I feel a bit odd saying "welcome" because I've only been here for a couple of weeks myself. But yeah -- I get that whole obsession bit ... it crept up on me rather unexpectedly, and I've been (unsuccessfully) trying to scrabble my way back to my original fandom (Star Trek: Voyager) ever since. I owe people the third part of a trilogy (they're starting to complain ...) and instead I've produced one-and-a-half Avengers pieces.

It doesn't help when you have friends who present you with Hawkeye action figures... ;-) And yeah, my own fourteen-year-old informs people quite gleefully that "my Mom's addicted to the Avengers."

I'm nervous about doing backstory stuff because there's so much comic canon out there that I have no clue about (and no wish to get into), so I look forward to yours! I did a spot of imagining the "he made a different call" but in Chapter 2 of my latest ("In the Service") but that's probably as far as I'll go.

I admire you for your novel length ambitions (I've done five of those for Voyager -- they do knock the stuffing out of you.) Bpn courage!