Slider: Why Is Goose Unconscious, And Why Is Mav Dying On The Floor, Laughing?

Top Gun Headcanons #3

After his death, Slider replaces Iceman as COMPACFLT.

When he enters the office for the first time, there is a neatly written note left on the desk:

Dear Admiral Kerner,

Have fun with Maverick.

- Ice.

Slider: GODDAMNIT, TOM!

Slider: Why are you smiling?

Ice: What, I'm not allowed to smile just because I feel like it?

Goose: Maverick tripped and fell down the stairs...

Slider: lol.

Flying in life and death

Ok, so I was looking at this and I had an ✨idea✨

Picture a fanfic, up in Top Gun heaven, where you get wings if someone back on earth gives you their. Think of them, and your wings will appear. The more wings you are given, the greater the range of people you can think about to make them appear. If you think about two of them at once, you'll get two sets of wings.

Everybody liked Goose so it seems likely that he'd have a few.

Carole is not a pilot so she doesn't have any. If she wants to fly though, Goose has enough wings for the both of them. He'll carry her.

And, of course, Iceman has Maverick. So, whenever he thinks of his wingman, he'll be able to fly again.

Wings

I needed something to draw today so I ended up sketching this based off the RP thread I’ve been running with thespacenoodle​. (Which, for those of you who haven’t been following it, centers around EOS’s optical circuits malfunctioning, forcing her to rely on Alan for help.)

EOS isn’t exactly happy about having to rely on someone else for help but she’ll manage. And I think, once you get past all the “I’m not the baby of the family anymore” bit with Alan, he’d actually kinda like feeling like a “big brother.” (And I’m super happy with the way he came out. He’s a real cutie.)

Maverick: As your best friend-

Iceman: Slider is my best friend.

Maverick: AS YOUR BEST FRIEND

@misanderousmisfit this was going to be super long and also I have a picture, so I decided just to make a post.

About Maverick's wings

Okay, SO.

I just posted this gif with a new set, prompting @misanderousmisfit to say, "Wait how did I not notice that Mav takes his own wings and snaps them on the casket??!!!"

Then she asked for an explanation, and I am happy to provide one, not least of which because I actually already researched this and explained it to someone else like right after TGM came out.

What Maverick does with his wings at Ice's funeral is based on a tradition by the SEALs. Similar to naval aviators, Navy SEALs are given a specific pin that is unique to their role. Pilots have wings; the SEALs have what is called a Trident. It's a symbol not only of the group they belong to, but of all the work they had to do to acquire this specification.

When a SEAL team loses a member, the other members hammer their Tridents into the top of the casket. It's basically taking an incredibly valuable item and giving it to your friend as a sign of respect, and to show that a piece of you is going with him.

The reason they punch them into the casket like that is just to drive the metal into the wood, so the pins stay there.

Those are Maverick's wings. He is giving them to Ice to send a piece of him with him.

i am finally on winter break besties and as promised i am back with ✨️resistance posts✨️

so after thinking about it for a while i wanted to write some headcanons about what i think could have happened with Kaz after s2 of Resistance ( aka a fictional s3 )

-After rescuing Tam, team Fireball and the Colossuss finally manage to rendevouz with the Resistance on Ajan Kloss

- Poe is thrilled to see that Kaz is alive ( he will deny it if you ask, but he was worried sick about what had happened to the kid after he heard the Colossus was on the run)

- Kaz finally joins the resistance as a pilot, but since they are laying low he mostly deals with transporting things or guarding ships

-he is ocasionally sent as a spy to gather some intelligence and what not because despite what everyone might think he is actually competent at it

- speaking of intelligence, shortly after they arrive he learns that Commander Pyre actually survived all the havoc and so Kaz makes it his personal mission to find him and take him down.

- He tries to contact his parents but to no avail, Leia tells him that ever since the destruction of Hosnian Prime no one has heard of them ( apart from that one transmission in S2 that cinfirms they are alive )

- Kaz doesn't take this well, but Leia tells him since they are valuable targets they are probably laying low somewhere and assures him that she will help him find them

- Tam struggles to fit in at the beginning since everyone knows she used to be in the FO but with encouragement from Kaz and Torra she slowly begins to meet new people and make new friends

- Leia introduces Tam to Finn and the two inmediately become close, they bond over their past with the FO and Tam even teaches Finn to fly

- Kaz and Rey also become really good friends after she shows him how to fly the Falcon. They talk a lot about flying and ships, sometimes Kaz also asks her about her strange jedi powers because he still can't believe it is real

- Because Rey has only seen a few planets, she will sometimes ask Kaz to tell her everything about every planet he's ever been in, he willingly does so because he has travelled a lot and surprises himself by talking about Hosnian Prime, it feels surprinsingly good and healing to do so ( ugh i might actually write a snippet of this conversation later because it is too good to pass )

- Anyway, time goes on and suddenly almost a year has gone by, Rey has gone on her mission with Poe and Finn and suddenly everyone is on their way to Exegol

- i already wrote a little about Kaz at Exegol so let's keep it short and just say he kicks some imperial ass there

- After Exegol, Poe asks him to join Black Squadron to help him find and take down the remainings of the first order and Kaz accepts eagerly thinking this might be his opportunity to get Pyre (he wanted to get Hux as well but Poe tells him he doesn't need to worry about that anymore)

- He finally manages to contact his parents and as Leia said they were hiding on a farming planet

-they urge him to come back with them to the Core Worlds so they can start again,but Kaz feels that he still has a resposability with the resistance after the destruction of Hosnian Prime so he declines but tells them he will visit when he has time

- he can tell his parents disapprove, but it's not like he need their permission anymore

- Flying with Black Squadron is both thrilling and hard. He finally gets to spent a lot of time flying as he always wanted but they get the most dangerous missions, looking for some of the most dangerous people of the galaxy so Kaz has to remain sharp all the time ( but we already know he is a hell of a pilot tough)

- A lot of times the missions don't go to plan, hard decissions need to be taken, people get hurt and its hard for him to see how much control the First Order still holds over the galaxy and all the atrocities they commited on smaller planets

- Overall, cleaning up the mess of war is almost as bad as the war itself but Kaz still feels that he owes it to everyone he couldn't save to take down as much of the first order as he can

- After months of missions, he finally gets a promising lead on the location of Commander Pyre ...

that is it for now :) i'll make a part 2 in the next few days

Stinger: You two characters are going to TOP GUN.

Mav and Goose:

These are so great 😂

... I don't know if anyone's made any of the Barbie posters yet...

... but this is the result of a sleepless night.

I tried my best with the captions, but I'm still not keen on all of them.

I had a whole explanation written up about this and then it all got lost when I moved my hard drives into a new computer setup. ;a; Basically this came about from a lot of Star Trek and many chats with @lenle-g about the Thunderbirds Star Trek AU she was involved in ages ago. And, of course, how EOS would fit in.

In short, it boils down to her being an orphaned Betazoid child who stows away on the Thunderbird after they show up to investigate what happened to the ship she was on. After she’s found (and tries to stab J'onn out of fear), she ends up being taken in by J'onn as the only crewman who could help in part with her uncontrolled telepathic abilities. And, while she was only supposed to be on the ship temporarily… she bonds well enough with her half-vulcan caretaker that he ends up adopting her instead.

(Thanks to Len for the colors on the second picture <3333333333)