(Sorry if this is a duplicate--I couldn't remember if I sent this or not and Tumblr doesn't have an outbox for asks) But I've been wondering about RTC and how it would have gone down if Ross had actually compromising footage of Steve and Loki--an embrace or even a kiss. Or if Tony had that footage and it was leaked?
I don’t think I did see this! (Also - if you have XKit which I highly recommend for the sake of making Tumblr a usable website, you can get an add on that gives you an outbox.)
I like this question. I mean - I don’t know if he does have the footage from Naples that includes Loki desperately hugging Steve and crying all over him which is pretty incriminating on its own, or if SHIELD scrubbed that, but something even more explicit than that (like a kiss) would be...that would be an issue that he might actually bring up. Directly. To Steve.
As in, he’s actually entirely not fit for duty, not just if he doesn’t sign the Accords, but ever. And if he doesn’t back off and do exactly as Ross says, including turning Loki and Bucky both over, he’s going to make damn sure Steve gets court-martialed. He’s considering having it done anyway. Because that’s...on another level. Harboring a dangerous, hostile is one thing and bad enough, but fraternizing with one...that’s way beyond the pale.
On a level that I almost think Ross would give Steve an out of claiming he was brainwashed or mind controlled or something. Which of course Steve wouldn’t take.
As for if Tony had it, which he might, I don’t know that he’d even keep that. I feel like he’d probably delete it. Whatever Tony’s feelings about Loki vis-a-vis Steve, he still doesn’t want Steve to get caught in that kind of blowup. That’s a kind of catastrophe he doesn’t want to touch.
