#has been there. when that multiverse movie said “IT'S LOVE. IT'S A GOOD THING WE ARE NOT ALONE.”

[popponn]

IT'S LOVE IN MUNDANITY IT'S I LOVE YOU SAID THROUGH THE SMALLEST THINGS IT'S I FIND BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING BECAUSE YOU ENTERED MY LIFE AND SHIFTED ITS AXIS IT'S A BIG WORLD ALTERING OCCURRENCE SPOKEN THROUGH A SINGLE SOMEONE'S VIEW OF THE WORLD IT'S AN I LOVE YOU IT'S

[krysmcscience]

Don't mind me, just slacking on a big Billford comic by making other far more ridiculous Billford comics and also some AU art (please excuse my slapdash human!Bill thank you please, also before anyone asks the art style is messy and all over the place because idgaf LOL)

This started out as an excuse to design a Bill Cipher-inspired "wedding" dress, but then spiraled wildly out of control. Various rambles and a bunch more human!Bill arts under the cut, including another silly little comic at the end! (Feel free to skip the rambles, I won't be offended. I know I'm bad at shutting up. XD)

I may or may not write some comedy stuff for this AU, which I'm calling 'For Better Or Worse (But Mostly Worse)'. While Ford DOES remember getting sloshed enough for one thing to lead to making out with another after karaoke, neither he nor Bill remember this wedding, At All. The Love God did nothing to dissuade them from going hog wild on their marriage spending, either, so it got...uh. Exorbitantly Expensive. As in, the grand total could probably buy the entire fucking MOON sort of expensive. (It's fine, don't worry, Bill's good enough at crime to be able to afford it.) Also, because the logic of this AU is mostly dictated by Rule of Funny, the Love God's powers are close to unlimited when it comes to matters of romance, but ONLY when it comes to matters of romance. (Like weddings!)

Want an empty human vessel to smash the soul of a triangle into for date nights or when it's convenient, or perhaps even when it's NOT convenient? Easy peasy! Want the marriage to be recognized in every corner of the multiverse from now until the end of time, thus making any potential future divorce nigh-on impossible? Can do! Want to buy an entire beach for the ceremony and honeymoon and in general, and totally not at all because it would be Super Hilarious to prevent any specific movies from being made on that very same beach in the future? Fine, whatever, it's not his finances he's ruining!

Does the Love God also provide special rings that just so happen to turn incorporeal as long as the "happy couple" doesn't remember that they barged into his dreams to bully him into presiding over their marriage? ...No comment!

He spends the next thirty years trying and failing to get in touch with either of them for payment. This is why you should always demand half the money up front, my guy!

Also it's absolutely a traditional Jewish wedding, because I like the idea of Bill demanding all the keepsakes from the marriage that he paid for, and being completely confused when one of the things he's handed is a fancy container full of broken glass. He gets it later, but in the moment, he thinks the Love God is just fucking with him some more.

Ramble over! Here's the full dress that caused the comic to happen, along with what Ford wound up wearing at the wedding (and begrudgingly agreeing to put on again later for Reasons), aaaaand also a close-up of Bill's ring:

I may have forgotten to draw Bill's hair floofier when drawing the back of the dress, lmao

Since double ring ceremonies have been leaking over into Jewish wedding customs for a while now, Ford also has a ring, but his is the much more traditional plain gold band. There's definitely a message engraved on the inside - embarrassing, cringe, or incriminating somehow - but I haven't decided what it is yet, so use your imagination for now. XD Bill, on the other hand, saw the phrase 'traditional plain gold band' and said "No Thank You" before proceeding to embellish his ring to his liking. And because he's a secret sap who adores Ford's extra fingers, the triangle points add up to twelve, as do the engraved stars. Yes, they're stars, not dots, I just got lazy. There's also six lashes on the eye gem, and probably an eye engraving on the inside with another six lashes. (Bill's got it BAD, okay? We all know this.)

Here are the initial scribbles of Bill's custom vessel in more casual attire, please ignore the wonky anatomy and the fact that I flat out refuse to ever draw him with a proper top hat:

He does actually need a cane in this vessel; since Bill tends to possess men and especially Ford more often than not, he's used to having a higher center of gravity when in a human body, so his ability to balance is pretty garbage. (He may or may not topple over with concerning regularity.) As for his empty eye socket, his bangs don't do much to hide it since he's so high-energy (dude is constantly on the move), and he also refuses to wear a patch over it, because 1.) why bother, and 2.) it's more fun to freak people out.

To better align with Ford's attraction towards the strange, the vessel was designed with super minor shapeshifting ability - Bill can look like a perfectly normal human, but he can also make the teeth and fingers sharper whenever he likes (which is mostly just when he's angry or being more of a menace than usual), as well as slit down the pupils or outright ditch the irises altogether. He can also have whatever he wants in the downstairs department, just because I'm an indecisive bitch on that front, lmao. Maybe he can have boobs if he wants them, too, but I ain't drawin' tits on no triangle, nuh-uh, no sir. His powers are otherwise limited down to what humans can do, because for some reason, the Love God doesn't trust Bill to not snap into Immediate Apocalypse Mode if he's given a physical form that's actually all his and no one else's.

Due to the body being all his and no one else's, it's also not really a standard possession so much as it is just...Bill being temporarily human. He's a lot more aware of and in tune with his human body's senses than he ever was with his "puppets", which makes things like pain a lot more intense. (He is mostly fine with this, because he's a fukken masochist.)

A bit more fashion stuff, including beach and party attire~

The beach outfit was mostly me trying and failing to nail down his body shape, which is still not bottom-heavy enough. I then decided to slap a bikini on it, before making it supremely unsexy with a pair of fugly shorts, because Bill's fashion choices are not allowed to be conventionally attractive. Meanwhile, the party outfit was mostly me looking at the casual attire I designed, asking 'how would Bill make this Worse', and then drawing the result. The mismatched thigh-highs are killing me inside! :D

No, his vessel can't actually summon fire, I just drew it for funzies before I decided on said vessel's limitations. Yes, the gold brick tattoos are absolutely a reference to the fic 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - I simply could not resist.

I also HAD to draw Bill in one of his canonical(?) shirts, just made tank-top'd:

He is absolutely about to over-correct and fall backwards after this. USE YOUR CANE, GOOFBALL!!! (I meant to draw Bill closer to this degree of bottom-heavy in the other images, but. Alas. I am bad at anatomy, LOL)

And, last but not least before More Comic Time, I attempted to draw him closer to Gravity Falls style:

Jury's out on whether or not I succeeded, but - hey. I tried. Now have some Handyman Bill AU, but with my goofy human design, instead:

Hey, it's a 'mystery snack', and the guy wanted A BITE to eat - the joke was right there, guys!!! (Based on this post, because it just screamed BILL CIPHER to me.)

whoops i forgor bills ring and cracks ahaha too late now

I WILL SHUT UP AND STOP RAMBLING NOW K THX BYYYYYE

[lilousmustaches]

Personal Multiverse

Andrew Garfield x Reader / Tom Holland x Sister!Reader

Warnings: A litlte start of a smut.

Notes: Yeah i'm active lately right? I actually started this story when No Way Home was released in the cinemas but never finished. I restarted to write it when the news that Zendaya was engaged to Tom, and now it's finally out in the world! Might have gotten too excited about this. Was even thinking about writing more bonus scenes based on it hahah Enjoy!

Summary: You go to No Way Home studios to keep your brother, Tom, company but end up falling in love with another Spider Man.

Being the eldest sister of four younger brothers was... Interesting.

You weren't complaining tho. They were the sweetest boys you ever met. Loving, caring, talented and your best friends in the whole world. The Holland boys.

It wasn't like the age gap was that significant anyways. You and Tom were just two years apart, making you guys incredibly close. You told each other everything and everyone thought that you were twins, just like Harry and Sam, that were 4, almost 5 five years younger than you. And there was Paddy, the little one, who was 9 years younger.

The whole family was involved in some sort of art, and just like your mother, you turned to be a professional photographer and filmmaker, eventually getting some jobs in the cinematography industry. But whenever you had some break from work, you would arrange to pass some extra time with family. And that was exactly what you did.

"Why is taking you so long? Where are uuuu :("

You read Tom's message with a small smile, rolling your eyes knowing how clingy your brother could get when he wanted to. He was currently shooting his new spider man movie, no way home, and invited you to stay for a few weeks on set with him and Harry, who was working with Tom at the moment.

You were typing him an answer to say that you were walking lost in the gigantic set trying to find them, when suddenly someone appeared running and lifted you into his arms.

"(Y/N)!" You heard Tom's muffled voice say in your hair while he was hugging and whirling you. Man, you missed that hug. "I missed you so much sis."

"I missed you too bug." You said giggling when he put you down. "I can't believe I'm here. This set is insane... I'm proud of you."

"Don't start saying those things when you know I'm sensitive ok!" He claimed pointing a finger at you. "C'mom, Harry is dying to see you."

After Tom arranged someone to take your bags to his rented apartment that he was sharing with your younger brother, just a few minutes from the set, he started a mini tour while you were walking towards his trailer. He was telling you all about the settings, the costumes, how he has been, about his relationship with Zendaya - who, in that point, was already a close friend of yours - and of course, how excited he was for working with Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, the previous spiders mans.

You knew that was going to be an epic movie and your heart filled with joy and proud to see your brother in that spot.

"They are amazing (Y/N)... They truly are! I didn't think that we would hit so well, it's good to talk with people who understand the responsibility you know?" Tom said continuing to tell you about the other actors, while opening the door to his trailer. "You have to meet them!"

"Did you found our sister, mate?" You heard Harry's voice from the little bedroom in the trailer and you immediately smiled.

"Why don't you come here find out?" You said and saw his face with a smile emerging through the door and him coming to you with his arms opened.

"(Y/N)!" He exclaimed hugging you strong making you close your eyes and sigh in relief to be with your best friends again. "Urgh it's so good to have you here."

"I missed you guys so much. My babies." You said kissing Harry's head who enjoyed the caress. "But man, i wish Sam and Paddy were here now. It's not the same unless we're all together."

"I know right?" Harry said and Tom agreed. "But Sam is there, busy with his new girlfriend." He continued mocking his twin making you laugh. "When I thought I was free from hearing him talk about her, I get stuck in here and all I ever listen is 'Zendaya here, Zendaya there...”

"Oh shut up mate!" Tom said throwing a cushion in his face. "It's not like you weren't almost dating too!"

"Oh yeah?" You said crossing your arms to look at Harry. "This is news to me."

"It's nothing serious yet! I was going to tell you but Tom made the honors." Harry said annoyed and you huffed.

"So that makes me and Paddy the bachelors of the family?" You said putting a hand in your chest like you were offended. There were some years that you were single. It didn't really bother you, you were in a good place professionally and in this life, it was hard to conciliate a relationship unless the person was involved in the middle as well.

"Thank god. Paddy is just a kid and you are our girl." Harry said with jealousy and you rolled your eyes, even though you were the oldest, they somehow still got overprotective with you.

"Nah darling, I'm gonna find you somebody." Tom said putting his arm around your neck, pulling you close. "We're having a little happy hour with the staff tonight. Maybe there is someone interesting there... Tho Harry is right, you're our girl. It has to be someone great or no deal!"

"And you're my boys. Zendaya already passed the test, but I have to approve your mysterious girl Harry." You said lifting your eyebrows and they laugh.

"We have a lot to catch up sis. Let's get some lunch, I'm starving."

XxXxXxXxXxX

“(Y/N) are you ready?" You heard Tom ask and one second later his face appeared in the door frame.

"Hmmm yeah" You said giving yourself one last check in the mirror before turning to him. "How do I look?"

"Stunning as always." He said with a smile. "But relax, really. Is not going to be a big deal at all. Just some quality time."

The three of you used the lunch time to talk and gossip about everything and nothing in the same time, it was good being reunited with Tom and Harry again. After that, Tom had to finished one last scene before you went to the apartment they were renting to relax a bit and get ready for the happy hour.

Most of the cast was going to get two days off to recharge the energies since they were filming non stop for about two weeks now, and of course, they decided to take the opportunity to drink some beers and enjoy the company of the coworkers.

Once you got there, the happy hour was happening in a open space, close to the dressing and makeup rooms. You could see a lot of people still in the clothes they went to work, it really was just some quality time. They arranged a small bonfire with some seats around it, and a beer pong table.

"(Y/N)!" You heard and smiled when saw Zendaya walking towards you to give you a hug. "I missed you!"

"I missed you too!" You said but before you could continue, your brother interrupted you.

"Oh I see, talking to my sister before talking to your own boyfriend, shame on you Zendaya." He complained getting an eye roll from the both of you.

"You have such a drama queen as your brother (Y/N)!" She exclaimed giving him a chaste kiss. "Hey love."

"Hey darling." He said satisfied now with a silly smile on his face.

"He is such a crybaby, I really don't know you handle him." You joked.

"Look who's talking!" Tom mocked you and you all laughed. "Tobey! Hi!" Tom said out loud when he saw the first Spider Man with a beer on his hand approaching you looking a little lost. "I'm glad you could make it!"

"Just passed by to say Hi." Toby Maguire said shy in front of you. Man, it was so strange, you grew up watching those movies with Tom and the boys, and now look where you all were.

"This is my sister (YN)." Tom introduced you and you shook Tobey's hand.

"Pleasure to meet you (Y/N)." He said and you talked for a minute before he and Tom entered a conversation about some scenes, and you and Zendaya decided to gave them space. You had no idea where Harry was and that's why you stayed with her for some minutes, until she had to go to the bathroom.

You enjoyed the opportunity to go to the freezer to get a beer, but when you turned around, jumped a little when noticed someone just right behind you.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! Just trying to get something to drink as well". The mysterious man said rending his hand in surrender when saw your little scare. Excluding the fact that he wasn't some random guy at all... Well, if you were being honest, apart from Tom's movies, the Amazing Spider Man was your favorite.

Andrew Garfield stood in front of you with a small smile in his lips as he was trying to contain a laugh. Man, he was so much prettier in person, if it was possible. He was tall and his hair matched the color of his chocolate eyes.

"That's okay" You said laughing a little embarrassed. "Andrew right?"

"Yeah but you're new here...." He said looking at you with a curiosity that made you blush. "You're from production and i happened to miss?"

"Oh no, actually I'm Tom's older sister! Gonna stay around for a few days to keep him company. (Y/N), is a pleasure to meet you." You said extending your hand to him who gladly took it.

"It's my pleasure (Y/N). But Really? Tom's sister? I wouldn't say it" Andrew said looking surprised with the information but looking extremely interested.

"Well yeah... people assume we are twins even" You said giggling, suddenly a little shy. You could tell already that he was the type of person who just payed all of his attention to whoever he was talking to and seemed genuine interested on what others had to say. "But it comes with the fact that we are pretty close."

"That's sounds nice. Tom was saying the other day... you guys have a big family isn't it?" He asked frowning.

"It's me and four younger brothers." You answered making a 'tsc' sound with your mouth. People often got shocked by this information. 

"Wow” He said with his eyes wide in surprise, crossing his arms.  “That must have been challenging."

"Let's just said It made me tough." You said raising your eyebrow with a small smile and saw him opening one as well. 

"I bet it did." He said staring at what looked like, into your soul, not looking away for one second. You gulped feeling a strange wave of cold in your belly. In that moment, you couldn’t think in another single soul on earth that showed some much interest in you, even only with their eyes.

But before you could say anything, you were interrupted by Tom and Zendaya that arrived by your side. 

“Andrew! Hi! Oh (Y/N), I’m glad that you already met!” Your brother said excited. Andrew gave a small laugh looking down, finally breaking eye contact with you, and passing his hand behind his neck.

“Right, she’s was telling me that you guys are Twins, is that it?” He joked pointing at both of us and in the middle time, he gently greeted Zendaya with a small hug. Charming and a gentleman. 

“Something like that, yeah” Tom said laughing exchanging a look with you. “Look, actually I was looking for you, Andrew. Me and Tobey had an idea for a scene that we would love to share it with you.” 

“Oh sure.” Andrew said immediately nodding his head. “I would love to.”

“Amazing.” Tom said. He posed his hand in your shoulder, for you to look at him. “(Y/N), I catch up with you and Z later, ok?” 

You nodded and with a last exchange stare between you and Andrew, they started to walk away. 

“Oh, I almost forgot!” Andrew said turning around once more. “I was here to get a beer for me.” He chuckled, going straight into your direction, and you freezed when felt his fingers gently brushing in your waist, almost like he wasn’t touching you. 

You looked into his chocolate eyes that were dangerously close and saw him trying to repress a smile, he looked like he was having so much fun with it. 

“Would you excuse me (Y/N)?”

“Oh.” You said when you finally understood what was happening. You were still standing infront of the freezer. “Right. I’m sorry. Go ahead.” 

“See you around, I hope.” Andrew said after getting the beer and following Tom to go meet Tobey. 

You stood there seeing them walking away trying to understand what has just happened, and felt Zendaya approaching you with her arms closed and looking at the same direction. 

“It’s just me or he was flirting with you?” She said and tho you weren’t looking at her face, you could sense a smart little smile hanging on her lips. 

As if Tom knew what you were talking about, far away already, he looked back at you guys frowning his eyebrows before going back to his conversation with Andrew. 

“I don’t know what you are talking about.” You said and heard Zendaya laughing.

XxXxXxXxXxX

“I’m gonna have lunch with Hannah today. See you at dinner xx” 

You read Harry’s message and rolled your eyes with a smile. It has been 4 days since you arrived and you were starting to enter in the routine of your brothers. Harry told you all about the girl that he was seeing - Hannah who worked for the makeup team. And that’s why he disappeared in the night of the happy hour.

You were sitting outside of the studio Tom was working, editing some videos you filmed of him and Harry. Ok, you were in vacation. But you just couldn’t stop yourself of making a backstage film of his experience in No Way Home movie. It would make such a cute memory for Tom in the future and if he wanted to share it, the fans would love it. 

“I was hoping I would see you again.” You heard a voice beside you and in this time, you knew exactly who it was. 

“Is that so?” You asked with a small smile raising your head from your computer seeing the chocolate eyes that have been in your mind for the last few days. “Hi Andrew.”

“Hi (Y/N). But… well, yeah” Andrew chucked taking the seat next to you. “We didn’t get a chance of talking a lot that day…. Oh! Are you a video editor?” He started to say but got distracted when looked in your computer’s screen. 

“I’m a filmmaker.” You answered repressing a smile for his curiosity. When you were younger and saw his spider man’s movies, it’s undeniable that he was cute. Who you were trying to fool. You thought he was hot. Years passed, you always admired his work…. but when Tom asked you to pass some days on set, you didn’t even thought much about how you were going to meet him there. “Tom didn’t want to in the beginning, but I convinced him that it would be fun if I documented a little behind the scenes video.” 

“That’s adorable. Would you let me see it when you finish?” Andrew asked. He had his entire body turned toward you, with half of one leg resting on the bench, and he leaned his head on his fist.

“Only if you agree to appear in it.” You answered smartly and he laughed. Obviously, like Zendaya, you definitely noticed something going on you between you two that night. It was so brief and somehow you had his feeling you have known him forever. You just couldn’t stop thinking about it. 

“Oh i see.” Andrew said caressing his small beard. “That depends on how the video will be distritubed.” 

“Knowing my brother, the video will be only to be seen it, in Christmas time as a nice memory.” You giggled, closing your laptop to give him your full attention. 

“Then you have all my permission to use my image as you please.” He said with a small smile. “Tom is a very sweet guy. Crazy talented. I respect him for understading, since now, how family and privacy are important things to cherish in this Industry.” 

“Our whole family is envolved in some sort of art so it’s always been ease for us to see what really matters at the end of the day.” You answered, again so shocked how he was a guys that… really payed attention. 

“Why aren’t you working here in the production?” He asked licking his lips. 

“It’s true that my brother did try to make that happen.” You chuckled feeling your cheeks starting to burn from his staring. “But i just finished another project so the timing didn’t exactly helped.” 

