MEME: 30 day shipping meme
So I found this on tumblr, and I've done a few others like it over there (see also: 30 day movie meme and works-in-progress 30 day gif meme, 30 day favorite actor meme and 30 day (non-sucky) letter meme), but this one, I feel like a few of the days will get pretty wordy and/or picspammy, so I'm going to do them here, and link them to my tumblr.
You can read the full list of days here
So.
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship?
I actually don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
Tony Stark & Pepper Potts, Iron Man (2008)/Iron Man 2 (2010)
The last thing I expected, going into a superhero movie, and a superhero I knew almost nothing about, mind you, was that I would come out of it with a new OTP.
But then this happened:
Tony: Why are you trying to hustle me out of here? You got plans or something?
Pepper: As a matter of fact, I do.
Tony: I don't like it when you have plans.
Pepper: I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
Tony: It's your birthday?
Pepper: Yes.
Tony: I knew that. Already?
Pepper: Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year.
Tony: Well, get yourself something from me.
Pepper: I already did.
Tony: And?
Pepper: Oh, it's very nice. Very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
Tony: You're welcome, Miss Potts.
In one short scene, so many of my bulletproof kinks got pinged. Playful banter, flirtatious intimacy, a real sense of history between these characters, not to mention an electric chemistry that quickly forms an emotional core to the overarching story of Tony Stark's genesis into Iron Man. These two are clearly so much more than employer and employee. You feel like a voyeur, watching them in this moment, because it's clearly something they would never share with anyone else. You're being allowed in on a long-standing inside joke.
Pepper: Don't ever, ever, ever, ever ask me to do anything like that, ever again.
Tony: I don't have anyone, but you.
Pepper Potts doesn't see Tony as Iron Man, the superhero who will save us all, or even Tony Stark the egotistical playboy, the showman, the mad genius. She sees Tony, the guy who takes apart and rebuilds car engines for fun in his garage, gets really, really drunk, programs his AI to snark at him, makes weird derpy faces at her and asks her to do crazy shit like stick her hands in his chest. She's seen him at his best, and his worst. She knows all his flaws (and she won't take his crap). And she's still there.
Pepper: I don't think that I'm qualified to do this.
Tony: You'll be fine. You're the most capable, qualified, trustworthy person I've ever met.
It might seem like Tony takes Pepper for granted, to an outsider, but that's because they just don't know Tony. Tony knows exactly how awesome Pepper is, to the point where he trusts her to perform heart surgery on him, hack into computers, blow shit up, and even, oh yeah, run his entire goddamn company.
Tony: I've been doing a bit of head-hunting, trying to find a worthy successor. And I realized: It's you. It was always you.
Do they have baggage? Hell yes. I don't think anyone can deny that. But they clearly have so much affection for each other, you're rooting for them all the same, despite what a bad idea it surely is.
Pepper: You don't understand, because you're you!
Do I even have to mention the shameless amounts of UST? No? Good.
Because we also got some very nice gratification at the end of Iron Man 2.
Tony: Weird?
Pepper: No, it's not weird.
Tony: That was okay, right?
Pepper: Yeah.
Tony: Run that by me again.
There is just so much to love. The best kind of fucked-up, leaving me wanting more, more, more.
Tony: I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.
Pepper: You're all I have, too, you know.
You can read the full list of days here
So.
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship?
I actually don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
Tony Stark & Pepper Potts, Iron Man (2008)/Iron Man 2 (2010)
The last thing I expected, going into a superhero movie, and a superhero I knew almost nothing about, mind you, was that I would come out of it with a new OTP.
But then this happened:
Tony: Why are you trying to hustle me out of here? You got plans or something?
Pepper: As a matter of fact, I do.
Tony: I don't like it when you have plans.
Pepper: I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
Tony: It's your birthday?
Pepper: Yes.
Tony: I knew that. Already?
Pepper: Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year.
Tony: Well, get yourself something from me.
Pepper: I already did.
Tony: And?
Pepper: Oh, it's very nice. Very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
Tony: You're welcome, Miss Potts.
In one short scene, so many of my bulletproof kinks got pinged. Playful banter, flirtatious intimacy, a real sense of history between these characters, not to mention an electric chemistry that quickly forms an emotional core to the overarching story of Tony Stark's genesis into Iron Man. These two are clearly so much more than employer and employee. You feel like a voyeur, watching them in this moment, because it's clearly something they would never share with anyone else. You're being allowed in on a long-standing inside joke.
Pepper: Don't ever, ever, ever, ever ask me to do anything like that, ever again.
Tony: I don't have anyone, but you.
Pepper Potts doesn't see Tony as Iron Man, the superhero who will save us all, or even Tony Stark the egotistical playboy, the showman, the mad genius. She sees Tony, the guy who takes apart and rebuilds car engines for fun in his garage, gets really, really drunk, programs his AI to snark at him, makes weird derpy faces at her and asks her to do crazy shit like stick her hands in his chest. She's seen him at his best, and his worst. She knows all his flaws (and she won't take his crap). And she's still there.
Pepper: I don't think that I'm qualified to do this.
Tony: You'll be fine. You're the most capable, qualified, trustworthy person I've ever met.
It might seem like Tony takes Pepper for granted, to an outsider, but that's because they just don't know Tony. Tony knows exactly how awesome Pepper is, to the point where he trusts her to perform heart surgery on him, hack into computers, blow shit up, and even, oh yeah, run his entire goddamn company.
Tony: I've been doing a bit of head-hunting, trying to find a worthy successor. And I realized: It's you. It was always you.
Do they have baggage? Hell yes. I don't think anyone can deny that. But they clearly have so much affection for each other, you're rooting for them all the same, despite what a bad idea it surely is.
Pepper: You don't understand, because you're you!
Do I even have to mention the shameless amounts of UST? No? Good.
Because we also got some very nice gratification at the end of Iron Man 2.
Tony: Weird?
Pepper: No, it's not weird.
Tony: That was okay, right?
Pepper: Yeah.
Tony: Run that by me again.
There is just so much to love. The best kind of fucked-up, leaving me wanting more, more, more.
Tony: I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.
Pepper: You're all I have, too, you know.