#namor really proposed in this scene

[valninja]

“You are the first person from the surface to come to Talokan. Please take this as a token of our gratitude.”

[satoru-is-the-way]

A/n: Here is the second prompt!

Tags: @shoxji @tian-monique @omgsuperstarg @angel-bi666

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Summary: Reader and Tenoch use to be married but got divorced. Years later they are working together during Wakanda Forever.

Warnings: Angst, Divorce, Arguments, Cussing, and panic attack(?)

You sat down with her co-star Letitia and Tenoch for their interview with Mitú. It had been a rough year of filming when your ex-husband plays your character's love interest.

It all started in 2007 you landed a small role in Déficit. You filmed with Tenoch Huerta Mejía for several months. By the end of the movie, it surprised no that you two had begun dating. In less than a year he proposed to you. You became (Y/n) (M/n) Mejía. However, the downfall came 11 years later. Your character had been in the MCU since Avengers in 2012. Currently, you where busy filming Infinity War and then Endgame back to back. While Tenoch is busy with Narcos: Mexico.

The distance and time apart seemed to have done it in with Tenoch. He approached you about divorce. It broke your heart but with a strong face, you agreed. Everyone was shocked to hear the long-time Hollywood couple divorced. You barely spoke with Tenoch for two long year's. The only communication had been about your children. You weren't surprised when Ryan Coogler contacted you for a role in Black Panther Wakanda Forever. (C/n) had close ties with Wakanda also being from a powerful nation that hid from the world.

He explained how your character tied into the plot and would finally have a love interest, that being Namor. You agreed without hesitation on accepting the role, and plus you had a 3 movies in the contract.

You were shocked, to say the least when you walked into the conference room to see Tenoch as Namor. From then it has become awkward on set. You two acted professionally despite everyone could see the struggle. You held feelings for Tenoch. Being with someone for 11 years affected you. Having children with this man. Crying together, laughing, family vacations, and several movies, and tv shows together. How could that go away?

When the kissing scene was filmed it took you a good two weeks to speak with Tenoch out of character. You avoided everyone and stayed in your trailer. Letitia, Lupita, Winston, Mabel, Alex, just everyone tried to speak with you but respected your request to not. Even Ryan asked if you were alright. It was obvious to everyone how you and Tenoch were still in love. The emotions flowed during the scene between (C/n) and Namor.

Today was one of your first interviews without all the cast together. You had agreed to be with Letitia and Tenoch since your character had a lot of screen time and was a fan favorite.

The female explained you all would be trying Pre-Hispanic food. The first one brought out was Chapulines. You began digging in as she started asking question. You laughed as Tenoch dropped some. "Someones hungry!" Letitia comments.

"Ah. Es por toda tu cara! (it's all over your face!)" You comment laughing as well. Your eyes meet his chocolate brown ones. The questions start out simple: How you felt about returning, your characters developed, and the short bits of romance shown in the trailer between you and Namor. You answer and listened when Jessica asked Letitia and Tenoch questions.

Finally, it came back to you. "How does it feel working alongside your ex-husband? Did you find it hard to put emotions into the character since Namor is her love interest? Everyone remembers it as a nasty divorce." Her question seemed innocent. You honestly did not know how they could approve such a thing. Tenoch looked down for a moment clearing his.

"That's not really anyone's business." He answered quickly the nice man turned serious. It bothered him more she asked such a thing.

Letitia looked concerned as she noticed your eyes became watery. "Maybe we should move on to the next dish?" She comments worried about your reaction.

"What the fuck kind of question is that?! Who in the actual hell approved this shit? We are done here." You stood up abruptly leaving the interviewer in shock as well as the remaining crew members. You jerked the mic off throwing it onto the table.

"(Y/n) please wait!" Tenoch grabbed your hand.

"DON'T!" You replied tears running down your cheeks as you stormed out. Your vision became blurry and the world became silent. You couldn't hear anything.

You knew your whole career is ruined. The professionalism with the question. Might as well not even show up to the premiere. Kevin Feige would have words with you. Your whole life is done from the fan would also turn on you. All this ran through your mind as you left the building gasping for air. Everything has come crashing down over a fucking question.

You started walking down the streets of LA. Soon you absorbed the sounds of the city and busy traffic You felt your phone buzzing now. Tenoch had called you 15 times already you answer, "I am at the coffee shop nearby." You say before sending him your location and hanging up.

You took a deep breath once watching Tenoch rushing down the sidewalk and into the Cafe. He sighed deeply and sat down looking up into your eyes. "Please never do that. I called you I don't know how many times. Talk to me."

"It's not like you are unaware of how people look at us."

Tenoch gently brushed your hand, "I know but I don't care about everyone else! I care about you." He whispered. "It's just I get scared. I got scared being so far away. I thought maybe you didn't love me. So I pushed you away. It was a mistake I regret ever since that day. I want to love you. I-I do...I love you." He admits

"In every universe?" You asked.

That same grin you love graced his face exposing his dimples. "Yes Doctor Strange." He chuckled. "In every universe."

"I'm on the chopping block now."

"If they fire you then I will leave too, mi amor."

"No. I won't allow it." You pulled him into a deep kiss. Tenoch responded eagerly pulling your hair softly wanting you to be close despite the damn table in the way.

"Better stop before I cant..." He whispered.

"Same here."

"Let's go back ok?" He asked and you nod walking out hand in hand.

[thislilstangirl]

shuri and the rejection of queenhood

the other day on twitter, i remarked how shuri’s rejection of queenhood fascinated me. shuri is offered queenhood thrice. and she rejects it thrice. but she deals with two different types of queenhood which is the most interesting part. let me explain.

mythic queenhood: “you said you wanted to burn the world. then let's burn it together.”

let’s start with mythic queenhood. i view a lot of elements of wakanda forever through a mythic lens. it’s something that comes naturally when a story is so textually rich and layered. and it invites us to not take things at face value and play with the extremes myths often do.

when isolated from the rest of the movie, the scene between shuri and namor in talokan feels like something from a fairytale. a chapter from an epic where the princess gets taken to an underwater kingdom, gets courted (politically/romantically/whatever your interpretation) by the ruler of this kingdom, and they are able to see themselves in each other. namor gifts shuri a family heirloom (an heirloom which symbolised a promise that he would be royalty and rule), and they watch the sun shine on the beauty of talokan.

there’s just such a different vibe to these moments between them on talocan. hence when namor offers allyship, a union between two kingdoms, and specifically proposes to her that they “burn it [the world] together” i can’t help but see this as a mythic proposal to become queen who, by his side, will wage war on the surface world.

shuri refuses this strongly. despite her anger and grief, she understands what this union could bring: a world in ruins. she rejects alliance, the mythic queenhood, and most importantly, acts nobly as the protector she will become at the end of the movie.

literal queenhood: “you are queen now.”

the rejection of mythic queenhood and the dead of two innocents, is met with an inevitable retaliation: there’s rhyme in the tragedy: the death of a servant/handmaiden, ultimately leading to the death of a queen.

namor, the ‘peter pan’ god king he is, was told no and sought out a yes. once his mythic proposal was rejected, he decided to force the title on her. shuri was unable to outrun a fate that namor, a ‘god’, bestowed upon her, despite her steadfast rejection of it. you don’t just reject a ‘god’. she messed with myth and myth swung back hard. there’s a concurrent mythical storyline happening here, which i won’t completely explore here, but it’s exciting to think about.

anyway, this pushback by fate leans nicely into what happens in this part of the film. which can only be summarised as shuri’s illusion of control being shattered. this can refer to her belief that she is her grief when really it’s eating her alive. it can refer to shuri ‘containing’ her anger at the world. it can refer to her need to be purely pragmatic and logical, when her world her life is actually steeped in spiritualism. all is broken.

