#macgyver ask

[thisgameissonintendo]

P.L. created a account on Twitter to talk shit about Lucas. It has been deleted but have you seen that ?

i had seen some tweets and was wondering what they were about so i asked a friend and he explained the situation to me. honestly, that is so messed up and it worries me. to think that he's an adult who creates fake accounts to talk shit about someone he doesn't like to kind of up his reputation (which - by this point - is more than fucked up) is beyond my imagination. like that's stuff kids do when they're mad. but he's a grown man. or you would think he is.

[artaintfartwarriors]

Have you done bellaleaf or leafstar or macgyver ??

[sun-ni-day]

Lucas Till as Sam Dark Hearts (2014)

[lailuhhh]

Do this one “i love you. i love you so much, whatever happens, just remember that, okay?” With mac and jack pls?? 👉🏻👈🏻😅😂

✨✨✨Bestie bestie bestie have I got a thing for you ✨✨ ✨

Jack failed.

It wasn’t that it was a new concept; he failed tests in school, his driving exam, even doing laundry the first few times by himself. There were missions that went bad when he was DELTA and CIA, and not everyone at the Phoenix had turned out perfect.

Jack knew failure. It was just another thing in his life that happened every now and again.

But not that time.

Jack couldn’t afford to fail that time.

And yet—

Jack had failed Mac so many times before. In the sandbox, in Como, all the times he got kidnapped— every scar Mac had was a reminder of each time Jack failed him.

That time though, Jack couldn’t even beg forgiveness.

Because Mac was gone.

Jack had to watch as Mac and Riley were put into hyperbaric chambers, watch as they spasmed with the nanobots in their bodies. His head had been going back and forth between them, trying to gage their reactions and if the whole thing was working.

Riley had come out first, breathing heavily and face still wincing as the last of the nanobots shut down, but a smile was attached to it. Jack had pulled her into his arms, thanking whatever greater power there was that she was alright.

But then there was a sound, one that Jack had heard many times before, and never wanted to hear from Mac.

A continuous beep, a flatline from a heart monitor.

From Mac’s heart monitor.

Seeing Mac still— seeing him not breathing would be something that haunted him for the rest of his life.

“Hey.” Jack stopped him, letting the others go first. “I love you man.”

“Jack—”

“I love you, so much, and I need you to know it. Whatever happens, I need you to remember that. I’m always, always, going to be in your corner.”

Mac wasn’t breathing.

Mac’s heart wasn’t beating.

Jack had failed him yet again.

“You— you don’t need to tell me that.”

“Yeah I do. I know you’re scared about what might happen, and I know you think that if something does happen, you won’t be the same. But you will. You’ll be the same nerd I met in the sandbox; same guy that I trust my life with. No matter what happens, promise me you’ll remember that.”

Jack didn’t even know what he was doing, trying to open the chamber or smash it. He just knew he needed to get Mac out. His attempts were clumsy and uncoordinated, and there were hands grabbing at him, pulling him back and shouting something he couldn’t care to hear, because the only thing in his ears was the continuous ring of the flatline.

“Mac.” He didn’t even know if he was speaking out loud or not. “This isn’t funny.”

He was so still. Everything about it was wrong.

“We had a deal. You go kaboom, I go kaboom. It’s not fair for you to break that.”

The yelling around him was mere background noise.

“Remember what I told you, bud. Please. Remember that I’m here waiting for you. Remember that I’m waiting for you to come back to me. We still got alotta stuff to do.”

The ringing was going to be the only thing he would be now to hear for a long time.

“Please. Come back to me.”

Then it stopped.

It turned into one, and then another a few seconds later. The yelling also seemed to quiet down.

Jack focused his gaze on Mac’s face, seeing the twitches of movement under his eyelids.

He scooted forward, pushing the others out of the way, wanting— needing to get closer.

“That’s it Mac. Come on back to me.”

