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To the Avengers, Y/N is the Red Vixen—a brilliant, lethal former vigilante pulled out of the dark by Tony Stark. But to Steve Rogers, she is his girlfriend: a fragile liability he needs to tame, bench, and protect. Steve made his move before Tony could, locking Y/N into a relationship defined by suffocating 1940s rules and a constant pressure to dim her light. But you can't trap lightning. While Steve uses patronizing authority to keep her small, Tony Stark actively feeds her edge. In the workshop, Tony and Y/N share an electric, rapid-fire intellectual connection, speaking a high-speed tech shorthand that excludes Steve entirely. Tony is done waiting around. He hates watching the mastermind he saved wither under a soldier's outdated expectations, and he’s ready to prove he can be a way better boyfriend—by building a world with her instead of putting her in a cage.