#;;—scene in civil war between bucky and sam

[literaryavenger]

Captain America: Civil War - 5

Summary: Team Cap gets taken to the Raft.

Pairing: Avengers x Reader, Bucky x Reader

Warnings: Descriptions of injuries. Language. Mentions of Y/N. A little angst if you squint. My poor attempts at being funny.

Word Count: 1.8K

A/N: Thank god it took me very little to finish this one! Hope you like it!

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The Raft.

That’s where they sent you after they arrested you in Germany. The fucking Raft.

You haven’t even seen Wanda since you were handed your very unstylish new clothes and they made you change.

You got separated from her when they took you to your cell between Scott's and Sam's. You dread what they're going to do to her, but you're powerless to stop them.

You sit on the ground of your cell and don’t move from there, barely registering what happens around you until the sound of clapping snaps you out of your trance. 

“The Futurist, gentlemen!” Clint shouts but you still don’t move, just listening to the scene. “The Futurist is here! He sees all! He knows what's best for you, whether you like it or not.”

“Give me a break, Barton.” You hear Tony say and almost show some emotion, but stop yourself. “I had no idea they'd put you here. Come on.”

You hear Clint spit and then say “Yeah, well, you knew they'd put us somewhere, Tony.”

“Yeah, but not some super-max floating ocean pokey. You know, this place is for maniacs. This is a place for…”

“Criminals?” Clint interrupts him. “Criminals, Tony. Think that's the word you're looking for. Right? That didn't used to mean me. Or Sam, or Y/N, or Wanda. But here we are.”

“Because you broke the law.” Tony says.

“Yeah.” Clint says back and starts chanting “La la la la la” while Tony talks, making you grin slightly.

“I didn't make you. You read it, you broke it.” Tony keeps talking. “Alright, you're all grown up, you got a wife and kids. I don't understand, why didn't you think about them before you chose the wrong side.” he says and your face falls again immediately, knowing Tony went too far.

“You gotta watch your back with this guy.” Clint says before slamming his hands on the bars angrily. “There's a chance he's gonna break it!”

“Hank Pym always said, you never can trust a Stark.” You hear Scott say from the cell on your right.

“Who are you?” Tony says, his voice closer to you than before, and you can hear Scott mumbling “Come on, man.”

Tony gets to your cell and sees you sitting on the ground, hugging your knees tight to your chest, your head resting back on the wall while you look straight ahead.

Tony is nothing short of shocked when he sees your face all beat up and bruised, your arm bandaged with blood seeping through it showing just how big and deep the cut is, all courtesy of Ayo.

“I never wanted to see you like this...” Tony says softly but you don’t even react to his words.

He’s standing in front of you but it’s like he’s not even there, like you’re looking right through him to something more interesting behind him.

Tony sighs and shakes his head before moving to Sam’s cell.

“How's Rhodes?” Sam asks right away.

“They're flying him to Columbia Medical tomorrow. So… fingers cross.” Tony answers and you close your eyes, grateful that he’s still alive at least. “What do you need? They feed you yet?”

“You're the good cop now?” Sam asks almost in disbelief.

“I'm just the guy who needs to know where Steve went.” Tony answers calmly.

“Well, you better go get a bad cop, because you're gonna have to go Mark Fuhrman on my ass to get information out of me.”

“Oh, I just knocked the 'A' out of their 'AV'.” Tony says, much too playfully for your taste. “We got about 30 seconds before they realize it's not their equipment.”

You furrow your eyebrows at his next sentence. “Just look. Because that is the fellow who was supposed to interrogate Barnes. Clearly, I made a mistake. Sam, I was wrong.”

Your eyes snap open at his apology and, even though you can’t see either of them, you know Sam’s feeling the same way as you, which is confirmed by his next sentence. “That's a first.”

“Cap is definitely off the reservation but he's about to need all the help he can get. We don't know each other very well. You don't have to-”

“Hey, it's alright.” Sam interrupts him, then you hear him sigh and after a little pause he says “Look, I'll tell you… but you have to go alone and as a friend.”

“Easy.” Tony says and Sam proceeds to tell him all about the Hydra base in Siberia and the other supersoldiers.

When Tony leaves, Sam once again tries to make sure you’re okay even if he hasn’t had luck at getting an answer out of you since you got here.

He knocks twice on the wall between you two then pauses and then knocks three more times fast before talking, a thing you two started doing since you both moved into the Avengers Compound so you would know it was the other knocking right away. “Are you okay?”

You don’t answer him and can hear him sighing before continuing talking.

“Look, I’m sorry you got caught up in this and-”

“I don’t regret the choice I made, Sam.” You interrupt him before he can finish his sentence, speaking up for the first time since you got arrested at the airport. “As much as this sucks, it was the right thing to do. I know it was.”

You don’t say anything else. Sam can tell you mean it and he knows better than to push you.

“They’ll be okay.” He says after a moment of silence and then lets you be.

You know he means Steve, Bucky and Tony but you can’t help but think he’s trying to reassure you that Bucky’s gonna be fine.

And you can only hope that he’s right.

-

A couple of weeks after Tony’s visit there’s a commotion in the prison.

You haven’t so much as made a sound since that day, aside from your daily knock on the wall between you and Sam so he can make sure you’re okay, knowing you well enough to know you don’t want to talk but still wanting to check in.

But you can’t help but let out a loud gasp when you see Steve just standing in front of your cells.

You look around when the cell doors open and you hesitantly get up from the floor and walk towards Steve. He hugs Sam, then you, then Clint and then pats Scott on the back, but doesn’t linger long before he’s guiding you towards another level where Wanda is.

You get to her just as the door to her cell opens and you rush inside with Clint to take off her collar while he takes off her straightjacket. You hug her tightly and wrap your arm around her with Clint to help her move you since she looks a little worse for wear.

You manage to move through the prison without problems. You have to hand it to Steve, he’s a hell of a criminal.

When you get to the landing pad you see the Quinjet ready for take off and you all rush inside just to see Bucky at the commands and you smile brightly at the sight.

You have no time to comment, though, as Sam shouts “What are you waiting for?! Go!”

Bucky rolls his eyes but calmly says “We have one more coming.”

You frown. One more? You turn to Steve confusedly but before you can ask anything you can see blond hair darting into the Quinjet and then Natasha’s there.

Bucky instantly takes off and you all take seats and buckle up.

There’s a moment of silence while everyone processes what just happened, but you break it while looking at Natasha that’s sitting directly in front of you.

“Are we gonna talk about the hair?” You ask arching your eyebrow with a smirk.

She groans in annoyance and you can hear the others chuckling while she says “We are not.”

-

After a few hours you all get to a safehouse and Steve ushers you in before showing you around.

It’s not bad: a secluded cabin with three bedrooms, not too big but Steve assured you you wouldn’t be staying there long anyway. Which makes sense, you're on the run now so this is just temporary.

After the tour Bucky approaches you in the living room and only then you notice he’s missing his metal arm.

“You flew the jet with only one arm? That’s impressive…” You can’t help yourself as you reach to touch his left shoulder, your eyes fixated on it. But stop on your tracks when you feel his right hand carefully cupping your cheek.

Your eyes snap up to his and you can see him thoroughly inspecting the wounds in your face that are still healing a little. He grimaces when he looks down at your bandaged arm and whispers “I’m sorry…”

“It’s nothing I can’t handle, Sergeant.” You smile softly at him and put your hand over his still on your cheek, trying to reassure him that you’re fine.

“I bet you can, doll.” He chuckles.

You’re too busy staring at each other to notice everyone’s attention is on you until Steve clears his throat with an apologetic look on his face.

“We need to go, Buck.” He says and you look confusedly between the two men.

“I’m going back into cryo.” Bucky clarifies for you.

“Oh.” Is all you can say and your eyes widen for a second before you force yourself to put on a more neutral face.

“It’s okay.” He smiles at you, but you feel like he’s trying to convince himself as much as you. “It’s nothing I can’t handle, doll.”

You try your best to smile and not look too bummed out. “I bet you can, Sergeant.”

You hesitate for a moment before surprising him, the others and even yourself by giving him a hug. He hesitates too before delicately hugging you back and, after a moment, you pull away. 

He smiles at you with a faint blush and you smile back, watching him walk to the door.

Steve passes you on his way to the door and kisses your forehead, whispering “He’ll be okay” before saying goodbye to the rest of the team, assuring you that he’ll be back soon. Then he also goes through the door and soon both the supersoldiers are gone.

You turn around with a sigh and see Sam, Natasha and Clint standing there, grinning at you, Wanda and Scott looking more compassionate than teasing.

You narrow your eyes at the first three and say sternly “Not. A. Word.” punctuating every word by pointing threateningly at each of them.

They raise their hands in mock surrender while snickering but thankfully don’t say anything and everyone just scatters around the safehouse.

You see the Quinjet depart from the window and try your best to look at the bright side: This isn’t forever, you’ll see him again.

Right?

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[logicheartsoul]

This meta has been a few years coming, but recently inspired due to: 1) Sian (@siancore) mentioning and incorporating into her amazing fic End of the World the moment that this meta is about, and 2) talking to Mexi (@thatmexisaurusrex) about this and then when she made that "share your fave sambucky moments that are canon" post, I knew this needed to finally been written and have its own proper post.

(Also, to @elektraking who wanted to be pinged when I finally wrote this, I finally did it!)

This post is long and image heavy but I didn't want to put it all under a read more.

We all know this scene from Infinity War, it's been all over people's dashes and giffed and etc etc. We also know it's a pretty quick scene, not necessarily a blink and you miss it one, but because it moves pretty quickly. If you're not paying too much attention to everyone else in the background, things will slip by.

However, watching things in 4K can really make things interesting because 1) you can zoom in and 2) you can zoom in and see some pretty clear detail, like the fact Sam and Bucky are looking at each other during this entire scene.

You can see here that everyone present except Sam isn't really watching Steve and Bucky interact -- either they're blocked from of the camera (Rhodey, Ayo, Bruce) or they're not looking at them (Nat has her eyes closed, T'Challa is looking at the side).

Sam is clearly in Bucky's line of sight, even if Bucky is looking at Steve (because we know Steve is moving closer to him and is about to talk to him)

On zoom in, we can see Sam is not zoned out, this is a very focused look at what is happening in front of him.

The next moment is where Steve goes in for the hug, but during this hug, a couple of things happen: 1) Sam moves closer towards them a bit, 2) he and Bucky actually DO stare at each other over Steve's shoulder

And for more than a few moments. Sort of significant if you think about the fact that Sam and Bucky seem to communicate a lot with nonverbal looks between each other. (We see this a few times in Civil War, and then later in this movie, but that will be even more apparent as fact in Endgame and, of course, TFATWS.)

And perhaps this could be passed off as "looking at each other coz we're looking in the same direction" except for the fact that Bucky makes a deliberate look at Sam when we get the pan over to his face.

When Steve backs away from the hug, we see Sam is still looking at Bucky, so we can assume during the entire exchange when the camera goes towards Bucky, Sam is still doing that.

Which leads us to when the camera pans over to Bucky.

(Yeah, yeah the cropping on this is kinda weird for me, but I wanted to make sure you could see his face.)

Steve proceeds to ask Bucky how he's doing. And of course, Bucky gives some kind of cutesy quip that fills space and time before going to the next big plot thing.

It's very interesting that Bucky pauses right after saying "uh, not bad", but as indicated by the arrow I put in the gif, he's staring in the exact direction where Sam would be. Because if you notice in the screenshots before this moment, above, when Bucky and Steve break away from the hug, Sam is in Bucky's line of sight but somewhat to the side, the same direction as the glance in the gif.

