2020 Cap-Iron Man Big Bang Claims - 6 Summaries Left! - CLOSED

[cap_ironman_fe]

All entries have been claimed for in the first round of claims. Second Claims will open on Sunday 27th September 12:00 (midday) EDT (what time is that for me?). Please head to the Second Claims Post here.

This is the CLAIMS phase of the Big Bang, and where the artists come in! 12 fantastic 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 24th: Teams select posting dates for 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.


• Traditional and digital art are the eligible work types for this Big Bang.


• You are required to make, at minimum, one piece of accompanying fanwork for the fic you claim. 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 26th, you will need to leave a comment with the following information (just copy and paste in your own details):


<b>Username(s) including site name:</b> [This is how we, and your partner, will address you; please use one of your primary pseuds such as Tumblr, DeviantArt or AO3 username.] <br/> <b>Email:</b> [This is the address we will use to contact you and which your team partner will be given, so please make sure it is one which you check frequently, and that you are happy to give it to us.]<br/> <b>Choice 1:</b> [FIC CODENAME, for example BRAVO.]<br/> <b>Choice 2:</b> [Your lowest ranked choice. Please make sure you only put down fics that you are happy to produce art for as your options, choose as few or many as you like.]

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 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 on your list.


• Initially, you may only claim once, and you will be assigned a single fic. We will announce when double claims begin.


• 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.


• You can email the mod team (cap.im.events@gmail.com) for assistance in finding a proxy.

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!

When matching is complete, we will send out emails to connect artists with their writers, along with further instructions.

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: 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 to cap.im.events@gmail.com, especially if we've made a mistake with your summary.

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List of Available Summaries

ALPHA

Genre: Angst, Grief/Mourning
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: minor Bucky Barnes/Natasha Romanoff, minor Carol Davers/James Rhodes
Warnings: Major character death
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

Steve’s supposed to be inching towards acceptance. Bereavement was a marathon. Yet, he’s never left the starting point, stagnant and nauseous with the reality that he’d have to run for the rest of his life. It’s a shadow that followed him. Even the serum couldn’t do anything to cure the heaviness of loss.

He was under the ice again. The waves crashed without remorse. All Steve could do was stay half-wake, half-asleep, immobile as the wreckage passed. That’s the ocean and that’s life. Steve’s understood that long ago. He hoped that there’s still some part of him that’s salvageable, a part of him that hasn’t been chipped away and worn off by the brutality of grief.

He no longer had hope for reaching a shore. But for now, he floated. On and on and on.

(Steve Rogers has been many things throughout his life: soldier, superhero, husband, father, widower.)

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BETA

Genre: Sci-fi
Universe: MCU
Characters other than Steve/Tony: Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanoff, Loki, Bucky Barnes, Helen Cho, Ultron
Warnings: Some homophobic talk, some references to shitty parenting, graphic depictions of violence
Rating: Mature
Summary:

When the Avengers faced Ultron, they believed that Vision completed his task to lock Ultron out of the internet. After Sokovia, no one thinks that Ultron survived – least of all Tony. Everyone is wrong. Ultron’s code persists, hidden in the deepest trenches of the world wide web. Soon, it rises to cause chaos around the world and the only way to stop a nuclear catastrophe is to meet Ultron face to face. But Ultron is computer code – elusive, persistent, and viral. The only way to confront him is to meet the AI on equal footing within the bowels of the internet itself. Steve and Tony enter the virtual world of Ultron’s mind, passing through the rims to get to the center core of the AI’s existence. Along the way they face challenges and nightmares, hardships and truths. Truths that hurt and haunt them. Now they have to deal with a genocidal killer AI, a truth that could destroy them, and their unspoken attraction for one another. It might work, but then again, Ross is knocking at the door to the Avengers compound ready to take them down, once and for all.

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FOXTROT

Genre: Romance/Drama
Universe: 616
Warnings: Dirty talk
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

Steve Rogers was back from the dead. And Tony Stark, amnesiac after erasing his memory after the Civil War, had to confirm the truth of it with his eyes, even at a distance, because, as far as he knew, Steve died hating him. He just didn’t expect to be discovered and invited for a cup of coffee in the middle of the night by Steve keeping no hard feelings from him. What was he planning? Would Tony’s heart be able to stand so close to him again, knowing everything that had happened between them, knowing everything Tony always felt for Steve?

