Puzzle Pieces
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Small Broken Figures by MashpotatoeQueen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel
16 May 2018
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*Infinity War Spoilers*
In which Thanos is defeated, but scars and emotional hurts will linger far longer even after he's gone, and everyone has issues.
They are mourning and hurting and clinging for a semblance of peace and balance. They are tired and lost and scared. They are small broken figures, small broken figures that bore the weight of the world and made it out alive, but certainly not in one piece.
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- Part 1 of Puzzle Pieces
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Piece One: Stephen Strange by MashpotatoeQueen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel
22 May 2018
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These heroes, these martyrs. These are Stephen’s ghosts, his failures. These are the people who were burned in the fire, who drowned in the floods. These were the people who banded together in future after future, who loved so fiercely and lost so much, who even now look at him with eyes reflecting hidden fears and shoulders stooped under the weight of haunted pasts and too many mistakes.
These are Stephen’s ghosts, and they are living and breathing and real, and still he looks at them and feels like this is just another future where they don’t make it, where Strange fails them, where he fails them all.
These are his miracle hands. These are his shaking fingers. These are his living ghosts.
Stephen watches them, just as he always had.
He hopes, this time, it doesn’t end in failure.
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- Part 2 of Puzzle Pieces
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Piece Two: Shuri by MashpotatoeQueen
Fandoms: Black Panther (2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
21 Feb 2019
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Shuri allows herself this, and just this, while her brother is gone.
She builds a thousand new innovative technologies, a thousand new ways to protect Wakanda borders and her people. When the Avengers ask for help, she builds what they need and serves in any way she can. She does her duty and sits in councils and sits in war meetings and sits in trials. She does not complain or whine or snark, for she knows responsibility.
There is trial by combat to make her Queen. She stands in the middle of the pooled waters at the edge of a cliff, and her head is high and her heart is pounding. She is not big nor strong, but she is smart and cunning and fast .
Still, she feels it would be easier to just leap across the waterfall’s great divide and run far, far away until not even the blue skies above can touch her.
But she doesn’t. She is proud and she knows responsibility, and she does not.
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- Part 3 of Puzzle Pieces