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HENRY THANATOS cold-blooded veins hard diamond eyes clever capable hands with a knight’s honour CAMILLA ARTEMIS silver-eyed gaze long limbs wheeling blood-streaked hair with a hunter’s grace CHARLES APOLLO red-rimmed eyes sun-bright laughter drunken avenging fury with a poet’s aureateness FRANCIS EROS sweet-faced youth concealing darkness transiently starry-eyed with a cavalier’s charm RICHARD HERMES hesitant limbs sentimental eyes hopelessly foreign with a vagrant’s detachedness BUNNY  ARES abrasive voice rough calloused hands discordant dissonant bellows with a soldier’s relentlessness

Listen, I am climbing memory’s slippery rungs. Listen, my hands are cold. Oh, I know
 it is over, stilled. Still, you filled my lungs with summer [ …] my body softened by August, my heart humming, a field full of bees. Love, it is a little lonely without you. I sit on the porch swing and whistle, but stillness still stings. Love, I loved your stories. Above all other things.

I don’t understand how there’s no Black Widow movie. A little girl being taught to be a spy from childhood. Destroying her youth and innocence and learning to kill. Competing against 27 other girls to stay alive. Being pushed to the breaking point morally, physically, and emotionally. Seeing The Red Room forge her into a weapon. The beginning of her career - assassinating diplomats, manipulating prisoners of Russia, outsmarting SHIELD. Backstory to Drakov, Sal Paulo, the hospital fire, and Budapest. And then a rookie SHIELD agent has her in sight on his scopes. His finger is in the trigger, but he hesitates. She looks scared. She looks tired. She looks like a fighter. So, he brings her in, and takes her under his wing. From a child assassin to a Russian defector. And they could throw Bucky and Yelena in there, along with Clint and Fury, and maybe even a Peggy Carter/Dottie Underwood Red Room origin story.

They say Lucifer fell because he loved God more than all the rest. Perhaps that is why I know that the way I love will destroy me too.