Hello! I just wanted to drop a message your way that thanks to your posts/reblogs on Top Gun: Maverick I have watched the movie and fallen into an Ice/Mav hyperfixation that has been FEEDING me this past week, thank you for the good times A+ I've been sleeping so late reading fic lately. :)
Yessssssssss :DDD two months after watching the movies I'm still obsessed with them, and I'm glad you enjoy their dynamic as well! IceMav canonically encompasses so many tropes, like there's the TG rivals leading to "omg they were wingmen" era, you can have them as active combat pilots or the later years when Ice is an admiral plus the whole guardian angel thing, if you want angst you have post-Goose/PTSD/cancer angst, there's found family fluff with both the 86 crew and the Bradshaws and later with the dagger crew, and if that's not enough there's a whole 30+ year gap where fandom can play around with practically everything, and of course the "everyone lives/no one dies" AUs. Honestly, we can fit sooooooooo much in with this pairing.
I hope you got the chance to watch the OG Top Gun as well, because the amount of tension between Ice and Maverick in that movie? Wow. Staring at each other across the lecture room aisle for solid minutes. Sweaty guys in a locker room snapping their teeth and getting into each other's faces. The Hug (tm). TGM breaks my heart with all the tender and heart wrenching IceMav moments; OG Top Gun is where all the sexual tension is at haha.
