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well, this blog is based around content of bucky being peter's father/father figure, specifically dedicated to them both. and sometimes it's just a chaotic friendship the two share! as stated in the blogs description this does NOT include any sort of romantic relationship/ship between the two. if you tag any quote as a ship I will personally cap your fucking knees. on that note if you do ship them do NOT interact with this blog or my posts they are not for you. that aside, i will randomly post quotes, reblog art and memes among other things to this blog when the mood strikes. remember that you’re all free to submit your own quotes! just follow the submission guidelines.
can i post art based on some of the quotes/memes?
of course! as long as you give credit! i'm always down to see what some of these dumbass quotes would look like drawn out- and i mean i'd draw them myself but admittedly i kinda suck at art.
dni (aka the following - fuck off)
zionists (free palestine), trump supporters, lgbtqphobic, terfs, proship (let it be known im not pro-censorship, certain ships and things just make me very uncomfortable so as long as you dont bother me with it i wont bother you)
abt me?
call me kay, any pronouns work. i'm 21. i've been a marvel fan for as long as i can remember really and it keeps taking over my life. the brainrot hits randomly so expect periods of inactivity and surges of sudden activity whenever lmao.
I love a grumpy reluctant parental figure. Bucky who doesn't think he's good or safe to be around kids, like his past might leak through and taint their innocence. Bucky who can barely take care of himself half the time, let alone another person. who doesn't know how to be kind and patient like he probably should be, let alone to someone impressionable
And then a teenager who thinks Bucky's fantastic, who doesn't care if he's quiet because Peter talks enough for both of them. who's ecstatic about Bucky's capabilities and strength and arm and history, who can't take a hint that Bucky doesn't want a yammering kid in his ear. Peter who finds it endlessly amusing to annoy Bucky, which is somehow a comfort to the older man (at least the kid's not scared)
I love fics where Peter is hurt/kidnapped/tortured, and Bucky with the emotional wherewithal of a rock steps up to comfort him because he understands. He's been there.
Whenever I read a Hydra!Peter fic without Bucky I go "where's my DRINK? My DIET DOCTOR KELP?!" cause how dare you first of all. second of all how dare you /lh. But the Winter Soldier having a soft spot for a child is so special, who keeps needing to be wiped because he keeps developing this weakness. Or Bucky who's long escaped and Peter who's just been rescued, Bucky having to relive his Hydra trauma because he recognizes all the signs and triggers in this boy. Who has to decide to hide and preserve his own well being or face this kid and be his only real lifeline. Peter who's in awe of the Asset, who only trusts his own kind, or who doesn't trust him because he's his own kind
traumatized child & traumatized adult is the best soup
Saw that some people were talking about Peter and Bucky being father and son, so i wanted to rec some fics about them being father and son and also them being good pals :))) i really recommend reading all of these. <333
(14/05/25, updated with a few more recs and the fics are properly linked)
Bucky being a father figure
taking my time but i don't know where This one might be them being good pals but i think of it as Bucky being a father figure
timshel (series) This is a series but the first one, is the one i rcommend the most, its about Peter growing up in Hydra with Bucky, warning for a lot of angst (espescially the first one), when i first read it, i read it all in 3 hours and cried throughout the entire thing XD
broken wing. This one is another Hydra Peter, it's post-civil war, it's mainly Steve being a parental figure to peter, but Bucky is still there, anyway its very good and steve and bucky are pining idiots (but who's surprised?)
Beautiful Ghosts This one is about Bucky living on his own pre-civil war, and he doesnt have any memory of anyone until one day he remebers, and its sad but has a happy ending :)
Bucky Barnes, the Good Dad (series) This one's a short series and so soo cute, its baby peter and dad Bucky
Astronomy In Reverse AMAZING. oml it's soooo goooddddd, it's pre-civil war (pretty fuckin angsty btw, but i mean, its bucky barnes and peter parker)
Stucky Shares Custody of Peter Parker (series) This series is so fucking good, the first fic is my fav, Bucky escapes from hydra with peter (who's 12 in this series im pretty sure), and gives him to steve, it's so good. Bucky also saves the Maximoff twins and they all become a family its so fucking cute, and obviously angsty, since y'know, hydra.
