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himbo-kronk-stan · 2 years
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Fun Fact: You could call every Mario Movie so far an Isekai!
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bobauthorman · 1 year
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Just saw the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
IT
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AWESOME!!!!
-> Only two things wrong with it; Not enough Luigi (What they gave him was gold, though, or platinum) and didn’t agree with Cranky Kong’s voice.
-> That’s it. Those are the only things wrong with it.
-> LOVE that they made modern Donkey Kong Cranky’s son again. Which means DK is Junior after all.
-> Plot is a bit simplistic...but that’s what I like about it. I’m tired of these complex character arcs of emotional turmoil, just gimme something easy and lighthearted!
-> Chris Pratt’s Mario was great. I know, understand, and respect that people do not like him as a person. Man’s said things we wish he didn’t. But his voice work for Mario is good, a solid balance between Martinet!Mario’s high-pitch and Hoskin!Mario’s deep-throated voice work.
-> Jack Black’s Bowser gives the perfect impression of that bully who also wants to be loved, but is too much of a jerk to deserve it.
-> Cameos, references, and other goodies galore! This film was a bonanza of visual tidbits and a feast for the eyes.
-> Soundtrack was so bangin’, and so worth sitting through the credits to hear. Also, there is a stinger at the end of the credits. You have to see the stinger.
In short, I give this flick a solid 
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salute and thumbs-up from Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo
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psychuan · 10 months
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literally the only thing the 2023 Super Mario Bros movie has going for it over the 1993version is that Bowser is hotter. other than that it's a solid 4/10 with only Charlie Day and Jack Black propping that score up.
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nichecomicstournament · 5 months
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The final lineup has been decided! 64 unknowns will compete for the title of "Most Underrated Superhero (or Villain!)" beginning on Sunday!
All matchups will be tagged with #actual polls for easy finding!
Transcript under the cut
Match 1: Kubark vs. Dr. Yahya Badr
Match 2: Fernanda Rodriguez vs. Karla Sofen
Match 3: Martha Johansson vs. Arizona Annie
Match 4: Christopher Kent vs. Jimmy Hudson Jr.
Match 5: John Butcher vs. Theresa “Trixie” Collins
Match 6: Lorena Marquez vs. Henry King Jr.
Match 7: Hobie Brown (prowler) vs. Rose Forrest
Match 8: Matthew Hawk vs. Gavin King
Match 9: Lana Baumgartner vs. Koryak
Match 10: Nathaniel Carver vs. Jules Jourdain
Match 11: Gwen Lou Sabuki vs. Blaine "Kid" Colt
Match 12: Frank Payne/Schlichting vs. ForgetMeNot
Match 13: Toni Monetti vs. Larry Trask
Match 14: Laura Broadbahr vs. Raphael Arce
Match 15: Derek James vs. Mae Kent/matrix
Match 16: Nick Kovak vs. Ren Kemura
Match 17: Johnny Bart vs. Augustus Freeman
Match 18: Brigid O'Reilly vs. shortpack
Match 19: Blindspot (x-men) vs. Robbie Baldwin
Match 20: Joel Weinberg vs. Samuel Chung
Match 21: Lottie Person vs. Jack Ryder
Match 22: Stained Glass Scarlet vs. Sarah Vale
Match 23: Bellona Kinney vs. Steve Harmon
Match 24: Hector Ayala vs. Git Hoskins
Match 25: Maria Aracely Penalba vs. Verity Willis
Match 26: Talia Josephine "TJ" Wagner vs. David Zavimbi
Match 27: Tom Raymond vs. Otis flannegan
Match 28: Chance vs.Tao
Match 29: Karl Valley vs. Colin Wilkes
Match 30: Kristoff Vernard vs. Isabella Ortiz
Match 31: Jennifer Kale vs. Jonas Graymalkin
Match 32: Kahina Eskandari vs. Humberto Lopez
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dollsahoy · 15 days
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Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant, but his price was too high. Chevy Chase was the second choice, but he was not interested. Bill Murray was also considered for the role, but due to his idiosyncratic method of receiving offers for roles, Murray missed out on it. Eddie Murphy reportedly turned down the role as he misunderstood the concept of toons and humans co-existing; he later regretted this decision. Robin Williams, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Edward James Olmos, Wallace Shawn, Ed Harris, Charles Grodin and Don Lane were also considered for the role. Ultimately, Bob Hoskins was chosen by Spielberg because of his acting skill and because Spielberg believed he had a hopeful demeanor and he looked like he belonged in that era. To facilitate Hoskins' performance, Charles Fleischer dressed in a Roger Rabbit costume and "stood in" behind camera for most scenes. Williams explained Roger was a combination of "Tex Avery's cashew nut-shaped head, the swatch of red hair... like Droopy's, Goofy's overalls, Porky Pig's bow tie, Mickey Mouse's gloves, and Bugs Bunny-like cheeks and ears." Kathleen Turner provided the uncredited voice of Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit's wife. Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom, but was rejected because the producers found him too terrifying. Christopher Lee was also considered for the role, but turned it down. John Cleese also expressed interest for the role, but was deemed not scary enough. Peter O'Toole, F. Murray Abraham, Roddy McDowall, Eddie Deezen and Sting were also considered for the role. Christopher Lloyd was cast because he previously worked with Zemeckis and Spielberg on Back to the Future. He compared his part as Doom to his previous role as the Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, both overly evil characters which he considered "fun to play". He avoided blinking his eyes while on camera to portray the character.
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missvelvetsstuff · 1 year
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Where you goin, Star?
Bucky Barnes x Reader
Biker au
Summary: Reader meets Bucky when the truck hauling her show horses breaks down as she is trying to leave for an event and he works for the mechanic. Passionate, secret love affair ensues. After a confrontation with her father, Bucky decides she deserves better than a poor biker like him and leaves town with his friends Steve and Sam. Three years later, reader is trapped in an abusive relationship and about to give up hope of things ever improving, when Bucky comes back.
Chapter 8
Warnings: swearing, substance abuse/od, domestic violence
In the morning Y/N had Brock take her to the bank with a story about her mother's jewelry being in the safe deposit box. Since getting caught sneaking out a few nights ago she had been keeping her head down, going through the house and staying out of his way, so he left her alone for the most part and didn't question her.
The bank manager led her to the secure room and made Brock and Jack sit in the waiting area.
Y/N was so nervous about what she might find that her hands shook as she pulled everything out of the box. A manila envelope with Walker written on it, in her fathers writing. She opened the envelope and pulled some papers out, on top was an ultrasound picture which made her furrow her brow. She looked closer to read the name Hoskins, Olivia and the date was a few months ago.
Y/N shook her head, John cheating was no surprise but she couldn't figure out why her father kept a copy of the ultrasound. There was a regular envelope under that and she pulled the paper out of it, a DNA test proving that John was the father. She smiled as it clicked when she read the report. This would hurt his political aspirations and hopefully be enough to convince him to let her leave.
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Bucky spent the next 2 days wallowing. He still took care of what needed to be done but when he wasn't busy all he could think about was everything Star had gone through because he ran away. He wanted to kill Brock and John. Unfortunately the person he was most angry with was himself. Even if Star was ever able to forgive him, he wasn't sure if he could.
He meant every word he ever said to her.
Bucky had never considered himself one for settling down or God forbid having a family. At least not until he met Star, he wanted everything with her. The house, white picket fence, kids, a dog, he wanted every bit of that American dream.
Bucky tried to keep himself busy so he didn't have time to think and dwell on her. Unfortunately the nights were long and too quiet. Steve and Peggy were looking for their dream house but Sam was out on the town. Trying to keep up with Sam's partying sounded almost as bad as being Steve and Peggys 3rd wheel. He wanted to go and grab Star, pull her away from Brock and John. Find a house for them, make plans for a wedding, maybe get a nursery set up and begin the life they were supposed to start 2 years ago. All he could do right now was stay out of trouble and wait for her to contact him.
He called Pepper Stark for a realtor that could help him get started.
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Beneath the envelope with John's name was another large envelope with Star written on it. In Bucky's messy writing. She felt her stomach drop as she wondered if he had been telling the truth. Her heart fluttered at the thought that he hadn't just deserted her, maybe he really did love her.
When she opened it something small fell to the floor. She leaned down to pick it up, a ring. It felt like her heart stopped.
An old fashioned wedding ring set with a small diamond and gold vines holding it in place. It was attached to a band with tiny stones.
She felt tears filling her eyes and had to grab a tissue to wipe them away so she could read the letter enclosed.
'My sweet Star, my guiding light,
I know things seem bad but I promise it's not how it looks. I took the money your father offered so that I could go back to school and start my own business. Well with Steve and Sam.
I'm sorry that I have to leave but I promise I'll be back soon. Six months, maybe a year at most and I'll come back to marry you, Star. If you'll have me.
This was my grandmother's wedding rings. I want you to have them so you know I love you and will be coming back so we can be together.
Don't give up on us Star, I promise I never will.
Love,
Your Jamie'
Y/N felt the tears running down her face as she tried to process her emotions. First was relief and love, Bucky didn't desert her, he just trusted the wrong guy to give her the message. Then came anger at her father and John but mostly Brock. He betrayed Bucky and took advantage of her. Then a mix up of fear and sadness, she might have the proof to change things but she was smart enough to realize that neither John or Brock would just let her go so easily.
When Star was able to get her emotions in control she decided she needed a plan and some help. Thanks to John she didn't have any friends at all, he forced her to push her old friends away and only allowed her to associate with people who would be good for his career. Then it hit her, Tony and Pepper Stark. They knew Bucky and had offered to help. She fished the business card Pepper had given her out of her purse and grabbed her phone. She decided a text would be the most discrete way to contact them so sent a quick note
'need help pls. ~Star'
then quickly deleted the text and hid the card in her wallet. She took pictures of all the papers, texted them to Pepper and deleted that text then put them back in the envelope and hid them in the bottom of her bag.
When she walked out to the waiting area, Brock and Jack were waiting. Brock was pacing and looked irritated, like usual, but Jack was sitting playing on his phone.
Brock stopped pacing when he saw her, he grinned "Everything alright Mrs Walker? Took you quite awhile in there."
She dabbed gently at her eyes with a tissue "Of course, Brock. It was just some of my mother's rings, see." She showed him a small jewelry box with some fancy rings that she had put in her purse before they left the house, in case he or John asked.
Brock looked at them and then nodded. "Are you ready to go, ma'am?"
"Yes Brock. Back to my parents house. I have to put these rings in the safe and keep working on my father's papers."
When they got back to the house she locked herself in her fathers office so she could put the papers in his hidden floor safe. Then she checked her phone to see if she had any messages. There was only one, from Pepper
'Lunch tomorrow? There's a restaurant up the street from Stark tower. 1pm?'
Star smiled so wide her cheeks hurt as she replied 'I'll see you then.'
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That night Bucky was stretched out on the bed in his hotel room, something playing on the TV but he wasn't paying attention. His phone buzzed making him jump.
It was from Tony Stark 'Pepper heard from Star asking for help, they have lunch tomorrow. I'll keep you updated'
Bucky fell asleep feeling more hopeful than he had in years.
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Star dressed carefully for lunch. Even though she was working to get away from John she had to watch herself. There were always reporters following Pepper around and even a few following Star as the wife of an up and coming congressman. If she wasn't smart, John would become suspicious and ruin everything.
Pepper was already at the restaurant when she arrived and had ordered drinks and an appetizer. They spent 2 hours talking and plotting how to manage her escape.
Brock watched from the side, concerned. He hadn't seen Y/N that cheerful since before the wedding. He knew she must be up to something and contacted John to let him know something was up.
John instructed him to take Y/N to the penthouse in Manhatten, instead of her parents house, and meet him there.
When lunch was over Pepper gave her a hug "Don't worry, hon. We'll fix this for you."
Y/N smiled and thanked her, leaving the envelope on the table for Pepper to keep, before following Brock to her car.
Her smile faded when she saw they weren't going back to Brooklyn and her heart raced when she realized where they were going. She hated the penthouse.
"Brock? What's going on? I'm not done at my parents house yet."
Brock grunted "All I know is that Mr Walker told me to bring you here, so we're here."
Y/N laughed nervously "Oh, he must have something planned." And took the elevator up to the top, her nerves worsening with each floor that passed.
When the elevator doors opened she took a breath and walked in to see John sitting at the dining room table.
"Welcome home sweetheart, it feels like I haven't seen you in ages. Come sit down, I have good news. I poured you a glass of wine, dear."
Star looked at him suspiciously, John never thought to make a drink for her and he never used pet names unless he was angry with her. She sat down across the table from him and eyed her glass suspiciously.
John chuckled "What's wrong dear? You seem nervous."
She stammered "I I I'm f-f-fine." And took a deep breath to calm her racing heart. "What's up?"
John smiled at her but it wasn't a caring or calming smile, it reeked of malevolence, she could see it in his eyes.
"So. Brock tells me you went to the bank yesterday. What was that about?"
Y/N smiled nervously "I found the key to one of my fathers safe deposit boxes. It had some of my mother's rings, I showed Brock."
John nodded "I see. And what was the text you sent Pepper Stark about? What do you need help with and why didn't you ask me first?"
Her throat dried up and she tried to laugh it off "Oh that, I wanted advice on hosting fundraisers. She's put together so many lovely events, I thought she would have some good advice.
I didn't want to bother you with something so trivial. I know how busy you are."
"Right, fundraiser." John looked like he was about to get up and she almost let out the breath she was holding when he looked back at her "So, what was the envelope you gave her?"
Her throat tightened and she couldn't speak.
"Now sweetheart, you know I hate when you lie to me but if you spill the whole thing I'll go easy on you." He stood over her and grabbed her hair, jerking her neck back and spat in her face.
"Lets try again. What was in that envelope? What are you up to?"
"It was nothing John, just some pictures of me riding. From before."
He let go of her hair and she relaxed for a second before his fist hit her face and she was knocked to the floor. He stook over her "You little slut. Where are the papers you sent her?"
As he was ready to break her, his phone rang and he grinned "Look, it's Tony Stark. Better be good news. We aren't done here" And left the room as he answered the call.
He returned to the room in a better mood. "Looks like you've been spared. For now. Stark is hosting a fundraiser for me, he said you were the one who convinced Pepper." He kissed her on the forehead. As he left the room he turned back "Brock told me about you sneaking out. And your punishment. Sent me pictures too, I'm saving those for a special occasion. You really are a pretty little cumdump." He sighed "Brock will take you back to your parents house, I have company coming. Before you go I have something for you"
She looked at him suspiciously through her rapidly swelling eye and didn't hear Brock come up behind her. She felt a pinch on her neck and a warm feeling spread through her body before the black overwhelmed it.
Brock picked up the phone and dialed 911 "Please help, I think my boss overdosed." And gave her parents address as he raced through town.
Y/N was laying in the back seat, barely coherent. She heard him making another call "Tell Barnes his Star needs him, at her parents house. And he needs to hurry."
When they arrived at the house Brock carried her inside and dropped her on the couch, unconscious. He ran his hand down her body "What a fucking waste." And left her there.
