Bob: Alexei? Why Can’t Walker Stay Over You Let Yelena Have Her Girlfriend Sleep Over.

Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Leo & Jemma Fitzsimmons

These Barbies are scientists!

some post mission routines

Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Phil Coulson

This Barbie is losing it!

They make me ill

little mark & cg cecil headcanons !!

— requested by anon —

— cw: ptsd symptoms, negative feelings towards regression, and references to canon trauma but no s3 spoilers !! —

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🕹️ - trauma regressor mark! he doesn’t actually start regressing until after his dad leaves. for a long time, he copes by simply ignoring everything that happened— but he can’t ignore it. it’s everywhere, on every news station, on every omni-man poster torn down in the city, on the way that the world never really recovers from the loss of the original guardians of the globe. mark doesn’t actually see himself as a victim and so he doesn’t give himself the space to grieve what happened, or even really process it. he simply goes through the motions of being a hero and trying to make up for something he didn’t do.

🤖 - cecil watches him closely during this time, constantly checking in with him and debbie without their knowledge. he monitors mark’s mental state from afar and he starts noticing things. little things. meaningless things. like the way mark breaks down after a nightmare, curling in on himself and crying while he rocks back and forth. or the way he huddles in the corner of his room, hyperventilating, while desperately clutching his childhood action figures so hard that cecil is surprised they don’t break. it’s donald who picks up on it first, with his expansive understanding on trauma and ptsd (not really; it’s expansive to cecil, though, who never did a lick of mental health research in his entire life if it wasn’t relevant to his work. donald just works closely with their psyche evaluators and he’s spiraled more than once on learning the effects of trauma on the brain and how it would have affected him with his many deaths). donald says it’s ptsd, possibly complex, and mark gets thrown into a room with a mandated psychologist who works with him for weeks before they get any new information.

all the while, mark’s little things become more present. he’s clingy to his mother, clingy to cecil, clingy to eve and amber. but he’s nervous around everyone else, especially men. especially the immortal. during the few missions cecil tentatively allows him on, he’s flighty and scared, and more than once he gets overwhelmed and starts crying, pleading for cecil to let him go home. the psychologist calls it age regression, a trauma response from having his perspective on a caregiver fractured and being unable to process taking the brunt of the trauma from that interaction. mark is temporarily grounded from the field, and cecil pays an even closer eye on him.

🕹️ - mark doesn’t handle being a regressor well. he didn’t actually realize he was doing it until it was pointed out to him and, ever since, it’s gotten so much worse. he has a nightmare, he regresses. he flunks a test, he regresses. he gets yelled at by a teacher, he regresses. he falls and scrapes his knee, he regresses— even though it heals immediately and he’s literally been thrown at a mountain before! no matter what it is or how stupid, he cant stop. it’s like his mind can’t handle anything bad happening ever without sending him flying back to a time that was safe. a time before his powers. a time before his father left.

his biggest support systems are who you would think. his mother, william, eve, and amber (even after they’ve broken up) are all very kind about it and help him in any way they can— speaking softly to him, letting him cling to them when he gets scared, and never once calling him out for how his eyes never stop leaking tears. it’s great and he appreciates them, but it’s horrifically embarrassing and he’s always missing his father in a way that sends him spiraling all over again. he hates that he can’t do anything without becoming a massive baby, even when his mom assures him that she wants nothing more than to have her little boy back.

🤖 - despite developing a rabid new fear of people when he’s small, he ends up projecting a lot of his feelings about his dad on cecil. it’s hard not to when he’s the only real male adult mark is around, and when his feelings towards cecil have already been complicated since the beginning. it leads to a hot and cold relationship— mark craves his presence, craves a father that can protect him, but he’s just scared, grieving, and cecil is the only one he feels safe enough to let that out on. cecil is always there— he’s there when mark’s dad leaves, he’s there when mark finds out he’s a regressor, he’s always there— so it’s easy to blame him for every bad thing mark feels when small. within the same day, mark can go from crying because cecil isn’t around (though, he’s always watching) to throwing a fit when he is because how else is mark supposed to process everything if not with cecil, the only one that understands just how bad it is? cecil, of course, always allows it. there isn’t ever a time he fights back against the distaste debbie and mark have for him. he knows he deserves it for some things, and doesn’t for others but that mark needs someone steady that doesn’t react to him in the same way his father might’ve. it always ends with mark crumping into a babble of tearful apologies anyways, so it’s hard to take the misguided ravings of a toddler personal.

🕹️ - mark’s regression is unpredictable at best, but the one thing that rarely changes is how young he gets. mark hovers firmly in toddlerspace with his absolute oldest age being somewhere around four. cecil isn’t great with kids on a regular basis but he is pretty good with mark. it’s not difficult to please him when he’s not throwing a grief-fueled tantrum. turn on a superhero cartoon, put him in front of a rare, exclusive comic book that only someone like cecil can get his hands on so early, or just sit with him and let him cling to you. cecil has spent many hours on the grayson couch doing whatever work he can on a laptop and phone while mark is latched on to him with an iron grip. he’s not great at controlling his powers when small, but he tries very hard to be gentle with something as fragile as cecil. sometimes, on good days, mark will take cecil to his room and meticulously explain every one of his comic books or show him his action figures and all the little things they can do— like shoot lasers or be reassembled from a person to a robot. those are good days and cecil nods along even after the third explanation of what seance dog is.