Now, as we know, the others are barely watching Steve and Bucky's interaction except Sam, who's still watching with focused attention.

If you were standing where Sam is standing, watching all of this, hearing Steve asking Bucky, "how's it going" and he responds "uh, not bad," and pauses WHILE looking at a glance in your direction, most people would consider that a moment.

And why wouldn't it be a moment? No one else is paying attention to Bucky or Steve except Sam. Bucky and Sam have before this comment were looking at each other when Steve brings in Bucky to a hug. Hell, Bucky could have just said "for the end of the world" without looking sideways and the scene would've worked as intended.

Yet, he gives that glance, and has a smile as he says, "not bad". While looking at Sam. It's so quick, yet it says so much. And considering how we know it's canon for them to be able to speak volumes by just sharing glances at each other (hello Sam looking at Bucky during Endgame), why wouldn't that apply here too? Because the glance wasn't really needed if you think about it.

And of course, Bucky deflects with his "for the end of the world" coz 1) he doesn't want Steve to try to make more small talk and 2) world ending shit is happening, they do NOT have time to stand around, they need to coordinate and they're on a time table. Because we all know Steve, he would want to know the reason why Bucky is actually smiling probably one of the first genuine smiles he's given on screen since TWS.

Anyway, we all know the rest: the plot moves forward, Sam and Bucky end up standing close to each other to witness Thanos' forces trying to get through Wakanda's shields, and then they end up being blipped.

Still, while a short, quick moment, on closer inspection, a lot can be said. Another in a line of Sam and Bucky's "saying things with a look" moments, but an underappreciated one.

#mcu #sambucky #meta #gif #my gifs #my meta #long post #lmao photoshop died on me while making gifs for this post and i had to restart my laptop 😂 #anyways i hope y'all enjoyed this post i have been meaning to write it for FOREVER but it's here so lmao

[just-dreaming-marvel]

Caught In A Web ~ 2

CAUGHT IN A WEB MASTERLIST

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Word Count: 1,305ish

Summary: Fury tells the team to be on the lookout for a new hero.

Notes: We’re going to pretend that Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame never happen(ed) in this fic. Okay? Okay.

THREE MONTHS LATER…

“There’s been more sightings of that spider-woman in downtown New York,” Fury stated.

Fury was standing in front of the long conference table in the glass-walled room of the Tower. Tony was on the opposite end, with Steve, Bucky, and Natasha on his right and Sam and Bruce on his left. The rest of the Avengers were out on missions or had taken personal time off, leaving the six of them to deal with Fury. There were holograms playing from a small round object in the center of the table: changing from video clip to video clip of the spider-woman.

“My question to you is what are we going to do about it?” Fury continued.

“Do we need to do anything about it?” Sam questioned. “It seems as if she’s just helping out people in need.”

“It seems that way, but it is clear that she has powers.”

“And what’s the problem with that?” Asked Steve.

“The problem, Rogers, is that we don’t know exactly what this spider-woman’s powers entail. We need to find her and bring her in for an evaluation.”

Tony scoffed. “You just want another super-powered human on the roster.”

“What I want is to make sure that we’re all on the same side here. And I hope that’s something that you all can get behind.”

“How exactly do you want us to bring her in?” Bruce wondered.

“We are in a building full of professional trackers and technology that allows us to make it extremely easy, figure it out.”

~~~

Tony was struggling, not that he would admit that to anyone. Pepper had broken up with him over a year ago and left Stark Industries, leaving him a broken shell of a man and putting him back as CEO of the company. Nothing interested him anymore; working in the lab, the suits, hero work, none of it. So when Fury told the team about bringing in the spider-woman, he really didn’t care about it. The person wasn’t doing any harm and actually helping the heroes with their job.

To try to help Tony get his mind off his troubles and maybe find this new hero, he decided to go out flying that night. He took one of his older suit models, only him to reminisce of the good old days. Flying between the skyscrapers allowed Tony to scope out the city to see if there were any signs that the spider-woman was out. Though Tony didn’t actually care, he had FRIDAY gathered all the information on the new hero and had determined that there were more sightings on the weekends than on weekdays. 

“Boss, there was a sighting two blocks east of you,” FRIDAY interrupted Tony’s quiet flight.

“I’m not going unless you’re positive it’s her,” Tony stated, not wanting to put any work in if it wasn’t going to be worth it.

“Pulling up the live street cam footage now.”

On Tony’s helmet screen appear the live feed of you, in a white and black masked suit, tying up a man with spider webs. FRIDAY had already changed the suit’s direction without Tony’s orders. Tony was interested in the situation, noticing how there was a clearly distraught woman against the wall of the alleyway you were in.

“Is there any way we could get some audio, FRI?” Tony wondered.

“I tried, boss,” FRIDAY informed. “Unfortunately, the audio is unavailable.”

“Park the suit around the corner or on the roof of a building. I want to observe the situation.”

“You got it.”

FRIDAY parked the suit on the edge of a nearby rooftop. Tony looked down on the scene.

“The cops are on their way,” you informed, voice slightly muffled by your mask. “And the two I called don’t particularly like rapists.”

The man you had tied up in a web, tried to speak but you quickly shot a web out of your wrist and covered his mouth.

“I can’t hear you,” you taunted. You turned around and went over to the frightened woman. “Are you alright?” 

“Y—yes,” the woman shuttered as she nodded. “Thank you.”

“Of course. The police should be here any second. They both are understanding women and will get you the help you need.”

“Okay.”

You turned around and shot another web around the man’s ankles and then another at his wrists. “He’s not going anywhere. You’re safe.” You could hear the sirens on their way. “I’ve got to get going.”

“Wait! I don’t even know your name.”

“I don’t have one. And that’s alright. I’m sure I’ll see you around.”

You shot a web up at the edge of the roof and swung up onto the roof, disappearing from the view of the alley. Tony, now on the same roof as you, watched as you crouched down and peeked over the edge. You didn’t move as the police showed up and took care of the man and woman. Letting out a sigh of relief, you went to pull off your mask but you stopped yourself when you felt like you were being watched. Looking to the side you realized that Iron Man was staring right at you.

“Impressive,” he complimented through the suit.

“Thanks,” you responded, swallowing nervously. “What brings you around these parts, Iron Man? A little far from your glamorous tower, aren’t you?”

“You are actually the reason I’m out and about tonight.”

“What? Why?”

"You’ve caught our team’s attention and we’ve been tasked to bring you in for evaluation.”

“Really? That’s interesting.”

“Yeah, so if you don’t mind swinging over to the tower, that would be great.”

“Yeah, I don’t think so.”

“What?”

“I’m not interested in being a part of your team. I really only do this as a hobby. Besides, your team doesn’t solve the little everyday problems that need to be taken care of. Someone’s got to help with those.”

“And you think you’re the one to do that?”

“Well, you clearly aren’t.”

Tony smirked inside the helmet, secretly enjoying the banter the two of you were getting into.

“Now,” you continued, “if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got more people to take care of.”

“Hold up,” Tony took a step toward you. “You aren’t going anywhere but with me to the tower.”

“No thanks.”

“I’m afraid you don’t have much of a choice.”

“Yeah,” you shook your head, “I’m not so sure about that.”

You jumped up, doing a flip over Iron Man while tying him up with your webs. You knew that it wouldn’t hold him but you needed time to get away.

“See ya around, Tin Man.” 

Tony could hear the smirk as you spoke before disappearing between two buildings. He was quick to free himself from the webs and try to follow after you. You were already a few blocks away, using the buildings and your webs to swing further. Tony had his suit pick up speed as you turned a corner. Before he could catch up, you threw yourself into your open apartment window. You crawled up onto the ceiling and held yourself there until you heard Iron Man zoom past you. 

When you felt safe, you dropped yourself onto your bed and tore off your mask.

“That was a close one,” you breathed out.

~~~

Tony searched all night for a sign of you. Even with FRIDAY’s help, he couldn’t find you. He went back to the tower with nothing but that little interaction with you and a few webs still stuck to his suit. He immediately threw himself into his lab to study the webs. Tony was now fighting the urge to find you, not because of Fury but because he wanted to actually get to know you. To him, there was an undeniable connection as the two of you spoke. He was going to find you, whatever it took.

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[captainwidowspring]

A Thorough Analysis of Civil War's First Trailer

So I was inspired by this post to watch the first Civil War trailer, and I was intrigued, for the trailer seemed to promise a much better movie than what we actually got. Therefore, I decided to compare stuff in that trailer to stuff in the finished movie, and what I found was very revealing. For Civil War, despite the title, is very much not a Captain America movie: and this trailer provides some insights into how it came to be so. It offers multiple insights into what we were robbed of, and how exactly the movie was maliciously turned against Steve and his friends. Indeed, the sheer extent to which the movie has been twisted is truly enraging. This is going to be rather long, so get ready:

The first thing that is shown in the trailer is the scene of Steve, Bucky, and Sam in the warehouse after Bucky wakes up. Steve asks pleadingly, "Buck, do you remember me?" And after Bucky gives his response, Steve is shown with an expression of pure relief and joy and hope. This is in sharp contrast to what we got in the actual movie. In the actual movie, Steve asks almost accusingly, "Which Bucky am I talking to?": and his expression after Bucky's answer is significantly muted. It is clear that the change here was done to both downplay Steve and Bucky's relationship, and try to make Bucky less sympathetic. First of all, Steve went from "Buck" to "Bucky" which while still a nickname is much less familiar. Second of all, the change in question is quite telling. The original question—"Do you remember me?"—is very eager and hopeful, and indicates a clear trust that Bucky is not dangerous. The new question, on the other hand—"Which Bucky am I talking to?"—is much more resigned, and implies that there is a good chance that Bucky is dangerous and not in control of himself.

There is another difference between the two clips that is quite noteworthy. In the trailer, right after Steve says "Buck," there is a pause, and a nicely centered, well-lit shot of Bucky looking attentively at Steve is shown before he continues. In the finished movie, however, Bucky is not shown until Steve finishes his question: and the shot of Bucky is noticeably darker, and he is crammed into the side of the frame, and unlike the trailer his face is turned away from the camera and obscured by his hair. This was clearly done to try to make Bucky seem more dangerous, and prevent the audience from trusting him.

The trailer conversation continues as follows:

Steve: You're a wanted man.

Bucky: I don't do that anymore.

Steve: Well the people who think you did are coming right now. And they're not planning on taking you alive.

Once again, this is in sharp contrast to the conversation in the finished movie:

Sam: Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?

Bucky: What did I do?

Steve: Enough.

Bucky: Oh, God, I knew this would happen. Everything Hydra put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the godd—n words.

It's clear that the change here was once again to make Bucky less sympathetic. Intriguingly, based on the trailer, it seems like the words might originally have been less of a factor, and Bucky ended up in the warehouse for a different reason. But besides that, the conversation is also much more compassionate. Bucky was given a chance to explicitly say, "I don't do that anymore," confirming that he has thoroughly rejected what Hydra tried to make him into, and Steve's subsequent response—"the people who think you did are coming right now,"—emphasizes Bucky's innocence and the fact that he is being targeted and endangered for something he didn't do. This is not brought up in conversation in the finished movie, however. Bucky is not allowed to bring up the fact that he's not the Winter Soldier anymore, and the fact that he is being wrongfully hunted is ignored as well. Instead Sam immediately asks, "Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?"—as if Bucky had done something wrong when he was literally just mind controlled—and when Steve tells Bucky that he did "Enough," which emphasizes Bucky's guilt rather than his innocence, Bucky responds, "Everything Hydra put inside me is still there," which clearly implies that he has not in fact changed at all from his Winter Soldier days.

