wynnesome

[FICLET] A Momentary Re-Spite
Team Kill fill for the 2022 SteveTony Games ( stevetonygames )
Work Type: Fic (150 words)
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: Truth
Challenge: Time Runs Out
Content Warning: (implied) canon MCD

Work time: 10:19-11:19pm (because I just kept tweaking till the hour counted down)

There was nothing, followed by 75 words in 6 minutes, then swirling burning snippets of phrases that circled the final form of the fill, racing to the end of the hour.

(A rewrite of Steve and Tony's final conversation in Hickmanvengers #44.)

(It seems inevitable and only fitting to have done a Time Runs Out fill for the Time Runs Out challenge.)

(Alternate title: "And Then We Raced To the Spite")

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A momentary deadlock, a seeming standstill, before the end.

"Give me this and only this, Tony. Would you ever have told me the truth?"

Tony laughed; he cackled and whooped, joy and madness in cacophony.

"Sure, Steve. Sure. Some day when we were both old and grey, or when I was, and you were cured and your eternal golden-shining self, and we'd had a few good decades together because I'd found another fucking way."

He snarled, twisted lips and bloody bared teeth.

"And it was finally the right time to say 'I told you so,' when you would have had to at least think about everything you'd be saying you wished you never had if you said we shouldn't have done it."

Steve roared, bursting with the all the fury of those never-lived decades of spite.

Time started up again, and a shadow fell, and then their time ran out.

I had this cool little brain flash about doing an edit to the Police song "King of Pain," with Steve's and Tony's endless cycle of angst as a time loop to fill that bingo square, and using the song title as an unconventional conception of a "royalty" trope,

It turned into three nights of editing and laying out panels, and three separate collage-style edits to move through the progression that I'd had in mind. Each of the three stands on its own, and together they function as a trilogy, covering the parts of the song that I wanted to illustrate.

I mean, I guess for the three nights' worth of work, I'm at least ending up with three fills out of it...

The full-size files are large, and even the sized-down versions are pretty big. Click to zoom, for best ease reading the text and seeing some of the details of the panels.

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Time Loop
Content Warning: None
Extra Prompts: Non-Square Images, Song Lyrics, I Remember
Main Universe: 616

I had this cool little brain flash about doing an edit to the Police song "King of Pain," with Steve's and Tony's endless cycle of angst as a time loop to fill that bingo square, and using the song title as an unconventional conception of a "royalty" trope,

It turned into three nights of editing and laying out panels, and three separate collage-style edits to move through the progression that I'd had in mind. Each of the three stands on its own, and together they function as a trilogy, covering the parts of the song that I wanted to illustrate.

I mean, I guess for the three nights' worth of work, I'm at least ending up with three fills out of it...

The full-size files are large, and even the sized-down versions are pretty big. Click to zoom, for best ease reading the text and seeing some of the details of the panels.

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http://www.dm-gremlin.com/stuff/imagespace/200728-KingofPain1-EndlessReign.jpg

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Username: wynnesome, steward of subversion
Work Type: Edit
Bingo Prompt: Time Loop
Content Warning: Canon violence and canon MCD
Extra Prompts: Non-Square Images, Song Lyrics, It Wasn't Worth It, Superior Iron Man
Main Universe: 616