Know(ing) You(rself): About Face(s)
Fics involving (transformative) realisations/revelations (both introspective & outside observer, secret & personal identity):
- gender/sexuality crises
- characters coming to a new understanding about themselves &/or another character &/or their relationships
- changing roles/relationships
- recovering old memories
- revelations about past actions (mostly time travel, some memory)
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Peachy Keen by AnonEhouse
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
25 Apr 2019
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What if Tony decided in Siberia that he couldn't just go home? He was used to being the scapegoat, but this time the cost would be more than he could pay.
Ross would have the ammunition he needed to get Iron Man under his control, and what he'd do with the tech didn't bear thinking about.
Tony decided to use Protocol Pass The Torch. He'd be fine. A penniless fugitive's life would make a nice change of pace. Everything would be peachy keen.
(Tony miscalculated the pull the world had on him. He also miscalculated how many people would join him. Ultimately, Thanos underestimated him.)
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31 Jan 2025
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"I do not even know where the idea that the scepter could enhance human abilities originated. Loki used it to create obedient servants by usurping their wills, so logically that was what Hydra should have been attempting."
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'Dumping?' that's more like burning letters to Santa in the fireplace and expecting magic to happen.Web pages have to be found by search engines that follow links, crawling from one to another, organizing.
SHIELD's data had been documents stored internally on stand alone computer systems. They weren't HTML web pages. There were no links to existing internet sites or Tony wouldn't have had to physically link Jarvis to the helicarrier. The helicarrier only had information relating to its own functions, including the research and storage of the Phase Two weapons. If they'd had Hydra mission reports... he'd have learned about his parents then.
Romanoff hadn't just removed firewalls from SHIELD's files, that would have done nothing.
Somehow, she'd converted everything to webpages, and uploaded everything to various clouds, and then put links on common words in every file to existing popular sites. Search Wikipedia for hawks, and find Hawkeye's mission reports. Go looking for a toy helicopter on Amazon, find the helicarrier's blueprints. He didn't know the exact sequence of events of course. Probably the raw data was uploaded along with the converter and linking programs, and the power of the cloud itself was used to do the rest.
He wondered if Fury realized exactly what Romanoff planned to do, or if he'd been blindsided, and then couldn't admit he'd screwed up.
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"We don't trade lives," Rogers said, sternly."What the hell do you think war is, man? People died here, trading their lives for others."
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Making Amends by writemydreams
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
23 Jun 2021
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A new drug called Cupid’s Heart arrives in Gotham and Blüdhaven. Highly addictive, it also serves as a potent aphrodisiac. Jason enlists Tim’s assistance in rooting out the drug in Gotham and discovering the source. Along the way, Jason hopes Tim will see he’s changed and that he’ll learn to trust him.
What started out as a simple drug case becomes more complex when Dick discovers Cupid’s Heart comes from a resort for struggling couples. Jason and Tim go undercover as pretend fiancés to find the drug, something difficult for Jason since all he wants is to be in a genuine relationship with Tim.
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- Part 4 of JayTim Weeks 2018: Tropes and AUs
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Finding a New Perspective by njw for Bumpkin
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
28 Jan 2022
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“I got this, Hood.” Red Robin sounds annoyed as he arcs and twists through the air, kicking one henchman into another and wrenching the gun away from a third while simultaneously retracting his grappling line and then launching it to catch another unwary henchman. Just, how?
“I can see you do,” Red Hood says, and wait. Was his voice always that deep? Is he… Maya squints. Is he staring at Red Robin’s ass?
She blinks, then studies the line of sight more closely. Maybe he’s just checking out Red Robin’s kneecaps, in preparation for shooting at them? That seems more his style. Sexual attraction is kind of confusing and she still doesn’t totally believe Tosh that it’s actually as big a thing as people make it out to be—seriously, do other people really spend that much time thinking about it? Sounds fake but okay.
But no, Red Hood’s helmet is totally pointed at Red Robin’s ass. Huh. That’s new.
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For the tumblr Jaytim Week 2021 Holiday Gift Exchange. Thanks, Chibi, for putting this all together!Series
- Part 3 of Jaytim Week Special Event Stories
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Turn on the Lights by AnonEhouse
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
26 Oct 2017
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What if after the press conference announcing his identity as Iron Man, Tony hadn't been so tired that he simply walked into the blacked out mansion and was surprised by Fury?
What if he called JARVIS on his way home, and got no answer?
What if he turned the tables on Fury?
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When Dick gets hit with a curse that splits him into his most prominent versions of himself — bright and optimistic acrobat from the circus, recently orphaned child fueled by vengeance, tenacious and determined Robin, resentful and bitter recently apprenticed teen and family-dedicated Batman — his brothers have to enter his soul to piece him back together.
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- Part 22 of impravidus's batman quick reads