But what's really interesting is that dialogue that is very similar to the warehouse conversation actually does appear in the finished movie, just in a different place: in the apartment in Bucharest. Here is that conversation, with Sam's comments removed for clarity:

Steve: You know me?

Bucky: You're Steve. I read about you in a museum.

Steve: I know you're nervous. And you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying.

Bucky: I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore.

Steve: Well the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive.

This indicates a substantial reshuffling of scenes, because much of that dialogue was clearly intended to be in the warehouse; we have several clear shots of Steve in the warehouse speaking those lines. Also, Steve's line changes from "coming right now" to "coming here now" which implies that in the first instance, the pursuers didn't know their location, and if they were in the warehouse that would make sense. So this doesn't seem to be just a case of the trailer being intentionally misleading. And, just as with the changes to the warehouse conversation, these changes afforded the movie a chance to downplay Steve and Bucky's relationship and cast doubt on Bucky. For example, Steve's earnest "Buck, do you remember me?" has been changed to just a flat, quick "You know me?" The question has been altered to make it much less personal, and to deemphasize their history. Also, Bucky being allowed to say that he's not the Winter Soldier anymore is now moved to before the events of the warehouse, so that once the words become a factor the movie can continue to insinuate that he's dangerous. In addition, while Steve is still allowed to draw some measure of attention to Bucky's innocence, Bucky immediately responds to the revelation that he's being wrongfully attacked with "That's smart. Good strategy," so that his attackers receive a measure of validation also. It certainly did not seem like he was going to respond thus in the warehouse; if he had, it would have been an abrupt and jarring change of tone. The clear and concerted attempt to slander Bucky, and Steve by proxy for believing in him, is quite heinous.

The next thing that does not appear in the finished movie comes a little bit later. There is a clip where Bucky is shown for a second before a car passes him and then he disappears—the background is clearly Bucharest—and then it cuts to Steve looking out a window in Lagos. Given the discrepancy of location, as well as the fact that Lagos came before Bucharest, this might just have been the trailer being intentionally misleading. After all, following The Winter Soldier many people wanted to see more of Steve and Bucky's relationship, and Marvel knew of this: but since with everything else that went on in Civil War there wasn't much time for that, they might have put some quick extra footage in the trailer to lure people in.

However, it is also equally possible that this was something that actually was supposed to be in the movie but then got cut. After all, based on the warehouse dialogue, some scenes did get reshuffled: and later in the trailer we are shown Steve jumping off a truck to get a boost into the building instead of being lifted up by Wanda, and there are more assailants when he gets in the building, and there does not appear to be any gas. In addition, unlike the second trailer we are not given any hints of Rumlow's explosion, so it's possible that Lagos was not originally meant to be the inciting incident for the Accords, and that it did actually originally come after Steve saw Bucky in Bucharest. And indeed, the footage the trailer gives of Steve looking out that window never appeared in the final film; he is clearly looking out the window quite yearningly, not in the cool and collected manner of someone gathering information for a mission. So either Lagos was a scene that got moved in the reshuffling, or that footage was shot with the sole intention of tricking people into thinking Civil War would feature more of Steve and Bucky's relationship.

The next difference can be seen in a bit of audio. Natasha says, "I know how much Bucky means to you," unlike in the movie where she says, "I know how much Barnes means to you." And this appears to have been a change that was made fairly late in the game: in the movie, Scarlett Johansson pauses briefly before saying "Barnes" indicating that this was not what she was used to saying. Such a change once again intentionally serves to try to distance the audience from Bucky, and make them care about him less. So we're seeing a clear pattern here.

The next change is significantly more alarming. While Natasha is saying, "Stay out of this one. Please," a shot of Steve standing where he went after he found out about Peggy's death is shown. Now, there are two things this could mean: either 1) Marvel knew that people wanted to see more of Steve and Bucky’s relationship in Civil War, but since the end product didn’t have much to offer they put an unrelated scene in the trailer to trick people, or 2) that scene actually was originally intended to be about Bucky, and Peggy’s funeral was something that was added later. It's hard to tell which one it could be. Again, it is possible that this was done with the express intention of tricking people. However, again, it is also possible that this was something that got changed. Steve looks much more clearly upset in the movie than the trailer: and it's entirely possible that Steve's message on the phone was supposed to be something about Bucky, and Peggy's funeral was something that ended up replacing this. After all, it's not like Peggy's funeral had much impact on the plot; its main purpose appeared to be to both remind people that Steve was supposed to have had a romance with Peggy, and to set up his romance with Sharon. (And none of this was hinted at in the trailer.) Stucky shippers have long speculated that the Staron romance in Civil War was fueled by gay panic, and it appears that they might have been right. Whatever the situation was, however, such shenanigans are truly despicable and disgusting.

(Shortly afterwards, in response to an argument Tony made about the Accords, Steve is heard saying "That's not the way I see it," and this is immediately followed by Tony saying "Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth." I don’t think this was intentional, but such an exchange perfectly sums up how Tony acts for pretty much the entire movie.)

Soon afterward is another interesting change. Footage from the scene in Bucharest where the police in the helicopter shoot at T’Challa and Bucky is shown, but then instead of T’Challa and Bucky, the target appears to be Steve. The clip that is supplied here is clearly from the portion of the movie that includes Bucky meeting Zemo and Bucky's subsequent escape, based on the clothes Steve is wearing, as well as the fact that it looks like Steve is in front of the damaged helicopter. It looks like the helicopter is hanging off the launch pad with the front end sticking up, and there is a bullet hole in the front window. Now, this is quite distinctly not from the finished movie; the helicopter is not pierced by bullets in the film, and it is never seen hanging in such a position. However, more footage from the finished movie is shown immediately afterward; Steve is shown pushing himself up after a bunch of excitement, and the helicopter is behind him on its side. Given this, I'm not sure why the other clip was in there. For even then it doesn’t seem like they were planning on using it, and it is very different from what happens in the movie, with the biggest difference being that Steve and Bucky are alone on the roof. I guess maybe they wanted to make it seem more like Hydra might be involved somehow, because that would make it somewhat more of a sequel to The Winter Soldier than the actual movie was, and a sequel to The Winter Soldier was what people were expecting. So again, either Civil War really was originally going to be more of a Captain America movie, or that footage was shot with the sole intent of deception.

Shortly afterward there is another interesting clip. It is very brief, but there is a shot of Bucky running with a terrified expression on his face, followed by a spray of bullets on the ground, presumably what he is running from. This was seemingly supposed to be part of the Bucharest chase sequence. Once again, however, it does not appear in the finished movie. We are actually given very few shots of Bucky's face throughout the finished chase sequence, and in all but one of these he looks determined rather than afraid. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but considering all the other Bucky slander the movie ended up having, it does not feel like this was done with good intentions. Bucky is apparently not allowed to feel fear—he can only be determined or startled—because if he was allowed to be afraid, more people in the audience might realize that he has feelings too, that he wasn't having a very good time of it either, and the wrongness of the situation might be emphasized. All of which is stuff Civil War was apparently allergic to, in its quest to treat him like dangerous damaged goods. It seems like once again this was a thing to show Bucky's side of the story that was purposely taken away.

Following this there are two more indications that Lagos might have originally been substantially different. One is the fact that, shortly after Steve’s “We fight,” line is heard, a few clips of Natasha’s scenes in Lagos are shown. This sort of implies that she was going to help him with the aforementioned fight. Again, this might have just been the trailer being misleading: but since there were already several scenes that indicated that Natasha was going to be opposed to Steve for some portion of the movie—Steve asking her, “Are you going to arrest me?”, her line, “you know what’s about to happen, do you really want to punch your way out of this?” and the fact that she was not in Team Cap’s charge—it’s not like the fact that she wasn’t with Steve for a large part of the movie was going to be a surprise. The trick here would just be making people believe that at some point she was going to rejoin Steve and fight with him, instead of turning on Team Iron Man at the last minute and then disappearing from the movie shortly afterward. But if it wasn’t a trick, maybe Lagos actually was originally supposed to come later in the movie, and she was going to be reunited with Steve for that.

The other possible indication is the fact that another bit of deleted footage is shown. Steve is seen running and then an explosion goes off, and based on the background he is in the spot where in the movie he gets blown out of the building by Rumlow: but that does not happen in the trailer, the brunt of the explosion misses him and he is able to keep running. (And him getting blown out of the building is shown in the second trailer.) This is a further implication that Lagos might originally have been different. I guess if it was, the question is whether at the time of the trailer's release they were still intending to use that footage, or if they had already decided not to but showed it anyway.  

The final change is the fact that footage from a deleted scene (that we have access to) shows up in the trailer. Now, bits of deleted scenes being featured in trailers is not unheard of, and the clip itself doesn’t really show much; all it shows is Natasha on top of a storage container watching an explosion. However, comparing that clip with deleted clips from other trailers is quite revealing. In the second Iron Man 2 trailer, for example, two clips from deleted scenes are shown; one from the deleted opening where Pepper kisses Tony’s helmet, and one from the deleted scene where Tony is with Natasha at the party. It is not surprising that these scenes got cut, though, because the ideas these clips’ scenes conveyed were also expressed elsewhere. We got plenty of other Tony and Pepper interactions that showed their dynamic, and the same is the case with Tony and Natasha. However, in the scene the clip in the Civil War trailer is from, Natasha sees how violent the rest of Team Iron Man is being and becomes upset; presumably, seeing this pointless violence is why she later switched sides. But in the movie, no similar indications are given for her change of heart. In the movie it’s framed like she was fully intending to stop Steve, but then realized at the last second that she couldn’t and let him go. So while Iron Man 2 got rid of clips that were fairly redundant, Civil War got rid of a clip that would have supplied valuable information. And the lack of that valuable information appears to be an intentional effort to stifle Team Cap's side of the story, and prevent Team Iron Man from looking bad.

That is all the changes there are, but there is one other thing. One of the last things shown in the trailer is the "He's my friend/So was I," exchange. This is also what is said in the movie: but the fact that the trailer so prominently featured Steve and Bucky's relationship helps highlight just how ridiculous that exchange is. I wonder if that is another reason why Bucky and Steve's relationship was so carefully downplayed.

Now, again, considering that this is just a trailer, it is hard to tell how much of the stuff that was shown was originally supposed to be in the movie, and how much of it was the trailer being purposely misleading. After all, trailers are deceitful all the time, and the second trailer was also cut in deceptive ways. However, unlike the first trailer it does not show anything that is substantially different from the finished movie: so considering the abundance of unused footage in the first trailer, there very well might have been significant changes made after that trailer's release. Indeed, this film was supposed to be a sequel to The Winter Soldier before it became Iron Man 4, so it might have originally been less of a clown show. A sequel to The Winter Soldier is certainly what most people were expecting. It’s just hard to tell whether there had originally been more of an effort to make one, or whether the trailer was just stringing people along.

In conclusion, looking at the differences between the first Civil War trailer and the actual movie is quite revealing. The Russos said in the director's commentary that in making the film, the hardest thing for them to do was "to balance the characters, and constantly recalibrate, through the writing, through the acting, through editorial, to make sure you could walk out of the movie, and really be conflicted,”: and even with the few changes the first trailer gives us insight into, it is clear that this involved arranging things to purposely minimize Steve and Bucky's relationship, curtailing Bucky's role in the movie and making him look as unfavorable as possible, and deleting things that would either make Team Iron Man look bad or make Team Cap more sympathetic. Civil War was billed as a Captain America film, but considering how deliberately the movie was turned against him and his friends, it is quite clear how untrue that is.

