Ahhh I can’t role play for toffee but I would love to read a kitten play fic/see a pic if you ever did one. I can promise comment spam and an overuse of the 🥺🥰😍 emojis! Can’t work out how to do an ask from my sideblog but I’m CherryDreamer!
Oh! Hey, @cherrydreamer !! I'm so happy you stopped by to inform me of your interest in Kitten Steve! 💜 It might take a while before I get to some Kittenplay content tho :,) But your interest has fulfilled my day xD And you're right! This idea shouldn't just be a fic...it should also be a little doodle from me xD
Also...you have no idea how happy your comments on my art have made me :,) You have the nicest things to say and the coolest of headcanons to go with them xD And side note...I also have no idea how to roleplay xD Much less toffee? c: I've only roleplayed like once and OOF! It was awkward xD I need to try it out with like AN ACTUAL FRIEND c:
Anyways...long reply to your ask, sorry! But I send you ALL THE LOVE c: 💜
For your amazing stories on ao3, how would Steve react to having a stalker? How would Bucky react to Steve having one?
coh god a stalker!!! it would be so awful but i’m not the friendly neighborhood angst queen for nothing. this got long. omg it got long.
how about in the these days ‘verse? steve continues working at the hug room at the VA after booger is born and him and bucky get together/married/bonded, and there, one of the vets gets too attached to him. now, let’s be clear, mental health is wrongfully correlated with violence way too often, and it’s more than cliche to say that a vet with PTSD is disposed to violence, it’s ableism
hug room is part of the VA center, but it is not exclusive to the VA, it’s a therapy service. so steve has patients from several places, it isn’t his business where they come from. his job is to reacquaint them with gentle touch and that’s all he does.
so one of his more difficult patients becomes too attached. displacement, that’s the psychological term for it. we’ll go ahead and say it’s a guy and an alpha, bc statistically, that is more likely. and his name is uhhhhhhhhhhhhh frank. maybe over a slow period, steve does help him become more comfortable with physical touch, but almost at the same time, frank develops an obsession with him. tries to book more sessions than have been prescribed per week, shows up at random times and asks if he’s free, things like that. it escalates slowly, but it’s first caught by steve’s boss, who politely and kindly turns frank away one morning and tells him that he’s no longer going to be seeing steve. frank actually throws a fit then and there and he’s escorted out.
steve tells bucky about it after. bucky says that if frank shows up again, call him and he’ll see him out. steve tells him not to be so dramatic.
but it does get worse. frank follows steve home one day, though he’s stuck outside the apartment building. steve doesn’t notice, unfortunately. frank begins watching him daily, yannow, the whole stalker deal.
one night, frank somehow gets steve’s phone number. don’t ask us how, one otherwise ordinary tuesday night, steve’s encouraging jamesy to color outside the lines while bucky attempts to cook something new and interesting i’m sure, and steve’s phone rings. unknown number. not actually the dreaded Unknown Number, it was just a number steve didn’t recognize. steve passes jamesy to bucky, answers the call, he says, “hello?”
“hello.” “who is this?” *long silence.* “hello?” steve repeats? *heavy breathing* steve gets disturbed. “I’m going to hang up now,” he says. “wait!” frank shouts, actually shouts, “baby,” he says, “don’t go!”
steve, highly disturbed, he drops the phone from his ear and hangs up right away. “what’s the matter?” bucky asks. steve wanders over to him, bucky tosses an arm around his side, and steve promptly blocks the number. “weird phone call,” steve just says. bucky hugs him closer. “well, don’t answer it again.”
but it doesn’t stop. frank doesn’t call again that night, but he does the next night. steve blocks every single number, but frank keeps managing to find different unblocked ones, and after a month of his calling, steve changes his phone number. that stops it, but only briefly. bucky wants to go to the police about it, but steve says they shouldn’t, since it’s only phone calls.
and then one afternoon while steve’s taken jamesy to the park, frank gets too close. jamesy’s playing in the sandbox and steve is sitting nearby probably drawing. frank comes up behind him all quiet-like and steve, absorbed in drawing and watching jamesy, he doesn’t notice. frank slyly takes the seat on the bench next to steve and starts inching closer. steve notices when he’s just breached the distance of polite-personal-space.
“hi,” frank says. steve jumps up from his seat, grabs his stuff and starts to run to grab jamesy. “wait, no!” frank jumps up, too, grabbing steve’s arm, “i only wanted to see you again, you’ve been avoiding me!” “this is inappropriate,” steve argues, “inappropriate and it makes me uncomfortable, please leave me alone.” “you keep dodging my calls!” frank claims.
