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[iniquiticity]

ok so i'm just really curious about ironflint bodyswap??
anon, i have to make a confession. i love this prompt. i actually love it too much. it’s too wonderful. i just don’t have the time or the mental energy to give it the amazing ficlet it deserves. but i will lay out all my incredible ironflint bodyswap thoughts.

-alex waking up, looking at these huge, broad, dark hands, and going “HOLY SHIT. how can i get this thing fUCKED?” he is the equivalent of a sixteen year old given the car keys to a maserati.

but also consider:

-alex’s mind is - chaotic. it’s hard for him to keep focus unless he REALLY hunkers down and keeps his eye on the prize. like when he’s not working/fighting/fucking, his goal is to stop his mind from whirring to much. everything is always too fucking fast and hard and he always needs to keep moving. but then he’s given this -

washington’s thought process, his brain chemistry. so still and thoughtful. so effortlessly, endlessly contemplative. he has literally NEVER thought so quietly. going from his head to washington’s head is basically like standing in times square in NYE and then going into a soundproof room. the still is so STILL. it’s so QUIET. unsettling? as fuck. there’s like a creepy haunted mansion kind of thing. but still. if his brain was this quiet and compartmentalized and considerate - fuck, no wonder washington’s successful, with this.

lastly: even though alex has this exceptionally high-ranking posistion as washington’s EA - he’s probably one of the most informed people in the company - he’s really more seen as washington’s obnoxious little brat-servant. like, he doesn’t have the kind of respect that he craves, even though he’s acquired all this knowledge and power. but fuck the way people LOOK at him when he’s wearing this washington body. the way people automatically move for washington, or automatically just… BEND. like, FUCK. what a drug, to be so inherently feared and respected? like, holy fuck, he has ALWAYS wanted this.

AND THEN, ON THE OTHER SIDE…..

and then the sheer, complete, horrible, COMPLETE FUCKING TERROR of washington realizing who’s got his body. i mean, washington doesn’t have a lot respect for alex aside from his competency. he knows VERY WELL what alex would do given his body. he knows that alex can’t be trusted with anything valueable. he knows alex’s kind of mental illness and his complete lack of any kind of control or resistence to his id. he knows what alex wants - power and sex and control - and he knows alex will just rend and tear through anything chasing whatever high he’s chasing. and just alex showing up covered in hickeys and with a limp and with his tattoos and – well. washington treats his body like a fucking temple, eats kale and works out. alex subsists mostly off sucking cock and take-out. so there’s that.



but there is a part of him - a funny part - that understands that alex is more eloquent and vicious (and that’s one of the reasons he was hired) when he is, in his own way, when he’s saying the right thing and pointed in the right direction - and he can definitely imagine a posisitive situation where alex-in-washington just completely tears some guy a new fucking asshole. washington alex tearing people a new asshole, but they’re already held back by the fact that alex is this narrow-shouldered assistant. but HIS body, and alex’s insane rendings? so that’s the one benefit to this. but the danger of alex fucking with his body outweighs that, so much.



AND! certainly, washington thinks, in this chaotic hell-flesh-thing with it’s wildly racing thoughts and all the fury and confusion and twisting and it’s hungry and achey all over? like, he needs calm and consideration and distance and alex’s thoughts are INSANE. they’re furious. his thoughts are maggots and they’re wild all over this corpse of his brain. fuck alex is even more fucking deranged than he thought! but! washinton defintely knows that he could distract alex with sex. like, alex is a fucking id-beast, he’d love to fuck himself. so. that’s got to be the best way to keep his body out of trouble, right? and of course, he certainly can manage a sacrifice…

[this probably isn’t what you were thinking. but. this is what we got.]