“That’s really a shame.” Andrew said simply. 

Except that there was nothing casual in the way he said it. 4 little simple words, right? Wrong. He just let those words out of his lips like it was the lustful thing someone has ever said to you. Like it was the biggest declaration of being wanted, you ever received.  Or was it you that were losing it from being stared by those chocolate eyes that you just couldn’t stop thinking about it?

“(Y/N), there you are!” You heard Tom’s voice approaching and you sighed. Interrupted. Again. Andrew smirked when saw your micro expression of frustation. 

“Well, that was short-lived.” He murmurred with a light tone making you giggle.

Tom stood in front of you already in his Sports outfit, with his tennis racket bag over his shoulder. You saw the exactly moment when your brother’s eyebrows frowned slighty altering his gaze between the two of you, not really understading why Andrew was there. Confusion that quickly started to turn in assumptions when he opened a little accusatory smile. 

“Hello guys.” Tom said still a little off and in that moment, you could see a lot of Peter Parker in him. “Hmm… Did i interrupt something?” 

“Not at all.” Andrew laughed getting up of his chair. “Just saw (Y/N) here and thought i offer her some company.” 

“…Ok.” Tom said still a suspicious. “Let’s go sis? I thought you would be ready by now.” 

“Got caught up in editing.” You said gattering your stuff, getting up as well.

“Do you play tennis mate?” Tom asked turning his attention to Andrew. “You’re welcome to join us.” 

“Maybe some other time.” Andrew said friendly, giving Tom a pat on the back. “I still need to revise some scenes. But thank you for the invitation. Have fun!”

He said waving goodbye and walking away, leaving you and your brother alone. Today, you guys agreed that after Tom’s appointments, he was taking you to play tennis. A family tradition. 

You walked quietly to his car and it was only when he started to drive, that Tom decided to say casually:

“Andrew is a such a nice guy, right?” Tom said and you had to suppress the urge to roll your eyes. 

“Hm yes, he is very polite” You answered measuring your words. Tom was your best friend and you knew you could say anything to him. But there was nothing to tell. Right? 

“Polite hun?” He repeated your choise of word, nodding his head. “That’s an adjective.” 

“Are you implying something?” You snapped looking at him, raising an eyebrow. 

“What? No!” Tom shot back altering his gaze from the streets to look at you. “No!” He repeated seeing your expression. 

“…Why? Is there something you want to tell me?” Tom asked after a few seconds of silence. You laughed, reaching out to turn on the radio. 

“Not at all”. 

XxXxXxXxXxX

It has been already 2 weeks you were living with your brothers, and now, pretty much everyone was used to your presence around the set. Made a few friends and you were honestly enjoying your work break. 

Although it wasn’t everyday, Andrew has crossed your path a meaningful amount of times. First, when you were hanging out with Zendaya in the makeup trailer, waiting for her to get ready. He entered, along with Hannah (Harry’s girl) also to get ready for his scenes of the day. Suddenly the whole group of people who were there started to talk like you were all friends for ages. You would be lying if you didn’t catch him giving you random gazes. 

The second time it happened, you had gone help Harry to organize Tom's stuff for the next scenes. You two went together to the costumes department when Andrew walked in with one of the assistant directors, deep in conversation. He noticed you, smiled, and gave you a little wave before disappearing through a hallway.

And the most recent one, he found you having lunch by yourself because your brothers were busy, and asked if he could join you. Andrew Garfield, besides being handsome and caring, was incredibly smart. And funny. You didn’t stop talking for 2 hours. 

“Are you nervous?” You asked Tom, already in his Spider Man suit, from behind the camera you were holding, and he shook his hands anxiously.

“You are not helping with those kind of questions, sis.” He answered making you laugh. Today, was the first day of filming the big scene of the three Spiders Mans fighting the villains. Pretty much all the cast was there. 

“You gonna do great.” You said still pointing the camera at him. It was a nice moment that you needed to keep for the video you were assembling. 

“I love you.” He said sweetly making you smile.

“I love you more.” 

Didn’t take long for him to go train some lines with Zendaya and Jacob, and you enjoyed the opportunity to walk around searching for precious moments to film. You walked some corridors, greeting and wishing good luck to people you crossed. Until you passed in front of one dressing room and saw Andrew, with his back to the entrance, completely absorbed in something else.

“If it isn’t Spider Man himself.” You teased entering the room already with your camera in hands, recording his reaction. He turned around confused, but opened a smile when saw it was you.

“Looking lovely as always, (Y/N).” He complimented you making you shiver. It was the first time also, you were seeing him in the super hero outfit. 

“You don’t look so bad yourself, Garfield.” You said making him burst out of laugh. 

“What do you think about my butt in the costume?” He joked doing a little spin.

“I thought I would be more impressed” 

“Ouch, straight to my heart.” Andrew said putting his hand in the right side of his chest like he was hurt. “You’re lucky I’m not easily offended.” 

He added with a smirk, walking over to grab his water bottle from the counter. He took a sip, eyes still on you, the playfulness never leaving his face. 

“Though I might need to work harder on glute day at the gym now.” He said making you roll your eyes still recording.

“Don’t worry, your ego seems intact.”

Andrew stared you straight in the eyes, that way you were starting to get used to, ignoring the camera. He laughed slightly, before licking his lips.

“Let me take you out on a date.” 

You lowered your camera, shocked with what you just heard, hearing your heart beating fast. 

“What?” You whispered frowning your eyebrows. 

“Let me take you out on a proper date.” He repeated getting closer to you. “I’ve been coming to work with much more energy lately since I learned I could bump into you. I would love to offer you a night that lives up to what you deserve.” 

“You’re full of surprises, aren’t you?” You answered smiling feeling your cheeks burn. “I would like that very much.”

And just then, a voice shouted from the hallway : “Andrew, you're needed on set!”

“Tomorrow at seven.” Andrew said looking satisfied with your answer. “I‘ll pick you up!”

He shouted before following the PA out of the room. Leaving you with a silly smile playing on your lips.

XxXxXxXxXxX

“You look amazing.” Andrew said smiling opening the car door for you, when spotted you leaving the building. 

“You gotta stop doing that.” You replied blushing hearing him laugh confused. 

“What am I doing?” He asked before closing the door for you and contouring the car to enter the driver’s seat.

“You know what are you doing.” You said seeing him turning on the car.

“I really don’t, love.” He said still chuckling. 

“You know, making me blush.” He paused for a second before pulling out of the spot. His hand moved to rest gently on your knee—a simple gesture, but it sent a chill up your spine.

“But you do look amazing.” Andrew said staring at you, and you looked away embarrassed, laughing. 

“I was surprised when you asked me to pick you in Zendaya’s place.” He said starting to drive. “I thought you were staying with your brothers.”

“I am.” You explained. “But didn’t want them prying.”

“Ohh they don’t know this is happening?” Andrew asked amused.  

“Nop.” 

“Why tho? Aren’t you super close?” 

“We are…” You began laughing embarrassed with your reasons. “But they gossip a lot. Don’t like telling them nothing that isn’t… concrete.”

“So you want this to be concrete?” He teased with a smirk.

“I didn’t say that.”

“Sure.” He said mocking you. You asked Zendaya if you could get ready in her place and she almost deafened you from the scream she gave when learned what you were doing. She was shipping you since the first night you meet Andrew. 

“And we’re here.” He said after a few minutes of travel, with a light conversation between you two, getting ready to park the car. 

“Andrew… there’s paparazzi over there.” You warned seeing a few mans in black, looking around with cameras in their hands. It was enough reason, the exposition of Andrew Garfield going out with Tom Holland’s sister, but on top of that, it was strictly prohibited Andrew being seeing in public to avoid spoilers to the movie. 

“What?” He asked confused following your gaze. “Oh fuck…” He breathed out disappointed. 

“I made a reservation, they’ve must…” Andrew began to explain, sighing, knowing that would ruin your night. “I’m so sorry (Y/N).”

“Hey, it’s ok.” You reassured him with a small smile. “I’m used to it, I know how it goes.” 

“I-… fuck.” He laughed embarrassed a little lost on what to do. “Do you want to go to my place? I know it’s not ideal…”

“Sounds great.” You answer right away and he chuckled staring at you. 

“Ok.” He said giving you one last check to assure him it was all fine, starting to drive again. “Great.” 

With a few more minutes of driving, you arrived  at his place, that you noticed that wasn’t too far away from Tom’s. It was logical to rent something close to the sets. 

Andrew showed you around, before getting a bottle of wine in the kitchen. It was a cozy apartment, a bit fancy, but perfectly suited for one person.

“You will be pleased to know that an incredible pizza is on its way.” He joked serving you one glass.

“And you will be pleased to know that pizza is my favorite.” 

“I’m one lucky bastard, aren’t I?” He breath out like he was relieved making you laugh. He raised his glass, toasting with yours.

Just like the time you had lunch together on set, you didn’t stop talking, unless it was to drink or eat the pizza he ordered. That was indeed very good. “I’m a man of my word”, he pointed. Andrew was so interesting and he seemed equally interested in you. He asked so many questions about your work, your passions, your family…. Sharing important details about his life as well. He was a literally dream of a man, and it felt surreal that after some years with disillusionment in love, someone like him would enter your life. 

“I know i haven’t had yet the opportunity to see a lot of your work.” Andrew said putting the dishes you used in the washing machine, while you were leaning in the countertop finishing your wine, already a little tipsy. “But from what you showed me that day we had lunch together… it’s just so unique the way you perceive details. Giving attention to humain interaction that it’s often ignored.”

“That’s just you being nice.” You said laughing it off. 

“Well, yes.” Andrew shrugged making you both laugh as he leaned in the sink countertop infront of you. “But also one hundred percent honest. I’d be lucky to work with a director as talented as you, if you want to switch to that in the future.” 

You smiled soflty with the compliment, setting your glass beside you. You didn’t know if it was the alchool already having its effect, but this time, it was you that stopped everything just to stair at him. You felt the air of the moment changing, becoming heavier, thicker. He licked your lips, his posture being always of someone who was reading you. Trying to understand in between lines. 

“It’s been a while since I last have been on a date.” Andrew confessed. “But since the moment i saw you in that happy hour, i knew i had to go to talk to you.” 

“I thought you were just being polite.”

“Oh no” Andrew chuckled. “I was being very not polite in my mind.”

“And what about now?” You asked, breathing out, not being able to hold anymore that nervous excitement bubbling in your chest.

Andrew tilted his head, smiling like he knew exactly what you meant—like he’d been thinking the same thing. Slowly, he stepped closer, now just a breath away from you, the only thing between you both being the soft tension that had been building all night.

“Now…” He said, voice lower, eyes flicking between yours and your lips, resting his hands on either side of the counter, trapping you. “There isn’t a single appropriate thought running in my mind.” 

“Show me.” You whispered. 

Andrew smirked at your boldness. He slowly brushed the back of his fingers across your cheek, then threaded them into your hair, guiding your face toward his.

Finally kissing you.

It was so firm, slow, sensual. It was the result of days building this tension up. Finally exploding. Finally concetre and not just a thought before going to bed. His other hand squeezed your waist before he quickly, lifted you by your tight, sitting you in the kitchen’s counter. Your hands were exploring every part of him you could reach, passing throught his hair, shoulders, chest… 

“You’re so beautiful.” He murmurred against your lips just when his hand found your breast, squeezing it, making you moan. “I swear i’m going to make you feel good.” 

Andrew lifted you in his arms, starting to walk towards his bedroom and the only thought in your mind when he placed you in his bed was : Andrew is a man of his word. 

XxXxXxXxXxX

“You’re literally glowing.” Tom said suspicious when he finally found you drinking coffee in the set cafeteria. 

You had literally just passed the best night you ever had, with Andrew in his house. He indeed kept his promise. Three times. 

You slept in his place, but unfortunately he needed to work early in the morning and you decided to go with him directly to the studios. Althought he offered you to stay sleeping there as long as you wanted. Or even drop you at Tom’s. But you just got changed in Tom’s trailer with a pair of sweatshirts it was forgotten there and you were ready to start the day. 

“Morning to you too little brother.” You said grumpy taking a sip. 

“Don’t ‘little brother’ me, (Y/N).” Tom said ironically, taking a coffee to him as well, sitting beside you. “Care to explain why you didn’t come home last night?” 

“As far as I’m concerned, i am the oldest.” You answered making him roll his eyes. “I was with Z, you know that.” 

“And i know you since the day i was born, sis.” Tom said. “I can perfectly tell when you’re both lying to me.” 

You sighed, defeated, finally staring at him. You knew he wasn’t going to back down from this. 

“Ok, I-…” 

“You had sex!” Tom cut you opening his mouth in disbelieve. Now, he looked like he was having rather fun with your embarrassment. “Oh my God, you had sex.” 

“I didn’t say anything.” 

“You didn’t had to.” Tom chuckled leaning his back in the chair, still in shock. “You’re glowing.” 

“Tom…” You began hearing him laughing. Suddenly he gasped even harder, looking at you with wide eyes. 

“I can bet it was Andrew!” He guessed. “I’m not dumb (Y/N), I noticed him wandering around you whenever he had a chance.”

“Will you let me tell you?” 

“Oh, yeah. I’m sorry, go on.” Tom said but couldn’t help shaking his leg in excitement and hold a little smile in the corner of his lips. 

“Fine. Yes, ok… Andrew asked me out on a date and I… ending up sleeping at his place.”

“This is such great news.” Tom said opening a wide smile squeezing your hand. You chuckled at his excitement, but in reality you knew how much Tom appreciate his Spider Man partners and he, above all brothers, was always the one trying to set you up. “I’m just… he is such a great guy for you! And he would be lucky to have you as well, sis.” 

“It’s nothing serious ok? No need to be so hyped up about this.” 

“No, yeah, yeah, I know.” Tom said finally assuming a more serious posture. “Are you seeing him again?” 

“I don’t know, it’s literally been thirty minutes we arrived here.” You said struggling althought this briefly crossed your mind. He didn’t look the kind of guy of ghosting you after all of that, but who knows. 

“Oh man… Harry and Sam are going to get so jealous.” Tom laughed making you chuckle and roll your eyes, knowing so damn well that the Twins were the most protectives over you. “I wish you would have told me this before.”

“Tom, i just needed to see if this… was something before I discussed with you.” You explained even if you knew he wasn’t mad. 

“I know.” Tom replied with a smile. “I’m happy that coming here gave you guys an opportunity of meeting.” 

“To be honest, i am to.” You said scrunhing your nose, blusing, thinking about the night you just had. “It was amazing…” 

“Oh, ok!” Tom said, clapping his hands and getting up from his seat. “Spare me the details. You’re still my sister.”

“Love you, bug.” You said sincerely, making your brother’s eyes go soft. Meeting Andrew in those last weeks, had been a wonderful surprise, but being able to have these moments with your brother, when you both had already moved out of your parents… seeing your relantionship never changer one bit, it just warmed your heart. 

“Love you.” Tom replied giving you a long kiss on the forehead. “I have to go to my scene now. It’s going to be so weird with Andrew : Hey mate, how you doing? Oh trouble sleeping last night? You sure it had nothing to do with you banging my sister?’ “ 

“Thomas!” You shouted angrily, throwing a crumpled napkin in his direction, as he ran away laughing.

You shook your head in denial, a smile still hanging on your lips, thinking about everything that had happened. Your thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a notification on your phone :

“Zendaya has being staring at me weirdly since we started filming. Must I prepare for your brother’s reactions?” 

You laughed at Andrew’s message, assuming that if Zendaya already knew, Tom would be the next to find out. Which was quickly followed by another one:

“By the way, been wanting to tell you again how amazing last night was. Can’t stop thinking about it. Hoping i will see you soon.” 

[wandaslittlelove]

Destined Part 1

Warnings for this chapter: None?

Series Masterlist

I sighed as I heard a loud knock on my front door. Grabbing the bag of flour I made my way to the door assuming it was just my neighbor Marcy wanting some for baking again. The girl never seemed to have any and always came over for mine which I didn’t mind. I just started buying more when I would go to the store. 

“Marcy hun you should really just-” I froze as I saw Strange on the other side of the door and a young girl stood next to him.

“y/n nice to see you.” He spoke. With a sigh I sat the flour down on the small table by the door before inviting them in.

“Tea?” I asked while making my way into the kitchen as they both followed after me. The young girl politely nodded her head and took a seat at the island along with Strange who sat a very old looking book down on the countertop.

It was silent for a minute. The only sound being me getting down three mugs and the teapot whistling on the stove. 

I sat the tea in front of the two along with some sugar as I took to standing across from them.

“What do you need Strange?” My tone came out more bitter than I wanted it to but I couldn’t help it. After I left what remained of the Avengers I had hoped I would never have to see his face or any of theirs ever again. That's why I moved to Ohio so that I would be away from the never ending drama that is New York and to be close to my sister's grave.

“I- We need your help. This Is America Chavez. She’s able to travel the multiverse.” With those words I choked on my tea.

“The multiverse?” I questioned not trusting my ears to have heard the right thing.

“Yes. You know about it?” He asks as he and the girl, America, looked at each other.

“Vision often talked of his theories during movie nights” The word Vision seemed to make me scowl remembering how he got the life with the person I had loved. The person who was supposed to be my wife. 

“You said Wanda said the same thing” This was the first time the girl had spoken and the way she said Wanda had made your whole body shiver. It was as if she was scared of the woman.

“You spoke to her?” I hadn’t heard anything of her since that night I left. I expected to at least see something about her on the news but she never came up. 

“Yeah. She’s after me. She’s been sending these weird creatures after me to take my powers.” America explained as she fiddled with the mug.

“She has the dark hold y/n” The words caused me to stiffen. I had only heard of the dark hold a few times while I was studying with Strange but I knew it was nothing good. It was described as the book of the damned and anyone who touched it became corrupted. “I need your help in protecting America. Yours and Wanda’s magic are almost complete opposites. While hers is chaos magic while yours is Order magic.” The two shared another look as if they both knew something I didn’t. I watched as Strange opened the book he had brought and flipped to a page. “With the help of the darkhold Wanda has become the Scarlet Witch. Everything anyone had ever known about her is written in this book like a prophecy.” I nodded as I listened to his words. “It also speaks of yours.” He slides the book over to me and setting my tea down I quickly read the page he had opened to. 

The Scarlet Witch bringer of chaos and the White Fawn bringer of life and creation:

The Scarlet Witch is not born; she is forged. She has no coven or need for incantation. Her power exceeds that of the Sorcerer Supreme. It is her destiny to destroy the world. 

The White Fawn is the opposite of the chaos bringer. She is born to counteract the actions of the Scarlet Witch. Her destiny is to heal the wounds, love, and calm the Chaos Witch.

My eyes scanned the page three more times before I slammed the book shut. I watched as America jumped in her seat and I sent her an apologetic smile as I slid the book back to Strange. 

“That can’t be right or it can’t be me. Wanda does not love me. I will not let my destiny be what is written in some book. What is she even after in the multiverse?” My question seemed to keep Strange quiet for a moment before he spoke.

“You”

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[diqnbaus]

Let You Break My Heart Again (Part 3)

Pairing: Miles Morales x fem!reader

Summary: You, Gwen, and Miles go out and have some fun!!!

Category: I forgot the opposite of angst

A/N: I barely remember the ATSV movie. I was so focused on not having a stroke that I forgot to pay complete attention, so lmk if anything is wrong please :-).

Looking between the two, nothing seems to be terribly wrong. Sure, Gwen is looking at you like she’s just seen a ghost, and Miles is looking at you like he’s just been caught doing something he shouldn’t. But they quickly recover before starting to speak.

“Hey, y/n. Long time no see-“

“What’s up, y/n?” Gwen and Miles both speak at the same time, before being cut off by you slowly closing the door on them. You are not dealing with this right now.

For a second you stand in front of the closed door, before you turn around and begin walking out of the apartment.

The door opens and Gwen and Miles come rushing out.

“You’re leaving? But I just got here,” Gwen says walking over to you.

You turn around. “Yeah, I have uh.. homework.”