Steve jerks his arm away from frank, leaving his notebook behind, he grabs jamesy and books it. frank picks up the forgotten notebook and claims it as a treasure.
when they get home and steve tells bucky what happened, bucky doesn’t even wait to ask steve if he should, he just calls the police. an officer comes by and steve reluctantly gives a statement, shows the records of all the calls, admits that the hug room had to ban frank bc he’d started harrassing steve. the cop takes it all down, says they’ll make a note of it, and then just leaves. that’s all they can do for the time-being. frank hasn’t done enough to warrant a restraining order or anything. they do send an officer to tell frank to leave steve alone, but that’s all they can do.
bucky does not like that. he wants to go hunt frank down himself and show him a thing or two about stark prosthetics up close (after tony succeeded with bucky’s arm, he did go on to exceed his father in affluence and wealth while all the while giving top-of-the-line prosthetics to people like bucky for pennies). but anyway, bucky definitely wants to show frank the point with his fist, but steve, you know, he only believes the fight is worth having if it’s for someone else.
but for the time being, frank does vanish. steve says “see, it’s fine!” and bucky says “he’s luring us into a false sense of security” and steve looks at him flatly with his eyebrows raised and blinks once and bucky splutters about cautiousness for a bit while steve just looks at him until he just slows until he stops. “okay, we’ll leave him alone,” bucky agrees reluctantly. “for now!”
and for the moment, frank does seem to move on. the phone calls stop, steve doesn’t see him again, jamesy of course has no idea what’s going on, he’s 2. he does know about banana peanut butter sandwiches and the most thinking he does is whether or not he wants chunky or smooth peanut butter.
a few months go by, steve and bucky think it’s blown over. and then one night, bucky’s out with the guys or he’s working late, and it’s just steve and jamesy at home. steve’s just put jamesy to bed and he took a shower and he’s probably like thinking that he’s going to get himself prettied up and he’s going to be ready in bed already prepped when bucky gets home, so he’s wearing a towel and he’s a lil bit drippy, and he notices that the shades are open so he goes to shut it and then he fucking screams and runs out because frank is sitting on the fire escape outside looking in.
bucky books it home and gets there before the cops. steve has at some point gotten into bucky’s bathrobe probably. the baby’s woken up, he’s hungry and grumpy, bucky’s out of his mind terrified, like, what if the window had been unlocked or he’d broken it, oh my god! and steve is just silently hugging jamesy and bucky bc he’s kinda in shock. cops do come and they look around, but they don’t find any trace of frank. the cops can’t pin anything on frank, but they say they’ll talk to him again and one of them advises steve and bucky to get a civil restraining order filed, bc in that case, if frank does show up again, then they’ll have something to charge him with.
bucky right away starts the process to get the restraining order. steve lets him do it bc he’s still kinda in shock. i mean, you go into your bedroom wearing a towel and there’s a dude with his eyeballs pressed to the glass, it’s a shocking thing! it takes several weeks, but they get it filed and in the meantime, bucky and steve put extra locks on the windows and the front door. around the same time, the phone calls start up again and they have to change steve’s number a third time. frank even calls bucky once, unfortunately for him, bc bucky stays on the line long enough to scream at him, and this time, frank’s the one that hangs up.
once the restraining order is filed, frank’s stalking does stop. for a while. a few months of blessed peace, and then bucky wakes up one night to the sound of the window rattling. steve does not wake up, bc he doesn’t sleep with his hearing aids in. bucky wakes up, gets up, suspicious, and actually grabs his sidearm. he creeps up to the window and pops the blinds apart. frank is on the other side trying to jimmy it open. immediately, frank starts to book it, bucky throws the window open and jumps out on the fire escape, yelling and screaming, people all across the building switch their lights on, and frank stops halfway down the fire escape to yell back at bucky, “you can’t stop me, i love him more than you.” bucky promptly fires a warning shot into the air, which does wake steve up, and frank books it again.
the police come. bucky did fire his gun, but it was into the air, nobody got hurt. this time, frank committed a criminal offense and the cops get to arrest him. he’s charged with criminal contempt of the first degree in violating the protection order filed by james b. rogers-barnes and steven rogers-barnes, and he’s given a fine and 2 years, 9 months in prison. frank briefly entertains the idea of suing bucky for firing the warning shot, but his lawyer advises him not to, bc he’d almost definitely lose and he’s lost enough.
steve and bucky both feel much safer with him behind bars. they nearly forget about him until the sentence is close to ending, but when frank is released, his lawyer contacts their lawyer with a very stiff and formal apology notice and the promise to abide by the restraining order there on out. ofc, violating it a second time would earn him more prison time, and that’s probably why. it’s a sigh of relief.
that got really long. i spent way longer on this than i should have. but! i hope you enjoyed this, ducky, and thank you so much for the ask! i did enjoy answering it and it’s definitely a really interesting scenario. god, now i’m wondering what would happen if slutty!steve had a stalker. tho, mafia-king!bucky would probs just shoot them at the earliest opportunity. which would make it a very short scenario. still, the kept boy ‘verse is partially murder kink. carry on, have a lovely day!
