[FICLET] Double Down
Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Work Type: Fic (798 words)
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Gambling
Challenge: (none)
Content Warning: Implied MCD
It had seemed an easy call. Tony'd been working in the lab for most of the day, and needed a charge. He'd been about to take off his lab coat and plug in when the report came through: a pair of Doombots overflying a warehouse block a few miles away. No immediate active threat beyond the fact of their existence; they shouldn't be there.
Steve responded from the gym within moments, wrapping his workout and ready to go. The others were out and about, and there was no sense pulling in the full team when Iron Man and Cap were right here and more than capable to go roust two mean, green, interloping machines.
Tony had about four hours of power. No problem. They'd be back in short enough order that he wouldn't be cutting things too close. Sometimes situations just required the gamble, all or nothing, pushing reserves to the redline, and he'd had a couple of close calls. If it took his life to stop a deadly threat, well, that was what being Iron Man was for. But he'd gotten better about not doing that when he didn't absolutely need to.
So it had seemed like such a safe bet, an easy win, with Iron Man swooping through the sky, and Steve racing in by street, crouched low over the handlebars of his roaring bike.
Until the Doombots stopped pulling evasive maneuvers and started shooting, broad green energy beams bursting out in wide arcs, and suddenly, from high in the air, Tony felt his foundation drop out right along with the building collapsing below. Crack, BOOM, concussion, massive cloud of grit -- and a jagged field of concrete and metal replaced the exact stretch of road where Steve had just been riding.
"Cap? CAP???" Tony was screaming, and firing by reflex: the Avengers emergency signal; two full-powered blasts of his repulsor rays to slag first one Doombot, then the other; and every scanner the armor contained, searching out any possible life signs in that mess of wreckage.
He dove down and landed, but it wasn't till he heard the weak, cracking voice in his earpiece that he felt the ground back beneath his armored boots.
"Iron Man... ...hear me...?
Tony's heart pounded in his ears almost loud enough to drown him out, but Steve was there. Alive.
"Steve, thank god. What's your status?"
The signal was clearing up now that Tony was at surface level and the dust was beginning to settle.
"I'm ok, Iron Man. Guess I got real lucky."
"I'll say. Hold tight, and we'll have you out of there in no time. And try not to move around too much, We don't know how stable things are. Don't want you to dislodge anything."
Steve made a wet huff that sounded less like "lucky," and more like a laugh turning into a cough, then a stifled groan.
"Cap?"
"I... well. Pretty stable. Definitely won't be moving much. Actually..." Steve's breath rasped again, too loud. Too thick. "...I'm. Uh. A little pinned down."
Tony went cold.
"How bad?"
"I'll be fine. I heal... you know. Just, can you--"
"What? Whatever you need, Steve. Just tell me."
"--stay? Where I can hear your voice?"
And if Steve was asking that much, that proved the lie, and the truth. He wasn't fine. Probably wasn't going to be fine. Tony's mind veered away from the unthinkable.
"I'm here. Not going anywhere. We'll get you out, Steve. Just hold on."
He was telling it to himself as much as to Steve. Cold-sweating inside the armor, trying to catch his own breath. The emergency crews would be here any moment now. They'd get him out. They'd...
A ping. Tony checked his meters. Power at 3%, wait, how? Checked the time. How had almost three hours passed?
And the repulsor blasts. And the scanners. Flight stabilizers, after the explosion.
The mansion was a short flight away. He could make it.
He couldn't.
He could... the closest power lines were down, but there were others nearby. He could jack in for a quick jolt. Hurt like hell, but he'd done it before...
Two percent.
...a block or two. Less power to walk than fly. Still be well within comms range. He wasn't leaving Steve alone.
"Iron Man?"
A step. It was heavy. Another. Heavier. Everything looked dim and hazy. The dust cloud must be rising again. His chest hurt.
One percent. It wasn't the dust. The edges of his vision were going black, static that wasn't from the comms buzzing in his ears. Another step. Pavement under his hands. He'd been upright... up was... which way...?
