#thunderphia

but then yoonchae's name is called and she walks on and all three sobers up real quick when yoonchae looks for them in in the crowd and smiles and throws them a shy little wave and theyre just so damn proud of her and suddenly theyre all sniffling and tearing up

-🪶

also the tag about the bigass spotify links cracked me up lol im sorry😭

dude they look so huge on my computer but normal sized on my phone i'm so confused about it 😭

but this is so so sweet

megan's such a little shit like that she absolutely would do that just to mess with sophia and then end up crying too

and yoonchae can HEAR them she has spidey senses, she can hear them all crying and she can hear lara whooping excitedly and megan murmuring something under her breath and dani leaning into manon and whispering about how grown up she looks and she wasn't gonna cry, but hearing them undoes her just a little

meanwhile yoonchae is laser-focused on actually building it while Megan is absentmindedly handing her the right pieces, and manon is honestly just wondering why there's three separate versions of iron man. dani could not be less interested but yoonchae is invested so therefore so is she (bc thats just how things work) so she's doing paperwork on the side.

there'd probably be at least two minifigs for of each of them and I think Megan and yoonchae would find it hilarious that they've attempted to make a civilian version of them and it's wildly inaccurate (they're males, for starters, and their hair choices are not the best). everyone's suits on the other hand are insanely accurate and Sophia, for one, finds that fascinating. they've also probably included a Loki figure that manon is honestly pissed off about but won't say anything, and Sophia is looking at with sad eyes bc they managed to get her sister's likeness down somehow.

anyway they end up having it on display in their main living space alongside alllllll the other sets yoonchae/Sophia/Megan have built over the last year(?), and it's a pain to keep clean so lara ends up building a few glass cases that don't let dust in at all. she also takes one of her iron man figures to display in her lab bc... why not? if anyone were to look closely at the set though, they'd find that's not the only minifig missing. spiderman seems to be gone, and so is deadpool.... weird, right? they each individually come to the conclusion that oh, Megan and yoonchae must've taken their own figures to keep, aw that's cute.

until one day Sophia's looking for something in megan's room and- is that a spiderman minifigure hidden behind that picture? and is the picture of Megan and yoonchae in... a skatepark? or manon Is tucking yoonchae into bed and catches sight of a little deadpool sat on yoonchae's desk, tucked between pens and paper, and just doesn't react and walks out. (yes, they took each other's minifigures to add to their growing collection of themed merch of each other, no they did not plan it, it just happened.) I have two exams tomorrow wtf is wrong with me... - 🧩

THIS IS SO GOOD BRO

i think you sent this last night so if your exams are over...i hope they went well 🙌

but oh my god this is so perfect i love it, everyone feels so in character. lara critiquing the design, sophia just listening to her, yoonchae being genuinely so invested, megan helping her, manon puzzling over the minifigs, dani working nearby because she doesn't care but yoonchae does

and the loki minifig...definitely bittersweet for sophia if it exists, but i imagine she would want to keep it anyway (and manon would not be happy about it, but keeping quiet for sophia's sake)

lara displaying an iron man minifig in the lab is such an iron man thing to do

and that made me think abt the rest. like maybe there were overlaps in the people they were gg after before they were recruited like megan maybe staking out the tracksuits and so was dani(maybe before she defected) and imagine dani intercepting deadpool from stealing intel thats shes there for and thinking she dropped deadpool with that signature thigh around the neck swing move only for deadpool to slowly stand up and casually stretch her neck as it bend back into shape(this would likely fuel the assumption that she doesnt feel pain like we discussed previously)

or sophia clashing with venom, like repeatedly hurling mjolnir and lightning at her to stop her from executing a kill on a target and venom just dodging fluidly bc of her spideysense but still zeroed in on the kill shes been activated to do. but she doesnt make any attack on sophia bc thats not her mission at all. and maybe sophia clocks that and so she does everything she can to pin venom down, gritting her teeth as she says "you dont have to do this" and venom freezes for a sec, just long enough for sophia to relax her hold slightly, just long enough as spideychae somewhat awakens a little(idk i maybe totally wrong on how spideychae is controlled)and latches on to that radical thought "you dont have to do this" but then venom takes over again and sophia finds herself being hurled into a wall and venom's gone by the time she punched her way out of the rubble.

