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The winter soldier project. by Lace_dylanz
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
17 Oct 2025
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1945 February.
Bucky rememberd falling.
He rememberd seeing Steve's face, he was yelling something but the sound of the wind was all he could hear.
He remembered falling hard, and somehow he survived.
He remembered laying in the snow unable to move.
He slipped in and out of consciousness for a while, three days, maybe four?
He remembered being dragged by soilders, they were speaking German.
He understood bits and pieces, but the pain from his arm distracted him from paying attention to what they were actually saying.
The next time he woke up he remembered even more pain and the sound of a saw.
Bucky woke up in a small prison cell, one of the walls being completely made out of metal bars, the cell was dirty and there was only a small square window too far up for him to reach.
Mold covered almost every corner.
He was laying on a metal cot that was hanging from a wall, the thin mattress didn't make it any more comfortable.
(I decided to make chapter one longer instead of adding it as a separate part🙏)
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The first time Bucky realized it was a problem was in Wakanda. Well, that’s not entirely true. He knew that what everyone saw as a friendly gesture and basic human connection, the Soldier only knew punishment.
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- Part 17 of Bucktober2025
- Language:
- English
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- 998
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- 1/1
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- 1
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No Hero's Game by tragic_fantasyfan21
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies)
17 Oct 2025
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In late 2026, Bucky Barnes is a reluctant pawn in Thaddeus Ross’s political game, running for Congress under a leash tied to his pardon. When a sham memorial for Steve Rogers ignites Bucky’s defiance, he vows to honor his friend’s legacy. Teaming up with Sam Wilson and Clint Barton, Bucky uncovers whispers of Ross’s deeper schemes: a web of power, shady backers, and dangerous experiments tied to old ghosts. As surveillance closes in, Bucky must navigate betrayal and buried secrets to fight for Steve’s truth—no matter the cost.
A political thriller of loyalty, corruption, and the shadows of heroes past.
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[Return] by WillowedSpirits
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Oct 2025
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When he found out 5 years had passed, his first reaction was something along the lines of, "Oh. This again."
When he found out that half of the population went with him, it turned into, "Oh. Fuck."
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- Part 16 of Bucktober2025
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- English
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- 1,364
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- 1/1
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- 3
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Bucky (+ some Steve) Centric Whumptober Drabbles by S4turn_5
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types
16 Oct 2025
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Me: Putting Bucky through 31 days of pain and suffering
Also me: Look at my favourite character guys :DPrompts from https://www.tumblr.com/gwynoblade/796163989708144640/i-was-looking-for-a-whumptober-prompt-list-i
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Operation: Throuple by bryonyotsana
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Oct 2025
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What if a temporal hiccup meant Steve Rogers completely botched his trip back in time and landed smack-dab in the middle of the newly formed Thunderbolts? A group of dysfunctional "heroes" with more baggage than a lost-and-found convention.
For John Walker, it's the greatest day of his life. A lifelong fanboy, he's now on a team with his idol, Captain America, and Bucky Barnes, the one guy who’s been giving him the cold shoulder since forever. But John's hero worship is more than Bucky can take. Now Bucky has to deal with the guy he thought abandoned him and a puppy-dog soldier who's showering Steve with the admiration Bucky had been so carefully rejecting. It's a possessive, jealousy-fueled nightmare.
Now, with missions to run and way too many feelings to unpack, the trio finds themselves in the most awkward love triangle in superhero history.
Their solution? To somehow convince a completely oblivious John Walker that two of the world’s most complicated ex-soldiers are clumsily trying to court him. It's all a disaster, but hey, at least they're in it together.
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Avengers: World at War (Avengers: Doomsday rewrite) by Karma_the_Unknown
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
15 Oct 2025
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The world’s a mess at the moment.
The two new Avengers teams are battling for who gets the rights to the name, several conflicts are randomly breaking out, and James ‘Bucky’ Barnes is not having a fun time right now.
