c_im_bigbang | 2019 Cap-Iron Man Big Bang Second Claims

NOTE: SECOND CLAIMS ARE CLOSED.

This is the CLAIMS phase of the Big Bang, and where the artists come in! An amazing 17 drafts have been submitted and are awaiting artists to claim them. By claiming a story, you assert that you will collaborate with your writer(s) to produce custom artwork to accompany their story when posting begins in November. There is no penalty-free dropping out after this point. You do not need to be a member of the

cap_ironman community or have a Dreamwidth account to make your claim. Anonymous comments on this post are enabled. (Commenting will open when the claiming phase begins).

Your schedule:

October: Artists work on their piece, writers finish their fics

Saturday, October 26th: Teams select posting dates in November

November: Big Bang fic and art begin posting!

A recap on some of the main rules:

Please remember to read through our General Event Policies and the Big Bang Event Guidelines for all participants, as well as the Artists’ Guidelines for this year’s challenge before going on to claim any fics.

Acceptable art includes traditional and digital art. Other visual mediums—such as edits, manipulations, fanvids or works that rely on or are derivative of existing material—are not eligible for this Big Bang.

You are required to make, at minimum, one piece of accompanying fanwork for the fic you claim, and can make as many pieces as you'd like. The artwork(s) must be new and made solely for the story in question.

This is a collaborative challenge; you are expected to keep in touch with your team for the duration of the challenge. You must coordinate with your partner during the posting period.

All participants must be 18 or older.

To claim a summary on Saturday, September 28th, you will need to leave a comment with the following information (just copy and paste in your own details):

Two or three options are recommended as we cannot guarantee that you will get your first choice. However, you may include more if you wish or even list just one choice if there is only one summary you are interested in. Remember that you are signing up for a collaborative event—please do not list summaries that you would not be genuinely happy to work with.

Claims will be made on a first-come, first-served basis and you will be assigned the first option that is still available in your list. For the first hour of claims, only NEW Big Bang participants will be able to claim - after this, claims will open to everyone, and double claims will be allowed. This is to give everyone who couldn't be there for claims opening a chance to claim something as well. Remember that participants are allowed a maximum total of two signups to the Cap-IM Big Bang, which includes both art and fic.

Writers, remember that artists have different schedules and timezones, and that though we try to accommodate everyone, your fic may not be claimed in the first few hours. Please be patient, and don’t look at claims as a competition This challenge is about pairing like-minded creators who will work together to produce exciting new Steve/Tony content; sometimes it takes a while for the right person to come along!

Artists, if the claim time is inconvenient for you, we encourage you to find someone who will put in a claim for you by proxy. All your proxy has to do is comment on the claims post instead of you when the time comes, providing your username, email and claims as set out above in this post. If you do not already know someone who can do this for you, you can email the mod team (cap.im.events@gmail.com) for assistance in finding a proxy.

When matching is complete, we will send out emails to connect artists with their writers, along with further instructions. This might take a while, as making a mistake at this crucial stage is something everyone would like to avoid; please don’t panic if you don’t receive an email immediately. NOTE: After you receive the email, PLEASE RESPOND DIRECTLY CONFIRMING you have received the information. Please wait until you have replied to this email before contacting your partner. After confirming the assignment email has been received, it is the artists’ and writers’ responsibilities to open communications with team members and keep in touch for the duration of the collaboration.

A word about warnings: Many of these stories include strong language, substance abuse, sexual situations, violence, etc. We limited warnings here to the big stuff. If you have a specific concern and would like the mods to vet a story draft before you make your choices, please let us know at cap.im.events@gmail.com.

Please send any questions or things to cap.im.events@gmail.com, especially if we've made a mistake with your summary.

List of Available Summaries

ALFA

Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Universe: MCU - post Iron Man 3 & Winter Soldier, Pre-Age of Ultron
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Thor, Bruce Banner, Sam Wilson, mentions of Bucky Barnes
Warnings: Alcohol abuse (but not alcoholism)
Rating: Mature
Summary:

Fresh from being fished out of the Potomac, Steve struggles with the revelation (and loss) of Bucky, and deals with his feelings it in the only way he knows how: he doesn't. Most days, he tells himself it’ll all be okay, because it has to be.

Slowly, the cracks in Steve’s veneer begin to crack. He throws himself into fights, drinks too much of Thor’s Asgardian mead, wakes up and wishes he never woke up. Tony sees all of this, Steve doesn’t realize that Tony seeks him out to make sure he isn’t alone. They get the rest of the team together to hunt down Hydra bases and find out more information about Bucky (a fruitless effort), and they all spend time together watching movies and dancing to The Beatles.