a vengeful protector: “i am the black panther, and i am here for retribution!”

the rejection of her this literal queenhood starts once shuri becomes the black panther. not to say the two titles can’t coincide, but with a furious, vengeful shuri, one falls by the wayside. seeing killmonger in the ancestral plane and not her mother, solidified this. to me, the mantle of queen wasn’t completely passed down. instead we have this terrifying and beautiful hybrid of duty and vengeance.

when namor greets shuri as “princess”, she replies back “NO. “i am the black panther, and i am here for retribution!”. despite literally being queen, in her words (or lack of words) and her actions this is a rejection of that part of her.

she is the protector of wakanda, perhaps a deadly goddess in the heat of her battle with namor. her role as black panther becomes a vessel for all her pain and anguish. and more importantly the future of wakanda is second to her revenge. eternal war was about to be triggered until she is pulled back from the brink. who helps her? the queen mother.

this moment is not queen to queen, because shuri was not acting like a queen or even completely believes that she is one. it’s queen to princess. it’s mother to daughter. And it’s only after queen ramonda is able to pass on those words that shuri couldn’t receive in the ancestral plane, does the mantle truly get passed in that moment. shuri is now the queen.

and isn’t it funny, that after shuri accepts literal queenhood, she also accepts a mythical queenhood, in the form of an alliance with namor. of course, at the moment, this is a queenhood rooted in the love of her kingdom, and the empathy and understanding of namor’s kingdom. and its forged not in fire, but in water as their alliance is communicated to their soldiers over the atlantic ocean.

the final rejection

there isn’t too much to say. skipping straight to the end of the movie, shuri formally rejects literal queenhood clearing the way for m’baku to be king. and it’s…peaceful. she has control over her own narrative, finally because she has control over her emotions. but this could only come from her being born again through the literal flames of her fury. there’s a lot of death and rebirth in this movie. the mythical queenhood still stands. and she has the bracelet, and the heart shaped herb that came from that bracelet, to prove it.

but for now, she has decided on being princess shuri, the black panther, protector of wakanda. a role that is steeped in tradition, but gives allows her a way to channel her technological prowess and her tremendous love for her kingdom.

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so what happens next? that’s a whole different meta, but let’s just say i don’t see a forth rejection on the cards. if her arc in this movie was partly about rejection- rejecting spiritualism and her grief until it couldn’t be neglected no more, i would like to see acceptance play a big part in her next arc. but again, that’s a different meta.

[chicagosfinest2021]

Analysis about Wakanda Forever and the ShurixNamor ship (kinda long but worth it)

So we all know that a lot of the anti ShurixNamor folks are screaming “Y’ALL ARE DISGUSTING!! HE KILLED HER MOTHER! Y’ALL SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!”

And I can just really tell that most of the folks in that camp really didn’t pay attention to the details of the movie and the series of events that happened before the unfortunate demise of Queen Ramonda.

First off I personally didn’t even ship Shuri and Namor together after seeing the movie because nothing pisses me off like writers who insist that every time two people of the opposite sex share a vibe, have chemistry, etc, that that automatically means that those two people need to have an intimate/sexual/romantic relationship. I believe that it is 100% possible for two people to have chemistry and still keep their relationship platonic and that was what I originally felt about Namor and Shuri after the end of the movie.

At this point, I defend their ship as much as I defend the writer’s decision to NOT force them into a physically intimate relationship.

I don’t know how the other shippers feel but I for one am not trying to say that at the end of the Wakanda Forever, that I wanted to see Shuri and Namor fall madly in love and trip off into the sunset together, have little brown mer-babies, etc. In fact I would definitely disown the entire Black Panther franchise if they did that. No one is saying that Shuri should just completely ignore the legacy of her mother in favor of being “booed up” to the person who was involved with her demise. However here’s a couple of things I feel like a lot of folks missed in the movie (which is why you have to watch it more than just once):

-First of all, let’s pretend like events played out differently. Let’s say that Namor still introduces Shuri to his nation, explains his origin story to her, the vibes are still vibing, etc. I think 90% of us can agree that after having a dress made for her ( ie, showing respect to her royal status) and presenting her with his deceased mother’s jewelry that that was lowkey a proposal. Namor did not *want* smoke with Wakanda, he wanted an alliance, and he made that clear with how he treated Shuri before everything popped off. He didn't WANT chaos, but at the same time he TOLD THEM what he was capable of and what he was willing to do to protect his people.  I want the folks who are against them as a couple because of the death of Ramonda to consider the possibility that if Shuri had agreed to an alliance/political marriage/whatever at that point, he probably never would have showed up to Wakanda with his super soakers and extreme water balloons a-blazin’, and multiple lives could’ve been spared.

-Secondly (and stay with me on this one!), do not forget the fact that a lot of sh*t kicked off in the first place because Namor originally wanted Riri Williams because it was her thing-a-ma-bob that allowed the Americans to be able to detect the vibranium at the bottom of the ocean in the first place. During the fight scene in Boston after Okoye and Shuri picked up Riri, the Talokan army showed up to take *Riri* back. It was Shuri who demanded to be taken to Namor to talk him down/negotiate. Now remember that later on Shuri had told Namor to spare Riri and to keep *her* instead. Now at THAT juncture, the implication was that the two of them were going to try to compromise and meet somewhere in the middle so that Namor could ensure the continued safety and secrecy of his people without having to kill Riri or spill blood in general.

Now let’s cut back to what was going on in Wakanda. Ramonda gave Okoye ONE job before she took Shuri to Boston: bring my kid back with you. Unfortunately the General did not bring the princess back with her, so not only did Queen Ramonda basically have to fire her, but she had to go all the way to Ha-EE-Ti, to hit up Nakia like, “Girl, I just had to let the General go. I need you to do me a solid and find my kid or Imma knock all this sh*t over.”

*We’re almost at the end, hang on. . .*

So Nakia accepts this assignment, does what she does best, and figures out where Shuri is. The problem is that she doesn’t know what is actually going on between Shuri and Namor; the assumption is that Shuri is in danger, so her mind set is "Find Shuri and take no prisoners". Now while all this is happening and Namor is (probably) thinking that he and Shuri can work something out, Ramonda draws him back to the surface as a semi-distraction. Now while THAT is going on, Nakia shows up and in her efforts to save Shuri and Riri, she actually kills 2 Talokanil women in the process, snatches up the two geniuses, and disappears.

Now imagine you’re Namor in this situation: you just showed this princess the upmost respect, had a dress made for her, gave her the grand tour, told her about where you came from, what you’ve been through, you realized that you both have a lot in common, and you’ve basically offered to take over the world with her (more or less). And just when you think you have earned each other’s trust and respect, THIS happens. Two of your people are dead, both the princess and your original target are gone, and a line has been hella crossed for sure.

Are y’all really gonna tell me that he was just supposed to run back to his room, turn on some music, cry and write in his journal about it?? He already told the queen and the princess that he was about the smoke, did folks really think he was bluffing? And don’t forget, it was T’Challa who had basically revealed to the world about vibranium in the first place, and thereby opening Wakanda and the ocean floor to anyone seeking to pillage this priceless resource. (So yes, Wakanda is partially responsible for the predicament Namor found himself in in the first place.) So when he flooded/attacked Wakanda, we may not have liked it but he did not do anything that Wakanda would not have done if *they* had been in his situation.

And finally (and this is the one that’s really going to piss people off).

Yes, Ramonda drowned because of Namor's exploding water balloons, but. . .she probably would not have perished had she not sacrificed herself trying to save Riri (again, the person who Namor originally wanted in the first place).

