#ice/mav

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First private kiss, letting themselves take their time and enjoy it

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[kcsplace]

Top Gun Silliness

[ziggy-scardust]

Okay but. A Bradley Bradshaw who truly doesn’t know until TGM that Maverick is a little unhinged. He “tried to be the father he lost”, tried to set a good example, didn’t exactly tell an impressionable kid about all the ways he earned his reputation. So for years, Rooster avoided any mention of Maverick and probably dismissed rumors about him pissing off Admirals as so much Navy scuttlebutt - after all, he never got kicked out, he made it to O6, and he’s at least known for being good at what he does. So he figures the stories he heard growing up, and the new ones he’s hearing, are exaggerated.

…until they’re shot down behind enemy lines and Maverick’s happily strolling onto a bombed-out enemy flight line to steal a whole aircraft in an unknown state of repair by taking off from a very short taxiway and is just expecting him to go along with it, like it’s the obvious thing to do.

Smash cut to Bradley running down a LONG list of batshit stories he’s heard about Maverick, trying to confirm what’s actually real, and having to mentally readjust his whole worldview (including realizing that Goose was equally batshit and egging him on from the backseat half the time.)

“This one has to be made up, right, you’d never take an admiral’s daughter on an unauthorized F/A-18 flight — wait what do you MEAN that was Penny from the bar??”

[enthyrea]

it’s my birthdayyy here’s old man icemav to celebrate🤍

[scuderiatomcat]

after maverick accepts promotion and finally makes an admiral, he and ice start messing around with their surnames

one day ice is “admiral mitchell” and mav is “admiral kazansky”, next week other way around and so on. or sometimes they use the same, which is even more confusing

no one still can’t predict, which surname would be used by whom, so people started making bets (even cyclone joined)

hondo wins almost every time and no one needs to know that happy couple themselves help him

[personfrommars10]

Carole: This is my Husband Goose and this is our boyfriend Maverick and this is Maverick's boyfriend Iceman

Slider: so what's the situation here

Carole: well I love Goose and Maverick and Maverick love's Iceman and me and Goose hate Iceman. It's simple

Goose and Maverick: yeah it's simple

Iceman: don't worry Sli, I'm involved and I don't understand it

[nyree2712]

Top Gun - Incorrect Quote 318

Hangman: I hate you

Rooster: *In his head* Enemies to lovers. slow burn, angst with happy ending, 300k+ words

Rooster: I hate you more

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

look. I love maverick bein a brat as much as the next guy. God knows he is. however. ice is perhaps the biggest fuckin brat I EVER seen in my LIFE. 'you need help figurin it out?' 'what?' 'who's the best?' hello? 'who was coverin cougar while you were off showboatin' waitin for him in the stairwell alone? 'I don't like you cause you're dangerous' he's always huntin his ass down n incitin every interaction n starin at him BORIN holes in his back. THAT FUCKIN JAW SNAP? I just got here n I fear we are sleepin on ice who serves the most insane amount of cunt I ever seen in a military man

[the-balloon-shed]

The funniest thing about Icemav is that they are the fidgetiest boys. You expect it from Mav, but it's less expected from Ice, even though arguably Ice might be worse than Mav -- he certainly steals more stuff to fidget with than Maverick does.

Mav is always moving. Always darting around. He talks with his whole body. Shuffling his feet. Bobbing his knees. Openly assessing every room he's in (and he tends to do this when he's in a situation he wants out of -- such as at the very beginning when they're yelling at him about taking Penny up in a jet -- because it means avoiding eye contact).

Ice is a primetime fidgeter. He's looping pens around his fingers, flipping quarters up and down his knuckles, swirling his iced vodka, screwing around with his watch. He may not be jumpy like Mav is, but he sure as hell isn't still.

Worse is that the more time they spend with each other the more they start to pick up where the other left off. Mav starts making origami out of Ice’s gum wrappers, and Ice now has a tendency to “walk-and-talk” when before he didn’t have the urge to do that — he’s just gotten used to doing it with Mav.

