Ooooooh those 'I miss you' dialogue prompts with Wakandan stucky . . . my heart hurts thinking about that, thank you for the feels.
Thinking about Bucky quietly recovering from everything, getting himself back, spending days with Alpine. Steve visits whenever he can, stays as long as he can, but he keeps leaving. Hydra is still out there, and he's hellbent on destroying every last one for what they did to Bucky. He won't ask Bucky to help, won't even consider it. He deserves the rest. And Bucky is resting. But he wants Steve to as well. He knows what Steve is doing for him, appreciates it, but he's sick of seeing Steve leave again and again, always coming back exhausted and bruised. But Bucky is a refuge for Steve, a place he can come back to where he can stop for a while and just be with Bucky, because he can be now.
Idk where I'm going with this, I just saw your post and this just hit me. Love your writing btw, and the tag essays you write about these two. Always love seeing them.
Also this post might be of interest to you:
https://musette22.tumblr.com/post/786180325842796544/a-scenario-i-like-to-imagine-after-cap-3-bucky-is
This is so beautiful, honey, I agree with every word you said about the boys 🥹💖 And I get it, Wakanda Stucky just gives us all the feels, right? I never know how to put it into words, but there's something that feels so special about this era of them, that is both so Soft and bittersweet.
One the one hand there's this relief, the chance to finally be together after being apart for so long, to spend time relearning each other, finding out what is left of the young men they used to be and all the ways those young men changed - and realizing that, while many things have indeed changed, some in more subtle ways than others, the fundamental parts of them are still the same.
The things that make Steve who he is, the things that make Bucky who he always was, they're still there. Their love is still the same, still intact despite all the things and the people that tried to destroy it - if anything, it's fiercer than ever before. No one can ever convince me, not in a million fucking years, that these two would let go of one another. They wouldn't before and they definitely wouldn't now that they've finally found each other again.
He won't ask Bucky to help, won't even consider it. He deserves the rest. And Bucky is resting. But he wants Steve to as well. He knows what Steve is doing for him, appreciates it, but he's sick of seeing Steve leave again and again, always coming back exhausted and bruised.
Oh godddd save me from this sweet agony-- I can't with these guys!!!
It just makes you ache, doesn't it? The way they long to be together, live in each other's skin kind of together, and yet there are all these things keeping them apart most of the time, and if it's not outside forces, it's themselves.
Steve's sense of justice driving him to self-sacrifice over and over, making him leave even when staying behind with Bucky is so tempting. But keeping Bucky safe is more important than Steve's own happiness.
Bucky who wishes he could just grab Steve by the shoulders and shake him and tell him that it's Enough, he has given enough, he doesn't have to keep working himself to the bone, not for Bucky and not for anyone else in the world, he can stop now, he can come home. But Bucky also knows that Steve could never really stop fighting. Stopping altogether would mean denying who Steve is and what he believes in, and Bucky would never ask that of him, no matter what.
So they settle for a compromise instead. Steve can go out there, can fight the good fight, and when he's done with that, he can come home to Bucky. He can sink in Bucky's arms and breathe him in and soak him up, and just be Steve for a change. Not renegade Captain America, not Nomad, not a fugitive and an outlaw, just... Steve. Bucky's Steve. The sweet, gorgeous, foul-mouthed, pig-headed, soft-hearted bastard Bucky fell in love with a hundred years ago.
So um now I just kinda want to cry, because how ridiculously tragic and beautiful and maddening is it that these guys are constantly separated, first by life and then by their own love for each other? Their deep understanding of each other, driving them to accept this arrangement even though they miss each other so bad that god, they can hardly breathe - but they know that this is what the other needs? That Bucky needs to rest, that Steve would grow too restless if he stayed behind? I'M JUST *SCREAMS*
I do love to imagine them after this Wakandan limbo, though. When they're no longer considered fugitives and criminals by like 80% of the world's governments and can choose where to build their forever home. Actually, when they can choose, period: when Bucky can decide whether or not fighting alongside the other heroes is what he wants, and so can Steve - and if the vigilante/masked hero isn't what Steve wants to be anymore, there are still plenty of battles to fight and people to advocate for, and Steve has just the right kind of fire in him to do that.
And the best part? He gets to go home every day. He can lay down his head next to Bucky's at night, and feel their heartbeats settle together as they fall asleep in each other's arms. Yes I want them to have their cake and eat it too, is that really so bad 😭💖
Sorry I got carried away as per usual, darling 🥺I just want to thank you for your sweet words, and especially for calling my ramblings "tag essays", which is so delightful to me I'm lowkey screaming inside sgajgfkd 💞💞
Thank you for making me sound a lot more sensible and way less chaotic than I am, my darling 💖💖💖
And an extra thank you for directing me to that post because HOLY SHIT YES 💖🔥💖🔥 God yes, yes yes yes YES I am ALL for that 😍😍🔥🔥🔥 Bless Minnie's nonnies forever tbh, they're amazing 💖💖💖
