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Hi! Do you have any headcanons about the Howling Commandos?

Okay well sorry in advance 'nonny but it's been that kinda day so this answer might be a bit depressing

(to offset that here's an old ask with Howlie headcanons)

14 Headcanons about the Howling Commandos:

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1 - all of the guys in the 107 who were captured by Hydra and put to work in the Krausberg POW-camp/factory later died of radiation-related cancers because of being exposed to Tesseract energy. (This was reported upon in the scientific press, post-war, and is part of the reason why people like Bruce Banner were duped into believing that the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project would be interested in a gamma-radiation sickness treatment.)

2 - Because Steve made the 107 famous, post-war there was a controversy of unscrupulous members of the 107 who hadn't been captured (ie. the guys who threw rotten food and homophobic jeers at Steve) claiming to have been in Krausberg. But the fact that those guys didn't develop the same health problems as real 107 rescue-ees unmasked them as valour thieves. (Especially galling for the Howlies, since Dum-Dum had had to fight for the government to officially recognise Gabe and Morita's valour in medals, as they deserved.)

3 - one of the Howlies' acquaintance Steve never got to meet was Izzy Cohen, a kid Bucky took under his wing from basic training onwards, who had lied about being underage in order to get into the Army. The same guns which Bucky and the guys were later forced to make for the Nazis turned him into a blue mist at Azzano.

4 - Gabe and Morita came from all-POC squads who were killed off completely because the Nazi guards at Krausberg were hardest on them and because they were the first Zola picked off to experiment on. (This presaged later torture by Zola of Isaiah's men, and of Asian civilians by Werner Reinhardt; both men hired by Peggy's SHIELDra).

5 - During the war Gabe once sat next to Bucky at a campfire, watching Steve perform some feat of extraordinary strength across the way, and -- thinking of his friends he had lost -- asked Bucky what Zola did to them all in the lab. Bucky couldn't talk about it...

6 - over Christmas 1943, before being deployed back to the continent, the Howlies were sent on intense specialised training in the coastal village of Aberdyfi in North Wales, under the auspices of a secretly all Jewish troop of Continental-European Commandos, called X Troop.

7 - because Monty was in with all the right chaps in the Old Boys network, he was able to give Steve et al insight into a lot of the political goings on behind the scenes in the British forces, give him a hint on which of the English intelligence-officers to dismiss due to incompetence, nepotism hiring, etc. Monty once took Steve and Bucky to the London Ritz, where the basement bar was a gay club. 👀

8 - during missions in France the Howlies met Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan (Morita proposed to her while drunk), Logan Howlett (an old war buddy of Dum-Dum's), and Ernest Hemingway (whom they did not think much of: despite being just a journalist, he was waving a handgun around trying to 'liberate' the Paris Ritz... which had been long abandoned by the Nazis by the time he got there.)

9 - while filming movies as part of his USO tour, Steve was biletted at a place called Fort Roach, California, where the US Army Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit was making animated war-propaganda short movies for cinemas. While there, he got Bucky a signed animation-cell of 'Trigger Joe' and met (and punched) some actor guy called Donald Reagan??

10 - During the Allied Invasion of Sicily, the Howlies met three Brits who were introduced to Steve later on, in London. In the modern-day, Steve was delighted to discover that two of them had gone on to become famous actors after the war: one of them starred in Star Wars and another -- still alive -- in Lord of the Rings. He and Christopher Lee kept in touch (Bucky and CL agree that it's great they got the stabbing-noises right in the movies). It blew Tony's mind when he found Steve listening to an advance copy of a heavy metal album, that his 'buddy Chris' had sent him from England. Bucky kind of had a crush on him back in the day... (The third Brit the Howlies met in Sicily was 'Mad Jack' Churchill, of broadsword, longbow and bagpipe fame; Bucky wrote his Scottish dad a delighted letter about it).

11 - Steve and the guys once had to physically restrain Bucky from punching General Patton, during one of their morale-boosting visits to a Field Hospital. (One of the guys at this particular hospital had just had his leg blown off. And Bucky made sure Steve visited in his dirtied combat gear, and not looking immaculate, because he remembered how demoralising it was for bedridden pre-serum Steve if Bucky waltzed in looking all dapper, while Steve was feeling his worst.) The punishment for this incident was the Howlies having to let news crews follow them around for a week, filming propaganda newsreels.