Mac’s whole body started to twitch before settling once again. His chest was moving with quick breaths, trying to regain the oxygen it was deprived of. Then his eyes opened.

Just the smallest of cracks, a sliver of blue poking through.

“Come on Mac. Lemme see those baby blues.”

It seemed like years before Mac’s eyes finally opened all the way, even longer before the chamber was opened, and Jack actually got to feel Mac’s steadying pulse beneath his fingers.

Jack just knelt there on the cold floor, taking in the fact that Mac was alive and breathing, ignoring everyone else around him.

“Jack?”

Jack let out a sob of a laugh at Mac’s voice. “Hey, Mac.”

Nothing else mattered. In that moment, it was just him and Mac.

“I love you too.”

[macgyvercairo]

Cairo Community Ask Game!

Hey, y’all! It’s ask game time! Below is a list of MacGyver or fandom-related questions (plus a few bogeys) that you can shoot to our ask box, or post to your own blogs you can answer them yourselves. Ready, set, go!

What was the first MacGyver (2016) episode you ever watched?

What’s your favorite episode?

What’s your least favorite episode?

Do you have any favorite fandom media you’d like to recommend? (Fic, edits, art, etc.)

What fandom work(s) of your own are you most proud of?

What is your favorite show dynamic?

How did you discover the show?

What’s one thing you couldn’t live without?

What is one of your favorite scenes?

Who is your favorite character?

Least favorite character?

Have you adopted any headcanons (your own or others’)?

What’s a song you can’t stop listening to right now?

Are there any songs that make you think of the show?

Have you learned any Mac Hacks?

What’s your favorite cold open?

Which episode to you go back to the most?

If you could wish an episode tag/missing scene fic into existence, which episode would you choose?

What's a food you never get tired of?

How many Cairo Days have you participated in?

What's on your mind?

Wild Card, ask what you will!

[impossiblepluto]

Which Macgyver fic can you recommend? With Mac whump and a big one

Lately rally trying to find some new good fics, but I have a sad feelings that there is no good whump fics I haven't read :(

Hello friend,

Oh that's a tough one. The Mac fandom is blessed with an abundance of great fic but it's hard for me to make a recommendation if you think you've already read them all. I'm assuming this is on AO3? The first thing I'd ask is if you've checked out FFN? There are quite a few fics over there that haven't been crossposted on AO3, Ridley C. James and Objessions come to mind.

The next thing I'd ask is if you're looking specifically at the "whump" tag because a lot of authors, including myself, don't necessarily tag things as "whump" and you may be unwittingly excluding fics you would love.

Have you read Haven126? There's probably not a week that goes by that I don't think about the Turkey Day series (specifically the second one has me in a death grip)

I haven't finished it yet but The Chair + The Box + The Board by @rosieblogstuff is delightfully intense

Sat Phones + Heat Stroke + GPS by Project7723 (@improvidus) is based off of one of my favorite Star Trek Enterprise episodes. It's more emotional whump but I would also recommend "In the Wake of Him"

Stakeout + Bridal Carry by tangocharlie

Have you ready from SabbyStarlight? TetrodotoxinB ("Old Fish in the State of Denmark" killed me dead)? I have to assume you've read AppalachianApologies' 144 MacGyver fics already, right? Nativestar's "Living Death" is *chef's kiss*. CommanderBunnBunn's Sandbox + Possum is a favorite.

Have you gone back far enough that you've read Katikat or Tinkerbella?

I guess it's just hard for me to know what you're looking for, especially if you think you've read everything already. I sadly don't have a secret hidden cache of fics. There are thousands of wonderful fics and I barely brushed across the surface with my brief overview

[paperclipped-mongoose]

He is my Roman Empire. I watch this probably twice a day or more.

