MCU-muns, Assemble!

[redintheledger]

Hey guys!

There are a couple more of us now, and some timeline shenanigans, so I thought it might be an idea for us all to mention where and when our characters are from.

(And if people are in odd times, maybe we can hash out basic character-interactions, or guidelines for dealing with the timeline mess?)

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[redintheledger]

So I'll get this party started! :D

Natasha is mostly from post IM2/Thor/Incredible Hulk (assuming they all happened in the same week, as per Fury's Big Week and Coulson running off in the middle of IM2), and I've got some plans for M'ways-ing up the tie-in comic Black Widow Strikes (hasthehighground, hisonegoodeye, the_man, I'll set up a post soon for organizing if anyone wants to play along - all very low-key), but other than that, she'll just have various hijinks until whenever we do Avengers. If anyone is post-Avengers, I'd prefer them not thread with Natasha until she's also post-Avengers, for various reasons.

But just to be a bit confusing! Natasha will also have some OOMs from nerves_of_ice's timeline, as Aspen and I have Plots. She might also have the occasional EP, too, depending on things. For that, I'm okay with people meeting with her out of order, because TIMELINE SHENANIGANS, but to be safe, if people could just PM me first so we have a line of communication, that'd be shiny.

Hopefully that all makes sense, anyway.

[thefirststark]

Greetings from the past! Howard is currently in March 1944, and will be staying in that pivotal year for a while longer, till after D-Day (because you can't ignore D-Day, even if your pup isn't part of the invasion). I plan to jump him ahead over the end of Captain America and into 1946 and the Cold War.

BTW, Aspen and Jenna, any thoughts on whether the public knows about Cap's death? I have some ideas about this. (Ashie, I know you dropped Peggy, but if you gave that question any thought, your input is welcome, too.)

Also, I would love to know if Nick Fury's mun has any ideas about when he and Howard met. (I have no plans to say that Howard was a SHIELD agent in the 50s, a la the short lived comic by Hickman, mainly because I just don't care for Hickman's work, sad to say.)

[redintheledger]

Hello from various points in the space-time continuum! I just had the idea of Cold War!Natasha and Howard meeting sometime, even if briefly (although it'd be after the late 50s, because that's when Natasha is being a field agent). Interested?

Re: Steve's death, I hadn't given it much thought, but I figured it'd be post-war? During the war, they need the morale-boost too much. But that's just my vague opinion.

[thefirststark]

Wow, Natasha is older than she looks. But as so is Nick, why not?

It sounds like an interesting idea. I just need to figure out how involved Howard would be with SHIELD. In the comics, even though Tony Stark of the 60s was busy being Tony Stark and Iron Man, he found time to help found SHIELD, so I can easily see that idea transferred to Howard. When Howard isn't busy helping with the early space program or developing reliable ICBMs.

[redintheledger]

She is! I decided to go "fuck it" and have M'ways Natasha born in 1928, as per comics (although a lot else of her comics origin I'm tossing out the window), so she's been serum'd and has decades of fun. Different things to explore than when I fic her.

*nodnodnods* makes sense! And if they end up interacting, it need not have to be about SHIELD - it could be a party where she's there being a Soviet spy, or something else to do with his work (or someone else's). I'm pretty flexible, and whatever it might be, it won't happen for a while.

But ahaha, yeah, working out comics-timeline vs MCU is fun.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Re: Cap's death: I assume it is made known, though probably not until some time after the plane went down. IIRC there's a memorial to Cap in the comics in Arlington Cemetery, which is something I'd like to deal with at some point.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve is currently post-Avengers, and I'm dealing with the lull between films with "we've been ordered to lay low," so Steve is learning about his new century and spending time with his teammates. He's living in New York, in the apartment SHIELD gave him from the deleted scenes of Avengers.

I'm planning to send him on a road trip with Orpheus across the country soonish, or start doing the OOMs soonish, but that'll be in Orpheus's world so the team probably won't even know he's gone.

He doesn't know that any of the other members of the team come to Milliways except for Fury, which is a goof on my part, eek, but we managed not to screw things up, I think.

[wakeupnew]

Not that I've played in ages (got to get on that) but Tony is pre-Iron Man and I'd generally prefer to keep him away from other MCU types for a while, though if anybody's itching for a Tony in OOMs, we can chat

[nerves_of_ice]

Timeline shenanigans, you say? *eyedart*

The Winter Soldier is right now set in time just after World War II as things spin into the Cold War. He will be there for a while, skipping forward through time with the aid of several long stints spent "on ice" in suspended animation.

I'll try to post dates every so often based on various missions or major jumps, etc. I'm keeping things somewhat vague until I find out just how much MCU intends to alter Brubaker's comics story, but by and large I think it'll be a near enough match that there's room to move. :)

I anticipate he'll hit "current" post-Avengers time right around the release of Captain America 2 -- in April 2014.

