Divertime: Comprehensive Changes
Canon divergence where a change in understanding leads to a (significant) change in the timeline (or vice versa)
Mostly a mix of MCU & various procedural dramas
(May be mildly OOC; either to precipitate the realisation, or as a result of it.)
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At the end of season five, Vance took over NCIS and promptly disbanded the MCRT. What if some members of the team didn’t take it so gracefully?
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Uneasy by aliaoftwoworlds
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Jun 2018
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The Rogue Avengers find that living on the run isn’t easy, and some of their members are having second thoughts about what they’re doing to keep themselves alive and out of trouble.
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- Part 7 of Bitter Retribution
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After Evan Buckley finds out the truth about his birth—that he was conceived for the sole purpose of saving his brother’s life—he decides to give himself time and space to come to terms with the secrets his family has kept from him for twenty-nine years. In Austin, Buck finds the support he needs to gain perspective on his life and relationships. Most notably, his relationship with his best friend. When he returns home to California, his entire life will change.
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After Evan Buckley finds out the truth about his birth—that he was conceived for the sole purpose of saving his brother’s life—he decides to give himself time and space to come to terms with the secrets his family has kept from him for twenty-nine years. In Austin, Buck finds the support he needs to gain perspective on his life and relationships.Word Count: 89,170
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Take My Hand:
Buck has returned to California and fallen headlong into a relationship with Eddie. Everything around him is changing quickly, and he has to manage the fallout from Taylor Kelly’s reporting and fix his relationship with his sister.Word Count: 65,210
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PMFRTD:
S/M: mid ch.7 (long, not plot-critical) ,
mid-late ch.14 (Between two breaks, not plot-critical, brief refs first third of next section) near-end ch. (Long, double section, between breaks, not plot-critical)
(scattered v.light refs near-end ch.16)TMH:
S/E: mid ch.1 (starts with pragmatic discussion, escalates),
early ch.2 (long)
(scattered brief refs/mentions)
second section ch.4 (entire section, barring an emotional interlude c.halfway)
(mid ch.5; pragmatic discussion, brief, non-detailed)
mid to end ch.6 (very long & detailed),
end ch.8 (long; from break to end),
mid to end ch.10 (long build-up, up to break; refs in final section, mixed with minor character details)
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“Maddie loves Buck, of that I have no doubt, but I also know that Maddie doesn’t really acknowledge Buck’s agency as an adult. Maybe we all fall into that trap at times, but while we tease him about being like a big kid, she overrules him at times like he’s an actual child."
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Buck knew he could be reckless at times, but he thought he’d curbed a lot of his early impulsivity over the years, but sometimes those who knew you best were the slowest to see that you’d changed.
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“My lawyer got the records of all leaves-of-absence and return-to-duty paperwork during Bobby’s tenure as captain at the 118 as part of his discovery. His investigators did the rest. The only person I told him about was Chimney because the rebar thing seemed the most germane to my situation, but his investigators would have needed to do independent verification; even if I had told him something, he’d have independently verified it before bringing it up in mediation lest he risk looking like an idiot for taking his client’s word about something. I had no idea you guys really thought that I was the source of that information rather than your personnel records with the LAFD.”
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"At the point she [re]entered his life, [Chim] and Hen knew him better than she did. Yet we all acted like Maddie knew best."
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"We also follow Bobby’s lead in some of this, and I’m just realizing that’s pretty unfair too. Because you cutting that line was one of the most reckless things I’ve ever seen anyone do, and Bobby never said boo about it."
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“It wound up being better for me that Buck didn’t go through the union,” Bobby admitted softly. “It was made clear to me that the union would have sought my job for what happened, and they wouldn’t have let it go. Buck had the power with a private attorney to make the whole thing go away if he got his job back. The union wouldn’t have been constrained by Buck’s wishes once he made a complaint.”
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My apologies to each of you after the lawsuit were about the pain you personally went through, but not because I thought I was wrong to say no to an unfair situation. -- He wasn’t wrong to hold Bobby to account for using a double standard in how he treated Buck. He just should have gone about it a different way.
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“Mom and Dad are so focused on their grief and their pain and their shame and their embarrassment. Tell me, Mads, when did you get to grieve? Were you allowed to be sad? How did you mourn when they erased him from existence and told you to never mention his name?”
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We’ve had more time apart than time together, sis, and that means when you showed up in Los Angeles, we should have been trying to get to know one another, not just making assumptions. I did it too. I treated you like you were the same twenty-eight-year-old who was married to the guy I couldn’t stand. It took a while for the new data points about who you are to sink in.” -
death to the memory of an ideal by graveltotempo
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Aug 2022
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What if there was someone in the car Steve Rogers stole during the chase scene?
