#Maverick and Goose shenanigans forever

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The Navy: We put Goose with Maverick in the hopes that his better tendencies would rub off on the little bastard

The Top Brass: And? Did it work?

The Navy: Yeah, we fucked up

Goose, in the distance: Mav, I dare you to do a rotating double backflip out of the gym rafters into the pool

Maverick: What do I get out of it?

Goose: My undying admiration and a hug

Maverick: Done

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Goose sure would love to see Carole again, as late as possible. She got some happy years with Bradley, Mav, and all the others.

Here is how they meet again.

Carole: Goose. You big stud.

Nick: That’s me honey.

Carole: Take me to heaven or lose me forever.

Nick: I’ll show you the way home, honey.

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Duke and Goose commenting the Icemav shenanigans like sports commentators! :D

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Also Goose when he is over-caffeinated:

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Bradley and Slider getting stomachaches because of all the ice cream. When they are feeling six feet under, they can’t even say the word ‘Ice’ without throwing up. Ice is so offended.

Oh. And I love ice-cream maker!Slider. Baby Goose getting homemade ice cream and NOT THE OTHERS! XD

Again. Ice gets so offended.

Ice: Come on, Sli. I’m your best friend. Your brother. Gimme a bit of ice cream. Please? I'll even let you choose the music next time we’re in the air (they take a Walkman with them).

Slider, who can’t forget what he’s been through because of Icemav: No.

Ice gets pouty like Maverick.

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In the future:

Slider has witnessed the Hangster shitshow, and regretfully restocks his alcohol cabinet. He really hoped Bradley would have been better at this.

But then.

Mav enters his office, and complains about how dumb Lieutenant Seresin and Lieutenant Bradshaw are.

Then much later.

Ice calls him. He’s heard reports from today’s shenanigans and ALSO complains about how idiotic these two young pilots are.

Ice: “Really. I’ve heard all about Lieutenant Seresin and how incredible he is. I’ve known Bradley since he was a little boy. HOW CAN THEY BE SO STUPID?!”

Slider is no longer done. No. He’s smiling like the devil. The most devilishly diabolic smirk on his face…

Slider: How the tables have turned.

Slider, to Nick and Carole: I know you did this. And I love you both. Let’s give these old dumbasses a taste of their own medicine.

The day after, Admiral Kerner compliments Hangman’s flying style and gives Bradley another box of homemade icecream.

Some mornings, Mav, when he feels like it, pops in Ice lap and spends breakfast playing with his partner's hair because he still feels sleep and doesn't really want to let go of the sensation, murmuring sweet nothing and nuzzling against his neck and his ear.

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sassa I'm trying to get into adashi but everytime I'm there I would be flooded with posts on how the production team do adam dirty and adam is the one we should protect while simultaneously shits on shiro and that got me so angry. did they just glazed over the fact that the most important lgbt rep is actually shiro and not the significant other who left him (though with valid reasons)

Well, you’re not wrong. First off. But also, this kind of tends to happen with Shiro. E.g. back when the clonedebate was in full swing you’d see ppl sort of… erasing Shiro, in order prop upKuron’s struggles. Or you’d see people shitting on Kuron, in order to prop up…actually it was usually done to prop up either Keith or Lance, but the pointstill stands: it sucked. And something similar has shown up inother Shiroships before. If we’re guessing, it probs all stems from shippers self-identifying with the other character in the ship (Keith, Lance, now Adam, etc.), and identifying Shiro in the roleof “accommodating slab of meat who cares for the self-insert.” But w/e, that’s a fandom tendency that spans waaaay beyond just Shiro or just vld, anyway, and it’s better left for some other post. For now? Yes, you’re right. What you’resaying is valid, what you’ve observed is quite correct. And tbh, I don’t know ifthere’s any getting rid of it.

What can I say about it then? Just that there is, regardless, still a lot of fun to be had with adashi, and a lot to enjoy of Shiro and Adam.

I mean. Top notch Maverick/Gooseparallels, all the domesticity any shipper heart could want, the times they hadmaturing at the Garrison, the as-student shenanigans, the as-teacher shenanigans!! The horror that is meeting the parents. Thefirst time Adam saw Shiro through a disease exacerbation or some other crisis, thefirst time Shiro saw Adam through a crisis of his own. Ntm, every college au kind of isn’t an au for these guys, it’scanon(!!) You get canonical college au with the addition of spaceships, like hello is it my birthday?

See: readmore for a whole lot more of me screaming about the growing they did together, and the hurrying they did together, and the good, the bad, and the hurtful about this iceberg of a ship.

Adashi is an iceberg. No denying, we saw none of their development. But like. smart guys (like Shiro) don’t usuallymake it to fiancé status with a casualfling. I mean… you could write themoff as casual, and that their engagement was smth silly they did whiledrunk? If you really wanted to?? But, per Word of God, they had yearstogether. Which means that Adam was right there beside Shiro for a thousand crazy endeavors, before they found the one he just couldn’t abide. Adashi’s got a great sandbox to explore, for everythingwe know they must have done together.

And also for everything they wouldhave done together, because in a universe where they’d not been so sorelytested, they’d have been each other’s forever. It wasn’t this verse. In thisone, the trials they faced were bigger than their love could deal with. But smth to remember is that every couple has that point. A breaking point.There’s no love so soulmate-y and pure and unproblematic that the perfect stormof circumstance couldn’t drive it apart. None. That goes for klance, sheith,shance, shallura, plance, and every other ship (as well as, of course, all irl relationships).

In this universe, Shiro and Adam just couldn’t do it. Whichis thought-provoking in a way none of the other VLD ships really are–their breakupdidn’t come about because of their not loving each other. They were engaged,they loved each other plenty. But they didn’t love each other the way they needed to be loved, within the context of the trialslife sent them. So yeah, they split up.

But who do you think Shiro was wishing for, during his yearin prison? How many times do you think, when Shiro was at his absolute lowest,he wished he’d never gone to Kerberos? And when he got back to Earth and he sawthat plaque, you think Shiro didn’t wish–just for a split-second–that he couldgo back in time and agree not to leave? Not because that would have been theright decision. Not because it would no longer mean giving up on his dreams–it stillwould. But in that split-second, he’d have done it readily, because in this universe, Adam died alone.Shiro wasn’t there to protect him (they were flight-partners, remember?) AndShiro–who probably always envisioned he’d be the first of them to go–wasn’t even there to die with him.

If anyone ever bites the bullet and writes a d’jinn fic foradashi, where Shiro dreams he’s home with Adam, I do not think I’ll be okay.  

So yes, it is a bummer that Shiro can get backburnered in adashithe same way he can get backburnered in other ships. It is; it’s super-lousy. I tryto reblog the good and ignore the bad (and jesus, I’ve done a lot of blocking, inorder to navigate the shadam/adashi tags!) Of course, you do you. Ship only what’sfun.

It’s true, they’re an iceberg. But there’s a ton to dig into, with everything that lead up to that moment by the wall. They’re a road-testedcouple that had to give up. And, as with any road-tested couple, regardless ofthe ending, it’s a hell of a ride getting there. That’s the draw with adashi–thegrowing they did together. The hurrying theydid together. The discoveries they made–that Shiro made, since yeah he is our lgbtq+ rep, and since, of the two of them, he is now the one that’s left–which he carries with him going forward.