Ive been thinking about Bishova (bc when am I not thinking about Bishova lately), and I know Yelena and Kate have a decent-sized age gap (around 8 years) but the more I think about it, the more I think their amount of life experience (at least as adults) is actually very similar
Like Yelena was broken out of literal mind control at roughly 27 years old - if we take “You got out—Dreykov made sure no one could escape” to mean that he started using the chemical subjugation shortly after Natasha defected (and if we estimate that Natasha was around 20 at the time) then that would mean Yelena was mind controlled since about age 16 (younger if Nat got out earlier)
After getting free, Yelena lives only three years as an adult with her own agency before meeting Kate (technically it’s been 8 years since she was freed, but since she was blipped, five of them don’t count) and Kate as a college senior could be considered as having anywhere from 0-4 years of adult life experience (depending on your take on whether or not college would count)
Obviously their experiences overall are vastly different with Yelena growing up in the Red Room and Kate being a spoiled rich girl growing up in a New York penthouse, and Yelena is physically almost a decade older (though Florence Pugh and Hailee Steinfeld are almost exactly the same age) But I just think it’s interesting to think about
