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galaxywolfdogassemble · 2 months
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capibuck · 2 years
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Merman Stucky AU 💚
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imaginedreamwrite · 2 years
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Upcoming series I will be (eventually) writing:
Easy On Me — alpha!Lee Bodecker x omega!Reader, mail order omega, soft!dark
Breathe You In — asylum patient!Steve Rogers x nurse!Reader, set in the late ‘40s, Steve was captain America, soft!dark
Everything For You — best friend!mob!Jake Jensen x reader
Wildest Dreams — alpha!quarterback!Steve Rogers x omega!reader x alpha!halfback!Bucky Barnes
Endless Love — merman!Jake Jensen x diver!reader, Fae!Jefferson x photographer!Reader, two separate reader stories tied into one
Ugly — Prince Charming!Steve Rogers x ugly stepsister!Reader x captain of the guard!Bucky, soulmate au, retelling of Cinderella, stucky x reader
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can I have all those fat merman Steve thoughts? 👉👈🥺
I love him and your writing and this AU is so good it needs to be shared!!
❤YOU SURE FUCKING CAN ❤
Warnings for VERY self indulgent content below the read more cut including: unbeta'd, extreme weight gain, belly kink, immobility, merman × light-house-keeper stucky AU, some kind of plot (spooky and also incredibly rare here), etc.
Backstory for everyone but us two lunatics 🤣:
This AU idea sparked from a conversation between Dumpling and I about belly kink awakening content from our childhood's. I opened the conversation with the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and then later re-disovered another picture book I read that Made Me Feel Things lmao
That second book was about these mermaids, little girls, who decided to not listen to their father and go talk to humans. Their Dad warned them that, hey, humans are bad and will trick you. Don't. But they didn't listen! And the two mergirls make friends with two human girls on the shore. These human girls then introduce the mergirls to human food (among other things) and they hang out everyday for a few days, swimming home in time to not get in trouble every time except-! Eventually, the human girls bring tons and tons of different food to give the mergirls rather than splitting half of their picnic lunch with them as they had before. And the mergirls eat all, all of the food. Eating and stuffing their faces until they're so heavy that they can't swim home. And they have to sleep on the shore for the night, returning in the morning to their ocean kingdom. The mergirls are then "punished" for endangering themselves with the humans as well as for their gluttony.
I never knew why I liked it so much as a child, reading and rereading, until I suddenly remembered it and connected my love of it to, well... the content on this entire blog 🤣🤣
But yes yes yes, personal backstory aside, now time for the AU backstory:
Bucky is the lighthouse keeper.
He lives alone on his little island with supplies and a few animals, mostly a bunch of birds he feeds, the flock depends on the season. Also though, he has a cat, Alpine. She hunts mice occasionally (when they become a problem) but otherwise she sticks to her fancy wet food. The little princess.
There's a boat or two dragged up from the dock at the rocky island shore to the land. He has to have some way to get back to the mainland.
And while the island is little compared to, like, fully established island nations, it is more than big enough for a lighthouse, garden, and plenty of open space.
Bucky loves his garden and grows all that he can- there's not a lot to do but cook and clean. He mostly cooks a lot before a trip back to the mainland when he drops all his treats off with friends and family.
Picture this Bucky:
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(Personally I'm thinking modern-ish era but... eh, either way, 1940s or 21st century, choose your own adventure)
And STEVE
Merman Steve!
This Steve is pre-serum looking, very thin, petite, his ribs sticking out everytime he breathes in deep, underwater or on land. He's the "runt" of the pod of merpeople he's apart of and on top of that, this winter has been hard... its been Extra difficult to find food.
But, Steve,, Steve's eyes are hypnotizingly blue. As are his scales, his tail so so blue, the webs between his fingers blue tinted, scales at his elbows, the edges of his fan shaped ears, etc. His skin is so pale that it's nearly see-through. He probably, definitely has freckles... when you look close enough at least. Otherwise he's too pale for anyone to notice them. And Steve's hair is so, so blond. Underwater it looks platinum blond with the sunlight and water reflecting but above water it's wheat-golden, the longer hair at the top of his head juuust long enough to fall into his eyes.
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Enough backstory! Onto the story-story!