Chapter 9
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princesssarisa · 1 year
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Character ask: Fezziwig (A Christmas Carol)
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Favorite thing about them: What is there not to like about him? He's so jolly and full of zest for life, and such a good employer, who makes his employees happy and makes their work "a pleasure" instead of "a toil," as Scrooge says. He's everything that Scrooge should have been to Bob Cratchit, and being reminded of his goodness is essential to Scrooge's transformation.
Least favorite thing about them: That adaptations so often give him the short shrift. Dickens clearly meant him to be an important figure – an example of a kind, generous employer who serves as a role model for Scrooge. Yet so often the adaptations just give him a passing nod and use his party mainly as a vehicle for young Scrooge's romance with Belle, or worse, cut him out altogether. He matters and he deserves more attention!
Three things I have in common with them:
*I'm usually warm and generous to others.
*I love Christmas.
*I'm slightly overweight.
Three things I don't have in common with them:
*I'm not a business owner.
*I'm not married and have no children.
*I've never hosted a Christmas party.
Favorite line: “Yo ho, my boys! No more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up before a man can say Jack Robinson!”
And then there's this speech not spoken by him, but about him by Scrooge, when the Ghost of Christmas Past asks why he should deserve such praise for spending only a few pounds on a party.
“It isn’t that. It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
brOTP: His apprentices, his three daughters, and all the friends he surrounds himself with.
OTP: Mrs. Fezziwig.
nOTP: His apprentices.
Random headcanon: He's some type of merchant. I assume the fact that his workplace is described as a "warehouse" implies as much. I'm not sure what his merchandise is – in the George C. Scott version it's cloth, in Mickey's Christmas Carol it's tea, and in The Muppet Christmas Carol it's rubber chickens, which I assume is slightly anachronistic – but he seems like the type of man to deal in actual goods, not just cold cash like Scrooge and Marley. I don't think the Alan Menken musical's portrayal of him as a banker is accurate. I don't mind it, per se, but it's not how I imagine him.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think it's likely that Belle is his daughter. Not that I mind it when adaptations like Scrooge (1970) portray her as such, especially since Fezziwig does canonically have three daughters who are charming and popular with young men. But the fact that Belle describes herself as poor and lacking a dowry makes it unlikely that her father was a successful business owner whom Scrooge once worked for. Unless he eventually went bankrupt and lost his company, as in the 1951 film or the Alan Menken musical, which Dickens never implies happened.
Song I associate with them:
"Sir Roger de Coverly," a dance song the book specifies as being played by the fiddler at the Fezziwig party, and which often makes it into the adaptations too.
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"December the 25th" from Scrooge.
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"Mr. Fezziwig's Annual Christmas Ball" from A Christmas Carol: The Musical.
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Favorite pictures of them:
This classic illustration by John Leech:
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This illustration by Sol Eytinge Jr.
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Forrester Harvey in the 1938 film.
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Laurence Naismith in the 1970 musical Scrooge.
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Fozzie Bear as "Fozziwig" in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992.
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Ian McNeice in the 1999 TV film.
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Brian Bedford (whom some of us know best as the voice of Disney's Robin Hood) in A Christmas Carol: The Musical, 2004.
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Motion-captured Bob Hoskins in Disneys 2009 CGI film.
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darkarfs · 11 months
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tagged by @z-a-d-i-e, much appreciated! Top ten movies, no ranking, just what comes to mind.
The Apartment. My favorite love story, my favorite Jack Lemmon performance, Shirley MacLane at her most magnetic and beautiful. What starts as a man climbing the corporate ladder ends up being so much more.
The Iron Giant. A story about a boy and his robot during the Cold War. I love it. Everyone should.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? For years, this was a date movie for me. Potential partners who haven't seen it I insist will, at some point. Robert Zemeckis walked into Touchstone Pictures and said "I want to make a gritty 1940's LA neo-noir starring Bob Hoskins and several hundred cartoon characters and I need twice the budget of Star Wars to do it" and they said yes.
Big Trouble In Little China. It's goofy, it's broad, it's the silliest thing John Carpenter ever put his name on (the Thing was almost on this list). Kim Cattral is AWFUL, Kurt Russell spends the whole movie acting like he can't believe what he's seeing. You can't be skeptical this far into the fucking movie, KURT. I love it.
Chocolate. Not how autism works! That said, has 2 of my favorite fight scenes of all time in it.
Five Deadly Venoms. I could have picked any number of the Shaw Brothers Shaolin movies. I could have even picked Once Upon a Time In China. Functionally identical to 500 other movies, but holds a special place in my heart.
Mad Max: Fury Road. Saw this in the theater four times. Hard to believe it's EIGHT years old already, but it's perfect.
The Princess Bride. Childhood favorite that still holds up. Best performance by a wrestler not named Roddy Piper.
Transformers: the Motion Picture. First movie I ever saw in a theater, also the first time I saw my dad cry. Outside of Blade Runner or a John Carpenter movie, has my favorite score of any movie.
Airplane! I know. It's the broadest, cheapest fucking comedy, but it still makes me laugh. It's fucking stupid. Anyone?
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clemsfilmdiary · 5 months
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The Best of December 2023
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Best Discovery: Eyes of Fire
Runner Up: Fanny and Alexander
Best Rewatch: Short Cuts
Close Second: Slap Shot Runners Up: The Blues Brothers, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Superman III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Most Enjoyable Fluff: No Hard Feelings
Runners Up: Broadcasting Christmas, A Dream of Christmas, Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up, Leave the World Behind, A Magical Christmas Village
Best Leading Performance: Paul Newman in Slap Shot
Runners Up: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers, Charles Fleischer and Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ben Gazzara in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers, Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings, Julianne Moore in May December, Richard Pryor and Christopher Reeve in Superman III
Best Supporting Performance (male): Jan Malmsjö in Fanny and Alexander
Runners Up: Cab Calloway and Charles Napier in The Blues Brothers, Jack Lemmon, Matthew Modine, Chris Penn and Tim Robbins in Short Cuts, Christopher Lloyd in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean and Brad Sullivan in Slap Shot
Best Supporting Performance (female): Anne Archer in Short Cuts
Runners Up: Lindsay Crouse and Kathryn Walker in Slap Shot, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore, Annie Ross, Madeleine Stowe and Lily Tomlin in Short Cuts, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross and Pamela Stephenson in Superman III
Most Enjoyable Ham: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
Runners Up: Kristin Chenoweth in 12 Men of Christmas, Marlo Thomas in A Magical Christmas Village, Cindy Williams in A Dream of Christmas
Best Mise-en-scène: Eyes of Fire
Runners Up: Fanny and Alexander, Short Cuts, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best Locations: The Blues Brothers (various Chicago cityscapes)
Runners Up: Eyes of Fire (wild Missouri forest and river locations), The Holdovers (wintery Massachusetts small town and campus), The Naked Spur (Colorado Rocky Mountains)
Best Score: Short Cuts (Mark Isham)
Runner Up: Eyes of Fire (Brad Fiedel)
Best Leading Hunk: Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Runners Up: Dean Cain in Broadcasting Christmas, Ben Gazzara in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Best Supporting Hunk: Ralph Meeker in The Naked Spur
Runners Up: Adam Lolacher in Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas, Allan F. Nicholls in Slap Shot, Jessie Pavelka in 12 Men of Christmas
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litcityblues · 8 months
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'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' --A Review
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I must have seen the 1993 movie, Super Mario Bros. Many moons ago, when video rental places were a thing, there was a fantastic place in town called Hagens. (I'm sure every town had one of these at some point in the video rental era-- but if you recognize the name, then as the kids say, IYKYK) and Hagens was a wonderful place that had every possible movie you could want to watch. It also had those old VHS tapes of Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation which were placed at a convenient angle to their infamous 'swing doors' that lead to the Adult Section.
Ah, youth.
But anyway, I'm convinced that at some point in the distant past, I saw the 1993 movie starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and amazingly enough, the awesome Fiona Shaw.
That was then, this is now.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie draws some immediate differences between the 1993 film and this one. For a start, it's animated, which I think fits a lot better. I don't know if a Live-Action remake would ever be in the cards and one would hope that they'd be less hampered by technology now with the rise of CGI, etc., but for the purposes of this movie, animated works.
What I loved about the animation was how bright the colors were. Vivid and sharp, it jumped out at you and really brought the various worlds of the video game to life in a really effective, compelling way. The story is about what you expect: Italian-American brothers Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) are trying to get their newly opened plumbing business off the ground in Brooklyn. After a disastrous first day, they rush to the scene of a major water leak in Brooklyn and, when they go underground to fix it, they get sucked into a warp pipe and separated.
Mario lands in the Mushroom Kingdom where he meets Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) who takes him to the ruler of the Kingdom, Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) while Luigi lands in the Dark Lands ruled by the evil Koopa King Bowser (Jack Black) and his wizard Kamek (Kevin Michael Richardson.) Bowser is on a quest to conquer the world and marry Princess Peach and Peach isn't so warm to the idea so when they receive word that Bowser's army is on the movie, they head for the Jungle World to see if they can enlist the Kongs as allies. King Cranky Kong (Fred Armisen) agrees but only if Mario can defeat his son, Donkey Kong (Seth Rogen). Mario does and the two allies race to defend the Mushroom Kingdom only to fall victim to an ambush by Bowser's forces on Rainbow Road.
Mario and Donkey Kong survive and hurry to stop Bowser and Peach's wedding and a final confrontation ensues although everyone gets sucked back into Brooklyn, the good guys win the day and the respect and approval of both the denizens of the Mushroom Kingdom and Brooklyn and the two brothers move their plumbing business there and prepare to start their work day.
Overall: I think it's probably unreasonable to expect a lot of the plot here. It is what the video game is. Overcome various challenges, rescue the Princess, etc. This isn't Game of Thrones. You're not going to see a Red Wedding or Luigi get killed randomly or something. But as a story, it works. 'Save the Princess' is probably a trope as old as time, but you don't get to be one of the biggest video games ever if you don't know how to do that well, and even in animated movie form, The Super Mario Bros. Movie shows that they can still work that magic and work it quite well.
The fun stuff for adult viewers- even those, like me, who have a deep knowledge of Mario Kart and were frankly crap at the original games when they came out for SNES, etc- are the nods to the games. The Rainbow Road sequence is excellent. Mario uses a catsuit to defeat Donkey Kong. We see a Tanooki tail show up. I'm not 100% sure, but I feel fairly confident in saying that just about everything from the video games you would want to see shows up in the movie in one form or another.
The cast is excellent. Jack Black just about steals the show as Bowser- I mean, talk about perfect casting there. And while some people did grumble a little about Chris Pratt being cast as Mario and not being remotely Italian-American, Wikipedia tells me that Charlie Day, who voices Luigi does have both Irish and Italian ancestry, so at least one of the brothers is carrying the Il Tricolore.
This is a good movie. Solid, great animation, good cast- it's a kid's movie that works on multiple levels, so if you're an adult and have even the vaguest of knowledge about video games, you should find this tolerably enjoyable. (The more knowledge you have about the games, the more entertaining this will probably be for you though.)
My Grade: *** out of ****
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soultek · 4 years
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Say What You Drink - Jack Hoskins x Reader (The Outsider)
* More Mutual pining than “X”? Maybe? 
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Author’s Note: If I did one good 180 for this show, it was to get feels for this man. He’s in my Top 4 characters now, what can I say...!? It took me 3 attempts to actually write a solid piece for him though...
Disclaimer: The Outsider HBO / The Outsider in general characters/plot is not mine. / There is one book reference in here that never made it into the show.
Premise: When Jack Hoskins turns up at your front door, you know it can only mean one thing. Trouble.
Words: 1363
Warnings: Mentions of drinking 
I'm your temporary valentine When the poison's got you seeing blind And it sucks that you'd apologize For saying what you felt last night I pray this night will never end 'Cause you'll turn back to you again And I'm left here wondering If anything you said was real You only compliment me When you're drinking You say what you think think think When you drink drink drink That's the only time And it's such a pity... 'Cause you only say what's on your mind When your head is clouded from the wine When you spin my wheels you waste my time Here we go again... ---
You knew the moment you heard that RAM truck pull up outside it could only mean trouble. It was a sound you’d grown used to, then had to grow unused to, and the only reason it would wind up at your doorstep at this time of night would have been drinking. Not because he actually wanted to see you. You sighed gently, not that he should be drinking and driving – but this was Jack, so it would have been useless starting with something like that. You decided you’d rather not wait for the knock on your front door, because as long as he wasn’t standing on your front doorstep you could probably still turn him around. You took a long, slow, deep breath, here we go again… and opened it. He wasn’t even out of the truck yet, and you leant against the doorframe with your arms folded waiting on the inevitable. You’d never even been able to put your fingers on quite what you were; but everyone had their (unwelcome) opinions – you’d pretty much lost count of the number of lectures you’d received from a certain Mr.Anderson… Though he was probably right on all counts. Jack left his truck, locked it and began trudging up to your door. Oh, no you don’t. You hopped down the steps; “What are you doing here-!?” “Y/N, not now…” He groaned; his words weren’t slurred but you were still 99% sure it was drinking that had sent him back here. “Why are you HERE!!!” You demanded, though stopped dead a few paces from him, “OH my GOD! Jack what happened-!?!” His face was a mess of cuts and bruises, and you were praying the answer wasn’t ‘bar fight’. His eyes shifted from yours, seemingly finding your driveway much more interesting; “It’s nothing…” You rolled your eyes, stepping forward and tilting his head back up so he had no choice but to look at you. Some of those cuts were deep. You’d seen him look bad before – he had a habit of getting himself into situations like this, it was kinda par for the course – but this was like a level up from that. “That’s a whole lot of nothing…” “I’m just helping Ralph with something… that’s all…” He practically mumbled it. “RALPH-!?!” You raised an eyebrow; “You wait until I get my hands on Mr.No Opinion-!” That one hadn’t exactly put Detective Anderson in good stead with you either, but it was what it was. “No, it’s not like he…” Jack removed your hands from his face but still held them, “Can we stop talking about this?” Well, this was unbelievably like Jack Hoskins so you shouldn’t have been surprised; “You want me to let this go-!?”
