happy birthday, Steve !!

[ofstarlight]

I'm up for just about anything and will gladly use regular Steve here, pre-serum Steve or rule!63 Steve - Stephanie. Just let me know which you want. Regular Steve can be during TFA, CA:WS, CA:CW, post CW or any other kind of timeline. Pre-serum Steve can be pre-war, during the war or time travel and in the present time period. Stephanie can be any time period.

Here are some suggestions -



PARTIES: Whether group based, like a surprise party or something more lowkey with just a duo.

OUTINGS: Something non-party related. Art museums, BBQ/picnic, dinner etc etc.

CAKE TIME: What's a birthday without an amazing cake? Steve's favorite is vanilla bean with apple frosting because it's what his ma used to make when he was younger.

PRESENTS: Good luck getting him to take anything. Birthday or not, he doesn't accept presents very easily.

DANCING: Always bittersweet but one of the ultimate ways to connect for Steve.

FIREWORKS: It's the 4th after all!

SOMETHING ELSE: The sky is the limit. Mix/match, come up with something else. Throw whatever at me.

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[buildsomething]

Tony shifted just a little as he listened to both of them, wearing an expression that on anyone else might have read a shy. Okay, so maybe genuine gratitude was something he still struggled with sometimes, and this was something a bit more.

Which wasn't to say that he couldn't power through it. Pasting on a grin and clearing his throat as he leaned in. "I mean, hell, we could do a whole blowout if you really wanted to. Wedding of the century. We could make so many conservative nutjob heads explode. But. You tell me," he finished with a shrug.

Then, added a bit quieter, "this thing, this is for us. It's whatever you want to make of it. So."

[stevegrogers]

Awe spilled over onto his face and he could not take his eyes off the ring once Sam slid it onto his finger. How lucky could one person be? A balance of karma perhaps after everything he endured before. The love he found with the two men almost enough to make up for all the other things he had to work through to make it to the point they now were in. As good as married and he had been all in for so long. Much more than he readily cared to admit to.

Emotions were always a difficult thing for him to come to terms with. Another mark of his past. As for progress, it made him sad to know culture had moved very little on the acceptable love front since his time. There should have been far more strides made.

"Would you both want a really big ceremony?" he asked, not wanting to take away another from them. If left up to him, he'd want something private and lowkey, more of his benchmarks.

Grinning, though, he leaned in to kiss them both, one after the other.

[wingedman]

"Can't say I'd mind making a few conservatives shit themselves." Sam pretended to stroke his chin contemplatively. Captain America marrying two men, one of whom was black? Oh, yeah, some people would have heart attacks at the very idea, and it made a very small vindictive part of him happy. Plus it would probably be entertaining to see just what levels of excess Tony could manage - although, actually, it was probably Sam's job to rein it in and rain on his parade. Maybe he'd let Pepper handle that.

"But I'd be just as happy with a small one," he added, more seriously. "Whatever size it is, it doesn't matter - or if we even have one at all. You two are all I need." He paused for a moment. "And cake. Definitely cake."

[buildsomething]

"We can do cake," Tony agreed easily, leaning into both of them like he was chasing the contact. He didn't look all that upset by the idea of going smaller, which probably meant he hadn't been huge on the idea of the big circus himself. There were certain things that just were expected of him, whether he honestly wanted them or not.

"So, party with cake. Any other requests? I'm guessing we're inviting our nearest and dearest." Which essentially just meant the rest of the Avengers. Though Sam might have had a few outliers, and he turned a curious look on the man himself.

[stevegrogers]

Now the cake Steve eagerly agreed with, already picturing something with plenty of frosting, the best part of anything. He could eat nothing but frosting but they would need something to hold it together to eat. Plus, there were some traditions he wanted to hold onto, the wedding cake being one of them.

Idly, he wondered what his mother would have thought of such a thing. In the end, Sarah would have been thankfully for others loving her son. He just had to believe that.

Looking between them, he smiled widely. "We can go fancy and over the top with the cake. A layer dedicated to each of us or something and then the top for all three of us." If they didn't have a ceremony at all the others would be upset, which he never wanted to have happen. "We can invite the others, Pepper and whoever else you guys might want to." He didn't really have anyone outside of the Avengers and those closely associated with the group.

"I - we have to have a first dance. That's one tradition I've always wanted to keep to." He added a second later, "Are we doing anything with our last names?"

[wingedman]

"That sounds like it'd get unwieldy fast." Sam made a face. "Let's just keep our last names the same so Tony doesn't have to spend a fortune rebranding everything." Someone had to draw a line somewhere, and becoming Sam Wilson-Rogers-Stark was definitely it.

"I'd like it if my dad could perform the ceremony, if you guys don't mind," he added, a little more quietly. "A non-religious one, obviously." He'd dragged both of them to meet his parents - separately, so nobody got overwhelmed - and, given time, his parents had approved of it. (He'd also taken them to his father's church services for the sheer amusement factor of it, because Sam occasionally had to troll the people he loved.)

"Gonna dance with both of us at once?" Sam was admittedly curious about how it would work.