[boolger]

Hello! I just noticed you take suggestions, so I thought about sending one for something related to Jack Dalton and Ghost? Maybe in the military times, with a sprinkle of h/c? Never asked/suggest for a fic before, so I won't go too much into details-- I would be happy to read anything with them, to be honest 😆 (smut is also welcome, of course, the ao3 barrel for these two is pretty empty so 👀)

Anyway, have a great day~

the way I got so excited when getting this!! Macgyver my beloved and Ghost my beloved! Since I wrote the fic The Ghost from the past has a big dic- on AO3, I figured that I could write a couple of scenes from them knowing each other in their past, so in the same universe ish - how they came to the point of Jack being happy to have a threesome w him and his now-husband Mac.

Anyways, ye, I hope you like it <333

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Lust at first sight

☆ Fandom crossover: Macgyver (2016) x Call of Duty

☆ Pairing: Jack Dalton X Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley

☆ wordcount: 893 words

☆ tags: friendship, fandom crossover, fwb, smut, bonding while smoking, military, referenced violence, Sir-kink, daddy-kink, rough sex, all consensually ofc, teasing. lmk if i'm missing anything. 

They met randomly through work - that’s how one met each other in this kind of work, Jack supposed.

Years later, they would both answer “classified” when Jack’s future husband, Angus Macgyver, would ask about their first meeting. Technically it was classified. But not that secret.

Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley had just become a Lieutenant when Jack met him, the SAS sending him over to work with the Deltas for a bigger mission. It wasn’t love at first sight - because they were never in love. Nope, Jack reckoned it was more lust at first sight. Mixed with the respect for each other’s work.

The other Deltas had caught on immediately, on their flirting (mostly from Jack, who couldn’t keep his mouth shut) and they all decided to ignore them, at most telling the two of them to get a room.

So they did. The moment the mission was over, they got a room.

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Their first time was in the shower - they were both sweaty and dirty from several days of working with no showers.

It was quick, to get the worst out of the system. Ghost, no Simon, was ridiculous and wore the stupid mask even when showering, making Jack laugh - but he was quickly distracted by the bigger man’s hand on his cock. Jack Dalton was in no sense a little man. He was 5’11, had a lot of muscles and a nice cock. Simon was just ridiculously big, being 6,2, a mountain of muscles and while his cock wasn’t quite as long as Jack’s, it was thicker. He stroked their cocks together, quick and hard, their bodies pushed closed against the cold tiles, while Jack moaned into his neck, Ghost doing his best to keep in his own whines.

They came over each other, their cum quickly washed away from the running water of the shower. 

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Ghost had to go home the day after, so they got it out of their system that evening - or, well, night.

It was as if they needed to remind themselves that they were human after the brutal killings, the blood staining their hands psychologically, even after their shower. Simon pushed up the mask, exposing his scarred lower face and Jack barely got a chance to appreciate the sight before the other was kissing him hard. There was nothing lovely and sweet about that night. 

It was violent, harsh and sinful.

it was red faces, deep grunts and teeth sinking into teeth; it was cursewords and bodies fucking each other harshly, it was lube making everything sound wet and dirty as they fucked. It was texan accent clashing with british, teasing each other, telling each other to shut up, trying to fuck the other to silence. 

Jack fucked Simon - Simon fucked Jack. They fucked each others’ mouths. They were both young, with stamina enough, happy to get it out of their system after god knows how long.

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“fuuuuck,” he murmured, rolling his hips, “Reckon’ I could ride ya’ cock all night, hoss.” 

A growl left Simon, feral thing beneath him, even when he pretended he wasn’t desperately trying not to fuck up into Jack.

“Don’t be cheeky, Dalton,” he answered, a small pleased exhale leaving him as Jack rose and sunk down on his thick cock again, the wet sound of lube almost echoing in the hotel room. They were going to ruin the sheets. Hell, Jack would pay for it, just for another chance of this.

“Aw, don’t be like that, Sir,” Jack cooed back, instantly noticing the way Ghost reaction to the title beneath him, the way his eyelids fluttered, the way the hands on his hips tightened, “ya like bein’ called Sir?”