With a potential resurgence of HYDRA, Sam’s conviction that he’s gone mad, and the uptick in nightmares lately? It seems like the world is trying to make him wish he’d just retired.
Orrr:
I saw a video on how Avengers: Doomsday’s behind-the-scenes is a literal train wreck, and I decided to see if I could actually do better.
Let me know what your thoughts are, because half of this probably makes zero sense as I have zero screen-writing experience. All in good fun :3
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Is This The Way To Amarillo? by UponTheWindowSill
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel 616, Marvel (Comics), Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics), Captain America (Comics)
14 Oct 2025
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On February 20th, 1973, Codename: Winter Soldier was assigned the mission of killing Texas Senator Harry Baxtor. Though the assassination was carried out with the necessary efficiency, the operative did not appear for his scheduled extraction. Priority is given to this asset’s retrieval.
He knows this much:
His name is James, and he is twenty years old. In 1954, he was assigned the codename of Winter Soldier for Department X, a clandestine arm of the KGB. He has been their agent since they saved him, an American soldier, at the end of the war, and his former allegiance to the United States makes him one of their most valuable undercover operatives in the fog of the Cold War.
Yet, even though there were some twenty eight years between then and now, he automatically defaults to 1945 whenever he considers the year. And every time they release him from cryogenic stasis, he can’t help but recognize that the world steadily grows less and less familiar to navigate. In a mission to the United States during 1973, he decides to briefly put aside his obligation to Department X to pursue what little he can still recognize. -
how deep is the ocean? by starspangledpan
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Oct 2025
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His eyes, somehow the only thing illuminated by the moonlight —
They are a beautiful intense blue. Like someone had swiped a paintbrush through the ocean and painted them into the assassin’s eyes. The colour is only heightened by the smudged shadows adorning his skin and Bucky’s breath catches as he stares, enthralled. He is suddenly back in the cockpit of the Valkyrie, feeling the rush of icy liquid bury him.
The absolute blankness of those eyes – clear and lucid, but bereft of anything – it sends goosebumps crawling up his arm. Even Natasha's carefully blank mask cannot compare. That, at least, Bucky can tell he is looking at a living person, but this?
This is like staring at a dead body.
Like staring at a lake illuminated by the moon, one that tempts you close with its clear stillness. One where you discover how deep the water is, only when you’re drowning in that illuminated beauty.
OR: Steve fell from the train. Bucky crashed the Valkyrie. A loose reverse AU
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5 times Steve and Bucky got separated, + 1 time Bucky came to terms with it.
- Language:
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- 2,241
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- 1/1
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- 11
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as the grass grows by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies)
13 Oct 2025
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Things went wrong when the Avenger’s least expected it to, and nine out of ten times, it was because of one particularly petty and spiteful god of trickery and chaos. Loki—God of Being A Pain in Bucky’s Ass—lived up to his name and unofficial title as the youngest sibling. Even gods weren’t immune to the genetic need to piss off their older siblings, apparently.
When things start going wrong this time, Bucky knows who to blame and silently curse at for his misfortunes.
Fucking Loki.
or; loki de-ages tony, and bucky is left to deal with the consequences of this decision
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- Part 1 of young and restless
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Whumptober by Destiel101
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
13 Oct 2025
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Whumptober starring our favourite Winter Soldier
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nothing gold can stay by Husbands_Of_221B
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
13 Oct 2025
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It should be noted that Rogers was from West Tulsa and Barnes lived in the East. Their relationship demonstrated that even young men like them can look past the social divide of our time and town.
And a connection like that is golden indeed. (Windrixville Daily World, May 10, 1967)Or, what would life be like for Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes in 1960s Oklahoma?
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- 19,208
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Bookmarks:
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Aaaand here we go...
Bucky ran into his ghosts all the time.
They crept up on him in his nightmares, oh yes, but the faces of mere passersby would become his victims. Simply walking along the street, trying to get some fresh air, would be a cause for anxiety, a chance for the trauma to bubble up again. The list of his crimes went on and on. It was even scarier because now, people seemed to love him. His victims would walk right up to him and thank him for his service, and he would fight the need to flee the hallucination.
