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sarahsmi13s · 6 months

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Past Pursuits

whumptober day 19: left behind / "why wasn't i enough?"

pairing: platonic!robert 'bob' floyd x y/n 'star' rogers

characters: bob floyd, y/n rogers, bob's mom

warnings: 18+ MDNI, language, canon death, death, death of a parent, grief, self-doubt, questioning worth, feelings of abandonment, driving in the rain, crying, endgame!steve, marvel/top gun maverick crossover, please let me know if I missed any

word count: ~1.7k

a/n: this is for whumptober! please please please proceed with caution and use discretion, protect your peace

also if you are on the whump taglist but are not familiar with a character, you can skip it will not hurt my feelings!

this is a part of the lieutenant rogers series, but can be read alone

i am so so sorry i got this up late, please forgive me

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summary: after star's father stays in the past when he returns the stones, she's hurt and angry. where better to go than to her best friend?

One thing Bob wasn’t expecting to see on his parents front porch was his best friend soaked by the rain and her motorcycle under the carport.

But there you stood, soak to the bone as your eyes welled up with tears and you fell into his arms.

He wasn’t sure why you were there in Colorado, sobbing into his neck and clinging to him like you had when the Avengers’ civil war sent your dad on the run. And he knew another Blip just happened, bringing back the half it stole five years ago. He knew that only because his mom's sister in law, May, had called her and his mom called him in tears saying that Peter and May were brought back.

It could be any reason, he wasn’t certain though.

He just needed to know why you were crying, he was going to be there for you of course, but he wasn’t sure how to help because he didn’t know what was wrong.

So he pulled you in and got you a change of clothes from his sister and got you some hot coco before sitting on the couch with you under his arm.

“I’m sorry t-to just drop by like-like this… But N-Neil was de-deployed and I didn’t know where else to go…”

Bob kissed your head, “It’s okay. I’m always here for you.” “Thank you Bob. Is.. Is it okay if we talk about it all tomorrow? I need to sleep on something that’s not a motel bed…”

“So my Ma’s couch is better?” He said with a slight chuckle. “I know what’s been on this couch.” He shrugged, “Okay that’s fair.”

The next morning Bob came downstairs to the smell of coffee but no you in the kitchen, just his mom.

“Hey where’s Y/N?” Bob asked as he poured coffee in a tumbler cup.

His mom turned and gave him a sad smile, “She’s out on the porch with a coffee. She’s… um she’s not doin’ okay Bobby… Take her on a drive. Get her to talk.” He nodded, “I will Ma.”

Bob sighed a little and went outside to see you sitting on the step and looking out at the rain with your coffee cooling in your hands.

“Hey Star… you okay?”

You sniffle and shake your head, “No… no I’m not, Bobby…”

“Do you wanna go for a drive?” You sniffled and looked at your feet, “You hate driving in the rain… your glasses fog up.” “But you like it, and this isn’t about me. I want to help you feel better.”

He held out a hand to you, “So, let’s get you some fresher coffee, put you in some fresher clothes. And then blankets and a drive, you can sit in silence or vent that’s up to you, Star.”

You look up at him and he hates how red your eyes are, “Thank you…” You wiped your eyes and took his hand. “What are friends for?”

After getting changed into fresh out of the dryer clothes and then a small breakfast, Bob fixed you a tumbler of coffee grabbed fresh out of the dryer blanket before you both got in his truck, driving off to go down your favorite road.

You were silent for the most part, sniffling every once in a while as Bob drove the scenic route.

Rain pelted the windshield and the windows, the weather around you matching the weather inside you. You stayed curled up against the door with a blanket wrapped around you.

You knew you needed to talk about it, if you didn’t you would explode at the wrong time and say the wrong thing in a fit of anger… risking it being the last thing you ever said to someone.

That was the whole reason you came all the way down here after everything that happened in upstate New York. You went from upstate to Oceana to wish Omaha good luck on his deployment, to Colorado where you knew Bob was spending leave – having got back just before the second snap.