There was silence for a couple of minutes as you continued to stare at each other. “You know… you’re so beautiful.” That automatically made you slip your hands from his with a laugh; “Okay… You need to go home!” “No, but you are-!” “Jack-! Please, get back in your truck and go home!” “I can’t-!” “Why not!?” “I just… I can’t.” He bit his lip “Please?” “You can’t stay here-! Are you insane!?” For one thing you were sure there were already those nosey neighbours of yours that had spied him here, so there was bound to be gossip that he’d turned up – let alone anything else. You didn’t need that getting back to Ralph, less his car turn up here too. “But I-!” “Just how much have you drunk-!?” Then you shook your head, “Don’t answer that, I’d rather not know.” This was always how it started, and this time you weren’t about to give in. You were the only one of the two of you that really paid for it.  Then your eyes flicked back to his truck, on the other hand… If he went out in that truck and something happened you know you’d also feel awful. Rock and a freakin’ hard place with you ALWAYS! You sighed; “Okay. Fine. But I want you gone first thing, and you’re sleeping on the couch don’t come anywhere near me!” “Uh…” Jack again was trying to look anywhere but your face “Okay…” You started to lead him back to your house, knowing you were as likely being taken for a ride, but here you were again. What was it Ralph was always saying; too nice for your own good? Why was that man always annoyingly right. But he took your hand again; “Y/N-!” Pulling you back to him, you gave him a look that made him instantly drop it; “…I, I just really appreciate it.” “Sure. You’re welcome.” Although you weren’t sure you really meant it. “And I mean it, you look… you’re looking really good.” You shook your head with an amused smile and turned back into your walk. Your flirting still needs work-! You left him with spare blankets and pillows, noting the way he watched you busy yourself – moving from room to room to collect everything. Not that there was anything particularly wrong with that, but you knew what he was really staring at. “You need to stop!” “What, you can’t take a compliment?” “Alright, smartass, but you know I shouldn’t be taking them from you.” “Sorry for just telling the truth…” But you knew that gentle smile that crossed his face and you couldn’t help but concede your own. “Alright, seriously, go to sleep – that’s drink talking.” By the time you’d got yourself ready for bed he was already snoring softly, and you took a few seconds pause to watch him. You couldn’t help but be a little concerned – although you weren’t sure exactly what had happened to Jack, it couldn’t have been good. You found yourself padding back over to him; he’d been through plenty in his life already, and that was just what he had told you – suffered enough, and yet perhaps likely to always suffer. You shook your head sympathetically, those cuts would take some time to heal, and he’d need the rest – to sleep off the drinking more than anything. You were compelled to reach out and run your hand through his hair, soothing him – then you realised the whole thing was a bad idea but for now, you’d let him rest. “Goodnight, Jack.” You knew it wouldn’t remain that way for long, and eventually you were woken up by his body joining yours in bed. You sighed, clearly annoyed; “I told you to stay on the couch.” All you were met with was a sound that was reminiscent of a sulk. “JACK-!” You knew it was no good and he would blatantly ignore you, and then you kicked yourself even more. “Any funny business and I swear to God you’re gonna wish you never turned up here-!” The best response you got was a hmpf of agreement (you’d call it agreement – so you could say he’d agreed when you did have to kick him). But then he wound his arms around you, forehead to the back of your neck – and you found yourself smiling like an idiot. Again – you could kick yourself for it, but almost didn’t want to. It’d been a while since you’d been held like this, and Jack made you miss it, that much you had to admit. You wound your arms around his, and cuddled into him a little; “Okay…” you breathed, “You can stay…” You woke alone. Which was typical, and you’d certainly grown used to. But you had asked him to be gone – so you couldn’t begrudge Jack that. Still though, you couldn’t help but worry. Something was going on… Maybe you’d call Ralph Anderson later - he might know, if Jack was working on something for him then it was likely he would know. Padding through to the main living room, your blankets had been neatly stacked, and he’d left you a thank you note. That was improvement enough and you’d take it; you reopened your front door just to confirm that his truck had gone – greeted with an empty space in your driveway. You held the note close to you for a minute, and smiled; Stay safe out there, Jack
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violence and intimacy are the only universal languages | BUCKY BARNES x READER | 18+ oneshot
synopsis: In which Bucky Barnes fucks John Walker’s girlfriend, who turns out not to be John Walker’s girlfriend at all. 
[Alternative synopsis: Bucky happens to meet you, John Walker's girlfriend, and you're nothing like he expects you to be. He's anticipating a woman that's arrogant, mindless and fake, following after Walker like a lost puppy, a woman who puts on a front to the whole world, a terrible person hiding behind the girl-next-door facade. You're nothing like that - you're soft, intriguing and absolutely lovely, everything that's good in the world. And he's very much attracted to you, desperate to show John who you really belong to.]
Content warnings: 18+ This is SMUT. Contains sex/explicit language/,masturbation. 
THIS IS SET DURING EPISODE 2 AND WILL CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS AS IT USES SOME DIALOGUE FROM THE SHOW :) IT’S ALSO TOLD FROM BUCKY’S POV :)
Word count: 17K
John Walker is absolutely insufferable.
He is a man high off his own arrogance, regarding himself as the ultimate authority, and relegating every other member of this planet to being below him. He is a bastardisation of everything that vibranium shield stood for. John doesn't have bravery, but he has pride in spades, which is more than good enough for everybody around him.
Captain America had been so deeply beloved that his loss left a crippling gape in the very heart of the American dream. It was a space that required filling - and so, in the absence of Steve Rogers, the apparent next best thing was located.
But Walker wasn't the next best after a man like Steve Rogers. They may vaguely resemble one another, in their facial features, icy blue eyes and broad, towering stature, but John fails to measure up in each and every way that matters. He fundamentally lacks the most important qualities that Steve had in abundance.
Steve Rogers had been a heart-wrenchingly good man, burdened with a righteous sense of justice, a strong moral compass and compassion. His life had been far from easy, wrought with losses that left him fractured into pieces of himself. He was loyal to a fault - willing to wage a war against the United States' government to try to clear the name of a comrade so close he would have died for him a thousand times over. John would dance to whatever tune the government gave him, so long as it resulted in his name being glorified.
John Walker knows nothing of that sacrifice. Every alleged 'brave' act comes from his warped sense of reality, one that has given him the impression he simply cannot die, that he can't be wrong in any way. 
Each time he jumped on top of a grenade, or put himself in the line of fire, he came out unscathed, and so he did it again and again and again, revelling in the praise he recieved afterwards, and the eventual mantle that was bestowed upon him.
Steve had never once come out of a single fight uninjured. 
That was part of the mysticism, of his heroism. He would be hurt time and time again. And yet, he would never fold. He didn't bend or break under the pressure, under the pain. He didn't so much as waver in the face of all of it. his devotion to doing what was good and what was right always prevailed, irrespective of how many bones he may break or how much blood he may lose.
Despite the fact that John Walker, the second Captain America, lacked any of the characteristics of his predecessor, he became America's sweetheart. People were desperate to have somebody fill the space that Steve Rogers had left, and to the public, it seemed like John Walker was perfect.
He gave flawless interviews, where he came across not as an arrogant, self-serving puppet of the state, but as a humble, bashful, honest man that represented the very soul of America. Watching him talk was reminiscent of his predecessor, and of course, each public appearance had been carefully orchestrated so that would be the case. Every word that spilled from his mouth was premeditated, designed specifically with the intent to appeal to the populus.
John Walker got to parade around wearing stars and stripes, cradling a shield that he was very much undeserving of wielding. And, he got to do all of this accompanied by two people. 
The first was Lemar Hoskins, the Battlestar. Like Walker, he too had served in the armed forces, and was to be considered a decently skilled fighter, though he failed to measure up to the likes of either Bucky or Sam.
...and then there was you.
Bucky found John Walker to be absolutely insufferable, a blight on Steve's legacy, and some tiny, bitter sliver of that hatred was reserved for you, too.
The new Captain America served the country with his best friend Battlestar and his lover, you.
You weren't like them. You weren't some jacked-up soldier fresh out of the army who had kissed enough ass and earnt enough medals to be made into a hero. Instead, you were practically just the eye candy. America's darling, hanging off the arm of their beloved hero. There was something magnetising about you that made people just love you instantaneously. It was a raw appeal that nobody was safe from.
Initially, Bucky had regarded you as an odd choice. You weren't even a superhero. You didn't take up a stupid, convoluted mantle like 'Battlestar' had. Rather simply, you were just there, tagging along, looking pretty and people adored you for it.
 There was something very intriguing to the people of America about their new Captain America and his sweetheart - you, a stunning supermodel-type with a dazzling mind and a blinding smile. It was easy for them to project onto you two, the perfect superhero couple who had a fairytale romance.
Bucky utterly detested John Walker and his lost-puppy sidekick, Battlestar.
Some tiny sliver of that malice had initially been generalised to you, too. It was hard not to feel slightly bitter as he saw the two of you on TV, giving interview after interview, cuddled up to each other. It was all so terribly fake, utter bullshit that people eagerly lapped up because it was the version of reality that they desperately wanted to believe in.
 It had to be fake - nobody is simply that charismatic, especially not when they're holding hands with John Walker. There was something about the way they, they being your PR team, had styled you in a few of the earlier interviews that gave him the distinct impression that they wanted people to be reminded of Natasha Romanoff, minus the bloody past.
For a while, for your first few public appearances, you had been relegated to wearing dark clothes and leathers that made you seem every bit a femme fatale, though any semblance of danger was nullified by your friendly smile. 
It also seemed like that route had been abandoned, and now you tended to appear wearing lighter clothes, whites and creams that were more innocent, like your PR team had doubled back on itself and decided to switch from the 'whore' to the 'virgin'. You seemed more genuine like that, in florals and paler colours.
Bucky would be lying if he said he had never watched any of your interviews. It had merely been a simple fascination, a way to satisfy the nagging feeling of curiosity that threatened to consume him. They were interesting, and he consumed them with an almost ravenous hunger. Simple curiosity, that was all. That was all that he would let it be.
That interview that John had given at his old high school had just been the beginning, his very debut to the American people. Since then, there had been a few more, some featuring Battlestar, who would sit obediently at his side, and others featuring you.
You would curl up next to him, eagerly pressing yourself into John's side, smiling widely as you began the interview. There was a slightly angelic quality about you, a veil of innocence around you, your lilting voice like a siren's call, and your bright, doe eyes. With a well practiced ease, you would entwine your fingers with John's and sweetly tell him, looking at your lover intensely, that he was the best thing that ever happened to you.
It was fascinating to watch, to see just what kind of image your PR team could put across. You seemed every bit like the all-american girl, like the unattainable girl-next-door who would go to church every sunday and would be an inspiration to girls across the country. 
Despite the innocent-seeming way in which you were deliberately styled, you never once came across as naive. Instead, there was never any vapid or vain qualities to you. It was like you just didn't know how pretty you were, or the effect you could have on people.
As nice as you may have come across in all of those interviews, every bit the picture-perfect media darling, Bucky knew it was all a farce. John had managed to seem like a decent, determined man who was down to earth and wanted nothing more than to provide inspiration to Americans, no, to the whole world. But all of those things about John simply were untrue.
 Every interaction he had with the public had been carefully created to construct an image of him that incited adoration from the public. There was no reason whatsoever why you wouldn't be the same.
In fact, Bucky found it more likely than not that you were a complete inversion of that sweet, charming woman you appeared to be on TV. It left him with a sour taste in his mouth and biting back at bile rising in his throat. It was nauseatingly fake, all masquerading around as good and just using Steve's emblem.
It wasn't until he met you that the malice rescinded.
His escapade with Sam to see Isaiah had ultimately concluded with handcuffs being wrapped around his wrists and a visit to the local police station. Bucky had been taken into some tiny, isolated cell with boring blank walls that are comprised of chipped bricks covered poorly by cracking blue and white paint, constantly escorted and monitored by police officers, who were buzzing dually with excitement and tension at having both the recently-pardoned Winter Soldier in detention, and avenger the Falcon stood outside in the hall, demanding answers.
Doctor Christina Raynor had strolled into the precinct with both weariness and disappointment in her eyes. She walked almost like a woman defeated, one hand clasping the strap of her handbag and the other falling aimlessly at her side. 
Immediately, she gravitated towards Sam, who was seated rigidly in some tiny, uncomfortable plastic chair amongst a myriad of members of the public, people who were also waiting for news about their friends or family who had been arrested.
Clamoring to put on the most polite smile she could, Doctor Raynor introduced herself to Sam, barely managing to get in a complete sentence before she's interrupted.
Swiftly following the arrival of the Doctor is the entrance of John Walker. John strides into the precinct dressed in the Captain America garb, shield positioned on his back. There's something terribly strategic about the decision to be constantly wearing the suit. Perhaps it's to offer a sense of security, or maybe it's because without it John has no authority to operate on. Either way, his mere appearance results in a horde of frenzied police officers trailing after him, desperate for a selfie or an autograph, something that John mindlessly indulges them in, smiling the whole time. Sam's face instantly sours as John enters, his eyebrows tugging down into a frown.
John Walker simply saunters in, a falsely cherubic smile on his face as he stares down at Christina. "Bucky's not going to be following a strict schedule any longer."
Doctor Raynor's previously jovial attitude towards John's presence dissipates, quickly replaced by confusion. "We haven't finished our work." She protests, setting her jaw. "Who authorised this?"
There's a note of challenge in her voice as she presses John for an answer. She's the professional - she's very much the one capable of understanding Bucky's mind, and yet John doesn't take her concern into account. He doesn't even look phased by it. He's completely unbothered by any opposition thrown his way - it had never mattered to him before, and it had no reason to bother him now.
"I did," John says, pointing to himself.
Sam and Christina both stare him down, equally perturbed. They exchange a brief glance. Doctor Raynor's concerned in a professional capacity - not only is Barnes her patient, and it is her prerogative to help him take control of his mind and heal, but she is also commanded by the state to oversee his psychiatric care. 
Responsibility for him falls onto her - she's the professional. Christina is the doctor, the one who understands the human mind, and John very much is not. Sam, on the other hand, is personally concerned. As much as he pretends he despises Bucky, he does care, albeit begrudgingly. He wouldn't be here if he didn't.
A tiny beep goes off, signifying that a door is being opened. Bucky is walked in by two police officers, looking mildly agitated for one second, and completely numb the next, all emotion dropping from his face to put a cool, unfeeling visage into place. It's a mask that gives him obscurity, that allows him to distance himself from the mere possibility of being vulnerable.
Christina forces the two of them into some botched attempt at therapy, forcing them to look into each others eyes and get far closer than either of them are comfortable with whilst she presides over them, poking, prodding, inquiring. 
It's a demand of some emotional vulnerability that Bucky simply does not want to produce. It's not exactly heart-wrenching but it does make him feel robbed, like something had been taken from him against his will. It didn't feel like healing, like what therapy was meant to be. It felt difficult. It felt like a quiet rage building in his gut that he desperately wants to keep under wraps, lest he lash out at somebody.
It leaves Bucky feeling stripped raw when they finally leave the police station.
By the time Bucky and Sam step out onto the streets the sun has already set. The sky is dark, a deep navy blue that's mostly covered by thick dark clouds that besiege the atmosphere. The whole street is lit by lights that have been left on in people's windows, or blinkering blue lamps that run along the outer wall of the police station.
A blaring, almost comically loud beeping noise disrupts the fragile silence of the night. Lined up outside of the station are a series of police cars, all emblazoned with white lettering reading 'BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT'. 
The sirens of one of the police cars is going off wildly, the noise being one disruption and the blue and red flashing lights emitting from the roof of the car being another. It's an annoyance, and creates a false sense of urgency. Those sirens are normally used when somebody's life is at risk and members of the police force are going to respond. In this situation, there's no rush, no hurry, there's no crime.
Leaned up against the car, grinning wildly, is John Walker, still dressed as Captain America, all dolled up in navy blue and red, a silver 'A' on his breast.
 When he sees that he's successfully captured Sam and Bucky's attention, which he garners from the fact that both of their heads whip towards him, attracted by both the loud noise and the bright lights, he turns off the siren, restoring the tentative peace to the darkened streets.
This time, though, Walker's not alone. 
Next to him, propped up against the hood of the car is Battlestar, also dressed head-to-toe in his tactical gear, arms folded over his chest and a stoic expression on his face. There's something about him that just lacks any individuality. John masqueraded as somebody else, somebody whose mantle he had no right to use, and he's always constantly accompanied by a pale imitation of a comrade.
