Rare pairs

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Over on pillowfort I made a little concoction of links to parts of my Fitter of the Species, relating to Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner as a rare pair. Fitter of the Species should you wish to rifle about at AO3 for readings.

What rare pairs do you write or read? What makes for a road less traveled?

Comments

[dendriteblues]

That's one thing I really like about Frostiron. Because it started so early it has evolved alongside the whole MCU. With each movie the kind of fics changed, and so it's now a very diverse ship.

In the beginning there was a lot of "everyone in the tower", or more often "Loki escapes/is extradited or banished from Asgard as punishment for the invasion and winds up in the Tower.

Then Thor: The Dark World came out and ended with Loki impersonating Odin. So then there was a period of fics where Loki gets bored of sitting on the throne and starts doing shenanigans ^TM that cause him and Tony to cross paths.

Then Age of Ultron was released and we all belatedly realized that Loki had an infinity stone in A1, so then there was a rash of speculative stories about the stones.

After that came Civil War, which created tension between Team Steve vs Team Tony fans. So there was a small crop of people who wrote CW era Frostiron just to avoid the ship wars. haha These fics tend to have Loki offering Tony support and bonding over both of them being betrayed by their supposed allies.

And obviously since Thor: Ragnarok we've all been obsessed with Infinity War AUs, time travel fix-its, and post-snap future fics.

Once you've read a few, you can guess what year a fic was written just by the subject matter!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Oooh, someone can do a battleship curve of themes.