Winterguardian Is My Roman Empire

Bucky🫦

Thunderbolts was SO SO GOOD! Working on a sentry animation as I type this

Bucky Barnes x Alexei Shostakov - WinterGuardian

"You Are Somebody"

They ditch the last body in a Nevada ravine and don’t look back. There are no more handlers, no more orders. No Red Room taskforce and no Hydra to haunt them. Now they're just two weapons built by monsters, finally turned on their makers. They steal a Dodge with a busted radio and windows that don’t roll down. The soldier drives while Alexei navigates. Alexei keeps one hand on the map, the other on the soldier's thigh.  They cross state lines without purpose - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico. There's no plan, just wind and dust and stolen hours. They sleep in cheap motels and abandoned cabins. Alexei patches the soldier's wounds in silence and hums old Russian lullabies when the soldier can’t sleep. They don’t speak of love, but when the soldier wakes in the middle of the night, breathing hard and shaking, Alexei is there with strong arms and calloused hands holding him tight, grounding him like gravity. Like faith. There’s no future waiting for them except whatever they make it. No orders, no redemption, no audience. Only stolen hours and the taste of freedom bittersweet on their tongues.

the fact that there's some hydra guy out there in a supermarket buying some cereal and seeing the winter soldier on a cereal box

Alexei is Bucky's biggest fanboy and it's so cute and relatable because honestly, same. Bucky on a motorcycle--super cool. Bucky ties everyone up--kinda kinky, but also cool. It's so adorable how totally into it he is.

Winter Soldier vs Red Guardian | What If…? S3E3

I'm going insane - it looks like they were on a road trip and Alexei picked up an old camera in some garage sale and they took happy snaps of each other on the way 😭

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Alexei Shostakov Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Alexei Shostakov, The Winter Soldier, Red Guardian - Character Additional Tags: Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Episode: s03e03 What If... The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?, Post-Episode: s03e03 What If... The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?, the winter soldier/red guardian - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, On the Run, Set in the 90s, Slow Burn, nickname for bucky, Snowed In, Stoic Winter Soldier, Red Guardian, cabin in the woods, Protective Alexei Shostakov, alexei shostakov - Freeform, romantic feelings, us against the world, Gentle Dom Alexei (kinda), Brainwashed Bucky Barnes, memory loss bucky barnes, Demisexual Bucky Barnes, canon divergence - 1991, Alexei playing the long game Series: Part 3 of Zimlis Summary:

Alexei continues his attempts to thaw the Winter.

(Yes, the rating has gone up. Things are gonna get spicy... eventually)

THUNDERBOLTS*

I await their meeting anxiously

"- what do you say in your defense Mr. Barnes?"