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Oh, what a nice ask! Thank you so much! 🤍

Yes, I have one! I've put it in here and there, sometimes very subtle, sometimes less so, and I'm putting it under a cut because, spoiler, the Stephen in my head and in my stories is demi sexual and I'm going to tell you all about it now:

Hi, and thank you so much for your question!

As I've repeated a lot of times, I'm totally into ironwidow and ironstrange and I love to analyze the psyche of the characters, especially my favorite ones. Since seeing Tony and Stephen interact in IW and after having known Stephen in Doctor Strange I started to think he had a lot in common with Nat, in a different way from how much he has in common with Tony.

While Tony and Stephen have a similar background, Nat and Stephen present behavioural patterns that often align (trust issues, mysterious aureas and the way they talk to people, relying always on themselves before relying on others....). It might as well be just me projecting on characters who are similar to me, but whatever, that's my reading of them.

I think it's a real shame they never got to meet in the entire MCU (if we ignore What If...?) but that's what fandom is for. I have tons of headcanons about this couple and I've always thought I was the only one who ever thought about them.

So I was going to cover this in the last chapter but it was getting way to long and episodic. I might come back and mention some of this in passing later, or other similar situations but...

Kylo is a sort of psychic weight in the world. His energy plus what Snoke did to him pulls at the fabric of reality and things fall into his orbit more easily than they might for a mundane ghost hunter. Kylo has a lot of luck finding weird places because his nature draws the weirdness out. It also sort of alerts other beings to his presence. Some of them don’t know what they’re picking up, others can read it entirely.

Like when Kylo is 22 he goes to a concert and the doorman asks for ID. Not thinking Kylo just says “You don’t need to see my ID.” and the doorman starts to parrot him when the guys boss is like “hell no, I want to see your ID!” Kylo didn’t even realise he was manipulating people, he certainly didn’t realise someone would spot it, and of course he is actually 22. So the boss guy now thinks hes a cretin, but a big muscular psychic cretin would be useful on the doors so would Kylo like a job? That particular guy turns out to be a non-human of the sort that used to haunt woodland but he found a better job in the city.

Kylo gets talked about in the supernatural community a lot for being enthusiastic but not all that bright. He’s very interested in cryptids and ghosts and UFOs but he believes what he’s told. He doesn’t really sift the information the way Hux does. For example Kylo has a lot of kitsune friends because he knows a few key people (its a close knit community), but he’s never met a werewolf that he recognised as such so he assumes the pop culture rumours about them are true. 

The pixies and sprites and other small fae who take Kylo’s offerings find him confusing. Because they don’t live in the car. They live in rest stops, and motel car parks, and tourist traps, but he’s so sincere that they feel like they really should help him out. And the ones who haven’t met him yet often get to hear about him from those who have.

“Have you met Kylo Ren yet?” Is a question that gets asked often in the sort of bars where the not-quite-normal gather. It starts out with a sort of “oh my god have you seen this guy?” question. He’s an oddity, an amusement, a well liked outsider. No one knows what he is, because he doesn’t really know himself, so he’s not welcomed into their world but no one really minds if he brushes against it. 

Oh, thank you! 🤍🥰🦋 I hope you like this little thing.

Fairytale Gone Right

(That emotional moment that you can't find a plot for.)