“Oh c’mon. You know what they say, ‘homework is temporary, friendships are forever’,” she responds.

“No one has ever said that.”

“I just did,” she smiles. “So are you in or not?”

You pause before looking over at Miles. He looks almost pleading. What for? You don’t know. But you’re not going to let him get in between you and seeing your very long distance friend.

“Yeah. I’ll go,” you respond while Gwen cheers and high-fives a smiling Miles. “I need to change though.”

“Miles does too,” Gwen responds while Miles nods. “I’ll be on top of a building when you guys are done. You’ll have to figure out which one.”

Gwen climbs out the living-room window, leaving you and Miles in silence.

“Y/n-“ Mike’s starts before you cut him off.

“Don’t. Not right now. I just want to spend time with Gwen like how it used to be. We can talk after.”

As you start walking over to the bathroom, Miles responds, “tomorrow?”

“Sure,” you say before closing the bathroom door and changing into your spider-suit.

Swinging around the city with your friends made you feel at home. For the past few months you had felt like something was missing, this was it.

The adrenaline from jumping from tall buildings and catching yourself just before you hit the ground had you giddy. This was the happiest you had been in months.

Taking a break, the three of you sat on top of a building trying to catch your breath.

“Jesus, y/n. Do you need a minute? Or maybe ten?” Miles teases you. You send him a playful glare before going and sitting on the edge of the roof.

The sun was still up, but you could tell night was coming soon. You had always loved night time, looking up at the stars and the moon while thinking about all of the other things that have done the same as you. Of course, you couldn’t see the stars very well in New York because of light pollution, but you liked to pretend the lights on the buildings were stars. In your head, the city was its own little galaxy that you needed to protect.

“What do you think, y/n?” Gwen asks from beside you.

“I uh, I’m sorry what were you talking about?”

“The multiverse,” Miles replies.

“Oh. Well um, it’s pretty big I guess,” you respond while nervously picking at the gloves on your suit.

Gwen snorts. “You’re not wrong. But we’re talking about fate. Like how things are bound to happen in every universe.”

“Oh, we’ll I never really thought about that. I didn’t know the universes were that connected,” you reply, a little confused.

“You have no idea,” she mumbles, but before you can ask more questions, she gets up. “I’m a little hungry. How about we go back to that party on Miles’ roof?”

“Sounds good to me, I’ll kind of have to hide though,” Miles says.

You groan, realizing that you’re going to have to stand up and swing around again.

“Literally, how are you a spider-woman?” Gwen asks jokingly.

“I don’t know either,” Miles responds. “She didn’t even show up to a fight earlier.”

“Oh please, you’re one to talk about not showing up. Besides, that cow guy didn’t seem like that big of a deal.”

“Okay it’s time to go!” Gwen shouts, jumping off the building and swinging towards Miles’ apartment. You give Miles a look before doing the same.

As soon as you make it to the party, you decide to give Miles and Gwen space by going to get a soda. And maybe another cookie, making a mental note to ask Mrs. Morales where she got them.

As if hearing her name telepathically, Mrs. Morales approaches you.

“So? How did it go? Is he out of his angsty teen phase?”

“Um, it went well, but he’s still pretty angsty,” you reply, faking concern.

She laughs before looking around for him, only to find him under the water tower with a girl. “Who’s that?”

“Oh, her? That’s uh,” what was her fake name again? “Gwanda.”

“Gwanda huh? I better go find Jeff,” she replies, almost distracted. After she walks off, leaving you there, you try to find something to busy yourself, settling on picking at your nails.

You watched the whole interaction from afar. You really didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but it was so hard not to. From Miles’ parents meeting “Gwanda,” to her leaving, to Miles and his mom talking. To be honest, the whole thing was hard to watch. So towards the end, you stopped. It hurt that Gwen left without saying goodbye to you directly, but you understood that she and Miles were better friends than you two were.

Apparently, Miles and his mom finished their conversation because Miles comes to find you and drag you away by the arm

“Let’s go, I wanna follow Gwen. This whole thing is weird,” he rushes out, still pulling you.

“Ow,” you mutter, making him loosen his grip. “Are you sure you just don’t want to see Gwen?”

“What? No,” he gives you a look, but you give him one too. One that says you don’t believe him but will pretend like you do.

You sigh, still following him. You just wanted to get home and change into comfy clothes at this point.

A/N: i got carsick while writing this

[derekscorner]

Fated Rantings: El motherf**kin Melloi

I'm back! I don't even know how many this makes but by hell welcome back to my trip through Fate! I've been looking forward to this one for a while now. Ever since I finished Fate Zero (click here <-) in fact. (-> here's part two)

The "why done it" in this case being due to Waver Velvet and Iskandar. When I sat through Fate Zero I absolutely loved their arc and dynamic as the story progressed. Iskandar is one of the best bros I've seen written within Fate which is a praise I also give to Astolfo from Apocrypha.

Of course, with Astolfo I was also shocked by the sheer dissonance between the meme and the actual character. In Iskandar's case, I was shocked by the sheer misinterpretation of the Banquet of Kings scene.

I'll fight any of you on that scene and his character. It left me questioning the critical thinking skills of many given what I had heard vs what I actually saw.

But that's for another post, I linked the part two of the fate zero post if you're curious about my feelings of that scene.

What's most important for this post is just how much Waver changed after Fate Zero or more specifically the 4th Holy Grail War.

Multiple Histories, One World

Now, as with nearly every post these days, I do feel the need to preface the multiverse nature of Fate and it's Type-Moon cousins. This multiverse has fed a lot of the complicated reputation for these stories and many movies are adapting a specific route or ending from a novel.

Fate Stay Night, Fate Hollow Ataraxia, Tsukihime, so many have multiple routes and endings. FSN in particular has had two anime and three movies depicting each main route.

This is relevant because the El Melloi Case files are based on actual light novels rather than visual novels. The anime is only 13 episodes long and it by no means has the time to truly adapt every novel in that series.

This should also be kept in mind because events and terms are shared among the various stories but that does not mean each story is connected.

For example, in most stories where Waver Velvet exists usually depict him as a participant in the 4th Holy Grail War but this does not mean that every Waver you see lived through Fate Zero.

Fate Zero is a specific retelling of the 4th Grail War but not the universal depiction. A good example of what I mean is with Saber (Artoria) from Fate Stay Night.

In the original visual novel as well as the UBW anime (and others) Saber references the 4th Grail War and Kiritsugu. Even though servants aren't supposed to remember previous summons she does but the war she remembers in those stories is not the same story from Fate Zero.

Fate Zero is just one alternative version of the 4th Grail War. The war itself happens in several alternate worlds but none of them are exactly the same series of events.

In other words, you'll see Waver cameo in many stories but never assume they all had the same history. They probably had similar histories.

With that out of the way let us focus on the version of Waver we did see, the boy from Fate Zero that's grown into a lord of the Clocktower.

What a true life changing experience just meeting someone can be

l've said it before but it's entirely possible to see the anime from the 2010s as their own pocket continuity. I won't claim that as 100% accurate since even 'ol Nasu said Fate Zero is it's own timeline but I do fully believe it can apply here.

El Melloi calls back to Fate Zero often and while the anime leaves out a lot that the novel covers it's still worth seeing. It focuses well on what became of Waver after Fate Zero and how Iskandar changed him.

It's even a plot point that he's obsessed with Iskandar and that war. Waver wishes to see Iskandar again and aims for the 5th Grail War. This obsession is often seen as a dangerous thing as well by those around Waver and for good reason.

Iskandar is a heroic spirit, he is dead and within Type-Moon it is the livings job to move forward not the dead.

What I mean is that Waver is seemingly chasing the dead, running towards an end to prove himself to his king. Waver is not suicidal or the like but he's missed a bit of Iskandar's message.

In Fate Zero Iskandar does his damnedest to get the, then impatient and temperamental, Waver to enjoy the journey. Iskandar loves life and new things and pushes Waver to experience new things.

But as El Melloi Waver has come to a stand still. I saw this as sad but not unbelievable for it is very human to find yourself stuck as an adult.

l see this as Waver "missing the forest for the trees" in a sense because;

A) He knows that servants typically do not recall previous summons. His desire to see if Iskandar remembers or approves of him is moot from the get go. He is effectively chasing shadows. B) Waver's entire personality as the tired teacher El Melloi was shaped by Iskandar. Waver has already changed in a positive way but does not reflect on that. He remembers their time together fondly but doesn't think of his present much.

Waver only regrets or remembers a past, he's not living life to the fullest like Iskandar would push him to do. It is a very believable fault to have and a very real rut that many of you will experience once as you age.

The beauty of Waver's time as El Melloi is seeing him learn to let go and live life with an attitude more akin to what Iskandar spouted.

The man vs the Boy

Even then, even with that focus on Waver's obsession with the past, the story also shows just how much Waver changed after the 4th Grail War. They're not things Waver speaks up about himself but they are things both the viewer and cast take note of.

The first big change is seen in the flashback of how Waver became the lord El Melloi II. It is a few years before the first episode but a year or two after Fate Zero. After borrowing money (beginning his perpetual debt) Waver bought the nearly defunct classroom of his mentor Kayneth, the previous lord el Melloi.

The very man that Waver stole his relic from, the same man that was dealt a death so shameful by Kiritsugu that I found him more disgusting than Saber in that moment.

This not only took mage society by surprise but he shocked everyone still by making the class successful. Waver moans his lack of talent but he's proving Iskandar right by putting his head to use.

Within Fate Zero Iskandar pointed out Waver's problem solving skills and how solving something simpler than others is a talent to be proud of.

It's obvious that others recognize this talent as well since he's often called to solve cases. He uses the money to pay off debts but the very fact that a society as prideful and traitorous as the Clocktower would even call him for help is a feat that I do not think Waver even considers.

The fact that he'd even buy Kayneth's class to keep it alive also shows a sharp change. As a boy he was irresponsible and was partly the cause of Kayneth's death but as a man he accepts that responsibility.

He's not making excuses as he did when you saw him in Fate Zero. I do not feel that my words are doing this trait justice because so many people grow up and never learn to accept the responsibility of their actions.

Let alone go out of their way to amend the issues they cause.

By hell his acceptance of responsibility even takes the characters in story by surprise. The whole reason Waver is 'lord el melloi' is because the family was put on the cusp of ruin by Waver's actions and Kayneth's death.

They chose Reines as the next head out of political logic and necessity. When she kidnaps him (as a small child mind you) she fully expected Waver to throw a fit and go into denial because that's the personality he had prior to the war.

She was joking in earnest (probably plotting something bad too) but no. Waver accept all her demands and only asked they add the "II" to his title.

Both because Waver does not think he's worthy of the el melloi title and because his station is temporary.

It may seem like minor rambling to you but I found this shift rather interesting and praise worthy.

Waver's mage family is new, he essentially had no father, so when I see this change I see a boy that learned a sense of responsibility from Iskandar. Perhaps not a father-figure in the truest sense but he was an example Waver needed.

Iskandar was a king and accepted all that it brought and from his words you see that he did consider his men and their view of him.

Even if by a fraction Waver emulated that and I consider that beautiful in hindsight of Fate Zero to here.

As a teacher

To the shock of the Clocktower (and me tbh) Waver is a damn good teacher. He may lack power and potential as a mage himself but his problem solving mindset and his experiences have made him damn near prodigal as an instructor.

By the end of the anime he had at least 3 students of "pride" rank. I won't go into the whole detail but the best way to sum that up for you is by saying mages have ranks.

To have students who achieved a "pride" rank at such young ages is basically like a teacher in our world having three kids skip their way to college.

All of Waver's students have more talent than him but his class tends to draw the unwanted or odd so few of them have the actual mentality to put that power to use.

The Clocktower essentially throws problem children at him and he turns them into respectable mages much to the higher ups annoyance.

Sadly the anime only showed a few of his class but I loved it when I got to see him being a teacher. The cases he solves are fun as well but the class draws out the easily annoyed aspect of Waver.

The parts of him that is still the young Waver which becomes a funny contrast in a way. I'd even argue that Waver draws annoying people to him unconsciously.

His "best friend" Melvin, the overly fond Flat, or actually talented/respectable mages like Luvia who wants him to be her tutor.

Hell, he's even on a list of people that female students wish to sleep with. No, I am not joking. One of them is even in his class. Her name is Yvette and I am certain that she's unhinged.

His social circle is endearing and it draws out a bit of young Waver and I love it.

Sorry, I lost my own plot there. I don't really have a structure to my rambles since my brain just does not work that way but I hope that I got across how much I love what this story has done with Waver.

He was one of the best parts of Fate Zero and I loved seeing how Iskandar changed him. I see it almost like a man adopting an unruly kid and making them into a better person.

Only for that same person to do the same for his students. Of course, I also just genuinely love to see the Fate world in motion outside a Grail War.

You hear a lot about Clocktowers, mage society, and so on but this is a story in which you see it. You're getting the backdrop of the Type-Moon universe and I'm sad this anime didn't get more seasons to explore it.

However, before I finish up what has become a part one I have to mention a foil to Waver. Not another mage or case but his foil as a subject to Iskandar.

I found you, FAKER

Hephaestion was an interesting character to me. I was interested in her prior due to lore but actually seeing her in action made me more interested in her dichotomy to Waver.

Both are heavily shaped by Iskandar himself but while Waver is a subject of the king Hephaestion was a body double. It's a bit more complex than that of course but she's essentially a body double he had in life.

Due to the magecraft used that let her play such a role she had no name of her own and her mark on history is odd compared to actual heroic spirits.

Thanks to this and the way in which she was summoned she manifested as a new class "pretender". Or as this anime called it "Faker".

However, all things in Fate have a grain of truth. No matter how fantastical the spirit or spell there was something real it was based on.

This "faker" was a real woman and her hatred for Waver is a foil since he sees himself as a subject to Iskandar. She respects her king as much, if not more, than Waver but she hated his army.

For Waver to call himself a subject, for him to mention the Ionioi Hetairoi and her absence in it, these things anger her.

She saw that army as a detriment that lead to Iskandar's death. She even counts among the Ionioi Hetairoi by technicality but refuses to appear when Iskandar uses it due to her hatred of the army.

There's likely more there as well but I sadly lack knowledge on her as of typing this. I do know the basic gist of Dr. Heartless' plan and her role in it but her personal history I know little.

But her foil to Waver I do find interesting because both were shown Iskandar's kindness yet she views herself apart as special confidant while Waver wishes to be a subject.

It is like they gained two opposite lessons from the same man. She even rejected Iskandar's numerous attempts to name her due to her respect for him. She was fine being his double while Iskandar saw it as horribly inhumane.

She hates the army, Waver would happily join it. She is a warrior and strong, Waver is weak. Yet Waver is the only one that can say things to get under her skin. On some level she knows he's right, on some level he understands her thanks to their shared experiences with Iskandar.

To be honest the anime doesn't explore them as much as I wish it did. I'm rambling, hoping to stretch it, but in truth the anime ended before I got to see this truly explored. It's a neat parallel to see but an incomplete one.

Thanks to lore videos I watch I do have a grander scope than most whole watch the anime. A very similar situation to when I watched the 2006 Fate anime, I have context.

I won't spoil it but do know that Hephaestion and Dr Heartless' plot does lead to a proper build up and resolution to Waver's lingering feelings of Iskandar and the war.

I do think the anime did a good job, I truly wish it had more, but knowing what I do about these novels I wish they had gave it another season.

The dynamic of Iskandar to his two subjects also plays a greater role and one day I hope we get to see it.

For now I think I'll stop this here and make that part two. I know I rambled a lot with no direction and it fell thin toward the end there so I appreciate you reading regardless.

Hopefully you'll enjoy part two more where I can talk about other things aside my obsession with Waver and his character.

I'll leave my other better written Fate posts linked below as well. Bye~

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El Motherf**Kin Melloi pt2: https://www.tumblr.com/derekscorner/757996566277701632/fated-rantings-clocktowers-business-hours

For my other experiences with Fate click here: https://derekscorner.tumblr.com/tagged/fated-rantings

[weebsinstash]

So we agree, the Spot is just as fuckable as Miguel. These two are both incredible, just both at INSANELY opposite ends of the spectrum. Like I want Miguel to breed me, where as I feel like I want the same with Spot just where I’m more the dom? Idk tho, Spot at the end of the movie def would go back to his s/o’s apartment while waiting for Miles, def would be hate fuckin you con or noncon style, but would also def be so apologetic after he had cum a couple times

Spot who hates Miles Morales so fucking much because he not only caused him to mutate in the collider incident but the accident killed his s/o/crush (you) and now it's like "oh, hey, this is funny but, would you believe me if I said we used to date? Ha ha anyways i was thinkin we could pick up where we left off :)" And maybe he's either telling the truth or he's full on delusional, thinking you two were in love and "sending all kinds of passionate signals" when in reality you were just like, being a respectful coworker and being polite to him and shit you'd be pretty uh in danger if his original you survived and became some sort of multiverse jumping being as well because then he's, you know, CHASING YOU, he thought you had been gone forever, he thought he had lost everything in his life important to him, literally everything, his own physical body becoming unrecognizable, unable to have love, respect, even just a normal life, truly becoming a broken man, but here you are, still left behind, maybe even just as he remembers you visually

I saw a post saying he has Sans energy and it's like. Yeah actually. Funny Little Man Energy. Except The Spot is kind of a poor little wet cat out in the rain who's a lil pathetic tbh and Sans is like a sarcastic troll in a non serious well intentioned way but, the Energy is similar kwim.

Jonathan just being like half apologetic half self indulgent freak the whole time

God. Fucking. Just picture this. The whole thing happens to him, you know, the movie stuff, he's out for revenge, constantly disrespected by Miles, other villains, he lost his entire way of living a normal life, literally, he doesn't even have the peace of having a normal body anymore, AND he lost his beloved "fiance" in the accident and he's just absolutely going insane and he finds you again, YOU you, HIS you, somehow survived, and he goes to you to speak to you AND YOURE JUST LIKE "WAIT WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU" he was just projecting the whole time and you're confused and it just shatters his fantasy but you know what he decides he should get whatever he wants now, take whatever he wants, his powers open all kinds of doors, and he'll make this universe the one where he has you

Also if Spot doesn't have genitals or maybe you're using like, the Wookie rule I think is rhe term for it, he could literally get you any kind of toy or anything from anywhere. He could do ANYTHING to you, watch anything happen to you, use Any kind of gadget on you that he wanted in place of whatever he may be missing. Since he only has so many physical capabilities, he might as well get his pleasure in the satisfaction and pride of bringing you to, like, orgasmic insanity

Miguel just. God I have a draft for him, right, based off of the concept of Reader slowly kind of being pushed to a mental breaking point by Miguel pushing them to do a specific job in the Spider Society only THEY can do, and he's pushing you and telling you its for the greater good because it does legitimately hold the multiverse together, it keeps people from breaking canon, it's a memory wiping thing, but it's emotionally and mentally taxing on you and the nature of the job makes you a social pariah and, it's a struggle of wanting to hate and refuse him for pressuring you into all this when you actually WANT to trust him as your friend and leader and even want to love him vs also he's lowkey taking advantage of the stress the job causes on you so he can be the only one there to support you when you're in crisis mode cause, yeah its for the greater good, and gosh he hates seeing you cry such big fat tears, but it IS so nice to get to be the one to hold you when you're so desperate for some kind of anchor and support that you hug him. God I bet hugs from him are something else....

[the-cactus-taco]

Hell yeah y’all I’m back with more of this fic! Sorry, haven’t been updating mirror versus ask blog recently. I’m on a writing kick. So hopefully I get back to that soon

again, sorry for spelling mistakes.

Dreams of your future

Chapter 1 -> Chapter 2 -> Chapter 3

Ships: Y/N x the outliers

CW: poor family relationships / poor mental health

You spent the next few hours slowly coming to. And getting to know your new temporary roommates. You told them the basics about yourself, and some funny stories and fun facts. Tearing up when you thought about your old life to much. And they returned the favor.

