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What I Read in December 2021
Hello! Here I am with another post! Kind of a busy month for me, I had to make a ton of presents for the holidays so you'd think I wouldn't have the time to read much, but instead I became heavily obsessed with a very long Harry Potter fic that I will get into a bit later. I have a total of 16 fics, some of them MCU and others Harry Potter. I even included a fic I wrote! Thanks for reading!
MCU
sometimes a family is nine unrelated superheroes and an adopted teenage boy by shrill_fangirl_screaming
Plot: When Peter Parker is fourteen years old, he fixes one of the Black Widow's bracelets and ships it to Avengers Tower. Tony Stark hires him on the spot. When Peter Parker is fifteen years old, he's bit by a spider and everything changes. He keeps his superhero life a secret from the Avengers team that has become a second family to him, but how long can he keep up the act?
Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Thor, Bruce Banner, May Parker, Clint Barton, Vision, Sam Wilson, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff
Relationships: Peter Parker & The Avengers
Warnings: canon typical violence
Tags: secret identity; team as family; wherein the Avengers adopt Peter Parker and Spider-Man separately
My Notes: there are three parts and all are complete! Very funny, very cute!
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Green Glowy Slime by sameuspegasus
Plot: Peter gets a phone call from Tony Stark in class. It raises some questions about the exact nature of his Stark Internship.
Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Monica Warren
Warnings: none
Tags: POV outsider; teacher pov; interns & internships; there is no such thing as Endgame; Tony Stark acting as Peter Parker’s parental figure; Nerd Peter Parker; Nerd Tony Stark; Stark Industries
My Notes: this is part of a series of five fics but it’s not complete and hasn’t been updated since 2019
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When You Assume Wrong by TentativeTreason
Plot: Tony is hiding something. The Avengers notice the little discrepancies in Tony’s behaviour, and they eventually come to the only conclusion they can think of: Tony is having an affair. **** (i.e. Tony Stark and May Parker co-parent Peter and somehow the Avengers translate this into him cheating on Pepper)
Characters: Peter Parker; May Parker; Tony Stark; Clint Barton; Natasha Romanov; Steve Rogers; Sam Wilson; Rhodey; Happy
Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark; May Parker & Peter & Tony; May & Tony; Tony & Avengers; Peter & Avengers
Warnings: none
Tags: post-Spider-Man Homecoming; Not Avengers Infinity War Compliant; irondad; Tony stark acting as Peter Parker’s parental figure; Parent Tony Stark; Tony Stark has a heart; identity reveal; protective Tony stark; May and Tony Coparenting Peter Parker
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turn as they go by meliebee
Fandoms: Wandavision; X-Men
Plot: Monica takes off Ralph's necklace and—oh—he’s Peter again.
Characters: Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Billy Kaplan, Tommy Shepherd, Monica Rambeau, Vision, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr
Relationships: Pietro Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff; Billy Kaplan & Tommy Shepherd; Peter Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff; Erik Lehnsherr & Pietro Maximoff; Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Warnings: none
Tags: emotional hurt/comfort; established cherik; the whole x-men team; interdimensional twins for the win; rejecting canon; fix-it of sorts; angst; family dynamics; post-canon
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doubt truth to be a liar by plotholes_and_paradoxes
Plot: With Thanos stopped before the snap, the Avengers are ready for some peace and quiet. And it seems like they've earned it. That is, until Loki appears in Avengers Tower, two hundred years younger and just as messed up.Starring: Asgardian politics being fucked up, Loki being both too clever and dreadfully young, Steve being done with America, Tony realizing "Oh Shit I'm A Parental Unit," Peter and Loki being disaster teenagers and Thor doing his best (when his best is actually kind of horrifying). Also, Loki's a girl sometimes.
Characters: Loki, Thor, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov
Relationships: Loki & Thor; Loki & Peter Parker; Loki & Tony Stark
Warnings: Transphobia
Tags: Team as Family; Avengers Tower; Tony Stark is good with kids; Trans Peter Parker; Genderfluid Loki; misunderstandings; cultural differences; Steve Rogers and the 21st Century; Time Travel; young loki appears in the avengers tower; Loki needs a hug; Jotunn Loki; Loki & Peter Parker friendship; Asgardian culture; Bucky recovering
My Notes: Okay, so, Thor kind of sucks when it comes to Loki being genderfluid in this and it hasn’t exactly resolved yet but I think that it’s going to get better!
*incomplete* [last updated August 2021]
Uncharted Waters by lucky_katebishop
Fandoms: MCU, Young Avengers, WandaVision, Hawkeye (TV), Hawkeye (Comics), The Avengers, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
Plot: Ever since a few months ago Billy hasn’t been feeling well. It’s not a matter of health, per say, more like his head hasn’t felt normal. His memories don’t feel like his. It doesn't help that the new kid Teddy Altman is trying to become his friend even though Billy doesn't do friends. It doesn’t help that it feels like he’s missing something every time he breathes. It doesn’t help that when he looks in the mirror, it’s like being punched in the gut and he’s overwhelmed with grief. It doesn’t help that when he’s interacting with his parents, he’s waiting for someone to make a quip or a sly remark. It doesn’t help that he doesn’t feel like himself anymore. The worst part is, he can’t remember who that was. Billy's remembering who he was before the events of the finale of WandaVision all the while meeting a few Young Avengers along the way.
Characters: Billy Kaplan, Teddy Altman, Wanda Maximoff, Vision, Tommy Shepherd (more to be added!)
Relationships: Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan; Wanda Maximoff/Vision
Warnings: implied/referenced homophobia; brief suicidal ideation; canon-typical violence
Tags: canon compliant; Billy Kaplan is bad at feelings; Billy Kaplan deserves a hug; Tommy Shepherd deserves a hug; I try to do justice by the comics because the mcu won’t; post-Endgame; angst; hurt/comfort; fluff; alternate origin story
My Notes: okay, so… this is one I wrote, but I like to think it’s very good!
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Harry Potter
The Love of a Good Wizard by SweetSorcery
Plot: History of Magic has something to teach after all, and two resourceful students decide that the key to having any future at all lies in the past, and in Tom Riddle's heart. Assuming he has one.
Characters: Harry, Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall, Pansy Parkinson
Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle; Minerva McGonagall/Pansy Parkinson
Warnings: Explicit; sexual relations (there’s a lot of sexual tags but I’m not gonna write them all)
Tags: (there’s a lot of smut related tags I’m not going to tag); 1940s; alternate universe; hurt/comfort; guilt; possessive behavior; protectiveness; loyalty; dancing; coming out; snowball fight; angst; slow burn; time travel; fix-it
My Notes: Okay, I can explain this one. I wanted to try out a Tom/Harry fic since they’re so popular and I don’t want to limit myself to really good fics, and this one is written really well and it’s sweet and everything. However, I did kind of feel like Tom could’ve been any original character. I don’t like to criticize fics since they’re free and everything, but this was written so long ago I don’t feel that bad about it. I just feel like McGonagall and Tom weren’t at all in character and weren't given the time to explore their characterizations either. I chose this one however because I wanted to make sure that there weren't any weird age gaps or anything- surprisingly a lot of Tom/Harry fics revolve around Tom being a full grown adult and Harry being 15 or something, which is gross. So if you do read this one, don’t worry about that, however it is underage and has a whole lot of smut in it. That being said, I don’t think I’m going to read another Tom/Harry fic. But it’s what I read this month, so, I’m adding it to the list.
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Independent Study by SomwheresSword
Plot: Dumbledore doesn't make it in time for Harry's trial, and the outcome is very different. Harry is expelled, his wand snapped. But he refuses to give up. And he is done waiting around for Albus Dumbledore to give him information. Deciding to take his life into his own hands, Harry asks for training from several Order members, preparing himself to fight Voldemort while the whole wizarding world believes he's helpless and back in the muggle world. Meanwhile, his friends are at Hogwarts, tackling their own problems in the form of Dolores Umbridge. Harry hadn't expected the separation to be so difficult - or for a certain mischievous redhead to make the waiting game they'd entered into so very excruciating. He might have lost his home in Hogwarts, but with Sirius and Remus around, Harry begins to learn that rebuilding a family isn't as hard as he'd anticipated.
Characters: George Weasley; Harry; Fred Weasley; Sirius Black; Remus Lupin; Bill Weasley; Tonks
Relationships: Harry Potter/George Weasley; Sirius/Remus
Warnings: Underage
Tags: slow burn; so much pining; Order of the Phoenix; independent Harry Potter; Powerful Harry; AU ootp
My Notes: this one is so good! I really like George/Harry as a pairing, I like it a whole better than Harry/Fred/George because I feel like writers only put him with the both of them because they don’t take the time to figure out their characterizations but when Harry’s paired separately that’s when we really get to see George and Fred’s characters become their own.
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The Heir to the House of Prince by elph13, Ada_Lovelaced *favorite*
Plot: “So you're adopted? "Supposedly." "So your Dad ... he's not ...?" "Seems like it." "Huh." Theo stares at Harry with those grey eyes that look silver in the cauldron smoke between them. "But you're the heir to this ... House of Prince, so he's probably -" "Yes. Probably." Harry looks at Theo sharply. "You don't know who he is, do you?" "No." Theo looks back just as sharply. "If I did, I would tell you. You know I would." "I do." Something loosens inside Harry's chest. Something that has been tightening ever since Cedric died. He may not have his friends, or Sirius, or even know who he fucking is anymore, but he has this. At least he has Theo. Summer of 4th year and Harry's all alone, dealing with his grief and the sudden revelation that James Potter is not his father. Support comes in a strange form. The form of Theo Nott, son of a death Eater. A strange friend who says he'll help him find his true father, whoever this Lord Prince might be.
Characters: Harry, Kreacher, Tom Riddle, Theodore Nott, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Dumbledore, Nott Sr, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Molly Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy
Relationships: Theodore Nott/Harry Potter; Remus Lupin/Severus Snape; Harry Potter & Severus Snape; Sirius Black & Harry Potter
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence; Major Character Death; Child Abuse; Suicidal Thoughts; Implied/referenced suicide; body horror; torture; suicide attempt
Tags: Severus Snape is Harry Potter’s Parent; Severus Snape is Lord Prince; Severus Snape has a heart; abusive Dursleys; morally gray Harry Potter; Harry is so done; Parselmouths and parseltongue; Slytherin Harry Potter; Gryffindor/Slytherin Inter-House Relationships
My Notes: This is legit one of the best fics I’ve read, and one of my favorites I’ve read this year (list coming soon). It’s so good, it’s written really well, and I even made a Spotify playlist for it (link here). I do have to warn you, though, it has a lot of discussion of trauma and because of that, you may not like some characters. Sirius, for instance, is not the greatest character in this story but it’s not a cruel thing, he’s just going through a lot in this fic and because of that, he tends to take it out on others. If you’re looking for cute domestic Wolfstar and Harry moments, I’m afraid you’re going to have to look somewhere else. But there is no bashing at all in this fic, the author makes that very clear.
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Kid by evansentranced
Plot: A Potion's "accident" turns Harry into an eight year old. Draco Malfoy begins planning his kidnapping/conversion to the Dark Side. But Harry's a passive-aggressive, revenge-obsessed little bastard. Maybe Draco will wait on that whole Dark Lord thing… Draco's POV. Fourshot. Kinda really AU. Snape is still teaching Potions, for one thing.
Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Narcissa Malfoy
Warnings: none
Tags: clever child! Harry; de-aged harry Potter; no slash
My Notes: I don’t typically like de-aged fics because I just find them awkward, but Harry is so cool in this one despite being so young!
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The Foundations of Family by waitingondaisies
Plot: Ron and Hermione spend a lot of time alone together while Harry is off at Quidditch practice. On one such occasion, Hermione finds herself revisiting her childhood dream of playing house with her friends.
Characters: Hermione, Harry, Ron
Relationships: Hermione & Harry & Ron
Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse
Tags: families of choice; friendship; fluff; developing friendships; children; canon compliant; comfort; healing; Harry needs a hug; Harry gets babied by babies; Hogwarts First Year
My Notes: This is quite literally the cutest fic I have ever read. Reminds me of playing house with my brother and neighbor when we were little kids. Also I just like the idea of them playing together because they’re literally 11 years old, that’s what 11 year olds do but instead the books had them fighting monsters. It’s nice to be reminded that they’re kids.
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Worth Living For by waitingondaisies
Plot: Sirius Black is utterly loyal to his godson, Harry Potter. So loyal, in fact, that not even death can separate them. Sirius returns to the land of the living as a ghost with one mission, and one mission only: ensure Harry's unconditional happiness.
Characters: Harry, Sirius, Ron, Dursley family, Hermione
Relationships: Sirius & Harry
Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse
Tags: ghost Sirius Black; humor; Hogwarts sixth year; Harry needs a hug; Sirius is a little shit; light angst; hurt/comfort
*incomplete* [last updated December 2021]
The King’s Gambit by chatalie99
Plot: When Dumbledore arrived at Godric's Hallow following Dumbledore's attack on the Potter's and their two sons, he decides that the Boy-Who-Lived needed to be raised to be willing to be a martyr (something that James and Lily would certainly not do). The following day, Jack Potter was believed to be the Boy-Who-Lived, and Harry Potter was believed to be dead. Ten years later, eleven-year-old Harry Potter gets his Hogwarts letter, and the lies and deceit begin to be dug up, but much of the damage has already been done, and Dumbledore isn't going to back down easily. OR Another Wrong Boy-Who-Lived story without all of the character bashing (except for Dumbledore) and a Harry who actually acts like a child.
Characters: Harry, James Potter, Lily Evans Potter, Sirius, Remus, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Draco, Luna, Ginny, Fred, George, Dumbledore, Snape, original characters, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan
Relationships: James/Lily; Harry Potter & James Potter & Lily Potter; Sirius & Harry; Hermione & Harry & Ron; Draco & Harry
Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse; trauma
Tags: wrong-boy-who-lived; Harry has a twin; Dumbledore bashing; manipulative Dumbledore; not James and Lily bashing; hurt/comfort; angst; fluff; Harry needs a hug; protective James Potter; good Severus Snape; Draco Malfoy redemption; Harry has siblings; character development
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Lost in Blue by Ohwellwhatever
Plot: “I’m not a child,” he tells her, his voice somehow both slurred and raspy, and sounding very much like a child even to his own ears. “Yes, you are,” Hermione replies. Her voice isn’t mean. It isn’t even her usual bossy tone. It is soft. Sad." -- A study of Hermione and Harry's relationship, starting with Harry's coping (or lack thereof) with Umbridge's detentions in 5th year. Part 3 of the "The Sun Also" series but can be read on its own just fine, if you prefer.
Characters: Harry; Hermione; Ron; Umbridge; McGonagall; Snape; Vernon; Petunia
Relationships: Harry & Hermione; Harry & Ron & Hermione
Warnings: self harm; implied/referenced child abuse; referenced emotional abuse; trauma; canon-typical violence; depression; disordered eating
Tags: black quill; sleep deprivation; touch starvation; touch aversion; angst; hurt/comfort; touch starved Harry; occlumency lessons; mentions of canon character death; disordered sleeping
My Notes: This one is so sweet but also so sad. I really love Harry & Ron & Hermione fics because they care for each other so much and it’s so sweet
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You’re My Best Friend by chvotic
Plot: There were deep, black bags under his eyes, and his eyes themselves looked haunted and panicked. His skin was covered in a sheen of sweat, which was also visible down the front and under the armpits of Harry’s shirt. When their eyes met, Harry seemed to choke on a sob. “Ron?” Or 5 times Ron was there for Harry (+1 the time he wasn't)
Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Molly, Fred, George, Ginny, Neville, Seamus, Dean, Pomfrey
Relationships: Harry & Ron; Hermione & Harry; Hermione & Harry & Ron; Hermione/Ron
Warnings: self harm; implied/referenced child abuse; depression; PTSD; vomiting; implied/referenced suicide; panic attacks; major character death
Tags: 5+1 things; nightmares; crying; hurt/comfort; bed-wetting; angst; poisoning; Ron Weasley is a good friend; Hermione Granger is a good friend; platonic relationships; platonic cuddling; grief/mourning; sleep deprivation; friendship; Harry needs a hug; canonical character death; horcruxes; emotional hurt/comfort
My Notes: Ron and Harry! Ron and Harry! They mean everything to me! It’s so clear in the books how much Harry loves Ron and it just did not translate to film very well unfortunately.
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Dead Man Walking by cywscross
Plot: Kreacher goes back to save his master, and Regulus survives but his near-death-by-Inferi puts him into a coma for the next sixteen years. When he wakes, well, the world is not so different. Voldemort is still at large, and the Ministry is still inept. His brother’s got a godson now though, so it’s only natural for Regulus to keep an eye on young Harry as well.
Characters: Regulus Black, Harry, Sirius, Hermione, Ron, Order of the Phoenix, Fred, George, Neville, Luna, Ginny, Snape, Dumbledore, McGonagall
Warnings: none
Tags: alternate universe; Harry gets a secret second godfather; fix-it; Regulus Black Lives; Harry is Lord Potter
My Notes: Oh this one is so good but it will never be updated and I have to live with that. Why does this author have to be so good but then never update their fics??? This is the one who wrote C’est La Vie which is a fic I reread every single month because I love it so much. They still write fics, but mostly for manga now!
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#harry potter#spider-man#spiderman#fanfiction#fanfic recs#fanfiction recommendations#read on ao3#ao3 fanfic#mcu#marvel#marauders#drarry#wolfstar#irondad#loki#my posts#young avengers#my recs
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Hi! Same horrible human from the last irondad ask you did say let you know I want more I really do I’ve literally read all of those but two 😂 I was wondering if you could find some more if it’s not any trouble?
5 Times Peter Sleepwalked And The 1 Time He Pretended He Did by losingmymindtonight
Summary: Peter sleepwalks, Tony stresses.
Academic Commitment (ao3) - underoosstark
Summary: Peter had faced death countless times. He’d joined Mr. Stark in fighting the Rogue Avengers, fought Toomes and his gang, and stopped countless robberies and muggings. He was used to feeling fear - it came with the job description.
But that fear came nowhere close to the pure terror he felt at the prospect of having a meet and greet session with actual-freaking-Captain-America.
(Set post-Spider-man Homecoming, but pre-Infinity War because who needs to worry about that stuff, lmao. It’s in a perfect world where the Accords were eventually agreed upon, and the Avengers are back together. Because yay, happy endings!)
A Tremendous Thing (ao3) - ExpectoPatronum
Summary: Peter spends Father's Day at the lake house. He tries not to overthink it.
just know you're not alone by samandbucky
Summary: Tony was settling into his new life being an Avenger. Everything was going fine, great even, and then suddenly a kid was thrown into the picture. Peter Parker becomes Tony’s world, and he’s doing everything he can to keep his son out of the spotlight. Unfortunately, some things don’t always go to plan. But would it really be such a bad thing if his fellow Avengers found out about his son?
research and disaster (ao3) - blueh
Summary: There should have been nothing remarkable about two people in a busy cafeteria, but Becket takes in the familiar sight of curly hair, brown eyes, and a t-shirt with a science pun on it talking animatedly alongside Actual Anthony Edward Stark and promptly drops his lunch.
He gapes for a solid second, seeing but not believing. It definitely doesn’t look like Mr. Stark is forcing the kid to leave, or firing him, or escorting him to security given the relaxed smiles on both of their faces. If anything, Becket thinks Mr. Stark looks rather proud.
“So, uh, Mr. Stark definitely knows Roomba-Kid,” Becket says and discreetly tilts his head in the direction of the pair.
“Oh my god,” Jess says. She almost sounds gleeful. “Oh my god, he’s not just some random kid. He’s Mr. Stark’s kid.”
or: the interns at Stark Industries have some questions about Peter Parker. The answers aren’t quite what they expect.
The Short List (ao3) - LogLady (OodLaLa)
Summary: “Kid, you know that I have a very short list of people who I would move heaven and Earth for.”
With his flesh hand, he began to tick off names.
“Pepper. Morgan. Rhodey. Happy...and you. You made the cut, Pete. And honestly? I don’t know what else I have to do to prove to you that you made the list."
Iron Man is retired but Tony Stark will never stop playing superhero for his kids.
Or
Peter Parker has a high school diploma and not a lick of common sense.
Set three years post- Endgame. Featuring retired Tony and walking disaster Peter Parker.
- Tori
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(Tungly.hell isn't letting me answer this in ask form so here)
Long ass post time
Okay spidey's rumoured to be coming back but this concept's fucking hilarious anyway so I'm going with it
Aight. So. The Avengers still exist.
ExcEPT
They're called the Vengeance Boyz
And they are a super secret boyband (more like rly fuckin obscure and unheard of but let's not be mean)
Their lead guitarist is a skinny blond twink named Roger Stevens. He insists that everyone call him Champion USA
Their drummer is a huge buff dude. Played by Chris Hemsworth. In sunglasses. And a he-man wig.
His name is Thorn
Nobody asks why a grown ass man in a dollar store wig and ray ban sunglasses is playing a 17 year old
Which is
Pretty on brand for Hollywood tbh
Oh also
He collects hammers. There's a hammer in the background of every scene he's in. Nobody questions that either. Nobody even notices the hammers. Why are there so many hammers.
