#how did they get from bitter rivals to besties-married in tgm?

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i love your insight! i don't read other fics so i'm mostly just invented in the world you created. super excited for the slider one shot!! anyway the memoir is from 2020, but this is something he apparently came up with in 1986 while filming because he was frustrated by the lack of character depth ice had and was just out of juilliard and essentially forced to be in top gun. so tgm ice is completely separate. he says he made up a backstory for ice, played up the rivalry between him and tom on set on purposed in true method fashion and had these dreams about ice which is what inspired him to do the bite in the locker room scene which was improv. he talks about it in the 2021 doc as well.

ahh i see. i hadn’t read it or seen the doc & this is super interesting! Val & i are united in our common task

#my absolute most controversial unpopular top gun opinion is i hate The Bite so maybe val and i are not united in our attempt to deepen ice. #maybe we are sworn enemies. #but YES tgm ice is completely separate #the very simple original question i set out to answer when i started writing my fic was— #how did they get from bitter rivals to besties-married in tgm? #& then it turned into my fic series which poses its own set of complicated questions obviously #so my analysis is incredibly biased by my own writing TRYING to unify the two ices so don’t like take it super seriously #asks