🤖 - cecil, as always, tries to bridge the gap between him and the graysons with money. they don’t need it, and debbie is still firm on not wanting to owe him anything, but she can’t really deny his gifts when they’re for little mark. instead of taking mark to the store and letting him pick out things, cecil brings the store to him and arrives with bags of things for mark to sort through and take whatever he wants. is it all paid for with government money? perhaps. is that the most legal? maybe not, but cecil would argue that keeping the most dangerous thing on the planet satiated and happy so he doesn’t actually crack the planet in half while regressed is at the top of their priority list. by the end of it, mark has a ton of regression gear. pacifiers and sippy cups themed after seance dog and spiderman, floppy weighted plushies that are as big as his pillows, and baby plates with cool boyish designs for him to eat off of (plates that his mother insists on using for him even when he isn’t regressed because she thinks they’re so cute).

🕹️ - when mark regresses, either at home or on the job, cecil is always there. he might not be there physically, but he’s always a phone call away— or usually a screen, listening device, or teleport away. his regression is strictly need to know, for rather obvious reasons both regarding safety and mark’s distaste for his headspace when he’s older, but the guardians of the globe know enough of the situation and protocol to alert cecil if something seems awry. they don’t always understand it and the team is split in half in regards to who actually cares and goes out of their way to reassure mark when he gets scared/hurt in the field and drops, but cecil doesn’t tolerate mistakes when it comes to this. he cares too much about mark and needs him coping and safe, both for his own sake and the sake of the world.

Bunch of sketches themed "me and bro when we instalock DPS on marvel rivals"

Apparently Business Baby isn't dead in Invincible

But the thought of the government sending an actual toddler to fight godlike beings just for the toddler to just immediately die in combat is morbidly funny to me. Like what the fuck were they thinking. What the fuck kinda powers did he have? Why was he sent to fight a viltrumite?

Donald: Sir, Business Baby got squished.

Cecil: We sent a CHILD to fight those monsters?!

Donald: You said send everyone

Cecil: AND THAT MADE YOU THINK I MEANT FOR US TO SEND AN ACTUAL GOO GOO GA GA LITTLE SHIT OUT THERE?! JESUS CHRIST, DONALD!

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Grant Ward

He's just Hydra.

Not sure if you're still aking the asks but I don't think I've seen any of your Blackhill HCs before :D

Natasha is not a morning person. So much so that it's the only time her guard is down enough that Maria can sneak some candid photos. She has a beautiful collection that she keeps hidden from her girlfriend; of her sleeping with her mouth open, drool on the pillowcase, her hair in a messy bun. Her tank top twisted nearly backwards from rolling around in her sleep, of her little nose peeking out from the blanket on cold nights. Unfortunately, Natasha finds out somehow and manages to delete all the photos, including the backups. (Maria still refers to it as the burning of Alexandria)

When men hit on them they don't reject them by saying they're gay or in a relationship. They just say the man is too ugly. If the guy gets pissy then it's even more fun, punching creeps is their favourite pastime

Natasha cannot make a decision on what to eat ever. Maria forgets about food until it's placed in front of her. Neither cook. Food is their worst enemy and the cause of most fights ("I don't want to decide again, just pick something!" "I'm NOT HUNGRY, you choose." "We've been over this—")

Neither are the cuddly type. They like to lean against the other, or rest a hand on their leg or arm, very domestic. In bed they might hold each other but once they say goodnight neither wants to be touched as they sleep

Maria always takes care of Natasha's hair. If she hears her using the hair brush Maria will rush into the bathroom and ask why Nat didn't ask her do it. Natasha likes the way she's conditioned to the sound and does it to tease her; she loves Maria touching her hair and would never take the opportunity away from her. Don't tell her but Natasha grew it out so Maria could try braiding

They sit next to each other on dates instead of across, because neither like to have their back to the door. One day Natasha sits across from Maria when the waiter pulls the chair out for her and doesn't even realize till they're halfway through dinner. She tells Maria she loves her for the first time on the ride home, because trust was the last thing she needed to be sure.

They share clothes a lot, especially big frumpy sweaters a long-sleeves that really hold each other's scent. Deodorant, shampoo, perfume on the collar, sweat from sleep. They don't really know what belongs to who anymore

Maria sometimes calls Natasha 'Natalia' when they're home alone, whispered and soft. Natasha likes it a lot more than she thought she would

They love a good friendly competition, especially in the gym. One turns the speed up on the treadmill, the other goes up two levels. When stretching they give subtle looks at the other to stretch just a bit further than them. Crunches, planks, squats... stopping first is the same as losing. The winner gets a massage because they'll definitely need it after all that...

Natasha likes to hide bruises/hickeys on Maria so that she doesn't notice them but everyone else sure will. The back of her neck, behind her ear, on her chest so you only notice when she bends over and her shirt falls open. It has put her in some very awkward positions in very professional settings, and Nat is always smirking when Maria confronts her

Every single time Natasha wears bold lipstick she just has to give a big smooch to Maria's cheek. She even waits till Maria is nearby for her smudge resistant formulas because she needs to kiss her before it dries. One time this cumulated into their entire living room being turned upside down because Maria was trying to run away and Nat was extremely determined to hunt her down (yes she did finally tackle her and give her the kiss. In heels too)

They don't baby each other or get overprotective on missions. They have extreme trust and faith in one another's abilities. They do, however, have a promise to always be honest about injuries, and treat each other with impossible gentleness. They are very much silent communicators