Steve doesn’t mean to notice the way Tony’s thigh presses against his when they watch movies together, doesn’t mean to open up to Tony about how he really feels about being Captain America and finding out his best friend is kind of not really dead, doesn’t mean to kiss him, but he does, anyway.

BETA

Genre: CW fix-it, action/adventure, romance
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Characters: Rhodey, Sam, Wanda. Pairings: mentions of past Tony/Pepper, mentions of Wanda/Vision, neither are prominent in the fic.
Warnings: off-page character death (Natasha dies before the fic begins; it's mentioned throughout the fic, but that's not what the fic is about)
Rating: Explicit
Summary:
Tony hasn't seen Steve since Siberia, and he's happy about that. He doesn't *miss* Steve, obviously, or wish their relationship had ended differently. But when Steve turns up on his doorstep, injured and pleading with Tony to help him rescue Sam and Wanda from a Hydra cell in Lichtenbad, Tony agrees, on one condition. After this, they're done. He never wants to see or hear from Steve again.

Steve agrees, but as they start working together, Tony starts rethinking his position. It's hard to trust Steve, but it's harder to hold on to his anger. And figuring out where they go from here might be even more difficult than that, especially since there's this rescue mission they need to be focused on.

(Happy Steve/Tony ending. Features sleeping curled up together, Steve and Tony sparring (which then leads to sex), Tony giving Steve a new Captain America suit, and Tony learning to appreciate Steve's beard. There is some violence, but none described in graphic detail.)

CHARLIE

Genre: Romance, slice of life, drama
Universe: Ultimates, teenage modern no-super powers coffee shop AU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Some minor Steve/Jan in the beginning that is eventually broken up, Bucky/Gail, Namor/T’Challa.
Warnings: canon-typical homophobia, self-loathing, catholic guilt, anger issues, off-screen attempted non-con, some general nastiness associated with being in the foster system.
Rating: Teen
Summary:
Fresh out of juvie, Steve is determined to turn his life around. Just because he’s an orphan, doesn’t mean he’s going to grow up into a criminal or a wash-out. No, Steve is going to have a happy, fulfilling life. He’s going to have a good job, raise a family, and be a good Christian. His plan to achieve that is simple: get a part-time job at the local cafe, start going to church, stop being gay, and if he can stop punching people while he’s at it, that would be great too. Things don’t really go to plan, though. His boss is gay, his girlfriend is just using him, and there are nazis at school. And that’s without even mentioning Tony, the son of one of the richest men in America who comes to the cafe all the time for unknown reasons, and hits on Steve incessantly. Steve is determined to achieve his dream of a happy life despite adversity. But between punching nazis, baking bread, and kissing boys, Steve has to ask himself: are his goals actually going to make him happy?

FEATURING: LGBT-themed cafe and sweets; a cafe populated entirely by Ults side characters; Greg making a guest appearance; Tony in a crop top!

DELTA

Genre: Romance, Adventure
Universe: MCU (with some added 616 villains)
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Madame Masque/Tony Stark, Madame Masque/Mordecai Midas, Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton, James Rhodes, Bruce Banner, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Nick Fury
Warnings: There are several kidnappings but no graphic violence, mention of a car accident, a gunshot wound, and some health issues that are resolved. None of these are graphic
Rating: Mature (Might be explicit if I decide to add a more detailed sex scene at the end)
Summary:
Sometime after the battle of New York when everyone lives in Avengers tower, after a mission, Tony wakes up naked in a dark room, hooked up to machinery and unable to move. The Avengers are determined to find and rescue him and they have to delve into his past to find out where he is and who has him. And why.

Once he’s rescued from an old girlfriend turned crime boss, Tony’s problems do not end. Tony is scared of leaving his room until Steve is endangered by the ghosts of Tony’s past as well. The stress has some fallout for Tony in the form of a heart related incident.
All the while, Steve and Tony are each trying to understand the feelings they are both having about the other. The trials they undergo make them understand their feelings better and both resolve to tell the other how he feels.

ECHO

Genre: genderswap AU, romance, character-driven
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: past Pepper/Natasha, past Natasha/Yy
Warnings: general Howard warning, implied abusive relationship for Natasha's past
Rating: Teen - Mature
Summary:

Her story starts like this: her name is Natasha Antonia Stark, she’s born on May 29, 1970, and she doesn’t know it at the time, but she disappoints her father.

