[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, mostly. I don't dislike her per say, but I can't ship her with Steve for the same reason I can't ship Tony Stark or Phil Coulson with Steve either. The idea of combining a generational gap with characters who probably had childhood hero ideas about Captain America is a huge, huge squick for me.

[(Anonymous)]

*per se

Oops.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked that you made an extra comment to correct it. :) "Per say" grinds my gears.

[(Anonymous)]

The generational gap wouldn't bother me nearly as much of Steve and Peggy hadn't been in love. And part of my problem with it is the dynamics of it. Sharon's a rookie agent, so why the hell would they send her to guard Steve -- freaking Captain America of all people? If he can't protect himself then send someone experienced. A rookie would be next to useless. And I just get the feeling like Sharon was only put there in hopes that Steve would fall in love with her since she's related to Peggy. Which squicks me the hell out.

That and I just…don't buy it, I guess. It feels like the rationale is "he was a boy, she was a girl, could it get any more obvious?" which just…doesn't work for me. A big reason for why Steve and Peggy worked for me was that they had so much in common. They both were denied opportunities and had to fight for them based on how/what they were born. And that Steve would respect someone like Peggy -- who didn't have a very traditional role in the 1940s -- is especially relevant given that he was brought up by his single mother. There was a common ground for them that really rooted the relationship.

And Steve himself says, in reply to Natasha, that it's hard to find someone with shared life experience. Well…what shared life experience do Steve and Sharon have more than any of the other women Natasha tried to set him up on dates with? Especially when you compare how much more Steve has with Natasha herself, Bucky, or Sam.

[a_potato]

It feels like the rationale is "he was a boy, she was a girl, could it get any more obvious?" which just…doesn't work for me.

That's the real deal-killer for me. I like ships that veer into the creepy and fucked up territory, so the fact of her being Peggy's niece doesn't phase me in the slightest. But the fact that they're expected to dig each other simply because they're heterosexual and have a tenuous, job-related connection leaves me cold.

[(Anonymous)]

Even the "tenuous, job-related connection" is BS to me because so many of the people Natasha has tried to set Steve up with are also SHIELD employees.

It's just that she's a pretty girl and so apparently she and Steve are supposed to get together for…reasons? And I just can't invest in that, especially after Steve's "shared life experience" line.

[kallanda_lee]

Yup, thirding this. She's literally the person who has the least in common with Steve in the whole film.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree. Knowing that Bucky and Sam were obviously not canon options, I wish they'd at least gone with Natasha if they need an endgame where Steve hooks up with somebody. It's not even something I ship, but it makes infinitely more sense.

[silverr]

This is so well said, and I couldn't agree more.

(And I think Steve/Peggy might be my first ironclad het OTP, so I'm going to be a really REALLY hard sell.)

Also ... in that picture, she looks more like the "On Behalf of the Women of America Let Me Thank You" character Nat Dormer played in the first CA movie.