As likely as it is that Walker and Battlestar have engaged in combat together, they're not comrades, not in the way Bucky and Steve were. He and Steve had been willing to do anything for each other - endure any pain, run from the forces of the state if they had to, even die for one another.
 Walker didn't seem like the type to lay down his life for somebody else out of a genuine heart-felt devotion to them.
And then, stood a few feet away from both Walker and his loyal sidekick is you - the lover. There's a decent amount of distance between you and them, separated from one another by enough space that it quite literally looks like you're desperate to avoid Walker's presence. You huddle over by the wall of the precinct, jaw set like you were irritated by the ear-splitting sound of the siren, though you don't voice a complaint. Unlike the two men, you're not dressed like you're headed out to battle, like you're some kind of protector. No, you're dressed in some pale, flouncy sundress that grazes your thighs, and you're shivering in the night air. Of course you are - it's freezing.
Bucky has to bite back a sneer just at the sight of the three of you, a vile, acrid remark just on the tip of his tongue. He has just spent the best part of his day in some cramped cell that reminds him all too much of a HYDRA facility, and then being interrogated by his own therapist, who is desperate to push him into emotional vulnerability all in the name of progress. He isn't in the mood to play happy families, and especially not with the man now wielding Steve's shield.
"Gentlemen!" John calls out, waving his hands in the air as if Bucky and Sam hadn't already started their stride towards him, matching expressions of disdain on their faces. "Good to see you again. Have I introduced you to my girl yet? No?"
It, of course, was a rhetorical question. The two of them had only ever seen you in snapshots of public appearances that you had made at John's side. You weren't actively accompanying Captain America or Battlestar on any of their missions, and as far as Bucky is aware, there are no plans for you to do so. You're not a soldier. You're not built for battle - you're softer. More gentle. You're not the state's attempt at creating a superhero. Allegedly, you're just a regular girl - pretty and smart and charismatic, but otherwise perfectly regular - who just so happens to be dating John Walker, the new Captain America.
John doesn't wait for a response from Bucky or Sam, but he does gesture to you, beckoning you over to him by crooking two of his fingers.
You approach him, your dress ruffled by the wind. In that instant Bucky thinks that the two of you actually do seem nothing like how you do on those televised interviews - his prediction had been correct. The persona was lovely, enchanting even, but it was just that. A persona, an act for your public image. There's something almost mechanical about the way you approach John, your hands folded across your chest in an unsuccessful attempt to shield yourself from the cold. It's all too robotic. It's not effortless or affectionate. You don't look remotely comfortable, but you slide up next to Walker and Hoskins regardless. Clearly, Battlestar isn't the only one who follows Walker's commands like an obedient dog.
You slot yourself in between Battlestar and John, a grimace passing over your face as you press yourself into his side. It's odd, exceptionally so, for Bucky to see this - god, you look reluctant to accept some modicum of warmth from your own boyfriend, who you'd proclaimed publically that you loved more than anything. It's almost like you resent his touch.
And oh, that's nice. It's almost cathartic seeing somebody meant to love and adore John avoid his touch like he's got some contagious flesh-eating disease.
There's a great deal of recognition in your eyes as you look at Bucky and Sam. It's likely you'd already been made familiar with them as a result of Walker's fevered desperation to unite their forces. 
Bucky's looking at you intently, just waiting for the other shoe to drop, for you to open your mouth and prove him right - for you to prove that you were just as fake as Walker and Hoskins. It almost seemed inevitable, really. It's all too easy to seem good, sweet and polite on those well-orchestrated interviews. But real life is a completely different matter all together.
Bucky's well versed in being able to tell when people are lying, easily spotting their little tells, locating them in the flutter of a limb, the arch of an eyebrow or the twitch of an eye. It'll be a matter of moments until he spots yours. Any act was doomed to fail around him. Everybody gives themselves away somehow.
You introduce yourself, stating your name and giving them a shy wave. "It's nice to meet the two of you." You say sweetly, a smile lighting up your face.
Bucky's eyes widen involuntarily. Oh. It was one thing seeing that enchantment on TV, and another seeing it just feet away from him. There was something absolutely enrapturing about the silky quality of your voice, and the way your eyes sparkled even in the dim light.
 He hadn't expected you to actually be...pleasant. It was all supposed to be this fake persona, and yet, he can practically sense the genuity on you. You don't twitch like some little rabbit, or stumble over your words. There's no sweat beading on your brow, and you're not avoiding eye-contact. If anything, you're welcoming it.
There was no fucking way. No fucking way at all that you could actually be as nice as you were in those interviews and be with John Walker of all people. You should be horrible simply by being associated with the man.
"Well, now that we're all acquainted we can move onto our first order of business." John says, not even glancing at you. His gaze is focused solely on Sam and Bucky, steely and deceptive, completely dismissive of how utterly lovely you look.
Bucky's having a hard time even looking at John, not when you're right there, not too far away, looking absolutely angelic. There was no way it was some act, right? That facade had fallen through for both John and his stoic sidekick the minute they opened their mouths, but when it came to you... the complete opposite was true. Sam had definitely remarked on his staring problem more than once, and Bucky was very much hoping that in the dark you wouldn't be able to tell that he was looking at you in something akin to awe and unrepentant curiosity. He was looking at you in both fascination and scrutiny, staring intently like he was about to authenticate a work of art.
His deep rooted dislike of both John Walker and Battlestar was still very much present, but he was currently experiencing some emotional turbulence over his deep lack of hatred for you. It simply seemed to have evaporated the second you smiled at him. Which was...concerning to say the least. Shouldn't he hate you? Shouldn't your very presence have stoked that spark of malice?
"Look, if we divide ourselves we don't stand a chance. You guys know that." John says. He's all charismatic and confident, self-assured in a way that comes across as mildly condescending. It's a pale, cheap imitation of Steve's ability to rouse even the most slovenly of men and turn them into righteous soldiers.
"So what do you got?" Sam asks tiredly.
John immediately begins his speech, eagerly describing the plight of Karli Morgenthau, and how her journey around the globe is being aided and abetted by sympathisers who want to see the world return to the way it had been during the years of the blip. These sympathisers had much preferred it when half the world had been reduced to ash and something akin to anarchy had been allowed to prevail. 
Whole governments had collapsed in on themselves, and often, borders ceased to exist. It was complete free movement - there was a distinct lack of separation between different human factions, like all of humanity had been united by that grave event that took half of the planet.
Bucky had no idea what that world had been like. He'd only seen the shell of it, the hellscape that was left once the other fifty percent of earth's inhabitants returned to life.
Battlestar makes a few brief interjections, explaining a few minor aspects of the tale - the geotagging, that this threat is most likely operating out of eastern europe, and that Karli has stolen the medicine to take it to one of the camps.
 They don't tend to be sanitary places. Disease runs rampant there, and nobody tends to really care about those who fall sick and succumb to their illness. Of course they need medicine - there's probably hundreds of people who are in the throes of sickness, vomiting their own guts out, their wounds crusted over with coagulated blood, infected and festering.
"Well, there are hundreds of those all over the planet since the blip. So, I guess you'll have to look real hard," Bucky says, shrugging with a sort of apathy. It's rather vindicating to watch the way John's lip curls up in disdain.
"Well I guess it's good we have-" John begins, his jaw set and his tone confrontational, dripping with very thinly veiled rage.
You sigh, a tiny little breathless sound that makes Bucky freeze up slightly. It sounded, for a lack of a better word, rather nice. Melodic, even. "John, calm down." You tell him, not entirely unkindly, but not sweetly, either. 
There's some kind of quality to your voice when you speak to John like you're negotiating for hostages, not like you're having a conversation with your lover. It's curious, but Bucky tries not to attach too much meaning to it.  
Bucky gives you a stiff sort of nod, and you reward him with a smile, your lips curving upwards. "Where is she now? Do you know?" He says, softer than he probably would have if you hadn't been there.
"No. We don't know, Bucky." John's voice is a near yell. He shifts agitatedly, gesticulating wildly, tossing his arms about and shoving you slightly, letting you nearly collide with Battlestar, who is forced to grasp your arm to keep you upright. Battlestar's hand curves around your upper arm, pulling you back until you're steady on your feet. "But it's only a matter of time before we find out."
Relatively quickly, Battlestar's hand drops from your arm, and you give him a whisper of thanks before turning to give John a glare. He hadn't even so much as muttered an apology. He was completely focused on Bucky, the two locking stares in some kind of silent battle, one of wills.
"Things are really intense for you, aren't they, Walker?" Bucky can't fucking resist agitating him, letting the taunt roll off his tongue easily, not even bothering to resist grinning when your lips quirk upwards. Oh yes, you think he's funny - he can see it in the way you press a hand to your lips in a successful attempt to quell a rising peal of laughter.
"Walker's right." Sam is the one to turn to Bucky and snap at him. He tries to diffuse the situation, glancing between you, Bucky and John like he was watching something that had the potential to go very wrong. "It is imperative that we find and stop them. But you guys have rules of engagement and authorisations you have to get. We're free agents. More flexible. It wouldn't make sense for us to work together."
Tentatively, you set a hand on John's shoulder, feeling the coarse, kevlar-esque material of the suit beneath the tips of your fingers as he turns rigid, looking at Bucky and Sam coldly, all pretences of being nice completely gone, having simply evaporated into the cold night air. "Mr. Wilson isn't wrong."
Like Sam, you seem to have moved on to an attempt to prevent the escalating tensions from reaching their head. You try your best to soothe John, and his shoulders do sag fractionally, like he's just been reminded of your presence. There's something about the way that Walker looks at you that's utterly unappreciative. Perhaps John doesn't want to be grounded - if his will is being resisted then he'd rather be aggressive than diplomatic.
Sam scoffs at the name, "You don't have to call me that. In fact, please don't call me that."
"It's polite isn't it?" You say, smiling, even as John ruthlessly shucks your hand from his shoulder, dismissive of your touch. He gives you an irritated kind of look, a silent admonishment of you challenging his authority. It's not the kind of look that equal partners give each other, and your ensuing glare isn't, either.
"Suppose so," Sam shrugs, his lips quirking up in amusement.
"Mr. Wilson and Mr. Barnes aren't obligated to help," You tell John softly, seemingly speaking through gritted teeth. "Clearly, we all want the same things - to get that medicine back and bring Karli to justice. But, if you're not all going to be able to work cohesively on a team and get the job done, it may be best to work separately. It gives you all the opportunity to handle things the way you want to. This should be about doing the right thing and accomplishing the mission, not about who's calling the shots."
John nods stiffly, turning to you for a brief moment. There's some kind of red light coming from within one of the nearby buildings, and it's lighting up the dark street in shades of red, crimson light spilling over his cheekbones and dancing across one side of his face. He's the very image of begrudging agreement. "Alright then. Just one piece of advice for you boys. Stay the hell out of my way."
"Gladly." Bucky mutters under his breath, not missing the fact that you catch it and your smile widens.
As Bucky and Sam begin their exit, he can't help but to spare you one last glance over his shoulder. Bucky's eyes quickly roam over your form, as if he's mapping you out, or trying to emblazon the image of you within his mind - bathed in dying red light, still smiling serenely at him even as he's leaving. He really cannot figure you out. 
The line of what's real and what's fake seems awfully blurred when it comes to you. Normally he's excellent at detecting a performance, but when it comes to you, Bucky has no idea whatsoever what is going on. And it's very much intriguing.
John Walker he would have no problem whatsoever in leaving alone.
...but you on the other hand, were a whole different story.
There was some grand, captivating quality that you had in spades that was even more potent in real life than it had been on camera. It was in the way your hair was jostled by the wind, the pale sundress that skirted your soft-looking thighs, the curve of your hips, the way you smiled and that hypnotic twinkle in your eye. 
Walker and Hoskin's lovely personalities had been something of a farce, but yours wasn't. It did, however, make him wonder what somebody like you was doing with them - how you could aid and abet their actions even though it was glaringly obvious you weren't always in concordance with them.
"Man, I do not know what the hell was going on there, but I very much did not like how you were looking at Walker's girl like she was a piece of steak, or something." Sam shudders, muttering quietly once they're out of earshot of Walker and his companions.
"I don't know what you mean." Bucky feigns ignorance, setting his jaw and very much trying to push the phrase 'Walker's girl' from his mind. It just...didn't seem right.
In all of those TV interviews, the two of you had seemed like a perfect couple - you only appeared that way because Walker was plastering on a faux persona. In reality, the two of you seemed fragmented, distant from one another though Walker did have some tiny modicum of respect for you. 
There was nothing about the real, raw interactions between the two of you that indicated any intimacy. It was the complete antithesis of the united front the two of you presented, of the perpetually happy lovers that America adored.
There was just no way it could be true. In fact, it sets off something that's terribly close to jealousy in his gut. Walker's an arrogant prick who carries a shield he has no right to even look at. He especially doesn't deserve you - you with the pretty eyes and an aura about you that screamed 'holy', 'saintly', even.
Yes. That was probably why he disliked it. Because it was probably inaccurate. It had absolutely nothing to do with the way you enchanted him, nothing to do with the sight of your bare legs and absolutely nothing to do with the lovely way you said 'Mr.Barnes.'  It had absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.
"No, no." Sam protests. "I've seen you, you know, stare at people before - but god, never like that. Fuck, man."
And it's true. It was obvious to anybody that spent more than thirty seconds with Bucky that he had yet to acclimate and adjust to social scenarios, and that once he was focused on one thing had an abject refusal to move his gaze away from it. Bucky had heard Sam call it both 'creepy' and 'unnerving', and hoped, for some inexplicable reason, that you thought differently. 
After all, your eyes had barely left his. It wasn't staring if both of you were doing it - then it was mutual, some kind of joint focus on one another.
"Like what, Sam?"
Sam just shakes his head, looking disdainful, his nose turned up like he'd just smelled something foul. "Mmhm, like you wanted to do some things to her that, for the sake of my own mental health, I would rather not think about."
Well, technically, he hadn't thought about anything that bad - just your voice, your smile, and the way you might say his name. But, in that instant, Sam's words derail all of those thoughts. Because, really, you had looked so lovely that it would be forgivable to think about you like that.
There was that cute little sundress you were wearing, grazing your thighs whenever you moved or whenever the wind picked up. It's all too easy for him to imagine skirting his fingers up your smooth, soft thighs and let his hands explore you, roaming over your ass and your inner thighs, enjoying the feeling of your skin and the little noises he could provoke from you.
"...stop thinking about it. I can literally hear your thoughts right now." Sam says, grimacing at Bucky's spaced out kind of look - his glazed over eyes and the fingers twitching at his sides. It's all too easy for him to see the gears shifting in Bucky's head, openly reliving the few moments he had seen you.  
"I'm not thinking about it," Bucky outright lies as the two of them continue walking down the street.
"No, you absolutely are thinking about it." Sam objects. "I can sense the impropriety."
"Oh yeah? You can sense it?" Bucky glares at Sam, unable to resist antagonising him. It's safe, reliable even, between the two of them. They'll perpetually annoy one another, being challenging, rude, and utterly impolite, knowing that when it comes down to it, they'll fight side-by-side without objection, trusting each other implicitly. But in these moments when there's no imminent danger, that opposition is welcome. It's routine, even.
"Hell yes, I can sense it."
