Submission #2337
Someone linked me to this and I just got irrationally excited since I RP as Shanta. I knew I had to share it here.
Submitted by anon
Submission #2231
When Pepper and Tony eventually get married, Shanta insists on having a part in it even though she has no idea what all a wedding entails in American culture. So they just have her be flower girl, and instead of tossing the petals down she thinks her job is to give everyone a flower. Nobody’s quite sure where the mis-communication happened, but nobody really had any complaints about it.
Submitted by anon
Bruce never expected to see Shanta on the TV when channel surfing one night.
He especially didn’t expect it after talking to Natasha about the fact the girl wanted to learn martial arts, he didn’t want her to be more alienated by the kids at school because of what she liked to do. From what he’d gotten from the conversation, Natasha had agreed to wait a while in order to give Shanta some time to seriously think it over.
Submitted by anon
(If anyone has a source for the gif, could you send it my way? Thanks!)
Submission #2139
(Based off the people who I RP with, especially the Loki RPers who have given my Shanta at least five kittens)
Loki is a cat person. And when he sees a kid that’s upset or ends up forming a friendship, the kid usually ends up with a kitten. Shanta’s ended up with four kittens. An autistic boy in Steve’s building in Brooklyn ended up with five (something his mother was worried about at first, but seeing how they helped him made her feel better). A little girl Shanta met at school whose parents were divorcing ended up with three.
He never simply hands the children the kittens, instead slipping into their homes and leaving a basket with the sleeping kitten inside.
Submitted by anon
Submission #2058
There was a good few weeks when Bruce kept Shanta secret, he was worried that (at best) people would try to call him unfit because of the other guy or because of his own father or (worst case scenario) she’d be taken away somewhere he couldn’t keep an eye on her.
Submitted by anon
Submission #1912
Submitted by hollyonanisland
(Okay, um, this is really really really long. It’s not quite good enough to be a fic but it’s fic length…a very long headcanon with just…many people. Also, Shanta. Eek.)
Natasha Romanoff was understandably conservative in regards to forming attachments. To trust, perhaps, but to invest one’s emotions in another being was not something she did readily. In that respect, Shanta could be considered quite exceptional.
The Widow was the first to suggest the possibility of – not adoption, of course not – a protégé. The girl had done her job well; Natasha had seen few other children who would retrieve a doctor and hand him over with hardly a bat of an eyelid – even as their father drew his last fever-feathered breath. Yes, the father had not been a fabrication. Natasha had paid her handsomely, but even still, the girl had put a mission above the last of her family – it was what SHIELD looked for in their agents, did they not?
Hah. As if Natasha was going to let SHIELD get a hold of her. She knew firsthand what happened to girls who were groomed especially to be killers.
Submission #1844
Bruce is one of those parents that refuses to buy Barbie dolls for their daughters. He’d decided when he found out about a Barbie doll in the 60s came with a little book on how to stay thin that simply said “Don’t eat!” He didn’t want anything giving that advice to Shanta, especially a toy meant for children who shouldn’t be worried about their weight in the first place.
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Submission #1712
Shanta didn’t have any real memory of even having a middle name, so when she found out Bruce was actually his middle name (his first name being Robert), she wanted a proper middle name too. Bruce didn’t even need to think twice on what name to give her. Rebecca, after his mother.
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Submission #1711
(WAY longer than I meant it to come out. Started with ‘how many floors does Stark tower have?!’, became the first sentence, and then proceeded to snowball such as Asgardian Idol did.)
Besides JARVIS and Tony (because Pepper still mixes up floors sometimes), Shanta is the one who best knows the complete layout of Stark/Avengers Tower.
This is because of the endless hours she’d dedicate to exploring, adventuring, being confused by the elevator, or spontaneously playing hide-and-go-seek with Stark Industries’ employees. Unfortunately, the employees would be sometimes be so busy that they’d cheat, using JARVIS to find her so that the game would end more quickly. After learning how they managed to find her so fast, Shanta dedicated herself to knowing the tower well enough to hide from even the omnipresent AI. She managed to find several spots that accomplished this.
So when she grew into her teenage years and things got too loud on the personal floors, Shanta would go to these super hiding spots and play with Loki-cat, or read, or do her homework, or Skype-flirt with her latest crush, or anything else that came to mind. A few times she’d go missing for too long – usually because she’d fall asleep but sometimes just because she’d lose track of time or someone had been looking for her – and it would take a trip to Heimdal before the Avengers could find her.
When she was disrupted too many times this way, and hiding in different spots didn’t work, ambitious Shanta began looking for ways to cloak herself from Heimdal’s sight. It didn’t take her long to learn that her Uncle Loki had the power to blind the all-seeing gatekeeper and though Loki could spend several years listing more productive things he could be doing instead of hiding out with his adorable “niece”, he never once rejected her request of concealment. In fact, he grew to quite enjoy the time he’d spend with her when they could bond over the chaos they were ensuing when the Avengers would tear up the tower to find them, or sit separately with different books in hand, or play card games, or exchange stories of growing up, or discuss magic and its properties.
Tony tried to combat this by reprogramming a scanner to pick up on Loki’s magical signature. This gadget only worked once before Loki scrambled the signal and it began saying that the demi-god could be found in odd places like Ruse, Bulgaria or Yellowknife, Canada. No matter how Tony tinkered with it, it wouldn’t quit so he gave up on it.
Little does anyone know that it actually continued to work perfectly fine. Loki and Shanta had escalated to actually teleporting around the world when they wanted peace and quiet.
Submitted by TheUn-POP-ableBubble
