Some Assembly Required, NC-17

[valtyr]

Title: Some Assembly Required
Author: valtyr
Betas: dieewigenacht, truthiness_aura and cursor_mundi
Fandom: Marvel Adventures
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 58k
Contents/Warnings/Spoilers: Very general spoilers for MA:IM Armour Wars. Issues of consent involving not being fully informed about the person you're sleeping with, sex swap. A joke lifted from XKCD, which is footnoted at the end.
Summary: Tony Stark is trying to set up a new superhero team when he's given a sex change, courtesy of Victor von Doom. He copes with that about as well as you'd expect.
Notes: Marvel Adventures: Iron Man and Marvel Adventures: Avengers are supposed to be different continuities. This fic is an attempt to reconcile them; it's set after Marvel Adventures: Iron Man: Armour Wars and before Marvel Adventures: Avengers. Thanks to bee for early advice on the structure. Thanks to tsukinofaerii for help making the cover!


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Comments

[arileo.livejournal.com]

This is AWESOME!

[valtyr]

Thank you!

[kakow.livejournal.com]

This. OMG, this. This story was great! I need to read it again. RIGHT NOW. Better, more coherent review to follow. Your characterizations were incredible, and they actually sounded human. I have never liked Steve more than I do in this fic. Guh!

[valtyr]

I adore Steve, and his Marvel Adventures incarnation is particularly sweet, so I'm glad you liked him! Thanks for reading.

[muccamukk]

That's a great cover, too!

You should put more of your stuff up over at AO3, so I could easily find it in the one place.

[valtyr]

tsukinofaerii held my hand through transparencies and backgrounds and things. :D And provided me with 'a pink background that looks like a quantum nonlocality'.

Your convenience is a great motivator; I shall get right on that. :p Seriously though, it was so easy, I was impressed, I am going to upload a bunch more, possibly everything. :D

[rioko-avalon.livejournal.com]

OMG I love the cover. I haven't read it but I will review when I do.

[valtyr]

Thank you! It's a manip of Absynthe from Hypervelocity, so it was mostly colouring changes and removing other Avengers. You can see the original pic here, with all the other Avengers as a goth girl. :)

[rioko-avalon.livejournal.com]

! *Squee* Thank you, I've never seen that before.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's Marvel Adventures genderswap! *loves* Real review to follow when I finish reading it.

[valtyr]

Marvel Adventures is always love. :)

[settiai]

Oh, this was awesome. ♥

[valtyr]

Thanks! Glad you liked.

[deviouslint.livejournal.com]

This was the best use of my evening in... well, ever. Seriously. Mostly just capable of squee right now, but I love how you captured the MA feel. (And OMG Doom. Brilliance!)

[valtyr]

Thank you! Doom is totally my go-to villain for weird behaviour. Thanks for commenting!

[niki-chidon.livejournal.com]

Not only did this story cause me to almost choke on my toothbrush, it's also the reason I was late for work today. ('Cos I just couldn't go to sleep until I'd finished and... yeah.) So, thanks a lot;P

No, seriously. I loved it. I have a newfound fondness for sexchange fics and I absolutely love revelation & coming out scenes and here there were so many wonderful different "coming outs" and I can't wait to get out of work so that I can go read it again.

[valtyr]

:D I am sorry for the many inconveniences I caused you, but I am glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting.