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Maverick: Wanna come over and eat what my mom made?

Iceman: Maverick, you’re an orphan.

Maverick: I said, wanna come over and eat what my mom made?

Iceman: *sighs*

Iceman: What did your mom ma—

Maverick: Me.

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Maverick pisses off another Admiral.

But instead of trying to ship him off to Antartica or somewhere equally unpleasant, this Admiral sits him down.

"Ok, what's going on Mitchell? Because, your guardian angel normally would have called by now."

And Mav just breaks down.

Sobbing his fucking heart out, and the Admiral just *oh god what have I done* panic pats him on the back and makes soothing noises.

The whole thing comes out, Ice's cancer, Mav not being there for him because he pissed off an Admiral at the wrong time and now he's stuck here and he's trying goddammit but the Navy doesn't want what he's got not really and ice is the only one who sees his worth and that so fucking selfish because it shouldn't be about him not right now but I can't do this without him and how he should fucking be there but what good will he be when all he does is cause trouble but ice shouldn't be alone I'm his wingman goddammit and what if he dies oh god oh god oh god-

Later, much later, after Mavs been sent to his bunk, the Admiral sits at his desk with a finger of whiskey and thinks why not.

Ice looks up at the nock on his office door.

Maverick walks in, sheepish but with worried eyes. He's fiddling with the file in his hands nervously.

"What are you doing here? Oh god, did you piss off another Admiral? What-"

Mav clears his throat, "I've been reassigned."

"Goddammit! Where? You know I need to be told as soon as possible to mitigate the damage! Why didn't anyone call me? Why didn't you call me?! Where-"

Mav hands him the file, "Captain Mitchell, reporting for duty, sir."

Ice freezes.

He opens the file.

Mavs been reassigned to work for him, if he wants him.

Oh.

Oh.

He looks up and smiles.

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I’ve always sort of head-canoned Ice as a bit of a book worm, so when Bradley starts spending more and more time with Mav and him that’s something that he wanted to share with him. 

And then it turns out that Pete never really got the chance to be/read those classic kids books when he was little and being shuffled about foster homes - so Ice and Bradely want to include him in the tradition as well, even if he does tend to dose off more often than not. 

His thing turns more into Bradely filling him in on the bits of the chapter that he missed over breakfast the next day, and them discussing/theorising what it all means and what they think might happen while Ice just watches on, fond AF. 

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The silliest ever

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Ice: Mav told me you had a fight at school today.

Bradley: Yeah... I did...

Ice: We don’t send you to school to get into fights.

Bradley: I’m sorry...

*Ice closes the door*

Ice: Did you win?

Bradley: Hell yeah.

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Let's play I spy......

Who's trophy is that?

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Iceman: Who ate my leftovers?

Goose: Who ate my best friend’s ass?

Iceman:

Iceman: Okay.

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got a fluffy floofy icemav headcanon that's got me squee-ing and kicking my feet with glee: when Maverick doesn't call Ice by his callsign / a version of his callsign, instead of referring to him by his first name he calls him Tomcat 💖💖💖✈️

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Just some honest Icemav fluff - cos these two deserve all the love (and cuddles).

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I feel like Bradley Bradshaw is super easy going and charismatic with people he’s sexually attracted to. Someone cute he sees at the bar and wants to take home? Piece of cake. But when you add romantic attraction to the mix he’s suddenly like a new born giraffe trying to walk for the first time.

Which is why he loses all of his skill and becomes an absolute catastrophe when it comes to Jake Seresin.

(And why Jake thinks Bradley’s not into him because he’s usually so smooth wtf?)

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The daggers: uhhh we can’t mansplain, manipulate, or manslaughter our way out of this!

Maverick: *cracks knuckles* malewife it is *calls Iceman*

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ok not to beat a hornet’s nest with a baseball bat but i keep seeing people on here who say they want to see an icemav pride & prejudice au but they’re always saying ice would be elizabeth and mav would be mr darcy and i just… don’t get that at all. narratively and thematically it makes no sense to me.

first of all, ice is the one who’s coming from a place of privilege in the movie. he went to the academy, he’s the top dog at top gun, he’s a genuinely good guy but mav thinks he’s a dickhead for, well, being a dickhead. second of all, he’s the one who keeps trying to help mav in his own backwards way, not unlike darcy trying to flirt with elizabeth, who sees each of his attempts to woo her as him instigating an argument. thirdly, he tries to help mav in his time of crisis after goose dies, similar to the scene where elizabeth finds out that wickham absconded with lydia.

on mav’s side, he shares elizabeth’s prejudice against rich, snobby men, but instead his prejudice is directed at ice and naval academy-bred pilots in general. he’s also an outsider amongst the other naval pilots because he never attended the academy and because of his father’s reputation, which matches elizabeth’s lower social status and her ostracization by the bingley sisters. i can’t really say how the wickham plotline would factor into the narrative because there is no such character in top gun, but maverick has been shown to be easily taken in by a pretty face (see charlie).

lastly, the way both characters’ opinions of each other change by the end of the movie are a perfect thematic match. ice has decided that while mav is still dangerous, he now sees this as mav’s strength instead of a fatal flaw. meanwhile mav has come to the conclusion that ice is not the asshole he thought he was, and that he can trust ice to have his back in the air from now on. similarly, darcy was able to rise above his previous reservations about marrying elizabeth due to recognizing that his estimation of her was in fact incorrect and that he needed to reevaluate his beliefs, while elizabeth came to realize that darcy was a better man than she had thought.

is there anything that i missed? i promise this was by no means a callout post, i’d love to hear what other people’s thoughts are because i’ve seen the opposite take in several posts but i simply can’t see it myself. if anyone wants to weigh in with their perspective please do!

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So is anyone gonna write an IceMav Pride and Prejudice (2005) retelling with Ice as Mr. Darcy and Mav as Elizabeth or am I gonna have to do it myself?