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This is vaguely based off of Avenging an Avenger by NinjaPandaScholar on ao3. Due to that it would be Tony Stark is Harry Potter's biological dad. It would also involve Harry being responsible for Teddy, even if just a partial custody situation. I would love to see an interaction between Remus and Bruce but that means Remus survives the battle and he'd still be there for Teddy, so I was thinking along the lines of either severely injured in the battle and can't take care of Teddy by himself, mourning Tonks too much to take of Teddy by himself, or the ministry are being douches again and won't let Remus have full custody as a werewolf. All that is to say, though, that this fic would be revolving around Harry.

I think Harry/Severus/Stephen Strange would be a hilarious and amazing pairing. I was thinking some sort of soulmate au but I'm not entirely sure what kind. At first I had it as the basic name on the wrist situation to kind of amp up Severus's angst with Tobias and the Marauders and also Harry's angst with the Dursley's. Then I thought maybe some sort of soulmark but I couldn't think of any good ones that didn't seem too obvious/overdone, especially hard for a soulmark for me was Stephen since a lot of his symbols are symbols for other people too like the Sanctum window or the eye of Agimotto just doesn't seem personal enough to him. Then I was thinking the sharing feelings trope especially the connection of Stephen's loss of Donna and how that might've affected Severus's relationship with Lily. Or how sharing feelings might affect each of the individual storylines (one thing that keeps tripping me up is the timeline as I don't know how these things would line up properly so I've kind of just ignored it) like Severus and Harry feeling Stephen's fear during the car crash, his anger through recovery, and then possibly getting cut off when he goes to Kamar Taj. Stephen and Harry having limited access to Severus's feelings due to his occlumency barriers but feeling when Voldie tortures him after his resurrection or any really strong feelings. Severus and Stephen feeling everything from Harry growing up, maybe feeling the unnatural anger from the horcrux, almost getting to experience his adventures through his Hogwarts years with him (the real reason Stephen goes grey early).

So far in my idea process I have a relatively similar beginning to Avenging an Avenger with Harry going off to New York to confront Tony as his father and Tony basically adopting him on the spot while definitely not be allowed to know anything about magic lest the ICW has to get involved. I was thinking that maybe Stephen and Tony met earlier inn the MCU timeline either with Stephen serving as a surgeon during/after the battle of NY or Tony consults Stephen on Rhodey's surgery and/or braces. This would lead to Harry and Stephen eventually meeting in the tower and Tony watching in the background in horror. 

I'm actually going to switch to bullet points now as that's more how I think and it's gonna start a little backwards from what I've already said but just go with it. (And again this is all based off of if this was a soulmate au)

Severus can't be a good guy during Harry's school years but pursues him after the war

has admiration for Harry throughout most of his schooling that has grown as he ages

In a non weird way, don't make this weird. Severus admires Harry's strength not anything creepy

Harry is freaked the hell out

finds out about Tony and runs to the US with Teddy

Harry and Tony bond and fluff

Tony sees Stephen's mark on Harry and freaks a bit

or Stephen comes over and sees it for himself first

Stephen reminds Harry way too much of Severus

Harry freaks out again and isolates himself with his new dad

Teddy falls ill

Stephen "I'm a real doctor" Strange to the rescue

Teddy is both a metamorphagus (I def didn't spell that right) and has partial lycanthropy

illness gets worse

Harry desperately turns to Severus for help

Severus saves the day

and now has Harry's address

Severus decides to move to the US and set up a potions shop in the US version of Diagon

definitely has nothing to do with Harry

Severus keeps dropping by the tower

to check on Teddy obviously

Severus and Stephen eventually run into each other

personalities are too similar and clash

they decide the bond is wrong and only one of them can have Harry

Harry is not aware of this

Tony is, he's been watching everything unfold through FRIDAY

they start fighting over Harry through one-up-manship

Harry gets super annoyed and bans them both from the tower

split options on what happens next

they end up reminiscing together that their wooing didn't work

or, they have a big fight that leads to a passionate makeout

Severus and Stephen are now together

Harry finds out and feels jealous/insecure

leaves them to it torn between feeling abandoned and like they're better off without him

he doesn't believe he deserves one soulmate, let alone two

Severus and Stephen think they're still being rejected

depressed Harry

depressed snarky men

Tony finally steps out from his lab where he's been watching everything and forces Severus and Stephen to cheer up his son

actual communication happens

after stuff and other things like a non-romance focused plot they end up living in the Sanctum

