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Bucky Barnes fc: sebastian stan indie roleplay | 21+ written by grim

[vvolfstare]

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about:

This is a sideblog, and I follow back from my main @grimmusings. Please direct IMs there, since it's easier for me to keep all my messages on one blog. It's also easier to start interactions with me there, where I regularly post open starters and meme prompts. For a full list of rules, see my main. Honesty hour questions will largely be answered IC and treated as anonymous unless signed by a muse.

All details vary based on verse, but in general I play Bucky based on an MCU timeline with 616 plots/connections added as needed. Specifically, I almost always include his history with Natasha in the Red Room, whether that relationship was romantic or platonic.

11/24: Unless we're already writing together, I'm currently only accepting canon Marvel/MCU connections for Bucky. This will not affect current threads or plots.

wanted connections:

This is by no means a comprehensive list, and I can roll with most muses as far as basic interactions. I’m happy to ship Bucky with other Marvel characters and OCs/fandom crossovers based on chemistry, but unless they’re on my OTP list, they need plotting and interaction first. There is never any pressure to ship with me, even if they’re on my list.

OTPs: Steve Rogers (happy to write and rewrite every AU for my favorite idiots), Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, Clint Barton, Brock Rumlow Possible Ships: Natasha Stark, Matt Murdock, Tony Stark, probably most of the Avengers NOTPs: Peggy Carter, Sharon Carter, Howard Stark, Alexander Pierce, MCU Peter Parker (he thinks of him more like a son or a little brother), most muses who are significantly younger (if he's calling them "kid," he's gone dad-mode, sorry) Family: I have a lot of love for Dad!Bucky and Brother!Bucky, so I'm always happy to play against his canon or OC kids and siblings Other: all Avengers, Kobik, Ian Rogers, Logan Howlett, Howling Commandos

default verses:

catfa: An MCU verse with any events that take place during or before Captain America: The First Avenger, before Bucky's fall from the train.

winterverse: An MCU/616 verse with Bucky's time as a captive, first with the Soviets and then with HYDRA. (winter!soldier)

catws: An MCU verse with any events that take place during Captain America: The Winter Soldier or relate to Project Insight. (winter!soldier)

cacw: An MCU verse with any events that include Bucky's time on the run, including the Avenger's Civil War and his time in Wakanda, leading up to the battle against Thanos.

alt!postblip: A post-Endgame canon-divergent MCU verse where Steve passes the shield on to Sam and stays in the current timeline like a character who didn’t just undo 3+ movies of development. He’s there to help Bucky and Sam re-adjust to the world post-blip and learn the ropes on being Cap.

tfatws: An MCU verse that takes place during or after the events of The Falcon & the Winter Soldier.

thunderbolts: An MCU post-TFATWS verse where Bucky continues trying to atone for the Winter's Soldier's actions by joining the Thunderbolts.

mcu: An MCU verse with any events taking place after Bucky breaks from HYDRA, usually divergent from the above timelines.

616: A mix of 616 and headcanons, typically written for comics muses who don't acknowledge things like the MCU Civil War or Thanos.

multiverse!madness: Various comics universes collide, whether Marvel/DC/etc. have always existed on the same Earth, or other-dimension shenanigans are at work. Duplicate friendly!

I'm happy to write these, but since they're more specific AUs, I don't default on them for asks/memes. Please feel free to request them.

mcu/comics aus:

captain!barnes: Any AU verse where Bucky takes the serum in Steve's place, or Steve falls from the train and Bucky picks up the shield.

dad!verse: Any MCU/616 mashup AU where Bucky has canon or OC children. While I'm happy to accept children from any muse, please do not assume Bucky is still with the other parent in the present timeline without prior discussion unless they're on the OTP list.

earth-3490: A blip comics universe where Steve is married to Natasha Stark (Iron Woman). When he discovers the Winter Soldier file, he takes it to his wife, she has time to adjust to the idea, and the Avengers’ Civil War never happens. Also open to a poly ship with Steve/Toni/Bucky in this verse.

hydra!world: A comics universe set in Earth-85826, where fascist dictator Arnim Zola rules the world with HYDRA. Bucky works deep undercover as a double agent within HYDRA while secretly helping the resistance. Few people know that, under Zola's orders, he assassinated Red Skull early in the regime change to cement his loyalty and take out the competition.

