#america chavez x viv vision

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For Fake: Chapter Seven

Summary: America lied about having a girlfriend to get her moms off her back, but when they want to meet said girlfriend, she asks her good friend Viv to step in and help.

Viv Vision/America Chavez

Chapter Rating: T. Fic Rating: T.

AO3

previous chapter

The knock comes on Viv’s door more than a few days later.

Hah.

What are days?

Viv tries to leave her emotional core on, and instead of feeling everything all at once, which tends to happen when she turns it on after it’s been off for a long time, she finds that she feels even less, which doesn’t seem possible, in all honesty, but it’s true.  It’s a funny thing, to turn the feelings back on and then lose them.  She’s checked her emotional core more than a few times – maybe if she turns it off and back on again, that’ll fix it – but no, it’s on, it’s running, it’s plugging away just like every other processor inside her, and the numb’s just another numb at this point, so she hasn’t asked her father to run diagnostics.  What would be the point?  If she doesn’t feel anything now that she’s actually trying to feel things, then, well.  What’s the saying?  That’s just the cherry on top. Or something like that.

(America would say something different.  In another universe, they don’t use cherries.  They use strawberries.  Or raspberries.  Or blueberries.  In another universe, they have cacao berries instead of cacao beans and they double them up with coffee berries right there at the top of whipped honey cream, something sharp and pungent to cut through all that sweet.)

Viv can’t, exactly speaking, lose track of days.  Her internal clock keeps plugging away, too, much more reliably than her emotional core.  She doesn’t even need to check it; she never loses grasp of it, never loses track of the time.  But if she doesn’t focus on it, then she can pretend she doesn’t know how long it is, how long one day bleeds into the next, over and over and over again, just the same thing day in and day out, while she feels. nothing.

Her father notices this time.  Of course, he’d noticed when she turned her emotional core off, too, but then, he’d done the same thing for a while and approved of her decision, considered it the logical reaction to what they’d gone through.  But she sees it, sometimes, the concern in his eyes when she responds even less than she normally does.  (His core appears to be functioning just fine.)

So, really, she shouldn’t be surprised when the knock comes.

And, in the quiet numb that her emotional core provides, she isn’t.

~

The knock comes, and Viv, curled up in bed under blankets that don’t keep her nearly as warm as she would like and certainly no nearly as warm as she would be if Sparky were curled up with her (but he doesn’t like being shut inside her room, even if he can phase through walls just as easily as she can) – Viv remains curled in bed, closes her eyes, and turns away from the door.  She has no desire to talk to her father right now, and if she doesn’t answer, he often will not enter.  It’s a boundary they’ve set up: knock first, do not phase in without permission, give each other privacy.  (She did not come up with these rules; her father gave them to her shortly after the four of them moved into their home.  She has no reason to believe they came from anyone else.)

Her father should not open the door without her permission – her father would often not open the door at all, would instead phase through it just the same as she and Sparky do – and yet even without a word from her, the door creaks open.

(It makes no sense that the door should creak, not when it is so rarely used.  Yet somehow she finds comfort in the sound.)

Someone sits on the mattress behind her.  It is not her father.  His density is different than whomever this is, and her father’s cologne smells nothing like the vanilla, honey, apple cinnamon worn by whomever this is.  A hand lands gentle on her shoulder.  “Alright, hon.  Time to quit your moping.”

Agatha Harkness.

Who has absolutely no reason to be here.

None.

“I request that you leave my house.”  Viv shifts away from the hand on her shoulder, but not far enough to get completely away.  The touch is nice.  Also, if she moved too far, she would fall off the bed, which is less than desirable.

“No can do, kiddo.  Your daddio—”

“My father has interfered enough.”  Viv’s eyes darken, and she glares, unfocused, at the wall in front of her.  “I request again that you leave my house.”  She swallows once.  “If you will not, then I request you leave my bedroom.”

And get off my bed.

Agatha doesn’t say anything for the span of one heartbeat.  Then she murmurs, “Alright,” grips Viv’s shoulder, and says, “Then let’s get out of here, why don’t we?”

Viv blinks.  Let’s.  “Agatha, I would greatly request that you do not—”

It doesn’t matter what Viv requests because Agatha appear not to care in the slightest about any of that.  Before Viv can even finish her sentence, a cloud of violet magic envelops her and tears her from her room before throwing her somewhere she doesn’t want to go.

~

Now.

Viv has been equipped with the ability to use harsher language, but she has very rarely, if ever, felt the precise need to use any of it.  Even when she’s felt that need, she’s very rarely, if ever, indulged in it.  Perhaps this was due to how long her emotional core was turned off; most of the moments she’s felt that need she can track back to her earliest days, when her mother and brother were still alive (and, thus, before she turned her emotional core off), or during the period of time when she was forced, quite against her will, into a human form (and, thus, had no emotional core to turn off).

But as most people are not aware of this decision, much more a commentary on her own desire for privacy than anything else, they often describe Viv as being self-controlled.  Wise, sometimes, which her father refutes whenever he hears it.  Restrained, too, which is likely the most apt of the descriptions.

Viv would use none of those words for herself.  Viv wouldn’t use any words to describe herself.  Not now, anyway.

Point of all this is to say that the sudden rage Viv feels for being ripped from her bedroom inspires her to nearly let loose words that she rarely, if ever, uses.  It doesn’t take a second glance to find that not only has Agatha ripped her from her room, she’s also ripped away the nice protective shell of a blanket Viv had been using and changed her into…into…whatever this is!  (This being an actually very comfortable hoodie that feels as though it is full of fleece on the inside and what are probably sweatpants, which are just as comfortable and probably just as fleece-lined, which honestly?  Viv would appreciate them both if she were still at home and not out and about in public in sweatpants.)  She pulls herself to her full height – reminded that she does, in fact, have a couple of inches on the esteemed Agatha Harkness, which would feel odd on a day when she actually cared – and glares down at Agatha with golden lights that look like pinpricks in a deep sea of black.  “Agatha Harkness, I believe you knew full well that I did not want to leave my room, and yet you have torn me out and brought me here—”

“You’re welcome, hon.”  Agatha brushes a few snowflakes from her shoulders and gives Viv a grin and a wink.

“I do not believe I was thanking you—”

“No, you weren’t,” Agatha interrupts again, “but you will in a few minutes.”

Viv’s eyes narrow.  “If you would stop interrupting me—”

“No, I don’t think I will, hon.”  Agatha’s grin deepens as Viv grows more flustered, and she reaches over and boops her nose.  “If I won’t stop for my wife when she’s like this, then I certainly won’t stop for you.”

“I’m not your wife—”

“No, you’re not, but unfortunately for you, you’re still family, and I can’t stand to see family moping around instead of doing all that heroic shit you types tend to do best.”  Agatha waves a hand, gesturing at Viv’s outfit.  “Comfy, hon?”

Viv scowls.  She stuffs her arms into the front pocket of her hoodie.  Then she gives Agatha a sharp look, raising one brow.

Agatha rolls her eyes.  “You can answer, kiddo.  I’m not that cruel.”

“Then I would say yes, I’m very comfortable.  However, I do not like—”

“Yes and comfortable and thank you are all I needed, hon,” Agatha cuts in again.

Viv’s eyes narrow again.  “As I recall saying before, I do not believe I was thanking you—”

“Of course, you weren’t, hon.  You types aren’t very good at thanking people.  Some sort of moral center the lot of you are.”  Agatha pauses for a moment.  Then she turns to Viv, her smile gone.  “Nothing to say to that, super star?”

“I do not believe I have anything to say that you will not interrupt.”  Viv’s eyes widen then, and she meets Agatha’s eyes with a look of surprise.  She’s not sure she wants to say anything.  In all honesty, a part of her is afraid to try to speak again – not afraid, but somehow certain that if she does, the witch will only interrupt her again.  And yet.  “You did not interrupt me.”

“Did I not?”  Agatha lowers her gaze and taps her lips twice.  “My mistake.  I’ll make sure to do better in the future.”  When she looks back up and meets Viv’s eyes again, her grin has softened into an incorrigible smile.  “Now, come, love.”  She takes Viv’s hand in hers.  “We’ve a lot to see and not very much time to see it in.”

It takes a moment, but even after consideration, Viv refuses to remove her hand from Agatha’s.  Instead, she shifts her appearance to mimic something a little more human and nods, as that overwhelming rage quickly dissipates, leaving her feeling numb and empty again.  “Next time,” she murmurs, “I would prefer to wear something other than sweatpants.”

“Well, why didn’t you say so?”  Agatha snaps her fingers, and Viv’s sweatpants shift into pajama pants.  “That better, hon?”

Viv’s eyes narrow again.  There’s no fleece inside the pajama pants, and they’re so thin that the ice cold January breeze blows straight through them.  That’s no matter; she doesn’t need to feel the cold in the first place.  The plaid looks nice, but….

“If we are to be in public for any amount of time, I would prefer jeans.”

Or khakis, but Viv has a very specific pair of khakis in mind, the ones with all of the pockets, which are left, folded up, in her bedroom back at home.  They’re her favorite pair, and they’re far more comforting than fleece-lined sweatpants or plaid pajama pants.  She shivers once in spite of herself.  “Or is that too much effort for—”

Agatha snaps again, and the plaid pajama pants shift into a pair of jeans that are perhaps a little too tight at the waist, but flare out as they go.  And leggings – thick leggings so that when the breeze tears through the denim, it has an extra barrier before it gets to her.  “That to your liking, dear?”

Viv considers.  They aren’t her style, but she doesn’t think it would be a good idea to try and press Agatha further.  Besides, when she takes a hand from her hoodie pocket and shoves it into her jeans pocket, she finds that they’re deeper and more usable than they normally are in her jeans.  She can live with this.  “They are acceptable.”

“Good,” Agatha says with a huff, “because I wasn’t going to change them again.  You kids are so needy.”  She loops her elbow around Viv’s and starts forward without another word.

Viv considers saying that if she’d been allowed to choose her own clothes, this wouldn’t be a problem; considers reminding Agatha that this entire scenario was her fault in the first place; considers jabbing again that she would rather have stayed at home.  But if she’s learned anything in her admittedly short time with Agatha today, it’s that trying to say any of that would only lead to more interruptions.  Besides, she’s too tired to fight.

So she lets Agatha lead her on to wherever and whatever the witch has in store for her.

~

“The zoo?” Viv asks as they round the turn into the parking lot, as Agatha leads her to the ticket line.  “You are taking me to the zoo?”

Agatha shrugs.  “Zoo’s a good place for talking.  Also figured it’d be one of the places your dear old dad never took you.”  She turns to Viv as they stand in the line, surrounded by much smaller children holding one or the other of their parents’ hands.  “Am I wrong?”

Viv stares at the nearest small child, who only pays her enough attention to smile up at her before turning excitedly back to his mother and chattering away with her.  She could listen in if she wanted.  She could listen in later if she wanted; one of the many features her father gave her is a memory that records everything to be perused later.  Unlike humans, whose memories fade, hers remain as sharp as the day she formed them.  She’s not sure that’s better.

When the child turns away from her, Viv gives a little shake of her head.  “No,” she admits, as though it should mean something when it doesn’t, “my father never brought me here.”

Perhaps he would have, if I were smaller.  That thought is nearly comforting until it’s followed by, If he wanted me smaller, he would have made me smaller.  She hates it, hates realizing that, He didn’t want to have these sort of interactions with me.  Or with Vin.

That should cut through the numbness.  It should provide some sort of discontent.  But there’s nothing.  Nothing at all.

“Thought not.”

They make their way through the line.  When they get closer to the booth, Agatha says, “Now, I’ll cover you, so don’t say I didn’t do you any favors.”

“If you had allowed me to grab my wallet before we left—”

“You wouldn’t have gone at all, hon, so don’t fall back on that.”  Agatha notes the woman in the booth and then leans close to Viv and whispers, “Don’t tell Wanda.”

Viv blinks twice.  “Do not tell Wanda what, exactly?”

“What you’re about to see, hon.”

They hustle forward.  Agatha smiles sweetly at the female vendor in the booth.  But in Viv’s mind, she reinforces, Don’t say anything.  Let me handle this.

