Story: "Green Eggs and Hulk" Part 2
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ysabetwordsmithThis story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""Saudades," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," and "Happy Hour."
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Bruce Banner, Hulk, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanova, Clint Barton.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Canon-typical violence. This story is mostly fluff.
Summary: The Avengers fight some giant birds. After smashing the ones on the ground, Hulk gets bored. Agent Coulson reads him a story.
Notes: Birds. Teamwork. Team as family. Friendship. Multiplicity/Plurality. Communication. Anger management issues. Storytelling. Reading. Books. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Love. Bruce Banner needs a hug. Hulk needs a hug. #coulsonlives.
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"Green Eggs and Hulk" Part 2
"Uh-huh," Hulk says to Agent. He wants company. Hulk watches clouds some more. Come. Go. Nice day, but boring after fight. Hulk does not know what to do with himself. Maybe team will help.
Agent comes, talking to air. "Yes, well, with so many of the major organizations crippled, the small-timers are coming out of the woodwork," he says. "We knew this would happen. Just seal up the lab and wait for the survey team."
Hulk tips his head. Bruce is thinking hard in back of their mind. Birds. Dinosaurs. Eggs. Trouble. Worry-worry-worry.
"Jurassic Park," Hulk says carefully.
"And tell the survey team to check for genetic engineering, possibly using contemporary species to reconstruct extinct ones. Thank god it's only terror birds and not a T-rex," says Agent. "Make sure you find all the eggs."
"Hi," Hulk says. He likes Agent a lot.
"Hi," says Agent. "Did you have fun smashing? You did a great job."
"Uh-huh," Hulk says, grinning. Nice words feel good.
"How many birds did you smash?" Agent asks.
"One, two, three," Hulk counts, holding out his fingers. More? Hulk thinks. He tries to remember words for more. Words are hard.
"Good for you. I think you got more than three, through," Agent says. He counts more fingers. "Four, five, six, seven, eight. Tell me again. How many birds did you smash?"
Hulk unfolds his fingers until his hands look like Agent hands. "Four, five, six, seven, eight," he says.
"Good boy!" Agent says. Hulk grins at him.
Birdie comes. "Nothing happening in the sky, so I came down to walk Black Widow to the ambulance," he says. "Figured I could keep Hulk company now."
"Red okay?" Hulk asks. Inside him, Bruce worries. Hulk worries too. He remembers blood smell and Red limping.
"Yeah, it's just a scratch; a few stitches and she'll be fine," Birdie says.
"Bad Hulk-birds," says Hulk. He remembers that Red heals fast. Bruce is not worried now. Hulk is not so worried but still angry at birds.
"Well, they won't bother anyone again. You sure smashed them flat," Birdie says, looking around at sticky piles of feathers.
Then Hulk smells something other than blood, feathers, and dust. He lifts his head, trying to find it.
"Did you hear something?" Agent asks.
"Smell suit," Hulk grumbles. Hulk does not like suits much. They are mean to Hulk. Sometimes they are mean to Birdie too. That is fault of bad man but also Hulk. Now Hulk is sorry for smash. Suits do not care about sorry. Two suits walk down street. Hulk glares at them.
"Be good, Hulk," says Agent. "Smith and Jones are nice."
Hulk sniffs them. They do not smell mean. They smell like food. Hulk remembers them now. These two do not pick on Hulk and Birdie. "Okay suit," he says. His tummy rumbles.
"Smith, Jones, what have you got?" Agent asks.
"Snacks and drinks," says Smith. He carries things that smell good.
"Ground patrol confirms no more hostiles on the loose here. SHIELD is sending some air support for Iron Man, who found two more condors," says Jones. "It could be a while before the whole op sounds all-clear. We thought you guys might get hungry."
* * *
Notes:
A power vacuum can occur any time the most influential individual, group, or aggregate disappears from the top of the heap. This is why arresting drug lords doesn't always help. The evil power vacuum is an entertainment trope. After doing major damage to several of the global nemesis factions, the Avengers are left playing whack-a-mole with lesser adversaries.
