Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games (
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Work Type: Fic (1859 words)
Universe: Tsum-Tsum
Bingo Square: Coming Out
Challenge: Mirror, Mirror
Content Warning: Tsum-Tsum Torture (actually kind of graphic, if you're thinking in tsum-tsum terms. BUT it's a happy ending!)
For this Mirror, Mirror challenge, I partnered with Holly, and the prompt we came up with was Arranged Marriage based upon the ideas of "Steve is at risk of losing his independence when he comes out of the ice because reason, and he has to marry Tony or lose that independence" + "The military will have claim on him for assignments/experimentation, if someone else doesn't have a stronger one."
I ended up playing a little fast and loose with it, and also ending up taking what I originally planned as a Serious Body Horror story into the tsum-tsum universe, where it became equal parts, well, still pretty heavy body horror if considered from a tsum point of reference, and also flat-out crack. Plus I got to pun a lot. This one was challenging, but also genuinely a lot of fun!
The Stuff(ing) of Nightmares, Stitched Into a Dream on AO3