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Reveal gone wrong. Except jack and Maddie canāt find themselves to experiment or physical hurt Danny. It may not be their son.
But he looks so much like him. How it talks and even itās speech patterns.
They canāt turn it over to the Giw. Theyād know they touched it.
But they canāt keep the reminder here. There son. Danny was gone.
Sending it back to the zone didnāt work. It just comes back pleading with them. That heās still Danny. That he is still alive. Nonsense of being half alive.
It doesnāt realize itās just a ball of emotions not truly sentient at all.
The only logical step. Seal its powers and send it to a separate dimension. Itās easy enough to trick the being claiming they believed it and gave it a āsafetyā bracelet to ācontact themā.
So with its powers disabled. They sent the poor thing off. Maybe some poor sap in the new dimension may believe itās alive.
#dpxdc#jack and Maddie send Danny away#like harshly#convinced him they believe him#then yeets him away#they donāt tell jazz what happened#clearly he ran away#he didnāt love us#obviously#jazz and co donāt believe them#he could end up anywhere in dc#technically any dimension#Danny canāt get the braclet off#he is stuck human#which causes its own issues#Danny nearly froze to death without using his powers after all#his core needs to be released#with Dannyās luck he probably land smack dab in the middle of a villan fight#no way to protect himself#poor Danny#bad parents jack and maddie#they just donāt believe him#obviously his obsession was staying alive#why else would it claim it was Danny
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Epilogue(?) for A fish out of water
There was a post flooting around about how lighthouse keepers used to have to be married, and made me think of a possible happy-ish ending for my siren!jon selkie!martin story⦠If anyone knows the og post (I think it was a writing advice?) let me know, and I link it.
more of them
#occudo's art#tma fanart#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#siren!jon#selkie!martin#anyone who wants to write this story as a fic still can#this is just one possible ending#āhappy-ishā because they are kinda stuck as humans#trapped between worlds#also jon is frowning bc he isn't comfortable being photographed#not bc of the clothes#he doesn't mind what kind of clothes he wears#but finds man clothes more practical to walk in w his cane#he is not forced or anything#I also thougt about him losing his voice but I'm still not sure#anyways#i just wanted to draw old man jmart
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Hey, did you lose this?
A gargantuan looming form that was black as the night sky, coated in stars, cosmic dust, planets, and nebula. Extremely long snow white hair defying gravity floating above the ceiling spreading across like a growing cloud. Bright blue eyes like jewels staring down at tim
Tim could only stare dumbfounded with his sleep deprived eyes after searching for the right summoning in his backup backup bunker to find batman after escaping the arkham asylum.
In its right thin hand holding like a wet napkin was batman unconscious, coated in deep blue ice.
"I believe this belong to your dimension, at first, I thought it was a miniature cat at first when it tried a pathetic attempt at fleeing my children's toy box was when I noticed it was just another misplaced humans and they don't last long in the infinite realm much less my children's toybox. It took me a moment to figure out the right dimensions where it originated, but you thankfully made it easier for me to find with the summoning." The bring lightly drop Batman down to the ground as the deep frozen ice easily melted away.
"D-don't you need a payment?" Is what Tim spoke after his mind reset back from shock.
"Oh no~, visiting this dimension is a grand payment considering this where I can finally nib the bud of those pesky sewage ectoplasm that been a pain in my ankle for long enough. At best, you would be rewarded for giving me such a gift." The being lightly tapped Tim's head with its glowing index finger, ruffling the black hair lightly.
"Should you need me for any favor, Call upon me, the High King of the Infinite realm, Danny Phantom, Protector of the Dead and Alive, Center of the Eternal Vast Sp" The be- Danny did a light bow, as his towering being faded away, the summoning circle disappearing as well.
Leaving only Tim alone with a Bruce coughing a bit, taking a couple of heavy breaths of fresh air which snapped Tim out of his stupor.
"Bruce, Bruce, are you alright?" Tim rushed over and lightly shook Bruce's shoulder as Bruce's eyes opened slowly to see Tim, except there was something different about tim. His hair wasn't black but now a strikingly bright white with specks of stardust.