You needed someone, someone that would both understand and not understand your feelings. If Neil was still on dry land you would have brought him out here with you, to have the comfort of both your best friend and your boyfriend. But Bob had seen you in a similar state once before, he had an idea on how to handle it.

Bob pulled his truck into a scenic outlook spot on the road. He knew you liked the area. You came out here with him on your motorcycle a few times.

He parked the truck and just sat there, picking up his coffee and listening to the low music coming from the radio. He wasn’t going to ask questions, knowing that you needed to open up in your own time.

And you would, about 15 minutes into sitting there.

“They’re gone Bobby…”

Your voice was so soft and meek that Bob almost didn’t realize you had spoken.

He sat his tumbler down, “Who, Star? Who’s gone?”

“Tony… Nat… they’re gone,” you said, voice thick with emotion and tears. “They both sacrificed themselves to bring everyone back.”

“Oh Y/N… I’m so sorry.”

“It’s what heroes do though, right? Make the hard decisions so we don’t have to… sacrifice themselves for some dumb fucking rock. Snap their fingers to beat someone at their own game. Take the infinity stones back and leave your only fucking daughter behind in pursuit of your own fucking past because you can’t–”

You stopped yourself, realizing what you had begun to say.

“Y/N?” Bob said with an arched brow.

“That… I…” He turned your head to look at your face. “Hey, what happened? I know Tony and Nat aren’t the reason you’re here… you’re upset at someone other than them.”

You sniffled and wiped your eyes before unbuckling to turn to him fully.

“I just got a-a run down from Bruce, I don’t really understand it but… In order to bring everyone back they had to go through time to get the stones… but once they were done with them, they had to take them back to ‘preserve the timeline’ or whatever.”

You sniffled again and ran a hand through your hair, “Dad… he-he volunteered to take the stones back after Tony’s and Nat’s funerals. He told me and Buck he was giving the shield to Sam and that’s not what I’m upset about…”

Rubbing your face, you groaned, “But when he went back… he stayed in the past. With Peggy. So one minute I was looking at the dad I knew and the next I saw a man I barely recognized… He was older… had a wedding band, had a family with her…”

You sobbed and buried your face in your blanket.

“He left me… He stayed with her and he had a family… Did-Did he even remember me? Did-did he even care that he lived a whole life without me…”

“Star…” Bob said gently, trying to get you to look at him.

“Was I not enough for him? Was I so disappointing that he wanted to start over in a time I didn’t exist?”

Bob shook his head and scooted closer to you, “No, Y/N, that’s not the case at all. He loves you.”

“Then why couldn’t he just retire!? And not start over…” You look up at him, “What did I do wrong?”

“Nothing, you did nothing wrong,” Bob tried to assure you, reaching up to wipe your tears and frowning when you turned away. “Then why did he leave me behind?”

Bob shook his head, “Y/N…”

You shook your head, before burying it back in your blanket. Your sobs were muffled by the fabric as you put your hands over your head, shielding yourself from your best friend – trying to shield yourself from the universe.

You were angry with him before and now you were just… hurt.

What did the past have that you didn’t? Familiarity? Predictability? Peggy?

Was that all this was? Chasing an 80 year old kiss? Leaving his daughter and two best friends for someone that thinks he’s dead?

But he was happy with her right? He went back and got to live with her, the love of his life. He got to be happy.

Except… could he not have been happy with you? With his best friends? With the people he left behind?

Bob gently put his hand on your leg, “Star, he loves you, I know he does. He’s so proud of you. He loves being your dad.”

“Then why did he stay… Why couldn’t he come back? I barely got a chance to have him as a dad… and then he started a whole new family…”

“Have you talked to him about this? Did you tell him about how him staying in the past would make you feel?”