You learned that dust doesn’t talk. Because he can’t. something about losing his vocal cords. You learned that error’s body is the way that it is because of code radiation that used to infest the antivoid. He Told you it’s fine now because of something related to a “heart” but he wouldn’t tell you any specifics.

You learned horror loves to bake! That Got you pretty excited to try some of his work. Apparently their team name is “the outliers” and there’s a bunch of other teams in the Multiverse. Some good, most bad. It’s their job as protectors too well, protect. And try to stop whatever evil gangs they come across.

you learned they’re all in a band! “Mew mew and the outliers.” Apparently the band name came first. error is the lead singer, but doesn’t like going on stage so he has to wear a mask and perform as a character. you ask him if that’s considered drag since the character is a girl, and killer immediately replies with an enthusiastic yes. Telling you he also does drag.

You learned that nova has a brother, but he doesn’t like talking about him. Saying he “lost him a long time ago” and “The person his is now is someone I don’t know.” You related to Nova quite a bit. Your relationship with family wasn’t exactly the greatest back home. You ask him if he wants to get to know the person his brother is now. He says absolutely, but his brother runs one of the most dangerous gangs in the Multiverse. So it’s complicated.

It was getting pretty late at this point. Apparently. you don’t really have a good sense of time. You all had been talking for quite a while. Horror had excused himself, dust following behind. You remember telling him about one of your favorite foods in your earlier conversation. And when he returned with dust, he had that exact thing on a plate for you.

“I figured… it could make ya…. Feel better.” The large skeleton said with a smile, handing you your food. Nova assisted you in sitting up, careful not to agitate your wounds. Once you were upright, you began to dig in. As you took the first bite, could be tears in your eyes. Your favorite food was always something you’d eat when things were going wrong. A piece of comfort that you could always rely on. You weren’t sure if it was because of just how bad the situation was, or because of horror’s cooking… but in that moment, your favorite food had never tasted better.

Horror and the others looked knowingly at you as you started to cry. Like they had all been in your position before. Horror slowly approached you, putting his hand on your shoulders. “Hey… it’s ok to cry… you’ll be ok… we promise.” The sympathy in his eyes caused you to crack even more. You sniffled as you stared at him. “Do you… need a hug?” He said, tilting his head and opening his arms. After a moment of pause, you set your food aside and slowly nod.

He takes you into his arms, careful not to hurt you. His warmth and the plush of his jacket snap the final straw. You hug back, crying into his shoulder. He squeezes you tighter just slightly. The extra pressure is extremely welcome. He lets you cry for quite a while, before you part. You manage to thank him through shaky breath. He Delicately wipes the tears from your eyes with his thumb. “anytime… we’re here… for you.” He says

Your face warms were he touched you as you go back to eating. dust brings up the idea of watching a movie. They all agreed to let you pick because your the “guest of honor” so to speak. You haven’t heard a single movie out of their selection. Probably because they all come from alternate universes. You pick out one about trucks getting possessed by aliens or something, and error perks up immediately. Saying “oh my god this one is SO BAD it’s AMAZING.” And ranting about the apparent cinematic disaster you’re about to view.

You start the movie and- wait is this a horror movie? Wait… oh. Oh my god. It’s bad. It’s really that bad. So bad in fact, it turns right around to being so damn funny. You all agreed that you should be able to talk during this movie because joking around is part of the fun. But no one was really able to because you were all laughing your asses off. Apparently only Dust and error had seen this movie before so everyone else is losing their mind right along with you.

After a long night of joking around and laughing hysterically about evil alien semi trucks, error stands up and says it’s probably time to start heading to bed. You ask if you’ll be sleeping on the couch. “Oh no dear—” Nova explained “we have a guest room just for you.”

“allow me.” He said, and began to assist you up on to your feet. You try to take a step, but the pain in your stomach stops you. You nearly fall over, but nova is there to catch you. “do you not think you can walk?” He asked. You don’t think you can, and you tell him as much. He hums to himself for a moment, before seemingly getting an idea. “Here, may I?” He asks, holding you up. you nod your head. Not actually sure what he was applying.

In one swift motion, nova sweeps you up into his arms. You yelp at the sudden movement, causing nova to glance down to you. “Are you alright?” He questions. You slowly nod as blush fills your cheeks. “Good. Let’s get you some rest.” He replies

“Error, could you open the tent for us?” Nova called. Walking away with you. “Of Corse!” Error replied. Pulling strings from his eyes that caused the knitted walls to part. The blinding white of the outside caused you to squint your eyes tight as you hissed through your teeth.

Nova was squinting as well, blinking over and over to try and get his eyes to adjust faster. After you a moment, he begins walking off into the white void. You ask where you’re going. “Our guest bedroom of course.” He replies. The two of you soon come across a blue door. You had seen a couple other doors connected to nothing in the void thus far. Nova reached out with one of his tentacles to open it.

Turning and handel and going inside, the room was simple. Just a bed and adjacent desk and dresser. there was nothing on the walls except for window with the curtains drawn. Nova walks slowly over to bed and gingerly places you down. Careful not to agitate you. After setting you on the bed, nova kneels by your side.

“Now my friend, you suffer from nightmares… is that right?” Bad ones. Ever since that day, you never been able to get a good nights rest. You explain your situation to nova. He looks at you with sympathy in his eyes and warmth in his smile “then I will assist you, if you so desire.” You do. “Oh, one thing however…”

“My connection to your mind will be stronger if I am closer to you. I would have asked you before, but I could not, it was quite a dire situation. So if I may, how comfortable are you with touch?”

You ask him if you can sit on his lap like you were when you first woke up. “Oh! Are your nightmares that intense?”

You say yes… but you also just want to be with him again. It felt so… right. Being in his arms. “Alright then. I’ll go tell the others I’ll be staying with you.” Nova stood from his place beside you and felt the room. You… hadn’t been without them all since you woke up. You felt so alone.

The weight of your situation began to sink in again. You tried to sit up, but only hurt your stomach more. Tears pricked at your eyes… you tried to keep yourself from thinking about your old home. Your old friends. But you just— can’t stop. Until…

The door handle twists as nova returns. And… everyone else too? “*Sigh* my apologies…” nova began “I told the others I would be here with you tonight, and they insisted a slumber party was in order.”

Error piped up from behind his tall pink friend “if you’ll have us! Of course…” you welcome them all with open if somewhat confused arms. Why would they all want to stay with you…? You’ve just met— did they all really find you that interesting? Although there’s a part of you that’s warmed by the thought of them wanting to be with you… None the less you tell them you’d love a slumber party.

Error sighs in relief, killer pumps their fist in the air, horror claps excitedly, and dust simply walks in and sets down a massive armload of pillows. While everyone else was getting comfortable, error slunk over to you. “H-hey… sorry if we’re coming on too strong— we all just think you’re really cool after hanging out… we don’t have to sleep here really— just tell us if it’s to much ok?”

You pause for moment, taking in the fact that they all apparently think you’re so cool after one hang out that a slumber party was in order, before calming error’s worries. You told him truthfully that you liked them all too. And getting more opportunities to be with them was fantastic. A weight seemed to lift from error’s shoulders. “Woo, ok— awesome! Just tell us if you need anything alright?” You nod and smile warmly at him.

After helping everyone settle, nova approaches you again. “Pardon me, but Are you sure you would like us to be that close again? A connection that strong would not be required to sooth your mind. I’m simply concerned you are forcing your because you think it necessary.”

You question yourself for a moment, you’ve only just met him… but then… you remember the way he looked at you. The deftness in which he held you. The warm hum of his magic as you lie on his chest. You reassure nova that you don’t mind. You want to make sure the your connection is extra strong so you can actually rest. You also just want to be close to him again… but you don’t tell him that part.

He looks at you with that god damned smile of his… gods you can’t get enough of it. The way he looks at you just wrapping around your soul like a warm embrace. “Of course… “ he says “allow me.”

The dryad bends down and gently moves you over so he can lay down beside you. You feel his tendrils wrapping around you as he gently lifts you up above the mattress. After scooting to the middle of the bed, he gingerly places you on top of him. Your head resting on his chest again.

You melt into his hold as he takes one of your hands in his own. Your body relaxing as he takes his other hand and gently places it on your stomach. Using his healing magic to sooth your pain. “Rest now my dear friend. We are here to protect you. You are safe now.”

His silken words echo in your mind as the chatter of the others around fills the room with warmth. The hum of nova’s powerful soul finally lulls you into the one thing you thought you’d never experience again… calming, restful… sleep.

(Extra note: the movie they watched is Stephen King’s maximum overdrive. It’s an absolute shit show would highly recommend with friends)

[starspangledspanks]

In Another Multiverse: Book 1

IN ANOTHER MULTIVERSE

(Hi lovelies! I got this idea from a Tumblr blog and I can’t remember which one. If you know the original asker please feel free to tag them so I can give them credit. The characters

and the script belongs to marvel exclusively, I just put my character in and she's mine.

NO LIKE GUYS LITERALLY NONE OF ITS MINE I JUST ADDED MY OWN CHARACTER INTO THE SCRIPT AND A FEW SCENES AND CHANGED WHAT I NEEDED TO TO MAKE THE STORY WORK.

This is part 1 and takes place during the original Avengers, the love story will progress as the movies do!!!!)

Another day, another job. Being a SHIELD agent wasn’t exactly all it had cracked up to be. The long hours, and brief days off. Unappreciated and overworked. The only thing keeping me going at this point was the way my fathers eyes lit up at me following in his footsteps. His longtime love for superheroes outweighs his need for a break. I was distracted from my soggy cereal when I heard him enter.

“Hi dad,” I said leaning off the barstool in the kitchen to watch him pop through the door.

“Good Morning pumpkin,” he said, coming in to kiss my forehead.

“Long night?”

“You have no idea. Selvig and Barton are completely brainwashed. Loki’s got the Tesseract and Nick is furious.” he said, grabbing his own bowl and pouring some of the bland cereal in.

“What were they even doing with the cube in the first place? I thought it was supposed to be locked away somewhere?”

“That’s classified,” he said, smirking at me before pouring the milk into the bowl.

“I’m offended.” I feigned being hurt, as if I had been stabbed in the chest.

“Don’t be. The chances of you getting called in for this are high. He sent Widow to retrieve Banner.”

“You’re lying,” The Hulk was not someone I was personally looking forward to meeting. Natasha and I both shared a mutual fear of the monster but not the man.

“Rumor has it Captain America is getting called in,” he said with a huge smile blooming on his face. Dad always had a crush on the Captain. The memorabilia lining the walls of his bedroom, the trading cards he always carried around.

“And I’m sure you’re just jumping at the chance to get him to sign your cards,” I laughed.

“Oh absolutely, they’ll be literally priceless.” He smiled, taking a bite of the corn flakes. I smiled at his enthusiasm before gathering my bag and jacket.

“I have to go, duty calls, see you tonight?” I asked before giving him a hug.

“Tonight,” he said, kissing my head before I made my way out the door. The walk was brief before my phone chimed in my bag. Stopping to pull it out, the picture I had snuck of Director Fury that one time lighting up the screen. He had been begging me to delete it for a year., his one good eye bulging in surprise.

“This is Coulson,” I said phone to my ear.

“Coulson, I need you in Brooklyn. You should be getting the address now.” I lifted the phone to see the address, the message flashing on the screen.

“I’ll be there in 30, sir.”

“You have 15.” He said, hanging up the phone. 

“Shi-” I tossed the phone back into my bag before hurriedly turning to the street to hail a cab. Getting to Brooklyn would take at least 20 minutes with morning traffic. But I reminded myself I did tell him 30. He could be upset about it later. I hopped in the cab giving the driver directions and tossing him an extra $5 to step on it. Before long I was outside the address tapping my foot. It was an old gym, and Fury was late. The dark armored Suburban pulled up a moment later and the dark mysterious man step[ping out.

“You’re late,” I chimed.

“Don’t start with me, Coulson.”

“What are we doing here sir?” He shot me a side eye.

“Getting help. And Sarah?” he said, me meeting his eyes. “Don’t tell your dad you were here.” He half smiled before making his way into the gym. The air was hazy and hot, the gym walls decorated with old murals of boxers past. The gym was empty besides one man. His back turned to us, beating the absolute shit of a bag. His large shoulders controlled his punches, harder and harder until the bag literally came off its chain and flew across the room. Evident that was a common occurrence with the amount of bags lined up on the floor ready for their turn to be but open. The man sauntered over to another bag before hanging it and started his punches again.

“Trouble sleeping?” Fury's voice broke me from my thoughts. We approached him slowly, making our presence known.

“ Slept for seventy years, Sir. I think I’ve had my fill.” the man answered. Still punching.

“Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world.”

“ When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up- they say we won. They didn’t say what we lost.”

“We’ve made some mistakes along the way, some very recently.”

“You here with a mission, Sir?” He started removing his hand wraps.

“We are.”

“Trying to get me back into the world?” He said starting to remove his other wrap.

“Trying to save it.” I said offering the folder of information to who I had easily deduced was Steve Rogers. My dad would be losing his shit right now.

“Ma’am,” he said, grabbing the folder with a small smile. It quickly faded when he got a load of what was inside.

“HYDRA’s secret weapon.” he deadpanned.

 “Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think. The Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That’s something the world sorely needs.” Fury explained.

 “Who took it from you?”

“He’s called Loki. He’s- not from around here. There’s a lot we’ll have to bring you up to speed on if you’re in.” Fury said. 

“The world has gotten even stranger than you already know.” I said lightly to the Captain.

“At this point I doubt anything would surprise me.” The soldier got up grabbing another punching bag, throwing it over his shoulder, and his duffel.

“Ten bucks says you’re wrong.” I said, shooting him a playful smile which he returned. 

“There’s a debriefing packet waiting for you back at your apartment. Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?” Fury asked as the man headed towards the door.

“You should’ve left it in the ocean.” and with that he was gone.

“Do you think he’ll help?” I asked Fury.

“He’ll help. He didn’t crash a plane into the ocean for nothing.”

“Touche,” I said, playing with my lip.

“I need you and your father to get Stark, he’s got all the information.”

“You think he’ll say yes?” I asked.

“That's what you’re for.” Fury smiled. Stark and I had a soft spot for each other. Strictly platonic. He was like a brother. After the whole Natasha fiasco I was actually his and Peppers assistant for a summer while I trained at SHIELD, and we had become close. Flash to later that evening Dad and I were outside Stark tower, Jarvis not letting us in.

“I just saw him fly in, he’s here.” My dad quipped.

“Give me your phone,” I said, holding out my hand. I made quick work of the AI getting us into the building and into the elevator. A trick Tony should’ve admittedly not told me about.

“Here,” I said after overriding Jarvis and calling Tony back. “Maybe want to warn him we’re on the way up.” I said putting in the floor.

“Mr. Stark, we need to talk.” Dad said holding the phone like he was borderline elderly.

“You have reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark. Please leave a message.” I held in a laugh at that one.

“This is urgent.” dad said.

“Then leave it urgently.” Tony quipped as the elevator opened and we stepped out.

“Security breach! That ones on you,” Tony pointed to me.

“Phil, Sarah, come in!” Pepper said warmly coming over to meet us. I greeted her with a hug.

“Phil?” Tony asked.

“We can’t stay.” I said hugging Tony as well.

“Uh, his name is Agent.” 

“Come in, we are celebrating.” Pepper said, handing me a glass of champagne.

“Which is why they can’t stay,” Tony said, winking at me. I shot him a knowing smile before placing down the champagne I couldn’t have on work hours.

“We need you to look this over, as soon as possible.” Dad said, trying to hand Tony a laptop but receiving a blank stare instead.

“I don’t like being handed things.”

“That’s fine because I love to be handed things. So, let’s trade.” Pepper said, handing her glass to my dad before switching the laptop into Tony’s hand and stealing his drink.

“Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday.” Tony quipped.

“This isn’t a consultation.” I answered.

“Is this about the Avengers?” Pepper asked, all three of us snapping our heads to look at her.

“Which I know nothing about.” she answered, throwing up her hands.

“The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought, and I didn’t even qualify.”

 “I didn’t know that either.” Pepper said.

“Yeah, apparently I’m volatile, self-obsessed, don’t play well with others.”

 “That I did know.” She said, shooting me a smile.

“This isn’t about personality profiles anymore.” Dad said.

“Whatever! Ms. Potts, got a sec?” Tony asked Pepper before she excused herself to go over to him.

“What did you do?” I whispered to dad.

“What do you mean?”

“What were you macking on Pepper?” I hissed.

“NO.” he rolled his eyes at me.

We were interrupted by Tony and Pepper kissing. 

“Work hard.” She said before turning back to us. “So, any chance you’re driving by LaGuardia?”

“I can drop you off.” Dad said.

“Sarah, stay.” Tony motioned to me. I shot dad a smile before they turned to leave.

“Ooh, I want to hear about the ah- cellist, is that still a thing?” Pepper pressed as they left.

Tony was grazing over the information on the holograms floating before him.

“Can I help you, sir?” I said hands behind my back. Tony turned to me feigning disgust.

“Sir, is my father. Drop the theatrics Coulson, what has Fury told you?” he asked, tapping a pen against his palm.

“Honestly? Next to nothing, it’s past my security level. I’ve just been told to get the kids together.” I answered.

“Who’s in so far?”

“Well I know Fury sent Natasha after Banner. Rogers didn’t seem thrilled.” I said. Tony gasped at me.

“Did you meet Captain Stars and Stripes before dear old daddy?”

“He doesn’t know, I’d like to keep it that way, Stark.” I said, folding my arms over my chest.

“Oh c’mon.” he said, waving a hand at me before turning back to his screens. “Let’s find out what Fury’s hiding in his easter eggs.”

.

After a long night of deduction with Tony I was absolutely exhausted by the 6am call time. The bags under my eyes are prevalent. Our orders were to take a quinjet to the Helicarrier and escort Captain Rogers. Dad was absolutely losing his shit.

“We’re about forty minutes out from home base, Sir.” The pilot said to dad as Rogers was watching a video of the Hulk.

“So, this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum they used on me?” The captain asked.

 “A lot of people were. You were the world’s first superhero. Banner thought Gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine’s original formula.” Dad was fangirling a little too close to the sun.

 “Didn’t really go his way, did it?” Rogers said.

“When he’s not that thing though, guy’s like a Stephen Hawking.” I said from my chair. The poor man looked at me confused.

“He’s like a- smart person.” I said with a sympathetic smile.

“It’s nice to see you again Miss-?”

“Coulson. Sarah Coulson. Yes there’s a relation.” I said, getting up to shake his hand.

“Steve Rogers.”

“Again?” Dad quipped from his spot. I shrugged in his direction as an apology for not telling him.

“I gotta say- it’s an honor to meet you, officially. I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping. I mean, I was, I was present, while you were unconscious from-the-ice.” Dad said awkwardly. Rogers moved over to the cockpit, my dad following hot on his trail.

“You know it’s really- it’s just a just a huge honor to have you on board- it’s…”

“DAD,” I interrupted him before he could continue his embarrassment.

 “Well, I hope I’m the man for the job,” Rogers answered. 

“Oh you are, absolutely. Ah- we made some modifications to the uniform. I had a little design input.” Dad said.

“Clearly he’s a huge fan,” I teased.

“The uniform? Aren’t the stars and stripes a little...old-fashioned?” Steve said hands on hips. 

“Everything that’s happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old-fashioned.” My dad reassured him. And he was, old fashioned that is. He was wearing clothes my grandfather would have surely worn was he still here. It was endearing, in a cute innocent kind of way.

“Excuse me for a moment,” dad said as the pilot waved him over. Steve took his seat back in front of me, I was shuffling through some paperwork. A comfortable silence over us when I looked up at the Captain. He was looking at me, almost studying me it seemed.

“Is there something I can help you with, sir?” I asked.

“Uh, no- Please just Steve. I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to be rude I just, I uh-”

“It’s ok,” I laughed. “Just making sure you didn’t have any questions.” I smiled.

“I guess I have one.” he said, bringing a finger to his lips in query.

“Shoot.”

“Are you advanced? You know you have powers?” he asked.

