cap_ironman | 2019 Cap-Iron Man Big Bang Masterlist

After months filled with writing and arting in secret, this year's Big Bang posting period is finished! Thank you to all our lovely participants—we hope you enjoyed yourselves, whether this was your first Big Bang or not! Thanks also for all your lovely messages to the mods - rest assured that we read and value every single one of them 🖤

Here’s the final list of 16 amazing fics of 25,000+ words and their accompanying artworks, created specifically for this event. Bask in all the new Stevetony content, and remember to give the creators love if you haven't already!

Come to Me by Night by Mireille (MCU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

Tony hasn't seen Steve since Siberia, and he's happy about that. He doesn't miss Steve, obviously, or wish their relationship had ended differently. But when Steve turns up on his doorstep, injured and pleading for Tony to help him rescue his team from a Hydra cell in Lichtenbad, Tony agrees, on one condition: after this, they're done. When this is over, he never wants to see or hear from Steve again.

Art by 13bella (Teen)
Art by essouffle (Gen)

I Whisper Your Name on Each Star I See Falling by JezebelGoldstone (Western AU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

The day Natasha first told Steve her idea, he never would have dreamed that her fool notion would land him here: watching the train roll into the station and trying to wrap his mind around the fact that somewhere in there is the man who agreed to marry him.

Steve, an alpha farmer living outside a small town in the Rockies who doesn't want to admit how lonely he is, has been exchanging letters with omega Tony for nearly a year. When at last Tony arrives in Big Eden, Steve is confronted with the fact that he doesn't know Tony as well as he thought he did - and falls for him harder than a landslide anyway.

Art by Arukou (Teen)
Art by littleblackbow (Teen), embedded in fic

Like a Stray Dog Sick by talesofsuspense (Ults AU, Gen) ★ Art-Only Masterpost

I Will Wait by Shellhead 616 (Royalty AU, Mature) ★ Masterpost

Prince Stark was to marry a Prince he never met, for money he never wanted, to reign over a realm his father didn’t care for. But the Prince did care for his people. So he ran away, accidentally joined a group of misfits calling themselves the “Avengers”, with their fierce leader “The Captain". Although, when he discovers the secret the Captain has been keeping, everything changes.
Featuring late night Avengers bonfires, Clint is a Bard so there’s romantic dancing and singing, Cap in medieval armour (there's Art!) and Super(Knight)family.

Art by cachette (Gen)
Art by KotaSailor (Gen), also embedded in the fic

Insomnia by Clumsykitty (616, Mature) ★ Masterpost

For Tony, everything started when the Avengers disassembled and Wanda was missing. He felt lost and without Steve at his side, nightmares came to him. But just now, those nightmare seem to proceed from somewhere else with the premonition of a dark future, and his death. He needs to tell Steve what he feels before falling asleep again or that dream will be the last one he has.

Art 1 and Art 2 by Narukyuu (Teen), also embedded in the fic

The Fabric of Reality by Neverever (616, Mature) ★ Masterpost

Tony loves being Iron Man and the Avengers. But anyone can see that the Avengers are struggling as a team. While he helps Jan solve their problems, Tony meets freelance Artist Steve Rogers. Tony believes that everything is going to turn out great -- the Avengers will pull together, Tony has a gorgeous boyfriend, and the supervillains will be defeated. What more could the modern superhero and CEO want out of life?

Except that Tony has a few secrets that threaten to undermine his happiness.

For one thing, Tony remembers that Captain America was an Avenger when everyone else thinks he died at the end of World War II. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Art by Jayjayverse (Teen), also embedded in the fic

When you Smile, I See Stars in the Sky by yuniesan (MCU AU, Gen) ★ Masterpost

There were several reasons as to why Tony Stark had decided not to go to MIT, instead following with his sister Natasha to a small town college in Upstate NY. One of the reasons was because one of his favorite authors was teaching a fiction writing class.. The second was the chance to go somewhere where there was a chance that no one would know he was a Stark.. The third was to stay out of his father's way all the while writing fanfics about his favorite superhero Captain America. On his first day he meets Steve Rogers, and from that moment forward Tony's life changes more than he could imagine.
Steve Rogers hated Captain America, his father had created the character for him when he was a baby, like his brothers who also had their own comic book characters, but for some reason Captain America had become his father's most popular character. Now a Junior at college, he meets Tony, who absolutely loves Captain America, but there's something that caught Steve's eye. In some of the drawings above Tony's desk is another hero, a man in a metal suit, but as he gets to know Tony, he finds himself falling for the writer as well as the character that Tony's created to work alongside Captain America.

Art by DragonK (Gen)

Dealing with Disappointment by SweetFanfics (MCU AU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

Her story starts like this: her name is Natasha Antonia Stark, she’s born on May 29, 1970, and she doesn’t know it at the time, but she disappoints her father.

--

This is Natasha Stark's journey.

Art by downeyhills (Gen)

you’d break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull by diskarte (MCU, Mature) ★ Masterpost

Fresh from being fished out of the Potomac, Steve struggles with the revelation (and loss) of Bucky, and deals with his feelings in the only way he knows how: he doesn't. Most days, he tells himself it’ll all be okay, because it has to be.

After moving in with Tony and getting Tony to help him look for Bucky, the cracks in Steve’s veneer begin to show. He throws himself into fights, drinks too much of Thor’s Asgardian mead, wakes up and wishes he never woke up.

