2 Series by softerEpilogue

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• Somewhere on the East Side of Sorrow by softerEpilogue

  Fandom: Top Gun (Movies)

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Series in Progress

  31 Mar 2025

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Carole Bradshaw/Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
  • Carole Bradshaw
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
  • Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
  • Javy "Coyote" Machado
  • Decades-long slow burn
  • alternating povs
  • Survivor’s Guilt
  • found families can be just as complicated as regular ones
  • local man uses flying as a replacement for therapy
  • psychologists hate him and so does the FAA
  • no beta we die like goose
  • Canonical Character Death
  • sorry Goose
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • flying as a metaphor for feelings
  • maybe the military should let pilots go to therapy
  • probably wouldn't have helped these idiots but hey
  • mild amounts of military-typical internalized homophobia
  • Idiots in Love
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky Lives
  • Established Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • how many daddy issues can one man have?
  • Hangster
  • idiots to lovers to enemies and back again
  • no you cannot physically outrun your emotions
  • (or the gay thoughts)
  • not even in a fighter jet
  • an exploration of Hangman’s blatantly obvious daddy issues
  • the substantially smuttier b side
  • now with more character development than originally intended

  Summary

  (WIP) Reach for the Golden Ring (Reach for the Sky) - Mav & Ice, Up to 1986

  (Not Posted Yet) Roll with the Punches (to get to what’s real) - Mav & Ice, 1986-TG:M

  (Not Posted Yet) On Dreams (We Will Depend) - Mav & Ice POV of TG:M, Part 3 of The Sun's Gonna Rise (Tomorrow)

   

  Series title from "East Side of Sorrow" (Unreleased) by Zach Bryan (Edit 25AUG23 IT'S RELEASED)

  Words:

  157,563

  Works:

  3

  Bookmarks:

  61

• The Sun's Gonna Rise (Tomorrow) by softerEpilogue

  Fandom: Top Gun (Movies)

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Series in Progress

  28 Nov 2023

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
  • Jake "Hangman" Seresin
  • Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
  • Javy "Coyote" Machado
  • flying as a metaphor for feelings
  • maybe the military should let pilots go to therapy
  • probably wouldn't have helped these idiots but hey
  • mild amounts of military-typical internalized homophobia
  • Idiots in Love
  • Tom "Iceman" Kazansky Lives
  • Established Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
  • how many daddy issues can one man have?
  • no beta we die like goose
  • Hangster
  • idiots to lovers to enemies and back again
  • no you cannot physically outrun your emotions
  • (or the gay thoughts)
  • not even in a fighter jet
  • an exploration of Hangman’s blatantly obvious daddy issues
  • the substantially smuttier b side
  • now with more character development than originally intended

  Summary

  1/3 - Devils in the Canyon - Rooster POV - COMPLETE
  2/3 - Angels in the Mountains - Hangman POV - WIP, posting
  3/3 - Mav POV - WIP, not posted

  Words:

  36,829

  Works:

  2

  Bookmarks:

  17