So Bucky decided to try this whole "shape-shifting" magic thing and it helped that they had a friendly SHIELD witch to show him how it was done.
She did, however, warn Bucky about a few things. "So, a big part of the magic means that your new form will reflect a great deal about you. So, please try not to have a heart attack when you see your new self in the mirror."
"So does that mean that Steve here really is a bitty, adorable kitten on the inside?"
"HEY!" Steve turned wounded big kitten eyes in his general direction.
"I rest my case."
Spooky gently twhapped both of them on the head. "You can flirt later. Magic first! And the first person to make Hogwarts jokes will spend 24 hours as a frog!"
They behaved themselves. Steve rather liked being a kitten. Bucky definitely didn't want to be a frog.
So far, there was still a kill order out on Codename: Death by Adorable. Bucky's not sure what it says about HYDRA that its various minions were willing to obey the order to kill a kitten but hell, he'd already spent the better part of seventy years being HYDRA's meat puppet. He didn't want to understand what was going on in their fucked up heads.
And Steve, of course, was still crazy enough to be willing to play bait if it meant enticing more HYDRA "heads" out into the open.
Tony would like to state for the record that he's not sure how Kitten America still manages to inject a patriotic swagger as he padded happily in the park, pretending to be totally unaware that HYDRA was on alert for the presence of Codename: Death by Adorable and Codename: Winter Soldier.
So when the HYDRA agents came running (and apparently, the orders for this particular cell was capture priority over kill), Kitten America happily sat back on his haunches and meowed.
The HYDRA agents thought that they came prepared. They had attack dogs, among other things.
The attack dogs and the HYDRA agents were not prepared for the presence of the overgrown wolf that came to stand protectively over his tiny captain. Codename: Winter Soldier was suddenly nowhere in sight.
The later HYDRA reports made by the survivors of that team were a disjointed mess, mainly consisting of "AAAAAUGGGGH!!!!!" and "OH SHIT OH SHIT FUCKING WOLF!!!!!" and "I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS!!!!"
Eventually, they would figure out that Codename: Death by Adorable's lupine backup was really the Winter Soldier in a new guise but the Avengers and the new SHIELD were not inclined to let them know this anytime soon.
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Note: I was supposed to post a picture of Kitty!Bucky and Kitty!Steve. Then I saw this picture. Wolf!Bucky it is....
The embarrassing thing is that everybody except Bucky did not realize that Steve was now able to turn into a kitten at will for weeks.
The SHIELD witch just giggled at everyone and then said, kindly, "I think you all better ask your Captain why he feels like going cat sometimes."
They all did think about it.
Eventually, they realized they didn't have to ask.
So each and every one of the Avengers pretty much let Steve have his space and Clint's ridiculous hat for hiding under (it was an EXCELLENT place to hide, okay?). Also, they didn't laugh at him when he, in kitten form, took charge of Bucky's leftover milk from his breakfast cereal.
Both Kitten Cap and his team were both surprised to find out that getting cuddles and scritches were definitely appreciated. So it became a Thing. He still gave the most pathetic, embarrassed meows if any of the ladies of the team cuddled him a little too close but comported himself like a gentleman anyway.
Steve stayed a cat until he felt like turning back into a human again and the only one who could actually order him back into his usual form was, of course, his beloved sergeant.
"As cute as you are in this form, there's just one problem," Bucky had said, scritching the Kitty-Cap puddle on his chest.
"Meow?"
"I can't kiss you stupid while you're like that. So go change back. Chop chop!"
So of course, Bucky eventually gets a lap full of human Steve Rogers and he's quietly thankful that his version of the super soldier serum lets him bear all that weight the same way he would've if he had been able to cuddle Steve when he was still tiny and not a cat. And of course, Bucky gets to bury his nose in dandelion fluff hair, pressing kisses to Steve's temple, the curve of his cheek, before indulging in that sweet, red mouth.
