women and find them attractive so..., annnd I think rachette is the only other one honestly (ace as hell)
raqiin's aro, a thing she's struggled with really hard bc she and her boyfriend found it hard to deal with the idea that she wasn't sure she felt love per se
oh also bond james bond. is also ace. specifically daniel craig bond. fight me. I waffled on that for a while but no it makes a lot of sense to me he's ace. sex is just a thing you do to pass the time or for funsies.
clint had no stability in his life and no real like. strict social norms impressed upon him given growing up with his too-young poor homeless single mom. if he ever had a dad in his life he was a shitfuck to absolutely not emulate. once he's in the system/in foster, like, nobody's a role model here for him
so I don't think realizing 'oh, guys' was a big deal for him personally, but the stigma of, once again, The 80s, probably also made that fairly unactionable for a while. also his life kinda went nuts so
Yeah I think both the Barton adults being spy-assassins pretty much clinches the need for an open policy of sorts. But honestly I still prefer just nerfing his family lol
yeah look they live the spy life, sometimes you seduce and honeypot shit, and also honestly depending on how long he tends to be gone, let that woman have something twixt her nethers weren't run on batteries etc
mobius can speak every language in the universe
the other lokis translate gatorki for variant-loki
therefore can mobius speak gator..................... or at least understand it..............