“Shut up daddy,” Ghost answered, teasing Jack with his daddy kink as he stared up at him, forcing him deeper down on his cock as Jack continued to ride him again, “you got a dirty kink yourself, old man.” 

Jack just laughed. He wasn’t even that much older. Maybe ten years or so. He didn’t really care.

“Does Sir want Daddy to stop?” Jack asked, raising an eyebrow, stopping all his movement, a distressed growl leaving Ghost.

“Don’t you fucking dare,” Ghost snarled, and Jack smacked his chest hard, the other man attempting to hide his whimper.

“What was that?” his voice was even darker than before, leaning forward slowly, one hand on the bed next to his head, the other settling on his neck. A warning.

“don’t you fucking dare, daddy.”

Jack couldn’t help a smirk.

“Good boy.”

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They both left the day after, covered in hickeys and bite marks, both much more calm. This would repeat every time they ran into each other over the years. They would create chaos on the mission, then they would fuck like rabbits, smoke together while talking a little, mostly about what had happened since last. 

Ghost disappeared into the back of his mind, the moment Jack Wyatt Dalton set his eyes on the genius and idiot at the same time, Angus Macgyver. That wasn’t lust at first sight - that was love.

[rosieblogstuff]

Trick or treat!

It's a treat, I hope! Something like 2 years ago I wrote this drabble about Mac and Jack getting kidnapped and waking up in Murdoc's torture dungeon, which seems like such a fitting setting for Halloween. So here's a little follow-up. More than a line, but I doubt anyone's objecting.

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Before Mac could figure out how to get the cell door open, the outer door of the room opened. Murdoc was all smiles as he entered the room again. “How’s it going in here, friends? Made any decisions yet? Or do you need a little more time to talk it over?” He looked between them, raising his brows expectantly. “No? Well, I guess it’ll be surprise time for everyone, then! How fun.” Still smiling, he pulled a gun out of his jacket and aimed it toward them. “Who’s going to play my little game first?”

Mac gave him a hard stare, doing his best to look defiant and not at all concerned about what the psychopath with the gun would do if they didn’t volunteer themselves for a torture session. 

“Me.” 

Jack elbowed him aside, putting himself between Mac and the gun.

Mac's jaw dropped, not that Jack could see it now that his back was to Mac. “Jack?” he hissed. What happened to just waiting? What happened to not playing the game, like they'd just agreed would be their strategy? 

Jack ignored him and Murdoc opened the cell door, a grin on his face. “Very good, though I must say, a little expected. Step out and don’t try anything funny, or I’ll shoot Angus first.”

[proshippers-against-censorship]

Any Macgyver 2016 proshippers? I really want to share my headcanons and stuff about Murdoc, but most of the fandom is antis. o(-(

Anyone?

[cannibalisticcorpse]

when mac is pretending to be murdoc and he grabs the black wires to strangle the architect with.... how often do u think he fantasizes about murdoc doing that to him?

[kamacstrophe]

You know what I think would be an amazing cross over? MacGyver and Tony Stark. Like think about it, they're both similar levels of smart, MacGyver just doesn't have the resources to do what Tony does. Tony would probably be impressed by how much MacGyver can do with scraps and MacGyver would probably help Tony straighten his life out. Then they'd be best friends and everyone else would be kind of terrified of them

you are so right. if tony stark met macgyver when he was a kid/teen, he would be a much healthier man today. i need that macgyver episode stat.

[appalachianapologies]

Alrighty, how about "another wip don't fucking @ me"?

Okay so for this WIP I had to go through and reread to see what exactly I was getting at because it's years old at this point and could not actually remember what it was for/what I was going for. It looks to me like it was some sort of timeline where Mac and Jack met under different circumstances (I say, knowing full well that that is nearly every single AU that I write lmao) and are in the process of finding each others' footing (ALSO the same thing I rewrite over and over again)

Here are some words from it!

“You know, you really don’t have to follow me everywhere. Just saying.”

“I kinda do.”

