Feeling like I should do something? But also feeling like I should lay more groundwork and spend more time building a support circle

everything is on fire and he's lowkey like "OK but I could use some apple pie and fireworks for just today "

everything in his life stops to celebrate America

Chill out with a beer and watch the fire falling from the sky??

omg actually yes

"tonight, these are fireworks"

tries to find a radio station playing "America the Beautiful"

listen Zari feels deeply betrayed by the United States, but she would try to make an apple pie bc birthday!!

climbs up to the roof Respectfully

milanobutterfly: Zari

he has been known to have fistfights with people who don't love America, but surely he can be civil

Steven on the network: Can anyone bake me a pie?

Steve i mean

LOL I thought of that

"tries to work the fancy radio just for this"

do it do it do it

get that ac out of the way early

hahahaha MAYBE if I can get done with this thing I'm working on that'seaten up my entire weekend

Would you like to play some out side game psl with my Bucky for the birthday

Only Henry gets away with calling him Steven also Henry has mixed feels about America

I would politely decline that for time management reasons

but thank you for the offer!

I'm just a little Booked on the rp front

it's event-writing season in these parts

she won't bring it up on his birthday but, she has a very good reason she'll talk about some other day.

that would be a fun discussion

The good news is, there are people in Pen who already know it's Steve's birthday.

but is Nat the only one who knows that and also knows this Steve

She tries to make him something. It's so sad that other people have to help her in the kitchen.

"What are you making?"

"Pie?"

"That... isn't pie crust. Is that an apple dumpling?"

Steve knows it’s Steve’s birthday XD if you’d like, he’d totally have planned to drag him into anything else that happens XD Or just to do a little private thing. MCU Steve doesn’t actually go for the giant parties if given much choice XD

oh little steve does not trust big steve at all

he is very condescending

He wasn’t trying to be! /sads all over

Oh well XD

Natasha tries to make two apple pies for two Steves, fails spectacularly at both.

it's the comments he makes! all the "aww hey little buddy, how's your little life going" and little steve, being hypersensitive about his size, is like "YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME????"

big steve is basically leaning into the biggest insecurity little Steve has

the more he tries to come across as a sweet giant, the more little steve wants to punch him

Little Steve is welcome to punch! He’d probably get hurt but he could try |D

I mean yeah but if you want to establish friendly, positive CR, you might want to rethink the approach

little steve responds well when he's treated as an equal. Which is hilarious because he's so sanctimonious

but that's probably something big steve would already know

since he's BEEN that little yappy fighty kid

Yep. He’s trying to do that actually, he just hasn’t succeeded yet |D

How small is little Steve?

the internet says "According to the Captain America exhibit in the MCU, Steve was only 5'4 and weighed 95 pounds pre-serum"

thanks internet for paying that much attention to establishing shots

which tbh means little steve is 4 inches taller than me

so maybe he should stop crying about it

Yeah, he's 5'4 that's a perfectly good height to be.

Still taller than Scarlett Johansson.

big steve really wants to be friends! he's just bad at it since he's basically everything little steve isn't and even when he tries to be a good it's not helpful |D

I, out of character, told you, out of character, what would need to happen in a thread to drive it in the direction we want it to go

i know. he's trying. it'll go how it goes! <3

PHEW okay posted the FAQ update now I don't have to be sketchy about why I was like "what is time"

Yay!

I'm do tired and done with code

I'll be good to not look at HTML again for a long while