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#dpxdc#dc x dp#danny phantom#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dcxdp#dc x dp prompt#danny is the ghost king#Danny became a elderitch god of the infinite realm even as he is eternally stuck as a halfa#unable to grow but his Ghost did change into his title the more years went by#elle and dan became his lil children#amity park became a part of infinite realm even after everyone aged and died#Danny found a stray in his children's toybox and thought it was a tiny cat but it's was a misplace human#bruce was in a miniature form of hell by two giant elderitch children along with many green growing toys for a good while#danny: oh that a human welp back to your home dimension#get summoned and found the right home dimension to a tiny child that reminds danny of himself#also found the heart of those nasty sewage ectoplasm pits he been searching for a long time#danny gift tim his old signature back in the good ol days for this grand offering#dead tired
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Thinking about third transmigrator fic ideas again and I remain intrigued by the concept of a person being shoved into the role of Mobei-Jun's mom. Stuck in a love angle between Linguang-Jun and Mobei-Jun's father, whatever the fuck went down there, sounds like a nightmare.
But I'm also intrigued by it from a character work perspective, because whatever potential fix-its or break-its that I might be tempted to apply, I'd still want this situation to produce a Mobei-Jun who is still believable and recognizable as himself: fucked-up and non-human. What do you even call this childhood experience? Being a "second-gen transmigrator"? Not fun.
Also, I want to create a setup solely for this comedic jump-scare situation:
Airplane, cursing under his breath in English (he's not fluent by any means) because f-bombs are great and no one knows what he's saying this way: "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Mobei-Jun, suddenly, in fluent English: "What the FUCK did you just say?"
#tossawary svsss#transmigrator mobei jun mom#fic ideas#moshang#mobei jun#shang qinghua#stuck with this loser human servant on your quest for power and respect and then he starts cursing like your weirdo alien mom wyd???#airplane can't stop getting outed by his desperate need to say a solid WTF!!! let him rest!!! let him curse!!!#mobei jun is fluent in English here because the best way to keep the timeline stable imo is a transmigrator who knows fuck all about shit#mobei jun's immigrant mom whose fluency is shaky at best and also can't read and didn't actually read PIDW far enough in to know who mbj is#mbj mom: ālook out for uhhh a Lou Bingle kid??? maybe???ā mbj: "what the fuck are you talking about now?ā#mobei jun's mother
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DPxDC Prompt #18
Inspired by reading this prompt from @nerdpoe and my brain randomly deciding to mash it with this prompt and reblog from @stealingyourbones and @moodycow210. Basic premise is the Nerdpoe prompt with the backstory of the Bones prompt. Do read those for full context of what my brain was trying to do here.
Danny was sent on a mission by Clockwork and missed his window back home, getting stuck in a vast, dark (twilight), oceanic place; with only the company of fish-like beings that can only communicate empathically very basic desires and intents.
After a while of panic and searching for a way back, he ultimately settles in and waits for rescue, occupying his time by playing with and training his powers. He discovers an ability to shapeshift and decides to make his form into something more comfortable and camouflaged for where he is.
The form he settles in to is somewhere between human and fish. Hands and claws and fins and webbing and gills.
It saves his life when Danny loses his hold on his ghost form, discovering that the changes transferred over to his living self.
And Danny waits.
And waits.
And drifts along, avoiding the attention of anything with teeth and intent to eat, while searching for his own meal.
And forgets what he's waiting for.
Danny has been there so long now. His memories of before are nothing but vague, indistinct impressions. Like the shadow of the other creatures that sometimes brush against his own. When the green, swirling thing appears in front of him, he almost swims away from it. But something about it brushes him, like those shadows of before. It calls to him, urges him to approach, to swim through.
On the other side of the green thing is light. So much light. It's so bright. And full of fish. More fish and more light than he can remember ever seeing before. The other fish swim around, swimming with a suffocating shadow of urgency and fear. And the green thing is gone.
Confused and disoriented, he cannot avoid the massive thing, like a strange tangle of kelp vines, sweeping through the water collecting anything that does not avoid it's path. It pulls him and many fish up and up and up. To a place too heavy to swim, where some instinct has him changing the way he breathes from his gills to his mouth and nostrils. He didn't know he could do that. And yet, some part of him is quite certain that he did.
There are strange shapes beyond the strange vines. They bark noises that brush against those shadows of memory, but he does not understand them. He should, he knows he should. He should understand a lot more about this situation than he does. But he doesn't.
"Is that one of them fish people?"
"Looks like it. Seems a young one too."
"Should we toss it back?"
"Why? Pretty little fish, bet we could find a buyer. He oughta fetch a pretty penny. Might even get nough to actually retire."
