Peter watching his own dad having a mental breakdown and not knowing what to do is a big mood
Strange casually floating in the background
We laughed in the cinema at Tony’s reaction more than at the actual joke
And at that EXACT moment, Tony knew they were screwed.
i am 100% convinced tony full on disassociated here. like, mantis straight up yeeted him out of his own body and that deflation is him finding his way back and realising yeah, that really just happened
i can’t believe the mcu has TWO depressed bisexual alcoholics with ptsd and they’re probably never gonna meet
random avengers 4 wishlist:
-christine everheart
-tony stark has not said “yikes” since iron man 2 and this situation must be rectified IMMEDIATELY
-tony is fine and lives all the way to end of the film and beyond and gets married to pepper and has a little baby and peter babysits sometimes
-valkyrie is there
-natasha romanoff gets to kiss maria hill
-thorbruce
-pepper wears the rescue armour
-we find out rhodey didn’t actually know about steve lying about tony’s parents and that’s why he was so inexplicably friendly with him in infinity war
-valkyrie is there (PLEASE and let her meet tony it’s all i ask they’re my friendship rarepair brotp)
-loki is fine
-nebula kills thanos
-tony wields the infinity gauntlet
-nebula and tony bond on their sad space roadtrip
-wanda apologises to bruce
-thor catches a fucking break
-they can’t save vision but they can retrieve JARVIS from his coding
-steve goes out in a truly EPIC blaze of glory
-they set up guardians 3 as being saving gamora from the soul stone
-captain marvel is relevant to the plot but doesn’t detract from the og avengers’ victory
-TONY IS FINE
-wanda and tony come to an Understanding
-bucky and tony come to an Understanding
-clint’s characterisation comes back from the war
-scott was dusted and it’s actually hope who gets to do all the possible cool plot stuff with pym particles and time travel
-shuri and tony get on incredibly well and it TERRIFIES everyone else
-carol and rhodey
-TONY STARK IS FINE AND GETS TO BE HAPPY
*insert gif of bruce banner saying “but when do i ever get what i want”*
Tony drains his glass. Valkyrie risks a brief look at him and is almost transfixed. For the first time since she’s known him his eyes aren’t empty. They are burning.
“How many futures did the Timekeeper see?” Asks Nebula, scepticism lacing every syllable.
“Fourteen million six hundred and five,” says Tony, the number tripping easily over his tongue as if he’s repeated it a hundred times. He probably has, thinks Valkyrie.
“And we win in one,” says Nebula flatly.
As always when she hears those numbers, the weight of potential possibilities presses heavily on Valkyrie’s heart. Every single decision they make spirals out in front of her, reaching back into the past and far out into the future. Every one of them could tip them off course. Their magnitude is overwhelming. Paralysing.
“Yes,” says Tony. “The only way.”
–
Valkyrie and the Asgardian refugees begin to make a life on Earth.
OR
Val and Tony and Nebula are sad in Wakanda.
Sequel to Flight Of The Commodore, read that first.
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Whoooop the next part is here! This fic has nearly 10000 words and there’s a lot fucking more to come. I have never been this productive.
Nebula leans over the control panel, the flashing lights reflecting oddly off her exposed metal. “The gas tank’s ruptured,” she says, completely neutrally. “We shouldn’t have made that last jump.”
“Can we fix it?”
“We don’t have the parts.”
“Can we get the parts?”
Nebula pauses, thinking, and Tony stares at her for a long moment. Then he gets it.
“Anywhere advanced enough to have what we need is gonna know who Thanos is. And who you are,” he says.
Nebula cracks an angry smile. “They’d try and kill me. And then I would kill them.”
–
So that oneshot about Valkyrie and Tony and Nebula being sad in space has spawned a prequel and other sad extras? And there’s gonna be MORE. It’s a rough ride kids.
Finding Heimdall is a blow. She had sensed a memory of his seiðr near the hole in the ship and had hoped faintly that he got away.
Finding Loki is worse. He is the last body she brings in and it wasn’t like the something she had occasionally seen in his sharp smiles had meant anything, had ever gone anywhere. Still finding his body, shattered and twisted at the neck, is unquestionably the worst.
There is no sign of Thor or the Hulk. Of course that could mean many things, almost none of them good, and Valkyrie hates the bubbling hope fizzing in her fingertips. I’m going to cry now, she thinks, I’ve done enough and now I get to-
A man’s scream echoes from the direction of the medbay.
–
Valkyrie goes back to the Asgardian ship to check for survivors and finds those from a different slaughter.
OR
Val and Tony and Nebula’s sad space road trip.
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I wrote a fic kids! It’s not We Build The Wall To Keep Us Free but I actually have some writing mojo rn! It’s a post-Infinity War Valki/Lokyrie fic but that really isn’t the focus, it’s more about Tony and Valkyrie and Nebula being sad in space.
iampinbitch 