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[ofstarlight]

AU SCENARIOS OPEN POST !

» Hit this up for all kinds of scenarios. » Put my character's name in the subject line. If you leave it blank, I'll surprise you with a muse. » Prose and brackets are both welcomed. » Here are some possibilities but open to all sorts of things! Stranded. Arranged Marriage. Apocalypse / Post-Apocalypse. Assassins. Fake relationships / engagements / marriages. Victorian Era. Fairy Tales. Mythology. The Hunger Games. Harry Potter. The 100. Pick one of my characters: here.

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[stevegrogers]

A legend. He let out a low whistle, eyes moving from the window to gaze over at Tony for a moment. "That means things were talked up. What I did - it wasn't all me," he offered with a shake of his head. "The team - it was everybody." Most of which never arrived home but he didn't want to fall back into the guilt again so soon after waking up. It would come later on when he slipped off alone to dwell.

Did he care what other people thought of HIM? Outside of the status and the symbolic nature of what he now stood for? It didn't take him long to think on it. "No, I have never really cared what others think about me. But that's the thing, Tony, I'm not just Steve anymore. I never will be. That punk kid decided to do something radical and I have to live with that."

[buildsomething]

"Yeah. Believe me, I get that." Tony flicked him a slightly sardonic look out of the corners of his eyes. Maybe it wasn't quite the same as being turned into a literal symbol, but Tony had been in the public eye since he'd been able to walk. He huffed a quiet laugh, something almost tired-sounding in it.

"The thing is, you can't let that be all of you. The symbol, the public persona. It will kill you eventually. Gotta decide who you want to be outside of that, and what you're willing to do for it." One side of his mouth quirked up slightly. "It's not as dire as I'm making it sound, I promise. Whatever you want to do, we can make it happen."

[stevegrogers]

It should have been an easy concept, a warmly embraced one because someone always needed things and aspects outside of work. But for Steve he found it more challenging with all the expectations offered towards him. There were so many things he needed to live up to and if he failed so much would be damaged in the process.

No pressure or anything.

"What are you outside of your image and your career?" Steve asked, deciding to offer things both ways if they were going to get nitty gritty about his own status. Might as well when they were about to wander back into the lion's den.

[buildsomething]

"A mechanic," was the immediate response, and Tony's expression went a bit wry. "I didn't say it had to be something impressive. But yeah, that's what I do. I fix things." Well, he tried, anyway. And here he was again, trying. Though what exactly he was trying to fix, even Tony wasn't sure.

"Things are." He paused, trying to find the right words. "More invasive these days. More people watching you, waiting for something they can make fun of on daytime tv. There are two ways to deal with that. You can either spend your life worrying about your image, or you can decide you don't care."