Bucky just scoffs at him, barely refraining from rolling his eyes. It wasn't really as if Sam was wrong. There was something especially fascinating about Walker's girl - if that's even what you are. He'd known you for a matter of fleeting moments that passed by like dandelion seeds in a breeze. And yet, something about it felt terribly significant. 
He hadn't actually expected that appeal to be real. He anticipated that just like Walker's carefully groomed public image, it would have been falsified.
The only thing that really seemed fake about those interviews was your affection with John. It was non-existent in real life, and for a while, you had avoided touching him, until you had to diffuse the situation. That was very, very curious. Just where had Walker found you? He had to doubt that the relationship was genuine. 
Somebody as nice, as innocent-seeming as you would never go for Walker. Not when Walker's the kind of guy that Steve would have tried to fight as a scrappy teenager, before he even got the serum. The kind of guy who Bucky would inevitably have to knock the lights out of in order to protect Steve. That kind of guy objectively did not belong with someone like you.
Bucky has to shake his head ever so slightly. It's a dangerous line of thinking. God, he doesn't even know you. He's met you once, and you'd exchanged only a few words. Irrespective of how nice you seem, how entrancing you are, he doesn't know you. It hardly matters whether or not your relationship with Walker is genuine. It shouldn't matter to him. It really shouldn't bother him.  
But it does, and that fact alone is almost as bad as the fact that John Walker is the new Captain America. It causes the same bitter feeling to swell in his chest.
Sam and Bucky fall into line next to each other, walking side-by-side, the dull noises of their footsteps hitting the pavement reverberating throughout the streets. There's a comfortable silence between the two of them. Words aren't needed now. They often aren't. For all of their antagonisation, they can understand each other perfectly fine with a single glance. That's what comradery is.
There are neon lights that illuminate the streets in shocking tones of red and turquoise, reflected in stray puddles that pool in the potholes of the roads. The lights seem dulled, boring despite their vividity. He'd seen brightness before. It didn't look like a street sign. It looked like the curve of your smile and the silent rage you directed at John Walker.
---
Bucky's flat is near-barren. 
As much as he hates empty rooms - they remind him of cold cells in underground bases that he wishes more than anything that he could forget - he's also come to the realization that he very much hates rooms that have too much furniture. 
They all feel uncomfortable, unfamiliar, a bastardisation of a normal life that he feels he has no right to live. He's so unused to the feeling of a mattress beneath him that the floor next to his bed is easier for him to sleep on. And he hates that, too. 
The simple inability to slip back into a normal life makes him feel woefully inadequate, like there's still something deeply wrong with him despite the fact that the command words had long since been removed from his mind.
Sam had returned to his own home a while ago, leaving Bucky utterly alone in the flat.
 It's not necessarily loneliness that he feels, but it is a kind of numbness that is close to it - the dulled pain of loss. Perhaps, if everything had gone the way he meant for it to, he would be sharing this place with Steve - Steve who would take a bullet for him, fight any force in this universe or the next for him. Steve who would probably encourage him to sleep in the bed and not on the floor next to it. 
That realisation prompts him to shuck off his leather jacket, toss it into the recesses of his room and try to distract himself.
He runs a hand over his face, closing his eyes and just revelling in the darkness. Mindlessly, he sits down on the very edge of his bed, already knowing that he won't be sleeping there. It seems somewhat pointless to even try. 
Despite the Soldier being gone, there are some effects of his presence that linger. Slowly, he's been getting better, but there are a few traits he doesn't know whether or not he'll ever have the courage to discard. Sleeping on the floor is one of them. That constant need to be vigilant is another. Often it manifests itself as paranoia, and at other times as staring.
Oh god, the staring.
Bucky knew it could be bad sometimes - Sam made remarks about it often enough - but today, he really felt like he couldn't help himself. 
Maybe he shouldn't have stared at you so much. It probably wasn't welcome. In fact, it had been described as 'unnerving' and 'creepy' more than once. But there was just something about you that made him not want to look away.
His eyes flutter open and he lets out a ragged groan of frustration, a low noise that originates at the back of his throat. 
Somehow, every little nagging thought always leads back to you, which is inconvenient to say the least. He does have to keep telling himself that he doesn't know you, mentally repeating those words like a mantra, instructing himself to just leave that train of thought alone completely, and to discard any and every thought that pertains to you. You're with Walker. He doesn't know you - but he could.
Bucky takes in a deep breath, hand digging through the pocket of his trousers, emerging with his phone. The internet was a pretty vast thing that had initially taken quite some getting used to, especially when he was still living in Romania. It had been difficult to become comfortable with the amount that society had progressed whilst he was with HYDRA. 
He still couldn't get used to the music or some of the fashion trends. By the time he got to living in Wakanda, he was more than used to the intricacies of modern day technology, despite the fact that once he came out of cryogenic freezing he lived a fairly simple lifestyle.
He can't really resist searching your name.
 Immediately, article after article pops up, all with headlines about you and Walker. Bucky lets out a minor, quiet noise of discontentment, opting to avoid the articles and instead look at the videos, the interviews that you had given. In most of them, you're accompanied by Walker, and occasionally by Battlestar, too. Bucky absolutely does not want to watch those ones. It feels like John simply sitting next to you is somehow corruptive.
There are a select few interviews where, mercifully, you're by yourself. Some of them are from your earlier days, where you're dressed in black leather, which was absolutely a confusing wardrobe choice. 
Privately, he much prefers you in the sundress and the pale colours. In the one that he chooses to watch, you're dressed in another sundress - this one's a pale sort of pink with tiny, blooming white flowers dotted over it. For some inexplicable reason, Bucky thinks he prefers you like this - innocent, summery, and not a pale imitation of somebody who was meant to be scary - not that you had the potential to make him afraid in the slightest.
You're in some room, sitting in front of a grand, white window, seated on a wicker chair opposite the interviewer. There's a few potted plants dotted around the floor, aloe vera, lavender, a cheese plant and some other flowers that are in full bloom, their soft petals unfurled. You're beaming happily as the interviewer begins, soft sunlight spilling over your profile, warming your skin.
"It's a pleasure to finally have the opportunity to interview you - and you're so kind to let us into your house like this." The interviewer says, looking between your angelic visage and their copious sheets of notes, each one full of questions and follow-up questions that they were desperate to ask you.
Ah. That makes sense - all the plants. You seemed like the type to like them.
"The pleasure's all mine." You say, and yes, there it is. That transfixing look about you that he's slightly hooked on now that he's seen it in real life. It's a bit addictive to watch you, and god, even just thinking that does very much make him feel wrong.
"How about we get started, then?" The interviewer says conversationally. "You know, every single person in America is curious about you. I'm just here to ask the questions on everybody's minds! Just who are you? Come on, tell us about yourself."
You don't flounder. Not even for a second. You're utterly effortless in the interviews just as you had been mere feet away from him. "Well, I'm just your average girl, really. I'm nothing special, I promise you. Honestly, I'm so grateful that everybody loves me so much. I really wasn't expecting it."
Sitting there, a serene expression on your face, you sound utterly bashful, humbled and sweet in a way that wasn't quite the same as it had been in real life.
God, seeing you in real life was different to the interview. You had been, for a lack of a better word, better than how he expected. He'd anticipated meeting female John Walker, arrogant, self-assured and willing to try to strong-arm him into fighting for their team, more like Walker's puppy than your own individual person.
 And you were nothing like that - you'd challenged Walker, hell, you even seemed reluctant to touch the guy at first, and then, you'd laughed and smiled devastatingly sweetly whenever Bucky would agitate him.
" - oh yes, my favourite flowers are - " You're still talking sweetly but he's only capturing fragments of what you're saying.
It's hard to focus on your exact words when you've shifted slightly, and that sundress has slid up your thighs ever so slightly, exposing more of your legs to Bucky's heated gaze.
 Fuck - you don't even realise what you're doing and how it's making him feel. You're just innocently trying to get through an interview, talking about something mundane, like your houseplants, and it has Bucky's imagination running wild.
If Sam were here, he would definitely be sensing impropriety right about now.
Bucky swallows thickly, biting his lower lip in an effort to stifle the ragged breath he's struggling to take. It feels almost like there's no air left in his lungs. It's all too easy for him to picture you, right there in front of him, giving him that lovely saccharine smile, your lips pulled upwards. You'd saunter into his room, sundress skirting against your thighs, and he would be utterly enraptured.
He clears his throat, squeezing his eyes shut for just a fraction of a second. He could practically feel the blood rushing south, pooling downwards until his cock was pitching a tent, straining uncomfortably against his dark jeans. 
Bucky can't even bring himself to feel any shame - he's just chasing a sensation, chasing a fantasy of you as he tugs his jeans down, shucking them off and discarding them, letting them land somewhere near his leather jacket.
With an unsteady breath, he shuffles back awkwardly onto the bed. Without so much as a second thought, he's pulling his boxers down his thighs and resting his flesh hand against his cock. He's beyond hard, steely even, and Bucky has to bite back a groan. Even the touch of his own hand doesn't offer him much relief.
He discards his phone, letting the interview keep playing, just listening to your cadence and the entrancing way you spoke, not really picking up on the words themselves.
It's all too easy to imagine you being here, in that tiny little sundress, stalking towards him. He'd want you to straddle him, your thighs framing his, sundress riding up, exposing more of your legs. He'd push the fabric up, and instruct you to hold it there. 
You'd probably give him something like a shy little nod and that dazzling smile of yours, your hands fisting the fabric and holding it up.
Fuck - it was all just too good to think about.
Bucky's grip on his cock tightens as he slowly strokes himself. He could easily tug the top part of the sundress down, too, to expose your tits. Maybe he'd even play with them for a bit, licking, nipping and sucking until there's a constellation of bruises and bites decorating your decolletage.
You'd probably beg, all whiney and breathy and absolutely desperate for him, struggling to maintain your hold on your dress, your fingers twitching as you pushed your chest towards him. It would be fucking lovely. He would finally pull away, admiring his work before bothering to address your needs. He'd trail his hands up your thighs.
He had to wonder exactly what you were wearing underneath it. White? Black? Lacey? A tiny little thong that rises high on your hips, the kind he can easily rip off with his bare hands or push aside? 
Or fuck, even more addicting, what if you weren't wearing any at all? His fingers would smooth up your thighs as you trembled, meeting your bare cunt.
Bucky doesn't even bother to try to quell the groan that rises up within him at that thought. God, that would be nice. You'd be wet - so wet, dripping, coating his fingers and trickling down your thighs. He'd rest his dark, metal hand on your waist whilst the fingers on his other hand ran eagerly through your folds, teasing your clit as he memorised all of the little sounds he could pull from you before he'd plunge two fingers into you.
You'd cry out, and he'd swallow the sound with his mouth, crushing his lips to yours and letting you gasp into his mouth. When he finally pulls away from you, fingers knuckle deep inside of you, your face would be painted a bright red, and your lips would be swollen as you begged him, fucking begged him to fuck you.
He'd deny you at first, watching you tremble and twitch on his fingers, practically fucking yourself on them.
Bucky would stroke at your clit, tracing tiny circles over it and watching your face contort in pure, unadulterated pleasure. He'd let you get off on his hand first. Would your eyes roll back into your head? Would you scream for him, yelling out his name? Would you get even wetter, impossibly making his fingers even slicker, fucking soaking him? You'd probably seize up, your spine going rigid, your mouth tumbling open and your walls flutter around his finger, convulsing uncontrollably.
And then, only then, would he fuck you.
God, you'd take his cock so well. 
Maybe the stretch of it would be a bit much at first and you'd squirm in his hold, his metal arm wrapped around your waist, keeping you impaled on him. The noises you would make would be utterly lovely - whines and fragments of pleads that never quite get finishes because you keep interrupting yourself with your own moans.
Eventually, he'd have you in his lap, your legs folded over his, one of your hands holding up your sundress so he can see his cock entering you, pushing you open, the other resting on his face. You'd bounce on his cock, whimpering like a kitten, biting at your bottom lip whilst he stared at you in awe.
You would be good - so, so good, tight and hot around him, absolute perfection.
He'd mark your neck up too, so that it'd match your tits, leaving tiny, bloodied indentations of his teeth up the column of your throat, soothing the sting by laving his tongue over them, the taste of your blood blooming on his tongue.
'Walker's girl' his ass.
It wouldn't be John fucking Walker whose name you were crying out. It would be his. It'd be his love bites littering your neck, and it would be his come leaking out from your cunt, trickling down your thighs.
He's relentlessly fucking his fist at this point, grunting and groaning at the mental image of you riding him to completion, snug around his cock, begging for him. There's some deep, nigh unholy pleasure building within him, ripping through him like a hurricane.
"God, fuck -" Bucky comes almost violently with a cry of your name, jerking quickly, hot come spilling over his knuckles. The pearly white beads trail down his hand, oozing onto the bed sheets.
He can still hear that interview playing, your melodic voice grounding him as he comes down from his high. 
You're talking about some sport you had played in high school, and the interviewer is lapping it up, eager for your attention and the exclusive interview. Bucky's chest is heaving, rising and falling heavily as he struggles to catch his breath.
Was it probably wrong to get off whilst thinking about another man's girlfriend? Yes. But, Bucky didn't particularly care, not when he'd just had quite possibly the most mind-blowing orgasm of his life, and especially not when it was 'Walker's girl' he was getting off to. 
Walker probably couldn't make you come if his life depended on it. But Bucky would.
It's definitely strange that he wants you so badly. Maybe he just wants to take something from Walker the way that Walker had taken the mantle of Captain America. 
He didn't really know how he'd react if he ever had to see you again. There's no way he can look at you in any non-sexual capacity, and he can just sense that this won't be the last time he comes whilst thinking about you.
It's probably for the best then, that he'll be staying out of Walker's way. There will be much less temptation on his part to interfere with your relationship. Yes, it's definitely for the best. He's probably just stressed and overworked, and that was the reason he felt the need to fuck his hand whilst thinking. about you. Just stress. And it's not exactly wrong to want to relieve that stress, is it? No. Not at all.
This is perfectly fine, and even if it wasn't, he wouldn't be seeing you again.
---
Just as Bucky had been getting ready to go out for the morning, dressed in jeans and some dark jacket that did a reasonable enough job of hiding the distinctive metal arm, a loud rapping reverberated through his apartment.
Immediately, he's frowning, and some of that old, ever-present paranoia is reawakening, like it's coming out of a coma, its dormancy ending abruptly. He pauses, slowing his gait and balling his hands into fists, bracing himself.
The knock doesn't sound like anybody he knows. It's not Sam - Sam either barges in, makes one single loud bang, or will just yell obscenities until Bucky stumbles out of his flat to meet him. This knock, a gentle rapping, is softer, more polite, and unfamiliar. If he's lucky, it'll have been just somebody who had got the wrong apartment number, or who wasn't yet aware that the previous tenant had moved out. It happened sometimes.
This knock could have a perfectly reasonable explanation behind it - it could be an honest mistake, or some unfortunate door to door salesperson whom he was about to scare off. Still, despite the fact it could be innocuous, it does have him on edge.
Cautiously, Bucky approaches the door, taking in a deep breath as he undoes the latches one by one. Slowly, he opens the door. It feels like ripping off a bandaid. To his surprise, it's neither somebody who's out to hurt him, nor somebody who's got the wrong apartment number.
