★—  ❛   _{You sure BET I will, Grey-face. With all of the death, with all of our friends LOST, we have no choice but to band together as we once were to fight whatever evil faces us. We’re called Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for a REASON, and though we may be fragmented right now — you sure BET we’ll assemble and DEFEND the Earth once more, as we’ve always done. No matter the cost, we WILL fight this evil and get our friends back. That’s a promise.}     ❜

★—         ❛  _{Maybe that might take a little trip through a couple o’ universes to find the right fella that’d be up for that — I know the right guy, he’s the sheriff of a little town called Timely. Better hurry, though. I hear the Kingpin has his eye on the place, and he ain’t goin’ alone.}  ❜

_{It’s actually from Avengers #29. Here’s the panel:} 

_{Initially, I’ll admit I was like haha I’ll change my url for ANGST. But it kind of stuck with me — particularly since the writing in it, for Steve, I felt was awesome. It was the first time in a long time —  in that particular issue that I saw such a HUMAN knee-jerk reaction from someone who is seen as so sturdy. Within the issue it’s like you see him crack, like the rug has been swept out from beneath him.} 

_{I should provide a little context.} 

_{TLDR: The illuminati wiped Steve’s memories of him ever being in the illuminati, due to the incursions - the illuminati (in layman’s terms) believed to stop the incursions, the earth colliding with theirs needs to be destroyed. Whereas Steve was of course saying that there must be another way and wanted to prevent deaths. That’s a very very watered down summary for you. So to stop Steve from being the only protesting member of the Illuminati, Strange wiped his memories. ….Another long story later, when the Watcher was killed, Steve’s memories returned. And this is an issue of him remembering what happened. (again, very very watered down, I’d recommend reading the entire thing because I’m a sucker for those kind of arcs).} 

_{This is him dealing with it, and I love Steve, I love Captain America - but that’s the thing, we don’t get to see this side to Steve often if at all. It’s a reflection of a man snapping - showing us that even super soldiers can crumble, that he has weakness and such vulnerability. He feels betrayal, for a closest friend lied to protect him, but he can’t see it like that. He sees red, and the fact that his memories are something that he truly cherishes — one of the few things he HAS in this day and age, the moment that they are tampered the less he feels he has. And that results in this.} 

_{It’s actual raw, unfiltered pain.} 

_{I appreciate Hickman so much for this issue in particular, because I can really pick it apart and deconstruct the stages Steve’s head goes through, and how he feels throughout each page - it’s a dream, and the more I read it the more I can pick out from it.} 

_{See this?} 

_{This is RAW. This is anger, rage and a cocktail of pain and emotion. 616 is generally this somewhat level-headed person, who will deal with things his own way - but this was confrontational and — this is where my words fail me because I want to describe this sensation where you’re so passionate about something that it makes you so angry, that it burns so deep.} 

_{But yeah, what I’m trying to say without rambling (more) is that I feel that it was one of the few times that we saw Steve Rogers, not just Captain America, at his most human and vulnerable, with his heart in his hand for everyone to see. We always see Steve as this pinnacle of perfection, but I feel what makes a character beautiful are their imperfections - so seeing a lapse, seeing him react just on raw feeling, is important to me. Not to mention it kinda hits home with me on a personal level so yeah, that’s why I like the url and that’s how I found it too.} 

_{★— CLEARING HIS THROAT and sitting up – back straight against the back of the chair, seeming so RIGID as he knew this was going to be viewed by MILLIONS. With the increase of social media and how it DOMINATED in terms of platforms that people would view —- it was important to represent his team in a POSITIVE light.} 

   ❛   _{Well Gloria….} ❜

_{His blues darted toward the screen, viewing ‘pewnews’ along the scrollbar bouncing back and forth — and for a while, Steve had felt what he hadn’t in so long; it was the feeling of all of those millions of eyes LOOKING at you, appraising you, searching for every possible FAULT. Suddenly he felt more STIFF than he usually was— and this was exactly why he let Stark do most of the PR appearances. It was at that moment commanded himself internally to get himself together, an honest smile decorating his face.} 

