Is that the sound of AWESOME I hear?

[pandax-pro.livejournal.com]

Hey there fandom! How are you today? We here at Pandax_Pro just noticed something! Has anyone been keeping tabs on the Members number over on the profile page? Well guess what! Cap_Ironman has acquired 300 members!

 

Well technically the number is 301 right now, but two people's names are crossed out which means their journals were deleted and we have 299 members still, but either way...

WE ARE ALL MADE OF WIN!

Pandax_Pro feels we should have a 300-themed celebration! \ o / just for shits and giggles and the fact that Panda really wants to see Steve and Tony in Greek armor, and to kick it all off we present to you FANART!

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Comments

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Piper is a masculine noun, but I have a little back story where she's feisty and hotheaded and Marcus ends up giving her a guy-ish nickname because she's not your traditional definition of feminine. :) Plus, it balances out the fact that her real name is Kore for me, which is just about as girly as you can get. I actually started sarcastically using 'Jarvus' as a placeholder for Jarvis while trying to think up a name for him, and now he's that in my head, so I'm afraid that may be what he finishes the fic as, haha.

I ended up going with an ambiguous thing for Titus, like you get the feeling that he may have come from a family that used to be better off, but he's been hanging around with Marcus long enough to essentially be part of the upper class at this point, and he is a high enough rank that he'd have a decent amount of money on his own. He's not as true to Steve as I would have liked, but his personality doesn't transfer super well to upper class Rome (Tony's sure as hell does, however.)

And I may or may not have included Carol in the story as an ex-Vestal Virgin. I'm using "authoritative handwaving: or, the Gods did it" as an excuse for everyone's powers. And I HAD to have Thor somehow, so along came Mars. Because, again. This is as cracktastic as possible.

And I threw in Jan, and now it's just become an origins story. And less emo. But still full of senatorial insanity! Because, as you said, it's ancient Rome. Nothing says Rome like the senate acting behind everyone else's backs, assassination plots and crazy Emperors! (Dude. I totally should move this forward a few decades and have like Nero or Caligula as the Emperor. I love me some tyrannical/psycho Emperors.)

I may post the drabbels, we'll see. They are, honest to god, the crackiest things ever that are over the top ridiculous.

[caduceus03.livejournal.com]

Well, if anyone could pull it off it'd be Pepper/Piper ^_^

But OMG - you're using the pantheon as actual characters? That is made of cracktastic WIN!! I'm a little to married to realism, at least attempted, in my stories so the idea of a more fantastic approach is so utterly awesome to me *big grin* Of course, now you have me imagining a reinterpretation of Rome in the same way Hercules: TLJ and Xena reinterpreted Greek mythology! XD I'm not sure that's what you meant...

Pooooost them! If there's anything I've learned it's that if you write something self-indulgent, chances are other fans will love it too. ^_^

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

It is made of crack, haha. I wanted it to be really realistic and historical, but then I was like "well, if this is an origins story, I need Thor. And how the heck do I explain Carol's powers? I know! Bestowed upon her by Vesta! And I can use variations of that for Jan and Hank too! :D But who do I use as Thor..." and then yeah. I used Mars because of the Mars/Jupiter Thor/Odin parallel more than what they're the gods of (if I had gone off of that, it would have made more sense to use Jupiter, but eh. Mars it is.) So now I officially have a god in my story, which makes it MADE OF CRACK.

Alright, I'll post 'em. :) I'll have to run a quick edit, but the they shall be up soon.