Truly, it is exceedingly tragic that the third Captain America movie was turned into the Iron Man 4 mess it ended up being, when it should have been a continuation of everything that was set up in The Winter Soldier. And based on the fact that the first trailer seemed to promise those things, as well as the fact that even the second trailer was cut to make it look like Bucky would have a bigger role and Natasha would reunite with Steve (though Sam was largely left out), the makers of Civil War knew exactly where they were falling short. But unfortunately, they made no efforts to repair such deficiencies, and even now we are still waiting for Cap 3.

#still waiting for cap 3 #anti captain america civil war #anti ca:cw #stucky #anti russos #marvel meta #team cap #long post

[mostlymarvelsstuff]

Out of curiosity, when you say Nat deserves a trilogy (she totally does) what do you think it should be about?

Also what are your hopes for Wanda, Bucky & Yelena?

Alright, so, before I give my opinion on this I gotta say that I do enjoy the movie we were given, I watched it like 5 times opening week lol. But I feel like it was too much in one movie, trying to mesh her past, present and Yelenas future all in one go. So here's what I think we should have gotten, and she deserved:

Movie 1: a flashback origin movie all about the Red Room, Nat and Yelenas past in Ohio, the Budapest mission with Clint, Nat thinking she took Dreykov down and her being brought to SHIELD

Movie 2: pretty much what we got, minus the Ohio mission part. Maybe add in a bit more bonding time between her and Yelena to fill that gap. And make the part at the end with blonde Nat the end credit scene instead

Potential series: what she, Steve and Sam were up to in the gap between Civil War and Infinity War. What did they do? Where did they go?

Movie 3: Nat leading the Avengers during the 5 years post blip. Her search for Clint, her search for Yelena, her search for answers. Doing ballet like the shoes on the chair in the one Endgame scene hinted at. I want to see her leadership skills in play. Original BW movie end credit scene

My character hopes below:

For Wanda is that that was it for her. I don't truly want her to be gone, but Lizzie is clearly tired of the role and frustrated with how her character was treated in MoM due to nobody watching WandaVision. But if she is alive, I'd like to see some redemption cuz it's what Lizzie wants I think.

For Bucky, I just want him to live through Thunderbolts at the moment lmao

And Yelena, I truly want her to continue to embrace the whole highly trained killer vibe she had in Hawkeye while also living up to Natashas heroics. It's important for her to be similar, but not exact. They were raised in the same conditions, but they aren't the same person. Yelena is a continuation of Nats legacy, not a replacement. They've been doing good with that, I just want it to continue

#answered asks #ask #my asks #natasha romanoff #black widow

[lizzie-is-here]

like the dawn

part vi- the man on the bridge

“in nostalgia, there is no difference between a day, a year, a decade, or a lifetime, because the amount of longing is beyond the idea of time.” - gibran khalil gibran

summary: who the hell is bucky? who the hell are you?

wordcount: 4.7k

warnings: violence, torture, i think cussing is a given now, that one scene in catws, bad russian thanks to google translate, angst left and right, yay fun times

a/n: ugh very slay. up next, civil war 👀 i had a lot of fun with this, but i’m more excited to delve into the reader’s powers soon. hope u all enjoy! love u guys <333

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In the back of a bulletproof van, you and the Winter Soldier finish suiting up.

For you, there isn’t much to do. You check your bow, load two handguns into your thigh holsters, and tuck a few knives into your belt.

So you sit, fiddling with your powers as Winter checks and loads his countless guns, knives, and explosives. Some other soldiers sit, watching silently as always.

Your powers crackle at your rising agitation. To be quite frank, you’re worried.

Ever since the other day, you’ve been anxious. HYDRA is hiding something from you, you can feel it. But you know better than to question them. You know what will happen if you do.

Today, you’ve been given two targets. Jasper Sitwell, a HYDRA spy planted in SHIELD that recently spilled some valuable secrets, and Captain America, the man who almost killed you the other night.

A part of you feels bad for Sitwell. Surveillance showed that he was forced to give up the intel. But HYDRA didn’t like leaks. The guard in the passenger seat of the van knocks on the door.

“They’ve got eyes on the targets. It’s time.”

You nod to Winter, slipping on the hard mask as he lifts the circular door on the roof. You climb out first, laying slightly low as you pull him up. You’re not used to being out in plain view. The bright sun beats down on your wings, heating them up in record time.

Grabbing his arm, you take off into the air, carefully lowering him onto the car's roof with the targets outside before landing on the HYDRA vehicle trailing behind. You watch Winter grab Sitwell, tossing him into moving traffic with no hesitation.

The car brakes hard, tossing the Soldier forward. He rises, ripping his hand from the scratched pavement.

Within the car, Steve stares at the assassin. The one from the night before. The one Natasha warned him about, who had managed to put a sizeable scar on the Black Widow. But there was another—the one with wings larger than a car.

That couldn’t be easy to miss-

The HYDRA vehicle slams into Steve, Nat, and Sam’s getaway car, pushing it towards the Soldier. He jumps atop the car effortlessly, barely taking a second to catch his breath before ripping the steering wheel out.

Now that the back window is shattered, you can see the famed Red Room assassin grabbing her gun and aiming it at the roof. Well, that just won’t do.

You loose an arrow that burns through the gun and the dashboard, yelling to the Soldier. He jumps back onto the HYDRA car, grabbing onto you for support. The car in front of you crashes soon after, the three members inside tumbling to safety as they skid along the shield that almost took you out.

The soldiers pull over, passing the Winter Soldier a missile gun. With practiced precision, he knocks the Captain from the bridge, turning immediately to focus on the other man and the redhead assassin. Winter blows up the car she was hiding behind, but no blood or screams soar into the air.

The Soldier grabs a machine gun as you watch for the Captain to emerge from a toppled bus, ready to fire. Just as he mimics your aim, a gun fires from below. He flies back, and your stomach drops for a moment.

As you kneel next to him, he rips the cracked goggles away from his eyes. A reassuring glance, a small nod, and he rears up, raining down hellfire. She dodges.

She’s good, you have to admit. Trained to be perfect. But perfect won’t stop you.

You sling your bow across your back. Twisting your hand, you feel raw power flow through your veins, searing just below the surface of the skin.

“У меня есть она [I have her],” you hiss beneath the mask. You can’t let her get so close to hurting him.

“Я найду его [I’ll find him],” Winter says, thinking the same thing. You jump in tandem, with him crashing a car’s roof in on itself with the force of his landing, while you soar into the air.

Landing lightly on the road, you toss a hand out as a police car approaches. With just a swing of your arm, a ball of light explodes the vehicle, flames erupting as you listen.

A conversation. The assassin’s voice. You hear it behind a car.

You kneel, swirls of gold weaving around your twisting fingers. The moment you’ve pinpointed the location, you strike.

But when the car explodes, you frown again. No body. Until one lands on your soldiers.

The assassin wraps a wire around your shoulders, leaning back until you both slam into a car. She slices a knife through the wire of your bow, aiming for you before you wrench the weapon away.

You grab her ankle and shoulder, tossing her forward with a brutality you normally didn’t use. Grabbing a throwing knife, you were more than ready to lodge it in her chest.

A small disc soars towards you, landing on your wing. Electricity.

From behind the mask, you scream. Every oversensitive nerve ending is burning. HYDRA never touched your wings with their machines, too afraid of harming their prized weapon. This is… new, and it's excruciating.

Grimacing, you rip the device away, gingerly running a hand over the burnt area. Even if the pain subsides in seconds and the feathers unbend and shine like new, the wing is still seizing up.

You extend both to their full width, sighing at the stretch. Opting to stay on the ground, you trail the assassin as she runs, warning civilians to stay away as she puts herself on the line. You raise a hand, forming an arrow without a bow.

Natasha screams as a burning pain cuts through her shoulder. No normal bullet or arrow feels like this, at least not that she knows of. When she goes to grab at the wound, her hand touches something warm, almost burning hot.

The arrow lodged in her arm is glowing. And it dissolves under her touch. Whatever the second HYDRA assassin is, it isn’t human by any means. She thinks she might be more scared of The Angel of Death than the Winter Soldier.

Satisfied with your counterattack, you soar away to return to the HYDRA vans. Most of the guards and soldiers are dead, not that it bothers you. You step over their bodies and shove one to the side as you dig through the weapons storage in the car.

Typically, you shot with a compound bow designed and enhanced by HYDRA. But occasionally, they’d give you a longbow. It didn’t look like something HYDRA had made. It looked well-worn and cared for, and as well as you shot with any bow, there was something special about this one.

Besides, the Black Widow had rendered your compound bow useless.

You swap out the weapons, rolling your wing again to relieve the ache. The view from the bridge gives you a perfect vantage point. The Black Widow is still slumped behind a car. The other man accompanying her and the Captain is nowhere in sight.

Speaking of the Captain, he and Winter are in the heat of a battle, hands flying as the super-soldiers match punch for punch. The latter grabs the blond by the throat, tossing him back. The Captain whirls around tanking punches and dodging knives as you begin to work your way towards them.

Your wings are growing heavy, but you press on as you keep a close eye on the two.

Then, Captain America slams his shield into Winter’s face and throws him, yanking the mask off as well. With a constricted gasp, you dive through the air, still not quite there.

On the ground, Steve’s entire world tilts. Because there’s no way in hell. Not a single day has passed that he hasn’t thought about his best friend. And now, he’s standing right in front of him.

“Bucky?” he asks, almost sobbing as the man with the metal arm narrows his eyes.

“Who the hell is Bucky?” the Winter Soldier asks. Right behind him, Sam Wilson is soaring in to take him out. But you kick the man from the sky.

You drop from there, shielding Winter with one of your wings as you heave for breath. You rip away your mask as well, feeling the air fill your lungs as you draw your bow. Whirling around, you aim it at anyone in your vicinity.

“Не трогай его!” You bark out, before repeating yourself in English. “Don’t touch him!”

Steve watches as you glare at him, shielding the brunet from the three teammates.

No. This can’t be happening. This has to be some sick illusion by SHIELD/HYDRA to get Steve to surrender. He has to admit, it might work.

He manages to choke out your name as well, only to watch helplessly as you form a searing arrow with an emotionless stare. Winter rests a hand on your arm, lowering your bow.

“Он выглядит... знакомым тебе [Does he look… familiar to you]?” he whispers as you tilt your head. You nod, almost ready to approach the Captain and ask him what he meant when he called you “(Y/N)” when a certain redhead fires a missile.

You and Winter disappear in the smoke.

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Steve, Natasha, and Sam sit handcuffed in the back of a SHIELD van. SHIELD? HYDRA? It doesn’t matter anymore.

Steve racks his brain. There shouldn’t be any way for his two best friends to still be alive. Bucky plummeted into that ravine hundreds of feet down, he shouldn’t be alive.

And you, you went missing. Looking for his body…

“It was them,” he rasps. “They looked at me like they didn’t even know me.”

Sam shakes his head. “How is that even possible? It was like, 70 years ago.”

Steve barrels on. “Zola. Bucky’s whole unit was captured in ‘43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall.”

“And the other one? The girl?” Sam asks, his shoulder still sore from where you kicked him from the sky.