The truth was that both of them were pretty broken and there were days when it was Steve picking up Bucky's pieces off the floor and days when it was Bucky's turn to do the same for Steve. There really isn't a magic spell to make everything right for both of them.
But loving... well, loving did go a long way into making things better.
"All good?" he purrs against Steve's lips.
"I don't know," Steve purrs back, nibbling at his bottom lip. "You promised to kiss me stupid. I'm waiting, sergeant."
Bucky laughs and makes good on his promise.
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Note: This was because someone asked me if Steve can now change into cat form at will. Does this answer your question?
(First it was Thorin Oakenshield and now Steve Rogers. There is a method to my madness, I SWEAR.)
Behaviors of America's First Avenger Turned Kitten: A List Compiled by Bucky Barnes
1. Quivering butt; ready to pounce
Bucky doesn't hesitate. He ducks, letting Steve fly over his shoulder straight at the HYDRA goon who's about to shoot him in the back.
He's actually lucky that Steve aimed super-soldier serum enhanced kitten claws and fangs at his face. The last time, Steve went for the goon's groin.
Steve has always been a vicious little critter.
2. Rolling Back and Forth on the Carpet
"Look," Bucky said in exasperation. "This doesn't mean I'm letting you off the hook for not changing back to your proper human form yet."
"Meow." Paws batted up at him invitingly, big blue kitten eyes blinking twice.
"Nope, punk, you're not getting me with that Look. I am immune to that Look, do you hear me?"
"Purr."
"God damn it, Steve."
Steve gets scritched anyway.
3. Making Squinty Eyes at You
"He's laughing at me, Barnes."
"That's because you're a funny little bastard, Stark Junior."
"HEY. I'll have you know that I NARROWLY escaped that. Mom was like.... six weeks preggers when she walked down the aisle with Dear Old Dad. And horrible, traumatic Daddy Issues aside, Kitten America is STILL LAUGHING AT ME."
"That's okay, Tony. We think you're funny too."
4. Raised Butt in Your Face
"This is Steve's way of saying 'Fuck off' isn't it?" Barton commented.
"Pretty much, yeah."
"I don't get it. Why doesn't he want to change back to his human form?" This from Jemma Simmons.
"Maybe Cap just wants a break. Maybe he just wants to make sure Bucky Bear here doesn't go anywhere?"
"I already promised you, Steve. I'm staying. Remember?"
"Purr."
5. Sleeping in a Perfect Circle
Steve sleeping in a perfect circle of blonde fuzz, right on Bucky's belly, went a long way in keeping away Bucky's nightmares.
6. Kneading With Paws
This is less kitten instinct and more of the fact that Steve had discovered a way to render his Soldier into a puddle of goop via the magical properties of kitten massage.
Also, the Avengers and Phil Coulson's baby SHIELD agents quickly got used to the fact that Bucky Barnes was actually capable of purring himself.
7. Sitting in Cat Loaf Formation
This really translates to "It's time to watch Singing in the Rain, Bucky. Put the DVD on, queue up Netflix, chop chop!"
8. One Leg Extended During Bath Time
Eventually Bucky discovered that putting Steve in a sink of warm water went a long way towards making his Kitten Captain happy.
9. Showing Its Belly to You
Bucky Barnes is the only one allowed to scratch the fuzzy belly. Everyone else will get clawed. That includes you, Tony.
10. Staring Off Into Space Wide Eyed
"Meow?" Nat asked.
"Meow. Meow meow meow meow."
"Nat, do you actually understand what he's saying?" This from Tony, who had noticed that Bucky seemed to have an easy time of translating Steve meows to Proper English but didn't realize that Natasha was apparently able to do the same thing.
"He's saying we got a sniper at our 10 o'clock. Clint - "
"Already on it!"
"Meow!"
11. Sleeping in Boxes
This only really works if Bucky puts in a shirt he's recently worn in said box. Otherwise, Steve sleeps next to him or basically in his general vicinity.
Bucky thinks he hasn't imagined the other night, where he ended up spooning an actual human body that's a bit disconcertingly bigger than the little one in his memories. But he doesn't really mind.
"Are you going to be a cat when I wake up, Stevie?"
"Maybe."
"Okay. You know I do love you, right? Even though I'm a fucked up mess?"
"Same. Both points. Lots of love. A whole lotta mess."
"Okay. Good night, baby."
"G'nite."
12. The hug n' bite
Yes, that really was an unknown HYDRA tracker in Bucky's flesh arm. Steve had alerted them all to its presence and Tony had gotten it out just in time before HYDRA used it to activate the self-destruct in the Weapon.
13. Chirping Out the Window at Birds
"He's chirping at us. And he's got this look that I don't like, man."