The faces of people he’d taken the lives of would never leave him alone. He knew that.
But Bucky had never literally run into a ghost of his before.
Taking place six months after the first season of The Falcon and Winter Soldier, Bucky decides to cross another name off of his list when it bumps into him at shoulder-height on a busy New York sidewalk. The chaos that ensues risks his life and the life of the teenager hellbent on evading his 'amends' over and over as he tries to protect the unwilling, hating, snarky kid now under his protection. There's a tail on their backs, and the target isn't Bucky this time - Quin is the one in danger, and Quin has a secret.
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[Ruin] by WillowedSpirits
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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As irritating as it was, the true catalyst for Bucky’s amends, the small pebble that tumbled down the mountain into a rockslide, was Helmut fuckin’ Zemo.
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- Part 8 of Bucktober2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,083
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 6
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Of Flesh and Metal by Jokei_san
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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In the dense, humid shadows of District 7, where ancient trees crush the sky and the sawmill groans like a wounded heart, James Buchanan Barnes, known as Bucky, grew up never truly believing in the future. Between a sick father and the brutal absence of his mother, taken by the Harvest years before, he learned to fight with the only tools he knew: his calloused hands and sharp knives.
When his name is drawn to represent his District in the terrifying 69th Hunger Games, Bucky sees no way out—only the arena, an open-air forest where every tree can hide a deadly trap.
Caught between the constant threat of other tributes, the cruelty of the Capitol, and the relentless nature of the arena, he must learn to turn his rage and pain into survival—not just to stay alive, but to honor those he has lost.
Or— Bucky (and Steve Rogers) exist in the world of the Hunger Games. They belong to District 7, and it is Bucky who is chosen to participate in the 69th Hunger Games, before the rebellion. Because why not?
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- Part 1 of Rebellion forged in metal
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The Lies Within by Phalaina
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Oct 2025
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James Buchanan Barnes pulled Steve Rodgers from the lake. After that? Months spent hiding, running, alone. Until he found himself in a random town, in a random bar, served by a random nosy tattooed bartender. Maybe he could stop running for a while and just figure out what was next. Finding a job, a place to stay, even a roommate, the nosy bartender being an interesting choice.
But he couldn’t escape his past; neither could she. He wanted his memories back; he would have them. All of them. Even if they could destroy him. But sometimes, you have to hit rock bottom, just to stop from falling. And there even might be weirdos to help you getting back up.-
The story picks up right after CA:TWS, and completely diverges from then on. Civil War and Cie never happened. In which Bucky gets on his own, finds a new friend, is found by old friends, old foes, and gets his memories back thanks to BARF. And Tony Stark. And Joelle.
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To Really Be Loved, That Must Be Glorious by poppyfields13
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
30 Sep 2025
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“Are you a vampire?”
The man knelt beside Bucky and placed a hand to his forehead. Bucky shivered and closed his eyes. He saw Count Dracula striding toward him, relentless, ravenous. He blinked again and tried to focus on the man, but his face was shadowed in the faint winter light.
“If that’s what you want,” the man finally said.
When Bucky falls from the train, he believes a vampire saves him. Decades pass before he learns the truth, and when he does, he must decide what he truly wants and if he will allow himself to have it.
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saints & martyrs by ruesprials
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
24 Sep 2025
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In 2009, The Winter Soldier is assigned a mission to kill a SHIELD agent and Sam Wilson deals with two rescue operations as a pararescue, one of them resulting in the devastating loss of a friend.
In 2014, Sam helps Steve Rogers read up on the Winter Soldier before going on a wild goose chase and Bucky Barnes is grappling with reality after being broken from Hydra’s conditioning.
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Sam and Bucky, against all odds, manage to find each other again and again, creating a complicated newfound connection that develops into a bond of trust and a relationship neither bargained for all across places in Europe and beyond.
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Deja Vu by Toshiro_Taichou
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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1930s Bucky meets child Yelena who had travelled to the past?