Now again, to the people who say Namor x Shuri is an abomination because he caused her mother’s death. . .would you have felt any better if Ramonda had offered Riri to him in the first place? If she had said “You know what? I hate to do it, but I’m willing to sacrifice this girl in order to keep the crazy fishman off our back and to protect my daughter and my country”, would y’all have backed her play? Or condemned her? Because the same way Ramonda was somebody's mother, Riri is somebody's child.

Or if she had just let Riri drown in order to save herself, you’re telling me that would’ve sat well with you all? What if she *had* let Riri drown and was the only one who knew the truth (because no one else was there), how long do you think it would’ve taken before she told her daughter the truth? How do you think Shuri would have reacted?

My point is there are a couple of ways that scenario could’ve gone. Personally, I wish the writers hadn’t gone down that route at all, but at the end of the day, Ramonda died a noble death trying to save Riri, whom herself was unintentionally responsible for a lot of the sh*t that popped off. And even Riri admitted it after the fact, but I don’t see anyone coming for *her* though.

The bottomline is I think a lot of us can/do agree that Queen Ramonda should not have been written out the way she was at all, but folks are a long way away from trying to make Namor out to just be this ruthless, two-faced, cold-blooded killer. If you handed a “Congrats on doing the wrong things for the right reasons” award to Killmonger in the first BP movie, I don’t see how you wouldn't do the same for Namor. This isn’t even a “Because he looks sexy in his hoochie-daddy shorts and that makes him immune to criticism” argument, this is a “There is a 90% chance that his argument would hold up in a court of law and he would have to do community service and probation at best” situation. No one is saying we forgot how Queen Ramonda lost her life, we’re saying look at the broader picture.

And since I’m on a roll, I’m not saying Shuri and Namor *have* to get together in the future films, but based off his speech and actions (and scenes that were cut from the movie) Namor already felt something for Shuri, I wouldn’t even call it physical or romantic attraction even, but he saw something familiar in her, and from my experience that’s not something men will shake right away. Not to mention typically in both reality and mythology, when a powerful man is defeated/out-smarted by a woman. . .it doesn’t take long for the infatuation to set in LOL

Plus Shuri is literally the princess (or queen depending on your perspective)/Black Panther/head scientist of the most powerful nation in the world and now she’s seen HIS world. She may not be a demi-god but in Namor’s mind, she’s probably the closest thing he has to an equal. He caused chaos because he had been betrayed and did what he felt he had to do. He was called “the boy without love” but the love he had for his mother and for his people moved him to do whatever it took to keep them from having to surrender themselves and their vibranium to the colonizers. I’m not saying that his goals don’t need some fine tuning but he is the antagonist in the movie, not the villain.  Even *Shuri* finally figured it out in the end; she could've killed Namor but even while still grieving for her mother, she understood the bigger picture; killing him would've risked eternal war and cost more innocent lives. And I guarantee you by the time Namor went back to his lil cave to paint his fanart of his fight with Shuri, he realized the bigger picture too.

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Avengers #270: WILD in the Streets!

August, 1986

Its probably fantasy racism but look at that partially obscured sign behind Namor’s rock hard calf that says Go Fish

Somebody recognized that their hatred for sub-mariners dovetailed nicely with their love for puns.

Anyway.

Last times in Avengers: well there was a lot of Kang stuff. A three issue arc. Who does he think he is?

But relevantly, Captain America decided to propose a depressed Namor for Avengers’ membership to help him get over his kingdom asking him to kindly gtfo. As an Avenger, Namor hasn’t flooded New York again but there’s been friction. Mostly between him and Hercules.

But right before the Avengers got swept up in Kang Drama, the public at large learned that Namor was an Avenger and now there’s protests. And counter-protests.

Because Namor is both that guy who punched a lot of Nazis in World War II but also flooded New York and tried to take over the world a couple times. He inspires divisive feelings.

I mean, just look at these divided feelings!

So far the people with opposing feelings about Namor have mostly just yelled at each other, thanks to the brave work of some horses in keeping the crowds apart.

But with a title like WILD in the Streets, who knows how long before things get something in the sheets.

Wait, could Namor seduce the crowd?

He has abs for days and some portion of the crowd is bound to be into that.

Anyway, the reporter dressed like a fireman gets some vox pops about Namor. A representative of Veterans of Foreign Wars says that Namor was one of the United States’ greatest allies during World War II.

Another guy yells that the Russians were one of America’s allies during the war and hey fuck ‘em! Also, Namor declared war on the whole human race once!

The reporter exposits for the good of the angry crowd and also reading audience that the State Department had granted a blanket amnesty to Namor in the Sub-Mariner limited series as part of a move to have Atlantis admitted to the UN.

Hmm. I wonder if that ever went through. Be funny to have a scene set in the UN and there’s just some guy with a bowl of water on his head zoning out.

There’s a scene change to a group of men watching the news. A guy named Farrington announces “we finally have a change to get that fish-man, once and for all! I say we take it!”

This guy is originally from the Strange Tales book back in the 60s but he doesn’t seem to appear in any more Avengers books after this.

He’s pissed off at Namor for some reason, they apparently have history. But I don’t really know his deal.

All of the dudes with Farrington in the scene announce that they’re WITH Farrington in an alliance to take down Namor!

Wuh oh, Prince of Abslantis, better watch out for... these dudes!

Anyway.

Inside Avengers Mansion, Jarvis also glumly watches the news coverage which has started asking why the Avengers haven’t made an official statement about Namor’s membership.

Jarvis: You’d have had your statement 24 hours ago, young lady... If half the Avengers hadn’t been spirited away. And now, the others are gone as well -- vanished to who knows where... or when!

Due to Immortus just flinging them back home as soon as they started asking too many questions, where is a couple rooms away from Jarvis and when is right at the moment he finished his thought.

The Avengers are, for the record, pretty annoyed with Immortus giving them the brush off. Cap wishes they had a better assurance that they wouldn’t have to deal with a three-part Kang story again then Immortus just telling them ‘its fine, its fiiiiine.’

Hercules: “I know now why Thor said he found dealing with Immortus a trial. The Limbo-master treats men and gods alike as mere pawns!”

Captain America: “We don’t like it any more than you, Herc!”

Hah.

While the rest of the Avengers wander off to find what today’s plot is rather than continue rehashing last month’s, Captain Marvel asks Black Knight for a favor.

She’s annoyed that her weakness to Darkforce energy has come up for a second time and she’s willing to turn to SCIENCE to make it stop happening.

She says that he recently helped Wasp get better with her powers. Although to be more accurate, Wasp’s powers got better on their own and Black Knight just pointed it out.

Either way, Black Knight agrees to do some SCIENCE tests on her powers.

Ahh, I remember back when Iron Man used to do science tests on Captain Marvel. I miss that dude every other week.

Anyway.

The Avengers find Jarvis and he catches them up to how bonkers things have gotten with the Namor protests.

Hercules: “Ungrateful wretches! Who are they to tell us who we may or may not make an Avenger! I shall thrash them all soundly!”

Wasp: “Hercules! Don’t you dare!”

Cap points out that because AMERICA, people have the FREEDOM to protest even if they’re saying dumb things that are wrong.

Hercules accepts this but fumes that they should respect Namor’s valor. And also fumes (in his thoughts) “leader or not, the Wasp would do well not to address the son of Zeus in that tone of voice!”

Yeah, this is going to be a problem sooner or later.

Hercules voted for Wasp to be chairwoman of the Avengers because he was intrigued at how assertively she was at requesting the position. But to him the novelty has worn off and he’s just annoyed that a lady woman is bossing him - a big buff he-man muscle god - around.

Not a good look on him.

Black Knight is impressed that as much as Hercules and Namor squabble (and it has been a significant amount), Hercules still leaps to defend his teammate.

While Namor just solemnly watches the him-protest.

The news broadcast brings up the time that Namor invaded New York just a few years ago, because of course he did.

