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Tony Stark
The whole fucking point of this character is that he is an arrogant billionaire arms dealer who realizes that he Kind Of Sucks and consequently spends the next fifteen years trying to Not Suck to mixed but ultimately decent results. On one hand you’ve got the people who act like hes terrible and like I get it I would hate him in real life too but this is a fictional character and you have to admit theres more going here. On the OTHER hand are his legions of fans who insist that he has never done anything wrong ever, he is the smartest nicest little boy who isn’t actually even a little arrogant, and actually everyone who ever went against him even for understandable reasons (incl. very morally upstanding Captain America) is Evil, actually. I say this as a fan of the character: PLEASE you can like this man and have him suck a little at the same time!!!!! I am begging you!!!! Help!!!!
Literally a millionaire who started out manufacturing weapons for the military. Was then chased by the consequences of his actions while not making any sort of reparations. Of course stayed a millionaire the whole time. Then did not communicate with the team about making a sentient "suit of armor" that turned into a massive slaughter bot. People claim that this should be excused as a result of PTSD but is his responsibility to seek out help and he most certainly had access to whatever treatment he could choose as a -in his words- "millionaire playboy philanthropist". Then supported an accords rife with human rights violations that he was of course exempt from - and refused to hear any of the others rebuttals to it - like they were not millionaires and did not have access to entire legal teams that would work to exonerate them. Then exposes Clint's family and farm which he had revealed to Tony in confidence and kept secret from any authority to protect them. Then Tony spends the rest of Civil War trying to straight up murder Bucky - ignoring that it had already been established that Bucky had no agency nor autonomy in his time as the Winter Soldier, in doing so ignored the Accords he had advocated for. He then kidnapped a 16 year old child - who he did not tell why he was taking him - in direct contradiction with the accords and then allowed for Steve's team to be held in a maximum security prison with no trial. He then proceeded to refuse any sort of communication with Steve, resulting in a delay of him defending Earth from Thanos' invasion. After this - despite his failure playing part in the deaths of half the universe, and the child in front of him he treated as a son - he refused to rectify his failure because he had a family now - ignoring the literal entire universe who had lost their families. Upon his death he was treated as a hero and the one who saved the universe, despite his actions being that of hubris.
The Darkling
Okay so this guy is the main bad guy of the series. He made “the fold” this barren wasteland of darkness and monsters dividing the land, causing like hundreds of thousands of people to die. He killed his mom. He psychologically manipulated his girlfriend (like, he caused her to hallucinate and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff). He made one of his followers (a young girl) use her body to slowly poison the king over time. He started a cult. He did a LOT of crazy stuff. However, we do see his backstory of him as a kid, and learn that he did all this in the name of equality, so people would stop torturing and killing the ‘grisha’ or the witches/magic users. Later, he fakes his own death and starts a cult worshipping him and acts as the leader of the cult, going by his old name Aleksander. He is a very complicated character. So tell my why everyone thirsts after him and is like “he did nothing wrong” HELLO?! He is NOT your poor little meow meow he is complies please please don’t sanitize him
#misrepresented morally grey#bracket a#did nothing wrong bracket#marvel#marvel cinematic universe#tony stark#grishaverse#shadow and bone#the darkling#general kirigan
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Earth-18104
Since I started getting more into Marvel I made a bunch of OCs for the media, and with time I created a whole universe to insert them in the stories. So I'm gonna start posting here my personal time-line.
These events include stories from the comics, a bit of the cartoons and the movies. Many events or characters have their backstories changed and I will include my ocs here.
It's just a project I do for fun (and has been taking my mind in the last years help). It's not complete. There's still a lot to work but I got the basics.
Time-line
B. C - Events
• Okkara and the Enriched
• Birth of Apocalypse
• The Clan Akkaba
A. C. - Events
• Thanos' birth
• Creation of the Ten Rings
• Fall of Titan
15th / 16th / 17th Century - Events
• Odin brings the Tesseract to Earth
• Rise of Count Dracula
• Apocalypse and the Army of Darkness defeat Dracula
• Fall of Tenochtitlán
• Creation of Talokan and birth of K'uk'ultan
• Selene Essex becomes Lady Sinister
• Trial of Agatha Harkness
• Apocalypse is sealed by his subordinates
18th / 19th Century - Events
• Mystique's birth
• Victor Creed's birth
• Logan's birth
• Victor Creed and Tereza Márquez (OC) meet
• Howlett's Tragedy
• Irene Adler and Raven Darkholme meet
• Fall of Akkaba Clan
• Origins: Wolverine I
20th Century
1900 - 1930 - Events
• Origins: Wolverine II
• Wolrd War I
1940 - Events
• World War II
• Johann Schmist finds the Tesseract
• Steve Rogers becomes Captain America
• Bucky Barnes becomes his partner
• Phineas Horton creates the original Torch
• Sgt. Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos
• Foundation of Weapon X by Dr. Abraham Cornelius Truett
• Captain America dissappears and Bucky Barnes is taken by HYDRA
• Logan marries Itsu. Later she is murdered by the Winter Soldider and his son is taken
• Cain Marko and Charles Xavier become stepbrothers
• Wong starts his training in Kamar-Taj
• Howard Stak works for SHIELD
1950 - Events
• Cain Marko and Charles Xavier fight in the Korean War. Marko dissapears after finding the Temple of Cyttorak
• Max Eisenhardt marries Magda
• The original Torch dissapears / dies
• Logan meets Silverfox
• Magda and their daughter dies, Max Eisenhardt changes his name to Erik Lehnsherr
• 1950 Avengers
1960 - Events
• Charles Xavier meets Moira Mactaggert and Gabrielle Haller
• Sabretooth and Wolverine join Team X
• Adam Brashear becomes Blue Marvel
1970 - Events
• Professor X, Magneto, Mystique and Destiny create the first team of X-Men
1980 - Events
• Captain Marvel
• Ghost Rider
• The Incredible Hulk
• Iron Man
• Ant-Man and Wasp
• Hawkeye and Mockingbird
Age of Heroes - The first famous groups of heroes start to rise, the first conflicts earth went through after FF, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Decenders and the others formed.
1989 - Events
• The Fantastic Four
• Puppet Master
1990 -
• The Avengers
1991 -
• Jessica Drew works for SHIELD as Arachne
• Logan adopts Amiko Kobayashi
• Matt Murdock debuts as Daredevil
1992 -
• The X-Men (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman and Beast)
• The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
• X-Men VS Juggernaut
• Sam Wilson becomes the Falcon
1993 -
• Simon Williams joins the Masters of Evil as Wonder Man
• New Avengers (Black Panther, Hercules, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkerye, Falcon)
• Jennifer Walters becomes She-Hulk
1994 -
• Sue Storm and Reed Richards Wending
• The Fantastic Four meets Black Panther
• Dane Withman becomes Black Knigt
• Z'Nox attack
• Wade Wilson becomes Deadpool
• Silver Sufer and Galactus
• Alex Summers becomes an X-Man
• Betsy Braddock becomes Captain Britain
1995 -
• Mesmero attacks Krakoa. Lorna Dane joins the X-Men as Polaris
• Patsy Walker becomes Hellcat
• Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man
• Jessica Jones becomes Jewel
• Heroes for Hire (Luke Cage and Danny Rand)
• Norman Osborn becomes the Green Goblin
• Natasha Romanoff leaves the Red Room and joins SHIELD, working alongside Mockingbird and Hawkeye
• Frankie Raye joins the Fantastic Four as Photon.
• The Avengers battle against Ultron and Vision
• Among us stalk the Sentinels! Ororo Muroe and Sean Cassidy join the X-Men
• Frank Castle becomes the Punisher
• Jean Grey absorbed the power of the Phoenix
1996 -
• Hank McCoy joins the Avengers
• Greer Nelson becomes Tigra
• Secret Empire
• Avengers / Defenders War
• Flint Marko becomes Sandman
• Second Genesis.
• Hulk VS Wolverine
• Cyclops starts a new team of X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Thunderbird, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Sunfire)
• X-Men VS Erik the Red and D'Ken
• Wanda Maximoff and the Darkhold
• Darren Cross becomes Yellow Jacket
• Wanda uses her magic to create her sons
• Mystique and Destiny start a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
• Kitty Pryde and Alison Blaire join Xavier's Institue
• Dark Phoenix and death of Jean Grey. Cyclops leaves the team
• Kree / Skrull War
1997 -
• Days of Future Past. Rachel Summers and Lucas Bishop join the X-Men
• Cyclops meets Madelyne Prior.
• Rogue absorves Carol Danvers powers
• Rhino VS Spider-Man
• The trial of Hank Pym
• X-Men VS the Brood
• She-Hulk joins the Avengers
• Wanda and Vision find out their sons are magic creations of the Darkhold
• Illyana Rasputin is captured and taken to the Limbo
• New Mutants
• The Morlocks
• Rogue joins the X-Men. Logan marries Mariko.
• Beta Ray Bill!
• Venom arrives at Earth
• Hawkeye creates the West Coast Avengers
• Forge joins the X-Men
• Curtis Connors becomes the Lizard
1998 -
• Jean Grey returns
• Nathan Summers is born
• Mutant Massacre
• Madelyne is corrupted by the demon N'Astirh, becoming the Goblin Queen
• Asteroid M
• Fall of the Mutants
• Franklin Richards is born
• The Punisher took over the Assassins' Guild, and later became a substitute teacher while investigating drug trafficking at a school
• Wolverine and Jubilee work together against the Hand
• Gambit joins the X-Men
• Genosha X-Tinction Agenda
• Legacy Virus
1999 -
• Kree/Shi'ar War
• X–Cutioner Song
• Rise of Midnight's Children
• Maximum Carnage
• Fatal Attractions
• Bloodties. Fabian Cortez kidnaps Luna Maximoff
• Sabretooth goes to the X-Men after he starts losing control of his feral side
• Cyclops and Marvel Girl marry
• Generation Next and Phalanx events. Emma Frosts takes the new mutants as her students. Blink dissapears.
• The Hellions die
• Peter Parker meets Olivia Octavius, who later becomes Dr. Octopus
• Sabretooth escapes. Angel loses his wings
• Ozyamndias comes to warn the X-Men about the return of Apocalypse
2000 -
• Jessica Drew joins the Heroes for Hire
• Graydon Creed's assassination
• Apocalypse returns with his Knights
2001 -
• Mantis creates Adam Warlock. Later Gamora is sent to kill them, but decides to betray Thanos. With Drax, Groot and Rocket, they become the Guardians of Galaxy.
• The Thunderbolts
2002 -
• Sepent Crown's arc. Lemuria and Talokan are revealed to the world
2003 -
• Jessica Drew returns as a heroes and joins the Heroes for Hire with Cage and Rand
2004 -
• The start of Infinity Gaulent arc. Earth's heroes lose the battle to Thanos. Half of the Universe dissapears.
• The X-Men split in Team Gold and Team Blue
2005 -
2006 -
• Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marry
2007 -
2008 -
2009 -
• Mayday Parker is born
2010 -
• The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Guardians of Galaxy and Denfenders join forces to fight Thanos once more
• Thor becomes king of Asgard
2011 -
• The Avengers rebuilt their base.
• Scott Lang joins the team as the new Ant-Man.
• Emma Frost and Scott Summers re-open the Academy X
2012 -
• E is for Extinction
• Runaways!
• Jean Grey dies fighting Xorn
• Gitfted / The Mutant Cure
• Ana Corazon becomes Spider-Girl
• Logan meets Laura Kinney
• The Winter Soldier Returns
2013 -
• M Day happens
• Vulcan takes the throne from Lilandra
• Peter Quill joins the Guardians of Galaxy
2014 -
• The Young Avengers!
° Iron Lad (16), Kate Bishop (17/18), Wiccan, Speed (16), Patriot (16), Hulking (16), Sting (14), Jonas (??)
• The New X-Men
° Armor, Loa, Prodigy, Cuckoos, (15), Rockslide, Pixie Hellion, Flubber, Gentle, Wind Dancer, Surge, Wallflower, Onyxx, Quill, Network, Wither (14),
° Mercury, Indra, Dust, Ink, Laura, Elixir, Kidogo, Trance, Dryad, Icarus, Tag, Preview, DJ (13), Wing, Wolf Cub, Rubber Maid, Bling!, Anole, Match, Specter (12)
• Stryker attacks Xavier's Institue
2015 -
• World War Hulk
• Birth of the Mutant Messiah
• The Avengers and other heroes fight Kang. Sam becomes Captain America
2016 -
• Skrull Invansion
• Dark Reign
• The X-Men move to Utopia
• The Inner Circle attacks Genosha
• Hope returns as the Messiah
• Hank Pym opens the Avengers Academy
2017 -
• Children's crusade
• Hope and the Lights
• Apocalypse Solution. Warren Worthington III becomes heir of Apocalypse
• Fear Itself
• The Schism between the X-Men happens
2018 -
• Miles Morales (13) becomes Spider-Man
• Logan opens the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning
• Jean Foster is diagnosed with cancer
2019 -
• The Phoenix returns
• Rage of Ultron. Hank Pym dies
• Khamala Khan (16) becomes Ms. Marvel
2020 -
• Ms. Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man create the new Champions
2021 -
2022 -
2023 -
• The Mutants create Krakoaland
#original universe#AU#marvel#x men#avengers#champions#fantastic four#captain america#spider man#spider-man#krakoaland#citrus writing#earth 18104#dont know how to tag this#young avengers#defenders#x force#watxm#new x men#watnxm#Apocalypse#en sabah nur#shi'ar#west coast avengers#guardians of galaxy
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Oh, Sharon Carter. This is easily the show's most controversial character choice. Like.
