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Bob has a burner account and defends the thunderbolts online- especially John. They just think he's not into social media and that's why he doesn't have one for himself. He doesn't correct them. Oh but he does however spend so long on his phone sometimes, for someone who doesn't have any social meda.

Hm. Yelena narrows her eyes at Bob one evening, where the man is curled up on his usual spot in the common room, fingers absolutely demolishing his phone screen, a scowl in his face, is Bob mad? I don't think I've ever soon Bob mad. He must be losing some game or something.

The burner account (Bob) posts such sassy and surprisingly informative responses to those hating on the New Avengers that a lot of them blow up from time to time in, like really blow out. Sometimes one of the bolts even likes a tweet or a sassy response or something. They think it's nice, that not everyone thinks they're disasters.

After a while, the burner account is caught in Mel and then in Val's radar. Val thinks she could really use whoever is behind such a good defense job of those disasters in her PR department, and works her fancy CIA bullshit to track it, except, well, the signal gets back to the Watchtower lol she reveals her findings mid meeting and Bob just. Looks so red in the face. He's looking at the door of the meeting room like it's the most interesting thing ever-

Anyways he would kill for his fami-um, team, but before it escalates to that point, maybe he'll just get into online fights for them (and gag anyone he gets into beef with while he's at it)

(sorry for the words vomit this is one of the many ideas I plan to incorporate in my sentryagent fic, currenly only 3k words along, after 2 months of creating the google doc file :( sorry I'm as slow of a writer as I am fast of a reader)

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Guys It's the bisexual awakening. Let him be 😔

I love tagging Sentryagent fanfiction with both "John Walker being an asshole" and "John Walker not being an asshole". I'm like yeah he's going through something, let him figure it out.

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This is so prettyyyy😭💓

Take the risk, it's worth getting caught.

Patreon.

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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You can see Bob putting his book away in the background, shit's about to get real 😭

Thunderbolts* (2025) Avengers: Doomsday (2026)

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John is such a mischievous mf 😭🙏🏻

JOHN WAS THE FIRST WHO LOOTED FROM TASKMASTER’S CORPSE.

It’s insane how sharp his eye is: he noticed Tony's gun on the move and grabbed it.

His (attempt at) playing innocent gets even funnier when you remember he’d already swiped her gun five minutes earlier.

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Came out of the F1 cinema showing thinking "God the sentryagent AU potential is mad crazy😍"

And my mind hasn't stopped running since

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Why's Bob so cuteee😭😭

[BOB LAUGHS] ‘it was getting so tense in here for a second.’

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blinked 5 times in 3 seconds

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I need this injected into my veins fr fr

Okay so I've written a little something. It was supposed to be a character analysis about how John's behaviour towards Bob speaks about John's struggles with being the perfect american man, but I've got carried off, so this post is more about how John's behaviour can be interpreted as John being obliviously drawn to Bob, and how I imagine him slowly developing feelings for Bob. It's under the cut if you're interested;)

So John's default reaction, when he feels anything too strong for him to rationalise, is aggression. Not just anger, but being a dick to the person he feels targeted by (especially when it's unmotivated). And that, having been in the military for many years, he conceptualises relationships between men (except for the one he had with Lemar, because their bond was of course deeper than any one he ever had with another guy) as being based on submission and dominance. Who gives and who follows orders, who gives and who takes the punishments.

That being said, let's talk about his on-screen interactions with Bob. Literally a second after he met him, John has been outright aggressive to Bob. Poking him constantly, being rude without any cause, besides Bob being himself, so rightfully confused about the whole situation and nervous about three mercs pointing their guns at him. It's clear he attacked Bob because he was something John couldn't stand, something John finds unacceptable in a man, I might add. Wearing his emotions without hiding them, being anxious instead of coldly focused, like most of the men John has been around in his life. It instantly bothered him a great deal, because John doesn't understand that. And of course, John put himself in a place of superiority to Bob, because that's how it works between men, and Bob would never be above him in that sense. That's what made him push Bob against the wall when Bob insulted him. He was offended, of course. But he also couldn't accept Bob stepping up to him, because that's not a role for weak men.

It's obvious what I'm going for here: John felt threatened by a man being so different from the standard he has learned a man must be. A proper man, strong, unemotional, cold. He didn't like being faced with the embodiment of what he has learned being "not man enough" means. Not when all of his life, John has strived to be that man. There can't be another way of doing it, can there be?

But John was also curious about Bob. About what he was and why he was in the vault, of course, but I'd like to imagine that his curiosity extends beyond that. Maybe, especially after they all move into the Watchtower and start to know each other more, he wonders what it's like in Bob's head, what it was like growing up without hiding the most difficult parts of him. His mental illness, of course. But also his sensibility, his gentleness.

Are we also on board with Bob being gay and knowing that from a very young age? With that being an additional reason for his father's abuse? Good, because once John realises that Bob is gay and doesn't think that's a big deal about himself, he also obviously starts to obsess over that. Because of course he's not homophobic, but also how can you be so chill about something so... how can he put that? So private, so controversial? So hard? And his gears start spinning about that too.

In conclusion, John goes from being angry that he doesn't understand Bob, because he's so different from anything he knows to be good and right for a man to be, to obsessing over those said differences. It would take him so much damn time to realise he's grown a habit of observing Bob. That he slowly stopped analysing him, and turned to just watch him maybe a bit too much. That his "how is Bob so kind?" has evolved into "how can Bob be so kind?" and inevitably turned into "I like how kind Bob can be".

