#(with aj and cass gently urging them not to take off into the bayou of course)

[violetfaust]

I'm reading all these cute headcanons about how Bucky wheedles Sam into accepting Alpine, and yes that is high-quality content 👍 BUT...

As if, as if, Sam Wilson was not the kid who fed every stray dog and feral cat in the neighborhood, as if he wasn't the one who brought home any wounded animal or bird with a broken wing, and that one time a baby gator, as if he didn't volunteer at the animal shelter on weekends when he lived in DC...

Redwing, btw, is almost certainly named after a real bird that Sam rescued when he was a child, probably one of these guys:

(American kestrel, or sparrow hawk, one of three types of falcons found in Louisiana)

And yes, mini!Sam did think he could talk to it.

Anyway, there's Bucky still at his apartment in New York all worried that Sam won't take to this straggly little deaf kitten he found, while meanwhile in Louisiana Sam is working on this elaborate scheme to tempt a feral old black-and-white tomcat (Figaro) into friendship.

#sam wilson #james 'bucky' barnes #sambucky #alpine barnes #figaro wilson #otp: coworkers #sam is an animal lover that's just the facts #tfatws #op #imagine shuri ayo and t'challa coming to sambucky's wedding #where the cats are the ring bearers #(with aj and cass gently urging them not to take off into the bayou of course) #t'challa: so. you like cats? #sam: as a matter of fact YES