... and how they actually weren't defined by it. It's a very kind of wartime tragedy, to me.
Yeah, that's exactly how I've come to see Steve and Peggy's relationship in the end. They knew each other very briefly, in the grand scheme of their lives; it was that particular kind of passionate, intense relationship that you get during war, but it ended up being bittersweet wartime tragedy rather than an enduring basis for a lifetime relationship. I've ended up getting heavily invested in the Agent Carter view of Steve as Peggy's dead wartime lover, part of Peggy's war story that she's now leaving in the past as she moves into her postwar life. And I'm a lot more interested in Peggy's post-Steve life than I am in AUs where she builds a life after the war with Steve.
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Yeah, that's exactly how I've come to see Steve and Peggy's relationship in the end. They knew each other very briefly, in the grand scheme of their lives; it was that particular kind of passionate, intense relationship that you get during war, but it ended up being bittersweet wartime tragedy rather than an enduring basis for a lifetime relationship. I've ended up getting heavily invested in the Agent Carter view of Steve as Peggy's dead wartime lover, part of Peggy's war story that she's now leaving in the past as she moves into her postwar life. And I'm a lot more interested in Peggy's post-Steve life than I am in AUs where she builds a life after the war with Steve.