"Cap, you do know that Falcon and I aren't really birds, right?"
"Yeah, Steve. Me and Hawk over here just have cool codenames, okay? Okay, Steve?"
"Shit, run, Sam, RUN!"
14. Sitting on Your Computer When You Need to Work
"But I need my laptop, AC! And Cap's not letting me near it!"
"Skye, you have been trying to hack into that HYDRA database for the past seven hours. You need food, liquids and rest. In that order. Captain's orders."
Skye pouted. It really didn't help when one's boss was a massive Captain America fanboy and was right all at the same time.
"Meow."
It also didn't help that Cap still made for an adorable kitty.
"Fine!"
15. Nowhere to be found, no matter how hard you look
Bucky doesn't flip the person who wraps his arms around his waist and instead settles back in that familiar warmth and scent with a sigh. He gets a nuzzle and a brief kiss along his jawline as a reward from a very human nose and a very human mouth.
Bucky Barnes (because that was his name, the Soldier knew and he wasn't going to let HYDRA take it from him anymore) had already planned for a number of possibilities upon meeting up with Steve's friends. He'd done his fair share of fretting, though he did try to keep it from Steve. That didn't quite work. After their "conversation" - which, amazingly enough, worked wonders on the mopey disposition of his Captain-turned-kitten, Bucky had been the recipient of concerned nuzzles and meows whenever his fretting got too obvious.
So he thought he was prepared. And then:
"AUGH! SAVE YOURSELVES!" This was from Stark Junior, who despite his resemblance to his father, seemed to have a bit more dramatic...flair than Stark Senior ever did. "DEATH BY ADORABLE! EPIC SQUEE! TOO MUCH CUTE! CANNOT HANDLE!"
"Steve, how could you do this to my dog, man?" moaned Barton, after Steve had made the acquaintance of the mutt and promptly received a doggy bath. Evidently, Lucky thought that Steve needed coddling - a sentiment that endeared him completely to Bucky. "It's like watching a goddamn Loony Tunes cartoon come to life."
Three of the female SHIELD agents - Simmons, Skye and the woman even Bucky knew as the Cavalry - ended up cooing over Steve, who laid his ears back in what, apparently, was the cat version of Steve doing a full body blush. And then he ended up being cuddled against Darcy Lewis' very ample.... attributes and Bucky was hard pressed not to laugh at Steve's clearly embarrassed mews and he could almost hear the swearing underneath: God damn it, Bucky, get me outta here!
Sorry, pal, I ain't helping you out on that one.
"Meow," was Natalia's attempt at speaking cat, which promptly got answering meows from Steve.
"Do you actually understand what he's saying?" Bucky couldn't help asking, because okay, he could, somehow and he would really like confirmation of the fact that at least in this specific instance, he wasn't being loony.
"It's very easy to speak cat," Natalia answered. "If you're owned by one, you pick up on it pretty fast. And Steve definitely owns you, right?"
No, the Black Widow did not make the Winter Soldier blush. Those pictures were photoshopped, god damn it.
Thor, clearly telegraphing his moves, clapped a hand on Bucky's shoulder. "Your Captain will be restored to you again in his proper form. I shall return shortly with yon Midgardian witch, who already has a counterspell readied. Though it amuses me as to the extent of the Captain's vocabulary. I have not heard such inventive profanities for aeons and certainly did not expect that from Steve Rogers."
"Kitten America doing Kitten Swears. Man. I am just so done with y'all," was Sam Wilson's comment. That got a yowl and a hiss from Steve, which earned him a pat on the nose from Darcy and a "it's okay, boo, I won't let 'em pick on you anymore." And more cuddling.
"HULK WANT TO HOLD KITTY CAP."
So Bucky looks to Phil Coulson, SHIELD's new Director and who was, according to all his intel, a bastion of Sanity and Common Sense.
Coulson just looked upon them all and let out a tiny "squee."
Bucky facepalmed. "Your friends are all fucking weird, Stevie."
From the depths of Darcy's bosom was a pathetic. "Mew."
So apparently, Steve Da Kuting has this other superpower....
Steve Da Kuting (I told my Mom about this fic ridiculousness and she said, "You need to call him Steve Da Kuting from now on and wait for all your followers ask you what "kuting" means." ) - has a superpower we didn't know about.
The power of sads.
It is a deadly superpower because he's already felled Bucky with it and he's now about to fell every last one of the Avengers and the remaining bits of SHIELD.
We note that Agent May tried to hold out the longest but it was a bust.
Coulson, of course, was among the first casualties.
