possible endgame spoilers - the dr strange open post.

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give me mcus or au your crosscanons into the mcu or weird space cross-dimensional magic them there I'm easy I just want to play a magical, magical man with too many responsibilities who is also a shit

pre-IW, post-endgame, an au where everything's simpler, weird side pocket universes or suspended states where characters can have some chats, space, the sanctum, post-ml au for those who are/have been in a game with me, etc. the world is your oyster and any kind of thread starter or thread genre is fair play.

drop me a starter or a prompt or just a theme/genre or idea in the body of the comment, or leave it empty and give me free rein, I'll come back at you when I have the get up and go.

please also let me know whether or not you'd be happy to have spoilery themes involved in the thread if the tag-in doesn't already make it obvious.

thanks let's get MAGIC and STRESSED

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[ in the quiet, Stephen sinks further into the water. a lift of his hand summons jars of salts and oils, petals and potions. it's ostentatious, perhaps. but he's not going to deny his muscles their medicine, or his mind its small pleasures.

then she starts in on Stark, and he goes stiff. ]

I don't think anyone would appreciate you calling him my friend.

[ they knew each other for barely any time at all... not counting the millions of parallel lives lived out in his head. and those can't count given the choice he made as a result.

he eases again. pulls on the shroud of mild humour, some forced lightness returning to his tone. like this has all been an odd game of dice. like he's played the odds and won, but not without placing some difficult bets along the way. ]

I don't know that I deserve a medal for successfully committing to a lever-pull in the trolley problem.

[ the choice was clear. for as much of a hole one man's life will leave for the people left behind, that pain is inevitably less than itself multiplied by billions. Tony Stark had his own choice to make when Stephen gave the signal and the cost of that choice was far too high. but he saw the odds. and he made the same decision.

there's no credit Strange could possibly be owed. ]