Namor: So, it begins at last. Every bit of my misbegotten past will be brought back for all the world to see... all those deeds done in the name of a throne I no longer possess. How can I now defend such actions? Is it any wonder that... so many hate me?

Speaking of, the news interviews a widow in the anti-Namor crowd who says her longshoreman husband was killed when Namor destroyed the wharf he was working on.

Widow: “A-a-and now that m-murderer is an Avenger?!”

Exceppppt

FBI Agent Derek Freeman - you remember him, right? He was in that issue that set up X-Factor with the Jean Grey pod? - he’s flying around in a helicopter looking for Karla Sofen/Moonstone who escaped custody. And he gets a report that the crying widow on the TV news is actually Moonstone.

Even though Derek lampshades that she’d have to be crazy to head right to Avengers Mansion and stir up trouble after escaping custody, yup, that’s her.

She went right to Avengers Mansion because chaos draws her in, I guess.

Oh and she’s doing a good job stoking the chaos.

The protest and counter-protest go wild, taking on a red tint probably meaning that the rage is upon them.

Just when it’s looking like there’s going to be a riot and a police officer complains that they’re out here policing right in front of Avengers Mansion instead of the Avengers coming and helping, the Avengers come and help.

Captain Marvel appears in a giant flash of light that confuses the mob enough that they just stop and stare.

Then she uses her words and tells people to calm the fuck down so the Avengers can try to address their concerns.

Meanwhile, Moonstone decides to sneak out the back of the mob. Probably thinking ‘shit shit shit SHIT who would have thought an Avenger would have showed up here, in front of Avengers Mansion??’

One of the faces in the crowd asks Captain Marvel if Namor is really an Avenger and Marvel confirms, yup, proposed by Captain America himself.

At this point Cap casually walks up.

Another face in the crowd: “But, Cap, that murderin’ -- !”

Captain America: “Just a minute, son! The Sub-Mariner’s made a lot of mistakes, but the man I know is no murderer!”

Oooof. You may want to take a look at Namor’s first appearance, Cap.

He drowns a man. Granted, he’d never met a human at that point so was kind of confused about the whole thing but... wait, are you saying he didn’t kill anyone during the entirety of World War II?

I guess that doesn’t count as murder though.

We’re talking a specific, legal definition thing here.

Anyway, yet a third person in the crowd protests that the widow lady said differently but the widow lady has snuck away so Captain Marvel just doesn’t know what the guy is talking about.

Then Wasp shows up and tells the two Caps that the FBI called to let her know that Moonstone is in the are.

Now, Moonstone could make a clean escape here.

It’s going to take the Avengers a minute or so to put together that Moonstone was the widow and start looking for her.

But Moonstone came here to cause trouble on purpose and DAMMIT she gonna do that!

Moonstone: “I don’t know what’s going on back there, but things are quieting down far too much for my tastes! I could use a bit more confusion to help cover my trail.”

So she blows up a fire hydrant.

And sure, the argument is that the confusion will help her escape.

Except, a hydrant exploding and gushing water just draws everyone’s attention and Moonstone is then stuck in a position where she can’t slip away without a major diversion.

WHICH IS WHAT BLOWING UP THE HYDRANT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!

Instead, Captain Marvel (who can move at light speed) light speeds over to melt the hydrant closed to stop water from blasting everywhere and is fully aware that Moonstone is probably nearby.

Moonstone is supposed to be smart and really manipulative. Maybe that happens later.

Instead, she blasts a helicopter, causing it to start spiraling to the ground.

Namor flies out of the mansion to the rescue.

Wasp asked him to lay low due to the anti-him protests but dangit, he’s not going to let innocent people die while he sits on his thumb!

Namor has some trouble though. He has enough strength to lift a helicopter easily but its spinning out of control and drags him to the ground along with it.

He manages to steer the crash away from the crowds but it still crashes. Right before it does, Captain Marvel nyooms over in her light form and gets caught in the explosion.

Moonstone congratulates herself for the great distraction she did.

Moonstone: “Hah! That’s two Avengers out of my hair... permanently, I hope! With Captain Marvel out of the picture, slipping away will be easy!”

I really doubt that a helicopter explosion is enough to do in Namor, who can stand toe-to-toe with the Hulk. And something like a helicopter explosion isn’t going to destroy light.

You’re being far too optimistic, Moonstone.

And you’re being far too optimistic instead of running away.

Remember how the fire hydrant and helicopter explosions were meant to be distractions so she could get away instead of enjoying the chaos?

Well, while Moonstone enjoys the helicopter explosion, Wasp spots her and fires a few warning shots.

Moonstone immediately intangibles through the ground making me wonder why she didn’t lead with that. Why worry about drawing attention if you can just literally disappear into the crowd?

Moonstone, you dumb.

Wasp isn’t going to give up the chase that easily, not after all the trouble Moonstone has been causing.

So Wasp blows a hole in the pavement and flies into a utility tunnel to pursue.

In the utility tunnel, Moonstone has ditched the widow weeds and changed into her supervillain outfit in time to spot Wasp fly by.

Moonstone notes that Wasp has better control of her shrinking powers than the last time Moonstone fought the Avengers but decides she can still kick Wasp’s ass.

She sneak attack blinds Wasp with an energy blast and tries to get her while Wasp blindly tries to DOOOOODGE.

Meanwhile, back at street level, Black Knight and Hercules come running out of the mansion.

Black Knight: “Cap, we just got new orders from the Wasp!”

Hercules thoughts: Orders... from the Wasp... BAH!

Get over it, guy.

This is what you signed on for.

Wasp’s new orders that she sent to Black Knight specifically (is he her second in command now or what?) is for Hercules to go dig Namor out of the helicopter crash. The rest of the Avengers should join her in the utility tunnels to help capture Moonstone.

All of Moonstone’s blasting willy-nilly in the tunnels below, cause part of the street to collapse.

Hercules saves a guy from a police van that was about to tip over on top of him and Black Knight heads into the tunnel.

None of the other Avengers do. Which in this case means Captain America doesn’t. He helps Hercules clear the streets.

Black Knight finds Moonstone recovering from the dust and smoke kicked up in the explosion she caused. And when she sees Black Knight, she immediately tries to blast him.

But Black Knight’s Extremely Cursed But Pretty OP Ebony Blade absorbs Moonstone’s attack.

And when the villain claims that she killed Wasp, Black Knight unleashes the absorbed energy like some kind of sword beam and knocks Moonstone on her ass.

Then Wasp shows up and reveals she’s perfectly fine.

When Moonstone blew up the gas main while trying to blow up Wasp, it knocked Moonstone for a loop but Wasp just shrunk down to insect-size so she could ride out the shockwave.

Tiny mass is its own superpower.

Anyway, when Black Knight arrived and getsuga tensho’d Moonstone, Wasp was busy shutting off the gas main to prevent further explosions.

Back up at street level, Namor and Captain Marvel show up, unscathed from the helicopter explosion and having rescued the people that were in the helicopter.

The crowd remains divided on Namor, Contentious Sexyman.

The people that like Namor point at this example of Namor being a cool hero who saves lives.

(The couple that are students or perhaps parents for the Sub-Mariner seem detailed enough that they’re likely a cameo or reference to someone the creative team knew.)

People that don’t like Namor suggests that this was a staged rescue to make Namor look good.

Agent Freeman, a guy who was in or near a helicopter explosion, just gets annoyed that anyone would think the FBI would deliberately crash a helicopter in the middle of New York.

Captain Marvel: “People believe what they want, Mr. Freeman.”

Now, I wouldn’t go far as to say an intelligence service would never do that but its not cost effective to do that for a superstrong fishman when the Avengers have to do a heroism at least once a month.

Save a helicopter, just wait for an alien invasion.

