Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!
Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.
Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?
Loki: …maybe a three?
Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.
Loki: -thinking- I like him.
It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.
It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”
And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.
Eddie, in all his self-righteous “I’m a reporter who must find the truth and take down barons” self, goes after Tony post-Iron Man, falsely assuming Iron Man is a cover-up for something bigger. Tony’s expected reporters like Eddie Brock to question him, so he lets Eddie to a complete investigation of literally every aspect of Tony’s life.
When Eddie comes up empty-handed, he apologizes to Tony for assuming the worst and Tony pulls the classic line of “how about you make it up to me with dinner?” and Tony honestly meant for it to be a one night stand, but somehow he ended up really falling for this reporter guy.
Flash to Eddie losing his entire job and rep from his fail at trying to take down Life Foundation, and he’s in a deep depression that even Tony has trouble knocking him out of.
Then the whole Venom thing happens and Eddie desperately avoids Tony because fuck, Tony cannot see him like this, hell no.
We’ll assume that chick in the movie is just Eddie’s really good friend and was never anything more.
Once Eddie and Venom finally beat Riot, Tony convinces the chick to tell him what the hell is going on, and he’s royally pissed at Eddie, but also makes damn sure Eddie knows that Tony still loves and supports him, and is sticking with him through this.
So of course, shenanigans ensue of Tony and Eddie adjusting to living with a third party. And once Eddie convinces Venom that Tony is not edible, Venom slowly starts to tolerate Tony too.
Oh, and their sex life definitely gets more interesting.
Per Eddie’s request, Tony keeps their relationship and Eddie’s Venom status under wrap. It’s not until an absolutely dire situation in which Eddie has to run in full Venom mode to save the Avenger’s asses that Tony finally admits “Yeah, this is my boyfriend. He has a bit of a parasite problem- VENOM DON’T YOU DARE EAT CAPTAIN AMERICA, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING, AND NO YOU MAY NOT. GIVE EDDIE CONTROL BACK, PLEASE”
So, @massivespacewren and I were chatting last night about StarSymBrock and it occured to me that, in a universe where Eddie and Tony were already involved in this undefined-but-definitely-more-than-just-sex kind of way, Eddie would 100% try and keep Venom out of Tony’s life. Sure, Tony could probably help, but the man already has enough to deal with. Eddie can’t put this on him. Not this one more thing. Seriously, pick anywhere in Tony’s canon and there’s a justifiable reason not to put more on his plate.
Let’s say it’s post-Avengers but pre-Iron Man 3, so Tony has a very justifiable aversion to aliens but still has the arc reactor. (This will come up later, kids.)
So, Eddie does the only thing he can think of to keep Tony from finding out. He pulls away and distances himself. He stopped answering Tony’s calls and replies to texts less and less, being evasive and generally dodgy, turns down an invite to come to New York and tells Tony (perhaps a little harshly, but he was scared, okay?) that he absolutely should not come to LA and visit.
And Tony… Well, Tony knows a brush off when he sees one. He’s not sure what he did and he wishes Eddie would at least give him a chance to fix it, but he gets it. It had only ever been a matter of time before Eddie figured out he was better off without him. So he accepts it and maybe drinks more than he already was thanks to the nightmares and builds some more suits and doesn’t sleep and generally just copes really well.
Meanwhile, Eddie is hating every second of having to do this. He hates it. He misses Tony so much and is constantly reaching for his phone to contact him, only to remind himself why he shouldn’t and his bed feels so empty. Yeah, he’s learning to accept Venom, and even love him, but he misses Tony. He knows how much this must be hurting him and it’s like a dagger to his chest. He feels like absolute scum, but he’s also sure it’s the best for everyone involved.
Venom is not so sure. At first, he mostly ignored Eddie’s moodiness, but he could feel the sadness setting in, the pain and hurt every time Eddie left a call unanswered and they sat down later to listen to the voicemail. Sure, Eddie was way more open to going after criminals those nights, or at least eating an entire tub of ice cream, but he was still in pain. And it wasn’t a pain that Venom could heal the way he usually did.