12 - they also repeatedly got in trouble for damaging historic churches in Germany ('accidentally' blowing off the antisemitic Judensau carvings) and loitering in Nazi-occupied areas to put up anti-Nazi graffiti on public buildings (Steve loved exercising the old artistic muscles again.)

13 - after the war, Gabe became a leading light of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He was once present for one of the Winter Soldier's assassinations in Manhattan, but didn't see who was responsible. (In another universe, where Isaiah Bradley escaped a lot sooner and managed to get to Macon, GA, he and Gabe teamed up to become a sort of Holmes-and-Watson vigilante duo.)

14 - Steve's tactical innovation for the D-Day Landings was to imitate the testudo or shield-wall formation of Roman legions. By standing at the front of one of the LCVPs as it hit the beach, holding a massive piece of steel as a shield, he was able to lead Bucky and the boys (plus 30 others, carrying a second giant shield) safely up the beach, plant the steel-shield, and then retreat to repeat this with each incoming landing craft. This was bastardised in a famous war movie, where Steve McQueen's Captain America simply did an Evel Knievel motorcycle jump over the fortifications to land on the German guns. Everyone is disappointed when Steve has to tell them he never did this. (Bucky keeps telling everyone he did... 🤦‍♀️🙄)

#long post #historically accurate stucky tag #thc #the howling commandos #stuckbunny #steve meta #bucky meta #toAyourQ #catfa meta #dat's me #hey nonny #release the cracken #catfa #headcanons #ficbunny #au idea #my meta

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I often think about Bucky using ballet as part of his recovery process / art therapy but this week I have specifically been thinking about Bucky and music.

Bucky recovering his voice through singing, and especially through playing musical instruments (for days when his voice won't come), because it would also be a great way for him to get used to seeing his prosthetic as creative and beautiful rather than destructive

#bucky and music #bucky barnes #ficbunny #stuckbunny #question is... if bucky could play any musical instruments before serum and if so which ones? #and does serum mean he's even better at playing it now?? 🤔 #idk sth about bucky being in an amateur band and that's part of his therapy #like imagine bucky singing and learning guitar #also I feel like hawkguy is one of nature's natural drummers so them being disabled-band-bros #bucky and dance #bucky and song #amateur sexyrockband frontman veteran bucky is the vibe #yet each man queues the thing he loves #bucky recovering

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fic where Bucky, ground down by being treated like dirt by everyone around Steve, goes off on a holiday on his own for a month to Think about things...

only to have all Steve's friends (who hate him) turn up, begging him to come back, because they never realised how Dark Steve is without him. 💅

#made myself sad thinking about the first bit... #then lucid-daydreamed myself a happy BAMF ending to fix it lol #stucky #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #steve rogers #bucky barnes #also subplot of steve finding out how people treat bucky when he's not around and realising he's been suffering in silence the whole time 😖

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concept: standard 'childhood sweethearts meet again years later and oh no he's hot ' story only it's t4t stucky fic with skinny twink Bucky and pre-serum Steve as them on their early years on T, as youths together, and then flash forward to them meeting again years later (or maybe they've been in contact the whole time but only over the internet or sth?) and they've become post-serum Steve and beefy Bucky (future-dilf energy) and they're both astonished at how big and handsome they each turned out. 🥰

#stucky #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #steve rogers #bucky barnes #t4t stucky #beefy bucky #yet each man queues the thing he loves

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today's petty fic daydream:

Stucky Regency A/B/O AU

Series of scenes of omega Peggy, oblivious to the fact that she is a third-wheel, believing she's showing her magnificence to Steve, demonstrating reasons why he should obviously want to marry her...

But what she's actually doing is repelling Steve by unwittingly demonstrating, over and over, why she is wrong for him, while (omega? beta?) Bucky quietly goes about proving the exact opposite about himself, sometimes without even realising it. 

(And she doesn't notice because she doesn't think he's worthy of her notice.)

Examples: 

One - Peggy on a Hunt Day, showing off in a flashy habit, picking a huge heavy horse, cramming it at every single difficult jump and steep hill, full speed. Refusing to accept hints that she is exhausting the poor animal (and needs to switch) until it's weak with fatigue and almost collapses at the end of the day...