I was not going to—

Hush, hon, and let the master work.

~

Five minutes later, they walk away for free.  Agatha has the vendor’s phone number plugged into her phone.  Viv glances back to see the vendor looking after them with a sigh of longing before returning to her job and then turns back to Agatha just in time to see her deleting the new number out of her phone.  She blinks twice.  “You used magic on her.”

“No, hon, I didn’t.”  Agatha fidgets with her phone.  “That would be cheating.”

Viv raises an eyebrow.  “At what game would that be cheating?”

Agatha rolls her eyes.  “The one where I charm people into giving me free stuff, hon.”

“It looks like she gave you more than free stuff,” Viv says, staring at Agatha’s phone.

“Phone number’s just another form of stuff.”  Agatha shoves her phone into her pocket and then links arms with Viv again.  “Now, what animals did you want to—”

“Would you teach me how to do that?” Viv interrupts, unable to keep herself from asking.

Agatha stops in front of the signpost and stares at it, tapping her chin.  “Bears, big cats, penguins….”  Her voice trails off.  She’s pretending not to hear what Viv just said, waiting to see if she’ll repeat it, but that’s not a game Viv wants to play.  A few seconds later, she asks, “How to do what, hon?  Get free stuff?”

“Get a girl’s number.”

A rasping chuckle escapes Agatha’s lips, so warm that it leaves a cloud longer in the air than a simple outpouring of breath.  “Why would you want to do that, hon?  Aren’t you and America together?”

“We broke up,” Viv says.  “A while ago.”  She blinks twice, uncertain.  “Did she not tell you?”

“No, she didn’t.”

“Oh.”

Viv doesn’t know what to say to that.  Her first instinct is to pull out her phone and text America – to ask her why, exactly, she’d decided to not tell her moms about their break up.  The break up they were always meant to have.  Because they weren’t really together in the first place.  Her second instinct is to remember that she’d told America she didn’t want to talk for a while, and breaking that just to bring up that she hadn’t told her moms felt…wrong.  Especially since Viv shouldn’t know that.  Especially because America would probably feel awkward that Viv is hanging out with Agatha, even if Viv explained to her that, logically speaking, she should not feel awkward because Agatha refused to hear the word no.

Her third instinct is to realize that, along with her wallet, Agatha has decided to not let Viv have her phone, either.

Sometimes, it feels like the only thing that cuts through that numbness is rage.

(It is hard to explain feeling numb.  It is an entirely different feeling than feeling nothing.  It includes that, of course, but it’s more than that.  When her emotional core is off, Viv knows she isn’t supposed to feel anything, and for the most part, she doesn’t.  But with it on, she knows she should feel something.  It’s not just an absence of feeling.  It’s a brokenness.  An anxiety over not feeling.  It’s so much more than not feeling.)

Viv glances up at the signpost.  She reads the different animals and the different directions.  Some of them she’d already seen in their natural habitat in her journeys to help the world.  Others, she’d seen when she was captured.  Her lips press together.  “What would you like to see?”

“We’re here for you, kid.”  Agatha tugs Viv closer to her and just leans her head on her shoulder.  “You pick.”

“I have never been here before.  I do not know what to pick.”

“Anything you want,” Agatha says, her tone gentle.  “There are no wrong answers.”

Viv’s not so sure about that.  She scans the signpost again.  “Which are your favorite?”

Agatha chuckles.  “That’s a form of cheating, too, hon.  Using my favorite as a way to influence your choice?”  She nudges Viv.  “Don’t think that’s very fair.”

“I believe that you told me to make a choice,” Viv says, glancing back down to her.  “You did not put any parameters on my choice.  Most people would think it would be nice to have someone else choose to see their favorite animal instead of pressing for that choice themselves.  Is that wrong?”

“No.  It’s not.”  Agatha meets her eyes.  “What’s your favorite animal, Viv?”

Viv blinks twice.  Her gaze drops.  “I have never considered that,” she says, searching her mind for something she can’t name.  “How does one choose?”

“You choose based on what you like.”

Viv’s gaze narrows.  “I like Sparky, my dog.  Would that make him my favorite animal?”  She looks up and meets Agatha’s eyes, her head tilting to one side.  “Would that make dogs my favorite animal?”

Agatha holds her gaze.  “Do you like dogs more than every other animal?”

“I do not know.  I have not met every other animal.”  Viv stares at Agatha, but she doesn’t focus on her.  “Do I need to meet every other animal to choose a favorite?”

“I don’t know, hon.  Do you need to meet every other person to have a favorite?”

Viv blinks twice.  “I have never considered that before.”  Her gaze falls again.  There are certainly people with whom she would far prefer to spend her time as opposed to others.  She likes spending time with America.  She likes spending time with her father, most days.  Agatha might have been a pain earlier – and might have dragged her out against her will – and might have put her in clothes instead of letting her choose them for herself – and, honestly, might still be a pain – but a part of Viv, however small, doesn’t hate this.  Wanda makes her uncomfortable, but that isn’t always the case.  But no matter how uncomfortable Wanda makes her on occasion, that’s often far preferable to spending time trying to make conversation with new people.  And yet, in all of the people she’s never met, there could be new friends and new experiences.  More people she might enjoy spending time with.

Does she have a favorite person?

If she had to choose just one, does she have a favorite?

“Don’t think about it too hard, hon.”  Agatha stands a little straighter.  “You said dogs, right?”  She glances over the signpost once more.  “They have wolves.  That’s close, don’t you think?”

Viv nods.  She glances up at the signpost again, too.  “I would like to see the big cats,” she decides, finally.

“Big cats,” Agatha repeats with an intrigued sort of hum.  “Any reason for that?”

“I have spent a lot of time with Sparky,” Viv says, hesitating, as though she might get the answer wrong, “but I have spent very little time with cats.  Perhaps, by not spending time with them, I have missed out on something I might also like.”  She searches Agatha’s eyes.  “Is my logic flawed?”

Agatha shakes her head.  “No, not flawed at all.  Just different.”  She tugs on Viv’s arm and starts down the path towards the big cats.  “Besides,” she says with a little wink, “my favorite animal is a big cat.”

~

They don’t say much as they walk past the animals.  Agatha appears to be enthralled with the animals, but Viv finds herself more enchanted with the children, with their excited responses to each of the animals, with their jumping and pointing and, Oh, the lion’s taking a nap!  Oh, the cheetah’s doing a prowl!  One of the kids breaks away from their mom, runs to the netting separating them from the jaguar down below, and starts to climb up the net before Viv gently picks them up, untangles their hands from their tight grasp, and takes them back to their mom, who’d started to panic.  Of course, their mom is also not too enthused about a strange girl carrying their child back to them, so Viv doesn’t stay around too long, just gives the mom and the child a little wave of her hand.

Briefly, when it is only the child looking at her with a displeased expression, Viv makes her image flicker like a glitch, shifting between her human and synthezoid appearances in bits and pieces.  The child’s eyes widen, and just when they turn, grabbing on their mom’s hair to get her attention, Viv lets her human appearance settle into place.  The mother doesn’t see anything.  Following Agatha’s lead, she winks at the child and gives him another grin, another wave of her hand.

It’s nice, perhaps, to be just another performance at the zoo, another animal to be gawked at.

But they move on, from one big cat to another, so many animals Viv has never seen – or has seen mimicked by supervillains or superheroes but never been in the presence of an original – until they find a tiny little ice cream shoppe – complete with the different spelling – just near the panther exhibit.  Agatha convinces her to buy a waffle cone, particularly because Viv admits she’s never had one (ice cream, yes, but waffle cones, no; those would come from shoppes or parlors or restaurants, and she very rarely been to any of the sort), and then they stand in front of the exhibit, Agatha with her ultra double triple chocolate fudge ice cream covered with even more fudge with a cherry on top (which she winks as she eats) and Viv with her spiraled chocolate and vanilla yogurt and no cherry.

Agatha sighs with contentment as she leans onto the railing, hovering neatly above the panther exhibit’s netting, and says, “Panthers are my absolute favorite.”  She smiles wistfully.  “Used to have one, you know.”

Viv tears her eyes away from the ice cream cone that she’s only sort of eating and gives Agatha an incredulous look.  She’s not sure whether to believe her or not; the older witch tends to exaggerate, to stretch the truth and play with it like a child does with putty.  That disbelief comes out in her voice, although it might be hard to tell from her normal flat tone.  “You had a panther?”

“Sometimes, yes.  Is that so hard to believe?”  Agatha’s eyes lift from the big cat in front of them just to glance at Viv from their corners.  Then they return to the cat.  “Ebony was just a black cat most of the time, but when she wanted to protect me….”  Her voice trails off.  “It’s nice to see an animal like her again, although I’d rather take this one back with me.  She had just the softest fur.”

“What happened to her?”

Agatha’s expression drops, grows blank.  “Died, hon.  Murdered.”  She licks her lips, swiping the smallest bit of cherry juice from them.  “A few months before your brother.”  Before Viv can ask, as her expression contorts into one of confusion and that gentle, gentle rage, she continues, “I needed her heart to see the future.  I’d seen visions, hon.  Visions of Visions and a destruction of the world.  I needed to know more, and so….”  Her voice trails off again, and she gives a shake of her head.

Viv glares at Agatha.  “You killed your cat.”

“And your mom killed your dog.  For quite the same reason, point of fact, hon.”

“How do you know why my mother—”

“The problem with visions,” Agatha continues, interrupting Viv just as she has been, or perhaps, in this moment, ignoring her outright, “is that they give you an incomplete view of the future – and they don’t always show you your own place within it.  I saw your father turning on us, but I did not see why.”  She chuckles.  “My desire to fix things only made them worse.  But you know how that is.”

“No,” Viv says, hesitant, “I don’t.”  She blinks, uncertain.  There seems to be no logic in what Agatha is saying.  Or, there is, but not a logic she can easily follow.  Most importantly—  “Why are you telling me all of this?”  That is what makes the least sense to her.  “Is this why you brought me to the zoo?  Why you forced me out of my room?”

Agatha’s gaze doesn’t move from the panther, who gives a great big yawn and stretches one of its paws out, extending and retracting its claws.  “You turned your emotional core back on, didn’t you, hon?”

The rage returns.  Viv starts to clench her hands into her fists but only succeeds with her free hand; she feels her waffle cone begin to crack, forgetting she’d even had it, and stops before slowly melting ice cream can filter through the cracks and all over her fingers.  “Wanda told you.”  The words hiss through her lips.  “Father told Wanda, which he should not have done, and Wanda told you.  How many more people did he decide needed to know about a private decision I made with my own life?”

“Wanda didn’t tell me anything, hon.”  Agatha takes a final bite of her ice cream and then lets her hand fall to the side, empty, her fingers tinged with dark fudge.  “But there’s a difference between not feeling anything and feeling nothing, isn’t there?”

Viv stares at Agatha, that rage bubbling uncomfortably in her chest.  She takes a deep breath in, as though that will settle it.  People say it will.  It does not.  “Explain.”

Agatha nearly smiles, but not quite.  “I think you know what I mean, hon.”

The rage quells, but the curiosity she should feel does not fill the void it leaves behind.  Logic says there must have been some spell, some magical way of doing to a human being the exact same thing that Viv had done to herself – or at least, something similar – but she had never had any reason to imagine such a thing existed.  But, if logic says that such a thing existed, which it does, and Agatha’s words suggest that she used that spell on herself at some point, then the only logical next question would be not how but, “Why?”

“It might surprise you, but I also went through a surprising amount of traumatic experiences within a short amount of time.”  Agatha begins to lick the chocolate from her fingertips.  “Not as short as yours, of course.  And I was, perhaps, better equipped to handle them.”  She chuckles, holding one singular chocolate-stained finger aloft.  “Or maybe not.  If I was, maybe I wouldn’t have used the spell.”  She shrugs.  “Who knows.”

Viv tries to meet her eyes, to search them, but Agatha doesn’t seem to be at all interested in looking in her direction.  “What happened?”