#DPxDC#DPxDC prompt#Less a prompt and more a ficlet free for continuations but -eh- semantics#Check out the linked prompts for full context#Danny got stuck on a time mission#Made himself a mer/atlantean to feel more comfortable/better survive where he got stuck#(Dealer's choice how much fish vs how much human he is.)#He ended up being stuck so long he started to forget how to human#Finally goes through another portal back to his own time and close to home#Only to immediately be caught up by some less than moral fishermen#They'll sell him to some other sleezebag#And Danny will spend a while in captivity before being found by Aquaman#His memories are still there but very muddled by his time in the deep)#Fortunately for Danny - though he doesn't know it - not being a normal fish makes him immune to things like depth and salinity changes#So don't @ me about it#Comic logic
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You need an adult. - I am an adult!
Danny in human age is an adult. He was a 24 years old adult that only recently started working in the Arospace Department of Wayne Enterprise. Human wise he was by all means an adult, with the paper trail to support it.
The only problem was. His ghost form.
Despite his human side having aged just fine and giving him a fine, build like a Brickhouse, body that came close to Dan's hulking ghost form. His ghost side was still stuck on looking like his fourteen years old self, small and build like a twig. Pandora, Frostbite and Clockwork had tried teaching him how to manipulate his own ectoplasm so he can finally adjust his ghost looks. But so far... that was a skill he has yet to master successfully.
Now, usually, that wouldn't be a problem. But considering he only recently found out two of his bosses also worked with the Justice League who happened to know him as Phantom, it spelled problems.
Because the Justice League was convinced he was a forever 14 years old dead ghost hero who is using one of his many powers to appear like a human adult. He only went human on them like twice for undercover missions. He saw no problem in them knowing about his human half. Ancients all his rogues and the entirety of the Infinite Realms knew of it already anyway.
But you make one to many jokes about deadly situations or act just a bit to childish one to many times with them and you are seen as child forever! Go figure why Danny had so many problems with authority figures is whole life.
They were the once thinking his human half was just another power! He never said it was!
And now here he was, sitting in the office of one of his bosses. Faced with the two of them trying to clear up the misunderstanding of a decade. Ancients they are convinced his paper trail is fake just because Phantom had Tucker on his team. A team that had already established their talents years ago, when they worked with the JL for the first time.
Wait.... why was Bruce Wayne pulling out adoption papers?
I dont need an adult! I am an adult!
#danny fenton#danny phantom#dp x dc#dpxdc#crossover#dcxdp#tim drake#brue wayne#dannys ghost form is stuck at 14#human wise he is an adult by all means tho#the justice league is just convinced he is a forever 14 years old ghost#like they only knew of his ghost form until for an undercover mission he went human infront of them#they are convinced that his human form is a power#think of it like a reversed Captain situation#they think he needs an adult#but danny is an adult#human wise at least#Dan and Ellie are laughting at this newfound missery of denied adulthood
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give me merman Eugene and pirate Rapunzel or give me death
#tangled#tangled the series#tts fanart#new dream#rapunzel x eugene#rapunzel#eugene fitzherbert#my art#rapunzel's a reluctant pirate#stuck in Gothel's ship called the Tower#eugene's just a mermaid who likes to cause mischief amongst humans#he didn't think he'd end up saving one from certain doom...
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Gravity falls httyd au, is that anything? Transcript under the cut, more thoughts in the tags
Texts says āredā āvery protective of Stan, messes with him a lotā ādoing much better than in canon bc he isnāt alone + has someone to take care ofā
#hmm au nameā¦#dragon falls au#eh could be better#beetlart#gf#I have about zero ideas for actual plot#I was thinking fords dragon would be a stormcutter based off his journals#unsure of a name tho#Mabel would have a gronckle named waddles ofc#and for dipper I was thinking a terrible terror#his struggle to accept his dragon being so little and weak would be a parallel to his struggles with manliness#bill I havenāt decided#heāll either be a character like drago bludvist#wanting to take over the world with an army of dragons and humans#but for a party instead of dragos motivations#or heāll be a dragon like the red death#but able to telepathically communicate#actually yeah I like that more#hes stuck somehwere (magically?) and he wants ford to free him like in canon#I think Stan would lose a leg like hiccup would#i had no idea for a plot when I started writing these tags but now I do lol#gravity falls#gravity falls stan#stan pines#stanley pines#httyd au#art#gravity falls au
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Human ouaw crew doodles, because yes i'm thinking about aus.
#ouaw fanart#ouaw#my art#somehow twig and gideon were the hardest to draw#in modern/human aus in my brain hootsie switches between being a little girl and being a cat#not gonna tag everyone cause like this is just doodles its whatever#idk wtf Kreamy wears in modern aus a suit still? probablly idk hes stuck being a 1920s guy in my brain#once upon a witchlight#legends of avantris
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Watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron again as an adult is so great because not only do you appreciate the nostalgia and joy of it, the stunning 2D animation mixed with early 3D techonology and well written tight story with a main character that never speaks.