Steve is no match for the late winter storm that centers over that patch of ocean one night. He gets bashed up against the rocks at the shore of Bucky's island. Getting bruises and thankfully only minor cuts. Mostly he's just confused as to where the fuck he is, currents pulling him this way and that. When Steve finds a smooth wooden surface to cling to instead of rocks... he stays put.
That surface is Bucky's modest dock.
And that same winter storm night Bucky feels his house tremble and shake around him. The lighthouse attached to his home is fine but... he feels as if he'll blow away in the wind! Alpine spends the night weaving nervously in and out of his legs as he walks around his home, heating up soup for dinner, taking a shower while listening to the rain batter the sides of his home and the howling of the wind beyond.
In the morning, the storm clears.
Bucky goes about the island ensuring everything is in one piece and investigating what might've been blown ashore in the night.
He finds Steve.
And...
Maybe it's the cabin fever talking; a result of being alone for so long on the island but... coming along just in time to watch this shaking, trembling creature (beautiful creature) crawl up onto his dock, battered and bruised, thin enough that Bucky might be able to snap him with his bare hands, Bucky feels the urgent need to help him.
Bucky has never seen a mermaid before.
Steve has never seen a human before.
"Are you okay?" Bucky asks.
Steve... Steve pauses and for a moment Bucky is pretty sure that he doesn't speak English but then- "I... I dont know."
"Can I help?"
Steve nods.
Bucky helps by telling Steve to stay there while he runs home to fill his bathtub with sea water since when he asks if salt or fresh water matters, Steve cocks his head and says he doesn't know what fresh water is. Isn't all water fresh? Bucky runs back and forth from the shore to his house, dumping buckets of sea water into his tub. Then-
Bucky gets a wheelbarrow, originally for his gardening needs, and easily lifts Steve up into it, rolling him home.
"What's your name?" Bucky asks, rolling him over the grassy meadow back to the lighthouse.
"Steve."
"Steve, hi, my name is Bucky."
"Bucky? Is that a common human name?"
"Not particularly, it's a... a modification of my middle name."
"Your middle name? You have a beginning and ending name too?"
"Yeah, kind of, I have a first and last name too. James Buchanan Barnes. Bucky comes from the middle name, Buchanan. Buchanan is waaaay more common then Bucky."
"I'm just Steve."
"Well, okay, I like the name Steve."
Then-
At home, with Steve now resting in his sea water filled bathtub, Bucky cleans up the worst of his cuts and bruises with antiseptic after using some soap to scrub off the mud and seaweed- "are you sure this is helping?!" Steve asks, whining,"it hurts!"
"I promise it helps."
Steve might complain about the ache of cleaning his wounds but he does the exact opposite when Bucky feeds him afterwards...
Tail splashing water as he flicks it every now and again, first Bucky has him try some leftover but reheated cooked fish with lemon and garlic butter. Steve wolfs it down so fast and so eagerly (three whole big fillets!) that seconds have to be in order afterwards! Bucky cooks too much for himself anyway and just looking at how thin Steve is, Bucky wouldn't mind cooking more just for him. He can have more than three fillets. Seconds are a few homemade scones slathered in jam. Thirds are plenty of strips of smoked ocean salmon. Fourths are more scones on account of Steve's request.
But by the time he's done eating everything Bucky gives him, barely taking enough time to mutter a thank you before tearing into whatever it is, the meal (or meals rather) are visible on Steve.
Visible in how his stomach pushes out from his ribs harshly. Unnaturally almost- so large and round that Bucky thinks about asking if merpeople have stretchy stomachs before he reels himself back in. That's a rude think to ask. In human culture but also probably merperson culture.
Either way, Bucky keeps looking, hiding in plain sight of just being a curious human. His belly... it's so stretched. Pink and taut.
Steve stretches out, sloshing some water over the side onto the floor, and moans. "God, if I could eat like this all the time, I would! And I'd never swim again..." he chuckles, "I'd sink like this I think," he slaps a hand over his stomach, forcing a burp out of himself.
Bucky laughs to cover his own moan but can't help continuing to stare at how Steve's webbed hands rub his swollen stomach. And without another actual thought, beyond ohohohohoh Bucky adds, "i-if you can't swim tonight, that's okay. You can stay here. If. Uh. If you want to. I'm not- not trapping you here. You are free to leave but if you want to-"
"Oh, yes, thank you-" Steve murmurs, still rubbing his own impressively large stomach, eyelids drooping as he turns his head to look at Bucky.
