the best way to introduce civil war
hey sineala, so I'm relatively new in this fandom, but I've read your fics and some other authors that are comic fans, so I can just about navigate through the multiverse. But just a question: what exactly is 'The Confession' ? thanks you so much :)
Oh, man, anon, you’re in for a treat!
Okay, so, broadly speaking, Civil War in 616 is about Steve and Tony taking sides as to whether the US government should register all superhumans (Tony) or not (Steve). They argue and they fight, brutally so, until in the end Steve is seconds away from killing Tony, realizes how much damage he’s inflicted on Tony and on the world in general, and figures out that this isn’t what he wants at all. He feels he’s lost sight of the real goal. So he surrenders.
“Civil War: The Confession” is a comic book that depicts a conversation between Steve and Tony in two parts. The second half (yes, I said second, I’m getting there) takes place shortly after Steve’s arrest, when Tony, who is now the Director of SHIELD, goes to see Steve in his cell. And they basically – well, they have a screaming fight about their respective sides in the war. By the end Steve is screaming “Was it worth it?” at Tony, who just says, “You’re a sore loser,” and leaves.
And then, over in Captain America #25, Steve is assassinated on the way to his arraignment.
The first half of The Confession takes place two days after the second half. We see Tony flying up to The Raft, and he takes his helmet off, and he starts to talk. It’s a monologue. He explains exactly what he was thinking, supporting Registration; he explains why he made the decisions he did. He starts sobbing as he explains that he was doing what he thought was the right thing to do, the thing that would save lives. He thought he was okay with doing whatever needed to be done.
But, as he says, he wasn’t:
Throughout this sequence, we haven’t seen who Tony’s been talking to. But then it pulls back and we get this:
“It wasn’t worth it,” Tony says, to Steve’s body.
He thought he could handle all of this and that it would be worth it, but it wasn’t… because Steve’s dead.
Fandom basically treats this as a love confession. This was the issue that set the ship sailing. I mean, can you blame us?
(Fun angsty fact: That’s probably Tony’s blood on Steve’s shield.)
After that, Tony basically spends the time until Steve comes back to life in a mess of grief and depression and sadness. He cries a lot. He hallucinates dead people, including Steve. At one point he has to deal with a time-traveling Steve from WWII and he can’t tell him he knows him and that makes him feel just terrible. He really loved Steve, okay?
If you’re wondering how Steve feels about Tony then, canon recently gave us an answer. Sort of. The comic “Civil War II: The Oath” is basically a similar thing in reverse except Steve is secretly an evil Hydra agent (it’s complicated, okay?) and it mirrors the big iconic shot of “The Confession” so you already know what you’re in for, more or less:
The majority of The Oath is Hydra Steve monologuing his evil villain plans at Tony. But then he starts telling him how Original Steve felt about Tony, because, see, he knows every thought Steve ever had about Tony:
“He loved you,” Steve said. “He loved you, and he admired you, even when you fought.”
Yep. Thanks, canon. (And, yeah, check out those famous panels from Civil War and The Confession in the background.)
So, uh, yeah. They’re in love! This isn’t even the world where they’re canonically married! Welcome to comics!
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Stony comic I made for Russian Stony Bingo fest
Many thanx to TressaDeFox for english adaptation, although i could still make mistakes! I apologize!
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