In an alternate world, Howard and Maria had a daughter. What would her life be like? How much would things be different? What kind of a nebulous relationship would she have with Captain America? (Especially when he suffers from chronic putting-his-foot-in-his-mouth-ius around her. The road to hell sure is paved with good intentions if you asked Steve). It's a story about Natasha struggling to understand Steve and why he is the way he is before coming to accept him and falling in love with him along the way. BASICALLY.

FOXTROT

Genre: Action/Adventure
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Background mentions of MCU-canon pairings. Natasha, Pietro Maximoff, Vision, Bucky, Morgan Stark, Pepper Potts, the Grandmaster, Odin, Hela, Loki, Yondu, Groot, Heimdall, the Warriors Three, Brock Rumlow, Aldrich Killian, Ivan Vanko, various other Avengers/villains.
Warnings: Minor character deaths. Violence. Impermanent major character deaths. Brutal self-sacrifices. Attempted suicide (unsuccessful; performed to save another's life.) Mild body horror.
Rating: Explicit
Summary:
Years after Tony Stark saved the universe, the Avengers realize there’s a major problem: his body has gone missing. And he isn’t the only one. Fallen heroes all over the galaxy have had their graves pillaged.
An old foe is stealing the bodies of fallen warriors, but for what nefarious reason? There’s only one solution. To find out why it’s happening, Steve’s gotta die. He probably shouldn’t be so eager to do that.
(This is a post-Endgame fix-it/spiritual sequel to Thor: Ragnarok that also features: action scenes, fake dating, gratuitously shirtless Steve, platonic cuddling, sexy cuddling, self-sacrifice, violence, trauma, nightmares, explicit for sex, mature/explicit for violence.)

GOLF

Genre: no power AU
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Bucky/Sam (background)
Warnings:serious past injury (Tony), hurt! Tony, traumatic brain injury (past), migraines, serious injury (blindness), ableism, drunk driving (past), mentions of underage sex (past)
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

Army Veteran and freelance comic book artist, Steve Rogers is ill prepared to apply for a job as a Personal Assistant to the dashing but elusive billionaire Tony Stark. He’s strapped for cash though, and he needs a break. His friends urge him to apply and Steve somehow ends up with the position. When he signs a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), Steve learns a lot more about the ever-mysterious Tony Stark, the inventor of the modern-day era of clean energy, artificial intelligence and other smart technologies. Tony Stark is a futurist to be sure, but there’s something he’s hiding from his past. Once Steve signs the NDA, he knows the secret and must adapt to it, giving up preconceived notions and slowly falling for his boss along the way. Tony wrestles to accept himself and needs someone to accept him – exactly the way he is. Steve might just be that person.

HOTEL

Genre: Divergent AU, Drama, Fix-it, Time Travel Adventure
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Pepper/Tony (past), Steve/Peggy (past, minor), Nebula, Natasha, Bruce, Carol, Rocket, Aunt May, Wong, Hank Pym, Valkyrie, Kang the Conqueror
Warnings: serious injury (Tony post IW), Tony's grieving for Pepper for long, comic book violence
Rating: expected Mature
Summary:
After Thanos snaps his fingers, Tony and Nebula make their way back to Earth arriving a few days after it happened to find the world in uproar and Pepper among those that have vanished. In his grief and pain Tony doesn't feel he can deal with the Avengers he finds back at the compound, even though he's relieved Steve's alive. Tony can't forget Strange's last words and some things seem to point him to what he has to do next to set things right and along the way he will have to work out the complicated feelings for Steve. Perhaps they can do this together?

Not if Kang the Conqueror has something to say about it!

(Comes with a side of time travel, painful and sweet hugs, post CW snapping and making up, grief, hurt/comfort, hand holding, sharing a bed, pining Steve, slow build, potential multiverse shenanigans and mystery, fake character death, action and adventure.)

INDIA

Genre: Contemporary AU
Universe: Alternative Universe: College/University
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Bucky/Nat, Past Steve/Bucky, Slight Pepper/May, Sam/Sharon
Warnings:None
Rating: Teen
Summary:

There were several reasons as to why Tony Stark had decided not to go to MIT, instead following with his sister Natasha to a small town college in Upstate NY. One of the reasons was because this was where one of his favorite authors was teaching a fiction writing class, and he wanted to have at least one chance to write before he had to go be the head of Research and Development at Stark Industries, following his older brothers path, all three of his brothers were already working at the company. The second was the chance to go somewhere where there was a small possibility that no one would really notice him, he didn't really stand out when he was just himself. The third was to stay out of his father's way all the while writing fanfiction about his favorite superhero Captain America. On the first day he meets Steve Rogers, and from that moment forward Tony's life changes more than he could imagine.