“(Y/N) went missing looking for Bucky’s body. They must have found her and-“

“None of that’s your fault, Steve,” Natasha mumbles, eyes drooping.

The blond lowers his head. “Even when I had nothing, I had them.”

Natasha leans back, partially in exasperation and partially due to the wound in her shoulder. Your arrow had cut clean through, and she could still feel that burning heat radiating around the area.

“We need to get a doctor here,” Sam tells the soldiers guarding them. “If we don’t put pressure on that wound, she’s gonna bleed out in the truck.”

A guard only activates an electric baton, effectively silencing the man. But instead of attacking him, they stab the other guard in a smooth motion.

Maria Hill yanks off her helmet, sighing in relief. “That thing was squeezing my brain. Who’s this guy?”

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In the hidden basement of a building, you mend Winter’s wounds as a scientist recalibrates his arm. He winces with each cut healed, but never complains.

You refused to let anyone work on your sore wing. Standing up, you frown. Ever since you’d seen Captain America, since he’d said a name, your head has been aching.

Something flashes through your mind.

A man falls from a train in the mountains as you scream, a plane crashes as your world runs to the ground. What are these? Memories?

A lockbox, a letter, a bow, an apartment. Then a science fair, an alleyway, a classroom.

“Until the end of the line,” two voices say, young and untouched by war.

Your own voice responds with words you don’t know. “Until the end of the line.”

When you snap from your trance, Winter punches the scientist across the room. The look in his eyes tells you he’s feeling the same way you are.

Guards raise their weapons in an instant, training them on the both of you. Your mind is too jumbled to react.

Footsteps. You recognize the leader of HYDRA’s gait before he even gets past security. Still, you stand by the Soldier, though you don’t dare to rest a hand on him in front of these men.

“Mission report,” Alexander Pierce commands.

You wait for Winter to speak, not trusting your own words.

“Mission report, now.”

No reaction. Pierce leans down, delivering a brutal slap.

You furrow your brows, ready to say something, but decide against it. You’ll only make things worse.

“The man on the bridge,” Winter finally says. “Who was he?”

“You met him earlier this week on another assignment.” Though Pierce’s answer comes easily, you can’t help but feel something’s wrong. You’ve been told countless times that your enhancements can result in poor memory, but you know you’re right.

“You’re lying,” you speak up, frowning. “I knew him, too.”

Alexander Pierce sits on a stool, eyeing his two prized weapons like their his misbehaving children. “Your work has been a gift to mankind,” he says. “You two shaped the century. And I need you to do it one more time. Then? You’re free to go.”

“Society’s at a tipping point between order and chaos. And tomorrow morning, we’re gonna give it a push. But if you two don’t do your parts, I can’t do mine.”

“And HYDRA can’t give the world the freedom it deserves.”

Winter can’t help but insist. “But I knew him.” You break through your fear, resting a hand on his shoulder.

“Prep them,” Pierce commands. A scientist says, ”They’ve been out of cryo freeze too long.”

His next words rip through you. “Then wipe them, and start over.” You’re shaken awake by the command, panic taking over. You know what wiping means. It means pain and electricity.

But above all, it means forgetting.

“No, please,” you whisper. “It’s fine, we can get ready, we can complete the mission.” It’s a lie and everyone in the room knows it.

“Asset, you need to remember who’s giving commands here,” Rumlow says. He’s ruthless, practically Pierce’s best spy embedded in SHIELD.

You try to fight back as they push Winter into the chair, giving him a mouth guard as the machine whirs to life. You don’t do much damage before you’re yanked away and held still.

For a brief second, he meets your gaze, just as scared as you are. He knows what’s coming. And you know that it’ll be your turn right after they make you watch them erase the few memories he has.

Winter’s breathing grows heavy as metal clamps lock in place, the two headpieces rotating like a twisted halo as they crackle with electricity.

And then the screaming begins.

You go still, unable to move or even think as he fights the machine. Pierce and his group leave, not sparing a glance back.

‘After this mission, we can get out,’ you promise yourself. But you’re unable to believe the words. You see it in full scope now.

You’re a prisoner without a cage, being kept in place by wipings, missions, and lies. Too bad you won’t remember it in ten minutes.

After what seems like forever, the Winter Soldier is released from the machine, tugged out of the seat, and led away. The scientists put on protective visors.

As you sit, they push a drip into the back of your hand, maneuver your wings with no regard to their sensitivity, and hook you up to dozens of monitors.

A new mouth guard is given to you. The machine locks you in. In your mind, you recite the phrase buried in your mind, begging that you miraculously remember it.

‘Until the end of the line. Until the end of the line. Until the end of the-‘

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“Attention all SHIELD agents, this is Steve Rogers. You’ve heard a lot about me over the last few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it’s time you know the truth.”

“SHIELD is not what we thought it was. It’s been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The STRIKE and Insight crew are HYDRA as well. I don’t know how many more, but I know they’re in the building. They could be standing right next to you.”

“They almost have what they want. Absolute control. They shot Nick Fury. And it won’t end there. If you launch those helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way. Unless we stop them.”

“I know I’m asking a lot. But the price of freedom is high. It always has been. And it’s a price I’m willing to pay. And if I’m the only one, then so be it. But I’m willing to bet I’m not.”

Steve sighs as he finishes his speech. Sam chuckles.

“Did you write that down first, or was it off the top of your head?”

Even though he smiles back, his mind is elsewhere. It’s highly likely that you two will show up during the fight. And now, knowing how close he’s gotten to seriously injuring both of you, Steve’s not sure if he could even throw a punch.

He and Sam run out to the carriers anyway, taking out the undercover HYDRA agents as they go. Even on foot, Steve is the first to place the chip into one of the massive computers on a helicarrier.

“Alpha lock,” he announces into the comms, racing away to find the next target. Meanwhile, Sam’s dodging missiles as he cuts through the air.

After finally getting the jet tailing him off his ass, he soars through the shattered dome housing the computers. He maneuvers like his suit is part of him, landing and placing the second chip.

“Bravo lock.”

From a hiding spot on one helicarrier, you nod to the Winter Soldier.

Without any words, you rush in tandem at the pilots and crew preparing to help the Captain. The Soldier puts dozens of bullets through their bodies, while you fire arrows at anyone who gets too close to a jet.

Eventually, the Winter Soldier climbs into a plane, taking off as you soar after him. Taking advantage of the lower wind resistance, you trail after him, squinting as the wind makes your eyes water.

Normally, you wear a mask and goggles. But this time, HYDRA insisted that you go without either. You suppose it’s to send a message, but you heard whispers about Captain America as well.

The Soldier lands on another helicarrier, waiting for you to land before heading towards a supply crate and ducking behind it. He turns to you, eye ticking as his mind fights his instincts.

The silver arm whirs, joints clicking and adjusting as he clenches his fist. You gently rest a hand on his wrist, nodding at the “Falcon” carrying the Captain. The Soldier tackles the blond as they pass by, and you grab the other man’s mechanical wing as he goes to dive after him.

Throwing him at the Soldier, you tag-team him. Avoiding gunfire, you aim a grappling hook at his wingsuit, slamming him onto the ground with full force. With a flick of your wrist, you rip a wing from the machine. The Winter Soldier kicks the man from the carrier, glancing down where Captain America clings on.

Instead of flying down to him, you both race to the inside of the ship. It’ll be better to ambush him, take him by surprise. You get there first, and the Soldier plants himself in front of the computer. Meanwhile, you tuck yourself into the shadows opposite him.

The Captain arrives soon after.

You watch his posture fall as he spots the Soldier. There’s a grief to his words, as though he’s mourning.

“People are gonna die, Buck.” That nickname. It’s a punch to the chest. “I can’t let that happen.”

He shakes his head, voice wavering now. “Please don’t make me do this.”

The Soldier nods to you. Just as the Captain flings his shield and the brunet blocks it, you run up from behind, kicking the other man towards him. He catches his shield nonetheless, blocking bullet after bullet as you stalk closer, twisting light in your hand.

A bullet grazes the Captain’s side and flies past you, getting deflected with a single gesture. The blond knocks the Soldier back, and you take the opening, firing a blast at his back.

He blocks it best he can with the shield, whipping around as the Winter Soldier unsheathes a knife. They duke it out as you slip from the walkway, flying as best you can in the enclosed space as you wait for an opening.

When they both topple over the railing, you dive after them. Knocking the Captain away from your partner, you go hand-to-hand with him as the Soldier catches his breath.

You’re surprisingly nimble, using your wings to your advantage to sweep his feet from under him and disguise your next moves. Every attack is calculated.

Even so, the man lands one particularly harsh blow on your sternum, knocking the wind from you. Taking advantage of your shock, he kicks the middle of your back, sending pain radiating through your wings.

And when you stumble back and the Winter Soldier rushes forward, the knife that gets lodged in the Captain’s soldier is no accident.

The latter manages to get the former in an armlock, twisting it to the point of a sickening crunch. He screams. You struggle to rise as you gasp for air, coughing as your lungs spasm from the blow.

By the time you get to your feet, the Winter Soldier is passed out on the ground and Captain America is running back up to the computers. After making sure he isn’t too injured, you draw back your bow.

Your arrow flies through his thigh. As he falls to the ground, you lightly shake the Soldier. He stirs, groaning as you ready another arrow. Not that there was a need for it.

The brunet next to you fires a deafening shot, and you watch it collide with the Captain’s mid-back. Likely fatal. You sigh, still fighting for breath as the Winter Soldier slumps against you. Neither of you are in the state to continue fighting.

Moments later, explosions rock the carrier.

You’re ready to grab your partner and jump, but collapsing debris has other plans. Within seconds, a giant metal beam collapses on you, pinning you down and practically crushing you.

Glass is shattering left and right, and you can feel the carrier plummeting through the sky.

“Run,” you shout to the Soldier, unsure why you’re defaulting to English to speak to him. “Get out of here!”

In the most emotion you’ve seen from him, he shakes his head. “Not without you!”

“Not without you!”

Your head dips as a flash of pain shoots through your head.

A burning building, two names you can’t remember, a long journey.

Pain brings you back to the present, the growing pressure on your chest and wings constricting your body. The Soldier makes a few futile attempts to lift the beam, but with one bad arm, it doesn’t budge. You begin to panic, growing more frantic by the second.

The Captain drops down, and you only struggle more. The Winter Soldier prepares to fight the man off, but he only holds up a hand, grabbing onto the metal beam. The brunet does the same.

They lift it just enough for you to scramble away, holding your chest as the pressure begins to subside. You feel your powers begin to work as hairline fractures on your ribs fuse and bruises fade.

You turn towards the blond as the Soldier rests a hand on your arm.

“You know me,” the man pleads. You glare at him as the touch leaves.

“No I don’t!” the Winter Soldier swings with his full might, glaring at the Captain. The latter continues as you stand.

“Bucky, (Y/N)... You’ve known me your whole lives.”

You throw the next punch, sending him flying back onto the glass floor of the destroyed helicarrier. Still, the Captain refuses to give up.

“Your names are James Buchanan Barnes and (Y/N) (M/N) (L/N),” he insists.

More flashes.

A tiny apartment with a dingy couch that feels like home anyway. A secret tea stash tucked away in a cabinet. Endless medications that aren’t for you.

The scariest part is that the images feel like memories. But you don’t know these places. Your mind can’t quite comprehend the input flooding in. A quick look at the Soldier tells you he’s feeling the same things.

“Shut up!” He yells, continuing to fight as you follow after him, hesitating just slightly. The Captain rips away his helmet, gasping for breath.

