#ask ambi

[ambivalentmarvel]

put that boy in a horror situation

NOW WE R FUCKING TALKINGGGGGGG

[ambivalentlangst]

Are you still doing the bingo cuz if so 👀 Hand Gagging with Lance

Yep!! Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been running low on inspired lately. Hopefully the new season will give me the motivation I need. Enjoy!

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tw: graphic descriptions of violence

Lance, for as loud and obnoxious as he occasionally prized himself on being, was surprisingly good at recon missions. The nonexistent sound of his armored feet on the halls of the ship was a testament to that, taking out the guards standing outside the control room he needed to infiltrate with finesse. The little USB thingamajiggy Pidge had given him did its job from its spot plugged into the center console, and Lance got to vaguely monitor security cameras and dick around on a Galra warship for a bit while he waited. All in all, fun. Lance hadn’t gotten to cut loose in a while and only was a little bit bothered when the Blade operative showed up.

Lance waved from his spot using his minimal knowledge of code to rename various things around the ship for shits and giggles. “Hey!” he called, watching the doors slide shut behind them. “I’m just finishing up here and then it’s all yours. Quick question, would you know how to reprogram the sentries to sing It’s a Small World constantly? I think it’d be a fun parting gift and I’m willing to provide the audio, which I guess is a good thing because nobody out here knows what that is anywa—”

Lance tended to get nervous around the Blade, as silent and stoic as they all seemed to be. As a result, he rambled. The mask covering the operative’s face shimmered, and Lance’s words died in his throat upon seeing a familiar mullet under it. His lips split in a grin, and he launched himself at Keith with a laugh. “Mullet!” he exclaimed, ignoring the beep from the device telling him it was done. “It’s been forever. How’s life treating you? All your super secret Blade stuff?”

He took a step back, watching Keith process. “Uh, good? I didn’t expect to see you here, though.”

Lance shrugged, bounding back across the room to take the drive. “The universe blesses us all, occasionally.” He grinned as he plucked it from its place, and swiveled back around to face Keith. “I’m supposed to be headed out, but I suppose I can spare the time to keep my favorite mullet-headed, cropped-jacket-wearing half-Galra company.” Keith scoffed but Lance noted with delight that the sound was distinctly playful.

Keith walked forward, commandeering the screens with finesse Lance didn’t know he had. He whistled shortly. “I don’t suppose you’re allowed to share what the purpose of your latest super secret mission is?”

Keith shook his head and looked a little smug when Lance deflated at his reply, pressing a hand over his heart in mock offense. “You’re the cruelest mullet-headed, cropped-jacket-wearing half-Galra I know,” he complained.

Keith laughed. “Shut up and let me do my job.”

Lance was happy to comply, though that didn’t stop him from tapping his foot and poking at various things he found around the room. That was all fine and dandy until he heard Keith cuss softly.

Lance’s head popped up from its spot examining a black spot on the floor and determining if it was dirt or a crushed space bug. “Keith?”

Keith’s hands were flying across the keyboard. “Shit, shit. Kolivan warned me that they might have some sort of security protocols in place for the information we’re looking for but we had the code, I don’t know why it’s reacting like this—” Keith cut off abruptly as alarms started to blare, somehow making himself work even faster.

Lance stood so fast his vision blacked out for a second, crossing over to grab Keith’s arm. “Keith, come on! We’ve gotta’ get out of here.”

He shook Lance’s grip off almost violently. “No, I have to get this. I’ve been botching too many mission recently, this is important.”

Lance gulped nervously, hearing the sounds of footsteps. “Not more important than your life. Let’s go!” Keith’s laser-like focus didn’t break.

Lance gritted his teeth and pulled at him harder, only to be shoved to the ground. “You go. I’m staying.”

Lance didn’t like how close those footsteps were getting. “They’re going to be here any second, Keith. According to our intel, the general in charge here is really bad. We don’t want him getting his hands—paws, whatever—on us.” Still no sign of stopping. Lance wished he had the brute strength like Shiro or Hunk to drag him away. “Keith, I don’t want him getting his hands on you. You’ve already been away for so long—you have to come back home. You have to say goodbye before you can die.” His voice was cracking, tears springing to his eyes at the thought that Keith would be gone and Lance would be the only one to see.

Keith spun and locked eyes with him for a few long seconds that were blurred, to Lance, anyway, by tears. He sighed. “Fine! I have to cover our tracks though.” Lance let him have approximately three more seconds of tapping at things Lance couldn’t even begin to understand before his nerves got the better of him and in what must have been a moment of sheer adrenaline, pulled Keith into a small closet nearby in the nick of time.

Moments later the door slid open while their bodies pressed together, breaths heavy and seemingly far, far too loud in the cramped accommodations. There came the sound of an angry stride bringing a Galra to the control panel Keith had been touching just moments previous. Lance felt like he could barely breathe as a roar followed, and the sound of someone far less confident entering the room could be heard.

