I Still Believe in Heroes

Independent & revived Nick Fury blog written by Riss (aka a Furyous Mun). Post-CATWS divergent. Selective but welcoming. Intricately linked with Howard Stark. Originally established in 2011. Revived in 2016. Still a work in progress.

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[blows a kiss towards @queenspy]

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"the sun will rise, and we will try again."

    Nick finishes stitching up the long knife slice on her forearm, his combat medic skills rusty. It’s serviceable, and in times like these, serviceable is all they got. No multi-million government resources, three burned identities, and at last count, five tails right on top of their asses--it reminds him of the Cold War. Of course, his partner had been more of a cynic...that is until his head was blown off by a KGB sniper. Maria Hill’s near-romantic pragmatism, in turn, is refreshing. ❝Like the phoenix from its ashes. Try not to get that wet for a few days, Hill.❞

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❛ justice is vengeance in prettier packaging. ❜

   ❝With all due respect, Captain, I didn’t come here for asemantics lecture. Are you in or have I wasted my time?❞

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   my mans...

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❛ I came, I saw, I made it awkward. ❜

   ❝Ahh–the Barton brand. I’m familiar.❞ Nick’s almost indulgent as he looks up from the maps he has been pouring over for hours. A few camps set on fire does wonders for his disposition—who knew? He crosses out another base with a bold red marker, nearly vicious with it. Finally. ❝And what did your informant have to say?❞

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❛ you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted. ❜

  HE DOESN’T PAUSE IN HIS STIRRING, three clockwise turns, two counterclockwise scrape the bottom—repeat until all the sugar is dissolved. The nick in his ceramic mug makes a faint ‘ting’ every time he passes it by with his spoon. Howard sits across from him, a shit-eating smirk on his face and today’s newspaper in his capable hands. It’s human in a way he hasn’t been in the longest. Quaint. Domestic.   It makes him itch for the weight of a gun in his hands, copper so thick in the air he could practically drown in it.   But he’s been off the grid for too long this time. Stripped of his identity and cut off from all but the faintest of outside communication, it had been too easy to go rogue. It had been the ring currently slung around his neck in a thin chain that had stopped him. Where they stand now, he doesn’t know. Doesn’t want to know, if he’s honest with himself.   Ignorance is bliss, and in this case, Nick doesn’t mind not knowing everything.   Nick’s absence is the elephant in the room, but the ex-director (ex, he has to keep reminding himself) will be damned if he’s the first one to bring it up.   ❝You drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. You’re everything I ever wanted.❞ Nick looks up from his coffee and sets his spoon down, shoulders falling infinitesimal in his relief. It’s not absolution. It’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It’s apropos of nothing; just a random ass thought you have to be used to when you’re in the presence of a Stark. Their minds—too fast for normal humans, and Nick had learned to adapt, using his own brand of ingenuity to stay in step.   He gulps down a hot mouthful through a faint, almost grateful smile. This man. Good Lord, this man.

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various starters

❛  you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.  ❜

❛  hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice.  ❜

❛  never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive.  ❜

❛  death is the only god that comes when you call.  ❜

❛  I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me.  ❜

❛  the sun will rise and we will try again.  ❜

❛  we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes.  ❜

❛  I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating.  ❜

❛  what doesn’t kill me better run.  ❜

❛  she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword.  ❜

❛  don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying.  ❜

❛  she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening.  ❜

❛  magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is.  ❜

❛  I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down.  ❜

❛  they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws.  ❜

❛  all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red.  ❜

❛  what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself.  ❜

❛  how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch.  ❜

❛  you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you.  ❜

❛  I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire.  ❜

❛  you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now.  ❜

❛  you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin.  ❜

❛  it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave.  ❜

❛  she looks like divine absolution.  ❜

❛  I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget.  ❜

❛  be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten.  ❜

❛  you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.  ❜

❛  I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for.  ❜

❛  never run back to what broke you.  ❜

❛  I was quite, but not blind.  ❜

❛  your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch.  ❜

❛  we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.  ❜

❛  do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.  ❜

❛  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut.  ❜

❛  you can miss something but not want it back.  ❜

❛  you can’t save people, you can only love them.  ❜

❛  I came, I saw, I made it awkward.  ❜

❛  we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.  ❜

❛  you’re always one decision away from a different life.  ❜

❛  my brain has too many tabs open.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people.  ❜

❛  there’s no ‘we’ in fries.  ❜

❛  apology accepted, trust denied.  ❜

❛  death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now.  ❜

❛  life happens. coffee helps.  ❜

❛  I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.  ❜

❛  I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony.  ❜

❛  very early in my life it was already too late.  ❜

❛  is that a threat or are you flirting with me.  ❜

❛  was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives?  ❜

❛  I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand.  ❜

❛  I do bad things, and I do them very well.  ❜

❛  you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted.  ❜

❛  they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you.  ❜

❛  drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart.  ❜

❛  good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught.  ❜

❛  a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart.  ❜

❛  no airbag, we die like men.  ❜

❛  true evil is, above all, seductive.  ❜

❛  it takes more courage to suffer than to die.  ❜

❛  you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once.  ❜

❛  justice is vengeance in prettier packaging.  ❜

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fangedfirecracker replied to your post “fitzsimmonsofshield replied to your post: wild.YOU’VE BEEN GONE FOR SO...”

do i spy a nick on the dash? i do believe i do!

i can’t believe it either. 

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fitzsimmonsofshield replied to your post: wild.

YOU’VE BEEN GONE FOR SO LONG

SCREAMING BECAUSE YOU’RE ALIVE HECK YEAH

 omg.. so MUCH HAS CHANGED!! Oi. Truth be told, I’m a little afraid to be back? so i’m gonna...just wade in the waters a bit here. get my life sorted. but i miss nick. a lot.

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accipitrinae replied to your post: wild.

my boo 😭

[ge n tl y paps ur face] hello luv!

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madetheshield replied to your post: wild.

My LOVE

kelsie there’s so much i have to do...like make icons. rip me.

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wild.

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purrsuasion

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SAMUEL L JACKSON LOOKS SO GOOD

i dont believe this youre lying

ALL TRUTH HERE.

god this man

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SAMUEL L JACKSON LOOKS SO GOOD

the man is sixty-seven

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rcbelleader:

    “Maybe you are, sir. But if you want a     wager, how about a position on my     counsel? It’s not a bad deal.”

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     Nick snorts. A counsel position? No. Nick’s a SOLDIER------ not a politician. He has enough dealing with his own counsel.

     ‘ How about--------a FAVOR? ’

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@afuriousson

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     ‘ So------this is awkward. ’

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Thank you, unnecessary tumblr update

for making me one of my biggest fans.