“I’m not gonna fight you,” he says, dropping his shield. “You’re my friends. My family.”

A small boy getting scolded in an alleyway, a crowded boardwalk. A taller brunet proudly holding up a trophy for the science fair. A small, child-sized longbow and a target with a single bullseye.

You tackle the Captain, sliding behind him and wrapping an arm around his throat.

“And you’re our mission,” you say, not budging as the Winter Soldier repeatedly punches the man. He echoes your words with each blow, drawing back as he gathers the strength for another.

“Then finish it,” the beaten man says. “‘Cause I’m with you to the end of the line.”

A playground.

And then reality collapses in on you. Your brain works overtime to comprehend two decades of memories resurfacing, all fuzzy and out-of-focus, but there nonetheless. You don’t notice when Steve slips away and gets knocked from the plane. You don’t notice the Potomac getting closer and closer.

You notice Bucky shaking you.

He can’t seem to manage words either, but he nods to the river and drops down, and you soar to the banks and wait for him to resurface.

Your memories are like butterflies. They flit away the moment you reach for them. Everything blends together, and you can’t pinpoint any details. But you know two things: your names, and that saying.

Bucky drags Steve to the surface where you wait, kneeling in the sand. They’re both hurt, far worse than you are. Any of your wounds healed up in minutes.

You raise a careful hand over the blond, healing the cuts and bruises on his face first. Then, you move to his cracked ribs, mending bone and nerves. The hardest part is the bullet wounds and your arrow wound.

Stitching him together is slow work, and you’re on high alert as sirens wail through the area. But after a while, once he’s free of blemishes, he begins to cough up water.

You breathe a sigh of pure relief, slumping slightly as you regain your energy.

Steve’s eyes lazily blink open as the vague blobs next to him solidify into his best friends. He startles a bit, before calming when neither of you move to punch his face in.

“(Y/N), Bucky,” he rasps, stretching out a hand. You flinch and he freezes, gently shushing you as he struggles to sit up.

You stand, unfolding your wings and casting a shadow over him. Bucky stands beside you as Steve follows suit.

“You remembered.”

The specific memories are too much to properly piece together, but you nod, with teary eyes and a deep ache in your chest.

“We did,” Bucky answers for you. “But we can’t stay here, Steve.”

“What? No, Buck, you guys are free now,” he argues.

You shake your head, reaching out to take his hand before deciding against it. There’s blood coating your glove, and it doesn’t seem right to taint him further.

“You don’t know what we’ve done, Steve. We have to run.” You turn to Bucky.

“Поймай его [Catch him],” you request, speaking the foreign tongue whilst never remembering learning it.

Steve continues, stubborn as you sort-of remember. “What are you saying? Where are you going?” You offer a weak smile, removing one glove.

“Don’t worry about it, Steve. Just sleep.”

The moment you touch his forehead, you focus on initiating a vasovagal reaction. The bodily reflex that happens when someone passes out. And, well, he’s so tired already that it doesn’t take much effort.

Bucky catches him as he slumps, gently laying him on the sand.

“What now?” he asks, closing and opening his metal arm. “What do we do?”

You furrow your brows, endless knowledge and escape tactics running rampant.

“We get as far away from here as possible. We lay low.” You rip away a patch of HYDRA’s emblem from your shoulder.

“And we disappear.”

#marvel #marvel x reader #x reader #avengers x reader #avengers #steve rogers #bucky barnes #like the dawn #steve rogers x reader angst #steve rogers x female reader #steve rogers x winged!reader #avengers x winged! reader #stucky x winged!reader #bucky barnes x female reader #bucky x reader #bucky x reader angst #steve x reader angst #stucky x reader #the winter soldier #catws #catws x reader #captain america the winter soldier #captain america: the winter soldier #captain america

[sea-owl]

So I'm rewatching the Marvel movies and I just finished Captain America: civil war and I was wondering about you opinion of the movie?

Oh that can of worms. Okay before I start know this is just my opinion and that's okay if your's differ from mine. Just be respectful or you will get the block button.

So my opinion on Civil War, short answer, I deeply dislike it and will never watch it on my own free will again. The only saving grace for me with that movie is the good angst hut/comfort fics the fandom has written after.

Long answer I don't like it for many reasons, narratively being a big part of it actually. I believe the MCU jumped the gun for Civil War. They put it in too soon without doing the work for all the needed buildup for it. I believe they chose the wrong directors for this movie and I 100% believe this should not have been a Captain America movie.

In my opinion this movie was made too soon. One of the core plot points for Civil War in any rendition is that it's a break up between two people that is so bad and so strong it divides an entire community. Those two people for Civil War is Steve and Tony, which the MCU had neglected working up their relationship to pull Civil War that soon. The outside conflict was there, you could see the outside tension rising with each moving but the dynamics of Steve and Tony, hell all of the Avengers was not. Had they wanted to do this in the time frame they did there needed to be crossovers from the two characters into each other's franchise. The audience needed to see them actually liking each other and the movies building up on that and the other Avengers' relationships as a team. Hell even a mini series that connected to the movies to give us those bonding moments would have helped.

Like many others I also believe this should never have been a Captain America movie, it should have been an Avengers movie. Right off the bat it's gonna try to frame Steve in the right which no. If you want to pull this divide off you need to have the narrative neutral or both Steve and Tony need to be right and wrong. They are both two sides to this fight, and personally both should be held accountable to what happens during and after. Which leads me into the directors, the Russo brothers should not have been the directors. By their own admittance they do not like Tony, they are Cap fanboys, and had they had their way Tony would have died in this movie. This type of plot is not meant for a singular franchise character it is an ensemble plot, and you would need a director who knows how to work an ensemble cast and in my own opinion neutral to both sides. Neither Steve or Tony should have been framed as all the way right or all the way wrong. The politics to this movie is actually very complicated without even adding on the whole Bucky side plot.

Speaking of the side plot, it felt kinda unnecessary and was added for Steve's pain/a way to tie up his brainwashing healing (at least the commands) in a nice little bow. I always say Bucky came back too soon and I still hold that belief. Should've kept him a shadow for a while and maybe saved him for Sam. Sam's cap arch is already doing more for Bucky's character than Steve's ever did.

And since I know this will probably be a follow up question, my opinion on the Accords is that I'm pretty neutral. Yes as they stood amendments were defiantly needed for it, but also the Avengers really had no accountability. The group that was supposed to hold them accountable, SHIELD, was gone. In the eyes of the public they were a loose canon. I don't blame other countries not wanting this American based military like group coming into my home, fucking shit up, and then dipping out. The whole situation needed compromise, but since this is Steve's movie and Steve doesn't know compromise if it bit him in the ass it's not framed that way. Despite the fact we have whole scene in the movie where Steve was proving these people's fears right.

What do I know though, I think the movie is a mess and if I had my way I'll never watch it again.

#I also believe ross should not have been the one to present the accords #that should have been a member of the United Nations #marvel #marvel civil war #mcu #civil war critical #steve rogers critical #just a little bit #I love steve but damn he got on my nerves in this movie #captain america civil war

[luna-rainbow]

Dear Nonnie who just sent me an ask: I won’t post it verbatim here because I don’t want this to turn into a ship war 😅

*Puts on my Sambucky hat* (it’s like a once a year event now) I think there’s a lot you can unpack from the final scene in CATWS. Here’s Sam, who almost got killed twice by the Winter Soldier, who looked at the picture of Bucky suspended in cryo next to a picture of him smiling faintly in army gear and said — “I’m coming with you.” You could read that as Sam’s strong loyalty to a guy he fought alongside once, but I think it also suggests Sam, between Steve telling him about the best friend he had lost and now, had already changed his opinion of Bucky. They’re not off to capture a monster, but to find the good man whose life got completely derailed by Hydra. Sam had lost his wingman recently too, and maybe he put Riley in Bucky’s shoes, and knows he’s going to go after him just as Steve would.

I tend not to take AoU as canon for multiple reasons but in Sam’s short appearance, it’s clear he’s the one busy chasing Bucky’s tail, so the…intellectual? Emotional? attachment is definitely there. Notably, he called it “our missing person’s case” — it’s a soft term to use: not hunt, or pursuing a fugitive; it makes no reference to the Soldier’s murders or past crimes. “Missing person’s cases” speaks of longing, an emptiness that needs filling, and a wish for closure. That’s what Bucky was to Sam — at the very least, a ghost story he wanted to bring into the present and bring closure for.

Civil War was unkind to every on-screen relationship (yes, including Steve-Bucky), not just Sam and Bucky, who barely exchanged a word. What I do want to point out is that when Sam went down to the basement (after Zemo activated the code words), he did not walk in there armed and ready to attack. He knew Bucky’s capabilities but was still worried enough to see all the collapsed bodies that he had let his guard down, because he was worried for Bucky’s safety. Bucky overpowered him quickly because Sam wasn’t expecting Bucky to be like that, i.e. Sam implicitly trusted Bucky. Trusted him because he said to Steve he didn’t do the things in Vienna and that he doesn’t “do that anymore”. Sure, Sam played the devil’s advocate with Steve to make sure he doesn’t let his guard down, but when push came to shove, Sam wanted to trust Bucky. And their fight against Peter shows that Sam was right to trust Bucky, who grouches at him non stop but would jump in front of him to take a hit.

And I’ve said this before, while their presence (and sad expressions) at the funeral itself is up for debate, there’s something so tender about the way Sam gently rubs his thumb along the groove of Bucky’s prosthetic shoulder to comfort him.

To be absolutely fair, the MCU’s consistency has been a dumpster fire from day one, and pretty much every fan I’ve seen picks and chooses what they want from canon. What that also means is there are multiple ways of interpreting a scene, and there aren’t necessarily right or wrong readings (although some readings might be a bit more of a stretch than others). As shippers though, we inevitably empathise a lot more with our blorbo/s and it’s hurtful when we see readings that frame them/their dynamic in a negative light. The best way to deal with that is to block people liberally.

#sambucky #asks

[bulkyphrase]

✨mcu ask game!✨ 19, 21 and 28?

19. Characters you wish would interact more

I would have loved to see more interaction between Sam and Natasha. Because we know they must have spent a ton of time working together between Age of Ultron and Civil War, and then on the run together between Civil War and Infinity War. We see a little of their interaction in CW ("I’m… not thanking that thing." "His name is Redwing.") but I want more. Did Sam and Nat argue over whether or not to watch another James Bond movie on fugitive team cap movie nights? (huddled around an iPad on their stolen quinjet)

I also would have appreciated more than one friendly/non-antagonistic conversation between Steve and Tony.

21. Unpopular opinion about anything

Hopefully I won't get booed out of the Steve fandom for this, but I really don't see any sexual chemistry between Steve and Bucky. Like, to me that conversation in the pub where Bucky asks if Steve is keeping the costume is just a guy giving his buddy shit for wearing an embarrassing outfit.

Maybe it's because they read as very brotherly to me. Maybe it's because aside from a couple scenes I don't find Bucky all that attractive.

28. When did you first joined the fandom? And why?

I've been a fan of the MCU movies since CA:TFA, which I saw in the theater, and I was on the edges of fandom back in 2014-2015 after The Winter Soldier came out (it was hard to be on tumblr back then and not be in the CATWS fandom), but I didn't really enter the fandom until the 2020 pandemic lockdown. I was furloughed from my job for 3 months, and didn't have much to do alone in my apartment. So I did a lot of crafts, marathoned the MCU movies and Agent Carter a couple times, and started reading fanfic. Rejoining tumblr came a few months later, and I've been here ever since.