“Private, I thought you claimed the technical problems with the ship to be cured.” The voice was low, a furious grind of fangs Lance could picture all too clearly.

The one that came in response was a mere terror filled warble. “I fixed them—fixed them to the best of my ability—my ability, general.”

The first then, building in volume while Lance and Keith looked at each other with wide eyes. “Then why,” the word was a snarl that sent chills up Lance’s spine, “does it show that some rebel got in the system hours ago despite the fact that the alarms are going off now.”

A low whimper. Keith gripped Lance’s wrist so tightly it hurt, but Lance was doing the same so they were even. “I—general, the rebels must have—must have hacked into the ship and—into the ship and altered protocol that I had amended—I had amended previously and had no control ov—”

There was the sound of furred hands hitting something, claws scraping against metal. “Are you suggesting to me, private, that the intrusion was not your fault?” Lance bit back a whimper, feeling Keith’s heart beat wildly with their chests pressed together. He remembered the way Keith had insisted he cover for them. He might’ve asked if that was what was keeping their cover if he hadn’t been so scared of the voices sounding from right outside. “And if not your fault, who? Your commanding officer, for allowing the intruders?”

The poor private’s voice was growing panicked, higher in pitch. “No! Not at all, general. I would never—would never insinuate that—”

“Then who is at fault, private?”

“I—” Lance flinched, listening to the lower ranking Galra scramble for an explanation, an excuse. He’d never felt sympathy for the Galra before but was selfishly grateful that he’d dragged Keith away before the private was replaced with the two of them. “Me, general. Me. I’m at fault.” Lance had never heard a voice sound so small, nor a reply so darkly satisfied.

“Thank you for your confession, private. Unfortunately, the empire does not tolerate incompetence.”

The private didn’t even have time to beg before there was a hot, sickening squelch that silenced the beginnings of a scream. Lance and Keith’s eyes met in the dark, and Keith must’ve read something on Lance’s face because a moment before his shriek came out he clamped a hand over his mouth.

Lance felt Keith shaking against him and clung to his form regardless, the wordless horror filling him too great to bear. That could’ve been them, that could’ve been them—

“General Eilrac requesting new technical support.”

Lance would never forget the private’s stammering, terror-filled last words, an admission fueled and coerced from him from the monster set on murdering him. He’d never forget, and until the general left and the coast was clear, the his final moments echoed hellishly in the closet. Lance couldn’t even scream.

[ambivalentmarvel]

ambi it's talk shop tuesday and my children are starving: pls would you be willing to talk more about "look what you did to a perfectly good final girl. she has anxiety." alms for a poor skelly.

omg!!!!! so basically it’s a fusion of spider verse and mcu lore with comics sprinkled in as needed for flavor but ultimately it was inspired by my desire to write marvel again!!! i’ve been writing for spidey adjacent things for so long that the universe and the prose/style i use to write it feels homey and i missed it : )) and i’ve been chewing on came back wrong/came back too late for it to matter tropes lately so gwen seemed like the obvious choice lmao. also i wanted to kill peter again it’s been too long <333

tldr; gwen has been resurrected by someone and comes to in a random street with a piece of paper with mj’s address and Hazy memories of her life before she, allegedly, died horrifically. this is all very disorienting, particularly when it’s been a decade since she died in the first place, all of her friends are now real adults, and peter/spider-man recently died in a fight with kingpin.

whoever resurrected gwen also tossed in some fun spidery side effects for take two of her life. and there’s also this new black and red spider-man running around the city??? weird. no idea who that could be.

mj is Losing Her Fucking Mind by the way. not every day you as an incredibly talented actor/a-list celebrity are in the thick of grieving the second untimely death of your best friend and then have the one who died first show up.

so much of gwen’s character (even in spider-verse) revolves around another spider-man, and i wanted to see what her character would do if spider-man was gone and gwen stacy was the one left standing to face the villain. she’ll be totally normal about this, probably.

many characters across different marvel universes showing up and all being observed by an Unhinged teenage heroine clinging desperately to the notion that she can still have the regular life she always wanted while also struggling to not literally break everything she touches you know how it is <333 thank you for asking and i hope that cleared Something up??? but also it’s very possible that this has just created more questions in which case sorry. mwah.