longing, rusted, seventeen, daybreak This one also has irondad but i still really enjoyed it (again, very angsty due to hydra shit)
5 Times Peter met the Winter Soldier SO GOOD. So cute, i loved it.
Bucky and peter being good pals
The Falcon & The Winter Soldier + Spider-Man This one is set during TFATWS (its basically peter tagging alongside Sam and Bucky, uninvited) and it has sambucky.
so this is christmas (war is over) This one is set after No Way Home where only Clint and Bucky remember peter
anger managment This one is sad & angsty, Peter was kidnapped by hydra for a while, and this is after he gets rescued, Bucky helps him recover
Baking at the Witching Hour Peter tries baking. Bucky is horrified. They bake together.
Peter & Bucky are Pals (series) Ohmylord, this series is so cute and amazing, its set in the same universe as owlet's Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail series (which i extremlyyyyy recommend oml its amazing and a classic) but you don't need to read that to understand this one, and this one has irondad but its so minor and Bucky is--in my opinion--much more of a father figure to peter and you can easily skip over the irondad parts if you want.
Based off of Peter & Bucky are Pals (series) Short series, Bucky and Peter are so cute, as always. Set in the same universe as the last one.
You can definitely find more but these are the ones i have bookmarked
i just gotta say this is my favourite tom holland picture of all time because istg i could walk into any wetherspoons in my area and see about 20+ lads that look exactly like this
are you going to post more info about your biowinterdad au? i miss it 💔
i DO have more info somewhere in my notes that i intended to work on that i sorta forgot about but !! now that you've reminded me ill get to that as soon as i can ,, i have been thinking about them lately so expect that soon :)
so i definitely didn't forget about this !! i just got a job very recently and ive been settling into that. very tiring stuff so i haven't been able to work on it as much as i'd like. but soon, very soon when im less busy for sure </3
read the first part otherwise you will be very confused. also buckle up this is very long.
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-post homecoming, it's gotta be known that ofc in typical hydra fashion, they never really stopped lurking. they've been keeping very close tabs on the avengers, especially since they very recently reconciled. anyway, in typical peter fashion, he ends up in the middle of something far bigger than himself. he ends up meddling in hydra dealings, which isn't really much of a big deal at first — that is until he starts getting in deeper and deeper. this eventually leads to hydra investigating him after learning of his ties to the avengers, more accurately, tony stark.
-they find out his mom was a shield agent. they also find out she was a target of the winter soldier many years ago — one that got away. slipped under their radar. it's then they realize there's something far deeper about the whole situation. they're able to find traces of peter's dna and run it. which of course flags up their system, showing that their very own winter soldier happens to be a genetic match to the meddling spiderman. it's very easy after that to find him and take him.
-it's a pretty regular patrol when peter gets taken. it's a trap, but it's framed as something perfectly ordinary to peter. which is why he's caught entirely off guard. he's whisked off to a hydra base where he's interrogated, drugged and generally tormented. during all this, hydra (which i feel would be made up of random original characters made up to be agents and scientists) reveal to peter the truth of his parentage. except, they frame the incident that killed his parents on the winter soldier. peter is in HARD denial ofc, but also he's terrified, he knows hydra don't mess around. tony's told him that much.
-hydra wants their soldier back. they'll do anything to have bucky back in their clutches. discovering he has a son was exactly what they needed. not just to get bucky, but to also unsettle the avengers as a whole. because even if bucky is unaware he has a kid, they know tony is attached to him. they also want to use peter to lure them all in and in order to hurt them even more, they plan to turn him into a soldier under their control just as bucky had once been.
-so while peter is subjected to that. tony is panicking. peter's been missing for two weeks now, aunt may is hysterical and tony's exhausted all efforts to locate him. he even has the other avengers helping. but there's not a single trance of him. on one particular day, however, they're sent a message by hydra themselves. essentially telling them that they have peter and that if the winter soldier doesn't come to them then peter will meet a fate far worse than death. or word for word, revealing the truth of peter's parentage “come home to us, soldier, alone. or we promise that your son will meet a fate far worse than death”
-they also send a file which includes a video of peter's torture. which of course riles everyone up.