Bucky stares back and puts his foot in his mouth again, asking, "do you want help?"
Fuck. Oops.
"With what?"
"That-" he chokes out after a moment of stuttering, eyes flicking to his tortured, bloated stomach.
"Uh, I guess, how'd you be helpi-?"
"Like this," Bucky interjects to lay his hands on his skin, fever hot and thin, stretched over the rock-hard mass of food inside him.
Steve moans. He struggles to lift his hips up into the touch too.
Bucky has never felt more- more electric. Since the moment he first spoke to Steve he knew he was special and he liked him but touching him... fuck. Bucky is pretty sure he's in love with him. He's beautiful and smart and-
Full.
(Bucky later jokes to Steve that if he had known better and been more guarded he might've thrown Steve out with accusations of him being a siren, not a normal merman. Or maybe he wouldn't've... he might've been too hypnotized.)
But... it goes on like that, Steve lives in Bucky's bathtub, eating as much as Bucky will feed him. Probably even more than Bucky would've give him, if not for his asking for more. But sometimes Steve gets into a fit of feeling like he's too reliant on Bucky for everything or whatever and will ask to be put back into the wheelbarrow and taken back to the ocean. They say goodbye but he never really leaves. He stretches his fins in the ocean for a while. Staying low enough that Bucky can't see him from the shore or lighthouse but never returning to the ocean depths. Eventually, sheepishly, Steve turns up back on Bucky's dock.
They don't make comments on how or why he's back. Bucky is simply happy to have him back.
Steve gains weight.
It usually doesn't hit Bucky, how Steve is changing, until he takes him from the shore back to his home with him after his adventure alone. He stops looking for the signs of his changing body when he's always in the tub, day after day...
He really does change though. First, he gains enough weight that Bucky can no longer spot and count each of his ribs but instead looks healthy. Then he looks a little husky... some of the weight goes to his muscles, sure, but calories seem to favor becoming fat when in his body. Then he's chubby. His stomach rounds out first, a little pot belly that grows larger until its a gut, but subtlety, all the while, his hips and tail catch up to his gut by filling out wider and wider with blubber. His pecs fill out too. Little chubby tits that match his swollen tummy and his thick tail. He gains weight until he looks so soft that Bucky kind of wants to either grab him and sink his fingers into his blubber or he wants to bite him. To feel how soft he is.
He gains and gains, stuffing himself with human food and hardly swimming. Just sitting and plumping up in Bucky's tub. Waited on hand and foot (tail?), stuffed with more food than he could ever hope to catch.
And Steve. Well, Steve just eats and responds to Bucky's prompts or questions or general conversation between bites. Bucky leans against the bathroom wall or the side of the tub and talks between his trips to the kitchen. He never gets tired of feeding Steve or talking to him.
Somewhere along the way, they also become Bucky and Steve. Getting together. Bucky doesn't really know when or how that happens. He's very glad it does though...
Once, when Steve genuinely wants to stretch his fins and isn't pretending to go back into the wild, Bucky struggles to lift him up. He's truly fat now. He forgets how fat he's gotten. It seems like that stick-thin, angular merman is so far away. Besides, Steve looks much more like himself fat. Its hard to describe but fat Steve looks more like Steve than a half-starved, haunted merman.
Steve gets into the wheelbarrow with Bucky's assistance, he swims for a hour or so (only an hour?? he felt like it was so much longer... has swimming always been that exhausting?!), then returns to the tub and, oh-
He doesn't fit very well in the bathtub anymore.
Fat belly. Fat tail. Fat tits. Fat arms. Fat. Fat. Fat. Steve is fat. Too fat for Bucky's bathtub, evident by the tight feeling of his big body pressed against the cold porcelain. Too fat to swim away from sharks or predators but also too fat too catch fish in the ocean. He's no longer slim, no longer slipping quickly through the water. He lumbers now, especially on land. Clumsy and fat.
😳😳
Both Steve and Bucky pause, staring at each other. Steve wedged in the tub. Bucky bent over him, looking down at the mountain of blubber he makes. His tummy especially.