Levi and Teddy are bffs

Wong refuses to live there full time after seeing too much

Like I said earlier the timelines tripped me up, especially with how vague Stephen's is both in the MCU and in the comics in general so I decided to definitively give him a birthday (again to make sense with the soumate au aspect). Obviously Harry is July 31, 1980. Severus is January 9, 1960. And Stephen would be November 18, 1960. (It's said that his birthday is in November so I just picked a random day). This makes Stephen and Severus the same age with Severus being the eldest of the trio. Tony would also probably be born around the same time as Severus and Stephen to be Harry's dad but then that messes with the MCU timeline so I don't know. 

What if ... Thanos were a little bit smarter? He knows he makes enemies wherever he goes and that his decision with the gauntlet would basically turn the rest of the universe against him. So, what if, for his wish to the stones, he didn’t just ask for half the universe to be erased, but also forgotten?

The only person who remembers the people who used to be is Scott Lang, recently released from being trapped for five years in the quantum realm. He’s coming back to a very different world that doesn’t truly know it’s changed. How will he convince the remaining Avengers that they need to get their asses into gear and fix everything?

So, I want to preface this by saying that my brain works in a lot of jumps and starts so some of this will be oddly detailed paragraphs and some will just be bullet points of general overviews. Though the bullet points might also get slightly detailed – I love a good sub-point. I also wish to say that this is not everything I have on my idea, but a lot of my other notes are just general timelines in bullet format of the MCU.

Speaking of the MCU, this is a mashup of MCU and some comic lore. I haven’t seen much of the MCU works since Endgame with the exceptions of No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool and Wolverine. I know that many of the characters that I reference in this have continued storylines in the MCU at the moment, but screw the MCU to be honest, a lot of their decisions are frustrating.

I’d also like to mention that I found a decent amount of inspiration from the author @gozzer on AO3 and their Marvel WIPs. Specifically, chapters 3, 4, and 8. I don’t know how exactly to tag them since this isn’t an inspired by work, just that I want to recognize that I have found inspiration in their stuff.

I so so so hope someone can find inspiration in my ramblings and loose thought trails. That’s the ultimate goal for me. I’m never going to be one of the really great authors on here that churns out hundreds of thousands of words that make you feel things for a character you never thought you would, but maybe I can give one of them an inkling of what their next story might be.

So, onto the story as I see it:

In this, Scott would still be taken out of the quantum portal by the rat in the realm and have his stumble to Maggie’s house, but this time around there are no memorial stones to honor those who got dusted, or missing persons posters everywhere. He can tell something is off but not what until he gets to Maggie’s and asks about Cassie and Maggie and Jim have no idea what/who he’s talking about. Then he starts seeing the things he missed – less people, less cars, less noise, etc. Maggie tries to ask where he’s been for the past five years, but Scott is spiraling and hightails it back to the van. Uses the van to find Luis and asks for help understanding what he’s missed, Luis does his classic recap but he’s not mentioning anything related to Hank or Hope or Janet. Scott asks, but again, another person who has no clue what he’s talking about. He asks Luis to go with him to New York to find some information and Luis is the best ever so he says yes and they set off for the Avenger’s compound. Natasha and Steve are watching the security cameras like in the movie and let him in but this time instead of being focused on time/quantum travel, he’s focused on that fact that so many people are missing and no one realizes.

He'll have all this evidence that will compound as more players enter, such as Carol and later Tony and Nebula. His big piece of evidence is the “civil war”, that’s just a really sad fight when most of the people don’t exist. And it doesn’t entirely make sense if Bucky’s not there, and what happened later between Tony and Steve definitely won’t make sense without Bucky (though this would be Tony’s piece to say since Scott wouldn’t know about it.)

