🎥 + the Captain America movies (Team Cap or Team Iron Man, Kafei?)
Send 🎥 + a movie name and my muse will react to watching it
He finds himself more inspired than he was prepared to be, watching Steve start out skinny & useless & go on to be the one they wanted for a hero. Then he’s mad at himself & at Steve because when it comes down to it, it wasn’t any kind of grand destiny story at all. It was just that guy who thought Steve was anything special. That guy isn’t an ever-present life constant, waiting for heroes-to-be to show themselves so he can grant their wildest dreams. That guy shows up for some people sometimes. Most people who are small and weak and get stepped on stay small and weak and stepped on no matter what their character is like. Most people who are small and weak and get stepped on have to figure out how to make something of themselves all on their own. Kafei keeps getting more and more mad at Steve. He’s supposed to be a hero because he knows what it’s like to be weak or whatever. But he’s not weak anymore. He’s just running around thinking he knows best and not trying to see other peoples’ sides of things. Because he doesn’t have to. Because he’s not weak anymore. Maybe this is supposed to be like one of those stories about people who win the lottery and don’t know what to do with it and fuck up their lives? Steve isn’t making friends, he isn’t learning how things work and trying to figure out how he fits in, he isn’t connecting with people; he’s trying to get his way; all day, every day. He’s spiraling.
Kafei saw the Iron Man movies too, to better decide what “team” to be on, if it strikes his fancy to pick a side. Oh but he likes Tony. Tony doesn’t give a shit & is a sass master & isn’t trying to be anything he’s not. Tony had a shitty childhood and refused to be defined by it. Tony decided not to manufacture weapons anymore, but not as a Hero, as someone who does as he damn well pleases and learned more about a situation and decided to do what he felt was right. Tony is cool. Kafei’s about ready to say Team Iron Man because he doesn’t want to watch Steve beat the shit out of Tony and call it the Greater Good instead of I’m Big Now And I Fucking Felt Like It.
He looks up the plot of Civil War and finds out that the issue is that the government is trying to regulate superheroes or something, & Tony supports it, that’s “Team Iron Man.” That’s all? He doesn’t understand why it’s an issue. The smart thing to do if you’re a superhero is scale way back and act very nonthreatening and not fight anybody and wait for shit to blow over. Like, once people want to put a bunch of red tape around your behavior, that’s pretty rude but it’s not worth it anymore, the smart thing to do is invest time in stuff no one’s ready to scream at you over, at very least in the short term. One random pastime doesn’t define you as a person, right? Or, if it does, you can probably find ways to get away with it anyway if you pretend to go along with things on the surface. Of course, there’s the matter of Bucky. They probably have to save him from people who want him locked up or dead for being a victim. That’s something to fight for, okay, but. Tony and Steve should have let the government make rules about what they do in public that people can catch them at, like yeah yeah whatever, and figured out how to work together to keep Bucky safe from getting unfairly steamrollered by bureaucrats. Tony Stark has a heart okay, Pepper assembled proof. If Steve really wants to help Bucky, the thing to do is accept that people are gonna be fucking stupid sometimes but still try and be friends with everybody. Hey Natasha who I do not always agree with, get me the phone number of some shady character I definitely won’t always agree with but who can fake a passport. There’s no need for a war in the first place. If they work together, they can even help each other do illegal stuff they want to get up to.
Maybe they should have asked a weak person who’s had to adapt to getting stepped on.