Jurassic Park features reconstructed dinosaurs which wreak havoc on snack-sized humans. That Bruce can discern the similarity of events, and pass this information to Hulk to relay to the team, is a big improvement in their cooperation.
Early math skills include things like recognizing more or less of something. Toddlers should be able to count small numbers, recognize shapes and colors, etc. It helps to play counting games. Here you can see that Hulk has a low starting point, because of his awful childhood and poor opportunities -- but as soon as someone coaches him, he picks up new information quickly.
Most humans are either sight, hearing, or touch dominant. Hulk has enhanced senses, and uses his nose much the way a dog does, far more than humans typically do. Animals can smell pheromones associated with such things as fear, aggression, or arousal; although it works better within their own species than a different one. In comic canon, Hulk and relatives, such as Red Hulk, have been mentioned with enhanced senses. Bruce's quote -- "I'm exposed, like a nerve. It's a nightmare." -- supports this interpretation.
[To be continued in Part 3 ...]
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Bruce Banner, Hulk, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanova, Clint Barton.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Canon-typical violence. This story is mostly fluff.
Summary: The Avengers fight some giant birds. After smashing the ones on the ground, Hulk gets bored. Agent Coulson reads him a story.
Notes: Birds. Teamwork. Team as family. Friendship. Multiplicity/Plurality. Communication. Anger management issues. Storytelling. Reading. Books. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Love. Bruce Banner needs a hug. Hulk needs a hug. #coulsonlives.
Begin with Part 1. Skip to Part 4.
"Green Eggs and Hulk" Part 2
"Uh-huh," Hulk says to Agent. He wants company. Hulk watches clouds some more. Come. Go. Nice day, but boring after fight. Hulk does not know what to do with himself. Maybe team will help.
Agent comes, talking to air. "Yes, well, with so many of the major organizations crippled, the small-timers are coming out of the woodwork," he says. "We knew this would happen. Just seal up the lab and wait for the survey team."
Hulk tips his head. Bruce is thinking hard in back of their mind. Birds. Dinosaurs. Eggs. Trouble. Worry-worry-worry.
"Jurassic Park," Hulk says carefully.
"And tell the survey team to check for genetic engineering, possibly using contemporary species to reconstruct extinct ones. Thank god it's only terror birds and not a T-rex," says Agent. "Make sure you find all the eggs."
"Hi," Hulk says. He likes Agent a lot.
"Hi," says Agent. "Did you have fun smashing? You did a great job."
"Uh-huh," Hulk says, grinning. Nice words feel good.
"How many birds did you smash?" Agent asks.
"One, two, three," Hulk counts, holding out his fingers. More? Hulk thinks. He tries to remember words for more. Words are hard.
"Good for you. I think you got more than three, through," Agent says. He counts more fingers. "Four, five, six, seven, eight. Tell me again. How many birds did you smash?"
Hulk unfolds his fingers until his hands look like Agent hands. "Four, five, six, seven, eight," he says.
"Good boy!" Agent says. Hulk grins at him.
Birdie comes. "Nothing happening in the sky, so I came down to walk Black Widow to the ambulance," he says. "Figured I could keep Hulk company now."
"Red okay?" Hulk asks. Inside him, Bruce worries. Hulk worries too. He remembers blood smell and Red limping.
"Yeah, it's just a scratch; a few stitches and she'll be fine," Birdie says.
"Bad Hulk-birds," says Hulk. He remembers that Red heals fast. Bruce is not worried now. Hulk is not so worried but still angry at birds.
"Well, they won't bother anyone again. You sure smashed them flat," Birdie says, looking around at sticky piles of feathers.
Then Hulk smells something other than blood, feathers, and dust. He lifts his head, trying to find it.
"Did you hear something?" Agent asks.
"Smell suit," Hulk grumbles. Hulk does not like suits much. They are mean to Hulk. Sometimes they are mean to Birdie too. That is fault of bad man but also Hulk. Now Hulk is sorry for smash. Suits do not care about sorry. Two suits walk down street. Hulk glares at them.
