Divertime: (In)Consequential
Fics in which actions have (different) consequences. Various levels/degrees of Canon divergence.
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Enough Rope by Amber_and_Ash
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
31 Jul 2017
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Tony can't get himself back from Siberia, and it takes the night for him to be rescued. While waiting to see if he'll die of hypothermia, he realises something for the first time. It wasn't that he failed because he hadn't tried hard enough. He had failed because he had tried too hard. His so-called team-mates had formed the habit of blaming Tony for everything because he had let them. He had shouldered the blame, let them attack him without consequence, and cleaned up after their mess, all so they could continue to feel self-righteous in peace. But it wasn't just him they were attacking, and saving the world didn't give them a free pass to be the very bullies that Steve claimed to fight against.
Tony woke up in hospital, still sustained by the relief of his realisation. Things sucked, but they would get better. He was Tony Stark, and no challenge was too much for him. It was odd how much easier it was to plot when he actually did intend ways to manipulate the ex-Avengers into falling in line. And since that was what they seemed convinced he was doing all along, they didn't deserve a warning that it would now be true.
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- Part 1 of Enough Rope
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"It isn’t an insult to me, because it wasn’t written to me. It was written to his conscience. It creates a reality in which our actions were equivalent, he was just wiser than me." Reading the letter with that mindset, interpreting it as ‘please tell me I’m right, because I can’t afford to be wrong’ did help temper the smug self-righteousness.
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Wanda had made Vision doubt his own selfhood. She had spent so much time assuring him that she regarded him as a real friend, only to go through him as if he were an inanimate object the first time he’d disagreed with her.
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"The Howling Commandos were a bunch of trained, experienced, knowledgeable soldiers and civilian freedom fighters, dismissed as little more than sidekicks.”
“Steve always did say success was a result of the team. Perhaps we should have taken him more literally.”
“Could the team have been doing all the actual work and just let Steve think he was the one in charge?”
“I’ve seen teams successfully work around a problem commander before, and that’s with rules and conventions in place to try to prevent it. People simply looked to someone else for orders. A leader naïve enough - or lazy enough - wouldn’t realise those orders [existed]. It actually explains a lot about why Steve tended to act like his job ended the second he stepped off the battlefield.”
“So Steve is the military version of the ‘ideas guy’.”
People might [try to] cast Tony as the quintessential ideas guy; Ideas seemed like the glamourous and unique part of a new product. However, ideas were a dime a dozen. The difficult part was turning those ideas into practical, profitable, implementations.
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Curing his physical condition didn’t change his personality. He was still the person who was willing to lie, cheat, and put others in danger. There’s plenty of ways to [accidentally] screw over your buddies.”
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“And Maria Hill? Melinda May? General Talbot? President Ellis? 911? Was every member of the whole damn planet part of Ross' conspiracy against you, that you couldn’t drop a note to any of them?"
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If she attempted to torture Stark to death because she thinks he killed her parents, then she is criminally insane and needs treatment. Delusions like that don't just get better.
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When T’Challa had extracted James Barnes and Steven Rogers from Siberia, he’d expected that it would be a strictly short term matter. He’d protect them until the evidence against Zemo had been confirmed, and then they’d return to their normal operations.
T’Challa had been technically correct that Captain America would not simply allow his teammates to answer for his own crimes. He just hadn’t realised that ‘setting things right’ was not Captain America turning himself in, assuming the bulk of the blame and arguing his position. It was Captain America breaking the rest of his team out of jail and bringing them with him into hiding. T’Challa had missed the opportunity to set a time limit on how long he was willing to protect them for.
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Retirement sucked. He’d gone from being one of the most important men on the planet to his wife’s unskilled assistant, and he’d hated that. He’d spent years fantasising about how wonderful it would be out in the open air, spending his entire day with his family. It had been the only thing that got him through the worst of the SHIELD bullshit, some days. Reality hadn’t come close to matching up. He’d liked his old job. He’d liked making a difference.
When Steve had called, Clint had been stuck in cycle; frustrated at the pettiness of his new life, then guilty about being frustrated, then angry about feeling guilty, then frustrated about feeling angry. Over and over again. In SHIELD, and even in the Avengers, he'd had outlets. On the farm there was nothing other than physical labour, and that was the source of half of his stress.
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[They] had been acting as if Tony was simply the face of the resources division.
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Wilson was upset that the Raft existed, Barton was just upset that they dared to treat him like he was the outsider.
Natashalie tripped over her own in-group/out-group disconnect.
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"Natasha's trust issues give my trust issues inferiority complexes. When something threatens her self-concept, she panics. Unless you're telling me that full frontal SHIELD data exposure was a calm and measured response?"
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Steve didn’t think anything about the Accords, he just feels they’re bad. He had a very strong sense of right and wrong, but it was instinctive rather than reasoned out. He never stopped to consider whether ‘doing the right thing’ was the same when you were a powerless sickly boy in the forties, a soldier during war-time, or a powerful civilian super-hero.
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Was the guilt he’d felt at Pietro’s death completely natural? -
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Five possibilities of how Maddie's introduction in the show could have gone worse (or much worse), and one possibility how it could have been a lot smoother than shown on screen.
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Each chapter is a separate story, and appropriate warnings are listed in the author's note of each chapter.- Language:
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Tony's Girl by Crosshairs
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies)
07 May 2018
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When Tony Stark finally opens his eyes after being rescued from Siberia, he isn't the same man anymore. What happened in that abandoned Hydra base has broken him in ways that even Afghanistan hadn't.
But Tony is famous for his innate ability to fix things, even himself. Slowly, with the help of friends old and new, he learns to deal with his new status quo, picks up the pieces of his destroyed existence and rebuilds it from the ground up.
Until an unusual accident puts a new, interesting spin to his already interesting life.
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- Part 1 of Starks and Irons
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After the despicable actions of Master Sergeant Robert King who'd tricked Abby into helping make a biological weapon, she was ordered to take a one-week leave of absence. Now she's back and raring to go but why is everyone acting hinky, why is Gibbs acting so mean and where is Tony?
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you want a war? (you don't know what you're asking for) by graveltotempo for Wix, dls
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Sep 2020
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“And now? Now you’ve all betrayed,” Steve flinched at the choice of words, “Stark, and Potts and Rhodes are not going to sit and take it.”
Natasha frowned at the phone. “What does this mean for us?”
Fury laughed - an ugly laugh with no myrth in it. “It means that Potts or Rhodes are the ones who sent me this phone because they wanted me to contact you. They wanted me - and you - to know that they are with Stark, that they are the line of defence between him and us.”
“It means that they just declared war. God have mercy on your souls.”Series
- Part 1 of you WILL be sorry