#untamedtempest

Friendly reminder that mun does not equal muse!

Mint is currently stressing over 106 real life issues, busy as a bee, crying into coffee and replaying music in Spanish to stay sane while struggling to even read a book without falling asleep before waking up with a dry throat after snoring unceremoniously.

Mantis is currently "stressing" over what she will wear to the wedding between the literal weather gods power couple @asgardianhammer and @untamedtempest and wondering how she's going to feel that much joy without exploding and she will look ridiculously pretty even when she cries happy tears as Thor and Ororo say their vows.

I can confidently say Mantis and I are not the same :')

[ ϟ ]—– Broad and great hands, hands that had shattered stones and wrested beast from the deep, were suddenly clumsy things, betraying him as the god swept sketches and loosely scattered precious stones into the shadowed drawer of the desk.

A flutter of starlight on vellum, hastily hidden, yet some sparkle and glimmer clung to bronzed skin still, as though conspiring against him.

Ink still wetly smudged along the heel of his palm would have to be tended to later, and breath stilled as if he was a boy caught thieving sweets when the familiar weight of goddess' steps were heard.

Utterly absurd, that one who had suffered the gaze of kings and monsters should now feel heart thunder wildly at the thought Ororo might glimpse the secret bloom of his intent, and thunderer rose swiftly to his feet, frame and shoulders rolled upward with haste.

Steps from study to living room were equally swift, a grin of delight still emerging at the sight of her.

[Ororo has been one of very few people to have accompanied Zora on one of their desert trips thus far. And Z had to be convinced of it just because Ororo wanted to spend more time with what was keeping them centered.

He couldn't help it. The Justice League was great, it was a place where he could just be himself... but, if it were possible, he felt it even more so among mutants.

He had gathered a pretty decent relationship with the X-Men over the years. ...Maybe he'd also written a number of articles painting mutants and less of menaces upon society as well.

At the moment he'd been hurled into a wall in the danger room. He hit both wall and floor with a resounding thump. And on all fours he shook his head, but blue eyes were positively sparkling as he climbed back to his feet.

"Gosh! It's been a while since anyone's been able to do that to me." - Maybe not so long, but the point stood.

“Ororo?”

As he walks down the hallway, he looks around. Opening the library’s door, he finds it empty.

Maybe she is using one of the empty offices. He opens the first door to find her there.

His gaze softens but, his face is stern. His demeanor itself is overwrought.

“Sorry to interrupt you, I need to talk to you. Do you have a moment?”

YESSSS OMG YESSSS. The big thing I HATE is that SO MANY PEOPLE think that he's the spawn of Satan thanks to the MCU.

Which....isn't Ross or Red Hulk AT ALL. They're not evil but they are extremely flawed. Hell, Hulk's threatened more people than Ross has but he's treated with kid gloves compared to the way Red is treated.

So many people call Red Hulk evil but he's very much a broken Hulk that's tried doing the good thing but got shit on every single time he tried. All of his friends are gone, his family's gone....he's all alone now. And he's regressed into his old soldier state of mind from when he lost his wife. He can't focus on himself anymore without breaking.

Another shocking unpopular opinion I have is that Ross truly loves Betty. Like in the photos at Ross' desk in Brave New World, and in his flashbacks during the Jeff Parker Hulk run, they were inseparable and Ross was genuinely very happy when he got to be a dad to Betty.

Unfortunately, after the loss of Karen is when Ross started breaking and you see the added trauma colliding with his grief and the only way he knew how to cope was to built a wall around himself.

He never hated his daughter, he never abused his daughter. Like hard to believe but the very idea that Ross at one point was a loving father to Betty somehow offends people which makes it hilarious.

Is he perfect? Hell no. The guy deserves to get his balls kicked in for all the shit he dragged Betty and Bruce through during his psychotic breaks in the 80's. But he's also not demon spawn. He's a man who lost everything and now has nothing left to live for.