When episode three dropped, debates raged over whether or not Sharon was the Power Broker. Some of us thought the idea of Sharon becoming a powerful and dangerous international crime boss was really cool, and others thought it was character asssassination of the highest order.
When it came out that she is, in fact, the Power Broker? Those debates did not end. Was this the best thing that's ever been done with this character, or is she ruined forever? Love it or hate it, most everyone who's seen this show has an opinion on it one way or another.
So where do I fall? Well. I would like to take this opportunity to formally induct Sharon into the "Good For Her" shared universe.
Honestly, I'm here for it.
Across the MCU, few characters have gotten screwed quite as hard as Sharon Carter. This character, the iconic love interest to Steve Rogers, Lois Lane to his Clark Kent, was brought in as a replacement goldfish for her aunt.
Once she was here, she struggled through two movies to find relevancy and was rewarded with less and less screentime. She peaked in the defiant S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. Hydra scene of Winter Soldier and it was all downhill from there.
Come Infinity War/Endgame, Sharon lost the only value she ever had in the eyes of her writers. They decided to send Steve back to Peggy, and that was that. Sharon didn't even warrant so much as a cameo in the Everybody Everywhere Teams Up Against Thanos scene. If they didn't need her to be Steve's Sexy Lamp then she had no value, and so they tossed her in the garbage bin on their way to writing Steve out.
Now she's back, she's mad as shit at the universe for constantly screwing her, and she's going to take what she's fucking owed. Everybody else got pardons but she got shit on, and now she isn't taking it anymore. And I'm here for it. Screw the world. You don't owe anybody anything anymore. You go get what's yours, ma'am.
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The Worst Bracket Begins!
Polls are going up starting Wednesday, April 19th, 32 per day! Bracket and list under the cut.
Round 1
Bracket A (4/19-26)
Mineta Minoru (My Hero Academia) v Anglerfish from Dark Bramble (Outer Wilds)
Iago (Othello) v Barbas (Skyrim)
Brendan (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald) v Mimic (Dark Souls)
Dan (Dan vs) v Pink Diamond (Steven Universe)
Jurgen Litner (The Magnus Archives) v Lily Tucker-Pritchett (Modern Family)
Lonnie Byers (Stranger Things) v Zeus (Greek Mythology)
Lemongrab (Adventure Time) v Steve Cobs (Inanimate Insanity)
Alex Eggleston (Yiik) v Larry Butz (Ace Attorney)
Jerry (Undertale) v Po (Teletubbies)
Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things) v Old Man Who Snitches on Haru (A:TLA)
Kai Winn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) v Ashfur (Warrior Cats)
Mr. Burns (The Simpsons) v Boscha (The Owl House)
Octavian (Heroes of Olympus) v Makoto Teruhashi (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)
Robbie Valentino (Gravity Falls) v Gendo Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Walter White (Breaking Bad) v Guy Mortadello (Papa Louie)
Medusa Gorgon (Soul Eater) v Snowball (Pinky and The Brain)
Bracket B (4/19-26)
Rohan Kishibe (JJBA) v Jin Guangshan (The Untamed)
Agravaine (Merlin) v Michael (Wii Sports)
Scout (TF2) v Mitsuhiro Higa (Danganronpa)
Creek (Trolls) v Berdly (Deltarune)
Manfred Von Karma (Ace Attorney) v Jeff Winger (Community)
Nazeem (Skyrim) v David (Animorphs)
Simon Laurent (Infinity Train) v Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
Kikimora (The Owl House) v Cronus Ampora (Homestuck)
Michael Tritter (House MD) v The Director (Red v Blue)
Eridan Ampora (Homestuck) v Lila Rossi (Miraculous Ladybug)
Skadge (Star Wars: The Old Republic) v Lord Henry Wotton (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Claptrap (Borderlands) v Jodie Foster (Dungeons and Daddies)
Bill Hawks (Professor Layton) v Carcer (Discworld)
Bender Bending Rodríguez (Futurama) v Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!)
Corrin (Fire Emblem) v The Dark Lord (Miitopia)
Cybelle (Carole and Tuesday) v Jasper (Steven Universe)
Bracket C (4/20-27)
Gul Dukat (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) v Admiral Zhao (A:TLA)
Hordak (She-Ra) v Rachel Berry (Glee)
Book (Battle for Dream Island) v Darth Maul (Star Wars)
Jessica (The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself) v Lester Papadopoulos (Trials of Apollo)
Pong Krell (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) v Aaron Burr (Hamilton)
Armand (Vampire Chronicles) v Gamzee Makara (Homestuck)
Dorodoron (Futari wa Precure Splash Star) v Weiss Schnee (RWBY)
Christopher Taub (House MD) v Tate Landon (America Horror Story: Murder House)
Izzy Hands (OFMD) v Princess Daisy (Super Mario Bros)
Spike (MLP:FIM) v Atlas May (Lackadaisy)
Clutch Powers (LEGO Ninjago) v Orin Scrivello (Little Shop of Horrors)
Thanos (MCU) v Minecraft Skeleton (Minecraft)
Frank Burns (M*A*S*H*) v Lieutenant Nolan (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Carter Pewterschmit (Family Guy) v Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)
Miyo Takano (Higurashi When They Cry) v Borsolino (One Piece)
Hiyoko Saionji (Danganronpa) v Pennywise (IT)
Bracket D (4/20-27)
Pierce Hawthorne (Community) v Ren (Ren and Stimpy)
Whirlpool (Wings of Fire) v Cinder Falls (RWBY)
Thaddeus Campbell (Dishonored) v The Grabber (Black Phone)
Takumi Ichinose (Nana) v Heimskr (Skyrim)
Gale Weathers (Scream) v Lee Kiyoung (Regressor Instruction Manual)
Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) v Alvin Marsh (IT)
Director Ton (Aggretsuko) v Angelica Pickles (Rugrats)
Pencil (Battle for Dream Island) v Odalia Blight (The Owl House)
Kyubey (Madoka Magica) v Newman (Seinfeld)
Jacob Hill (Abbott Elementary) v Gregory House (House MD)
Rachel (Tower of God) v Monkey D Luffy (One Piece)
Dame Alina (Keeper of the Lost Cities) v Miki Kawai (A Silent Voice)
John Winchester (Supernatural) v Kyouichi Saionji (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Magikarp (Pokemon) v Hippeux (Animal Crossing)
Elmo (Sesame Street) v Saint Charlos (One Piece)
Melli (Pokemon Legends: Arceus) v Dr. Janet Lubelle (WTNV)
Bracket E (4/21-28)
Martin Blyndeff (Epithet Erased) v The Blue Border (Scott the Woz)
Calico Jack (OFMD) v B.E.N. (Treasure Planet)
Doogal (Doogal) v John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)
Crawlings (The Mysterious Benedict Society) v Liza Lotts (Scott the Woz)
Zolf J Kimblee (FMA) v Baron Draxum (Rise of The TMNT)
Kaito Momota (Danganronpa) v Nandor the Relentless (What We Do In the Shadows)
Logan Roy (Succescion) v Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things)
Fermet (Baccano!) v Seymour Krelborn (Little Shop of Horrors)
Emperor Belos (The Owl House) v Taylor Kelly (9-1-1)
AM (I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream) v Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars)
Stuart Little (Stuart Little) v Vinsmoke Sanji (One Piece)
Bibble (Barbie: Fairytopia) v Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)
Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa) v Grima Wormtongue (LOTR)
Moe (Calvin and Hobbes) v Balloon Boy (FNAF)
Felix (Red vs Blue) v Klorgbane the Destroyer (Regular Show)
Bro Strider (Homestuck) v Jughead Jones (Riverdale)
Bracket F (4/21-28)
Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events) v Mort (Madagascar)
Mantle (Dr Stone) v Phillip Anderson (Sherlock)
Eisuke Hondo (Detective Conan) v Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
Hiram Burrows (Dishonored) v Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)
Vriska Serket (Homestuck) v Prince Diamond (Sailor Moon)
Marty (Steven Universe) v Hibiki Shikyouin (PriPara)
White Diamond (Steven Universe) v Norman Osborn (Marvel)
Stregabor (The Witcher) v Cedric Jeanne Elmir (I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss)
Barney Stinson (HIMYM) v Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)
Griffith (Beserk) v Chloe Valentine (Be More Chill)
Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim) v Lionel Luthor (Smallville)
Lydia (Skyrim) v Shadow Weaver (She-Ra)
Rand Ridley (Inside Job) v Jun Kawanakajima (Ultra Maniac)
Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons) v Fire Lord Ozai (A:TLA)
Joseph Sugarman (BoJack Horseman) v Huey Emmerich (Metal Gear)
Anti - Pops (Regular Show) v Kylo Ren (Star Wars)
Bracket G (4/22-29)
Ross Geller (Friends) v Akito Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Henry Bowers (IT) v Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa)
Winner Sinclair (Chibi Vampire) v Evil Do-er/Dark Blue (Animation vs Minecraft)
Clint (Stardew Valley) v Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson)
Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa) v Colin Robinson (What We Do In The Shadows)
Spy (TF2) v Ghetsis (Pokemon)
Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) v Queen Vanessa (A Hat In Time)
Doofus Drake (Ducktales) v Servantis (Ben 10)
Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives) v Francisco Guerra (Paranatural)
Tingle (The Legend of Zelda) v Hawt Saus (Chikn Nuggit)
Trishna (Papa Louie) v Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
Unparalleled Innocence (Rain World) v Morgana (Persona 5)
Lady Gisela Sencen (Keeper of the Lost Cities) v Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
Suzy Johnston (Phineas and Ferb) v Kaidou Shun (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
Souichi (Junji Ito) v Dr Hotti (Ace Attorney)
Morgoth (LOTR) v Sarah (Ed, Edd, and Eddy)
Bracket H (4/22-29)
Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint) v Barney the Purple Dinosaur (Barney)
Andy Bernard (The Office) v Lars Barriga (Steven Universe)
Dio (Zero Escape) v Caillou (Caillou)
Gideon Gleeful (Gravity Falls) v Balgo (Burn the Witch)
Joshu Higashikata (JJBA) v Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Touga Kiryuu (Revolutionary Girl Utena) v Teledji Adeledji (FFXIV)
Chairman Rose (Pokemon) v Donnel Udina (Mass Effect)
Father (FMA) v Harumi (LEGO Ninjago)
Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena) v Richard (Requiem of the Rose King)
Miranjo (Ranking of Kings) v Kray Foresight (Promare)
Xander Harris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) v The Worst (Ben 10)
Hisoka Morrow (Hunter x Hunter) v Doc Scratch (Homestuck)
Tony Stark (MCU) v Sakura Horuna (Naruto)
Sir Tristan the Cold (Penumbra Podcast) v Clay Puppington (Morel Orel)
Bling Bling Boy (Johnny Test) v George Constanza (Seinfeld)
Quiche (Tokyo Mew Mew) v Enji Todoroki (My Hero Academia)
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Oooh, let's do one of the Endgame prologue flashbacks from Chapter 6! Mostly because this is a scene I really like and it's not one that people tend to comment on.
Then
This is one of the chapters that has an alternating "then-now" structure, and it's the first of two (the other one is 16) to flip very quickly. This is the second of three flashback sequences in Horizon that come directly out of the Endgame prologue (a.k.a. the 2018 part of Endgame, not the 2023 part). I do a fair amount of rewriting canon scenes; it's always an interesting experience. I get to know that scene really well and I tend to find out how difficult it is to translate between mediums.
“Oh no,” Rocket said.
Steve stared down at the gauntlet with his expression gone completely blank – not even horror, just a kind of flat incomprehension that any of this was happening. Natasha heard the faint sound she made only after she had made it, a faint stunned gasp like a wounded animal, and even then was wondering who it had come from before she felt the ache in her own throat.
Steve's behavior in this scene and throughout Endgame is really interesting, because especially in the 2018 scenes he's very blank. And Chris Evans is generally pretty expression (so much of Steve's excellent Avengers characterization is carried out through microexpressions rather than what Steve's actually saying), so his blankness in this sequence is interesting. One of the things I have to do when I'm rewriting a canon sequence is basically add in the character interpretation that may or may not be there onscreen.
The Infinity Stones weren’t there. Nothing was there, just empty, blackened hollows where Natasha still remembered the Stones gleaming the last time she had seen Thanos, energy running in multi-colored rivulets up his arm before he had snapped his fingers.