“You kinda don’t,” Mac counters, before turning his full attention to the keyhole in the door. After a bit of jiggling, he mutters, “It’d be easier if I just lock picked my way in.”

Even though Mac isn’t looking at Jack, he can almost feel the older man’s eye roll. “Alright, c’mon, give it here. You youngins don’t know how to open doors.”

“Youngins? I-” For his own sake, Mac cuts himself off when Jack’s able to open it on the first try.

Ignoring his smug look, Mac snatches the key back as he walks in the door. The house looks like what Mac expected it to. Same thing in the pictures, including all of the furniture.

Jack whistles behind him. “Good lookin’ stuff here, huh? And all for free?”

“It was grandpa Harry’s,” Mac replies, carefully walking, as if disturbing the dust will somehow ruin the house. “And my dad never had it. Harry was my mom’s dad, so he never offered it to him. He lived in it until he, um, you know, had to take care of me.”

Nodding along, Jack takes in the house. Not the same way as Mac though. It takes a few seconds of ‘overwatch watching’ for Mac to even realize what he’s doing. Hecking the place. Scanning to make sure that there aren’t any decade old assailants who have been biding their time in the shadows.

Mac’s chest flops, and he doesn’t know why.

“So, anyway,” He suddenly announces, feeling far more awkward about the whole ordeal than before, “The place isn’t liveable yet. The plumbing probably needs to be changed, and the house itself might be old enough to still have lead pipes, which, you know, isn’t really ideal. And it’s a toss-up on whether or not the hvac system works, but I don’t really like those odds.”

“And you’re gonna fix it up?”

Mac sends him a look. “Yeah? Who else?”

“Professionals, maybe? You know, the guys who do this all the time?”

Shrugging, Mac replies, “It’ll be a good challenge. Besides, it’s not like I have anything else going on.”

“School?”

The single worded question hangs in the air for a few moments, before Mac turns his back. It’s been assumed, sure, but he hasn’t actually told anyone yet. “I’m not going to graduate.”

[lailuhhh]

okay but you got me thinking so much about how young Mac looks when they're in the Sandbox. Like. Mac looks like a kid, he's baby faced anyway (tell us your secrets Lucas Till, I'm begging you), but something about the long hair from the original 2016 pilot is just. Ingrained into my brain and is NOT letting my brain worms escape.

I need Jack half teetering on the edge when he realizes just how young his EOD is; yeah he's gonna have to be somewhat competant bc he isn't dead yet, y'know? But Jack had never thought he'd be partnered up with a baby faced know it all that looks even younger than he actually is, like is he old enough to drink? Old enough to drive?

Jack is about to actually have a fucking aneurysm everytime he looks at the damn kid and the big bruise on his face, spreading across his temple. Looks like a damn smacked puppy, Jack grumbles to himself, and has to resolutely shove thoughts of Riley out his mind, but then the worst happens.

Mac and Jack bond and Jack is just confronted with the fact that this baby faced know it all is his responsibility and Jack did that. Jack did that himself and he might as well through himself a baby shower with a sign yelling congratulations its a twenty plus year old baby and he just has to scream into his helmet for a few seconds every day to try and work on his PTSD and the absolute anxiety attack this damn kid gives him.

Meanwhile Mac is happily playing with bombs and thinks his overwatch is a weird weird man that desperately needs to fucking chill, and this is Mac thinking that so he definitely needs to.

Right???