“No I don’t. Just an agent.” I said.

“Then why bring you along? I’m not trying to be rude, I just wonder why Fury would put you through the trouble.”

“I’m basically his assistant. But I help on missions too. Still training but I can fight with the best of them. Nats been my sparring partner for years.” I answered.

“Good to know,” he said. I shot him a smile before the quinjet was set to land. I packed up all my work and headed out the door with the others. Natasha approached as we stood in the doorway, Steve clearly taking it all in.

“Agent Romanoff - Captain Rogers” I said introducing the two.

“Hi” she smiled.

“Ma’am.” he responded. She looked to me before speaking.

“They need you on the bridge; they’re starting the face trace.”

“Got it, see you there. Captain Rogers,” I nodded and smiled before making my way to the bridge to assist. The bridge was a flurry of activity. Agents all over rushing to prepare to sned us into the sky. Minutes later Nat walked in, Dr. Banner and Steve on her tail. The look of shock plastered on their faces at the complicated ship.

“We’re at level, sir.” I said from my control panel.

 “Good! Let’s vanish.” Fury said.

“Engage retro reflection panels.” Hill chimed from next to me. A rumble shook the large carrier as the reflection panels deployed on the underside of the massive structure.

“Reflection panels are engaged sir,” I said to Fury. He turned to the men with a hello nod.

“Gentleman,” he motioned. Steve approached me, pulling his wallet out of his back pocket before flipping through a stack of cash and handing me a $10. I let out a soft giggle before catching Nat’s eye. She sent me a knowing wink and I rolled my eyes.

“Doctor, thank you for coming.”  Banner shook Fury’s hand. 

“Thanks for asking nicely. So, um, how long am I staying?” the doctor sheepishly asked.

“Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you’re in the wind.”

 “Well where are you with that?” he asked.

“We’re sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops, if it’s connected to a satellite, it’s eyes and ears for us.” I answered. 

“It’s still not gonna find them in time.” Nat chimed from a monitor, Steve looking hopelessly confused in the corner.

“You have to narrow your field. How many Spectrometers do you have access to?” Bruce asked me.

 “How many are there?” I asked.

 “37.” Bruce said. “Call every lab you know. Tell them to put the Spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for Gamma rays. I’ll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?”

 “Agent Romanoff, would you show Doctor Banner to his laboratory, please?” Fury asked.

Natasha walks over to Banner and they begin walking out of the bridge area. 

“You’re gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys.” she smiled.

“Really? Do you have the com-meter sixty-four?” Their voices trailing off as they left. It was my job to keep the bridge going with Hill while we waited for a trace. Steve roamed around the bridge for a while as we did so.

“He’s cute huh?” Hill asked next to me.

“Don’t start with me.” I warned. She laughed at me for the quick tone. Some time passed before I noticed dad standing with Steve. No doubt bugging him about his cards. Jaspers voice suddenly breaks the ebb and flow of the bridge.

“We got a hit. Sixty seven percent match. Wait- cross-match, seventy nine percent.”

 “Location?” I asked, standing at the ready.

 “Stuttgart, Germany. Twenty eight, Königstraße. He’s not exactly hiding.” He said.

“Captain, you’re up.” Fury’s voice barked. Steve nodded and began to walk off, I quickly caught up to him knowing he probably had zero clue where he was even going.

“Need some direction?” I asked.

“Yes actually,” he said. “Thank you.” We bobbed and weaved through the agents busying themselves to get read for the mission that was about to take place. We made our way through the floors silently before I key carded him into the suit bay. The back wall was light from beneath, the uniform for Steve waiting on a mannequin.

“It’s a little brighter than what you’re used to. Dad got creative.” I laughed. His hand reached out to touch the suit, no doubt feeling a lot of feelings.

“You okay?” I asked sympathetically.

“Yeah yeah I’m alright. It’s just the last time I put on the suit-”

“You crashed a plane.” I interrupted. He let out a little laugh.

“Something like that.” he smiled at me.

“You have a whole team backing you on this. We’ve got your back.” I reassured him. He shot me a small smile.

“Good luck Captain.” I said before making my way back to the bridge. It was late by the time they had returned. All looking a bit worse for wear, and apparently with two gods in tow. We all sat at the meeting table in the main bay as we watched Fury interrogate Loki.

“In case it’s unclear, you try to escape- you so much as scratch that glass” Fury pushes a button and the floor beneath the cell drops away to nothing, the wind screams. “Thirty thousand feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?” He pushed the button again and teh floor closed.

He gestured first to Loki. “Ant.” Then back to the panel. “Boot.”

“It’s an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me.” Loki ekissed.

“Built for something a lot stronger than you.”

“Oh I’ve heard.” Loki looked directly into the camera then. “A mindless beast- makes play he’s still a man. How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?”

“How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can’t hope to control, you talk about peace and you kill ’cause it’s fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did.” Fury explained.

“Ooh. It burns you to have come so close, to have the Tesseract, to have power- unlimited power, and for what? A warm light for all mankind to share? And then to be reminded what real power is.” Loki hissed.

“Well, let me know if ’real power’ wants a magazine or something.” Fury said before leaving the room. We all turned off the stream at that point.

“He really just grows on you doesn’t he?” I snarked. Steve looked at me and let out a scoff before talking.

“Loki’s gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what’s his play?”

“He has an army called the Chitauri. They’re not of Asgard nor any world known. He means to lead the against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.” The blonde god answered.

“An army, from outer space?” Steve asked.

“So, he’s building another portal. That’s what he needs Erik Selvig for.” Bruce chimed.

“Selvig?” Thor asked.

“He’s an astrophysicist.” I said.

 “He’s a friend.”

“Loki has them under some kind of spell- along with one of ours.” Natasha looked down and to the side. 

“I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He’s not leading an army from here.” Steve said.

“I don’t think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy’s brain is a bag full of cats, you can smell crazy on him.” Bruce said.

“Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard, and he is my brother.” Thor said.

“And that’s cause for a break?” I asked. “He killed eighty people in two days.”

“He’s adopted?”

“I think it’s about the mechanics. Iridium, what do they need the Iridium for?” Bruce asked. At that moment Tony and my dad entered.

“It’s a stabilizing agent.” he said before turning back to my dad. “I’m saying, take a weekend; I’ll fly you to Portland. Keep love alive.” He patted my dads shoulder before he peeled off.

“Means the portal won’t collapse on itself like it did at SHIELD. No hard feelings point break, you got a mean swing.” he said, patting Thor's bicep.

“Maybe now isn’t the best time to anger the god Stark?” I chided.

“Also, means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants. Ah, raise the mizzen mast, ship the topsails.” Tony gestured to the crew members who shot back a confused glance.

“That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did.” Tony was standing at the main controls now. Covering one eye and spinning around.

“How does Fury even see these?” he asked.

“He turns.” I said in a tone.

“Sounds exhausting!” He quipped, messing with the screens. I didn’t miss him placing something under the screen, the rest of the team not noticing however.

“The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source of high energy density. Something to- kick start the Cube.” He said, clicking his fingers.

“When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?” I asked.

“Last night. The packet, Selvig’s notes, the extraction theory papers- am I the only one who did the reading?” he asked back. I crossed my arms over my chest before sinking a bit.

“I did the reading…”

“Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?” Steve asked. How he even was following on was a mystery to me as I barely was.

“He’d have to heat the Cube to a hundred and twenty million kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.” Bruce said.

“Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the Quantum Tunneling effect.”

“Well, if he could do that he could achieve heavy-ion fusion at any reactor on the planet.” Bruce answered.

“Finally. Someone who speaks English.” Tony quipped.

“Is that what just happened?” Steve asked to the rest of us.

“Get a room,” I teased the two men.

“It’s good to meet you, Doctor Banner. Your work on anti-electronic collisions is unparalleled. And I’m a huge fan of the way you- lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.”

Tony said to Bruce.

“TONY!” I chided.

“Mom,” he smirked at me.

“Thanks.” Bruce said sheepishly.

 “Doctor Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you might join him.” Fury said entering the room.

“I’d start with that stick of his. It may be magical but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon.” Steve added.

“I don’t know about that, but it is powered by the Cube. And I’d like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.” Fury said.

“Monkeys? I do not understand-”

“I do!” Steve interrupted Thor. The entire room fell into silence. “I...I understood that reference.”

“Shall we play, Doctor?” Tony asked Bruce motioning to the door.

“This way, sir.” Bruce said and the two men walked off. I joined Steve and Nat at the table.

“For what it’s worth I worked under Tony for an entire summer and I have no clue what just happened…” I said putting my feet up on the table.

“Feet off the table,” Dad chirped from the screens. He didn’t even have to look to know what I was up to.

“Tony’s up to something, I just can’t place it.” I said tapping my chin.

“You think he knows something we don’t?” Nat said. I glanced at the small device Tony had placed on the monitor but didn’t mention it. Steve saw me flick my eyes but didn’t register what I was getting at.

“I think he’s going too. Tony may be a pain in the ass but if he’s suspicious it’s for a good reason. I think we need to keep an eye on him.” I said, as I pushed myself out of the chair and away from the table.

“I’ll come with you,” Steve said, doing the same. Nat shot me another quirky look that I quickly dismissed before we headed to the door and towards the lab.

“Is Tony always so hard to deal with?” Steve asked, falling into step next to me.

“He can be immature. We both have this kind of diluted sense of humor. He’s like a brother to me though.”

“So you trust him?” he asked.

“Most of the time…” 

“Most of the time? That’s not very reassuring.” he said as we stopped a few feet away from the lab windows.

“Look I wouldn’t trust him not to eat my sandwich out of the fridge but I’d trust him with my life.” I said turning to face him.

“That’s an interesting opinion,” he said, smiling down at me.

“OW!” We heard Bruce quip from the lab.

“Hey!” Steve said leaving me and stomping into the lab.

“Are you nuts?” He asked Tony. I hadn’t even seen what happened.

“Jury’s out,” Tony said.

“What did you do, Stark?” I said, crossing my arms. He ignored me and turned to Bruce.

“You really have got a lid on it, haven’t you? What’s your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?” 

“Is everything a joke to you?” Steve chided.

“Funny things are.” Tony said.

“Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn’t funny. No offense, Doc.” Steve sadi turning to Bruce.

“No it’s alright. I wouldn’t have come aboard if I couldn’t handle pointy things.” Bruce said.

“Tony, you can’t be serious. You know how dangerous this is?” I said.

“You sound like Captain popsicle, calm down.” Tony said before turning to Bruce. “You’re tip-toeing, big man. You need to strut.”

“And you need to focus on the problem, Mister Stark.” Steve said hands on his belt.

“You think I’m not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now, why not before? What isn’t he telling us? I can’t do the equation unless I have all the variables.” Tony responded.

“You think Fury’s hiding something?” Steve asked.

“He’s a spy. Captain, he’s the spy. His secrets have secrets. It’s bugging him to, isn’t it?” Tony gestured to Bruce

“Uh, Aah, I just wanna finish my work here and-”

“Doctor?” Steve interrupted.

“A warm light for all mankind," Loki’s jab at Fury about the Cube”

“I heard it.” Steve said.

“Well, I think that was meant for you.” He gestured to Tony. Who in return offered him a blueberry. “Even if Barton didn’t tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news.”

“The Stark Tower? That big ugly -” Steve noticed Tony's glare before finishing. “-building in New York?”

“It’s powered by an arc reactor, self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for, what, a year?” Bruce asked.

“It’s just the prototype. I’m kind of the only name in clean energy right now, that’s what he’s getting at.” Tony said to us.

“So, why didn’t SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? What are they even doing in the energy business in the first place?” Bruce finished.

“I should probably look into that as soon as my decryption program finishes breaking into all of SHIELD’s secure files.” Tony said.

“I’m sorry did you say-” Steve couldn’t finish.

“JARVIS has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours I’ll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?” Tony said, offering us the fruit. I declined.

“Yet you’re confused about why they didn’t want you around.” Steve said.

“She knew.” Tony gestured to me next.

“Hey don’t bring me into this.” I said putting my hands up pin defense.

“You knew about this?” Steve asked.

“I mean I saw him place the chip…”

“And you didn’t say anything? God what is with all of you people?” Steve said. I felt like I was getting grounded by my father when I was 15 again.

“An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.” Tony interjected.

“I think Loki’s trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war and if we don’t stay focused he’ll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them.” Steve said, looking at me.

“Following’s not really my style.” Tony said, saving me from Caps intense glare.

“And you’re all about style, aren’t you?” Steve smirked at him.

“Out of the people in this room, which one is "A" wearing a spangly outfit and "B" not of use?” Tony chimed.

“Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?” I asked. He glanced between all of us.

“Just find the cube.” he said before storming out.

“Gonna follow your boyfriend?” Tony quipped at me. I shot him a glare before leaving to catch up with the captain. He was striding down the hall, I had to jog just to catch up.

“Steve!” I shouted following him. “Wait up-” He turned to me intensely.

“You’re Fury’s closest agent and you’re saying you don’t know what he’s up to? I find that hard to believe.”

“Steve, I'm not cleared for that sort of intel. Fury’s a great director because he can keep a secret. Even from me. You CAN trust me.” I said.

“Fine. Prove it.” He said turning and walking towards the back of the helicarrier.

“And how exactly do I go about doing that?” I asked falling back into step with him.

“Just come with me…” he said as we made our way deep within the large plane before finally coming to the door of the storage area.

“If they're hiding anything I bet it’s in here.” he said looking at the scanner for the door. I approached and swiped my card to enter only to be met with a denied access and a loud beep.

“That’s weird… I should be able to get in here.” I quipped. He placed his arm in front of me, pushing me back and out of the way. He leaned into the door and gave a large shove until the door broke loose before gripping the edge and pushing it the rest of the way open.

“Wow, do you do kids parties?” I teased.

“Not the time,” he said, moving forward silently into the storage facility. He jumped up to the cat walk before reaching down to grab my hand and pull me up after him.

“Through here,” he said, leading me further into the ship and to another room. It was large and cramped. Boxes lined the walls and large crates filled the floor space.

“What is all this?” I asked running a hand over one of the boxes.

“Let’s find out.” he said, grabbing a crowbar and knocking it underneath the lid of one of the crates. He easily made work of the lid before sliding it aside. Much to both our shock and dismay inside the crate was a handful of weapons. Each one a dark reminder of HYDRA. The symbol painted on the side of each one.

“Cap I, I had no idea.”

His jaw clenched before he grabbed one of the guns and turned on his heels.

“What are you doing?” I asked running after him.

“Confronting Fury.” he said. I could barely keep up with him. We quickly arrived at the lab, over hearing Tonys words.

“And you’ll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss. What is Phase Two?” He asked, turning his monitor towards a very shocked looking Fury.

Steve strode into the lab and slammed the gun on the table harshly, me following on his heels. 

“Phase Two is SHIELD used the Cube to make weapons.” he said before turning to Tony. “Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for us.”

“Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we’re-”

Tony turned the screen towards Fury. It showed a plan for some missile.

“What were you lying?” Tony quipped.

“I was wrong, Director. The world hasn’t changed a bit.” Steve said, crossing his arms. 

“You made me a part of this too. You didn’t think I should have a choice in doing your dirty work?” I asked Fury. “And pulled my dad into this? I can’t believe you.”

“Sarah I-” he was interrupted by Nat and Thor walking in.

“Did you know about this?” Bruce asked Natasha.

“You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?” Nat asked.

“I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.” he answered.

 “Loki’s manipulating you.”

 “And you’ve been doing what exactly?” he asked.

“You didn’t come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.”

“Yes, and I’m not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I’d like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction.” Bruce asked gesturing to the monitor again.

“Because of him.” Fury said pointing to Thor.

“Me?”

“Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly hilariously, out-gunned.”

“My people want nothing but peace with your planet.” Thor responded.

“But you’re not the only people out there, are you? And, you’re not the only threat. The world’s filling up with people who can’t be matched, they can’t be controlled.” Fury said.

“Like you controlled the cube!” Steve chimed.

“Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for A HIGHER FORM OF WAR.” the god boomed.

“A higher form?!” Steve asked.

“You forced our hand! We had to come up with some-”

“Nuclear deterrent? ’Cause that always calms everything right down.” Tony interjected.

The room became a hostile environment of arguments. 

“Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?” Fury quipped.

“I’m sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep-”

“Wait-Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?” Tony interrupted Steve.

“I’m sorry, isn’t everything?” Steve mocked. The room became a flurry of voices and yelling. Steve was at Tony, Bruce at Nat, Thor at seemingly everyone. I became so tuned out that I almost missed the scepter start glowing brighter and brighter.

“Guys-” I said trying to get someone, anyones, attention.

“You speak of control, yet you court chaos!” Thor said.

“It’s his MO, isn’t it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We’re a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We’re- we’re a time bomb.” Bruce said.

 “You need to step away.” Fury said to Bruce.

 “Why shouldn’t the guy let off a little steam?” Tony said, placing his hand on Steve's shoulder. 

“You know damn well why! Back off!”

“Guys…”

“Oh, I’m starting to want you to make me.” Tony got up in Steves face.

“Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?” 

“Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.”

“Guys-”

“I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I’ve seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You’re not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.”

“I think I would just cut the wire.” Tony snipped.

“Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.” Steve said.

“A hero, like you? You’re a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle.”

“Put on the suit, let’s go a few rounds.”

“You people are so petty, and tiny.” Thor chimed in.

“Yeah, this is a team.” Bruce stated.

“GUYS-” I said, gripping Steve's arm. His lock on Tony distracted as I did so.

“Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-”

“WHERE? YOU RENTED MY ROOM!” Bruce raised his voice.

“The cell was just-”

“IN CASE YOU NEEDED TO KILL ME. BUT YOU CAN’T, I KNOW, I TRIED!” Everyone turned to him at that. My heart clenched in sadness. “I got low. I didn’t see an end so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people. I was good until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?” At this point he had stepped to grab the scepter. All of us instinctively had our hands on our guns at the ready.

“Doctor Banner, put down the scepter.” Steve said stepping in front of me.

Banner looked down, surprised, to see the spear in his hand. The monitor makes a noise, signaling the Tesseract has been located. Bruce puts the scepter back on the table and walks over to the screen on the other side of the room.

“Sorry, kids. You don’t get to see my party trick after all.”

“I can get there faster-” Tony said, turning to leave after the beep of locating the Tesseract.

“You’re not going alone!” Steve said, going back for Tony’s arm. Tony smacked his arm away.

“You gonna stop me?”

“Put on the suit, let’s find out!” Steve said.

“I’m not afraid to hit an old man.”

“Put on the suit.” Steve mocked again.

“Guys enough,” I said, stepping in between the two. Quickly the chaos escalates as Brucde sees something on the monitor.

“Oh my god-” He says before a loud and powerful explosion sends all of us flying. Everyone was thrown in different directions, me, Tony, and Steve tangled together in the entryway of the lab. We scrambled to our feet. Steve looking to Tony.

“Put on the suit.” Steve urged.

“Yep” Tony says running.

“Sarah, you stay with me!” Steve says all of us running down a dark hall. Agents are scurrying everywhere, and there’s panic as we are invaded.

“Find engine three. I’ll meet you there.” Tony said to us. We both agreed and bolted. Holes littered the carrier as we moved. Agents hurt and running around like mad men. We got to the damaged engine. It was a shit show.

“Stark! Stark, we’re here.” I said in the comms.

Tony now in full armor flies out to us. 

“Good. Let’s see what we got.” He said hovering around. He begins to examine the engine, his suit scanning through the different levels of machinery. 

“I gotta get this super conducting cooling system back online before I can access the rotors, work on dislodging the debris. I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload position.” Tony instructed us.

Steve jumped from the catwalk we were at over to the control panel.

“What’s it look like in there?

“It seems to run on some form of electricity.” Steve said sarcastically.

“Well, you’re not wrong. Sarah, I need you to get over there.”

“Tony, it's like a 15 foot jump.” I said loudly over all the commotion.

“Jump, I'll catch you!” Steve said across the way.

“Are you fu-”

“You said I could trust you, can you trust me?” He said.