What really changes the crowds’ mind is when the Avengers haul Moonstone out of the sewer and reveal that she’s the “widow” that made the accusation against Namor.

Also:

You’re just really leaning into this annoyed at woman thing, aren’t you, Herc?

The Avengers put Moonstone in a power-harness and bundle her into a police van with the help of some police wearing face obscuring helmets.

HMMM.

Anyway, some guy shows up and asks if Namor is Namor and when Namor answers in an annoyed affirmative, the guy serves Namor a summons.

He’s being sued!

Meanwhile, the police van with the police wearing face obscuring helmets.

The police decide to mock Moonstone.

It’s not like she doesn’t give a lot of material to riff on.

Not-suspicious police 1: “For a gal who’s supposed to be edjicated, you sure pulled a bone-headed stunt back there! You oughta know better than to mess with the Avengers on your own!”

Moonstone: “Nobody asked you!”

Not-suspicious police 2: “Ohhh! A tough one!”

Except it turns out that these not-suspicious police aren’t actually police!

Shocking, I know.

Not cop 1 is Absorbing Man and not cop 2 is Titania and they’re here to present an exciting new opportunity to Moonstone, or else.

First they present their bona fides by talking about the superheroes they’ve beaten up. Thor for Absorbing Man and She-Hulk for Titania.

I’m pretty sure they’re here to recruit Moonstone for the Masters of Evil which means That storyline is getting close which means I’m excited.

Also, it makes this scene like a Nick Fury recruitment scene decades before that was a twinkle in Kevin Feige’s eye.

Also also, makes this like the stinger that a subset of fans desperately wish would start appearing in MCU movies.

Anyway, that’s a taste. Now back to the Namor getting sued plot.

Why is Namor being sued?

He’s being sued by insurance investors (led by Leslie Farrington, that one guy from old Namor comics I mentioned!) for two billion dollars of property damage to property that their insurance covered.

Now, I thought that Namor had been granted amnesty but the comic has that covered as the Avengers’ lawyer, apparently, Mr. Costello informs, the amnesty only clears him of criminal charges. He can still be sued in civil court.

Hm. Weird for there to be a superhero adjacent lawyer that’s not Jen Walters or Matt Murdock. Although I don’t think Jen has her license yet to practice in New York at this point.

Anyway. Mr. Costello advises that Namor can probably beat the suit but it would be a major court battle and A LOT of bad publicity.

He suggests an out-of-court settlement but NAMOR WILL NOT HEAR OF A THING! HE WILL FACE HIS ACCUSERS IN COURT! THE JUDGEMENT WILL BE ON THE RECORD! AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

Mr. Costello, looking like he’s regretting taking this case, says he can push for an early trial if Namor really wants that but that Namor will have to work very closely with him and it won’t be easy.

It sure would be bad timing if a new plot wrinkle dragged Namor away from all this, wouldn’t it?

Anyway, Namor’s dickhead cousin Byrrah shows up and tells Namor that Attuma has taken over Atlantis and is laying a trap with Namor’s friend and almost-wife Marrina as the bait.

Black Knight suggests that all the Avengers come together as a team and kick Attuma’s ass but Namor insists no This Is Something He Has To Do Himself!

... It feels like it’s been a while since one of those. Was it... the West Coast Avengers first volume and Wonder Man’s beef with the Blank?

I don’t remember but I didn’t miss it.

Black Knight tries to change Namor’s mind but Hercules has Namor’s back and tells him to go off and have fun beating up his nemesis for honor.

So Black Knight gives up because he has no chance to get Namor to stay without Hercules. Which indicates to me that his plan was to point Hercules at Namor and say ‘get ‘im!’ if he couldn’t convince him with words.

And off Namor goes! Out of the Avengers and into Alpha Flight!

... I hope he comes back. He was barely on the team.

Hercules: “No need to worry, Dane... Namor will make fast work of this Attuma!”

Black Knight: “I hope you’re right, Herc. And I hope he gets back here soon! ‘Cause with that lawsuit pending, if he’s gone too long... this whole mess could blow up in our faces!”

Oh damn, he’s totally going to miss his court date.

DAMMIT HERCULES!

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Fanfic Authors Tag Game

Tagged by: @marblesarelost Tagging: @veliseraptor @traincat 

AO3 Name: ImperiusRex

Fandoms:  Marvel & DC (comics mostly but I enjoy other stuff too like cartoons and movies), Mercy Thompson book series, Dresden Files book series, Black Sails, Star Trek, early seasons of Vikings.

Number of fics: 66 trying to get to 100 before the end of the year hopefully!

1. Fic you spent the most time on: I really can’t say, because a lot of my fics are ones that I start and then put on pause for a time until I find the muse to start/finish them again, which takes anywhere from one day to years. However the longest ongoing wip I have is: To Find my Soul a Home; very long fic about Namor’s life and has slow burn Jim/Namor as the endgame. I have been working on it on and off for about 3 years. Still working on it.

2. Fic you spent the least time on:  Strange Customs; short Jim/Namor fluff fic set during the Oracle Inc holiday party.

3. Longest fic: Catching Quicksilver; 61,858 word fic (26 chapters)  featuring Remy/Pietro. It’s my first published fic too.

4. Shortest fic: Mister Dibbles; 556 word fic about Pietro learning more about his new pet.

5. Most hits:  Catching Quicksilver ; currently at 4,422 hits

6. Most kudos: The Thief's Heart (Remy/Pietro fic) ; currently at 214 kudos

7. Most comment thread:  Strength & Weakness (Namor/Pietro fic) ; currently at 46 comments

8. Fave fic you wrote: My favorite fic is always changing and it’s usually the fic I have not finished yet. I like all of my fics but I think the ones I will love most when it’s done is either To find my Soul a Home, or Lighthouse which are both Jim/Namor wips.

9. Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: Currently none, I really don’t like to go back to fics after I post them because I take so long to even finish one and if I don’t know when to say stop, then it never gets finished. So I try to just be ok with whatever I wrote.

10. Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning:

From: To Find my Soul a Home: Jim/Namor fic: This scene takes place in middle of the story, long after Jim and Namor had parted ways. Jim has been buried in the desert by his enemies, which was the explanation of why the OG Human Torch was not around for decades. warnings for angst, mentions of war, and burial:

He is crushing darkness around him. There is something wrong with his body, he is unable to move, unable to cry out, Jim is trapped inside his mind as the sounds of dirt hitting dirt slowly fades away until they stop. They have buried him in some place he does not know, deep under the ground. What did they do to him? He strains to try and move but nothing happens, he can’t even wiggle his fingers. Lips closed so that any words he would have spoken were sealed forever. This can’t be happening, not again, not again! He remembers the last time he was trapped in such a way, when his father- when Horton sealed him in the concrete under the ground because they were all afraid of him.

“I’m sorry my boy… I have to do this for your own good. I f I leave you out here they will destroy you. I will come back soon and set you free, and teach you more about this world. When it’s ready for you. Be good my boy.”

Anger burns in his chest and he can’t feel his body heating but it’s a weak fire smothered by dirt and lack of air. Horton never came back for him, he never returned and Jim had to free himself. Horton would not free him now either. The world had never been ready for the Human Torch, but Jim had demanded they try, he did everything he could to be human and now he can’t even die like one. Trapped in this suspended animation as he hears the men’s boots stamp over the dirt of his grave before muffled sounds of their voices fades away. Was it night now? Did it matter? He was never leaving here, Toro hadn’t even known what happened to him, what would happen to the boy? Would he search for Jim? He couldn’t let himself hope for that. He hopes Toro will move on with his life, he was old enough now that he could make it on his own. Still Jim feels a tear slip down the side of his face, he would never see his son again, never hug him and ruffle his hair and tell him how proud he was, how much he loved him. Toro could be an old man before Jim ever escaped from here.