Canonically, Mac’s around 21-22 when they actually meet, but with a face like that?? That screams 17-19. Like all my army days writing, it’s never really clicked that Mac is so much younger than what we see on the screen

Jack’s had younger guys as partners before, but they always looked their age. Last guy was early to mid twenties and he looked it, or more so, he looked aged. Everyone Jack had been partnered with either looked their age, or older than they were because of what war does to people

Mac was the first one that was young that looked young, despite him being captive for however long, and somehow that made it worse. Mac saw the horrors of war and had been living as a prisoner, yet he still looked his age

Ignoring canon though, Jack knows it’s a new guy messing with his stuff because he doesn’t recognize the back of his head and it just sets him off and he spins Mac around and just decks him

Then maybe later after everything happened and they go on their first outing, a good portion of Mac’s face his all bruised because of just how hard Jack got him, Jack does feel a bit guilty because maybe he did overreact and was having a bad day and he shouldn’t have taken out the anger on Mac, so it’s just—

“I’m sorry man; some shitbag up the ladder is ridin my ass and stressin me out. Ya didn’t deserve that and I’m sorry for takin my anger out on you. Looks like I messed up yer pretty boy face— how old are ya anyways?”

And when Mac says however old he is, that’s when it hits Jack of oh my god he’s a literal kid it’s not just a case of baby face

That’s when the panic sets in of Mac shouldn’t be there and shouldn’t be disarming bombs and should be at college and what the fuck was the military thinking of letting him enlist, and then Mac’s already been there two years, which makes him panic more because the realization of Mac enlisting at an even younger age was the aneurism inducing fact of he needs to get this fucking kid out of the army

And yeah Mac’s just over here like wow man I’ve never seen this kind of IED before and don’t know where to start. Let’s shake it and see what happens and Jack’s doing his best not to keel over from panic and heart attacks every time they go out

[cuntycassandra]

Okay so I fucked up with the original post as it wouldn’t let me edit it from drafts after putting a video in there, so I had to start from scratch. So this was the ask, thank you @practically-an-x-man !

Oh wow this is quite a lot to get through! Alrighty let's get going.

Alexander Summers:

First impression:

l'm just going to talk about movie Alex, because I have other thoughts on comic Alex. I knew Lucas Till from other things like Hannah Montana and the YBWM music video, and also because after the drama with Ezra Miller everyone wanted LT to play the new movie flash, so I remember recognising this face when I first watched FC and thinking "oh yeah he's cute", and I liked his whole broody demeanour, but like, that was it. He became an honorary fave just because I knew he was around the mansion when Peter would've been young, so he was in a lot of the 'Cherik raise Peter' fics.

Impression now:

Jamie will tell you that I always develop a love for the more 'obscure’ characters in media, the smaller amount of screen time, the more likely I am to become obsessed. And so when I went back to rewatch the movies I was just pulled in when it came to Alex. I thought he was so interesting with soooo much potential, his dark but almost juvenile demeanour was like a hook, and I loooove his relationship with Charles. It's also amazing to get to experience a movie you love with a new found appreciation for a certain character because you notice so many new things. Every acting choice LT made for this role l've picked up on now, not to sound dramatic but every little detail helps fuel how I see Alex as a character/person, which is someone with so much complexity and depth.

Favourite moment:

Pretty much all of his scenes in Apocalypse, except his death. Even though I prefer FC, I love seeing how much he's grown and how much he's improved just in general. It's so lovely. But also this one specific deleted scene from FC that gives me all the feels,

Idea for a story:

I have a lot of ideas for Alex in the works, they're mainly on hold just because I went to uni this past September so l've been taking a fanfiction writing/reading break. My current main fic that l'm working on (that Jamie will be happy about), is Alex meeting and bonding with six/seven year old Scott after Vietnam. You'll know because you've read my fic but I picture Alex's relationship to be very strained with his parents, but he's making an effort because he's like, 89% sure Scott's going to be a mutant and he doesn't want him to have to deal with the same reactions he got all by himself.

I also have ideas around an OC of mine but I don't tend to talk about my OCs very much.

Unpopular opinion:

Hmm. The Alex fandom is very small so I don't think there are many 'unpopular' opinions. If we circle back to comic Alex, l'm not really a big fan of any of his romantic relationships. I like the characters respectively, I just don't tend to like them together.

Also I just prefer Alex to Scott, which isn't unpopular but it'll piss Jamie juice off :)

Favourite relationship:

Love love love looooove his platonic mentor-student relationship with Charles.