Tony decided it was worth it to trust Steve and accept the invitation. What worse could happen? He had already lost everything. After all, it was just a talk. It wasn’t like Tony was going to reveal all of his most intimate secrets, the ones that even Steve hadn’t been able to discover, right?
Leaving all the armors outside, both real and emotional, Tony entered the apartment, not knowing that that night would change everything, in the best ways possible, not before some angst and old wounds being exposed.

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GOLF

Genre: No Powers AU
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Sam/Bucky, Natasha/Clint, past relationships mentioned
Warnings:minor off-screen character death
Rating: Mature
Summary:

It’s been ten years since Tony Stark watched the man he loved leave him.
Ten years can be a lifetime, and he’s happy now--he has a business he built with his best friend, a kid he loves more than life itself, a life he fought for. If he still misses Steve--well. He’s used to that.
It’s been ten years since Steve Rogers left the life he wanted.
Ten years that have been good to him--he’s built a business and a reputation, he’s got everything he left to achieve--he just didn’t realize it would take so long. He didn’t realize that while he was busy building a life, Tony would be busy living. Without him.
It’s been ten years and a thousand tears and a lifetime of regret--but pulled together by a friend’s last wish, they might just have a second chance for the life they chose, once, when they were young and stupidly in love.

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INDIA

Genre: Romance (in space). Endgame Fix-it
Universe: MCU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: Carol, Nebula, mentions of other Avengers, Pepper and Morgan.
Rating: Explicit
Summary:

Tony wakes up in a hospital on another planet missing his memories of the last ten years. The last he knew it was 2013, and now he's on a space road trip - a promo tour, of sorts - with Steve and two women he's never seen before, Carol Danvers and Nebula. He's forgotten a whole lot, that is clear. There's the shocking but good things, like how Tony helped save the Universe and that Steve thinks the world of him now. But clearly there's also a whole lot of bad, too.

It's an Endgame fix-it where Tony lives, but poking at the Civil War events when he learns the truth about his parents all over again. Tony's also instantly enamoured of the little girl in the pictures, thrilled about his nanite armor, there's bonding with Nebula, meeting the Sovereigns, dancing, the sharing of a bed, Steve pining and having a crush but refusing to hook up until Tony knows all of their history, Tony winning an alien game in a casino on Knowhere which causes a brawl, fighting the Krees… And yes, after a bit of angst, getting his memories back and earning that happy ever after.

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LIMA

Genre: Action/Adventure, Steampunk
Universe: MCU Steampunk AU
Characters/Pairings other than Steve/Tony: lots of other MCU characters -- Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner, Sam Wilson, Hope van Dyne, Scott Lang, Wanda Maximoff, Nick Fury, Nakia, etc
Warnings: No cute dinosaurs were harmed in this, except that the velociraptors were likely singed during the final attack.
Rating: Teen
Summary:

Tony Stark is a brilliant inventor and genius and toast of New Timely and has a problem -- he is the only man who seems to dislike the famous Captain Rogers. He is surprised to be recruited on an expedition to the Savage Land by Director Fury of the New Explorers' Club on Rogers' recommendation. Meanwhile, Steve Rogers is trying to adapt to modern life after being rescued from a magical void. He's contacted by a woman about the illegal trade of dinosaurs as pets in New Timely and ends up as a guardian for a small dinosaur.

Both T'Challa and Hank Pym contact Fury for help with the theft and smuggling of vibranium and Pym's inventions. Steve is tasked with investigating these smuggling rings on an expedition down to the Savage Land. How does smuggling technology tie into the illegal dinosaur trade? What does AIM have to do with it? Will Tony and Steve set aside their differences and fall in love?

This story is about smuggling intrigue, scientific expeditions in a steampunk setting, enemies to lovers, Steve finding his place in the world, Tony overcoming his trust issues, the problems of dinosaurs as pets.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Username(s) including site name: snowzapped / zappedbysnow on tumblr
zappedbysnow on ao3

Email: snowzapped@yahoo.com

Choice 1: Lima

Choice 2: Golf

[cap_ironman_fe]

Congrats, LIMA is yours!

[starksnack]

Username(s) including site name:starksnack on tumblr, twitter, instagram, tiktok, and discord (#3490)

Email: kaitlinndsouza@gmail.com

Choice 1: golf

Choice 2: foxtrot

[cap_ironman_fe]

Congratulations, you have GOLF!

[caroltony]

Username(s) including site name: caroltony on dw, talesofsuspense on ao3, wingheadd on tumblr
Email: interstellaring@gmail.com

Choice 1: beta

[cap_ironman_fe]

Congratulations, you have Beta!