-🪶

we've talked before about megan and manon running into each other pre katseye, because hawkeye has a whole arc in a lot of comic runs that has to do with the tracksuits, and ofc we know manon and dani knew each other before the team was formed (same with yoonchae). and honestly it would make sense for dani to have run into deadpool as well (where manon knows megan, dani was maybe more familiar with deadpool)

but sophia clashing with with venom pre katseye is so interesting, especially in the scenario where venom wants nothing to do with her, because she's not part of the mission

anyway 🪶anon's danchae hcs (peak btw!!) got me thinking. if yoonchae can trail dani for 2m 28s, who else can?

like if megpool locked in would she be able to beat that time? can manon beat it or is dani just too in tune with her actions? Sophia and lara may just be a lost cause tho...

space nerd yoonchae woah. space nerd yoonchae who knows megan's supposed to be pointing slightly to the right if she wants to point out Ursa Major, but who also won't say anything because Megan has a huge grin on her face and looks so happy and free, and she's sharing childhood memories of staring at the stars waiting for her mom to come home. (meichae and stars has to be mentioned in everything I fear... maybe in the mma fic too? )

im such a sucker for superheroes being involved in the community. like yes, yoonchae's amazing with kids, and yes, manon dog walks for the shelter and lara hosts weekly science fairs with an unnecessarily expensive prize and the others do equally as amazing things.

also im revising for a maths exam and I keep thinking about maths being called a universal language. imagine lara thinking out loud (as she often does) in her lab about something that just won't work and Sophia wanders in with a tray of snacks and takes one look and is like oh if you do this and this it'll work better :)

cue lara staring and being like wtf you literally got scared of a toaster yesterday and almost blew up the microwave by putting a fork inside, wdym yk how to make the thrusters on my suit work better??

also on the topic of Sophia: Sophia has a very very serious open door policy. like that girl does not play about it - you have a problem, her door is open, no matter the time. a lot of them are quite hesitant at first about breaking (non-existent) boundaries, but eventually they get used to it and start actually going to her, sometimes even if they don't have a problem.

one night, Sophia's about to fall asleep after watching an episode of tsitp (yes she's supposed to wait for dani, but she was just too invested, okay?) when there's a knock on her door. she sits up but doesn't move (bc again open door policy) and a second later, Megan pokes her head round the door. Sophia lifts her covers before she's even glanced at the younger girl's red-rimmed eyes and overly bitten nails, and Megan crawls under and doesn't speak but Sophia knows when not to push.

they're both on the verge of sleep again when the door creaks open, and dani tiptoes inside, fresh off a mission. she drops her bag in the corner and curls up behind Sophia, yawning. Sophia turns and they have a murmured conversation about the mission, both trying hard not to wake up Megan who's snoring lightly.

half an hour later, dani jolts awake and accidentally jolts Sophia awake as she hears the door open once again. manon ushers a sullen-faced yoonchae inside, who takes one look at Megan sprawled half-out the covers and her expression softens and she wanders over and slides right beside Megan, who wraps an arm around her almost-instinctively. the other three aww at the sight, and yoonchae twists slightly to glare at all of them but makes no effort to move.

they're all practically asleep when a sleep-deprived lara stumbles in, still holding blueprints from the lab. she takes one look at the bed and proceeds to drop the sheets in the middle of the room and pull out her phone. she manages to take a few badly lit photos before she shoves that away too and squishes herself into a gap next to sophia, who mumbles some nonsense and huddles closer.

in the morning, the six wake up in various contorted positions, besides dani and yoonchae who are pretty still sleepers. they then go about their day to day life, ignoring the fact they’d been a dogpile hours prior (why aren’t they reacting, you may ask? because they all know it’ll happen within the next month, and they all know it’s the best night’s sleep they’ve each gotten in a while)

puzzle anon giving ideas again??? anyway that got longer than I expected but back to revision I go! (it's 2am, I need to wake up at 6, and my exam's at 12pm and I haven't actually looked at any of the content! am I cooked...?)

