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It becomes a pattern in the aftermath. 

Bruce has set up a makeshift lab in Wakanda, while the world takes stock of their dead and Wakanda mourns for their king. Bruce isn’t doing anything important, but he needs to do something, so he studies Wakanda’s vibranium supply and attempts to keep Shuri busy. 

Otherwise, the grief might just be too much for the both of them to bear. 

Bruce also tries very hard not to think about Tony and what form of matter Tony may or may not be at this very moment. He’s only moderately successful. 

It’s on the third day of the second week after half of the world has turned to ash that Thor brings Bruce a little green snake. Bruce is baffled, but he tried to be polite about it. Bruce is heartsick, though, so that makes everything a little harder. 

Then Thor asks for Bruce to see if the snake is Loki, and it takes every bit of willpower Bruce Banner poses to not burst into tears. Thor is so strong and so keen to smile, he makes it so easy for everyone to forget that he has lost nearly everything. 

Bruce pokes at the snake without any further complaints. When nothing happens, the grief on Thor’s face is unimaginable. 

Bruce begins spending time with both Thor and Shuri, in a desperate attempt to combat his own grief by combatting theirs. 

All the while, every second or third day, Thor brings Bruce a small green animal and asks Bruce to see if it his lost brother. Bruce checks every time, with care and precision, but the result is always negative. It’s awful for both of them, but Thor can’t seem to stop and Bruce doesn’t know how to make him. 

This pattern holds for a few weeks, until Thor brings Bruce a beaten and battered lizard. It’d been burned somehow and it looked like one of its limbs had been badly broken. When Thor presents it to him, Bruce honestly isn’t sure if Thor had just brought the little thing to Bruce to see if it could be saved. 

“Could you check?” Thor asks, the question quiet and hurt after so many weeks of negative results from Bruce’s prodding and poking. 

“Of course,” Bruce says softly, adding his portion of the call and response. 

He gingerly picks up the lizard, as the poor also looks like he’d been through the wringer, and gives him a quick once over. Bruce’d been right about the broken leg and the burns were pretty –

The lizard fucking turns into Loki. A damaged, burnt Loki who scuttles backward on a broken leg while spitting blood. 

Thor bursts into tears. Bruce bursts out laughing. Everyone has their own way of processing grief and shock and grief turned into shock, apparently. 

It’s later, when they’ve gotten Loki a little patched up, convinced Okoye not to kill Loki (”He tried to destroy the world!” she says – “He’s gotten better,” Bruce says), and Thor’s eyes were mostly dry, that Loki finally says through clenched, bloodied teeth: 

“They’re in a pocket dimension.”

“Who?” Bruce whispers, stunned. 

“Everyone. I told him he’d never be a god. He was just a warlord playing at being something powerful. He should’ve fucking listened.”

JUST THIS ONCE, ROSE, EVERYBODY LIVES

The MCU Avengers Comparison No One Asked For

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Disclaimer: I am not saying that these characters are direct equivalents of each other. What I’m saying is that these characters have some elements in common and that comparisons are fun.

Who knows, maybe someone will get a bit of inspiration out of this?

Gai is roughly equivalent to Steve,
because both characters are selfless, optimistic, give everything their
all, and how both rose to well above the human norm through hard work
and luck–and maybe some ill-advised experimentation regarding human
limitations.

Raido started all of this, because his actual
mission callsign is “Falcon” like Sam Wilson’s. Both characters are
probably the calmest members of their respective groups, and were drawn into established these teams when shit repeatedly hit the fan. They’re out of their depths a lot, but they’re doing their best.

Kakashi
most closely maps to Natasha, since they’re in some ways the coldest
members of their teams. Kakashi is the garrote wire, is a successful
assassin, and both of them have been doing this crap for most of their
lives. They’re sorta closed-off as a result.

Obito is
Bucky. Main character’s best friend who ends up being presumed dead and
subject to some degree of attempted (or successful) brainwashing into a
minion of evil? And they both lost an arm over the course of their
return to the rest of the story.

Kei most closely maps to
Bruce, as a generally mild person who carries a lot of anger and can
turn into a giant green rage monster that can be directed only by the
host’s goodwill–which often isn’t guaranteed. Also, Kei is…she kinda
planned for the jinchuriki eventuality, while Bruce kinda turned himself
into the Hulk. (But in terms of references and general snark, Kei definitely trends closer to Tony. A Tony who could turn into a rage monster and not just engineer things to death.)

Genma ends up being roughly equivalent to Tony in terms of his relationship to Kei. Fearless snark defines much of it, combined with a mutual interest in the most systematic of shinobi disciplines–fuinjutsu. Also, Genma has been known to get near-fatally in over his head on occasion, but differently from Tony. (But let’s be honest here: Genma’s closest equivalent in terms of personality is actually Clint.)

Kushina is probably closest to Thor, who is
a bit otherworldly, stupidly powerful, and can go toe to toe with the
Hulk. Also, her knowledge is often esoteric or unusual for most of the
cast, because she is a representative of the long-lived Uzumaki clan. Magic is really more of a science to both of them.

Minato,
as a precision fighter with a tendency toward ranged attack as a first
option (which is then immediately followed up by concerted efforts at
stabbing), trends sort of toward Clint. (But is, in terms of how he tends to show up in combat, a weird combination of Vision–fuck you, physics and a mild philosophical bent–and Nick Fury in sheer command presence.)

Tsunade and Yamaguchi-sensei sort of occupy the role of Nick Fury jointly, through the power of their combined grumpiness and the fear they can instill in others under their command.

Rin, Shizune, and Yamato take up the roles of Agent Coulson and Agent Hill, I think. Plus Helen Cho.