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( surprisingly gentle )

Because is there anything better than a dangerous, potentially deadly stoic whose one weakness is their sweet, harmless object of affection? Especially if the latter has the former wrapped around their finger, knowingly or otherwise.

To avoid tl;dr - suddenly, a wild bae approaches! Their attempt to turn you into a puddle of goo at the knees, whether purposeful or not, is very effective.

This meme is pretty shamelessly for fluff, opening up, dokis, and also more dokis.
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[ Godspeed. ]

Edited 2018-09-05 23:31 (UTC)

[ the scary deadly one with resting murderface. for non-romance, she also softens up around the twins. ]

[ crusty grumpy outside with a soft marshmallow inside. ]

[In combat situations, she's absolutely the stoic. When she's being Pathfinder, Face of Andromeda, though, she can nudge a stoic with the best of them.]

[gen or shippy are fine]

[Would like to think he's the deadly stoic, but ain't.

Available in 1940's pre-serum flavor or modern AU.]

[ stoic stoic stoic stoic he's jon snow but rome edition stoic. ]

[[Infinity War compliant, Civil War otherwise.]]

"Dammit, Stevie."

Those words in that voice might well have been the most common phrase in all of Brooklyn. They were accompanied, as ever, by Betty pinching the bridge of her nose. She was used to seeing him with black eyes, a swollen jaw, wheezing, slightly blue around the lips - she'd seen him at his worst, but this? Where he stared and stared at the enlistment posters, where she could see how he was making arguments to all the voices he carried around in his head with him, the ones that echoed all of the jackasses ready to tell him how useless he was--

Betty wasn't sure which she was madder at: that he knew those voices well enough to carry them with him or that he wouldn't accept that maybe, just this once, the goddamned second World War was a fight he didn't need to jump into.

"I get three days before I end up having to ship off to where I get to start patching people back together with spit and twine and you decide to spend them mooning over Army posters," she bit. Her best friend in the world, whom she probably would never see again, and he wanted to spend his time fighting an uphill battle instead of enjoying an expo or sitting on a fire escape talking or, hell, anything. Anything but obsessing over what the world wouldn't let him be. "Ah, hell. Why do I bother."

[ very much the sweet one ]

He can't help it, is the thing. Steve's stubbornness is the stuff of legends. His will was designed to fit in a body much bigger than the one he's been given by Nature, and has therefore been concentrated and condensed until it's heavier and denser than lead. Physically, a stiff breeze could snap him in two, but mentally he is the man who will not be moved.

At the moment, he will not be moved from in front of the recruitment poster tacked to a wooden fence less than a block from his flat. Defend your country! It's less the posters that move him than the stories coming in from the front, but it's impossible to forget about these things, even for a minute. He shoves his hands in his pockets and frowns at Betty, over his shoulder and up a few inches because she's always been taller, which is unfair, but so is life. "Y'gotta fuckin' remind me you're shipping off in three days and then you wonder why I can't stop thinking about the Army?"

Nurse corps or not, she's going to be in danger. She's going to be contributing. She's going to be recognized as the hero she always has been in his eyes (not that he'd ever say so). And he's expected to wait in Brooklyn alone, worrying he'll never see her again. He can't take it. He's desperate. She's all the family he's got.

If he could sign up as a nurse, he absolutely would. Trouble with that is they're not taking male nurses unless they're also enlisted men, so he's screwed either way. That, and he doesn't really have the physical strength to hack it as a nurse--he's always known that just from watching his ma. There's a lot of lifting, and his back doesn't take to that. Maybe if there was a military Watercolorist Corps, he thinks bitterly, and kicks a rock across the street.

"You know why you bother? Because no one else does, and you never learned to leave well enough alone," he tells her, and his expression is cranky, but he can't hide the warmth in his voice.

[If you're looking for someone who can help gentle the wildest beasts, Beth's your girl. Interested in both canon and cross-canon CR, happy to do things in her world, your character's world, or a jamjar!]

She took in a deep breath, looking at him, at his cranky (sweet, loved) face, and she rubbed at her forehead. "Who knows if I'll ever learn at this rate," she muttered. "Come on; stop making cow eyes at the poster boy and do something with me before I have to strain to remember what your little crooked nose looks like from a million miles away. Or maybe I should make you send me pictures."

Betty gave his shoulder a light shove before taking a few steps away. She didn't know what they'd do. How they'd spend this time. But she knew that she'd spent too much time caring for Steve to let these last few days be the end of it.

"I'll steal some rifleman's compass and shove your picture in it," she half-threatened. Except, knowing her, maybe it was more of a promise.

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