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I think I might have been thinking about this “keep Maverick pregnant” thing for too long because I actually dreamt about it last night lol.

I dreamt that older Maverick moved into a house across the street from mine. I didn’t want to bother him too much since he seemed busy moving, but thought it was a little odd he was moving in by himself. He had a lot of baby things and I instantly thought “ah, he must have grandchildren that visit often. Makes sense for him to buy a bigger home.”

Every time I got a glimpse of his garage opening, there would be loads of boxes still in there neatly stacked. I eventually asked him if he needed some help, since he always seemed a bit tired and the boxes were just lingering there in the garage.

“Oh, thanks for offering! I’m actually waiting for my husband to come back from deployment to finish unpacking. He’ll be back next week. In the meantime, Eli and I have all the essentials.”

Before I could ask him who Eli was, his phone vibrated and he was all like “Ope, gotta go!”

A week passes and I haven’t seen Mav at all. I’m trying not to be nosy, but I’m itching to see this husband of his. Cue me peering through the blinds to see if anything’s happening across the street throughout the day.

I nearly gave up when all of a sudden, THIS MOTHERFUCKER (with this mustache!) shows up!

Just from his gait, I instantly got the vibe that he was annoyingly confident lol. It didn’t even bother me that he was so much younger than Mav (because I thought “Mav is beautiful and sweet. Of course he could pull a younger husband”). What bothered me most was his damn mustache 😂😂

Hangman saunters to the door with his duffle on his shoulder and when the door opens, Mav is there with a baby in his arms!

Everything falls into place for me. (HangMav is married and Eli is their son. The reason why Mav was interrupted from explaining before is because the baby monitor app was going off on his phone).

The kids refer to Jake’s parents as “Mimi and Papa”

They can’t even walk yet, but the twins already own a pair of cowboy boots (Oh, those babies are 1000% getting boots, either from Jake’s parents or from Hangman and Mav themselves. Actually, when they come home from the hospital, Mav sees four pairs of boots lined up by the doorway: theirs, plus two mini ones and he immediately tears up and pulls Hangman into a kiss lol).

One twin has green eyes, the other has blue

Jake’s parents weren’t that receptive to his and Mav’s relationship, but the moment they found out they were gonna get grandchildren out of it, they were ecstatic

Pregnant Mav cried the day he found out he couldn’t fit into his favorite pair of jeans anymore

Hangman grows more facial hair as a dad (which Mav is totally into). Everyone is shocked to see him when he comes back from his 12 week parental leave with a beard and long hair before he gets a trim and shaves per regulation

Everyone is in awe that Jake has done the impossible (which was to get Maverick to stop flying, even if only temporarily)

That lil clip of Rick Rossovich (Slider’s actor) talking about filming some scenes on an actual carrier where he’s all like “There’s 6000 men on this carrier, they’ve been at sea 180 days, they’re all a little tired…they just wanted access to Tom, but what can ya do? You can’t let them all get in your face.”

Cuts immediately to a behind the scenes of a guy walking with Tom Cruise (after apparently asking for his autograph) and the camera just follows along as they make their way through the carrier. Dudes are smiling and laughing as he passes. Another soldier goes, “Can’t get out of here without signing your name!” And the guy next to him immediately follows with “Or a kiss?”

And Tom replies, “Yeah? You’ve been on a cruise for too long!” as he walks by them and all these dudes are laughing/getting riled up…

Like, damn! Baby Tom was lowkey in danger, those real life Navy dudes were gonna tear him up for being the prettiest piece of ass they’ve seen in over 100 days at sea 😭😭😭

So of course, that gives me the idea that Maverick often faces similar type of harassment when he gets shipped out. Like, whenever people hear he’s gonna be there during their deployment, some dudes would be like “F*ck. We’re gonna be out at sea for 100+ days! Well, at least Maverick’s around so we’ll have something pretty to look at.”

Cue: excessive skinship and towel snapping in the showers/locker rooms, wolf whistles/cat calls while he’s walking through the corridors, low key deliberate shoulder checks in the hallways, people using him as an armrest since he’s so short lol. They’re blocking entry into the mess and demanding kisses as payment.

It starts off light heartedly enough until the days creep up, the frustration at being stuck on a mini city in the middle of the ocean with mainly other dudes builds, and the tight quarters and annoyance of being packed in like sardines eats away at you…

HangMav

Jake thinking about the time he kissed Maverick. Wondering if he’s ever gonna get that second kiss.

HangMav Twins

Saw this on Twitter. The way I have at least two fic ideas in which HangMav have boy/girl twins….

I desperately need more fics of Maverick being de-aged to his OG Top Gun age (or somehow time travels to the future to replace his current self) and Bradley has to deal with a young!Maverick who has no idea about everything that will come to transpire between the two of them in the future.

This would be pre-reconciliation Bradley and all the conflicting emotions that Maverick brings with him (along with an odd sense of protectiveness that seeing Mav so young and a bit broken after Goose died).

Like, how is Rooster supposed to hate him when he’s looking at him with those shiny, green anime eyes and dark, heavy lashes?

Though his height hasn’t really changed since then, 55 year old Mav finally has some muscle to his frame, while Rooster can pick up 25 year old Mav with one arm and toss him across the room (if he could catch him).

Mav doesn’t understand what he could have possibly done to get Rooster to hate him so much in the future. This just compounds the guilt he already has because the one thing he thought he could do was be there for Bradley and he evidently couldn’t even do that 😭 (insert morose and extra guilt ridden Mav).

Mav having to find out that Carole dies young and he wonders why he’s just cursed to lose everyone he loves 🥺

The Young Guns crew are a bit baffled that this Maverick is gonna be their instructor (this younger than them, crooked teeth, baby faced pretty boy is gonna teach them?)

Hangman especially is thinking this would be a piece of cake, only to get wrecked later. (He and fiery young!Mav are going at it over the comms. He’s still hot for teacher though, especially when Mav gets tone on him and rubs it in a little afterwards.)

After watching a double feature of Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick on the weekend, I decided to make a Sims 4 household with Maverick and Rooster to live out my RoosMav fantasies.