#✧ [ Canon ] The Rooster ✧

[yeagrave]

losing you.

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[kcsplace]

They'd barely stepped off their transport back at Fightertown when the snarled word pulled the Daggers up short

"YOU!"

As one the thirteen of them turned on their heel and immediately twelve duffles hit the tarmac and twelve arms shot up into sharp salutes.

Only Maverick stood unfazed as he took in the sight of Iceman walking slowly towards them. Even out of uniform, and back in a battle against his own body, he was a commanding presence, and cancer or no, he was still COMPACFLT.

Instead of saluting, Maverick, pointed at his own chest.

"Me?"

But this time Ice wasn't talking to him. Wasn't even looking at him. It took Mav a moment, but as he watched Ice approach, he realised the man's target and took a sharp step to the side, smirking as Phoenix, did so herself, leaving Rooster an island between them.

Frozen to the spot, Rooster could do nothing but watch his boss', boss', boss step toe to toe with him. He could only imagine the shit he was in. Disobeying direct orders, losing a multi-million dollar plane, endangering Hangman who'd been scrambled as extra cover, maybe even potentially grand theft aviation from a hostile power....was that a thing?? Oh god, was that a thing??!!?!?!

But the Admiral didn't say a word, just threw his arms around him and held him so tight Rooster's already abused ribs and spine could only complain further. Not that he'd mention it, even when tears blurred his vision from the pain. Once he started to breathe again, he could feel the faint tremor running through the older man's body, and he knew it had less to do with the illness that was rumoured on base to have returned, and more to do with the smirk he could see on Maverick's face over the mans shoulder. A smirk that looked suspiciously like one worn by a man in love.

Hesitantly, Rooster wrapped his arms around his superior officer, and held on just as tight.

"You're welcome."

[misaothewitch]

Bradley: I'm bisexual and I'm dating Jake

Pete the next day:

[indybob]

I miss them so bad you don’t understand

GIF credit: @agreatandhonorablesoldier

[enthyrea]

various tg86 doodles featuring mav’s (incorrect) way of holding baby roo, a typical night at the o club, and ice carrying a very drunk mav home afterward <3

[reinafish]

“MY DEAR”

[ghurab-alzilal]

Raven, sarcastically : What's next? Are you going to adopt a stinky skunk?

Damian, deadpan : I already have a stinky skunk. His name is Todd.

Raven: *shrugs in daze and looks sideways at Jason *

Jason, closes book, removes reading glasses and takes a serious glare at Raven : He doesn't talk about me. He actually has a skunk, I just wanted to make that clear.

[crossthread]

No jokes here. The Navy’s best pilot and the Navy’s best admiral. Between them, eight air-to-air combat kills and five stars. These were men who commanded respect with or without your approval. This was the picture of ruthless competence.

Debriefing (& Other Stories) • part 2 of Easier Done Than Said by @compacflt

[14dayswithyou]

Kiara has been banned from the library!- And River will too if I get him (insert that like grabbing emoji meme)

I just imagine Ren and Angel sitting there, sippin' their drinks all calmly in "most healthy toxic relationship" while watching River drive over Bunny for the fifth time that week😔

I will personally lock River away and taunt him with Jolibee if he isn't nice enough to Bunny😼💅 /silly /lh /he can do no wrong🙂‍↕️

(also long time no asskkkk I hope you are doing well💞💞)

⌞♥⌝ SOBBINGGGG Not the Rengel date at Jollibee while they both watch River try to hijack a car T_T At least ask him to switch things up... Mayhaps try using a jeepney instead.... /silly

[pollyna]

Do u ever think about the possibility of Bradley not only not being able to say his last goodbye to Iceman but him not being present to the funeral?

Nobody of the Daggers is present bc they are in lock down pre-mission, and when Mav disappears for a couple of hours, he doesn't think much about it or at all.

It's only after, after they are alive and on deck, that Bradley asks about his dad, and it takes Mav more than he would have liked to realise who he's talking about and all his goodwill to smile to his kid and "he will be there waiting for us".

He's waiting for them, in a folded flag resting on Bradley's piano and in the flowers that are still alive in their garden. He's waiting for them in every photo around the house and in the sweater that's still on the back of an armchair, but he's not there. Not anymore. And it takes Bradley a whole day to connect the points and to realise.

And maybe, Mav finds himself thinking, it would have been better if that didn't happen.

[yeagrave]

night at the museum!AU bc I can :]

[ bonus sketches below the cut🫶✨ ]

[poisonouspastels]

IM FUCKIN DYINGDF WAS NO ONE GONNA TELL ME THEY JUST USED MY UNOFFICIAL PUPPET ART I UPLOADED TO THE WIKI?????????

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

The Bremen Musicians~

So, I caught a fever and had a bad night. Have some art I said I would take a break from because my word doesn't count.

[indybob]

Bradley’s internal monologue while looking at Jake during this scene

[srs-bean]

I’m just curious, but what is everyone’s personal head canon to why Hangster broke up? I think it’s universally agreed upon that Bradley and Jake were dating/a thing, but there’s a thousand and one different reasons why and whose fault it was.

Personally I can’t really decide on a concrete reason. General ideas why, but no specific reason. Like I think they were in Top Gun together, but that’s not where they became their thing. At Top Gun is where they met, where they started their rivalry, but in a friendly kinda way. I don’t think they were at each other’s throats but I think they were similar to, if not more friendly than Maverick and Ice. After Top Gun I think is where they became their thing. In TGM bar scene, Phoenix says “well he hasn’t changed a bit” to me means they were around each other for more than just a couple weeks in Top Gun. I think they were stationed somewhere together, and that’s where their friends with benefits started.

But other than that, I can decide where it goes from there, or what the tipping point was. I definitely think it was a group effort in their demise, but how and why I just can’t decide on

Give me your head canons pls

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

No cause Iceman Kazansky does run his fingers through little Bradley’s hair for hours to help him fall asleep after he had nightmares, and he does sing beautiful boy under his breath and reflects on the fact that he is a father to a child that has no legal connection to him and could easily disappear from his life without giving him the chance to do anything about it, and he does think about the amount of joy that Mav brought into his life, and he does look down at his sleeping son and decides that he would do anything for him, and he does do all of this again when Bradley comes back, when he stays at their place after The Mission and wakes up with horrible nightmares like he did when he was a little kid, he does it all over again and he wouldn’t have it any other way