“Where are they?” Steve said, his voice so toneless that it was nearly a statement
The only response was a low groan, until Carol tightened her grip on Thanos’s throat and hissed, “Answer the question.”
“The universe required correction,” Thanos said, his voice coming out in harsh gasps of pain. “After that, the Stones served no purpose beyond temptation.”
“You murdered trillions!” Bruce said, and shoved him with both hands. The Hulkbuster’s strength threw him backwards, making Carol lose her grip and knocking Rhodey out of the way.
Thanos pushed himself up onto his remaining elbow and said, “You should be grateful.”
This sequence is directly out of canon, dialogue and action. Also Thanos's dialogue is a nightmare to write, especially pulling it straight from canon -- I noticed this when I was writing the Thor flashbacks in Morning too. He doesn't have a very natural cadence, and it makes hard to put into prose vs. onscreen.
Bruce lunged for him again, but Loki’s hand closed on his wrist, his heels digging divots into the floor as Bruce strained against him; the Hulkbuster might be able to beat the crap out of the Hulk, but apparently couldn’t move an Asgardian who had decided not to be moved. Loki released Bruce a moment later and put the blade of his polearm under Thanos’s chin. “Be careful,” he said softly, “not to speak of gratitude again.”
The scene diverges here with Loki's involvement. In canon Bruce keeps beating up Thanos until Natasha asks about the Stones.
Note that the Hulkbuster is not at the Hulk's strength, at least going up against an Asgardian.
Natasha walked around Bruce’s massive form so that she could see Thanos, resisting the urge to start screaming and not stop, but there was an unfamiliar tremor in her voice as she forced herself to say, “Where are the Stones?”
Pulling character interpretations from what's onscreen again; Nat's less blank than Steve is. She's also trembling in that scene, which is a detail I like.
“Gone,” Thanos said. From his expression, he had no idea who she was. “Reduced to atoms.”
Does Thanos actually know who Natasha is? Open question, never confirmed one way or another by canon; canon really only identifies that he knows who Tony is and not any of the other Avengers.
“You used them two days ago!” Bruce said.
“I used the Stones to destroy the Stones,” Thanos said, and gestured at the damaged gauntlet, ignoring the way the razor-sharp blade of Loki’s polearm opened a thin line on the underside of his chin. “It nearly killed me, but the work is done. It always will be. I am –”
“If you say ‘inevitable,’ I will cleave your head from your body,” Loki said.
Canon divergence: in canon Thanos finishes his line, here Loki interrupts him.
“We have to tear this place apart,” Rhodey said, his voice shaking. “He has to be lying –”
“My father is many things,” Nebula said. “A liar is not one of them.” She flicked a look at Loki anyway, as if asking for confirmation, and he gave her the tiniest headshake in response. God of lies, Natasha remembered, very distantly; maybe it meant something other than just another title. It didn’t seem very important right now.
Loki and Nebula have an interesting relationship and this hints at some of the places it's been in the past. Loki, walking lie detector.
Thanos looked from one of them to the other, as if seeing Loki for the first time, and made an expression that wasn’t quite a smile. “My daughter,” he said to Nebula, and then, to Loki, “My son.”
Divergence. In canon he says, "Ah. Thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly." Thor kills Thanos immediately after his addresses Nebula in canon.
“My parents were Odin and Frigga of Asgard,” Loki said, soft and dangerous. “I’d think you’d remember it, since a son of Odin was what you decided you wanted more than another child of yours.”
Loki, who just lost his entire family, is having none of this. I don't think all of Loki's backstory with Thanos has come out in any of my Yonderverse writing, but it is revealed in Morning, and I use the same backstory between universes. Loki started as part of the Black Order, one of the Children of Thanos, during a period of time when he wasn't using his own name (Nebula uses his Black Order name in the Horizon 3 flashback), but when Thanos found out that he was Odin's son he decided Loki was more useful as a way to get into the Nine Realms to get the Tesseract (with the later intention of getting the Reality Stone).
This time Thanos’s expression was definitely a smile. “And where did it bring you? Back to me.”
This line is from 2014 Thanos in Endgame, not 2023 Thanos. 2014 Thanos uses it in Yonder 4, too. (I do think Thanos's dialogue is pretty overwrought, but sometimes it works.)
“To kill you,” Loki said bluntly. “I don’t care about the Stones. I don’t have anyone to bring back. You made certain of that before the culling.”
Loki straight-up is just here for the murder because as far as he knows all of Asgard is dead. As is revealed later on in the scene, he has no way of knowing that any of the Asgardians made it off the Statesman and has been operating on the assumption they didn't. He also doesn't really care about the Snap at all because he doesn't have anyone left to lose.
“Wait – wait, Loki, hang on –” Bruce said hastily. “You don’t know that he’s not lying, the Stones have to be here –”
“No,” Nebula said. “All my life, my father has only ever wanted one thing, and having achieved it –”
“They are beyond the reach of any living thing,” Thanos said. “As they should be. The work is done,” he repeated. “And it cannot be undone.”
This is added dialogue for this scene and isn't from the original canon scene, since Thanos is dead by this point in the canonical scene.
“Loki, get out of the way,” Steve said abruptly.
They all turned to look at him, startled; even Loki’s gaze flickered away from Thanos for an instant. Steve stripped his shields off and dropped them to the floor with a clatter as he took a step forwards, his fists clenched.
This is actually my favorite part of this sequence -- Steve planning to beat Thanos to death with his bare hands. I give Steve a lot more sharp edges than I think most writers do and I am here for his violent tendencies, which are pretty consistent throughout the MCU; it's really just Endgame where it's not there, because he's so muted throughout the film. (I read Endgame!Steve as being very, very depressed, though functional, which I think I've talked about somewhere.) It was important to me that it was his bare hands too, which is why he takes off the Wakandan shields for it.
Loki raised his free hand, green-gold glimmering on his fingertips. “No,” he said. “Your right to vengeance is not greater than mine.”
Loki about to get into it with Steve over who has a better right to beat Thanos to death.
“You should be grateful to me, Asgardian,” Thanos said. “Is this not what you wanted? Is kingship not what you claimed when the Chitauri’s claws were at your throat? The rightful king of Asgard, king once more?”
Hints of Loki's backstory with Thanos and the Chitauri here, touching on whatever happened immediately prior to The Avengers and calling back to Loki's conversations with The Other there.
Loki looked back at him and put his head a little to the side, his teeth showing like a wolf’s. “You murdered my brother,” he said. “You slaughtered my people. You scoured Asgard root and stem from the branches of the World Tree and you speak to me of kingship? King of ashes and atoms, shattered bone and spilled blood, spread out across the stars where you hunted us? I would kill you for Thor alone, but the blood-debt you owe my people can never be paid in full.”
"Ashes and atoms" is a callback to what Loki says during the coronation sequence in Chapter 1: "Asgard is ashes and atoms."
“I took only what I was owed,” Thanos said. “You should never have tried to keep the Tesseract from me.”
“I owed you nothing then and I owe you nothing now,” Loki said, “save a death that will be far quicker than those you gave my brother and my people. And when I’m done, may the spirits of all Asgard stand forth to rip you to shreds on your passage through the great void of Ginnungagap.”
Yonderverse Loki gets very formal and traditional about Asgard in a way that most of my other Lokis don't, because his whole thing is that there was literally nothing left, and he has to be all of Asgard and the Asgardian royal family. Without him the Asgardians likely wouldn't have survived as Asgardians and he's extremely cognizant of that in a way that Thor isn't in the main line canon -- probably because Thor has never really had to think very hard about his own identity and what's important to him as an Asgardian, and Loki has. Thor doesn't have to decide whether or not to be an Asgardian and Loki does.
"I owed you nothing then and I owe you nothing now" is an echo of something Loki says to Proxima Midnight in Yonder 5: "I owe the Chitauri nothing and I owe you less."
“‘All’ Asgard?” Thanos echoed him, and smiled, the scarring on the left side of his face making the expression even more dreadful than it might have been normally. “I destroyed only those who came between me and what was rightfully mine. I am not unkind, my son. Those that fled rather than fight a losing battle, I allowed to escape.”
Until now Loki didn't know that the other Asgardians had survived. Endgame never addresses how Thor finds out or what his reaction is, but it's pretty vital for how Yonderverse Loki is, so it has to be on the page.
Loki’s eyes went huge.
“Oh, god, they’re alive,” Bruce said, sounding stunned. “Oh, god – the Asgardians in the escape pods – the Valkyrie and all the others, all the kids –”
Bruce didn't know either, of course -- remember that he was on the Statesman too.
Loki dropped his polearm and lunged forward, twisting his fists in the front of the Titan’s shirt. “Where are they?” he shouted. “Where are my people?”
First sign that Loki might have something to live for other than vengeance because at this point he really didn't believe that he did.
This sequence is interspersed with the Atlanta operation in the present day -- the last operation the Avengers did as a team and the first operation they're doing as a team post-Snap. I actually do write these as they appear in the chapter, which is to say that I alternate between writing the flashback sequence and the present-day sequence, rather than writing all of one and all of the other and then stitching them together. For me, this makes the transitions between past and present really snappy and lets them flow thematically from one to the other -- the next scene after this is Natasha going after what she believes is Clint (Sir Not Appearing In This Story), and reveal of the Hulk-Widow that closes out that scene leads directly into Loki's shock about the surviving Asgardians that opens the next.
One thing I struggle with in rewrites of canon scenes is that very often the ones I'm rewriting are big multi-character scenes where a lot of the characters are simply not doing anything most of the time and this is one of them. Despite being a Natasha POV scene, she really doesn't have any input past the opening, which does stand out to me on reread. She's also not doing anything in the canon scene. (And I'd bet there's a high chance that when they filmed the scene, all of the actors were not there and it's just stitched together because Endgame did a lot of that.) It's one of those places where I can either add in the character having more interaction in that scene, which I do back in the Chapter 3 flashback with Tony's arrival, because Natasha doesn't say anything in that scene in Endgame but does have dialogue in my version or just live with it and hope it doesn't show too much.
#miss marieanne#bedlam replies#meme response#horizon behind the scenes#the horizon line#roleswap endgame au concept
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Thanos vs The Silver Surfer
Art by Steve Rude
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Debunking “Film Theory: Blue is Not a Dog”
(I typed this post title before even watching the video. I just knew. And I was right.)
We start off with his claim “all these years we’ve been led to believe that Blue is a puppy. But, she is anything but.”
If Blue is not a puppy...then why did she come from a book that was literally called “About a Puppy”? (og series season five episode twenty nine Blue’s First Holiday). That itself should be enough to disprove the theory, but let’s humor him.
He goes on to argue that Blue’s age in the reboot is evidence for her not being a dog, saying that she shouldn’t still be alive. But the reboot is a different universe from the original. You want to know how I know that it’s a different universe? Because if they’re in the same timeline, that would mean they met Periwinkle for the first time twice (og series season three episode twenty one Blue’s Big Mystery vs Blue’s Clues & You’s season three episode one Our New Neighbor). I’d also look forward to seeing his explanation on why, if they’re the same universe, Miss Marigold mysteriously turned into a hippo and Green Puppy got Thanos snapped.
He claims that this is definitely the same Blue from the original series, but his evidence for that is flimsy - saying it’s solely because Steve and Joe talk to her. But that literally does not mean anything regarding whether or not it’s a different timeline if you stop and think about it - the BC&Y timeline is so similar that Steve and Joe probably raised her in that timeline too.
He also goes on to say that Blue can’t be a dog because she has aposable thumbs. It’s almost like...and I know, this is wild, but it’s almost like...Blue comes from a different universe than the one we call reality (Blue’s Big City Adventure seems to establish that pretty well) and so dogs can have different anatomy in different universes? Same goes for his stupid “real dogs can’t eat chocolate ice cream” argument too.
This is just a nitpick but MatPat, when retelling Moona’s story in Legend of the Blue Puppy, says “a litter of puppies just appeared out of nowhere” when Moona literally says they were “born”. Aka they had a mom, we just didn’t see them, they didn’t spawn out of nowhere.
His argument about Blue’s Room not following a normal time is valid. But it’s not valid in the sense of “obviously Blue is an alien”. Blue didn’t make her room, it was given to her, so while it’s perfecly valid to wonder about the time passage issue, I don’t feel like this is something that can be used against her.
The part about Rainbow Puppy seems to have absolutely no evidence attached to it whatsoever other than “Rainbow Puppy is more powerful and is also probably the same species” (I know that Rainbow Puppy is definitely a dog and so is Blue, but I say “probably” because MatPat is trying to argue that neither of them are dogs).
I also love (read: hate) how he argues that Blue unlocking her room changes everything because “it’s all about you now” and “Joe isn’t allowed in there” when Joe has been in Blue’s Room several times. There’s too many to just list here - go look at a Blue’s Room episode guide and see for yourself. (No, I don’t mean a Blue’s Clues episode guide, Blue’s Room is a separate series).
