Aerodynamics and the Power of Red Stripes

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was bored and in need of banter. And the image was too adorable not to describe. For the Spring fun challenge.

Rating: G. G-est of G.
Word count: 199. Hah!
Summary: Of course, Tony would make the most elaborate paper airplanes possible, while Steve would stick with the classic triangle.


Tony’s airplane was a masterpiece of paper engineering, a schematic in folds and careful tears. (Steve had declared that use of scissors and tape were cheating, as was using more than one piece of paper; Tony had vanished briefly and returned with double-sized sheets of design paper for both of them.) Steve’s, on the other hand, was sleek and classic (in his words) or hopelessly simplistic and uncreative (in Tony’s). He had finished well in advance and was doodling idly on the wings.

“Your plane has red stripes on it,” Tony observed.

“Everyone knows striped and red vehicles go faster,” Steve replied.

Tony chuckled. “We’ll see about that.”

They launched from opposite ends of the room. Steve visualized the pointy noise of his paper airplane bouncing off Tony’s forehead and threw it. Tony, the smirk on his face suggesting a similar visual, did likewise.

In the exact center of the room, the two planes crashed into each other and tumbled to the floor.

Steve and Tony shared a look. Steve grinned. “Of course you realize, this means war.”

“I knew Bugs Bunny would be a bad influence on you,” sighed Tony melodramatically as he went to get more paper.

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

Steve and Tony shared a look. Steve grinned. “Of course you realize, this means war.”

“I knew Bugs Bunny would be a bad influence on you,” sighed Tony melodramatically as he went to get more paper.

This was followed by Steve making Tony watch Marx Brothers movies I'm guess. ^_^

[spam-monster.livejournal.com]

Now I want this fic. Yay Marx Brothers.

[sinstralpride.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAAH! BRILLIANCE!

This put the biggest grin on my face. ^_^ *grin* Thank you so much, because this totally made my day. *basks in warm fuzzies*

Steve would insist that red stripes made things faster. XD And Tony is so the perfectly crazy-engineering-perfectionist-paper airplane of doom type of guy.

WIN

♥ Sin

[skyearth85.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's adorable! *add to favorites*

[musemachine.livejournal.com]

We gots us a WAAAAGH.

Sorry. Couldn't resist, especially with Steve's insistance that red makes the vehicle go faster.

That was hopelessly, hopelessly adorable and the perfect thing to wake up to on a Wednesday.

[dorcas-gustine.livejournal.com]

This was brilliant! :D

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

“Everyone knows striped and red vehicles go faster,” Steve replied.

l-lolol. That was adorable!

[sdblaine.livejournal.com]

So cute it hurts <3

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

OMG so cute!

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

But red stripes do make vehicles go faster! :D

I'm really tempted to draw Steve with his sleek and classic triangle-plane. It's a very compelling image. Would you mind if I did?

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

She won't probably because it is a challenge if you drew it it can be posted on capironman for the springfunchallenge- which exists entirely because I wanted to see that prompt drawn- even if I adooooooooooooooooooooooore Cygna's written interpretation *nods sagely while chokehold hugging her to death*

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

Technically I wouldn't be able to post it on the comm as it's eighteen and up and I'm, er, not quite. If you're interested in seeing what I come up with, I could probably post it elsewhere, though.

I agree about Cygna's writing, though. Very fun. :D

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

Curse... would someone else be able to post a link to your journal with the age restriction so I can send comm-love your way? additionally have you and your drawing in the possible ridiculous prizegiving?

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

If someone would be willing, that'd be awesome. :D

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

*strangled* *flails, attempting to escape* No, I don't mind pretty pretty pictures. And thank you both for the compliments.

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU :dies of happy: Soooooo much love and the hitting each other planes and planning to plane smack each other and just love it!~ :hugs:

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

/snerk
This is excellent. And so in tune, I can see this fitting right into MA: Avengers.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

*laughs* This was incredibly cute and sweet and I love it. *grins* The Bugs Bunny reference was the awesome icing on the cake.

[northstar-rocks.livejournal.com]

This is so absolutely MA:A
They're so cute and fun together!

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Steve had declared that use of scissors and tape were cheating, as was using more than one piece of paper; Tony had vanished briefly and returned with double-sized sheets of design paper for both of them

*grins* Of course he did ^_^. I love that even Tony's paper airplanes have to be over-engineered and efficient and perfect, down to cheating by using larger sheets of paper (I know some aero engineers and they actually do this), and that Steve is artistically coloring his in.

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Once I started thinking about what kind of paper airplanes they would make, it was just so obvious. Telling Tony to make an airplane and expecting not to get an overly elaborate innovation is just foolish. And of course this takes longer than the classic design, so Steve gets bored and starts drawing on his. They're so predictable sometimes.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

The kind of war that I can get behind!

Fun little snippet, thanks!

[tonks07.livejournal.com]

This fic fills me with GLEE! It's so cute I got a cavity.