CA:WS/Avengers Wing!verse headcanon
1. Bucks doesn't let anyone near his wings. Not even Steve. He has learned to take care of them himself - even the grafted one - and it breaks the heart of whoever sees him drying them or preening, because there's no surer sign of social exclusion than that. Even Fury thinks it's just fucking sad.
2. Steve's sparrow wings are short and not really able to lift him for long. Good for gliding, but not much else, and he's still ridiculously proud of them. Cause sparrows are awesome. They are also very social so moving into the Tower was actually a relief for him.
3. No one really knows how Natasha is able to use her thin and delicate wings (house martin) in fight, but no one is brave enough to ask.
4. Clint clips some of his feathers regularly - at first the team is horrified, but then he explains that it's a trick he's learned in the circus. He needs to make ridiculously sharp turns when necessary and that gives him more control over the flight.
5. Thor's wings are massive and warm, and impossible. At first they look like owl's wings due to the sheer freaking volume and fluff and speckles... but then Avengers realise that there's scale under the feathers and no one knows anymore.
6. Thor's cover feathers gleam gold in light so whenever Tony finds one he screams "Fenix Down!" and Clint makes a show out of fighting him for it.
7. Tony has a secret cupboard in his room in which he keeps his teammates' feathers in little glass cases. Which is not creepy and clingy at all. Nope. Never.
8. Hulk has no wings. Hulk needs no wings. Hulk likes preening his little flying buddies.
9. Steve, due to his freaking shoulders-to-everything ratio can barely get to the back of his wings so from day one the team helped him with it. When Bucks appeared they all suddenly became very busy and no go, sorry, Steve, science calls, no time, ask the others... and so Bucks was shamed into helping and socialising with his lifelong crush;)
10. Thor's wings seem bigger on the inside so whenever the team is in danger and he does that
eight out of ten times enemies will take a moment to compose themselves. Clint still doesn't believe their resident god is actually real and not some very elaborate prank.
11. Sam, due to a childhood accident, grew up without wings and that was the reason he got into the Falcon project. Now his awesome Starkwings are awesome and cool, but he still misses the preening and all those little things other winged peeps can do. He tries to keep a straight face, but his team is not stupid, mind you, and always finds ways of asking him for help with their own appendages. "Wilson! The man I need! I feel there's something sticking my left scapulars together and it's driving me crazy, help your favourite genius, huh?" or "Sam, I think I sprained it again, could you just check...?"
