#waaaahhhh i can’t decide i love both ideas

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In an alternate universe where Mav chose Ice to serenade at the O club, do you think Ice put out in the bathroom or did he play hard to get and turn down Mav until they met again in the classroom?

OOOOH MAN HELLO ANON YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS!!!

ok first before i even answer this, have you, by chance, read this fic where mav actually Does serenade ice in the bathroom? if not, i highly recommend it. ice deserves to be serenaded hes worth the humiliation

but that fic takes place a while before top gun (the first time around, at least) so if we’re saying this takes place the day they met in canon, then honestly it depends. both are equally delicious. his callsign really spices it up too, the fact that either way you look at it, he’s either too ice-cold to make the mistake of having sex with a guy when there are eyes everywhere in the navy (which means letting himself get close to mav is a “mistake,” and god do i love the angst of that setup) or he’s supposedly ice-cold, but sleeping with mav was the one “mistake” that he couldn’t help making because you know, they’re like magnets. they can’t stop the attraction i just dhsfjsjsfs… icemav is such a poetic ship and i love it

but since you asked me to give an answer, i’ll have to say that he wouldn’t put out until after he meets mav in the classroom. ice was doing what’s best for the team rather than the individual and staying focused on his goal of being top gun. mav would be wearing his uniform, so ice would definitely know he’s in the navy and probably suspect they’d be seeing each other again. he’s very thorough, so he’d probably not want to risk it. i think he’s had plans to climb the ranks for a while and marry a sweet woman who he can at least make happy, if not vice versa, and sleeping with some random navy officer is too much of a risk for him to take. going off this idea i LOVE to think that when they get together mav serenades him again in private so only ice can listen this time <3

however. because i love imagining it. if he did decide to put out in the bathroom it would probably be because the chances of finding a willing partner in the navy are far and few between, and any guy who’s serenading him in a public place is clearly daring enough to make the first misstep if he shows up again in the future, so ice doesn’t have anything to worry about. if either of them are getting booted it’ll be that guy. and after the night ends he’ll be too focused on winning the top gun trophy to see to his own pleasure (though flying is definitely counted as pleasure in his book) so he might as well indulge for a night when nobody’s looking, right?