readswaytoomuch:

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: Regardless of which personality you focus on, both Hulk and Bruce have tragic arcs in Thor: Ragnarok. 

From Hulk’s perspective, he’s gotten rid of Banner, he’s finally allowed the chance to speak and learn who he is as an individual, he’s finally found a place where he’s not only tolerated, but accepted, loved and praised for the very things that make him an outcast on Earth, and he even has a friend that only knows him as Hulk and likes him as he is. But then Banner comes back, stirring up fears of him loosing himself and stealing away an idyllic existence for him and he ultimately looses most of what he had found only to end up having to return to the very planet that he had tried to escape in the first place. 

From Bruce’s perspective, the last thing he remembers is a person he cares about betraying his trust, and when he comes to, he’s on an alien planet with only one familiar face (and one that’s only kinda familiar, though he’s not sure why) and he learns two entire years have passed during which he was completely nonexistent because his alter had assumed full control of his body and killed countless people in an arena. And without being given any time to absorb and process this, he has to work with his friends to escape and then ends up choosing to turn into Hulk to save alien civilians despite him believing that he might never change back and his choice is a sacrifice of his own existence for beings that aren’t even from his own planet.

Oh, and it’s pretty likely that little to none of this will be addressed in Avengers: Infinity War

rainbowroute:

Reunited. Reunited. Seeing each other, and they can’t show how they feel until they are somewhere private, somewhere out of the fray. Bruce, Bruce just grabs him. Pulls him close and kisses him. Hard. Bruce has no idea about all that has gone down while he was gone. He has no idea. Because once again, the world kept spinning while Bruce was gone and Bruce’s world is standing still. Two years passed and Bruce barely felt it. The only thing he is feeling now is how much he missed Tony, and that he doesn’t want to waste any more time.

And Tony is torn. He doesn’t want it to end, because as soon as their lips part, that’s when Tony has to start playing catch-up with Bruce. He has to tell him what’s taking place in the world he left behind…

andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

predictions for the next mcu phase: valkyrie will cry drunk on a kitchen floor at least once because she wants to hang out with bruce and the hulk at the same time 

Valkyrie, her mighty unbeatable arms wrapped around the hulk whom she has pulled forcibly into her lap: I shouldn’t have gotten drunk!! I can’t protect him!!!

Bruce, who is no longer the Hulk and also naked and covered in debris: what. what happened

bruce spent 2 years trapped inside Hulk 

bruce was worried that if he turned into Hulk one more time, he might never be human again

bruce sacrificed everything that is himself to save the day

bruce might never be bruce again