Favourite Headcanon:

Love the idea of Alex picking up on Charles’ British slang while living at the mansion between FC and DoFP. He wouldn’t say them in a British accent, but he’d say things like jacket potato, not baked potato (the second chapter of that fic will be dropping soon), and football instead of soccer, and I feel like Charles would really appreciate it because it would be something Raven used to do. Although I see her doing it in more of a teasing way compared to Alex, Alex is just adapting to his surroundings.

Hank McCoy:

First impression:

I remember quite liking Hank when I first watched FC, I don’t think I had a huge opinion on him but I did enjoy his presence. I liked his bashful relationship with Raven and I think Nicholas Hoult played the character well. He was like in between Alex and then Cherik and Peter for me, I cared about his presence because he was often involved with my top three, but he wasn’t obscure enough for me to develop a proper obsession with.

Impression now:

Kind of the same to be honest, if anything I think I may have gone off him a little bit. Not because of anything huge, but the way he is with Raven in that one scene in FC irks me a little. I do understand his reasoning, as someone with a physical ‘deformity’, I’d do anything to fix it, but I’m also like dude don’t tell this girl she’s not naturally gorgeous-. But overall I do still like him, and I did like his ending in DP too. (Even though I don’t like DP.)

Favourite moment:

Either when he and Logan are fighting in the foyer in DoFP or just his involvement with the montage in FC. Him being like “am I still a bozo?” to Alex, like bro what do you think the obnoxious little blond is gonna say-.

Idea for a story:

I like the idea of potentially writing a small oneshot about Alex and Hank having a conversation, maybe just before Alex leaves for Vietnam. I feel like it’s the only time they’d ever have a vulnerably emotional moment together. Alex wouldn’t admit to Charles he’s worried about going, and Hank would’ve picked up on enough of Alex’s social behaviours to realise it.

Unpopular opinion:

Not sure if this is unpopular but I don’t really ship him endgame with Raven. I ship them as a midgame, but if she had lived in the new timeline I don’t think they would’ve lasted, I think they’re a classic case of right person, wrong time. They were at totally different stages of life.

Favourite relationship:

Love his annoying brotherly relationship with Alex, and his mentor relationship with Charles.

Favourite headcanon:

Sean was the one who got Hank to smoke his first joint, and Hank was so concerned about what it would do to his brain/mutation that he caved and told Charles, as if they aren’t all adults who can make their own informed decisions. I don’t like reducing characters to a caricature, but the idea of Hank shyly telling Charles he’s stoned and has some minor concerns is so funny to me.

Patricia Thornton:

First impression:

In typical Summer fashion, Thornton wasn’t a favourite when I started MacGyver, that was solely Mac and Jack. I just thought she was pretty and badass, and I really enjoyed her banter with Jack. That was kind of all I thought on her.

Impression now:

I. Love. Her. Literally she is such an icon. I came to appreciate her pretty quickly because I binged a lot of MacGyver while I was recovering from my hip surgery, and then when I found out about the traitor storyline I was devastated. I love her snark, her facial expressions, how much of an amazing spy she actually was? I still love her relationship with Jack but I’ve also come to appreciate how she was with Mac and Riley. She wasn’t a helicopter boss/parent, but it’s so clear that beneath the sternness and consistent annoyance, she loved those brats so much.

Favourite moment:

During the Christmas episode, at the end, she’s talking to Mac by the Christmas tree and it’s a clear moment of how she wasn’t just the boss of this team, she was also a friend. She kisses Jack’s cheek, she lets Bozer touch her, she and Mac talk about Christmas gifts, I love it. (I also love her in the fourth episode of season one where she’s beating the shit out of people.

Idea for a story:

I want to write more of her and Mac, I like the idea of her going to see him in the hospital after the incident in S1E1, but he’s at a generic hospital in Italy, and when she and Jack arrive the doctors are like “are you guys family to the patient? 🤔” and they’re like “uh…”. And Jack is like “oh yeah, we’re his aunt and uncle, this is my wife” on a whim and Thornton looks at him like she’s going to take off her shoe and shove the heel up his nose.