Whereas Bucky moves his horse as fluid as silk, like they’re one being, wears a muted brown coat (looks great despite mud!), goes for a tousled/windswept look to begin with so his hair still looks ‘right’ at the end of the day, switches horses multiple times to give them rests between runs, and goes a sensible pace. He also contrives to arrive well ahead of everybody else, despite his slow inexorable speed, because he took clever routes rather than attention-seeking ones.

(Peggy is also keen to be in at the kill of the fox, to show how she can be just as competent as the alphas! Bucky missed it because he was busy herding the dogs away from a busy road, to avoid them getting overrun by carriages.)

Result: Peggy's impractically-immaculate clothes and hair are ruined at the end of the day (boasts she has plenty more!), she is blood-speckled, grumpy from overdoing herself, snapping at everyone, and Steve pities her poor horse.

Bucky and his horse are fresh and elegant, and the relieved grooms are all praising his quiet common sense and kindness to the animals. 

Peggy thinks she did something. Steve is not impressed. 

Two - 

Peggy telling how she kindly condescended to visit her ex-suitor Mr Sousa's new lady, to show how Completely Magnanimous she is in defeat, despite the fact that the woman once worked for a living. As a nurse!

Unaware that Captain Rogers’ mother nursed injured sailors on his father's ship.

(Meanwhile, a servant brings in a note -- it's from one of the tenants Peggy visited earlier in the week... only it's thanking Bucky for re-visiting, to bring them the things they actually needed (which she has no idea or interest in), rather than just bringing what he thinks they should want.)

Three - 

Peggy puts out the archery things prior to an afternoon party, and one of her stooges loyally suggests an archery competition. 

Peggy humbly, reluctantly, acquiesces to showing off how good she is.

She misses five shots in a row but sinks the bullseye on the 6th and takes this as proof of her skill.

(She blames her misses on, eg. Steve distracting her).

Bucky, mysteriously, misses the bullseye altogether on all 6 shots...

(But when Steve retrieves the arrows later on, he finds 6 horseflies he complained of earlier, skewered on every arrow tip.)

Peggy spends the rest of the afternoon ‘kindly’ consoling Bucky on his failure, while rolling her eyes and scoffing at Mr Barton, for being so pleased with himself for bullseyeing every shot. Just to show off for Miss Romanoff! Peggy would never do that just to impress a man!

Luckily, Captain Rogers is still not impressed.

#long post #tw mention of: #animal cruelty #foxhunting #antipeggy #antisteggy #regency au #ficbunny #stucky #stuckbunny #a/b/o au #regency a/b/o au #<< aka: MY BELOVED #steggy is hydra trash party #au idea #steve rogers #bucky barnes #alpha steve #NAVY CAPTAIN alpha steve #omega bucky #beta bucky #??? 🤔 #dat's me #took my life in my hands by posting this as a twitter thread originally lol 😬 #me: hey brain if I post this d'you think people will start to suspect how much random shit I know about regency period stuff? #my conscience: nah ur fine #👀 #yet each man queues the thing he loves #honestly the way you don't need to alter the characters at all for this... yoikes 😬

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Once again imagining a 'The Last Hero' style AU

Where Bucky is the harried care worker chasing down all the geriatric Howling Commandos, who have broken out of their nursing home in order to go and join Steve in one last great adventure fighting aliens in New York. 😭

#stucky #stuckbunny #THC #ficbunny #au idea #pretty sure I posted this once before #bucky being nicknamed 'sarge' by the men cuz he's a vet and that's the one rank their squad is missing #a bunch of old men wanting to go off and fight aliens #where the fuck did dum-dum get a tANK?! #bucky is Not Paid Enough for this shit #dat's me #die hard vibes #but it's aliens and old men #and steve is Smitten with the beefy caveman with a machine gun pushing morita's wheelchair

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random headcanon about Steve's background as a working artist:

since he used to do a lot of ads and signs, he’s a bit of a typography nerd, designed his mother and Bucky their own special fonts (for the front of, eg. handmade birthday cards?), and would do funny phrases in calligraphy for them at the drop of a hat. 

he was also a caricaturist, down on the Coney Island boardwalk, and his party trick was drawing people as animals (hence, the doodle of himself as a monkey) there’s a doodle somewhere of him and the howling commandos as a troupe of animals.