Also, Thorn's full name is Throckmorton
Yes like your cousin Throckmorton
(look it up)
Peter did want to join them and he did get an opportunity but he turned it down because becoming lead singer was too much responsibility. He'd rather stick to neighborhood wide karaoke for now.
Then there's nick fury. except there is no nick Fury
It's actually Peter's school principal, Nicki Funaj
She wears an eyepatch on her right eye. It's not damaged or anything she just thinks it looks cool (she's right)
Oh and Happy Hogan is now a woman named Joy Gohan. She's the forehead of security at Peter's school
Also she still has a thing for Aunt May because we can't throw the entire MCU away, now, can we?
(no)
(no we can't)
AND NOW FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT
Tony Stark whomst? We only stan Antoni Starr in this house
CEO of Starr Incorporated, leading manufacturers of high tech prosthetics, also really into research of self sustaining energy for some reason
Y'know, like bic makes condoms and lighters
Or crayons and lighters
Or all three
Or something
whatever
(diversification babey!!!)
Anyway Peter got an internship with Starr Incorporated by accident after he walked into the wrong interview room
Oh and by the way Antoni Starr is played by that one stunt double who Tom Holland mistook for RDJ himself
War Machine is now called Battle Contraption
and it's the pet robot of world renowned robotics pioneer Jiminy Road
He calls it BaCon
Pepper Potts still exists because I love her and I said so
She runs SI's self sustaining energy department and anyone who says otherwise will be jailed
I guess she's renamed to Chilli Potter or some shit idk man
Chilli and Antoni have a son named Marcus Starr who is played by Lexi Rabe with her hair bunched up in a baseball cap
Marcus is always seen wearing absurdly """masculine""" clothing to the point where it's the funniest fucking thing about the franchise
I'm talking a seven year old in cargo pants and a collared camo-patterned shirt with the word MAN written on it in big red text
(yes this is a thinly veiled attempt to keep the ironfam alive)
(shut up)
Peter did build his own suit but only after conveniently finding all the parts to one when he went dumpster diving one day in SI's dumpsters
Nobody knows who threw away a fully functional Spiderman suit in the trash. Along with the accompanying AI.
On a pen drive.
Peter modifies the AI on his windinosaur 98 computer and names it CARMEN
Endgame did happen, but like. In another universe. So. Half the people disappeared and then reappeared again five years later.
There is no explanation
Do not ask for one
(they call it the Bloop)
Thanos is actually a grape juice mascot who gives Peter the creeps
Like the kool aid man
If the kool aid man caused Armageddon in another universe (which, let's be real, he probably did)
The grape juice is called Snappos
Snap-pos
(Heh)
And therein ends my frankly stellar attempt at fixing Sony's plot holes
BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE.
The best goddamn part: Tom Holland is told Absolutely Nothing About Anything. He's just released onto set like a horse in a hospital and expected to deal.
Because he'll spoil Everything the second he hears about it smh the fool
But also because. it's just really fucking funny to mess with him.
His script contains two lines:
(which is an improvement on his MCU scripts let's be real)
"Peter Parker: [improvises] and also says "oHmYgoDitsroBERtdoWnEYjR" every time the decidedly-not-rdj stunt double shows up on screen"
And
"Peter Parker: [takes off shirt at least 18 times. No explanation provided.]"
Tom Holland is completely Jon Snow Kin (i.e knows nothing) and we get to watch his real reaction as the reality of change hits him like a sack of potatoes to the knees
examples include StuntDouble!RDJ shaking his hand and congratulating him on being promoted to paid intern (to what?)
and Miles Morales's dad (played by Terry Crews and Terry Crews only no I will not negotiate) accuses him of identity theft
Oh and finally
Peter Parker is bisexual now
#marvel#mcu#peter parker#spiderman#tony stark#iron man#pepper potts#morgan stark#james rhodes#happy hogan#endgame#avengers endgame#avengers#marvel headcanons#far from home#spiderman far from home#tom Holland#robert downey jr
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"a crown made up of glass"
Post-Endgame, Peter becomes Pepper’s personal intern at Stark industries to potentially take over the company when she retires. The fic would be exploring Tony’s legacy through Peter beyond just the spider-man and iron man bits, (although that is definitely part of it), FFH won’t happen as he gets too busy to go to Europe. There are also some big brother moments with Morgan as we like fluff in this house.
SEND ME A FIC TITLE AND I’LL ADD WHAT I WOULD WRITE FOR IT OR WHATEVER
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Masterlist
So, I’ve written a lot of things. A lot of stupid things. And I figured I might as well catalog them.
I’m also going to link my other accounts:
FF.net: psychicchameleon (for the love of God don’t read my old shit. I’m trusting you.)
Ao3: iloveyouthree_thousand
Note: everything is pretty Irondad centric unless otherwise specified.
one-shots:
and even if I’m gone, there’s always a place for you here -- “I wanted you to know that he never forgot about you. You meant a lot to him, to us. You were a part of this family too, and it didn’t feel right to not include you in our new home.”
it’s killing me to hold on (but I’m dying without you here) -- “I know!”, he snaps, turning to face the apparition, “God, Pete, don’t you get it? Every day I wait for the dream to end, but every single day that god damn sun rises and you still don’t come home.”
trope: Mister Stark -- “You’re not my dad, but you’re… something like that, I guess. Something special. You’re Mr. Stark.”
the graduation -- “He scanned the audience, and like a magnet, his gaze landed on May. And then Tony. Peter took a shaky breath. ‘Tonight, I’d like to talk about heroes.’”
a suit of armor around (his) world -- “He told me, once, that he didn’t think he’d rest until he could put a suit of armor around the world. I thought it was… a fever dream. But then I saw him look at you, wrapped up in that suit, and I realized that he’d already done it.”
sometimes a family is nothing more than a kid, his aunt, a guy-in-the-chair, and a handful of Avengers -- “Tony froze, a fuzzy warmth spreading in his chest as he searched Peter’s face for any indication that he understood the gravity of the statement he had just made.”
we push away the unimaginable -- “Tony didn’t know which scenario he was more afraid of: A pile of dust on the floor. Or May Parker, alive and well, having lost the one thing she had left to lose.”
and I’ll be right there with you, wherever you go -- “Ugh, you know that when you cry I cry,” she fans at her eyes desperately, “and Peter Parker if you make me smudge my makeup so help me–I will lock you in this room for the entirety of this wedding.”
you’ll always be my underoos -- “Jealousy was watching Morgan Stark crawl into her father’s lap, the two of them wearing matching grins as he held her tight, exchanging whispered I love you’s that were so easy and second-nature it hurt.”
sleep tight, I’ll be right here watching over you -- “If Tony had to choose between saving himself or saving you and Morgan—he’d choose you guys every time,” she tiled his head up gently, “it’s what parents do.”
in fourteen billion lifetimes, I’d still love you in every one -- “All I know is that,” he paused, waiting for Peter to meet his eyes, “in fourteen billion scenarios, he always brought you back. Ms. Potts, his little girl, and you were always a given.”
who tells your story? -- “He waited for the day that it wouldn’t hurt so bad, for the day he could tell his little girl about a superhero named Spider-Man, who knew an inordinate amount of B-list sci-fi trivia and cared about saving a stray cat as much as he cared about stopping a gang of arms dealers.”
you can take away my kid (but he’ll always be a part of me) -- “That kid—he ignited something parental in you before you even had a chance to fight it. We all knew you were a dad way before we found out Pepper was pregnant.”
five times Peter Parker could hear Tony’s heart beating (and the one time he couldn’t) -- “It helps Peter to hear his heartbeat. He knows that. As long as Tony’s heart kept beating in his ears, Peter knew he wasn’t going anywhere.”
there are moments that the words don’t reach -- “Peter was gone and he was alone and there was nothing to say anymore, because the worst had come and gone and Tony had let it happen with only two words of protest: you’re alright.”
the beginning of a future that could’ve been -- “Tony called Peter down to Pepper’s office under the guise of meeting up for lunch. Instead, he presented him with a plaque that he’d had rush-ordered, solidifying his position as the newest intern at Stark Industries.”
and we might not be able to save everyone (but I’ll be damned if I can’t save you) -- “I’ve been here, too, at the end of my rope. Because you’re a superhero, right,” he chokes, “a card-carrying member of the 'earth’s mightiest heroes’ club, but they don’t tell you when you sign up how much it absolutely sucks.”
The Cherry-Red Porsche 944 Turbo [from five-ish times Peter didn’t call Tony ‘dad’] -- “I don’t care how many times you save Queens, if you ever have to call AAA, then I feel like I’ve failed as a mentor.”
and they say a picture is worth a thousand words (but I never understood that until now) -- “Before they realized what was happening, it had become a tradition. Still, they’d never voice the fact that it was Father’s Day. It was just a random day that they happened to spend together. Annually.”
just get back up (when it knocks you down) -- “He said there’s always a choice, but I could see his face, Mr. Stark. He didn’t look like he had a choice. And in a different life, in a million different scenarios… that could’ve been me.”
because I don’t know what I’d do without you -- “You’re not my dad!” The words blurt out of Peter’s mouth before he’s even aware of them. Silence hangs thickly in the air. Peter’s voice is wobbly, softer, as he repeats, “you’re not my dad.”
sometimes parenthood hits you when you least expect it (but you accept it all the same) -- “You don’t just get to walk out on him because it got hard. He’s had enough taken away from him. I can’t watch him lose you too.”
blood or not, when you love someone three-thousand, they’re your family too -- “Peter’s brain is going haywire, trying to process the fact that this tiny human he’s never met before is calling him Petey and clinging to him like a long lost friend.”
Anthony Stark [from Stark: An American Musical] -- “Holy mother of—you bastard, orphan, son of a—good God that hurts.”
I still believe in heroes -- “Heroes make mistakes, kid, it’s part of the job. We continue to believe in them anyway, we have to, because the second we don’t… I—none of us should live in a world like that.”
trope: coming out -- “Pride means a lot of things to a lot of people. And sometimes, it’s nothing more than taking a breath and looking in the mirror and smiling because you’re you and that’s enough.”
bullet point fics and headcanons:
you win some (but, oh, you lose so much more) -- “That’s the way life goes; some people win, and off to the side, in the shadows, some people lose.”
it takes two to tango (and to give a certain Spider-Kid ‘The Talk’) -- “Come on, kid,” Tony breathes, accepting that this is his life now, “the sooner you ask the question the sooner we both get out of this special form of hell.”
back to the future past -- “Past Tony has come to expect their company, and even though he doesn’t know if time travel is something they should really be messing with, he’s really never been able to say no to his kids.”
prompt: birthday cake -- “The problem, however, is that it becomes a tradition: Peter Parker gets chocolate-coconut batter on the ceiling and all over his face. And every year, Tony chokes down a slice of the death cake just to see the kid smile.”
from one father to another -- “Scott almost didn’t do it.After all, a man who moved his family to the middle of nowhere is probably a man that wants to be left alone.”
the proposal -- “You’re a hopeless romantic, you know. A balcony, really? Don’t think I didn’t catch that reference.” Pepperony.
AC/DC -- “I’m warning you, kid, fun and games aside—you do not, under any circumstances, disrespect that song in this house.”
for the next Tony Stark -- [not really a fic, but kinda reads like one]
you’re here, there’s nothing I fear (and I know that my heart will go on) --
“Because if he was a sinking ship then she was the captain. Maybe the damage was too deep this time and he couldn’t be saved. She’d still do everything in her power to get him to float again.” Pepperony.
lean on me (and I’ll help you carry on) -- “When Rhodes finds out he’s living with Tony Stark, he thinks it’s a joke. One thousand, four hundred and twenty-eight incoming freshman, and he gets paired up with the prepubescent heir to Stark Industries?” James Rhodes & Tony Stark.
suit up -- “…and before you get any ideas, you’d be a junior groomsman, so no open bar and definitely no bachelor party, but for all the other stuff… well, I’d like you to be there.”
next time, you ride with me -- “For just a moment, he wants to let his best friend will carry him home -- again -- and believe everything will be okay.”
we’re in the endgame now -- [again, not really a fic, but kinda reads like one.]
Spider-Man: FFH deleted scene -- “Ms. Potts?” he calls down from the landing, gripping Morgan tighter in his arms, “w-what do you mean, ‘we need to keep him out of the city?’”
dialogue posts & incorrect quotes:
(warning: most of these are so short I debated even putting them here)
Karen’s namesake
Your name is what now?
I’ve had an epiphany.
You ate a banana?!
Peter Parker’s Intervention
Itsy Bitsy Avenger
Pour some sugar on me (except it’s salt and it’s in my coffee)
Tony’s Code Red
He could be stabbing me, and I’d still be proud of him.
Jurassic Park
Gullible
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Avengers: Endgame: Did Marvel Pull It Off?
This is a followup to my (surprisingly popular!) post “The Stakes Are Too High.” (at least, it surprised the hell out of me that it got so popular; I wasn’t expecting it to resonate as widely as it did.)
FULL ENDGAME SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I’m putting it under a cut just in case.
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So having seen Endgame, the question becomes: Did Marvel pull it off?
My answer is: yes and no.
Did we get an emotionally satisfying ending? Did Marvel understand that closure doesn’t have to come with corpses?
There were a lot of things I loved about Endgame. There were many, many of the “small character moments” we were begging for. Marvel didn’t forget that we fell in love with people and we need to see people and their choices and how they live with the consequences of those choices... mostly.
I loved how Marvel rewarded the audience for watching 11 years of movies. It was practically wall-to-wall Easter eggs and callbacks. I loved how the time travel allowed us to loop back through some of our favorite scenes and see them from other points of view, and the additional information. (Sitwell and Brumlow taking the scepter immediately after Loki’s capture: oh, so that’s how HYDRA got the Mind Stone!) I loved the cameos upon cameos (despite how silly it is for someone like Natalie Portman to show up for literally 15 seconds and not get any lines). I appreciated that Captain Marvel was used exactly the right amount: she saved Tony and Nebula, she was established as part of the post-Snap team, she came in at the end to lend some firepower, but she did not have any part in solving the problem nor was she the person who ultimately handed Thanos his raisin ass. I LOVED THE FINAL BATTLE, HOLY FUCK. (With the exception of Loki not being present, but I’ll get to that.) There were real laughs, and real tears. I cheered when Steve summoned Mjolnir (and laughed my head off at the Cap-on-Cap fight). I loved Morgan and Cassie, and the echoes of fathers and daughters throughout.
There were things I did not love, even before we got to the final or semi-final fates of some characters. I was genuinely offended with Thor’s treatment. I was not happy with Loki. I was confused about Vision, Gamora, and Black Widow, because they are due to return for future TV shows and movies, so leaving their statuses open or cloudy (or “dead,” which I put in quotes for a reason) was just disconcerting. The time travel opened up a lot of problems.
My original post was about endings, so let’s talk about those. In approximately descending order of Satisfying to WTF:
Stan Lee: Got his last cameo in the end of the arc so he didn’t miss any, driving along, clearly having the time of his life. Excelsior, Stan, and thank you for everything.
Clint: Got his happy ending. He was deeply bitter about losing his family, but got them restored to him. He did lose Nat, but I’ll cover her in her own section.
Steve: He did get his soft epilogue, albeit with Peggy Carter, and I can’t fault that. Marvel was never going to give us the Steve/Bucky romance no matter how obvious it was, and Steve/Peggy also works. (And really, I love Peggy, so for her to get a happy ending too is a bonus.) Steve gave so much of himself over the years. I can’t object to allowing him to be selfish and re-live his life quietly, to finally put down his shield and go home from the war. He got his reward.
It basically works with the existing timeline if you squint and assume that Peggy’s Alzheimer’s was messing with her at the beginning of Civil War, or if there’s another timeline altogether. I’m slightly annoyed that whatever he got to have with Bucky all happened offscreen between the stinger of Black Panther and the beginning of Infinity War, but apparently they did spend time together. And Steve clearly told Bucky was he was planning; that’s what “I’m gonna miss you” was foreshadowing.
STEVE IS WORTHY OF MJOLNIR. YESSSSSS!
Bruce: I was okay with the “Professor Hulk” storyline (which I was told by a sharp-eyed nephew is from the comics), although I wouldn’t have minded seeing that internal struggle onscreen, but I understand it’s an IP rights issue and there isn’t going to be another Marvel standalone Hulk film.
Tony: Augh. AUGH! I get it. I know why he died, on a meta level. But still.
This, at least, we can say is mostly “heartbreaking” and not “burn.” Tony got the five-year interval to make some kind of peace with his losses. He and Pepper got married and had Morgan. He got some kind of Happy For Now. He got some kind of reward, which RDJ brilliantly conveyed even in the few minutes we saw.
@hjbender linked @starkysnarks’s excellent post about Tony’s arc. One important part:
That’s why I think that giving a better, more positive message is so important. While other characters have flaws, it’s only Tony who has this consistent, this carefully streamlined storyline of improvement, of redemption, of self-realization and self-betterment. It’s Tony who is most often referred to (by the aforementioned mainstream outlets AND within the fandom) as the most human of the characters, and his story – as the most humane. His happy ending with a new house and young family will not feel like an opt-out, it will not feel complacent, at least not to me. It will feel like hope. It will feel like achieving, at least partially, the goal of that endless internal struggle that we all go through daily. It will feel like it’s possible to be good and be happy and be content, to know that you have done you best and your best is good enough for you to live, and go forward, and be.
He ultimately got some of this, for a while. Tony’s fatal flaw is his fear about Thanos, or the threat that Thanos represents. Prior to Avengers, Tony was happy-go-lucky because he could, eventually, beat whatever the world threw at him. But Thanos was not of this world, and would have wiped everyone out if Tony hadn’t managed to get that nuke through the portal. That trauma, that guilt, that fear, is what drives him for the rest of the Infinity Stones storyline. He is desperate to protect everyone. It’s what makes him want to put “a suit of armor around the world” in Age of Ultron, and of course the way Ultron backfires compounds Tony’s PTSD and guilt, which is what leads to his position in Civil War and the fight he picks with Steve at the beginning of Endgame.
And the worst happens in Infinity War, and the Avengers lose. Everything Tony feared ultimately happened.
Five years later, he’s managed to move forward. He has his happy ending — as happy as he can be, given their losses. He’s accepted his failure, more or less. He wants to rest, which is why he rejects Steve and the others at first.
But his tinkerer’s brain won’t let him put their proposal aside. He needs to know intellectually that there’s no chance, that he can’t fix what he screwed up. Because that’s the other part of what drives him: they lost. He lost. “I lost the kid,” he tells Steve (meaning Peter). That fear of loss, of losing people, of failing people, of disappointing people, is what keeps pushing him. If he knows that there’s no possible way he can undo his mistake, he’ll figure out a way to cope, especially since he still has Pepper and then his daughter. But now there is a way, or there might be, and he can’t let that lie, he can’t rest, until he knows one way or the other. And when the way to fix things becomes possible, there is no other outcome for Tony to choose. He wouldn’t be a hero otherwise.
It is a terrible loss, but in the end I could accept it. Tony got a Happy For Now. He was able to enjoy his life for a little while. He got the genuine closure with his father which he couldn’t in the BARF hologram at the beginning of Civil War thanks to the time travel, and he got to see Peter restored and give him the hug which they weren’t at yet in Homecoming. Tony was triumphant. He defeated his greatest, most terrible adversary. He defeated his fear. Thanos is gone, and his minions with him. The echo of “I. Am. Iron Man.” was exquisite. (even more so knowing that line in the first movie was ad-libbed! it wasn’t in the script! It was RDJ’s idea!) So his death is sad, but it’s earned.
Natasha: Meh. Just meh. The scene where she and Clint fight over who is going to die was blackly hilarious. It made narrative sense for Nat to be the one who died — she has found family, but not children; she spent the interval trying to run the Avengers and SHIELD and trying to fix things, and this allowed her to contribute in a material way; she still has a lot of red in her moral ledger — but on a meta level, we know there’s a Black Widow movie in the works. It doesn’t make sense to have a spinoff series set before Endgame when you know how the character dies. It’s not a bad ending, all things considered, but the actress herself can’t get younger. Is it supposed to be her origin/backstory movie after the character has died? Is it Multiverse Branching Timelines? Was she restored when Steve returned all the Stones to their place in the timeline? Was she restored with Tony’s Snap, or Bruce’s? Not knowing how that’s going to work with the rest of the MCU timeline blunted the emotional effect of her death for me.
Although he’s not an original Avenger, I had similar issues with Vision. There will be a Scarlet Witch and Vision TV series. Vision is still dead, according to Wanda at Tony’s funeral. So was he restored with either Bruce’s Snap or Tony’s? Was 2018 Gamora?
And the two which completely did not work for me, the ones where I think Marvel really missed:
Thor: Of the original Avengers, he was the one I was most upset about.
