One of my Straw Hat headcanons is that when the crew learns about how Luffy got his scar under his eye, they all immediately revaluate their impression of Shanks like the true mother hens they are.
Especially after the 2 year time skip, the crew treats Luffy like the treasure he is to them, and when he eventually starts talking about his childhood, it's one of the first stories to be told. They know, of course about how he was given the hat, but this story falls a little before.
"Your main form of supervision as a toddler -
"I was seven!"
"A toddler - was a highly questionable, often drunk or definitely hungover pirate captain who left you unsupervised with a knife?"
"There was Makino too!"
"And we acknowledge that Makino is a gift unto this world -"
"Damn Ussop, really pulling out the stops there."
"Quiet! But anyways, this explains so much."
"Emperor of the sea? So what, you're one too! We need to have a talk about how he chooses to care for children."
"Wait 'till I tell you all about Uta!"
"WHO?!"
Fast forward a few years and Shanks is very confused as to why Luffy's crew seems prickly towards him, and overall not that impressed. Why are they muttering when they see him? Why don't they leave Luffy alone with him? Why do they seem disappointed? Ben, on the other hand, is just thankful that someone finally gets it.
A very brief turn by Frazer Hines, as stable hand Jem, in Peter Diamond's pilot for a proposed adventure series Lochinvar (1968). There was little interest in the pilot or any subsequent series, and ultimately the sole filmed episode was never transmitted - it survived in the hands of director/producer Diamond until his family donated the film stock to Kaleidoscope a few years ago.
THE WORLD UNSEEN (2007)
dir. Shamim Sarif
In 1950s Cape Town, progressive and free Amina co-owns a cafe with a black man named Jacob. One day, a beautiful housewife named Miriam visits the cafe, and Amina is instantly smitten. Miriam runs a store outside of town with her husband, Omar, and feels increasingly stifled in her conventional life. She cannot help but give in to her desire when Amina comes calling.
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Ok, been sitting on this for a while, been trying to talk myself out of it, but here goes.
The book doesn't sell me on the love Theoden had for Eowyn.
I tried to read it and find something in his actions towards her that tell me he has proper regard, proper respect for her, that gives any weight or meaning to his love for her, but I can't find anything. He dismisses her before the entire court, doesn't consider her an heir or a proper part of his house, and has to have her virtues called out to him by other people, when she has been serving him for years.
Return Of The King sees him spout platitudes and declare her "dearer than daughter", but none of this is backed up by his general actions to her.
He loves Eowyn, fine. But he doesn't love her the way he loves Eomer, or probably loved Theodred. He doesn't love her as a fully realised being. Nor as someone to take pride in and carry on his legacy. He loves her a crutch, a tool, and something between pet and person.
He has affection for Eowyn, but his love feels more like a trivial thing, than something with any real worth or regard to it.
“Are you stealing my CEO, Rogers?”
“What?” Almost against his will, Steve grinned. “What are you talking about, Tony?”
“It’s a reasonable conclusion,” Tony said, his tone arch. “When I find out that my beautiful ex-lover is in a secret tete-a-tete with my equally gorgeous current lover, it’s clear that they’re forming a new company to destroy me financially.”
Tony and Steve (chp. 4)
Things Unseen (That Are Captured on Film) by scifigrl47 (AO3)
Avengers (Marvel Movies) – Mature – Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
#Alternate Universe #Humor #Developing Relationship #History #Buried Past #Family #Domestic #Fluff #The Toaster Series
In which the Avengers discover the video footage of Tony testing the Iron Man armor, and that goes about as well as it could be expected. Steve Rogers attempts to make peace with his lover’s rather cavalier attitude to his health and safety, and starts learning more about Tony’s family along the way, both the one he was born into, and the one he’s chosen. And, of course, the one that’s chosen him.
Subtitled: It’s all Clint’s fault. No one is surprised.
Part 5 of the In Which Tony Stark Builds Himself Some Friends (But His Family Was Assigned by Nick Fury) series (AO3) aka The Toaster Series aka The Roomba Army of Doom series