#ch: galina kovaleva

[starklore]

who is galina's fc?

Yuliya Snigir! I’m toying with the idea of changing her fc to someone with more material, but I probably won’t go through with it, bc Yuliya is so close to how I picture her.

We also get to see her in MM though, at a Howling Commando family reunion, and she’s played by Dame Maggie Smith! (Who is not /quite/ old enough, but she’s too perfect for me to not use her anyway.)

[starklore]

You mentioned that Alex will have a spin off in mm and there will be other fics in that verse, so how many are there and what are they about?

Good question anon! So right now there are, excluding MM, there are three fics in the MMverse (also called Earth-548, not to be confused with Earth-TRN548, which according to the Marvel wiki does exist, but is apparently empty.)

Those fics are:

1. Currently untitled CA:TFA fic

I’m still finding a suitably fairy-tale-ish name for this story, but basically, this is the fic that centers on Galina Kovaleva. She’s part of the Howling Commandos (she was made purely out of spite too like someone said there can’t be a female HC because of ~The Times so obviously I was immediately like “time to make a female howling commando!” Anyway she’s Russian and the Soviet Union actually did have women in combat during WW2 so there’s that.)

Anyways!! This fic is gen (mostly, she has a kind of “in another life, maybe” thing with Bucky, but mostly it’s just her and the howling commandos in general) and it goes through CA:TFA and possibly Agent Carter, depending on how I feel about it and if it works when I finally get around to watching AC. 

Anyway, Galina (also called “Kova,” bc most of the other HCs have nicknames or go by their last names in the field and Galina wanted to too bc she doesn’t wanna be treated differently (she’s understandably got kind of a chip on her shoulder) but her name is so long it gets shortened to Kova) is played by either Yuliya Snigir or Alexa Davalos, I haven’t decided yet. 

2. Currently untitled AoS fic

Again, I’m still deciding on a title for this, but this one focuses on Vira Kovaleva, Galina’s granddaughter. I talked about her here but basically she’s a SHIELD psychiatrist who gets assigned to Team Bus to monitor Coulson’s post-TAHITI mental health. She’s shipped with Trip, who doesn’t die, because this is a fix-it fic and I’m gonna fix everything that pissed me off about AoS, including but not limited to:

narrative & character treatment of Ward (this fic features a redemption arc)

bad follow-up on the effects of TAHITI

s2 ruining or killing literally every single character I cared about in s1

the status quo that was disrupted in CA:TWS being immediately reset (this was a problem in the movies as well, and is something that I also handle in MM)

continuing dissonance from the great MCU, of which the show is still a part in name only

re: that last bullet point, this fic crosses over with MM very significantly in between CA:TWS and A:AOU. 

Some other notes:

In that post I linked to, I said that Vira’s fc is Olga Fonda, but I’ve long since changed it to Gal Gadot

I also said that Alex would be in that fic, but I’ve since changed my mind. Alex, as you mentioned, gets her own spin-off, which I’ll talk about in a second. 

The first time we meet Vira and Galina in MM, it’s in between Avengers and the Tokyo arc, during a Howling Commandos “family reunion” as it were. 

3. Out of the Woods

This one is Alex’s spin-off, although you could also argue that it’s Alex and Natasha’s spin-off. It spins offs the end of CA:TWS. During that arc in MM, Alex escapes SHIELD custody, while Natasha learns that Alex exists. Nat goes off to recover her memories and find Alex. Alex does not particularly want to be found. 

The fic is about Nat and Alex reconnecting, and in particular Alex healing from her past, but there are also ships involved. Nat is either shipped with Bruce (with more development than they had in canon, bc I like them in theory but for me there wasn’t enough build-up for them being canon) or an OFC or both, and Alex is shipped with an OMC and then later either with Loki or Pietro. More on this:

I’m basically waiting to see how Thor 3 and A:IW go before I commit to either one, because I want to know which one will dovetail best with canon/whatever I decide to do with canon in MM. 

Whichever ship isn’t canon gets an AU where they are (bc I have ideas for both ships and I don’t wanna waste them)

If I go with Lolex then Pietro dies and he and Alex have another “in another life where things were different” thing

If I go with Pietro/Alex (still deciding on a ship name, I like “quickfrost” but its already taken, ironically by by Loki/Pietro, rip in peace) then he obviously does not die

The title was chosen because of the Red Riding Hood implications (fits the fairy-tale theme and also reminds me of Nat’s line in the comics about girls in the woods, the one I currently have as my blog title) and also because of the Taylor Swift song, which imo really fits Nat and Alex’s relationship in this story. 

I feel like there was more I wanted to say about this, but I can’t remember. But yeah, that’s OotW and as always Alex is played by Karlie Kloss. 

And that is currently all the MM spin-offs that exist! Thank you for asking