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Let’s remember that Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers was the kid who befriended a small sickly boy looked down on and picked on by everyone else without caring what anyone thought.

Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers was a smart, bright, likable young man who enjoyed going to dance halls and science fairs.

Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers earned the respect, friendship, and loyalty of his soldiers to such an extent that when a stranger in spangly tights saves their lives only to ask them to follow him back into the fray, they agree because this guy’s nuts but he’s got Sarge’s seal of approval.

Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers withstood years of unimaginable physical and psychological torture until his captors were finally forced to strip him of his memories and all sense of self in order to make him compliant, and even then had to phrase his missions as fights for the good of the world.

And then, Bucky Barnes, with no knowledge of Steve Rogers or himself, with no agency or moral compass, couldn’t be kept out of cryostasis for too long lest he regain the smallest sense of self and turn on his masters. Because even they knew that James Buchanan Barnes was the furthest thing from a bully, and feared the vengeance he would bring down on them if he realized what they were forcing him to do.

And this is just Bucky Barnes in the MCU, who’s had maybe a half hour of screen time and a handful of lines.

Yeah, the seeds of the Winter Soldier are in Bucky, insomuch as he is competent, loyal, fierce, a brilliant tactician, capable of doing the dirty work to save others the burden, and a bit ruthless when it comes to protecting innocents and those he loves. But isn’t it telling that even stripped of everything but these attributes and then turned to destruction and chaos he becomes, not a bully, but an asset of terrifying efficiency? The Winter Soldier is single-minded and brutal in carrying out his missions, but he is an effective soldier, not a bully.

James Buchanan Barnes is a hero, and nothing, not the absence of one man (even a man like Steve Rogers) or anything else, could change that.

This is a post to keep track of my favorite jayvik fanficion since my ao3 bookmarks are a mess and hopefully get some quality recs as well!

Contingency Planning by @oodlyenough murdered me and i liked it so much its concerning.

Chrysalis and Window of Opportunity by @oodlyenough

A New Promise by @dis-embarks did the same, thank you 🥲

A lesson in rigor mortis by @orangechickenpillow still missing my heart after this one.

Here At The End Of All Things by queercatfan

I've Been Thinking of All the Little Things That You've Been Missing by @fouroddapples <3

Pygmalion by @twenty-qs 🩵

here is a map (with your name for a capital) by moonliving just 🥲

Run it back by spqr

be, be as you've always been by enbymegumi

Reflection and refraction series by @tryfero

Tastes like resurrection by @sulkybender 😭

disjunction by @nanashi-07

erosion by @nanashi-07

The Dead of Night by @bringthekaos

White lilies by whiskeyuncle ohmygod😭 destroyed in under 1k words

Crowbar by whiskeyuncle

High Hawk Season by JeanLuciferGohard

Bitter practicality by Kaeviat

Cradle to grave by @weatheredlaw

Switchblade by MmPumpkins

Differential Burdens in Displacement by @yallstar

void by @ironcy

Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing

The Taste Of Rot And Honey by @sunsetplums

To be fair, it's not like they are wrong xd

bucky in fic: steve u asshole u could’ve been killed! what were u thinking? let me bandage u up and get u a nice cup of tea, i love u so much

actual bucky:

Is this that archive guy yall are obsessed with?

THE WINTER SOLDIER ✪

MARVEL WHAT IF (2021 - 2023)

2x02 What if Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes ?

Poirot still realising he's best friends and in love with an idiot

Thor: Do you have a bag I can borrow?

Loki: The only bags I have are those under my eyes and they are specifically designed to carry the weight of my existence.

Thor: All you had to do was say no.

this crossover is just pure genious

Merthur AU except the crown prince of Camelot is weirdly pro-magic

The Avengers get asked into a school to teach the little kids about ‘what it means to be a hero’ except that literally None of them know how to appropriately handle children and so they end up being kicked out five minutes into 1st class bc Steve accidentally made four of the preschoolers cry when he showed them all how he could dislocate his shoulder almost entirely painlessly, Tony was reverse-psychologied into speed-building a fire breathing robot after a kid bet him two bucks he couldn’t, and Natasha made the executive decision to cancel naptime in order to whip out her knife collection and immediately start showing the little kids how to effectively reach all arteries of the human body.