After a couple months of this, Venom decides, “Fuck it!” He doesn’t understand why Eddie is staying away from Tony anyway, though he knows it’s because of him. If he can’t fix this the way he normally does, he’ll have to try it the way humans do, by talking. Of course, he means talking to Tony. He takes control and heads for New York, heedless of Eddie’s protests.
He finds Tony in the newly-remodeled Stark Tower, in his lab, feverishly working away in the middle of the night with no one else around. As far as Venom can tell, no one else has been around in a while. The air smells stale of anything but what he can now recognize as Tony’s own scent. JARVIS alerts Tony of the intrusion, but Venom is already inside, towering over him. Tony isn’t wearing his bracelets and can’t call the armor and there’s this black, inky creature with a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth inches away from his face and- Cue massive panic attack.
Venom, of course, has never witnessed a panic attack before and has no idea what’s happening and oh, shit, he broke Eddie’s human! He lets Eddie have control back so he can calm Tony down and of course there’s talking and more freaking out and yada yada yada, but eventually Tony managed to comes to terms with what the fuck is going on. And that’s when the most unexpected thing happens. Tony makes the effort to get to know Venom and utterly adores him. He spoils Venom rotten, ordering all kinds of trashy food for Venom to snack on and asking about his species and biology and teaching him about human culture.
The bots are cautious at first, not being overly fond after seeing Venom ‘attack’ thier creature that first night, but they eventually come around. After finding out that Venom is vulnerable to fire, DUM-E starts valiantly following them around with a fire extenguisher. His enthusiasm isn’t even dampened by Tony’s many and varied threats.
Venom gets pretty attached to Tony, too.
Then IM 3 happens and shit goes down with the Mandrin and just imagine Eddie and Venom’s reaction to thinking Tony had been killed. They’d track down Killian and rip him to pieces. They’d be overjoyed to discover Tony is still alive and wrap him up in hugs and tenticles and refuse to let him go.
They were never, ever letting anything hurt their human again.
The year Andrew
graduates and goes pro, and Neil stays behind to complete his last year at Palmetto,
they text each other A LOT.
Since Andrew is not
really a talkative type, they mostly send photos
The first couple of
weeks go by with texting/skyping like couple of times a week
Then one night after a
long day Neil feels bad and goes to the rooftop. He misses Andrew so much, so
he takes a photo of the parking lot from the roof and sends it to Andrew without any words.
Almost instantly he
gets a picture from Andrew and it’s a view of the night city skyline from his
rooftop with a greyish whiff of cigarette smock in the corner of the picture.
(It makes Neil feel warm
and fuzzy, and Andrew ups the percentage)
And so it begins.
Next morning Neil sends
him a photo of Andrew’s t-shirt he found in his laundry.
And later that day a
selfie of himself wearing that shirt.
Andrew sends him photos
of the court where he’s practicing and pictures of his new gear, and (after some
begging) a picture of himself wearing it.
(Neil is hyperventilating)
(Andrew knows it – that’s
why he sent the photos: to earn boyfriend points with his exy-obsessed junkie)
At some point Andrew
sends Neil a photo of some keys, and when asked about it says that they are the
stolen keys to his pro court
(Neil comes to visit the
very next weekend)
(They totally break in
there)
One night at like three
o’clock Andrew is woken by a message sound from his phone and it’s a short
video from Neil where you can barely see his unimpressed face in the dark, but can
hear shouts and screams of the freshmen fighting in the common room.
Andrew sends back a
picture of his knives and a question mark.
Neil sends back a
laughing emoji.
Next day Andrew sends Neil a
video of Andrew’s coach yelling at his team. It ends with him yelling at Andrew
for filming it and snatching the phone from his hands.
It’s also the small
things
Like steaming hot
coffee in an “exy is sexy” cup
A sports journal with
Kevin on the cover with a mustache drawn on with a sharpie
A black eye Neil got
from a stray ball with a capture “I hate this team”
Andrew sends the picture
of the knives again, but with an exclamation mark this time.
Ridiculous typos in a local
restaurant menu
Two buckets of
pistachio ice cream (Andrew comes to visit next weekend)
A picture of a TV
screen with Andrew’s bored face on it from an interview after one of the games (with
an “I miss you” capture)
Andrew just replies
with a percentage.