superhusbands: An MCU AU where Bucky doesn’t fall from the train in the Alps. Steve catches him, and they go after Red Skull together. They’re both on the Valkyrie when it crashes into the ocean and wake up together seventy years later.

welcome to westview: Roughly a month after Endgame, Natasha is dead and Steve has returned to the past. Devastated and struggling with rehabilitation, Bucky ventures into Westview with Wanda for a false happily ever after scenario.

fandom specific aus:

bodyguard: A no-powers AU where Bucky is an ex-Army Sergeant who now works in private security.

horror!verse: Bucky is infected with either lycanthropy or vampirism during his time as the Winter Soldier. (werewolf!bucky / vampire!bucky)

james dean daydream: A no-powers AU where Bucky and Steve are too young for the war, and he never becomes the Winter Soldier. He's a greaser in his 20s during the 1950s.

super!mcu: A mash-up of the Supernatural and Marvel Cinematic universes, where the Winchesters manage to stop the first apocalypse shortly before Thanos snaps away half the universe.

twd!verse: A zombie apocalypse AU that follows a Walking Dead timeline. Bucky may still be a prisoner of HYDRA or surviving on his own.

you jump, i jump: A Titanic AU set in 1912, where Bucky is being forced to marry a woman he barely knows to preserve his family's name and fortune, but he meets someone aboard the ship who has him dare to imagine a different life.

[xxbluandorangexx]

based on a scene from my fic, Turn Back the Clock, and wow. Wow, four straight days of work, wow. Wow. Wwwwow. I am beside myself, I am just. Wow. It's done. w ow.

[stuckyfanart]

Here you go Anon!! :)

[yourbcky]

FLORENCE PUGH as YELENA BELOVA & SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES THUNDERBOLTS* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

[43alska]

fem!bucky

[bucky-barnez]

intensive. focused.

[bozer]

[stevefightmerogerss]

sebastian doing his lil pose

[alfafacose]

~ Don't mess with the Soldier ~

A feral WS from my patreon 🖤

Ko-fi | patreon

(Ah! I changed my handle from annafacose to @alfafacose)

[richardmaddan]

#a confused puppy

[avengerscompound]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

[mohish-ko]

☆ - you’re even more annoying than Sam

[fishuus]

we rewatched the winter soldier and i realized i'd totally forgotten how goddamn funny their meet cute actually was

[yenyenyen19]

Marvel Rivals Bucky, but with Seb's face completed, now with more manspreading

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[hamletmachine]

♥

[alwaysxinxtrouble]

Fourteen days. Fourteen days imprisoned on the Raft in 23/7 isolation, stripped of his rights as a living being. There was no lawyers or trial. Simply, put in cuffs and hauled off to somewhere in the ocean to be thrown in the cell. If he had known on the helicopter ride it would be his last time seeing the sky or feel the sunshine on his face, he would have appreciated it more. Taken his time to memorize the colors and soak in the warmth one last time before he started his life in a new definition of hell.

Tony arrived on day four of their incarceration and so did his anger. The genius stood outside his cell and raged on about how for years he had been sleeping with the enemy, calling him selfish, a traitor, and far worse things. As he went on about how he dragged Wanda into this and ruined her life as well, Clint could only sink deeper into himself until he finally broke and asked the question that had been plaguing him for days; was Bucky alive? He just needed to know.

If what Tony had been shouting at him before through the reinforced plexiglass wall was bad, the slough of hate rained down on him after just broke his spirit. No sunlight. No human contact. No knowledge if Bucky was alive or dead. After that, he couldn't bring himself to leave his cell during the single hour they were allowed to interact, despite Sam and Wanda's attempts to draw him out.

Most days Clint laid on shitty cot staring at the wall daydreaming of Bucky; how it felt to have his arms around him and his weight pressed against his back. The smell of the cheap shampoo he used on his hair still clinging to his pillow the morning after he showered. His hot breath on the back of his neck while Bucky slept. The drawl in his voice when he was being charming and called him doll. Tender forehead touches that said everything but somehow at the same time not enough.

When was the last time he told Bucky he loved him?