-🧩

im so exciteddd i hope it lives up to the hype. i'm hoping to have it out at the end of this week :D

i think megan could probably come close to yoonchae's time and manon is the only one who might be able to beat it. all hope is lost for solarz and their espionage abilities i fear 😔

yo space nerd yoonchae who doesn't know much about the stars the first time she goes stargazing with megan but learns so much on her own and still asks megan every time to point out constellations to her because she loves listening to megan talk about them and share her stories

space nerd yoonchae who ruins her already terrible sleep schedule to look at the stars when she isn't on patrol and to catch meteor events or lunar eclipses or what have you

space nerd yooncahe who eventually gets up the courage to pester sophia endlessly about space because sophia's been there and she's been there a lot

space nerd yoonchae who follows lara up into space infinity-war-style mostly out of incredible devotion to lara but also because she loves space

i've got two variations of extended space nerd yoonchae hcs in my head and idk which one makes more sense tbh. like, either she loves space, but thinking about it too long makes her a little panicky. the idea of infinity and things going on forever, stars dying and being born, all the really huge-scale stuff makes her feel like she's suffocating. but she loves it anyway and persists through that to learn, and it's kind of nice to feel anxious about something that she's choosing to engage with, in a weird way. OR space nerd yoonchae who rambles to megan about space stuff and realizes slowly how badly it's freaking megan out, because she's deadpool and if the earth ever exploded or something, she might not die, she might just end up floating around in space, suffocating and being reborn over and over for eternity. absolutely horrifying. and yoonchae having to calm her down and trying to comfort her by spinning the space thing into something a little gentler, talking about how it means they'll always be connected or something. idk just thoughts! thoughts that are partially based on how stressed out space makes me 🫩

its dogs and kids dude, superheroes working with dogs and kids gets me every damn time

sophia being amazing at math is so good. i personally am terrible at math but most if not all of the katsvengers would probably have to be pretty decent to do their jobs

thunderphia open door policy!!! katsvengers dogpile!!

the order in which they come in feels so in character for them all too, it's very sweet. megan coming to find sophia first, dani and sophia trying not to wake her up when they debrief about their mission, manon bringing yoonchae in and yoonchae losing most of her hesitation when she sees megan, and then lara coming in last to snap pictures and cuddling up to sophia ugh my heart. got lowkey solarzpilled after that documentary video thing that came out today

-🧩

imagine Sophia just turns on the TV and picks a random Disney movie to listen in the background while she cooks or she hums a Disney song she really liked while she tends to her garden

Megan comes to Sophia in the middle of the night after waking up from a nightmare and she's teary eyed and so small so Sophia bundles her up in a blanket on the couch and they both watch like princess and the frog and fall asleep to it

-🦈

1. i think sophia would be fascinated by the idea of home-cooked meals - she is a princess after all. maybe she finds out that most humans make their own meals when she’s doing an emergency grocery run for the compound in the early days (it’s like one item, so lara reluctantly trusted her not to accidentally blow up the self-scan like the time they don’t mention…). an old woman turns to her and asks her to reach something on the highest shelf, and sophia can’t help but make conversation and learns that the woman is having her children and grandchildren over and is making a huge array of their favourite dishes. 

sophia’s carrying all the grandma’s bags back to her house, listening to the woman ramble on about different spices and half-thinking she should be taking notes, when the grandma would see the curiosity in sophia’s eyes and end up inviting her in, which ends up being sophia’s first ever official cooking lesson.

after that, sophia becomes invested in food. she watches cooking show after cooking show, and at some point a bunch of bake-offs end up on her list too. one day, she’s talking to the team and comes to a realisation:

dani and yoonchae were hydra, and (after defecting) dani only ever ate from the hybe cafeteria or the occasional microwaved meal. manon was in a similar boat, not to mention the whole broke circus thing where she’d end up with just a singular piece of fruit. megan was often too busy doing less-than-legal stuff or not having enough money, and her mom was rarely home, all of which meant some days she didn’t even eat. and though lara may have stayed fed, it was only ever over-the-top cuisine from michelin star restaurant chefs her dad had hired, never anything home-made.

most of them had never had a home made meal.

