OOC: Meme from everyone and their time-displaced uncle:

[gartersandstars]

I wasn't going to do this one, since I can't seem to think up questions for anyone else, but I figured I'd open up the door to questions from others. And maybe eventually I'll get around to asking questions of my own.

If you have something you want to say, or questions to ask about me, or my pups, or the way I do things with my pups, then please

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[starspangledcap]

I'm so glad you like Hank! And he and Emma should really interact again sometime. (I'm kind of terrible with taking the initiative to set up RPs, which is why I've been so quiet.) But if you ever want to do something, feel free to poke me at destroythemeek (at) gmail (dot) com.

Now, as for Cap - first of all, to clarify, the "boyfriend" mentioned is an OC I invented, who exists primarily to 1.) give Steve a spot of happiness in his angsty life, and 2.) to help him figure out his sexuality. He and Tony are, for all intents and purposes, not a couple right now, and probably won't be again (though hooking up is not out of the question, and constant yearning/still being in love with each other is pretty much a given.)

However, there are many, many reasons why I think they do make a good couple - or at least a good trainwreck. As a writer, the things that ping for me in a pairing are 1.) a long history of friendship, 2.) insane amounts of devotion, and 3.) conflict over life outlooks. (Also, the not always necessary but certainly a bonus 4.) betrayal that isn't really betrayal.) Tony and Steve have all of that. And there's just so many moments, throughout the years, where it makes it so obvious that they're really, really married (at least to me). They save each other from burning buildings and astral comas. They fly together like this and have panels like this. Tony knows Steve's bagel preferences by heart and loses days of sleep to make Steve a new shield when he loses it. They have fights in which they "stare into each other's eyes and know that they've lost something deeper than friendship. They meet on "isolated cliffs overlooking the ocean" to repair their friendship. Tony reflects on Steve's "handsome face" and "azure eyes" and admits that, though he didn't cry at his own father's funeral, he would cry if Steve died.

And now, with all the Civil War stuff? With the Casualties of War: Iron Man/Captain America one-shot (which basically reads as a slash fic with a fight scene instead of a sex scene) and the post-Civil War "The Confession," in which Tony, sobbing over Steve's dead body, admits that the entire war wasn't worth it because Steve is dead? The pairing is practically canon in my head. Tony lost a lot in the Civil War, but all he can think about, in all the comics coming out lately, is Steve's death. He couldn't even speak at his funeral without breaking down into tears and running off stage, and this is a man who is a businessman, a politician, and a control freak.

I realize all of this seems pretty one-sided - and it's a little harder to justify the fact that Steve loves Tony than it is to justify that Tony loves Steve. But I chalk that up to Steve being generally oblivious. If he ever got a clue, I don't think there's anything that would stop them from jumping into bed together, even if it did still result in violent breakups over ideology every few years.

So, um, in conclusion? OTP. Because, even if they could probably never, ever work in the long term, they are so, so in love.

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[likeadeuce]

Awwww.

And lots of "what you said"!

Thanks for all the links, too. I hadn't seen some of these.