Steve Rogers hated Captain America, his father had created the character for him when he was a baby, like his brothers who also had their own comic book characters, but for some reason Captain America had become his father's most popular character. It had also made Steve a target while he was growing up, which was something he had hated all of his life. Now a Junior at college, he meets his best friend's roommate, someone who absolutely loves Captain America, but there's something else that has caught Steve's eye. In some of the drawings above Tony's desk is another hero, a man in a metal suit, but as he gets to know the hero he also gets to know the guy behind Iron Man, and finds himself falling in love with the writer as well as finding a reason to like a character he had hated all of his life through Tony's stories.

Partly based on Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, follow Tony and Steve as they navigate their new relationship, through misunderstandings, dickish classmates, Steve's art, Tony's stories, superheroes and figuring out what dating is like.

JULIETT

Genre: Fantasy Romance
Universe: Medieval AU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Minor Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes
Warnings: None
Rating: Teen
Summary:
Prince Stark was to marry a Prince he never met, for money he never wanted, to reign over a realm his father didn’t care for. But the Prince did care for his people. So he ran away, accidentally joined a group of misfits calling themselves the “Avengers”, with their fierce leader “The Captain”, who lied to him and turned out to be his betrothed. The Prince ran away again and accidentally got himself a son named Peter, before returning to his Kingdom (waiting for his betrothed) and ruling in justice. Featuring late night Avengers bonfires, Clint is a Bard so there’s romantic dancing and singing, Cap in medieval style infinity war armour and Super(Knight)family.

KILO

Genre: science fiction
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: The Doctor (10th)
Warnings: one that I'm aware of
Rating: M, will probably become E
Summary:
It’s only natural that Tony’s curiosity was piqued when a blue police call box appeared right in the heart of MIT. For one, Tony had never seen cops use a police call box before. He wasn’t even sure that anyone here even knew what a police call box is – he for sure didn’t, but he wanted to find out.
The secrets were bigger on the inside, after all.

(This is a post-Endgame not-really-fix-it/time travel au where Captain Stevens meet up with MIT Tony that features crack, the Doctor and Tony bashing heads, and some action. Also, Butterfingers as a Dalek.)

LIMA

Genre: Horror, Suspense, Adventure, Semi-AU
Universe: 616 (between Avengers Disassembled and House of M)
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Hank/Jan, James Rhodes, Dr. Strange, Original Character
Warnings: horror, Lovecraft universe, angst, suspense, hurt, violence, bitter ending.
Rating: Mature
Summary:

For Tony, everything started when the Avengers disassembled and Wanda was missing. He felt lost and without Steve at his side, nightmares came to him. But just now, those nightmares seem to proceed from somewhere else with the premonition of a dark future and his death. He needs to tell Steve what he feels before falling asleep again or that dream will be the last one he has.

MIKE

Genre: Multiverse, domestic fluff, fix-it
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Rhodey, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Thor, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Pepper Potts, Peter Parker, JARVIS, Shuri, T'challa. Background Thor/Bruce, Sam/Bucky, Bucky/Natasha
Warnings: off page minor character death
Rating: Mature
Summary:
Six weeks after being abandoned in Siberia, Tony wakes in a Tower, next to the man who broke his heart and his trust. But the world--whatever Wonderland world they’ve landed in--isn’t like their own.
The Avengers are happy here. Tony and Steve are married here. With a direct line to Steve’s emotions and the team that he’s always wanted--Tony is more than a little tempted to stay.
Seeing how happy Tony is, how healthy Bucky is--Steve doesn’t disagree.
But there are cracks in Wonderland and the shiny paint peeling might leave a nightmare behind--one that Tony and Steve will need each other more than ever, to escape.

NOVEMBER

Genre: Angst, Civil War AU, Infinity War AU
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Tony/Tiberius Stone
Warnings: Domestic violence; Noncon; Dubcon; Drugs; Kink gone wrong; Dangerous BDSM; Emotional abuse; Physical abuse; Stalking; Blackmail; Self-destructive behavior; Implied/referenced possessive behavior (Tony spends two years trapped in an abusive relationship with Tiberius Stone); Graphic violence; Impermanent character death; Suicidal thoughts; Despair (someone briefly imagines jumping out a window and another character finding him dead); Dishonest sexual behavior (Tony has a shitty ulterior motive when he first sleeps with Steve); Emotional angst; Shitty decisions; Self-blame; Hospital setting; Internalized Ableism; Negative Body Talk (Steve really really hates being small and sick again).
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

In Siberia, Tony doesn’t attack Bucky. Instead, Tony cries. When Steve kisses him, Tony recoils, shocked. After Zemo’s arrest, Tony takes Steve to a safehouse. They spend one glorious night together, but Tony later reveals this was for revenge and swears Steve will never touch him again.

