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- I loved you from the moment I saw you. I can't remember if I told you that before. And Susan, my darling, my love, if I have? I haven't told you enough.
- —Reed Richards: Fantastic Four Vol 4 #4
ReedSue is the het ship between Reed Richards and Sue Storm from the Marvel fandom.
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Reed and Sue first met during Reed's late college years. While Reed was working with on his third doctorate, he chose to stay at Sue's Aunt Mary's boarding house for the summer. Mary was twelve and visiting her aunt that summer, and fell in love with Reed at first sight. Reed initially ignores her but gradually warms up to her over time, thinking of her during his time at war.
This was later rewritten in 2016: Sue was changed to be a college junior and doesn't immediately fall for Reed. Reed is initially hesitant to stay at the house and the moment he first saw Sue he chose to stay - in the rewrite love at first sight happens to him instead. As the two of them became acquainted, it is instead Sue who gradually falls for Reed this time around. Eventually, Reed became so engaged in his relationship with Sue that he would frequently miss schoolwork, and as a result moved out of their house.
Their relationship would continue over the years as they both finished their educations. When they moved in together, Reed created a self-invented voice-acted music speaker for her - Impressed, Sue happily called him "Mister Fantastic." While the nickname didn't stick, Reed was thoroughly touched by it, and it would eventually come back later in their lives as Reed's superhero name.
During this point, Reed would begin working on his spaceship for the government, which he called the Marvel-1. Sue supported him throughout its creation, but eventually, funding for it was cut. In response, Reed, Sue, Sue's little brother Johnny and Reed's best friend Ben Grimm snuck onto the facility keeping the ship and took it on a test flight. While leaving the Earth's atmosphere, the four of them were bombarded with cosmic radiation and they were forced to crash-land to Earth, where they discovered they had acquired powers. Together, they decided to form the Fantastic Four, a superhero team of adventurers and explorers.
The Fantastic Four's first year was rough for the two of them, as Reed became absorbed in his guilt over the accident and Sue was forced to hold the team together. Their relationship would complicate itself even further when the underwater anti-hero known as Namor regained his memory and began fighting the Fantastic Four; Sue found herself sympathizing with him and his motives, and as a result Sue became attracted to him. However, Sue would reject Namor's constant unwanted advances towards her and choose Reed.
Eventually, Reed and Sue finally became engaged. Their wedding was the event of the century, attended by various different superheroes. While it was interrupted by supervillains, interference from the Watcher allowed the superheroes to stop them and finally the two were wed. Sue would get pregnant twice in the years afterwards - Their births were incredibly complicated, but luckily they came out just fine, as Franklin and Valeria Richards.
When the Civil War tore the superhero community apart, Reed and Sue were among the ones participating in the battle, and in the aftermath decided to work on their marriage, even leaving the team to do so. Their semi-retirement wouldn't last long however as they were brought back into action not long after, their relationship stronger than ever.
When the Secret Wars destroyed the Multiverse, Reed, Sue, Franklin, Valeria and the rest of their Future Foundation team decided to spend five years working to restore it, all together. Though they would eventually return to Earth, only months had passed there in contrast to the years they'd spent in the Multiverse. They chose to rejoin the Fantastic Four, and ever since have continued to fight against evil and making scientific discoveries together as partners in everything, facing any challenge together.
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Franklin Richards
Reed and Sue's son and first child. Originally believed to be a mutant with an incredibly strong reality-altering powers, he is one of the most powerful being in the universe. He would eventually use these powers to restore the multiverse, but as a result lost most of them. He later became fully depowered following his battle with Cormorant. Now a teenager, he goes by the name Powerhouse.
Valeria Richards
Reed and Sue's daughter and second child. Due to her being concieved in the Negative Zone, she nearly died during childbirth but was saved by Victor Von Doom. Reed and Sue then named her after Doom as a thank you. While she does not have any powers, she is just as smart, if not more, than her father. Now a teenager, she goes by the name Brainstorm.
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Reedsue is a well known ship within the Marvel fandom. Being one of the more iconic couples in comics, and Marvel's first couple. In spite of being Marvel's longest-lasting relationship, Reedsue is not as explored by transformative fans. More often being a background ship in SpideyTorch works, rather than being the focus of a fic. Although this is true for many Marvel ships, canon or fanon, that only ever appear in the comics. As a lot of those pairings are overshadowed by ones that appear in the MCU.
On AO3, ReedSue is the most written ship for both Sue and Reed, with over 350 works written. It is also the second most written ship in the Fantastic Four tag.
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