#stevenat

steve rogers and natasha romanoff had some of the best romantic chemistry in the mcu and the fact that it was thrown out the window and replaced with mediocre ships with horrible writing HAUNTS ME

Thinking about Natasha Romanoff, the life-long spy with more aliases to her name than years of her life, the woman who is always acting, always playing a game of fear she'll fall behind and get hurt, asking Steve Rogers point blank, "Who do you want me to be?" and Steve replying "How about a friend?" He tells her he doesn't want her to play a role for him and instead asks her to just be herself. He asks her to be someone he can rely on, not because they're coworkers assigned to the same mission, but because they know and trust each other.