“I… He looked so happy thinking about it… and at the time I thought about how if it was me and Oma, I would spend a life with him in a heartbeat.” You wiped your eyes with shaking hands, “But when I saw him something inside me just got so… angry and-and-and so hurt.”

You looked at him and Bob’s heart broke at the desperation in your eyes. “Why am I so angry? Why am I so angry that he lived a life? Why am I so angry that he got to be with the love of his life? Just… why?”

Bob shook his head, “I’m sorry… I-I don’t know..” You sniffled and threaded your hands in your hair. “Hey, c’mere. C’mere,” he gently pulled your hands out of your hair and into his lap as you wrapped your arms around him. “I got you, I got you…”

You cried into his neck as he held you close, clinging to his shirt as he wrapped you in the blanket.

He rested his head against yours. He wished he knew how to help you feel better, but this wasn’t something fixed with a few words. He tried that and it just made you more upset. This was something that you just needed to vent about and then work out later. You needed him to just listen and then hold you, that’s what he could do right now for you.

So that’s what he did, he held you close in the cab of his truck as the rain got heavier and your sobs died down to weak cries before you fell asleep in his arms.

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shiningstarr15 · 5 months

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I SAW THE MARVELS TONIGHT!!

I have a LOT to say about it and I’m gonna make an official review post probably tomorrow.

But I will say for now, The Marvels is now one of my comfort movies, and Carol Danvers is a comfort character that just made the top 5 ❤️😍🎤🐱👑☀️

#the marvels #carol Danvers #monica rambeau #kamala khan #ms marvel #captain marvel #photon #marvel studios #mcu #aunt carol #lieutenant trouble #fangirl Kamala khan #Nick fury #goose the cat #flerkittens #aunt niece relationship #screw the critics #how DARE you let this movie bomb #it was soo fun!

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loveloki555 · 7 months

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Some stories stay with us forever

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twilight-deviant · 1 year

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*⋱✧°⊹｡~Hi!~｡⊹°✧⋰*

#Marvel #Daredevil #James Wesley #DaredevilEdit #My GIFs #Mob lieutenant surprisingly likes kids #Couldn't find a gif of this moment and had to make it of course #I just think it's cute #Wesley goes to murder scene to retrieve a gun #sees a couple of kids and ''Hi! :D''#This cuteness is then contrasted by him sticking the gun in his waistband

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shinigami-striker · 1 year

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Maurice LaMarche | Thursday, 03.30.2023

One role or another, we can't help but enjoy Maurice LaMarche either as a diabolical lab mouse constantly trying to take over the world, a stoic butler serving a trio of wealthy cats, or as the Southern Ruler of Latveria antagonizing the likes of either the Avengers or the Fantastic Four.

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balu8 · 8 months

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Blueberry

by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud

Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)

Marvel/Epic

#marvel comics #epic comics #Lieutenant Blueberry 1 #jean giraud #jean michel charlier

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apollo18 · 1 year

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Bonus: Mr mind in a bug cage

#billy batson #shazam #fawcett comics #whiz comics #the wizard shazam #captain Marvel #dc #Mr. mind #that moment when your ‘chosen one’ gives powers to his friends and randos both on purpose and on accident #I will forever wonder why Freddy’s costume was so different from the lieutenants and Mary’s

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daydreamerdrew · 2 years

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I really like the way Fawcett comics blur the reality of fictional characters and the reality of comic book readers.

I think the most obvious example is in how characters acknowledge moving across books not just within advertisements for those comics but within the main stories themselves.

For example, here’s Freddy Freeman saying that Captain Marvel sent him from Whiz Comics in Master Comics #22:

And here’s Mary Marvel receiving a telegram inviting her to Wow Comics in Captain Marvel Adventures #19:

But another in how Captain Marvel’s secret identity as Billy Batson is handled. The main recurring characters like Sterling Morris are genuinely unaware that Billy Batson transforms into Captain Marvel and it’s typically portrayed that Billy can just transform right in front of people without them understanding what had happened. But there are some people in the world who apparently know that Billy Batson transforms into Captain Marvel because they read Whiz Comics and Captain Marvel Adventures themselves.