#steve rogers #artist steve #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #yet each man queues the thing he loves #remember folks: REBLOG 🔁 / DON'T JUST LIKE 🤍

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today I am thinking about:

An AU where clueless Bucky gets zapped by a Cosmic Cube and given wish-granting/reality-altering powers, but he doesn't realise he has them, so while everyone in the know is running around panicking at such a Terrible Threat, Bucky is wandering around accidentally changing things without realising and because he’s so harmless and benign his wishes are like, accidentally ending global warming, vanishing all billionaires, etc. 😩

#stuckbunny #bucky barnes #Bucky on Monday: How come all the engines aren't electric in the future? 🤔 #Tuesday: *baffled news anchor annoucing all engines on earth have been mysteriously replaced with arc-reactor engines overnight... #...oil and gas prices are crashing all plastic has vanished from food seas water-courses etc.* #Bucky: Huh...

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AU idea: 

Steve & Bucky meeting when Steve is the preposterously-Hot Guy that Bucky's douchebag (soon-to-be-ex) boyfriend Brock brings back to their apartment, one day, thinking Bucky is at work (but he's actually home sick).

Bucky interrupts before anything can happen (though Steve was already having second thoughts, noticing what looks like couples photos around the place). 

Steve also can’t help noticing, despite him being ill, how hot Bucky is and how sweet-natured; how well he behaves, given what he's just walked in on. 

So, feeling guilty, Steve goes back to that apartment to apologise, later that week, to find out that Bucky is now single and living there alone. 👀 

Bucky accepts his apology. They become ...Friendly.

And keep bumping into each other (cuz it turns out, being Brock's Type = having a bunch of interests in common!) 

So Bucky is totally oblivious to the real reason why Steve is so nice to him all the time (assuming it’s just guilt / relief that Bucky is okay with him.)

And all Bucky’s exasperated friends are just like 🤨 James. Are you Blind.

#stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #MCU #plotbunny #aka the 'bucky gets revenge on his cheating ex by stealing the super hot guy he never got to get with' ...AU #but that's not a very catchy title lol

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Bucky attending his first V.A. group, on the verge of panicking and leaving when suddenly ALPINE appears and jumps up on his lap.

So obviously now he cannot move and has to remain seated for the group...  😊

#bucky barnes #ALPINE #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me

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Rear Window / The Lake House AU

where Steve and Bucky can somehow see into each others' apartments, even though Steve's is in the 1930s and Bucky's the present-day.

#stucky #au idea #stuckbunny #ficbunny #dat's me #they figure out how to communicate via written messages held up or sign language #and they finally get to meet in person when steve arrives in the future #and all the things that seemed very odd about bucky in the 1940s suddenly make sense #also timey wimey shenanigens #like bucky asking steve about his asthma via semaphore or w/e ... #asking 'why don't you take [asthma med captain america invented]??' which steve has never heard of #then flashes up the recipe/molecular construction on a sign #and that's how it got invented #bucky accidentally warning steve about the great depression in advance etc.

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concept: Bucky telling Steve about the modern trend of T shirts printed with political messages and also that candid shots of him will be widely distributed in the press, and Steve gleefully packing his closet full of slogan Ts for causes he supports and going out of his way to get snapped wearing them by the paps; overnight he’s gone from ducking into doorways to avoid paparazzi to practically chasing them down the street wanting to make sure they get a clear shot having the time of his life

#steve rogers #stuckbunny #ficbunny #headcanon #stucky #bucky barnes #MCU #dat's me #THIS MAY BE THE MOST STEVE-ROGERS HEADCANON I'VE EVER HAD #YOU KNOW HE WOULD #also: when he wants privacy he wears slogans he KNOWS the media moguls will never allow to be printed #steve mid-rant over breakfast and bucky's like 'just go to your closet babe' #and steve angrily stomps in and angrily flicks thru his closet til he finds the relevant t shirt #muttering darkly all the while #steve getting snapped by the paps while his jacket is buttoned and being sad about it #so bucky HUNTS DOWN THE PAP #and drags them back to take a PROPER 'candid' photo of steve flashing his 'NASTY WOMAN' t shirt #and steve is chipper af and all lovey dovey for the rest of the day #😅😅😅

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thinkin bout how Bucky's unique experience of Steve might have shaped how he sees him in a way he doesn't realise until Steve has other friends.

eg. Bucky thinking Steve is handsy, affectionate, demonstrative, quick to laugh, very expressive, etc.

