the artist formerly known as krusca. my fandom scribbles+wips+musings (lots o stevetony but also other ships too)
Stevetony AU 1- The Little Mermaid
first of many AUs set in diff stories/franchises that i dont have time to draw out or write so i decided i might as well share lol
Little Mermaid AU so. look i Love mermaid tony pretty tony but!!!!!
Skinny!steve as the little mermaid like. actually little!!!!! he's a scrappy lil orphan merman who gets into fights and dreams of goign somwhere different ie the surface world (omg...bucky as sebastian thecrab and sam as flounder lmao) so atlantis is on the brink of war..... with the surface world??? (like there was a war b4 that was devestating on both sides and humans/merfolks finally signed a treaty to leave each other alone and thats been kept till now when the merfolk were accused of assassinating the king&queen of the land (howard and maria stark) hence the gearing up for war.
Steve signs up to fight and hes so smaller and weaker than everyone else but Erskine the King's scientist/advisor/mage sees something in him and takes him to the King of Atlantis King Phillips (col. phillips) to bestow upon him some sort of 1 time use magical artifact that will make anyone into the mightiest warrior OR kill them if theyre not worthy enough. King Phillips is doubtful but erkine with his magicness is convinved steve can survive so the King relents and BAM steve is a perfect specimen of a merman and stronger faster more invulnerable etc etc
Atlantis and the Land kingdom get into skirmishes and small battles for about 2 years (erskine dies very early on) and King Phillips decides to engage steve to his only daughter Margaret (peggy) who is a formidable fighter in her own right. Peggy has secretly been going out with her girfriend Angie tho, she tells steve and steve understands but they cant tell King Phillips
meanwhile Prince Tony who was 16 at the time of his parents death is now 18 yrs old. Obie is the king regent and has been handling everything including the ongoing and escalating war, he just asks tony to build weapons bc prince tony is a mechanical genius. Tonys suppose to be crowned king at 18 but obie convinces him to hold off until the war is taken care of Tony hates that his inventions r being used to kill enemies of the state or no (hes seen the cruelty ppl inflict upon captured merfolk) but hes also the Prince he has to defend soon-to-be-his-kingdom. (he frees more than one capture about to be killed merfolk when he can) one night he cant take it anymore so he gets on a boat and heads into the ocean by himself. steve who was on patrol sees him and is abt to sneak around the rocks to attack when tony starts to talk out loud. he talks abt how he hates the war and fighting, he hates having blood on his hands, the weight of his responsibility as a future King. tony talks about how he wishes he could be far away from all this conflict and maybe if a merfolk were to kill him right now he wouldnt mind.
Steves hidden behind rock outcrops and listening to this guy, the supposed prince of the land. he thinks he should at least capture tony because he'd be a valuable hostage but something about him is just so sad he cant bring revealing himself tonys monologuing seems way too intimate. tony rows back to shore after a bit and steve doesnt tell anyone. steve comes out to the area during the night for the next month or two and catches tony there almost every night telling his woes to the ocean, each time tonys a little more depressed than the last and steves genuinely worried for this pretty human who builds deadly weapons and has such a lovely voice and beautful sad eyes. he keeps telling himself he'll bring tony in the next time.
One night a fierce storm is brewing and steve thinks tony wouldnt row out in this weather but he has a feeling tony might so he goes and yup tonys out there as the waves are getting huge and lightings striking and rains pouring, he makes out tony in his lil rowboat as a huge wave builds up and steve rushes forward as tonys boat is capsized. the waves and undercurrents are strong but steves really strong too thanks to his magic and he grabs tony whos already unconcious and drags him to the beach. CUE CPR!!! tony coughs and wakes up, blurrily sees steves face thru the torrent before steve knocks him out. tony wakes up the next day with a hell of a headache and a cold.
meanwhile steves freaking out because he technically kinda comitted treason by actively saving the prince of the enemy of the kingdom and also because he may be crazy in love with him.
he seeks out loki a genderfluid shapeshifting powerful seawitch to get som legs to really get to know tony cause he sees tony as his responsibility (to either stop, kidnap or kill since technically tony IS a threat to atlantis. is what he tells himself but maybe he wants to get tot know tony win tony over to his side) SO he finds loki, and loki grants him legs at the cost of extracting the magic of invulnerability and strength steve was given.