Fuck.
It's been an entire year since they've known each other now, winter melting into spring, hinting at summer all over again, and Bucky promises that come spring and summer, he'll begin digging out an in-ground pool for Steve to live in. Something he can't outgrow.
"I'll have my own zoo then, huh? A live-in zoo with my pet whale. All to myself to spoil and play with, yeah?"
Steve squirms where he's wedged. His blush works down from his forehead to his soft chest. His nipples are hard. His belly has had time to digest from his swim and he aches to have Bucky stuff him full again. He wants to be rock-hard under his layer of blubber. Bloated and stuffed so full that Bucky can press down with his fingers and feel it.
He wants to be fed so big that Bucky won't be able to pick him up. Outgrown the tub and wheelbarrow...
By the time the pool is dug and water is rushing into it, ground water and salt water and rain, near the end of summer Steve really can't fit himself in the tub. His fat sides squish out over the edge. His tail is about as wide as the tub and sticking his ass down into the tub, then moving, creates suction. So much so that he almost can't shift in the tub without help. His gut and incredibly intensely stretch mark-ed sides are always dry, sticking out of the top lip of the tub. He is huge. A whale. Not a little mermaid, slim and svelte as he was when he first showed up. Now he's covered in bubbler and stretch marks and fat and rolls and he has trouble swimming. He has trouble moving, with or without Bucky's help. When swimming, Steve can't really dive, his blubber makes him too buoyant. But he can float on his back, like an otter. Belly to the sky.
His belly is his biggest part of him. To the point that he looks SWOLLEN. Pumped full. Strained around the constant snacks and meals and desserts.
Everyday when Bucky finishes cooking breakfast, he greets his boyfriend by humming, "good morning, whale," and every time it makes Steve shudder inside, hot for it.
He might already be a whale but he's seen bigger whales. He wants to be bigger.
The move from tub to pool is extremely slow and strenuous. They have to stop twice to get Steve snacks before they're done. Bucky jokes that it's unfair that he's so hungry because it means that he's heavier for the rest of the journey to the pool 😤
Not that Bucky doesn't want him bigger or heavier, of course.
Steve loves his pool (other than the part where he has to swim more often but don't worry, he just starts eating more and he gets some muscles under all of that fat)!! He gets to feel the sunshine and breeze and he keeps getting all the same amount of food too. It's lovely. He's even happier. A little ball of lard. Endlessly round with roll after roll, stacked up around his dome of a gut. He's more fat than anything else, spending his days in the shallow end of the pool with Bucky feeding him until he literally can't eat another bite, moaning and surrendering.
Bucky climbs on top of him like that, Steve so fat that he's held down to the bottom of the pool, even in a few inches of water, heavy, and straddles his tail. Rutting his dick against his blubber-thick tail and burying his face in Steve's obscenely round belly (his arms have to be spread wide to reach the ground around his round gut). Stuffed, PACKED full of his love in food form.
Bucky gasps and moans and works himself into a frenzy on top of him. And all the while Steve simply enjoys, drunk on food and arousal, wet with burning hot desire but... again, he's food-drunk, body slugging through all the fat and grease and flavor, so he can wait while Bucky gets himself off.
Bucky could fuck Steve, his slit gets wet and would hold the shape of him sort of like a vagina but usually he can't wait. Bucky needs it now.
Bucky mouths at his soft fat over his hard, packed tight belly, and humps him. Splashing water all over. About to come and muttering, crazed, about how big his whale is. His prized whale... whining about how blubbery and huge his trophy whale is. Bigger than everyone else and yet he's still going to get bigger. A growing, greedy whale. Bucky keeps going, winding himself and Steve up by promising that he's going to go to the town on the mainland next time and buy everything he can, every type of food, and stuff all of it into him so he can make more blubber. Get bigger. His whale. He loves his big, fat, huge whale. Fat enough and full enough that he can't even swim. He can't move. All he can do is get bigger, fatter, larger. His whale.
Bucky comes, splattering messily over Steve's gut. The part of his whale he's made the largest. Steve moans because as crazed as Bucky is for this, Steve is more. He's the one who's put on so much weight that he's unrecognizable. He is the one still opening his mouth.