"Iron Man?"
Everything was dark. Steve was in the dark. Couldn't leave Steve alone in the dark.
"...Steve...?" Had he made a sound?
His chest hurt.
...dark...
Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Fic (798 words)
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Gambling
Challenge: (none)
Content Warning: Implied MCD
Tried to do the one-hour challenge again, but failed on this one. Went ahead and finished it, but I don't feel like it's a terrific piece. It does fill the square and get us a Bingo line, though. And I've written a few hundred words on demand two nights in a row now... that's something, anyway.
Notes: Early canon before Iron Man's identity reveal. I thought about having Steve/emergency crew remove Iron Man's helmet at the end and find him to be Tony, but felt like it needed to end rather than continue, and also decided to leave it implied that neither of them was making it out of this. Just because, Team Kill, and I thought I was going to be doing more metaphorical deaths than actual, but I'm killing them dead-dead more than I thought I would be.
I don't really know how Tony's meters, scanners, alerts, etc, work in the armor at this point... might have stuff going on that's too advanced for this version of the armor, but didn't take the time to research the canon elements to that degree. Also don't know if there's a warehouse area within some interpretation of "a few miles" of Avengers Mansion, but also just winging it there.
It had seemed an easy call. Tony'd been working in the lab for most of the day, and needed a charge. He'd been about to take off his lab coat and plug in when the report came through: a pair of Doombots overflying a warehouse block a few miles away. No immediate active threat beyond the fact of their existence; they shouldn't be there.
Steve responded from the gym within moments, wrapping his workout and ready to go. The others were out and about, and there was no sense pulling in the full team when Iron Man and Cap were right here and more than capable to go roust two mean, green, interloping machines.
Tony had about four hours of power. No problem. They'd be back in short enough order that he wouldn't be cutting things too close. Sometimes situations just required the gamble, all or nothing, pushing reserves to the redline, and he'd had a couple of close calls. If it took his life to stop a deadly threat, well, that was what being Iron Man was for. But he'd gotten better about not doing that when he didn't absolutely need to.
So it had seemed like such a safe bet, an easy win, with Iron Man swooping through the sky, and Steve racing in by street, crouched low over the handlebars of his roaring bike.
Until the Doombots stopped pulling evasive maneuvers and started shooting, broad green energy beams bursting out in wide arcs, and suddenly, from high in the air, Tony felt his foundation drop out right along with the building collapsing below. Crack, BOOM, concussion, massive cloud of grit -- and a jagged field of concrete and metal replaced the exact stretch of road where Steve had just been riding.
"Cap? CAP???" Tony was screaming, and firing by reflex: the Avengers emergency signal; two full-powered blasts of his repulsor rays to slag first one Doombot, then the other; and every scanner the armor contained, searching out any possible life signs in that mess of wreckage.
He dove down and landed, but it wasn't till he heard the weak, cracking voice in his earpiece that he felt the ground back beneath his armored boots.
"Iron Man... ...hear me...?
Tony's heart pounded in his ears almost loud enough to drown him out, but Steve was there. Alive.
"Steve, thank god. What's your status?"
The signal was clearing up now that Tony was at surface level and the dust was beginning to settle.
"I'm ok, Iron Man. Guess I got real lucky."
"I'll say. Hold tight, and we'll have you out of there in no time. And try not to move around too much, We don't know how stable things are. Don't want you to dislodge anything."
Steve made a wet huff that sounded less like "lucky," and more like a laugh turning into a cough, then a stifled groan.
"Cap?"
"I... well. Pretty stable. Definitely won't be moving much. Actually..." Steve's breath rasped again, too loud. Too thick. "...I'm. Uh. A little pinned down."
Tony went cold.
"How bad?"
"I'll be fine. I heal... you know. Just, can you--"
"What? Whatever you need, Steve. Just tell me."
"--stay? Where I can hear your voice?"
And if Steve was asking that much, that proved the lie, and the truth. He wasn't fine. Probably wasn't going to be fine. Tony's mind veered away from the unthinkable.