It's you, standing outside of his door, wearing another one of your pale sundresses and a knitted cardigan, looking like something out of one of his dreams.
So much for not seeing you again.
Maybe he just had exceptionally bad luck, or the universe hated him. That absolutely had to be what it was - some grand, sadistic cosmic being had it out for him and was desperate to make his life hard.
Why the hell were you here? Was Walker sending you to harass him? That would be objectively cruel, and an unfitting punishment just for rejecting the opportunity to work with him. And - how the hell had you found his flat? That absolutely wasn't meant to be information available to anyone.
"Walker's girl?" He says, staring down at you, frowning. 
Bucky doesn't dare call you by your name, not when the last time he said it was when he was coming all over his own hand. He hates the fact that he calls you that, and even more than that, he hates the wince you make. It's perfectly understandable that you don't like being called that, irrespective of whether it's accurate or not. Which he hopes it isn't. And then he resents himself for even being bothered by whether it's true or not. 
He doesn't fucking know you. He shouldn't care.
You remind him of your name - as if he could ever fucking forget it. You brush it off pretty quickly though, smiling up at him. "Mr. Barnes, do you mind if we talk?"
Bucky is very much not enjoying the emotional turmoil you're putting him through. "Sure. Come in. And it's just Bucky."
He most definitely should not be letting you in. That would be a bad decision and he especially didn't want to get ideas about you whilst you were in his flat. And yet, he found himself readily opening the door and welcoming you in, before closing the door after you.  
You make your way into his flat, looking at him gratefully.
"What's the deal with you and Walker?" The words tumble from Bucky's mouth, gruff and awkward, before he can even think to stop them.
A look of mild confusion passes over your face as you blink up at him. "Oh, John? I mean, we're not really a couple."
"I thought not." Bucky says, feigning impassiveness, even though there's absolutely nothing neutral or disinterested about the hopeful feeling that blooms in his stomach.
"Yeah. It was meant to be good for his public image, you know. The all-American guy with the perfect relationship. And I have debt I need to pay off - tuition and all that - and they compensate me for my time." You explain, laughing lightly. It sounds like bells chiming in the wind, and awakens in him some long forgotten memory of watching the sunset. It's reminiscent of something, someplace happier where his head was a whole lot lighter.
Bucky actually feels a genuine bolt of relief skirt down his spine. Of course he had been right. There was no way that Walker could get with somebody as good as you, somebody who seemed very much like an angel put on earth.
Your eyebrows tug slightly downward, "Was it obvious?"
"You looked like you'd rather have been anywhere else."
That prompts a peal of laughter from you, and all traces of concern simply evaporate from your visage, quickly forgotten. "Yeah, I suppose so. John can be...difficult at times. He's very strong-willed and we don't always get along."
"You two seem to get along well enough on camera," Bucky remarks, voice lower than he intended for it to be. Really, he doesn't want this to descend into some kind of interrogation, and he doesn't want to scare you off.
"I'm a decent actress," You say with a shrug. "And we normally do our TV appearances when we're getting along. John's not always easy to get along with, but occasionally we manage to put it all behind us. It may seem scummy, I guess. We are practically lying to everyone, but I do need the money and it's easy work."
It further reassures him - of what, Bucky doesn't quite know, but he doesn't feel half as on edge as he had been earlier.
You're not Walker's. He fucking knew it.
He couldn't possibly even conceive of a universe in which you would ever even consider Walker's advances. That bastard was lucky you even looked in his direction.
"I get that." Bucky says understandingly, a tentative smile playing across his face, his lips quirking upwards.
"I do actually have a reason for being here, Bucky." You say, sighing softly.
Oh. Yes. Of course you did. He'd almost forgotten that you needed a reason to visit - this wasn't a social call, of course it wasn't. The two of you had only ever met once, no matter how well he thought he knew you after having seen what is probably hours worth of footage of you. It's probably not a good thing that he's feeling so familiar with you - no, it's definitely not a good thing that he's feeling so familiar with you. In fact, it's probably very bad, especially with his proclivity for avoiding any form of emotional vulnerability or attachment.
"I...have the clearance to access some information that may benefit you." You say. Right now, you're being the most serious he'd ever seen you. There was a sort of solemn expression about you - your mouth set in a firm line rather than a happy smile - it's bordering on grave, and he's immediately compelled to listen, a frown forming on his face.
"Yes?"
"You and John both want the same thing, but you're not going to work together. I know for a fact you won't, and I really don't blame you. He's planning on going to see Zemo for information about the serum."
Bucky doesn't even tense up at the name. Helmut Zemo is an absolute bastard who had almost ruined his life, in addition to temporarily forcing him into a dangerous headspace, into a part of himself that, at that point, was very much present and very much not under control. 
But now, the codewords are gone. They won't activate shit. Zemo's practically been neutered in that regard. He may not be able to invoke the Winter Soldier, but the mere mention of his name absolutely does invoke some kind of visceral, biblical rage that howls for revenge.
It's the kind of anger of the Old Testament, though Bucky isn't much for religion these days - the kind of anger that is desperate for 'an eye for an eye', to make Zemo hurt just as much as Zemo had hurt him. For retribution.
"We were planning on seeing him, too." Bucky says, a little stiffly, though he retains his composure.
"You'll want to get there before John does. He's planning on telling the guards not to let you in - Zemo will have his visitation rights revoked and you won't even be let on the premises."
Bucky lets out a tiny noise of irritation, a bitter little sound that originates in the very back of his throat. Of course, of fucking course Walker wouldn't be content with just working separately from himself and Sam. 
Rather than just let it be, he'd try to actively obstruct their ability to work on the case - to help people. There was something about Walker's willingness to possibly prevent a breakthrough for the sake of his own ego that left a very bitter taste in Bucky's mouth. It was a complete stain on Steve's legacy.
"You have two days until John and Lemar visit Zemo. They'll probably be alerted when you show up, though, so I suspect you won't have long." You continue.
There's a possibility that you are working with Walker and this is all part of some elaborate scheme to impede his involvement in this. You could be lying through your teeth. 
You had already told him you were a decent actress, and he definitely believed that to be true. Anybody that could be lovesick around John fucking Walker was either delusional or worthy of an oscar. Bucky was inclined to believe you were the latter.
That story about needing money for tuition made sense, and it also seemed reasonable that Walker's PR team would want to give him a girlfriend. A similar kind of thing had happened with Steve back in the forties. He'd been made to do all sorts of stupid campaigns, and a lot of them had involved pretty women like yourself who were willing to act, hell, even sing and dance, for the money.
Bucky wants to believe you're genuine. Surely he'd be able to tell if you're lying - he's good at that, at identifying people's tells and the falsehoods they're spewing.
"Thanks for the heads up." He says somewhat gruffly as he looks down at you.
"Lemar had a lead on the medicine and vaccines, too. But I don't know exactly what he's found." There's something about the way that you sigh that indicates frustration. "It's difficult to get information out of him. He's nice and all, but we're not close enough that he's willing to divulge a lot."
Bucky's slight frown deepens and he steps just a little closer to you, revelling in the fact that you don't stumble back or glance at the door. You're not afraid of him in any capacity.
"You're fishing for information for us? Why?"
That's the one thing he can't work out. Why show up here? Why bother to give him the warning? What could you possibly have to gain from it?
"It's the right thing to do." You say simply, that solemness receding from your pretty face to allow that sweet smile to return. "Whether it be you or John, somebody has to bring these guys down. It's only fair that you both have the same information, and I can get it to you."
How lovely. God, how had you managed to embody the spirit of Captain America more than the man who carried the shield?
"Right, right." Bucky doesn't even have a hard time accepting the answer. He should - he should poke and prod at your motives, but he doesn't want to. He finds that the desire to do good for the world is sufficient enough, especially when it comes to you. Because of course you want to help people, of course you want to help him - as if you hadn't been perfect enough already.
"I'm looking into the camps, too. It's hard to narrow the parameters, though. There's just so many of them." You say, somewhat aghast, like you're disappointed that they even exist in the first place. 
There's a haunted kind of expression in your eyes, like you'd seen too much. And you probably had. Looking into all of those camps, rampant with disease, crime and horrifically painful deaths, couldn't have been easy, especially if you weren't acclimated to something so macabre or devastating.
"Hey," Bucky places a hand on your shoulder - the human hand - and he can feel the soft texture of your knitted cardigan beneath his fingers, as well as the heat radiating from your body. "Thank you. I appreciate it. You're doing the right thing. You're good."
Words of encouragement are somewhat difficult for him to come up with. He has no idea what will reassure you, so he just tells you what he knows to be true and it's enough. It's more than enough judging by the way your eyes light up and you smile at him. There's something almost devastating about that smile, and knowing that he had been the one to cause it.
"Thanks," You say, your voice barely above a whisper, voice a little hoarse. Oh. Oh. Your pupils were blown wide, and you were staring at him intently.
He falters for a fraction of a second, wondering if he'd done something wrong. And then it dawns on him - you'd liked the praise.
You had fucking liked it when he praised you. Well, shit. The rush he got from that realisation alone made him feel nearly high, like his head was in the clouds and he'd just done copious amounts of illegal substances. It was addicting, in short.
It's then and only then that he actually notices just how close the two of you are, and suddenly he's revisiting the thought that maybe letting you into his flat wasn't such a good idea.
 Bucky can very nearly feel your skin beneath his hand. Having you here is such a unique brand of torture - you're exquisitely close, and you're looking at him like whatever it is that's between you, this mad, mutating attraction is reciprocated. It all feels a little too good to be true.
You probably shouldn't be looking at him like that. There was no way that the attraction he felt could be reciprocated. No way whatsoever.
"I should probably give you my number," You say, your voice still a little low - if anything, it's become silkier. Sultry, even, and it has Bucky's head spinning. "I'll send you everything I have."
"Yeah," He says, somewhat breathlessly. It's with a deep reluctance that he drops his hand from your shoulder, already missing the warmth and the closeness. 
He probably shouldn't have touched you in the first place. You were so small next to him, dressed in your pale little sundress, cardigan slipping down one of your arms, pooling at your elbow to reveal a single, unblemished shoulder. There's something almost painfully innocent about you, the complete antithesis to him.
He had been a killer a thousand times over. Bucky had taken more lives than he could even begin to count, and despite his best efforts to reconcile and to make amends for it, his hands were still stained red with blood. They didn't deserve to touch you, no matter how badly he wants to.
Suddenly, you're turning away from him, snatching a piece of paper that had been lying around his flat and scrawling a series of numbers onto the back of it - your phone number. Without so much as a second thought, he's peering over your shoulder as you write them, eyes carefully following every digit that you inscribe.
You whirl around, paper clutched tightly in one hand and settling the other on his chest, fingers ghosting over his shirt. You're so, so close - a mere matter of inches away from him, and your hand is directly over his heart. Hopefully you can't feel the way it beats slightly faster as a result of the contact.
There was a high chance that if it had been anybody else, Bucky would have avoided their touch and shirked the vulnerability. He liked being in control of himself, which often translated in remaining isolated. But he doesn't really want you to take your hand off his chest. He doesn't want that at all. In fact, he'd much prefer it if you touched more of him.
The tension is literally palpable, hanging about the air like a thick fog. No, more like smoke really, with the way your presence threatened to asphyxiate him.
"Bucky," You say, so softly, your voice dripping with reverence. There's just something about the way you whisper his name that's so much better than any fantasy he could ever concoct. He's half-certain that you're going to drop your hand from his chest or shove him away, admonish him for getting too close. But you don't. Your hand remains pressed against him, fingers splayed over his torso.
He can't help but say your name in turn, his voice raspy as he looks down at you. Carefully, he takes the paper with your number on it from your hands and sets it down on one of the countertops. And still, you don't remove your hand from him. You're looking up at him and your eyes are so dark, tumultuous pits of lust that bore right through him.
Bucky leans ever so slightly closer to you, his flesh hand cupping your jaw. His index finger is curled under your chin, and the pad of his thumb is resting on your plump lower lip. In response to his touch, your lips part ever-so-slightly, and he can feel your breath ghosting over his flesh in light, shallow puffs of air.
"Do you want this?" He asks, his voice a low rasp, rough and bordering on ragged. It feels very much like he's entered dangerous territory. This is like playing with fire whilst being desperate to get burnt. He just needs to be sure. He's desperate for that reassurance, for you to explicitly say that he's not crazy or creepy, that this is mutual.
"Yes," You say, lip moving against his thumb as you speak.
In an instant, he's moving his thumb to caress your cheek and then crushing his mouth to yours. There's something utterly greedy about the way he consumes you, teeth smacking together, tongues roving throughout each others mouths, completely plunderous in nature. Because that is what he's doing - consuming you, entirely ravenous in the way his lips press repeatedly against yours.
Your hands become fisted in his shirt and jacket, and his metal arm wraps around your waist, crushing your chest to his, anchoring the two of you together. It seems as if you've gone weak in the knees. You practically crumble against him, pressing yourself into his torso until his metal arm is the only thing that's holding you up.
Oh. This was definitely reciprocated.
There was absolutely no need for him to wallow in guilt or shame or wish not to see you - because you wanted him to. It didn't fucking matter whether or not his hands were stained red, not when all you wanted was for them to touch you.
All too soon, your mouths part slightly and you're panting against one another. Your lips are red, beautifully swollen, and wet with saliva. With a mixture of his and your saliva.
"Tell me to stop," Bucky mumbles heatedly against your lips. "Tell me to stop and I will. I'll never touch you again. I promise."
It's a promise he won't want to keep. Not when he feels like a single kiss has completely fucking ruined him for anybody else.
"What if I don't want you to stop?" You whisper, gazing at him with this blazing fire in your eyes, challenging him.
"Do you want me to keep going?" He asks, and he's afraid of the answer. He has no idea what he wants - he's partially inclined to want to avoid the emotional implications of getting involved with you like this, of succumbing to your allure, but he also very much wants you to say yes, to beg him to touch you like you need nothing else more than you need him.
You tremble against his chest, a soft, keening whine tumbling from your mouth that has Bucky feeling dizzy, like the world had just tilted on its axis without any warning. It's a delightful little noise, melodious and sinful. It was so, so much better than he had imagined. He can barely refrain from rutting against you, high off the sound of your moans.
"Yes." You sound absolutely fucking devastated, pushed into abject neediness. He's reduced you to some kind of desperate mess, clinging to his chest like he's a lifeline, like you're remiss to let go of him.
And fuck, that one simple word is all the confirmation he needs.
 Every single disparaging thought shatters to pieces, demolished by your eager moans. The way your chest wracks with sudden shudders, the way you breathe unevenly, perpetually unable to get enough air in your lungs as he keeps stealing it from you, your dilated pupils and your desire for his touch is all for him. 
It's intoxicating.
Eagerly, he presses his mouth back against yours, revelling in the way you groan into his mouth, your eyes fluttering closed so your lashes can rest against your cheeks. Fisted into his shirt are your hands, bunched up in the fabric, constantly tugging him towards you in eternal desperation for more contact.
In the next moment, he's using the metal arm curved around your waist to hoist you into the air, letting your feet hover above the ground. It's all too easy for him to lift you. 