So, yeah, extremely fat merperson Steve 🥵
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8 & 29 for the superlatives ask if you're still doing these? Or runner ups if you've done them <3333 Hope you're having a nice end of year, kay!
Bri, heyy! Thanks for asking ✨ I'm sending you so many good thoughts for the end of 2022, too! 💘
I just answered 8 here (because Slayer Bucky my beloved), but I'd say my second best/fave characterization is my Swim Team AU Bucky. I just adore him, he's so nerdy and smart but not afraid to make himself vulnerable, and I guess that's what I admire a lot in people?
29. Most spontaneous fic
A lot of my fics have kinda come out of nowhere, but I think the first merman!Bucky fic had the wildest trajectory, 'cause at first I was honestly just making a moodboard for a Stucky week prompt, then I was like hm okay yeah I can write a little snippet and eventually it grew into a small but dear-to-my-heart series. 🧜🏻‍♂️
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stuckybingo · 2 years
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Stucky Bingo Round-Up #37 (May 22nd - 27th)
Don’t forget to fill out the submission form to be a part of the round-ups and to get your bingo badges!
when it's cold, you pull me closer by lavenderbucky Square filled: I3 - AU: Shrinkyclinks Ao3 rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Cuddling & Snuggling, Domestic Fluff, Cosiness, Softe & Warme Summary: Steve comes home after a chilly morning to his boyfriend, who's more than happy to share their bed and his body heat to warm him up. Format: Short oneshot (300 - 1000 words)
Names by freedvmrouge Square filled: G1 - Magical Creatures Ao3 rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Dehumanization Major tags: Alternative Universe - Fantasy, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Angel Steve Rogers, Non-serum Steve Rogers/Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes Summary: The Asset, failing in his standard elimination mission due to unforeseen circumstances, became baffled on what to do next. Finding kinship with a not-so-Fallen Angel certainly wasn’t what it expected, neither was their journey to self-conception. Format: Part of a multichapter fic
Something’s Starting Right Now - Chapter 2 by PoliZ Square filled: N3 - FREE Ao3 rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply, reference to past torture Major tags: AU Merpeople, Captivity, Shipwreck, Alternating POV, arranged marriage Summary: Chapter 2 Summary: Steve’s return to the sea in search of the merman he freed from captivity was a foolish endeavor, so he seeks solace in his memories. It turns out to perhaps not have been so foolish after all. Overall Summary: For the good of his clan, Clint is marrying a man he never met. He wasn't too thrilled about it -- that is, until he met James. Their relationship gets more complicated when Clint is confronted with an element of James' past. Format: Part of a multichapter fic
A Stolen Moment by PoliZ Square filled: Adopted Square Feb - AU: Incubi/Succubi Ao3 rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Sex under false pretenses Major tags: First Person POV, Outsider POV, Wartime, Implied Sexual Content, poetry + prose Summary: I feel the pull of a lonely soul, a soldier who is barely more than a boy and very, very far from home. Format: Short oneshot (300 - 1000 words)
Takin’ What They’re Givin’ (‘Cause I’m Workin’ for a Livin’) - Mission Four: Pour Some Sugar - Part 1 by PoliZ Square filled: N5 - Sugar Daddy Ao3 rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Sex Worker Major tags: Sex Worker!Bucky, Secret Identities, Sugar Daddy, Steve Rogers is a Virgin, oral sex, Summary: Steve invites Bucky to meet him in New York for the weekend; they meet and after a lovely date, head to the bedroom. Format: Part of a multichapter fic
Three little letters by Laevateinn Square filled: G5 - Letters Ao3 rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Eurovision, Musician AU, Ireland, Romania, meet cute Summary: Steve was nervous. It wasn’t the fault of the competition. No, that… he didn’t mind much. He had already won by being chosen back home. No, what was making him nervous, was another contestant. Format: Moodboard
None by Diamante-chan Square filled: O1 - "I don't know if I'm worth all this" Ao3 rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Self doubts Major tags: Established relationship, domesticity, marriage, pet, kid Summary: Bucky and Steve have been together for a while and they're about to move onto the next steps of their life: a home for their own, marriage, pets and kids. But Bucky can't help but wonder if he really deserve any of that. Thankfully Steve is there to remind him that he deserves all the love and joy there is in the world and more. Format: Art
Bucky Barnes, ER Regular by Ribbonsflying Square filled: I4 - AU: Medical Setting Ao3 rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply, hospital setting, non-graphic mention of injuries, sutures Major tags: comedy, doctor Steve, doctor Sam, injured Bucky, frienemies Sam and Bucky Summary: A very accident prone Bucky Barnes has ended up in the ER with Dr. Wilson and Dr. Rogers again. It's a regular occurrence. Nobody takes any of it seriously at this point. Format: Medium oneshot (1000 - 5000 words)
Last Confession by freedvmrouge Square filled: N1 - “Until the end of the line.” Ao3 rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Implied/Referenced Suicide (basically Project Rebirth) Major tags: Established Relationship, Letters, Goodbyes Summary: The letter Steve writes to Bucky the night before his Project Rebirth’s procedure. Format: Short oneshot (300 - 1000 words)
Crush by grandmacore Square filled: N1 - James "Rhodey" Rhodes Ao3 rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Fluff, Getting Together, Established Stucky, Steve/Bucky/Rhodey Summary: Steve and Bucky have a crush. Format: Short oneshot (300 - 1000 words)
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estelior · 2 years
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Merman Prince Bucky and his beloved fisherman Steve.
