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After Goose’s death, Maverick has nowhere left to turn. Haunted by powers he barely understands, shunned by a Navy that mistrusts what it can’t control, he teeters between defiance and despair. But when Ice refuses to let him spiral away, Maverick begins a reluctant, uneven path toward reckoning with his heritage: a son of Death, raised in secrecy, now forced to face what that means for the living.
In which Maverick discovers the only thing stronger than Death’s pull is the hand that refuses to let go.
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- Part 13 of Assorted Top Gun Tales
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15 Sep 2025
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Mav squeezes his eyes shut and tries to remember.
They’d stumbled into the toilet, entangled in each other’s arms and laughing into each other’s mouths and then- and then-
There’s absolutely nothing, Mav thinks in horror as he stares at Slider snoring next to him, worse than sleeping with your ex-boyfriend’s best friend.
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An ill-fated tryst, a birthday party for his adorable godson, his ex-boyfriend and one-night fling in the same room. What can go wrong for Mav? (Answer: a lot. A lot can go wrong.)
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20 Aug 2025
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Maverick expects to wake up in the hospital room, preferably later in the day, seeing as it’s supposed to be Saturday. Key word supposed. Instead, he wakes up in the same position as the day before, drool leaking onto the page about in-flight engine fires. He stares in shock at the NATOPS, the beeping of the alarm clock fading into the background as panic rises in his throat.
No. No, this could not be happening. There had to be some other explanation for it, some other, better explanation for this other than–
“It’s like, you wake up, and suddenly you feel important; you feel a rush,” Goose had explained to him, rather drunkenly, when he had asked him about how he knew that he and Carole were soulmates. “It’s like that, every day.”
“You’re lucky, though, you only had to live through five iterations,” Maverick had remarked, nursing a beer of his own.
“I’m lucky for a lot of reasons,” His RIO had responded, his eyes drifting from Maverick and towards Carole and Bradley in their kitchen.
Fuck.
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18 Aug 2025
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Improving Officer Efficiency: The Hansen Marriage Initiative by pseudochakra
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
15 Aug 2025
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Admiral Hansen has spent a lot of time and money figuring out the best way to improve officer efficiency. Unfortunately, Maverick doesn't read his paperwork. Even more unfortunate, Iceman only skimmed his.
I give you, the Icemav marriage of inconvenience fic.
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17 Aug 2025
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Jake fumbled the ball in his hand as he looked up to meet the passing gaze of his second stranger for the evening. Every bit of air rushed out of the room. His heartbeat roared loud in his ears. The belated, inordinately loud thunk from the ball hitting the table made him flinch, but he was grateful for the distraction it provided to tear his gaze away from dark, soulful eyes and outdated moustaches.
or... when Bradley and Jake’s best friends start dating it just makes sense that they’d also start hanging out, that's all there is to it
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16 Aug 2025