All fanworks are created out of love. Love is why as readers we seek out fic that gives us more of the things we love and love for Steve/Tony is why we sit down and explore them through stories.
But writing is still hard sometimes and writing something 25,000 words long and finishing it can be intimidating. Coming up with an idea that carries you through the writing process is key.
So let us remind you of why we love this ship so much! The inspiring and dramatic moments, the different dynamics that marked their relationship over the years and across the multiverse are what you can draw from!
Over the years Captain America and Iron Man were perfect team mates. Mutual admiration was always part of it – even when things were tough.
Their feelings for each other run deep.
Steve and Tony gaze into each other’s eyes,…
…admire each other’s outfits,…
…support each other,…
…worry about each other,…
…truust and…
…save each other…
…know each other well enough to finish each other’s sentences…
…and know exactly why the other is acting a certain way…
…and what the other needs even when they don’t admit it.
The worst thing about feeling the pain of betrayal, of course, is that it can never come from an enemy. It hurts the most when it comes from the person we love and admire most.
But everything comes back to that one person, doesn’t it? And nothing can stand between them for long.
So while they are the ones who can hurt each other the worst…
they still believe in each other.
They are best when they stand together,…
…teasing each other,…
…training together,…
…working in sync,…
…always running off towards new adventures,…
… and fun basektball dates.
There are so many aspects to their relationship, so many angles to be explored. Give us your Steve/Tony stories fully, sad, full of love and angst, canon compliant or AU – we’re looking forward to everything you write!
Running since 2011, the Cap-IronMan Big Bang challenges the community’s writers to create Steve/Tony-focused fic with a minimum of 25,000 words. Artists are then invited to create accompanying art! To sign up as a writer you need to send us your draft and summary by September 26th.
(Working on the assumption that they’ve all met/ been in the same room at one point in time or just had one very weird weekend that may or may not have ended with cuddling and … other things.)
Natasha Stark (Tony-3490) was voted the most most attractive. Literally. There was a poll and everything – a really unnecessarily elaborate version of Google Forms because all the Starks got drunk (while 616 looked on in fond amusement) and decided that a poll was something they need. Steve-3490 can roll his eyes in exasperation all he wants but everyone knows he’s really smug about it.
All the Starks have also unanimously decided that MCU!Tony is the most adorable. They all have a silent pact not to tell him but MCU!Steve knows and he’s also really smug about it.
Ult!Cap and MCU!Steve have gotten into screaming matches. At one point they slipped free from the Avenger who was suppose to keep an eye on them and may have tried to duke it out in the gym. Neither of them are really that sorry but MCU!Steve feels vaguely guilty about all the damage – not enough to stop fighting with Ult!Cap but well, the thought’s somewhat there.
No one understands MIT parties until the Avengers walk in on all the Starks in the workshop and catch Nat and Ult!Tony doing body shots off one another. There’s very questionable fruit punch in an Iron Man helmet and apparently it’s the cause of hangovers for literally all the Steves the next day. MCU!Tony gets cuddled by Ult!Cap – he’s very proud. 616!Tony narced about the party because he was the only one sober and because MCU!Steve was turning an alarming shade of purple.
MCU!Steve may have been the one to bring up the cuddling … and other things. Steve-3490 seconded. Ult!Cap naturally took the most convincing but MCU!Steve was all for leaving him out of it – they’re still pretty sure he joined in outta spite. Again, MCU!Tony gets cuddled by him towards the end – he’s no less proud of this than the first time. None of the Avengers really know what happened but the common rooms on lock down for the entirety of a day and none of them really want to think about why MCU!Steve walks around wearing smug satisfaction like its a cologne.
Ult!Tony locks MCU!Tony outta some of his folders because “Never did like sharing, darling.”
There are 254 new weird robots running around the tower by the end of the week. Clint swears there are more than that because there’s one peeking at him from every goddamn corner and he’s caught enough of a glimpse to know that it’s not one that’s been counted but not enough of a glimpse to know what it actually looks like. It pisses him off for weeks.
Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that’s not enough. It’s not the length of a life that matters… just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on after our hearts break. Hearts always break. And so we bend with our hearts, and we sway, but in the end… what matters is that we loved… and lived.
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