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"All his cute comments, how he always looks in all directions because he’s so curious, the way he squeezes his eyes shut and turns his head away before shooting, how he doesn’t want to hurt anyone even though THEY hurt him all the time, his adorable smiles and all of that - that's HIM. Like damn even the way he sneezes"

Oh . I think I just fell in love with a tumblr paragraph byeee🥺✨

Also, I saw some stupid discussions on Twitter about how fanfics have Bob stuttering and fiddling with his sleeve and such, and Op said that was infantilizing him, which is absurd. It's canon; he does do all of those things. It's how his anxiety manifests.

Also, let's not forget the shaking hands, fidgeting in place, blinking rapidly, and flinching in the face of violence (because, yk, unlike every other thunderbolt, he was just Some Guy pre-Sentry Project??).

Like, bfr, Lewis Pullman didn't act his ass off just for me to disregard those character-defining tics and gestures. It's called being accurate to canon. If that's not your thing, go off. God knows I've rewritten half the MCU in my head at this point, but don't call it infantilization.

Infantilizing Bob is when writers act like he is helpless and stupid for the sole reason of being mentally ill.

He is a former drug addict, god knows what he went through, and the crazy thing? He is a survivor, that's Bob for me in one word, even if he doesn't see himself that way.

He even survived a shady scientific trial where every other candidate died. It's what Bob does; he survives. And while it's sad to think about, we can only speculate on the many skills he's gained over the years to survive the shitty hand he was dealt in life.

There is a fine line between Bob thinking of himself as those things because he clearly suffers from self-esteem issues -void or no void- or the others, in a well-meaning way, trying to help or keep him out of danger because they are protective of him, and you portraying him as a helpless baby who doesn't know how to do anything. Tread carefully.

saw the discussion on twitter and wanted to speak about it here too, just this once, because everyone's talking about it so damn much

calling Bob pet names and wanting to love the fuck out of him is NOT babying him. people do it to ALL the characters all the time, even to super buff, perfectly healthy men. babying/infantilizing is thinking he is incapable of doing something, that he needs constant help and supervision, it’s about talking down to him and looking down on him

JUST AS BAD as people infantilizing Bob are people who reduce his every action to his disorders/addiction/anxiety

His shaking hands, stuttering, fidgeting with hands and/or clothes and such are caused by those

The rest is the kind of person he is, that’s HIS personality and HIS behavior

All his cute comments, how he always looks in all directions because he’s so curious, the way he squeezes his eyes shut and turns his head away before shooting, how he doesn’t want to hurt anyone even though THEY hurt him all the time, his adorable smiles and all of that - that's HIM. Like damn even the way he sneezes

Why the fuck is Bob completely one thing or completely another to almost the entire fandom?

He IS the sweetest cutest boy, but of course he can be sarcastic and rude if you’ll bother him. he IS the kindest, but of course he'll tell you everything he thinks about you if you’re an ass. like he's a fucking human being, he has a LOT of emotions and if he's driven to it, of course he'll get angry and won't hesitate to say his opinion back.

People no longer understand what infantilization is, and so many other people are afraid to say that Bob IS the ultimate babygirl because they think others will misunderstand and attack them immediately (and that’s exactly what happens lmao)

well if YOU don’t understand the difference then that says a lot about YOU and that's entirely YOUR problem. Open google and read about the meaning of things.

I also want to point out that people who say "he literally was on drugs!!" are grossly generalizing and stereotyping because they’re implying that all addicts are the same, that they all have the same behavior and everything, forgetting that they are all people (!) with their own personality, emotions, their own pain and stories, forgetting that people become addicted for their own completely different reasons. But that's a whole other conversation.

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Nothing screams "I'm writing a thunderbolts (sentryagent) fic" like getting this shit recommended to you after going on a whole 3AM spree researching guinea pigs

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no sentryagent HC does it for me quite like Bob being John's #1 rage baiter... just, ugh, so good (and nothing we haven't seen in canon)

The infantilization of Bob is so fucking funny cause that man is actualy a Brat and he probably rage baits the fuck out of John

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RIGHT? Like I just don't get it... John doesn't exactly give anyone else on the team any nicknames so???? Cue the "I know what you are" dog meme AHAHAUWHWHSB

not to be annoying and gay but literally what made john call bob “bobby.” what made him do that

you can say he did it to be an asshole but that was like once. he immediately just starts calling him that. pulling him up from the tunnel he says “can you make it bobby?” not to make fun of him but to literally just ask if he needs help. talking down the sentry he says “you don’t want to do this bobby” because he’s trying to reach him i’m so

why is he like this

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All animals love him, honest to god never seen a chicken be as quiet and chill as the one he was holding in the video? Lewis Pullman is a Disney Princess confirmed 🎀

Lewis Pullman for Bustle (◕‿◕✿)

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I'm very stupid because no shit Yelena keeping the guinea pig is canon. Look at the end credits😭😭😭

Category is lab "rat" taken in by Yelena Belova <3

I'm fucking crying why are they the same they genuinely look so similar in my eyes😭 (whatever you do don't think about them both being lab "rats" adopted by Yelena ((yes she adopts the guinea pig and they call it Cucumber and Bob feeds it apple slices piss off ok idk what to tell you))