Age of Ultron

[melannen]

So, I have a WIP I'm working on that's about toddler Natasha and the Winter Soldier having to go into deep cover as uncle and niece.

Currently I'm using a combo of movie canon and the bits of comics/fanon backstory I like and whatever I feel like.

Poll #16662 to those of you who have seen AoU

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Should I:

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Watch AoU to incorporate new Natasha canon before I go any farther
0 (0.0%)

Pretend very hard that AoU doesn't exist and keep going as I am
13 (26.0%)

It doesn't matter that much it's unlikely anything in AoU will be worth changing your story for
27 (54.0%)

Watch AoU because there might be interesting stuff to incorporate but assume the story will be going AU from movie canon
9 (18.0%)

quit the wip for a couple years and see what the next cap movie ignores/retcons
1 (2.0%)

(try to avoid massive spoilers in comments?)

Comments

[fay_e]

I 110% want to see this fic, it even fits in when Natasha was born!

[melannen]

Does AoU confirm or deny Zola's date for her? I was keeping the year it was set sorta vague, partly because of that, partly because it was an excuse to be lazy about research. (writing from the close POV of a four-year-old helps with that, I was v. unsure as to what decade it was when I was four.)

[fay_e]

Age wise we get about as many references as we do in Avengers (read: none). Whatever we learned about the Red Room in AoU isn't anything a four year old should be worried about. Unless a four year old is afraid of ballet lessons.

I don't recall what decade it was when I was four, but I remember cassette tapes being a big thing for me because I used to record the stories I acted out with toys.

[melannen]

When I was that age I was really excited about record players and reel-to-reel tapes, but that makes me sound a lot older than I am because there were plenty of cassettes around, it's just that all my parents' fun old music was on those, and they were way more fun. And I'm pretty sure I had no concept that the records were old and the cassettes were new.

[fay_e]

Yeah, the first CD I remember owning was a Frank Sinatra CD, so definitely it's more about what catches the fancy than the technology used to access it.

... Though it terrifies me that there are kids who don't know what floppy disks are. That was only 15 years ago!