But also you appreciate that the plot relies on horses, despite not being typical talking horses in cartoons, being extremely intelligent to the point that they are aware of their captivity and exploitation. And it involves a hyper intelligent horse dismantling (or, at the very least significantly delaying) American colonialism's expansion into the west.
This horse also very likely killed many colonialists when they were either launched at high speeds from his back, kicked in the head or blown up in a train explosion.
Good for him.
#I also love how the humans continue to severely underestimate just how much damage this horse can do#imagine the Colonel rocking up to the train camp with the whole place on fire#so many men killed#all the horses gone with some probably getting stuck along the way because they're dragging literal chains#and he sees that goddamn buckskin mustang that wrecked his whole shit#and that he last saw jumping into a raging river#what a day he'd be having#that horse? played dead so he could kick off the chains on the horses and then sent a whole train rolling down a hill into another train#set the whole forest on fire - killed so many bystanders and probably woodland animals#this horse is a liability he just keeps wrecking our whole shit every time we capture him#seriously don't go near that horse I think he might be a god or something
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Imagine being a child, and your whole family dies, and itās just you and your dad. And he starts locking himself in his office, claiming he has work to do, so you sit and you wait and you grieve. And then one day your mother is there like nothing ever happened, making breakfast and cleaning the house and homeschooling you just like she used to. And your dad is acting like this is completely normal. And this works for a while, but then this twisted version of your mom stops just cooking breakfast and cleaning the house and begins trying to have hobbies. And suddenly your mother is gone again and there is a new mom in the kitchen the next morning. And you realize that you will never get the closure of fully losing your mother, but you will also never get the satisfaction of having her back. And soon your mother, who used to adore you, is pampering these two new children that behave so well and arenāt sad and angry like the poor little .5. And you watch as every new version of your dead mother begins to view you with more and more disdain as you look into the lifeless eyes of a woman who used to sing you songs before bed every night, and you know there is no one who will ever believe you. Imagine being Timmy Trout.
#but like actually itās not like Tucker had spare Trudyās ready to go after she died#because theyāre made from her brain#unless he killed her (?) but I seriously doubt that#which means Timmy lost his mother and then lost his father too#and then suddenly heās stuck playing the most fucked up version of dollhouse ever#timmy trout#robot trudy#trudy trout#robot Tiffany and Little Tuck#were they ever even human?#dungeons and daddies#dndads#dndads season 3#dungeons and daddies season 3#dndads s3#the peachyville horror#dungeons and daddies s3#dndads spoilers#editing these tags lol yeah he did kill her OOF Iām not ok#dippy talks
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Ghostly Host AU
So! Ghosts need a physical Anchor in the living world, or they are liable to fall apart and fade away if they stay for too long.
In Amity Park, this usually isn't too much of a problem. Sure most Ghosts can't stay for a week without a Host, but the ambient Ecto-Levels in Amity Park are enough that they can stay for a few days or so at a time with little worry.
This changes however, during Reign Storm.
When Pariah Dark awakens, Tens of Thousands of Ghosts use the Fenton Portal to escape the Rule of Pariah Dark, running away into the Human Realm.
If Amity Park had stayed where it was, this would have been fine. They could have stayed in the Living Realm for a few days, and maybe the Weaker ones would need to find a temporary Host, but that was fine since Amity was filled with thousands of Liminals.
Unfortunately, Pariah Darks first move was to suck Amity Park into the Ghost Zone, alongside all of the Ecto-Energy that had accumulated there.
Now left trapped in the Living Realm with no way back to the Zone, thousands of Ghosts suddenly needed Hosts or they would start dying off by the Hundreds. In a Panic, they spread out across the Planet in search of viable Hosts.
Any normal Person wouldn't do, they needed a Living Being that could actually handle their Power, or someone who matched their Soul. Preferably both. Liminals were the best since they had a durable Body and a Malleable Soul, so any Ghost could use any of them as a Host.
But outside of Amity Liminals were very rare, and finding someone who matched their Soul was time-consuming and hard. Thankfully, in recent years the population of Aliens, Metahumans, Enhanced Soldiers, and even extra durable baseline Humans had spiked across the world.
All across the planet, People suddenly found themselves stuck with a new Passenger in their Bodies.
