goodmorningbeloved:

if steve’s going to fill our punk role here, he absolutely takes up spray painting. there are spots in town that are absolutely chock full of vulgar vandalism, but someone’s been covering them up lately with beautiful art. that first day tony notices steve sketching, he also notices how steve eventually gets up, kind of looks around, then swings his heavy-looking back over his shoulder and darts off. tony thinks he’s been found out, but he soon realizes that this is? a routine of steve’s?

and so despite his mother’s voice in the back of his head (you’re going to get that new sweater of yours dirty, anthony), tony follows him, and he ends up spending the rest of the evening watching steve work on this billboard. one of its columns has been spray-painted with a bunch of obscenities, but it all gradually disappears as steve paints flowers twining up the column. he’s just about as short as tony, so he can’t reach the higher parts, but what he can reach has been transformed into absolute art. from a distance, it looks like they’re crawling out of the surrounding foliage itself, and it’s so pretty and oh boy tony is so in love, pepper, do you understand my dilemma here–

so that’s how tony starts following steve out and just watching him make art.

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