ofstoriesandstardust

updated october 5th, 2024

series cw: discussion of suicide attempts/suicidal thoughts, PTSD, morally complex and gray characters, Addy lives but at the cost of her leg

summary: (twisters x top gun maverick crossover) After El Reno, Javi starts to wonder where his place in the world is if not with StormPar. Despite Kate's insistence he ride out the rest of the season with the Wranglers, he can't shake the feeling that he's unwanted. Fueled by his own fear, he makes the executive decision to spend some time out in San Diego with his cousin Mickey. He knows he's running, but he doesn't realize he's running right home to you.

part i - the after

part ii - the return

part iii - the closure

and so maybe this is a silly question but the more i think about Rebel up in her jet, the more curious i am about what you picture her helmet design to look like?

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hi omg this was such a fun ask!! i’ve never given this any thought before so it was so fun to think it over. i had the google search pulled up studying others helmets and everything

okay SO. let’s get in to it.

a couple things to start with: at first glance, i realized all the helmets correspond to squadron (this is particularly demonstrated if you look at phoenix and hangman’s helmets, who belonged to the black aces and the vigilantes respectively) and members from the same squadron match, just with alternating colors (predominantly demonstrated if you look at goose and mav’s helmets)(mav’s helmet doesn’t change from the original film which is an interesting side note because he obviously changes assignments in the thirty+ years after top gun 86)

SO, this would mean coyote and rebel would have to match. however, coyote’s helmet is orange with a top hat thing? on it. i manipulated canon to fit my story since same mistakes was written before we as a fandom had good knowledge about the previous squadrons of our B-tier pilots (B-tier in the film, A-tier in my heart).

so in keeping with my manipulating of canon, the green vipers helmets are green with the outline of a green pit viper in gold. some of the helmets are more intricately designed then the others, so i err on the side of the green vipers have more intricately designed ones. the snake would be outlined in gold, looking akin to the image on the left but the mouth of the snake would be open as if striking, as seen on the right.

(these were just the images i stole off pinterest for inspo if they are not green pit vipers please do not come for me)

NOW, some of the helmets have lettering of their callsigns that plays into their callsign (for example, hangman is missing letters and coyote has slits next to his to symbolize coyote eyes). in keeping with theme, rebel has the star wars font on her helmet 😎 her lettering is gold!!

now when the iron daggers became a real squadron, they get new helmets to reflect their new assignment. i imagine the new helmets to be an alternating black with a silver dagger for a pilot or silver with a black dagger for wso’s down the middle of the back. rebel keeps her font but tries to argue to get the rebel alliance symbol somewhere on her helmet and is immediately told no. she complains for three days.