I don’t understand his argument that because Blue stood on two feet in Blue’s Big City Adventure, she’s becoming a “higher evolved being”. She’s stood on two feet several times prior to that. Like a lot. Just for one example, go back and rewatch the scene where they’re reading the About a Puppy book and you’ll see it too.
He’s using Blue’s abilities seen in Blue’s Big City Adventure (skidooing into New York City, bringing objects to life) as evidence for his theory but none of that means she isn’t a dog. That just means she’s a magic dog.
I cannot believe he used Skidoo World being rainbow colored as evidence that Rainbow Puppy controls the world and that Blue is on her way to take control of the world too. The lgbt pride flag is rainbow colored too, does that mean Rainbow Puppy controls the gays? (As a gay person myself I can confirm the answer to that is no).
Yes, Blue came into existence from a book. But that doesn’t make her an alien, and do you know why? Because that book still existed in Storybook World. So it’s more like she moved in from another state/city.
Never go against a tumblr user when the integrity of Blue’s Clues is on the line.
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Reacting to Contemporary Comics (Without Context) 13/?
I've been working on this for six weeks. I'm sorry, homework and TWO ISSUES OF IMMORTAL THOR sidetracked me. Getting this post hammered out before the next issue of Immortal Thor comes out tomorrow.
I don't know what the fuck this is. I think it might be an anthology? We're joined by modern Thor genius writer, Jason Aaron, creator of the story with The Best Panel Ever in Comic History; and Walter Simonson, of nude!Loki bait fame, and several authors whom I don't recognize.
Spoilers for The Mighty Thor #700 (2017) and likely others.
This is feeling vaguely IT 5-ish
Thori! My good boy!
Thor wants to murder Yggdrasil. I love Thori.
Am I crying about mundane panels again? Possibly. In my defense I lost my dog recently.
Fuck I forgot he lost his arm!
Thori and the goat (idk which one it is) just following him is so great
"Man?" You recruited just random dudes, Malekith? What's Joe from Accounting gonna do? Did Doom have the afternoon off and owed you a favor?
Jane vs She-Hulk?! Why is She-Hulk so hot in this? Did this come out before Ragnarok? It must have, right? Ragnarok came out October 2017. Wait, no, it says December 2017.
WHOA, doc/nurse/whoever you are! HIPAA! I know Jane is technically a doctor, but she's here as a patient right now. Don't give her Jennifer's entire backstory.
Volstagg was Thor once?!
LOKI!!!
Loki why are you dressed like that? Where is your sense of style, you queer little twink?
THOR YOU DID NOT NAME THESE NEW HUMANS JANE AND STEVE WTF
There's my boi! Took you fucking long enough, dude
Yeah, because he's the God of Stories! Give him a fucking minute to try before you erase everything he's written! God.
Also can we stop drawing him so gross?!
Okay but I might change the name of my Loki playlist from Disaster Spouse to Little Prince of Jackasses lol
Why is Throg's name Simon Walterson... one of the prolific Thor writers is Walter Simonson... this is a multi-level spoof [I'm thinking he probably created the character, actually, but I'm not in the mood to fact check that atm]
Okay, when is Loki's thread of the narrative? Because that was... still in character, but he seems too cold about it for when I thought this was. Ugh, this is what happens when you let anyone other than Al Ewing write Loki.
NO! What the fuck? Talk about a NoTP! Hela and Thanos? Thanos needs to die alone and unloved. And Hela's married to Karnilla. >:(
#loki#loki comics#marvel comics#marvel comics spoilers#thor comics#the mighty thor 700#the mighty thor 700 spoilers
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The portals open on the battlefield as reinforcements show up vs Thanos.
*intro notes of Shania Twain's Man! I Feel Like a Woman play*
Steve Rogers: let's go, girls!
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Thanos vs Silver Surfer by Steve Rude
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Nancy wheeler x male reader based on Defender strange from multiverse of madness scene same powers and gets injured the same way but instead of being killed he survives and Nancy helps to recover lots of fluff and smut eventually leading upto the fight with vecna and reader holding vecna back like strange vs thanos till eleven gets there
Reader gets the same injury impaled in the back and leg and the face scars and dressed similar reader is also closer to el max and will who look up to reader as an older brother type especially el and max, el because he is also different and max because he stands in as an opposite to billy also becomes close to steve and robin joining in on the teasing he isn't fond of Jonathan he also catches on about robin before the others and tries to be there for her
Cool. Alright I will write it
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Avengers Comics vs Justice League Comics
With their different abilities and personalities, DC was able to form their own team of heroes first "Justice League" in 1960, 3 full years before the formation of Marvel team "Avengers".
Team Dynamics:
Justice League: The Justice League is often depicted as a more formal and structured team, with its members frequently seen as the world's greatest heroes. They work together to tackle cosmic threats and protect the entire DC Universe.
Avengers: The Avengers are often portrayed as a more diverse and sometimes contentious group. Their roster has changed frequently over the years, and they often face internal conflicts while dealing with both global and cosmic threats.
Leadership:
Justice League: The Justice League traditionally has a rotating leadership, with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and others taking charge at various times.
Avengers: Captain America (Steve Rogers) is often seen as the natural leader of the Avengers, with Iron Man occasionally taking up the role as well.
Villains:
Justice League: The Justice League faces a wide range of iconic villains, including Darkseid, Lex Luthor, and the Joker, as well as cosmic threats like Brainiac and the Anti-Monitor.
Avengers: The Avengers have a rogues' gallery that includes villains like Thanos, Ultron, and Kang the Conqueror. They also deal with threats from within their own ranks at times.
Popularity:
Justice League: The Justice League has a strong following and is a cornerstone of DC Comics. They have been featured in various animated series, films, and video games.
Avengers: The Avengers have gained immense popularity in recent years, especially with the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which has catapulted them to the forefront of mainstream pop culture.
#comic books#dc comics#marvel comics#superhero#comic art#comic book art#comic cover#fan comic#the avengers#justice league#mcu#dcu#dc universe#marvel universe
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In regards to the MCU, the multiverse hasnt gotten better at all, it has gotten even more confusing, and idk if you have watched Loki but its so weird because the way they explain variants in that show is exactly what Gamora is, and the only thing that keeps her from being chased is the whole "It was supposed to happen" thing in episode 1. I agree we should keep Gamora out of that whole mess, but if she ever did get involved, and I say it because Marvel is getting TOO creative, my only hopes are that 1. She ends up happy and in peace, and 2. That Peter finds out about this and tries help her be safe because he loves her that damn much
I watched a few episodes of Loki back when it was released and vaguely know how it ends with Kang, and yeah it really does seem like she should be a variant by their logic!!! And like, I maybe understand "well the Avengers were supposed to undo the snap and time travel was the only way," but 2014!Gamora staying in the future... was that a necessary consequence of their time travel shenanigans and/or drawing 2014!Thanos to attack? I have the same kind of question about Steve Rogers going back in time to be with Peggy... which is even more confusing considering that had Gamora gone back to her timeline, stuff would have been different and it would have been a branch vs Steve went back in time and seemed to still be in the main timeline years later just by nature of aging even though he literally changed a major event of the timeline??? And even if it was a branch timeline he was in (which would make more sense), wouldn't the TVA have come after him??? Unless somehow Sylvie kind of nuking the TVA outside of the timeline had already happened, but it doesn't seem that way considering they mentioned that the Avengers stuff was supposed to happen (as if they had already evaluated everything tied to that). And like, I can sort of give the discrepancy with Gamora a pass because GotG needed 2014!Gamora for a somewhat satisfactory ending to their trilogy and they didn't need to give her more grief. So it's like, obvious plot armor, but that actually makes the writing in GotG better since the characters are the heart of the films. But the Steve Rogers Endgame plot hole stuff is unforgivable to me asdfghjkl, like forgetting the TVA plot hole stuff that came later even and not to mention the argument that he seemed OOC.
Thinking about all this multiverse stuff again led me to reread some stuff about it on the fandom wiki, and as I went down a rabbit hole related to all the multiverse movies I haven't seen but vaguely know the plots of, I got this pop-up:
Which is so funny tbh. And after refreshing my knowledge of the current multiverse stuff, I'm even more confused and frustrated 🤦♀️.
Yeah, if they were to explore Gamora and time stuff further it better be done well... She deserves her peace!!!
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Speaking of things that are really good, Tony's burned out rant against Steve. This is another really strong character moment because it, again, speaks to the history between these characters. But it also never loses sight of what it is.
Tony's shell-shocked and traumatized after his fight with Thanos, and he is doling out blame. He attacks Steve but he also takes a moment to attack Dr. Strange too, failing to understand the long game Stephen's playing.
There's a nugget of truth buried in his accusations. He calls back to Age of Ultron, pointing out that the whole purpose of Ultron was to prevent exactly this scenario from playing out. Ultron's construction has been vindicated by what Thanos just did to them.
(Though a clearer head may point out that Tony ultimately got his Ultron. That was Vision. And Vision, uh... Let's just say he was not quite the Thanosbuster suit that Tony may have envisioned.)
But they also slip in a jab at Winter Soldier's Freedom vs. Security themes just to make clear that Tony's not actually supposed to be in the right here. He's freaked out and going on a delirious rant. There is a nugget of truth in the accusation but it's buried beneath a mountain of rage and blame-casting.
And then he flies off the deep end into being completely unfair.
This is Tony at his lowest. It's rock bottom for him. He flat-out accuses Steve of abandoning him, attacking Steve for not being there on Titan. When Tony was the one who made the decision to go to Titan in the first place, against sound counsel from Stephen. At this point, Tony's just lashing out.
And it speaks to the strength of Steve's character that he makes no effort to defend himself. Not because he can't defend himself, but because there is nothing to accomplish by getting in an argument with Tony. So he just stands there. And he lets Tony vent all of his hurt and anger and terror, directly at him.
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Infinity War II 🔥 | Dark Phoenix Series P.2
Takes place during infinity war
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Characters & Pairings: Dr. Evelyn ‘Eve’ Alice Stark (OC)/The Eagle/Host of the Phoenix Force, Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch (platonic/ally), Doctor Stephen Strange (implied romance), Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (implied romance), Tony Stark (platonic/Newphew), Howard Stark (Platonic/brother), Steve Rogers/Captain America (platonic/best friend) a lot of the marvel characters will be involved in this series.
Content Warnings: profanity, violence, near-death experience, angst, canon divergence | Female OC (She/her) | wc: roughly 6k+ (unedited so sorry for mistakes)
Premise: Billions of miles from Earth, the battle against Thanos is unfolding. Onboard heading to Titan, superheroes Tony and Evelyn Stark along with masked vigilante Peter Parker and Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange are pending the inevitable. The goal: stop Thanos from obtaining the Time stone and hold him off from getting the last of them. To their surprise they are not the only ones waiting for him on the planet. And little do they know, something powerful lurks in the distance. Something that will change the trajectory of Eve’s life forever.
I recommend listening to this during Eve vs Thanos
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Note: So I don’t have a face claim for Eve yet, but I imagine her having the same colored eyes as Tony since she’s Howard’s sister and dark hair. The reason I’m making her hair dark, is because I plan to do something with it in regards to the Phoenix force taking claim in her. Honestly I kinda picture young Monica Bellucci or young Penelope Cruz.
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They didn’t know how long they had been traveling, but it felt like hours. The ship was on a direct course for a planet called ‘Titan,’ which they assumed was where Thanos planned for his associates to meet him with the stones.
It was fairly quiet throughout the journey. Peter did the most chattering by staying close to Tony and asking him every question in his mind regarding the upgrades in his new suit. Strange put more protective spells on the amulet while Eve sat silently on the platform. Her feet hung over and she had her hands clasped together. If she were to somehow fall over, she didn’t worry.
Thank goodness for her suit.
Left to wonder, Eve had hope Earth was in good hands. If Bruce followed through with alerting Steve, then Vision should’ve been located and they’d be on their way to the compound. Rhodey would understand—but Ross sure as hell wouldn’t. What they did from there was a mystery and Eve could only hope they had backup.
“Mind if I join you?” A voice broke Eve from her thoughts, glancing up to find Steven standing next to her. She hadn’t even heard him approach. With a gently nod, Eve scooted to the side to allow room for him to sit.
Once he got situated, they both overlooked the open void of the ship. “Never in my years as a surgeon did I ever think I’d be floating in space going God knows where.” Eve chuckled, feeling the same way.
“Life surprises you in mysterious ways.” He scoffed, but there was a hint of a smile on his lips. After a moment with him not replying, Eve couldn’t help but asking, “So…you’ve always been able to do magic tricks?” From the corner of her eye she could see him sigh. She had to fight back a smirk at his annoyance.
“No. I’ve only been doing this for two years.”
“What suddenly spurred you to become a sorcerer, doc? You had quite the reputation in the city from what I heard.”
Stephen was silent for a moment before replying, “Well, I nearly died and lost everything trying to fix something that couldn’t be fixed. Along the way I put everything I had into a last resort and before I knew it I was defending the world from Mystic threats and monsters. Just kinda happened, you know?”
