(Verbal) Bonding Rituals: Talk to Me
Fics centered around (key) conversations - often expansions on canon topics/events, reading between the lines made explicit, or conversations we wish had happened
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Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter.
She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else.
“Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer.
It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her.
“Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?”
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Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.
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09 Jun 2025
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Age-gap siblings, bonding
(M=? Discussion of mental health issues? - more just 'grown-up' in tone)
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The Blue Food Project by liketolaugh
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Jan 2024
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Foggy meets Sally in a grocery store, sees the three bottles of food coloring in her cart, and listens to her talk about how much her son loves it for about ten minutes before he decides he's in love. About four months later, Natasha drops by the Jacksons' apartment to take her first close look at the child that heralds the realization of the Great Prophecy.
He looks small, for the end of the world.
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Asking Why by Kizmet
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies)
12 Nov 2017
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Applying analytical techniques in the aftermath of Ultron
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- Part 16 of Chasing Ideal
- Part 2 of Prelude: Ultron Speculation
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Rogers thought Ultron was a deterrent? I was born into the nuclear arms race, second generation arms manufacturer, my father helped invent the goddamn bomb that kick started the whole thing into high gear, I know what a deterrent is. For the rest of the class, it’s making a weapon so scary that the other guy is afraid of giving you reason to use it. Ultron was not, was never intended as a deterrent.
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“If one of the board members put a gun to my head would you say it’s okay so long as they didn’t actually pull the trigger? Because that’s what Thor did to you!”
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Buck moves out of his apartment in the spring, and into Eddie's place on a Saturday.
or, Buck and Eddie fix up the house. And in it, each other.
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After the blackout is over and Maddie and Chimney are both gone, Buck’s feeling a little adrift. Athena tells him about a dear friend of hers who was harmed in all the chaos, and Buck figures he could use another friend. He just didn’t expect to find someone who would alter both his world in all the best ways.
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S/E: c.80%/first section ch.6 (up to break; skippable/not plot-critical),
convo c.90%(/3/4 ch.6 - abrupt subject change, not very long; shortly after break, up to next)
- everything else T at most
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