Submitted by @ceratonia-siliqua and @kickflaw
We need someone to write an epic, apocalyptic fic that actually deals with the implications of snapping half the living creatures on Earth from existence. So…
Post apocalyptic Shrunkyclunks au via the endgame snap! Takes place after the snap and leads up to our heroes fighting to undo the damage and even after it's fixed. Bucky and Steve being some of the few to survive the rapidly changing environment (like oxygen and food scarcity) due to the serum.
How Steve and Bucky meet is up to the writer, but the idea is that after the Snap the world has gone to hell.
With a population drop so massive, mass amounts of crops are left unattended. As a result, prices for food briefly plummet due to surplus until it’s intentionally destroyed or rotted because of the economy. This results in a scenario similar to the great depression and the dust bowl.
Essentially, the snap destroys civilization and the global economy. Supply chains. Hospital workers. Mail delivery. All of the little things that make up our daily life are disrupted.
ON TOP OF THAT, with half of all living things snapped (including animals and plants) the oxygen levels plummet and carbon monoxide levels sky rocket. Those remaining have time because of what oxygen was left over but the ozone layer is wrecked and everyone starts to cook.
Since vehicles/other equipment were all left in operation after people disappeared, the levels of carbon increase quickly and start fires (on top of planes/trains/cars crashing).
There would be nothing left for the people who even came back. To make matters worse, reversing the snap ends up killing even more people. People who are brought back are dropped exactly where they disappeared from. Airplanes?? people on flights would have fallen to their death. Also buildings that were removed or abandoned in the years following the snap would have resulted in death as well when people reappeared in them
It would be a better death to be snapped then to be left behind.
In short, life after the Snap is a nightmare and even when the heroes find a way to undo it there are still repercussions.
Don’t forget to credit/tag if you use this idea, the ones who submitted this idea would love to read it!