annnnd the tears have started again.
Hi TG Fandom!
So this AU came to me in a dream and I woke up with actual tears so — here we go.
In the deepest chunks of my cold, dead heart, I believe that even if Ice married Sarah, he still always loved Mav. There were just so many reasons why they couldn't work out long-term: Ice wanted to advance, Mav didn't want to hold him back, the danger of being a gay couple in the ‘80s and ‘90s — let alone in the Navy.
It just couldn't work out for them. They were trying to protect each other and that meant sacrifices on both ends.
But it doesn't mean they ever stopped loving each other, Ice’s love was shown in saving Mav’s ass time after time, and Mav’s was in being there — always, no matter what Ice needed.
Mav was there when all three of Ice’s kids were born, his two daughters and his youngest: Tom Kazansky Jr.
Junior, who only looks more like his namesake with every year that passes.
Eventually Mav gets shipped to China Lake so he doesn't have to get a front-row seat to Ice dying right in front of them (Ice’s decision of course).
The Mission rolls around, and lo and behold: a Tom Kazansky will always appear to Mav in his time of need.
But instead of a text — it’s in the form of Junior, a vision of 27-year-old Tom Kazansky, complete with moles and his big ass teeth.
“Apparently, we’ve got a mission, Maverick.”
Imagine the complete agony of a world where Mav never gets to have the life he deserves with the man he loves, and not only that, but he's surrounded by the living specters of the two men he loved most and lost.
A world in which he gets to keep a piece of Goose and Ice, but only as a reminder that the Bradshaw and Kazansky on his wings will never be the ones he wants.
Or the flip side, where Mav is the only piece of their fathers that both boys have left and there gets to be a Kazansky-Bradshaw-Mitchell trio in the sky again.
Just me? Okay 😭
(Ice sent Junior out as a Dagger with a promise to: Be His Wingman. Both of them knowing he wasn't going to be there when Junior got back.)
YA'LL ICEMAV IS TRENDING. WTFFFFF THIS IS AMAZING
I love them so much
Good luck prying that child away from them, Rooster. Grandparents Icemav, my true weakness ahaha
An Agatha All Along witches poll for ye! Not a Marvel fan? Tell us about your favorite witch in the tags.
Can you Imagine the dagger ducklings during Christmas??? I bet Mav would get them all matching sweaters. SPECIFICALLY CUSTOMIZED MATCHING SWEATERS OH MY GOD AND ICE AND MAV WOULD HAVE LIKE. PARENT SWEATERS FOR AL OF THEM I CANT HADLE THE ADORBILITY
(Also, there will probably be a break in icemav posts for most of december, starting next week, since College will be over and I will not have access to my computer :( Fear not, i will be back to my regular scheduled shitposts by January.)
My precious Jewish-Russian boychik
(It ain’t my favorite thing I’ve ever drawn, but here have it)
i am vibing
Rooster, to Mav: ...And I need you and Slider to help, and by "help" I mean "do everything."
Mav: If you don't stop talking, I'm going to jump out of that window. Ice: ...We're on the 5th floor. Mav: I know but I want a dramatic exit.
Not me crying so hard over the ending of dead poet society that my cat jumped on my bed and is headbutting me to try to calm me down. i swear im ok
this makes so much sense omg
You know how ice has like, one of the the highest ranks you can get in the navy without being SECNAV by the events of TGM while maverick stayed a captain because he didn’t want to give up flying?
I bet ice felt the same in a way, but he was more attached to the plane he was flying rather than the concept of flying in general
I was doing some research and the last F-14 Tomcat was retired from service in 2006 from VF-213. Now this next bit doesn’t entirely comply with fact, but in the topgun universe VF-213 is Fist of the fleet, ice and sliders canon squadron. (In actual fact fist of the fleet is actually VF-25 but let’s ignore that)
So I hc that ice stayed at Commander (since captains oversee the general command of a ship instead of flying the missions) until the tomcat was retired, had one go on the new f/a-18 superhornet on a flight sim and upon deciding it wasn’t the same as the tomcat, he accepted a promotion to captain the same day. Also if we take into account that it usually takes 20-25 years for an officer to get promoted to captain and safely assume ice joined the navy somewhere around the late 70s early 80s, (flight school = 4years so pilots are immediately an Lt when they join the fleet and say it took ice somewhere between 3-4 years so get selected for topgun after that) it also fits the service timeline for getting promoted to captain.
And then after being promoted to captain, ice just gained promotion after promotion and ended up being promoted to COMPACFLT about 1-2 years before the events of TGM. (I hc ice was only on his first term during tgm and that since HE DOESNT DIE YALL, he would take office a second time to keep all maverick baby daggers out of trouble before becoming SECNAV after that.)