   ❛   _{I just want them all to know, that right now things may be lookin’ dark, but the important thing is to ALWAYS look toward the light. Just know, no matter what, there is ALWAYS someone there for you– and that could be your friends or family – but the Avengers, as a team, are always there for you. There’s a lot more I want to say, about staying strong, ALWAYS be yourself and help those around you. I want to thank them for their loyalty, and for you all to know— your support means the WORLD to me. Again, I’d talk more but I think we’re runnin’ out of time.}  ❜

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_{★— [[ I just want to thank you firstly for sending this in, secondly for such kind words! That last part GENUINELY means so much to me. You wouldn’t believe how much I find myself asking myself ‘if Steve were real, what would he think about the way I write..’, I realise it’s not the most artistic but I do hope I do him justice as a character, and that’s what matters the most to me. Thank you so much <333 ]]} 

HONEST OPINION / ★ / ACCEPTING

_{★— [[ The fact that I’ve actually got people to write the Invaders with is a blessing, and I appreciate every one of my partners who allows me to write with them and bring to life some of my favourite interactions, hopefully with our own spin on them! I really thoroughly gotta say that it’s all on all of my invader partners for bringing it out. I don’t express enough how much I love that team, and they’ll always hold a special place in my heart. So honestly my biggest worry is going too off the scale with my interpretation, which I suppose is the case sometimes. I’m so so glad you enjoy them and <3 of course, Steve will always be too polite, he loves dancing around particular things, if it suits him!]]} 

_{★— Personally, I’m a huge fan of Ghost Rider so I’m perfectly cool with it ( and very very excited ). I love Robbie and I’m thrilled for him to be in more comics and get more time in larger titles – and the team dynamic will be interesting to say the least, we’ve got a decent line-up that seems quite balanced so I’m looking forward to it. I think it’ll be so interesting to see them bounce off each other as characters – with Robbies attitude ( but overall deeply caring values ), and Steve’s quite recent tough-to-crack stubbornness… I personally really want to see them bond over the need to protect others, and have a bit of sharing ( as unlikely as it may be at the start ) of Robbie’s past spoken to Steve. We’ll see. But I’m generally very hype – and very much looking forward to dialogue exchanges and hopefully funny moments.}

_{In terms of Steve’s perspective; Ever since Stamford Steve has been sceptical about those that are younger with such a high power level, he’s been weary and has expressed that numerous times as far as the Young Avengers are concerned. ( If the REAL Steve was involved during Civil War II, then I’m sure he would’ve taken a similar approach to some of the team in that there would have been a sense of apprehension when Ulysses appeared and demonstrated the capabilities of his powers ) However, I feel working alongside people such as him and Tony is a GREAT way to win his trust. He wouldn’t be so much as a mentor but it’s more of overlooking and gauging his powers to ensure he isn’t a threat, observing potential and being able to incorporate him into a working, functional tactical line-up. Working alongside Steve is far better than working against him, in most cases. Steve has always had a rocky relationship with the Riders – but has managed to work with them on a few things, so it’s just a case of building on that and overcoming previous hurdles. Whilst Steve can’t properly mentor him in terms of using the Rider’s powers, it would be great for him to maybe help in other ways if Robbie is accepting of that help. It’s just overcoming hubris too, which I’m sure will be an issue and easier said than done, on both sides of the coin.}

_{Being unpredictable is an issue for a tactician such as Steve. It makes it difficult to know what he may or may not do, and when emotions are a factor it becomes increasingly difficult. But Steve is always up for a challenge, and he’s worked with unpredictable folks before, so it’s not his first rodeo but it doesn’t make him any less apprehensive about involving him. As long as there are others to help keep him sturdy, people like Strange being one of them, then relying on that contingency is the only plan he can really justify. There  is excitement because it’s a young hero, but also fear because of the same reason – he wouldn’t want him to get hurt and be responsible for it, or risk his life when he’s got so much to protect. I do think that the others would be very uneasy until Robbie has proven that he can work well with them.}