Steve doesn’t mean to notice the way Tony’s thigh presses against his when they watch movies together, doesn’t mean to open up to Tony about how he really feels about being Captain America and finding out his best friend is kind of not really dead, doesn’t mean to kiss him, but he does, anyway.

Art by pineapplebread (Teen), also embedded in the fic
Art by talesofsuspence (Gen)

Optical Illusions by Winterstar (MCU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

Army Veteran and freelance comic book artist, Steve Rogers is ill prepared to apply for a job as a Personal Assistant to the dashing but elusive billionaire Tony Stark. He’s strapped for cash though, and he needs a break. His friends urge him to apply and Steve somehow ends up with the position. When he signs a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), Steve learns a lot more about the ever-mysterious Tony Stark, the inventor of the modern-day era of clean energy, artificial intelligence and other smart technologies. Tony Stark is a futurist to be sure, but there’s something he’s hiding from his past. Once Steve signs the NDA, he knows the secret and must adapt to it, giving up preconceived notions and slowly falling for his boss along the way. Tony wrestles to accept himself and needs someone to accept him – exactly the way he is. Steve might just be that person.

Art by ironycap (Gen)

A Midnight Hour Comes by alexcat (MCU, Mature) ★ Masterpost

After a routine Avengers mission, Tony disappears. No one knows where he is and there is no ransom demand. Steve is determined to find his friend. Tony's past has come back to haunt him in a dangerous way as an old lover decides to make him pay for her pain. Throw in lots of feelings and lots of danger and intrigue.

And the fact that Steve and Tony both have burgeoning feelings that they don't quite know how to handle.

Art by BeenAsleepFor70Years (Mature)
Art by Tishawish (Mature)

by Mizzy (MCU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

Years after Tony Stark saved the universe, the Avengers realize there’s a major problem: his body has gone missing. And he isn’t the only one. Fallen heroes all over the galaxy have had their graves pillaged.

An old foe is stealing the bodies of fallen warriors, but for what nefarious reason? There’s only one solution. To find out why it’s happening, Steve’s gotta die.

He probably shouldn’t be so eager to do that.

Art by ha-kko (Teen)
Art by kakushimiko (Mature)

Wonderland by Areiton (MCU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

Six weeks after being abandoned in Siberia, Tony wakes in a Tower, next to the man who broke his heart and his trust. But the world--whatever Wonderland world they’ve landed in--isn’t like their own.

The Avengers are happy here. Tony and Steve are married here. With a direct line to Steve’s emotions and the team that he’s always wanted--Tony is more than a little tempted to stay.

Seeing how happy Tony is, how healthy Bucky is--Steve doesn’t disagree.

But there are cracks in Wonderland and the shiny paint peeling might leave a nightmare behind--one that Tony and Steve will need each other more than ever, to escape.

Art by acachette (Gen)
Art by Tishawish (Gen)

Love is a Battlefield by crumbcrash2000 (MCU, Explicit) ★ Masterpost

In Siberia, Steve looks on in horror as Tony watches the video of his parents' murder. Expecting the worst, he is prepared to fight to defend Bucky, even through the shock of his own betrayal.

But Tony doesn't lash out.

Instead, Tony cries, and Steve's whole life falls apart.

Art by downeyhills (Gen)

Three Assholes, Two TARDISes, and a Dalek Walk into a Bar by athletiger (MCU/Doctor Who, Teen) ★ Masterpost

It’s only natural that Tony’s curiosity was piqued when a blue police call box appeared right in the heart of MIT. For one, Tony had never seen cops use a police call box before. He wasn’t even sure that anyone here even knew what a police call box is – he for sure didn’t, but he wanted to find out.

The secrets were bigger on the inside, after all.

Art by Lets_call_me_Lily (Gen)
Art by zappedbysnow (Gen)

Avengers No More (In Infinity) by navaan (MCU, Teen) ★ Masterpost

After Thanos snaps his fingers, Tony and Nebula make their way back to Earth arriving a few days after it happened to find the world in uproar and Pepper among those that have vanished. In his grief and pain Tony doesn't feel he can deal with the Avengers he finds back at the compound, even though he's relieved Steve's alive. Tony can't forget Strange's last words and some things seem to point him to what he has to do next to set things right and along the way he will have to work out the complicated feelings for Steve. Perhaps they can do this together?

Not if Kang the Conqueror has something to say about it!

Art by essouffle (Gen)
Art by JarvisUandDUMEtoo (Gen)

Good Bait and the Help by navaan (616, Mature ★ Masterpost

A new villain is on the scene and he uses stolen tech! There’s the suspicions there’s a huge organization behind this that nobody knew even existed. Commander Rogers wants to know if these suspicions are true and how to stop whoever is behind it. Of course he asks Tony for help. Of course, Tony is happy to help when Steve suggests a trip to Madripoor.

Tony agrees to take Steve with him to another tech convention there, disguised as his bodyguard and lure out the tech-loving villain with a new piece of tech put on display. He didn't expect the bad guy to be drawn to Tony himself rather than his tech.

Art by marumo (Gen)

You can also browse through the stories and accompanying fanart in the 2019 Big Bang Collection on AO3. Be sure to leave creators comments and kudos to let them know how much you’ve enjoyed their collaborative efforts!