“Son of a…” I said pressing myself up against the back wall preparing myself for the jump. I huffed out a breath before running and jumping off the catwalk. My jump coming up short, I reached out for Steve's hand. Thank god he caught me.

“STEVE!” I yelled, dangling from his hand. 

“I got you!” He said pulling me up, rolling onto the walkway with him on top of me. Both of us heavy breathing after the near death experience.

“If you two are very much done staring longingly at each other..” Tony chimed in the comm. I popped up quickly to fix the relay before pushed the panel back in.

“’Kay, the relays are intact. What’s our next move?” Steve said.

“Even if I clear the rotors, this thing won’t re-engage without a jump....I’m gonna have to get in there and push.”

“Tony, if that thing gets up to speed, you’ll get shredded!” I stated.

“Then stay in the control unit and reverse polarity long enough to disengage maglev and that should-”

“Speak English!” Steve yelled.

“See that red lever? It’ll slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out. Stand by it, wait for my word.”

We both located the lever back across another jump before looking at each other.

“Don’t look at me Rogers, I'm not jumping again.” He makes his way over before two men start engaging us, a grenade thrown in my direction I was thankfully able to deflect. We were battling guys left and right, I was finally able to get my hands on a gun before Steve tossed a man off the carrier. 

“We’re losing altitude!” Fury shouted on the comms. Just then Steve was knocked off balance and sent hurdling over the edge of the walk.

“Steve!” I said gasping as I saw him dangling by a wire. I needed to get back over there. Taking another deep breath I jumped with all my might, thankfully this time making the jump.

“Cap hit the lever!”  Tony rang in our ears.

“I need a minute here!” Steve shouted as I struggled to pull him back to the walk by the wire.

 “Lever! Now!” The second Steve gets a grip on the rail I’m on my feet throwing the lever for Tony.

After a flurry of activity Tony shoots out of the fan before taking out a gunman we hadn’t even seen before crashing. We rushed over to see if he was okay.

“Tony! Are you alright?” I said as he sat up. 

“I’m good. Way to cut it close kid.” He said giving me a thumbs up. We all just kind of giggled and breathed heavily. Taking a moment to compose ourselves before Cap hauled Tony to his feet.

“Agent Coulson is down.” Fury's voice rang through the comms. I felt my breath hitch in my throat. It stopped all together as I waited for a response. My vision tunneling.

“A medical team is on its way to your location.” An unknown agent states. Hot tears welling up in my eyes and I can feel Steve and Tony’s attention on me.

“They’re here…They called it.” Fury said solemnly. Immediately I felt my world crashing down. The hot tears from before spilling over in waves. I needed to see him. I took off in a sprint not even knowing where he was. I could hear someone chasing after me. I rushed to wherever I could see others running hoping he would be there. I was aimlessly running, not being able to find him. I stumbled upon a dead end. Lost. 

“Sarah wait!” It was Steve chasing me. All I could do was turn to face him. He approached me before wrapping his arms around me as I sobbed. I didn’t realize how weak I was until he grabbed me, immediately falling in his arms. And all he did was hold me; there on the floor as sobs racked through my body….

After a while I ended up leaving Steve in that hallway much to his protest. I needed to be alone. I needed to think. My dad had given so much of himself to SHIELD… Did I want to end up the same way? Back in my room I cleaned myself up. The dirt and blood matting my hair needed to go. Putting on my combat suit in preparation for what was to come. We had nothing. No clue where to go from here. But wherever it was I was going to be there. I was going to avenge my fathers death. It wasn’t long until I found myself in the med bay. Natasha and Barton clearly ending a heavy conversation. I silently walked in without saying a word, them both looking at me with pity.

“Oh sweetie I’m so sorry…”Nat trailed off coming to hug me.

“How are you Clint?” I tried to ignore the subject as long as I could. I couldn’t let myself feel the pain.

“I’ll be fine. I’m sorry hun,” he said, also coming to hug me.

“If it’s all the same to you I’d rather not talk about it. If I pretend it didn’t happen long enough we can get through all this mess and I can feel something later..” I trailed off. If anyone was going to understand it was Nat. A knowing hand placed on my shoulder by her in acknowledgment. Clint headed to the bathroom.

“Are you okay? I heard you had a tumble with Bruce.” I asked the red head.

“You know how we always talked about how scary it would be?” I nodded to answer. “It was way scarier than we could ever imagine.”

Cap interrupted us storming into the med bay fully suited up.

“Time to go.” he said.

“Go where?” Nat asked puzzled.

“I’ll tell you on the way. Can you fly one of those jets?” he asked her.

“I can.” I chimed.

“No, you’re not coming.” Steve chided. I was shocked. After everything I wasn’t coming?

Barton entered from the restroom, drying his hands.

“I can.” he says.

 “Got a suit?”

“Yeah.”

“Then suit up.” Cap says before turning on his heels. I shot Nat a look before chasing after the captain.

“Cap?” I asked, trying to keep up. No response.

“Cap?” No response.

“STEVE!” I shouted coming to a halt as he did, before turning to look at me.

“ ‘You’re not coming’ “ I air quoted at him “What the hell?”

“You’re compromised, I can’t have you in the field putting the other members at risk because of your emotions.” he said.

“My emotions are just fine Captain Rogers I assure you.”

“You just lost your da-” I held a hand up to stop him.

“Captain Rogers, whether you like it or not I will find my way to wherever it is that you are going. So you either let me go with you or I crash land your party my way.”

“Sarah…” he trailed.

“So what’s it going to be?” I asked, hands on my hips. He looked me up and down for a moment weighing his options.

“Very well Agent Coulson…” A coldness in his voice I could tell was shock by my defiance.

Before long the four of us are making our way to the quinjet.

“Hey, you guys aren’t authorized to be in here.” The agent said as we entered.

“Son, just don’t!” Steve said. Nat and I rolled our eyes at each other before we were taking off to New York as the captain had explained. When we got there a large blue beam was shining bright off the top of Stark tower into the sky.

“Stark, we’re on a…” Nat began. “...three heading north east.”

“What, did you stop for drive-thru? Swing that park, I’m gonna lay ’em out for you.”

The next few minutes were fast action paced flying through the streets of New York blasting whatever Chitauri that came upon us. Twisting and turning to throw them into buildings. Eventually we were hit, spinning through the air as we crashed. Nat and CLint did their best to pilot as we spun out of control. Cap and I both hanging onto the roof of the quinjet for dear life. Him wrapping an arm around me as we spun out of control before crash landing in the street. The hangar door of the jet swooshing open for all of us to exit. Outside was chaos, explosions abounded and the aliens were flying through the air in every direction.

“We gotta get back up there.” I said as we looked up to Stark tower, running onto the overpass.

Just then an enormous armored Leviathan enters through the space portal, it seems like a warship as more warriors jump out the sides and onto surrounding buildings.

“Stark, are you seeing this?” Steve asks.

Seeing. still working on believing...Where’s Banner? Has he shown up yet?” 

“Banner?” Steve asks.

“Just keep me posted.” 

“I think you owe me another ten bucks Rogers,” I joked as we took in the aliens creeping down the sides of the buildings.

“I owe you a hell of a lot more than that…” he trailed.

“Get a room” Tony, Clint, and Nat all said in unison. Before long we are all fighting with the Chitauri. Barton and Natasha are crouched behind a taxi cab. Cap runs over to them to say something as I’m still firing my guns down the bridge. Steves back next to me in a moment.

“Come on, we have to help the people under the bridge they’re sitting ducks down there,” he says before jumping off the bridge. I grab my wire and hook it to a bus before jumping off the bridge and lowering myself to the ground behind him. Unclipping myself quickly as he doesn’t stop to wait. We guided people to what little safety there was as we ran, not long before coming to a group of cops. Steve jumping up onto one of the cars in front of us.

“You need men in these buildings. There are people inside and they can be running right into the line of fire. You take them to the basement or through the subway, you keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th-” 

“Why the hell should I take orders from you?” The cop asks before two Chitauri warriors attack Cap, he fights them off easily then turns back to the two men. The two cops stand shock. The sergeant reacts and walks back to his men.

“I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets. We gonna set up a perimeter all the way down to 39th street.” The cop recites into his radio. Steve jumps down to meet me again.

“That was poetically good timing,” I said as we ran.

“Come on, we need to get back to Clint and Natasha,” he said, taking off faster. nQuickly we are back on the over pass helping the pair fight off the aliens. Thor finally joins us, killing one of the Chitauri with a bolt of lightning.

“What’s the story upstairs?” Steve asks.

“The power surrounding the cube is impenetrable.” He responds.

“Thor is right, we gotta deal with these guys.” Tony says over the comm.

“How do we do this?” I ask.

“As a team.” Steve says.

“I have unfinished business with Loki.” Thor states.

“Oh yeah! Get in line.” I said re racking my gun.

“Save it. Loki’s gonna keep this fight focused on us and that’s what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he’s gonna need us to-” He stops when we all realize Bruce is pulling up on an old motorbike. He stops in front of us, getting off as we approach him.

“So, this all seems horrible.” he says.

“I’ve seen worse.” Nat chimes.

“Sorry.”

 “No, we could- use a little worse.” She smiles at him.

 “Stark, we got him.” Steve says.

“Banner?”

 “Just like you said.” I answered.

“Then tell him to suit up. I’m bringing the party to you.”  Stark says as he flys around the corner. The giant Leviathan following closely behind.

“I don’t see how that’s a party…” I breathed. Tony brings the creature low barely off the ground as Bruce darts to walk away from us.

“Doctor Banner, now might be a really good time for you to get angry.” Steve says.

“That’s my secret, Cap… I’m always angry.” He says before he quickly morphs into the Hulk. One smash to the snout sends the creature to the ground. Fully knocking the life out of it. Everyone protects themselves as Tony shoots a missile at it. Cap covering me and Nat with his shield. The Chitauri are sent reeling, sending out horrible screeches in defiance. Hundreds more Chitauri come flying out of the hole. 

“Guys?” Nat asks.

“Call it, Captain.” Tony chimes as he joins us in a defense circle.

“Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we’re gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash.” Steve directs.

“Wanna give me a lift?” Clint asks Tony.

“Right. Better clench up, Legolas.” Tony says grabbing CLint and taking off.

“Thor! You gotta try and bottleneck that portal, slow ’em down. You got the lightning, light the bastards up.” Steve instructs. Thor swings Mjolnir, flying off. 

“Nat, Sarah, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk!” Steve says turning to the monster.

“Smash.” with that he's off, knocking down whatever gets in his path

The three of us are absolutely going to town on the stray Chitauri that dare to get near us. Natashas widow bites can be heard in the background and I’m on top of one, stabbing it in the neck before flipping it down to the ground. Nats got an alien weapon in her hand that she nearly shoots Steve with until she realizes it’s him.

“Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don’t close that portal.” she states. 

“Our biggest guns couldn’t touch it.” he says.

“Well, maybe it’s not about guns.”

“You wanna get up there, you’re gonna need a ride.” he responds.

Natasha glanced up, seeing the aliens crafts fly past. I could see the wheels turning in her head.

“Nat…” I warned.

“I got a ride. I could use a boost though.” she smiles.

“You sure about this?” I ask. Steves already readying his shield.

“Yeah, it’s gonna be fun!” She says if she runs at Cap before jumping onto his shield and him boosting her up as high as he can. She grasps a flying vehicle and she's off.

“Nat, you are so my favorite Avenger.” I state as I glance to see more Chitauri approaching us.

“You ready for more?” Steve asks.

“Are you kidding? I could do this all day.” I said winking at him, knowing his go to line from my father. He’d be so proud of me right now. But I block that down as much as I can and get my anger out on the stupid aliens. Slashing and shooting as much as I possibly can. Barton calls for Steve to clear a bank after a moment.

“Go! I’ll be fine!” I said taking down another alien. He hesitates for a moment before taking off. Things keep escalating and the fights continue. At one point I’m knocked so hard in the head the ear piece I have is nowhere to be found. There’s too much to do to bother to look. I kust keep fighting. Fighting for what seems like hours before a familiar shield knocks an alien right to the ground in front of me before returning back to its owner.

“Thanks.” I state. Thor coming to land next to us. We continue to battle, becoming almost overwhelmed. Suddenly, Cap is shot in the ribs and drops to the ground, Thor sends a car rolling towards some of them and them throws Mjolnir in the other way before helping Steve to his feet. 

“You ready for another bout?” Thor asks us.

 “What, you gettin’ sleepy?” he responds.

“Yes actually,” I say cutting open another alien. Its blood now covering me. I can see Steve hold his ear at the comm.

“Do it!” he yells. I have no idea what's going on at this point. He waits another second before saying.

“Stark, these things are still coming!” he adds. Another pause.

“You know that’s a one way trip?” I am completely not paying attention to anything when Stark flys by holding what appears to a missile. We are all watching when suddenly I feel a sharp pain at my side. One of those little fuckers stabbed me! I turn around shooting it directly in the heart and it drops before me. I look down and see the blade sticking out of my side. Blood dripping down my hands as I feel the wound. I drop to my knees.

“Sarah!” Steve shouts, both him and Thor running over to me. I keep my hand pressed to the wound to try to slow the bleeding. I know it wont kill me, but boy does it hurt.

“What kind of cosmic coincidence is it to get stabbed like your dad?” I ask Steve putting his shoulder under my arm to keep me upright on my knees. 

“Don’t speak of such things,” Thor chimes. We all look back up to see Tony fly into the portal with the missile. A sigh of relief washing over all of us. Waiting a moment hoping and praying he would come down, but nothing. Tears fill my eyes again, I don’t want to lose another person I’m so dearly close with.

“Close it,” Steve says next to me still holding me up. I have no comms so I cannot protest. The blue ray in the sky slowly closes and the hole vanishes before our eyes.

“No…” I breathe before we all notice a red dot falling out of the sky.

“Son of a gun…” Steve says next to me.

“He’s not slowing down,” Thor says starting to swing his hammer to retrieve him.

Before he can lift off Hulk flies through the sky catching Tony and crash landing near us. He rolls Tony off his side and close by. Thor grabbing his face plate and listening for his heartbeat. Silence falls over us until Hulk lets out an enormous scream, startling Tony and waking him up.

“What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me. Unless it’s Sarah.” he gasps.

“We won.” Steve breaths from under my arm.

“Alright, Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let’s just not come in tomorrow. Let’s just take a day. You ever tried shawarma? There’s a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don’t know what it is, but I wanna try it.” Tony says still laying on the ground.

 “We’re not finished yet.” Thor says. 

“And then shawarma after?” Tony asks. I was not present to bring Loki in unfortunately. The bleeding in my side became too much to bare and I was whisked away to be treated. My injuries were not life threatening. I was released to go but stayed in the Helicarrier. I couldn’t bear going home…

A couple days later we all at met at Central Park to say our farewells to Thor and to see off the prisoner. We all say our goodbyes as Thor holds the Tesseract in a tube. 

“Thank you.. For everything.” I say giving Thor a big hug.

“You are most welcome earth princess.” he says.

“A princess? I’ll take it.” I say smiling at him before turning my attention to Loki who was gagged like an animal.

“You took away the most important thing in my life… now you don’t get to live yours.” I sneered at the god. His eyes were cowardice.

Someone grasped my hand behind me and I turned to find Steve. He gave me a small smile and pulled me back toward him as Thor twisted the tube and a beam of light sent them somewhere else. Tony approached us, shaking Steves hand.

“New car?” I asked him, looking at the beautiful vehicle.

“Gift to myself for saving the world, ya know. It’s the little things.” He smiled at me. “What are you gonna do?”

“Well now that my entire family is dead and SHIELD is basically shut down until further notice I genuinely have no clue. I suppose I'll figure out what I’m gonna do with the house…” I trailed off thinking about all the things I needed to do. A funeral, sell the house? Clean out the house? Who knows.

“You’re welcome to stay with us at Stark tower. I mean it’ll be under construction for a while but,” Tony says.

“You know… I may just take you up on that.” I smile at him before he gets into his car with Bruce and they pull off into the sunset. Pretty soon it’s just me and Steve left.

“So…Now what?” he asks beside me as I watch the fountain we’re near.

“You know everyone keeps asking me that.” I shoot him a smile. “I guess maybe I’ll start with the house. I can’t be there. Not without my dad…”

“I know. His death was not in vain…”

“I know I know I just- can’t help but feel like he’d want something else for me. Maybe I need to step back for a while. Disappear…” I answered.

“Maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing,” he said. “But if that's the case… before you disappear will you have dinner with me?” he asked. I looked to him, his big blue eyes giving me the puppy dog stare.

“Is Captain America asking me on a date?” I giggled. He nodded.

“My dad is freaking out up there right now.” I said pointing to the sky. Steve laughed and we both made our way to his bike. Hopping on and riding off into the sunset…

[ginnsbaker]

First off, thank you for the great month wishes! It has been a busy one for sure, so naturally, it's been kinda stressful, but I can't complain too much 😊

Secondly, found time to binge read the chapters I missed so prepare for this long ass ask 😅

"Red"

-Calling Vision a Child had me cracking up! The humor you use in this series has been really good!

-I mean, both of them are kinda valid. Y/N doesnt trust Wanda for good reason and Wanda is trying to settle in and make up for past mistakes but in her head (and in reality) Y/N won't let her.

-I'm surprised Y/N was able to block out Wanda from invading her mind. And so quickly. Impressive

-Wanda saving Y/N!!! >>>

-Wanda and Y/N working together!!! >>>

"Mind if I?"

-Wanda following around Y/N is so cute 🥺

-The way in which she finds ways to interact with her too 🥺

-Not Wanda's lil “I thought we were getting along better" 😢

-Vision, by man, respectfully, back off 🤚 lol. You and Wanda are cute and all in canon, but if I wanted that, I'd watch the movies. So, again, respectively, back off in the "J Marvel Universe"

-Wanda coincidentally went into the restaurant huh? Not saying that Y/N's anger is justified, but she is right in the fact it's kinda suspicious... *some time later at the end* I KNEW IT!!!! (<I literally said that out loud btw)

"The Twins"

-First off Y/Ns line at the start was so funny but it caught me way off guard and then Visions line caught me even more off guard, I legit looked like this 😧 Got me feeling shock right off the back lol

-Natasha and Y/Ns relationships >>>>>>

-"Wanda's eyes widened when she saw you, like a deer caught in headlights. She nodded too eagerly before excusing herself as if she was in a hurry." -OMG cute wanda!!!!

-Me the whole time at the bidding "please be wanda! Please be wanda! Please be wanda!"

-“Do you want to get out of here?” YES Y/N!!! PROGRESS!!!

-Wanda is right, Vision being with her does seem like an experiment almost. Not saying that he truly doesn't have feelings for her, but all that he's shown is more of an innate curiosity due to who/what he is.

-Also, relieved Wanda doesn't like vision romantically, don't know if I can handle that angst again 😮‍💨

-Taking her back to your apartment, huh, Y/N? 😏. Lol, in all seriousness tho, I'm happy. But knowing you, it's not gonna last is it? 🤨

-Wanda's thought in the apartment are sooo cute and wholesome 🥺 And the ones that were sad, I'm glad that she's able to talk to someone who understands about it, knowing she probably hasn't told anyone, perhaps Vision, but he can't really understand.

-Y/N and Wanda opening up to each other and being kind >>>>>>

"Vis"

-"Despite his constant presence,  it was clear that you were the one she gravitated towards, the one she focused on during conversations, her laughter a little louder, her smiles more prolonged." -ok, ok, good, good! Still no signs of recooperation on Wanda's part phew

-Wanda and Y/Ns banter >>>> Them getting along >>>>

-The "something on your face" thing? Is this leading where I think it's is? Omg, omg, omg, yes! Yes! Ye- VISON NOOOOOO!!!!

-Y/N, you didn't? And after Wanda spent the time missing you!? Oh, ok, phew!

