#small steve rogers

[ghostcattzz]

Sorry

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[shackleton2]

The other day/always, people were talking about Steve's terrible ending and how Endgame could have gone differently and betrayed that character arc less, and I was inspired to jot down my pitch.

So here's my Unwritten Engdame Fix-It AU:

Steve was the one who had to return the Stones.

“You cannot return something from disorder to order,” said the Ancient One. “Not without paying a price.” “And who collects it?” Steve asked. “As fate would have it, someone you have met before.”

[Steve and the Red Skull encounter on Vormir, final resolution between two main cap characters, and he trades his Cap self for Natasha or at least her soul getting to rest in peace]

Steve swallowed, fidgeting with his now-too-big suit. There was a cotton-wool feeling in his windpipe. It was a very familiar feeling and he knew how it went from here. Sam would probably know where to find an inhaler. “Bucky’s gonna kill me,” he muttered, and pressed the time GPS.

Sam and Hulk-Banner started getting all nervous about Steve not showing back up at the jump spot. Bucky just got heavier and heavier with each passing second. They were only panicking because it hadn’t occurred to them yet. What he had already figured out.

Steve wasn’t coming back. Steve was done, he’d finally paid enough dues to satisfy even him, and he was going to stay where he wanted to be, where his home was, which was in the past, with Peggy. It sure as hell wasn’t in the unfamiliar modern world with a funhouse-mirror nightmare version of his old buddy. It made perfect sense, and Bucky would be a selfish piece of shit for feeling anything but happy for Steve.

Which, apparently, he was. He’d just drawn in a deep resigned breath to interrupt Wilson and Banner’s worrying when a big flash popped right back where it was supposed to be, and there stood

—

—Bucky’s brain shorted out. Then it processed that Steve wasn’t getting air and violently rebooted. “Asthma.” When Sam responded with nothing but the gooniest look of utter incomprehension Bucky had ever seen, he elaborated loudly. “ASTHMA. Medicine. Right fucking now.” “Inhaler,,” responded the medic in Sam’s head as the rest of him stared in disbelief at tiny 5’4” Steve Rogers. Then he managed to snap his head up and around. “Medkit. Bruce—”

“I—I think I got one, I try to stock a range of stuff, you never know how somebody’s gonna come back,” Bruce rambled, shell-shocked, as he handed the oversized first aid box over. Sam rifled through it and snatched a small rescue inhaler in a matter of moments.

“Here,” he pressed it over to Steve, then froze. “Wait, are you— are you our Steve? Are you, like, fresh from the 40s, or—?” Steve snatched the inhaler, managing an impressive withering glare for someone who’s lips were turning blue. “It’s me,” he rasped grouchily a minute later, between coughs. Bucky was spinning out so far he’d left orbit by now. “The Stones….to fix the timelines properly….there was a price…”

[daisy-raine]

AVENGERS FANFIC READERS I NEED YOUR HELP

I have been searching for a particular fic for almost a week now. I read it a while ago, and I desperately want to do a re-read.

It's specifically a Captain America fic, one of the ww2 era ones. I don't remember huge amounts of it, but I vividly remember Steve being Jewish and actually getting turned down by Col. Phillips for Project Rebirth despite Dr. Erskine and Peggy fighting for him. So instead he becomes a field medic and ends up getting captured at Azzano with the Howling Commandos. Meanwhile, Bucky gets chosen for Project Rebirth. Also I remember there being a comment about Steve choosing to put his religion on his dog tags and how if he were captured it really wouldn't go well for him (and I think Bucky might be atheist in this one? Not 100% sure on that point though). And Steve gets experimented on by HYDRA, so Bucky and Steve still both end up with some form of the serum (I think Steve stays small though).

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IF YOU RECOGNIZE THIS FIC PLEASE SEND ME THE TITLE OR AUTHOR I REALLY REALLY WANT TO DO A RE-READ

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Steve is kind of like a spiderweb, Bucky thinks. Lightweight, beautiful, fragile-looking and, Bucky suspects, impossibly strong yet elastic. Spiderwebs look so delicate and lovely, but the functional gradients used in their construction allows them to absorb a tremendous amount of energy, tensile stress, and biaxial compression before suffering damage. 

Someone just commented on this story I wrote (Lucky Screwdriver) and this metaphor for small Steve Rogers made me laugh.

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Oh hello. I have a new Stucky fic I am working on. Why yes, it IS a meet cute where they are chained to the same backhoe in a direct action to stop a quasi illegal pipeline that is being built near Bucky's home. I have the playlist and the moodboard together. The moodboard has MOVING PICTURES. I'm not sure I like the moving pictures?

Wait, do I have to also write it? Well sheeee-it.

I will hopefully post the first chapter this week. I am having some folks beta it to make sure it makes sense because it's a bit niche. Let me know if you are one of the angels who might be interested in this.

[motleystitches]

Did Steve Rogers become a better man after the serum?

I'm sure he fought for the right causes and had his heart in the right place in order to become Capt. America, but he's also the man, as pointed out in a previous meta by bluandorange, who actually does have something to prove, and in his stubborn way, can be horrifically passive-aggressive to his best friend. 

In short, did having a body he's always dreamed of allow Steve Rogers to become more comfortable with himself because he's more capable or realizing what's always inside him, so to speak, leading to less conflicts with environment and other people, thus fewer frustrations to irritate his temper?