#i liked brawler too but gun just. wasnt for me

[todayisafridaynight]

ok game’s done how we all feelin

[buckykingofmemes]

Can you please tell us a story about how badass Peggy is? Or maybe Natasha? Or maybe both of them in the same story?

pegs lived in a time when spy gear was not designed for women. 

this was true during the war, but while stevie and i were taking our ice baths, peggy kept fighting the good fight. without the backup of us howlies, for the most part. so this is a story that was passed on to me care of tony and nat, who heard it firsthand from the lady legend herself. 

i dont mean this in some sort of stupid sexist women-are-too-weak-to-lift-heavy-manly-guns; i mean that most of the espionage gear being made for most american and european intelligence services was designed to go with male clothing. some of it you could make work, but a lot of it would raise eyebrows if worn by a lady. and it wasnt like the concealed carry rigs they were issuing to agents were designed to work with the cut of ladies’ clothes.

so peggy designed a lot of her own gear. (howard ‘helped;’ mostly he just got in the way or made things explode. but sometimes he successfully invented a Useful Thing.)

peggy became known in SHIELD (then the SSR) as the Woman Who Had Everything. not because she was really hard to shop for (she was) but because if you needed something, odds were peggy had it stashed somewhere on her person. first aid supplies, extra ammo, listening devices, a tiny sewing kit; all of it got tucked away somewhere in her flawlessly tailored suits. 

not that peggy was particularly heavily armed. she carried less weaponry than most of us howlies did (though, to be fair, we’re hardly a normal standard to judge against. dernier once cleaned out his pack and found twenty-six loose grenades he ‘thought he’d lost.’) peggy usually had a gun or two and a handful of knives, plus maybe a cosh or set of brass knuckles, because peggy carter was a brawler. a beautiful, down-and-dirty, kick-you-in-the-nuts-and-insult-your-mother barroom brawler. 

but anyway, peggy was mysteriously adept at smuggling what seemed to be half the quartermaster’s supply around on her person without ever looking less than immaculate. which baffled her coworkers to no end.

fast forward a number of years, and the black widow joined up with SHIELD.  for reasons nat refused to disclose, she was assigned an op where 50s costume was needed. and since there wasnt enough time to make her a custom dress suitable for the occasion, the SHIELD techs were a little stumped on what to do, aside from running out to the shops and hoping they got lucky.

then one bright little bugger remembered that there was a crate of Director Carter’s old things in the archive, and there was a lovely red dress in there. they fished it out, and lo and behold, nat and pegs were the same damn size.

so nat used the dress for her op. according to clint, she came back enraptured with the dress. it had concealment options like she’d never seen before. allegedly–and this is clint, so take everything with a grain of salt–she proved how awesome the ‘sneaky dress’ was by smuggling an entire chicken out of the mess hall unnoticed.