Couldn’t wait till mermay, the itch to draw mermaids was too strong :-D
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quickie of the boys for #Mermay  🧜‍♂️
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I have this little merman au in my head where bucky gets captured by hydra so steve goes looking for him with the help of sam and natasha
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merman AUs are up this with my favorite AUs of all time and merbucky is also a personal favorite lmao, so I’m totally down for this!
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darthbloodorange · 3 years
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Bucky meets a mysterious creature he'd thought only existed in fairy tales while out on the boat. He watches, mesmerised at the scales that glitter beneath the waves, transfixed by the man's beauty.
The merman seems equally smitten.
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For the: ✦ @tonystarkbingo​ Mark V prompt “Merpeople” [K2]; Card: 5049
Word count: N/a - Moodboard Title: Scales that Glitter beneath the Waves Rating: Gen Universe: Marvel Cinematic Universe Pairings: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes Warnings: None Major Tags: Mermaid AU, Sailor Bucky Barnes, Merperson Steve Rogers, First Meetings ~ Summery: Bucky meets a mysterious creature he'd thought only existed in fairy tales while out on the boat. He watches, mesmerised at the scales that glitter beneath the waves, transfixed by the man's beauty. 
The merman seems equally smitten.
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nitramoff · 4 years
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frosthexe · 2 years
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Plunge - leveragehunters (Monkeygreen) - Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
Steve squawked as a hand wrapped loosely around his wrist. He braked, wings banking so hard he almost somersaulted over himself, and surged up and away from the ocean, spinning to find himself staring at—
A triton was laughing up at him, sharp teeth gleaming in the sunlight. Steve had seen tritons before. He knew what lurked under the water. The power and violence wrapped in muscle and skin.
The triton's grin turned knowing, like he could see what Steve was thinking. "Hey there, Feathers. You want to go for a swim?"
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pandamega · 4 years
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You know what's my favorite AU?
Mermaid au.
Not for any decent reason though.
Because I'm a fucking pervert and something about merdudes getting penetrated makes me lose it every time.
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by Marvel_Mania
Steve is a pirate who plays the violin. Bucky is a merman who hears Steve play. After hearing him play the first time, Bucky follows Steve's ship in hopes of hearing him play again.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Relationship: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Meet-Cute, Pirates, Mermaid Bucky Barnes, Pirate Steve Rogers
Series: Part 4 of Meet-Cutes
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I've had a merman au fic idea for a while now and your fic has my mind running with it again so thank you ❤😍
Seriously that was so well written 🥺
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Aaaaa Christy omg!! This is LITERALLY what I look like right now??? 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I'm so so so happy to hear you enjoyed my Stucky Merman AU, and found it inspiring! There can never be too many Merman fics! 💗🧜🏻‍♂️
Thank you, darling! I hope you’re having a lovely day! 💞
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Ocean Souls (Stucky Mermaid!AU)
Hot Springs
MASTERPOST AND ADDITIONAL POSTS HERE
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Steve tried not to cough around Winter, but today when the mer dunked him into the water and Steve came up spluttering, he coughed hard enough that Winter swam closer and held him for a minute, concern written across the pale eyes. 
