every ship is equal, and no one is more powerful than the sea.

[derogatory]

FIVE THINGS MEME

HOW TO PLAY
- Give me as many "five things" prompt for any characters or fandom that you know I'm into
- I will try to write it
- no promises.


COMPLETE
five moments of gay panic for victor
four times victor missed nathan before finding him again (and one time he really didn't)
five disastrous toasts from victor and nathan's big gay wedding
five things about avenger victor and supervillain karolina
five times chase and victor were not friends
five ways victor's bad end could've gone
four successful missions nathan and victor went on (and one that could have gone a lot better)
five moments inside the mentor's lounge
five times victor regretted letting nathan move in

Comments

[derogatory]

ii.
“So they heard all about your evil destiny and decided to let you in anyway, huh?” Chase drawls, leaning against the door frame. “Guess it helps your grandpa basically founded this thing.”

“Yeah, total nepotism,” Victor murmurs as he eases a stack of legalese ridden release forms onto his new desk. “I take it you’re not stoked.”

“I just told them it wasn’t a great idea to have Ultron Jr. on the team,” Chase shrugs. He’s older and somehow more built up, as if being a P.A gives him more of a chance to ‘roid our than being a teenage superhero did. Maybe that's from the deathmatch, or his brief stint as a celebrity- apparently they get paid to go to the gym or something. “But I guess you have a knack for joining up where you’re not wanted.”

Chase was always mean, that was fine, Victor admits, chewing the inside of his mouth. It’s not like he and Chase had the most functional friendship, even when they were on good terms, so yeah, fine. To the surprise of literally no one, him getting sent to the Murder World didn’t make him a kinder, gentler Chase. He can coat it in some concern for The Avengers, for the people he’s decided to run with years later, but Victor’s glad, with everything else that’s changed as they grew up, that the guy’s still an asshole. It shows a battle royale doesn’t have to strip away a person’s humanity, even if that humanity is him being a complete jerk.

Victor saw the games, hunched over his laptop and sick, his rescued friends’ numbers blaring from his cellphone, tempting him to break the silence, to check on them at last. The desperate, childish hope when the story broke that Chase and Nico had some kind of New Moore experience, that the deaths don’t matter on the island, that they were the ones hallucinating, with lost time or whatever excuse they were going with after the reality (non-reality) of his three years away crashed in on itself. But no, there it was in Youtube HD, for everyone to watch each agonizing moment. So he saw what Chase had to live through and he knows kid gloves and understanding are the right ways to act, no matter how mean Chase stayed. It’s what a good person would do.

“Actually,” Victor says over a shoulder, life insurance forms between his hands with plans for the future that may or may not include cyborg tyranny. “The way things work out in that bad end future of yours, I’d say I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be.”

Avenger or not, Victor’s fine not being good for now, as long as it’s better than Chase.