Avengers Fanfiction Guidelines

My personal guidelines to writing an Avengers fanfiction-although I've never actually written one. Unless you count the unfinished drabbles I wrote in school when I was bored.

Anyway.

1. Thor and his timing.

I have read many, MANY Avengers fanfiction, and one of the things that seem to remain constant; is Thor and his timing. It's always either he has great timing, or horrible timing. Or both. Both is good. Both is fun. It doesn't matter if it is a serious fic, a humor fic, or even a friggin parody fic. It works. It friggin works.

2. Tony and his nicknames.

Now this, is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. You can't have an Avengers fanfic without nicknames. It's absolutely necessary. You can't have Tony without sarcasm, and you can't have Tony-Sarcasm without nicknames. Legolas. Reindeer Games. Pointbreak. Capsicle. Big Guy. Natashalie. Lok's. Itsy-Bitsy-Spider. Rock of Ages. Spangles. Boy Scout. Jolly Green Giant. Merida. Katniss. Platypus. Robin Hood. Goldilocks. Cap'n Crunch. Lok'ster.

You get the point.

It's necessary. You need it.

Moving on.

3. Loki hate.

As much as you (I) love Loki, and as much as you (I) want the Avengers to love Loki, you can't have all them just suddenly like him, for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Well, except Thor.

But, well...he's THOR.

As much as you might hate it, each of the Avengers has to have at least a little hate for Loki. He DID try to take over the word, kill eighty people in two days (?), and (not) kill Phil (haha, kill bill).

4. Hawkeye and heights.

Hawkeye likes high places. He sees better from a distance, anyway. So if you wanna be realistic, make him prone to high places. Everyone's in the kitchen having breakfast-set him up on the counter, or the fridge. Movie night? Perch him on the armrest. Battle time? Put him on the ledges and roofs of buildings. You getting it? Good.

5. Hawkeye's grudge.

This is pretty similar to number three, but at the same time, it's the exact opposite. Here's the pitch:

TONE DOWN THE HATE.

I know Clint's got a bit of a bone to pick with Loki, but some of you guys take it a little to far. I've seen my fair share of fanfics where Loki goes through the most terrible, terrifying, painful experiences possible, that got the other teammates throwing up or breaking into tears, and there he is still pissed, and wishing only to make it worse. It's sick, okay. Hawkeye may not be my favorite character, but I still like him, he's a pretty cool and funny guy. Personally, I think he, Tony, and Loki together are like the three musketeers or something. The little prankster group, that pull pranks on the other teammates and have their own little just-for-fun prank-wars with each other. I mean, come on.

Besides, even if he hates Loki that much, he wouldn't be like that. As much as you hate someone, you wouldn't wish some of that stuff on ANYBODY. If he really enjoys making him suffer that much, then it's not Loki that's the monster, it's CLINT.

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The next chapter will have the next five.

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At the end of every chapter, as a bonus, I will give all you Avengers fanfic authors a prompt or plot-bunny or whatever, to get your creative juices flowing. (Oh, that sounded SO wrong...)

PLEASE NOTE IF YOU USE (below) YOU MAY CHANGE WHATEVER YOU WANT. THIS IS JUST AN OUTLINE-AN IDEA. SOMETHING I WAS CONSIDERING WRITING AND I DON'T KNOW IF I WILL EVER GET TO.

Title: We Have Cookies

Summary: Loki has decided that he cannot win the Earth alone, and decides to try and get some of the Avengers to switch sides. Valuing intelligence as he does, it is no wonder he decides that Tony is the most valuable asset to the team, and with him on his side, and off theirs, they won't stand a chance. And so he devises an insane plan, to lure Tony over to his side...through COOKIES?

Idea from the famous quote: "Come to the dark side, we have cookies..."

Characters: Loki and Tony Stark/Iron Man

Timeline: Post-Avengers

Genre: Could be made into practically any genre-made to be humor, but could written to suit drama, supernatural, romance, whatever the hell you want.

Rating: Probably depends on the genre you use, and how mature you plan on making it. (Adventure Time or Family Guy?)

Ja ne.