I really, really did not like how Thor’s very legitimate grief, depression, PTSD, and alcoholism were played for laughs. Thor is down to a “kingdom” of a few hundred people at best (we don’t know what Asgard’s population was to start with, but Hela killed quite a few, and then Thanos killed half of them on the Statesman, and it’s entirely possible that the Snappening dusted half of whomever remained). He’s living with the murders of Loki, Heimdall, and the Warriors Three (I can’t remember if Sif was supposed to have survived the Snappening, but she doesn’t appear in Endgame). He didn’t “go for the head” in Infinity War, which clearly haunts him despite the fact that Peter Quill is just as much to blame for interrupting Strange, Tony, Peter, and Mantis, or Wanda is just as much to blame for not getting the Stone out of Vision’s head faster, etc. etc. He cut off Thanos’s head after the fact and is clinging to that — “Who else here killed Thanos?” — as some kind of cold comfort. “Look, at least I did that in the end. At least I got revenge.”
Thor is a mess. His family is dead. His dearest friends are dead. He’s in a depressive spiral, self-medicating with food and alcohol, lost in video games because they are a consequence-free way to “win.” He’s holed up with Miek and Korg because they didn’t know him before Ragnarok and they have no real expectations of King Thor, God of Thunder, Avenger, Hero. He feels he has failed at everything which has ever been expected of him.
And the script... plays this... for laughs.
We are meant to laugh at his pot belly and flabby physique. We are meant to laugh at his unkempt matted hair and wild unbraided beard. We are meant to laugh at his drunkenness, at how he passes out, at how he blearily begs and whimpers to be the one to unSnap everyone ( “Please let me do something good, something right,” he pleads), at how he returns to Asgard on the day of Frigga’s murder and tries to frat-boy off to the cellars for some of Odin’s best ale because he cannot face his failure on this day too.
None of this is funny. It’s not funny at. all. It’s horrifying.
I do understand that this is likely more Hemsworth than Marvel. The actor vocally complained that he was bored with formal, upright Thor and would have been done with the character without Taika Waititi’s more comedic take in Ragnarok. He has said in interviews that Thor in Endgame is the closest to Hemsworth himself that the character has ever been, and clearly the actor loves doing comedy. He’s good at it — I enjoyed Kevin in Ghostbusters 2016.
I don’t object to loosening up Thor. I don’t object to showing Thor spiraling into alcoholism and depression and hiding from the world in food and games. I object to using depression and alcoholism for comedy.
Thor faces Frigga, reluctantly, and she counsels her son whom she loves, telling him not to worry about living up to expectations but to be his best true self. This is consistent with both characters; Thor has accepted how hard it is to be king. Then as Thor is quantumming out she adds “And eat a salad.” Really? You had to throw that in there? She sees the wreck her son has become and she nags? She gives him some kind and loving advice, she knows there’s some weirdness going on, but she has to cap it with fat-shaming?
We are meant to mock formerly ripped Thor for being “fat and ugly,” but let’s be clear: Thor’s appearance is an outward manifestation of deep emotional issues. Thor has not been able to cope with his failure. He and Tony faced similar terrible losses. Both characters originally had sunny dispositions. Tony, who still had Pepper at least, has managed to crawl out of his hole and build something with his wife and daughter. Thor lost his brother, his other half, and has mentally, emotionally, and physically collapsed. There really is no Thor without Loki.
And speaking of, I’m going to scream for a moment:
SERIOUSLY, MARVEL, WHAT EVEN THE FLAMING FUCK WAS THAT? YOU TEE UP A GODDAMN LINE LIKE “I ASSURE YOU, BROTHER, THE SUN WILL SHINE ON US AGAIN” AND THEN IT DOESN’T PAY OFF? I FUCKING WAVED THAT FLAG FOR A SOLID YEAR BECAUSE I WAS CONVINCED YOU WERE SMARTER THAN THAT AND THIS IS HOW YOU DO ME?
Loki: I am well aware that Loki started as an antagonist, and that my perspective is skewed from the fandoms I choose to participate in. I know that he’s not an Avenger.
But purely from a narrative point of view, Marvel, ya done fucked up. You dropped the ball.
From my previous post:
Loki’s death in Infinity War was so stupid and narratively pointless that a lot of fans, myself included, believe that there’s a plan behind the scenes (since we know Endgame involves time travel) which somehow explains it and gives it meaning. Because if not, then one of the most popular MCU characters — the only antagonist to keep returning, film after film, and primarily because audiences love him — died for nothing.
And there you have it. Explaining it after the fact in Loki’s TV show doesn’t count (and we don’t know that they will). Yes, Loki grabs the Tesseract in 2012 and disappears, so you can argue that “he doesn’t die,” but all that really does is screw up the timeline. It creates another timeline branch which isn’t resolved.
Is everything now a branched universe? If Loki took off with the Tesseract, does that mean The Dark World and Ragnarok never happened? If Loki didn’t go back to Asgard in chains at the end of Avengers, that means TDW couldn’t have happened the way it did. It means that Loki didn’t sacrifice himself, but does that also mean that Malekith would have gotten the Aether/Reality Stone from Jane and killed her? (It was Loki’s plan which saved Jane, let’s recall. And killed Kurse.) Does that mean Odin is still alive and on Asgard? And Hela was never unleashed? And therefore Loki and Thor never ended up on Sakaar and Hulk and Valkyrie Brunnhilde are still there? Or worse, that Odin died and Hela was unleashed but Thor wasn’t able to stop her because he didn’t have Hulk, Valkyrie, and Loki to help him? So she’s now loose and rampaging across the realms murdering at will?
It was appropriate for the larger arc for Carol to be part of the cavalry swooping in during the final battle to pummel Thanos for a while, but I kept waiting for Loki to show up. Loki was tortured by Thanos and Ebony Maw, which is what kicked off the plot of Avengers. If 2014 Thor was willing to break Loki out of prison to get revenge for Frigga’s death, why wouldn’t either 2014 Thor or 2023 Thor be willing to tell 2012 Loki “We have an opportunity for you to get back at Thanos. Wanna help?” Because as strung out and as still cocky as he was, jauntily waving in the elevator at the beast who just beat the shit out of him, I bet Loki would have been delighted to take a few swings at Giant Purple Nutsack Face. Yes, he probably would have escaped at some point during the final battle, because that’s who he was at the time, and still is — he’s “very comfortable with chaos,” as Hiddleston notes. And that would have been consistent. Help others if it also helps him, he’s not really a hero at that point in his arc, check out after Thanos is dead because he doesn’t want to go back to prison. That all would have worked. Even if he had no more to do than Shuri or Okoye, just to show him shooting a few blasts of seidr and showing that he is in fact just as powerful a sorcerer as Doctor “I’ve only been doing this for a year” Strange.
But Loki’s death in Infinity War is for nothing. Even if I wasn’t as invested in the character as I am, from a storytelling standpoint, it was pointless. The entire heavy foreshadowing of that line was utterly whiffed. You can’t even argue that “Loki sacrificed himself for Thor” because Thanos disappeared with the Space Stone, leaving Thor behind, and Thor crawled over to his brother’s dead, broken body and crumpled there to die. Thor gave up and never recovered. The last word he expected he would ever say was “Loki....”
Thor didn’t choose in that moment to use Loki’s sacrifice to stand up and claim revenge. Even Clint did more than that after Natasha’s death. Thor only continued on to forge Stormbreaker because the Guardians happened to pick him up in the vacuum of space after the Statesman exploded. That wasn’t a choice by the character, which is what moves a character arc forward. It was happenstance. Thor’s heart was destroyed with Loki’s death. It’s a shell of a man who eventually beheads Thanos.
Loki got an “Avenge the Fallen” poster, but he wasn’t avenged. The 2012 version of him escaped and branched off a new timeline, according to the Ancient One’s explanation of how time travel works in the MCU.
We don’t know if either Tony’s or Bruce’s Snap restored 2018 Loki. Endgame is the end of this arc. Marvel can’t patch stuff up later and claim a do-over.
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE MARVEL WE NEVER GOT THOR AND LOKI’S HUG.
So: did Marvel hurt us?
Not as badly as I feared. There was a ton of fanservice and moments which were so go-for-broke that I felt like we were watching wish-fulfillment fanfic. (So many jokes about Steve’s ass. Steve joking about Steve’s ass.) The script didn’t stop to explain who people were or give context; it assumed the audience knew everything and was keeping up. And that last battle, have mercy, Helm’s Deep and Pelennor Fields look like playground skirmishes in comparison.
BUT: The loose ends are deeply frustrating, and I think the Loki fandom is going to blow a collective gasket. Grotty Drunk Thor having constant My Dick Is Bigger fights with Peter Quill is not going to make me want to watch Guardians 3. (Although if Loki comes back and sneers at Quill, and Thor follows his brother off into the wild yonder with stars in his eyes, okay, call me.)
I will watch the Marvel TV shows because I’m a masochist, but I don’t know how much I’m going to allow myself to get emotionally involved. My expectations are far lower than before IW/EG. I don’t know how the shows and movies involving “dead” characters are going to explain things. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey handwaving is kind of a cheat, and it doesn’t excuse the shit storytelling which was allowed to happen in the first place.
Do I regret the journey? I don’t. It’s been a hell of a ride, and I’m so glad to have met these characters. I could wish for some things to be better, and hoo boy is there going to be a lot of corrective fanfic, but I’m not sorry I came along.
(and P.S.: Loki lives. :P)
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A Summer At Stark / One / P.P.
Pairing: Peter Parker x Original Character
Summary: Cameron Murphy is a Georgia girl working in the Big Apple over the summer with Stark Industries and their “most promising employee” Peter Parker.
Word Count: 4.5k
Warnings: ENDGAME SPOILERS
A/N: I know i was supposed to post this yesterday but hey tumblr is a piece of shit and deleted the whole ass post when i tried to schedule it. so here it is instead! the Tag List is open so shoot me an ask! shoutout to @the-claire-bitch-project for beta reading!
Cameron placed her box down on the couch of her tiny new Queens apartment. She tugged her tank top down and her running shorts up again; her shirt always seemed to creep up her tummy while her shorts slid down her butt, especially when she carried things.
She was dripping with sweat. When she accepted this summer job in Queens, she expected it to be cooler than the Atlanta summers she’d grown up with. She wiped her forehead with the back of her hand and wiped the sweat off onto her shorts. Her hair was sticking to her throat and neck and she could feel it frizzing up. Why had she come up north away from the humidity just to have her hair frizz up wildly while she was moving in?
She pulled her hair down from and flipped her head over, combing through her thin, blonde-kissed brown curls and forming them back into their ponytail. She bound them with her hair tie, making sure she got as many of the flyaways as she could. She fanned at herself for a moment, trying to cool off before she had to trek back downstairs and outside to her car. Only a few boxes left, she thought to herself.
Cam took a deep breath and placed her hands on her hips. She bit the inside of her lip, tugging on it as she looked around the shoebox. She wished her parents had been able to come up and help her move, but they didn’t have the work time off since they’d taken time off to go on vacation together with her sister.
She finally walked out of the door of her apartment and padded down the hall to the elevator. Her building had just been renovated by Stark Industries, Cam’s new employer. She was working a summer internship with them that she hoped would turn into a job someday. She’d been told by the hiring manager she’d be working on some sort of “special” project with Stark’s “most promising team member.”
She wished this promising team member could’ve helped her move her stuff in. Cam nearly cried in joy as she realized she just had one box and her backpack left to move in. She swung her backpack on her shoulders and trudged to her trunk to lift up the box. She placed it gently on the ground as she shut her trunk door and locked her car with the remote on her key. She leaned back down with a groan, grabbed the far corners of the box, and headed back inside her apartment building.
She waited for the elevator patiently, thankful she’d left the lightest box for last. The elevator doors opened with a ding and she stepped in.
The doors began to close and Cam heard a small call of “wait!” She groaned and stuck her foot in the door to prevent it from closing as a boy came running into the elevator with you. He was on the smaller side, just a few inches taller than Cam. He shoved his unruly brown hair out of his face as he grinned.
“Thanks,” he said breathlessly. “What floor?”
“Um, seven,” she said, pressing her lips together. She was still sweating, still horribly sticky, and didn’t have the energy to be talkative.
“Sure thing,” the boy said. He pressed the “7” button and only the seven button. He bounced up and down, full of energy for some reason. Maybe he enjoyed the god-awful heat. “I’m on seven, too.”
Cam just looked at him, lips still pressed together over her teeth, and nodded.
“You, uh, just moving in?” he asked. He turned to press his back against the opposite side of the elevator, grabbing the handrail.
“Yep,” Cam said. “I’ll be here all summer.”
The boy opened his mouth to speak again, perhaps to introduce himself or welcome her, but the door dinged open again. Cam mumbled a quick “bye” and hurried off the elevator, walking quickly to her apartment.
She plopped the box down and sighed, tugging her backpack off her back and letting it gently drop to the floor. Cam kicked her flip-flops off and padded to the thermostat. It was set on 70, but she felt like she was melting, so she reset it to 62. She would set it to probably 65 later, but for right then, she needed to cool off.
Cam ripped her shirt off and stood in the middle of the room in her sports bra. She looked down at her tummy, turning her nose up a tiny bit at the purple stretch marks that decorated her stomach. She shrugged, then laid down on the floor. She was surprised at how much cooler it was.
Cameron laid for a few moments before forcing herself to get up again. She found her box labeled “BEDROOM” in her sister’s handwriting and carried it into her room with her. She dropped it on her Queen-sized bed, then sighed when she remembered she left her pocket knife in her backpack. She padded back into the living room and grabbed her backpack, dragging it into her bedroom and lifting it up on the bed with the box. She dug through the small front pocket until she felt her knife.
“Aha!” she exclaimed, pulling it out and tugging the blade out of its cover. She cut the tape on the box, pushed the blade back in, then tossed her closed knife on the bed. She ripped open the box and was greeted with a framed picture of her, her sister, and her best friend, Maggie. She grinned at it, pulling the frame out of the box and immediately placing it on her bedside table.
She unpacked for a while, making her new place feel like home. She kept a list in a note on her phone of what all she needed. Her new landlord had left her a welcome basket with things like toilet paper and paper towels and soap, which was wonderful. She did, however, have to order pizza, since she had no food in the house, but she wasn’t complaining about buying New York pizza.
Cam arrived extra early at the Stark Industries in the morning. It was situated near Prospect Park, a quick Subway ride from her Queens apartment over to Brooklyn. She walked into the enormous building, nervously feeling the gel fingernail polish that adorned her nails. She was excited nervous, but still scared her new employer or this promising recruit she would be working with would somehow deny her a job.
The secretary at the front desk directed her to the elevator and told her to go to the 45th floor. She thanked the secretary and walked nervously to the elevator. Cam’s eyes went wide as she looked at the directory next to the elevator button. 45TH FLOOR: MS. PEPPER POTTS, CEO, it read. The CEO? Why was she meeting the CEO?
Nevertheless, she stepped onto the elevator and hit the button. The doors began to close when she heard a small call of, “Hold the door!”
Cam stuck her hand between the elevator doors to force them to open again. Standing in front of the open doors was none other than the chirpy, brunette boy she’d met the day before in the apartment elevator.
He looked confused as he stepped onto the elevator. “Is this, like, a glitch in the Matrix or something? Didn’t we meet yesterday on an elevator?”
Cam pressed her lips together and nodded. “Yep, we did. Are you, like, following me or something?”
The boy shook his head. “Oh, no no no, I work here.” He pointed to an extremely obvious Stark Industries badge hanging directly in front of Cam. “I’m Peter Parker.” He stuck out his hand.
“Cam Murphy,” she replied, shaking his hand.
“What floor?” he asked, turning to look at the buttons. He paused, about to reach for the “45” button when he realized it had already been pressed. “Oh, are you the summer intern?” He asked.
“I mean, I’m a summer intern,” she said, awkwardly.
“We only hired one intern this summer,” Peter said. “I could only convince Pepper to give me one helper.” He chuckled, then took a sip of a coffee he had in his hand.
“Oh,” Cam said, thinking. “So you’re this ‘up and comer’ I keep hearing about?”
Peter spluttered on his coffee. “‘Up and comer?’” he repeated. “I don’t know about that.”
“I was told I’d be working with the “most promising employee” here,” Cam explained.
“Oh.” Peter was shocked and stared at the wall ahead of him before puffing his chest up proudly.
“What do you do here?” Cam asked, turning to look at him.
“I do, uh, research,” he stuttered.
“On?”
“Um, have you heard of Spider-Man?”
Cam snorted. “The spandex-wearing dumbass that swings around the city? Yeah, I’ve heard of him.”
Peter’s cheeks flushed. “Um, yeah, that guy, he, um, he works here, kinda, I guess. But the webbing, um, stuff that he uses is super cool and I do research on it.”
Oh, so he’s Spider-Man, Cam thought. But he doesn’t want me to know. Wait. He’s Spider-Man. He, like, regularly gets in fights? And swings around the city with webs and shit? What the fuck? Why this guy? He’s so… tiny? Why spiders? Is he one of those weird bug guys? What the fuck?
“What’s so special about it?” Cam asked aloud, hiding her confusion. She examined him, looking for some enlightenment on why this guy specifically had become a worldwide phenomenon. He just seemed like a normal guy. A normal guy who liked to talk.
Peter’s face brightened. “It’s like, crazy strong, right? It’s got all kinds of qualities that could be used for other things, like in medicine, so we’re being contracted by a bunch of different agencies to see what other things it can do!”
Cam smiled. He was so passionate about this web stuff that her suspicion was immediately confirmed. He was, one hundred percent, Spider-Man. But why spiders? What was his deal with spiders? She had so many questions for him.
The elevator dinged and the doors swung open. Peter held his arm out, motioning for Cam to step out before he did.
“Ladies first,” he said.
She stepped out of the elevator and gazed around. It was incredible. Windows were everywhere, so it felt bright and warm in the room. Peter stepped out next to her, then ushered her to the front desk.
“Hi, can I help you?” the secretary asked. “Good morning, Peter.”
“Morning, Ashley!” Peter chirped happily.
“My name is Cameron Murphy, I’m the new intern,” Cam said. “I’m guessing I need a badge?”
“Welcome to Stark!” Ashley said. She fumbled in her desk for a moment before she pulled out a badge that read GUEST. “I’ll take your picture later and get you a permanent badge made, but for now, this will be yours! Peter can take you back to meet with Ms. Potts, and since you’ll be working with him, he’ll also show you your work station! If you need anything, let me know!”
Cam pinned the badge on the hem of her shirt. “Thanks!”
Peter pointed to a hallway behind him as Ashley went back to typing on her computer. “This way, madam,” he said.
Cam paused, curtsied at Peter, tugging her flower-print dress out, then continued into the hallway.
Peter laughed, and Cam felt a small surge of pride. She didn’t know why; maybe it was because Peter’s happiness was infectious, or maybe it was because she didn’t know a single soul in New York and he had been kind to her from the moment he met her. Either way, she walked down the hall, Peter hot on her tail, until she saw a sign on the door she was looking for.
“That’s it on your left,” Peter said from behind her.
Cam gasped dramatically. “No, really? I thought I was looking for the door that didn’t say ‘Pepper Potts, CEO.’”
Peter rolled his eyes. “Ha ha,” he said. “Very funny.”
Cam smirked and shrugged. “I try.”
Peter walked up to the door and just went inside, to Cam’s surprise. She looked at him incredulously as he held the door open for her, motioning her inside. “Why didn’t you knock?” she asked quietly as she walked inside.
“Because he doesn’t need to,” a strong woman’s voice said. Cam looked to the desk in the middle of the room to see none other than Pepper Potts, the CEO of Stark Industries and the widow of Tony Stark.
“Hi,” Cam squeaked. Pepper was one of her idols, so she couldn’t believe she was here.
“Hi, Cameron,” Pepper replied, coming around to the front of her desk to shake Cam’s hand. “We’re so excited to have you as part of the team.”
“I go by ‘Cam,’” she managed to get out.
“Oh, I’m sorry!”
“Don’t,” Cam started, “don’t worry about it! I’m very excited to be here.”
“I see you’ve already met Peter,” Pepper said as she walked back behind her desk. “Have a seat, please!”
Peter sat down in one of the two chairs in front of Pepper’s desk. He leaned back, looking at Cam as he put his hands behind his head.
Cam saw movement underneath Pepper’s desk, but as soon as she realized what was happening, there was a loud cry of, “BOO!”
Peter fell backwards out of his chair, landing face first but immediately jumping up perched forward on one hand with the other behind him. It was a pose Cam had seen Spider-Man do on the news, so she added that to another mental note under “Evidence Peter Parker is Spider-Man.”
A little girl, probably 7 or 8 years old, clambered to her feet, giggling. “Gotcha!” she said proudly.
Peter breathed deeply and looked at the ground, smiling and shaking his head. “You sure did, almost scared me to death!”
She giggled again, then ran towards Peter, who scooped her up in his arms, set his chair back up, and sat back down. Cam followed suit, sitting down in the chair next to him.
“This is our new friend, Cam,” Pepper said. “Morgan, can you say hi to Cam?”
The little girl turned her head and rested it on Peter. She waved at Cam. “Hi Cam,” she said softly.
“Hi,” Cam said back. “It’s nice to meet you.”
“This is my daughter, Morgan,” Pepper said. “She insists on coming to work with me during the summer.”
“It’s my company,” Morgan explained to Cam. “I’m going to be the CPO one day!”
“CEO, Morg,” Peter said softly.
Morgan pulled her head off his shoulder and glared at him. “That’s what I said.”
