[ SECRET POST #3154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3154 ⌋

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Comments

[nightscale]

There is probably some truth to this, but I've also noticed that there are a lot of multi-shippers in the MCU fandom so I think there are plenty of people who love Steve/Peggy while also loving another Steve/someone ship as well.

I don't ship it myself but I thought it was sweet and I did feel for the both of them not getting their chance together.

[(Anonymous)]

I am always the first to look down on fandom for giving in to its worst instincts, but in this case, I think the love for Peggy isn't just an excuse to pretend folks aren't all about the two pretty white boys. CA:TFA gave them a tragic past, but didn't fill out her character much. CA:TWS gave them a nuanced, painful present, and most of all, Agent Carter made Peggy three-dimensional. She's the kind of heroine people are always complaining we don't get enough of: brilliant but flawed, powerful yet feminine, the whole package. Adding that element of unrequited tragic love, in her case, doesn't feel like just another cheap trope, it feels genuine and powerful, because her character's solid enough to support it.

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Also Agent Carter made her eminently slashable herself, always a good way to elevate one's standing in fandom's eyes.

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I agree with all of this: my only not is your use of "unrequited" as I'd say peggy and Steve were quite requited. If you mean consummated, then yeah, I'd say, given the era and their characters, probably not.

I like that Peggy did move on (at least in MCU, I don't know about the comics). She married, and perhaps had children (there's no way to know, in that photograph of Peggy with the kids, if Peggy is their mother or aunt (or who knows, maybe they're Angie's kids?)