always making things worse

bob and bob-adjacent || sentrysoldier on ao3 || main: @candlelitcorners

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I just posted Rhett Abbott / Trevor Tillerson on ao3

I just put up my first chapter of my Rhett / Trev fic. I'm quite nervous to write this pairing, but cannot stop obsessing over it >.<

If you're interested in checking it out, I'd appreciate that very much.

the fic

the fic's Spotify playlist

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"...where OXE stored its assets"

"call in the asset"

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no more dumb john hate!!

he's stupid! and obedient!

he memorizes any required combat and mission info, and the rest of his head is full of hot air!!

and to anyone defending him with "he tested off the charts blah blah blah" :

the. media. LIES.

that was propoganda. and it GOT YOU.

the government sold you a smart perfect new cap,

but that's not our dumb john!!

we love dumb john here!!!

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Bob: We're a power couple. Those aren't just words you throw around.

John: We aren't a power couple. We're a need-a-shower couple.

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"Everyone's better off if I just stay put"

Bob says this in the vault. Later, as the void, he does in fact hurt and endanger many people. In a way this fulfills his earlier statement, and one could argue everyone would have been better off. He was scared of himself, and committed the thing he was afraid of.

It sucks to be afraid of hurting people- to be insecure, have doubts about yourself, etc. but it sucks in a different way to actually hurt them (especially those you love, which Bob did!).

So it makes me proud to see Bob learning from and about his past, bonding with others who struggle, and facing the wrong he did to overcome it. That rocks.

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Yelena and John yelling at each other before carrying Bob out of the vault really gives the energy of unstable parents fighting in front of the baby

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so the team has started calling bob and walker, on occasion, "walkie talkie"

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bob needed a father so bad he got a daddy ok

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I don't think it's bad writing for John to want Bob to fix the taco shield, or to still have it 14 months later.

Of course John could bend it himself, but the principle is, "you broke my stuff, you should fix it," and that's very... Walker.

Down the road he could have decided to like it, learned more about Bob and felt differently, etc. but in the moment it was extremely in-character, to me, for John to express waiting for Bob to fix the taco shield himself.

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i imagine bob and ava share a quick look when they see someone attractive, and it can either be:

a) the raised eyebrows, "do you *see* them" kind of look

or

b) severe yearning

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i just know bob has the world's most annoying intox kink

like that guy wants to get high before fucking anything ok

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John and Olivia in high school

Olivia was the one to ask John to their first dance, on account of him being nervous

BUT John flipped the script by recreating the way Olivia asked him to that dance, to ask her to senior prom

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Bob standing in the back of that New Avengers announcement would actually be such a PR nightmare

Like once that goes viral, and the public starts figuring out who he is- pulling the mugshot, plus a "florida man" article or two, and probably some tweets surfacing from people who know him pre-malaysia (high school friends, ex-girlfriends, past dealers, or someone he still owes money, whatever)

I imagine he'd try so hard to act like it didn't bother him, but Valentina is just always dealing with his image or his record, etc etc

just an interesting added street-level layer i think

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the "enemies to lovers" to "whump" pipeline goes crazy

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Alexei and Yelena haven't spoken in over a year, but it only takes half a second for him to recognize her voice through the door

i adore that

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just know if you outwardly hate my ship to me, i am laughing at you. this is so fun for me. i'll just keep posting about my characters doing whatever nasty things bring me joy.

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sam's copyright claim for the "avengers" name as his last-ditch attempt at telling bucky to stay out of this, to keep him safe.

"this is a next-level threat, buck. I can't have you bringing your rag-tag group of misfits in and getting yourself-- look, i said no."

and you know how arguments go with sambucky, so neither of them back down. later, sam just kind of goes, 'fine, this'll be kind of funny. maybe it'll show him' and when bucky gets the news he's more annoyed than anything else.