Thanks so much for the ask!

MCU ask game

#ask meme answers

[firstelevens]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

My brain did immediately wipe itself of anything I had ever written as soon as I read this message, but thank you for sending it!

Gonna try to talk about things other than the Bake Off AU because now would be a really bad time for people to get tired of that and focus on some other smaller things I've written.

the king of new york is a two fic series (shhhhh it's not cheating) about MCU Peter & MJ dealing with their feelings for each other. It was my first ever foray into Marvel fic and I was nervous but I had so much fun writing it and I still really love it. A fun fact about this series is that the titles are all pulled from Newsies, and when I originally published the fic, I was like, "haha, it's too bad I have NO IDEA how to write Steve or Bucky or anyone because then I could have a fic titled 'have no fear (brooklyn's here)'"

Little did I know.

parks and rebellion is a forever favorite of mine, because I wrote it for one of my favorite people in the universe and because it's a Jyn/Cassian Parks and Recreation AU. Like, it should not work, but it does, and I have so many ideas for expanding this AU and I swear I will! One day! It also comes with its own episode guide and playlist, because I am a thorough person.

soft words, spoke so gentle takes place between Civil War and Infinity War and it focuses on Sam grappling with the things he's left behind and a certain goat herding former assassin seeing that and taking care of him. It's short but it's tender and I'm proud of it.

by land, by sea, by dirigible is technically a FATWS/Cloak & Dagger crossover, but you don't need to know C&D as a show to understand it. It's the first multi-chapter fic that I've ever committed to, planned, and written in full, so I'm very proud of it for that reason but also because it's in the canon universe! And I think it works and feels like a reasonable expansion of the world and also at one point Sam calls Bucky White Corgi and I thought that was very funny.

high above the whole scene is an excerpt from a Sambucky Formula 1 AU that I am very excited to write in full, and it's silly but fun and I'm hoping that energy carries over into the full length fic. Also I just enjoy the idea of Bucky in black tie with Alpine perched on his shoulder and I think more people should envision that.

#requisite shoutout to the sambucky fic I posted the other day after writing it in a fugue state #this is the way etc etc #OH NO I FORGOT THE EPISTOLARY FIC! SHAME ON ME! #apatheticjoy #zainab does ask meme things #thank you for giving me the opportunity to ramble about my fics!!!!

[captaintoomanybattles]

Whump Fic Recs

I was talking with @elvenfforestydd about whump, and ended up going through my bookmarks to find some of my favorite whump fics. These are mostly Steve/Bucky, as I rarely read anything else. In no particular order:

“despite the threatening sky and shuddering earth (they remained)” by praximeter, https://archiveofourown.org/works/12823671/chapters/29276760

The Avengers capture the Winter Soldier, and find out that the mask is nailed to his face.

This is a classic, featuring identity porn, hurt/comfort, and angst. Steve and crew don’t realise the WS is Bucky, and while they’re not trying to hurt him, they definitely fuck up a few times in their attempts to figure out what’s going on.

“in a blameless way” by Nonymos and thefilthiestpiglet, https://archiveofourown.org/works/26992414

Steve drags the Soldier out of the river, and makes some horrifying discoveries.

gen

HYDRA was into some stuff that was definitely not safe, sane, or consensual. Steve and Sam’s good intentions might do more harm than good. Heed the tags.

“A Matter of Pride” by Quarra, https://archiveofourown.org/works/13984359

The Avengers think the Winter Soldier is standoffish because he’s an arrogant. Then the Soldier gets injured, and they realize not everything is as it seems.

I love the twist in this story. Nothing is as it seems, and the Avengers slowly realizing what’s going on is wonderfully angsty!

“Perilous Underside of the World” by eyres, https://archiveofourown.org/works/11850618/chapters/26754519

Steve gets captured by Ross while on the run after Civil War. Bucky and Sam are determined to get him back.

Peak evil Ross, Steve getting tortured, Bucky and Sam going frantic, and some lovely hurt/comfort, as well.

“by foreign hands (or by familar)” by ACometAppears, https://archiveofourown.org/works/5842687/chapters/13465690

“ Steve is a skinny trans florist who knows his way around a baseball bat. Bucky is a fugitive from the men that have hurt him for seventy years. Their paths cross one night when, panicked and alone, Bucky decides to hide in Steve's shop.”

I really love non-serum Steve being fiercely protective of WS Bucky. This has one of my favorite interrogation scenes in it-- and once again, good intentions end up causing pain.

“Project Kraken” by cobaltmoony and Unforth, https://archiveofourown.org/works/10944618/chapters/24354222

Steve is found by HYDRA shortly after crashing the Valkyrie. During his captivity, they attempt to turn him into a (literal) monster...

Tentacles. So many tentacles in this one. Also Steve going through some really agonizing torture.

“i need a forest fire” by tomorrowsrain, https://archiveofourown.org/works/6848857/chapters/15633427

After the events of CACW, Bucky is captured by Ross. At first, Tony is only too happy to gloat... then he finds out what Ross’s plans for Bucky actually are, and things get more complicated.

I really loved the relationship between Bucky and Tony in this one, and the moment that Tony figures out what Ross is doing is deliciously angsty.

“Revenant” by stele3, https://archiveofourown.org/works/1536380/chapters/3252230

The Winter Soldier doesn’t leave Steve on the riverbank. He takes him.

Some great whump with the Winter Soldier trying to figure himself out, and Steve as his willing captive.

“The Supersoldier’s Amnesiac Groom”, by casspeach, https://archiveofourown.org/works/1488541

Steve volunteers to marry a Soviet assassin out of patriotic duty. Then he sees his face...

Identity porn with a side of arranged marriage!

SES-verse series by arsenicarcher, https://archiveofourown.org/series/41871

“An AU where Steve's essentially a failed experiment, corporal punishment is the predominant form of discipline and team leaders take the punishments for those under them.”

Steve/Natasha

Steve gets whipped every time the Avengers fuck up. They fuck up a lot. Grade A hurt/comfort!

#whump #hurt/comfort #angst #fic recs

[wenellyb]

wait.. do you actually like the idea of Sam forming his own team? 😬 i mean sure i want him to do that but why does this feel like they're doing a civil war on him? 😩 a team? in his first movie? ngl, i kinda hate it here. Also i hate that it's heavely connected to thunderbolts apparently cause then i feel like we'll see bucky somehow in cap 4 and that's a big fear i have

Hi Anon!!!

Yes I do like the idea! I feel like Marvel isn't doing "solo" movies anymore, they're going for solo+ensemble kind of configuration. Unless, it's characters we've never ever seen before (like Shang Chi), they'll always bring other Avengers, etc,... Like Thor (Bruce with Ragnarok and the Guardians with Love and Thunder), Civil War you already mentionned but it Cap 2, there was also Natasha (and Sam we had just met), Dr Strange with Wanda,...We even had Ayo appearing in Tfatws,

It doesn't bother me at all that there would be other Avengers in the Sam movie because it seems to be the general direction in which the MCU is going, trying to do more "crossovers" or interactions between characters and it's sounds great.

As long as Sam is the lead in the movie, I don't care about how many other Avengers are there and it also sounds interesting that Sam is forming a new group ( if the rumors are true), it would make an interesting storyline.

Besides Tony Stark is dead so what damage could RDJ possibly make wanting to change the plot of a Cap movie so it would center about him😂?

I don't know about the movie being connected to the Thunderbolts, I haven't followed that so closely but I really doubt Bucky would be in the movie, maybe the After credits scenes ?

And also, one thing about me is that I'm never really bothered as much by the plot that by the fandom.... You could have a movie focusing 100% on Sam and some people in the fandom would find a way to focus about the side character that appeared for 5 minutes in the movie. And then people will get conviced that there wasn't enough focus on Sam, even if there was and it was just the fandom being *ssholes.

I get where you're coming from but imo it's due to the fandom behavior and maybe not the plot of the movie itself.

TL:DR: I'm excited the movie and the only thing that worries me is the fandom behavior.

#sam wilson #tfatws #anon asks #bucky barnes #thor #dr strange #captain america 4 #as long as the plot is good I'm in!

[themculibrary]

Missing Scenes Masterlist

A Short Interlude (ao3) - daisherz365 scott/wanda T, 2k

Summary: During their downtime during the battles between the Avengers Scott shares his sacred 80s mix with Wanda. It isn't the only thing he shares with her much to the amusement of the rest of Team Cap.

Better Angels (ao3) - sabrecmc steve/tony E, 8k

Summary: Chris Evans mentioned in an interview (jokingly, unfortunately) that there was a deleted scene from Civil War with him and RDJ showering together.

Welp. Headcanon accepted.

Billionaire's cake (ao3) - everythingispoetry phil/tony G, 16k

Summary: The first time Phil gets to eat something baked by Tony, it's purely accidental. The other times - not so much. Or: a story about a relationship that starts with donuts and doesn't end because of donuts.

Cap's Reinforcements (ao3) - rockmusicplays G, 2k

Summary: Clint rounds up the rest of Team Cap. Missing scene between the Avengers' compound and the airport meet-up.

course-correct without a map (ao3) - stark2ash G, 1k

Summary: This was his favorite hymn, the son next to Sam whispers, and Sam smiles sadly and nods like it’s an old memory rather than new information, and Bucky sits there in his black tie and jacket and tries to feel like he’s not crumbling back into dust.

(the six months between Endgame and Falcon and the Winter Soldier)

Dibs Not (ao3) - aloneintherain G, 1k

Summary: Inspired by anon: 'AU where the airport fight ends in a minor debate over who has to take Peter home b/c he's literally too young to fly unaccompanied without fuckloads of paperwork.'

Hold On Let Go (ao3) - gracerene steve/tony E, 2k

Summary: The barn smells of stale hay, and some kind of warm wood, and Tony knows that most people would find the scent comforting, but it just makes his skin prickle.

I’m Not Your Babysitter (ao3) - Mrs_N_Uzumaki G, 1k

Summary: “I can’t take this anymore, Tony.” The end of the rope that was Happy’s already little patience has been reached. “I am an asset manager, not a babysitter.”

(A “missing scene” in Homecoming.)

It'll All Come out in the Wash-ington (ao3) - AnonEhouse G, 1k

Summary: What if Tony had talked to Rogers right after SHIELD fell (was pushed), when Rogers was in the hospital and dopey enough to let down his guard and talk freely.

What if Tony got more than a hint of things to come?

Let’s Hear It For Captain America! (ao3) - Magnetism_bind steve/bucky E, 5k

Summary: A missing scene from Captain America: The First Avenger

On Your Right (ao3) - thingswithwings steve/sam T, 5k

Summary: Sam puts the Trouble Man soundtrack on repeat, like a talisman at first, when he thinks that Steve might die. The doctors are grim and serious, claiming that they did what they could for him, removing the bullets and stitching his insides back together. A few hours later, the doctors' faces get less grim, more confused, and a few hours after that, they're throwing their arms up in the air in frustration and grinning with triumph at the same time, because apparently the Super Soldier Serum is worth more than just the fastest mile in human history.

Sam spends that time beside Steve, in the position he's gotten used to after only a couple of days: on his right, waiting to see where he'll run next, ready to get his back.

Overseas Teambuilding Strategies (ao3) - OnMyShore T, 3k

Summary: "We’re three international fugitives, on foreign soil, with a whole lot of enemies and a clown car full of stolen tactical gear."

