selenak

Dear writer, thank you so much for participating in this challenge and creating a story for me. I included some prompts in my requests. Know that if none of these speaks to you, you can still make me happy simply by "Peggy and Jarvis fight crime" case fic. My prompts tend to go in a gen direction, but I'm not averse to shipping, either slash or het or multi, provided you don't put down another another relationship in your story. What I am averse to is character bashing: by which I don't mean character A having a bad opinion of character B, if this is the case in canon or can be extrapolated from it, plus one of my prompts involves villains in central roles, and these people are canonically responsible for horrendous acts. However, there is a difference between that and "ugh, X is the WORST, says every other character ever" type of storytelling, and I trust you, writer, are able to see it.

Re: all the characters not named in my prompts - I'm an ensemble fan and fond of everyone, though of course I have my favourites. Still, just because they're not listed doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading about them, though if you want to work your own favourite into one of the prompts in a prominent role, go ahead, as long as my listed characters have one, too.

Fenhoff/Ivchenko aka Faustus as presented in the show fascinates me. I'd love a story exploring his development from Doctor intent on helping people (flashback with the soldier) to ruthless organizer of massacres. Finnau obviously played a key role, but was he with Leviathan before or after that? How much or little does he identify with them aside from his revenge goal? What is his relationship with Dottie and the other Widows like (who joined as children, long before he did, and he was her prisoner at one point, and yet he seems to be her superior in their operation)? When he meets Zola in the cell: right wing clichés not withstanding, Nazis and Stalinist Communists aren't interchangeable, especially directly after a war that killed more Soviet citizens than members of any other nations. So how does their eventual alliance come about?

I think I might have read about half a page or so of the comicverse character, if that, so any comicverse canon would be lost on me. It's the show character that interests me, and whom I'd like to see featured in a prominent role. Lastly: yes, it's entirely possible Ivchenko/Fenhoff's techniques were used in the Winter Soldier programming. If you want to use that, fine - BUT I'd rather the story not be about Bucky, with Ivchenko getting half a line.

Second idea: Anything about the Jarvises and Howard Stark starting their lives together. Howard, as opposed to Tony, didn't grow up with servants, and being close to them wouldn't have come automatically, rather the contrary, given Howard recreated his entire persona for the public. By the time Peggy meets Jarvis, Howard seems to trust him enormously (more than Peggy even, since Jarvis actually knows about Steve's blood), and Ana is utterly comfortable living in the house of a famous lothario. We only know Howard helped Edwin because they'd already met and liked each other, but how did that translate into making Edwin Jarvis his Pepper Potts for both of them? Ana at first probably was glad to be safe and have the chance to live without financial worries in the US, but what did she make of Howard once she got to know him, and what did she think of the two of them managing the Stark household as a life time task? If you want to follow the story into the show era and beyond: How tempted is Edwin to work for Peggy full time (which Howard says he'd understand) instead, and Ana? Why don't they?

I share the fanon/extrapolation from canon about Howard being Jewish. You don't have to, but if you do: does this impact on his relationship with Ana, or hers with him?

If you want to include Maria and Tony into the story, by all means, but please avoid the "Howard was the worst father ever" cliché.

Jason Wilkes: he and Howard hit it off in season 2. Does he take Howard up on the job offer? (And if so, how much due to not getting comparable offers given he's a black man in the 50s, and how much because he actually wants to work with Howard?) Does he talk with him about guilt, given what he, Jason, did/almost did, and given Howard has his own guilt issues (scientific and otherwise)? They both are aware of Whitney's genius: do they talk about her? I wouldn't put it past Howard to speculate loudly about how maybe, if she could be restored to sanity, etc. - how does Jason react, who had a far closer look? Or, lightheartedly: how about that shared swimming? Friendship or slash are equally welcome.