Because Peggy!

Also, that response is just brilliant

when you spend years at an academy that venerates the SSR and its founding members and then WHOOP there's The Founder in the flesh without a speck of gray hair

bit of a fanboy. It's terribly adorable

look he just wants to do her laundry

that's not weird right

WOW don't THROW him at her. What if she doesn't duck in time and you give her a concussion?

she is Peggy Carter. She will always duck in time.

Peggy Carter is perfect

^ this is true

legit though I used to write Fitz like this at every Avenger and then he interacted with them enough to be moody and prickly

he almost never gets to have this reverence anymore

awww, well, he should eat it up

While he can.

he won't but I will

lol

lmao fitz

who is this Peggy? Peggy is gold and Fitz is a cinnamon roll

marymoo

oh hair

hai*

OH a ping hello yes

suddenly feeling like I should clean up a little since guests are over

Peggy is sus and I love her

hello!

I love Fitz

/lightly dares to press the friend button

man though just thinking aloud into the void, but I was thinking earlier about whether to get into the weeds of crau and whether that would impact how Fitz would interact with a brand new Peggy since he was so close to one forever ago (the interaction was largely positive and he got to make her all kinds of cool retro spy stuff)

but I really do think he's so far removed from the previous setting that he's just like "oh no that wasn't real my mind is just Swiss cheese and I have a lot of false memories"

and that's kind of tragic but also a thing he will never ever talk about out loud?

just things I think about, considering how it's canon that he was having hallucinations for three solid years and didn't think it was worth bothering anyone about it

just casually like "oh I'm not well. it's fine I'll just read some books about mental health and try to deal with it on my own"

too convoluted to even pitch at someone for thread purposes, even

then if we're using the full canon timeline it just never comes up again until the very end of the series when it's like "we need to do a partial mindwipe to protect a secret hey let's not do that to Fitz. his mind will probably shatter let's just grab a different volunteer instead"

NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE IN THIS just tldring