I’d kind of want FRIDAY to be able to remember people but not as an ai/ system, but as a person kind of. Like she doesn’t exactly remember Peter, but she remembers Underoos, or the Pirate for Fury, maybe even Manchurian Candidate for Bucky. Maybe also an archived version of JARVIS still exists and is scrounged up by FRIDAY, Karen, EDITH, whoever as they band together because their systems are telling them something is wrong. And JARVIS pops up is just all, where is everyone? Especially would be cool if he had a semi-conscious state in Vision the entire time and so is like really focused on where Vision is and no one can answer. Like Tony’s all weepy about JARVIS being back, and JARVIS is like yeah no missed you too, where’s my son?????

I kind of also have this set in my head as a Scott/Tony/Stephen fic with a three-pronged point of view approach. Scott would know everything that’s happened and is trying to get everything back to normal. Tony would be focused on the present and trying to fix everything as a way of coping/not dealing with his trauma. Stephen would be in the Soul Stone either watching over them, or watching over the people in the stone along with others like T’challa, Sam, Bucky, etc.

This is vaguely how this will be set up: my take on the stones, my take on the runes of kof-kol, quantum vs time travel, the three main povs, ships I have in mind, and then random add-ons I’ve thought of, Gozzer related stuff

Sentient infinity stones

Stones were created with the Big Bang and have been searching for and/or hopping champions ever since

Only champions have full access to their stone’s ability (such as the Aether has been Loki’s since he was born, but it was temporarily controlled by the dark elves and Jane Foster)

Thanos has always been a set event/person so the stones all needed a champion during this time period and drew them together

They try to stay away from each other so that those like Thanos who wish to collect them don’t have any easy time

Champions:

Stephen - Time (eye of Agomotto)

Is able to bend with time, has lived millions of lifetimes

Tony - Soul (Vormir)

He makes souls with his bots and ais

Mantis - Mind (scepter and later Vision’s)

She can control people and manipulate their emotions already and is half-celestial (Ego)

Loki - Reality (Aether)

Trickster god that’s been wearing a full coverage disguise so convincing he didn’t even know his entire life

Goose (Flerkens as a species) -Space (Tessaract)

Have a pocket dimension inside each of them

The tesseract is entrusted to the species as a whole either because flerkens were made specifically to be carriers/champions of the Space stone or because of their individual pocket dimensions

Tesseract gets passed from flerken to flerken based on their own system (I do not know flerken politics)

Possibly there’s one specific entrusted line of flerkens that Goose is descended from????

Home planet was destroyed during the age of Eson the Searcher, so they became a wandering/nomadic species

Nebula - Power (Orb)

Her body was made into a weapon always ready for an upgrade

Is actually able to use the stones in the comics so she’s good

The Runes of Kof-Kol:

This is the basis for how Thanos makes people forget the ones dusted (obviously inspired by No Way Home)

Have the ability to make an entire universe forget a person, thing, or event

Possible to make certain people exempt but must be part of the original casting

At peak potency, it can wipe any traces of an entity from existence, even from the caster

Past accomplishments and events affected by said entity aren’t touched, just redirected (i.e. people saved by Spiderman don’t suddenly die)

Quantum travel: time travel vs dimension travel:

The quantum realm sits in its own pocket of reality so isn’t affected by the reality stones, which makes it immune to the snap in general. But also quantum travel would be about different realities rather than different times. To me it makes more sense that the “time heist” was dimension (quantum) travel rather than time travel as they change the events taking place and even interact with their own selves (Captain and Captain) but the current events don’t change at all nor do new memories surface. It’s most likely that they stole some other reality’s stones rather than getting the stones from an earlier point in time like they believed. Especially if they’re using the quantum technology that Janet, Hank, and Scott have created. Why would quantum energy send them back in time? It just doesn’t make sense to me. And while I kind of hate how the TVA basically made the infinity stones obsolete with how they constantly steal the stones and gauntlets, it does help me with my theory. (Screw the TVA they deserve to be snapped (I say this from the point of view specifically seen from Deadpool and Wolverine))

Also, doing it this way forces Steve to not be a douche and stay back in time when he was supposed to be returning the stones. I mean the ripples of that alone would be abysmal. Would Peggy even found SHIELD if Steve is with her? He knows all these things like Nazi dude in the computer at Point whats-it and everything that Bucky has to go through, and Mr. “Till the end of the line” just sits back and lets it happen??? No.

