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[ofcomplexities]

“cassie told me all about you. you punch through the universe! that’s so cool. how does that work?” he asked with a grin. @cvsmcs​

[ofcomplexities]

wndflowers​:

          ‘  i  definitely  won’t  tell  if  you  don’t !  have  you  even  found  mom  ‘round  these  parts ?  ’   were  her  mom  and  dad  still  together  in  2012 ?  she  doesn’t  even  know  .    ‘  superpowers  ,   duh !   if  that  shocks  you  ,   wait  ‘til  i  tell  you  about  tommy  and  billy  .  ’  

he hadn’t found her. he looked around a bit, but he figured it was more important to try and get out of this situation. of course, now with cassie here, everything was different. “i haven’t, no,” he said. “please, tell me about tommy and billy. these powers sound way cooler than the avengers’.” 

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cfosborns​:

“i think you’re trying to steal me away from my own dad,” harry accuses, but there isn’t malice in his tone. instead, there’s something akin to respect. he knows he shouldn’t do this. he knows his father would kill him for entertaining tony stark, who, at least in norman’s eyes, is a rival in one of the many industries he’s tried to gain a hold on for years. and yet he can’t help but respect and almost admire the boldness and the intelligence of the man before him. “oh, hourly’s totally fine with me. how flexible are the hours?” harry asks, curiosity getting the better of him. “uh, because, you know, i’ve got a research project i gotta balance with all of this, too,” he excused, though rather lamely.

he raised his hands in defense. “i would never,” he lied. that wasn’t what he was doing, but he absolutely would. “all i’m saying is, i think you would do better, thrive even, at stark industries. that’s all! your talents are being wasted. you have way more potential than your dad will ever let you explore, because he risks being accused of nepotism. me? no nepotism here. and if i play favorites, no one’s gonna say a word,” he shrugged. tony couldn’t help but smirk a little. he had this kid hooked. “very flexible. it’s more about what you get done, less about when or how you get it done. as long as you don’t start clocking in 60 hours a week because you don’t want to leave the lab, we’ll be okay,” he said with a smile. “you can use our resources for that project, too. and funding.” it’s a good deal, there’s no denying it.

[colonelrogers]

Tony Stark with his Cap mug: Shuri #4

[ofcomplexities]

acapsiicle​:

   steve couldn’t fight back the creeping smile that was slowly beginning to spread over his lips, nor the chuckled that managed to spill out at the comment. it wasn’t unusual for him to spend quite a bit of time within tony’s lab, recalling tales from his childhood or even the war while tony would stay busy tinkering away on a new project. this space had quickly become an area where steve could feel safe to just be himself, guard and walls down as he conversed with the other man. he couldn’t quite pinpoint the exact moment whenever it had begun to feel like home.

    as the projects were explained, he nodded in understanding, genuinely curious about the work that was being done. he was hardly surprised tony was already putting this much work into different suits, though a small frown began to tug the corners of his lips down at the mention of the experimentation. “it’s all safe to do for your body, yeah?? not that i would put it past you to do some reckless shit.” eyes scanning around the lab, he took in everything curiously before blue hues were shifting their attention back to tony himself. 

   “that was me asking nicely. next ask would have been me carrying you out of here for everyone else to see.” pausing, steve shifts forward, hands falling to his knees. “right now, just to stop tinkering with your toys. i think it’s better for this conversation to be done more… privately.” which the lab certainly was without any else inside. “i’m sure by now you probably know that a few of us are further along in the timeline. we know you sacrifice yourself to save everyone else. i just –.” pain is clear in steve’s eyes as he speaks, hands balling into tight fists. “i didn’t think i’d ever get the chance to say some things that i’ve always left unsaid. i don’t want to waste that opportunity now, tony.” 

it felt nice to have steve back in his corner. maybe everything wasn’t perfectly smoothed over, and maybe it never could be exactly like it was before, but he thought they should give it a fighting chance. he could see the concern on steve’s face before even vocalized it. it was kind of hard to explain that he knew he was going to die and he didn’t want to, and he’d do everything in his power to keep that from happening. tony wasn’t sure how they’d get to that time, the time where they had all the stones and they could reverse the snap, but he knew that when it came, he would still give his life to save the world. that was his fatal flaw. but if he could maybe find a way to save the world and live, he’d be foolish not to take it. 