Eve tilts her head, sticking her lip out with lifted brows as if to say, ‘Sounds legit.’ If anyone knew what it was like to have your life altered before your eyes, it was Eve Stark. One moment she’s deep behind enemies lines in 1948 and the next she’s waking up in the desert with a look-a-like of her brother in the year 2008.
“And how is that working out for you?”
Stephen thinks for a moment, then he shrugs. “I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it.”
“Welcome to my reality,” she mutters, glancing briefly to where Tony and Peter were conversing. Tony had stress evident in his expression, while Peter tried making light of the scenario. Eve cared for the boy, but he sure was naive at times.
“I’m still an amateur though,” Stephen comments, pulling her attention back to him. “You’re definitely a professional if we’re being technical.”
“I’ve been doing this for a long time,” she affirms with a tight mouth. “But there are days where I’m still surprised.” She lets out a sigh before continuing, “There’s always something bigger. The fight never ends in this life.” Eve pauses, connecting eyes with Stephen. “You’ll learn that quick.”
“How do you cope with it?” Stephen asks. There was curiosity in his gaze. There was also one of unease.
Eve ponders for a minute, trying to think of the best way to answer without sound too self-deprecating. There really was no easy way to say it. “Usually I just overwork myself until I can no longer bear it. Or I shut down to the point I push everyone away.” She looks away from Stephen, brushing her fingers over the knuckles of her left hand. “Some loses are so hard you find yourself unable to take pride or joy in the victories.”
Stephen knows he probably shouldn’t ask the next question he was thinking. But like many people in the world, the cause of the rift between the Avengers was something many wanted to know more of. “What exactly happened?” When her head tilts up at him, waiting for him to specify, Stephen clears his throat. “I-I mean I know about the whole Accords—like everyone else. But what happened in Siberia? If you don’t mind me asking.”
Eve’s breath hitches in her throat, then she bits her lip. “Um,” she tries to laugh, but it comes out as cough. “You mean what happened with Steve?” When he nods, she squares her shoulders. “Have you ever trusted someone with your whole heart and soul?”
“Can’t say I have,” Stephen admits, looking away when he realizes how bad it sounded.
Eve chuckles, though it’s strained. “I’ve had a few people fall into the category over the course of this extended life. My brother, Peggy, Tony,” she falls quiet, sadness filling her eyes before she says, “My husband.” Stephen looks back to her, noticing how the knuckle on her left hand she kept brushing over was the ring finger. He didn’t know much of Evelyn Stark’s history, but he was aware she’d been married at the time of her disappearance with a young daughter.
“And Steve,” she finishes with a sigh. “When I woke up all those years ago the only person I could trust on this planet was Tony. Then Steve was found. And it felt like I could finally sort of breath again. I wasn’t the only one who was ‘stuck in time.’” There was a small smile from Eve as she thought back with fondness. “Howard was my brother, but Steve was my best friend. We were ‘Captain America and The Eagle.’ We fought the war together, Strange. We stopped Hydra, the Red Skull, Zola. If there was anyone I trusted more in the whole world that wasn’t my family, it was Steve. Then we picked up right where we left off in twenty-twelve. It felt natural.”
There’s a pause from Eve. Now she was getting into the rough stuff. “Believe it or not, I didn’t really care about what happened with the Accords,” she shakes her head, finally admitting the truth she held in years prior. Stephen’s brows raise with surprise. He wasn’t expecting to war hero to say something like that. “I wanted to be done with this life and planned to retire when the Accords were ratified. I didn’t know about the airport conflict. Tony only told me after when he needed me to come with him to Siberia.”
Stephen heard her breath catch again, Eve gulping as he eyes began to water. She held them back, “I thought for eight years my family died in car accident. Tony thought the same for nearly twenty. His parents—my brother. My husband and my daughter. But that wasn’t true—.” She closed eyes, flinching away as the image of their execution replayed in her mind. “You see, Strange, I trusted Steve with ever inch of my heart and soul. I loved him as much as you could love a person without any kind of romantic interest coming into play. And when he discovered the truth of what happened to my family—his friends,” she emphasized, her anger rising and she quickly recovered. “
“I don’t have anger toward the person who committed the act—let me be clear on that,” at the sorcerers confused gaze she explains further. “Hydra knew how to control someone. How to break there mind to the point where they become only a void. He had no control over what they made him do. And I would have understood that.”
Stephen nods slowly, the realization settling in. “What you’re saying is Steve knew your family was executed and kept it hidden. From you and Tony.”
“Yes,” she whispered, letting her head fall so she was gazing at her lap. “Know this, Stephen Strange, since you’re too deep now in this life you might as well learn the most valuable thing a person could know.” Eve lifts her head, connected them with his bright blue ones. He almost felt his heart skip by how intense the stare was. “The reason betrayal hurts so much is because it never comes from your enemies.”
Silence overtakes the two while Eve’s words linger in the air. She takes the time to think back on all that happened in the recent years. There was never a moment of rest for the war hero. Each year Eve felt herself slowly draining away.
After Loki, enemies turned up left and right. Some even right under their noses. There was the discovery of Hydra within SHIELDS ranks and not long after Ultron nearly committed global annihilation. Fighting those types of enemies were to be expected in the superhero life.
But Eve never anticipated she would have to fight her friends.
2016 was the most difficult year for Eve since waking up 60 years after being taken captive by Hydra. When the Accords came into play, Eve felt her best course of action was to retire. Part of her looked forward to it. Eve envisioned herself moving to the countryside, away from the city, and maybe even taking a job as a college professor or starting an organization to help underprivileged kids.
But that didn’t happen.
Her world came crashing down with the opposing arguments between the Avengers which resulted in half of them imprisoned at the Raft. Then there was the bombshell in Siberia where the truth of her families death, including her husband and daughter, came to light. And that Steve, her best friend and person she trusted most in the world besides Tony, had knew all along.
The aftermath that followed was a dark time for Eve. She cried every night and in the shower. A bottle of wine was empty by the end of each day and nightmares flooded her mind. Steve never once tried to contact her, which only fueled her anger. He had the audacity to send a letter to Tony with a phone, but couldn’t give her the same respect.
The only thing keeping her busy and in the superhero ways was Peter. The kid was young and Eve saw herself in him. Helping him felt like a breath of fresh air.
Speaking of fresh air…it looked like they were about to get some because of the blasting sound of the ships alarm. Eve and Strange quickly got up, moving to stand beside Tony in front of the screen.
“Hey, what’s going on?” Peter asked from behind.
“I think we’re here,” Stephen replied.
“I don’t think this rig has a self-park function,” Tony goes to the right, putting his hand in what he believed was the control. “Get your hand inside the steering gimbal, close those around it,” he secures the clasp around his arm and pulls up a map in front of him. Peter does what he says, grunting when the latch squeezes his arm. “You understand?”
“Yep, I got it.”
“This was meant for one big guy, so we gotta move t at the same time.”
“Okay, okay. Ready,” Peter holds tight. The ship was descending fast. Eve moved to the middle next to Strange, the two watching anxiously as Tony and Peter attempted to drive the ship to a safe landing.
Suddenly a very large obstacle closes in on frame. “We might want to turn,” Stephen mumbles just as Peter starts to shout, “Turn! Turn! Turn!” Tony unlocks his suit, the helmet enclosing around his.
They managed to make the turn, avoiding the one obstacle only to collide with another. It takes the top portion of the ship causing it to rattle. Eve brings her bracelets together, banging them twice to unleash her suit while Stephen conjured a protective force around the group.
The ship hit the ground hard. Eve struggles to stay on her feet and pins her wings into the floor to keep stable. More of the ship comes apart before skidding across the ground until it stills. The force of it causing Tony to fall making Strange rush over. “You all right?”
“That was close,” Tony grunts, taking his hand to help him stand. “I owe you one.” Before anyone could say anything or ask where they landed, Peter descends upside down from his web with concern in his expression.
“Let me just say, if aliens wind up implanting eggs in my chest or something and I eat of you, I’m sorry.”
“I do not want another, single, pop culture reference out of you for the trip. You understand?” Tony raises a finger sternly to stop him, but Peter interrupts with urgency.
“I’m trying to say that something is coming.” Never underestimate spidey senses.
The second the words leave Peter’s mouth, a small object rolls in front of the group before a blast sends them backward. Both Stephen and Eve collide with debris, grunting when they land on the ground. They see figures emerge from the whole in the ships wall. “What the hell?” Eve mutters before an unknown voice shouts, “THANOS!!”
Something flies toward Stephen who deflects it causing the unknown person to scream. Next thing the guy knows is he’s on the ground when a red flying fabric wraps around his face.
The second intruder with a metal mask started flying as he shot toward the group with some kind of gun. Both Eve and Tony chased after him with Tony sending a rocket to throw him off. When they collided Tony did not realize something had been placed on him. Suddenly, he’s pulled against his will to the metal debris by a magnetic field.
Eve continues to pursue the masked assailant. When she gets close, Eve brings her arm cuffs together causing a loud *bang*. The force of it sends the man into a wall. He grunts from the impact and Eve goes to pin him before he could escape, but he’s too fast for her. A bright light blasts in front of her causing Eve to block it with her arm and the man knocks her back into the control panel.
Meanwhile Peter lets out a light scream when his eyes land on a lady with antennas glowing on her head. “Woah, woah, woah!” He crab walks backward in a hurry, “Please don’t put your eggs in me!” Before she could touch him, Peter shoots a web to bind her limps together. The lady grunts, stumbling as she walks and Peter is then kicked away by the masked man.
“Stay down, clown,” his gruff voice commands. Peter dodges his attacks, jumping up and away. When he tries to tackle him a blue stringlike material wraps around him forcing him down.
“Die, blanket of death!” Tony escapes and flies over to where the cloak was blocking the view of one of the intruders. Putting a foot on his chest, the cloak flew away to reveal a very buff man with grey and red skin. With Strange holding up rings, Tony with his blaster, Eve with her energy rockets and the masked man now holding Peter at gunpoint, there was a standoff.
“Everybody stay where you are. Chill the eff out,” He clicked his mask and it retraced, revealing a human-like man before them. Eve tilted her head as she glanced him over. “I’m gonna ask you this one time. Where is Gamora?”
Her brow raised in confusion at the question. Both she and Tony’s helmets retracted as Tony replied, “Yeah. I’ll do you one better. Who’s Gamora?” What they didn’t expect was the man laying on the ground to say, “I’ll do you on better. Why is Gamora?”
“That makes no damn sense,” Eve said appalled, mirroring Strange’s expression.
“Tell me where the girl is or I swear to you I’m gonna French fry this little freak.”
Tony’s face consorted into anger at the threat. “Let’s do it! You shoot my guy and I’ll blast him. Let’s go!” A very large blaster emerged from his left hand, pointing down at the guy.
“Do it, Quill! I can take it!”
“No, he can’t take it!” The antenna lady shouted.
“She’s right. You can’t,” Stephen agreed. Eve just rolled her eye, wanting to end the standoff and get to the bottom of who these guys were.
“Oh yeah? You don’t wanna tell me where she is?” the man, Quill, looked at the sorcerer. “That’s fine. I’ll kill all four of you and I’ll beat it out of Thanos myself. Starting with you,” he pushed the gun into Peter’s head.
“Wait, hold up?” Eve put her arms up to lower her defenses. “Run that by us again?”
“All right,” Stephen shook his head, also trying to wrap his head around what Quill said. “Let me ask you this one time. What master do you serve?” Personally that would have not been the question Eve would have asked, but she waited for an answer nonetheless.
“What master do I serve?” Quill repeated the question like it was a joke. “What am I supposed to say, ‘Jesus’?”
Tony lowered his own defenses, giving his aunt a bewildered look. As if his day couldn’t get more surprising. “You’re from Earth.”
“I’m not from Earth, I’m from Missouri.” Eve had to turn around, her hand coming to palm her face. The lack of brain cells this man had was unreal to the scientist.
“Yeah, that’s on Earth, dipshit,” Tony fired back. “What are you hassling us for?”
“So you’re not with Thanos?” Peter’s small voice cut into the conversation.
Quill’s expression turned to one of horror, “With Thanos? No, I’m here to kill Thanos. He took my girl. Wait, who are you?”
With the gun to his head lowered, Peter removed his iron mask. “We’re the Avengers, man.”
“Oh.”
“You’re the ones Thor told us about.” Eve spun back around at the antenna lady’s words. Tony tilted his head in alarm at the fact they knew of Thor. Like Bruce, the Avengers hadn’t had any contact with the God in over two years.
“You know Thor?”
“Yeah,” Quill confirmed, though he looked unimpressed. “Tall guy, not that good looking,” Beside him, Peter made a face as he finished, “needed saving.”
“Not that good looking?” Eve mumbled to herself like she couldn’t believe someone would describe Thor as such. She may have been a married woman at one point, but Eve knew an attractive person when she saw one.
And Thor was the definition of more than good looking.
“Where is he now?” Strange then asked causing Eve to narrow her eye on the group. She was suspicious why Thor wasn’t with them. Could he have sent them?