Two years later, Tony is loudly but unhappily engaged to the abusive Tiberius Stone. Steve, still bitter, leads the Avengers. When Thor and Bruce return, Tony and Steve reunite. Thanos attacks New York and removes Steve’s serum, nearly killing him. Only Carol’s intervention saves the day. After emergency surgery, Steve is moved to the ICU. A devastated Tony keeps watch over him. Steve wakes, embarrassed and hostile, but can’t bear for Tony to leave.

When Steve’s immune system fails, he is rushed to isolation. Only the Infinity Stones can save him now, but when Thanos returns to attack Wakanda, Tony chooses to stay with Steve. Without the serum, Steve only gets sicker. They finally talk, but too late. Tony watches Steve die. When Thanos is defeated, the Avengers gather at the hospital to mourn with Tony. But after a last desperate act, Steve is magically revived. Cue happy ending. (Tiberius meets Scary Steve.)

OSCAR

Genre: Western/American Old West AU, arranged marriage AU, ABO AU
Universe: MCU/Ambiguous
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Edwin Jarvis & Tony, Ana Jarvis & Tony, Natasha Romanova & Steve, Clint Barton, Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie, VERY brief mention of past one-sided Steve/Bucky, appearances by Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, Thor, Frigga, Howard Stark, Maria Stark, Obadiah Stane, Ezekiel Stane, Tiberius Stone
Warnings:NONE of these apply to Steve and Tony's dynamic: past abuse, past threat of forced marriage, fear of potential rape (it never happens). Omegaverse with no heats or mpreg; past anti-omega misogyny
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

The day Natasha first told Steve her idea, he never would have dreamed that her fool notion would land him here: watching the train roll into the station and trying to wrap his mind around the fact that somewhere on that train is the man who agreed to marry him.

Steve, an alpha farmer living outside a small farm in the Rockies who doesn't want to admit how lonely he is, has been exchanging letters with omega Tony for nearly a year. When at last Tony arrives in Big Eden, Steve is confronted with the fact that he doesn't know Tony as well as he thought he did. Tony doesn't make getting to know him easy, though; with some advice from his friends Steve finally starts opening up to Tony and learning how to communicate with him, and when he does he begins learning about Tony's less-than-idyllic life with his abusive family.

Though Tony and Steve marry the day after they meet, it takes a long time and a lot of work for them to learn to trust each other, open up, say what they mean, and 'fess up to being head over heels.

PAPA

Genre: Canon Divergence
Universe: 616
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Janet, Thor, Hawkeye, other Avengers
Warnings: two scenes with Steve receiving serious injuries; Tony has a relationship with a Steve who came back wrong; unreliable narrator
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

When Steve is seriously injured, Tony is desperately worried for him as he touches a cosmic cube. Steve is saved. But reality is extremely altered as a result. Everyone knows Captain America died at the end of the war and the Avengers are a great superhero team. But Tony remembers the original reality --- finding Steve, Steve being an avenger, having a crush on him.

But he runs into someone who is awfully like Steve again and falls hard (and Steve fall hard for him). Tony is tortured thinking that being in Steve's life is going to undo whatever happened to save his life and what's worse is that while Steve is living his best life, it's not really Steve -- what made Steve Steve has been removed and he is a pale shadow of himself. Meanwhile the Avengers are falling apart.

Wracked with guilt, Tony tries to find a way to solve the problem, even if it means accepting that Steve will always live so that he is in danger. Tony find that he'd rather have a whole Steve then a part Steve. It all works out.

QUEBEC

Genre: Romance, Adventure
Universe: 616
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: unrequited villain of the day/Tony
Warnings: none I can think of
Rating: PG-13 right now/is likely to get to EXPLICIT
Summary:
A new villain is on the scene and he uses stolen tech! There’s the suspicions there’s a huge organization behind this that nobody knew even existed. Commander Rogers wants to know if these suspicions are true and how to stop whoever is behind it. Of course he asks Tony for help. Of course, Tony is happy to help when Steve suggests a trip to Madripoor.

Tony agrees to take Steve with him to another tech convention there, disguised as his bodyguard and lure out the tech-loving villain with a new piece of tech put on display. He didn't expect the bad guy to be drawn to Tony himself rather than his tech.

Expect: Kidnapping, Tony trying to protect Steve and get them out of there, corny villain trying to seduce Tony, bristling, protective, undercover Steve.