Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers

Pairing
Pairing:	Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Alternative name(s):
Gender category:	Het, M/F
Fandom:	Captain America (Marvel Comics) Captain America Movieverse, The Avengers Movieverse, Agent Carter (MCU)
Canonical?:	Canon
Prevalence:	popular
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Peggy/Steve is a het canon pairing of Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Peggy Carter in the Marvel Comics 'verse and related universes such as MCU.

Canon

Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers are a canon couple in both the movies and comic books. They even get married in the alternate reality from the "House of M" storyline in the comics.

Peggy acknowledged Steve Rogers as the love of her life in the intro for the first season of Agent Carter.

Fandom

Peggy/Steve is the most popular het pairing in the Captain America Movieverse and Agent Carter fandoms boasting the largest amount of fanworks, communities and overall fans.

In the larger MCU fandom, Peggy is often acknowledged as Steve's first love, even when the focus pairing is Steve/another character. Works which use Steve/Bucky as Steve's first love may include Peggy as a second love.

Hayley Atwell frequently states that she loves Peggy/Steve relationship and that they were kindred spirits.

Common Tropes & Themes

• Pre-Serum Steve Rogers - Due to Peggy's canon interest in the Movieverse to liking pre-serum Steve.
• Lost to time - Due to Steve being frozen and lost to Peggy in the 40s & Steve's waking up seventy years later, fanworks frequently show Peggy and/or Steve dealing with their loss
  • Their missed 8 o'clock date
• Learning to dance/waiting for the "right partner"
• Kidfic stories with original child characters, often dubbed "Steggylings"
• Alternate Universes
  • Modern AU, where somehow Peggy and Steve are in the present times & the same age. In the case of picspams, gifsets or videos the creator often uses Chris Evans other films/TV shows such as What's Your Number? as well as Hayley Atwell's other films/TV shows, especially Hayley's new show Conviction.

Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Fics

• Flames We Never Lit by roboticonography, Peggy Carter is frozen in 1946 and awakened by SHIELD in 2012. (Art by Vylla)
• Avalanche by Fyre, She had no name that she could recall. She did not need a name, anymore than she needed a home or comfort. She only had her assignments. (Peggy as the Winter Soldier)
• Falling together by founderofshield
• The house on Kent by founderofshield
• You can't take the sky from me by indiefic
• Dark Ways by indiefic
• Ain't Love a Kick by roboticonography Steve wakes up after the crash to find his life has changed dramatically - the main change being, he's married to Peggy Carter. (Amnesia Fic)
• Can't Keep a Good Man Down by roboticonography After the serum, Steve has to deal with a persistent side effect. In his pants.
• We Still Talk by roboticonography Newlyweds Steve and Peggy take a holiday to get away from it all - but the great outdoors might hold more challenges than they bargained for!
• Love Me Harder by roboticonography Steve is reunited with a much-older Peggy. Their attraction is still as strong as ever, but will the age difference prove insurmountable? (Cougar!Peggy fic)
• Sarcophagus and its sequel, Cradle, by Mellia Bee. Post-Winter Soldier AU. Peggy is found frozen but alive in a Stark Tech capsule, and she and Steve fall for each other all over again and experience the highs and lows of married life in Avengers Tower together. No smut.
• Have that Dance by Breakinglight11. Post-"Avengers I" canon compliant. Steve finally visits Peggy after waking up in 2011.
• As Long as He Needs by Breakinglight11. Post-"Endgame" canon compliant. In the process of returning the Infinity Stones to their proper places in the timeline, Steve comes to a decision about what he really wants from here.
• His Part to Play by Breakinglight11. Sequel to As Long as He Needs. Steve Rogers has retired to the 1940s to build a new life with Peggy. Somehow he must reconcile his new life and identity with the responsibility and burden of being a hero out of time.

The Future Wasnt Kind To You Was It? by CaptainJimothyCarter Steve is a tired man and all he wants to do is rest. He doesn’t want to fight anymore, but he will if he has to. He just wants to lay the shield down and sleep, to let the ground open up and consume him. He can only think of one place where he can go where he might have a chance at a little bit of peace.

• The Steggy Extended Universe by josephine_diaries and notanotherpeggycarterblog is a series of over 40 related fics showing the development of Steve and Peggy's romance after Steve's return in Endgame.

Art

• Steve and Peggy dancing by offtide
• Steph/Peggy Kiss by goddamnshinyrock
• Steve/Peggy by shop5 from Flames we Never Lit
• But I had a date…by Marie V.
• modern day Cap and Peggy by Vylla
• What Never Shall Be by gassada
• What Is And What Never Shall Be by gassada

Vids

• The Right Partner by KristinaOrtutova
• photograph by katherina rosalie
• Home by tomoyofanel
• Saturn by jonobeckyLL2
• Stay with me by katherina rosalie
• No Happy Endings by toufinus
• my tears are becoming a sea by Kaiirel

Archives and Fannish Links

Archives

• Peggy/Steve works at AO3
• Story filter for [Peggy C., Steve R./Capt] (pairing) on fanfiction.net in Captain America (Movies)
• Story search for Steggy on Wattpad

Communities & Blogs

Tumblr Blogs:

• fuckyeahsteveandpeggy on tumblr

Journal Communities:

• 8oclockonthedot, a LJ community.

AO3 Collections & Fanfiction.net Communities:

• Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, a fanfiction.net community. "What could have been, what should have been, what has been. All good stories about Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter in the Marvel Universe, there was simply so much more to these characters left to explore."