#Pete Maverick Mitchell

[torchflies]

Hi TG Fandom!

I love thinking about an AU where: Pete Mitchell is eight years old and used to being bounced around from foster home to orphanage to group home to foster home. An eight-year-old Pete who is scrappy and world-savvy and angry, just imagine a Maverick before he's Maverick — all that Maverick-ness balled up in this pint-sized Pillsbury biscuit can of whoop-ass. He runs the show wherever he goes with his loud mouth and sense of righteous fury. 

But then there's this new boy at the group home, this chubby nine-year-old blond boy with broken glasses held together with duct-tape and a big sweater with patches that covers his hands and half his face. He doesn't talk and spends most of the day hiding in his bed or reading an old Chemistry textbook that he brought from wherever he came from. Pete doesn't get him, thinks he's weird and the fact that the boy always looks so scared makes his tummy feel squirmy. 

So, he starts to sit next to Blondie, shares his food — basically the only thing of value he has, and starts talking, and talking, and talking and talking if only to fill up all the space that Blondie doesn't with his own words. Eventually, Blondie starts scooting closer to Pete, leans against him and starts to talk in a small whisper that only Pete can hear. 

Blondie’s name is Tommy. 

They grow up together in that group home, they bond to each other in a way they've never bonded to anyone else. They make plans to get out and join the Navy together one day, to fly; and they promise to never be apart or alone again.

Then Tommy gets adopted. 

Pete cries; Tommy screams. They might be teenagers now but it takes three men to get them to pry their hands off of each other. Tommy gets carried down the hallway howling, hands outstretched, yelling louder than Pete’s ever heard him speak before. Suddenly, the world is meaner and colder than it has ever been before and all he has left of his Blondie is that same scuffed up Chemistry textbook and a pair of broken glasses.

Pete runs away that night, glasses in his pocket and that heavy book stuffed into his backpack, but he never finds Tommy again… he finds Nicky Bradshaw instead. 

He starts to move on from the hope of ever seeing Tommy again… until Top Gun and Animal Night at the O Club, when Pete catches sight of the first boy he’s ever loved, hiding with shades on and a vodka glass in his hand, instead of a patchy sweater and a Chemistry textbook. 

Pete’s still a pint-sized Pillsbury biscuit can of whoop-ass and the world has changed them both into new people…

But when Iceman comes at him with bravado and snapping teeth, stinking of the alcohol that used to scare him when he was Tommy, regaling Maverick with tales of a father who loved a bottle more than him…

Pete reaches up to slip a little boy’s pair of broken glasses onto the blond’s face with a gentle, “Hi, Blondie.”

And Iceman crumbles away, leaving a crying Tommy in his place.

“Pete.”

He still says it the same way, like he's saying home.

[military-newsboys]

Weather reporter: Due to the blizzard, citizens were told to stay off the roadways unless absolutely, positively necessary. Mav, being interviewed outside the store: I wanted donuts.

[paxdracona]

you guys remember me going 'I'm gonna draw SMUT!1!' around the holidays? yeah no, it turned into fluff instead, have a WIP

[echoric]

[wearerandomlyyours]

Slider: That's the one you want, really?

*Looks to Mav in the distance losing a fight with a raccoon*

Ice: *dreamily* Yeah...

[topincorrectguns]

Slider: Don’t tell Ice about this.

Maverick: You want me to lie to Ice?

Slider: Is that a problem?

Maverick: Nope

[misanderousmisfit]

[shiver-on-the-slab]

Admiral Kazansky and his Maverick

[sdrose93]

Pete Mitchell 😍❤

[knee-high-boots]

the final act of tgm is something so special to me

1. mav running a fucking MILE through SNOW just to shove rooster. he doesn’t even check to see if he’s really ok, just BAM

2. “we don’t even know if that bag of ass can fly”

3. mav trying to teach rooster how to get the plane in the air, like he knows a n y t h i n g

4. *thonk* “why are the wings coming out mav.”

5. just every line from rooster is absolute gold, he’s such a sarcastic asshole when he’s not being angsty as hell

6. how did they get off that taxiway?? most definitely impossible??

7. *iconic top gun ~dong~* “maverick.”

8. “there’s 300 breakers back here, anything more specific?” “idk that was your dad’s department” “i’ll figure it out” YES YOU WILL! GOOD JOB!! SELF CONFIDENCE ROOSTER!! don’t mind me crying over here, i still refuse to watch the original bc i don’t want to watch goose die but YOU GO!

9. rooster and mav waving at enemy planes like absolute FOOLS

10. i love watching planes spine and do weird shit, yay planes!!

11. “what the FUCK was that?!?!”

12. “c’mon mav, do some of that pilot shit!” as if rooster is not, himself, a pilot

13. rooster, floating, “HOLY SHIT” your honor i love him!

14. how did we go from snowy mountains to rolling green hills? have we been here for 3 months??

15. hangman managing to hit both the plane and the missile at the same time? dare i say hot?

16. mav doing a flyby cause he’s a dick

17. “please don’t tell me we lost an engine.”“alright. i won’t tell you that”

18. why are they always so goddamn sweaty??

19. lady gaga’s “hold my hand” save me lady gaga’s “hold my hand” 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

20. oh my god just tell your surrogate son/father that you love him!! it’s not that hard you’re just stubborn!!

honorable mention 21. i want rooster and amelia to have a cute little sibling relationship! please!

honorable mention 22. the sexiest part about this movie is the porsche penny is standing on at the end

in conclusion, tgm is blatant propaganda for the u.s. military, and while it works to make me love sexy men flying sexy planes, i still believe we’re giving FAR too much money to the military and have a passionate hate for the government!! tom cruise is also really weird and scientologists can actually suck so much dick!! but thanks tom cruise (i guess) for giving us miles teller with a mustache and glen powell as a lovable asshole!

[raptorrr22]

will somebody be the ice to my mav

[military-newsboys]

Ice: Can you keep a secret? Mav: Sure we can. Ice: "We?" Mav: Yeah, me and Goose. No one else will know. Ice: No, I want you to know, but not Goose. Mav: If you don't want Goose to know why are you telling me?

[cannibalhellhound]

Lmao @lannisterdaddyissues I woke up and this was done

[paxdracona]

Good luck yelling at Mav when his guardian angel is around~

Now, people think Ice is coddling him. That he thinks Mav can do no wrong. They see Maverick all smug-like, standing safely behind Ice's shoulder and maybe even pulling a face and think Ice never makes him face consequences. That's not true.

.5 seconds after they're alone, Mav will be appropriately apologetic, as he SHOULD BE and he knows it. He's not sorry he did it because he knew it would work, it was the option with the best chance of success but riskier than his orders, and he was the only one to think of it. And they both know he's going to do something like it again. No, he apologises for Ice having to throw his weight around to defend him.

Ice isn't thrilled with Maverick's penchant for reckless stunts; but he knows Mav does it because Mav knows he can do it, ICE knows Mav can do it AND that it's usually the best course of action. Still, rules are rules and Mav has a gaggle of adoring fans baby pilots that would follow his lead always so boundaries need to be kept firm. If only for the fact that the navy needs Mav's out of the box thinking so Ice needs him to stay in the air.

So yes. He'll read Mav the riot act. But in private, because he'll be damned if he gives other people the satisfaction of them seeing him reprimand his wingman when the outcome was positive on the whole.

[filmesbrazil]