Peter laughed. “Sorry, Squirt, just wanted to make sure I heard you right.”
“You will,” Cam said to Morgan. She leaned in really close to her, then whispered: “Can I be your Vice President? When you’re the CPO?”
Morgan thought for a moment. “Yep. I’ll need someone with your, um, qual-i-fi-ca-tions.” She looked proudly at her mom after slowly pronouncing each syllable with precise annunciation.
Pepper shook her head, laughing. “Cam is definitely qualified.”
Morgan looked triumphantly at Cam. “You’re hired.”
Cam laughed. “I look forward to working with you, Miss Morgan.”
Peter chuckled, ruffling Morgan’s hair. “We gotta talk to your mom now, ‘kay?”
“Okay,” Morgan said, then laid her head back down on Peter’s shoulder.
“Alright,” Pepper said, folding her hands and putting them on the desk in front of her. “So, like I said, you’ll be working with Peter here doing some research for us. As I’m sure you know, Stark Industries has kind of become a, um, home for ‘superheroes,’ if you will, and we’ve begun research on one of these people’s item of choice.”
“Spider-Man’s web stuff, right?” Cam asked.
Pepper nodded. “Peter tell you in the elevator?”
“Sure did.”
“That’s exactly right. A lot of people are very interested in it, and—.”
“Excuse me? Mommy?” Morgan interrupted.
“Yes ma’am?” Pepper looked at Morgan.
“May I be excused to go potty?”
“Yes, you may, thanks for asking! Peter, will you take her?”
Morgan slid off Peter’s lap and Peter stood up. “I would be honored!” he cried. He took Morgan’s hand, then the two walked out of the room together.
Cam shifted in her chair. “So, um, Peter’s Spider-Man, right?”
Pepper pressed her lips together. “He told you too much in the elevator, huh?”
“Yes ma’am, he sure did.”
Pepper sighed. “He thinks he’s subtle about it, but he’s just excited. Please don’t tell him you know, at least not until he tells you. And act surprised when he tells you.”
“How many people know?” Cam asked.
“Um, probably everyone that works in the building. It’s a miracle he’s not all over the papers.”
“I’ll keep it to myself,” Cam laughed. “But it’s his web stuff we’re researching?”
“Yes. He created it himself, which is incredible to me. He’s a good kid, and he needs something to keep him occupied and safe during the summer, so I promised him and his aunt that he could work here. It’s been a rough few years for him,” Pepper said sadly. “He was very close with my husband.”
Cam nodded. Everyone knew what happened to Tony Stark.
“So just help him with what he needs,” Pepper continued. “He’s got a good little set up just down the hall. He’s essentially your boss, to be honest. It’s his project and we’re happy to fund it. If something happens, you come straight to me, okay?”
Cam nodded again. “Yes ma’am.”
The door swung open and Peter came running in with Morgan on his back, squealing in delight. He ran around the room a few times before he let her down and rejoined Cam and Pepper at the desk. Morgan ran back to her mom and crawled into Pepper’s lap.
“Alright,” Pepper said, hugging Morgan. “That’s all I have for now, Cam, unless you have any questions for me. We’ll send the chief administrator to do paperwork with you in a little bit. Otherwise, it’s all you, Peter!”
Peter grinned. “Lab time?”
Pepper smiled softly and nodded in response. Peter’s grin brightened, if it were possible.
Morgan looked up at her mom. “Mommy, can I go with Peter?”
“I’m sorry, sweetie, Peter’s going to work on his special project,” Pepper explained.
“And only grown-ups are allowed in Peter’s lab,” Morgan recited, as if she’d heard it a million times before. “I can’t wait to be a grown-up so I can help Peter, too!”
Pepper kissed Morgan’s head. “He’d love that, sweetheart.”
“I sure would,” Peter agreed. “But I’ll see you for our dinner date, okay Squirt?”
“Okay!” Morgan cheered. She slid off Pepper’s lap, then skipped to the corner of the room where a myriad of toys lay on the floor.
“We’ll see ya later, Pepper!” Peter claimed, standing up and walking towards the door. Cameron quickly stood up and scurried after Peter, wondering, how does he move so goddamn fast?
She was a little out of breath when she and Peter reached the lab. Peter Parker moved far quicker than he should have, and she wondered if it was because of all that Spider-Man shit. What even was the story on that?
“So here it is!” Peter proudly sang. “This is where the magic happens.”
Cam gave him a look, unamused.
Peter giggled, unphased. “So, until you get your keycard, I’ll have to key you in,” he began, swiping his badge and opening the door. The lights of the lab automatically came on, illuminating the various equipment strewn about the room. Cam gazed around, taking in everything.
Peter was grinning from ear to ear. “It’s um, pretty sick, right?” he asked, puffing his chest up a little. “I designed the whole thing myself.”
Cam started walking around the perimeter of the room, looking in jars, reading labels, checking out the equipment. It was an impressive set up; Peter had all the latest tech in his little lab, to no one’s surprise.
“This is some pretty impressive shit, Parker,” Cam said, leaning against a counter and crossing her arms. “What do you need me here for?”
“I mean, what’s not to like about a physics and electrical engineering double major from Georgia Tech?” Peter spouted. “I didn’t even know they let you double major in those.”
“I mean,” Cam began, “they usually don’t. I had to petition them hard to let me do it. They told me, ‘If I wanted to do that I should’ve gone to MIT.’”
“What’s so bad about MIT?” Peter asked, mimicking Cam’s stance and smirking.
“It’s in the north, that’s what’s so bad about MIT. I’m a Southern girl, through and through.”
“But you’re in the north right now, aren’t you?”
“For the summer, yeah,” Cam countered. “I hate snow. I could never live up here full-time.”
Peter gaped. “You hate snow? Why?”
“It’s cold and wet and makes everything else cold and wet.” Cam shuddered at the thought of the winter in New York.
Peter continued to stare. “Wow.”
“Bet you couldn’t survive a day in a Georgia summer,” Cam challenged with a grin.
“Oh really?” Peter countered. “How so?”
“Well, y’all don’t know anything about humidity up here. At home in the middle of July, good God you can’t leave the house for a second without sweat pouring down your whole body,” Cam explained. “It can get up to 90 degrees plus one hundred percent humidity.”
“Whoa, what?” Peter was taken aback. “How is that possible?”
Cam shrugged. “Wish I knew, Parker, wish I knew. So, are we gonna, like, work?”
“Oh,” Peter said, a little disappointed.
The feeling is mutual, Cam thought. Peter Parker was a really cool dude.
“Oh, my god!” Peter laughed, walking Cameron down the street to his favorite cafe. “People in the south really say that?”
“Oh yeah,” Cam replied. “I can’t tell you how many goddamn racist comments I hear every day. It’s so blatant it’s crazy. Once, my great-grandfather met a friend of mine from upstate New York, and when I told him where she was from, he looked at her and deadass say, ‘Oh you’re a Yankee? Well I’m a rebel!’ And cackled about it.”
“Yikes,” Peter said.
“He also told me that if I brought home a black guy he’d disown me, so that was pretty cool too,” Cam said nonchalantly.
Peter’s eyes bulged. “Excuse me?”
“Yep, you heard me exactly right. He uses the n-word with a hard ‘-er’ at the end, too, and sees nothing wrong with it. I had half a thought to bring home a black girl as a fake girlfriend just to see his reaction.”
“Wow.” Peter was blown away.
Cam shrugged. “It’s fine, he’s ninety-nine years old and we’re just waiting for him to die.”
“Cameron!” Peter gasped.
Cam didn’t regret it. It was true; her great-grandfather had lived a long, full life and he himself would tell you he’d been ready to die for thirty years.
But she also rather liked the way Peter said her full name, even though she’d never gone by ‘Cameron.’ Her parents decided she was ‘Cam’ when she was five days old. She didn’t really associate herself with the name ‘Cameron,’ but if that’s what Peter Parker wanted to call her, then she wasn’t going to stop him.
“I mean, he’s been ready to die since he turned seventy,” Cam explained.
“That’s horrible, Cam!” Peter said, holding back a laugh.
“He’s a racist old man, Peter!” Cam said in the same tone. “The south created him that way, and it’s unfortunate. The south creates a lot of people that way.”
“It didn’t create you that way,” Peter said softly.
“Well, yeah, my dad is from the north and my mom is from the south, so I had the best of both worlds. I practically grew up in Philly.”
Peter opened the cafe door for Cam and she stepped inside. “Where’s your mom from?” he asked, letting the door close behind him.
“Tuscaloosa,” she replied, heading towards a small booth in the back corner. “Her parents were Alabama graduates. She went to Georgia Tech, met my dad, stayed in Georgia.”
“Interesting,” Peter said, trailing after her. “Why’d your dad go to Tech?”
“Engineering. He’s a computer engineer, Mom’s a mechanical engineer. They make a great team.” Cam slide into the booth.
“Oh shit,” Peter said softly, sliding in across from Cam. “That’s a lot of money.”
“My parents are minimalists. We spend the money on experiences, not stuff. We understand we’re very lucky and we do what we can to help people that aren’t as lucky as we are,” she explained.
Cam and her family had personally gone on mission trips to different countries every summer since she was eight. Her mom had started an anonymous charity to bring low-cost, long-lived technology to third world countries, and when they could, the Murphy family personally took their technology to the people that needed it. In high school, Cam designed a solar-powered wheelchair specifically for rural communities. She called it “The Off-roader,” and she went with her mom to deliver it all over the world. She adored their summers abroad helping people. She always wished she could stay longer and help more.
She wanted to improve people’s lives with her degrees by making technology more accessible for the people she met on her trips. She knew about Tony Stark’s reach into renewable, sustainable energy, like his arc reactor, and she was hoping that she could utilize some of Stark’s tech and apply it to the work she’d been doing with her parents all her life. She hoped that maybe Stark Industries --and, by extension, Peter Parker-- would share her desire to help make life better for people who weren’t as lucky as she was.
“Oh,” Peter squeaked. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean—.”
“It’s cool,” Cam said. “A lot of people think I’m just some entitled white girl, so I’m quick to defend myself.”
“I, um,” Peter stuttered, “I don’t come from a lot of money. My parents died when I was little, so I live with my aunt. My uncle died a few years back, and since then my aunt has been doing her best to keep us afloat. Until Mr. Stark,” Peter’s voice cracked, “gave me this internship, we didn’t have much. Pepper’s made sure we did okay, too, but, um, yeah. I’m rambling, yeah, but, uh, that’s why I said that.”
“You’re fine, Peter,” Cam said, smiling softly. He was such a sweetheart, she could barely stand it. “I’m sorry I snapped at you.”
“Don’t be, I understand exactly where you’re coming from. I’ve been working at Stark for so long that people assume things about me, too, and I’d do the same thing.” Peter smiled back.
“You’re a pretty cool guy, Parker,” Cam said as a waiter came up to them. “This is gonna be a fun summer.”
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Avengers: Endgame review
TL;DR: This is not a terrible movie, especially given how many characters and story arcs the creators are juggling. That said, its success make its missteps all the more frustrating for me.
I like the opening scene, because it's so mundane. Instead of monsters and aliens and fighting, it's just a family picnic in the American Midwest. Even though it feels like Hollywood only knows one way to shoot family/domestic scenes, I like that Clint is teaching his daughter to shoot a bow instead of one of the boys.
I like how quickly the Snap happens, how silent and quiet it is. One minute, everything is fine, and then... Clint looks around and they are gone. He knows right away something is up. There's no place they could have gone. This scene is so short - less than three minutes out of a three hour movie - but the audience already sees where Clint is going next.
This scene also emphasizes how Rapture-like the Snap is - to the point where people online started calling it the Snapture. The film doesn't focus much on post-Snap life, but I'm sure religions would have a lot to say about this. In some ways, exploring life in this scared new world is more interesting to me than more predictable arc of getting it back...
I like Tony and Nebula playing paper football. How intense Nebula is, how into it she gets, how Tony lets her win. Wiki says those scenes were improvised and I approve. The message he leaves for Pepper with his helmet is pure Tony Stark--glib, audacious and yet charming all at once. I can’t decide whether I want to punch him or hug him for it. Maybe both.
I like that Captain Marvel's arrival is so angelic. She's glowing. It's a miracle. Was she sent to find him, or did she just stumble across the ship by chance? We never find out.
I like how the Avengers are able to locate Thanos, only to discover he's destroyed the stones. I like how using the stones has consequences: Thanos is able to use them, but at great personal and physical cost; it's nice foreshadowing for the end.
Thanos is so chill about dying; it makes me suspect he's got something up his sleeve, but apparently, he's okay with dying now that his Crazy Apocalyptic Death Cult has achieved its goal. He manages to break Nebula's heart even more before Thor murders him. It's hard to say who's more surprised in that moment: Thor or Nebula.
Time skip. There's only one real plot reason for a five-year gap, and that's so Tony Stark can have a kid and an excuse to be selfish that doesn't render him completely unsympathetic to the audience. Morgan is cute, and all, but I'm not a fan of what she represents, nor of the stock Hollywood way of portraying children. Tony lives in a log cabin in what is obviously Georgia, and doesn't use his wealth to fix the world or anything. Granted, he's got extreme PTSD, but he's chosen to become a hermit. I guess we should be glad he's not drinking, doing drugs, or screwing journalists, like he did in the first Iron Man movie.
Steve running the support group is poignant, especially since that was always Sam's gig. I wonder if it's his way of honoring Sam. Sob. Marvel claims the gay man in the support group is historic, but I can't help but note it's something that can be easily edited for release in China.
I have not seen the Ant-Man movies, but I like Scott Lang. He is an optimist who soldiers on despite the fact that he is the Butt Monkey of all the jokes. I like how he extricates himself from the storage locker--though the fact that the van is still in storage five years out speaks VOLUMES to how messed up the world is five years later.
I think Scott walks past his house first--then goes to the wall, then to his house and knocks on the door? Or is that just a random house in the background when he first asks the kid on the bike what's wrong? I don't know why the kid doesn't answer him, except to add an aura of mystery to the whole thing.
The stones on Crissy Field are intense. Scott running around in a panic is spot-on--and his confusion when his name is on there, and his relief that Cassie's isn't. He knocks on the door of his house and a now-teenaged daughter greets her father. Again, I'm not sure I buy how Hollywood portrays these kinds of reunions, but it's very moving.
I love Nat and her peanut butter sandwiches, her rapport with Steve. I love these two as friends and I also ship them, and nothing in this scene proves me wrong. I love that Nat is basically in charge of the world now, and that she's the one keeping everything running smoothly --even when, as Okoye puts it, some things like undersea earthquakes don't require any action on her part. I also like her hair - I wasn't a huge fan of her Infinity War look, so I'm glad she's gone back to long/red-dish hair again.
There's also the first stirrings of what Clint is up to, and while I don't like this subplot, I have to say it's set up very well. I can admire skillful plot devices even when I dislike their contents.
Scott showing up is priceless. I love his babbling to the security camera and Steve and Nat's reactions. Also, he drove the van all the way from California to wherever-the-hell-the-Avengers-Institute is located--I think it's supposed to be New York, but the filming location is a car headquarters in Georgia, so I think of it as Georgia.
I like that Bruce and the Hulk have come to an understanding. I wonder what Nat thinks about this. This movie makes it pretty clear Bruce is still into her, even though Nat isn't into him (and most of us are pretending that little subplot in Age of Ultron never happened).
Same with Thor. It hurts to see him so clearly stuck, but Korg is amazing, as always, even if he is an enabler. I don't know why Valkyrie hasn't kicked Thor's ass yet. Maybe she's too busy running things. I wonder if Valkyrie and Nat are talking. I bet they are. I bet they respect each other.
I also like how fanon says that noobmaster69 is really Loki trolling Thor via videogames. Otherwise, the idea of the God of Thunder threatening a teenager is terrible, not funny. It's much better for everyone if it's Loki.
I'm not sure how they get from quantum stuff to time travel, except Plot. I think it would have been less confusing if they'd called it traveling to parallel universes from the get-go, instead of time travel that happens to create parallel universes, because it doesn't act like the standard time travel narrative. There's some meta about this in the film, but I don't think that's enough to compensate. Anyway, timey-wimey-magic-science-plot ball.
Cut to Clint Barton murdering yakuza in Tokyo. I do not like anything about this scene, or Clint. Vigilante justice is not a healthy coping mechanism. Clint pulling back his mask in the rain while Natasha is behind him with an umbrella is beautiful, and I love it. I appreciate the callbacks to Clint reaching out to Natasha when she was brainwashed by the Russians, even though I don't like where this story arc is going.
I love that everyone finally puts their heads together and realizes that the Infinity Stones have all spent an improbably large amount of time on Earth in recent years.
You can hear the smile in Nat's voice when she says "Be right back," and my heart breaks because Oh, Irony.
Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One is a treat, even though I'm mad they whitewashed the character because China complained about making the character a Tibetan (as in the comics). I like how easily she is able to separate Bruce from the Hulk, and how Bruce just sighs and tries to negotiate. Strange giving up the Time Stone is one of the weirdest parts of the last movie, and I'm glad everyone else thinks so too.
(Also, Dr. Strange is in the middle of surgery while the Chitauri are attacking New York? WOW.)
The Captain America vs. Captain America fight is great fun, if painful to watch. Also, that callback to the Elevator scene in The Winter Soldier is great, as is watching all the secret!Hydra agents file in, and Scott says what we're all thinking: "How could you give the stone to them? They LOOK evil!"
Loki getting away with the Space Stone is a wild card, and I don't know what they're going to do with it. Going to Camp Lehigh in the '70s is great on a plot level: Tony gets a chance to chat with his father, and Steve gets more magic particles to further the rest of the plot. And they get the stone, too. Right.
Thor having one last conversation with his mother, oh my heart. Also, he stole his hammer from his past/other self... isn't that going to cause plot problems? Who cares, when we can have TWO flying hammer things in the final battle?
Peter Quill's internal monologue never looks as good from the outside. The directors seem to loath him as much as I do, meaning he is the other Butt Monkey of the party along with Scott. Rhody is genre-savvy and I approve; Nebula is an android and indifferent to personal danger.
The android bit makes things complicated when 2014!Nebula starts spilling bits of 2019!Nebula's memories. 2014!Thanos correctly identifies this as time-travelers from the future/parallel universes trying to prevent him from success. He gets to see the whole thing from 2019!Nebula's POV. I like that even though Thanos is dead in the main timeline/original universe, a different version of him rises up to take his place.
God, Clint and Natasha go to Vormir and it's terrible. Red Skull is appropriately creepy, but the whole premise pisses me off so much. Natasha and Clint fight about who gets to jump; Natasha "wins," causing Clint and everyone else much angst. I hated this in Infinity War, and I hate it even more now. I hate that the movie goes out of its way multiple times to explain there's no way to bring her back, even as it violates causality to replace Gamora. I hate that the only way to get the Soul Stone is to play the stupid game. There ought to be a way to beat it without sacrificing someone, and even if there isn't, why is it always the female characters who get sacrificed for manpain? I knew this was coming, so it wasn't as bad as it would have been otherwise, but I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Anyway, so they all come back, and mourn Nat. Continuous emphasis on how she's gone forever. Fuck you all, writers.
Bruce snaps to bring everybody back. He can tolerate gamma radiation. I love the line "It's like I was made for this". Bruce, honey, you're a rock star.
Tony is so freakin' specific about "bring everybody back but don't erase the last five years" because he loves his baby girl so much and cant bear that he have to lose someone himself. All kinds of logistical problems are going to happen as a result, but does he care? No! It would have been just as easy--probably easier--to snap Thanos out of existence right before the Snapture, or to allow Thor to slice off Thanos's head in time. That would also create continuity issues, but I think it would be a Stable Time Loop--and honestly, there are already so many continuity issues, I'm not sure why that would stop the writers. Anyway, I think we can all agree it would have been better if there HADN'T BEEN A FIVE YEAR TIME SKIP and maybe like six months or something, that would have been more manageable for everyone.
(and also if just Thanos is dusted and not the stones, the stones would still exist, although maybe it's for the best that they've been destroyed??)
But evil!Nebula has infiltrated the group, and opens the time machine to bring 2014!Thanos forward right after Bruce's snap brings all the dusted back. How she does this, I'm not sure exactly; is it even explained? Whatever. Plot demands it, so she does. They get Pym particles from somewhere. I don't know.
Anyway, so the Georgia car headquarters is blown to smithereens by an alien spaceship. The lake starts falling into the crater. Clint has the gauntlet with all the stones and is chased by space wolves. Thank goodness he still has exploding arrows.
Good!Nebula manages to convince new!Gamora to betray Thanos (it doesn't take much, tbh), but has to kill her evil!self. Ow. Poor Nebula gets traumatized AGAIN.
Steve wielding Mjolnir is not only a continuation of a brick joke from several movies ago, but also a Crowning Moment of Awesome. So is Dr. Strange opening the portals for everyone to show up and fight. Huge CGI battle ensures. There's no blood and everything's a mess and it's hard to keep track of everything, but man, those Chitauri bone-whale spaceships are cool. Carol Danvers knows how to make an entrance. Peter Parker is awkward and endearing, as per usual. Instant Kill Mode gets a workout.