Unpopular opinion:

She’s better than Matty. That’s ragingly unpopular but to me she just is, I prefer her dynamic with everyone compared Matty’s character to dynamic with them. And there’s no problem with Matty, I just haven’t warmed to her, like at all. I don’t find banter in her sternness, whereas with Thornton it was more of an exasperation.

Favourite relationship:

I love all of her relationships with the main team, Mac’s is probably my favourite, but I do love how she is with Riley, and Bozer. They’re like her exhausting children and she’s just DONE. And of course her love-hate relationship with Jack is top notch.

Favourite headcanon:

I’ve never talked about this before but I have this deep rooted lore idea that Thornton had a lung transplant as a child. There’s even more lore behind why but I won’t bore you with that, but anyways I have this hc that while on a mission with Jack when they’re first working together, he finds her immunosuppressants in her backpack, and because she hasn’t declared them to anyone on the team, except Oversight ofc, as nobody knows about her lungs, Jack’s first thought is “…she’s dealing drugs.” And confronts her about it, and she’s just like “😒”.

After that, only Jack knows about it, and I like to think that while she’s in prison, he goes to see her and even though he’s mad because he thinks she’s a traitor, he’s still like “they’re giving you your pills for your lungs right?”

Warren Worthington III:

First impression:

I don’t really remember my first impression of Warren. I remember in TLS, when we see him trying to cut out his wings, my first thought was “WOAH IM UNCOMFY”, but overall I think for me he was just sort of…there?

Impression now:

I like him a lot more in TLS than I do in Apocalypse, in Apocalypse I find him a bit obnoxious, but I like the complexities of his situation in TLS, as much as I don’t like the movie itself. I think it’s really interesting to see his development throughout that movie considering he has such little screen time.

Favourite moment:

I do actually quite like the scene where he flies away from his father before he’s forced to have the mutation cure. Very powerful and I think the actor did a nice job.

Idea for a story:

I don’t have one off the top of my head but I like the idea of something to do with he and Alex talking, for my universe they both have somewhat ‘unsupportive’ parents, so that could be an interesting exploration.

Unpopular opinion:

I can’t say I have one because I don’t know the character well enough. Maybe that he kind of annoyed me in Apocalypse? Like I get why he was the way he was, I just didn’t feel emotionally connected to him. I wish they could’ve fleshed it out a little bit more.

Favourite relationship:

I have no idea.

Favourite headcanon:

Again, not really any idea cause I don’t know enough about him, but I’d love to hear a few of yours sometime.

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Trick or treat 🎃

I shouldn't be allowed to try to write little askbox snippets as they'll end up being posted in the most confusing order. This one comes after this part

The ropes pinch Jack’s skin as Mac’s hands crush into fists. 

“You can tell me,” Murdoc leans in closer. Whispering, purring in Mac’s ear. Jack feels his skin crawl with the vestiges of Murdoc’s hot breath curling against his neck. “Have the blades ever tasted blood?”

“If you’re gonna get this close, you mind popping a mint first?” Jack snarls. There’s not much he can do against the apparently threat except strain against his leash like a junkyard dog but maybe it will be enough to pull Murdoc’s razor focus from Mac. 

“Ah, yes, an example of that rapier wit. Wow. You struck a blow,” Murdoc deadpans as he straightens, his shadow falling over Jack and onto the wall.  

“You’re the one chewing the scenery. Monologuing all over everything. ‘Have the blades ever tasted blood?’” Jack mimics and then snorts. “Come on now, who says stuff like that?”

“It’s a little much,” Mac adds. 

“Fine.” Murdoc snaps one of the blades closed. “If you’re not interested in playing along” -a snick signals the closing of another blade- “then I guess there’s nothing left to talk about– Oh, excuse me, monologue about.”