"Be good, Hulk," says Agent. "Smith and Jones are nice."
Hulk sniffs them. They do not smell mean. They smell like food. Hulk remembers them now. These two do not pick on Hulk and Birdie. "Okay suit," he says. His tummy rumbles.
"Smith, Jones, what have you got?" Agent asks.
"Snacks and drinks," says Smith. He carries things that smell good.
"Ground patrol confirms no more hostiles on the loose here. SHIELD is sending some air support for Iron Man, who found two more condors," says Jones. "It could be a while before the whole op sounds all-clear. We thought you guys might get hungry."
* * *
Notes:
A power vacuum can occur any time the most influential individual, group, or aggregate disappears from the top of the heap. This is why arresting drug lords doesn't always help. The evil power vacuum is an entertainment trope. After doing major damage to several of the global nemesis factions, the Avengers are left playing whack-a-mole with lesser adversaries.
Jurassic Park features reconstructed dinosaurs which wreak havoc on snack-sized humans. That Bruce can discern the similarity of events, and pass this information to Hulk to relay to the team, is a big improvement in their cooperation.
Early math skills include things like recognizing more or less of something. Toddlers should be able to count small numbers, recognize shapes and colors, etc. It helps to play counting games. Here you can see that Hulk has a low starting point, because of his awful childhood and poor opportunities -- but as soon as someone coaches him, he picks up new information quickly.
Most humans are either sight, hearing, or touch dominant. Hulk has enhanced senses, and uses his nose much the way a dog does, far more than humans typically do. Animals can smell pheromones associated with such things as fear, aggression, or arousal; although it works better within their own species than a different one. In comic canon, Hulk and relatives, such as Red Hulk, have been mentioned with enhanced senses. Bruce's quote -- "I'm exposed, like a nerve. It's a nightmare." -- supports this interpretation.
[To be continued in Part 3 ...]
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Date: 2014-02-13 12:54 am (UTC)Yes...
Date: 2014-02-13 11:15 pm (UTC)Smith and Jones belong the SHIELD ground support team. They're linemen, whose main job is to hold the perimeter so that the Avengers have a clear space in which to fight. When there's no active combat, it doesn't take as many people to do that, so some of them can move inward or outward for other tasks, such as more direct hero support.
They would know that fighting burns energy, so people often get ravenous afterwards. That's especially true in cases like this where there's no immediate fighting to sustain the adrenaline high -- but something else might pop up, so they can't just pack up and go home. The interesting question is whether Smith and Jones have figured out that Bruce-and-Hulk respond well to food rewards.
>> I love how you are portraying hulk as smart but uneducated. <<
Yay! That's based on my understanding of canon across multiple iterations, especially from The Avengers. Bruce-and-Hulk have a crappy past that must have disrupted their development and education. Bruce almost never lets Hulk out, so Hulk's understanding of the outside world is limited, mostly filtered through Bruce. But they share a genius brain, so they are both genius guys. It's just that Bruce is an intellectual genius while Hulk is an emotional and physical genius.
Now that Hulk has a chance to socialize with people who aren't trying to hurt him, and get some experience other than combat, he's able to learn new things. Notice that he advances faster than a chronological toddler would, because his brain is mature and through Bruce he has longer life experience. This is Hulk with the parking brake off.
Phil is starting to realize that Hulk needs more front time than Bruce has been allowing him, and more diversity of experiences. This comes up more as the story continues.
Re: Yes...
Date: 2014-02-14 02:59 pm (UTC)So, when does Hulk get to stack used (and empty) shipping containers?
Re: Yes...
Date: 2014-02-26 08:03 pm (UTC)Exactly. Hulk is part of the team; he deserves the same kind of hero-support as everyone else.
>> So, when does Hulk get to stack used (and empty) shipping containers? <<
I have made a note of this for future reference; not in the current story, but I know where to put it. I've got notes for working out the relationship between Bruce and Hulk, so that Hulk can have more front time.