Can you Imagine the dagger ducklings during Christmas??? I bet Mav would get them all matching sweaters. SPECIFICALLY CUSTOMIZED MATCHING SWEATERS OH MY GOD
AND ICE AND MAV WOULD HAVE LIKE. PARENT SWEATERS FOR AL OF THEM I CANT HADLE THE ADORBILITY
(Also, there will probably be a break in icemav posts for most of december, starting next week, since College will be over and I will not have access to my computer :(
Fear not, i will be back to my regular scheduled shitposts by January.)
Daggers: We can't pull off the mission maneuvers and high altitude Gs required, its a suicide mission and completely impossible!!!!!
Maverick: Aw, no. Its very possible, you just gotta believe in yourselves, you can do it!!! I've done the calculations and the math, its perfectly doable if you just listen to me!
Dagggers: NO! ITS IMPOSSIBLE.
Mav:
Mav:*does the mission flight plath, drops the bomb exactly on the target without a foxtrot team and does it with 16 less seconds.*
Daggers: 😳😳😳
Maverick: Why is it that when I, an expert in aviation and mechanics says its possible no one actually believes me?!?!?!
Daggers, and many of the base staff and admirals who witnessed his sheer genius and competency: 🥵🥵🥵💘💘💘😳😳😳
I can just see Mavdad and the dagger kids at the beach after the mission, and Mav asks them to grab a far away ball or something and promises them bragging rights to the first one who gets it. Someone pipes up from the back to ask for a hug as well.
Mav sighs fondly and promises that yes the first one back will get a hug too.
And off the 20-30 something aviators go, charging, whooping and hollering across the beach for the ball. Mav huffs a laugh watching their antics. Phoenix even trips Omaha up after he knocks into her running by. Bob jumps over him. Bradley and Jake are in the lead and jostling each other constantly. The ivy twins are weaving in and out of the rest. Its chaotic mayhem with no rules or law to be seen.
Mav goes back to packing up their stuff, and then looks up at a quiet cough.
Jake is standing there breathing heavily, chest heaving and body shifting side to side. He's holding the ball, but there's a small bruise forming on his side and Mav gets the now-familiar urge to check up on him and fuss over him. But Jake probably wouldn't appreciate that too much, so instead Mav smiles brightly at the victor and strolls over to him.
"Hey pops, that wasn't too hard, hope you didn't fall asleep over here. So where's my reward?"
"Well done Jake, great job" Mav says before drawing the younger man knows the promised hug. The younger aviator is stiff at first and then melts into Mavs hold.
'When's the last time someone hugged him??' Mav thought. Poor kiddo needs some tlc.
Jake eventually breathes in deeply and sighs the breath out before standing back up straight. Clearing his throat awkwardly, he attempts to save face and avoid the situation where he just nearly collapsed into his former CO and secret hero.
Mav just smiled at him again understandingly and clapped him on the shoulder before dragging him off to help load the cars.
Maverick casually cusses Cain out for any random thing that goes wrong that may or may not be Cains fault.
Example; Dropped his morning snack-"FUCK YOU CAIN!! YOU BASTARD I KNOW THIS IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT!!!"
Funny thing is the dagger ducklings pick up on this habit and start doing it themselves.
Phoenix can't get tone on an instructor, and starts cursing Cains ancestors in two different languages
Hangman strikes out on getting a date and its obviously Cains fault so he let's everyone at the Hard Deck know that Cain has an open tab, so everyone buys a drink (or several). Jakes a petty bitch. The bill ends up being several thousand dollars. (The culprit was never found, Penny would never give up one of the daggers like that, Maverick maybe, but she loves the rest. )
Roosters favourite Hawaiian shirt has a stain in it. He proceeds to cuss and bad mouth Cain to anyone who'll listen for the next 15 years and will hold a silent grudge when in Cains presence for the end of time. He never forgets.
Fanboy and Payback planned and hosted their own game night for two (themselves) but it was interrupted by a power outage, and the next day was a suprise PT day. They glitter-ify Cain office the next time he's distracted by a meeting. (This one was Cain direct fault as he threw a bitch fir on the base and demanded an unnecessary overhaul of the main grid, shorted it cause he's a dumbass, and then the base had to cover their asses the next day as to why the lights weren't working, so hey did PT).
Legend has it there's still glitter following Cain to every new base he goes to.
Coyote just casually picked up the habit from being around their mavdad too long and casually curses Cain out of sheer habit and exposure. There doesn't need to be a reason. Dropped his morning protein shake? It's that Motherfucker Cains fault. Can't find his charger? Curses at the wall about Cain for the next five instead before finding it in the sofa and continuing as if nothing happened. Most of the daggers and even some of the base staff don't even register it as something out of the ordinary anymore, they just roll. Coyote successfully normalised the use of cussing out Cain casually. What a king.
Bob doesn't really curses or use that sort of language. But when he does, hoo boy. He's the most passive but also the most subtle and creative of the daggers with his insults. He insulted Cain to his face. With a Cain insult. No one knows how he got away with it. Not even Maverick and he was standing two feet away while sweet unassuming Bob ripped into Cain with a pleasant smile and soft tone.
It flew right over Cains head and Mav damn near had a heart attack when Cain nodded along to Bob's words with a dazed expression.