-bucky, for one is stunned, horrified, and enraged all at once. for hydra to use a kid like that to lure him back is one thing. to claim that he's his son? well, no one knows exactly what to believe on that front. that is until fury himself shows up, given it's hydra affairs of course he does. he backs up hydra's statement in telling them about one of their own agents, mary parker — who had been working on a case regarding hydra's ghost story all those years ago. that fury realized after her death that peter definitely wasn't richard's. he had very little evidence of who the winter soldier was back then though. he KNEW of an assassin, a ghost story, but he didn't even think to connect the dots when bucky's identity was revealed to them.
-so. its confirmed. peter is bucky's biological son. and tony is VERY conflicted. he still cares for him of course but it's very hard to acknowledge the fact that he's now apparently related to the man he still can't help but dislike, even if the actions hadn't been his own. it'll take more than a few years for tony to ease up around bucky. still, the conflicted feeling he has goes pretty quickly the more he's tormented by peter's torture. they're trying to figure out what to do. steve more than anyone wants peter to be safe but he doesn't want to risk bucky either.
-fury wants them to wait until they can eventually and inevitably trace hydra. but tony argues that it would take too long. the other's try and convince him not to do anything rash but he's not really listening. meanwhile, its been a few days since hydra's message and bucky isn't doing so hot. namely, he's been having very vivid nightmares of his own time in hydra's clutches, as well as visions of peter's torture. one particular nightmare he has is of one of the winter soldier's many gruesome killing sprees, a nasty mission. but at the end, the soldier removes his mask to reveal peter, staring him down. its after that particular dream that bucky decides he doesnt want to waste any time. even if he barely knows the kid, he now has a responsibility to him and wants to make hydra pay for ever touching him.
-also, since regaining his memories, bucky's always had very vague memories of a woman that he isn't sure what to make of. but they've been getting clearer. he confides in steve about this. telling him that he's been remembering more, that he was out of the ice for the longest period of time and that things had started coming back in pieces. but it hadn't been enough. he also curses himself for even allowing it to happen in the first place, in his mind, if he had the self control to not kill a shield agent of all people - then he should've had the thought process to NOT allow himself to have any sort of relations with her. either way, bucky wants to ensure peter's safety. he's even willing to bring himself in. he's very close to it, until fury rings them up and says they already have a location.
-they don't waste a second. they storm the base and take out everyone they can. it's hard work, but eventually they do find peter, locked in a cell looking practically half dead. they take him back to the tower and get doctors to fix him up. all while bucky is entirely on edge, thinking that it was all too easy. hydra's threat still lingers in his mind, he can't help but feel like this isn't the end. even when peter wakes up and he appears to be mentally fine, he's physically in bad shape. tony for one, is relieved, too happy to have peter back to even think that there's something possibly wrong with how easy the mission went.
-everyone else seems fine with how everything went except bucky. so he tries to ease up. to go along as everyone else does while peter heals up. for the most part, he's himself. except, he barely acknowledges bucky. which bucky figures is in part to him being unable to accept what hydra had told him, because he knows peter is now aware of it. so that's why bucky keeps his distance so he can adjust. eventually, three weeks pass by with things being normal. as normal as they can be. until tony starts noticing that peter seems... off. he was kidnapped, tortured, and held hostage for three weeks so he's bound to be out of sorts. but tony can't help but feel that it's something deeper than that. peter won't tell him what. he's colder, he's snappier, he's more resigned. everything peter isn't.
-bucky and tony end up talking. tony's been avoiding him, more so than usual. but after one evening where his worries for peter are sent through the roof, he runs into him and the two start talking about the past six weeks. bucky expresses his fears that the rescue had been too easy and he's unsure of hydra's motives as to why, but he knows they can't be good. tony tells him he feels the same way, especially after peter's declining behaviour. tony asks bucky to talk to him. so he does. one evening, he finally gathers the courage and attempts to talk to peter in the training room. peter, who in their few short meetings, had only ever been kind and excited -- is nothing like that this time. bucky can't help but get flashes back to his reoccurring nightmare in which peter's in the place of the winter soldier. peter regards him with nothing but pure, unfiltered hatred in his eyes. bucky tries to talk to him, but peter yells at him about what hydra told him about his parents before leaving him alone.
