#like idt hawkeye maps that well onto a classic noir pi character. bogart he is not. but canon hawkeye who just ends up in a similar job | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marley-manson · 2 years ago

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i’ve been seeing a lot of mash noir au stuff on my dash recently and it’s making me think, so consider the following:

mash noir canon divergence

hawkeye gets dishonourably or undesirably discharged, can’t be a doctor, can’t really get any kind of legitimate background-check style job, but an old friend from boston or new york is a private investigator and hires him on as a partner. still won’t carry a gun. maybe solves a few mystery novel style cases but the work mostly consists of photographing cheating husbands and pulling hookups by pretending his job is cooler than it is. then one day BJ or Trapper (or Margaret or Charles or Klinger...) tracks him down and comes to him with a problem.

#though you could make an argument for a gun since he wouldn't be carrying it on behalf of institutional violence #like if you drew that line in a fic i'd probably buy it #but i'd err on the side of no gun myself bc it's more fun. or maybe he carries an unloaded one as a bluff if he's ever threatened #tbh in a noir i'd probably go with bj bc he's better fatale material than trapper #mash #bj could pull a double cross #marley on mash #like idt hawkeye maps that well onto a classic noir pi character. bogart he is not. but canon hawkeye who just ends up in a similar job #bringing his own style and energy and attitude to it... could be fun #also if he's lowkey constantly miserable thanks to not being a surgeon his darker category of humour would fit the vibe v well imo #resentful hawkeye pov could do black comedy noir narration

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