Those new passengers thankfully weren't malicious, for the most part, but it was still annoying. The only good thing was that they now had new Powers, which neat.
They could summon the Ghosts in their Body outwardly, and then command the Ghost to use their Powers in whatever way they wanted. Only other Hosts could see another person's Ghost, which meant they looked very awkward to normal people when they fought. Generally, Hosts seemed to act more strangely after getting a Ghost, as if they lost a few of their Inhibitions.
Why did they feel the sudden need to strike a flamboyant Pose? Or over dramatically scream?
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#Host AU#Ghostly Host AU#Tens of Thousands of Ghosts were suddenly released onto the world in desperate need of Host Anchors to survive#Not all of them survived long enough to find one#The Ghosts basically act as Stands#That's basically the main reason I made this#I wanted to make a Jojo's reference#The Ghosts mostly end up in Hosts that suit them the most#Spectra ended up with Hugo Strange#Skulker ended up with Deathstroke#Ember ended up with Black Canary#Johnny and Kitty actually got seperate#Kitty was stuck in the Ghost Zone when it all happened while Johnny was stuck in the Human World#Johnny ended up with Jason Todd#Kitty asked for help in finding him and ended up bonding with Jazz again so they can search#You can see where thats going#Danny is his own Host as a Halfa so he is fine#Sam becomes the unwilling Host of Undergrowth#Tucker becomes Host of his own Past Lives somehow#Who would end up with Superman? He would be a sought after Host by virtue of his fame#You know what would be funny?#Box Ghost ends up with Superman#Lunch Lady ends up with Lois Lane cause for some reason she is a good enough Host
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I know everyone says Needles is the Michael of TMAGP but I'm gonna be totally honest, I think Needles is MUCH more like Nikola than Michael.
Someone should draw Michael being cool and mysterious and then there's his weird cousins Nikola and Needles just being. themselves in the background
Additional note: i do actually have a fear of needles which probably makes this post all the funnier
#michael shelley#the magnus protocol#the magnus archives#tma micheal distortion#michael distortion#tma#tmagp#nikola orsinov#needles#michael just being his usual cool self#and then needles and nikola just needling and nikolaing in the bg#michael: i am not a who. a who requires a degree of identity-#nikola: MICHAEL NEEDLES IS STUCK ON A HUMAN AGAIN COME HELP ME UNSKEWER HIM#michael: oh for FUCKS SAKE YOU TWO#michael is sick of them#but hes their cool older cousin (even though technically nikola is the oldest i think)
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revised my gijinka of my boyfie yayyyy š¤š©µ
#literally him being Jamaican from the tv show is SO stuck in my head. I just gottaā¦.#I also just rlly like the idea of him being Caribbean š¤#having fun š¤ playing š¤#HEāS VERY GORGEOUS TO MEEEE āš½āš½āš½#txt#š¦šāāļøš#draws! āļø#humanizations#funky kong#gijinka
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This is now a Kamala Harris for President blog btw
Obviously I'll keep posting good news as usual! And I'm going to pull up as much good news and reasons for hope about Kamala Harris's campaign as I can.
#united states#us politics#kamala harris#kamala 2024#harris 2024#vote blue#reminder that Kamala Harris winning is likely OUR BEST CHANCE OF ENDING THE PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE#she has opposed it#has sympathized with protestors#said that protestors were showing āwhat human emotion should beā#the white house has been watering down her comments for MONTHS and she may not be super loud about it in the campaign#because honestly that could cost her a lot of votes if she gets stuck labeled as pro hamas#but Biden isn't going to end this and Netanyahu will probably never end this if he gets his way#Trump has said Israel should āfinish the jobā and that as president he'll ban Palestinians from entering the US#Kamala Harris is our best hope of ending this massacre
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look, people can have whatever headcanons they want (this whole blog is devoted to my own brainrot over icemav because I needed an outlet, I love all the different stuff out there and wanted to contribute) but I do have a hard time picturing Ice being the world's most upstanding student with his pencils sharpened and teacher's pet vibe that I sometimes see attributed to him. I get that he's ice cold, no mistakes, but that has to do wit his flying. I think when it comes to flying, yeah, he fucking knows everything about that plane, about how it flies, about what he needs to do. He's devoted to the act of flying, of being a naval aviator, of being the best pilot there is.