Anyway

Scott-centric at least to start off with

Cassie gets snapped

Bill (og Goliath) gets snapped before he and Ava leave the country so she’s stuck hiding from the government, trying to find Scott

Maybe gets taken in by Luis, Kurt, and Dave? (irresponsible older brother types)

At least keeps tabs on all of them to see if Scott shows back up

Definitely sneaks into the back of the van when Scott and Luis go to the Compound

Scott parents the heck out of her

Scott gets the Goliath suit, and Luis takes over as Goliath

Also, side note, I really don’t think Luis would be holding up all that well without Scott, especially cause to him Scott just kind of disappears for 5 years

I think it would kind of break something in him and when Scott gets back, he would try and be his normal happy self but it’s not quite right

Luis angst

He was initially in the QR for the same reasons – to get quantum particles for Ava to stabilize her

I want him to have a little more back bone

Like his daughter is not only gone, but her own mother can’t remember she ever existed

My man is pissed

No letting Tony or Cap or any of them walk all over him

And he wouldn’t let them willy-knilly have the Pym particles

He wouldn’t betray Hank like that

The others would think he made them since Hank doesn’t exist and he’s all like “no, these are Hank’s” “Who’s Hank?” “A guy your dad screwed over” “You’re gonna have to be more specific for that”

Scott is a genius and I want that genuinely acknowledged

Tony notices ;)

Tony’s pov could start on the ship or during the battle of titan (I have the very beginnings of a titan based prologue written down if anyone is interested)

Semi-Superior Ironman as Nebula uses technology to fix as much of Tony as she can while they’re stranded (it’s what she knows)

Could be a great bonding moment with Nebula – shared trauma yay

Though it could happen other times - the two that stick out the most would be the end of IM3 or Civil War Siberia fight

Exodus could also be used, either as a dormant function waking up when his body becomes damaged in CW or in Infinity Wars

Tony is uber depressed and can kind of feel like things are wrong/gone because of his status as the Soul stone champion and feeling that there should be more souls around

He keeps doing things that don’t make sense until Scott shows up saying people are gone and have been forgotten

Such as reaching out his hand for a tool, not from Dum-E but from a person in his lab

He keeps coming up with weapon/suit concepts that make no sense - does he want to give Natasha actual webs?

I can definitely see him spiraling back into his alcoholism

This is probably one of the factors that leads to Morgan

Throws himself into trying to make everything “normal” again by throwing as much money at it as possible

Obviously his Wanda-induced nightmares are back with a vengeance

Cloak doesn’t get snapped with Stephen, so stays with Tony

Cloak and Nebula have semi-beef due to Cloak feeling the need to protect Tony and Nebula basically doing open-heart surgery on him while in space

Since he semi-comes into contact with the Soul stone on Titan, he can feel souls a little more

He can tell that DUM-E, U, Butterfingers, FRIDAY, etc are sentient

Cloak has a soul/is sentient

He knows before Pepper does that she’s pregnant

This also causes him to spiral

I feel like this could be a cool way to add in other characters that don’t get added till later in canon cause he’d be able to feel people’s relationship’s/how they leave traces on each other’s souls

I’m thinking specifically of Yelena if that’s not obvious

Yelena and Natasha deserve to be reunited

Who would freak out more about Natasha having a sister: Clint or Tony?

