Author's note for "acceptance" a "Science Boyfriends" story.

[ScereyahaDreamweaver]

My author's note is over 700 chracters, so it's going here.

Authors’ note V1:

What you may want to know before reading (skip it if you don‘t care):

This story is based in a universe very parallel to earth-616 and especially the avengers movie (marvel movie verse), with the modification and addition of details to make sense of the movie discrepancies, and the lack of coherence inherent in early comic books for both characters. Because this fiction was conceived in it’s early stages off of the movies, and the premise that Anthony and Bruce would add a physical component to their established “bro-mance”, certain very minute changes are a necessity. This is pretty much entirely end-game for both characters.

After Anthony has “bleeding edge” removed from his body and goes back to a simple power core, though in my universe he keeps some aspects of the armour and still is technically a cyborg. This is before Bruce goes totally insane on a planet by himself or becomes Maestro, but after everything else. Anthony has seen a glimpse of the universe as Odin sees it, and Bruce and him -along with some other heroes- both have recently been given a similar glimpse by the Norse fates in the implied pre-story events.

…Whatever, main point is it’s rather late in the timeline for both of them and they’re single… yeah.

Also, in this timeline I am pretending the hulk movie happened earlier in the timeline than they say it did… the timeline seems far too condensed, There should be a ten year gap in it somewhere, that I’m not seeing, to explain their changes in age, outlook and especially Loki‘s character progression (unrelated to this story). Besides that “In my youth I courted war.” is not something you say about what you did last summer.

…So I guess that all makes them both somewhere in their forties-fifties-ish… chronologically, older than that mentally, and significantly young for their ages physically, Bruce more than Anthony, since he doesn’t really age, at least not as we think of aging.

And there we have what I am now, temporarily, dubbing: Scereyaha - Earth

But, as a humorous side note, let me tell you, as much as I loved how they seemed to get along, and given as I am to writing smut about compatible male characters, I actually had to have it suggested to me that they would be a good couple for the idea to have occurred. I have always just thought of them both as very straight. (which, by the way, made me feel really awkward when I suddenly realized I was about to get down to the sexy part… and realized I suddenly had to write them as totally gay for each other… and was probably going to like it… a lot) So when I read that an early live action TV show based on the hulk changed Bruce’s first name, because they thought that Bruce Banner sounded “like a gay character name” I fell over laughing, almost as hard as Tom Hiddleston saying “boner” 20 times in an ill-conceived TV interview. Never-minding the fact that Bruce is one of the most masculine sounding names I‘ve heard… but then, humans have funny ideas about a lot of things… especially in the 60’s and 70’s… *sigh* but anyways…

… my apologies if I start off with a predictable enough scenario… this did just start as an excuse for some slashy fiction for a friend of mine who has been really patient about my smart-ass-ery and my inability to keep things short and sweet.

Warnings: Adult themes and imagery, some gore, mild violence, sex between two men, lots of internal dialogue, occasional harsh language, gratuitous erotic scenes, discussions of depression, addictions and mental instability.
The story is fully written. I intend to release it one piece at a time. I have broken it into something resembling chapters. It is over 60,000 words long in total with 8 main slashy scenes, and probably 11-13 acts or scenes total.

It was mostly written because I wanted a couple that I and a friend of mine were both familiar with, so I could write something that she could enjoy, and I can relate well enough to both characters that I felt I could write for them well. I find their dynamic to be always inspiring, even as it changes all the time. She expressed some exasperation with authors always writing Bruce as submissive -and usually also passive, I think- and so I had some fun playing with different ways this relationship could play out sexually.

As always, I want feedback. That is what I do this for, feedback. I haven't, in the past, received very much, so please review.

[RogueMudblood]

Author's notes more properly belong in one of these sub-forums (given your stated fandom).

[DemonGoddess]

moving it..