Wanda attacking Thanos is heartbreaking. "I don't know you." "You took everything from me." HEY TONY, UNDOING THE SNAP THE WAY YOU INSISTED THEY DO IT MEANS VISION IS NEVER COMING BACK! Poor Wanda. I liked Vision. I'm sorry he's gone.
Thanos’s remark that next time he’ll make it so nobody remembers the horror of the Snap and they’ll be grateful to him and stop fighting it is truly horrifying. The Thanos in the first part seemed really resigned to dying, and it’s such a contrast. Thanos is right, of course--he would have gotten away with it “if it weren’t for those meddling kids” and the best way to prevent that is to re-write the universe to Make It So.
Thanos is such a smug, priveleged dudebro. Have I mentioned I hate him? I fucking hate him. He’s like the epitome of Smug Male Privilege crossed with Galactic Warlord. In some ways he’s the galactic foil to Tony Stark, which makes it all the more fitting that Stark is the one to take him down. Thanos is willing to sacrifice his loved ones for his vision of reality, and Tony fights to preserve them, even when it would be “better” not to. (I put “better” in quotes because I freely admit it’s a moral grey area with the whole “five year time skip” thing.) Stark starts off alone, and then dies surrounded by friends and loved ones; Thanos starts off with an army and a family and dies defeated and alone, twice over.
Stephen Strange holding back the waterfall--and gesturing to Tony across the battlefield--both great. "If I tell you, it won't happen." Anti-self-fullfilling prophecy, which amuses me. When all hope is lost, Tony reveals he has the stones and delivers the ultimate one-line--"I am Iron Man" before he snaps. Tony could have snapped for <i>anything</i>, he had ultimate power in that moment, but all he does is turn Thanos and his army into dust. Of course, Thanos is the last one to go, because it's more Dramatic that way.
Tony dies. Pepper gently but firmly pushes Peter out of the way. Peter Quill meets Gamora and Gamora kicks him in the nuts, unimpressed. I know she and Quill will probably get back together in later movies and it will annoy me then just as much as it did before, because he's so much cooler than he is. I had to stop watching the first GotG film because of all the ass shots of Gamora; ugh.
Everyone is appropriately sad and Tony's funeral at the Georgia lakehouse is very well attended in neatly thematic groupings. Nick Fury watches from the porch.
Have I mentioned how much I hate the "posthumous letter from emotionally constipated father figure that makes the audience and his loved ones cry, but which absolves him from any actual emotional development or growth" trope? It happens in the Stranger Things S3 finale and it happens here. Thanks, I hate it. Morgan Stark is cute and sad. God, Happy annoys me so much. I've hated him ever since he was so fucking condescending to "Natalie Rushman"--Natasha's alter ego in Iron Man 2. GOD. There is no justice here.
Steve volunteers to fulfill Bruce's promise to the Ancient One by returning all the stones. (It’s sweet how earnest Bruce is about this. I mean, Bruce has always cared about preserving the universe, even ones he doesn’t necessarily live in, but still. I find it endearing.) The movie doesn't say, but judging from the looks that Bucky and Steve give each other before Steve leaves, Bucky already knows what Steve is planning - to go the long way home and to give the shield to Sam. Bucky also knows where to look for Steve - on the bench by the lake. Still in Georgia; they got lots of tax credits for filming in Georgia, I will never be able to see this place as anywhere but Georgia.
Sam taking the shield breaks my heart, but in a good way. Nice set up for Falcon and Winter Soldier, I see what you did there, Disney.
The movie did an okay job of reminding people that Peggy existed by having Steve gaze longingly at her portrait in the locket and by staring at her through the window when he was at Camp Lehigh in the 1970s. Still, I don't blame fans for forgetting about her, given that she hasn't been a major character since The First Avenger, and died in Civil War. Both Bucky/Steve and Steve/Nat interactions are fresher in audience's minds - even Steve/Agent 13, although I guess that was just a side plot that didn't go anywhere.
Steve staying on through time the long way would make a LOT more sense if the time travel in this film worked like other time travel movies, but it's not, so it's just kind of weird. Literally, if it weren't for this ONE THING, I think the writers could have gotten away with "parallel universes" instead of time travel--especially since there's a 2014!version of Gamora around! How did Thanos do the snap the first time if his 2014!self jumped forward to 2019 and got killed there "before" he did the snap? It makes NO SENSE unless you assume the Quantum Realm takes you to identical-but-parallel universes instead of the past of the original universe.
(Yes, I KNOW Bruce says time travel doesn't work like you think it does--but I'm not sure it works the way this MOVIE thinks it does, either. Like I said, parallel universes all the way, except for the Steve 'n' Peggy bit.)
Also, I know Peggy gets married, but we never learn her husband’s name/see his face as far as I know, so it’s entirely possible Steve DID create a stable time loop by traveling back to the 1940s after his ship went down in the ice, and married Peggy and stayed out of the historical record to avoid Breaking Time any further.
So, while I can't say Steve's decision to go back for that dance wasn't foreshadowed enough, or is inconsistent with one version of his character arc, it pains me from a shipping perspective. I like Steve/Peggy, but I really love Steve/Nat, and there's no reason Steve couldn't have gone back in time and gotten together with Nat in the same way it's implied he got together with Peggy. The fact that he doesn't mention her name just makes it easier for my shipper heart to believe. (Because if he says Nat, Sam's going to make fun of him.)
Also: Steve meets Red Skull on Vormir. Please. I know there are fics about this, but still. I know the movie is three hours long, but this seems like a terrible omission, even so. Just saying. Maybe a special extra bonus scene??
AND WHY CAN'T STEVE BRING NAT BACK IF HE RETURNS THE SOUL STONE?? Over and over again, they say "A soul for a soul"-- so if Steve returns the Soul Stone he should get a soul back, am I right, am I right? COULD YOU FUCKING BE CONSISTENT, WRITERS?
(Can you tell I'm bitter? No? No? Let me shout some more then.)
I’m also not sure how the super-soldier serum works with aging, but I’m willing to buy that it doesn’t make Steve immune to normal aging - or at least gave him a lifespan twice that of most people, unless you want to chalk the first fifty years or so up to the ice or whatever. But that’s a minor world-building quibble at best.
Okay, so that was Avengers: Endgame. Glad I didn't see this in theaters -- I would have gotten too angry and too long for me to watch in one sitting without having to get up to pee. I think I would describe it as "adequate" --covered all the major beats, followed the standard scriptwriter format, some fun character moments. Very Obviously Written By Men based on its portrayal of family life and treatment of female characters, and the time travel makes no sense if you look closely at it.
But let's face it, it made bajillions of dollars, so as far as Disney's concerned, it was a home run.
So would I watch more Marvel films? The answer is, yes, maybe, but I feel so "meh" about the MCU now that Nat is dead. I'll make decisions on a case by case basis about what movies I watch on DVD after their release, but I'm not getting my hopes up I'll feel excited. There's always fic and fandom; I just don't know if canon has anything to say that interests me anymore. (Kinda how I feel about new Star Wars to be honest.)
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Choose Your Own Ending: The Conclusion to Steve Rogers’s Arc in Endgame
I’ve seen a lot of people grappling with the ending Steve Rogers got in Endgame, and I wanted to share my thoughts. I was incredibly moved by it, so, naturally, I was a little taken aback when I read that some thought it was OOC — not because I think those folks are inherently wrong, but because I thought I’d overlooked something big about his character.
Because this is the internet and things get taken out of context and misinterpreted, here’s a few things this post isn’t:
It’s NOT me telling anyone how to feel
it’s NOT me papering over issues of representation in the MCU
it’s NOT me thinking the time travel logic makes a lick of sense :P
What this post IS about is me sharing why the choice worked for me. I hope that my thoughts can lend a slightly different perspective to the Disc Horse.
There was an idea. What if you made a series of movies featuring beloved comic book heroes, then brought those characters together in one, big, epic crossover event? And, thus, The Avengers came into being in the summer of 2012.
Seven years later, the MCU has completely defied my expectations of what storytelling on this level could be. The fact that they wove 22 movies and I don’t know how many characters into a narrative as coherent as the one we got is, frankly, astounding. Case in point, look at the DCEU, which largely failed because they made the critical error of skipping to the team-up movie before laying the proper groundwork (dare I even bother mentioning Universal’s The Dark Universe?)
But this is a post about Steve Rogers.
One of the the themes of Endgame is passing the torch. We see it in moments between Tony and Morgan as well as the mentorship between Tony and Peter. The movie opens on it in a scene between Clint and his daughter. We even get a nod to Cassie Lang who, in the comics, becomes a hero in her own right as a teenager. Even Thor hands the keys to the kingdom over to Valkyrie. If you wanna get meta, you can read Endgame as the OG6 Avengers handing the MCU over to the next gen.
Now Steve passing the shield on to Sam is all fine and dandy, you say. But would Steve really just up and leave his team to go back in time and live out his life?
In this universe, yes.
Here’s the thing about comics (and I know I’m not exactly blowing anyone’s mind here): they just keep going. Our heroes never get to retire. They just get rebooted. Tony Stark will always wind up back in the jungles of Vietnam or a cave in Afghanistan. Rhodey, Pepper and Riri can all wear suits of their own, but Tony Stark will always be the Iron Man, and he’ll have adventures of his own ad infinitum. So of course comics Steve would never leave his team. Tony gave him a home, and he’s here to stay.
But movies have actors. And actors age and have contracts and move on. That presents a really unique storytelling opportunity. What happens when you get to definitively craft an ending to a comic book character’s story? Where would you leave them?
Five years following The Snapture (full credit to NPR’s Glen Weldon for that one), we find Steve leading support groups for survivors. He’s been relentlessly optimistic about their new reality seemingly because that’s what’s expected of him. “I keep telling everybody that they should move on,” he says to Natasha. “Some do. But not us.” You get a sense that underneath his calm exterior is a man who is deeply, deeply depressed and battling feelings of powerlessness (a thread you can arguably trace back to the moment he woke up from the ice). Hell, the minute Captain Marvel shows up to propose literally flying to space to kill Thanos, he’s all in. It’s the first chance he’s had to do anything about their situation, and he’s taking it, consequences be damned.
The same can be said for the Time Heist. He doesn’t hesitate to march straight to Tony to ask if it can be done. Steve is grappling with his failure to stop The Snap by following through on any dumb plan that could reverse it.
And then it works.
Having just helped win the battle of his life (and watch Tony sacrifice everything to seal the victory), we find Steve at a crossroads. Where does he go from here?
In CA:TWS, Peggy tells Steve, “The world has changed. None of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best we can do is to start over.” Steve tried that. For five years he tried that, and all he could manage was signing on to a plan that could reverse their mistakes.
Earlier in the film when Steve visits Tony at the lakehouse, you had to imagine that Steve saw what the future could be for him. He was confronted with this same vision in AOU when visiting Clint and his family on their farm, too. In AOU, he rejects that future, but that was before the team suffered the massive defeat they did in Infinity War. Those five years gave Steve perspective and a lot of time to think. In CA:TWS, when Sam asks Steve what makes him happy, he answers with a shrug and an “I don’t know.”
He knows now.
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the screenwriters of the Captain America movies and Infinity War and Endgame, said around the time of CA:TWS’s release that Steve Rogers is a character who doesn’t change. Instead, the world changes around him. He’s got high morals, an unshakable sense of decency, and is always willing to make the sacrifice play. The conflict in his stories originate between external tensions between him and the rest of the world rather than anything internal. In Endgame, we get to see Steve finally change in one important way as a character. He chooses to live.
Whether you wanted to see full resolution of the Steve/Peggy romance or get more of a payoff of the Steve/Bucky relationship, you can think of this choice to go back in time to live out his life as symbolic of this character growth. For perhaps the first time in his life, Steve chose his own happiness over his duty as an Avenger, not in a way that was selfish but in a way that was well earned by the culmination of his previous sacrifices.
And that’s why that ending left me a sobbing wreck in the theater.
If you’re interested in a more inside-baseball look at the MCU, please check out Patrick (H) Willem’s recent three-part video series on The Limitations of the MCU. He’s a guy who who clearly loves comics, the MCU, and Hollywood and has a nuanced understanding of all three. His frustrations are often our frustrations as both fans and storytellers. But he also gives credit where credit is due and puts the MCU project in context in a way that you don’t often see in fandom.
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I’m very proud of the writing I’ve done this week! Mortal Truth; and You Wish You Didn’t Ask the Question came out on Sunday; You Are Dead, My Life, and I Still Breathe came out yesterday; and I just posted the fifth chapter of The Sands of Titan! This week has been very productive! To celebrate (and because I want to know what people are interested in reading next), under the cut I’m putting the titles and short synopses of fics I’ve got on my to-do list. Message me if you want more information/want to weigh in on what to write next.
If Even Death Were Grace: “we begin in the dark/and birth is the death of us,” Anne Carson, “antigonick.”
Anthony Stark, son of Howard Stark, Titan of the Forge, and Maria Carbonell, Titaness of Family and the Hearth, God of Invention, finds himself like Iphigenia, a sacrifice—a pawn—to placate the furies of other deities, for transgressions he didn’t commit. Nevertheless, he holds his chin up and walks the path to Hel, averting a war and agreeing to a marriage both.
Better this than the alternative.
Frostiron, retelling of Persephone and Hades (at least inspired by) with Tony in the place of Persephone and Loki as Hades.
I’m Not Playing God: (All this time, I’ve been playing human.)
Frostiron, ThorBruce. Tony Stark walks out of the abandoned bunker in Siberia having awakened, realizing he was a god born to walk with humans. Rewriting from about the end of Ragnarok to Endgame.
I Hear You Whisper underneath Your Breath/I Hear You Whisper You Have Nothing Left: Tony wakes from nightmares of a life he can hardly imagine, a life where he’s left behind in a freezing bunker by an enemy wearing Steve Rogers’ face. Loki tries to comfort him, to distract him from these visions, but they become harder and harder to ignore—until something has to give.
Frostiron.
Desiring More Yet: Harley Keener is always hungry, always starving, always looking for the next thing to drive his teeth into. He burns through ideas, through petty lovers, through inventions and motivations and addictions, looking for something—anything—that will satisfy him. He was hungry before leaving Rose Hill, his hunger driving him to New York, and he's still hungry even now, even cared for and loved by Tony and Pepper, even in this place that was supposed to be everything that he wanted.
Perhaps it was some kind of idle dream, expecting thing new place to be all that he wanted, all that he needed.It did, at least, provide more distractions from his hunger than Rose Hill, Tennessee did.
Peter Parker is content with what he has. Most of the time, at least. Sure, sometimes he's a little lonely—but Aunt May, Ned, MJ, Tony, Pepper, they're all there for him, just a phone call or a text away at their farthest. Sure, sometimes he carries this guilt from not doing enough, not being enough, failing people—but he's Spiderman, and he can't afford to get too down, because he's got other people counting on him. He pulls through. Sure, sometimes, the night is so big and dark and he feels like it's so empty it's going to swallow him whole, but Karen's in his ear all night, keeping him going. He's fine. Really.
Maybe he's not as fine as he wants to be.
Parkner.
One-Part Sadness, Two-Parts Tragedy: a Harley Keener character study told in three parts: the first is his time in Rose Hill, the second his transition from Rose Hill to NYC with Tony and Pepper’s help, and the third NYC post-Endgame. Major character death, no happy ending.
Warfare and a Man at War: a Tony Stark character study that will be a series, beginning with Warfare and a Man at War, followed by Of Gods and Men and concluding with In Hope and Fear. Warfare and a Man at War will focus on human conflict, the struggles of human war and its effects. Of Gods and Men will be the introduction of aliens and Other threats, justified paranoia, and how one fights an outmatched battle to win. In Hope and Fear will conclude the series; it will be the end results, the conclusion, what happens to civilians once the threat is “gone.”
Brinesoaked Bodies: mermaid!au. Chapter titles: “Left Broadside onto Breaking Seas;” “The Black Hurricane;” “Worn by Winds on Every Sea;” “The Whole Uproar of the Great Sea Fell Silent;” “Serenity that Calms the Weather;” “Brinesoaked Bodies.”
Insensible Shades: a Rapunzel/Tangled au meets Orpheus/Eurydice. Harley is the stolen child of King Anthony and Queen Virginia. Peter, a thief/vigilante dubbed “Spiderman,” is on the run from the kingdom’s guards—a misunderstanding, he insists—and comes across a tower. He takes Harley to see the lanterns, initially rather unwillingly, only to accidentally drag Harley into the mess of his non-legal affairs. Peter sacrifices himself to save Harley; Harley, in turn, becomes like Orpheus and travels to Hel to trade for Peter. Parkner, angst with a happy ending.
Boyfriend Clothes: Harley Keener lives in the same dorm as his friend, Peter Parker. They aren’t the closest—Ned Leeds and Michelle Jones definitely take up more of Peter’s time than Harley does—but they share physics and engineering courses, and both work as personal interns for Tony Stark—which is kind of code for Tony pseudo-adopting the young geniuses.
Harley’s best friend is Shuri. She laughs at how Harley gushes over Peter—so long as he isn’t around. In turn, Harley teases Shuri for how she stammers around MJ. They’re both disaster gays.
One night, Harley sees Peter walking to/from the bathroom (or something similar in the dorm) in pajama bottoms (shorts, which barely come past the shirt he’s wearing over them) and a giant fleece button down. It reached down almost to his mid-thigh and hung off his shoulder a little, the top button undone so the shirt was open to about his mid-sternum.
Harley took this as obvious evidence that Peter now had a boyfriend (maybe even staying in his room that very night) and had to get to the bottom of it; he had to at least know who Peter was with—if only for the purposes of moving on.
Parkner, college!au, no powers, silly fluff & humor, shenanigans.
Untitled #1: In order to keep the Time Stone from Thanos, Stephen Strange liquefies it (the way that the Reality Stone becomes Aether) and places it inside the only one on Titan who has withstood an infinity stone before: Tony. Thanos retreats temporarily to plan again; Tony must learn to use his newly-gained magic before he returns in order to save the universe.
Untitled #2: Disturbances occurring in the magical “ley lines” or Circumstances lead to Stephen investigating the multiverse; the disturbances aren’t coming from within this universe, or perhaps even any specific universe. They seem to be coming from all universes and none of them at the same time; it’s the roots of Yggdrasil, shaking with anticipation for whatever is on its way. A horror lurks in the void between Yggdrasil’s roots, and Stephen has to locate and banish it.
Frostironstrange, Ironstrange, multiple universes, alternate timelines, horror/lovecraftian horror.
Untitled #3: Space pirates. The Ironfam (Tony, Pepper, Rhodey, Bruce, Peter, Harley, Morgan) are on the run from the imperial rule of the SHIELD system upon Tony, Rhodey, and Bruce discovering the way their military employers maintain and gain power. They’re pursued by a small task-force (Steve, Natasha, Clint, and Sam; Phil is their handler) from SHIELD and the Winter Soldier, a ship from the HYDRA system (once a colony of SHIELD which revolted and is now in the throes of a Reign of Terror, French revolution style) commandeered by a (brain-washed) captain proficient at hiding his ship using comets and ice rock fields. (The Winter Soldier is captained by James Barnes, a spy sent by SHIELD to keep an eye on HYDRA, only to fall into their hands.) The Winter Soldier has commands to capture Tony, Rhodey, and Bruce for their military & scientific knowledge.
Yggdrasil is a system far enough from SHIELD and HYDRA that neither know of it; it’s ruled by Odin, king of Asgard and conqueror of Jotunheimr, Vanaheimr, Alfheim, Muspell, Svartalfheim, Niflheim, and Nidavellir. Loki was taken from Jotunheimr when it was the last planet to be subdued by Asgard, being the furthest planet from the system’s star; Odin intends on making Loki the ambassador for the Jotuns, knowing that they still mourn the loss of their prince. Loki doesn’t take this well when he finds out; his mother Freyja helps him to flee. Odin sends Thor after him to capture him “on grounds of treason.”
Stephen Strange flees the Sanctum Sanctorum System when his planet, Kamar-Taj, is invaded by the rapidly-spreading empire Dormammu. The Ancient One had been grooming Stephen for taking her position as the protector of Kamar-Taj once she had stepped down, but Kaecilius, a jealous pupil of hers, aided Dormammu in infiltrating Kamar-Taj’s defenses as what he saw as retribution for being looked over for the position. The Ancient One, worried for the fate of the people she protects (not necessarily governs, though almost every government on Kamar-Taj recognized her as an influential power), sent Stephen away, having one of her trusted advisers, Wong, take him from the system. Kaecilius hears of the plot to sneak Stephen off the planet before the Dormammu forces could invade, and he attempts to prevent their escape. This fails, but Stephen does gain the favor of the Cloak of Levitation in this fight. Stephen and Wong escape, bringing the Cloak. Stephen intends on someday returning to rid Kamar-Taj of Dormammu rule, but he has a lot to learn from Wong and the universe first.
All of these plotlines intersect, threading through, around, and with one another.
Polycule: Tony, Pepper, Rhodey, Bruce. Eventual additions of Frostironstrange and ThorBruce
Untitled #4: sick!fic; I have the list of headcanons/ideas here. Parkner. Cute & fluffy, featuring trans Peter with an unidentified but minor sickness and Harley being a good boyfriend.