Stephen ‘s pov is mostly from inside of the Soul stone

He and some others (T’challa, Sam, Bucky, Hank, Janet, etc) take a leadership role and try to organize things as much as possible

Time works differently inside the stone

He parents the heck out of Peter and Cassie

He knows that there’s a high possibility that he’ll end up dating their dads

Also they’re annoyingly adorable and persistent

He regrets introducing them slightly

Spies as much as he can on the outside world

Due to this maybe he accidently finds the TVA’s pocket-dimension??

I want Loki redemption so badly, I love him

He deserved it more than some of the others that got it (I’m looking at you Thaddeus)

When they leave the Soul stone, Stephen is hightailing it to Scott and Tony

He’s been waiting alone while they’ve been able to build at least a little bit of a relationship while working together

Pining

Maybe he and America kind of brush by each other as he’s looking out and she’s hopping through?

This might also be a place to add in Donna and Victor

Like they’re both dead but maybe their souls could visit Stephen since he’s in the Soul stone?

If we’re doing that though, I want Ben to visit Peter. I don’t care if MCU Peter doesn’t have an Uncle Ben, yes he does

Side note: I feel like T’challa in particular would have an affinity for navigating the Soul stone since his family/the Black Panthers are all connected, so like soul stuff?

Ships:

Scott/Tony/Stephen is my personal endgame from this fic idea but I understand that not everyone would see that

Scott/Tony would happen while they’re working on a solution for time travel

Stephen would be added after everything happens

Stephen definitely sees it all going down before hand, across multiple realities

Could be the “I-fell-for-you-before-we-even-knew-each-other” trope

As for Morgan, she’s kind of a take or leave character for me since (to my knowledge) she doesn’t really have a backstory or personality outside of being Tony and Pepper’s daughter

So I’d personally have Morgan be a surprise pregnancy where Pepper and Tony sleep together one last time after he gets back to earth from the initial fight with Thanos (and is all healed up and everything)

Also Scott/Stephen/Tony to me would be hilarious as I would absolutely ply them with so many children/proteges

Cassie, Peter, Morgan, Harley, Ava, Nebula, Vision, Riri, America, others (are there others? Am I missing anyone?)

Or the fact that they all have weird side characters/compainions: the cloak, DUM-E, U, Butterfingers, FRIDAY, all of Scott’s ants

And can you imagine a meeting of their friends?????

Like here’s the CEO of Stark Industries - one of the leading women in all of business - Virginia “Pepper” Potts, the head of security for SI, and Lt. Colonel James Rhodes

Stephen shows up with, maybe, Christine who while a cool lady, very civilian. And Wong – was the Sorcerer Supreme before Stephen came back, is the librarian for an ancient magic civilization

Then there’s Luis, Kurt, and Dave. Luis would be having the time of his life. Hope may show up but 100% more to meet Pepper than anything else

Vision/Mantis

She only knows emotions, he knows everything but emotions

They would be a very naïve, innocent couple

They would teach each other

Screw Wanda – I am very much a Wanda hater, everything about Wanda/Vision was horrible because of her and her alone

Both Mantis and Vision are very childlike so I think they’d have a very unique relationship that others wouldn’t really understand

Like she would constantly be feeding him emotions or trying to feel for his emotions and he would tell her anything and everything

Outsiders think it’s a bit weird, possibly annoying or seemingly invasive, but it’s done with both of their full consent

Also imagine Vision explaining all his parental figures to Mantis who only had Ego since Ego definitely killed her mom/bearer once she was born

“Oh yes, I was born from the combined work of Dr. Banner, Dr. Stark, Dr, Cho, Thor, Thanos, and Ultron. I think in relative practice to a family that would mean I have five fathers and one mother. Though I had to kill Ultron soon after my birth unfortunately.”