This is directly tied to the origin of the Lieutenant Marvels, three boys coincidentally named Billy Batson who can transform when saying Shazam all together, in Whiz Comics #21:

They all initially come together and visit Billy not because they’re fans of his radio show, but because they’re readers of Whiz Comics and are wondering what would happen if they were to say Shazam. Hill Billy even talks about how most kids who read Whiz Comics think it’s all made up, but that they know it’s real.

Another example is how the conflict of Sivana making Billy forget who he is and how to transform into Captain Marvel is resolved in Captain Marvel Adventures #5:

Billy wanders the city until he stumbles across a group of kids playing Captain Marvel, and they tell him that he can play Billy Batson and should say Shazam.

I imagine that this effect would have increased believability for very young readers in how it casually acknowledged what was common knowledge to them and their friends, rather than strictly avoiding the information that a fictional character would typically be presumed not to know.

#it feels like a very matter of fact way of being meta #whereas I feel like most of the modern stuff I see that acknowledges the comic book medium does so to either #critique the genre or medium #or explore what it would be like to be a fictional character #dc #fawcett comics #marvel family #billy batson #mary batson #freddy freeman #lieutenant marvels #my posts

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hjbirthdaywishes · 11 months

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June 19, 2023

Happy 45 Birthday to Zoe Saldaña.

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takeustothelakes · 10 months

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okay but isn’t it funny to think that steve wasn’t actually a captain when he was told his little hero jingle name, and he didn’t get promoted?

sergeant first class steve rogers after the serum: excuse me-

a second lieutenant: oh, i’m so sorry, sir, let me call everyone here to attention-

steve, blinking: the fuck

#sergeant first class is a lower rank than second lieutenant! but second lieutenant is lower than captain #just some information so this isn’t so confusing #i thought of this today and i made myself laugh #steve rogers #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #marvel mcu #captain america #us army

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sarahsmi13s · 1 year

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Lieutenant Rogers Universe

I DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY OF MY WORK BEING COPIED OR TRANSLATED

This is the masterlist for the ‘Lt. Rogers’ Unvierse! Here should be able to find everything about Star and her found families!

pairings: romantic!neil ‘omaha’ vikander x rogers!reader, platonic!dagger squad x rogers!reader, plantonic!sam wilson x rogers!reader, platonic!bucky barnes x rogers!reader

series summary: 13 pilots were called back to Top Gun in 2023. at the same time, Lieutenant Rogers learns that her father’s shield was passed down to John Walker.

sources: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) , The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

Story

Call Sign: ‘Star’

13 pilots were called back to Top Gun in 2023. at the same time, Lieutenant Rogers learns that her father’s shield was passed down to John Walker.

Push Your Limits

after learning of the shield’s new owner, star must press on with her duties as a naval aviator and start her training with her new team.

Holding Onto the Past; Letting Go of the Future

after a pretty rough start, maverick takes the aviators to the beach for a team building exercise. star and omaha invite the squad over for the night. after a quick heart-to-heart with rooster, star has to watch the world forget her father.

Earn It

sam and bucky finally meet john in person. so does star. neither interactions were in john’s favor.

Birds and Promises

while we all know what happens in the air, we don’t know what happens with the aviators on the ground when three nearly die during a training exercise. how do hangman, rooster, and star react to their best friends nearly dying? will it change things between star and omaha?

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. This is Your Lover Savior Speaking

the mission is here. and once again while we know what happens in the sky and in the control room, what’s going through star’s mind as her friends fight for their lives and might not come home?

Shield of Injustice

while star and her friends fly the mission of a lifetime, sam and bucky are on a mission to find karli before john does. but they all get way more than the barganed for...

Moodboards

Bucky and Star

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