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May I ask how you think Clint/Tony would go? Or maybe Clint/Tony/Phil?

Oh, man.  What we have here is two wildly different ships, despite the fact that one exists within the other.

Because Clint and Tony, that’s a bromance that slowly phases out the B without either of them noticing.  They’re a relationship built on simple pleasures good-natured arguing, and us-against-the-world.  They’re pizza at 3am, sleeping in a heap on the couch, staying up for days because Tony has an idea and Clint wants to see it finished.  They’re absent-minded kisses and tickle fights and holding each other through the nightmares, because they’ve both been there.

Clint and Tony are human beings, very aware that they are only exemplary humans, finding strength in each other.  Tony is quick to anger but quick to cool, and Clint is incredibly hard to ruffle.

But the difference between a bromance and a romance is that in a bromance, there’s still things that are oversharing, things that can go unsaid and be shrugged off.  There’s a need for open and honest communication in a romance that isn’t necessarily there in a bromance.  And neither of these two is good at sharing.

Tony is insecure.  Tony doubt himself.  Tony hates himself.  Tony needs constant obvious reassurance that Clint simply doesn’t know to give him.  Clint is an honest person (his resting bitch face doesn’t count), and if he has a problem, he’ll say so.  He knows intellectually that Tony isn’t even remotely like that, but there’s knowing, and there’s knowing, and Clint doesn’t know.

This relationship is fine most of the time, because Clint himself won’t give Tony much cause to worry, but when outside forces come into play and Tony finds himself wondering, needy and hating himself all the more for it, he withdraws and Clint just doesn’t know he has to chase him.  When things get rough, they fall apart.  The fighting isn’t good-natured anymore and Clint is most definitely ruffled.  They’re too much alike in all the wrong ways to survive without something to balance them.

But Phil is very good at balancing.

Because Phil does know, he can make sure Clint does, too.  He can remain outwardly calm even when his own emotions are high, and his calm helps ground Clint and Tony.  Phil knows how to read them both, and how to keep them from upsetting each other’s balance in life.

Phil is the one who makes them go to bed after they’ve been awake too long, the one who sets out the water and medicine when they’re bound to be hung over of a morning.

Clint is a protector and Tony is a provider, and with different personalities and/or quirks, they could work on their own.  As they are, though, they’re incomplete.  They’re missing something, and that something is what Phil is very good at: nurturing.

Phil needs people to take care of, and Clint and Tony both need a caretaker.

Clint needs people to protect, and Tony and Phil are happy to be those people.

Tony needs people to provide for, and… I’m sure you get the picture.

Phil could balance just Clint, or just Tony, but Clint and Tony can’t balance each other.

Phil is happy to do that for them.

give me your MCU crackships, and I’ll give you a serious take on them