“as safe as experiments can be,” he said with a small smile. for a dying man, that is. he was trying not to let this knowledge weigh him down, trying not to let it send him into a panic attack. it wasn’t easy. he was drowning in it, and that was why he was here, in the lab, working away for hours at a time. “i think it’s safe,” he added, more serious this time. though he wouldn’t be sure until he started the tests. 

tony gave him a look, his eyes narrowing a little. “you wouldn’t dare,” he said. he put his gadgets down and took a seat, giving steve a serious look. “do you have cancer? because i really feel like the serum should have taken care of that. but you have this really serious expression and it’s freaking me out,” he admitted. he took a deep breath as he spoke about his death, biting his bottom lip and letting it out slowly. “yeah. i heard. wanda told me,” he said quietly. sounded like him. he figured, somewhere along the line, he didn’t think he would actually die. he’d been sacrificing himself for others for years now, and while he got close, he never actually died. he was glad he didn’t have those memories. he didn’t need more images to haunt his nightmares. 

he was so busy wallowing in his own feelings, he nearly missed look in steve’s eyes, but he caught it. “you know i’ll still have to die, right? our time here, it’s limited. and once we get back to our time, i’m still going to do what has to be done to save everyone. are you sure you want to do this?” he asked. the loss would be harder on him if they spent god knows how much time playing house here. he doesn’t want to hurt steve more than necessary. 

[wordsnquotes]

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave, Incendiary (via freccialuminosa)

[ofcomplexities]

nottivagos​:

“  oh  i  know  it  wouldn’t  have  saved  me  from  still  ending  up  here  ,  ”  the  purple-haired  mutant  shrugs  .  “  i  just  meant  that  i  should’ve  taken  that  job  a  couple  days  ago  to  save  myself  the  trouble  of  dealing  with  all  of  this  ,  ”  gestures  to  the  damage  .  “  i’d  still  be  here  .  just  not  …  here  .  ”

if it weren’t so inappropriate, he would’ve laughed. as if not being here would make any of this any better. “well, selfish as it may be, i for one am glad you’re here. i can use all the help i can get,” he said with a smile. “let’s face it, we’ve seen worse.”

[ofcomplexities]

mvtations​:

“this is weird, right?” bobby managed to muster up a laugh, even allowing a smile to spread across his face as he turned towards his friend. “the two of us, sitting here- drinking coffee,” he started to explain, before pausing to take a sip of his coffee. “acting like everything is normal,” he finally finished, once again looking up, this time hoping to gauge scott’s reaction. @ofcomplexities​

scott looked up from his phone, a slightly confused expression on his face. it was weird, but he wasn’t sure what specifically was. he laughed, more of a snort than a laugh, and nodded. “yeah, it is weird,” he agreed, taking another drink. he let out a sigh, tapping his toe lightly. “i think if i didn’t have moments like this, though, i’d lose my mind.” his tone was a bit light, but it was true.

[ofcomplexities]

nottivagos​:

FEATURING  :  scott  summers  (  @ofcomplexities​  )​

“  i  should’ve  guessed  this  universe  doesn’t  have  a  monopoly  on  earthquake-like  powers  .  ”  the  blonde  surveys  the  damage  .  “  but  have  we  figured  out  what  our  next  steps  are  ?  ”

“that would make things too easy, right?” he said. he let out a sigh, glancing around, as if he could find a sign. “not really. we need to regroup, i think. this is bigger than us, but i’m sure we can figure it out.”

[ofcomplexities]

he’d heard about hope. it was hard not to. but he hadn’t quite come to terms with the fact that she was his grandchild. it was kind of hard, given everything going on in his own personal life. “hey. you eaten yet?” @cvsmcs​

[ofcomplexities]

“i hear you’re moving in with alex. things are getting pretty serious, then, huh?” he asked. he nearly threw a joke in there, but this felt like a serious moment. @wndflowers​

[ofcomplexities]

nottivagos​:

 they  smile  back  in  response  .  “  you’re  right  .  we’re  in  a  time  where  influencers  are  slowly  starting  to  become  a  thing  .  and  new  york  in  2012  ?  this  is  a  foodie’s  PARADISE  if  i’m  being  honest  with  you  !  ”  and  jubilee  is  just  living  the  dream  right  now  .  granted  ,  they  already  had  a  decent  following  back  in  2021  .  but  it’s  nice  to  know  that  their  instagram  and  blog  have  been  a  hit  in  2012  .  “  it’s  a  good  thing  you  have  me  .  when  was  the  last  time  you  actually  let  loose  ?  even  for  just  a  couple  hours  ?  ”

he laughed a bit at jubilee’s reason for why 2012 wasn’t so bad. “is new york ever not a foodie’s paradise?” he teased. “you can probably have an even bigger following than you did before, starting so close to the beginning. plus you already know what people like. an advantage over others who are just starting,” he said to them, raising an eyebrow and shrugging. it seemed like a good idea to him, anyway. “i think you know the answer to that, or you wouldn’t be asking.” 

[ofcomplexities]

nottivagos​:

 gwen  can  only  assume  that  while  her  doppelgänger  looks  exactly  like  her  ,  they  don’t  have  similar  styles  .  and  from  what  she  could  read  ,  the  gwen  stacy  of  this  earth  is  likely  no  longer  around  .  “  i  guess  it’d  be  quite  the  shock  ,  ”  the  blonde  lets  out  a  light  chuckle  .  but  she  knows  this  peter  isn’t  a  ghost  .  “  uh  ,  thank  you  ?  ”  awkward  .  “  i’ve  been  here  for  a  couple  months  now  .  you  ?  ”

he was being weird. he was making this awkward, and he needed to stop. it wasn’t like he was new to the concept of the multiverse. he’d heard about gwens that weren’t dead in their world like his was. but he felt a lump in his throat that he couldn’t get rid of. “yeah, yeah. you kind of have a similar look, really,” he said honestly. he gave her a small smile, but moved past it. “not too long, actually. a couple of days.” 