“My niece died, and I was blamed,” Agatha starts, holding one clean finger up.  “My brother died, and I was blamed, though that was an accident.”  She holds up a second finger.  “My sister was outed as a witch, and I was blamed.”  She holds up a third finger.  “My coven decided it was better to kill me for my crimes, and I accidentally killed all of them in self-defense.”  She holds up a fourth finger, shrugs, and then says, “I didn’t know how to control my magic, and they believed it was evil, so that would have happened eventually.  I’m honestly surprised I lasted as long as I did.”

“That is quite a lot.”

“I’m not finished.”  Agatha takes a deep breath in, as though steeling herself, and her eyes glaze over as she stares at the panther, who cracks one luminous green eye open and stares at them.  “One of my twin boys died within a month of his birth for the same reason my niece died, and I blamed myself.  Then my still living sister found me, burned my other son alive in my house after convincing me to trust her, and then tried to kill me.  For my crimes against our coven, you see.  End of the bloodline.  So on and so forth.  I killed her, less in self-defense and more out of rage, and then….”  She sighs and smiles, a bitter, angry thing.  “Nothing.”  She holds her hand up, waggles her fingers, and chuckles before making a poofing motion with both hands, giggling about it.

Viv stares at her.

Viv stares at her, and she doesn’t know what to say, and she’s not sure there’s anything she can say, because there certainly hasn’t been anything that anyone can say to her that truly helps, and she’s not sure there’s really anything to help.

Viv stares at Agatha Harkness, and her melting ice cream drips from her fingertips anyway, because she’d quite forgotten she had it, and even if she hadn’t, this doesn’t feel like the sort of conversation that you have while eating ice cream, doesn’t feel like the sort of thing you can hear and keep licking away at a waffle cone.

Viv stares at her, and she blinks, and she doesn’t say a thing.

Eventually, Agatha’s giggles stop, and she turns away from the panther, who continues to stare at them, and she says, “I brought you here because you needed to know that sometimes feeling nothing is a step towards feeling something.”  She meets Viv’s eyes with her own normally bright blue ones, now darkened, and her head tilts to one side.  “Not feeling anything keeps you from being able to move on.”

“And you….”  Viv meets Agatha’s gaze and holds it.  “You have moved on?”

“No.”  Agatha raises one brow.  “What about anything I just did tells you that I have moved on?”

Viv blinks twice, confused.  “Did you not just say that—”

“People want you to move on.  They want to think that you’re better, that you get better.”  Agatha turns away from the panther, props her arms over the rails, and leans against them, staring out into the rest of the world around them.  “You don’t get better, and you don’t move on, hon.  You just think about it less.  You start to think about the good times, when you think about it.  You start to think about other things again.  You start to feel other things again.”

“That all sounds like getting better.”

“Maybe.”  Agatha shrugs one shoulder and looks up at Viv.  “But I would still kill my sister again, if I could.  Just like your father would have killed your uncle, if your mother hadn’t gotten there first.”

Viv’s eyes light up with understanding.  “The only thing that cuts through the numb is rage.”

Agatha nods.  “Sometimes.”  She sighs and looks up at the sky.  Then she grins.  “Look.”

Viv follows her gaze.  “What?”

“That cloud looks like a heart.”

It takes a moment before Viv catches what she means.  Then she nods.  “A valentines false heart, not a real human heart.”

“Yes.  Exactly.”  Agatha shifts.  “Still mad, hon?”

Viv considers that.  “I do not feel mad right now, but I feel as if I could be mad at any moment.”  She gives Agatha a curious look.  “Why do you ask?”

“Want somewhere to direct all of that rage?”  Agatha threads magic through her fingers, and it curls between them like a cat she can brush.

Viv focuses on the magic.  It sparkles and shimmers in the light.  She’s fascinated by it.  “What did you have in mind?”

~

Later, safely back in her bedroom after a long day of walking and talking and animals, Viv curls back up in her bed.  She pulls the blankets tightly around her and finds they still smell sweetly of vanilla and honey – like Agatha had decided she should wash them when she stole Viv away.  That was probably for the best; now that Viv is paying attention, she notices that all of the potato chip crumbs have disappeared.  Sparky might eat some of them, but he wouldn’t have gotten everything in such a short time.

It’s…nice.  She can acknowledge that as nice.

Viv lays down and reaches under her pillow, only for her fingertips to brush against her phone.  She considers for a moment – for longer than a moment – and then pulls the phone out and sits up.  Being with Agatha – being with someone else – it had been…nice.  A nice…distraction.

Maybe the key to this whole thing isn’t to hide away in her room but to get out with people and do…something more than just lying in her bed.

(Maybe that was really what Agatha wanted her to learn.)

Right now, Viv might not be ready to get out again.  She might not be ready to get out for another few days, given that today was…a lot.  But maybe, in a little while, she might be able to do…something.

Yeah.

Maybe.

~

notanandroid: Hey. punchesstars: yo viv! punchesstars: u txted me! punchesstars: yo! hey! hi! punchesstars: what’s up! notanandroid: There are a lot of things that are “up”, America. notanandroid: The ceiling is up. notanandroid: The sky is up. notanandroid: I suppose technically the sky is not “up”, since it is an illusion due to the sun’s rays through our atmosphere. notanandroid: Clouds are more accurately up. punchesstars: no i mean how r u

punchesstars: viv? notanandroid: I am a lot of things. notanandroid: It is complicated. notanandroid: I do not wish to talk about it. punchesstars: oh punchesstars: mom brought a cat home 2day punchesstars: i think she named him salem? punchesstars: he’s a little wild notanandroid: Is he more wild than Senor Scratchy? punchesstars: yah! so much! punchesstars: can’t keep them in the same room punchesstars: salem keeps attacking the cage punchesstars: u should see him

punchesstars: u wanna come see? punchesstars: not 2day obvs punchesstars: but l8r?

~

Viv stares at her phone again, at the light it gives off in the darkness of her room.  She smiles, the barest hint of a thing, and then texts back, Sure.

[hadesisqueer]

if you could make a marvel only queer superhero team who'd be in it?

Honey, the 'only queer superhero team' already exists. It's called Young Avengers (2013) lmao.

But if I could make one myself? Idk. America Chavez, Wiccan and Hulkling, obviously. Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean. Viv Vision. Speed and David Alleyne. Xavin. Oh and Gwenpool too. Include Julie Power while we're at it too because she's nice, I like her powers and also for the very possible initial awkwardness of Karolina being on a team with her girlfriend and her two exes lmao.

I know I simply just kinda combined a bunch of Young Avengers and a bunch of Runaways with a few others because I'm mainly including characters and couples I like. And I don't care. This lineup would be funny as hell. Sue me lmao.

[marvel-unofficial]

some of my fav marvel Guys (gender neutral)... 2!

[ch4tk4t]

Pride month is already over...(1/2)

I posted a LGBTQ+ superhero comics character every day to my Threads account

Enjoy this recap of every single one. Take care y'all 💙🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙

These are (sort of) in chronological order.

Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: America Chavez .

Needs: A good on-going series, the MCU not f*cking up her backstory as bad as the comics did.

Qualifactions: Super DUPER f*cking gay (was born in a Sapphic paradise, f*ck the f*cking retcon in it's *sshole)

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Jean-Paul Beaubier, Aka Northstar

Needs: his own x-team (with or without his awesome sister) of which, of course, he would be the leader because, well, duh.

Qualifications: Snarky prideful gay dude💅 (his wit is LEGENDARY)

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character, Aldrif Angela Odinsdottir.

Needs a movie/more comics respresentation/possibly a cooler costume (Love the helmet though)

Qualifactions: Super duper gay.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: David Alleyne aka Prodigy

Needs: His version of young Avengers to come back, for good. And he should hook up with Marvel Boy, just sayin'.

Qualifications: Baby bi boi 🩵

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Gwendolyn Poole, Aka Gwenpool

Needs: For people to start buying her comics, so Marvel understands she's a WAY better character than Deadpool. I said what I f*cking said.

Qualifications: Aroace gurl 🩵

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Nico Minoru aka Sister Grimm (although I struggle to remember when exactly she used that alias 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Needs: Nothing. She's perfect. I'll fight you if you say otherwise.

Qualifications: Buh-buh-buh-Baby biiiii bye byeeeeee... Ahem. Bi. She's bi.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Noh-Varr aka Marvel Boy

Needs: More comics with him in it wtf? I get writing for him after the great Grant Morrison can be intimidating, but come on !

Qualifications: Bi alien guy.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: James Howlett, aka Logan, aka Wolverine (the least cool one imo but hey 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Needs: Marvel to grow a f*cking spine already. For real. Like yesterday.

Qualifications: Bi and polyamorous. That's right. I went there. Deal. With. It. Do you think Jean had connecting doors to both Scott AND Logan's room for what ? BINGO NIGHT ? WAKE/GROW UP PEOPLE !

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Raven Darkholme aka Mystique aka Sherlock Holmes (not joking) aka my blue mom

Needs: NOTHING. Perfection doesn't even BEGIN to describe it.

Qualifications: I still struggle with the concept of a Bi lesbian, but I'm thinking she fits the "label" PERFECTLY 💙

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Charlene McGowan

Needs: Nothing. She was written perfectly. The fact she's trans is addressed ONCE, because it's PLOT RELEVENT, SHE'S THE ONE WHO ADRESSES IT, saves the day thanks to her experience as a trans woman, then she goes on with her f*cking life. Queen 💅

Qualifications: Badass trans scientist. Read. Immortal. Hulk.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Shela Sexton aka Escapade

Needs: More comics. I love seeing her in every year's pride comics, but we don't stop existing after pride y'all.

Qualifications: Trans nerd with socializing issues, it's like she was written for me

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Eloïse Phimister aka Ellie aka Negasonic Teenage Warhead

Needs: For Marvel to actually DO something with her character, like wtf was the point in bringing her back from the dead, rebooting her then NEVER F*CKING USING HER?

Qualifications: Badass angry dyke 💙.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Vivian Vision aka Viv aka... Vivid... Vessel? (wait, what ?)

Needs: MORE CHAMPIONS PLEASE.

Qualifications: Lesbian android girl

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Bobby Drake aka Iceman (Ice ice baby)

Needs: Another case of a character being perfect. Nothing to see here. Kindly move along. I'd hug him. Even in his ice form.

Qualifications: Gay as f*ck.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Julio Richter aka Rictor aka Druid

Needs: For artists to stop drawing him so light skinned. Other than that, no comment (if any writer dares TOUCH his relationship with star again, I WILL bite them though)

Qualifications: Gay warlock. The best kind.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Martha Johansson aka Cerebella and another alias I will not use as it's basically her deadname.

Needs: To be happy. Her origin is so dark, she deserves it.

Qualifications: Gay telepathic prodigy

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Phylla Vell aka Captain Marvel (one of the many) aka Martyr aka Qasar

Needs: To survive her use in the MCU. I still have nightmares of what happened to Kamala.

Qualifications: Gay inter dimensional alien

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Teddy Altman aka motherf*cking Emperor Dorrek-Vell (I added the mothef*cking)

Needs: Why exactly don't I have a ongoing about him and his husband ruling over the empire already? Like wtf Marvel.

Qualifications: Buff gay alien boi

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: William Kaplan aka Billy aka Wiccan

Needs: I won't repeat what I addressed on his husband's presentation. Nothing else to add.

Qualifications: Romani magician gay boi

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Xuan Cao Manh aka Karma

Needs: Nothing. The fact she speaks French makes me like her that much more. Just in case being a badass Vietnamese mutant telepath with a cyberleg didn't already sell me 🤷🏽‍♀️

Qualifications: Badass mutie lesbian.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Kitty Pryde aka Shadowkat aka Ariel aka too many to remember

Needs: A female love interest she doesn't sexually assaults, like wtf Marvel, who okayed this?

Qualifications: Bi Jewish techie with a heart of gold.

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PART TWO- HERE

[aimmyarrowshigh]

What are your thoughts on Kamala taking lead with the Young Avengers?

In the MCU? I like it -- I feel like her fandom of Carol and the Avengers makes it fit to have her go out and try to create a new superhero team of other young heroes, because she would be the one sitting there thinking about it and going, "The Avengers are gone, but the world still has problems. I can't solve them all on my own/learned teamwork with Monica and Carol/can honor Monica by being a hero/love other nerds who love superheroes," you know?

And especially given Secret Invasion, it wouldn't make any sense to have Fury be the one to put together the Young Avengers. Although the timeline with him is fucky because they switched the release dates of The Marvels and Secret Invasion, so whatever.

And in the comics, Kamala was the leader of the Champions, so it totally makes sense that she'd lead the MCU Champions/Young Avengers crossover team (because they're not going to have both, let's be real. There's also so many fucking movies/shows). Billy and Tommy are currently too young AND have THE most confusing backstory in comics, so putting either of them in charge wouldn't make the most sense. Cassie is on the West Coast. Kate is, as she tells Kamala, a bit older, and also Hawkeyes tend to be pretty solitary workers. Skar is... whatever the fuck is going on there that I'm pretending isn't going on over there. Peter is busy trying to eke out a living on his own in this universe, so he's probably both busy AND too traumatized to make new connections this soon. Eli hasn't made his heroic debut yet, although we've seen him. Yelena's a Thunderbolt. Love Thorsdottir is way too young. Phyla-Vel is in space. Toussaint/T'Challa and Morgan are too young. I feel like Kamala's the only one who COULD do it in a reasonable way, you know?

I feel like I'm forgetting someone. RIRI! Riri could do it, but again, she's older in this universe (college) and my insane "the MCU could make sense if they would do [X]" brain keeps insisting that she's going to be MJ's roommate at MIT in Ironheart or SM4. BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH AT MIT. AND MIT CAN'T BE *THAT* BIG. IT WOULD MAKE SENSE, MARVEL. PLEASE MAKE SENSE.

I want the Young Avengers to be so good that it knocks me on my ass. I want it to be so good that it knocks Trendy MCU Haters on their asses. And I want Kamala to get to have that. Iman is SO wonderful and Kamala is SO great, and I want people to love her the way she deserves, dammit.

Also, if VisionQuest isn't canceled (which, who the fuck knows) -- I want it to be exactly Vision (2015), which is just exactly WandaVision but this time Vision's the one who created a fake family out of heartbroken madness. And I want Viv Vision in the MCU. I love Viv Vision so fucking much.

Also, I want My Blorbo Nadia! It could happen!!! Hank banged a lady named Linda while Janet was boinking Bill Murray in the Quantum Realm, so Hank could TOTALLY have a daughter that was in the Red Room (WHOM NATASHA AND YELENA FREED??? IN BLACK WIDOW??? MY HEART?!!?) and is a science genius who comes to find the Pym/Van Dynes and is just like, "Hello, I am here now, I love you, family!"

I don't know how they can reasonably have Hulkling after the MCU's version of Secret Invasion AND how the MCU Kree are so unilaterally evil. But also, the MCU is homophobic af so they probably won't have Hulkling anyway. >:(

Just... ::exhale:: There are so many fucking threads open within the MCU thOH MY GOD I FORGOT AMERICA CHAVEZ ALSO THERE ARE SO MANY OPEN THREADS AND I'M TRYING TO TIE THEM TOGETHER ON MY RED STRING BOARD AND THEY WON'T TIE TOGETHER, HOLLIE, THEY WON'T TIE TOGETHER.

I just want. The MCU. To be cohesive. And make sense. And close its plotholes in ways that are narratively satisfying. And also, Steve is on the moon.

[superhero-smackdown]

Bracket(??) Announcement!

I have FINALLY (which I am very sorry for guys) finished going through my submissions and have created something that looks like a bracket. BUT, in order to include the most characters, I have devised a group round with 128 characters divided into 8 groups and have sorted them in a way that prevents this competition from becoming a batman vs spider-man final.

making the polls shouldn't take nearly as long so be on the lookout for those! this will be pinned and I'll make sure to edit this post with links to the polls, and matchups are not necessarily going to be heroes next to each other! matches can be made up by any two heroes in the same group

polls will last a day for now and one group will be posted per day

as of right now top 4 from each group will make it to the bracket round but that is absolutely subject to change so don't count on that

Without further ado, your Superhero Smackdown competitors!!!

GROUP 1

Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy/Spider-Men and Ghost Spider (Marvel)

Garfield Logan/Beast Boy (DC)

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel)

Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Marvel)

The Incredibles and Frozone (Pixar)

Kori'ander/Starfire (DC)

Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel)

Stephanie Brown/Spoiler (DC)

Toshinori Yagi/All Might (My Hero Academia)

Charles Xavier/Professor X (Marvel)

Jessica Jones (Marvel)

Jason Todd/Red Hood (DC)

Black Noir (The Boys)

Jim Gordon (DC)

Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Marvel)

Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Marvel)

GROUP 2

Kara Zor-El/Supergirl (DC)

T'Challa Udaku/Black Panther (Marvel)

Sam Wilson/Falcon/Captain America (Marvel)

Dick Grayson/Nightwing (DC)

Peter Quill/Starlord (Marvel)

Minhkhoa Khan/The Ghost-Maker (DC)

The Green Lantern Corp (DC)

Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (DC)

Arthur Curry/Aquaman (DC)

Cassandra Cain/Black Bat (DC)

Queen Maeve (The Boys)

Clark Kent/Superman (DC)

Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat (Marvel)

Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel)

Cissie King-Jones/Arrowette (DC)

Marc Spector, Steve Grant, Jake Lockley/Moon Knight (Marvel)

GROUP 3

Barry Allen/The Flash (DC)

Starlight (The Boys)

Kate Kane/Batwoman (DC)

Darkwing Duck (DuckTales)

Shouta Aizawa/Eraserhead (My Hero Academia)

Roy Harper/Arsenal (DC)

Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova/Black Widow (Marvel)

Tim Drake/Red Robin (DC)

The Autobots (Transformers TV Show)

Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC)

Ororo Monroe/Storm (Marvel)

The Midnighter (DC)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel)

Logan, James Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel)

Kon Kent/Superboy (DC)

Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (DC)

GROUP 4

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

The Powerpuff Girls (The Powerpuff Girls)

Izuku Midoriya/Deku (My Hero Academia)

Ben Tennyson/Ben 10 (Ben 10)

Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)

Kate Bishop/Hawkeye (Marvel)

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug (Miraculous Ladybug)

America Chavez/Miss America (Marvel)

Kim Possible (Kim Possible)

Link and Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)

Goku (Dragon Ball Z)

The Power Rangers (The Power Rangers Series)

Kamala Khan/Miss Marvel (Marvel)

Virgil Hawkins/Static (DC)

Billy Batson/Captain Marvel/Shazam (DC)

GROUP 5

Damian Wayne/Robin (DC)

Phineas Flynn, Ferb Fletcher/The Beak (Phineas and Ferb)

Alex, Sam, and Clover (Totally Spies)

Jubilation Lee/Jubilee (Marvel)

Alya Cesaire/Rena Rouge (Miraculous Ladybug)

Flash Thompson/Agent Venom (Marvel)

Shoto Todoroki/Shoto (My Hero Academia)

Gwen Poole/Gwenpool (Marvel)

Nino Lahiffe/Carapace (Miraculous Ladybug)

Kaio Kincaid/K.O. (OK K.O.! Let's be Heroes)

Katsuki Bakugo/Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight (My Hero Academia)

Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Marvel)

Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd/Wiccan and Speed (Marvel)

Viv Vision (Marvel)

Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl (Marvel)

Mia Dearden/Speedy (DC)

GROUP 6

Undine Wells and Kokoro Aichi/Alchemical Water and Heartful Punch (Sleepless Domain)

Olive Silverlock and Maps Mizoguchi/The Detective Club (DC)

Nova Artino and Adrian Everhart/Insomia and Sketch (Renegades Trilogy)

Karen Fields/Voyd (Pixar)

Laura Kinney/X-23/Wolverine (Marvel)

William Wisp/The Wisperer (Just Roll With It)

Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuuko (Miraculous Ladybug)

Gizmoduck (DuckTales)

Dakota Cole/D.C. (Just Roll With It)

Rumi Usagiyama/Miruko (My Hero Academia)

Luka Couffaine/Viperion (Miraculous Ladybug)

Neena Thurman/Domino (Marvel)

Vyncent Sol/Virion (Just Roll With It)

Elpis (Valor Academy)

Captain Rainbow (Nintendo)

Moza/Emara (Emara)

GROUP 7

Mark Grayson/Invincible (Invincible)

Jimmy Woo (Marvel)

Kirby (Nintendo)

The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Zorro (The Mark of Zorro)

Phil Coulson (Marvel)

Megamind (Megamind)

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Donald Duck/The Duck Avenger/Paperinik (Disney)

Saitama/Caped Baldy (One Punch Man)

He-Man and She-Ra (He-Man: Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: Princess of Power)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Games)

The Tick (The Tick)

Robin Hood (English Folklore)

Yamada Hizashi/Present Mic (My Hero Academia)

Klaus Hargreeves/Number 4/The Séance (The Umbrella Academy)

GROUP 8

Super Grover (Seasame Street)

Wario-Man (Nintendo)

Fanboy and Chum Chum (Fanboy and Chum Chum)

Ace and Gary/The Ambiguously Gay Duo (Saturday Night Live)

Hero Cookie (Cookie Run)

Floyd Belkin/Splitter/Arm-Fall-Off-Boy (DC)

Bob Dobalina/Bob, Agent of Hydra (Marvel)

Bibleman (Bibleman TV Show)

Larry-Boy (VeggieTales)

Sharkboy and Lavagirl (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl)

Mermaid Man and Barnicle Boy (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Daniel MacIntyre/Cactusman/SCP-2800 (SCP Foundation)

Morbius (Morbius)

Jarro (DC)

Jeff the Land Shark (Marvel)

Steel Samurai (Ace Attorney)

[gingham-pants]

ideas for marvel snap seasons

hello! ive been playing a lot more marvel snap recently, and ive had a bunch of ideas for new seasons and some new cards that could be in those seasons. i am in no way a game designer, so im not going to give characters or locations effects.

Each season has:

One main card (the season pass card)

Four other new cards (spotlight cache cards)

two older cards featured in the season pass with new varients

two new locations

one other additional rule - one of each season's cache cards is usually more of a lesser known character, or someone out of left field. I have kept this in mind for these upcoming season ideas.

Civil War

Season Pass Card: Tigra

Spotlight Cache Card: Songbird

Spotlight Cache Card: Goliath

Spotlight Cache Card: Wonder Man

Spotlight Cache Card: Aunt May

Featured Pass Card: Spider-Man (Iron Spider Variant)

Featured Pass Card: Thor (Ragnarok Variant)

New Location: Secret Avenger's Base

New Location: SHEILD Prison

2. Secret Wars

Season Pass Card: Frankin Richards

Spotlight Cache Card: Valeria Richards

Spotlight Cache Card: Molecule Man

Spotlight Cache Card: The Beyonder

Spotlight Cache Card: Jaime Braddok

Featured Pass Card: Doctor Doom (God Emperor Variant)

Featured Pass Card: Black Panther (Infinity Gauntlet Variant)

New Location: Battleworld

New Location: Symbiote Pit (?)

3. Marvel UK

Season Pass Card: Captain Britain

Spotlight Cache Card: Captain Avalon

Spotlight Cache Card: Meggan

Spotlight Cache Card: Morgan Le Fey

Spotlight Cache Card: Askani (Rachel Grey)

Featured Pass Card: Kitty Pryde

Featured Pass Card: Nightcrawler

New Location: Excalibur Lighthouse

New Location: Otherworld

4. Sins of Sinister

Season Pass Card: Rasputin IV

Spotlight Cache Card: Goblin Queen

Spotlight Cache Card: Mother Righteous

Spotlight Cache Card: Dr. Stasis

Spotlight Cache Card: Vertigo

Featured Pass Card: Mister Sinister (Just a variant idk)

Featured Pass Card: Captain Marvel (Secret Wars Variant)

New Location: Moira Core

New Location: Sinister Lab

5. House of X

Season Pass Card: Moira X

Spotlight Cache Card: Karima Shapandar

Spotlight Cache Card: Exodus

Spotlight Cache Card: Tempus

Spotlight Cache Card: Destiny

Featured Pass Card: Hope Summers (The Five Variant)

Featured Pass Card: Emma Frost (Dawn of X Variant)

New Location: The Quiet Council

New Location: Arrako

6. Young Avengers (I'm aware many of these characters are champions characters, but they put Beta Ray Bill in the Planet Hulk season so I thought I would give myself a little leeway.)

