How would people feel about an aroace platonic fairytale retelling of Cinderella with Steve and Bucky? I want to write it but I always get nervous writing common romantic tropes platonically because I feel like people will get disappointed or upset it isn't romantic.
Like, I also have a soulmate AU idea but like with a queerplatonic relationship between Steve and Bucky but I get all nervous about it!
What do you think of these ideas?
I would enjoy that kind of fic
I think I would be disappointed
Voting ended onMar 2, 2024
Feel free to let me know in more detail in the replies and stuff. I'm very curious what people would think! And I can definitely give more details in the replies if anyone is curious.
Rating: Gen
Universe: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson
Warnings: Internalized Acephobia,
Major Tags: Soulmates AU, Platonic Soulmates, Aromantic Sam Wilson, Aromantic Asexual Steve Rogers, Self-Esteem Issues, queerplatonic soulmates
Word count: 449
Summery: Steve finally meets his soulmates. It's not at all like he'd dreaded it would be.
For the:
✦ Marvellous Aces Bingo prompt “Soulmates... But just mates” [B1]
Read below or on AO3 >HERE<
Steve digs his fingers into his wrist, scratching the burning itch that was steadily growing under his skin. His wrist felt hot under his fingers like there was a little fire burning inside his bones. The skin tingles like thousands of little mosquitoes were stinging him at once.
His stomach drops as he realizes what was happening. Steve slowly turns his arm over, trying not to catch Natasha's attention in the driver's seat.
Steve lets out a shaky breath as he looks down at his wrist.
There it was. The beginning of a soul mark forming on his wrist. Meaning he'd just met his soulmate. If he was to guess, it was the Air Force guy he'd been talking to moments ago, Sam Wilson.
You were supposed to be excited to meet your soulmate. But Steve wasn't.
He had known something wasn't right with him since he was little, something that not even the serum could fix. He wasn't like anyone else he'd met.
Steve never was, and probably never will be, interested in dating, falling in love. Sex. All of it. None of it ever interested him. He didn't have that same push to find someone as everyone else did.
He just couldn't. It wasn't him.
But Steve didn't want to let his soulmate down.
Every single story he heard about soulmates growing up talked about the romance of it all. He knew he wouldn't be able to live up to what his soulmate would be expecting from him.
It was inevitable.
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"So, you finally decided to show up," Sam says. "Thought I might have scared you away."
"Nah," Steve says, pushing his hands into his pockets. "Can't get rid of me that easily."
Steve's heart pangs at the relieved look that crosses over Sam's face. It hurts, knowing he was the one responsible. He should have come sooner. He shouldn't have left his soulmate to wait and worry if he'd rejected them after their first meeting.
"C'mon," Sam says, gesturing him into the house. "come on in"
As Sam waves him in, Steve notices a bracelet around his wrist. A simple band with five colors. Two greens, a white, a grey and a black. He recognizes it from one of the brochures SHIELD had given him.
Aromantic.
He still hadn't wrapped his head about what it meant. What most of the things in the brochure had meant, actually.
Sam notices his attention. "Maybe we should talk..." the man says.
"Yeah," Steve says. Maybe... Maybe there was hope for him. Them. He smiles at Sam, hoping the other man would find it reassuring. "We should."
Oo ask meme!!! Light, matsuda, ryuk, beyond, misa, and L!
•do the sexy love with
Well last time I answered Light and that is still the Official Answer but since he’s not looking I’ll say L this time
•sacrifice myself for
Light, and I have sacrificed my sanity and too many hours writing fic trying to redeem his dumb ass lol
• kick
Beyond! Get your shit together and stop crawling on the floor!
• Take to prom
Misa! We’d be goth girlfriends and wear entirely inappropriate prom dresses that no one would dare say a word about
• Abandon is Jurassic Park
Matsuda. Ok now I’m cackling thinking about the cellphone inside the spinosaurus ringing and ringing and L being like “It’s just Matsuda being stupid again.”
• Push off a bridge
Ryuk, and he’d probably forget he could fly and phase through half of Earth before being like ‘oh’