“He had to go to some star and get a weapon he described as a ‘Thanos killing kind,’” Quill raised his fingers to emphasize the point.
“And he sent you here?” Eve assumed.
“No,” The antenna lady, who still hadn’t said her name, cut in. “He sent us to Knowwhere.”
“Knowwhere?” Eve repeated with a tilt of her head. It sounded like a made up place to her.
“It’s the home of the Collector,” Quill explained, moving away to glance around the crashed ship. “The Collector was holding the Reality Stone,” the group stiffened at the mention of another stone. “We tried to get there before Thanos could take it.”
“And I take it you failed,” Stephen finished for him, disappointment and worry filling his veins.
Quill tried not to let Stephen’s words get to him, but the anger was evident on his face. “We had no chance. And he took Gamora with him. Her sister, Nebula, contacted us and told us to meet her here.”
“Where is this, Nebula?”
“I don’t know obviously!” Quill threw his arms up. “Why do you think I kicked y’all’s ass? We saw the ship and thought you were part of Thanos’s squad.”
“Well, you thought wrong,” Eve stated with a tight expression. “And you barely tickled us with the way you fight.” In the corner of her eye, Eve could see Tony and Stephen holding back smirks. They both looked very amused. Before Quill could fire back, Eve moved forward, determination in her gaze.
“But it’s time to step it up because that makes three stones Thanos now has—if he hasn’t gotten his hands on more. We’ve have the Time stone,” she pointed her finger to Stephen’s amulet, “And if Thanos hasn’t reached Earth then it means our friends still have the Mind stone. That means that—,” she paused to snap her fingers, thinking back to the names Wong had stated earlier. “That means the Soul is the only one we have no knowledge of where it could be.”
At the mention of the Soul stone, Quill stilled in realization. “That’s why he needed her,” his voice was so low Eve almost couldn’t hear him.
“What was that?”
“Gamora,” he repeated her name, “On our way to Knowwhere, Gamora made me promise her something if Thanos ever got to her. It was because she knew something he didn’t. Why she couldn’t let Thanos take her.” Quill brought his hand up to run through his hair, “She must have known where to find the Soul stone.”
Eve felt herself shudder, understanding what Quill was telling them. “And Thanos has her. Right this second?” His nod only sparked more dread. “Fuck.”
“Yeah, fuck.”
When the group finally makes their way outside, they make a haunting discovery. The planet, who Quill named Titan, was a ghost town. Well more like ghost planet.
Besides them, they was not a single sign of life elsewhere. What looked like buildings were run down and becoming dust. It was chilling to see how what once thriving planet looked like when it was withering away.
“What are you guys exactly?” Eve asks when she notices the large scale of their ship. The antenna lady comes up beside her, now free from Peter’s web.
“We’re the Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Eve raised her brow at the name. It was a interesting team name to say the least. “The Guardians of the Galaxy, huh?” Eve tried it on her tongue, shrugging a second later. “Cool. I’m Evelyn,” She stuck her hand out, “but you can call me Eve.”
“I’m Mantis,” the lady replied, shaking her hand with a smile.
“Neat name,” Eve complimented, amused at how fitting it was. Her attention then turned on Quill, who had a glowing device in his hand.
“What the hell happened to this planet? It’s eight degree’s off its axis. The gravitational pull is all over the place.”
“Yeah we got one advantage,” Tony sighs, “He’s coming to us. Eve moved to stand beside him, unaware Mantis was now jumping up and down to test the lack of gravitational pull on Titan. She even stuck her limps out and did a spin.
She was having a blast from what Peter could tell.
“We’ll use it,” Tony announced, turning around to face Quill. Eve followed closely. “Alright, I have a plan. Or at least the beginnings of one. It’s pretty simple—we draw him in, pin him down, get what we need. Definitely don’t want to dance with this guy. We just want the gauntlet—.” A sound from the side distracts Tony. “Are you yawning?” He asks with offense towards Drax, who was in the middle of a yawn. “In the middle of this—when I’m breaking it down. Huh? Did you hear what I said?”
“I stopped listening after you said we need a plan.” The reply has Eve drop her shoulders in defeat. How the hell were they going to defeat Thanos with this lot.
“Okay, Mr. Clean is on his own page.”
“See, not winging it isn’t really what they do,” Quill explains.
“Uh what exactly is it that they do?” Peter asks for the three.
“Kick names, take ass.” Mantis says with determination. Drax backs her up with, “Yeah, that’s right.” All the three could do was look on with absolute bewilderment. Not a single word passed between them. Eve brought her hand up to pitch the bridge of her nose, while Peter flickered his eyes between her and Tony.
And the billionaire genius? He was silently praying would put him out of his misery.
With a sigh, Tony finally says after a minute, “Alright, just get over here, please.” He glances up to Quill, “Mr. Lord, could you get your folks to circle up?”
“Mr. Lord,” Quill closes his eyes with a shake of his head. “Star-Lord is fine.” He nudges his head for the two to come forward. When they approach, Tony continues to break it down.
“We gotta coalesce. Because if all we come at him is a plucky attitude—.”
“Dude,” Quill cuts in much to Ton’y annoyance. “Don’t call us plucky. We don’t know what it means. Alright? We’re optimistic, yes. I like your plan except it sucks, so let me do the plan and that way it might be really good.” All the while Quill mansplains, Tony just looks toward Eve with a ‘we’re doomed.’
“Tell him about the dance off to save the universe,” Drax interjects.
“What dance off?” Tony asks, already not liking the answer.
“It’s not a—It’s not—It’s nothing,” Quill stutters and tries to brush off.
“Like in ‘Footloose’, the movie?”
He looks at Peter with excitement. “Exactly like ‘Footloose.’ Is it still greatest movie in history?”
“It never was,” Peter claps back. Quill looks back in offense.
“Don’t encourage this,” Tony steps toward the teen. “Alright. We’re getting no help from Flash Gorgon here.”
“Flash Gordon, by the way,” Eve feels her eyes roll as Quill moves closer to them. “That’s a compliment. Don’t forget, I’m half human. So that fifty percent of me that’s stupid,” he begins to make a circle with his finger. “That’s one-hundred percent you.”
“You’re math is blowing my mind,” Tony shakes his head in astonishment. Eve wanted to add, but felt she’d lose brain cells if she attempted.
“Excuse me?” Mantis’ voice captures the groups attention. “But, does your friend often do that?” All eyes drift over her shoulder to find Stephen levitating in a criss-cross position.
“Strange!” Tony calls out. “You alright?” Stephen’s eyes were closed and his head was twitching, almost like he was in a trance. Green surrounding his wrists. The Starks moved closer, watching with concern.
“Ahh!” The doctor suddenly screamed as he dropped down. They rushed forward, each catching one of his shoulders to help steady his balance.
“We got you,” Eve gently said. She squeezed shoulder while he panted, noticing how sweat had gathered on his hairline.
“Hey, what was that?” Peter asked.
“I went forward in time. To view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict.” Eve stiffened at Stephens words. Already there was a sense of dread filling her with the tone of his voice. It wasn’t hard to gather things didn’t look good for them.
“How many did you see?”
He looked at Quill before answering, “Fourteen million-six hundred and five.”
Tony clenched his jaw, “How many did we win?” They all waited, silence filling the void causing the anxiety to rise each second. With a number of outcomes that large, not even having a hundred could bring hope of a victory.
And that final ounce of hope shredded when Stephen uttered just a simple word. “One.”
What’s a villain origin story without the villain having a monologue.
That’s what Eve felt as she watched Thanos pitch to Strange the reasoning behind his plan of universal genocide. “Congratulations, you’re a prophet,” Stephen took the words out her mouth. She was crouched down beside Tony, suits at the ready and waiting to make their move. It took everything in her to not fly up to Thanos and blast his head off where he stood, but they needed to do this play by play. The plan they came up with was good.
Now it was time to put in motion.
“I’m a survivor,” Thanos told the sorcerer. The avenger rolled her eyes. Only the worst people in the universe could justify such actions.
“Who wants to murder trillions,” Stephen fired back.
“With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers,” Thanos snapped to show how easy it was. “They would all cease to exist. I call that mercy.”
Stephen rises from the ground, stepping off the pavement he was seated on. “And then what?”
“I’d finally rest,” the Titan hums. “—and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require he strongest wills.” A chill runs through Eve and she glances to Tony. He nods, signaling it was time.
At the same moment, Stephen brings his wrists up and casts his shields. “I think you’ll find our will equal to yours.”
“Our?”
By the time Tony and Eve slammed Thanos with a building like object to the second Mantis pulled him under her spell, it had been roughly two minutes. Two minutes with all seven of them plus a blue lady entering the picture did they have the mad titan bounded. Eve was already out of breath and sweating beneath her suit, but she kept a tight hold on the iron chains she had cuffed to Thanos’ legs. It was keeping him still while the others worked on removing the gauntlet from his wrist.
“Is he under?” Tony asked. “Don’t let up.” Mantis whimpered, eyes watering by the overflow of emotions she was feeling.
“Be quick. He is very strong.”
“Parker, help! Get over here.”
“Go, kid.” Eve took his webs in her right hand and combined with her chains. Using her wing powers, she pulled back a bit to strengthen the momentum.
Tony instructed Peter in a hurry. “She can’t hold him much longer. Let’s go.”
“We gotta open his fingers to get it off,” Peter mentioned and the two began to work on opening Thanos’ fist. Meanwhile, Quill finally made his way over to the group. There was satisfaction in his gaze as he looked on the Titan being overpowered.
“I thought you’d be hard to catch,” he raised a finger to Tony, “—For the record this was my plan.” His words made Eve scoff, the Avenger rolling her eyes. “You’re not so strong now, huh?” Quill’s eyes narrowed as he stepped forward. “Where is Gamora?”
Thanos groaned. “My Gamora.”
“No, bullshit!” Quill snapped. “Where is she?”
Mantis lets out another whimper. “He is in anguish.”
“Good.”
The Titan continues to groan. Mantis looks like she could cry. “He….he mourns.” To caught up in keeping Thanos still, no one noticed the look of realization from Nebula.
“What does this monster have to mourn?” Drax strains out.
“Gamora,” she exhales.
Quill freezes, before slowly turning around to face her. “What?”
“He took her to Vormir,” she begins to explain. “He came back with the Soul Stone. But she didn’t.” Though she didn’t say the exact words, everyone knew what Nebula was implying.
Tony was the first to speak up. “Okay, Quill, you gotta cool it right now. You understand?”
“Listen to him, Quill,” Eve calls out, strengthening her hold.
“Don’t, don’t. Don’t engage,” Tony orders, noticing how the man was turning back to Thanos. “We almost got this off!” He and Peter work faster. Quill could jeopardize them any second and the last thing they needed was Thanos to snap out of Mantis’ hold.
“Tell me she’s lying,” Quill demanded. Eve sees the grief stricken look from Nebula, understanding the two were more than likely close. ��Asshole, tell me you didn’t do it!”
Thanos’ voice is hoarse, “I had to.”
“No, you didn’t.” The crack in Qull’s voice was evident. He repeats, “No, you didn’t.” Then his expression turns to one of absolute fury.
Eve could recognize the look of what he was about to do from a mile away. “Quill, don’t you dare!!” The words go in one ear and out the other for Quill. He brings his arm back—gun in hand—and collides it with Thano’s cheek. The Titan’s head snaps back, causing Mantis’ to lose her grip.
“Quill,” Tony shouts, moving to take Quill’s arm before he could land another blow. “Hey, stop! Hey, stop! Stop!”
“Peter, hurry!” Eve commands. Quill continues to struggle against Tony, fighting his way out of his grip. The gauntlet starts to loosen and Peter struggles to keep it in his hands.
“It’s coming—it’s coming. I got it—I got it!” Half of Thanos’ wrists becomes exposed and for a second they think they’ve won.
But they were too late.
In the blink of an eye Peter is kicked away before Mantis is thrown from Thanos’ shoulders. “Oh, God,” he springs up and away to catch her before she could hit the ground.
Thanos thrusts the leg Drax had been holding in front of him, flinging the man into Peter and Nebula. He collides with them like a bowling ball to pins causing all three to fall. Eve nearly lost her footing, but stayed steady.
The next person to be tossed away was Strange. Thanos took a hold of the whips to bring him over the opposite way. Tony attempted an attack, but Thanos simply backhanded him. And when Drax, Nebula, and Quill raced toward him, the power stone was used to knock them all out.
Eve was the last one standing. So, she did the only thing she could think of. She held tightly to the chains connected to the clasps on his legs and flew upward then forward. The action resulted in Thanos falling to his back, the Titan grunting in the process. Eve dragged him as far as she could, having the thrusters on her wings amp up before moving side to side.
Thanos kept hitting rock after rock. And it was pissing him off.
“Ah!” Eve shouted when she was suddenly pulled back by an unseen force. Purple surrounded her, a reflection of the Power stone, and Eve felt that power as she collided hard with the ground. The force of it was enough cut her temple beneath her helmet. She groaned, pain erupting in her head. Not to mention the wind was completely knocked out of her from the impact of her landing.