Your legs had long since turned to jelly, your knees weakened and buckling. Your weight isn't a burden. He could toss a car around if he felt the urge to, which he doesn't. That is absolutely not even close to the urges he's having right now - the urges to make his fantasies a reality, to experience every lewd thought about you that had flitted through his head.
You release a small noise of surprise that Bucky eagerly swallows, biting at your bottom lip and memorising the delightful noises that the action pulled from you.
With his arm anchoring you to his chest, and you quite literally swept off your feet, it's easy for him to maneuver you through his flat, keeping his lips connected to yours as he walks you through to his bedroom.
The only time Bucky's mouth leaves yours is when he relinquishes his steely hold on you, laying you down gently on his bed, letting you rest atop his plain sheets, your sundress riding upwards. 
And even then, he doesn't allow that separation to last long, clambering on top of you and surging forwards, capturing your lips again.
He's practically caging you in with his arms, allowing you no opportunity for escape. 
Your fingers slowly unfurl from their previous position where they're been fisted, harshly gripping the fabric of his shirt, twisting it in what had been a successful effort to bring him closer to you. Now, your hands are wandering, beginning to explore. They roam freely, smoothing over his chest, tracing indecipherable shapes and fragments of words across his torso.
They easily pause at the lapels of his jacket, tugging it off with precision. Bucky has to move his arms slightly to help you divest him of the item of clothing, and he flings it somewhere across the room, not even bothering to check where it's landed. A single item of clothing seems totally irrelevant when you're beneath him, writhing at his touch.
"Please," You say between intense kisses, eyes blown wide with lust. Your pupils have expanded immeasurably, leaving a tiny ring of colour around them. "Off," You demand, tugging at his shirt.
Bucky chuckles, the low noise reverberating throughout his chest, making his torso rumble under your hands. Grinning, he pulls the shirt up and discards that too, leaving himself in just his jeans and you in your pale sundress and knitted cardigan. It's then that he falters, realising you can see the arm - of fucking course you would see the arm. There was no way that you wouldn't. It was just another horror of his existence that couldn't be avoided.  
Strangely, though, you don't look at it in abject horror, reminded of his crimes, of the despicable acts of violence he had committed in the name of HYDRA.
Instead, you look at it reverently, one of your hands coming up to trace the grooves in the arm. 
It was darker than any of his previous ones, a midnight matte black with stunning strips of gold running through the divots between panels. You trace the labyrinth of steady golden lines gently, fingertips tracing over the plates that comprised it. You were just as gentle with it as you were with the rest of him. His breath hitches in a way that is utterly obvious, though you don't outwardly react to it.
Your hand skirts down his metal arm, your fingertips coming to rest against the palm of his hand. The two of you aren't quite holding hands, but you very nearly are. Softly, so devastatingly softly, you tug the dark metal hand towards your face.
And you turn his metal hand over, planting a soft kiss to the centre of his palm before releasing it.
It was rather lovely, really. It made his chest swell up with some emotion that evaded description. Immediately, he's going back to kissing you, licking up into the cavern of your mouth, wordlessly showing you just how much he appreciated the small gesture.
Then, Bucky's mouth begins to traverse away from yours. He plants kisses down the column of your throat, only pausing in his quest to stick his nose into your neck, inhaling strongly. Your skin had a scent - a beautiful, honeyed kind of scent that he could very easily gain an addiction to. Fuck, everything about you was easy to gain an addiction to.
Before long, he's going back to suckling at the skin of your neck, interspersing his licking and sucking with bites that make your spine arch and prompt you to groan loudly. This great expanse of smooth, soft skin is available to him and he intends to take full advantage of it, making your skin bloom like some otherworldly piece of artwork, covered in red and purpled bruises. Interspersed between them were perfect iterations of his teeth, little crimson indentations from his incisors.
There was something absolutely animalistic about marking you up, covering you in aching bruises with his mouth alone. There was something about it that made him feel like he was laying claim to your skin, warding off anybody else who so much as dared to want you, somebody like John fucking Walker.
He probably shouldn't feel thrilled at the prospect of other people seeing you like this, your neck collared with a constellation of bruises and bitemarks that he had put there. Especially if it's one of your PR team, or even Walker himself.
Bucky pulls away from you, admiring the absolute mess he had made of you. Your hair is haloed around you on his bed, your throat is blotched in various shades of red and purple, your lips are swollen, your eyes are blown wide, and your nipples have pebbled against the fabric of your sundress. You look so fucking beautiful.
With some great urgency, Bucky divests you of your knitted cardigan, flinging it away and discarding it with some of his clothes. With his flesh hand, he eagerly tugs down the top-half of your dress, sliding the thin, flimsy little straps down your arms and pulling the fabric over your chest away to expose your breasts to his hungry eyes.
"Fuck," He breathes, shuffling forwards, one shin planted either side of your torso as you lay down, looking up at him in awe.
Bucky lets out a low noise of approval, sliding his hands up to your tits and squeezing them, earning him a strangled sort of noise that rips itself from the back of your throat. He pulls, tugs and pinches, listening intently to the different kinds of moans you reward him with - if he tweaks your nipple just right, you'll give him a breathy cry of his name.
"You like that, hm? You like my hands on your tits?"
"Yes, yes I do," You whimper. The metal hand and the human hand offer very different sensations. The flesh hand is warm, calloused, trembling slightly against your skin. The dark, metal hand with streaks of gold through it is no less dexterous than the organic one. It is, however, slightly colder to the touch, and smoother, comprised of plates of metal that don't have much of a texture. Both make you arch into their touch, perpetually desperate for more.
Bucky really can't help himself. He lowers his head, licking a broad stripe up one of your tits, eagerly mouthing at it whilst he tugs on the nipple of the other one, constantly keeping his mouth occupied. You're wrapping your hands around the back of his head, splaying your fingers over his skull, making desperate little noises as you drag your hands through his short hair.
He has you a squirming, pleading mess beneath him as his tongue roams over your chest, as he alternated between sucking, biting and pinching, watching reddish marks bloom over your torso. He's very much set on making your chest match your neck, painting it with bruises. There's something about this - the marking - that makes him feel absolutely feral, like some kind of rabid animal giving in to its most base urges.
"Please," You're begging for him - fucking begging. When he glances up, he can see your lips trembling, the perspiration beaded at your hairline and your glossy eyes. You look absolutely wrecked, and you sound it, too. Bucky's half tempted to ignore your pleas, but he doesn't want to be cruel. Not with you.
"Please what, doll?" The affectionate word slips from his lips and he hadn't even thought to stop it. "Do you want me to touch you here instead?"
His flesh hand slides down from where it had been cupping your tit, ghosting along your clothed ribs, down the plane of your belly. His touch prompts you to moan, despite the fact his hand isn't making contact with your bare skin. Not yet, at least. It's fascinating how receptive you are - so good for him. 
Bucky keeps going, smoothing his hand down the curve of your hip, tugging your sundress up to expose more of your legs to him. His hand splays over the top of your thigh, thumb resting at the junction of your thighs, concealed by the very edge of your sundress.
You do something that surprises him. With a desperate groan, you reach down and grab his hand, tugging it towards your cunt. "No. I want you to touch me here, instead."
Well, fuck.
The very tips of his fingers meet your panty-clad sex, and immediately Bucky is using his metal arm to yank the bottom part of your sundress upwards, folding it up onto your stomach. Really, it's been reduced to a scrap of white fabric bunched around your waist, having been previously tugged down over your tits.
The panties were lacey. White. With thin, flimsy pieces of lace running up your hips. Bucky takes in a deep breath, staring intently at the slightly translucent patch over your pussy, the delicate fabric saturated, made wet by your liquid arousal. His fingers drift up over it almost in awe. Fuck, you're soaked. Absolutely soaked for him - all for him.  
Bucky's fingers retreat from their position, but only temporarily. He slides your panties over, pushing them to the side so that he can appreciate your cunt. You gasp, your hand flying off his, where you'd previously been guiding his fingers, slapping over your mouth, barely muffling a groan.
With a renewed sense of confidence, Bucky dips his fingers into your folds. They're slippery - slick is seeping out from your neglected cunt, wetting the inside of your thighs, making them fucking gleam. You're soaked, absolutely dripping onto his fingers as he explores the most intimate part of you, slowly dragging his fingers over your clit and then circling them around your hole. You twitch and moan prettily in response to every tiny movement he makes, hypersensitive and desperate.
"Fuck." Bucky chokes out, dipping a single finger inside of you and admiring the way you convulse around him. Tight, hot and wet. His avid imagination and fucking his fist is one thing, but the sensation of you wrapped around his digit is another thing all together. Some stupid fucking fantasy could never compare - why had he even bothered to imagine that it could?
"God, Bucky, please." You whine helplessly, one hand still clamped over your mouth, muffling your words slightly.
Spurred on by your plea, he crooks his finger, pumping it in and out of you a few times before he adds a second one, using it to push against your walls, spreading them slightly in an effort to scissor you open.
"So fucking wet, aren't you?" Bucky's voice is verging on a growl, utterly animalistic as you gush over his fingers. You shuffle slightly, your hips rising and falling in a stunted rhythm. You're trying to fuck yourself on his fingers, desperately chasing an orgasm, your face contorted in pleasure. The fingers splayed over your jaw are twitching. Every single part of you is affected by him, writhing and trembling, perpetually desperate for more.
"Yes - yes," You chant, your voice a dying whisper, almost lost between your moans and whimpers.
"You're dripping," Bucky remarks, watching in fascination as your slick tumbles in steady streams down his fingers, "Fuck. All for me?"
You not emphatically, moving your head up and down, struggling to look him in the eyes, desperate to let your head fall back against the bedsheets. "Yes."
Bucky's thumb rubs harsh, unforgiving circles over your clit, his forefinger and middle fingers rocking into you, stuffed deep inside your cunt, covered in the slick arousal that's practically pouring out of you. You buck wildly against him, crying out in pleasure.
"Please - I'm gonna," You manage to stutter out, working your hips downwards, grinding onto his fingers, chasing your pleasure.
"Come for me, then." Bucky says.
He's incredibly fixated on every single thing about you as you come undone - the way your walls clamp down on his fingers, clenching tightly around the digits, the way your pretty, lust-blown eyes roll back into your skull, and the absolutely angelic noise that the pleasure he and he alone has brought you tears from your throat. Watching you come undone is wonderful. It's some kind of magical sight, made a thousand times better when you moan his name as you reach the apex of your pleasure. It's so fucking gorgeous that it threatens to make him come in his own pants like some rabidly horny teenage boy.
If Bucky hadn't already been uncomfortable, cock straining his jeans, rutting against the denim almost painfully, he would be by now. Especially when you give him that hazy post-orgasm look, a contented sigh leaving you as you finally remove your hand from where it had been clamped over your mouth.
Slowly, he drags his fingers out from inside of you. They're gleaming, coated in your arousal. Without an ounce of hesitation, he brings them to his mouth, eagerly sucking them clean, his tongue darting over every callous, every wrinkle, every crease on those two fingers, chasing your taste, completely ravenous as the flavour of your cunt explodes over his tongue.
He'd fucking ruined himself. There was nobody else after this. They wouldn't be able to compare to you in any way.
You bat your eyelashes at him, biting your already bruised lower lip seductively. Bucky's looming over you, pulling his saliva-soaked fingers from his mouth, the two of you breathing raggedly, panting like dogs.
Wordlessly, you reach forwards and palm his hard cock through his jeans, squeezing him in a way that leaves Bucky groaning, desperate for more.
"You're gonna let me fuck you, doll?"
"God, please." You breathe, eyes darkening almost imperceptibly. If he hadn't been so close to you then he probably wouldn't have caught it.
Eagerly, he undoes his belt, pulling it free from the confining loops of his jeans, and discarding it. Even as he's divesting himself of his remaining clothes, Bucky's eyes are always on you, watching you intently. 
Oh yes, you definitely sparked his staring problem, especially when you're looking at him with hooded eyes, the expression on your face one of pure lust, pure need for him. Quickly, he pulls his jeans down, readily discarding them, along with his boxers.
Bucky's hard, leaking cock slaps up against his stomach. Taking in a weak, ragged breath, you beckon him closer until he's looming over you again, his chest pressed to yours and his cock jutting into your leg.
"Please, Bucky. Don't tease. Just fuck me."
"Oh, gladly," He quips, lips tugging upwards into an infuriating half-smirk.
Your panties are still pushed to the side, allowing him to run his cock through your folds until it's coated in your warm, slippery arousal. He lines the very tip up, teasing you with it for just a moment, revelling in your breathy whimpers and ensuing pleas. The very head of him catches on your entrance, and he uses it as an opportunity to begin to enter you.
His flesh hand is resting on your hip, fingers curling into your side possessively, the black and gold metal arm being utilised in an effort to keep holding himself up. Your hands, gentle and soft, scrabble to find purchase on the plane of his back, nails raking over his skin, leaving tiny red lines in their wake. Fuck. You were marking him up, too.
 He wasn't even bothered by it. If anything, Bucky was pleased - he'd proudly wear whatever marks you gave him. They were little pieces of you, a litany of evidence that you'd touched him - that you had wanted to touch him.
The very head of his cock breaches you, splitting you open. He's thicker than you had anticipated, but the stretch is welcome. He practically burns you as he enters you the first time, stilling half of the way in to allow you a moment to breathe.
Happily, you writhe against his chest. It burns - but oh god it burns so nicely. The wonderful, near-painful intrusion of him is heavenly.
You're panting into the crook of his neck, frenzied breath ghosting against his throat. "More - please, more."
There isn't a single ounce of reluctance within him as he pushes the rest of his cock into you until he's fully seated.
"So fucking tight," Bucky babbles. His chest is trembling slightly, crushed against yours. There's just so much to feel - so many sensations to comprehend and decipher. You're so tight, gripping his cock like a vice, all wet and warm. It feels like fucking paradise - like some slice of heaven that he'd been gifted. Perhaps some cosmic being didn't have it out for him after all. If they did, there was no way they would allow him this.
Your legs shift, wrapping themselves around his waist, coaxing him deeper inside of you. You're moaning directly into Bucky's ear, your breaths fanning across his neck, fingers digging into his back as you cling desperately to him, saying his name like a prayer.
"Please - move." You're begging, on the verge of sobbing, lips pressed up against the column of his neck, mumbling little indecipherable words that all lead back to him fucking you hard.
And he does. Bucky unrelentingly pistons in and out of you, fucking you into the mattress. It's almost aggressive between the two of you. His hips are snapping up against yours, colliding almost violently, whilst your nails are shredding his back, though he barely feels the pain that he should.
You're a fucking mess. If he's destroyed by this, then you absolutely are, too.
Pathetic, mewling whimpers leave your throat, muffled only by the fact that your mouth is pressed into his neck, though your lips will occasionally move against his skin, your mouth falling open in a near-silent gasp as you try to pull air into your lungs. Your tits, marred by bruises and bitemarks that he had put there, are crushed against his chest. Your legs tremble from where they're almost, but not quite, interlocked around his waist, keeping him as close as possible.
He rocks into you, spearing you on his cock, enraptured by the cacophony of reactions he pulls from you.
"Can John do this? Can John fucking Walker make you feel this good?" Bucky's talking incessantly, those words dripping from his mouth before his mind can even register that the thought had ever even flitted through his brain.
