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    “Wait. Why is your callsign Rooster, anyway?”

    Phoenix snorts beer up her nose.

    or, what happens when Hangman doesn't know how to quit when he's ahead.

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    18 Mar 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    (everything is clear in the rearview mirror, the coast highway and the golden hour
    everything fits when you tell your story, the blurry portraits in the halls of former loves gone
    but nothing was lost)

    Maverick doesn’t have a home, never has, never planned to, but he has people that feel like it. Assembling a family like mismatched puzzle-pieces snapping together comes unnaturally to a boy who'd bounced throughout foster care and early adulthood like some unwanted stray, but they fit together anyway, and as quickly as he learns to hold them together, he learns what happens when they are ripped apart. Even in loss, there is solace, though; there are memories and polaroids and the grace that Maverick carries those things with, forever and always. There is a photo collage, like a constellation of love on the wall, and everything that it implies- the reminder that families, by nature, are strong, and hard to break; and that the ones Maverick is dedicated to keeping are somehow even stronger.

    ~welcome to star's silly lil top gun cinematic universe, branching out from time takes no prisoners (you'll see) to share everyone's stories 💗~

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    16 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Iconic, thorough character study. Saved in nook

  3. Public Bookmark 64

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    “I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the way you touched me on the beach.”

    Oh, is that how it is? Rooster feels his mouth tugging up into a smirk; Bob freezes like a prey animal and it shouldn’t be turning Rooster on, but here they are.

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    14 Mar 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    12 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    In two parts, good version of Jake's backstory. Gives a lot of depth of character. Things referenced in Rooster are explained in Hangman.

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    Callsigns are a tricky business, both ultimate weakness and greatest strength. These are some loosely connected vignettes around how Hangman earned his noose, for the good and the ill of it.

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    12 Mar 2024