Moodboard for my current ongoing fic "Against All Discouragement". Chapter 52/58 posted💙
Fandom: MCU
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings.
Relationship: James “Bucky” Barnes/Original Female Character(s). James “Bucky” Barnes & Steve Rogers.
Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes. Original Female Character(s). Steve Rogers. Natasha Romanoff. General Dreykov (MCU). Melina Vostakoff.
Additional tags: dead dove: do not eat, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt, graphic descriptions of consensual sex (p in v), oral (f &m receiving), Hydra, Red Room, Bucky Barnes trained black widows in the red room, mind control, psychological trauma, psychological torture, canonical child abuse, canon/typical violence, graphic depictions of violence, unreliable narrator, recorded media / tapes, erased history, institutional abuse, physical abuse under mind control, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Dark Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes is not okay, alternate universe - canon divergence, not canon compliant, Bucky Barnes Winter Soldier programming, protective Winter Soldier, dark romance, slow burn, trauma bonding.
Summary:
In 1963, the Red Room acquires a child for the newly established Black Widow Program.
In 1979, the Red Room initiates an internal experiment at a facility in Belarus.
In 1980, she is paired with the Winter Soldier, forming one of Hydra's most effective teams.
In 1986, Agent Anastasia Shishkova is executed as a traitor and erased from history.
In 2010, James Buchanan Barnes receives a collection of tapes that were never meant to exist.
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