I absolutely loved your WinterIron Bang story! I haven't seen John Wick but the way you built the world made it very easy to understand what was going on.
Bucky in this is top-tier Himbo with Steve being a second-tier Himbo. Essentially, all the boys except Tony are Himbos.
Natasha was awesome! Also, I love the reference to Laura and the kids.
Yinsen and Bruce are just done with the Beauty and the Himbo.
Pepper as the Elder I like. Who was the Elder before her? (I'm headcanoning that Loki was the Elder before he decided to retire with Darcy.)
I cackled everytime someone was like, "RiOt ShIeLd!?!"
Thank you so much!
Rhodey and Pepper actually have a longstanding argument over whether or not Tony is also actually a himbo (Pepper believes Tony is and Rhodey contends he isn’t) and Pepper is horrified to realize that Rhodey is actually swaying her even though his argument isn’t that Tony isn’t an idiot (Tony definitely is, even if he is a very capable idiot), but that Tony doesn’t have the giant muscles required to be a himbo. “He is small and compact,” Rhodey tells her, and Pepper is not overly dramatic, she thinks, except that she definitely wants to bury her face in a pillow and scream.
Backstory behind Laura and the kids: They’re actually Barney’s wife and kids, but he’s an asshole dead and Clint doesn’t understand why Barney thought he could have a family when his job is so dangerous but he takes responsibility for them anyway after Barney fucks off dies. Clint was bringing by groceries when Natasha had been tailing him for a job, and that’s how she finds out about them, and something in her sort of cracks when Clint stands between her and Laura and the kids, telling her that he’ll let her kill him as long as she forgets she ever saw his family, because they’re not part of the business. Natasha knows that now that she’s seen them, the chance of her spilling about them is no longer zero, and it drives her decision to get out of the business as well.
Literally everyone remaining at the hotel had been ready to lie and cover for Tony and Bucky to be together. Their heart eyes are obnoxious. Tony is going to be fucking insufferable.
Pepper being the elder was a strike of genius honestly. I was going to make it Rhodey, but then I was like... wait. Pepper’s not anybody’s underling. SO ELDER SHE IS. (Thank you Saïd Taghmaoui for showing me that the Elder is a title and not a descriptor lmao.) I have no idea who the Elder was before her, just know that they feared Pepper properly and handed the title over gladly because Pepper didn’t really give them a choice.
I hope the riot shield lives rent free in everyone’s minds now because I took Captain America’s shield and made it John Wick.