But everyone else is like 'HUH??'

#stucky #stuckbunny #steve rogers #bucky barnes #ficbunny #MCU #dat's me #hc #release the cracken #bucky complaining about bruises from one of steve's good-night hugs AGAIN #and everyone else is like 'waiT STEVE /HUGS/ YOU???' #bucky: god I am so sick to death of steve throwing roses at my feet as I walk by aren't you guys sick of him doing that to you #people: oh. yeah totally. sick of it.

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Ficbunny: Bucky as the nice cute guy who's always asking Steve for advice in the gym and then just... walking away?? never hitting on him?? ...but becoming steadily more & more swole because of the advice and Steve is slowly going mad from sexual frustration

#stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #release the cracken #steve's inner monologue: god why are the straight guys always so nice and sweet and oblivious and hot so you get ur stupid gay hopes up #bucky's inner monologue: god I bet that poor adonis gets hit on all the time at the gym well I'm not gunna be that asshole #and then he comes to really rely on steve's work out input and is like 'fuck I can't risk losing this if I ask and he say sno' #eventually steve brings nat in as the ultimate 'is he 💁‍♂️?' test #and she is the one who figures out that bucky is definitely not looking on purpose to be nice because even straight guys check steve out #and maybe plot-twist bucky disappears from the gym for months #only to then reappear like 'hey steve look I took up X hobby instead and it's finally made my body as incredible as yours let's date!!' #how would this be tagged? #self-inflicted torture? unrequited slowburn? #OR IS IT?? #yet each man queues the thing he loves #me seeing the number of people going wild for the concept of NOT being hit on at the gym: oh this is sad

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more fics pls about post-WS Bucky discovering ballet;

a passtime where he gets to be dancing, badass, wearing tights like Steve, and work through his 'getting yelled at in Russian' trauma without consequences!

#bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #also: Natasha having obscure beef with Bucky because he's only been doing ballet for a few months #and yet his legs and feet are fuckin amazing?? #(not because of the two times the Winter Soldier shot her what is she a snowflake) #steve: buck why do all the black widows hate you?? 🥺 is it because of your dark past?? #bucky: *thinking about how he just found out he can stand en pointe for hours* ...it's complicated 😔 #yet each man queues the thing he loves #release the cracken #also the idea of bucky & nat et al being yelled at by tiny terrifying old russian lady who is retired prima ballerina?? #only person bucky and the widows are scared of?? #hilarious #also idk why but bucky is definitely her favourite and he is SOOoo smug and annoying-older-brother-y about it?? 😊

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Shrunkyclunks Repeated Meetugly AU:

Modern-Bucky works in Stark Tower. 

He is not one of those history-nut Cap fanboys or anything (other than in the sense of agreeing w/ his values) 

But he does still have starstruck panic attacks whenever he meets a too-famous person.

With the obvious drawback... that when Steve comes into the Lab, looking for Tony one day, he sends Bucky into a spiral.

So Bucky ends up half-yelling at Captain America to get out because he can't breathe.

This becomes a regular Thing / injoke whenever they meet.

Bucky gradually gets better until finally he & smitten-Steve can have a whole conversation.

By which time, Bucky has been so embarrassed in front of Steve / yelled at him so often (including in front of shocked onlookers) that he is totally non starstruck, and the only person who treats Steve like a regular guy (and can even help Steve when he has a panic attack!)

Examples: 

Friends visiting Bucky (who has never mentioned any of this before) at work one day. 

Captain America strolls in.

Queue Bucky yelling 'nO! Get out! Not today, Satan!!' and struggling to push a helplessly-laughing Steve (who has suddenly lost the use of his legs) out of the door.

The Friends: 😱

Or: Bucky in a conference room, doing a V Important Work Presentation to a room of V Important Work People.

Captain America's big dumb face slowly appears in the glass door, like a groundhog peeping out of a hole, looking hopeful.

Bucky: So, as I was sayi- *points dramatically* go FUCK yourself!- as I was saying...

He gets the grant money.

#stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stuckbunny #ficbunny #au idea #dat's me #release the cracken