. I Go Like the Raven Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer Drum, Hat, Buddha Video | Full Lyrics .
When they hear my bowstrings tightnin' Angels gay, devils frightnin' C'mon fire and midnight lightnin' To the garden gancy
Hail the wayward werewolf howlin' Haints and shades and goblins growlin' Fiends and demon deevs a-prowlin' When I break and fancy
Shine the merlin moonbeam eye Set my dancin' feet to fly O'er the dark and dervish sky I go like the raven
The kind of music he'd been played in pre-carnival childhood—more free after running away from it than it had ever been before, once given the carnival twist.
. Gotta Knock a Little Harder Yoko Kanno, Mai Yamane Cowboy Bebop Video | Lyrics .
What survival mechanisms that had taken him through childhood (w. abandoning mother, abusive father, foster care, running away) and adolescence (w. carny life, idol worship of Swordsman and Trick Shot, the price of their training: indoctrination to their world of petty crime and gang warfare)—Fury made clear the same mechanisms would no longer serve him in training for S.H.I.E.L.D. They had to be deconstructed, mostly shed. What kernels of strength they provided had to be come by and focused down other avenues.
Not to mention his having to tackle things he'd never had any hope of reaching, or had actively rejected, before. Study. Expand the mind. Become knowledgeable in general and in a host of eye-blurring specifics. Relearn interdependence. Cooperation. How to follow without abdicating all responsibility and judgment. How to be healthily skeptical. And how to trust. If any of it had ever come naturally to him, he'd spent a long time teaching himself the opposite. Now he had to unlearn the unlearning. The physical demands of training were nothing. It was the intellectual and psychological demands that nearly killed him.
But every time he hit a wall, he refused to stop until he'd cracked through it. Using, as it often felt as if literally, his own skull as a battering ram.
. Bottle It Up Sara Bareilles Between the Lines Video | Lyrics .
Talented enough kid. Time to start acting like a man. And not your current idea, Barton, C., of what that means. Hill (for S.H.I.E.L.D. and humanity) is unimpressed.
…If not quite unimpressed enough…
See how this works. If nothing else, hawklet, you'd better learn from this. Some of it she can teach you. Only some.
(While most of it can apply to—and the moment of Sky literally Falling is about—The Avengers, it's more fundamentally about his partnership with Tasha. Which is the foundation for how he'd work in any group, anyway.)
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[childhood]
Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Drum, Hat, Buddha
Video | Lyrics
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The underscore of early years, in sound and attitude.
[roustabout]
I Go Like the Raven
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Drum, Hat, Buddha
Video | Full Lyrics
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The kind of music he'd been played in pre-carnival childhood—more free after running away from it than it had ever been before, once given the carnival twist.
[Idols]
Shamandalie
Tony Kakko/Sonata Arctica
Reckoning Night
Video | Lyrics
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Any familial figures, usually mentors: supposed fathers, Swordsman, Trick Shot. But also indeed Barney (brother).
[S.H.I.E.L.D.]
Gotta Knock a Little Harder
Yoko Kanno, Mai Yamane
Cowboy Bebop
Video | Lyrics
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What survival mechanisms that had taken him through childhood (w. abandoning mother, abusive father, foster care, running away) and adolescence (w. carny life, idol worship of Swordsman and Trick Shot, the price of their training: indoctrination to their world of petty crime and gang warfare)—Fury made clear the same mechanisms would no longer serve him in training for S.H.I.E.L.D. They had to be deconstructed, mostly shed. What kernels of strength they provided had to be come by and focused down other avenues.
Not to mention his having to tackle things he'd never had any hope of reaching, or had actively rejected, before. Study. Expand the mind. Become knowledgeable in general and in a host of eye-blurring specifics. Relearn interdependence. Cooperation. How to follow without abdicating all responsibility and judgment. How to be healthily skeptical. And how to trust. If any of it had ever come naturally to him, he'd spent a long time teaching himself the opposite. Now he had to unlearn the unlearning. The physical demands of training were nothing. It was the intellectual and psychological demands that nearly killed him.
But every time he hit a wall, he refused to stop until he'd cracked through it. Using, as it often felt as if literally, his own skull as a battering ram.
[Maria]
Bottle It Up
Sara Bareilles
Between the Lines
Video | Lyrics
.
Talented enough kid. Time to start acting like a man. And not your current idea, Barton, C., of what that means. Hill (for S.H.I.E.L.D. and humanity) is unimpressed.
…If not quite unimpressed enough…
See how this works. If nothing else, hawklet, you'd better learn from this. Some of it she can teach you. Only some.
[partners]
Skyfall
Adele
Skyfall
Relevant Video | Full Video with Lyrics
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(While most of it can apply to—and the moment of Sky literally Falling is about—The Avengers, it's more fundamentally about his partnership with Tasha. Which is the foundation for how he'd work in any group, anyway.)