Tag: maria hill

Good help is hard to find. – Feather (lalaietha) – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Original Female Character
Additional Tags: everyone wants to hire Maria Hill, Maria Hill’s terrible horrible no good very bad weeks, Maria Hill has no time for your bullshit, Pepper Potts has no time for your bullshit, Pepper Potts and her team of badass ladies, ladies in the Tower, hypercompetent women
Series: Part 1 of Settle in and find your home
Summary:

“No offense meant, but I’m not up for games, Pepper – what do you want?”

Pepper startles Maria by being just as blunt – not that Pepper plays around much, but she’s usually one for observing basic social niceties and putting the kind of lead-up to a conversation that means you more or less know where things are going. Apparently not right now. She just takes her cue from Maria instead.

“I want you to sign this,” she says, as Eva takes a folder out of her bag and leans over to place the SI-stationery file she takes out of that in front of Maria on the table, “I want you to take the job I’m offering you, and I want you to sort out the absolute fucking rats’-nest of a mess in the security and personnel end of my company. I want to make goddamn sure that nobody ever manages to do what they did on Insight Day again.”

Fic recommendation time again. You don’t need to have read the rest of the series or the connected works for this one (tho it’s a great gateway). Takes place right after Captain America: Winter Soldier and assumes that the characters are actually competent or hyper-competent people. Wonderful Maria Hill voice.  

Good help is hard to find. – Feather (lalaietha) – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

uncontinuous:

villanelleve-deactivated2018051:

You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.
#i was going to meta this but this is kind of too emotionally devastating to meta#we see the men of shield get entire movies and series of their pain and emotions#and see the women in moments like these#small quiet and private moments#and that they get mere moments to grieve just breaks my heart#it’s not that i don’t love getting to see them be lethally competent and getting stuff done because i do#but they’ve lost just as much if not more with the fall of shield#and maria’s defending its ghosts in congress#may’s keeping it together because phil’s the heart of shield now and she has to protect that#nat at least is off rebuilding herself#and i just want them to get time to grieve for themselves and what they’ve lost#maria hill#melinda may#natasha romanoff (via regionsofkindness)

I’m 95, not dead.

shardsofblu:

This is mostly just for my reference, and also because I’ve seen some reblog tags from this post which are curious on exactly how old the Avengers are. For clarity’s sake, the ages mentioned here are calculated as of the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (May 2014) and are strictly MCU canon.

Sources: 
SHIELD personnel files [x] [x] [x] [x]
A Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline

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1) Nick Fury b. December 21, 1951 (62)

2) Maria Hill b. April 3, 1980 (34)

3) Phil Coulson b. April 2, 1965 (49)

4) Clint Barton b. January 7, 1971 (43)

5) Natasha Romanoff b. November 22, 1984 (29)

6) Tony Stark b. May 29, 1970 (44)

7) Bruce Banner b. December 18, 1969 (44)

8) Steve Rogers b. July 4, 1918 (95, adjusted to 29) [1]

9) Sam Wilson N/A 

10) Bucky Barnes b. ?? 10, 1922 / 1917 (92 / 97, adjusted to ??) [2]

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[1] Steve crashed the plane and was frozen on May 6, 1945 (26). He regains consciousness on April 24, 2011 which amounted to 66 years. Therefore, his adjusted birth date is July 4, 1984 (1918+66). The Battle of New York is on May 4, 2011, just 10 days after he woke up.

[2] The SHIELD file states Bucky’s birth year as 1922, while the Smithsonian exhibit transcript states it as 1917. The exact birthday month is obstructed / not provided, so I’m defaulting it to January. Also, I haven’t the faintest idea how to adjust his age since he fell on May 5, 1945 (23 / 28), because he would be going in and out of cryo whenever they need the Winter Soldier for the last few decades. 

More good timeline meta. I do find it interesting that they are making Steve and Natasha (and maybe Bucky) age contemporaries.