“Boss, you alright?” H.O.W.I.E’s voice sounded muffled despite being right in her ear.
She winced, “May have a concussion, but we’ll deal with that later.”
In the corner of eye, Eve could see Tony fly at Thanos. He kicked at his hand—focusing the attack on the gauntlet to prevent Thanos from using it. His attacks failed once more with Thanos punching him away and making him land not too far from Eve. Together they looked at their opponent, only for horror to consume them when he lifted the gauntlet and literally tore the moon orbiting above them to pieces.
“Oh my God,” she muttered and could only guess Tony was thinking the same. The rocks fell onto Titan. Right toward the Starks. They barely had time to react and when they did there was no room to escape. Tony dodged one moon rock only to collide with another and slam back into the ground.
Eve managed to navigate through the meteor shower. Her focus then drew onto the three unconscious figures of the Guardians. With the lack of a gravitational pull, they were floating in the sky after the impact of moon rocks plummeted down. “Shit,” she cursed, flying first to Drax who was closest to her. She caught him in her arms, breathing a sigh of relief when she caught sight of Peter. “Peter!”
“Ms. Stark!” He yelled back, swinging over to help.
Together the two rounded the guardians up with Eve flying to them before tossing them in Peter’s direction. He webbed them onto anything around him so they were secured.
All the while Strange was on a one-v-one battle against Thanos. The Sorcerer Supreme of the Mystic Arts and the Mad Titan. Strange did his best to overpower Thanos—even with four infinity stones against him. For a second, Eve thought Strange could come out on top. That was until Thanos used the Power stone to erase all the duplicate Stranges.
He pulled the sorcerer to him, grabbing him by the neck. “You’re full of tricks, wizard.” Stephen grunts when he takes the amulet and crushes it in his palm. “Yet you never once used your greatest weapon. A fake.” He heaves him away and Stephen knocks unconscious after hitting his heard hard against the pavement.
Thanos moves to finish him off, but a red iron plate encases his palm making him unable to close his fist. Tony and Eve land together side by side, drawing the Titans attention. “You throw another moon at me,” Tony seethes, “and I’m gonna lose it.”
“Stark.” Both the Avengers freeze.
“You know me?”
“I do. Both of you,” Thanos reaffirms, glancing to Eve in her gold suit. “You’re not the only ones cursed with knowledge.”
Tony exhales, amping up the rockets on his back, “Our only curse is you.” With that, the rockets release.
The Titan raises the gauntlet, “Come on!” Smoke surrounds him as they go off. Tony and Eve fly forward, countering and piggybacking off each other’s attack. At one point Thanos rips away Tony’s helmet, but the nanotech quickly forms another before Thanos lands a jaw shattering blow.
Tony groans as hits the ground and Eve is kicked away, but she quickly recovers. Thanos takes the chance to remove the iron plate before using the Power stone on Tony. Although he manages to get a shield up, the force of the stone’s power pushes him back several feet. Before he could blink, Tony collides hard with the rock and falls to the ground.
With a cry, Eve flies forward and turns to extend her feet, catches the Titan off guard. She kicks him off his balance, the two rolling several steps away and Eve finds herself in a heated battle. She focuses her attacks on the gauntlet—doing whatever to either remove it or stop him from forming a fist.
She jumps onto of his shoulders, using her wings to draw them back so Eve could then flip him onto his back. She presses her body onto his left arm, feet keeping his palm open. She then brings her fist up and lands punch after punch until he catches her arm and flings her away.
Eve lands on her back, letting out a grunt. When she gets up, she sees Thanos brings his one hand to his cheek, “All that for a drop of blood?” he hums when he sees the dark reddish purple liquid. The woman huffs, moving to continue the fight.
Unfortunately Thanos sees it coming. Before Eve could land another blow, he brings the gauntlet up. Purple radiates in a bright glow, and Eve’s breath catches when she finds herself unable to move. “W-what?” She stutterers, straining to move her muscles. A eerie sound fills her ears—the sound of mental crumbling.
It all happens to quick. Eve gasps when the air hits her skin. Her eyes go wide and she’s barely able to move her head. Gold levitates in front of her. A familiar shine to the color.
Thanos had took a part her suit.
It was floating around her in pieces. She couldn’t even tell which limbs were what. But she did notice how her very large and sharp wings were moving right in front of her. ‘Oh, God.’
Still unable to move, Eve lets out a choked cry. Her veins were visible with how hard she was trying to break free.
“You’re a strong fighter, Stark,” Thanos says, adjusting his wrist. The action turned the one wing directly in front of Eve downward. The pointed tip was leveled with her stomach. Smaller shards of metal pointed at her chest and torso. Eve’s panted, heart speeding up. In her peripheral, she could see Tony and Strange slowly coming to.
When both men saw what was happening, their face consorted in horror.
“A shame it had to end this way.”
“EVE!!!!”
A scream tore through Eve’s throat, echoing as she was hauled backward until her back met a rock and the pieces of her suit embedded into her body. The wing impaled directly through her stomach—coming to a hilt when it met the rock. Blood spilled from her mouth and the excruciating pain erupted within ever inch of Eve. (AN: If you’re listening to the song, I recommend having it at 6:45)
The sound of Tony crying out to her was muffled. Vision blurred as she struggled to breath. Each time blood poured from her many wounds. Eve grunted, her body shaking from the shock. Soon the pain slowly turned to numbness. There was no way she would survive.
Thanos turned away, not needing to finish the job when it looked like Eve was seconds away from succumbing to her wounds. He turned to Tony, who was too frozen by what he witnessed to notice the oncoming threat.
Eve tried to mentally call out to him, as though it would make a difference. ‘No, please no. Not him!’ It was useless. The Avenger was pinned with nowhere to go. Removing the wing would only cause her to bleed out. Her heart was already slowing down.
When all hope was lost, a rumble shook the ground. Though distorted, Eve managed to lift her gaze up toward the sky. At first she thought she was dreaming. It would explain it since she was seconds from knocking at death’s door.
Up in the already reddish hue of the sky, there was something bright orange and yellow floating on the edge of the atmosphere. It was so bright Eve thought it was a ship at first, but then it starting flying downward and she noticed how close it resembled that of fire. It didn’t have a distinct shape. It literally looked like the sky was on fire.
Eve wasn’t the only one who saw the strange entity. Thanos tilted his head, wondering what it possibly could be. Then it came closer. And closer. And closer until it was ground level and racing right in their direction.
Thanos snarls, raising the gauntlet in an attempt to stop the approaching figure. When it’s roughly fifty feet he uses the stones to destroy it. But to his surprise, Thanos is pushed away, skidding across the ground by the force of it flying past him.
Flying directly toward Eve.
Unable to escape, Eve felt the fear rise in her and she let out a strangled cry. The air became hot. It felt like she was in a sauna at full power as the entity swarmed her. It hit her chest full on, the force of it making her bounce against the rock she was pinned on. The pressure from the impalement went away, and Eve looked down to see all the metal shards including the wing had disintegrated.
Then she was rising off the ground, the orange flare surrounding her. It was so bright she could barely see. She couldn’t even make out where Tony and the others were.
It grew hotter. Hotter than any sauna she had been in. It was as though Eve was falling into a sun.
The intensity became stronger as though she could explode at any second. Her mind was cracking under the pressure—the heat coursing to the point it was becoming too much. Soon her vision turned black. Everything seemed to fade away.
There was only fire.
When a burst of energy consumed her, the scream Eve let out could be heard on every inch of Titan. Tony had to shield his eyes, the brightness so overbearing it was burning. All he could make out was Eve surrounded by orange fire until he barely was able to find her silhouette. It was like he was witnessing the birth of a star.
“EVE!!!”
A white light erupted as the explosion rocketed off the Avenger. Tony fell to the ground, shielding himself from the debris of rocks raining down from the sky. Strange conjured shields to deflect, and Thanos used his gauntlet to disintegrate the pieces. Dust consumed the air making it difficult to see.
When it cleared, the first thing they all noticed was a very large crater the size of Central Park. And in the middle was an very unconscious Eve Stark.
There was still orange surrounding her, but it appeared to be seeping into her skin. It was being absorbed by the woman with tiny glowing cracks along her face and neck and hands.
Tony’s stomach dropped, fearing the worst and unable to accept she was gone. Whether she was breathing or not, he couldn’t tell from the distance. Before he could run to her, Thanos was already up and moving. It broke the older man to not be with his aunt when she could be dead or dying.
But they had a mission to finish. And she would want him to finish it.
With a loud cry, Tony flew at the Titan. His foot came up and kicked the gauntlet to trap it down. Tony then swung down with his left fist. He lost the upper hand when Thanos flipped onto his back.
His suit was breaking apart with each blow—the nanotech unable to keep up with each repair. When Thanos got a hold of Tony’s left hand, the man conjured a blade on his right. He thrusted it toward Thanos’ stomach, but that hand was grabbed as well. The blade was ripped from his hand and driven into an area where his suit was not protecting him.
Tony grunted, shock filling him as he looked down to the weapon penetrating his torso. He winced, shaky breaths leaving his lips and the blood trickled down. Thanos began walking him back, and although Tony tried to push him away the Titan was stronger.
Holding onto the blade, Thanos pushed Tony onto a rock. Bloody and bruised, the Avenger tried to get a look at his aunt to see if she was still breathing, but couldn’t see her. He flinched when a hand came up to hold his head. “You have my respect, Stark. Both of you do. When I’m done, half of humanity will still be alive.” Tony groans when Thanos releases him before stepping away.
Panting, the pain in his side growing stronger, Tony glances to his left. “E-Eve,” he tries to call out, but it gets stuck in his throat. There was no response. Water fills his eyes, “Eve!”
Thanos watches with a blank look. “I hope they remember you two.” The Titan lifted the gauntlet, aiming first at Tony. The glowing stones stared back at the Avenger and he mentally prepared for them to be his last image.
But before Thanos could unleash the power, a voice croaked, “Stop.” Thanos glanced to his right at the sound. Stephen was pushing himself to a sitting position, panting, “Spare their lives and I will give you the stone.”
It was an offer too good to pass. “No tricks.” Stephen shook his head and Thanos directed the gauntlet toward him.
“Don’t,” Tony pleaded.
The Sorcerer ignored him. Raising his right hand, Stephen removed the illusion of the Time stone and it appeared out of thin air. Thanos opened his right palm, awaiting the gem to be handed over. Watching helplessly, Tony sighed as Stephen granted the Titan his wish. The glowing stone flew over to Thanos before being placed in the thumb holder of the gauntlet.
Green swarmed around his wrist causing him to groan. He then looked down to admire it, “One to go.” All of a sudden Thanos was blasted by a bright light, followed by a loud scream. Quill had finally awaken and was currently flying toward the Titan with determination. “AHHH!!!”
His attempt was a failure. Thanos simply used the Space stone to conjure a portal and he vanished from their eyes. Quill had been inches away from colliding with him, but soon found himself hitting the ground with a loud grunt. “Where is he?!” He shouted, removing his helmet and waving his weapon around.
No one answered. Tony was occupied with sealing the stab wound to his side with the very little piece of his suit that was intact. The rest of the guardians were waking up and Stephen was rubbing his goatee with his hand. Quill’s face fell in realization, “Did we just lose?”
Again no one answered. That was when the attention was directed at the lone woman lying in the crater.
“Eve!” Tony shouted, limping toward her. She laid unmoving, eyes closed and arms sprawled out beside her. There was no sight of the glowing orange entity that had surrounded her—what Tony believed had went into Eve. Upon a closer look, Tony realized the area she had been impaled had no visible injury.
No gaping hole in her skin. No guts hanging out.
Only torn clothing and the reminisce of blood remained. Eve’s stomach was intact.
Any other injures or blemishes were also healed—including the gash on her right temple. By the time Tony reached Eve, the glowing orange cracks in her skin subsided. The others watched silently, unable to do anything.
Bending to the ground beside her, Tony attempted to wake her. “Eve—ah!” He flinched back as though he touched fire. A burning sensation filled his palms. Tony tried to touch her shoulders once more, and again doubled back by how hot her skin was. Even through the clothes she wore, Eve was a fireball. Tony noticed the bottom of his hands were flaming red. Blisters started to form causing him to grimace.
The pain was unlike any burn he’d ever had.
“What the hell?” He mumbled, concern written all over him. He put his suit fully on with max cooling and began a severe burn treatment for his hands. “F.R.I.D.A.Y run a thermal imaging scan.” A few seconds later the robotic voice echoed in the silent void. Moisture began to coat Eve’s skin. Within seconds she was drenched in sweat.
“Boss, her heat signatures are reading close to three thousand Kelvins. That’s close to most stars in the Galaxy.”
Behind Tony, the entire group had looks ranging from worry, shock, and amazement. “How’s that possible?” Peter asked, moving closer to the two. Although clammy, Eve’s skin looked normal despite she’d been impaled. In fact, it looked like she was just sleeping soundly. “No one could survive a body temperature that high.”
