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steve rogers has committed so many violations against the US military and government and just in general that it's so hilarious when anyone says he's a patriot or whatever. like this man is the most chaotic good character in all of cinema and has committed a laundry list of crimes, 90% of which were against the US military and government, and you're gonna think he's a bootlicker?

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My gift for @spacewinter for the @highflierexchange ! This was a super fun prompt, and I loved working on it :D Hope you like the final product as well!!

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Steve + text posts pt. 16/?

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Chronological Contemporaries

“Gabe,” Steve called, his voice hushed. “Move up to the ridge. Check if this is the right place.”

“I can assure you it is, Captain,” the Duke said, calmly – and in very good English. “But it’s perfectly fine for you to check.”

“Right,” Steve said. “Gabe?”

“On it,” Gabe nodded, and began crawling up the slope – slowly and carefully, trying not to make much noise.

This was the fifth HYDRA camp they’d gone after, and it was one of those ones which was going to be… tricky. The placement of it meant that it was all kinds of likely that HYDRA would be moving anything they wanted to keep safe out of other bases and to this one, and that meant they could be facing almost anything here… anything from enhanced guards to a regular German army regiment to some kind of super-science trick.

But that wasn’t the thing that was making Steve Rogers most worried about this.

It was their hosts.

They’d been based out of a fine old chateau in the French countryside for the last few days, which wasn’t much of an issue by itself, but…

Steve shook his head, and shifted over a little under the moonlight until he was right by Bucky.

“Did I miss somethin’ in history class?” he asked. “I thought there was some kind of French Revolution? How is there a duke here?”

“You got me,” Bucky shrugged, whispering as well. “It’s like a time capsule, the whole place feels like it’s out of a storybook or something. Like we walked into Snow White or one of those stories.”

Steve stifled a chuckle.

“Or Oz,” he suggested. “But, seriously – any ideas, Monty?”

‘Monty’ Falsworth checked on his Sten gun, and raised an eyebrow.

“I’m sure I wouldn’t know,” he replied. “I’m British, not French. And we all know who here is French, don’t we?”

“Okay, okay, I’m sure this is a question you are dying to ask,” ‘Frenchie’ Dernier said. “So, what is it that is the problem?”

“How come there are still Dukes in France?” Steve asked. “I don’t know much about this.”

“Well, there are some possibilities, but what you must recognize is that it is not so simple as to say that there was one revolution,” Frenchie answered. “There was, let me see… the Revolution, then some various confusing nonsense, then Napoleon, then the Bourbons, then Napoleon again which was stopped by Monty’s Duke of Wellington, then the Bourbons again, and after this there was the Second Republic… then another Napoleon, a different one, who was then in turn replaced. And after that it has been Republics, but only for the last seventy years or so.”

Steve blinked.

“Okay, so I missed a lot in history class,” he admitted. “But still, how can you still have a Duke here?”

“I’m not from around here, you may have noticed,” Frenchie pointed out. “But, in France a Duke does not have to be royal, and one of the servants I noticed also called him a prince – which I believe makes him the ruler of a principality. Some of these things are… mostly just old money, however, and it is more like that he was a governor or senator over an area… hmm… roughly speaking it would be this valley, so no more than thirty or so square kilometres, if that.”

Steve blinked.

“You used to have those?” he asked.

Frenchie shrugged.

“It’s a bloody good thing that we’ve got you around to make sense of this stuff,” Monty said.

“So… he’s basically just old money?” Bucky asked.

“Exactly,” Frenchie said. “Or, that is my guess, at any rate… it is a fine old house, after all.”

“Do you think there’s a risk that they’re some kind of… collaborators?” Steve said, his voice even lower, and he glanced back at the elderly French lady and gentleman who’d accompanied them on the trip to the HYDRA camp. “If the Nazis didn’t get to them in several years…”

“It is… not impossible,” Frenchie mused. “But what is?”

Then there was a shout, a gunshot, and Gabe came slithering back down the slope.

“What’s wrong?” Steve asked, picking up his shield.

“I don’t know how, but they made me,” Gabe replied. “Only saw a faint glimpse, someone was looking through some sort of scope, but I swear I didn’t skyline myself and they just picked me out straight away!”

“Maybe they knew we were coming,” Bucky said.

“What a bother,” the Duchess sighed, but there was a mysterious smile on her lips. “My dear old gentleman, I don’t suppose you’d be willing to take care of this for us?”

“For you, always,” the Duke replied, pressing his forehead to hers. “My beautiful rose.”