“Stevie?” 
“M’fine.” Steve ducked his head under the water and spit the blood from his mouth but mers were predators, and Winter’s nose flared when he caught the scent. 
“Stevie!” 
“I’m fine!” Steve said louder, but he clung tight to Winter’s neck as they headed back to the boat dock. “Winter, I promise. I’m just tired.” 
Winter wasn’t stupid, but he didn’t want to upset his little mate by pushing the issue either, so he set Steve gently on the boat dock and propped his chin up in his hands, staring up at Steve worriedly. 
“I’m okay.” Steve stretched out over the dock so he was eye level with Winter, folded his arms and rested his chin so their noses bumped. “Tired. Coughing a little.” 
“You’ve been doin’ so good though.” For once, Winter wasn’t snarky or sarcastic, his deep voice barely more than a whisper. “I thought we were gonna be alright.” 
“Can you um-- can you scent it on me?” This close Steve could see all the different shades in Winter’s blue eyes, the silver rings around the edges and the flecks of red that expanded when the mer was angry. “Can you scent that I’m sick?” 
“Dunno if it’s scentin’ for sure.” Winter admitted with more than a hint of melancholy. “But I knew when I met ya.” 
“It’s the same thing that took my ma.” Steve inched closer until their foreheads touched too, and Winter purred over the contact. “Doc says I could be okay if I stay strong this summer.” 
Winter was quiet and Steve closed his eyes and shook his head. “M’sorry I’m a shitty soulmate, Winter. Sorry outta all of them, I was th’ one to come around this time. Took me so long to believe I was yours and now--” 
“Stop.” Winter ordered, growled, almost snarled, baring his fangs and letting his eyes flash red. “Stop that. I love all the ways you are, Stevie. Every last one of them.” 
“Right.” 
Winter was quiet another moment, and then-- “Come and swim with me. You got enough energy?” 
“You do all the work, I should have plenty of energy.” Steve managed a smile and Winter covered it with a long kiss. “I’d love’ta swim with you, Winter.” 
“C’mere then, sweetheart.” 
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Winter took Steve further than he ever had that day, taking his mate up the coast a ways before diverting into a small, natural harbor, warning Steve to “take a deep breath” before diving down and taking them through an underground tunnel for several minutes. 
It was amazing that Steve didn’t panic when the water around them was black and heavy, that he didn’t panic when Winter’s arms scraped the side of the tunnel and even the mer’s powerful tail couldn’t propel them any faster against a ruthless current. 
Winter loved the show of trust from his soulmate, loved the feel of Steve’s thin arms tight around his neck. Every time they shared air Steve tried to turn it into a kiss which only meant Winter would tease him mercilessly about being so horny he’d rather kiss than breathe, and even though Winter’s arms stayed wrapped safe around Steve’s frame, he loved that Steve’s hands wandered. 
Steve was fascinated by the motion of Winter’s tail and kept reaching around to Winter’s hips to feel the undulation. He loved the flex of Winter’s stomach and to wind his fingers into Winter’s hair and sometimes just to be a little shit he’d blow a ring of bubbles into Winter’s face. 
Winter loved it all, every single second. 
They finally surfaced in an underground cavern, the roof stretching higher than Steve could see and the walls cut into deep grooves and smoother divots by centuries of water trickling down through the rock and down to the pool. 
“Oh, this is beautiful.” Steve craned his neck around to see the entire cavern. “How did you find this?” 
“Jus’ the sorta thing you find out about if you spend enough time in the ocean.” Winter said non committedly. The water was very deep in the pool, deep enough that he didn’t dare let go of Steve at all, so Winter swam carefully over towards one of the walls where several rocks jutted out to form something of a bench. 
“It’s so warm!” Steve’s eyes lit up in excitement once Winter settled him on one of the ledges. “This is amazing!” 
“Yeah?” Winter heaved his weight up onto one of the rocks mostly submerged and leaned back onto his elbows. The water was plenty warm for Steve, but against the mer’s scales it was almost uncomfortably hot and Winter took several deep breaths to try and cool himself down. “You like it?” 