Or: The one where Steve, Bucky and Sam travel through Germany in a Volkswagen and bicker over who gets to join their team.

Self-Sustained Quantum Superposition (ao3) - rednihilist T, 1k

Summary: Character study masquerading as filler between Siberia & Raft-rescue.

Sympathetic Monsters (ao3) - miss_aphelion N/R, 3k

Summary: Tony doesn’t know what it is to be unmade. He still thinks that Bucky Barnes had a choice. Natasha tries to explain it to him, but Tony doesn’t want to care.

But when it comes to the things that really matter, he rarely gets what he wants.

(Civil War Missing Scene: Tony learns the truth about the Winter Soldier)

Three Men in a VW (ao3) - Brokenpitchpipe steve/bucky T, 3k

Summary: Steve steps back into the car and closes the door, lips still tingling.

“You don’t like blondes,” Bucky says.

Sam chokes.

turn your back on mother nature (ao3) - apocalyvse druig/makkari T, 10k

Summary: the drukkari scenes that were missing from the movie.

What Comes After (ao3) - Shadith G, 4k

Summary: Sam Wilson is the baby of the family. Everyone agrees, even his baby sister.

What do you call a guy who shrinks? (ao3) - Laimelde G, 1k

Summary: Missing scene fic from the end of Civil War. Set just after Steve & Bucky rescuing everyone from the Raft..

For Scott, working with ants was an everyday occurrence, but he sort of forgot that the Avengers didn't know about it. It just hadn't come up during the fight at Leipzig airport, y'know?

#themculibrary #mcu #marvel #masterlists #missingscenes #missingscenes masterlist

[venomous-soliloquy]

I legitimately just got angry because, like, the Russo brothers did The Winter Soldier and that's a damn good movie, still my favorite of the MCU (look I just really love the stealth suit, and the espionage (or the thin veneer of it anyway) and the scene with Nick in his car, and the elevator scene, and that first fight between Steve and Bucky, and Sam, omg Sam. It's not the greatest movie ever by a long shot, but it's really good)

But after The Winter Soldier? They characterized Steve like complete shit. Sure there's parts of Steve's character I love in CW and he's a snack to look at through out. But I've spent the last few years going

'I don't get why they never even really detailed Steve's full opinion on the Accords, wasn't it supposed to be a Cap Movie? I mean the name is in the damn title'

But you know why we get the bare bones of his argument? Because they didn't give two shits about his character and didn't care to even flesh out what he was trying to say. Instead we get him sounding arrogant and misguided and saying 'governments are untrustworthy' and that's it. Nothing else. (to be fair he did just find out there were a bunch of Nazis in the US government in The Winter Soldier, so that part of his opinion kinda is understandable. If I just found out the same... well id probably feel pretty similar.)

And like a friend of mine said, they went into civil war way too early as it was.

And THEN we get Infinity War and Endgame. Infinity War is... eh, there's not a lot of characterization for him there in general and he mostly feels like a pretty piece of eye candy in it and little more. Rhodey just outright accepting him back is... strange, but technically he is his own character and is not beholden to Tony and Tony's grievances with Steve.

But Endgame... If I could gnash my teeth about that movie any louder and more violently I *would*. I give it some leeway because it's what really sucked me into the Stony fandom and there's some great scenes. And again, Steve looks like a fucking grade-a SNACK in it. But by the end it's a complete character assassination that not only destroys Steve's character so thoroughly that it's reprehensible, but it also relegates Peggy to the role of Trophy and Prize to Steve. And that's fucking disgusting on top of everything else.

It pisses me off so much, because I absolutely adore Steve and I watch so many people just completely misunderstand his character, his motivations, his ideals. But it's come to a point where I can't really blame them. With what the Russo's did with him? It's no surprise at all.

I may hate just how 'Gee Gosh Golly Me!' Joss made him, but I'd take 'strangly innocent and wholesome war veteran who barely knows how to cuss' Steve over the train wreck we ended up with.

#steve rogers #syan rants #syan rambles #gnashing my teeth and being angry

[thatmexisaurusrex]

It's your friendly Sam Wilson Anon back with another question so we can continue to fill the Sam Wilson tag with even more content !!! Just finished my 12th rewatch of TFATWS aks CAATWS it got me thinking. If you have seen TFATWS, What are your top 3 Sam Wilson scenes ? And what are your top 3 underrated Sam Wilson scenes ?

Thank You 💙😊

Okay, so, I've had this ask for a million years. Which is bad of me, I should have answered it when it came in, but the questions in it bogged me down because the panicky stressed flaily voice in my head was like "YOU'RE GOING TO ANSWER THIS WRONG AHHHHHH", but I'm shoving down that voice and I'm going to answer all the friendly Sam Wilson Anon questions I have.

SO, HERE GOES NOTHING!

MY TOP THREE SAM MOMENTS IN TFATWS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

1. Sam and Sarah's Talk in The Truth and Sam Bringing the Community Together to Help Fix the Boat

I love how they check up on each other in this scene. I love how both of them know each other too well but also try to be there for each other in ways that aren't overstepping. I love the small moment where AJ and Cass walk in and Sarah reminds them to give lunches to a few boys who need them. I love knowing the fact that Sarah cares and notices when kids are going hungry and does something because she knows those kids need help. I love that she's just like her mom 🥺 I love that Sam finds a way to fix the boat by telling people that they need the help and the community proves that the Wilson family can lean on them in times of need. It's a beautiful moment for Sam and his sister, Sam and his family, and Sam and his community.

2. Sam Training in the Truth

I know this list is very The Truth heavy, but that's just because I like that episode as a whole. I like Sam's training montage because this is when Sam makes Captain America his own. He decides he's going to shape what Captain America is and prepares himself for the role he wants to make it. He watches the reactions of his nephews and sees the inspiration this brings to them. It's a wonderful, beautiful moment of Sam affirming what he wants to be and putting in the hard work to prepare for what he wants to be. I just love it.

3. The Party at the End of One World, One People

Rarely, is there such a moment of pure joy in the MCU like this. From On and On by Curtis Harding to the montage of people excitedly hanging out with Sam to the genuinely warm atmosphere throughout, it's just such a wonderful, celebratory moment. IDK, it's perfect. Sam and Bucky literally walk off into the sunset. I love it so much.

Underrate Sam Wilson Scenes in No Particular Order:

1. Sam Wilson and Bucky Hanging Out in Infinity War for No Reason

Why is Sam hanging out with Bucky outside? I have no clue. Do these two dorks probably have some place they should be instead of just hanging out together before the end of the world? Probably. But it nods to something about the in between of movies. Much like the airport scenes in Civil War and "Can You Move Your Seat Up?"s of it all, it nods to a growing friendship that built over time that wasn't on screen, so I think it's a great scene for subtle reasons and underrated because it's not a huge scene.

2. Sam at the Party in Age of Ultron

"I'm not actually sorry. I'm just trying to sound tough. I'm very happy chasing cold leads on our missing persons case. Avenging is your world. Your world is crazy."

I kind of love this because Sam allows boundaries for himself. He Gets to choose what he's doing and what he feels he can take on. He's secure enough in saying he doesn't want to be an Avenger at the moment. He becomes an Avenger later, but that's his choice too, one he makes understanding what that entails fully because he's been someone who's helped the Avengers and not technically been an official part of the team. I also love his talk with Steve in general and how we get to see Sam just hanging out on his off time at a party.

3. Sam and Rhodey Discussing the Secovia Accords

"So let's say we agree to this thing. How long is it gonna be until they LoJack us like a bunch of common criminals?"

I have a lot of different feelings about Captain America: Civil War and the Sekovia Accords in general, but I will say that Sam Wilson makes fantastic points about why he doesn't trust the Accords and why they shouldn't take them at face value as a net good. People always talk about Team Cap and Team Ironman or whatever, but the people who make the best arguments against and for the Accords are Sam and Rhodey imo.

#sam wilson #friendly neighborhood sam wilson anon #finally got to this ask 😂

[breckstonevailskier]

What if Vision was the airport battle turncoat?

The concept art for Captain America: Civil War includes one piece where Vision phases his hand through Tony's arc reactor in order to stop him from attacking Wanda, which would've alluded to a similar scene where Vision shuts down Iron Man's armor in the original Civil War comic. This seems to suggest that in earlier drafts, Vision was either part of Team Cap during the airport battle, or betrayed Team Iron Man at a key moment, similar to how Natasha uses her Widow's Bite to stun and incapacitate T'Challa so Steve and Bucky can escape on the Quinjet.

Honestly, it makes me wonder if Vision, not Natasha, should've been the member of Team Iron Man who served as a turncoat in the airport battle. Natasha's motive seems to be that she realized Tony's judgement was off, or she was always Team Cap but pretending to be for the other side because she wanted to get the lay of that side of the political landscape concerning the Accords and pass this information to Steve.

Vision, meanwhile, has a much stronger and personal motive to change sides: his feelings for Wanda. He's developed feelings for Wanda ("What is grief, if not love persevering?" 😍😭), but they're also on opposite sides of the Accords debate since he's for them and she's against them. So Vision turning on Team Iron Man because of his feelings for Wanda would be an interesting plot point that could also allow him to get onscreen the development he seems to undergo offscreen between Civil War and Infinity War.

Another reason it would make sense for Vision to be in this position is because it would make more sense for him to be stuck in the middle. Like, he makes this argument in favor of the Accords...

"In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man, the number of known enhanced persons has grown exponentially. And during the same period, the number of potentially world-ending events has risen at a commensurate rate. [...] I'm saying there may be a causality. Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict...breeds catastrophe. Oversight...oversight is not an idea that can be dismissed out of hand."

...but at the same time, he also knows that he probably has less rights than a human because he doesn't quite meet the legal standard of well...personhood. He can put on a human disguise for sure, but since he's not a natural-born human, the Accords will not be kind to him in the same way they won't be kind to the Avengers who have innate superpowers (Steve, Wanda, and Thor if he was around) as opposed to being really skilled Muggles (Clint and Natasha) or having removable suits (Tony and Rhodey). Not to mention we have proof of this thanks to WandaVision. We know in that show that the Accords outlawed sentient weapons (which is why Hayward's a criminal for trying to bring Vision "back online to life" and trying to coerce Wanda into doing it for him), and I doubt that Tyler Hayward's the only bureaucrat to see Vision as nothing more than government property.

Having him be a turncoat in the airport battle would also be consistent with Vision's character when one considers how often he lets his feelings for Wanda compromise his moral beliefs. I've seen some people posit that him shooting down Rhodey wasn't a case of his beam being off while trying to shoot Sam, but as him intentionally hurting Rhodey as retaliation for Rhodey using a sonic cannon earlier on Wanda to cause her to drop the rubble of the control tower that Vision needlessly destroyed. Not to mention that the zombie episode of What If...? had Vision feeding people to a zombified Wanda because he couldn't bear the thought of having to kill her.

So having Vision turn coat in the airport battle to help Wanda escape would also go a long way as far as him providing an olive branch to Wanda for when they start their relationship between between Civil War and Infinity War. Though obviously this would probably mean having to rewrite the final act to put Wanda in Siberia, because if Wanda still ends up in the Raft, Vision's decision is all for naught. This might be a problem since the writers clearly intended for the showdown in Siberia to be with just Tony, Steve, and Bucky. Not sure what contributions Wanda would have in Siberia, other than maybe this feeling of looking herself in the mirror when Zemo describes his motivations for revenge.

#vision #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #captain america: civil war #pro team cap #anti team iron man #anti tony stark #cacw #post cacw #wandavision