Best visual representation of functional depression I’ve ever seen. You go to work, do the things that people expect you to do, then come home and just… blank out. Microwave is your best friend. Cleaning makes no sense. Drinking helps a little, sometimes. Every evening is the same. Nothing ever changes except the amout of trash waiting to be thrown out.
This is why I loved Fraction’s Barton. Clint’s very visible depression gave me a hook that I could suddenly relate to. I’ve been where Clint was. It sucked. But seeing Clint keep going kind of gave me hope.
And you feel kinda like a piece of shit because you don’t have the “classic” depression, and you feel like other people deserve to be cared about/worried about more, because you’re functional, and isn’t that all that matters?
I could never place why I loved this version of Hawkeye so much, and this is why.