Time has passed, how much? Jim doesn’t know, he could have been here a few days but it feels longer than that, weeks, months maybe. His body’s functions had been shutting down slowly, he feels his artificial heart slow to just a few beats per minute. His mind is clouded by the memories of the past, like a bad tape it skips around and some scenes run on repeat. If he was human it would be called hallucinating.

“Look at me Pappy!” Toro flames on by himself for the first time without burning any of the surrounding furniture in their tiny home, his fire spark smile is wide as he lifts his arms up in success. Jim folds the newspaper down enough to watch him. “Good job son. I’m proud of you.” Toro grins as he slowly flames down.

Jim wants to smile at the memory but his face is frozen.

“Come on now Jim, you can’t tell me you still hate him? Even after everything you two have been through?”

“Why are you pushing this Betty? I thought you would be happy that whatever Namor and I had was over.”

“I never saw you as my rival Jim, we both love him, but you know what he’s like.”

“I know. I know, but dammit Betty he gets me so mad…”

His partner in the police force, Betty’s face fades away, the tape skipping again as he tries again to move. He panics again, the cycle of screaming in his head, hoping someone will come, despairing when he comes down from this latest panic attack because nothing changes except his heart is a beat slower than before. Knowing that with every moment that passes his body is shutting down and soon he will be for all intents and proposes, dead. Jim had never died before, he knew what it was like to be shut off, a dark sudden black before the light came on again. Is this how humans feel knowing they have an expiration date? Knowing that one day they too will cease to exist?

“You’re too quiet firebug.”

No. No. No. NO. Jim panics again, tries to get his mind to turn over this tape, switch it to a different record, anything. He doesn’t want to see him.

His face is turned away from Jim in the memory, they were somewhere in France on the shore of a beach. It was the war.

“I don’t have anything to say.”

“I find that hard to believe, you’re always quick to voice your mind when it comes to me, how many times have you insulted me in the past?”

“So you came to find me because you missed my insults?”

“Missed you.”

Jim doesn’t reply to that.

“Say something Firebug, it’s too quiet here.”

Jim follows Namor’s gaze and looks out at the sea of dead soldiers that littered the beach. Their eyes blank as the gulls pick at the corpses. He looks down at his feet as the blood soaked wave washes over his boots.

Jim wants to claw out his brain, he wants it to STOP. He hated the war, he wasn’t like Namor, something happened to the Prince during the war. Jim could compartmentalize the trauma, he locked it away and did his best to be a support system for Toro, but Namor felt everything more deeply. He doesn’t want to see anymore, and for the first time Jim begs Horton’s god to let it end. More time passes.

The edges of his vision are blurry now, and each memory that comes is slower than before. He sees Toro again, in the circus doing his act. He sees Steve sitting in a chair in the clock tower, his face in his hands, the tired slump of his shoulders tells Jim that Steve has not slept again. Papers scribbled with art is strewn everywhere. He sees Namor in the rain.

He knows this.

Jim’s mind is finally on its last legs as it begins to shut down the last of his conscious mind. He is in a house and every room has a light on but the lights are being turned off one by one. He doesn’t want to be alone in the dark again.

The rain soaks Namor, plastering his dark hair and making his pointed ears stick out even more, it’s cute. Jim never told him that.

He knows this night.

Jim follows him out into the rain, away from everyone else.

Another light is turned off and Jim doesn’t try to waste the little energy he has left trying to move his body again. He wants to relive this one more time, he wants to hold on for just one moment more-

He and Namor are pressed against each other in their little alcove, the dirt of the trench wall behind him turns to mud. Piercing green eyes, and warm breath fills his senses as Jim clutches the Prince’s wet dark hair and pulls him closer. The war is worlds away as he feels Namor’s lips connect with his in a kiss. Soft and sensual, it is a sharp contrast to the harshness of the world they live in.

He knows this… the last light turns off and Jim is in the dark, the grainy picture in his mind fades and the record skips for the last time.

“Say something Firebug. It’s too quiet here.”

“I love you.”

Jim sleeps. A man forgotten by time and those who loved him.

[arkus-rhapsode]

My MCU Namor Movie Proposal

So with the recent acquisition made by Disney, we’re going to be seeing a lot of new additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The thing is, there is still that legal trouble with universal so there are some characters up in the air. One of which is Namor the Submariner.

As a fan of Namor’s, I would love to see him one day come to the big screen, but its likely not going to happen any time soon. That said, I decided to write my own concept for a Namor movie.

Full disclosure, I am not a professional writer, nor am I film student. I’m just a guy with a passion for comic book characters. That said I’m not ignorant to the new for an adaption to, y’know, change for movie going consumption. Again, this is just an amateur work that I had wrote and isn’t meant to be taken too seriously. If we ever do get a Namor movie, I will not be disappointed that it isn’t similar to this.

(I’d like to thank @marctheaveragecomicnerd for looking at my original draft)

So it all starts in the Antarctic and a ship called the Oracle. The Captain, Leonard Mackenzie finds a woman stranded on an ice shard. Taking her in, learning her name is Fen, Leonard teaches her language after seeing her write in a crude unknown letters. Fen’s old odd writing’s are secretly tossed overboard to a blue and webbed hand. The two eventually fall in love, with Fen becoming pregnant. But then a raiding party of Atlanteans arrive.

The Oracle’s superior weapons blast them for the most part. Leonard finds Fen, turning blue and sees her winged feet and realizes what she is. Fen apologizes walking up and hugging him telling him she doesn’t know what’s happening, but her love for him was real. Leonard also apologizes (For killing the attacking Atlantean’s, though that isn’t spoken.)

Fen departs. In the water she is met by a merman, who is her nephew, Byrrah. She leaves Leonard behind, fearing for his safety.

Back at Atlantis, a warlord named Skarka is trying to demonstrate a plans of attack on the surface dwellers to the Emperor of Atlantis, Thakorr. Revealing he was the one who sent out the raiding party. But Fen and Byrrah arrive and Fen shares what she learned from her time on the Oracle, as that was what she was intended to do.

Skarka hopes to use this knowledge, but that’s shot when Fen suggests they should stop assaults on humans for the time being. Stating that humans just have too much advanced technology for their small army.

When Skarka presses her on the decision, saying that atrocities humans have done to the sea and that should have no right to do this to superior born creatures like the,. Fen states that regardless, she won’t let more of their people die pointlessly against superior weaponry. Skarka comes to the conclusion that Fen has been tainted by man. And that she has shamed their proud race. Emperor Thakor yells “Imperious Rex” and pushes back Skarka, banishing him for his words against his daughter. Skarka leaves taking loyalists with him and his young son, Attuma.

Byrrah leaving a comment that those were still strong soldiers they lost. Fen promises that they’ll train a great army soon and that she is carrying an heir to lead them.

Flash forward as a Roxxon oil ship is ready to drill but are then attacked by Namor who defeats them, ripping apart their ship. Watching him is a group of troops not joining in on the fight. He returns to Atlantis where Fen is now Empress. Here, Namor goes to train with his cousin Namora. (Who is kind enough to her cousin to keep her skin pale underwater like her cousin’s)

Byrrah addresses Namor’s skin with Fen. He doesn’t change from blue to pale upon entering the surface and people whisper of his half-breed birth.

Cut to a ship of a human Doctor named Lemuel Dorcas and his assistant Todd. The two have embedded Attuma, Skarka’s son with bio enhancements. Attuma vows that with this strength, he shall claim revenge for his father and on the human race.

Dorcas only asks that in return he gets to still live in the ocean when Attuma’s plan is in motion. He then tells them they better move.

Namor and the other Atlanteans come to another Roxxon ship. This one with the bodies of merman strung up on the side. Namor again fights alone, but then also on the boat is Attuma.

