Author's note time in response to Legion 22's review! Whoop!
First off, may I say I like your stories? :) I like everything so I guess that's not saying much, but it's cool to read fanfics with OCs. In my opinion.
Yes, I do read the comics. If you've read the comics too, you'll know the series stays relatively true to the source material, which is what makes it so great for comic fans and "newcomers" to the mythology as well. Assuming you've seen Widow's Sting, Hawkeye mentions that he's grown up in a circus, which is also true in his comic-self. I don't think an animated kids' series would hit on something as controversial as child abuse and alcoholism because parents are sensitive like that. So I took the opportunity to introduce that in my story because anything goes in fanfic, haha. But in the comics, Hawkeye did have an abusive father, and the condensed version he tells Steve of his childhood before the circus is about as close as I could get it. A friend of mine over the internet posted Hawkeye's original origin story (all two pages of it, yup!) that he scanned from a comic, so that's what I was drawing off of. I like to think that a character is like a compilation of all their versions-from comics, novels, movies, cartoons, etcetera. So no, I wasn't aiming for OOC. But the situation is rather unusual so I can't blame you for seeing it that way.
Tony I portrayed as a rather arrogant, smug, smirky guy because...well, he is. In the comics, in the movies, in Avengers: EMH. This is displayed pretty well in the cartoon, actually, because you can see him disregarding T'Challa's advice in Panther's Quest and other subtle examples are thrown in for effect. While he is smart, later in the comics (and, I'm hoping, the series) becomes a good leader, and has his good moments, he's far from perfect.
Cap I portrayed as the benevolent, unbiased but caring guy because that's how I've always seen him. In comics he's ranged from the team mom to the father figure. In Avengers: EMH he makes smart decisions that I suspect will build up to Tony passing the leadership to him because Cap is an all-around great guy. You can see that no one has anything bad to say about him since he knows what he's doing. You get experience fighting in WWII. Then later he's arguing with Fury since Fury's made it clear he's not happy with the Avengers. The Avengers are pretty much Cap's family at this point, what with most from his era being dead, so that puts Cap at odds with Fury.
Panther only pops in for a little so I will say that I don't have a good grasp of his character. Never read him much in comics, and he doesn't talk as much as the others in Avengers: EMH so I don't know him as well. However, I remembered that when making a point, he usually included, "Wakandan elders teach..." or "Wakandan legend states..." or "Wakandan children are brought up to know...". Just something about the character.
Wasp, in the comics, is a fashion designer. And she usually dragged poor Hank with her to carry all her bags, haha. She had a habit of showing off outfits to the team and demanding their "honest opinion" but they never said anything but "You look great!" because Janet van Dyne knows how to SHOP!
Thor, I admit, was a bit silly. He was really in to give Hawkeye another hurdle to jump, since Hawkeye told Panther he thinks Thor is insane and it'd be hard for Hawkeye not to say anything sardonic.
Fury has so far in Avengers: EMH been seen as an angry guy who barely tolerates the Avengers. He likes Cap, but he's not happy with Hawkeye's meddling or Tony's lack of control over the team or Hank's pacifistic attitude or Hulk being allowed to hang out in public. I perceived Fury as liking to tell people "NO." without hearing their full story because he's just too overworked to care.
Mockingbird only has that short moment at the end of chapter 2 so I'd have to wait until I started on chapter 3 to explain any more than what I can pull out of my butt here. In the comics, she called everyone "sport", which she also dropped in Avengers: EMH. She's a dedicated S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who knows her place. She can be tough and mean, but she has a sweet, compassionate, fun side. Obviously in Avengers: EMH she and Hawkeye like each other. In the comics, she actually proposed to Hawkeye after their first mission together. They had a rocky marriage that ultimately ended with her taking a demonic energy blast for Hawkeye. Now, in modern comics, she's been brought back and told Hawkeye that it was a Skrull that died, not her, and I should stop now before this goes on too long.
That leaves Hawkeye. Whew.
If I haven't made it obvious by now, Hawkeye is my favorite character. In the comics and the show. He has a temper, which explains why he had that outburst at Tony, but it kind of exhausts him and he just wants to brood at times. He's extremely insecure about his place on the team (as a guy in purple with a bow and arrows standing next to a genius in a battlesuit, a genius who can shrink or grow at will, a girl who can fly and shrink or grow at will, a giant gamma monster, a physical god, and a living legend is bound to feel) and feels he has to be twice as good at everything he does to be thought of as half someone else's worth. I went on the MarvelKids website for Avengers: EMH and it gave him a 5/7 on intelligence-which is more than most give him credit for. I figured if he was that smart he should be able to submit a false report on his history. Because, hey. It's based off comics. Anything can happen! :) He has trust issues from his betrayal by the Black Widow, which is brought up by Mockingbird later. He's sensitive about his past, for fear of being pitied. Sometimes it's like his witty quips and sarcastic snarkery have a mind of their own, because he will appear downright mean with relentless comments. That's why Steve challenged him to be nice for an entire day.
I hope that explained why I wrote the characters the way I did, Legion 22. And pleeease write that new story soon, I like Fugitive!
For everybody-again, thank you for reading! If anybody was wondering what "sleek portable boxes for tapping and scutinizing photos of felines" were that Thor mentioned...they were laptops. Tapping as in typing, and scrutinizing photos of felines meant looking at LOLcats. :D