he always chooses you

steve: post a lett-

peggy: yeah and have you looked at hotels for our vacation?

steve, shaken: oh no lemme just googl-

steve:

The last pages of that story have Steve writing in his journal about how living in the past is tempting but that it’s where fossils come from and that “there’ll always be something to fight for” so he decides to look ahead instead of back.

@cesperanza has some ABSOLUTELY STELLAR endgame takes that if you haven’t seen you should check out, and so do @padmedala and @emisobsessed but this is something I noticed that I haven’t seen anyone else talking about and I think we should. I wanna thank @gracelesso and also @steebadore and all the other good eggs who helped me work through this. 

So this is to do with the time travel but also NOT AT ALL to do with the time travel so bear with:

My Favorite Thing About Endgame was the way that they used the scientific method as a storytelling device; BUT I think that it had some unanticipated fallout because it wasn’t what people were prepared for…

let me explain…

- change the line “i went in the ice in ‘45, right after i met the love of my life. woke up 70 years later. you got to move on’ to ‘i woke up 70 years after meeting the woman i thought i’d marry. i lost my team. i lost my righthand man. i watched my best friend die for the second time. there comes to be a point when you’re not sure how much more you can lose, but somehow you have to find a way to keep going. if you can’t do it for yourself, do it for them.” 

-rather than have him moping around nyc in suburban dad button downs, have him actively searching for an Answer. this is steve rogers we’re talking about, the man who never gives up, who never stops, who would die trying, who never takes the easy way out. i understand endgame was trying to say the Snap was his breaking point, and that he was Tired and beginning to lose faith in his system of values/morals, and maybe a lesser man would have, but not steve rogers. if anything, i think the snap would have pushed him to instability– not eating enough, not sleeping, pushing his body to extremes, always looking and searching for something that might not be there 

-have him be the one to let scott out of the van. after five years of dead ends and false leads, he finally makes his way to a storage unit in san fran, to an old van. but its just an old van, and his heart breaks a little bit more. he sits in the seat, exhausted and drained from another failure, and absent mindedly presses buttons. something lights off, and suddenly, a CRASH. 

-rather than looking at the compass w a picture of peggy, have him watch an old video on his phone of him, nat, sam, bucky and wanda on a quiet day– his family. 

-at the end of the battle w thanos, he sees bucky and his face crumples, and falls sobbing into his best friend’s arms, the man he’s watched die twice, and we hear a quiet, “its ok, stevie”

Bucky: I think I killed him

Steve: great, so you’re here to help us save the world?

Carol: no, I’m here to remove myself as fury’s emergency contact.

Steve: …

Nat: …

Bruce: …