she took my slingy.

pain's an old friend  .

[tobargain]

               i love you in every universe. it’s not that i don’t want to care ... i’m just scared. a study in the tropes : hiding trauma in humor, making up for past mistakes, the mystic arts, eager learner, the grand sacrifice. private & low activity doctor stephen strange from the mcu, with comic influence. not spoiler free. written by farrah, 25, she/her. est may 2022. google docs.

[tobargain]

                    ❛  hate to break it to you, but wong is the sorcerer supreme. not me.  ❜ he gets it a lot -- the assumption that he took on the role after the ancient one had passed. truth be told, he hadn’t been ready for it then.

@greyturned.

[tobargain]

                   ❛  that’s very funny. comical, even.  ❜ the tone of his voice suggests the very opposite. there’s a dryness to it that’s obvious, and stephen makes a subtle face at the younger girl.

@stardustvein. (  for artemis  )

[tobargain]

                      ❛  you’re not wanted here.  ❜ his tone was clipped, blue eyes narrowed at the witch before him. he didn’t know much behind the woman named agatha harkness, but he did know she was dangerous. dangerous enough to keep him on edge.

@differentcentury.

[tobargain]

                  ❛  we’ve all had to make choices.  ❜ he doesn’t talk about how he had no choice -- how fate reminded him that there was only one way. it was a choice that haunts him, which is precisely why he doesn’t talk about it.

@eeturnuhl.

[tobargain]

                   ❛  don’t take any offense, doctor. you’re skilled, but i rarely ask for another doctor’s opinions.  ❜ the exception had been christine, but ... that’s because he had loved her. despite being a doctor in the mystic arts now, his ego as a medical doctor had still stayed strong.

@lcvelj.

[tobargain]

                     ❛  westview was different, wanda. you can’t take this back.  ❜ what she had done in the end was right -- but it doesn’t take back the destruction she had laid in her wake. stephen does understand, and he can empathize. but it isn’t so black and white.

@luminousscarlct.

[tobargain]

                   ❛  oh, i’m completely aware that you could kick my ass, romanoff. why do you think there’s no nickname for you?  ❜ stephen strange could very well be an asshole, but he wasn’t an idiot. unlike the many men in his class and age, he could recognize a strong woman when she was staring him in the face.

@enternecers. (  for nastasha  )

[tobargain]

                 hi lovelies ! i’m going to queue up the rest of the starters i owe, since it’s my girl zatanna’s birthday today <3 

[christinepalmers]

[tobargain]

                    ❛  it’s sorcerer, not wizard. please refrain from making any harry potter jokes.  ❜ he’s heard them all. as far as he was concerned, stark had exhausted all of them. it was enough to drive him mildly insane.

@talvn.

[tobargain]

                     ❛  are you going to get angry and say hulk smash?  ❜ the corners of his mouth twitches and stephen coughs to hide a laugh, passing a hand over dark hair. someone’s gonna get his humor one day.  ❛  sorry.  ❜

@brawnz.

[tobargain]

                    ❛  oh, great. there’s a mini hawkeye.  ❜ he’s hoping this kid doesn’t somehow cause his entire head to turn grey, because it’s getting dangerously close already. he’s really glad he never had kids.

@pizzalegacy.

[tobargain]

                   ❛  you did everything you could have.  ❜ he understands. how could he not? stephen had spent time in fourteen million timelines trying to figure out what they could do to win. he had hated what happened -- but thanos had to win, just for a moment. ❛  you tried.  ❜

@snowinabottle.

[tobargain]

                    ❛  it was the only way.  ❜ he insists, his jaw twitching as he grits his teeth. it sounded repetitive to him -- stephen can’t recall how many times he’s said it to different people. maybe he’s just trying to convince himself that there was nothing else he could’ve done. no other choice made.

@arakkhna.

[tobargain]

                     ❛  yes, the cloak of levitation does ... have it’s own personality.  ❜ like it’s proving it’s point, the cloak turns towards strange as it floats beside him, hovering up and down like it’s nodding. ❛  i wouldn’t suggest pissing it off.  ❜

@flighteer​.

[tobargain]

                    ❛   that sounded harsher then i intended -- my apologies.  ❜ it was no secret that strange was a dick, even if he was trying to be a better person. and if he’s being honest, it’s the sarcasm that’s always on the tip of his tongue that does him in.

@eiiidetic.