Winter hawk but david aja style
Just a silly merfolk AU
Somewhat of a continuation of this piece
Does Bucky know it's legal now? Has anybody told him?
this was my sister's response to this post
Was listening to Star Spangled Man With a Plan (as one does) and it got me thinking about Steve during his USO tours--mainly Steve and his relationship with the USO girls.
At first, the USO girls are all business and are only polite to Steve when they have to be. They're not cold to him, but they're not particularly friendly or warm either. They just stay in their lane and he stays in his. Maybe, after a bit of time, one or two of em decide to test their luck and flirt with Steve, but he declines their advances every time. (I know that the MCU says it's canon that Steve lost his virginity to one of em or something like that, but I'm actively choosing to ignore that he had sex with any of em at all lmao)
But then, after doing a handful of tours, one of the USO girls decides 'fuck it' and decides to throw Steve a bone;
"Can you help me zip up my outfit?" She asks.
Steve flounders a bit at first, but she assures him that she doesn't mean anything by it. She only wants his help. She's letting him help. So, he does. Suddenly, from that moment on, the majority of the USO girls begin to ask Steve for help too--whether it be for their outfits, their hair, or their makeup. Maybe it's because they've realized he's not going to try anything. Maybe they've realized just how lonely he really is. So, over time, they begin to let him in on their card games, their smoke breaks (even though Steve himself doesn't smoke, since it doesn't do anything for him now, anyway), and talks about home. They even teach him some dances and acrobatics. Eventually, Steve gets comfortable enough to tell them about Bucky. He tries not to say too much, lest he give away the true depth of their relationship. He's not the best at lying, so he speaks in half truths. He's always very careful. He has to be, after all.
But then, maybe, one of em figures it out anyway.
"You're sweet on him, aren't you? Your friend?" She asks. It's the girl who first asked for his help. The one who first let him in.
And Steve is so fucking scared all of a sudden. He doesn't know how she figured it out. He thought he'd been hiding it well. He had been so careful. So careful. Fuck, what will he do if she tells people? If she tells people what he is, it's all over. They'll send him home and he'll lose his one actual chance of potentially getting out on the field and helping Bucky. And Bucky... If word somehow gets to the army... What will they do to Bucky?
But then, suddenly, she drops another bombshell;
"I have a girl back home," she says quietly. "I had a feeling you were in the same boat as me, what with the way your eyes look every time you talk about him. Her eyes do the same thing when she talks about me. Everyone back home thinks she's just my best friend. But she's worth a helluva lot more than that."
Steve can only stare at her. For a moment he wonders if she's lying, but everything about her--all the way down to her voice, her expression, and posture--tells him that she's being honest. He gives a broken laugh, suddenly feeling very, very small.
"Yeah. Yeah, he is too. Worth a helluva lot more to me than just a friend, I mean..."
She nods. "Does anyone else know?"
"I think one of his sisters might. But, other than that, it's just you." He pauses. "What's her name?"
"Hilda. I call her Hildie."
"That's right. You've mentioned her a couple times... She sounds wonderful."
"She is." She pauses for a moment before speaking again. "You know, you can talk to me about him. Whenever you want or need. People like us...we gotta stick together, ya know?"
Suddenly, Steve doesn't feel like he's talking to a friendly coworker. He feels like he's talking to a friend.
So, he gives her one of his increasingly rare smiles, real and warm. "I think I'd like that," he says. "Thank you."
with every new hairstyle he gets more tired and grouchy
"There's no way in hell there was a supervillain who called themselves-"
"No, no, not officially - we came up with the name when we were assigned to find them, and we were kind of taking the piss, but it's still a good name. It was before your time - they had the power to-"
"I don't want to know what their power was."
"No, listen - their power was that they could summon a pie and throw it at someone."
"Oh. Oh, well, okay - that's the greatest supervillain you've ever fought? Doesn't sound like much."
"But that was the thing. They could throw a pie at someone and it would never miss. So long as they could see their target they'd hit them. We eventually found out they could throw a pie at someone who was on live broadcast, miles away."
"Jesus. Okay, I think I see the issue. But it was still, like. Pies, right?"
