Dammit Jim.

So you're flying with Iceman? It's Mr. Iceman to you.

Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky and Ron 'Slider' Kerner in TOP GUN (1986)

Iceman + Slider = Forever Besties

took a break from writing to doodle hahaha don’t mind me…

Slider: You didn't hear it from me...but everyone thinks you're gay.

Iceman:

Slider: Not me though.

Slider: I KNOW it.

Slider takes Iceman up in the sky when he can't fly anymore. After the first diagnosis comes and goes and he's healthy again, there are so many things he has to do, people to talk to, and work, work, work. It almost feels like work engulfed Tom altogether.

Then, in the middle of a meeting, the fourth of the day, Slider comes in, sends to hell everybody and their rank, and takes Iceman back on a jet. Your husband said he would have done it himself if he was home. He smirkes and, oh god, I regret the day you two decided to be friends.

Yeah yeah, what makes you sleep at night, Kazansky, what makes you sleep at night.

They fly all afternoon, until the jet almost runs out of fuel, and when Tom puts his feet on the ground, he feels like he's twenty-seven again, untouchable and happy, with his best friend on his steps and a whole world to conquer again.

(That night, when Mav calls, Ice's cheeks are a little red and his eyes are shiny. When I'm back, I'm going to take you up there and then out for dinner and dessert. Is it a promise or a threat, Mitchell? Whichever you prefer, and it's Kazansky-Mitchell to you, Admiral.)

so hangman was supposed to be iceman's son in first drafts of tgm and like you can see it

they look like they could be father and son

but honestly???

he looks more like he could be sliders son

based on the conversation i had with @wasp-coffee <333

Lawd just make out already.

slider refuses to be called soft or a sap but he’s fiercely protective of those he calls family. baby goose is one of the few who just so happens to qualify under that title. so theyre at a backyard barbecue, because apparently maverick and ice are those kind of people now, when slider pulls this hangman aside and channels the gruff, intimidating uncle for a classic shovel talk.

the kid looks up at him, brazenly casual, and he’s got that shitty smirk plastered across his face. he looks every bit the north island hotshot flyboy cliche his files make him out to be.

and slider just can’t do it. 

because he looks like tommy kazansky on the first day of the academy. back straight, shoulders relaxed, like he owns the fucking world, but he still can’t quite manage to look slider in the eye—his gaze falls just a half a centimeter below and it has nothing to do with the five or so inches sliders got on him.

the fuckers even blond too.

slider’s not soft and he’s not a sap. but maybe the old age is getting to him because he just says “so i hear you came a few points shy of our top gun record.” there’s a flicker of surprise, a twitch in his brow, but the kid finally meets his eyes and slider thinks he made the right choice.