[ofcomplexities]

nottivagos​:

“  fair  enough  .  i  heard  someone  talking  about  some  bloke  dressing  as  a  BAT  and  running  around  the  city  .  ”  she’s  not  exactly  in  the  position  to  judge  since  she  and  the  rest  of  the  gang  dress  up  as  spiders  .  but  damn  she’s  tired  of  this  !  “  i’ll  admit  it  was  surprising  to  learn  that  there  are  people  from  entirely  different  worlds  .  ”

“i saw him the other day! he’s really dressed as a bat. can you believe that?” he asked. he didn’t dress like a spider. that would be ridiculous. and it wasn’t his fault he had spider powers. he sure as hell didn’t pick them. “yeah, i’ve really mostly only seen different versions of this world, different versions of us. this is brand new. i feel like i don’t know as much as i thought i did.” 

[ofcomplexities]

wndflowers​:

             ‘   i  may  be  the  absolute  worse  but  you’re  a  level  above  me  in  worse  ,   just  saying  .  ’    now  ,   this  was  familiar  .   this  is  what  she  liked  about  being  around  peter  parker :   it  was  always  easy  to  smile  .    ‘  yeah  ,   i  was  in  high  school  too  .   before  i  got  locked  up  .  ’    so  she  finally  has  her  family  back  ,   she  supposes  .    ‘  i’m  sorry !  ’   she  says  with  a  giggle  ,   nudging  him  .    ‘  agents  of  atlas  stuff  .   i  probably  just  spilled  some  classified  information  .  ’  

peter frowned and laughed. “that doesn’t even make sense. absolute worst is like the top. you can’t go above it,” he teased. he knew that. maybe he could do something to keep this alternate universe cindy from ever getting kidnapped in the first place. he’d write this world’s peter a note. at least they could find her faster. “life was so different then,” he said, shaking his head. “oh, yeah, well, i have classified information, too, and i share it with you! poor excuse, cin. do better.” 

[ofcomplexities]

vincitomnic​:

open  starter  :  @rewrittenstart​

          a  hand  reached  up  to  lightly  ruffle  redwing’s feathers  as  she  perched  on  his  arm,  the  other  popping  another  jelly  bean  into  his  mouth.  sam  knew  he'd  probably  need  to  do  some  ret  -  con  and  figure  out  what  was  next  in  the  plans,  but  for  now,  he  decided  he'd  rather  have  a  much  earned  break.  “  look,  i've  decided  i  don't  get  paid  enough  to  be  workin'  round  the  clock  the  way  i  am.  whatever  you  wanna  ask  me,  you  either  gotta  pay  my  overtime  or  have  to  wait  another  ten  minutes.  "  

peter had to admit, he was pretty mesmerized by the bird. so much so, that he was really barely paying attention to sam at all. he looked up when he realized he’d been talking, and blinked a few times. “oh, huh? no, i just was admiring redwing, actually,” he said with a shrug. “but like, what if i wanted to ask you to grab a bite to eat. you don’t know what i’m doing here.” 

[ofcomplexities]

cfosborns​:

harry rolled his eyes with a smile. “dude, seriously. just let me know if you want one. you just have to promise me you won’t make the password too easy to guess,” he teased in response. harry figured he could probably guess any password peter set, knowing his friend so well - and in the same vein, he assumed peter would have probably guessed the password he would be installing for the lab, knowing harry just as well. “hey, now you don’t have to go to the gym today! you’re welcome,” harry answered with a grin. “feel free to spend as much time as you want here - but also please remember to get some sleep.” harry found his smile widening at the prospect of telling peter all about his latest project. “okay, so i just got the plans drawn up for it, you ready?” he pulled out a folder from a shelf across the room, bringing it over to peter and showing him the contents. “i’m working on a device to remove air pollution - if all goes well, i’d put them all around the city, completely ridding it of toxins in the air!”

“i think i can manage that. thanks, h,” he teased back, nudging him. honestly, peter wasn’t really bothered. this was nothing compared to what he usually did in a day, but his feet were a little sore. nothing he couldn’t handle, though. “oh, thanks. you’re always looking out for me,” he said, rolling his eyes, a smile painted on his lips. he appreciated the reminder. it was so easy to not get a lot of sleep, especially with fun toys like this lab to play with. “i’ll do my best, but no promises,” he said with a grin. peter nodded, his arms crossed over his chest. “let’s see it,” he said. he raised his eyebrows as he explained, thoroughly impressed. “shit, harry, that’s so cool. where are you gonna put them?”