[tased_lightning]

Darcy is about three or four months post-Thor currently. I'm going to keep her there until Fury, Natasha, Clint, and so forth catch up to her vague timeline -- especially as it looks like politics are happening in IM3, and she's a polisci major so she'd have ALL THE FEELS about that.

I might be going AU when Thor2 comes out -- I have no idea what they're doing with Darcy, and they might joss me entirely. On the other hand, I intend at this time to work in as much of what happens in Thor2 into Darcy's timeline as possible.

<3

[hasthehighground]

Clint is currently just a bit post-Thor. Vague temporalness, yay! A couple weeks-ish. I'm still trying to figure out what he does before going to guard the Tesseract, so I am being as lazy as possible.

He won't be going post-Avengers likely until Cap 2, as Ash and I are playing Natasha and Clint as best friends so whatever happens to her in that will pretty strongly effect him even if he's not in it.

I'd appreciate it if no one who goes post-Avengers directly references what he is doing, etc. All I know about his actions is that he took off with Natasha post-Avengers and hasn't been around New York (my Clint lives in San Diego, and kind of needs to be at his home-base after the events of the movie).

[hasthehighground]

Hey-o! I mentioned this in the post below, but in case you aren't checking back (because who does that, seriously /sheepish) – Natasha-mun and I have Clint and Natasha leaving NYC once Thor and Loki are gone and we don't really know where they're going from there. So if you could avoid directly referencing what their actions are, etc., that'd be great as we have no clue – their post-Avengers lives are going to be in limbo until Cap2 comes out :).

[redintheledger]

*salutes!*

I wouldn't mind picking your brains a bit later, Lexie, to sort out how Tony and Natasha go between IM2 and Avengers (to me, there is a bit more fondness/familiarity there than would be if they didn't run across each other between those movies), but utttttterly no rush on that at all.

[no_more_hiding]

Just tagging in to say I think would should use MCU for movies Marvel has creative control over and something else so the others, such as XMCU for the X-Men franchise or SMCU for Spider-Man.

I know we only have X-Men First Class muns currently but this might help confusion in the future.

[hasthehighground]

PICK ME. At least for some threads, :P, I'll have to let you know once you actually start threading how overcrowded my brain/schedule is.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

No problem. I think the only person he's mentioned directly is Tony.

[redintheledger]

*nodnodnods* Yeah, I was trying to differentiate by using MCU (oh, everything-related-to-comics, WHY SO CONFUSING), but that system personally works for me! Not sure if you'd want to make a post about it so the X-Men movie-muns know.

[hasthehighground]

this is a good point! Could you make a post of it in the main comm so that it's visible & can be discussed by all the canonpeople? (I suspect mostly MCU people are looking at this one)

eta: and then Natasha-mun replied first. FOILED AGAIN. /laughing. But, yeah, it will be really useful especially if more people join us from other canons :)

[mjolnir_retriever]

Thor is currently just barely past the Thor movie! (Still technically mid-movie if you count the very last couple of scenes with Heimdall and Odin, which haven't happened for him yet because I wanted to handwave them a bit later into the epilogue.) He's going to be hanging out in the nebulously-long-in-Asgard time between movies until at least Thor 2 is out. I don't want to put him through Avengers until I know what happens after Avengers, since for Thor that kind of matters.

(Edit: so I would appreciate it if anybody post-Avengers would hold off on having Thor come back to Midgard, or at least keep it ambiguous? Or else we can diverge AUs, which I have no problem with doing. But I am waiting to see when and how canon brings him back to the team, especially given the ongoing lack of Bifrost.)

I am open to him meeting other pre-Avengers folk -- we can discuss timeline details and any other logistics, but for most of them I think it's workable at least for Thor's end of things. I will probably hold off on post-Avengers folk for a while, because I don't want him finding out Loki-related spoilers, but ping or PM me if you really want to and we'll see if we can make something work. And I have no problem with them knowing Thor comes to the bar, and just mysteriously failing to cross paths with him until it's convenient for all muns.

[othereight]

Pepper is also pre-film canon, though available for appearance in OOMs if needed.

[hasthehighground]

/nods! I haven't been reading the bar, as I am ded of school, so I wasn't sure :). Thanks!

[no_more_hiding]

I shall. =}

[no_more_hiding]

I shall though I know the four other XMFC muns are already on task with this.

[redintheledger]

Ahahah, will do! And I said, I'm aiming for low-key, so nooooo stress at all.

[redintheledger]

Oh, excellent. :D But yeah, I also figure it might be helpful for any new muns we get in the future, to have things like that in the comm and easily findable.