SO BAM steves all skinny and got wobbly legs! hes on the beach and naked, and tony runs into him!! tonys all like whoa the oceans dangerous dont u know theres a war going on with the merfolk also wheres ur clothes?? and steves makes up a lie abt being overthrown his ship during the storm he save tony from a few days ago and tonys like ok and gives him his robes and brings him back to the castle. cue obie being VERY suspicious, tony talking to steve abt his bff rhodey whos away on one of the further campaigns against the merfolk, steve being a sneaky lil spy, tony talking abt how he was saved by a mystery blurry figure, very big probably handsome but couldnt tell thru the rain and being knocked out, steve marvelling at the surface world and tonys genius, both of them FALLING!! IN LVOE!!!!!
they secretly release merfolk whove been caught in traps and tony talks more and more abt how he wants to end this bloodshed, even tho his parents were killed by them (supposedly. steve has doubts abt it and he investigates obie) and they're together for about a month steves legs have an expiry date & hes worrying what to do abt tony, when loki contacts him reminding him of the expiration date AND that if steve wants his powers back, he'll have to bring tony to him (for reasons he wont say) steves furious at this trickery but lokis like u shouldve read the fine print
its steves last day with legs and he and tony almost kiss but steve turns away, hes kept too much from tony, hes conflicted on if he should just give tony to loki, that way he solves tonys weapons problem and he gets the magic strength back to be the warrior for atlantis he should be. but he cant he loves tony so he slips awayto become a skinny lil mermaid again resigned to whatever happens to him. HOWEVER tony had followed steve out, saw him become a mermaid again, and hes confused shocked and hurt, he drags out his rowboat and goes after steve.
Loki pops up in front of steve, and hes all disappointed he had to give steve back his powers, whcih steve is very confused about ,until he turns around and sees tony rowing out to him. steve is horrified he tells loki he doesnt want his powers back so leave tony alone, but loki insists a deals a deal as stevev gets his buffness back, he sees tonys eyes widen in surprise because he recognizes steve as the one who saved him from the storm. and then EVERN MORE SHOCK as loki summons dark magic tentacles to drag tony down into the ocean.
Steve swims after him but nope he loses tony and Despairs
(im running outta steam but basically) loki has been in cahoots with Obie, becaise Obie summed loki from another di..mention??? to help him take over the land kingdom, and Loki wants to take over the ocean in return, Loki and obie killed off Howard& Maria and framed it on the merfolk, but Loki is a greedy lil god and was gonna create a giant Lovecraftian beast to wipe out remaining fighting forces after the humans & merfolk wipe each other out and he needed a royal body to use as the conduit to open a portal to yoink out and enslave a monster that powerful hence asking steve to being tony. So steve gets help from peggy& saves tony whos abt to be killed as sacrifice to the Dark Beings That Be, but steve has to give up the magic strength hes been imbued with to save tony & close the portal thats about to unleash all hell onto their dimension.
tony and merfolk talk and they realize what loki& obies been up to, tony get back and exposes obie, maybe asgardian folks FINALLY show up and drag loki away, peggy and angie get married, skinny! steve and tony get married and idk, maybe steve gets a gift from odin for stopping loki the lil shit, so steve and tony can shapeshift from merman to human :')))))))))) (and ofc now im thinking of a world where its more avengers based- as in Nick fury is the king of atlantis, coulson can be his advisor, clint and nat are the Kings wards or trusted bodygaurds or somthing, bruce is tonys human friend or maybe a powerful seafolk who doesnt wanna get involved but joins the final fight against loki& the cthulus, pepper is tonys advisor helper in both verses of course, maybe bucky and sam are handsome merfolk in either or both verses idk hahaha)




I'm always excited for mermaid aus! :3 Tony thinking Steve sold him out... 8D
honestly me thinkin abt The Pain and Anguish at the thought of Betrayal makes me :3ccccccccccc