Season Pass Card: Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)

Spotlight Cache Card: Speed

Spotlight Cache Card: Prodigy

Spotlight Cache Card: Viv Vision

Spotlight Cache Card: Marvel Boy

Featured Pass Card: America Chavez (Young Avengers Variants)

Featured Pass Card: Ironheart (Champions Variant)

New Location: America's Home Dimension

New Location: The Boneyard

7. Empyre

Season Pass Card: Hulkling

Spotlight Cache Card: Wiccan

Spotlight Cache Card: Mar-Vell

Spotlight Cache Card: Lyja the Skrull

Spotlight Cache Card: Abigail Brand

Featured Pass Card: Ronan the Accuser (Empyre Variant)

Featured Pass Card: Super Skrull (Empyre Variant)

New Location: Skrull Homeworld

New Location: Kree Homeworld

8. New Mutants

Season Pass Card: Cypher

Spotlight Cache Card: Warlock

Spotlight Cache Card: Lila Chaney

Spotlight Cache Card: Magma

Spotlight Cache Card: Boom Boom

Featured Pass Card: Mirage (New Mutants Variants)

Featured Pass Card: Wolfsbane (New Mutants Variants)

New Location: Ship (The Old X-Factor Base)

New Location: Graymalkin

9. Mojoverse

Season Pass Card: Spiral

Spotlight Cache Card: Longshot

Spotlight Cache Card: Shatterstar

Spotlight Cache Card: Rictor

Spotlight Cache Card: Eye Boy

Featured Pass Card: Mojo

Featured Pass Card: Psylocke

New Location: Spiral's Body Shop

New Location: Danger Playpen

10. Ultimate Universe

Season Pass Card: The Maker

Spotlight Cache Card: Maystorm

Spotlight Cache Card: Jimmy Hudson

Spotlight Cache Card: Nomi

Spotlight Cache Card: Red She-Hulk

Featured Pass Card: Spider-Man (Miles Morales) (Ultimate Variant)

Featured Pass Card: Cable (Ultimate Variant)

New Location: Morlock Tunnels

New Location: Academy of Tomorrow

[fallenangelx00]

Battles of Remnant: The Non-RWBY Characters

A few of the girls not from RWBY, there will be boys too, they're just not fun to list

DC Characters

Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern VIII - Human

Mari McCabe/Vixen - Faunus

Koriand’r/Starfire - Human

Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl - Human

Judy Garrick/The Boom - Faunus (Gazelle) 

Lorena Marquez/Aquagirl -  Typhos

Elizabeth “Bette” Kane - Typhos

Mia Dearden/Speedy - Faunus

Astrid Arkham/Arkham Knight - Typhos

Marilyn Moonlight - Human

Lyrl Dox/Brainiac 3 - Android

Indigo Dox/Brainiac 8 - Android

Tina/Platinum - Android

Lace/Copper - Android

Antonia Monetti/Argent - Typhos

Tara Markov/Terra - Human

Kiran Singh/Solstice - Human

Holly Granger/Hawk - Faunus

Dawn Granger/Dove - Faunus

Marvel Characters

Kate Bishop/Hawkeye II - Human

Jubilation Lee/ Jubilee - Human

Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock/Psylocke - Human

Ava Ayala/White Tiger - Typhos

Elizabeth “Liz” Allen/Firestar -Typhos

Riri Williams/Iron Heart -Faunus

Laura Kinney/X-23 - Faunus

Aña Corazón/Araña - Human

Shuri/Black Panther - Faunus

Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm - Typhos

Viv Vision - Android

Geer Nelson/Tigra - Faunus

Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird - Typhos

Illyana Rasputina/Magik - Typhos

America Chavez/Ms. America - Human

Nadia Van Dyne/Wasp - Human

Cassandra Lang/Stinger - Human

Francine Frye/Electro - Faunus

Overwatch Characters

Lena Oxton/Tracer - Human

Brigitte Lindholm - Human

Hana Song/D.Va - Faunus

Kiriko Kamori -Faunus

Odessa "Dez" Stone/Junker Queen - Typhos

Olivia Colomar/Sombra - Human

Amélie Lacroix (née Guillard)/Widow Maker - Typhos

Mei-Ling Zhou - Faunus

Elizabeth Caledonia "Calamity" Ashe - Human

Vivian Chase/Sojourn - Faunus

Cyberpunk 2077 Characters

Valerie - Human

Rebecca Watson - Human

Panam Paler - Human

Judy Álvarez - Faunus

Song So Mi/Song Bird - Typhos

Beatrice Ellen Trieste/8ugbear - Faunus

Alena Xenakis - Typhos

Bree Whitney - Typhos

Hanako Arasaka - Human

Meredith Stout - Human

Bleach Characters

Soi Fon - Faunus

Tatsuki Arisawa - Human

Tier Harribel - Typhos

Candice Catnipp - Human

Isane Kotetsu - Faunus

Ikumi Unagiya - Human

Cirucci Sanderwicci - Typhos

Liltotto Lamperd - Human

Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck -Typhos

Senna Ichinose - Faunus

My Hero Academia Characters

Moe Kamiji/Burnin - Human

Kaoruko Awata/Bubble Girl - Human

Rumi Usagiyama/Mirko - Faunus

Anan Kurose/Thirteen - Human

Himiko Toga - Typhos

Ibara Shiozaki/Vine - Human

Setsuna Tokage/Lizardy - Faunus

Reiko Yanagi/Emily - Human

Kaina Tsutsumi/Lady Nagant - Typhos

Nemuri Kayama/Midnight - Human

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

SHE IS INDEED :D

Okay so

The funky green lad dancing with the cute guy in the red cape are Wiccan and Hulkling, gay superhero boyfriends and rulers of the Kree/Skrull empire :D

There’s Loki of course

The girl who looks like the Vision is Viv Vision, the Vision’s daughter who is a lesbian <3

The cute blue lady and the lady in the gold mask are Mystique and Destiny, who are wives and characters from X-men :D

The hella adorable lady in the blue and yellow outfit is Shela Sexton aka Escapade, a queer trans lady :D

The Spider-hero is Web-Weaver, a parallel version of Spider-Man who is gay :D

The person Loki is hitting on is Somnus, a gay mutant with dream powers :D

The lady in the american flag themed outfit is America Chavez, a reality jumping lesbian and the guy she’s dancing with is a friend of hers from Young Avengers called Prodigy who is bisexual

The ladies next to Viv Vision are Nico Minoru a funky bisexual goth girl and her girlfriend Karolina Dean, a space lesbian :D

The girl dancing under the disco ball is a lesbian mutant hero named Gimmick

THIS LOOKS LIKE A FUNKY PARTY :D

[phoenixlionme]

Marvel Lesbian Superheroes

I owe this and other DC/Marvel LGBT Superhero lists to lgbtincomics tumblr. They had a list comprising of the sexual orientations of comic characters, including DC and Marvel superheroes.

MAIN UNIVERSE

1. Alana Jobson aka Jackpot

2. America Chavez aka Miss America

3. Gabrielle “Elle” Diwa aka Galura 

4. Heather Tucker aka Tempo 

5. Karolina Dean

6. Kestrel

7. Lashayla Smith

8. Phyla-Vell

9. Roxy Washington aka Bling

10. Victoria Hand

11. Victoria Montesi

12. Viv Vision

13. Xuyen Kieu Manh aka Karma 

14. Ying Liu 

15. Zoe Zimmer 

16. Laura Kinney aka Wolverine - her original creators from X-Men Evolution wanted to do a gay storyline on her but it was scrapped. As such, I see her as a lesbian.

MARVEL: EARTH 1610 [Ultimate Universe]

1. Jessica Drew aka Black Widow

MARVEL: EARTH 2109

1. Mariko Yashida aka Sunfire 

MARVEL: EARTH 11131 [Secret Wars: Runaways]

1. Jubilation Lee aka Jubilee 

MARVEL: EARTH 8545

1. Mary Jane Watson aka Spider Woman

MARVEL: EARTH 199999

1. Jeri Hogarth

[aparticularbandit]

For Fake: Chapter Four

Summary: America lied about having a girlfriend to get her moms off her back, but when they want to meet said girlfriend, she asks her good friend Viv to step in and help.

Viv Vision/America Chavez

Chapter Rating: G. Fic Rating: T.

AO3

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notanandroid: I cannot meet on the 26th.  Father has the date marked for something. punchesstars: for wut notanandroid: I do not know.  He will not tell me. notanandroid: Every time I ask, he says that it is a surprise. punchesstars: oh punchesstars: cool

punchesstars: the 22 ok? punchesstars: mom’s birthday’s the 21 so not then punchesstars: she’ll be SO distracted notanandroid: Yes.  We do not have any plans. punchesstars: cool punchesstars: cu then

notanandroid: You are certain that you want me to be myself? notanandroid: You are certain that will not make things too complicated? punchesstars: ur fine punchesstars: i like u punchesstars: & ur a shit liar notanandroid: I can reasonably deceive your parents.  Father has told me that Wanda is extremely gullible. punchesstars: i dont wanna kno notanandroid: They were in a relationship before my father created me. punchesstars: ew punchesstars: i said i dont wanna kno punchesstars: y’d u say that punchesstars: ew ew ew ew ew punchesstars: i need brain bleach viv notanandroid: I do not think they make that. notanandroid: I do not think this needs to be said, but please do not drink bleach.

~

Viv hovers down to America’s house with a feeling of woeful unpreparedness.  Perhaps if asked, they don’t need to talk about how they met; her moms should already know that one.  They can refer back to the diner for their “first date” as well.  But she hopes neither of them asks how America asked her out – or how she asked America out – because this is something they have never discussed.  She hopes they don’t ask how they each knew the other liked them.  Even more, she hopes neither asks how she knew she liked America.

She still hasn’t decided how to answer that question.

As her feet just touch down on their front porch, Viv reaches out to ring their doorbell and then hesitates.  Woefully unprepared shouldn’t leave her feeling as anxious and nervous as she feels.  It shouldn’t.  And yet her stomach still acts as though there are exposed livewires tumbling about inside it, as though they keep brushing against the rest of her insides.

It’s not as painful as it sounds.

Still.

Viv tugs on the flowing lace edges of her long shirt as if they were on a skirt.  They might as well be, since she’s just in that long shirt and leggings.  It isn’t quite a dress, per say, or at least clothes like it aren’t marketed as dresses, but she’s gotten one that’s big enough to be worn that way regardless, all soft and knitted and in her signature Crayola green.  She likes this sweater.  It has golden threads woven through it here and there that sparkle when they catch the light.  She tucks her hair behind one ear, tugs on her sleeves until her thumbs fit through each of the holes designed for them, reconsiders how she looks – reconsiders looking like herself, like a synthezoid and not a human – and very nearly shifts her appearance, although America insisted otherwise, before the front door opens.

She didn’t ring the doorbell.

It doesn’t matter – the door’s open, and Agatha stands there on the other side of it, fingers tapping on the door, nails gleaming a deep violet in the porch light.  Strictly speaking, they’ve never met, but Viv recognizes her easily enough from the way too many files she’d scanned through in preparation for this meeting.  (She tells herself it was simply research for a mission, but the truth is it’s the same sort of research she might have done if America was actually her girlfriend and she actually wanted to do well with her parents.)

From the way Agatha’s head tilts to one side, it’s clear that she recognizes Viv, too.  She doesn’t say anything at first, but then her eyes light up and a wicked, wicked grin spreads across her lips.  “Oh, so it’s you.”

“I am uncertain of what you mean.”

“You’re the girlfriend, aren’t you?”  Agatha’s grin widens so much that her tongue starts to peek between her teeth.  Then she turns and shouts into the house.  “Wanda, babe, you owe me thirty bucks!”

The call comes from inside the house: “What?”

