#dianasteve

Diana/Steve fanmix I made for a challenge. List of songs under the cut. All links go to YouTube.

SPOILERS (scroll fast and then blacklist #wonder wonder spoilers if you haven’t already…)

So, you saw Wonder Woman. You felt graced by a romance between a woman and a man that was equal, so you fell faster than Steve fell for Diana. Then the ending happened. As gorgeous as it was – ugh. You’re thinking to yourself, why even bother shipping tragedy?

Oh, but think of the possibilities!

It’s only been a week and the fix-it fics are going strong! The thing is, because this is DC comics, it’s not almost more unrealistic that fix-its wouldn’t be a thing. 

Here are some highlights to get the ideas churning.

1. Meddling from the gods.

The gods are “dead,” sure, but I’m taking that to mean their influence and their corporeal forms are lessened. They still have some cosmic power to throw around. I maintain that Steve was sent to Diana for a reason, so why shouldn’t the gods continue to meddle after his death? 

The Ghost Option: In my ficlet The Living, Steve appears to Diana at times like a ghost, mostly in her dreams. The concept is sad and angsty and sweet and awful. Perfectly wrenching.

The Champion Option:  Or maybe Diana finds out his soul has been claimed by the gods and goes to the Underworld to fight Hades to set his soul free, meaning he lives or gets to go to a paradise of sorts for heroes. 

The Resurrection Option: Steve lives! Maybe he comes back right away, maybe he’s a reward from Zeus when Diana needs/deserves him most. If he’s modern, the fish-out-of-water role reversal is dynamite. If he’s resurrected through Ares’ meddling…well then we have a Winter Soldier dynamic to play with, don’t we?

The Reincarnation Option: Steve Trevor, born 1982, is a modern soldier-spy who is named after the war hero great-grandfather/uncle who he just happens to look exactly alike. Whodathunk? Questions abound! Does he remember his past life? Will he ever? The angst of Diana loving a man who is and isn’t Steve Trevor or Steve doubting that he could ever live up to his impossibly perfect past life enshrined in her memory…UGH!

I’m going to write a fic that combines at least three of these. Look out.

2. The Flash and Diana are about to be pals.

I’m not a DC gal, minus Catwoman (who should be played by Rosario Dawson or Thandie Newton in the DCEU, full stop) so I’ll confess I have no idea how the Flash’s powers work. But I’ve picked up that there’s time travel and alternate universes involved. SO.

The Timehop Option: Barry hears Diana’s story and, with her permission or not, rushes back in time to the second Steve pulls the trigger. He yanks Steve back into the future. Seems almost too easy, but these kids deserve it. Fish-out-of-water would be strong with this one. And Diana is a very different woman a hundred years later – who would be the naive, optimistic one now?

Alternative Universe Option: Endless possibilities here. Something Barry does causes an alternative reality where Wondertrev can be explored, for fluff or for angst.

Quick Save Option: Barry saves Steve and drops him off somewhere that takes him a little but to find Diana again. This doesn’t cause an alternative universe but is in fact what already happened. Diana buried Steve long ago, after lots of breakfasts. He at least got the chance to grow old with her.

3. Other/AU

Did Steve have a parachute? Did he get amnesia? Did the ending not happen the way we saw and Steve never had to go up in the plane? Maybe he got picked up by aliens! Like I said, endless possibilities.

15 minutes practice.

“Sometime Diana had strange dreams.

Those little familiar nightmares that mix with sweetness and bitterness. 

Every time she heard herself asked: