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I am reminded that immediately after seeing Wonder Woman, I really wanted to write a fic with her and Steve in some way, shippy or otherwise. I mean, we know Diana is canonically bi, so we can even have a lovely threesome with Peggy, or they can just be friends, or she and Peggy can be together and Steve can sigh after them both. There are just so many possibilities. But I think she’d be good for him. The fact that she chooses love, that she chooses hope, I think that would be really good for Steve. He’s already a jaded little cuss even before he joins the army, and then going in and having to see what war has done to Bucky, to his men, I think the light Diana could show him would be something he’d really latch onto, a way of looking at the world that wasn’t completely hopeless or angry. Imagine what good it would’ve done him coming out of the ice, to have a little of that hope, especially if it were magnified by her finding him again.
“I heard there was a man in the ice.”
“Ma’am, who are you? You can’t just–”
Fury: “Yes, she can.”
Steve: “Diana?”
(And then likemymask said: To derail a bit, would that mean Tony would have Diana as another pseudo-aunt like Peggy? Cause then that first meeting between Cap and Iron Man would have gone a lot different in Avengers.
(How much do you wanna bet that Steve went in just as angry/resentful of Tony as Tony went in about “the guy my dad never shut up about” due to the Romanoff Report on Tony from IM2/all the vids of Tony flipping off a Senate subcommittee meeting…which probs would have made Steve like him, come to think of it.)
(Tony would have grown up hearing about too-stubborn-to-die, rules-are-for-people-not-me punk Steve, not the Captain up on Howard’s pedestal and felt good about knowing that even the small can win. Steve would have heard about baby Anthony, so smart and so alone, being constantly compared to a man who doesn’t really exist and been reminded of how everyone likes to forget tinyfighter!Steve existed))
(Just gonna bump this to another ask thread so it doesn’t get too long.)
This could go two ways, and to get to either direction, I think the starting path is relatively the same:
It’s implied in the DCU that Diana kind of fades into the ether and keeps a lower profile. This might be for many reasons, both external and internal. She was only involved in WWI for a very short time, and she was a lady to boot, so it’s very possible that command did not want it getting out that some female and some random spy saved them from a gas bombing. I think her involvement in WWII would then also be very under-the-radar. She’s living in France in modern-day DCU, so maybe moved there after WWI, and maybe she even helped rebuild that little town that was destroyed by the gas. Following that, she’d become a member of the French Resistance when Germany invaded. But it strikes me that she’s not terribly impressed by the men who wage war, and so any involvement she has with the Commandos and any of the Allied armies is on her terms and not under the umbrella of the military.
Now comes the split:
Way 1) THE NO ROMANCE WITH PEGGY WAY: For me, this means Diana is very much her own agent and likely disappears again after WWII. She may have fond feelings for the remaining Commandos and Howard Stark, but she’s not necessarily directly involved with them and because she’s not an agent of the Allies, she’s not going to go back to headquarters to keep fighting the war. This means she’d essentially (and probably purposefully, given that she doesn’t age) let the relationships fade away and only turn up when she found out Steve had been recovered. So in that scenario, no Aunt Diana, although potentially stories about her awesomeness would get passed on to Tony.
Way 2) THE ROMANCE WITH PEGGY WAY: In this, we definitely have Awesome Aunt Diana alongside Awesome Aunt Peggy, and given that we know how Diana feels about babies, I can’t imagine her not looking in on Tony even if Peggy is busy with running SHIELD. I feel like Diana’s presence in the Stark household would definitely soften many things, not least of all Howard, and her presence would also give Tony a second ally, an ally who is very invested in making sure Tony has a happy childhood and that he grows up to be a good man (he is already, but he’d be himself with less of that caustic “Fuck you” attitude). I think then it would go much like you describe, with less vitriol from Tony and Diana quietly in the background telling Steve everything Tony’s been through that he might not have known otherwise.
