#TCB

[lobotomy-jpeg]

Owen's old journal.

[ID: Digital sketch of agent Curt Mega done to resemble a loose pencil sketch in a notebook; there's a signature next to it that reads "O.C. '56" and half erased scribbles of Shakespeare sonnets. At the edge of the notebook paper is an obscured black and white polaroid. There's a teacup stain that touches the sketch./ end ID]

[smytherines]

[dead-meat]

I will be the sis content I want in the world! Them in different styles:3

[szollibisz]

horrible gay people who hate each other (they are in love)

[booigi-boi]

Asked Joey some art requests, this was one of them 🍌

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[mentallyillmindmeld]

Situationship so bad you have to fake your own death and devote four years of your life to dismantling everything he’s ever believed in

[gaygh0stt]

[yourlocalabomination]

So please pay attention, attention!

[offbrandhuman]

SPIES ARE FOREVER

[possibly-evil]

happy pride month to these cannon starkid + tcb queer characters!!

[rockrosethistle]

tiktok hated this edit please interact I need to find my people

get it. cause curt mourns the wicked.

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

spies are forever is peak because they managed to work a homoerotic sword fight into their cold-war era espionage action dramedy

[smytherines]

I wonder what happened to Owen's stuff after he died

I always picture him living in a cramped little terraced house. It's nothing fancy, a Victorian-era building with no shower and a coal stove for heat, but the neighborhood he grew up in is still half bombed-out from the war, so it's an improvement for him. There isn't much in it, but it's his own space, with as much privacy as he can realistically hope for in London

He had a good government job, making a pretty decent salary working for MI6, but he strikes me as kind of a frugal guy who prefers to save instead of spend. He hides his money away so that when he finally retires he doesn't have to worry about it. He likes to have a plan

Curt has ADHD, and as a people we are... not great with money. So he has his apartment in DC, and he had enough to buy his mother a safehouse in La Désirade, but the rest he spends on clothes, updating the furniture in his apartment (even though he's hardly ever there), alcohol, presents for his partner, and so on

When Owen dies (the first time), it's months before Curt can bring himself to visit the house. He breaks in through a back window, and he wanders around. He remembers the one Christmas they got to spend there, maybe a weekend or two where they got to be together without a mission to worry about. He pockets Owen's cologne from the bathroom, pulls a few shirts from the closet, drinks and cries until he falls asleep curled up in Owen's bed

Eventually he finds the loose floorboard in the bedroom, and it's all there-- every letter, every postcard, every picture, stubs from movie tickets, matchbooks from various hotels and casinos, every silly little trinket Curt had ever given him piled up like treasure

There's also a large bundle of cash. It's not British currency, but American dollars. And attached to the bundle is a note Owen wrote in the event that he is killed in action, telling Curt how much he wished that he could have shared a life with him, lived with him, married him. But the least he can do is make sure Curt is taken care of

I like to think that's the money Curt survived on during his grieving period

With the Russian prison, healing up, developing a new identity with Chimera, it's well over a year before Owen is in London again, wearing a stranger's face. The house is empty, his favorite kettle, his records, the lovely thick chenille blanket Curt had given him as a gift-- its all gone

He tells himself he's just there to destroy any incriminating evidence, but when he checks under the floorboards he's unexpectedly crushed to find that it has all been cleared out

Owen breaks down, takes his anger out on the wobbly banister, puts his fist through the bathroom mirror. And when he finally pulls himself together he tells himself that it's for the best. That those were memories from a life that isn't his anymore. Mementos of his own naivety. But he leaves knowing that there's one thing left, a picture of the two of them concealed in the breakaway heel of his boot, always with him no matter how hard he tries to let go of it

[marlbles]

i hate when i’m having a good day and then i remember barty and evan didn’t want to make a big deal out of their wedding because regulus wouldn’t be there for it 💔

[szollibisz]

what to do when the guys sent to kill you show up in matching little outfits

[booigi-boi]

Sergio! Both versions because I adore both 💣💼

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