Summary: After the untimely death of Brooklyn’s congressional representative, the Democratic Headquarters tasked you with finding someone, literally anyone not in Wilson Fisk’s pocket to run for office. The good news: you found a candidate. The bad news: it’s Bucky Barnes.
Tags/warnings: bucky barnes x reader, no use of y/n, political comedy/drama, thinking way too much about the policy implications of the MCU, Candidate! Bucky Barnes, fully developed pre-frontal cortex! reader, swearing, republicans & fisk supporters dni
New chapters posted on Fridays!
Chapter 1: Funeral
Chapter 2: Light cyber-stalking
Chapter 3: Details, details
Chapter 4: Gloves off
Chapter 5: Soft-launch
Chapter 6: The office
Chapter 7: Over the line
Chapter 8: Boot camp
Chapter 9: Call and response
Chapter 10: Patch
Chapter 11: Town hall
thirty three main chapters are planned!
scenes from the campaign trail are the “deleted scenes” editions to this work. read them for more context or more comedic scenes that were cut for time :)
part 1, companion to unelectable ch. 10
Archive of Our Own Link: I learned how to code footnotes to add even more jokes to the narration so feel free to check it out :)
I wrote this fic with the idea of keeping it accessible to folks who don't know the ins and outs of the American political system and haven't been keeping up with the MCU's eight million new projects since endgame. But, if you want, you can read more about the important background info in this post
Also if you want to be tagged in new chapters please let me know !