“I guessed right!” Agatha calls back.  “You owe me, hon!”

Viv’s face is already scarlet.  That is a feature of being a synthezoid.  It is a fortunate feature, because that means when her cheeks heat with her embarrassment, it is impossible to note the difference.  “I did not even ring the doorbell,” she mutters under her breath.

“Oh, right, that.”  Agatha turns back.  “We have one of those spy cams.  Lets us know someone’s at the door before they even do anything.”  She steps out of the house and taps at the camera set in the doorbell.  “Smile!  You’re on candid camera!”

I hate this, Viv thinks, and then, I really hate this, she thinks again, and then, It’s good that this is all feigned because I would hate this more if I had to live through it more often.  Still, she can see some of America’s snark mimicked in Agatha’s words, and as much as she hates it, that calms her.  They’re not the same – they aren’t even biologically related, and America’s brainwaves aren’t a combination of Wanda’s and Agatha’s the way that Viv’s are of her father’s and her mother’s – but they still resemble each other.  It’s beautiful.

Then there comes a pounding on the stairs so loud that Viv can hear it outside, and exactly thirty-point-five-six-five seconds later, America appears halfway down the stairs.  “Viv?”  She grabs the railing about a quarter of the way from the floor and jumps over the side before skidding on stockinged feet to the front door.  Then she pushes Agatha out of the way.  ���She’s my girlfriend.  You can’t have her.”

Viv blinks twice.

“America, how many times have I told you not to jump the railing?”  Wanda’s voice cuts through everything, blatant before she’s even visible, and then she’s there, walking out of the kitchen in an outfit that looks like a softer, more grown-up version of Viv’s own: cream sweater dress compared with Viv’s matrix green over large sweater, both with longer than normal sleeves but Wanda’s with extra folds about her collar as well; caramel leggings compared with Viv’s onyx ones, a deeper color that exudes warmth as opposed to Viv’s flat black, which seems to absorb it; and then the glow ups: dark chocolate boots much classier than Viv’s half-tied red Converse and a deep brown belt with a golden buckle cinched about her waist, highlighting it, accenting it, where Viv wears no belt at all.

It’s more than a bit of a mimicry, even if unintended, and a part of Viv glances to Agatha and America to see if they will parallel each other the same way that she does with Wanda.  But while both seem a little more dressed down, that’s the only thing they have in common.  America has her standard denim jacket, of course (surprising, since Wanda has always given off a don’t wear jackets inside the house sort of vibe), but her jeans and t-shirt look like anything she could wear any day, nothing special at all.  Agatha, meanwhile, seems to have decided to fit the sweater theme – only hers is actually a well fitted deep purple sweater pulled over a collared shirt of a sharper shade of purple (only visible from its collar poking out and resting atop the sweater’s).  Black slacks aren’t a grown-up version of jeans, no matter what anyone says, and even if Agatha wanted to look more adult, that effect is destroyed by the way her sleeves are pushed up to her elbows.  Even though they both have their hair pulled back, America’s is a much higher ponytail with strands pulled out and hanging about her ears, while Agatha’s is a much messier up-do.

Wanda storms – the heels of her boots clacking on the floor – over to Agatha and glares at her.  “This is your fault.  You taught her how to—”

“You like jumping the railing, too, hon,” Agatha replies with a wave of her hand.  “Don’t discriminate.”  Then she gestures to Viv with one hand.  “Told you.  Pay up.”

“Told me wha—”  Wanda’s eyes light on Viv, and her expression softens.  At least, it does at first.  Then her eyes widen as she realizes who’s standing there.  Her head slowly lilts backward.  “You’re—”

“My girlfriend,” America interjects.  She bites her lower lip and crosses her arms.  “Got a problem with that?”

For a moment longer, Viv stays on the porch.  She sees Wanda’s expression shift between a thousand and one minute differences, each saying and explaining an entirely different aspect of her reaction, before settling, finally, on a mixture of concern and wary acceptance.  She lies, then, when she says, “No, of course not,” because everything about that rapidly shifting and schooling says that this expression, the one she wears, is nothing more than a mask.

Viv knows because her own mother often tried to do the same thing and failed, because her mother trained herself to wear that mask at every possible moment, only letting it fall when—

Well.  Her mother’s brainwaves were a mimicry of Wanda’s, after all.  So of course she should—

“Why don’t you come in from the cold, hon,” Agatha says, gesturing Viv in with one hand.  “It’s freezing out there.”

On second glance, Agatha’s blue eyes shine brighter than Wanda’s, although whether they sparkle with mischief or congeniality, Viv cannot tell.  So instead, she looks to America, who offers her a gentle, if embarrassed grin, and who takes her hand and tugs her inside.  She assumes the embarrassment is of her parents, but in all honesty?  She cannot tell.

~

Dinner goes as smoothly as could be hoped for, although that seems to be on account of it being mostly silent.  Well, mostly silent for three of the four of them – it only took a single compliment from Viv, followed by a long, low groan from America, before Agatha launched into an intricate explanation of the dish in question, who she learned it from, how many years it took for her to perfect it, and then, without prompting, explaining the exact same thing for each of the other dishes.  Despite her audible groan, America gives Viv a thumbs up beneath the table – without knowing, she’d walked into perhaps the best way to make sure the dinner conversation was on something other than them – and while Viv found most of Agatha’s stories engaging, she glanced over to Wanda from time to time and found her somewhere between entertained and annoyed, depending on the story.

And once, exactly once, Viv glanced over to Wanda and found her looking straight at her.  Wanda didn’t flush at being caught out, although Viv did, and instead holds Viv’s gaze just long enough to give her a gentle smile.  In the end, Viv looked away before Wanda did, and the next time she checked, Wanda had returned to eating, as though nothing happened at all.

After dinner, Agatha suggests they move into the living room, but Wanda touches Viv’s arm gently and gestures for her to follow her.  Viv follows, despite her suspicions, only to stand with Wanda, alone, in the kitchen.  It still smells strongly of the food Agatha prepared for them, only in here, where she can smell everything at once, it hits her like that first breath of air after being held underwater – a deep, deep, desperate breath followed by guttural gasping from too much.

“You’re dating America,” Wanda asks, but she doesn’t say it like a question.

Viv looks down at her hands and clasps them together.  “Yes.”

“You’re dating America,” Wanda repeats.

“Yes.”  Viv continues to look down at her hands.

“You’re dating America—”

“It does not matter how many times you say it or which words you italicize, it does not make the statement any less true.”  Viv fiddles one thumb up and over the other.

For a moment, Wanda stays silent.  Then, “Italicize?” she echoes, her voice soft.

Viv shrugs.  “It seemed pertinent.”  She glances up and meets Wanda’s eyes.  When she looks human, her own are the same shade, that same emerald green, although Wanda’s feel darker than her own, which always spark with electric light.  Rough hewn emeralds against the matrix approximation thereof.  Maybe, if her mother had been human, her eyes would have looked much the same.  Maybe this, too, is something they inherited from their originator.  “You have a problem with this.”

“I’m just surprised.”  Wanda crosses her arms.  Her gaze lifts and focuses on the bright yellow gem situated in the very center of Viv’s forehead.

In another life, this gem, situated in her father’s forehead, was the Mind Stone, but in his recreation and subsequent creation of herself and the rest of their family, it’s nothing more than a memory of what he once was and a reminder of whose she is.  The Solar Gem doesn’t need to be in the center of her forehead.  It doesn’t need to be this flashy or this bright, and it doesn’t need to be one of the ways that she externally connects with some of her internal systems.  And yet her father has created her the same way he was created, with so many threads tied down to this singular gem.

Wanda stares at the gem and pain flickers through her eyes and she asks, gentle as she can, “When did you turn your emotional processors back on?”

“Father told you,” Viv says, but where once anger might have bubbled up inside her, she stays calm.  “He was not meant to tell anyone.  That was meant only for family.”

I am family.

Wanda doesn’t say it, but she doesn’t have to do so.  Her expression says it all for her.  “Viv,” she starts again, “when did you—”

“I did not.”  Viv averts her eyes.  “I have not.”

There’s a beat of silence after the admission.  Viv continues to avert her eyes, refusing to see the disappointment (or, worse, concern) in Wanda’s, still breathing in that tangled, overwhelming scent of too much food at once.  She glances up just enough to barely make out Wanda’s expression when Wanda says, “Then do you really think it’s a good idea to be dating—”

“Viv?”  America pops her head into the kitchen.  “Why’re you hiding in here?”  She catches sight of her mom, and her eyes narrow the slightest bit.  “Something the matter?”

“No,” Viv lies.  She meets Wanda’s eyes.  “Nothing is wrong.”  She waits a breath to see if Wanda will refute her, and when Wanda says nothing to either of them, she takes America’s hand in her own and follows her out of the kitchen.

America leans over as they walk the admittedly short hallway to the living room and hisses, “What was that about?”

“Nothing.”

Viv does not feel as though she has gotten any better at lying, although she has practiced, and her clear lack of skill is reflected towards her on America’s face when her friend who is a girl turns to her and gives her a blank stare.  The kind that says she will bring this up again later, when they’re alone, when she doesn’t think anyone will overhear them; the kind that says she will insist on it, even if Viv doesn’t want to talk about it at all.

That feeling of electric coils in the pit of her stomach returns, and Viv thinks that maybe, when America asked if she’d be her fake girlfriend, she should have said no.

~

At some point in the living room, Viv realizes that Wanda and Agatha had their own plans in motion, plans that were far more thought out and prepared than Viv and America’s had been.  Those plans, of course, were entirely reliant on letting Agatha talk while Wanda quietly took everything in – less what Agatha was saying and more Viv’s reactions, or how Viv and America might react together – and a part of Viv suspects that those plans were set into place the moment Agatha said she’d won their bet.  There might never have even been a bet – only plans within plans within plans and which one they might follow.

And by the end of everything, Viv feels as though they have failed.

“I believe I should be going,” Viv says finally, as the clock clicks closer to her curfew.  She turns to America, takes her friend’s hand in her own, and gives it a gentle squeeze.  “My father would not like it if I lingered too long.”

At her words, Agatha’s eyes light up.  “He doesn’t know where you are, does he, hon?  He’d let you stay later if he knew you were with your girlfriend—”

“Agatha!” America cuts her off, but Agatha just gives them both a huge wink.

Wanda, however, stands with a gentle, if feigned, smile on her face.  “Viv’s right.  I think we should—”  She stops herself with a yawn, which she covers with one hand.  Her smile droops afterward, but that sleepiness doesn’t quite reach her eyes.  “I’m sorry. It’s nearly past my bedtime.”

America shoots her a look.  “You don’t have a bedtime.”

Agatha winks again.

“Ew.”  America winces and stands, tugging Viv up with her.  “I don’t wanna hear any of that.  Ew ew ew ew ew.”  She starts to the door without another word – which was probably Wanda and Agatha’s intent, although Viv can’t know for sure.

Once they’re outside, America shuts the door behind them and gives Viv another look.  “No, seriously, what was Wanda doing with you earlier?” she asks without any sort of transition at all.  She crosses her arms.  “And don’t…don’t lie to me, okay?  Don’t say it was nothing when it definitely wasn’t nothing.”

“It wasn’t nothing.”  Viv doesn’t meet her eyes.  Instead, she crosses her arms with a shiver she doesn’t need – she cannot feel the cold right now – and stares out at the snow-covered lawn in front of them, at the twinkling holiday lights threaded through the white picket fence.

“So what was it?” America asks, nudging her.

Viv shakes her head.  “It is unimportant.”  She turns to America with a small smile.  “Most importantly, it does not concern you.  It is only something about myself which your mother should not have known in the first place.  That is all.”

“Your dad?” America guesses, and when Viv nods, she scowls and kicks her foot at the ground.  “That sucks.”

“Perhaps.”  Viv gives a half-hearted shrug.  She waits to see if America will say anything else about that, but she doesn’t, and Viv doesn’t invite her to continue it.  In fact, she’d rather she didn’t know at all.  It isn’t any of her business.  Even if they were girlfriends – which they aren’t, and which she does not want – she wouldn’t want to tell her.

