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Your Muse: Bucky Barnes
Muse wanted: Steve, Sam, Natasha, Fury, Tony Stark, castmates. Clara from Doctor Who, don't act like you don't know why.
Community: personal journals, smuttysws, bakerstreet (DW)
Fandom: That One Totally Unknown Movie That No One Has Heard Of.
Canon or AU: Canon
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[numbedwithice]

I haven't made a Steve journal yet but I keep meaning to fix that. But yes hello I would like all the post-TWS Steve and Bucky please. With Steve slowly helping Bucky heal and regain his memories and tentative teasing each other as Bucky starts to get his mind back and Steve proudly showing him all the things he knows about the 21st century and living in Steve's shitty apartment in Brooklyn together and visiting the Smithsonian exhibit together every day while Steve patiently points out the members of the Howling Commandos while he watches Bucky's face work as he tries to remember

i need it

i need all of it

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YOU GET NOTHING.

or everything, i dunno. there's no line. i can has steve.

There's so many, many interpretations of how movie!Bucky would really work, recovery wise. Slowly, quickly, how much of him remains the Soldier, how stable he is, etc. There's an inevitable degree of melodramatic nonsense, but I try not to make it too syrup-y ridiculous. I can temper it to how you feel would be the most dynamic for plottage, to a degree. I don't think the comics alone can really serve to interpret. I'm praying they don't bullshit gloss over it in the movies. HEY, SO STEVE FOUND HIM AT THE ZOO

THEY'RE ALL GOOD NOW

HUNKY DORY NOW LET'S FIGHT ALIENS

no.

[numbedwithice]

YOU DON'T DESERVE THIS POWAH -- no wait no that's the wrong Avenger sorry.

I very very firmly do not believe in insta-recovery Bucky I think that is -- dumb and glossing over it would be awful. I usually sort of think of it as -- Steve approaching a wild animal, in a way. Slowly, keeping his distance until he can see that Bucky is comfortable with his presence. Inching closer until Bucky looks like he might be able to talk to him.

Like -- Bucky appearing on the fire escape of Steve's building just to watch him for a while before running off again. Until Steve asks him to come inside one day and he says yes and they have coffee but don't talk and then Bucky leaves again.

And it's slow and it's painful but at least it's moving forward.

That sort of thing -- ? But that is also. Hard to plot so we can skip ahead a bit in the process or go from wherever I am the easiest of easies.

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I've played him off a few Steves, and it's generally like that. I assume the first weeks, if not months after the film, he has an enormous paranoia of something getting him, mostly HYDRA, but any of the world's intelligence branches, and Steve as well. SebStan kind of confirmed some headcanon I had, which is that the Soldier is in a constant ADD, frenetic survival state. Everything looks like a collar.

So he'd definitely give a run that Sam and Steve could attempt to follow. Lots of bodies, lots of catching his breath, and keep going. I think he'd be sleepless (mine suffers sleep paralysis) and as he becomes more conscious, self destructive, and eventually that would wear down. When he gives up on this frustrated fuck all or die thing.

Then he might come looking for Steve. Because Steve is Guy Who Knows Things.

He likes to break into his apartment and go through his stuff.

Shhhh.

[warwasincolour]

(same me, now with a proper journal)

I completely am on board with all of that. I think he has a lot to work out of his system before he's able to settle down and focus on getting better. He's had decades of torture and mind fucking, he needs time to work through all of that before he can come back to himself.

Which I suppose begs the question as to where you'd like to jump in with them?

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I'm fine with bouncing about. We could start with the first time Steve gets him pinned down to one place long enough to talk, though we can play out other smaller chases, and experiences. That can be the Soldier in his apartment, screwing with his stuff, or him coaxing him inside. Barnes would probably be half conscious of being Bucky, and half everything else.

[warwasincolour]

I am greedy and want all of these things. Every little thing. You are an amazing writer and I love playing with you so -- yes, anything, everything.

Also, where do you stand on their relationship? The way I play Steve, is that for him, Bucky hung the sun moon and stars. He has a genuine affection for Peggy, and if they had been together longer he probably could have loved her, too. But Buck is Steve's heart and soul. He's his best friend, and so so much more than that.

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Aw, thank you! I'm lucky to have your delightful muses around

[warwasincolour]

Bless your face aaah

God, you know Steve got into all the fights, in the 40s. And Bucky had to drag his stupid ass home and patch him up and scold him about picking on people his own size. Of course he couldn't trust Steve to look out for himself, because Steve was busy trying to look out for everyone else even when he really should have been worried about trying to keep himself alive and in one piece.

It does make sense! I do tend to play Steve as liking both the ladies and the men (and being very pleased when he finds out that hey, that's a thing he's allowed to do and it's not just him, other people do it too!), and with Bucky sort of being the centre of his universe. Especially with the way, as you said, Bucky took care of him when he was being too dumb and stubborn to take care of himself.

We can see how things develop and just sort of let it go naturally, rather than trying to force it in any particular direction.