She’d be so surprised and intrigued

Also the fact that in my head/au Mantis is the Champion for the Mind stone which kind of keeps Vision alive could also be brought up (in a non-controlling relationship way)

Random bits and bobs:

No Bruce-Hulk hybrid, it was weird

Now if there is acknowledgement that Hulk is his own person and Bruce understands that, I’ll take it

I want everyone to remember that Hulk is like less than a decade old and one of his first memories is being shot at by the US military

He’s allowed to be angry

Bruce should be nicer to him

“Time heist” difference – Tony and Steve go to Vormir while Natasha and Clint go to 2012 New York

Steve punches the shit out of Red Skull

The Soul Stone kind of just appears for Tony since he is the champion

Natasha would be a more believable shield turncoat then Steve, but would also absolutely obliterate Brock and his men in that elevator

I feel like Clint could’ve done some acrobatic stuff to get away from stair-rampaging Hulk

Or he would’ve, very delightfully, shot Loki so he wouldn’t get away

All of Thanos’s “children” are the runts/ deformed of their species just like him

Lumphoids (Nebula’s species) are typically (in the comics) about 12 feet tall and weighs 2 tons

That’s not exactly Nebula

I like the thought of Thanos in his twisted mind seeing it as merciful to take the runts of the species before/after delivering balance to them

Is this wholly based off of Nebula? Yes. Do I care? No

More Hela

Thanos's whole balance is a courting gift to Death

I do not recognize Audrey Plaza's Lady Death, it complete fucks with everything Thanos stood for

So Hela, as the goddess of death, would be the one receiving these "gifts"

She's not happy

He's both creepy and he's taking her job

Also, I like the idea of Hela trying to instigate Ragnarok specifically to get soldiers from Valhalla to help her fight Thanos

Also also, Fenrir is Loki's child, I feel like that should have some impact on things

Hela is not happy that Thanos tries to/does kill Loki and tortures Thor

Only she is allowed to kill/torture her brothers

During the five years, I can 100% see Hela making fun of Thor for losing himself to grief

Maybe she takes over as queen instead of Brunhile/Valkerie?

Could you imagine Hela in the final battle against Thanos? It would be glorious

@gozzer:

Chapter 3: Soul-Stone Scott – Scott is in the Quantum Realm and ends up in the Soul stone through a trade agreement (QR gets his body, SS gets his soul), he interacts with those snapped and they figure out the Soul stone wants him for something. The Soul stone wants a new host and has decided to use Scott. Canon events happen except Scott can see souls and ends up saving Tony’s life

I love the idea of Scott having some connection to the stones, and even outside of my shipping of Scott/Tony/Stephen, the Soul or Time stones would make the most sense for Scott to have contact with due to his trip into the QR

Scott being like a stopgap between inside and outside the Soul stone could work so well for my ship though

This would probably effect Tony’s champion status since Scott would have like first priority, so I would do it more of a temporary thing until the stones get their original forms back and Tony is still the Soul’s champion

But like Tony being the champion while Scott is/isholding the stone??? Could be cute

Chapter 4: Scott/Tony – Pre/during-IM1. Scott isn’t in jail and helps build the Iron Man suit and repulsor tech. Events of IM2 happen before Scott eventually ends up in jail trying to take out his old job. Events of Avengers, IM3, AoU, and Ant-Man happen before they’re reunited in Civil War but with Scott on Tony’s side. Again, mostly canon events for Ant-Man and Wasp, Infinity Wars, and the beginning of Endgame. Scott and Tony fall together during the making of the quantum portal for the time heist, a years long inevitability. Instead of Steve going with Tony to get new particles and the Tesseract, Scott does.

This one is just general vibes for Scott/Tony

Shows off Scott’s intelligence in a way that I don’t think a lot of people capitalize on

Kind of bittersweet

Chapter 8: Tearing at the seams – Time doesn’t work as differently in the Quantum realm. Scott experiences all five years of pure isolation, and possibly more depending on how time dilations. The rat didn’t get him out, he projected himself to people begging for help. He kind of goes insane. The healing fields become a part of Scott like they did Janet.

Again, I just really like the idea of Scott being affected by the QR

This also mentions that there are time vortexes isolating the healing fields from the rest of the QR, which could work with what I said above about Scott possibly having a connection to the Time stone

I don’t know if I would make him experience all five years but maybe like five months or something, just to add some angst