He probably shouldn't be thinking about John fucking Walker whilst he's inside you, whilst his cock is nestled deep in your cunt and you're close to coming for a second time. 
But he is. He looks at the vibrant red and purple bruises that litter your neck and torso, the bite marks across your body, the evidence that he's been here with you, the evidence that you had let him touch you, and he can't help but wonder if Walker had ever done this to you.
He can't help but to wonder if Walker had ever taken you like this, like a fucking animal, leaving his own god-awful marks across your throat, fucking into you with one of those sundresses that you wore whilst masquerading around as his girlfriend bunched around your waist.
Bucky really fucking hoped not.
He couldn't conceive of anything that Walker deserved less than you. Walker may not have really been dating you, but he still got to touch you, to put his hands all over you in those stupid interviews, utterly undeserving of that privilege. Walker didn't have any fucking right, any fucking right at all.
You weren't 'Walker's girl'. You didn't belong to John. And for good reason, too. You were so much better than him - the kind of person who was able to look at the mission objectively, put your differences aside, and feed the other team information. All because you wanted to do the right thing.
You gasp against his shoulder, head falling back onto the bed so that you and Bucky can lock eyes as he ruthlessly pounds into you, the obscene sound of flesh hitting flesh filling the room.
"I - fuck - I never fucked John," You say, struggling to even form words.
And god, doesn't that make him glad.
"Yeah?" Bucky challenges you slightly, still grinning as his eyebrows raise a fraction. "And you're not fuckin' gonna."
Walker didn't get to put his filthy paws on you. Bucky wouldn't allow it.
You seize up around his cock, hands grappling at his back, and then sliding over to hold onto his shoulders, the fingers on one of your hands splayed over the seam that ran over his black and golden metal arm. Your fingers gently caress the border between machine and man, gentle, in complete contrast to the way you'd clawed at his back. His blood was probably under your fingernails considering how hard you'd scratched.
"'M so close," You whimper, desperately rolling your hips.
There's something utterly debauched about you. All of that angelisism had easily given way to depravity under his touch. You were practically mewling for him, making these little breathy noises that cause his cock to swell, getting increasingly desperate to climax a second time. That debauchery is located in every single moan that leaves your mouth, in the marks you've scratched into his back and in the way your sundress is bunched around your hips as Bucky fucks you.
"Yeah? Gonna come again?" Bucky asks, breathing raggedly.
He already knows the answer. Of course you're going to come again. He can feel your walls tightening around his cock, constantly fluttering, on the very precipice of your climax. You're close, probably painfully so, and so is he - but he's not gonna come first.
"Mhm," You groan excitedly as Bucky rubs at your clit, sending sparks of pure pleasure racing through your gut.
"Walker couldn't make you come like this," Bucky says more to himself than you, though you seem to really enjoy when he talks, convolusing on his throbbing cock as you desperately chase your high, all whilst he's snapping his hips up into yours, fucking you so hard that at times your eyes will begin to roll back into your skull, and your legs will shake against him. "C'mon, doll. Who are you gonna come for?"
"You. You. You."
"Good girl," He remarks, grinning as you tighten around him. "Fuck, doll. You have the best pussy I've ever fucked - 's mine. Not fucking Walker's. He doesn't get to have you like this. And I do - fuck."
It's then that he spears hard up against something pleasantly devastating inside of you. That sensation, delivered in tandem with Bucky's fingers circling your clit has you coming instantaneously. The barrage of pleasure washes over you like a tsunami, wrenching a cry from within you. You shatter beneath him, falling apart to a thousand pieces, utterly wrecked.
"Bucky," You sob enthusiastically as your orgasm crests, speaking his name over and over again like a prayer, like it's the only word you know.
It was one thing watching you climax on his fingers, and another when it's his cock. It feels otherworldly, watching you come undone as he fucks himself into you. It's probably the best, most arousing thing he's ever seen, you, beneath him, writhing, squirming, calling his name out over and over again.
He doesn't even bother to stave off his own orgasm any longer. It would be impossible of him to even try. If the image of you under him, legs hooked around his waist, trembling from the sheer force of the pleasure he's given you wasn't enough, the fucking heavenly feeling of your cunt wrapped tightly around his cock is. You clamp down around him, as tight as a fucking vice.
Bucky's own orgasm barrels into him like a truck. It's a burst of pure, blinding, hot pleasure that rips forth from somewhere in his gut.
It strikes every single nerve ending in his body, and suddenly he's coming, emptying himself inside of you, ropes of his come painting your insides, filling you up.
You both lay there for some time - it could be seconds, or it could be minutes. It's impossible to tell. Time seems hazy when he's with you. He's still laying over you, panting and grinning at the same time. The two of you just smile lazily at each other, completely spent and sated. He shifts most of his weight to be on the metal arm, lest he crush you with his weight.
Eventually, you surrender his hips from your legs, letting him pull out of you and roll onto his back so he can lay next to you whilst you both catch your breath.
Tentatively, you pull the straps of your sundress back up your arms and fix your underwear. Bucky panics internally, quickly turning his head to face you.
"Going somewhere?" He asks, as casually as he could.
"I do have to get back to work," You laugh. It sounds like bells in the wind. "I have an interview tomorrow that I have to prepare for."
Bucky just nods stiffly, trying to quell the internal disappointment rising within him. What the fuck had he been thinking? He shouldn't have touched you in the first place, and now you were probably regretting the fact that you let him fuck you.
"I'll swing by tomorrow with whatever I can find on the medicine," You say, so sweetly. "If that's okay with you?"
"It is, yeah." He says gruffly.
They need the information. The near-devastating disappointment he's feeling right now is irrelevant. Walker and Hoskins have the state's resources at their disposal. 
He and Sam have whatever leads they can scrounge up, and whatever you're willing to give them. Because you're good - so good, and he knows that, but he also feels like he's dying a little bit on the inside because of you.
"Maybe I'll let you take me out to dinner next time."
And Bucky falters, looking at you with wide eyes. "Next time?"
"If you want a next time." You say, avoiding his gaze.
Bucky sits up slightly, cupping your jaw with his hand and gently tilting your face, forcing you to look him in the eyes. Now, you look enraptured by the sight of him. "I do want a next time."
"Good," Your voice is quiet, a mere whisper, talking to him in soft, hushed tones. "Because I want a next time."
He leans in closer to you, giving you every opportunity to stop him as he lowers his lips to yours. You don't. You don't want to stop him, not when you're completely enchanted. 
Bucky hadn't been the only one that felt rather awestruck that day you'd met outside of the police precinct.
Really, you didn't much like your job. It paid the bills, and kept you ahead on your debt payments, but you didn't like it. The men you worked with lacked the heart that Captain America had. 
And sometimes, the weight of pretending got a bit much for you. It had culminated in your guilt, and ultimately you lying in Bucky Barnes' bed, kissing him tenderly.
"So, I'm sending you back to Walker, huh?" Bucky chuckles as the two of you pull away from each other, proudly eyeing the bruises that descend down your neck and below your, now rumpled and creased, sundress. 
He'd be sending you back to John Walker with small brands of possession bitten all over your torso, not to mention the fact that beads of his come were streaking your inner thighs.
Well, that'd probably show Walker that even though he got to publically call you 'his girl', you'd never belong to him in the most intimate of ways.
Bucky very much wanted Walker to see it - to see what he'd done to you. God, he'd pay so much fucking money to see the look on that bastard's face when he realised the woman he flippantly called 'his girl' was fucking somebody else.
 Not just anybody else, no. She was gladly fucking one of the people that Walker hated the most. Bucky can almost envisage the way Walker's jaw would drop and the rage that would blaze in his eyes.
"I'll be back." You laugh. "As if I'd want to stay away."
Even more beautiful than imagining Walker's reaction, though, was the prospect of you coming back again.
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The Great White Gripe
A lot has been said about the “social commentary” within The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. 
“Since when is Marvel a bunch of SJWs? I don’t need this shit.”
“All this race stuff feels SUPER forced.”
“Oh here we go Marvel tryin to be all woke to get the libs on board.”
If you personally know anyone who spews this brand of ignorance, we’re sorry. 
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: there is no social commentary on TFATWS. Showrunner Malcolm Spellman and director Kari Skogland simply show the reality of life in America. It’s not their fault that so many (white) people (men) don’t like looking in the mirror.
And some people claim they have no problem with film and television addressing politics and social change.
“Just keep it out of my comic book movies. It doesn’t belong there.”
They could not be anymore wrong, even if Chandler Bing himself was lecturing them. 
If you asked 100 people to name the top ten movies of all time, you’d get 100 different lists. But one thing we can all agree on is that film has power. It has the power to move us, to divide us, to unite us. Entertainment can lead to the kind of discourse that prompts action and positive change.
And that’s why The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the conversations it’s sparking are so important.
One World, One Reality
“Marvel has always been and always will be a reflection of the world right outside our window.” - Stan Lee
There are two takeaways from that statement:
One: Stan Lee didn’t say that in the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s. He said it in 2017.
Two: Our window, not your window, is a subtle but important distinction, particularly as it relates to TFATWS. The Flag Smashers, led by Karli Morgenthau, live by a simple creed: “One world, One people.” The core message of the show is that white Americans and Black Americans experience the world very differently, but there’s still only one world, one reality. 
It’s just a matter of people opening their eyes and seeing it.
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TFATWS is an extension of Marvel’s early support of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Stan Lee created the X-Men as an allegory for the ongoing struggles of the African-American community. Though he didn’t explicitly base Professor X and Magneto on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, there are ideological similarities.
Five years later, following the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy, Stan wrote the following:
“Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. It’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race—to despise an entire nation—to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if a man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.”
In 2021, Stan’s words still resonate. Racism in the United States is as virulent and damaging as it’s ever been. Black Americans are facing deadly policing, Jim Crow 2.0 voting laws, mass incarceration, and countless other roadblocks to mobility that most white people have never encountered.
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Through the journeys of Sam and Sarah Wilson, Lemar Hoskins, and the heartbreaking Isaiah Bradley, TFATWS shows the unvarnished truth of what Ira Glass might call Black American Life. And through John Walker, the writers nail home the message that’s really making certain people squirm:
White men are the greatest threat not just to Black Americans, but all Americans, because TFATWS is as much an indictment of toxic masculinity as it is of bigotry. 
As aggressive racism has spread like wildfire since 2016, so has hostile sexism towards women of all colors. John Walker is the embodiment of the hyper aggression that the Proud Boys applaud. The clearest example of this comes when Walker dares to clap the shoulder of Ayo, one of Wakanda’s Dora Milaje.
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Her swift and, ahem, pointed response had women the world over screaming like they’d just won the lottery. 
One could also argue that Walker’s dogged pursuit of Karli and displaced peoples supporting the Flag Smasher cause mirrors the Trump administration’s war on immigrants. 
There are plenty of parallels to draw. The point is, none of them are forced or manufactured or exaggerated. And whether we’re talking about a fictional road in Latvia or a real street in Minnesota, white Americans need to stop avoiding conversations that make them uncomfortable.
The Politics of Comics 
In 1938, Americans were still reeling from the Great Depression. Enter Superman, the everyman hero, who made his comic debut while the nation was facing widespread unemployment, rampant poverty, and blatant corruption at every level of government.
Superman could have faced off against any number of supernatural villains. But Siegel and Shuster went a different route, setting a precedent for comic books that has prevailed to this day:
They got political. 
Throughout Superman’s earliest adventures, he fought against evil politicians, apathetic bureaucrats, aggressive police officers, greedy businessmen, and even a Washington lobbyist. 
Then in 1941, Joe Simon & Jack Kirby introduced Captain America just in time to fight the nazis and free the world from fascism. A couple decades later, Kirby and Stan Lee would tell the tale of the aforementioned Erik Lehnsherr, who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. These comics endured because their passion and nuance transcended entertainment. So what was the secret sauce?
Like Siegel and Shuster, Simon, Kirby, and Stan Lee were Jewish. Representation matters, folks. 
Later on, the X-Men weren’t the only conduit through which Marvel supported Civil Rights. In 1966, on the heels of the “March Against Fear” from Memphis, TN to Jackson, MS, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby unveiled Black Panther. When African-Americans were fighting harder than ever, Black children could suddenly read a comic book about T’Challa, the noble warrior king of a highly advanced African nation. 
Marvel has never been shy about critiquing foreign policy either. Tony Stark and Iron Man debuted in 1968 as the conflict in Vietnam was escalating. And let’s not forget, Tony made his MCU debut in a film that is a clear indictment of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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We could do this all day, but you get the idea. 
Comic books have always reflected the politics of our times, and so has the MCU. Fanboys can’t start crying now just because they’re on the wrong side of history. And when they do, we defer to the great Jon Bernthal when asked about alt-righters appropriating the Punisher symbol:
“Fuck them.”
Life Imitates Art
In 1986, American men felt the need for speed. After Top Gun was released, applications to U.S. aviation forces increased by a staggering 500%. 
Two years later, Errol Morris exposed police corruption in his film The Thin Blue Line. The documentary prompted a new investigation that eventually exonerated death row inmate Randall Adams for the murder of a police officer.
That same year, the Polish government ceased all executions after leaders were swayed to do so by A Short Film about Killing.
Following the release of Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine in 1999, Kmart bowed to public pressure and stopped selling handgun ammunition. 
And 5 years ago, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif changed the law on honor killings in response to the critically-acclaimed film A Girl in the River. 
Like we said earlier, film has the power to spur social change. Even if the effects aren’t always so direct and immediate, television and movies have always contributed to the process in America. 
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Seeing the Ricardos sharing a bed allowed some Americans to start relaxing their prudish ways. 
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Maude empowered women as they fought for reproductive rights.
The Jeffersons and Good Times facilitated calmer discussions about race relations.
And The Ellen Show led to greater representation of queer people on screen and greater acceptance of queer people in society. Though Ellen herself has become a problematic figure in the last year, that legacy still remains.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is hardly the first show of its kind. And given the impact film has on society, we believe Hollywood has a moral obligation to produce content that exposes society’s ills and fosters productive debate. 
Stan Lee would be very proud of the team behind TFATWS for bringing the stark reality of American life into people’s living rooms. The next time you see someone bitching about it, remind them what Stan himself said just a few years ago: 
“Those stories have room for everyone, regardless of their race, gender, religion, or color of their skin. The only things we don't have room for are hatred, intolerance, and bigotry.”
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What Animals the Avengers (and Co) Are
Bruce Banner
Bunny
Bucky Barnes
White Wolf
Carol Danvers
Lioness
Clint Barton
Hawk
Gamora
Pitbull
Helmut Zemo
House cat
John Walker
Bull
Lemar Hoskins
Goat
Loki
Snake
Natasha Romanoff
Black Widow Spider
Nebula
Piranha
Nick Fury
Shark
Peggy Carter
Swan
Peter Parker
Jumping Spider
Peter Quill
Porcupine
Pietro Maximoff
Llama
Sam Wilson
Falcon
Scott Lang
Ant
Sharon Carter
Horse
Shuri
Cheetah
Stephen Strange
Owl
Steve Rogers
Bald Eagle
T'Challa
Panther
Thor
Golden Retriever
Tony Stark
Lion
Valkyrie
Bear
Vision
Octopus
Wade Wilson
Jack Rabbit
Wanda Maximoff
Tiger
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