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If You Had This Time Again
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tony Stark/Loki
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Tony Stark closed his eyes in a wrecked Siberian bunker and woke up on a demolished New York street. Four years earlier.
Tony Stark/Loki
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Tony Stark closed his eyes in a wrecked Siberian bunker and woke up on a demolished New York street. Four years earlier.
635 pages, ebook
First published March 22, 2019
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January 25, 2023
Tony Stark/happiness is my OTP, so I enjoyed where this 268K-words ~Team Iron Man~ fic went and how, giving it about 4.25★ for the story, which I won't spoil. "Knowledge prompts change and change negates knowledge" is the refrain of time travel. Here's the comment I posted at the end on AO3, enthusing over what I liked:
On the technical and style side, call it 3.6★ or so. (You know I'm star-stingy.) The writing was mainly gripping, with plenty of heart-warming (sometimes heart-wrenching) content, or funny, where that was what it was going for (such as much of when the Guardians of the Galaxy are on-scene towards the end). One more set of human eyes for SPaG line-edits might've caught recurring minor goofs like "reknown" for "renowned", and there were some protracted passages lost in somebody's head. Also, be aware there are sections with various alternate PoVs, where the narrative often jumps back to highlight different reactions in revisited scenes, which can be a tad repetitious.
MCU!Shuri fans should be aware that this was written pre-Black-Panther, so she's different, a mature and ambitious diplomat rather than a teen, but she's only a secondary or tertiary character anyway.
This fic is posted (at https://archiveofourown.org/works/109... ) as fade-to-black, rated Teen, with skippable AU or scene-continuation smut scenes in a separate work, linked on the relevant chapters.
I have just devoured this whole splendid "do-over" fic, with all its feels and themes and humor and action, its brilliant echoes of canon in twisted "fixed points" meeting change, characterizations rich and sympathetic (or not really sympathetic, but well-reasoned and -constructed, to talk about the mess that is Steve Rogers!), friendships with acceptance and care and growth rather than all saccharine sweetness and infallibility, but still giving me the happy ending(s) I need for Tony and Loki (who do indeed mesh well!), for , oh, and a great headcanon for the Infinity Stones, mustn't forget them! In short, well worth the read — and doubtless at least one reread down the line. Many kudos!
On the technical and style side, call it 3.6★ or so. (You know I'm star-stingy.) The writing was mainly gripping, with plenty of heart-warming (sometimes heart-wrenching) content, or funny, where that was what it was going for (such as much of when the Guardians of the Galaxy are on-scene towards the end). One more set of human eyes for SPaG line-edits might've caught recurring minor goofs like "reknown" for "renowned", and there were some protracted passages lost in somebody's head. Also, be aware there are sections with various alternate PoVs, where the narrative often jumps back to highlight different reactions in revisited scenes, which can be a tad repetitious.
MCU!Shuri fans should be aware that this was written pre-Black-Panther, so she's different, a mature and ambitious diplomat rather than a teen, but she's only a secondary or tertiary character anyway.
This fic is posted (at https://archiveofourown.org/works/109... ) as fade-to-black, rated Teen, with skippable AU or scene-continuation smut scenes in a separate work, linked on the relevant chapters.
March 18, 2019
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