Untitled #5: Stardust!au. Part One: Tony Stark leaves Wall to explore the land beyond it which beckons him, but only for a short time, with people depending on him back home. He falls for an imprisoned fae, attempts to free him, but ultimately fails and must return to Wall. Not long after, the watcher of the wall brings him a child in a wicker basket named Harley.
Part Two: Eighteen years later, Harley Keener is infatuated with a girl named Victoria. He, trying to win her hand over her other suitor, E.J., promises to bring her a star that they see falling from the sky. He expects something like a precious stone; he, instead, meets Peter. They get dragged into an adventure running from star-eating warlocks, meeting lightning-catching pirates—who always make sure to dock frequently, so their captain can see his alchemist spouse—and a wild scramble for a throne that seems to have no viable heir.
(Whether the fae is Loki or Stephen, I haven’t yet decided. Weigh in if you have a preference.)
Parkner, ThorBruce, either Frostiron or Ironstrange.
Beyond these, I have my NaNoWriMo story (rough hands//soft hearts) and my Clint Barton Bingo card.
#my work#update#okay I'm rlly happy about the SoT chapter ?? so i wanted to celebrate#& I also rlly like talking about what I'm working on#partially because it makes me think about it so I'm more likely to get it done sooner#but I also am just rlly excited to write them#!!
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Request List:
Because I happe to get a lot more Requests than usual, I decided to make a Post that contains any outstanding Requests. I will add new ones whenever they are requested. So if I don´t answer to your ask, please take a look at this post :)
The order in which they are listed, is NOT the order I am going to write them in.
I write whenever I feel like writing/ have ideas. So it might take days, weeks or longer before it will be posted!
BE AWARE THAT THEY MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!
The Requests are under the cut:
1.I want to request an angsty one. Where reader is mutant, like she is daughter of Charles and Magneto (genetically) so she can bend metals & read minds. Fury takes her in as she looses her X-Men family. But every one in avengers is not happy about her arrival & are very cold towards her(ik they won't do it but still). She's alienated & is left all alone. End as you like
2.thor reader Steve smut inspired by Steve lifting hammer? Like reader is mjolnir, like Thor can get his full power only when reader is around cus she is his soulmate. Then Steve reaches his full potential learning it's not Peggy but reader is his soulmate. They have sex rough one maybe?
3.Thor & reader. Where their marriage is arranged & he's not very happy about it, he loathes her basically all angst. Then leaves fir Ragnarok events but when he comes back & sees how she's protecting everyone & fighting for Asgard he falls in love with her apologizes & passionate sex maybe
4.Are you comfortable with dark Clint? Endgame Clint maybe who's very pissed & unlike movie no chance of getting his family back. So takes it out on reader who works for avengers, he thinks she hasn't lost anything & takes all his anger on her. Maybe tries to impregnate her to start a family?
5.dark Thor? Endgame Thor preferably. Where instead of gaurdians, he goes to reader who thinks he's dead and sorta moves on with life so he goes all dark.
6.I wanted to request. In really horny rn so please don't judge 🙈🙈. Can you do a really dark noncon reader, Thor, Steve & Tony. Where maybe they all lost to thanos, and take it out on reader
7.I'm fighting with body imagery issues. keeping this in loop, can you do a Thor reader smut? Angsty fluffyish
8.dark Thor & dark Peter quill. Where maybe when they travel together they find reader(waitress, Idk just a thought) & take her noncon?
9.reader, Bucky & Steve? Where Bucky is dating Steve and reader as well, reader is oblivious about Steve but Steve knows( loves reader as well) Steve makes move on reader, reader feels guilty & tells Bucky he laughs it off saying he dates her cus he wants Steve to date her too. She gets pissed & stuff. Lil angsty & fluffy smutty maybe
10. noncon? Where reader is stripper & Bucky always visits her place & drools over from afar(reader is oblivious) One day she wears captain America themed lingerie & does her pole dance. Bucky looses his cools & after show goes after her. A rough noncon.
11. Bucky & Steve both sleep with reader(not threesome) when they miss Peggy & Natasha, reader just feels they love her. Once she hears them saying how easy fuck reader is & basically all angst. End is as you like. Make reader happy though
12. Thor, Steve & Bucky with reader. Where reader is basically an intern but they sleep with her (individually) they treat her like an escort. She wants out but they all blackmail her. When they sleep with her they keep degrading her & calling names etc. All angsty. Until one day, when there's a fight, reader lifts mjolnir. They sorta kneel & respect her?
13. Tony & reader?abo dynamics? If yes, I'd like to request one where reader has crush on Steve & Tony on reader. Once reader goes in heat Tony takes the chance & claims her against her wishes. Maybe she's pregnant later
14. AU where Bucky is famous writer very rich & rude. Reader is simple intern at his office. He fucks her for sake of writing the scene but she falls for him & thinks he loves her. But at opening of his book he brings some girl. This breaks her heart, he also says she's just a good fuck. Angsty. End as you like.
15. Thor reader & Steve? Where they are in relationship, but it so happens that Steve & thort get competitive as to who fucks reader the best. So to prove the point they have sex with her(individually) give her orgasms, like 3-4 in a row but this exhausts reader. She gets tired, can hardly walk is always covered with hickeys. There comes a point she avoids them & cries to herself. Fluff ensues?
16. request where reader is ex hydra. She's new on team & obviously no one trusts her. They're rude to her, ignore her if she tries to talk, Don't take her suggestions if she makes any. She's left alone until Peter befriends her. He tells the team how nice she is, how helpful she is etc. They feel bad & try to make up but till the time she's transferred somewhere. End as you like
17. scene from killer inside me. It's basically spanking. Can you do a Thor reader based on that? It's on YouTube
18. request an AU with mobster Tony stark, where he's married to reader who's quite younger than him(I'm 22), but he doesn't see her as wife cus he loves pepper (died or didn't marry due to political reasons) so he only has sex with her takes her raw & rough. Doesn't care if she's hurting, he doesn't talk to her ever. They even have a kid but still he's cold towards her. Then Thor comes, things change then. It's on you what you like, divorce or happily ever after cus Tony gets jealous.
19. Sam & reader? Where Bucky & reader are in relationship but reader is like a rebound & backup if he doesn't get nat again. He ends up having sex with some random chick, reader sees it. He also mentions her how he had to get himself off with reader like she's not enough. So reader gets all sad develops body imagery issues. Sam had crush on reader anyway so they end up together. Make Bucky regret little
20. Reader, Steve & Bucky, where reader is Brock rumlow's gf. She doesn't know anything what he does. She thinks he's nice. As to take revenge Steve & Bucky kidnap her rape her & torture her. End as you like
21. A Viking Steve? Where he invades reader's land, takes her as slave & fucks her raw & rough(noncon) _ shares her with Bucky & Thor maybe?
22. One where reader is sex slave & Tony buys her for the team(Thor, Clint, Steve). So basically the things they do to her dark, rough & noncon. Maybe later on they get in polygamous relationship?
23.Dr. Strange & Reader? Where reader is his wife & before the accident he never respected her, even though she's a Dr like him, he belittles her, doesn't talk to her, feels ashamed. Later becoming the master, he sees her through portal that how dedicated she is & how dearly she loves him. All fluffy & maybe a passionate love making?
24. Thor & reader, where reader & Loki are engaged but Thor rapes reader cus he wants her, but feels guilty & goes away. Meanwhile Loki leaves reader saying she's impure. Valkyrie takes reader under her wing & helps her heal. Maybe she ends up pregnant? Happy ending please .
25. One where Bucky is married to reader but is insecure. Reader is planning to tell him about her pregnancy & plans a surprise. Bucky thinks she's cheating on him & kid isn't his. So he leaves her. Steve helps her through out, Bucky thinks they're together. All angst but fluffy ending.
26. dark avengers, where they experiment on people to make them strong. They kidnap reader & do brutal experiments on her, to make her strong they physically, mentally & sexually harm her. Idk how to end it. It's on you?
27.Endgame Thor & reader noncon
28. noncon reader & Thor, where he wants to breed her. He keeps saying gimme baby over & over. He continues to do so until she's pregnant.
29. Au, where hydra & avengers are kingdom. Reader is married off to Steve. He's not very keen about it. Reader is Brock's adoptive sister, he raised her only so to get in avengers secrets. Reader is oblivious to all this, she's just innocent girl. When avengers find this out they begin to torture her. Amongst this torture she looses her baby. Brock seeing all this surrenders. Readers fate in your
30. One where Dean Winchester forces reader to give him blow job. Facial humiliation to be precise.
31. SOA au, abo dynamics where Jax claims reader against her wishes & takes her virginity?
32. request where Tony dates reader they have sex & he tapes it. His main intention is to bring reader for Steve & Bucky to enjoy? Tony blackmails reader saying if she doesn't comply he'll upload that tape for everyone to see. Bucky & Steve take her rough & new noncon.
33. Could you do a lactation kink of Steve? Reader is pregnant with Bucky's child, Steve can't control how soft & big her boobs get. One day he looses his control & tears her shirt & sucks on her boobs. Reader feels humiliated & tells Bucky. Bucky supports Steve & shares her with him even though reader doesn't want it.
34. One where Peter & reader are siblings, children of Tony stark. Reader is elder one & never been treated right by avengers. Peter is always favoured, pampered etc. Reader is left alone even though she's smart. Reader is married off to Brock rumlow, but he's abusive (physical &sexual). Avengers don't know, once Peter gives her surprise visit& sees her bruises & brings her home. Fluffy ending? Sorry if it's confusing.
35. How bout sex slave reader, who's new in business & is really young gets bought by Tony for Steve? She develops feelings for the man, but he doesn't. Can you make a holy trinity, smut, angst & fluffy ending. Thank you 💛
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Unexpected Guests
Thanks for requesting this @geekofmanythings16 and I am so so sorry this is so incredibly late! Post-endgame so it is a little sad but I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Prompt 8: Peter’s graduation except most of the Avengers show up to the ceremony and no one can work out why they are there.
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Rating: all ages, a little angsty at times
Word count: 3068
Ao3 link: on the way...
Peter's eyes were locked on the table at the front of the hall, upon which sat roughly a hundred and fifty scrolls of paper, tied tightly with blue and yellow ribbons. Somewhere amongst them was one with Peter's name printed in curly letters announcing that he had graduated from Midtown School of Science and Technology. It was Peter's ticket to the future.
"-and heck, if we could all make it through dying and being brought back to life and stillgraduate after that, I cannot wait to see what we go onto do in the next 5, 10, 20 or even 100 years. Thank you for having me as your valedictorian." MJ said ending her speech a little more formally than Peter knew she would have liked. He'd spent the last two weeks listening to MJ repeat and edit the speech and, in the process, had suggested she remove some of the more… questionable jokes that she had tried to include. The ones about the principal's wig and the inability of the school system to actually teach students to learn had definitely not made it into the final speech.
As Michelle stepped down from the podium the graduating class broke out into reverent applause and Peter joined in, clapping his hands loudly as he watched his sort of girlfriend leave the stage. Peter wasn't sure if he was supposed to be calling MJ that yet… things were still a little bit unsure but that didn't stop Peter's heart swelling with pride as the applause continued long after MJ had left the stage. He knew she had been nervous going up there, though she had done her best not to show it.
Peter wasn't sure if it was the stuffy air in the gymnasium making him sweat or if he was just that nervous. He tugged at his academic robe, pulling it back onto his shoulder and in the process almost elbowing the person next to him. Midtown's Principal and Vice Principal stepped up to the podium and began reading out the list of names. Peter watched, as one by one his fellow graduates stepped up onto the stage, shook hands and took their diplomas.
Peter clap dutifully alongside the rest of the students as he watched his friends and classmates graduate, waiting patiently for his name to be called.
Peter had always felt a little out of place at these high school events. As a kid, whenever he had received academic awards at assemblies, he'd felt embarrassed as everyone else had their families stand up in the audience and applaud their achievements and he'd only had Uncle Ben and Aunt May… and eventually it had just been May. That feeling had been lost over time and now he had a new appreciation for the enthusiasm with which May had applauded and cheered for him all those years ago.
Seeing everyone's families getting ready to go into the Hall with their kids hadtugged at Peter's heart a little as he thought of all the people that he had lost on the way to this moment. His parents… what would they have thought if they saw him now? Saw the person he had become? What would they think of him being Spider-Man? What about Uncle Ben? He'd always had such high hopes for Peter, had dreamt of Peter following in his father's footsteps and going to MIT.
Then there was Tony Stark. It had been a year since Peter had watched Tony die in the wreckage of the Avengers Compound, but the pain was still as fresh as yesterday. As fresh as the paint that MJ had helped Peter hurriedly put on his graduation cap earlier that morning in the shape of an arc reactor. What would Tony think of Peter now? Of where he was going? Would he regret making Peter an Avenger? Or would he be proud?
Peter sighed and turned his attention back to the stage, watching as the students seemed to fly past. Before he knew it, his best friend was stepping up to the podium, shaking hands with the Principal and turning to the crowd to grin at Peter.
Peter grinned and clapped as Ned left the stage looking immensely proud with the paper in his hands, as he should’ve been. Peter couldn’t forget that Ned, like half the students in the hall, had been through a lot to get to this point. Peter raised his hands to his mouth to cheer as the clapping died out and grinned as Ned gave him a wave as he returned to his seat.
Peter slipped his cellphone out of his pocket and swiped it open, trying to be surreptitious as students continued being called to the front. He glanced down at his conversation with May, dismayed by her reply.
Peter: Any sign of Pepper and Morgan?
May: not yet, I saved them seats though. And happy is here! He says hello.
Peter: Hi happy!
Peter: how about now
May: Still not here, I’m sorry Peter but you know how busy things have been at Stark Industries this last month. Will text if she arrives. Xx
Peter shut his phone off and tried not to sigh as he put it back in his pocket. He sat back in his chair. Peter had cautiously asked Pepper if she might come to his graduation a few weeks ago and at the time she had seemed more than enthusiastic and certain that she would be in attendance. Having been working with SI for the last year as a sort of intern/ part timer Peter knew how busy the company could get, especially considering the financial year was coming to a close.
Peter heard the gymnasium doors open behind them and watched as the Principal momentarily stopped what he was saying, stuttering slightly before continuing with the name he had been reading out. The principal got back on track before the students could look around and wonder what had made him stop his speech so suddenly.
Peter breathed deeply as the Principal worked his way down Peter’s row, eventually arriving at the P’s, of which Peter was first.
“Who’s that?” Someone whispered near Peter and he saw heads craned around to look at the back of the gymnasium.
“What are they doing here?” Said another excited quiet voice but Peter could barely hear the whispers he was so nervous.
“Peter Parker.”
Peter took a last breath of air and pushed himself from his chair to his feet, ensuring that he didn’t trip on his academic gown as he stood up. Peter stepped out of the rows of chairs and walked swiftly down the aisle that lead to the stage. He looked at the principal who was smiling warmly at him, diploma ready in hand.
“Congratulations.”
Peter grinned as he shook the principal’s hand and looked out to the crowd of students and parents before him, eyes searching for May. He found her quickly, Happy sat next to her but the two seats beside them still vacant. May was smiling brightly, her gaze proud.
Peter took his diploma and was met with applause and jerked his head up in surprise when he realized how loud it was. At first, he wondered whether it was his Spider senses that were making the applause sound so disproportionately loud but then he looked out to the back of the gymnasium and his jaw dropped. Students and parents alike had twisted around in their seats to try and figure out why Peter was getting an unnaturally loud applause compared to the other students.
At the back of the hall, standing behind the seats looking like the most out of place group of people he had ever seen, were the Avengers. Or what was left of them.
Thor, dressed smartly in dress pants and a white shirt, was clapping his hands and Peter had to wonder if he was adding a little bit of thunder to make it seem louder. Next to him, and about two heads higher was Dr Bruce Banner still as green and large as ever. Beside him was Bucky Barnes, stoic as usual but Peter felt he could detect faint appreciation in his eyes. Beside Bucky was Sam Wilson who was smiling widely and clapping enthusiastically, though their relationship had started off on rocky ground, Peter was pretty sure they were friends… like at least 68 percent sure. Wanda Maximoff was there too, clapping beside the newly resurrected Vision.
As Peter’s eyes shifted to the last person in the group, Pepper Potts, he was distracted by the voices which had quickly filled the gymnasium, that he hadn’t properly registered before.
“Why are the Avengers here?”
“Are they clapping for Peter? Surely not!”
These voices where interrupted by the sound of little shoes slapping against the gymnasium floor.
Peter stepped to the side a bit, just in time to see Morgan Stark running down the aisle, the back of her blue coat streaming out behind her. Peter’s face broke into a grin. He’d completely forgotten what was happening on stage, he wasn’t sure if the ceremony was still proceeding or if he, or rather the arrival of the Avengers, had put a bit of a pin in the cogs for the time being. It certainly seemed that no one in the audience was paying any attention, too preoccupied with craning their heads around to try and get a good look at the group of superheroes at the back of the room. Peter left the stage.
“Peter.” Morgan said as she flew into his arms, Peter picked her up as he hugged her.
“Hey Morgan, how you doing?”
“Good.” Morgan said sweetly and then tugged at the tassel of his graduation cap. “Mommy said I could come see you.”
Peter looked up, casting his eyes to Pepper at the back of the hall. She mouthed a sorry, shaking her head slightly. Peter understood, Morgan was so stubborn that he doubted anyone would have tried to stop her once she put her mind to it.
“Ok, well we better head back now, we’re holding things up here.” Peter said, setting Morgan on the ground. She took his hand tightly in her own. He looked around at the Principal, who like most of the audience, was still distracted by the Avengers in his gymnasium. The VP stepped up behind him to remind him to continue with the procession.
“Right!” The Principal said straightening and watching as Peter began to return to his seat. “Where was I…”
“Can I stay with you?” Morgan asked as Peter maid to take her back to Pepper.
“Uhm…” Peter said looking down at Morgan and the puppy eyes she had just pulled out. They were lethal. “Of course you can.”
“Yay.” Morgan said quietly as silence fell throughout the hall again and Peter led Morgan back to his seat.
Once they were back at his seat, Peter sat down and pulled Morgan onto his knees so that she could see the stage.
“What’s this?” Morgan said, turning around to tug at the tassel on his graduation cap again.
“Here you can have a look if you like.” Peter said quietly, pulling the cap off and handing it to Morgan. He paid half attention to what was happening on stage while also keeping an eye on Morgan as she ran her fingers in circular motions over the arc reactor Peter had painted there.
“You ok?” Peter asked, rubbing Morgan’s arm fondly. Flash’s name was called, and he approached the stage.
“Yeah.” Morgan said quietly, moving to put the cap back on Peter’s head. With some difficult they managed to get it sitting straight. Morgan then turned away, casting her attention to the stage as she swung her legs back and forth from where she sat.
The rest of the ceremony proceeded normally and while everyone seemed quite distracted, the attention was directed more or less back to the students. Once the last student had been called and accepted his diploma the procession rose and began to file out onto the lawns outside the gymnasium. Morgan slipped away to the back of the hall and Peter watched her go, rising to join the rest of the students as they left to the applause of onlookers. May was on her feet, Happy beside her, both clapping enthusiastically but when Peter reached the back of the gymnasium and went outside, he found that the Avengers were nowhere to be seen.
Peter was crestfallen as he left, disappointed that the Avengers hadn’t even stuck around to say hello. Though he supposed he should feel somewhat honored that they came along at all.
“Congratulations Peter.” May said grabbing Peter’s shoulders from behind and turning him around to give him a tight hug. “Your parents, uncle Ben they all would have been so proud – I am so proud.”
When she withdrew Happy clapped him on the shoulder, “Good job kid, Tony would have been proud.”
Peter tried to smile but it must have fallen short and not reached his eyes so May quickly jumped in before the mood soured.
“Look who showed up though!” She said indicating somewhere behind Peter’s head.
Peter turned and sure enough standing on the far side of the oval, away from all the people, were the Avengers. His mouth dropped open slightly and May flicked his chin lightly, encouraging him to close it.
“Come on.” She said pushing him towards them and Peter found his feet taking one step after the other as he walked over. Somehow this was making him more nervous than when he had gone up to accept his diploma which he was still clutching in his hands. It was silly really, he had been on quite a few missions with the other Avengers in the last year, he had no reason to be worried.
Sam was the first to step forward as Peter reached the imposing group. “Congrats kid! I was beginning to think they wouldn’t read your name out, you were pretty far to the end though – didn’t get the grades you wanted?” Sam said jokingly, throwing an arm around Peter’s shoulder and ruffling his hair before withdrawing.
“It was alphabetical order.” Bucky said quietly.
“I know I was making a joke Barnes.” Sam chided, smiling regardless.
“Congratulations Peter, we’ve got big expectations for what happens next.”
“Thanks, Mr Barnes.” Peter grinned, shaking Bucky’s extended hand.
“Good job Peter, we always knew you had it in you.” Wanda said stepping forward to embrace him in a quick hug.
Like Bucky, Vision held his hand out and Peter shook it eagerly, marveling at the fascinating texture as he did. “I anticipate great things.”
Peter swallowed nervously but tried to nod anyway. Bruce came at Peter with a bone crushing hug and seemed to have teared up a little. “So proud.” He sniffed.