[ambivalentmarvel]

Oh that fic idea sounds amazing

doc title is “miguel miles limbo” which. yeah that sums it up. here’s everything that i wrote for it in june and that i’ve been emotionally playing yahtzee with ever since xoxo

don’t worry too much about semantics miguel has some very Interesting beliefs as we all know <333 my maladjusted king

[ambivalentmarvel]

hi bestie just letting you know i am always thinking about sim tony! always thinking of your particular brand of irondad and how it's always with tony being a grumpy bastard and peter an exhaustive little shit i perhaps! miss your brand miss your style how dare you continue to live your life!!!!! alas.

sim tony like if you agree

seek i’ve been keeping this in my inbox for the past 36 hours like i’m a rich maiden from the 1800s and it’s a picture i keep in my favorite locket when i embark on a long transatlantic journey this is so sweet

brain is. cooking. don’t know what’s going on up there to b entirely honest but something will tumble out eventually xoxo

[ambivalentmarvel]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗 (- thinkingisadangerouspastime)

@thinkingisadangerouspastime OMG HI AMY!!!! thank you for this ily <3 not necessarily in order? but i thiiiiiink these are my top ones. maybe. who’s to say. we’re going w it.

Blips on the Record

this is up here for my KING mcu flash thompson and his potential for a healthy and funny relationship with peter. they r both a little messed up and could help each other about it i think. had so much fun developing flash’s voice here and he is everything 2 me :)

Once, There Was A Boy

bitches (me) love a motif! bitches (me) also love outsider pov! what can i say! spider-man’s a part of his community in life and in death etc etc and i spent a few months working on this so : ) it’s fun to look back on it to see all the love that went into it

Where to Reach

hard having correct a:tla opinions on the fire siblings and the fire nation but someone has to do it! toying with the character dynamics here is so FUN and so wtr is my darling and my dear and the apple of my eye i love her so bad. update coming Eventually

the choice is yours

i didn’t expect to like this one as much as i did but!!! i also didn’t really expect to write it at all so! the style and emotional development really works for me. i just think Women.

Runaway Baby (Getaway Darling)

i just think Women cont. ENOUGH morgan stark erasure she would be funny as fuck grown up and causing problems. this fic was me getting an idea and running with wherever it led me and i had sooo much fun writing it. it has a lot of my own personality and my family’s dynamics in it, and i loved shamelessly blending those w morgan and the people she loves. very niche appeal and no me importa it is hysterical and very close to my heart <3

thank you very much for the ask my beloved!!!! sending u a little smooch about it <3

[ambivalentmarvel]

40-50 (:

with your help seek my can't shut the fuck up disease remains incurable (affectionate and self-affirming)

40. What is your favorite world that you’ve created for a fic?

omg probably morgan's world from Runaway Baby (Getaway Darling) the eclectic huge family that's not all blood related just Gets Me, especially when it serves to support Shenanigans.

41. Who’s your favorite character you’ve written?

azula last name avatar: the last airbender you will always be famous

42. What’s your favorite title that you’ve come up with?

ooogh that's so hard!!! maybe all the titles from the Looking Glasses series? i love a theme.

43. Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?

not really!!!! if i get the brain worms i will write Something, even if it hasn't been published just yet ;)

44. What is your favorite genre to write?

hmm as far as like. fanfic genres. probably crack treated seriously lmao. if an idea barely makes any sense and is held together at the seams by nonsense and tomfoolery i am There my friend!!! nobody is giggling harder at my fics than me

45. What genre/trope do you tend to write the most?

angsty canon-adjacent aus lmao. i have two settings.

46. If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?

OH GEEZ. HARD TIE BETWEEN THE AFOREMENTIONED TWO SETTINGS.

47. Is there a trope that you’ve written before but are now sick of?

most homeless peter aus make some Choices with their plots that i generally don't entertain these days, despite having written one myself

48. Who is your favorite character to write for?  Has this changed since you’ve started writing for that fandom?

i've only written one fic from her pov but morgan harriet stark you will always be famous!!!!!!! my darling little creecher of a girl is everything to me (see again: Runaway Baby)

49. What fic of yours would you say is the best introduction to you as a writer?

uhhhhhhhhhhh maybe the choice is yours or Blips on the Record? both of them deal with some pretty heavy topics while also paying a lot of attention to character development and still having some light-hearted moments, which is what i aim for in most of my fics :))

50. How would you describe your writing style?

whatever i want it to be!!!!!! i don't really believe in rules so it's whatever works with that particular piece he he

[ambivalentmarvel]

I love your role reversal fic, it is one of my all time favourite stories! The writing is perfection and Azula and Zuko are perfectly in line.

If Azula was thrown to the MCU verse, who would adopt her?

this is so sweet!! i'm so glad you're enjoying it :)

if azula (specifically WtR azula. bc i love her.) was thrown into the mcu i think she would generally kill anyone who treated her like a kid. and maybe some other people for good measure/self-defense purposes asdfaf. my favorite little war criminal has approximately zero (0) respect for random figures of authority/the average adult and HATES being in situations she can't control, so i think at best she would vibe alright with characters like yelena and xialing BUT would generally bare her teeth at anyone who tried to offer her a hand 😭😭 lord help her