Life is just…easier this way.  Thinking about hard things, like her mother, and not feeling everything about them.  It’s simply easier not to feel.  And it’s not she doesn’t feel anything; it’s just…softer, somehow.  She needs softer.

And maybe it would have ended there, if Agatha hadn’t propped open one of the windows and stuck her head out.  “Kiss her!” she yells out.  “You’re standing under mistletoe!”

“No, we’re not.”  America doesn’t even look up.  “I ripped that thing down because you and Mom were smooching too much.”  She gives Viv a look and mouths ew again before sticking her tongue out with disgust.

“Oh.”  Agatha stares down at them.  “I didn’t realize.”  Her tone sounds too much like Viv’s mother.  It’s terrifying.  Then her head tilts to the side, and she waggles her fingers.  “Fixed it for you, hon.  Don’t thank me!”  She returns back inside the house as the mistletoe appears in a puff of violet magic.

America stares at the mistletoe with wide eyes.  “Uh, no.”  She shakes her head and stands back, palms out.  “You don’t have to.  Nope.”

“They’re paying attention.”  Viv doesn’t need to see America’s moms to know that what she just said is true.  “It’s a test.”  She looks down at her hand, rubs her thumbnail against the bad of her forefinger.  “I wouldn’t…I wouldn’t mind.”

“That’s not the point!”

Viv glances up to see the bright flush coloring America’s face, the same embarrassed expression as before only magnified etched into her features, and gives another shrug.  “Then don’t.  And have Agatha berate you for not doing anything, despite the opportunity being right there, while Wanda doubts whether we’re actually a couple at all—”

America kisses her.

….

Viv is fairly certain that America only kisses her to get her to stop talking.  She won’t admit it to herself, but that was, in fact, her point.  To make America so flustered that she’d act.  It doesn’t mean anything, after all, and it doesn’t need to be anything.

But it’s nice, she thinks.  It’s nice, to be kissed.

America stops with her cheeks an even darker red than they were before.  “There,” she mutters.  “Fine.  They got what they needed.”  She doesn’t look up and actively avoids Viv’s gaze.  “I’m gonna…I’m gonna go.  So you can make your curfew.  Or whatever.”

In the most girlfriend-like manner she’s had the entire time, Viv leans over and kisses America’s cheek.  “I will text you.  Later.”

“Yeah.  Sure.  Whatever.”

But even though America turns away from her, even though her hands clench together into tiny fists, she doesn’t go inside until Viv has hovered enough out of reach that she cannot see her anymore, until Viv has flown far enough away that she doesn’t hear the door slam.

[marvellfashion]

Here is a collection of links with the characters that have appeared on edits! 

A

Abigail Brand

Agatha Harkness

Alison Blair

Amadeus Cho

Amelia Voght

America Chavez

Ami Han 

Amka Aliyak

Amora

Angela 

Angelica Jones

Anna Marie

Anya Corazon  

Andromeda

Attuma

Ava Ayala

Avril Kincaid

Ayo

Azazel

B

Ben Grimm

Ben Riley

Betsy Braddock

Billy Kaplan 

Blackagar Boltagon

Bob Reynolds

Bobbi Morse

Bobby Drake 

Brian Braddock

Bruce Banner 

Bucky Barnes

C

Carol Danvers

Cassandra Web 

Charles Xavier 

Chase Stein 

Cindy Moon 

Clint Barton 

D

Daimon Hellstrom 

Daken Akihiro

Dani Moonstar 

Danny Rand

David Alleyne 

Dia Sloane

Doreen Green

E

Eden Fesi

Eddie Brock

Elektra Natchios

Elizabeth Twoyoungmen

Ellie Wilson 

Elsa Bloodstone

Emma Frost

Enchantress

Eric Brooks 

F

Fantomex

Felicia Hardy

Flash Thompson

Frank Castle

G

Gabby Kinney 

Gamora

Gaveendra Seven 

Gert Yorkes

Greer Grant

Gwen Stacy

Gwendolyn Pool 

I

Ikaris

Illyana Rasputin 

Isca

H

Hank McCoy

Heather Douglas

Hela

Hepzibah

Hildegarde

Hobie Brown 

Hope Summers 

J

Jacques Duquesne

James Rhodes

Jane Foster

Janet Van Dyne

Jean Grey

Jean-Paul Beaubier 

Jeanne-Marie Beaubier 

Jennifer Kale

Jennifer Takeda

Jennifer Walters

Jericho Drumm

Jessan Hoan

Jessica Drew

Jessica Jones

Jhonny Storm

Joanna Cargill

Joaquin Torres

Jocasta Pym

Jubilation Lee

Julia Carpenter 

Julio Richter

K

Kamala Khan

Karl Morgenthau

Karnilla

Karolina Dean

Kate Bishop

Kelda

Kingo Sunen

Kitty Pryde

Kurt Wagner

Kushala

Kwannon

L

Laura Kinney

Leiko Wu 

Lily Cromwell

Llyra

Logan Howlett

Loki Laufeyson

Lorna Dane

Lucas Bishop

Luke Cage

Lunella Lafayette

M

Madam Slay

Madelyne Pryor

Makari

Mantis

Marc Spector

Mary Jane Watson

Matt Murdock

Maximus Boltagon

May Parker 

Maya Lopez

Medusalith Amaquelin 

Megan Gwynn

Meggan Braddock 

Mephisto

Miguel O’Hara

Miles Morales

Misty Knight

Molly Hayes 

Monica Rambeau

Moon Dragon

More

Morgan Le Fay

N

Nadia Van Dyne

Namor Mckenzie

Namora

Namorita

Natasha Romanoff

Nathan Summers 

Nebula

Neena Thurman

Nico Minoru

Noh-Varr

O

Odin Borson

Okoye

Ororo Munroe

Oubliette Midas

P

Patsy Walker 

Pearl Pangan

Pepper Potts

Peter Parker

Peter Quill

Peter Rasputin 

Phastos

Phyla-Vell

Pietro Maximoff

Princess Fen

Q

Quoi 

R

Rachel Grey 

Radha Dastoor

Ramonda

Raven Darkholme

Reed Richards

Remy LeBeau 

Richard Rider

Ripley Ryan 

Riri Williams

Roberto Da Costa 

S

Sam Alexander

Sam Wilson

Satana Hellstrom

Saya Ishii

Scott Summers

Sebastian Shaw

Selene

Sersi

Shang-Chi

Sharon Carter

Shaylee Moonpeddle

Shiklah

Shuri

Sif

Silver Fox

Silvija Sablinova

Simon Williams

Spidesonas

Sprite

Stephen Strange

Steve Rogers

Sue Storm 

T

Tabitha Smith

Takeshi Matsuya 

Tandy Bowen

Tania Toomes

T’Challa

Teddy Altman 

Thena

Theresa Cassidy 

Thor

Tommy Shepherd

Tony Stark

Trevor Hawkins

Tyrone Johnson

V

Valkyrie

Venus 

Victor Von Doom

Vision

Viv Vision

W

Wade Wilson

Wanda Maximoff

Warda Wilson 

Warren Worthington III

X

Xi’an Coy Manh

Y

Yao

Yelena Belova

Yuriko Oyama

Z

Zebediah Killgrave

Zelma Stanton

Zoe Laveau

Zuras

[lgbtincomics]

I know theres a LOT but who are all the characters / series in your new years edit?

If you click on each image, the comic names will appear, although this only works on desktop.

Anyway, I’ll write all characters here! I’m also including links for our tags for each character and comics, and I’ve added to our list those who weren’t there yet.

Vita Slatter x Charlie Ellison - Crowded (Image Comics)

Zola Telsa x Daphne Walters, Bernard x Ronnie - Ghosted in L.A. (Boom! Studios)

Saffy x Daisy Wooton - Giant Days (Boom! Studios); Nancy Salazar x Veronica Hotchkiss - Morning in America (Oni Press)

Shen Li-Min x Angela Spica x Jenny Sparks - The Wild Storm (DC Comics); [sorry I don’t know their names, may update later] - Sunstone (Image Comics)

Eleanor Rigby/Lucifer x Laura Wilson/Persephone - The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics)

Shay Smith x  Ying - The Unstoppable Wasp (Marvel); Becky Barnes x Valkyrie - Exiles (Marvel)

Kimber Benton x Mary Phillips/Stormer - Synergy: a Hasbro creators showcase (IDW); Ren Kimura x Annabelle Riggs - Asgardians of The Galaxy (Marvel)

Rikki Barnes x Julie Power -  Future Foundation (Marvel); Raz Malhotra x Isaac Ikeda - Agents of ATLAS (Marvel)

Rick Sanchez - Rick and Morty Presents: The Flesh Curtains (Oni Press); Kate Strand - Calamity Kate (Dark Horse)

Midnighter x Apollo - The Wild Storm (DC Comics)

Sera x Angela/Aldrif Odinsdottir - Asgardians of The Galaxy (Marvel)

Tabu x Peter Cannon - Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt (Dynamite)

Atlantiades - Wonder Woman (DC Comics)

Olivia x Charlie, Tyler x Jay - The Avant-Guards (Boom! Studios)

Miguel Montez - Dial H For Hero (DC Comics); Jo Mullein - Far Sector (DC Comics); Jinny Hex - Young Justice (DC Comics)

Brrkk xVnn - Avengers (Marvel); Mackenzie Coyle x KJ - Paper Girls (Image Comics)

Viv Vision - Champions (Marvel); Noh-Varr + Johnny Watts - West Coast Avengers (Marvel)

Vexana x [don’t know, may update later] - The Forgotten Queen (Valiant Comics; Evie Pierce x Tabitha - Triage (Dark Horse)

Aleph Null - Test (Vault Comics); Niki -  Moth and Whisper (Aftershock Comics)

Bree Wander x Christine Ocampo, Annie Leong x Bree Wander, Doug Koch x Omar Steinberg - Money Shot (Vault Comics)

Harley Quinn + her family of drag queens [may list each of them later] - Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC Comics)

[don’t know, may update later] - Smooth Criminals (Boom! Studios); Detective Reyes - Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy (Dark Horse); Esperanza xShannon - Sex Death Revolution (Black Mask Studios)

Stephen - Deadly Class (Image Comics); Xiomara Rojas/Crush - Teen Titans (DC Comics)

Victory x Vampirella - Vampirella (Dynamite Comics); Faith x Poppy - Faithless (Boom! Studios)

Sir Dahvlan x Sir Scotiar - The White Trees (Image Comics); Terrence x Joey Wilson - Deathstroke (DC Comics)

America Chavez xRamone Watts - West Coast Avengers (Marvel);  Teddy Altman x Billy Kaplan - War Of The Realms: War Scrolls(Marvel)

Max Caulfield x Chloe Price - Life is Strange (Titan Comics)

Karolina Dean x Nico Minoru -Runaways (Marvel); Xena x Gabrielle - Xena: Warrior Princess (Dynamite Comics)

2019 RETROSPECTIVE

[marvelzombiesrp]

Marvel Zombies RP: Nearly 3 Years Down

With the new year in full swing and the characters we have recently opened, your admins here at Marvel Zombies RP wanted to do a general check in.  In April it will have been 3 years since this RP started and we have had many excellent writers come, go and stay.  It has been such a blessing to have so many talented people among us.

It can be difficult to write apocalyptic fiction in an era that at times feels genuinely apocalyptic.  Personally, this admin has always looked at these stories as inherently hopeful -- we would have no story if the characters weren’t creating a future.  Finding happiness and coming together in the bleakest of settings is bravery of the highest order, and those are the stories that we tell here.

In the spirit of coming together, we invite new friends to join us.  These major Marvel characters are currently available:

Avengers

Bruce Banner • Carol Danvers • Scott Lang • Pietro Maximoff • Wanda Maximoff • Thor Odinson • Tony Stark • Stephen Strange • Jennifer Walters • Sam Wilson • T'Challa

X-Men

Lorna Dane • Bobby Drake • Jean Grey • Remy LeBeau • Jubilation Lee • Hank McCoy • Kitty Pryde • Piotr Rasputin • Illyana Rasputina • Alex Summers • Scott Summers • Kurt Wagner • Warren Worthington

Defenders

Luke Cage • Jessica Jones • Misty Knight • Matt Murdock • Danny Rand • Patsy Walker

Fantastic Four

Ben Grimm • Reed Richards • Johnny Storm • Sue Storm

Teen/YA Heroes

Sam Alexander • David Alleyne • Elijah Bradley • America Chavez • Billy Kaplan • Kamala Khan • Cassie Lang • Nico Minoru • Nadia van Dyne • Viv Vision • Riri Williams • Noh-Varr

And with many other characters up for grabs, we would be delighted to start our third year of RP with new friends.