"I'm here. Not going anywhere. We'll get you out, Steve. Just hold on."
He was telling it to himself as much as to Steve. Cold-sweating inside the armor, trying to catch his own breath. The emergency crews would be here any moment now. They'd get him out. They'd...
A ping. Tony checked his meters. Power at 3%, wait, how? Checked the time. How had almost three hours passed?
And the repulsor blasts. And the scanners. Flight stabilizers, after the explosion.
The mansion was a short flight away. He could make it.
He couldn't.
He could... the closest power lines were down, but there were others nearby. He could jack in for a quick jolt. Hurt like hell, but he'd done it before...
Two percent.
...a block or two. Less power to walk than fly. Still be well within comms range. He wasn't leaving Steve alone.
"Iron Man?"
A step. It was heavy. Another. Heavier. Everything looked dim and hazy. The dust cloud must be rising again. His chest hurt.
One percent. It wasn't the dust. The edges of his vision were going black, static that wasn't from the comms buzzing in his ears. Another step. Pavement under his hands. He'd been upright... up was... which way...?
"Iron Man?"
Everything was dark. Steve was in the dark. Couldn't leave Steve alone in the dark.
"...Steve...?" Had he made a sound?
His chest hurt.
...dark...
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[ART] HydraCap is Just That Evil
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Art
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Evil Twin
Challenge: Camouflage
Inspired by Verena's fun with blankfacejpg-style comics, I had a final-hour lightbulb-flash to do one of my own for Evil Twin, with a meta on HydraCap from Civil War II: The Oath. I constructed the comic by drawing the squares and writing the text on paper, taking snapshots of that with my phone, assembling in MSPaint, and then digitally drawing in the figures. Except the last big blankface circle - that one was on paper also. So it's multimedia homage comic collage!
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Art
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Evil Twin
Challenge: Camouflage
Inspired by Verena's fun with blankfacejpg-style comics, I had a final-hour lightbulb-flash to do one of my own for Evil Twin, with a meta on HydraCap from Civil War II: The Oath. I constructed the comic by drawing the squares and writing the text on paper, taking snapshots of that with my phone, assembling in MSPaint, and then digitally drawing in the figures. Except the last big blankface circle - that one was on paper also. So it's multimedia homage comic collage!
[EDIT] Intimate Thoughts
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Time Travel
Challenge: Wayback Machine
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Time Travel
Challenge: Wayback Machine
Panel from Avengers/Invaders #2, with a little added insight into Tony's "intimate" thoughts.
Last year's bonus prompt used is "non-square images."
[ART] Regenchibis
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Art
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Regency
Challenge: Camouflage
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Art
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Regency
Challenge: Camouflage
I decided to attempt an imitation of Amy Crook's adorable chibi characters (such as this one - and this one). And sort of conflated this with the idea of doing something based on the cover of Iron Man #172 (where Steve is bridal-carrying a passed-out-drunk Tony out of a burning flophouse) as a regency romance pose.
Not the easiest pose for a "dabbler" in drawing and in a new style. All the same, I feel like I did a good job of catching some elements of the style and proportions, but would need a lot more practice for others.I also ran out of time to spend on it, so have to leave it as line art rather than inking/coloring.
This is pencil on paper, and I don't have a scanner, so took a snapshot with my phone.
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[PODFIC] Double Whammy
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Podfic (length 17:14)
Universe: MCU
Bingo Square: I Hate Magic
Challenge: Party Time
Podfic by Cathalinaheart and wynnesome (podfic on AO3 here!)
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Podfic (length 17:14)
Universe: MCU
Bingo Square: I Hate Magic
Challenge: Party Time
This fic/podfic project was a four-way collaboration for the Party Time challenge. It was great fun to read Steve, opposite Cat's Tony, for the recording!
Fic by FestiveFerret and hollyandvice (text fic on AO3 here!)Podfic by Cathalinaheart and wynnesome (podfic on AO3 here!)