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- Part 10 of you WILL be sorry
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Chasing Ideal by Kizmet
Fandom Agent Carter (TV), Agents of Atlas, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Ant-Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
01 Mar 2018
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Following "Civil War" Team!Cap has to face the consequences of their actions. Meanwhile Rhodes is rebuilding the Avengers, Pepper's having a baby and unbeknownst to anyone Loki and Tony are getting ready to face Thanos.
Prelude Series aren't meant to be read first but they tend to relate more to earlier movies and take place earlier in the timeline.
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<3 Foggy <3
Pepper <3
Hank :)
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FR: ch.4
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"I offered you sanctuary because it has become evident to me that Secretary Ross was abusing his position and could not be trusted to administer the Accords. Disagreeing with the actions of one man in a position of power is not the same as discounting the entire system he represents."
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"You guys fly to Nigeria, start a fire-fight in a major city resulting in multiple deaths and don’t expect anyone to anyone to say boo about it. Me, I forget my passport on a cultural exchange trip in high school and get flown back home without ever seeing more than the inside of the Beijing International Airport."
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“There would have been something like the Accords a year ago if Ironman and the Hulk hadn’t been kicked off the team,” Foggy said, surprised that Steve didn’t realize that. “Johannesburg alone would have been enough.”“No one was kicked off the team!” Steve exclaimed. “We told Bruce we’d stand with him, explain.”
“Well, none of the Avengers ever did explain,” Foggy replied. “As an average guy who watches the news all I ever knew was that Ironman and the Hulk threw down in the middle of a major city, destroyed a notable segment of it, endangered hundreds of lives and neither of them were with the Avengers a month later.”
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Steve Rogers is a brilliant reactive tactician, when the shit hits the fan there is no one I’d rather have calling the shots. But- And this is a big one- But he’s only so-so at proactive missions. Even when he has the time he doesn’t do as much as he could to bring in the best resources available, he’d rather rely on the resources he’s most familiar with.
Steve Rogers has great instincts but he’s got [minimal] combat experience and no formal command training. His only experience is in commanding small assault teams. Steve’s got it in him to be the best military commander I’ve ever seen but only if he gets over his ego and gets himself properly trained.
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"More people would have died if we hadn’t acted!”“The lives of our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our mothers, our fathers are not counters for you to use to determine if you’ve won or lost your grand game! Three hundred saved, fifty dead, call it a good day and go home to sleep the sleep of the righteous.”
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"However you viewed JARVIS he was the most constant presence in Tony’s life for nearly two decades and you would have been more compassionate if he’d lost a pet.”
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“The population density at the street level was five times what it was at the height where the Rumlow’s bomb went off,”
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"The only reason governments have agendas is because they’re made up of people. People have agendas, Captain Rogers. Some of us gain the power to act on them through government positions, that is true. Some do it with money or influence. Others use the super soldier serum running through their veins."
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You were on the Raft but all you cared about was getting your friends out. Ross had been doing experiments on human beings there ever since S.H.I.E.L.D.’s fall and without the Accords we never would have known.
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You're still stuck on that report of Romanov’s: ‘Iron Man yes, Tony Stark not recommended.’ You’re fine with trusting Iron Man to have your back in a brawl but this time it was Tony Stark asking you to trust him to choose the best path for the Avengers and that was inconceivable.
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I never thought about how not telling Tony could blow up in our faces, I was doing my best to never think about Bucky killing people for HYDRA at all. I didn’t want to think about Bucky being any part of Howard’s death. I wasn't thinking about Tony at all.
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[Steve] hadn’t even spent much time fighting run of the mill German soldiers instead he and the Howling Commandos had gone after the extremists among the extremists, fighting the most black and white battles of the war.
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"Fury shouldn’t have sent me to evaluate Tony.”“Yeah, you never like anything about the guys you were ordered to get close to,” Clint recalled. “‘Course most of them were absolute scum-bags.”
Natasha shrugged, “Too many years as an assassin. If I wasn’t there to kill them I was there to kill someone close to them. It was easier if I only saw what was bad about them."
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Spider-Man tries to apprehend criminals with minimal force. [Daredevil] believes in violence as a deterrent. Castle kills those he deems guilty. I’m certain each of you believes you’ve picked the ‘right’ line not to cross, but you don’t have any sort of consensus within your community and no means to reach one. You policing each other is nothing more than might makes right.”