so, if...

[saraid.livejournal.com]

another question, this one more plot related (plot of the fic, not canon)

if steve were to come back now, right at this point in canon, what do you think would happen? (aside from the assumed
slashiness :)

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[sdroid.livejournal.com]

Freak out just a little then be very angry and the US government. Honestly, if/when he comes back, I don't think he'll return to being Captain America because of everything the government's done -- he's taken on different names when something like this has happened in the past (The Captain, Nomad), so I'd think he'd do it again.

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

NOW is a REALLY bad time for him to return, really. I'd vote for when things calm down a bit... Couple of arcs down. (Can't really expect the poor man to come back from the dead AND THEN have to clean up all the mess...)

Besides, what the heck would poor Bucky do? He's just getting the hang of the new job...

[saraid.livejournal.com]

well, to spoil the story -- he's already back i'mnot gonna rewrite the first coupla thousand words! but i do think he's going to be very, very angry. at a lot of people. wish me luck :)

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

I'd expect him to call a news conference and speechify and make everyone feel guilty about everything.

[dorothy1901]

If Steve were to come back right now, he'd probably end up confronting and dealing with the following:

• The SHRA, which is still in effect.
• The split in the Avengers between Mighty and New.
• Norman Osborn's power grab.
• Bucky taking on the mantle of Captain America
• S.H.I.E.L.D. The president said SHIELD "is no longer viable. It has been compromised and is being shut down." However, SHIELD isn't an American organization; it's a multi-nation organization, chartered by and reporting to the United Nations. The other member nations of the UN might keep SHIELD operating without active American involvement.
• Sharon Carter's brainwashing, pregnancy and miscarriage.
• Clint Barton's return from the dead.
• Thor's ditto.
• Tony.

I assume that the first person he'd contact is Sam Wilson, since Sam is a close friend and a trusted ally, and isn't (currently) in hiding.

Cap also might try reaching out to super-heroes of other nations. Someone should; one result of the Skrull invasion ought to be the recognition that sometimes it's necessary to organize an efficient planetary defense.

[saraid.livejournal.com]

hey, dorothy1901...how d'you think he'd deal with those things? he's got tony, that's a given, because of a plot point -- think osborn will try to arrest him? i had already planned the press conference/guilt thing - whose baby was sharon carrying? thanks for the reminder about shield.

eek. i hope i can write sam. i'm guessing sam hates tony, too?

oh - what happened to jarvis?

off to wiki the teams rosters :)

ps. my hands are doing the itching-swelling cycle again. i am *not* looking forward to this!

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

He'd be so pissed. He was only just coming to terms with the SHRA. The Skrull invasion's one thing--he's used to crap like that--but coming back and finding out they put Norman Osborne in charge? Osborne'd have to arrest him, and he'd have legal cause pretty soon, because I think Steve'd quickly start doing something about that.

And then Sharon's mind-control...and the idea that he almost had a child? That'd just traumatize him. And he'd probably keep tabs on Sharon for a while, trying to find a way to fix that crack in her psyche.

I think he'd also be pissed at what people've done to Tony, even if he's still mad at Tony, because it's one thing to be angry at a guy for behaving like an idiot, but it's another to turn an old friend--even an ex-friend--into a scapegoat.

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[saraid.livejournal.com]

i think it was ozzy and sharon that did us in so, a couple more question; where's fury? did luke and jessica get their baby back? where's pepper? has anyone, at this moment, tried to seize tony's accounts, etc?

all important plot points. honest! don't i look trustworthy? (don't answer that...osborne)

by jove!

[saraid.livejournal.com]

i think i've got it! everyone has been so generous! thank you all. i have an outline, i have some motivations and i'm off. let'a hope it doesn't suck :)

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I think he'd be livid - over what's happened to Sharon, over the state of the Marvel U (Norman Osborn in charge, the SHRA still around), over the way Tony's been treated (because even angry with Tony, he still cares about him) and also horrified and grief-stricken/devastated over Secret Invasion (the fact that people he knew and trusted were skrull plants) and most especially over Jan's death. Clint and Thor's return from the dead would make him extremely happy, but he'd be discovering that he has two of his oldest and closest friends back at the same time that he's finding out that he's lost another of them -- we're talking serious emotional roller coaster.

Not to mention that he'd be coming back to find that he's effectively been replaced. I mean, even though he might very well run around as "The Captain" for a while again, or possibly borrow Clint's silly "Ronin" identity out of anger/protest at the government, Captain America is still who he is, and even though he'd probably have given Bucky his blessing to take his identity had he known, there's probably still going to be a little part of him going "But how could Sam/Tony/etc. replace me?" A very small, quiet part of him, mind, and he never actually say it.