Now that the kids have adopted Bucky as one of their own, they dote on him in their own little ways. Kamala will bring him a mug of hot cocoa when he looks lost in his own head. Peter will sort through bags of fan mail for letters and drawings that children have made for him and tape them on Bucky’s door so he has nice things to look at every day. The others gift him little trinkets, book recommendations, pictures of dogs they meet on the street, tasty snacks from all over the world etc.
They have an entire Dog Spotting group chat that is constantly filled with arguments about who is the best Dog Spotter. Peter takes the best photos from the strangest angles, but Bucky is stealthy and can sneak up on any animal easily. Peter thinks Bucky should win while Bucky thinks Peter should and everybody else is just voting for themselves. Lila keeps adding Rhodey to the chat and he keeps leaving because they post SO OFTEN.Bucky didn’t like the fanmail at first because ???? why do these children admire a killer! Stop please! Bad influences oh no! Like he could deal with people dressing up as him, but he feels like this is going too far. Peter gets high key annoyed with the steadily growing pile of mail and webs all the best letter and art and photos he can find to Bucky’s ceiling. Tony refuses to help Bucky take them down, so he’s forced to actually look at them. They’re really sweet. And oh no, so many people were hoping for replies! He can’t ignore them D: So he starts responding even if he doesn’t really get why people want to talk to him??? He doesn’t know how to respond of photos of people dressed as the Winter Soldier until Kamala teaches him about cosplay and gets Bucky to dress up as each of these kids favourite characters (besides himself, of course). Then people start sending him fanart of him dressed in a billion variations of his own costumes. Bucky is like ???? what do ???????? and honestly all of Tony’s sciencelings are Big Weebs who have been going to at least one convention a week, so they enlist a bunch of friends to make variations of the WS uniform. Bucky now has an instagram that is the most popular amongst all the Avengers. It becomes a game amongst the kids to find a gift that makes Bucky cry the most AND to deliver it without him seeing. The only rule is that they can’t use Tony as a distraction. So far none of them have actually managed to sneak up on him, but Harley did get a tiny robot to deliver a plush Bucky Bear stuffed with flavoured Kit Kats (he got Donnie to agree to keep them cold, the clever brat) onto Bucky’s bed before he noticed it.