@afoxhound asked: 👠 What was my muse’s last serious relationship like?
Pretty much her only serious relationship has been Sam. She did a lot to bring Lara out of her shell. It was with Sam that Lara did a lot of things most teenagers had already done: went to a house party, went clubbing, stayed out late, etc. Halloweens spent out in public not for treak or treating but just partying, getting involved in new activities she wouldn’t have otherwise, things like that. On the flip side, Sam accompanied her on some trips abroad, they went camping and visited historical sites, and Sam was very supportive of her nerdy habits, finding them endearing and cute and most definitely teased her for them too. Where Sam brought Lara out of her sheel, Lara helped ground Sam.
Fun tidbit: Sam, as an aspiring filmmaker, has a lot of costume and set knowledge. Whenever there was a period piece going on at the theatre, Lara was able to provide her accurate and detailed information about it and the two would stay up discussing all forms of art, theatre, clothes, jewlery, etc. Sam also documented all of their travels with both photography and video. She encouraged Lara to be more outspoken about her ideas and was always there to validate her.
Zero hummed softly, standing in the small nursery that they had constructed in the safe house. The two young infants were fast asleep, recently fed and tired after Dr. Clark’s gamut of tests. Looking down on them it was easy for Zero to forget they were anything but normal children.
“Golden slumber kiss your eyes,
Smiles await you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty baby, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby.
Cares you know not, therefore sleep,
While over you a watch I’ll keep.
Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby.”
Regret flickered across his face for a moment. David and Eli—no, the clones, he had to remind himself—stop using their names—would never have a normal life. Clark had already promised the United States pick of the litter. Zero supposed he would be responsible to find use for the other.
The man straightened, looking away from the infants, towards the charts on clipboards hung on the wall. Perhaps boarding school, in England, for whichever the US didn’t choose. Far enough out of sight and out of mind to not be burdensome but not so far as to be unobtainable if needed later. Or, perhaps...
Zero glanced down at David.
...no. Regardless of what was decided, he would not be raising either of them.
Don’t get attached you old fool.
There was a small commotion outside the room, back towards the entrance, and it drew Zero’s attention away from the future and back to the present. Making his way out of the room quickly, he shut and locked the door behind him, walking towards the source of the disruption.
12. Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
someone’s gonna come at me with a pitchfork for this but. listen. for all he fucks up a lot of other characters, i will give bendis the credit that he can write an iron man story. he writes a good tony. it’s not fraction’s tony by a long shot (but also i want you to consider in that respect that fraction wrote tony brought to his lowest, humbled, trod in the dirt, trying to pick himself back up and being sloppy with the everything’s fine mask because it slips continuously and you’re supposed to get that feel from him - but that’s not tony constantly, as much as i do love fraction’s run). 2015′s invincible iron man was funny, he was witty, he was introspective. there were some juicy characterization moments in it and...i’m gonna be real honest here folks. there are two kinds of marvel writers: one type hates tony stark’s guts for some inexplicable reason and takes immense pleasure in having all of his supposed closer personal friends treat him like absolute shit. the other has a huge soft spot for him. bendis is the latter, which may be why i’m biased with his iron man stuff but...? i’m being honest when i say - as someone who has consumed literally everything iron man - he’s closer to the truth than a lot? sure, tony’s flippant - i see that argument a lot, but uh. y’all realize that is a mask yes. that tony uses that as armor.
anyway. i’m saying it. 2015 invincible iron man wasn’t bad at all and people just don’t like it because bendis can’t write everybody properly, but can write a decent tony stark.
he’s better than dan goddamn slott, and that’s all i fucking ask for.
14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
i wish tony had stayed a b-list character instead of what the mcu has done to him. there. i said it. you heard me. let me...let me explain to you one of the reasons i am just. so over the mcu: making everything tony stark-centric. like he’s some kind of second coming of the messiah. listen. no one. and i mean no one. loves tony stark more than i do. that’s the facts, folks. he is my heart and soul, i love him with my entire being. he’s my fictional sunshine. but he is not this uwu soft bean baby boy can do no wrong that mean stinky steve is just wrong and bad.
fuck that. you know who was right in 616′s civil war? no fucking body. that’s the goddamn point. steve and tony were fighting to just fucking fight at the end of it. and they pulled the whole goddamn us superhuman community down with them while they did it. moon knight was right, y’all. they needed to find a room and have a few rounds of angry sex instead of dragging everybody else into their maritals, because that’s what it ended up being. they were both fucking half wrong. it’s not this team iron man, team captain america bullshit the mcu tried to push, they’re both just fucking wrong.
know how i know? because tony got tortured with a vision of the future that, if they’d worked together, shit would have been fine, and steve would have been alive. but they were both stubborn pricks about the entire damn thing.
then we get this whole uwu iron dad thing and. there’s nothing i dislike more than mcu iron dad. nothing. i hate the way it stole from miles’s story. i hate the way they used tony to erase ben. and i hate that they started the hey tony stark can be a hinky little shit thing after he was dead. like, they were just cherry picking surface qualities that are obvious from a quick skim of the big events without actually reading it, the side material, and thinking about it for more than two seconds to figure out why tony would do that hinky shit - because bad idea or not he always has a good reason in place for it.
i just. i hate it. making tony the center of things ruined it, if you want my honest opinion. i love him. he’s the marble i love above all others. but tony comes as a package deal with the avengers and knows how to work in a team.
secondary note: the mcu writers did not understand in the slightest that an ultimates based characterization does not work in a 616 inspired world. there’s a reason fucking ults and 616 are different parts of the multiverse. love ults, hate ults, whatever, but ults is what you’re getting with the mcu, not 616.