“Thanks, Captain obvious,” Quill spoke sarcastically.
“Whatever that thing was,” Tony gulped, glaring at the man. “W-whatever went inside her—it-it has to be that. Wha-what was it?” He spun around to face Strange, demanding an explanation. “You’re a sorcerer—you protect our reality, you said it yourself. What the hell was that thing and why did it go into Eve?”
Stephen was at a loss for words. “I-I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know?!”
“Stark, I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Stephen winces when he tries to get up, but ends up staying seated on the pavement. “Believe me.”
Tony shakes his head in frustration. He turns back to Eve and takes her shoulders in his hands—this time protected by his suit. “Eve, wake up,” he gently shakes her, even going as far to lightly slap her face. No reaction. “C’mon, Eve. You gotta wake up—F.R.I.D.A.Y what’re her vitals?”
“The levels are off the charts, sir—I can’t get an accurate reading. She’s exceeding a heart rate of over two hundred beats per minute and her body temperature is rising. I’m trying to make contact with H.O.W.I.E, but the system is compromised.”
“Shit,” Tony curses, tightening his jaw as dread fills him.
“Is she having a heart attack?” There’s a crack in Peter’s voice. The boy looked scared by how lifeless his mentor looked. While he may not be a doctor, anyone would know a heart rate that high was deadly to the human body.
Stephen got up, ignoring the pain in his side and crouched down beside Eve. He couldn’t touch her even with his gloves on. “Can your AI do a EEG? We don’t have electrodes—?”
“F.R.I.D.A.Y.” Tony didn’t even half to ask. Two small orbs released from his suit and landed on Eve’s temples.
“Running one now, boss.” Lifting his hand, F.R.I.D.A.Y projected an image of Eve’s brain waves. Just like what F.R.I.D.A.Y had saw with the vitals, Eve’s brain activity was abnormal. Of course her ratings were always different than the average human due to the enhancement of the super soldier serum. But this was unlike anything the two had seen.
The image only lasted a few seconds before cutting out. Then the electrodes fell off in pieces. “What happened?” They noticed the pieces appeared liquid-like.
“They melted away,” Stephen said with wide eyes. He was in doctor mode and if they didn’t act fast Eve could die any second. “We need to slow her heart down—you need to shock her somehow.”
“We don’t even know what’s wrong with her—.” Stephen cuts him off
“It doesn’t matter, Tony! Her heart rate’s too high and it’s our only option. Kid—,” He calls to Peter who freezes. “Get over here. Your suit will protect you.” Peter rushes forward, anxiety ridden on his face as Stephen instructs him to hold down Eve by the shoulders.
Tony curses, “Dammit, fine! Show me where.” He changes the functions of his hands to act as a defibrillator. Stephen takes his wrists to places on the appropriate areas of Eve’s chest.
“Okay,” he takes a deep breath. Him and Tony catch eyes to exchange nods. “On three, shock her. Alright?” Tony gives another nod. “One……two…..,” everyone holds their breath. “Three!” A loud *zap* ignites as Tony presses his hands into Eve’s chest. The force of the shock causes Eve to lift off the ground. Peter strengthens his hold on her.
“F.R.I.D.A.Y, status?” “Her heart rate is still high, but there was a decrease in the beats per minute.” Tony looks to Stephen for the next move.
“Up the voltage and shock her again.” He sees the concerned look from Tony and says, “Do it.” A sound indicates the change in electricity and Tony places his hands on Eve once more. “One…..two….three!!” The second shock lifts her again.
They wait for F.R.I.D.A.Y’s voice. “Heart rate is decreasing, boss.” Stephen orders one more shock for good measure and finally they breath a sigh in relief when the AI relays, “Heart rate at one hundred beats per minute.”
“I-I don’t understand,” Peter says, backing away once Stephen gave the all clear. He looks to Tony, “She should be dead. Shouldn’t she?”
The older man let out a shaky breath. “Well, she’s still breathing. I-I don’t know how, but she is. That’s all that matters.” He attempted to wake her again. “Eve, Eve, if you can hear me—I-I need you to wake up. C’mon wake up.”
They all wait for any sign of movement from the woman. A flicker of the eyes. A twitch of the mouth. But there was nothing. She laid still as the sweat slowly evaporated.
Tony brings a hand to rub his face. It’s mixed with blood and dirt, but he doesn’t care. After a few moments Tony finally asks the million dollar question to Stephen. “Why would you do that?”
Stephen knew instantly what he was referring to. A shaky breath leaves his lips, “We’re in the endgame now.”
Seconds later a loud rumble shook the ground. Tony slowly stood from the ground—retracting his suit and turned, but remained close to his aunt. Mantis, who was leaning on Quill, felt a shift in the atmosphere. “Something’s happening.” They all looked at her for an explanation, but to their horror, Mantis turned to literal dust before their eyes.
The next thing they knew Drax was fading away. “Quill?” The half human man faced Tony, fear stricken.
“Stay, Quill.”
“Aw man,” were his final words. The air seemed to leave the older man. His chest constricted as the panic rose in his veins. Nothing could have prepared him for this moment. It all but confirmed the worst.
Thanos won.
“Tony,” Stephen’s voice was full of defeat. He waited for Tony to slowly turn toward him before saying, “There was no other way.” Then, like the Guardians, the Sorcerer Supreme was gone in the blink of an eye. Leaving only dust in his wake.
“Mr. Stark?”
If Tony could choke on the feeling of dread, he would be suffocating in it. Peter was limping toward him, tears on his face and looking down on his hands. “I don’t feel so good.”
Tony shook his head, “You’re alright.” It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what the boy was feeling. His spidey senses were strong. Stronger then either of them could have prepared for.
“I-I don’t—I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know—,” he trips, falling into Tony’s arms. With arms tight around the boy, Tony holds him as if doing so would prevent the inevitable. “I don’t wanna go. I don’t wanna go, Mr. Stark. Please. Please, I don’t wanna go.” His knees give out and Tony gently lowers them until Peter is on his back. All Tony could do was watch helplessly as Peter whispered, “I’m sorry.”
The hand that had been on Peter’s chest hits the ground, Tony almost falling to his side when Peter vanishes into dust. He starred at his hand. Little pieces of dust laid in his palm, and Tony clenched it in a fist to bring to his chest. He could feel the rapid beat of his heart. It was rivaling that of Eve’s.
Remember his aunt and fear at the thought she may have dusted without him realizing, Tony glances over his shoulder. He is met with a sigh of relief when he sees her. Though she remained unresponsive, Eve was laid in the same spot.
“He did it.” With everything happening, Tony hadn’t even realized Nebula was still there. Like him, defeat was all over her.
Tony’s mind was racing. One thought came right after the other and they all were in similar fashion.
Eve.
Would she ever wake up? He didn’t know. If she did he’d be surprised since F.R.I.D.A.Y just alerted him of another spike in her heart rate. Then there’s the factor of her body temperature reaching the heat of a actual star. Whatever she absorbed was a mystery. And since none of the Guardians mentioned any sort of recognition, it was safe to assume they’d never seen anything like it before.
In just two short days, the universe as they knew what altered forever. Half of life ceasing to exist with a simple snap of the fingers. Who was lost in the chaos? Tony wasn’t sure if he’ll ever know. They were stranded on a planet billions of miles from home, with one ship he was unsure of how much fuel it had.
They truly were in the endgame.
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Let's talk about Loki in Steve's Battle of Wakanda flashback in Horizon 16! Specifically his introduction scene:
Steve bounced off a fallen tree trunk and hit the ground hard enough to stun him for an instant, long enough for the alien to follow him and close one hand around his throat, the other pinning his right hand to the ground. Steve grabbed his wrist with his left hand, trying to pry him off; he couldn’t get the leverage to kick him and the pressure on his right arm was unbelievable, a thousand burgeoning microfractures sparking from wrist to shoulder. The alien’s features were intent, without much emotion that Steve could read, as he pressed downwards and Steve gasped for air. The sensation was so familiar that for an instant he was back in the Valkyrie as water broke through the windows, so cold that it stunned him, and Steve’s last clear thought for sixty-seven years had been, I thought I was going to blow up, not drown.
He saw the flash of a green cloak out of the corner of his eye before Loki grabbed the alien by the back of the neck and threw him sideways.
There was an echoing crack as the alien hit a tree, sending leaves showering down around him, and slumped down against it.
Steve tried to push himself up and couldn’t, gasping for breath as Loki stalked past him as if he hadn’t been there. He still had a pretty good view as Loki kicked the alien in the head and said, “Remember me?”
The alien spat aside black blood. “Asgardian,” he said. “Still alive?”
“Still alive. My one great trick,” Loki said, almost conversational. He tossed his polearm aside and grabbed the alien by the throat, hauling him up to eye level. “You and your master should have made certain of me after you murdered my brother.”
And for those who have blanked out Infinity War (understandable), that's the alt version of this scene:
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This is the first Steve flashback in Horizon, the chronologically earliest of the flashbacks, and the last flashback in the story. I knew from very early on (possibly as far back as Yonder, I'm not sure) that this was a sequence that deviated significantly from the equivalent scene in canon, specifically because Yonder establishes that Loki was a more active participant in the Avengers vs. Thanos fight (which falls later in this flashback sequence) than Thor was. I also knew that it had to be a Steve POV flashback, because Natasha isn't present in this scene; every other flashback to date has been Natasha POV. (I have never considered doing a Loki POV flashback. Did consider doing a couple of Rocket flashbacks, but they weren't relevant for this story.)
Loki has a little mini arc across the flashbacks, which I don't think is particularly evident because they go in pretty much reverse order: 1 (the coronation) is the latest, 3 and 6 both fall in the middle (they take place during the Endgame prologue sequence and are essentially one sequence spread over two chapters), and 16 is the earliest. There was another flashback sequence planned and partially written which never made it into Horizon because it was just not that relevant for the Avengers in the way that the other flashbacks were. (It's the Valkyrie's arrival on Earth and Loki's reunion with the Asgardian refugees; I think the thematic points there are covered in the coronation flashback or elsewhere in the present day.)
Loki's arc across the flashbacks is, essentially, I want to live, and he comes to Wakanda not there yet. This is the closest he is in Yonderverse to canon Loki -- specifically to that slightly unhinged Avengers Loki, and I was matching his fight choreography in this bit with Corvus Glaive to his arrival at Project Pegasus in The Avengers, so it's harsher, more brutal, and less graceful than we see some of Loki's other fight choreography. He saves Steve from Corvus Glaive, but he's just really not that interested in Steve at this point; saving Steve is a side effect of actually getting his hands on one of the Black Order. He's willing to work with the Avengers because all he wants to do is Murder; he doesn't think he'll come out of it alive.
“Not long now, brother.” Loki’s voice was so low that Steve didn’t think he would have heard it if they hadn’t been standing side by side. The words weren’t meant for him anyway. “Meet me at the gates.”
That line of dialogue starts the second scene in the flashback sequence, but I played with a lot of variations on it and placements for it. For a while it was going to be much closer to the ritual language we see elsewhere in Horizon, as well as in Yonder -- the "Earth must be fed" and the "even now my kin are pouring out the grave ale, they are calling to me" lines, and variations of them, even a version where he could see the gates themselves. I finally pulled back from them because, in all honesty, Loki isn't there yet. The only thing on his mind is Thor, not Asgard. I did initially end this scene on Loki's line here; eventually I pulled that back to be the first line of the second flashback scene, so that it ends on Bruce's canon "Cap, that's him," identifying Thanos because this scene is not actually about Loki, it's about Steve, which is why this sequence is in the story in the first place, and giving him that closing line just doesn't flow.
One thing that is not particularly evident in this scene because Steve doesn't recognize it (he hasn't seen Loki since Avengers and obviously has no idea what Loki was wearing at the beginning of IW) is that Loki had an armor glow-up equivalent to Thor's in IW.
He grabbed Loki’s right arm when he drew it back again, feeling muscles like steel cables under the battered black leather of the Asgardian’s sleeve and the elaborately figured gold-washed metal of his wing-marked vambraces. “Wait!”
Loki looked at him like he had completely forgotten that Steve had ever existed. “What do you want?” he snapped.
There was black blood sprayed across his face, more visible only as a slight darkness against his black garments but obvious where it had struck the green of his cloak or the gold of his armor.
Loki's not wearing armor in IW, of course, but he's got it in Wakanda; it went along with getting Mistilteinn, like Thor's armor goes with getting Stormbreaker. The "wing-marked vambraces" are his memorial to Thor (like the lightning bolt cufflinks he wears when he's in Earth clothes in the present day), equivalent to Thor's in Avengers having Loki's helmet on them. (Loki's are fancier but not described in detail.)
I could say a lot more about this sequence, but in general it was deeply frustrating to write, because the actual canonical fight scene is real bad, and I wanted to keep it as close as possible to canon. (I've now done two separate rewrites of it, one for Horizon and one for Home.)
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