limits of longing (wonderbeasts)
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To Salute The Sun by limits of longing (wonderbeasts), wonderbeasts
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
23 Aug 2025
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Toni Stark grows up shielded from the shadow of her famous father. When she was five, Maria took her and ran to Europe. Antonia is brilliant, she has been her whole life, but out of the shadow of warmongers Maria can finally see the starfire in her, the cosmic iron of her spine. Her daughter will never have the peace and obscurity her mother wants for her, and so she gives her music instead. Toni's memories of Howard, of America, of Starks and fame and fortune fade over the years. Peggy and Maria take care never to speak of him where she can hear, never to mention what once was. They know she'll need to take up that life again one day anyway.
Toni performs hitting the limits of her brilliance to her professors and peers, but she is lying. Her mind has found no borders it cannot transcend.
Steve Rogers is found frozen in the Arctic when Toni is 23 and finishing her master's degree. She follows the news dispassionately. Her father's shining face on television does not frighten her. It frightens Maria.
Four months later, Toni Stark wakes to a new life in a hospital bed somewhere in Germany.