choices, a peggy carter fic
(a commission for sus; set post-captain america and pre-agent carter series,
with an allusion to the one shot agent carter)
peggy is doing her best to live in a world without steve rogers,
to carry on the good fight in any way she can. (2,765 words)
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This is so excellent, I do love Peggy's determination and the way she carries herself through life. I love how, even in the wake of losing all these things that are important to her, she finds a way to pick up the pieces and make something new- she loses her role as a valuable intelligence asset, so she leads her own agency; she loses the family she found in the Howling Commandoes and she shapes them into something new; she loses the love of her life, but that doesn't mean that she can only love once. (Plus, I kind of always figured Peggy would marry Monty because you know how JJ Feild follows Hayley Atwell from role to role lol, but I am really happy you paired her up with Gabe-- it makes me think of the car ride where Steve's tiny and functionally disabled, and she says she knows what it's like, to have every door shut in her face; I think that she and Gabe would bond in a similar way and support each other through people looking down at them. And then twenty years later they'd be active in the Civil Rights movement probably too.)
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I'm so glad you liked it! (And I totally went with Gabe because in the comics Peggy and Gabe TOTALLY GET MARRIED. Which makes Trip on Agents of SHIELD PEGGY'S GRANDSON. I sincerely hope they make this explicit in Agent Carter -- that she and Gabe get married and have a couple kids together and also adopt war orphans. And HELL YES they'd be super active in the Civil Rights movement!)
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And damn fucking straight they'd both be at the forefront of that fight! I see Peggy as being a born crusader, who doesn't hesitate from ANY fight that will see more/better rights for any group.
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