Many watching are wowwed and Attuma challenges Namor for the title of incumbent king. Attuma gets into Namor’s head, telling him that he can’t be king when not a single Atlantean will obey or follow him. (Saying maybe it's his skin) Attuma postulates on how they have the power now to fight the surface, holding Fen to her words on raising an army.

Attuma and Namor battle in the belly of a sea monster. Attuma shows off his bioenhancement which gives him the strength of two thousand men and defeats Namor.

To protect her son from death, Fen relinquishes the title of queen to make Namor’s sentence banishment. Fen is locked away and Namor’s broken body is sent out to drift. Namora goes to find Namor’s body, while Byrrah keeps watch on Atlantis. Namor drifts semi-conscious through polluted waters but is saved by a man in a red and white scuba suit.

Awaking in a lab, he learns the man is name is Walter Newell, an oceanographer and marine biologist, who fixed up Namor. Namor is hostile but spares him for his deed. He is meet by Namora, but then succumbs to some infections thanks to the pollutants and Walter takes him for better treatment.

Namor in the town where Walter goes to find some some treatments for him, learns of Walter having an interest in constructing an undersea city. Namor also learns about the Oracle ship in this port town.

Namor wishes to fight Attuma again but Walter and Namora states that these wounds show Namor isn’t ready. Namora convinces her cousin to take the trial of Poseidon.

Walter uses his knowledge in oceanography to find its coordinates. They journey across the world together with Walter bonding with the two as Namor takes in surface life.

Attuma is readying his army, building something from all the ships they’re destroying. But when he hears from a scout of Namor’s plan for the trial, Attuma sends a top men of his to Dorcas asking for one to be modified. This leads to a boat chase where the trio fight off Dorcas’ enhanced Atlanteans and when they are beat, Dorcas turns one Attuma’s men into Orka.

Namor takes the trial. Having to fight a huge sea monster and confront the spirit of Thakorr. While Namora and Walter fight Orka, who followed them to the trial area.

Namor eventually realizes why fighting for the title of king from Attuma is important. He has spent all this time trying to fight and prove himself to the people of Atlantis so they see his as one of them and fight for him. But a true king is fighting for is his people. They don’t fight for him.

He passes the trial and screams “Imperious Rex!” Defeating and taming the sea creature and handily beating Orka. They interrogate Orka, on his enhancements, and he mentions Dorcas. A doctor who moved under the sea as the world will be under water one day. They realize Attuma plans to skin the surface and kill off any opposition with charges made from the ships and drills Attuma has been destroying.

The three confront Attuma’s army. While Namora and Walter and the sea monster from the trial fight the brunt of the army and Byrrah leads a revolt of loyal Atlanteans, Namor and Attuma jump on the back of Attuma’s sea monster, as it becomes the battlefield for the two.

Namor confronts Attuma on his hypocritical beliefs of strength when all of his plans have been thanks to the strength of surface-dweller science. Attuma claims it’s all for the betterment of their people. For homo mermanus to be at the top of the food chain by any cost so they can seek their vengeance. Namor yells that humans who deserve justice will see it, but not all should be punished. Just as how he will not see his people die pointlessly. Attuma saying that they aren’t his people, for he is still a filthy half-breed.

Namor yells Imperious Rex and fights back, damaging Attuma’s bio enhancements. He defeats Attuma by knocking him into his undersea charger. Fen is released by Walter and then orders Attuma’s clan be imprisoned. Namor is crowned king and then gives Walter is also given permission to build a hydroponic city in the seas.

Namor also names Namora as his second in command and wants her help as they negotiate with the surface. Namor then sets foot on the surface, revealing himself to the world and asks to speak with the leaders of the surface.

The mid credit scene is of Dorcas in a panic. Fearful that the atlanteans will come after him for aiding Attuma, but he can’t return to the surface as it’s doomed anyway. Todd tries to calm him, but Dorcas injects him with a mutagen from behind causing his teeth to grow sharp.

Dorcas says they need to be ready for the future. Then a red headed Atlantean woman steps onto their base and says that they helped her father, Attuma. The woman is Andromeda.

End credit scene is Walter being asked to try Atlantean delicacies, but can’t because of his suit’s helmet.

Anyway, thanks for reading. As I said, its just my idea for a character I really hop to see in the future.

[tony-luvv]

Mar 20 - Proposal Day

Warning: Beach Times, Namor Knows What He Wants, Tony in Speedos, Namor x Tony

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On a normal day, Namor would have never given the Avengers a second glance. But today was different.

In recent times his mother, Fen, had started showing her age. Slowing down, spending more time in her room. Even though her body was aging and changing her routine, her heart stayed strong with her son. For her son, she wanted nothing more than for him to find a mate. Her biggest regret in life was not having more time with his father. Which meant she wanted him to find a mate and soon.

Taking matters into her own hand, she tried to set him up with atlanteans from around the castle. If Namor didn’t find a solution soon he would go mad.

But for now he’d take a simple break from the underwater kingdom. So he made his way to land. Although he didn’t much care for the humans, he could find some form of distraction among them.

Today his distraction came in the form of the Avengers. The team of Earth’s protectors were having a ‘beach day.’

As he neared the beach he took in everyone. The captain and thunderer were battling against James and James. The falcon and hawk man watching and cheering on the sidelines. Further from the game he saw the two magic wielders. Possibly arguing while magic glowed around them. The rest were spread out in the sand. The shifting beast was reading under an umbrella. The red haired assassin was lounging on a chair.

His eyes skimmed over a few more members, just taking a basic observation of the beach scene they created. Just a cursory glance until his eyes landed on Stark.

Being human, the submariner never gave the man much thought aside from the basic knowledge. A prince among his people, he had wealth, beauty and brains.

Namor recognized all of this long ago, but today it was different.

Stark was lounging in the sun, body on display. And my, what a display it was.

Baring nothing but a speedo the man’s skin flourished under the skin, soaking up the sun’s rays and giving his lightly tanned body a fresh glow. A body that was toned and beautiful. Namor had never seen this much of Stark’s body before and he was slightly disheartened this was his first time. His stomach was flat with hints of abs, enough to show his work to stay in shape. His arms that cradled his head were packed with muscle, a clear indicator of his hard labor. But what really drew Namor in were those thighs. Thick and soft, something he’d love to sink his teeth into.

They looked even juicer up close.

“Stark.” The genius startled out of a doze and sat up.

“Namor! What the hell–” His voice cut out when the Atlantean dropped down on one knee. Namor reach forward and grabbed his hand, holding it between them, “Are you o–”

“Anthony Stark.”

The atlantean’s stare was intense as he kneeled before him, hands held firmly between them. “Yes?”

“Will you marry me?”

A million thoughts wanted to race through his head but Namor’s vibrant green eyes kept them at bay. Those eyes begged him to focus and say something.

“Okay. . .” and it just rolled off the tongue making Namor smile, something Tony had never seen before. “I mean, um, yes?”

He vaguely heard the shouts from his teammates but their voices were drowned out by Namor. The aqua man leaned forward right into Tony’s space and kissed him. Like the rest of this encounter, it was unexpected but surprisingly pleasant. Namor was sweet, he didn’t push for more than the press of their lips. A faint smile curling against his stunned lips. Then he did something Tony never would have expected from the stoic man, he playfully nipped his bottom lip. Gasping he watched Namor pull away from him, shit eating grin so small but clear as the man watched him, “You’ll make a lovely bride.”

“Whoa! Can we back up for a second.” Steve was standing next to them looking very angry.

“Issue Captain Rogers?” Namor stood to his full height, standing toe to toe with the patriotic Avenger. Facing someone other than his bride-to-be Namor reverted back to his stony physic.