"Oh, for sure, it was never poison pies, and they could only summon a pie every 15 seconds so they couldn't drown someone in meringue. But - do you remember Murgatroyd Bentley?"
"Sort of, he was president when I was a little kid - something, something superhuman rights, and he was the guy who nuked Saskatchewan, right?"
"That's the guy. We found out about this guy after the Humboldt Crisis, because after that, whenever there was a live broadcast with the president - the state of the union, addressing congress, the Christmas tree lighting - a pie would splatter across his face every fifteen seconds."
"…Is that it?"
"Hon, it was everything. You haven't lived until you've seen the president try to talk about dignity while being smacked in the face with a banana cream. By the end of term, he refused to show his face in public, and he resigned in quiet disgrace. There were a few other pieings for a few years, but nowhere near the amount that took place when Bentley was president, and eventually they stopped. We never found out who or even where this person was.
"And that - more than anything - makes them the greatest supervillain I've ever had to deal with. Because they didn't do much, but they did it loudly, they did it consistently, and we never caught them."
"...How hard were you trying to catch them?"
"Not very."
"...And you decided to call them Dr. Creampie?"
"We were young. The president had just bombed Saskatchewan. It was a weird time. Honestly we took what we could get for laughs."
What does Marvel have against left arms in particular?
Tony Stark (Iron Man 2 / Captain America: Civil War)
Bucky Barnes
(Captain America: the Winter Soldier (pre-movie) / Captain America: Civil War)
Natasha Romanoff
(Captain America: the Winter Soldier)
Ulysses Klaue (Avengers: Age of Ultron)
Carina (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Nebula ( Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy 2)
Groot (Avengers: Infinity War + bonus double arm Guardians of the Galaxy)
Bruce Banner (Avengers: Infinity War)
Thanos (Avengers: Infinity War)
+ Bonus - the only significant right-am injury I could find
(Tony Stark, Iron Man)
these fifty years of brainwashing can't hold a candle to my devotion. these hands know you if my mind does not. I will pull you from this river. I trust my love for you more than I trust my own mind. i ask myself who i am and there is only one enduring answer. someone that loves you. <- Believe it or not ten years ago they put this in a marvel stuidios .cinematic movie
Those are fucking wedding vows
a fucking fact is bucky has ALWAYS seen captain america as more than captain america. to him steve and sam are just guys that he loves. just dudes he would die for. this bitch is one of the only men who has taken the time to really look beyond the shield so THERE.
We all know Peter Parker is a nerd that's basically canon
But I NEED more nerdy Tony fics 😭 like Peter is ranting about sciencey stuff in the lab when suddenly Mr stark goes into a twenty minute tangent seeing how excited Peter was about it.
Obviously he has to stop and get all shy and stupid because "holy crud I lost my cool in front of the kid and now he thinks I'm a loser" but Peter just begs him to continue yapping, he loves listening to his mentor talk so happily for once, actually smiling and over exaggerating his hand movements while talking about the thing he's so passionate about.
And then he does continue :) for literally hours the two just sit and rant together like nerds
aren’t we all glad that steve rogers didn’t become the hulk instead of captain america? that boy is always angry and ready for a fight even without the gamma rays
Okay, but imagine this. None of Steve’s friends are in jail or getting shot at. Tony hasn’t blown up anything important in a while. Bucky and Steve go off to see the Grand Canyon. Steve has a moment of perfect bliss … and suddenly he’s tiny again.
“Holy cow, you are like the Hulk, you’re just never not angry!”
Aaand, Steve is big again.
Next time, Bucky keeps his mouth shut and gets almost five minutes of cuddling before Steve remembers about anti-vaxxers.
I will finish this story at some point. I don’t know when that point will be, but it will be done at some point
I'm supposed to do work for uni but the brainrot is so real
Ur dead, pal.
@twangcat and I wondered Phil kept working while Clint napped on him -and if that would be more or less intimidating to the baby agents who Phil would be scolding —like is Phil scarier because he has Clint napping on him while being a boss?? Or is Clint scarier because he’s chosen to nap on Phil Coulson??
One minute your therapist is saying you'd be a good comic artist, then you start having the "should I look further into comics in general?" thoughts and then all of the sudden you're drawing Stony fanart in the year of our lord twenty twenty FUCKING five