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[EDIT} Avenging 1872
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 1872 (Earth-51920)
Bingo Square: Steampunk
Challenge: New to Me
Comics panels from 1872 #4 (armor) and #2 (sheriff's badge). Background from Iron Man 2020 (2020) #1 "Gear Design" variant cover.
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Edit
Universe: 1872 (Earth-51920)
Bingo Square: Steampunk
Challenge: New to Me
Comics panels from 1872 #4 (armor) and #2 (sheriff's badge). Background from Iron Man 2020 (2020) #1 "Gear Design" variant cover.
Iron Man 2020 is not at all a steampunk comic, but the imagery of the gears, taken from the awesome but ridiculous giant shoulder gears of the IM2020 armor, go so well with the steampunk theme anyway.
With this fill and square, I have also completed my personal Bingo line for row 2 of the Games Bingo card!
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[EDIT} Fading Colors
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: No Powers
Challenge: Color of the Year
In this page from Iron Man #303, Steve is telling Tony that his super serum is failing. In fact, not only is he losing his enhanced abilities, but also his health, and he'll soon fall into a coma.
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: No Powers
Challenge: Color of the Year
In this page from Iron Man #303, Steve is telling Tony that his super serum is failing. In fact, not only is he losing his enhanced abilities, but also his health, and he'll soon fall into a coma.
I approached this edit by using Photoshop's magic wand tool to select the various colored areas from the original page (including the blacks and the whites). Each selection became a mask on a color fill layer set to one of the six colors from the Pantone palette. Then I had to manually fill in/correct some areas that didn't select nicely. And finally, I used an adjustment layer to turn the blacks to one of the palette colors as well. I couldn't quite get all the blacks out - maybe could do so spending a lot more time to refine edges of selections and so on, but I did this fairly quickly, and had never done something quite like this before, so all in all, I consider it a successful experiment to fulfill the challenge. I picked the Pantone "Aviary" palette because it had colors relatively close to several of the colors in the original page, and I color-replaced with the closest colors available. However, upon reflection, I think it would also have been fun to try switching up the colors, or using a palette less related to the colors in the original. Maybe I'll try something similar sometime to both refine the technique and also get a little more adventurous with the effect of it.
Here are the edit, the Pantone palette swatch set, and the original page:
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[PODFIC] That Twin Thing
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (stevetonygames )
Work Type: Podfic (liveread; length 9:59)
Universe: Ultimates
Bingo Square: Evil Twin
Challenge: Live on Air
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games (
stevetonygames ) Work Type: Podfic (liveread; length 9:59)
Universe: Ultimates
Bingo Square: Evil Twin
Challenge: Live on Air
This is a liveread of Ferret, Sap, and HT's Ults fic/art collab. My liveread audience in the Games Discord was Kiyaar. I recorded this via two audio systems simultaneously: the craigbot/ennuicastr recording to the Discord server, and my studio mic recording to my own computer. I used the better quality audio from the recording through my own mic, and synced up the ennuicastr track of Kiyaar's reactions. The only editing to my reading is syncing and balancing levels between the mic and audience tracks, and cutting off some additional chatter/conversation we had before and after the actual reading of the fic. The only other edit is that I cut out a few points in the audience track where Kiyaar was telling me my voice was cutting out in the Discord channel. Those are irrelevant to the mic audio, which is intact without those dropouts, would serve no purpose and only be distracting, and leaving them out makes no alteration to the reading.
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Five Times Steve Called Tony Iron Man, and One Time He Called Him Tony
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Identity Reveal
Challenge: 5+1
This edit is a collab with Festive Ferret. She liked this concept from a few things I brainstormed for the Identity Reveal square. I collected the comics panels; she edited the panels and did the initial layout (and did a terrific job!), and then we refined it together for the final version.
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Identity Reveal
Challenge: 5+1
This edit is a collab with Festive Ferret. She liked this concept from a few things I brainstormed for the Identity Reveal square. I collected the comics panels; she edited the panels and did the initial layout (and did a terrific job!), and then we refined it together for the final version.