“Congratulations Peter, we’re so proud of you! Everyone at Stark Industries has been asking how it went.” Pepper said hugging Peter tightly. “Tony would have loved to have been here.” She said quietly so that only he heard and withdrew.
Morgan was last and Peter knelt to give her a tight hug.
“Thank you all so much for coming.” Peter said grinning.
“Ah what are you talking about,” Sam said waving a nonchalant hand, “it’s not like we had anything else to do on a Friday afternoon.”
“For god’s sake someone touch wood.” Bucky whispered and everyone laughed.
“Peter honey, they’re expecting you back there.” May said jerking her finger over her shoulder. Peter followed her gesture and saw that the rest of the graduating class were gathered together, photographer ready.
“Crap.” Peter muttered and, holding onto his cap as he did, rushed over to the group. He was met with a few scowls at having kept them all waiting but mostly everyone was gaping at him and trying to figure out why Peter of all people had been talking to the Avengers. Peter grinned as he joined Ned who fist bumped him enthusiastically.
“Everyone is gonna think crazy things now.” MJ said in his ear and Peter jumped, somehow, he hadn’t felt her arrive by his side.
Peter beamed and put his arm around her shoulders, a little more smoothly than he might have normally done given how on top of the world he was feeling in that moment. She smiled back and threw an arm around his shoulders and squeezed back.
“Who knows what they’re thinking, heck they might even think I am Spider-Man.” Peter said quietly, and MJ snorted.
“No one would ever think that, don’t worry.” She said looking into his eyes knowingly.
“To the graduating class of 2024!” The principal said from behind the photographer and with a cry and thunderous applause and cheers from around them the students took their caps from their heads and turned their faces to the sky.
Peter bent his knees slightly and launched his cap up into the air with a little more force than was necessary. He stood there face upturned, one arm around MJ and one extended around Ned, his eyes peeled open as he took a mental image ensuring that he would never ever forget that moment. As the caps sailed down around them Peter was reminded of everything that had happened to him since he was bitten by a radioactive spider all those years ago. The choices he had made, the battles he had one and the ones he had lost. It was all in the past now, but each experience served as a lesson to be learnt, a story to be told and something to be remembered.
He watched the black caps floating down as though they were in slow motion and his thoughts turned to Tony and in that moment caught a glimpse of his own cap sinking down towards him. The arc reactor spinning as the cap spun in midair and in that moment, it seemed to glow with recognition. Tony was still there, no matter where Peter went or what he did, a part of Tony would always be with him as it was with Pepper and Morgan and Happy and Rhodey and every other person whose life had been touched by Tony Stark and who had felt the imprint of his absence. Tony had given Peter another chance and he sure as hell wasn’t about to waste it.
#spiderman#peter parker#michelle jones#peter x mj#tony stark#irondad#spiderson#ned leeds#Peter Parker fan fiction#spiderman fanfiction#fanfiction#marvel fanfiction#visionsofusworks#I tried to make it a little cute#don't know how it turned out tho#short Drabble so don't read too much into it
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Okay, I’m gonna say it.
Spoilers, me being a lil salty and crying. If you want to see my unpopular opinion on one of the deaths in Endgame keep looking.
Tony dying was an amazing completion of his arc.
Since getting out of the cave, Tony has not rested. He is alive for a reason he doesn’t know but assumes is to protect those who cannot protect themselves, atone for all the lives he was helping take. He keeps going, perfecting, spending hours, no, days on his suits. His instinct is to defend and work so as soon as he hears about Yinsen’s village, he hops into action with his Mark 2. The Mark 2. Which, while it works, still got bullet holes and had many flaws that could have killed him.
He knows he should have died with the paladium poisoning. But he survived (with help). Why would anyone help his self destructive ass? Because he is needed for the great good. So of course he keeps going.
He’s told Pepper he can’t stop. After New York he literally spends days awake making more suits because even if he rests, it isn’t restful. It’s fitful. His fear isn’t just him being in that wormhole, it’s the gate staying open and the Earth in shambles. He has an obsessive compulsiom to make suits (I will make another post about how Tony’s PTSD led to OCD).
Even after blowing up all his suits, he cannot stop. The world has perfectly capable heroes, but they aren’t him. He has to help. He has to make things better, more capable.
Ultron is the result of him doing it wrong. But he can’t stop after defeating the program, he still needs to keep going and do something that can accomplish what Ultron didn’t, couldn’t.
The Accords were more than just regulation for Tony. They were his way of keeping Pepper and being able to rest knowing the world is taken care of, there is a legitimate international entity taking care of it. He will be brought in when he needs to be. To break the obsessive need to build more and more and more...
He updates his suit based on previous failures. But they aren’t failures, just things he couldn’t prevent at that time so he makes up for it in tech.
Fought with Steve and Bucky which resulted in a broken arc reactor? Make them more embedded so that can’t happen.
Iron Man suit leaves him in the cold? Builds heaters into his suits, Rhodey’s and Peter’s.
Couldn’t catch Rhodey after the latter’s armor was compromised? Add better and more capable thruster so he can get places faster.
Every ‘failure’ becomes an update. It isn’t like software that grows groggy with use or a phone breaking after someone abusing it for years. To him, every mistake is a failure rather than a bug. He doesn’t update the software so the code matches, he doesn’t build a more durable screen because those are needs that should be met for high quality - like the idea of adding more power because an update could really help things. No, he builds things because he needs to be able to protect against all possible outcomes and threats. And every time there is an outcome he didn’t predict, he goes back to the drawing board.
After the snap, he was shattered. He wasn’t able to be the defender, the hero he wanted to be; he couldn’t be the hero people wanted him to be. He failed. His trust with the others is shredded and he thinks he has no other options other than to just move on. For the first time, he has no updates, no fancy gadgets to fix his failure. How is he supposed to update a suit so he can deal with the space demi-god in possession of the 6 most powerful weapons in the universe?
He’s hesitant when the others visit him. Not just because of the trust issue, but the fact that once he gets an idea in his head he can’t let go. It becomes an obsession. What if he was able to update to fix those failures?
Running those simulations was his half- in it attempt to see if there was a tangible hope. He wanted to see if it was possible before he jumped in. Even then he wouldn’t have let it go til he made it possible.
As soon as he finds out it works, he tells Pepper (after putting Morgan back to bed). He tells her he should probably toss it to the bottom of the lake but Pepper asks him “but will you be able to rest?” (Or something similar).
So for Pepper to be there, as he is dying, and telling him, “we’re alright. You can rest now” is the full circle. If she hadn’t told him that, he might’ve tried to stay alive for her and Morgan’s sake because he needs to protect the one (now two) thing he can’t live without. This would have resulted in more physical pain and still his death. But his love, his life, the person he trusts more than himself is telling him he can rest. If she says so, then it must be true.
She knows the only way for Tony to rest is for him to know he did everything he can, that he was the best he could be. Telling him it’s alright is a verbal confirmation that yes, everything is okay, don’t worry. We’ve got it. You did it.
Pepper doesn’t want him to die. But seeing him there after she knew he wouldn’t stop until he got to this point, she knows she just needs to let him know that he can rest because everything is alright. She knew this day would come, the day he outdid himself to the point of death instead of taking a damn break. Instead of resting.
So Tony rests. He doesn’t retire on a grateful universe (after fixing it instead of destroying it); he doesn’t get a life he couldn’t live but wanted to back (because he already lived a life he could have and loved); he doesn’t depart on a journey to be (or find) himself (he knows precisely who he is - he stares his nightmare in the face and declares who he is, not who that nightmare wants him to be, ffs).
He dies knowing that everyone is okay, that his tech, his work, his everything completed the mission, it succeeded. That he doesn’t need to obsess over protecting the Earth and beyond... that he can sleep now. He can rest.
No more “there is only the next mission.”
No more “... just in case there’s a monster closet, instead of...”
No more “... and then and then and then... I didn’t stop because the truth is I don’t want to stop.”
Just the comfort of knowing he did right by all those he hurt or couldn’t protect; that he protected everything he can’t live without.
He can finally rest.
#mcu#marvel#endgame spoilers#liz spoils endgame#endgame#eg spoilers#liz talks endgame#tony stark#iron man#pepper potts#morgan stark#i am iron man#i love you 3000#avengers#avengers meta#i sobbed even though i knew he was going to die so dont call me an anti#i have nightmares and likely ptsd so i loved him#but his desire to help was too great#it isnt saying trauma victims cant live good lives because he does#its saying this particular character had to finish his arc with death#also fuck tumblr#i had most of this written out then the app crashed
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Walking The Wire (135/158)
Summary: Tony Stark always knew about Peter Parker. He didn’t know that Peter was going to get superpowers and become Spider-Man, but he always knew about Peter because Peter was his son.
This will span from pre-Iron Man up through the rest of the MCU (eventually including Infinity War) and will be for the most part canon compliant except where I’ve taken some liberties and interpreted canon a certain way.
Pairings: Pepper/Tony, Tony/Steve (endgame), Tony/Mary (past)
A/N: If you want me to tag you when I post new chapters let me know. This fic is also on AO3
I used Collider’s MCU timeline to stay canon and the title of this fic is an Imagine Dragons song that is just so fitting for Peter and Tony
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Masterpost
Chapter One Hundred Thirty Four
2025
The lab didn’t look like what Scott had expected a lab to look like. He’d been expecting something like what Hank Pym’s lab looked like which meant that he’d expected a workspace. This had become more of a living space than anything. There was a bed and a bunch of art supplies on one side and then in another corner a punching bag but there were still tool boxes and workspaces and yet none of that seemed like it had been used in a long time. The lab also doubled as a garage, it seemed like and there were two cars parked closer to the exit as well as a motorcycle.
The moment the glass door opened, a robot dog barked at Steve and he reached down to pet it for a moment. It followed after Steve as he walked further into the lab
“That’s K-9. He belonged to Peter,” Steve said.
Scott didn’t even know what to say to that as Steve knelt to pet the dog.
“Friday, give him a rundown,” Steve said when he stood up again.
“Hello, Mr. Lang,” a voice said -- he supposed that that was Friday. A video feed appeared in front of him in the form of some sort of holographic and Scott didn’t know if this was a future thing or a Tony Stark thing but it was kind of amazing nonetheless.
“She’ll show you everything -- everything that happened,” Steve said.
It was comprehensive and insane and Scott couldn’t -- he couldn’t believe it even though all the footage was right in front of him. New clips mixed with articles and footage that must have come from the Avengers compound.
Scott was startled when he heard something punched. He turned and found that Steve had moved over to the corner of the room where the punching bag had been set up. Steve seemed to be focused on that and that alone. Scott left him to it, hearing the punches as background noise as he turned back to the video.
Pieces of the battle in Wakanda were shown. All of that had happened while Hope had stolen him away to find a way to bring her mom back from the quantum realm. Then there were news clips of an alien ship in New York City and a news report about Tony Stark leaving on the ship. It made Scott wonder if that’s how he’d died -- but no, there was more to look at.
Tony Stark back on Earth -- an Earth where half the population was gone and no one knew what to do. There was destruction and pain everywhere. Accidents and lack of leadership left and right leading to chaos and more destruction because people couldn’t help but just do that even after things seemed like they were starting to get better.
Then, came something else. The remaining Avengers announcing that they were going into space to confront Thanos. The world cheering them on. Someone new was with them, a woman that glowed and wore some sort of red and blue and gold uniform. Some footage from space -- taken by Iron Man’s suit from the looks of it. There were bits and pieces of a fight and even Scott could tell that it hadn’t gone well. Then it switched to more media clips. The return of The Avengers without Tony Stark and without a victory. The world unchanged. Tony Stark’s funeral.
“We thought that if we faced him together we could do it -- we could steal the stones back and fix it all. Bring everyone back. Instead, we lost Tony. And nothing changed -- we couldn’t fix it. Even now, things are not the same. They never will be.”
Steve had left the punching bag, and he unwrapped his hands. There was barely any sweat on him but he looked a little better as he walked back. Maybe it was that he seemed just a smidge more relaxed.
“So I go back to before any of this happens. I warn everyone and we stop him,” Scott said. “Seems simple enough.”
Steve paused a few feet in front of him. He stared at the ground for a while and then looked up. “The only way to stop him is to destroy the stones before Thanos can get to them. None of this is simple,” Steve said.
“But how? I mean they look -- can they be destroyed?”
Steve nodded. “There are two people that can destroy the stones. Wanda is one. Her power comes from the Mind Stone and it can destroy the Mind Stone. Perhaps other stones as well.”
Scott nodded. “But isn’t it in Vision’s forehead?”
“If it’s taken out first it won’t hurt Vision. They just have to have enough time to do that. We didn’t the first time.”
Scott nodded. “Okay. That’s -- yeah, I go back early enough and we get on that. Who else can destroy the stones?”
Steve picked something up from one of the tables. It looked like a pager and it looked completely out of place there. Scott hadn’t seen one of those in ages.
“Carol,” Steve said. “But Carol -- she won’t arrive until Fury calls her in. She’ll be too late but maybe you can get Fury to call her in earlier. With Carol there at the beginning maybe -- well, we might have a fighting chance. She’s pretty impressive.”
Scott nodded. He just hoped that he would actually be able to control it and pull all of this off. Steve and the world at large -- no, the universe -- was counting on him being able to time travel. Scott felt like one of those college graduates lying about the level of experience they had on any given field of study.
“So, if we destroy a stone, it will change what happened?” Scott asked.
Steve hesitated. “Only if Thanos doesn’t get to the Time Stone. You’re not the only one that can rewrite time.”
Steve didn’t actually believe that Scott Lang would be able to pull it all off. Mostly, Steve just didn’t want to raise his hopes for anything to change. Hope had failed him time and again -- it was just going to lead to more disappointment. More loss. More pain.
There was a picture of Peter and Tony in a frame that Natasha had brought him one of the last times that Steve had bothered to see her or any of the rest of the team. They had taken it while Steve was gone on that mission with Natasha. Probably the last picture that Tony and Peter took together. It was silly because Peter was holding some sort of plaque about being a Stark Intern. It was all sort of a joke to do with the class field trip that of course Peter never made it to. In the one that was framed, the plaque was upside down. They were both smiling so wide. Happy. Steve missed them every day. He was never going to see them again, not unless--
Scott could make it possible. Maybe. So maybe he would see them again. Maybe it would make the image of Tony’s pain filled face fade from his memory. The way that Tony had mouthed his name and Steve couldn’t make it to him in time.
“I spared him once -- I will not do it again,” Thanos had said. Words that Steve would never forget.
Tony’s eyes had stared blankly and Steve lost everything.
He helped Scott go through everything that happened. He started with what he knew about Thanos and his children. He told him about Strange and everything he knew about the stones. Friday brought up anything relevant and Scott asked his questions and he seemed appalled at the things he was hearing. Then, after that was done, he sent a message on the pager and a text to Natasha. The pager was kind of redundant since Carol actually did have a cell phone these days, but she’d left Fury’s with him as encouragement to call her if he ever needed her as a friend or otherwise.
Natasha called him at once. “Did Thor give you more of his mead? I haven’t heard from you in months and now you’re texting me you need me to come over because you know how to fix things?”
“Just come,” Steve said. He was tired. The world at large was tiring and he didn’t want to think that any of this would work.
“Ask her about my van,” Scott said. “There’s a quantum tunnel in the back. Kind of one of a kind.”
Steve stared at him for a long moment, but then asked.
Natasha seemed to know exactly what Scott was talking about.
“Yeah, I know where it is. We’ll bring it with us.”
“Us?” Steve asked.
“Bruce.”
Natasha told him nothing else and then she hung up. Steve turned back to Scott.
“So, this van is an important part of the plan?”
“Kind of the most important bit,” Scott said. “Well, no. I could probably go into the quantum realm on my own with just the suit but the tunnel will help.”
Steve shrugged his shoulders. He didn’t really understand any of what Scott had tried to explain to him about how he’d gotten there and he wasn’t really pushing to know. It wasn’t all that relevant as long as it worked. He didn’t think it would work. Steve hadn’t known Scott all that well before, but he’d counted on him when it came to the whole Accords situation. Steve believed he wanted to help and he wanted to change things, but Steve also knew how stubborn he and Tony and all the rest were and he didn’t expect that things would be all that easy for Scott.
Natasha arrived with Bruce a couple of days later with Scott’s van.
Those two days were long. Scott had all kinds of questions. Steve mostly wanted to just hide away and not see Scott at all. For a large part of one he did, venturing to the bedroom he rarely used.
The Malibu house hadn’t been his first choice in place to live, but after trying to stay in New York and being constantly reminded of Tony and Peter and Bucky, Steve had just wandered. He’d gone from place to place never staying anywhere long and not finding any hope in how lost the world at large was.
He’d ended up in California eventually and at first he’d just gone there to have a place to go. It was still all Tony. Big and ridiculous and too technologically advanced. But it was less Tony in his mind because it wasn’t somewhere he had ever visited with Tony. He’d felt better there and it helped that it was isolated and away from everyone else. It hadn’t taken him long to decide to stay. Natasha fought him the entire time. Bruce and Thor tried in their own ways. Even Carol made an attempt at changing his mind and yet they all knew he was moving and leaving the team and that was that.
Natasha and Bruce didn’t look all that changed since he’d seen them last. He couldn’t remember when. Natasha hugged him tightly, pulling at his beard when he pulled back.
“It’s not good for you to be out here all alone,” she said. “You make horrible choices when you’re on your own. Like the beard.”
He just shrugged his shoulders. There wasn’t much that could explain his actions because they all knew how deeply rooted in Tony it all was. Looking at any of them -- their friends. Or the tower or even the compound. Without Tony everything was harder. Being a part of The Avengers had felt impossible. Steve knew that he probably would have stuck it out if they really needed him but with Carol in the picture, he’d felt like he could step back and let the others handle it.
“Where’d you find the van?” Steve asked.
“One of the new recruits,” Natasha said but only when Scott had gone with Bruce to look at the van. “His daughter Cassie, actually. She told me not to tell him. We were all kind of shocked. Wasn’t Scott decimated?”
“Appears not. He was trapped in the quantum realm.”
That was when Carol arrived. She was ablaze as she came down from the air and then her glow disappeared as she touched the ground.
“Hey, Cap,” she said.
“Hey, Cap,” Steve said back.
She hugged him. Steve would never not be impressed with her. In some ways, Steve still didn’t know how they had failed against Thanos when they had Captain Marvel on their side.
“So what’s happening? Who are you?” Carol asked.
“Scott. Lang. I’m Ant-Man.”
“Captain Marvel,” Carol said and shook Scott’s hand.
Between him and Scott they explained everything and the plan that they had come up with. Carol seemed all for it. If Steve knew anything about her, he knew that she was probably only just holding herself back from offering to travel back with Scott. Bruce seemed more interested in the technical aspects of it all and Steve saw him asking Scott question after question.
“Do you think this will work?” Carol asked him.
Bruce and Scott were getting the tunnel on. Natasha stood a few feet away, watching with interest. There was a hardness to all of them. Losing the way they did -- not being able to make things better took a toll. Steve didn’t think he lost more than anyone else did. He just knew that his loss made him a different person.
“I hope it will. I hope he can pull this off,” he said.
“Me too,” Carol said. “I hoped when you reached out that maybe you wanted to come back to the team. I didn’t expect--”
“I don’t want to come back to the team. I was done. It was going to be Thanos and fixing all of that and then I was done. Maybe not right away, and maybe not entirely but Tony asked me what the point was and it’s been to make things better and to make things safe but at some point the fighting and all of it had to end. And it hasn’t and it won’t and it’s naive to think that it ever will stop but that doesn’t mean we don’t get to step back and live normally. Even us. Even just me.”
Carol’s lips pursed. “You’re hiding away. This isn’t what Tony would have wanted. He wanted you to be happy.”
“Well he isn’t here and that’s entirely tied up with my happiness.”
“Steve, he would want you to move on. See other people, go out into the world. Be a part of the world. You can’t hide away--”
Steve shook his head. “I can’t.”
“So this better work,” Natasha said. “Then, this won’t be a worry at all.”
A few hours later, they drove to San Francisco and the parking deck where Scott had arrived at Scott’s insistence and then between Scott and Natasha and Bruce everything was set up.
“Okay,” Scott said, “to a better future.” He closed up the mask portion of his suit and then promptly disappeared.
“Do you think he can do it?” Bruce asked.
Steve stared at the space where Scott had been. He didn’t know if Scott would make any difference to everything that had happened. Maybe he would -- maybe he wouldn’t. To Steve it almost didn’t matter. He desperately wanted Scott to pull through and change everything and yet letting himself hope again felt like he was just getting ready for more disappointment and heartbreak. He didn’t answer.
“So, his daughter had the van?” he asked instead.
Carol nodded. “She kind of takes after him. She’s young, but she knows the importance of heroes. I like her.”
Chapter One Hundred Thirty Six
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Walking The Wire (110/?)
Summary: Tony Stark always knew about Peter Parker. He didn’t know that Peter was going to get superpowers and become Spider-Man, but he always knew about Peter because Peter was his son.
This will span from pre-Iron Man up through the rest of the MCU (eventually including Infinity War) and will be for the most part canon compliant except where I’ve taken some liberties and interpreted canon a certain way.