On the ground though? Yeah, he'll do everything textbook -- so long as it keeps him flying. But a guy who is willing to cause a class laughter by coughing "bullshit" into his fist as another student explains his process to their instructor is not a guy who is concerned with being a teacher's pet. I've seen it around here, so I'm not the first to note this, but honestly Ice looks bored in the classes. Hell he spends half his class staring at Maverick. The difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice does care enough to know the rules and can be compliant when it suits his goals. Maverick will blatantly disregard rules he doesn't agree with and doesn't know when to keep a lid on his own perspective.
(Side note - People who climb the military ladder, I imagine as I do not personally know, don't do so merely by keeping their head down -- Ice has to take risks and challenges that get him noticed, which sometimes means pissing off people, with which how often he's a brat to Maverick he is clearly capable of doing. I think the difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice knows how to play the game and knows when is the right time to piss off people and knows how to do it within the regulations and best tactics. Maverick -- Maverick can't keep an opinion to himself, and does things he feels are the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences. )
Also going based off of other knowledge I've seen on tumblr explaining what the Academy is which Ice apparently went to, it's (allegedly) a pretty prestigious school that's hard to get into. Which makes me think, personally, that Ice had exceptional grades for a long time, and probably even did advanced physics and aerodynamics already. These classes might be even easy for him, or at least nothing new. He pays attention as much as he needs to, but for the most part, he's already got it. (I personally like to headcanon that he would regularly get best scores on exams while at the Academy, or maybe even had a friendly competition with Cougar as to who would be the best academically, and maybe even helped tutor other students -- which would be a decent precursor to him being a teacher at TOPGUN)
Which I think is why Ice finds Maverick so compelling. Maverick gets all this, seems to be a damn good visualizer, and he didn't go to the academy. Ice worked his ass off, but Maverick had to overcome genuine barriers due to his family history, and did so while doing absolutely off the wall shit that Ice would have never even considered. The thing that draws Ice to Maverick? Maverick is the farthest thing from boring. Even if he is lying about flying upside down -- which despite Ice saying "bullshit" I think at least part of that is just reactive disbelief because holy shit, what if he actually did? -- it's still entertaining. Breaks up from the monotony. Catches his attention.
And then when he watches Maverick fly and realizes, jesus christ, he probably did fly his plane upside down. He flew his plane upside down and taunted the shit out of the enemy. And because this is the 80s, and toxic masculinity, instead Ice channels that feeling of kind of awe into antagonism because how else is he going to do it. So he asks Maverick, "who was covering Cougar while you were showboating?"
And the thing is that Maverick takes it in stride. He listens pretty politely. honestly, I think he notices the fact that Ice -- Goose's proclaimed "best" -- is paying attention to him. Even if it is by being an asshole, it doesn't stop the fact that Ice doesn't do that to anyone else. He keeps to his lane. They're teammates, they're all on the same side, but other than Slider it doesn't seem like Ice takes much of a personal interest in anyone. But he does in Maverick.
It's the fascination that makes the Icemav for me. The intrigue. Maverick asking Goose who he thinks is the best, and Goose points out Iceman, and Iceman backs it up because he flies textbook perfectly. Iceman having heard about Maverick, acknowledging that Mav and Goose were notorious, and discovering why and being compelled by it. The rivalry between the two that comes from really, being two sides of the same coin. They both want to fly, badly. They both want to be the best. They both have very different understandings and beliefs of how one becomes that, and even what the best means. They both recognize that the other is a threat to their own goal. And once the competition is over -- well. Damn. Who else do they want on their wing than this person who has earned their respect, impressed them, who they've come to understand, and with whom went through so much together?
(And if there's a hell of a lot of sexual tension and confusing romantic feelings along the way, well -- that's just even more fun)
#icemav thoughts of the day#unfortunately iceman is the jock who was simultaneously a good student#I don't think he gets in detention or anything like that -- he keeps himself clear of trouble#but i'm sure there were classmates who hated him because not only is he hot and arrogant and good at sports but he's SMART too like fuck hi#whereas maverick strikes me as the kid who was academically smart but also did get detention for fighting or shit like that#probably wasn't allowed to do sports because I tend to enjoy the headcanon that he was a foster kid and never stuck around long enough#so he ended up being aggressive and emotional as a result#icemav#pete maverick mitchell#tom iceman kazansky#top gun#top gun 1986#tg86#top gun fandom#Not that I donāt also love nerd!iceman headcanons#I love the idea that heās a big reader and reads a ton of science fiction and fantasy#That he can recognize shakespeare and genuinely enjoyed the humanities electives he had to take#I just donāt think heās such a rule follower that he canāt break protocol or rules when he finds it would best suit the situation#(Also Mav being a secret nerd also compels me but thatās a whole other story)
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