Tuesday's Theme: Union

[cap_ironman_daily]

To celebrate the merge of the Steve/Tony Imzy Community and cap_ironman, our theme this week is: union. Reunions, team-ups, begrudging partnerships, civil unions and all its associated sap, marriage of convenience—you name it!

You can write a story, drabble, headcanon, meta, do art, make a video, gif set, poem, fic rec, song rec — whatever creative way you can think of to connect Stony to the prompt is welcome. Have fun!

If anyone has suggestions for future prompts, feel free to leave them in this post!

Comments

[faite]

I've been sitting on a "MCU Steve and Tony get drunk married in Vegas" idea sort-of-deal for a while, so here we go:



(Cue shenanigans.)

[akatonbo]

<3!

[kasdelav]

Listen, Stevie, I've got some news for you.

(HEY THIS IS GREAT and I love Tony's OH SHIT face.)

[lanidzac]

[faite]

YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS!! YES!!!!!!!

[navaan]

XD Ahahahaha. Steve's face. XD This is brilliant!!!!

[kasdelav]

THE MOST PERFECT, THRILLING SEQUEL.

[spikethemuffin]

I love these so much. I am considering printing them out and putting them on the wall to look at when I need something to make me happy.

Steve looking at his left hand

[(Anonymous)]

I love this story/comic so far. I would love to see more of it. :) This is really good and the art is great, too. :) Looking forward to seeing more. :)

[navaan]

Oh my god. XD "Tony why are you in my bed?" Steve, you sweet idiot. That is going to come back and bite you in a moment.

I adore it!!! Now I want the shenanigans. XD

[nostalgicatsea]

Says a lot about these two that Steve's not even alarmed by Tony being in his bed because CLEARLY, they've shared beds a lot. He's just confused and somewhat cross because he's TIRED.

[kasdelav]

S/T comm: union!
me: aw!
S/T comm: reunion!
me: MMMMM YES! YES!

Anyway I'm sorry if this is short and clunky and a little bit incoherent. I'm supposed to be grading badly written papers and avoiding screens due a headache, ooopsie.

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The first time Steve puts on his wedding ring after the war, it's been almost a year since he came back to life, and he's still living away from Avengers Tower. He and Tony are on different teams, and Steve's workload as commander is so heavy that there are days that start with a mission and end up with him falling asleep over his paperwork, faceplanting on his bed. When this happenes, he wakes up feeling guilty and with a heavy knot in his stomach-- he's supposed to be working on fixing their relationship and yet he can't even pick up his phone before falling asleep and calling his estranged husband.

Steve misses how things were, before the anger. Before the betrayals, and the violence and dying. He feels guilty that what made him want to try again in the first place it's the memory of Tony's paceful face after putting his brain through a blender and calling it quits.

(He has so many questions and so many regrets and feels so, so angry that sometimes he can't help but be consumed by it. Until he remembers that anger almost drove him to kill the person he loves the most in his life.

So he puts a lid on it and tries.)

And then Tony comes over to his sad excuse of a flat (can an empty place like his be called a home?) carrying a bag of takeout and a tentative smile, trusting and earnest and Steve feels his heart swell with warm and his anger melt a little. Tony doesn't remember the scope of his fury, and doesn't blame Steve for it. He forgets (he made himself forget) and forgives.

(And the guilt in Steve grows and grows but he's so grateful he could cry.)

So he opens the door to Tony, basks in his forgiveness. Accepts gestures of affection, and sleeps his tiredness away, cradled in Tony's arms.

And hopes with all his heart that tomorrow they'll do better.

[msermesth]

That was a gut punch (in a good way), and so so sweet. You're version of Steve feels very 'lived-in'. I can see how his mind works.

[kasdelav]

Thank you! I think Steve is pretty angry but also very, very tired and anger is an exhausting feeling. However, I think it's super hard for Steve to let go of his anger, even if he's aware of how detrimental these feelings are.

[faite]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Especially the bit about Steve being self-aware of his emotions; it's hard to capture that nuance of him helpless to them but also trying, and you got it!

[kasdelav]

Thank you! Steve's a very hard character for me to write because he CAN be self aware, he's not dumb-- but he can be heavily emotionally constipated and often, his anger doesn't allow him to be self-aware. I think he's someone who takes a long time to digest his feelings and thoughts and reaches self-awareness after a lot of inner examination, and that's something that happens when he has cooled down (and boy, does it take a while before he gets to that level.)

[navaan]

God, this is like the perfect punch to the gut! Wonderful writing. I love everything about it!

He feels guilty that what made him want to try again in the first place it's the memory of Tony's paceful face after putting his brain through a blender and calling it quits.

Wow, that hurts. ;_;

[kasdelav]

Thank you so much <3!

I think 'angry and very tired/sad about it' Steve is one of my favorite flavors of Steve. And he's just so sad about Tony being Tony :'(.