For those already with us, thank you for helping us build this world, we literally couldn’t do this without you.  

Here’s to another year, keep surviving. -- Nym.

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[superhero-smackdown]

Group Round 1 Masterlist:

Group 1:

Match 1 - The Incredibles vs. Spider-Men and Ghost Spider

Match 2 - Jim Gordon vs. Toshinori Yagi/All Might

Match 3 - Garfield Logan/Beast Boy vs. Stephanie Brown/Spoiler

Match 4 - Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler vs. Kori'ander/Starfire

Match 5 - Jason Todd/Red Hood vs. Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel

Match 6 - Steve Rogers vs. Jessica Jones

Match 7 - Charles Xavier/Professor X vs. Black Noir

Match 8 - Matt Murdock/Daredevil vs. Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier

Group 2:

Match 1 - Kara Zor-El/Supergirl vs. Peter Quill/Starlord

Match 2 - Cassandra Cain/Black Bat vs. Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat

Match 3 - Tony Stark/Iron Man vs. The Green Lantern Corp

Match 4 - Arthur Curry/Aquaman vs. Dick Grayson/Nightwing

Match 5 - T'Challa Udaku/Black Panther vs. Queen Maeve

Match 6 - Minhkhoa Khan/The Ghost-Maker vs. Clark Kent/Superman

Match 7 - Cissie King-Jones/Arrowette vs. Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Jake Lockely/Moon Knight

Match 8 - Sam Wilson/Falcon/Captain America vs. Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl

Group 3:

Match 1 - Darkwing Duck vs. The Autobots

Match 2 - Midnighter vs. Wade Wilson/Deadpool

Match 3 - Ororo Munroe/Storm vs. Barry Allen/The Flash

Match 4 - Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova/Black Widow vs. Diana Prince/Wonder Woman

Match 5 - Shota Aizawa/Eraserhead vs. Roy Harper/Arsenal

Match 6 - Annie January/Starlight vs. Bruce Wayne/Batman

Match 7 - Tim Drake/Red Robin vs. James Howlett/Wolverine

Match 8 - Kon-El Kent/Superboy vs. Kate Kane/Batwoman

Group 4:

Match 1 - The Powerpuff Girls vs. The Power Rangers

Match 2 - Danny Fenton/Phantom vs. Izuku Midoriya/Deku

Match 3 - Kim Possible vs. Goku

Match 4 - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Link and Zelda

Match 5 - Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel vs. Billy Batson/Captain Marvel/Shazam

Match 6 - Virgil Hawkins/Static Shock vs. America Chavez/Ms. America

Match 7 - Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir vs. Ben Tennyson/Ben 10

Match 8 - Kate Bishop/Hawkeye vs. Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Group 5:

Match 1 - Gwen Poole/Gwenpool vs. Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl

Match 2 - Jubilation Lee/Jubilee vs. Mia Dearden/Speedy

Match 3 - Nino Lahiffe/Carapace vs. Katsuki Bakugo/Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight

Match 4 - Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd/Wiccan and Speed vs. Kaio Kincaid/K.O.

Match 5 - Damian Wayne/Robin vs. Flash Thompson/Agent Venom

Match 6 - Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher/The Beak vs. Shoto Todoroki/Shoto

Match 7 - Alex, Sam, and Clover vs. Felicia Hardy/Black Cat

Match 8 - Viv Vision vs. Alya Cesaire/Rena Rouge

Group 6:

Match 1 - Gizmoduck vs. Usagiyama Rumi/Mirko

Match 2 - Laura Kinney/X-23 vs. Karen Fields/Voyd

Match 3 - Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko vs. Dakota Cole/D.C.

Match 4 - Olive Silverlock and Maps Mizoguchi/The Detective Club vs. Nova Artino and Adrien Everhart/Insomnia and Sketch

Match 5 - William Wisp/The Wisperer vs. Neena Thurman/Domino

Match 6 - Elpis vs. Moza/Emara

Match 7 - Luka Couffaine/Viperion vs. Captain Rainbow

Match 8 - Undine Wells and Kokoro Aichi/Alchemical Water and Heartful Punch vs. Vyncent Sol Virion

Group 7:

Match 1 - Kirby vs. Robin Hood

Match 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Yamada Hizashi/Present Mic

Match 3 - Jimmy Woo vs. Zorro

Match 4 - Saitama/Caped Baldy vs. Monkey D. Luffy

Match 5 - The Doctor vs. The Tick

Match 6 - Megamind vs. He-Man and She-Ra

Match 7 - Mark Grayson/Invincible vs. Klaus Hargreeves/Number 4/The Seance

Match 8 - Donald Duck/The Duck Avenger/Paperinik vs. Phil Coulson

Group 8:

Match 1 - Floyd Belkin/Splitter/Arm-Fall-Off-Boy vs. Wario Man

Match 2 - Fanboy and Chum Chum vs. Hero Cookie

Match 3 - SCP-2800/Cactusman/Daniel MacIntyre vs. Bibleman

Match 4 - Jarro vs. Bob Dobalina/Bob, Agent of Hydra

Match 5 - Mermaid Man and Barnicle Boy vs. Super Grover

Match 6 - Sharkboy and Lavagirl vs. Ace and Gary/The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Match 7 -Morbius vs. Larry-Boy

Match 8 - Jeff the Land Shark vs. Steel Samurai

[ansheofthevalley]

People tend to do the same thing for Steve and Tony (Stony), as in fetishize their relationship, when you’ve already mentioned that there are plenty of LGBTQ people in the world of Marvel.

Hi nonny!

TBH, it’s hardly hot news that fandom in general like to fetishize mlm couples (especially if the characters are portrayed as straight). It’s usually straight women that fetishizes mlm ships (that’s a whole another problem I won’t get into now, otherwise this would be a very long post). I mean, I still remember the days of BBC Sherlock and Johnlock. I’m sure you do too, nonny.

Now, everyone has their own headcanons about characters and all. And that’s totally OK. But the MCU adapts characters from the comics (I know I’m totally coming across like a comic book purist, which I’m not, not really), and there are tons of wonderful LGTBQ characters in the comics. I’m aware that not all the people that are part of the MCU fandom read the comics, and that’s cool. 

I guess that my main issues with this are the following:

Like I said before, the MCU adapts the characters from the comics. But adaptation doesn’t mean carbon copy. Just like MCU’s MJ is not the “typical” Mary Jane we know, the MCU version is based on an alternate version of Mary Jane from the comics in which she was as much of a genius as Peter (I can’t remember the alternate universe). The same can happen with a character’s sexuality. Let’s use Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman as an example. Her original version (Earth-616) is straight. But her Ultimate version (Earth-1610) identifies as a lesbian. Same can happen with Illyana Rasputina aka Magik, who in Earth 616 is established as straight, but she’s also established as bi and gay in different alternate universes. Other characters that can go this route are Wolverine and Hercules (both from Earth-12025, alternate universe in which they’re a couple) and Beast and Wonder Man (both from Earth-763, alternate universe in which they’re a couple). 

(I MEAN... Here you have two of the manliest, most macho-looking superheroes Marvel has, sharing a show-stopping kiss. JUST IMAGINE if we got something remotely close to it in the MCU).

I don’t have a problem with characters being queer when their comic counterpart are straight, as long as it makes sense whithin their narrative frame. Otherwise, it just becomes thoughtless representation and as a community we deserve better than that.

Then, of course, you have the canon LGBT characters (by canon I refer to characters present in the Earth-616 timeline). You have:

- Gay characters:

Union Jack

Northstar

Angela (Thor’s older sister, whose storyline in the MCU was given to Hela)

Sera

Korg (who already is in the MCU)

Phyla-Vell

Moondragon

America Chavez

Wiccan 

Hulkling

Iceman (one of the 6 original X-Men)

Karma (founder of the New Mutants)

Viv (Vision’s “daughter”)

-Bi characters:

Loki

Black Cat

Psylocke

Mystique

Electro (a Spider-Man villain)

Daken (Wolverine’s son)

Prodigy

Beetle (a Spider-Man villain)

Fuse

Noh-Varr

-Pan characters:

Deadpool

Julie Power

Xavin

-Trans characters:

Sera

Loki

-Genderfluid characters:

Loki

Xavin

Mystique

-LGBTQ characters that already are in the MCU (*):

Loki (Bisexual and genderfluid)

Valkyrie (Bisexual)

Nico Minoru (Bisexual)

Karolina Dean (Gay)

Xavin (Genderfluid)

Jeri Hogarth (Gay)

Joey Gutierrez (Gay)

Justin Hammer (Gay)

(*)I’m aware of the pattern here, the only openly LGBTQ characters are from the Marvel shows. Loki, Valkyrie and Justin Hammer have all been confirmed as queer behind the scenes

As you can see, there are tons of queer characters, some that even fit with the direction the MCU will be taking after Endgame:

You have America Chavez, Wiccan, Hulkling and Noh-Varr, all members of the Young Avengers. A notable member of this team? Cassie, Scott Lang’s daughter (she’s a teenager by the end of Endgame, so the timeline is just right for Marvel to bring the YA to the MCU). Also, in the Disney + Hawkeye series, it’s said that Clint will train someone. That someone could turn out to be Kate Bishop, another member of this group.

You have Iceman, Karma, Psylocke, Mystique, Daken, Prodigy and Deadpool, all members of the X-Men or groups affiliated with them. Since Disney acquiered the rights to the X-Men, we’ll see some of them soon in the MCU.

You have Phyla-Vell and Moondragon, characters associated with the GotG and the cosmic side of Marvel. Since one of the confirmed projects is the Eternals movie and it’s also said that the Captain Marvel sequel will take place in space, it’s possible these characters are introduced, since it seems the MCU is heading towards exploring the cosmic side of the universe. Marvel also confirmed that the Eternals movie will introduce its first openly gay character, so yay!

You have Ultimate Jessica Drew. She’s from the same alternate universe as Miles Morales. Since FFH confirmed the Multiverse theory, it can be possible this version of the character appears in the MCU, either as the MCU’s version of the Jess or as part of the Spider-Verse story-line. Also possible to make an appareance (but a little further down the line): Black Cat. She’s a love interest/rival to Spider-Man. There’s also possibility for Electro and Beetle to appear since they were both part of the Sinister Six.

You have Angela and Sera. Since Thor joined the GotG at the end of Avengers: Endgame, making it look like an adaptation of the Asgardians of the Galaxy run (or at least, the start of it), it’s easy to introduce, at least, Angela, since she became a rather popular character.

You have Loki and his upcoming Disney + solo series, which will take place in an alternate universe. The series is perfect for Marvel to explore the sexuality of one of its most popular characters.

You have Viv, the Vision’s daughter. Since we’ll get the ScarletVision Disney + series, it’s possible we get a version of Viv, or a mix of her and the children Wanda and Vision “had” (if you read House of M, you’ll know what I’m referring to). Viv is part of the series of new young heroes, along with Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), Riri Williams (Ironheart), Miles Morales (Ultimate universe’s Spider-Man), Spider-Gwen (Earth-65′s Gwen Stacy), Nadia Pym (Wasp), Lunella Lafayette (Moon Girl) and Gabby Kinney (a clone of Wolverine).

As I said, there are tons of awesome characters waiting to be introduced. Just because they’re not known to the GA doesn’t mean they couldn’t be great additions to the MCU. I mean, almost nobody knew about the Guardians when their first movie came out. Scott Lang and Stephen Strange were largely unknown by the GA when their movies came out. So yeah, I have great hopes for these awesome characters.

Also, support the Marvel shows that are giving us proper representation! Watch Runaways on Hulu and Jessica Jones and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D on Netflix.