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miss_porcupine

fic: Revenant (10/?)

Nov 18, 2013 10:54

Revenant: Chapter Ten
PG-13-ish ; Black Widow/The Avengers/Captain America

summary: Six months after being freed from the Winter Soldier conditioning, James Barnes has been presumed dead until a series of fatal accidents and outright murders makes it clear how he's been planning on spending his time. Natasha understands why she's been sent to ( Read more... )

serial_r, a pre-crisis girl in a post-crisis world, fic

Comments 3

bratfarrar November 19 2013, 12:54:50 UTC

"We'll make it an early night," Tony promised and he didn't plead, he never pleaded, but this was whatever wasn't that. - The way you write Tony is like those artists who can do a perfect portrait with a few lines and a blank sheet of paper, if that makes any sense.

He grinned at her, laughter in his eyes, and she could see both Steve's Bucky and her James and the man they'd grown into. "Depends. How do you feel about dirty stories?" - And this is really the best the could be wished for, isn't it? That he can keep everything he's done and been (and that's been done to him) and fit it into a functional whole that can be happy. And perhaps in love. Him calling Natasha 'maybe my girl' is just plain sweet, and Natasha and Clint's conversation about that possibility/actuality is gold.

miss_porcupine November 19 2013, 14:11:48 UTC

Tony hasn't had a whole lot of time in this story, mostly because of narrator choice, so I hope to make his appearances count. It helps if all of the other characters have a Tony-to-human decoder wheel.

Bucky... I think he pretty much always has to be one step from the chasm, but sometimes, he's got both feet firmly on the ground. Very late in the Winter Soldier series, a character says to him that it's not that he's afraid that he can't live with what he's done, it's that he CAN. There's a sweet spot in the middle there, but it's mobile.

bratfarrar November 19 2013, 14:24:41 UTC

Given what he's done (and been made to do and had done to him), it's inevitable that he's walking close to the chasm, and would be somewhat worrying if he wasn't. That much damage can't go away. It's like scar tissue.

In other words, good job writing believable Bucky/James.