Seeing them sit together at a booth? The two of them can't stop. Think Goose and Slider would accuse them of being human oscillators. Goose would probably nudge Mav in the shin to get him to stop bobbing his leg, and Ron would grab Ice by the shoulders and shake him.

When they finally get together? Well. They match each other's energy and then compete over it. Ice touching one place, Mav grabbing another, just constant. At the same time, though, they also would try to settle the other. They know what's just fidgeting and what's a stress tell, even though they wouldn't have the words for that yet. Mav's hand coming up over Ice's if he's whipping a pen around his hand real fast, stilling him, maybe even replacing the pen with his hand if they're in a safe place to do so. During an argument when Mav starts trying to check out because he doesn't want to get yelled at and looking anywhere but at Ice, Ice can say, "Mitchell. Look at me," because he wants to make clear he's not about to start screaming but they do need to get through this.

Carole’s the only one who thinks to ask them directly about it when they all — Slider, Goose, Little Goose, Ice, Mav, and Carole — are all out to brunch together on one of their few mornings free.

“Are all pilots this twitchy?” Carole teases them. “Is it a requirement?”

Both Ice and Mav say at the exact same time, in damn near perfect sync: “The best ones are.” Carole and Goose burst out laughing. Slider points at them. “You two. Have been spending WAY too much time together.”

They both just shrug. Truth is, they don’t even know the half of it (though Ice imagines they’re figuring it out). As it stands, Ice hands Mav another gum wrapper, and Mav takes the pen for the check and gives it to Ice to twirl, and they remain content to fidget until they get the receipt back and can all head home.

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Drunken mirror selfie with married Icemav

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[eliashirsch]

Mav, somewhere on the other side of the world: *gets texted a photo of ice creating an ocean with his tears* the hell?

Slider: your man is sad

Goose, who's used to dealing with Mav throwing a tantrum every time Ice is away: match made in fucking hell, i say

based on this post i saw lol

[kcsplace]

top gun silliness

[moonagedaydream14]

this was such a wild thing to have him say

[kernnit]

A headcanon I hold very close to my heart is one where Ice is diagnosed with cancer a few years before the events of Top Gun: Maverick.

He and Mav didn’t know if he would pull through, so they prepared for both outcomes. In the midst of that uncertainty, Mav decides to call Bradley and leave him a voicemail, explaining Tom’s prognosis.

He knows Ice would never ask for it– but Pete knows his partner too well, so he does it for him. In the message, he lays it all out and asks Bradley to consider seeing Tom, maybe for the last time. He makes it clear that he won’t be there, if that’s what worries Bradley. This isn’t about him. It’s about Tom.

Finally, he asks for a response– whatever it may be, as long as it’s honest. But he also makes one thing clear: if Bradley chooses not to come, he shouldn’t expect anything more from Maverick. This is where he draws the line. Tom is his breaking point.

Bradley decides that silence is his best answer. He never responds to that call.

Sometime later, on a night when alcohol is in no short supply, Rooster dials his uncle’s number. He wants to ask about the outcome of the surgery– an afterthought, a late impulse.

But the call never goes through. Maverick, as always, kept his word.

[iwontactmyagenoi]

I think Ice and Mav absolutely shine in their 40-50s, DADT is over, they’re so in love. They get married, but they take their time to properly prepare their day. Every arrangement of flowers is thought of meticulously. Every place of everyone important to them is calculated (even the president). They love each other.

When the time of the vows arrive, they get little pieces of paper out of their pockets, they both look yellow. Turns out they’ve written their vows ages ago and were waiting to get married to tell them, in front of the world.

[nyree2712]

Top Gun - Incorrect Quotes 196

Iceman: Why are you following me?

Maverick: We’re dating now!

Iceman: Yeah, but… why is Goose here?

Maverick: We’re kind of a package deal

Goose: *Eating chips* Buy one idiot, get one free