Then he rose to his full height… and kept rising. There was a kind of bursting motion, as a hard-wearing tweed jacket strained and exploded and was replaced by huge, furred muscles, and he winked at his wife before loping off up the slope.

“Halt!” a voice shouted in German, then shouted a strangled curse, and Steve heard the flash and crackle of gunfire.

A lot of it.

“...what the fuck,” Bucky whispered, which Steve had to agree with.

“Ah,” the Duchess said, her hand to her heart. “My dear Adam is still as hale as ever, don’t you think?”

“While I recognize we’re all rather shocked,” Monty began. “Shouldn’t we be helping the giant beast who’s tearing apart an entire company of Nazis?”

That reminded Steve of his actual job, and he rolled onto his front before beginning a sprint up the slope.

(Citation and inspiration via @raeynbowboi posting about when the film is set...)

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y’all ever think about how bucky got drafted and acted like he enlisted so steve would think he was okay. or how bucky was tortured for weeks at azzano and acted like he wasn’t so steve would think he was okay. or how bucky was cryofrozen traumatically for decades and voluntarily chose to go back under so that steve would think he was okay. or how bucky blinked back into existence days before steve left his life forever and bucky acted happy for him so steve would think he’d be okay.

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Never bring a knife to a gun fight… Unless you’re Natasha Romanoff or Bucky Barnes. Then by all means bring a friggin letter opener if you like, the guy with the gun is doomed either way.

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tony and dum-e on their own

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so when tony got kidnapped in im1 ppl thought he was dead right??? but surprise he's not dead guys!!

and in im3 he went missing again and people thought he was dead AGAIN but nope its tony stark he's obvi not dead

and idk if him dying n coming back to life during avengers was public knowledge but if it was well then.

and then in avengers iw people mustve thought he was dead. since he was um idk incapacitated in space (according to google for 22 days)

so do u guys think when he died in avengers endgame people thought "oh no way guys hes gonna come back eventually he always does this" and he just. didnt

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You guys think the Stark Industries stock price plummets every time Tony gets his ass beat publicly in a fight.

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“Take off the suit and what are you” the man who built that suit, who can and will build it again, Tony fucking stark. Tony stark who built the original iron man in a cave. Tony stark who built iron man with scraps. Tony stark who built iron man under the nose of his kidnappers. Tony stark who built iron man in between being tortured. Give it up for my boy Tony stark everyone

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I was reading this fic, where there’s a scene where Sam teaches Bucky to cook, and for some reason I seriously thought he was just forgoing the spatula for his hand.  It makes sense, if you think about it. 

Also, I really like fics where Bucky is kind of weird and robotty, and doesn’t really know how to function like a human being. 

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A bonky :)

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Body swap au, set in the sweet 2012 fic era, but with an ensemble cast:

Loki plays a prank which results in Tony and Steve body swapping. Steve is irritable and cranky, because hell he thought he'd never have trouble breathing again. Worse is that Tony's brain never slows down, not even enough to grant him a decent sleep. Then there's Tony, who after the initial meltdown and anger, just disappears and Shield, the team and everyone's worried he'll do something reckless, stupid and ridiculous with Steve's body. Steve isn't worried, he knows Tony isn't that insensitive. But he is worried when Tony doesn't surface after several hours of absence.

Bucky is the one who finally figures it out—what with the shared history of body mutilation and all.

They find Tony curled up under the table of his lab. Sleeping.

"His mind's an overpowered horse that never stops running. He has a hole in his chest that hurts with every gulp of breath. Of course the first thing he does is take a long, overdue nap. It's what I'd do."

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The MCU really robbed us of having Bucky and Steve messing with Sam as the new captain America.

Someone calls for captain America when Steve is around and he’s like “what? Where?” And looks up in the sky (the video goes viral and people edit in Sam flying over head to dramatic music)

Some dude is being racist and Steve punches him out. (Sam tried to lecture him but Bucky just very calmly said “punching racists is what captain America is all about and Steve is the original captain America you can’t stop him it’s his one job.”)

Them both telling Sam that he needs to “respect his elders” when they both want Chinese food and Sam wants burgers (they get Chinese and Sam throws chopsticks at them)

Steve outrunning Sam because he’s got super serum and Sam’s like ??? Why am I the one fighting the bad guys when you’re over here promoting steroid usage (Steve reminds him he’s a retired war veteran and to respect his elders. Bucky laughs until he cries and Sam flips them off as he walks away)