#one of whose agents passed secret bombsight plans hidden in the wooden casing of... an umbrella

[amarriageoftrueminds]

from a post in my drafts simply labelled

‘Notes: Car Convo = Stupid Bad'

these supposed lovebirds have come from Jersey without speaking? 

this is the second time they’ve been in a car together but have still never spoken? 

Steve is nevertheless still talking to himself 🤣

Peggy (who has never spoken to him so therefore obviously doesn’t know him) asks Steve Rogers if he runs away from fights??

Steve’s characterisation completely misses the point that he doesn’t stand up for himself, he stands up for others

Peggy claims to know a little of what it’s like to have ‘every door shut in [her] face’ 

(despite never having any doors shut in her face, being an UC WASP English woman talking to a working class Catholic Irishman, and this being followed by a scene in which literally every person they meet opens every door in Peggy’s path for her. 🤦🏼‍♀️)

Steve out of nowhere segues right into a Neg (’what’s a girl doing in the army?’) 

Peggy snaps back at him ‘why, is this ur first time talking to one??’ 

(if this was a modern AU and this scene were playing out in a comic book store, Steve would be the fedora tippin’ ‘Nice Guy’ incel geek trying to gatekeep the ~Female; but according to Marvel this is ~Romance, Actually). 

as a short, disabled, and obviously Therefore unfuckable man, Steve then embarks on an Pick-up Artist Incel Mope to lure his prey

Peggy comes back with a ‘wow ur so pathetic, I mean, sounds fake but it’s almost sweet?’ 

Steve then says he doesn’t want to date anyway, finds women terrifying, and thinks dating doesn’t even matter, not until he has the right partner

implying either that he is waiting until his ‘right’ partner is ready, ie. he already has one in mind, or that he still hasn’t met the right person... which rules out her, OR that he’s full of shit and his pick-up gambit failed, since:

Peggy doesn’t ask him out

because she doesn’t want to date him

but she does pull a further series of ‘aw that’s so sad it’s almost sweet’ facial expressions like a doting mother taking her son into a doctor’s appointment

wildly OOC for Steve (who is v private and not used to talking to women, he says) to immediately start discussing the private details of his inner life / lovelife with someone he’s literally never spoken to before? it’s like a badfic scene

wtf is the driver doing/thinking this whole time?? is he deaf? mute?? just creeped out??

#long post #catfa meta #steve meta #steve rogers #antipeggy #anti st*ggy #dat's me #p*ggy meta #mcu meta #meta #MCU #also funfact: about the code line about an umbrella which p uses to get let into the brooklyn lab #in 1941 the Nazi ‘Duquesne’ Spy Ring was busted operating in Brooklyn #one of whose agents passed secret bombsight plans hidden in the wooden casing of... an umbrella #[ Cynthia Glass-ness intensifies ] #yet each man queues the thing he loves