The Thunderbolts As Yanderes
Yelena Belova
Yelena is scarily lucid. She knows that how she feels is wrong, she knows she’s too obsessed but honestly she’s too far gone to do anything about it. She lived so long as a stranger to herself, as a stranger to love. Now that she has love, she’ll never go without it again. Yelena isn’t pushy, sure she’ll kidnap you but if you don’t want to talk to her you don’t have to, if you don’t want her near you then she’s content to watch from the other side of the room. She doesn’t need anything from you other than your presence. If you try to fight Yelena, she thinks it’s cute. You’re so weak and untrained compared to her. But she’ll let you tire yourself out, expertly dodging your clumsy hits and kicks. Letting you yell and scream and insult her until you’re panting and too tired to move anymore. Then she’ll pick you up and take you to bed so you can rest, all while she watches you fondly from the corner of the room.
John Walker
John is more lucid than most but unlike Yelena he isn’t content just watching or existing in the same space. He’s needy, he needs you to look at him and talk to him and touch him. Even if it’s looks of hatred and insults and punches, he takes all of it because it’s you doing it. He’s obsessed with physical touch, carrying you around when your legs feel like jelly from being tied up too long or slipping extra melatonin into your nightly vitamins just so you’ll forget you’re upset with him and let him hold you for real. He knows you hate him, but he assures both of you that you won’t hate him forever. Eventually if he’s good to you for long enough, you’ll love him as much as he loves you. He spent his entire adult life following orders, always putting the country and his unit above himself. Doesn’t he deserve to be selfish for once?
Bob Reynolds
Bob is…complicated. He’s lucid enough to know he’s wrong but whenever he tries to ignore his feelings, Sentry or Void start taking over. So he’s kind of stuck in his obsession even if he doesn’t want to be. He tries to be good for you, like in all the movies. He brings you flowers every day and tells you he loves you constantly. He trains hard to get his powers under control, to be able to protect you. He convinces himself that if he can just be good enough, that you’ll love him and forgive him for everything he’s done. Bob can’t hide how much it hurts when you yell at him or throw things at him. He just gets so sad and pathetic and all his Prince Charming aspirations go out the window. He crawls over to you and attaches himself like a leech, not letting you move an inch. He cries and he apologizes and he begs until lights flicker and the floor shakes.
Alexei Shostakov
This man might be the least lucid yandere ever. Not only is he convinced that his obsession is totally fine, he’s also convinced that you love him back even when you actually hate him. He may have gotten slightly less full of himself over the past few years but he’s still pretty egotistical to his core. Any escape attempts are taken as a game because you’re bored or a way for him to prove his skills to you so that you can make sure he’s still worthy. You really can’t do anything wrong in his eyes, even if you do something that he shouldn’t be able to rationalize like trying to kill him. He just blames himself instead of you. Trying to hurt him or fight against him is foreplay to him, he’d never force himself on you like that but he will tie you down for awhile while he…deals with his feelings. The one and only time he laments being a super soldier is when you manage to leave a pretty mark on him like a cut or a burn and then it heals without even a scar.
Ava Starr
She is the number one stalker on the team. There’s no such thing as privacy once she decides you’re the one. She’ll never give actual proof but she’ll tease and hint just enough that you’ll know she’s watching you. She loves to turn invisible and watch when you don’t know she’s there, she thinks you look the most beautiful when you’re not worrying about other people perceptions of you. She’s usually cognizant enough not to spy when you’re really vulnerable, like changing or showering. She does take souvenirs though, just little things you won’t miss. Like an almost empty lip balm or an old t shirt you threw out. She likes or phase into your room and sleep beside you. You’d never admit it but she sees how you relax in your sleep when she ghosts her fingertips across your cheek.
Antonia Dreykov
Antonia is gruff and unpracticed with matters of the heart. She doesn’t realize that her love is too intense until she’s already started following you everywhere, methodically eliminating anyone who bothers you and buying actual decorations and comforts for her room to ensure you’ll be happy when she bring you home. She treats you like a feral cat. She’ll slowly sit closer to you every few minutes until you lash out at her. She jots everything about you down in her little notebook as if she hadn’t already committed it all to memory. Everything is on a strict schedule, when you eat and sleep and spend quality time together. She’s near militant with it all believing structure will settle you faster. She’s painfully bad at comforting you or making you less afraid of her, the most you’ll get is her holding your struggling form on her lap while she whispers monotone platitudes. Antonia rarely if ever uses your actual name, just referring to you as ‘pretty’ instead.
Bucky Barnes
He might be as lucid as Yelena is. He knows his feelings are wrong but as long as he uses them for good then maybe they’re not so bad? He wouldn’t kidnap you. He’d just painstakingly engineer scenarios for you both to meet and he’d be such a gentleman that you’d have to fall in love with him eventually. If you have a significant other already, he kills them painlessly and shows up to comfort you after. He learns everything about you, your type and your dreams and your fears. He uses his knowledge so covertly to manipulate you into his arms that even he doesn’t realize he’s doing it sometime. Bucky can rationalize just about anything and hell change every part of himself to be the man you’d want. The only time he’d ever scare you was if you tried to leave him. Then he’d lock you away, just until you love him again. He doesn’t want to be the man who takes your freedom, he wants to be the one who gives you everything.