-bucky tells tony all this of course. to which tony is rather bitter. but bucky promises him that he doesn't remember ever going after peter's parents as the soldier. tony, despite their strained relationship, believes him. he thinks maybe peter is just angry. but of course, it's never that simple.
now between this a lot happens. but to avoid this getting. even longer i'll simplify it as quickly as i can.
- peter's behaviour gets worse. more erratic
- bucky confides in steve about his growing fears. steve does his best to help him
- tony tries to move on from his own fears but he's still afraid he's missing something
- former shield agents and rogue hydra agents are turning up dead. more and more frequently around new york
- the avengers try and look into this but are met with no leads
aunt may calls tony and tells him peter is gone most nights. even being spiderman, she knows this isnt like him
- the avengers later attempt to track who they think may be this killers next target. theyre unsuccessful
- bucky remembers more of that month he spent with mary. he wants to get closer with peter. but he's convinced he hates him
-peter lashes out at tony
-clint is attacked one night while alone. his location is tracked by nat, who had been close by. she finds him being beaten by a masked assailant
-its peter.
-hydra kept their promise that peter would meet a fate far worse than death if their deal was refused. they knew that the avengers would rescue him, that bucky wouldn't come along. this time, they're a lot more practiced. they had a lot of trial and error with the winter soldier. with peter, they were able to take control of his mind with ease while keeping suspicions off him for as long as possible. brainwashed to follow their orders when they needed him.
-bucky's distraught because his nightmare had been staring him in the face all along and he hadn't been able to react sooner. he does to see peter in the room they have him locked up in and peter tries to attack him. steve leads bucky out and comforts him. tony is also horrified to think he wasn't able to figure it out sooner and now peter is lost in hydra's control. they're trying to figure out what to do. they return to the base but find nothing that explains what hydra did to him. nat goes after people theyre able to track though, however theyre not given that many answers
-they do however find out that peter's being controlled by a remote link. there's something implanted in his brain that's being triggered elsewhere. but they can't remove it. tony realizes pretty quickly that whoever put it in there likely made it so that if tampered with while still active, it will kill him.
-so. this isnt good for many reasons. but basically what happens is that while trying to get through to peter, they're searching for whoever may be in control of this remote link. it takes a few days but they eventually manage it. bucky, who has been sitting and guarding peter most of the time joins in on the mission. even though steve protests. bucky's set on making sure hydra arent a threat to him or peter ever again. they confront the lead scientist and bucky ends up separated. they talk, the scientist attempts to use the trigger words on him (let it be noted here bucky still goes to wakanda for a brief time where that programming is stripped away, he moves into the tower once the avengers reunite and things are settled) but when it doesn't work, bucky incapacitates him.
-they apprehend him. then find the remote link and deactivate it. back at the tower, peter suffers a mild seizure and falls into a short coma. he's unconscious for two days before he wakes up. he doesn't remember anything from his time under hydra's control. but he's in pain, so he spends a lot of time in the tower as he recovers. during this time tony refuses to leave his side, bucky also remains close by.
-one particular night, peter ends up waking from a nightmare. or more specifically, a memory from when he was sent on one of hydra's missions. he sits in the kitchen, alone, until bucky enters. bucky didn't have a nightmare, he just can't sleep. but when he finds peter he's unsure of what to say. the two haven't had a real conversation since he woke up. their last proper talk had been when peter wasn't in his right mind, so it doesn't really count. anyway, bucky's hesitant, but he can see that look in peter's eyes. he knows he's struggling. so he stays.