_{Only time will tell!}

_@novasparked

_{★— Oh wow that’s a difficult question to answer. The thing is, over the course of time that I’ve been writing Steve I’ve come up with so many headcanons that I try to justify using canon – small things he’s said, tiny quirks, even those passing stares in comics that make me think he’s staring at something longer than he should be therefore he feels such and such a way about it.}

_{It’s hard to pick just one singular headcanon, of course I’m baised toward my own writing so I tend to think that certain things I come up with are the best things since sliced bread.}

_{I think there’s one thing that I try and incorporate into my writing a lot more than anything else, and it’s his accent – it’s hard to write such a strong accent into any writing and still keep it entirely readable, for me, anyway. I’ve always thought that Steve has a very strong Brooklyn accent, and over the years he’s conditioned it out, just a little. With all of the press tours that he’s done in the past, interviews and appearances, he has to maintain professional understandable not only by natives but by those abroad. Being a Captain means he has to speak with a clear, concise tone of voice, and touring all over the world had meant that his accent has indeed dulled down.}

_{But one of my favourite things is thinking that his accent flares up whenever he feels angry, is shouting, or is heated. You get Brooklyn-isms shine through, words get cut off and his tone carries that bite to it. Over the years I’ve been trying to delve more into how his accent would sound exactly, but yes, most definitely it gets stronger the stronger emotions he is facing. (Of course when he’s loved up his accent slips too, those flirty moments of slang slip in, only behind closed doors of course).}

_{I’m also very keen into ensuring that Steve stays close to his roots, and has a lot of Irish in him. Traditional songs his mother used to sing to him really stick with him, and perhaps, when he sings them – because he’s so used to hearing them sung a certain way, he has a bit of a softer mixed Irish-American accent. Because he’s so used to his mother saying certain words, there are particular words that carry more of his mother’s accent to them when he says them – it’s all to do with conditioning from a young age, positive association with those words too. I know this is really rambly, but I feel accents are a great indication of character and actually say a lot about the person and their upbringing. So yes, I feel it would definitely be important for Steve to maintain a few Irish quips here and there regarding the way he says certain words. And naturally, he’s great at singing lullabies (seen in the issue where he accompanied a few troops to South America if I’m not mistaken) where he’d sung a little girl a lullaby in Spanish. I’m going to go ahead and assume he did the same with Ian in Dimension Z too – but instead of Spanish, he used to sing the old lullabies his mother used to sing him, particularly when he was sick. Those soft tones and melodies carrying through each note, with his accent melting into more of his mothers voice. Sarah Rogers is SO important to Steve, and so I feel he’d want to carry on her strength through any means he could, to help others as he was when he was younger.}

_{Whoa, I really did go off on one here.}

_{So, short summary; Steve’s accent shifts regarding the situation. In the public eye he seems more rigid, in the heat of the moment his accent may slip into something more common around his area in Brooklyn, and when he’s being softer and more comforting his accent reflects a lot more of his mothers.}

_{I think that’s one of many headcanons that I love to write, and have been developing. Maybe I think too much about it. There are huge other aspects of his character that I write headcanons on but I gotta say this one sticks with me a lot when I’m writing.} 

_{★— UNSURE WHY SOMEONE WOULD ASK SUCH A THING — he had been warned that people had odd requests in order to receive satisfaction — been told by the youngsters in the team that ‘everyone had their own kinks’, which for one, he could understand and simultaneously DIDN’T understand.} 

_{STARING at the stranger with a squint of scrutiny, that was almost to cover up how weary he was of the request, a judgemental hand resting upon his hip as if to amplify the DISCERNMENT.} 

   ❛ _{I think I’ll PASS, pal.}   ❜ _{He was going to add something along the lines ‘unless you’ve done something to earn it’, but he didn’t want to encourage any criminal behaviour if this was indeed, someones means of getting their rocks off.}