“I love it.” Steve slid lower on the ledge until everything but his chin was underwater. “It’s like a bath. So warm. Soothing. Easier to breathe in here than it is in the cold water.” 
“M’real glad about that, sugar.” Winter smiled when he saw the flush climbing Steve’s cheeks. Steve had looked so pale earlier and now his blue eyes were sparkling, porcelain skin glowing, and even though Winter knew his soulmate was sick and a swim in the hot springs wouldn’t change that, it still made him feel better to see Steve smiling. 
“I love you, Stevie.” he whispered, swallowing hard when Steve’s smile stretched extra wide. “And I’m sure not sorry it’s you this time around, alright?” 
“Alright.” Steve whispered back, kicking his feet in the water. “An’ I love you too.” 
Later, after Steve had had his fill of splashing in the very limited space that Winter let him go without his help, Steve clambered over the rocks and sat himself right on Winter’s lap, spreading his knees wide so his knees were on either side of Winter’s tail. 
“Hey.” he said with a pleased little smile and Winter ran careful claws into Steve’s hair and tugged him in for a long kiss. “This is amazing. The best I’ve felt in a long time. Thank you.” 
“I’d do anythin’ for you, Stevie.” Winter kissed him again, and then again when Steve sighed and pursed his lips for another. “We can come back here tomorrow. Next day too.” 
“Isn’t the water too hot for you?” Steve dusted his fingers over the glitter at Winter’s shoulders and frowned when he felt the rough texture. “You’re drying out.” 
“M’fine so long as my tails wet.” Winter shrugged it off. “Besides, it’s hard to care when you’re sittin’ all close like this.” 
“You’ll tell me if it’s too much.” Steve ordered, with all the importance he could muster in his hundred pound body. “Promise?” 
“Sure thing, Stevie.” 
Winter never said anything, not when Steve fell asleep in his arms and it grew almost too hot to breathe, not when the tide came in through the narrow channel and the water level raised enough that Winter’s entire body started itching, his skin tight and uncomfortable. 
And when Steve finally woke up and sat up to stretch, his smile made it all worth it. 
“C’mere.” Winter ducked lower in the water just so Steve would have to hold tighter, his fingers roaming all over Steve’s lean frame and clutching him close as they kissed over and over until Steve was panting and writhing on top of him impatiently. 
“I want--” Steve moaned when Winter’s fangs caught at his pulse. “Winter, please-- I want-- we should--” He worked an impatient hand down between their bodies, feeling along Winter’s scales and giving a greedy little sigh when he found the part in scales and the warmth beneath. “And I’ve been--” now he blushed a little and pressed his mouth to Winter’s ear. “I’ve been practicin’? Trying it out with my fingers so I know if I like that sorta thing--” 
Winter growled helplessly, his eyes flickering dark red. “Stevie--” 
“I don’t wanna be-- you know.” Steve cleared his throat. “But I’ve never--never done this. Not even close. It’s all been with you, so if I’m gonna do it at all, I want it to be with my soulmate, right? Wanna be with you like all the other-- all the other ones did. All the other Steves. Before we run outta time.” 
“We have time.” Winter shook his head to tamp down the panic. He hated when Steve talked about them like they were temporary. “We have time, love.”
“No.” Steve shook his head, his bottom lip trembling. “No, we probably don’t. So you know. Please?” 
“C’mon, baby.” Winter went back to kissing Steve, urging him closer and closer again to touch him all over, quietly loving the way the warm water had soothed Steve’s limbs loose and pliant. “This is enough for me, just how we usually are.” 
“You don’t want me?” Steve asked anxiously and Winter couldn’t help another growl. “Is it cos I’m skinny? Cos I’m small? Is it cos--” 
“--afraid I might break ya.” Winter said hoarsely. “Stevie, of course I want you, but if I hurt ya I’d never forgive myself.” 
“You won’t hurt me.” Steve leaned in and pushed their foreheads together. “Just one time, Winter. Just so I know what it feels like to be loved before-- before-- I mean, I know you love me. I know you do, but I-- I just wanna know. With you.” 
“Shhh.” Winter trilled coaxingly, lifting Steve’s chin gently, hiding the anguish clawing at his soul at the thought of losing his mate. “C’mere, I’ll show you what it feels like to be loved.” 
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