As someone who loves my son Steve Rogers, I have to say that he could never kick Diana’s ass, like literally, and also he would never do that, because Steve Rogers would grow up idolising the mysterious hero from WW1, and would probably swoon if he got to meet her, would call her “ Your Majesty” unironically, until Diana has to literally punch him to make him stop, and even then, he’d call her “Ma’am” with the utmost respect, and also he’d follow her to Hell and back without blinking.
They would meet in Vichy France, and after he settled down around her they’d be fine. She’d call him Steven (because it still hurts a little to say Steve). She would teach him the Shield move, and when she called for it in battle he would crouch down with his shield raised, waiting to feel the impact of her boots, then launch her forward – at a line of panzers, across battlements. He would take half a minute to watch in awe as the dust billowed around her landing, watch her upend tanks and pulverize fortifications. Then he’d sprint after, taking out machine gun nests and artillery, and the Wehrmacht would have another tale of the two Allied soldiers with shields who they could never, ever defeat.
I so love the idea that little Stevie Rogers read about and idolized the mysterious superwoman who aided the Allies in the Great War.
I love “Patriotic Leotards” as a friendship OR a romance. Or as a mutual admiration society long before they meet in person.
I’m officially taking it as canon now that the reason Steve knew how to properly launch Natasha at the Chitauri is cuz Diana taught him, and no one can tell me different.
Imagine Peggy introducing them though. After Steve gets his round shield and is messing around trying to figure out how to use it, Peggy says, with a sly smile on her face, that there’s someone he needs to meet who can help him out.
Like, Steve at first is thinking this tall, dark haired woman with the maybe greek??? accent is just one of Peggy’s friends in the SSR. Competent and skilled but a normal human. At least until she takes his shield, hefts it without any sign of strain, and then whips it across the target range and decapitates a practice dummy. She and Steve spend a good three hours working out how to get the shield to come back to him, they bounce it off defunct tanks and walls and Ms. Prince may or may not have accidentally/on purpose split the tank’s gun in half with one shot.
Later the conversation turns to how Ms. Prince is a dear friend of Peggy’s mother, Etta Carter nee Candy.
This just keeps getting better. Reblogging especially for that last headcanon.
Steve Rogers never got the serum. He doesn’t have superhuman abilities. What he has is a paintbrush, some stage props, a stomach full of spite, and a Bucky Barnes.
It’s enough.
Fic and Artwork Rating: PG
Warnings: –
Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers, side Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Tony Stark, Chester Phillips, Howling Commandos, Original Characters, random hydra assholes
Wartime drama based on historical fact: Steve helps create the myth of the supersoldier through the top secret workings of the Ghost Army!
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GUYZ, this fic!!!! The basic premise is that Steve joins the Ghost Army and fabricates Captain America. No one is serumed. The Howlies include Peggy (for the punching) and Howard Stark (for making tank noises).
What I love about it is that it normalizes Steve and Bucky’s wartime experiences. There’s no over-the-top world-saving, no special serum that makes their experience unique. Steve’s still a tiny spitfire, and Bucky’s still coping with wartime trauma, and basically just being two people who care a lot about each other and being thrown into war. Reading it made me think about all the people who fought in wars, then came home and went back to their lives and jobs – no ice, no HYDRA, just living.
I also love how Bucky and Steve fight with each other – their relationship is built from being stuck with each other and knowing each others’ stubbornness. It’s much easier to write selfless!Bucky and noble!Steve, so I have extra appreciation for the nuance here.
you always draw wonderful things for us, so I wanted to repay you a tiny bit – here’s poorly drawn kids!ww3 🙂 Dragon Bucky, Knight Peggy and Princess skinny Stevie
OMGGG IT’S SO ADORABLEEEE. Look at what Justine drew me!!! Little Steeb looks so in awe that these cool kids would ‘fight’ for him. TTWTT)/
“You have to be kidding me.” Peggy doesn’t try to hide the sharp disbelief from her voice as she glares at the men who consider themselves her superiors. Honestly she wouldn’t put it past Dooley to go out of his way to make her miserable. Thompson, wearing a smirk on his face, isn’t helping.
“Some of the preliminarily simulations we’ve run suggest you two might be Drift Compatible,” Dooley says. “Will that be a problem, Carter? I thought you wanted to get back in a Jaegar.”
“Yeah, Peg, is there a problem?” The handcuffs rattle as Dottie shifts position, grinning at Peggy.
Peggy looks between her pig-headed chief and the smiling Russian assassin who has tried to kill her more than once. She isn’t sure which sight is more unappealing.
“Sir,” she says to Dooley, “she is a criminal. A known enemy of the country and the Jaegar program.”
“And she just might be the last option we have,” Dooley says flatly.
Thompson’s grin only grows. “What’s the matter, Marge? You don’t think you can handle her?”
Dottie’s smile is wolfish, all sharp teeth and predatory promise. “Oh, I’m sure that won’t be a problem.”
In a way, Peggy feels like she should be grateful to be Compatible with Dottie. She might have finally found someone who can keep up.
the scene in the first avenger when peggy carter asks a soldier to step forward and then she fucking decks him in the face and straight up knocks him to the ground without once showing an emotion changed me as a person
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