Vision has no hair anywhere on his body–no armpit hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. No fingernails. His skin tastes like metal. Sometimes, he forgets to breathe for minutes or hours at a time.
Captain Marvel smells like burning. When you touch her, your hand comes away cold because she’s absorbed your body heat. If she gets cut, she bleeds light. She can tell you what the inside of an explosion feels like.
Bruce Banner vomits after de-hulking. His skin is always red and peeling. He looks sick, like he has a fever, and he ingests more medication than actual food. There are blisters on his lips.
Tony Stark has a huge, sunken scar on his sternum where the arc reactor was removed and his chest aches each time he takes a breath. He has callouses in odd places–so does the whole team, really–and there is a permanent bald spot on the back of his head where it has been cut open every time he gets thrown around in his suit.
Spider-Man sometimes forgets which way is up–if you put him in a room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling, he couldn’t tell you which is which. His hands and feet are prickly to the touch, even through his costume. He is very nearsighted.
The Scarlet Witch has no sense of boundaries; if you can’t tell she’s spying on your thoughts, why should she stop? She doesn’t do it out of any malicious intent, just out of curiosity and convenience. She never loses arguments.
Thor speaks about events that happened thousands of years ago as if they were last week. Cats arch their backs and stare at him. Something about him–his eyes, or his skin, or the way he moves–seems slightly off, like he doesn’t belong on Earth at all.
stuff like that.
Bucky struggles with aphasia and has speech pathology issues from the head injury that caused his amnesia (because let’s be honest, retrograde amnesia -without- traumatic brain injury is just a cop-out.) It’s not like he ever really had to talk while he was the winter soldier, anyway, so nobody really noticed or cared.
Erik Lensherr is consistently iron-deficient and has to take supplements because some of it gets caught in the crossfire when he uses his powers, so he bruises really easily. He’s almost constantly disoriented balance-wise, and sometimes he wakes up with many, many small coins stuck to him.
Charles HATES hospitals. He can’t deal with the sheer amount of people pleading with god for the pain to go away. Sometimes, without realizing, he answers questions people haven’t asked yet. Sometimes, he flinches a bit for no apparent reason, when people think just a little too loudly.
Apparently Marvel has partnered with Coca-Cola to make some Christmas-y videos featuring some of the Avengers’ firesides (…as to why, your guess is as good as mine).
Psst in other words Thor thinks that Steve isn’t mortal.
okay but can we talk about this for a sec? like looking at the serum, and what it does. it keeps steve’s cells in peak condition, and you know what happens when cells age? their function declines, they stop working as they should. so the serum would see that as a problem, and fix it.
so, theoretically, the serum stops steve’s cells from ageing. potentially stopping their replication completely unless it was needed to heal him (if the cells aren’t dying naturally, there’s no reason for them to replicate)
so wouldn’t that mean, therefore, that steve himself doesn’t physically age? his cells don’t decline, he doesn’t decline (in addition to the convo about whether or not steve’s hair grows, for a similar reason)
and then, take thor. thor the god, who knows so much that he doesn’t tell anyone. if anyone knew about this, thor would.
and the way he says it so offhandedly, he assumes steve knows it. but the way steve looks at him, either steve doesn’t know (or hasn’t realised) or does know and doesn’t want to be reminded about it
because an immortal surrounding themselves with mortals isn’t really a good idea if you want to keep yourself sane
Sometimes Thor likes talking to babies and dogs more than he likes talking to adult humans. They don’t have all the cynicism of adults, and they tell better stories.
small keening sounds in the distance because yes absolutely this is Thor sometimes all that cynicism is just so tiring
I feel like people insist that Thor’s making it up and he can’t really talk to babies and dogs (and sometimes cats but cats really aren’t very talkative most of the time) and Thor just kind of shrugs and is like “well if you don’t believe me” and then goes to ask that dog over there about any good stories it heard lately
The thing about cats is that they have to really like you to tell you stories. Like sometimes Thor stops by when Natasha’s not home and Liho will just blink at him, and it’s ultimately not worth the effort.
LUCKY, though, man. Lucky LOVES Thor. Lucky loves everyone, but he especially loves Thor, who solemnly told him that his missing eye must mean he’s a worthy opponent who has shown great valor in combat, and compares him to his father. AND he plays fetch. For like hours. Thor is the BEST fetch companion ever because he doesn’t get tired and he listens to all of Lucky’s stories AND he’s really good with head scritches.
If Thor were the kind of person who viewed embarrassing stories as blackmail material, Clint would be so screwed.
I’m reasonably certain your intent with this post was NOT to make me picture Thor using Mjölnir to play fetch with Lucky, but sadly that is exactly what I got out of it.
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