I saw this got posted right as I was heading out for New Years Eve and I kept sneaking glances at it all through dinner because ohmygosh you sucked me in right from the beginning.
I love that this fic is set in MCU but seems to take its main thrust from 616 (Shellhead! Winghead!). You've really managed to evoke that 616 bond between the two of them that gives the ship credence for me in a way that their brief interactions in MCU hasn't yet.
Steve crying over Peggy was heartbreaking of course and then Tony's party…I've been that friend more than a few times, when you're having a good time at a party for once and you notice one of your friends is missing and then there's lots of drunk crying and it should kind of suck but it doesn't really because there's nothing more important than being there for this person in that moment they need it most.
The story is touching without being overly so and I love the little bits of humor sprinkled in between (the line about Clint and the wannabe Katnisses made me laugh out loud like a weirdo and also, Private Rogers, geez Tony).
I also really enjoyed all the little details you've scattered in here, like Cap pulling a Kleenex out of his belt pouch (which made me laugh when I was basically crying), the mating birdcalls when they're about to kiss, the Smoot Marks, they all just do a really great job at helping make this a wonderfully rich story.
I was trying to guess which prompt you'd gone with when I first started the story and then when I figured it out, I was blown away how you took such a simple prompt and made it so much richer than I'd imagined and the ending image is everything I could have asked for. Except, oh man, I know I said I didn't care for it to be explicit but holy shit are you making me regret that.
TL;DR You made me feel a lot of feelings in the best way. Thank you so much, mystery author!
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I love that this fic is set in MCU but seems to take its main thrust from 616 (Shellhead! Winghead!). You've really managed to evoke that 616 bond between the two of them that gives the ship credence for me in a way that their brief interactions in MCU hasn't yet.
Steve crying over Peggy was heartbreaking of course and then Tony's party…I've been that friend more than a few times, when you're having a good time at a party for once and you notice one of your friends is missing and then there's lots of drunk crying and it should kind of suck but it doesn't really because there's nothing more important than being there for this person in that moment they need it most.
The story is touching without being overly so and I love the little bits of humor sprinkled in between (the line about Clint and the wannabe Katnisses made me laugh out loud like a weirdo and also, Private Rogers, geez Tony).
I also really enjoyed all the little details you've scattered in here, like Cap pulling a Kleenex out of his belt pouch (which made me laugh when I was basically crying), the mating birdcalls when they're about to kiss, the Smoot Marks, they all just do a really great job at helping make this a wonderfully rich story.
I was trying to guess which prompt you'd gone with when I first started the story and then when I figured it out, I was blown away how you took such a simple prompt and made it so much richer than I'd imagined and the ending image is everything I could have asked for. Except, oh man, I know I said I didn't care for it to be explicit but holy shit are you making me regret that.
TL;DR You made me feel a lot of feelings in the best way. Thank you so much, mystery author!