aro!clint is actually a p serious headcanon for me. everyone’s always telling him he sucks at relationships and pushes people away, he has a girlfriend in the fraction comics but she isn’t really featured and it feels like it’s a relationship he’s confused about and isn’t sure what to do with, he’s not sure how to define how he feels about his ex-wife, and the most profound and comfortable relationship that he has (though of course it has its ups and downs too) is his completely non-romantic relationship with kate
it just, it feels like a portion of clint’s relationship disasters are because people expect something of him that he doesn’t understand or feel capable of giving/feeling, but he feels like he’s a failure if he doesn’t give or feel it, you know? he doesn’t feel like he’s allowed to say “this isn’t what i want” and so he tries to fake it and fucks up and ends up alienating people
and in my headcanon world clint realizes this, maybe with some help from kate or natasha or bobbi, and starts getting more okay with saying, “hey, friendships are really special to me and sex is cool sometimes with certain people but romance isn’t something i do” and he surrounds himself with people who understand that
one christmas kate gets him an arrow with the aromantic flag on the end and they call it the “aro arrow” and hang it over the mantle
aro!clint surrounded by people who love him and who he loves and who still get mad at him because clint’s kind of a train wreck regardless of whether or not romance is involved
clint
(Source: mayaderennatural, via bethsjohanssens)