Steve Rogers/Angel Salvadore (from X-Men: First Class)
I ship Steve Rogers with a LOT of people--well, okay, I ship Chris Evans with a lot of people, which may not be quite the same thing as shipping comics!Steve--but Steve/Angel is probably the most unconventional pairing. I swear, it makes perfect sense in my head! But, okay, so I've been thinking about the pairings that I ship in the Marvel universe, as one does, and decided that Steve/Angel is a terrific pairing that makes a whole lot of sense, both for the characters and for the Avengers fandom in terms of mixing up the male-female ratio and the white-POC ratio. (Not that diversity is the only reason I ship them, but it did play a factor.) Maybe I'm the only person who will ever ship these two, but I've got a plot bunny that just won't quit...
So, here's how it goes: Steve defrosts in the 21st century as per the movie, yadda yadda. Possible PTSD, grief over all his dead friends, difficulty adapting to the future, etc. Fury tries to get him out in the world, which includes giving Steve freedom to wander New York (with some supervision). Steve randomly meets Angel in a park or street or some other public place, strikes up conversation because she's sketching and he compliments her designs. She's a tattoo artist, an activist, and living a fairly alternative lifestyle, and at first she's sceptical of this clean-cut white guy. But she recognizes that he's recently discharged from the military, and they talk politics and war and art and dance and New York and race relations and they become good friends. She doesn't know he's Captain America and he doesn't know she's a mutant. (In this AU, all the First Class characters have been transposed into 2012. It was Erik's grandfather who was Shaw's experiment, etc.) Then she gets kidnapped by HYDRA or whatever, exposed to Pym particles, and gains the ability to shrink. And she becomes the Wasp and joins the Avengers! (This is where I hide in case Jan van Dyne fans decide to flame me.) Steve realises how much he cares about her and decides that he doesn't want to risk losing another chance, like he did with Peggy. And Angel's all, "How are you real?" because he's still ridiculously old-fashioned about courting her.
And it's all in my head, not on paper, so who knows if this will ever get written. But I love the idea of Steve falling for someone who can challenge (and affirm) the ideals he holds on a very practical and lived-experience level.
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So, here's how it goes: Steve defrosts in the 21st century as per the movie, yadda yadda. Possible PTSD, grief over all his dead friends, difficulty adapting to the future, etc. Fury tries to get him out in the world, which includes giving Steve freedom to wander New York (with some supervision). Steve randomly meets Angel in a park or street or some other public place, strikes up conversation because she's sketching and he compliments her designs. She's a tattoo artist, an activist, and living a fairly alternative lifestyle, and at first she's sceptical of this clean-cut white guy. But she recognizes that he's recently discharged from the military, and they talk politics and war and art and dance and New York and race relations and they become good friends. She doesn't know he's Captain America and he doesn't know she's a mutant. (In this AU, all the First Class characters have been transposed into 2012. It was Erik's grandfather who was Shaw's experiment, etc.) Then she gets kidnapped by HYDRA or whatever, exposed to Pym particles, and gains the ability to shrink. And she becomes the Wasp and joins the Avengers! (This is where I hide in case Jan van Dyne fans decide to flame me.) Steve realises how much he cares about her and decides that he doesn't want to risk losing another chance, like he did with Peggy. And Angel's all, "How are you real?" because he's still ridiculously old-fashioned about courting her.
And it's all in my head, not on paper, so who knows if this will ever get written. But I love the idea of Steve falling for someone who can challenge (and affirm) the ideals he holds on a very practical and lived-experience level.
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