“Yes! What is the meaning of this? The last time you saw us you were saying humans were beneath you. Tony is very human Namor, is this supposed to be some form of slavery?” Tony blinked, he really didn’t think this thing through. But it wasn’t every day that a buff man crawled out of the ocean and asked for your hand in marriage. Maybe he should have asked more questions first?

“Anthony has displayed a new beauty I was unaware of and I want him.” It was so like Namor to be straight to the point.

“So you’re after his body?” Steve was nearly shrieking at this point. Hands clenching by his sides, teeth grinding as a crowd of their friends gathered around them. Tony got comfortable on his towel, preparing for one hell of a show.

“He did look quite delicious laid out in the beach. But tell me Captain, why are you so upset by this? It’s not as if Anthony is yours, surely he wouldn’t have said yes if he was. Or he sees that I am the better man.” Steve took an angry step closer but was quickly pulled back by Bucky and Sam.

Rhodey took the chance to step forward, “I have a few questions for you Namor.”

“I suppose you would, come. Let us step aside for a moment.” Namor gestured away from everyone, allowing the Colonel to lead them away. Namor kneeled next to Tony’s sitting figure again, “I shall be only a moment my dear.” He gazed at him, index finger and thumb holding his head up. The rough pad of his thumb idly played with his bottom lip and trimmed beard. Mesmerized, he merely nodded. Again Namor gave him one of those rare smiles, pressing said smile against his cheek.

Then he was gone, following Rhodey across the sand away from the group. He could faintly hear angry whispers between Steve and Sam, but he didn’t take in any of the content. Gaze locked onto Namor’s back.

He only pulled his eyes away when a body plopped down in front of him. Barton.

“Really Stark?”

He shrugged his shoulders, gaze turning back to Namor as if the man’s body gave a siren call that only Tony could hear. “I’m not getting any younger.”

Clint jumped when a bolt of green energy beamed aggressively behind Tony. Looking past the distracted genius, Clint watched as Loki literally green with envy. It made a chill run down the back of the archers spine. Especially when it seemed Loki wasn’t going to calm down.

It was a miracle that Strange stepped up next to his fellow sorcerer, “Did you know it was that easy to get Stark?”

Loki sheathed for another few seconds before the green flames started simmering around him, “No, I did not.” Strange just patted his shoulder, disappointment displayed in every ounce of his body.

“Shame.”

“Indeed.”  

I apologize for any mistakes or if this is crappy, i haven’t looked over it so it’s un-beta’d. Hope you enjoyed it.

[daresplaining]

I'm still only just digging deeper into the comics stuff, I've barely read any, due to not being able to find many. But I keep seeing references around/people bringing up the part of Danny and misty's relationship where they break up (and also Misty having a miscarriage(?)) and was wondering what comic that was in. I'm also wondering if you have any favorite comics for happier Misty/Danny moments, as I'd like to read that as well.

    Welcome to the wonderful world of comics! For Marvel, if you’re having trouble getting your hands on physical issues, we recommend getting a Marvel Unlimited account. It’s relatively cheap, and gives you access to massive amounts of material. Comixology is another great resource, and you can also buy digital comics from most of the individual companies’ websites. (For anyone not in the U.S. the situation is a little trickier, but from what we know, these sites should still be accessible from most places.)

    As far as Misty and Danny’s baby is concerned, it’s not a miscarriage– it’s a chi of Shou-Lao-induced false pregnancy, and it doesn’t even happen on-panel. It’s first mentioned in a flashback in I Am An Avenger #1.

Danny: “The ultrasound, as it turns out, saw nothing. Absolutely nothing growing inside my girlfriend’s belly. In the days that followed, I pored over the Book of the Iron Fist and realized this was not unprecedented. Sometimes an Immortal Weapon’s chi can give what modern medicine calls a false positive. A glimmer of lifeforce… not a new life.”

I Am An Avenger #1, “The Books of the Iron Fist” by Duane Swierczynski, Jason Latour, and Rico Renzi

   It’s tricky to argue the finer points of what dragon chi should and should not be able to do, especially considering how often it’s been treated as a Swiss Army Knife power set over the years– but Misty must have used a pregnancy test, and they don’t generally pick up on chi, so we’re a little grumpy about this plot point. (They were going to be parents! They were going to get married! Luke gave Danny the poopy diaper talk and everything!) And yes, this did end their relationship. They were both so stunned and heartbroken that they decided they needed some time apart, broke off their engagement plans, and have been separate (romantically, anyway– they’re still friends) ever since. The I Am An Avenger issue mentioned above is the main source of their break-up, though the aftereffects also bleed over into Heroes for Hire volume 3. We recommend both comics, despite the sadness involved. They’re good.  

    Now, on to happier things!

   One major must-read Misty and Danny issue– which is about 80% cuteness and 20% plot (in a good way, in this instance)– is “Misty and Danny Forever” from the Secret Wars: Secret Love one-shot. It provides a fun glimpse of an alternate universe where they actually do get married and have a baby.

   As far as the main continuity goes, since they dated for so long (over 30 years, our time), their dynamic was developed slowly, in lots of little scenes embedded throughout their shared series. Apart from the alternate universe story above, there are very few single issues dedicated solely to their relationship. But the following list contains some of our favorite/most important Misty and Danny moments, in chronological order:  

Marvel Premiere #21: Misty’s introductory issue and first encounter with Danny!

Iron Fist vol. 1 #6: Misty and Danny are reunited, and continue to sort out their feelings for each other. (This process continues throughout the entirety of Iron Fist vol. 1, so we recommend reading the whole thing. It’s only 15 issues long, and quite good.)

Iron Fist vol. 1 #11-12: Danny pretends to kill Captain America to save Misty from the Wrecking Crew. Chaos and bonding ensue.

Marvel Team-Up #63-64: This is a landmark story arc for a number of reasons: It introduces Steel Serpent (Davos)’s backstory, it includes Misty and Colleen being dubbed “the Daughters of the Dragon” for the first time, and it features Misty and Danny’s first kiss.

Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #66: Misty gets trapped in a magnetically-sealed vault (having a metal arm can be a pain sometimes!). Danny, Colleen, and Luke come to her rescue.  

Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #76: Danny and Misty team up to take down Warhawk! (And Luke and D.W. fight a vampire!)  

Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #79: The Doctor Who issue of Power Man and Iron Fist! (No, seriously.) Misty, now rooming with Luke’s girlfriend Harmony, runs into some dating logistics issues.  

Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #90: Danny gets injured, and Misty reflects on how the dangerous nature of their jobs impacts their relationship.

Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #95: This is a personal favorite. Danny buys a yacht, names it after Misty, and then has no idea what to do with it. Bonding and shenanigans ensue.    

Namor the Sub-Mariner vol. 1 #23-24 (not digitized): Misty, Colleen, and Namor travel to K’un-Lun to rescue Danny from the H’ylthri. 

Heroes for Hire vol. 1 #13: Danny siphons all of his chi into Luke to save his life, and then Luke, Misty, Colleen, and White Tiger return the favor.

Defenders (2011) #5: A tiny scene, but still good. Misty and Danny try to have a nice, quiet dinner date.  

Immortal Iron Fist: The Origin of Danny Rand: This is a retelling of Danny’s first two introductory issues (Marvel Premiere #15 and 16), with a really nice Misty and Danny scene at the beginning.

Immortal Iron Fist #16-20: Danny counts on his friends to help him defeat a creature that has killed nearly all of the previous Iron Fists. There are a bunch of nice little Misty and Danny moments in this arc, so we’re recommending the whole thing. And since we will take advantage of any opportunity to rep this series– everyone should read all of Immortal Iron Fist, because it’s fantastic.

Immortal Iron Fist #27: Misty and Danny move in together, Danny proposes, Misty reveals she’s pregnant, and Luke gives Danny the aforementioned poopy diaper talk. A very important issue.

    We hope this helps. Enjoy!