-*sigh* I saw the self sabotaging coming but I didn't want to see it 😭

-Wanda seeing through the lies tho >>>

-“You’re right,” she whispered. “I deserve more than a coward.” -damnnnnnnnn 😢

Not gonna lie, I really missed hearing from you :) I'm happy to know you're still out there, reading the story. Thank you for feeding me this lengthy feedback. I love it :)

Red - Lol, Y/N is really young here (she's a year or two younger than Wanda), so I made sure she acts a little bratty, especially because I want to portray her growing up alongside Wanda and then how Wanda's disappearance really affected her and made her into a totally different person.

Mind if I - Y/N is something else... because if it were me being followed around by Wanda, i'd be the happiest person in the multiverse :D HAHAHHA J MARVEL UNIVERSE! that made me laugh so hard!

The Twins - "relieved Wanda doesn't like vision romantically" - technically no... but..... Anyway :D thank you for appreciating the wholesomeness of Wanda and Y/N's interactions in this chapter. I really wanted an innocent and meaningful moment for them, and it seems I got it :)

Vis - Y/N's going to regret rejecting Wanda in this chapter. Promise.

I had a great time going through your comments. Hope to see you again next week :)

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Part 1: The Timeline of The Sims

Welcome to the first entry of The Sims Mysteries! I’ve been wanting to give my take of the story of The Sims for a while, and to start a conversation with other Simmers about what their theories are for the countless lore debates that are out there. First though, here’s some context:

There’s a Sims movie in production! Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap, has started work on one, which we heard about last week. I’m super excited! However it turns out, I’ve always wanted to see a live action Sims movie, and I personally have high hopes for it. So far we know the movie is not going to be largely based on the game lore, but now’s as good a time as any to give my two cents on the various inconsistencies in The Sims canon.

As with Barbie, I can imagine the movie will deviate somewhat from what the fans consider canon and will not actually focus on lore at all, but on the simulation aspect of The Sims just as how Barbie focused on the dissonance between the real world and Barbieland. Today, I’m going to start with the topic I feel most strongly about: the timeline order of The Sims. If you take away one thing from this post, let it be that the story of The Sims does not take place in alternate universes or timelines. Take a look under the cut to read my explanation!

When The Sims 4 came out, the alternate universe theory was used as the main explanation for inconsistencies in the lore, specifically regarding sims’ ages. For some reason, this explanation was set in stone as canon without question. A lot of the confusion surrounding the timeline arose due to the assumption that The Sims 4 would take place after The Sims 2; at that point the latest established point on the timeline. Also, there seems to be a figure that’s cited often whenever simmers refer to the timeline; that there are two 25 year time jumps between The Sims 3, The Sims, and The Sims 2. I haven’t been able to find a source for this fact, though. If you know where it’s from, please send a link my way! I presume that it’s not as canonical as it’s considered to be, and in any case it’s a very rigid timescale which is incompatible with the stories of most if not all sims.

I want to recognize the fact that I think The Sims 4 has started taking its lore more seriously. The story of Robert Crumplebottom turned Roberto Crinkletop shown in a promotional video for Horse Ranch is exactly the kind of small scale but significant lore that I personally love! It truly gave me an impression that the developers care about the stories of our favourite sims. Just because The Sims 4 base game is not a neat addition to the canon we all know and love, that does not mean we should resort to the alternate universe explanation. Personally, I see alternate universe explanations of lore as lazy and messy world building, at least if a story doesn’t start out with a theme of alternate universes in the first place. It just seems like a sign that the developers or writers between different entries in a franchise were not in sync with each other or didn’t care enough about the story as long as the same characters were used. In any case, it’s more challenging, and in my opinion more interesting, to put together a unified story from a franchise that is on the brink of being explained away as a multiverse.

In a sentence, since the developers didn’t give us a clean slice of lore, it’s up to us simmers to put the story together. As you may know, this is the current most popular theory of the chronological order between the mainline Sims games based on lore:

The Sims 3

The Sims

The Sims 2

(The Sims 4 outside of the timeline, in an alternate universe)

Here is what I think the timeline should be:

The Sims 3

The Sims

The Sims 4

The Sims 2

The Sims 5?

So yes, all Sims games (including all spin-offs) are in the same canon and timeline in my eyes. The confusion comes from multiple inconsistencies introduced in The Sims 4, but as I said the main factor is the age of sims.

Originally, the main reason I was going to give for the inconsistencies in age was the Elixir of Life. We know that the Elixir of Life is an item in The Sims 2 which has the ability to prolong a Sim’s life in their current life stage, thought to be invented by Mortimer Goth. When it comes to aging inconsistencies, I think this makes for a much more elegant resolution than branching off a whole alternate universe. Anti-aging potions might not seem like a good solution for realism-oriented simmers, but at the end of the day something like an Elixir of Life is exactly in tune with the unique magical realism of The Sims.

All that considered, though, when looking at some of the staple households which appear in multiple games, there actually isn’t any aging conflict. That is, in the chronological order of games that I propose, the age of said sims progresses linearly. The issue might arise when trying to define the exact number of years passing between The Sims games, however considering that there could be different lengths of time between different entries in the franchise, it should be relatively straightforward to figure out when comparing sims’ ages against each other.

To convince you that the multiverse explanation of The Sims canon is unnecessary, I’m going to address the main reasons given in the ‘Alternate universe’ article on The Sims Wiki. Thank you to the person or people who wrote it by the way! Insofar as explaining the alternate universe it makes sense but I’m just using it as a jumping off point to explain my perspective. In the below table, the first two columns contain the conflicts in quotation marks as they appear on The Sims Wiki, while the third leftmost column is the reasons I have for the differences in the lore:

My main wish for the lore of Project Rene, or the current development of The Sims 5, is for it to be set after The Sims 2. This way, we start a new entry in the franchise with a clean slate and no confusion about the timeline. A big mistake The Sims 4 made is being afraid to show how life has gone by for our favorite sims, which just made confusion in the storyline. In fact, SimGuru Sarah said herself that it was the most flexible way to keep the most recognizable sims in the newest game. However, this made the story of The Sims 4, at least in the base game, seem stagnant. Let some of our favorite senior sims die from old age! Let our younger sims grow up and start families! Let Bella Goth grow old!

At the end of the day, we don’t need to rehash Bella’s, or anyone else’s, young adult life with new places and people, and it would be much more interesting to see how she is as an older woman, while her family matures and grows. That is, if Bella is in The Sims 5 at all! Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts! For upcoming posts, here are some ideas I want to tackle (see the table for the mention of the topics below):

MySims in The Sims

With some of our favorite adorable MySims bridging the gap to the mainline franchise, how can we abridge their stories? What problems came up in their move to The Sims?

The Nighat Caliente vs Katrina Caliente Conflict

Both moms to our favorite sisters, Dina and Nina, but who is the real deal? Are they both?

The Timespan of The Sims

Have the games given us enough clues about the lengths of time that pass between the games? Can we use this to figure out the exact ages of sims or vice versa?

Too Many Malcolms

With enough Malcolm Landgraabs to go around, how can we tell who’s who? Which Malcolms are the same person, and which are relatives?

The Disappearance of Bella Goth

The age old debate: what happened to our Bella after that fateful night in Pleasantview? How much do we really know?

Agnes and Mrs. Crumplebottom

You’d be forgiven for mistaking the two, so how do we know they’re different? Is there a larger lineage of prude Crumplebottoms?

The Setting of The Sims

Do The Sims games take place in SimNation, or across the world on an alternate Earth? How does this Earth differ from ours?

The Teleportation of Don Lothario

When the time came for Don to reap the consequences for his streak of heartbreak, what did the women he scorned decide to do with him? How did Don end up in Riverview?

The Time Travel of Alexander Goth

One Alexander Goth is credited for writing A Murder in Pleasantview, but how did he write the book when his parents were still children? Did young Alex try to save his mom by trying to undo what was already done?

The Identity of Lolita Goth

Who was the mysterious bachelorette buried in the graveyard of Goth Manor? Was there an unspoken affair between her and Gunther?

[doomreed]

I’m not hyped about the new fantastic four news either. though I think what I kind of hope will happen is marvel doing something like they did in the last mcu spider man movie where we see 3 peter parkers team up.

I think it would be super cool to see the cast from the 2005-2007 fantastic four movie meet with the ones from the newest movie. and have the 2005-2007 Doom (Julian McMahon) meet with the Doom from this upcoming fantastic four film too.

so we have more than one “fantastic four” team and also more than one Victor von Doom in the same movie. that would be pretty epic to see in my humble opinion. (if this really is the case, I still have hope that marvel won’t mess it up, because it sure has the potential to be great.)

I mean marvel did just very recently confirm that all the events prior to the mcu (so… sony’s spider man and fantastic four) are also canon to the mcu, and I doubt they would say that if they didn’t plan to do something with it (they said it after the event of the last spider man movie with 3 peter parkers), especially when mcu is heavily heading towards the direction of multiverse, various timelines, various variants of the same person (character) right now. I mean we basically have 3 peter parkers (from both sony and mcu) and literally a bunch of lokis. so let’s see what’ll happen next.

also not related to the topic but I should just say that I’ve been a fan of your blog for some time now. thank you for all the DoomReed goodies

The only part of the casting I agree with is Ben. It feels like Marvel is playing it extremely safe with casting Pedro, like since Multiverse of Madness they've clearly been aiming for the "soft dad" angle with Reed, probably in an attempt to get ahead of possible complaints about him based on canon? I love Reed Richards to a fault, but he's always been a little bit of an asshole. Not intentionally, and much of that perceived assholeness stems from him being on the spectrum imo but it's there, and ignoring that does him as much a disservice as playing up Tony's alcoholism purely for laughs and then never mentioning it again was to that character--another thing the MCU has done.

The poster, the casting, idk. It radiates a nuclear-family blandness, with a camp overlay used purely for aesthetics that will probably be quite popular with general audiences and leave F4 fans from the comics and old movies and other sources of media quite cold. We are not the audience Marvel Studios wishes to court, they've made that very clear.

I'd love to be wrong about how this will play out, though. Pedro is a gifted character actor when he's allowed to be, the trouble is, studios know too well how much audiences love him as a person, and are too prone to mixing the two to improve audiences' appreciation of a character he's playing, rather than just letting the man cook. 😔

I don't have a firm opinion of the other cast other than: this will be the most money anyone named Kirby has ever made on Fantastic Four, so good on her. 👍 And the Ben casting feels right. I'm outside the Johnny demographic so no real opinion there.

I had read that the baddie for the first movie will be Galactus, which is like leading your football season with the Superbowl? But no one asked me, so... 😅 maybe they have a set up that will make that work, who can say.

I've also read (on reddit, so make of that what you will) that Doom will have a "cameo" in the first movie, but no clue what that means or even of it's true.

I like your idea a lot. I think the Deadpool & Wolverine movie will have a Fantastic Four cameo of some kind, probably. The comic book we see in the trailer next to Wade's head on the desert world is Secret Wars #5, which is a recap of the story so far and how everyone got to where they are--so it's possible the desert world they're all on is Battleworld, run either by future-verse Doom or (more likely) the Beyonder. I do think the movie will include them in some way bc the studio will want to start building hype for that as their next big project, going into the MCU version of Secret Wars.

And ofc SW will have crossovers galore, since Marvel Studios has unfortunately set audience expectations for that being what it's about 😅 so, worst case, they'll turn up between those two films no doubt.

I'd love to see Julian McMahon's Doom encounter a closer-to-comic-canon version, but a thing to know about Victor is that he kills every variant of himself he meets. Like, historically, that's just his thing (it's an expression of his own self-loathing, which is really tragic in a way) ...I dunno if the MCU will carry that fun little trait over, but as a writer I can say it's an easy, low-stakes way of showing "this character is a bad guy and also there is something very wrong with him" so... yanno. I am expecting it. 😁

Sorry for the negativity on this, I'm trying to stay upbeat about it all but so far they're not inspiring confidence yet. We'll see what future developments bring, if nothing else we'll always have fanart and fics and the comics themselves. It's not like this fandom hasn't dealt with bad adaptations before, I think we'll be alright whatever happens.

[chushanye]

Across the Spider-Verse was so weird because it's over two hours of just build-up with no payoff? This whole movie felt like a set up for the third part in the way the MCU does. And the thing is, they introduced two very interesting topics: parenthood and "opposing" police and then didn't deliver on either. The parenthood storyline featured set-ups like Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and her baby. Gwen's "will you adopt me?" and possible found family especially with the repeated discussions on mentorship later in the movie. Gwen's dad commenting on how difficult parenthood is. Rio talking about how hard it is to let go of Miles being her little man. Jeff's talk with spider-man and that thing about spreading his wings. Peter B. Parker and Mayday. Miguel losing his daughter. Like there were so many threads that connected this theme of parenthood and kids learning how to be kind and responsible from adults but that they still need freedom and healthy rebellion even against loved ones. but it never went anywhere and none of it felt connected. at least not within this movie...which is 2h 20min long.

The scene where Miles is about to tell Rio he is Spider-Man could have been so interesting because the thread connecting all spider-people was NEVER cops- it was "Uncle Ben". It was and always has been family, grief, parental role-models and responsibility. but what also connects them is that all of these spider-people lied to their loved ones about their secret identity. right? like lack of communication and lying in order to "protect" them. and while the scene where you realize Miles went into the wrong universe was done fantastically - the music and atmosphere was so good - imagine how good it would have been if Miles chose to break the cycle of pain and death by being open with Rio. he breaks the cycle by being responsible, honest and having trust in his family! and they have to learn how to let him go and "fly" while trusting he will come home safe and that they will be able to care for him. + it would tie at least one theme in this movie together. but it was a fake out scene instead.

but this movie couldn't fully deliver on the parental theme because it goes hand-in-hand with the weird pro-cop thing. you have spider-punk who is there to question all authority but he can't be in the movie for too long because you just KNOW he's anti-police and we can't have that in this movie that literally relies on the assumption that what makes spider-people spider-man is that a fucking police chief dies. and also the whole spider organisation imprisoning anomalies and being judge jury and executioner of what is "right" for the multiverse, and Miguel BEATING THE SHIT out of Miles while telling him he was the original anomaly, that he is a mistake, and so on...(and lets not forget Miles is a young Black boy and all of this carried implications) and the whole plotline that the whole reason this spider-society exists is to specifically target MILES.....bro the implications are so fucking concerning.

and i mean from the first movie miles wants to become spider-man to "help" people the way his dad does so pro-cop idolization was there from the start. but then this sequel attempts to have some criticism of it as well with Gwen's storyline with her dad. where he almost shoots and attempts to arrest her. and i was watching that scene and thinking "you know this is really good criticism because it shows that 'good' cops aren't a thing because they fundamentally are there to protect a system and not actual justice." but then later in the movie they do a 180 and Gwen straight up goes "you're one of the good cops dad. you pick up that badge because if you didn't, worse people then you would" and it's like what kind of "not all cops. the good ones are somehow exempt from the system" bullshit is that? and i thought when she said "you're a good cop, dad" that she was gonna follow it up with "but you're a bad person because of it." and that would have been such a banger line and i got so hyped because that line was so good in my head but no they just straight up went the pro-cop route. also the whole "the thread that connects all spider-men is the death of a chief of police" made no fucking sense. why would the death of his girlfriends dad be super personal to Pavitr and motivate him to be a better Spider-Man???? literally what. WHY was the "thing that connects all spider-men" made to be a fucking police chief. like I'm sorry that's literally so stupid I was sitting there so fucking confused like "it was family????? the line was always with great power comes great responsibility and that they learn the lesion from someone near and dear to them. and Jeff taught miles to "go by the book" and Mile's opposing this spider-society is him refusing to do that (tying into the theme of rebellion) -> so he thematically realizes he need to oppose organisations that follow rules fundamentally opposed to his morals of not killing people....but he doesn't question his dads job? idk between that parallel and spider-punk, and gwen and her dad i thought something fruitful was gonna be there

but i guess i should be that surprised because marvel has been ramming the pro-military and pro-state propaganda for years now. it just feels so performative in this movie where gwen has "protect tans kids" on her wall and miles has a "BLM" pin.

[tobiasdrake]

The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato, Episode 1.

I like how, back in Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, I said they should just stop the movie halfway through and end it on everyone settling into the new reality and accepting this world as it is. But the movie disagreed with me.

But then they cancelled the show and when they brought it back they decided that they want to make a show in the new reality instead of going back to the original canon.

So I feel kinda vindicated by that.

Anyways, Yuki show on Crunchyroll with screenshots provided by shady piracy website, let's go!

I am so confused by the status quo of Yuki World. Specifically Kyon. But also specifically the continued existence of Yuki World post-Disappearance.

Melancholy was always pretty up-front with the fact that it does not operate on Multiverse Theory. There exists only one timeline, with time travelers moving back and forth between points on the single line - and, in fact, the presence of people from the future in the past is already baked into the present.

Kyon had to travel back in time to meet Kid Haruhi on Tanabata and give her the idea to go to North High because that's how the history goes. Kyon was always there on Tanabata giving Haruhi the idea to go to North High.

So I am already baffled about what this world is. Kyon is part of the Literature Club and has dinners with Yuki and Ryoko, which implies that he remembers the events of the movie. We don't know much about Alt Kyon but we do know that he and Yuki never spoke two words to one another.

So it could be, like, a What If scenario if Kyon chose to stay and not end Yuki's new reality. But this can't be Original Kyon because he's on good terms with Ryoko. Our Kyon was quite understandably freaked out by the girl who tried to stab him with a knife.

Are we in "Out-of-continuity Loosely Based On" territory? Because they're making references to the movie in the first two minutes so it feels like a direct spinoff. Even though it's metaphysically impossible to be a direct spinoff, because this reality doesn't exist anymore.

(Also Haruhi made her intentions pretty clear that she wanted to form an SOS Brigade on this side of the temporal fence so the fact that Yuki World still has a Literature Club is another mark against a direct spinoff.)

I dunno. My mind is spinning.

RUN YUKI

RUN LIKE HELL

"But she has no powers in this reality--" SHE'S STILL HARUHI

Wonder if Yuki still has Haruhi's powers in this reality? Huh.

Also, I like how Yuki Show begins where Disappearance was. This world was created in the days leading up to Christmas, so it figures that a Christmas Party would be the first thing we're doing. The chronology is consistent.

Which. Again. Makes it so baffling. Are we spinning canonically out of Disappearance or doing our own thing? Make up your mind!

That being said,

New Yuki is such an neurodivergent disaster girl. XD

Yuki: I want to be able to experience a full range of emotions and feelings. Monkey's Paw: I mean you're like 15 which is a pretty overwhelming time hormonally but sure. Here you go. Unlocking full range of emotions to process for the very first time ever in your life.

I wonder how much Ryoko knows? Her appearance at the end of Disappearance implied that she retains at least enough understanding of the situation to kill Kyon with a knife without even questioning why he was trying to shoot Yuki full of science gun.

I don't think she's still a Space Robot because if she had Space Robot powers that fight would have been much different. But she fully understood the situation when she showed up with knife in hand. And I think we can be pretty sure that she did that on her own; Yuki did not intend for her to kill Kyon.

But also, it's not clear how much of Disappearance actually applies to the reality of Yuki Show since Yuki doesn't remember meeting Haruhi and Haruhi hasn't formed this world's version of SOS Brigade.

One way or the other, at least she's still secretly vicious. I love her. Ryoko is making a compelling argument for Best Character and we're only six minutes in.

And then they put a knife in her hand hahahahaha.

Spinoff or alt continuity, they at least know exactly what they're doing with Ryoko.

I like how Ryoko is filling our Crazy Asshole quota but she's a very different flavor of Crazy Asshole from Haruhi. Haruhi was a gleeful crime person while Ryoko (who I think I recall being Class President?) is Lawful Menace. She'll stab you, sure, but she's not about to permit a hot pot on school premises. That would be inappropriate.

And she ships it.

Yeah. Okay. Ryoko is definitely Best Character. She isn't my character, of course; My character's Haruhi. But she is quickly making a name for herself as this show's MVP.

She ships it so hard that she's prepared flirtation cue cards. Everyone should have a bestie like Ryoko Asakura. She reels in the crushes and knifes anyone who looks at her bestie the wrong way.