-peter blurts out how he knows that he's his father. hydra told him before the experiments. he also tells him that he doesn't really believe that bucky was involved in his parents' plane accident. bucky tells him he only vaguely remembers mary, but despite that he notes she must've been a remarkable woman to have been able to uncover a small part of him in that short time they knew each other. peter asks bucky if he can get to know him better. that he also needs someone to help him with the resurfacing memories and the guilt. bucky assures him he'll always be there for him.
-that's pretty much it. i had plans for a lot of short connected scenes after. such as peter healing, bonding with bucky. at one point aunt may (who would've DEMANDED to be in the loop of everything peter went through) meets bucky and welcomes him into the family. tony and bucky agree to share custody whenever peter visits the tower <3
and that's a wrap !! i hope you enjoyed my very. very long yap session. it only took me two years to post the second part lmao. maybe this blog will be less dead now
are you going to post more info about your biowinterdad au? i miss it 💔
i DO have more info somewhere in my notes that i intended to work on that i sorta forgot about but !! now that you've reminded me ill get to that as soon as i can ,, i have been thinking about them lately so expect that soon :)
so i definitely didn't forget about this !! i just got a job very recently and ive been settling into that. very tiring stuff so i haven't been able to work on it as much as i'd like. but soon, very soon when im less busy for sure </3
just remembered a while ago i saw a tiktok of bucky finding peter trapped in the void during thunderbolts and honestly ive been trying to be so normal about it but i can't it's killing me. i NEED a fic of peter in the thunderbolts, he just gets dragged into their mess and from there he's integrated into their little fucked up found family.
sorry for kind of letting this blog die the last few months ive just been in a state of. constant exhaustion tbh. that and im not exactly on an mcu kick as of late but im not abandoning it !! im gonna try and get back into posting sort of frequently, or just reblogging more stuff bc i also keep forgetting to do that. more activity rather than a driveby post before i disappear under my rock again lmao
are you going to post more info about your biowinterdad au? i miss it 💔
i DO have more info somewhere in my notes that i intended to work on that i sorta forgot about but !! now that you've reminded me ill get to that as soon as i can ,, i have been thinking about them lately so expect that soon :)
so i definitely didn't forget about this !! i just got a job very recently and ive been settling into that. very tiring stuff so i haven't been able to work on it as much as i'd like. but soon, very soon when im less busy for sure </3
I’m actually done skirting around the subject the fact that marvel ruined steve and bucky’s relationship was purposefully CRUEL. idgaf whether or not u liked the ship or not, but the mcu had established that steve rogers and bucky barnes loved each other to the point that only the grim reaper itself could separate them. their tagline was “til the end of the line” = til death do us part. they’d rather die (‘no not without you!’ and steve letting the winter beat him unconscious) than leave the other behind. they’d been frozen for the better part of a century — steve in the ice and bucky in cryo — and they still found their way back to each other. bucky broke thru 70 years of brainwashing torture and programming at the sight of his best friend. steve dropped the shield twice and finally found his way back to being steve rogers & not just captain america. they’d kicked screamed and crawled thru hell to each other and they deserved to be happy!!! it thematically made sense to let them be HAPPY! to go to baseball games and bitch about the dodgers moving to LA, to watch their favorite books as movies, to finally see the grand canyon. ending their relationship w steve leaving bucky alone in the future was a disservice to ten years of film precedent and DECADES of comics. steve rogers, no matter the circumstance, would not leave bucky. not til the day he died. & quite frankly I’m sick of the narrative that we were delusional shippers for being upset that their friendship was sent thru a wood chipper
are you going to post more info about your biowinterdad au? i miss it 💔
i DO have more info somewhere in my notes that i intended to work on that i sorta forgot about but !! now that you've reminded me ill get to that as soon as i can ,, i have been thinking about them lately so expect that soon :)
so i definitely didn't forget about this !! i just got a job very recently and ive been settling into that. very tiring stuff so i haven't been able to work on it as much as i'd like. but soon, very soon when im less busy for sure </3
are you going to post more info about your biowinterdad au? i miss it 💔
i DO have more info somewhere in my notes that i intended to work on that i sorta forgot about but !! now that you've reminded me ill get to that as soon as i can ,, i have been thinking about them lately so expect that soon :)