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I HAVE A USERPIC!!
Feb. 15th, 2021 06:12 pmI have a userpic for this blog now!!
I had never bothered to make one before... but I received this beautiful African Grey artwork from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ironmanwithaplan in my yougavemeastocking gifts - and while it's a full-size art, it also looked to me like it would be a great journal userpic. And so it is!
It's a beautiful gift and I am so happy having my grey parrot love on display this way! Thank you again,ironmanwithaplan! :D <3
I had never bothered to make one before... but I received this beautiful African Grey artwork from
ironmanwithaplan in my yougavemeastocking gifts - and while it's a full-size art, it also looked to me like it would be a great journal userpic. And so it is!It's a beautiful gift and I am so happy having my grey parrot love on display this way! Thank you again,
ironmanwithaplan! :D <3I mean, there's trash and then there's garbage. End of the Games, just throwing anything and everything at the Bingo card. Here's some "Huddling for Warmth."
"Tony..."
"Yeah, Steve?"
"You know I... hate the cold..."
"I know, babe. I'm sorry."
"Tony..."
"Yeah, Steve?"
"You're so warm."
"I'll keep you as warm as I can, babe."
"Tony..."
"Yeah... Steve...?
"It's really cold."
"...huddle closer... babe..."
"Tony..."
"Yeah..."
"Is it getting colder?"
"I... can't really tell..."
"Maybe I can hold you a little tighter..."
"That'd be... nice... babe..."
"Tony..."
"...hhhmmmm?"
"You're not so warm anymore..."
"...not so cold anymore..."
"Tony..."
"Tony?"
"...hmm..."
"No. no, Tony, c'mon, Tony!"
"...mhere..."
"Stay with me, baby, please stay..."
"..."
"Tony..."
"Tony?"
"Tony, Tony, no, wake up, Tony..."
"Tony, I'm not gonna make it without you..."
"Tony, I can feel the tears freezing on my face..."
"Tony, I'm so tired... I'm just going to close my eyes and go to sleep with you..."
"Tony..."
"mmm, tony, s'warm, let's stay'n bed t'day..."
"love... you... tony..."
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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Implied MCD
Extra Prompts: None
Main Universe: 616
"Tony..."
"Yeah, Steve?"
"You know I... hate the cold..."
"I know, babe. I'm sorry."
"Tony..."
"Yeah, Steve?"
"You're so warm."
"I'll keep you as warm as I can, babe."
"Tony..."
"Yeah... Steve...?
"It's really cold."
"...huddle closer... babe..."
"Tony..."
"Yeah..."
"Is it getting colder?"
"I... can't really tell..."
"Maybe I can hold you a little tighter..."
"That'd be... nice... babe..."
"Tony..."
"...hhhmmmm?"
"You're not so warm anymore..."
"...not so cold anymore..."
"Tony..."
"Tony?"
"...hmm..."
"No. no, Tony, c'mon, Tony!"
"...mhere..."
"Stay with me, baby, please stay..."
"..."
"Tony..."
"Tony?"
"Tony, Tony, no, wake up, Tony..."
"Tony, I'm not gonna make it without you..."
"Tony, I can feel the tears freezing on my face..."
"Tony, I'm so tired... I'm just going to close my eyes and go to sleep with you..."
"Tony..."
"mmm, tony, s'warm, let's stay'n bed t'day..."
"love... you... tony..."
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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Fic
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Implied MCD
Extra Prompts: None
Main Universe: 616
Another MSPaint art for "Mutual Pining."
www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200810-HeLovesMeNot.bmp
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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Art
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Oblivious Idiots, I Am Not an Artist
Extra Prompts: No Drawing Tablet/Drawn in MSPaint, Black and White
Main Universe: 616
www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200810-HeLovesMeNot.bmp
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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Art
Bingo Prompt: Mutual Pining (opposite day)
Content Warning: Oblivious Idiots, I Am Not an Artist
Extra Prompts: No Drawing Tablet/Drawn in MSPaint, Black and White
Main Universe: 616