Oh shit it's them.

I guess it was too much to hope that Mikuru and Tsuruya still hated Kyon's guts in this reality.

How does he even know these two? They're upperclassmen. He only ever met them in our timeline because Haruhi violently abducted Mikuru.

I would like to have a moment of silence for Mikuru.

Because Tsuruya just got her stabbed. She is so stabbed.

The "Yuki vs. Mikuru" fight is definitely going to end with Yuki, Kyon, and Mikuru going out for lunch while Ryoko and Tsuruya resort to street brawling each other.

They have the space heater!?

The one they got for performing in Haruhi's film? The absence of which from this reality was specifically one of the ways it deviated from the original?

...come to think of it, they don't have the computer. The presence of which was one of the ways it bizarrely did not deviate from the original.

This really is a continuity-free Loosely Based On, isn't it?

Lawful Menace. Ryoko found just the right hoops to jump through in order to obtain formal permission to violate the rules.

I love how she brings just enough Haruhi-esque attitude to the show while still being so distinctly separate from Haruhi in personality and behavior.

AWWWWWWWW They kept that! YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Oh no, she is going to be part of the show.

Yuki. Yuki, run. You have no idea. You have no idea. RUN.

^_^ This show is so cute. I think I'm going to have a good time with it.

[aerialflight]

fic rec list (long time coming)

... Please don't kill me. I know it's been a really long time so I'm offering you guys up a list of fics that completely took over my life in the time I haven't been posting or reblogging on tumblr. Please enjoy! (Dashes off after laying this sacrificial offering at your feet.)

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[Spiderverse (Spiderman Into + Across the Spiderverse)]

Stars Hide Your Fire by Arowen12

Abruptly Miles tunes back in, “Guidance counsellor?” his voice comes out horribly croaky and at this rate his body’s got enough leftover adrenaline that Miles knows he’s not going to get back to sleep anytime soon. “Yeah, about college, the one with your parents? Man, you must have been out later than I thought.” So, he’s in the past. Or somehow, he got thrown into another universe that’s a few days behind his and the other Miles has somehow gone missing or some molecular physics-type deal has happened and they’ve merged and are permanently stuck together forever. Yeah

(time Loop fic! Miles is straight up NOT having a good time lmao. poor kid. there's definitely quite a few twists and turns in this fic and i'm really excited to see where it goes haha!)

In every Universe, she is Loved by Tired_Writing_Teach

Of all the ways for Miguel's first meeting with Miles to go, no one was really expecting this, least of all Miguel. How is he supposed to react when the anomaly that started it all, is his daughter's best friend?

(this fic is miguel meeting miles and deciding you know what? i'm gonna overthrow everything i thought because there's no fucking way i'm gonna let my daughter from another world suffer. and somehow, it leads to him also looking at miles and thinking, "oh fuck, this is also my kid now," and it's GREAT LOL.)

Mostly Intact by neonbrutalism

“Are you a vampire?” he asked as the guy reached out to the bricks and grabbed on with his claws, heaving himself up with one arm to the wall. The guy didn’t even look at him, "No." “You have fangs. And claws. And - and red eyes!” Miles said, walking up the wall after him. “Spiders also have all of those things,” the guy said, flatly. “Spiders have red eyes?” The guy paused for a moment and then shrugged, “…Okay — eyes, I don’t know.” -- Miguel O'Hara finishes his gizmo before everything really pops off with Kingpin's collider and winds up on stranded on Earth-1610, hours after the death of Peter Parker. Miles Morales is looking for a new Spider-Mentor and, well, this one will have to do. Even if he's super weird. Part 1 of More Like Us

(the dynamic here is: an excited puppy and a grumpy nerdy father-uncle-adult figure with a lot of spider-related insecurities. and it's AMAZING. they will Fight for each other. and Peter B. is a Good Dude.)

fash punchers punch together by l_oves

The only ones who didn’t look like Peter had stepped on a puppy were Ham - nonchalant as ever - and some Spider with spikes on his head, whose eyes had widened. In fact, if Peter were to guess by the Spider’s body language, he seemed almost… alert. Excited. Peter wasn’t really sure what to make of that. -- hobie takes a liking to spiderman noir.

(IF THEY DON'T GIVE US THIS FRIENDSHIP IN THE NEXT MOVIE I'M GONNA RIOT YOU HEAR ME)

restorative justice by Nanashi07

After the multiverse settles, what do you do with Miguel?

Miles is serious as he says, “Guys, think about it. What else can we do? We can’t imprison him in another dimension or he’ll glitch out. We can’t keep him here alone forever. And we’re not killing him.” He points at Miguel. “Don’t even ask.” He takes in the unconvinced faces around him and approaches Miguel’s cell. “You are a good person. You just made a few mistakes. If you can prove to us that we can trust you again, then maybe we can let you go. We just need to, you know, do some… restorative justice.”

(truly, the ending we deserve for the next movie. this actually made me fall off the couch for making me laugh so hard, not even kidding X'DDD)

mutualism by cruelzy

Ship: Hobie/Miles

A full blown shiver wracks his form, hair stiff on the back of his neck. His body blinks like a stop-light, his teeth oscillating in his jaw. He closes his eyes; re-opens them. The guy’s still there. Miles stares, bewildered. “You’re like me.”

Gwen asks Hobie to keep an eye on Miles for a bit while she works up some courage. Hobie Brown doesn’t do things by halves.

(so freaking cute?? also, miles inner dialogue made me cackle, he's so fucking stupid and in love <3 and hobie, as per usual, is freaking cool and dependable as Fuck. we stan a solid man.)

gonna crack a rib (when i get home) by eneliii

Deception has gotten the best of Miles Morales for a good couple years now. Its tracked him down and resurfaced like weeds between his feet at every moment he’d least expected it. He’ll admit, he has a long way to go when it comes to knowing who to trust and who might be secretly trying to kill you and/or lie to you about your very existence. But hey, everybody’s gotta learn somewhere right? (or, Miles Morales, recently landed in Earth 42, has had enough of everyone’s shit and he’s going to save his dad or so help him he’ll lose his mind. Miles Morales 42, just wants to know what the /hell/ is up with his doppelgänger.)

(the Vibe is fucking immaculate and i repeatedly want to hug and scream at these two teenagers. who are the same person omfg. they are the same person but their trauma comes in different flavors. *screams*)

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[Batman (Mostly Batfamily)]

Inversion (I'm Lost Without You) by Nation_Ustria

After dying on the battlefield, Damian wakes up in a universe where he is Bruce Wayne's only child. Having to endure the League's training a second time is a challenge, but upon reaching Gotham, Damian is thrilled. His so-called "siblings" had really been more trouble than they'd been worth, and Damian had always been the true son anyways. Now he doesn't have to fight for the position that is rightfully his. Except… the manor is awfully quiet. And Damian has started talking to himself. And… maybe his siblings weren't completely useless. They gave him Robin, after all, something that Damian hadn't been able to deny himself when he'd rejoined Batman in Gotham's shadows. And then Damian meets this world's Timothy Drake, who's years younger than Damian and stuck with neglectful parents who don't even know their son's age, much less that he's following Batman and Robin around Gotham with a camera. Damian had been a horrible younger brother, but… maybe he can be an adequate older brother. (It isn't easy, but he turns out to be far better than adequate.)

(before this, i never really got into the idea of the reverse robins idea but man, this fic convinced me lol. really wanted to hug damian throughout the whole fic and i got sucked in so fast, def must read.)

THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE. by orpheusaki

"Before," Clark asks, a glass of whiskey that has absolutely no effect on him whatsoever held loosely in his hands, "Why did you hate me?" "Well," Bruce hums, downing the rest of his own glass in one sweep for an ounce of courage, "You killed my children." (The day Zod attacks Metropolis, Bruce loses his kids.)

(THIS HURT SO MUCH I LOVE THIS FIC TO BITS THE ANGST MAN THE ANGST FENIWFPW)

A Darker Shade of Gotham by JackHawksmoor

Dick and Tim are stuck in a crappy alternate universe where most of the heroes they know are dead, Bruce Wayne's bad health meant he never became Batman, and Tony Zucco runs Gotham City's underworld. When Dick is shot by the mob, they take a risk and go to Bruce for help. Alternate Bruce didn't have children, but as he gets to know Dick and Tim, he starts wishing he did. Written for Whumptober 2022 #28 (Punching the Wall)

(such an interesting analysis on the relationship between dick and bruce and what would've happened if dick never came into bruce's life. the absence hit so hard for bruce and weirdly enough, this fic was somehow both hopeful yet somber, really love this.)

Truth Serum is the Worst by JackHawksmoor

Batman gets dosed with a truth serum and unexpectedly spends most of the time talking about how desperately he loves his children, how awesome they are, and how he wishes he was better at being a father. Shameless whump and H/C Done for day 1 of Whumptober 2022, "a little out of the ordinary" (unconventional restraints)

(bruce loves his kids so much, this genuinely broke my heart, god.)

a call to motion by JumpingInMuddyPuddles

He twitches ever so slightly as Tim crouches beside him – knees slamming into the unrelenting concrete. He gently brushes his hand against Jason’s shoulder – the most he can currently bring himself to do. Jason whimpers, this breathless pained thing, and Tim’s breath gets lost in his throat all over again and holy fuck he has no idea what he’s doing. “Robin,” Tim whispers, his voice hoarse and shaky. “Robin, it’s not safe here. We’ve gotta move.” // Robin has been missing for just over a week when Tim finds him in that warehouse, hollowed out by the Joker and discarded like a broken thing.

(a what if scenario that i can only WISH actually happened fiewopfewa tim is so great i love the little guy <3)

Short-Term Memory Loss (Leads to Long-Term Sibling) by Vamillepudding

Jason's attack on Titans Tower goes a little differently than expected. When Jason wakes up, the last thing he can remember is being fifteen and having breakfast with Bruce. So why is this strange kid telling him he's actually someone named the Red Hood? Why does the kid look eerily like Bruce? And why does he have bruises around his neck? Or: Jason gets amnesia. With Bruce and Dick away on an off-world mission, it falls to Tim to deal with the aftermath.

(this was somehow both hilarious and heartwarming? truly, the difference between pre and post lazarus pit jason is unparalleled, he's such a fun character haha! the sheer confusion and chaos in this fic had me cackling. XD)

Turned On Our Heads by Nation_Ustria

Due to an unfortunate alignment of events, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin and Robin are left to face an unknown magician alone. They don't survive. But Robins never seem to be able to stay dead, and this time they find themselves reborn into a world that's almost the same as their original one, with one glaring exception: their ages have been inverted. Armed with questionably reliable foreknowledge, it takes time to find their way back to each other—but they make it. And then they mess with everyone. (Bruce gave up on trying to make sense of his children after he got the second one.) ~ This Gotham doesn’t know Robin, not yet. Robin has always supposed to be the light to Batman’s darkness, the comfort to be found among violence. Damian hadn’t been particularly adept at the ‘light’ part the first go around, for all that he’d been able to serve and protect, but he’d had his siblings’ reputations already standing for him to rely on. Here, now, he has to build everything from scratch—and he’s going to do it right.

(this fic has me by the hookline nfioepwfew it's so fucking funny and the robins are just fucking with bruce which is always a delight to see XD seriously, if you want to have a good time, this is definitely the fic for you lmao)

Author’s Note by Trekkele

Jason may have been trying to take over the criminal underworld while avoiding Batman until his big dramatic reveal, but he still had time for hobbies. Hobbies like finally finishing the Pride and Prejudice AU he had started before his death, and posting the finished chapters for the 3 people who were still interested. Maybe he should have double checked the subscribers list first. Based on this tumblr post: Jasons doesn’t let death stop him from updating…

(this is literally peak lit, nothing can top this jason-is-alive reveal. nothing)

of crime lords and literature by adelfie

Gloved fingers close over Tim’s throat and slowly begin to squeeze. “Jason!” he gasps, choking. “Have you ever read Macbeth?” The Red Hood stares at him like Tim just slapped him with a fish. -- With his grades slipping, Tim worries Bruce will take Robin away. So when the Red Hood breaks into his room with the intent to kill him, Tim decides it's a good idea to ask him for help on his English homework. It works. And then it doesn't. And then Tim solves a mystery and almost dies anyway.

(there were so many times I wanted to shake Timmy so bad, like boi, get some self preservation, PLEASE)

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[Merlin]

like a purple robe by astranix

There's just something about Arthur Pendragon. People can't quite put their finger on it. Part 1 of the brave man with the sword

(arthur is so great here! listen, i love merlin as much as the next person, but i love fics where arthur time travelled or is trying to fix things on his own, give me more competent arthur!!)

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[Star Wars & Clone Wars & Mandalorian (all star wars media)]

The Way of Conquest by pagination

All Din wanted to do was find the Child a sorcerer teacher, pick up a job or two, and follow his Creed. Three out of three is good, right? Right?

(one of the most hilarious fucking fics i've ever had the pleasure of reading. i think i reread this 5 times by this point? din is just Trying His Best and honestly? it's working. everyone else just has to deal X'D)

Solus Gaanada by Caedus501

Ship: Obi-Wan/Jango

More things are possible through the Force than either the Jedi or the Sith ever suspected. Sometimes a single choice is all it takes to send a life and all those connected with it spiraling along a different path. When that choice is in the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi there is every chance that history will be changed, for better or worse. *Please make sure you have the Creator's Style turned on for this work otherwise the Mando'a won't come through properly Part 1 of Solus Gaanada

(THE MOST MANDALORE FIC TO EVER MANDALORE HAJIFJJVKV I AM SO IN LOVE!!! seriously though, incredible worldbuilding, incredible character writing and development, fantastic plot, intricate politics, immersive fucking vibe, FUCKING PERFECT 10/10 I'M SCREAMING!!)

The King, the Soldier, and the Spy by phoenixyfriend

Ship: Jango Fett/Ahsoka TanoQuinlan Vos/Ahsoka Tano

In which Ahsoka is a time-traveler, Jango narrowly avoids leading his own political faction to death, and Quinlan's got a massive crush on a pair of aggressively hypercompetent weirdos.

(there is so much Competence radiating off of this fic. no wonder they all banged each other, they're all so damn good at their jobs lolol)

R2-D2 Saves the Galaxy (Okay, so Obi-Wan helps a little) by kj_feybarn

R2-D2 was hoping for a little bit of excitement when he was sent with Mistress Padme and Little Ani as part of Mistress Padme's protection. That was not what he got. Now, Jedi Kenobi is clearly in trouble. As far as R2 can see, the best way to keep Mistress Padme safe is to save Jedi Kenobi. Clearly, R2-D2 is the droid for the job.

(truly and sincerely, r2-d2 is the most badass droid in the fucking galaxy and this fic just proves my very biased beliefs as to why. the utter chaos this little droid holds in its metallic body has led canon so off course and it's PERFECT XD)

Whispers by Adishailan

Ship: Poe/Finn/Rey

They were little things at first, small like the small stream of pebbles down a mountain before the landslide hit. He was getting better in his simulations. Not that he wasn't always good, getting consistent top marks and stilted praise from his instructors. But now he was able to dodge out the way of shots much quicker, almost too quickly, and sometimes he ducked down a good five seconds before an explosion came. No one really noticed- he'd always had good marks- and when they did, well, Eighty-seven was the first to know and could easily fake a blunder to make up for it. Or: FN-2187 teaches himself to use the force.

(YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I NEED THIS FIC TO UPDATE I'M CLIMBING THE WALLS I'M CHEWING TABLES EDGES LIKE A TEETHING INFANT FUCK THIS IS SO GOOD FNEWOFPEW)

The Soldier, the Queen, and the Hunter: Truth and Fiction by kj_feybarn for Gondolin

Ship: Padmé Amidala/Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi

The galaxy is a step away from war when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padme Amidala find a clone army. That's where it starts, with convenient wording in a contract, a broken sith spell, and a desperate attempt to turn their tragedies into a story that could catch the hearts of a galaxy. -_- “Now sit still,” he told them all as he leaned forward. “And I’ll tell you the story of the Soldier, the Queen, and the Hunter.”

(if you haven't noticed yet, i have a Thing for very competent characters working together to create a better future. also, man, jango has it Rough here but it's still better than the alternative! :D)

Anakin's Froggy Friend by demi_fae for loosingletters

Anakin finds a frog in the desert when he's five. Only its not a frog, Anakin's now a dad, and this changes everything.

(i'm DEAD. i made noises no human being should be capable of making. so fucking funny, instant mood boost gaurantee!)

Waiting For the Light by Reveriewings

When looking for Leia on the Inquisitor's base, Obi-Wan finds the tomb holding the bodies of his family. In that dark moment, the Force leads him to someone who has been waiting for him. AU where Anakin never fell to the dark side but instead was captured by Palpatine before Order 66 (few months before towards the end of the war, which meant he hadn't found out Padme was pregnant yet). He figured out the dude was a Sith and discovered a secret. Palpatine, who had done some weird cloning with Anakin's DNA, many years prior, managed a Sith consciousness copy, so Clone Anakin was sent back to the temple none the wiser, primed and ready to be the downfall of the Jedi, and the original Anakin was kept as a live tropy and donor for Darth Vader. Vader has no idea he's not the 'real' Anakin and Anakin has no idea how long it's been since his capture. Part 1 of Pathways

(the concept is fascinating! and horrifyingly plausible! definitely my favorite part of this fic is the bond that forms between anakin and leia, it's so sweet and shreds my heart to pieces. and poor poor obi-wan has been so broken down by the world that he can't bring himself to hope for anything good in this situation fioewnfewa also, this follows the obi-wan kenobi tv show timeline, with the addition of anakin and all that that entails. def you should read!)

Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust by Livsy

In which Old Ben has time travelled back to the clone wars era, but twenty years on Tatooine have left their mark. Anakin notices. Part 1 of Ashes Verse

(soft soft soft! old ben trying so hard for anakin and actually Talking to Anakin despite all his secrets. ben taking on tatooine culture and anakin Noticing. the most fix it fic to ever fix it!)

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sO. I've seen like a million different theories on why Miguel's universe collapsed and this entire time I've just been like "I thought it was because he replaced his dead self???" Like. There were 2 Miguels in one universe. Obviously nothing good can come from that. Also where'd he hide the body???? and what were his killers thinking when they saw bro up and at it again like nothing happened??? And- kay I'll shut up about this but I really wanna rant about some time

Idk anymore maybe I'm underthinking things???? What're your thoughts?

hi! im sorry i didnt answer this earlier, i was very busy today

im gonna cut the post here because ill be talking a lot

first of all, i see your point, and this confuses me a lot too. but after watching the movie 13 times and thinking about it 24/7, i have literally no idea how that universe collapsed. i mean, if it collapsed because there were two miguels in the same universe, why didnt miles' universe collapse too, since in itsv there were 4 peters in 1610? (peter b, noir, porker and the blond dead one). they were there for a while, and the only time that the dimension almost collapsed was when kingpin activated the collider. i have some theories, but i havent looked into it a lot;

1. maybe it had something to do with the canon? if its real, which i very much doubt, then miguels death in that universe was a canon event and gabriela was supposed to grow up without a father, and miguel going there stopped that from happening, so the univese self-destructed. *if* the canon is real, of course

2. i think the multiverse is some type of conscious. like, miguel saying "theres no problem with me going there, nothings going to happen" made something happen just because miguel had to be proven wrong. or maybe to teach him a lesson to not invade other dimensions? some type of karma

also, yes, the whole thing is creepy as hell, because he definitely did something with the body so he could replace miguel 2.0 without anyone knowing, and a lot of people must have been confused, and because of what you said, like "bro isnt that the guy we killed the other day" and also because imagine one day your husband comes home and his eyes are more red and he has fangs and he forgets things? its giving skinwalker, tbh

im just as confused about this as you are, and sorry i couldnt give a straight answer. i hope well find some things out in btsv (when it comes out in 3726). also, you can rant as much as you want, i love listening to people talk, especially when its about atsv 🫶🏻