Every minute ticked by in hours, dragging painfully on. Night was when the guards dimmed the light, day returning when they were flicked back on, and all he wanted to do was sleep. Privacy was a commodity he was no longer privy to. A thing of the past. There was no hope left in him, finally coming to accept the fact he would never see Bucky again. Hell, he doubted he would ever see the sky.

Another time the lights were dimmed down to almost nothing and another time Clint rolled over on the stiff cot to face the wall. Blue eyes slowly closed and with a deep breath, he let his mind wander off to better times and places; the way the bed dipped as Bucky was slipping beneath the blankets, how he would scoop an arm around his waist and pull him back flush against his chest, the comforting heat radiating off of him that seemed to envelope him whole. It was enough to allow him to drift off to sleep, briefly forgetting he wasn't in some cheap motel room with the man he loved.

@vvolfstare

[alwaysxinxtrouble]

Clint didn’t pull away when Bucky’s hand cupped his face, but he didn’t lean into it either. He just went still — the kind of still that came from two weeks at the bottom of the ocean with no sunlight, no noise except his own breathing, no company except intrusive thoughts. Everything in him felt blunted, flattened, scraped raw. Bucky’s promises, his apologies, his I love you washed over Clint like sound through water: heard, but distant. He didn’t have the capacity to absorb any of it, not when his nerves were shot and the old urge to drink was crawling up the back of his spine like muscle memory.

His eyes flicked up just long enough to show he was listening, then dropped again, unable to hold Bucky’s gaze for more than a heartbeat. He didn’t want to believe Bucky had feelings for Steve — but the thought sat there anyway, cold and intrusive, a knot in his stomach that wouldn’t loosen. And God, Clint hated himself for even thinking it. But The Raft had stripped him down to the part of himself that expected abandonment as a default, and climbing out of that mindset wasn’t something he could do on command.

“You don’t have to say all that because I’m a mess,” he muttered, voice quiet, flat. Not angry. Not defensive. Just tired in a way that sank into the bones. His hand stayed on Bucky’s wrist, not gripping, not softening — just holding on because it was something solid in a world that still felt like water. He tried to speak again, choked on the words, shook his head as if that might clear the fog. “I’m not… I don’t know what I am right now.”

He exhaled slowly, staring past Bucky like he was trying to find something steady to anchor himself to. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said at last, barely above a whisper. Not hopeful, not emotional — just a decision made in the rubble of everything else. “I love you. I really do... I'm just..." A slow, defeated sigh left him, his gaze dropping to the floor as his shoulders rolled inwards. It didn't feel like there was an ounce of energy in his body to try to explain or understand how he felt after Bucky's reassurance. "I'm just really tired."

[vvolfstare]

Bucky wasn't exactly his best self at the moment either. He'd been hunted, captured, strapped into an unbreakable box, hijacked, and hunted again. He'd also had the shit kicked out of him and his arm ripped off by one of Steve's former teammates. He'd buried it all to focus on rescuing Clint from the Raft, sliding back into the Winter Soldier's mindset and letting the world narrow down to just the mission. It had protected him for decades, and he could feel the temptation to slip back into it. It was safer there. It meant not dealing with the fear and trauma of everything that had happened that he could feel bubbling up inside him. The bruises had faded from Tony's attack, but Zemo's was worse. Having his mind hacked into unsettled him more than any physical fight.

But the Winter Soldier couldn't help him with this, and he'd betrayed the only person who might be able to help him shoulder it. He could see that Clint was in no condition to help him, even if by some miracle he still wanted to. He exhaled a shaky breath and did what he did best: he buried it beneath layers of ice, to deal with probably never. He couldn't manage it as well as he used to with all those emotions coursing through him, but it would keep him putting one foot in front of the other, and that was what mattered right now.

He nodded once, accepting that answer. It was more than he deserved, and he couldn't ask Clint for more than that right now. He hadn't pulled away, Clint's hand still closed around his wrist, but he wondered if he'd forgotten it was there. Still, he couldn't bring himself to drop the only bit of contact they had. "You should get some rest. The flight's going to be a few hours. I think the seats recline." His gaze flicked doubtfully to the rows of seats. They looked awfully utilitarian to be comfortable, but they'd slept in worse places.

[alaspapilio]

Oh 🫦🫠

[bubbarnes]

“... I'm a nobody. I can't even remember anything. Nothing. Not even my name.”