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elspethdixon

Birthday ficlet for tavella

May 23, 2008 04:39

Space opera AU ficlet. I took a few liberties with the original scenario, but I rhink you'll recognize it ^_~.

( It wasn't until his second month on the Iron Shell, after the disastrous mission to Vega Six had finally been wrapped up and Zemo's bid to become Warlord of his own solar system was all over but for the nasty letters from the lawyers at Hammer Intergalactic (Hammer had had substantial sums of money invested in mineral rights on the now-interdicted Vega Six) that Captain Steve Rogers began to suspect that he was being watched )

steve/tony, fic

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dallin_dae May 23 2008, 10:25:38 UTC

Considering that his pilot officer's body was locked away inside the ship's core, under a layer of solid steel, a complex mechanical life support system the only thing that was keeping his heart beating, no, Steve didn't see it happening.

O-kay, I did not see that coming. Great twist. I also loved the parallels between the ship and the armour.

elspethdixon May 30 2008, 15:02:49 UTC

O-kay, I did not see that coming. Great twist. I also loved the parallels between the ship and the armour.

Thanks! I read far too much Anne MacCaffrey as a middle-schooler, so the idea of Tony as a spaceship was too fun to pass up.

kitty11chan January 31 2009, 01:47:17 UTC

Ha! I KNEW is was McCaffrey-influenced! Don't worry, I'm just as obsessed.

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elspethdixon May 23 2008, 16:08:11 UTC

I LOVED THAT BOOK LIKE BURNING WHEN I WAS ABOUT TWELVE. LIKE BURNING.

tavella May 23 2008, 17:51:55 UTC

ME TOO! I think it's like the Mercedes Lackey books -- they are exactly the sort of space opera/fantasy that you want when you are that age.

20thcenturyvole May 23 2008, 11:35:38 UTC

OOH! I loved that twist, it was a really neat blending of the canon into the AU. I'd love to see how other things would mesh into this scenario.

(Um, in case I haven't left a comment before: hello, I found your fanfiction through crimsonquills and consequently fell completely in love with Steve/Tony. you don't know it, but you made an Avengers fangirl out of me! *g*)

elspethdixon June 4 2008, 23:07:16 UTC

Hi! *waves hello, then scuffs feet apologetically over late reply*

The original fic concept was spawned by the brains-in-a-jar challenge that was going around last year (take a canon and write a "Ship Who Sang"-style AU for it). I've actually got an entire vague AU plot outline for it, as well a long list mental list of all of the people who would have to be ships. Like, for example, The Space League Ship (S.L.S.) Dayspring, which has been hijacked by space mercenary Wade Wilson. Victor Von Doom would also be a ship, of course; Reed Richard used to be his captain, until Doom's sudden-but-inevitable betrayal when he stranded Reed and the rest of the crew on an asteroid in the face of an approaching cosmic storm and left them there.

you don't know it, but you made an Avengers fangirl out of me!

One day, or fandom will rule the intarwebs! Yes!

elspethdixon June 4 2008, 23:08:11 UTC

One day, or fandom will rule the intarwebs!

Our fandom. Ack. I can't type.

crimsonquills June 7 2008, 23:23:40 UTC

Like, for example, The Space League Ship (S.L.S.) Dayspring, which has been hijacked by space mercenary Wade Wilson.

*flails with inarticulate love of this concept...FLAILS*

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tavella May 23 2008, 15:38:11 UTC

Eeeee! I remember talking about this, but you actually WROTE it. You have no idea how thrilled I was to see this on my friendslist. Thank you!

I adore voyeur Tony, and practical Thor, and I think there's sort of an unconscious metaphor in the chess game -- Steve didn't know what he wanted, but he's going to like it a lot more than he expected.

elspethdixon May 23 2008, 16:10:49 UTC

You're welcome ^_^. I was trying to think of something non-RR&R-verse to write, since it was me writing by myself, plus something I was pretty sure you'd like - it was either this or Living Armor/Tony non-con, and gestalt1 already has the Armor/Tony non-con well in hand.

archinella May 23 2008, 15:43:26 UTC

Awesome story, and the twist with Tony being a part of the ship was a neat touch.

elspethdixon June 4 2008, 23:09:57 UTC

Thanks! The story-concept for this was originally going to be part of the brains-in-a-jar fic challenge (take a canon and write it "Ship Who Sang"-style), but I never got around to finishing the original fic.