#in the multiverse of madness

[couldntbedamned]

My Headcanons for the Variant!Stephen (in relationships)

I had to dig up my google doc where I wrote these up back after ITMOM premiered and I’d watched it a few times. (One day I will organize my google docs. Maybe.)

These are just mine. Everyone else’s mileage may vary. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Defender

I headcanon that there's been a lot of turmoil in Defender’s universe as a result, life is very structured and strict. (But also it's honest about it, unlike 838, and society is actually flourishing, rather than hiding behind the illusion of a false utopia.)

Kamar-Taj and the Masters of the Mystic Arts are a little more militant. Less "working behind the scenes" and more "we're a defending presence and it's okay that others know it.” Very much with "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" vibes.

Defender Stephen seemed like he took the advice "it's not about you" and internalized it to the extreme. (He didn’t want to kill America, it broke his heart but he couldn’t think of any other way so that’s the choice he started to make because that’s what he does. He’ll deal with the self-loathing later.)

So…

Defender Stephen is a gentle but firm Dom. Out of all the variants, he's the most strict, disciplined. Your safety is everything to him and the one thing that challenges his duty of serving the needs of the many over the needs of the few.  He makes the hard choices, even when he doesn't want to. Nothing brings him satisfaction like you submitting and trusting him to take care of you.

If you trust him to take care of you and love him even knowing how inflexible he has to be in defending your world and reality, then maybe there’s hope for him after all, he thinks.

Sinister

He’s lost everything because of his own hubris and obsession so even as he wants you desperately he can't help but be a little self-sabotaging about it.

Touch-starved to the extreme, he has to be near you always, always able to touch you and ensure that you're real and not a figment of his twisted mental state.

Sinister Stephen will control and fuck you like he hates you and then afterwards be the most praising and affectionate being in the multiverse to you. He needs to know that you can see him at his worst and come through it still accepting and loving him, because sometimes he has trouble accepting and loving himself.

Supreme

If there's ever been a Stephen Strange who's a control freak to the extreme, it's Supreme Strange.

His life has been hectic, with the loss of his sister Donna and brother Victor. The loss of his hands didn't send him into extreme despair like variants but instead increased his obsession with control. He can't control his damaged hands the way he once could? Fine, he'll control everything else around him.

He's tried to surrender control, but he underestimated just how damn insufferable the team he chose for the Illuminati are. So, he quietly continues to do his own work because that group is all but useless to him.

He wants to be in control, 100%, but also wants to be praised excessively. He needs to hear how he's the best, you're so grateful, so adoring of him. It's frustrating for you, yes, but with that control he craves comes his need for validation so you're never left wanting or unsatisfied. It's not just blind praise and adoration he wants from you, he needs feel like he’s earned it.

And even when he says you can call the shots, he's definitely topping from the bottom.

Strange Supreme

Strange Supreme, my love, my He Who Can Do No Wrong, settles for nothing less than TPE. He will never, ever hurt you or make you feel less than the most cherished and precious thing in his life, but there is nothing he does not control.

Yes, thing. “I take excellent care of my possessions.”

Because you. are. his.

Give him your body, heart, mind, soul... and there is nothing he will not give you or do for you.

Destroying a universe for you is nothing to him. He's done it before and he'll do it again if it means keeping you safe and happy. (His definition of what makes you happy and your definition will probably differ, though.)

[couldntbedamned]

The way he barely GLANCED at the Darkhold and just does magic like it's easier than breathing is just amazing. No one's mind works like Stephen's and that's let of what makes him so formidable.

[seven7arts]

THIS IS INSANE 🙎🏻‍♂️👩🏻‍🦰

[rohirriiim]

You’re so much like your mother.

AGATHA ALL ALONG (01x05) DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022)

[it-meant-nothing]

Wanda Maximoff // Erik Lehnsherr

Your son is right there, please—

[gamoraaaaaa]

PALMERSTRANGE❤️💙

RACHEL McACDAMS as 616 and 838 DOCTOR CHRISTINE PALMER and BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as DOCTOR STEPHEN STRANGE.

Happy bday, Rachel McAdams! (Nov. 17) 🎈

[viceandmature]

Wanda Maximoff and Cassandra Nova skins Reed Richards and Johnny Storm

[marveldaily]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness dir. Sam Raimi | 2022

[womenofmcu]

I dream of them... every... night. Of my boys... of our life together. 

[slasher-art]

Guys! I'm done! ✨️

[zendayacolemann]

ELIZABETH OLSEN as WANDA MAXIMOFF / SCARLET WITCH Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

[yrsonpurpose]

You and me probably end up going for all the same parts together.

[dailyflicks]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) dir. Sam Raimi

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

You have to earn that title damnit.

[rohirriiim]

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) dir. Joss Whedon Avengers: Infinity War (2018) dir. The Russo Brothers Avengers: Endgame (2019) dir. The Russo Brothers WandaVision (2021) dir. Matt Shakman Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2021) dir. Sam Raimi

[marvelgifs]

Do not speak to me of sacrifice, Stephen Strange. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), dir. Sam Raimi