Rise your hand if it’s has been moths after CW and you still hate the fucking letter.
I loathe that damned letter.
Actually? I’m going to rip that steaming pile of diarrheal cow excrement apart line by line, right here, right now.
Tony, I’m glad you’re back at the compound.-Tony, you made it out of the Siberian hellhole that I left you in after smashing up your arc reactor and beat the shit out of you after traumatizing you emotionally. Good for you! (And how does Steve know that Tony made it back? Does he have access to the Compound’s security cams, did Tony announce it, or, did Steve just guess?).
I don’t like the idea of you rattling around a mansion by yourself.-Gee, maybe if you hadn’t been an enormous jackass Rogers, Tony might not be left alone!
We all need family.-What a delightful thing to say to someone who watched their parents killed in front of them by the man who you claim is not only your best friend, but your brother Steve! Do go on.
The Avengers are yours, maybe more so than mine.-WHAT AVENGERS?! You mean Vision, whose base code was founded on JARVIS’ (Tony’s friend and companion, who was destroyed and no one seemed to care aside from maybe Bruce, and then died to bring Vision to life), and is essentially Tony’s child; and Rhodey, who is Tony’s oldest and best friend, has stood by him through so much shit, and has been disabled as a result of this stupid conflict. Those Avengers, Steve? Nat backed you Steve, and went into the wind, Thor and Bruce are gone, T’Challa has his own responsibilities and is protecting your Brosicle besides, Peter’s just a kid, and all the other reindeer don’t trust Tony. So what Avengers are you talking about?
I’ve been on my own since I was 18.-What the actual fuck?! Then what the hell was Bucky Barnes?! The entire emotional arc of the whole damned movie revolves around you protecting your best friend, and this one sentence basically blows it to hell. What about Peggy? What about the Howling Commandoes? Do they mean a damned thing?!
I never really fit in anywhere, even in the Army.-You mean you didn’t fit in with the squad with your best friend, soldiers you personally chose, your love interest running intelligence, running around blowing the hell out of Hydra?
Pro forma bitching aside, I can almost understand this one. Steve grew up Irish in the ‘20′s and ‘30′s, experienced prejudice there, was too small and sick to probably really work or be accepted (aside from Bucky and his Mom), feels like the dancing monkey until he joins up with the Commandoes, gets frozen, wakes up in a world where most everything he knows and loves is either gone or so radically different it boggles the mind, gets thrown into a team filled with personality conflicts to save the world, and then it turns out his old enemy has reorganized itself and is using his supposedly dead friend as an assassin. So from a certain view, Steve does have a point here.
My faith’s in people, I guess. Individuals.-”As long as they stand with me and believe as I believe!”
And I’m happy to say, for the most part, they haven’t let me down.-”Except for you, Tony. I have no faith or belief in you, or anyone who stands with you, or anything you’ve done. ”
Which is why I can’t let them down either-”Again, aside from you, Tony, because you’ve let me down from the moment we met.”
Locks can be replaced, but maybe they shouldn’t be.-”I’m going to break my teammates out of Super-Gitmo, because they’re there for following me and breaking the law in my ridiculous crusade, and I’m shocked that they’re facing the consequences! That jail shouldn’t exist!” So, we shouldn’t have a place to put supervillains? And yeah, Team Cap are heroes, they should not have been dumped in some black site prison, solely at Ross’ discretion. Hmm….I wonder if the Accords had some provisions about imprisonment? I wonder if Tony could have used his money to hire a crack team of lawyers, including maybe some people who worked on the Guantanamo Bay cases, and would be delighted to help out some genuine heroes out of a jam!
I know I hurt you, Tony.-This should have been the first line. Not buried halfway down the letter, the very first line. Steve should have been saying, “I know I hurt you Tony, and I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” He should have realized not only that he hurt his teammate, but why.
I guess I thought by not telling you about your parents I was sparing you, but I can see now that I was really sparing myself, and I’m sorry.– You were sparing Tony?! Bullshit. Steve is actually right, here. He was sparing himself-sparing himself from having to tell Tony, “Hydra killed your parents, and used my best friend as the weapon to do it.” Tony had a right to know about that. Maybe if Steve had told Tony, Zemo’s plan never would have happened. Maybe Tony would have dealt with it, processed that, and would have helped (Tony was offering to to help in Berlin!). Maybe Tony never would have gotten over it, and told Steve to go fuck himself. We don’t know, and we never will, because Steve took that opportunity away. For someone who yelled at Tony about keeping secrets? Steve isn’t Captain Transparent.
And that I’m sorry at the end-what a crock. That should have been in every other line, at the beginning, wherever he could have shoved it in. But you know what? It’s there, it’s an emotional upswing, maybe Steve can recover with the rest of the let-
Hopefully one day you can understand-
. ….And emotional upswing, pissed down the toilet. This is the biggest piece of crap in that POS letter. “Hopefully you can understand one day Tony, that I was lying to you, hiding things from you, using your money and resources to help find my friend and equip the team and build us a new Compound,
for your own good.”
What the hell is Tony supposed to understand? That Steve Rogers is right, will always be right, and whatever he does is for the best, no matter who it harms as long as Captain America gets to be right? That sentence pisses me off to no end.
I wish we agreed on the Accords, I really do.-No, you really don’t, Steve. That’s the second biggest piece of crap in the damned letter. You don’t want to agree with Tony, hell, you don’t even want to come to some form of reasonable compromise! You want Tony to agree with you, wholeheartedly and unreservedly, and anything you say otherwise is b.s.
I know you’re doing what you believe in, and that’s all any of us can do.-”Especially since what I believe in is doing whatever I want to ‘protect’ people and fulfill my raging hero complex!”
That’s all any of us should…..– “Again, except for you Tony, because what you, your friends, and 117 countries believe in affects me, and that means it’s wrong.”
So no matter what, I promise you, if you need us – if you need me – I’ll be there.-
“Because you’re Tony Stark, and inevitably you’re going to fuck up, and you’ll have no choice but to call me in so I can save the day like always! When the Accords tie your hands, never fear, for I, Steve Rogers, shall be there to pull your ass out of the fire yet again, and I, Steve Rogers, shall be so magnanimous as to forgive you for your trespasses against me.”
As if you couldn’t tell, I have Feelings about the letter, and feel a bit better about splashing them out.
Honestly after that fucking excuse of a letter I lost all faith in Steve and he just straight up became one of the characters I actively despise.
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