#spellslinger!au

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I would like to officially introduce to you all, the Spellslinger!AU :)

No doubt I’ll make a proper pinned post for it at some point, but I figure here’s as good a place as any to start my yapping.

What is it? The Spellslinger!AU (or Spell!AU for short) is a massive Marvel au I’ve been working on for the past few years! It’s still under construction but I love it very much and want to start sharing what I’ve come up with.

It focuses on a mix of canon mcu characters, ocs that belong to me and my friends, as well as characters from other marvel media such as disconnected films and comics.

For instance, the titular “Spellslinger” the au is named after is my oc! That’s the name of her hero identity, her real name being Atlas Octavius. She’s also the one I’m going to be most likely elaborating on first with my next post!

The current planned out story goes from about Avengers 1 to about Spiderman Homecoming, with a few gaps in between I’ll be filling out along the way.

I’m not sure yet if I’m going to continue past infinity war/endgame (and the plot with those is going to be changed around as well), so no promises for anything beyond that point if it’s what you’re looking for unfortunately.

The endgame goal with this is to turn it into a series of fics, but my motivation is about as predictable as when you’re going to see a comet shoot past in the sky so we’ll see what happens.

This au has had a lot of changes over the past few years, but the core point of it has always been to make the avengers feel more like a family rather than just a team, as well as build and develop all of them. As more has changed, a lot of canon events have been messed around with as well, so there are some big surprises in store with the story :)

Especially with the current state of the mcu, this au has been a massive labour of love from me with the help of my friends, and I sincerely hope you’ll stick around and enjoy what it has to offer :)

Posts will hopefully be weekly, and any questions are more than welcome!

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I’ve been thinking about spells!avengers 1 again in preparation of getting ready to start writing it, and. Man. The Stark household makes me sick /pos

Specifically, I’ve been thinking about Tony, Pepper and Atlas at the start. All of them together at Stark tower, celebrating the success of pulling it off the grid and running it purely off of its own arc reactor. All of them together and just… happy. Atlas is settled in, Tony and Pepper are going well, and things for once are just easy. It isn’t really this simple again.. ever. It isn’t even calm again until at least after iron man 3. So this moment is way more important than I thought at first. It’s quite literally establishing the status quo so I can then go on and break it.

Of course the good mood all falls apart rather quickly as Coulson arrives and explains why he’s here, but that very first moment, the three of them together, really is the calm before the storm. It’s the most normal things feel for a long, long time, which is incredibly important to Atlas after her life was uprooted by Otto’s death.

He arrives and Tony just knows this can’t mean anything good. Pepper isn’t as immediately suspicious, as she’s interacted with Phil a few times and it hasn’t always spelt disaster. And Atlas is thrilled! He and Coulson get along well after all. They both bond over superheroes, Phil enjoys Atlas’s company (its refreshing given the usual people he has to deal with), and Atlas enjoys Phil’s company (is one of the few adults he trusts and can speak to without worry, given he knows about Otto’s death, and more importantly in this context, that Tony’s taken him in.)

When Tony first adopted Atlas, Coulson alongside Fury and Natasha were the three that got involved. Given what they knew of Tony, they were understandably concerned about Tony’s ability to be responsible enough to look after an at that point 10 year old. Tony proved he could, they got to see just how close the two of them were, and they were all genuinely happy for both of them because it was easily the best option.

And importantly, Atlas’s adoption is currently being kept way, WAY out of the public eye. Losing Otto was bad enough. None of them, Atlas included, want her to deal with paparazzi or the risk of becoming a target. Atlas doesn’t have many people she trusts or wants to speak to/spend time with, despite Tony and Pepper's best efforts. Coulson, already aware of everything and an occasional visitor/on good terms with Pepper and Tony, is on that short list of people she actually does feel safe around!

This kind of turned into a Coulson and Atlas post. Oh well, they make me sick too