Pairings: Pepper/Tony, Tony/Steve (endgame), Tony/Mary (past)
A/N: If you want me to tag you when I post new chapters let me know. This fic is also on AO3
I used Collider’s MCU timeline to stay canon and the title of this fic is an Imagine Dragons song that is just so fitting for Peter and Tony
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Chapter One Hundred Nine
The problem was that Tony couldn’t stop thinking about it. Adopting. He couldn’t stop considering it or wondering what it might be like to actually be father to a baby or a toddler or whatever child needed to be taken in. Even a teenager like Peter that just needed a family. Because so many did. But worse, he kept thinking about Steve with a tiny baby in his arms and Steve running around with a child the way he did with K-9. He thought about Peter and Steve and how quickly they had turned into family and Tony found that he wouldn’t hate to expand it.
He hadn’t mentioned the whole adoption thing to Steve. Hadn’t responded to the agency either because despite how much Tony did feel like it wasn’t the right time, he wanted some time to really decide. At the moment nothing crazy was happening and he and Steve were good -- they were getting married. Things were going well with Peter too and maybe adding an adoption into the mix wouldn’t be a bad thing. Yeah they’d be doing it right in the middle of getting married but maybe that made it the right time to do it because Tony didn’t think that any other time could work.
While he was busy thinking about everything, Tony just kept building and creating things. Some were upgrades for the team, but there were other things for SI too. It was easier than actually discussing things with Steve or letting himself really consider his options. Avoidance had always been his way of dealing.
Another distraction came in the form of Peter’s school trip to SI. He’d laughed the first time Peter mentioned it and then when he checked on things with Pepper she confirmed that a group was coming from Peter’s school.
“It’s kind of funny,” Tony said while showing Peter around the R & D labs a few days before the trip. “And not just because of who you are but because if I remember correctly, you once asked me if your school could tour SI. I should have said yes and prevented you going to Oscorp and meeting a certain spider.”
“I just ask that no one be there to make this worse,” Peter said on the day of the trip.
Tony had laughed at that. “I don’t promise that Pepper won’t be there, but I’ll stay away.”
The thing was that ever since the announcement that Tony and Steve were getting married, Tony couldn’t do much in public that wasn’t reported and that included spending time with Peter outside of the tower. There was some speculation about Peter in the public since everyone seemed a bit skeptical about the intern thing. So, he figured he wouldn’t make it worse by showing up at this trip.
He could tell that the whole trip was sort of bothering Peter a bit and yet he was insisting on going rather than making an excuse not to and Tony just figured that he’d let Peter do as he saw fit. He knew that Steve would have taken the approach of showing up in the middle of it, so he was somewhat glad that Natasha had taken him away on a mission. They were due to return the day of the trip but probably closer to the afternoon so Steve was probably going to miss it altogether.
Tony had been missing him since he left even if it had given him time to really consider the whole adoption thing. He wanted it, he’d realized. Perhaps not as much as he’d wanted it when he first applied, but enough to know that he didn’t want to say no to the agency and the possible placement they had for him because how long would it take until they asked him again? Tony would just need to talk to Steve about it because this wouldn’t affect just him, but Steve too and that had him a little nervous because he had no idea what Steve was going to say. He didn’t even really know if Steve did want a family in that sense.
He spent most of the morning after Peter left for school on the day of the trip trying to figure out how he was going to bring up the topic to Steve and then, just as he was finally coming to the conclusion that he was overthinking the whole thing and he just needed to be direct, a portal opened up in the middle of his work table and before Tony could do more than take a step back from it, a man stepped out.
He wore a red cape and some sort of necklace over what Tony could best describe as blue robes with some sort of belt. The portal sparked at its edges and the man seemed completely unbothered by it or how he had just stepped into Tony’s workshop without much trouble.
“Boss, there is a portal in the middle of the workshop,” Friday said.
“Yeah,” Tony said, “you don’t say.”
“Tony Stark,” the man said, “I’m Dr. Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me.”
Tony took a step back. Come with him--
“Oh and, uh, congratulations on the wedding, by the way,” Dr. Strange said and Tony could tell that he was saying it mostly because he felt he needed to than because he actually cared about his wedding.
“I’m sorry,” Tony said and he had his bearings back, “but how did you get in here?”
Dr. Strange rolled his eyes impatiently and he stepped forward. “We need your help,” he said and Tony knew that could be enough. If this guy had powers and clearly he did if he could open up a portal inside the tower, then Tony couldn’t trust him. Not to mention that it was clear he hadn’t come forward when it came to the Accords. The new ones and the old. He eyed him.
Dr. Strange threw his hands up. “Look, it’s not overselling it to say that the fate of the universe is at stake. We need your help. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.”
Of course it was. Except -- how was Tony supposed to take this guy seriously? Of course any threat to the universe had to be taken seriously. Wait -- he wasn’t alone-- “who’s we?”
Doctor Strange didn’t answer, but then he didn’t have to because someone else stepped out of the portal and Tony almost couldn’t believe it when he saw him. It was -- it was Bruce. Bruce Banner was alive and well and he was right in front of Tony.
“Hey, Tony,” Bruce said. He looked strange -- shaken maybe. A bit dirty and certainly weary but mostly it seemed like he was afraid.
“Bruce,” Tony muttered with disbelief and then, “you okay?”
Instead of an answer, Bruce just stepped forward and pulled Tony into a hug that Tony quickly returned and he could just tell that Bruce needed it -- he needed touch. Bruce was the last person that Tony had thought to see any time soon. There were systems and protocols in place looking for him but never finding anything. Tony had known that Bruce couldn’t be dead -- the Hulk would have prevented that -- but Tony had also known that he wouldn’t find Bruce until he wanted to be found. Tony had so many questions and he just didn’t know where to even begin.
When Bruce pulled back he stared at Tony and, “Tony, we’re all in danger -- the universe as a whole. It’s--”
It was dire, then, if Bruce looked so scared.
“So, Stark, will you come with us? There’s a lot that needs to be discussed.”
Tony didn’t understand why they couldn’t just talk about it in the tower, but Dr. Strange seemed like he wasn’t giving him much choice.
“I -- I suppose so,” Tony said and he met Bruce’s gaze. Bruce gave him an encouraging smile.
Tony followed Bruce into the portal, regretting not asking about where he was going as he did, and then Dr. Strange followed close behind and the portal closed. Tony found himself in the foyer of a house that felt weird. Tony couldn’t explain it -- and despite all the random things that were on display, Tony’s eyes were drawn to the stairs which had a massive hole right in the middle. Light fell in from above that same spot and it was clear that something had crashed right through. Something told Tony that it had probably been the Hulk.
“Right,” Tony said, “as exciting as visiting your home is, what’s happening?”
Another man appeared then, dressed a little like Strange but without the full on cape. “Good, you found him,” he said.
“Tony Stark. Wong,” Strange said.
Wong nodded at him, so Tony nodded back and then looked towards Bruce. Strange motioned for him to sit on a bench against a wood panelled wall and after a moment of consideration Tony did. Strange stood to the side and Bruce was the one to speak.
“Thanos is coming,” Bruce said and shook his head in an agitated and worried manner that really gave Tony cause to be concerned. “It’s bad, Tony -- it’s really bad. He -- Asgard is destroyed and so are most of its people. I don’t know what happened with Thor and Loki but I think they’re probably both….Anyway, he’s powerful and--”
“So, this guy destroyed Thor’s planet?” Tony asked.
Bruce shook his head. “No, no, that was unrelated. That was Ragnarok. But the Asgardians, the ones that we could save they were -- we were on a ship and then he appeared and only some escaped but even the other guy couldn’t take him and Thor and Loki--”
A threat from space. Some powerful alien being -- everything that Tony had ever feared. He gulped.
“But what’s the point -- what does he want? Why is he coming here?”
“The infinity stones,” Bruce breathed out. Tony hadn’t heard those words since the last time he’d seen Thor and Thor was leaving to investigate them and yet he’d certainly thought about them from time to time. Thor had never fully explained them but they all knew that the stones were powerful and dangerous.
“Wait...wait, you’ve seen Thor and Loki. Where have you been exactly? Did you catch up or something when he was around last year because...wait, wait -- did you say you were in Asgard?”
“That doesn’t actually matter,” Dr. Strange muttered.
Tony sighed. Strange was probably right, but it didn’t make Tony like him any more.
“I ended up in space,” Bruce said. “Don’t really remember most of it and it doesn’t matter except that I was sent back to warn everyone and so we can prepare. He’s coming--”
��Okay so he wants the Infinity Stones -- what are they exactly?”
Tony had expected Strange to explain, but instead it was Wong that stepped forward and he lifted his hands and Tony was worried for a moment as he made a few movements with his hands and then the space around them changed. He tried not to show his surprise because this was -- it was something Tony had never seen before.
“From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing,” Wong said. “Then, boom! The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals, hurdling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence.”
Five crystals appeared and floated in the air and Tony watched enraptured.
“Space,” Dr. Strange said and as he spoke each of the stones shone. “Reality. Power. Soul. Mind.” He paused and turned to face Tony as he made a hand movement and his necklace opened and inside was a green light and clearly a stone. “And Time.”
“Tell me his name again,” Tony said and he felt Bruce’s fear and worry. He knew why Strange and Wong looked so serious. One of those stones had caused chaos in New York when The Avengers had come together. Another had created Ultron and gave life to Vision. If Tony remembered correctly one of the others had been partially responsible for Thor’s thing in London too. So for this being to be after all of them -- it meant nothing good.
“Thanos,” Bruce said at once. “He’s a plague, Tony. He invades planets takes what he wants, he wipes out half the population.” Bruce looked so intense and Tony couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen him like that. “He sent Loki! The attack on New York, that’s him!”
Of course it was. Dread filled him and he stood up. This was -- it was his every fear coming true. Tony had never stopped dreading the possibility, but after how much time had passed he had thought that maybe he was being crazy to still consider that they might face a new threat from outer space. Clearly, he hated being right.
Chapter One Hundred Eleven
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Walking The Wire (106/?)
Summary: Tony Stark always knew about Peter Parker. He didn’t know that Peter was going to get superpowers and become Spider-Man, but he always knew about Peter because Peter was his son.
This will span from pre-Iron Man up through the rest of the MCU (eventually including Infinity War) and will be for the most part canon compliant except where I’ve taken some liberties and interpreted canon a certain way.
Pairings: Pepper/Tony, Tony/Steve (endgame), Tony/Mary (past)
A/N: If you want me to tag you when I post new chapters let me know. This fic is also on AO3
I used Collider’s MCU timeline to stay canon and the title of this fic is an Imagine Dragons song that is just so fitting for Peter and Tony
@findmeinthestarss
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Chapter One Hundred Five
It turned out that having Michelle know he was Spider-Man and acknowledging that she did was a good thing. Michelle was just all that much better about covering for Peter. Just the other day when they’d gone on a small class trip and Peter had spotted a mugging happening, it was Michelle that had distracted everyone long enough for Peter to get away unnoticed and then again when he rejoined them.
The only thing about Michelle was that unlike Ned, she actually seemed concerned about what Peter got up to. She worried. It was weird especially when she pretended that she didn’t in person and then sent him long rambling texts about how he wasn’t being careful and how close he came to getting injured or hurting others.
It was all on par with how much coverage Spider-Man had started to get from the media which Peter didn’t particularly like. At first it had seemed cool to be mentioned on the news all the time and to have articles about Spider-Man popping up everywhere. His favorite were the YouTube videos since those were usually fun to watch mostly because they weren’t all made by anyone truly professional. But after a while, even those got old. It got annoying. Tony definitely disliked it.
“I just don’t like how interested everyone seems to be in finding out your identity,” his dad said while they were tinkering in the workshop. “It’s none of their business.”
Peter liked listening to him rant. It was kind of hilarious especially when one considered Tony’s own media presence basically his entirely life.
“And it’s not like we’ve announced that you’re an Avenger or anything but some reason they just seem to associate you with us.”
That’s when Steve spoke up. “That’s because they see you out and about with him all the time as Iron Man and Iron Man is an Avenger.”
“That isn’t the point,” Tony said.
“And also, Peter’s the only hero that’s popped up that has a hidden identity. Gives everyone a mystery to want to solve.”
Tony muttered some more and Peter tried not to laugh. He could tell that Steve was amused too.
Since all that stuff with The Vulture, Tony still did tend to show up when Peter needed help. He was better about letting Peter be involved in things especially when they didn’t involve alien tech. They had stopped some weird guy with what seemed to be some sort of power -- Tony said he was probably an inhuman -- just the other day from destroying a big portion of Greenwich Village. The guy hadn’t been doing it on purpose it turned out it. It was just that his powers were so unstable. Peter had been glad to have Tony there because he didn’t a single person could have handled everything that instance entailed. Even Vision had made an appearance for that. In the end they had subdued the guy and Tony had handed him over to a the new Shield.
“But also, it’s not just the identity thing,” Tony kept on, “it’s that there’s varying degrees of coverage. He’s good for the city. He’s a vigilante. He’s an Avenger. He’s not. It’s ridiculous. At least no one seems to have put together that I built your suit. Or at least no one’s written an article about it yet. And can you imagine if anyone found out I had a son? Because then they would definitely start questioning whether you were the one under the mask and then my parenting would come into question.”
It was no surprise to Peter that Ned loved it. He had a whole collection on articles written about him and he would send Peter the more outrageous ones and Peter would pass those on to Steve because Steve loved reading them too. May seemed to agree with Tony on the whole matter. But then, May also tended to try and get Peter to quit being Spider-Man altogether whenever she saw him and it wasn’t something that was ever likely to stop. She liked to bring up questions about school and girlfriends and college and how Spider-Man wouldn’t be an ideal addition to any of those as her way of asking him to stop.
As he stepped out of Midtown one afternoon, Peter was surprised when he spotted Tony complete with a baseball cap, sunglasses, a grin, and a thermal cup that probably contained coffee, leaning against a sleek black car that at least proved to be his least flashy. Still, no matter how hard he was trying, he looked out of place and people were noticing him.
Michelle who had walked out with him spotted Tony with no problem and when Peter glanced at her he could practically see her thinking. Her left eyebrow rose and she stared him down.
“Is Tony Stark actually picking you up right now?”
Peter shook his head. “Nope. It’s all in your imagination. You’re hallucinating.”
Michelle laughed -- cackled more like and Peter grinned back at her as she nudged him and rolled her eyes. Ned appeared then, busy with his backpack as he walked, and only managing to not run into anyone because anyone in his path dodged him.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
“Your boy here is being picked up by Tony Stark. Fancy that. I bet Flash will be jealous.”
“Which is why I’m going to go before anyone else notices,” Peter said and rushed away. When he looked back Michelle waved and Ned grinned at him and gave him thumbs up.
“Hey,” Peter said when he was close enough.
“Hi, kiddo,” his dad said, “I was in the area so I figured I’d come by and get you. I was also sort of craving this apple crostini this one restaurant has so we’re going to have to make a stop for that. Up for it?”
Peter rolled his eyes but nodded. “Sure.”
They got into the car and when Peter looked out the window he realized that a few people were watching them. Someone must have caught onto Tony being there. Not that it really mattered since everyone knew that Peter had a Stark Internship. Of course, no intern could have ever expected for Tony Stark himself to show up to pick them up from school. He was definitely going to hear about it.
The restaurant Tony took them to was a hole in the wall that no one would have ever noticed and yet it was busy. A well known secret. Nevertheless, they were seated at a discrete table towards the back without much wait which told Peter that Tony had called ahead.
“Why are we really here?” Peter asked.
“I told you -- apple crostini. Also, remind me to order one to go because Steve would kill us if we don’t bring him one back. We used to come here sometimes back in the day.”
“Oh,” Peter said.
His dad never really talked about how he and Steve had come to be and Peter didn’t really have any questions or want to know details, but he loved when Tony slipped in something that hinted at a past memory. It made him realize how normal it all was in some ways. Sometimes, it was still shocking to think about Iron Man and Captain America in a romantic relationship or to consider that they were getting married until he thought about them as Tony and Steve -- his dad and his dad’s fiance.
“Truth is, I wanted to catch up with you,” Tony said. “Things have been a bit crazy lately. Haven’t really spent much time with you on our own. Steve or someone else is usually around.”
Peter hadn’t -- no, he’d noticed, it was just that he hadn’t minded. He’d never expected to have Tony to himself all the time and had felt lucky when he did even if then it had been broken up to a few hours here and there and now he was living in the tower and had access to Tony all the time and it didn’t really matter that there were other people around.
“We can start with, who was the girl?”
Peter rolled his eyes. “Who, Michelle? I’ve told you about her. She’s the one that figured out I’m Spider-Man all on her own.”
“MJ. You said someone named MJ did.”
“Michelle Jones. She likes to be called MJ. Anyway, that was her.”
Tony nodded. The waitress approached then and Tony ordered the apple crostinis and remembered to order the one to go as well without Peter needing to remind him.
“So she’s super smart and observant,” Tony said.
“Yup. Definitely knew it was you waiting for me. Actually, I think a few people figured it out.”
Tony shrugged with a grin. “And they can all wonder about what your internship entails once more.”
Tony started asking about how things were going in school next and Peter filled him in even though he was sure he’d mentioned some of it to him in passing over the last few weeks.
The apple crostini turned out to be amazing. He was in the middle of telling Tony about what they’d started working on in physics when it arrived and after one bite of the crunchy and flaky crust with the warm apple filling and the ice cream and Peter was in heaven.
“I told you so,” Tony said.
“This is the best thing ever,” Peter said.
It was nice to have some time on his own with Tony. Tony told him all about how the board members were driving him and Pepper crazy because they didn’t like that Tony’s concern wasn’t all about profit when it came to the prosthetic division even when it came to custom projects.
“It’s like they don’t understand how good the PR is although that obviously isn’t why we’re doing it.”
“But it’s your company,” Peter said.
“Pepper and I own more than half of the shares of the company, sure, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to deal with the board of directors. It’s the side of business that I don’t particularly like. Pepper is awesome at it. It’s all stuff you’ll have to learn about if you want to take over the company one day--”
“Um, what?” Peter said and almost choked on a piece of apple.
Tony chuckled. “Won’t be for a while and it’s up to you if you want it. It’s not an obligation, you know. You could find your own Pepper Potts and have someone else run it if you prefer. I rather you do what you want than what you think I want you to do so--”
Peter had sort of forgotten about how Tony had broken the news to him what felt like ages ago even though it hadn’t even been a full year yet. He’d forgotten how Tony told him that he would inherit everything as if that had been the right way to let him know that Tony was his father. Since then, Peter hadn’t really thought about it or the reality of what it actually meant which meant that it was overwhelming information to take in.
“I -- that’s--”
“What, did you forget that I’m Tony Stark? You’re my heir, kid, to this whole crazy company and whatever else I’ve accumulated.”
“But what if -- what if you and Steve have kids?” Peter asked.
It wasn’t something he’d considered before that moment, but wasn’t that what people did after they got married? They went and had kids. Peter was aware that Tony and Steve were both men but there were ways around that -- surrogacy or adoption or other weirder things. It was possible. Peter didn’t know if -- well, he didn’t know if he’d be thrilled about it if they did have kids. He felt weird even just thinking about it.
“Not really something we’ve discussed,” Tony said and he seemed to notice that Peter seemed uncomfortable. “And even if we did decide to have kids it wouldn’t be for a long while, Pete.”
“Oh,” Peter said. But they could still have some even if Peter was fully grown when they did--
Tony grabbed his hand. Tony’s hand was warm and familiar and Peter allowed himself to calm down. “Peter, you’re my kid. I -- I love you, kid. Not something that will ever change. I’ll always be here for you no matter what. Even if Steve and I adopt a hundred kids. You’re still always going to be my son and you’re the most important person in my life.”
Peter hadn’t expected Tony to say that. Those three words. Tony had said them before, he was sure, but Peter couldn’t actually remember. He certainly hadn’t expected them in the moment.
“I don’t think even Steve will want to adopt that many kids,” Peter said.
“If he even wants to,” Tony said with a shrug. “I’m not saying I wouldn’t be opposed to another kid -- it’s just I’d be fine with just you.”
“Oh,” Peter said. “But you didn’t get to raise me. Not really. Don’t you want that -- the whole baby thing?” Peter didn’t really understand why people were so keen on babies. He knew they were cute but they also cried and made messes and couldn’t really do anything and he actually -- he couldn’t see Tony or even Steve dealing with a baby well.
“That doesn’t matter. Clearly, it doesn’t. You’re still my kid, Peter, and as has been established you clearly need me a lot too no matter what your age is.”
Peter nodded. “I kind of do,” Peter said and then because he couldn’t say anything else, “I, um, I love you too, dad.”
He thought that Tony’s eyes got a bit misty at that and Peter realized that he’d never actually said it out loud before. But it was true. It had been true for a while. Peter loved Tony. He loved his dad and everything that he was and did for Peter. He was one of the best people he knew and Peter would forever be glad that he knew who his father was and that it was someone as amazing as Tony Stark.
Chapter One Hundred Seven
#peter and tony#peter and tony fic#mcuwriting#mcu fic#iron dad#iron dad and spider son#stony#stony fic#marvel
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