so sophia makes it her personal mission to figure out exactly what each of them loves and make it for them. it starts with guiding a sleepy lara to bed from her lab, subtly pushing for hints at her favourite food, getting a half-mumbled answer muffled by the pillow. manon is weirdly easy - she talks highly about something she’d had in a restaurant overseas on one of her missions, something she’d craved ever since. megan is easy too, when sophia manages to catch her on a good day, grinning like a kid as she talks about a meal her mother had made once years ago and never again. yoonchae shrugs and mentions something she’d seen on a mission once but never gotten to try. dani’s a little harder - it’s early days and her trust issues are still high - but eventually she caves too. 

cue sophia coming back one day with one-too-many bags of groceries. she spends hours in the kitchen, accidentally starting an impromptu fire that she quickly puts out. at some point, megan shows up and sophia directs her to set the table while coaxing her into sharing why exactly she’s frowning. when yoonchae comes home from school, she dumps her bag in her room and sophia quickly teaches her how to dice an onion. (i really loved the idea of sophia handing dani something sharp for gardening and dani realising she trusts her completely, so i suggest this being her doing the same with yoonchae.)

manon and dani show up sweaty from training and sophia firmly sends them off to shower. they come back and sit down only to be dragged into the chaos too - manon may as well put that precision to use with measuring the ingredients for dessert. yoonchae is sent to get lara from her lab and it’s only after ten minutes of neither of them showing up that sophia realises sending the a tech person to a lab to get another tech person out probably wasn’t the best idea. dani’s sent to drag them both out and eventually there’s a spread of home-made dishes across a perfectly set table, and manon has even taught megan how to turn napkins into little swans to look extra fancy. 

and that’s how the first team dinner went, and how the tradition of  weekly (if not more often) team dinners began.

2. much smaller bc i didn’t think as much about it, but sophia was totally the team’s introductions to musicals. like ofc they all listened to music, but they’d never really paid attention to musicals… until sophia ended up having them on, almost constantly. she gets her hands on a list of ‘must-watch’ musicals and takes it extremely seriously.

lara walks in when she’s watching hamilton and ends up playing the entire soundtrack on repeat in her lab in the days following. (yoonchae comes home from school and is on her way to the lab, as always, when her hearing picks up on a familiar and also incredible voice singing about… essays?)

sophia watches wicked with manon by pure chance and both were so invested they made it their entire personality for at least a month - they also had deep conversations about the undertones of the film that actually helped sophia understand humans a whole lot more.

idk about the rest (i genuinely don’t know much about musicals) but she manages to get each of them into one very specific musical each, and consequently into musicals in general. i had a few more ideas that i can’t remember… hopefully i do but here’s your pure fluff. 🪶 anon how about we just move onto no angst (i say, as i come up with angsty ideas in my head…) I should really be revising but this is my way of having a break or something idk/

hope your day's been good kj (and everyone else ofc)! - 🧩

THIS is so cute

and dw 🪶 anon actually sent in something really cute that will be up soon

i love how sophia is always so careful and thorough in this au. first with the plans and now this, she's so dedicated to making sure she's got the right information and the right tools and everyone is going to end up happy with whenever she produces, while also being genuinely invested in the process herself. emotionally regulated as HELL

her making sure she knows everyone's favorite meal and dragging them all into a family meal, her handing off the knife to yoonchae in a display of casual trust (this is so interesting because their strength is the most similar? if that makes sense? like it's a lot harder for yoonchae to hurt sophia than it would be for her to hurt lara, for example, and i think she's probably intensely aware of that and the reverse, where if anyone is going to easily be able to hurt her on the team, it would be sophia)

asgardians are super theatrical, so it definitely wouldn't surprise me for sophia to be really into musicals like that. her and manon being wicked obsessed YES. woof that's complex for the two of them especially, perhaps. yoonchae and dani i feel like would have a harder time with musicals. because of their backgrouds, they're both thinking they're just actors they're acting i can't take this seriously what's going on, UNTIL sophia manages to sit them each down for a musical that hits closer to home and suddenly they understand why people love these things so much because it hurts but it's beautiful too (i'd throw out specific musicals but i do not know musical theater well enough to do a good job unfortunately)

- 🦈

oh that's awesome