Fic: I Walked A Thousand Miles Just To Slip This Skin (R) by IamShadow

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Title: I Walked A Thousand Miles Just To Slip This Skin
Author: iamshadow
Fandom: The Avengers, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairings: Gen, Pre-slash Steve/Tony
Rating: R
Word Count: 18,679
Summary: He's become so used to being Iron Man and an Avenger, to battling Doombots and aliens and evil scientists trying to take over the world, that he'd forgotten that sometimes people want to do harm to you, personally, when you've just snuck out of the Tower to get mid-afternoon doughnuts.
Content: Genderswap, gender dysphoria, body issues, self esteem issues, non-consensual drugging, references to rape, references to hate crime, references to transphobia, references to war crimes, trope subversion.
A/N: Written for my Free Square of Round One of trope-bingo.

This story was partly born out of frustration at depictions of genderswap in fic as being cracky, sexy funtimes, or as a vehicle to slash. I wanted to write Tony struggling with gender dysphoria, with the journey his character takes being the prime focus, rather than a vehicle to a ship. So, this story has subtle hints of changing feelings, but that's not the point of it.

This is also the longest one shot I've ever written. \o/

Enormous thank yous to my gender betas, nathaniel_hp and kazaera, and my story betas, 51stcenturyfox and tree00faery. You're all awesome, and this story is a hundred times better because of you.

On AO3 - On DW - On LJ Part One / Part Two

Comments

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

This story was partly born out of frustration at depictions of genderswap in fic as being cracky, sexy funtimes, or as a vehicle to slash. I wanted to write Tony struggling with gender dysphoria, with journey his character takes as being the prime focus, rather than a vehicle to a ship.

Thank you.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)