The wall with team photos
from Foxhole court
Andrew’s feet thrown on
the back of the seat on the team bus
A photo of Kevin yelling
at his teammates during the warmup, from when they were having a match against
each other.
A photo of Wymack looking
into the camera like he’s not being paid enough for any of this
(This photo later goes
on the wall).
A photo of a contract
Neil signed with a pro team
A photo of PSU library
Stacks of books and notes
and numerous cups of coffee
A calendar with days
crossed off leading to the graduation
A photo of the road
ahead from the Maserati
Then again a photo of the
view from the Foxhole tower rooftop
And finally a photo of
Neil, eyes wide open, throwing open the door to the roof to find Andrew
standing there with a phone in his hand.
I don’t understand why High School Musical 4 is going to get an entire new cast when all they had to do was set it at Chad and Ryan’s wedding
Sharpay – mellowed out some with age, still struggling to make it big, chronically single – insists she’s happy for Ryan but quickly devolves into her obligatory show-stopper about how she’s sick of waiting to meet someone who’s right for her. (Mostly the song entails Sharpay singing her ridiculously long laundry list of requirements while trying on bedazzled wedding dresses.)
There’s a running gag that Troy is supersupersuper late for the wedding. We may or may not ever actually see him, since Zac Efron didn’t even come to the damn ten year reunion and is apparently a huge party pooper. What we do see is Gabriella on the phone with him every fifteen minutes or so, urging him to hurry up. Eventually she decides that he’s obviously stuck in traffic because he doesn’t care about their friends enough and wonders if she should break up with him. Cue the obligatory once-a-movie Gabriella Is Sad song.
Taylor and Chad are SUPER amicable exes and she’s organizing the entire wedding with an iron fist. Chad and Ryan didn’t have to do anything. Kelsey is on piano. Zeke is baking their cake, obvs.
Troy is SUPPOSED TO BE Chad’s best man, but again, he’s supersupersuper late. At one point while Gabriella’s on the phone with him, Chad runs up behind her and yells “DUDE. GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME” into the phone.
Sharpay elbows someone in the face to catch the bouquet when it gets thrown. Like, violently. It’s played for laughs, of course, but we all know that Kelsey/Jason/whoever should probably be in the hospital.
Assuming they can lock down Zefron, the movie will inevitably end up being about them. Troy proposed during the damn reception. Gabriella cries. Taylor and Kelsey are screaming. Sharpay is immediately trying to become Gabriella’s best friend and call dibs on being her maid of honor. Ryan looks affronted at this hijacking but nobody notices.
tHE FUCKING WEDDING COLORS ARE WHITE AND RED JUST SO CHAD CAN SCREAM “WILDCATS” AS SOON AS HE’S DONE BEING PRONOUNCED RYAN’S LAWFULLY WEDDED HUSBAND
Sharpay and Zeke reconnect after that moment at the of HSM1 where they were a thing for like 10 seconds. Sharpay Learns a Valuable Lesson about how maybe you don’t need a guy who’s perfectly perfect in every way when you’ve got once who’s a total sweetheart and can bake like a mofo.
Ryan brings some girl he knows from Broadway who’s like his best dancer or something. She spends the entire wedding flirting with Kelsey and making her all flustered. Everyone is trying to get them together.
It ends with an elaborate musical number at the reception. Possibly there’s a self-aware joke about how Ryan emailed everyone the choreography for it months ago, so they all better know it by now. It probably turns into a reprise of We’re All In This Together and then I cry into my popcorn for 6 hours
~the end~
HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO MANY NOTES ARE Y’ALL SERIOUS
holy shit can this happen instead
Chad needs to smash faces with Ryan right after screaming WILDCATS and then they need to leave, come back, and their clothing is swapped!!!!!
I’m just surprised y’all can remember all of their names
bold of you to assume I’d forget any part of something as iconic as high school musical
wow, i can’t believe we’ve all just watched the entirety of HSM4 on tumblr for free and no other version of this movie has/will/or ever exists
clintbbarton 