#bucky & peggy

[rohirriiim]

MCU Capfam + holding the shield for the first time

[theavengers]

I'd heard the rumors. But even if they're true, the man we knew is long gone, Peg.

[ironspidersblog]

Bucky and Steve’s relationship is so tender. Like I loved you when we were just kids in Brooklyn. I loved you when I went to war as to not leave your side. I loved you even when you were brainwashed into not knowing who i was or what love is. I loved you through it all.

[countessravengrey]

Shout out to ships whose canon relationships were sacrificed in order to give the hero a woman as a prize.

[artgroves]

Steve Rogers Learns to Fly by @gutterandthestars

[incorrect-marvel-because-why-not]

You know what I love about this scene?

Peggy and Steve BOTH look at Bucky like “sooo, can we have some privacy??”

And this little shit looks over his shoulder to see what they’re looking at, turns back, and proceeds to do everything in his power to prevent their flirting while staying professional. He knows he’s not supposed to be there, but this -frankly amazing- woman is this close to winning over his boy and like hell will James Buchanan Barnes take it lying down.

His audacity just kills me and I love it.

Edit/addition:

This is a sad scene to me too. Because Bucky is just standing there, right after being tortured by Zola, and watching the person he loves most in the world fall in love with someone else. You can see it on his face. He’s in pain, but the only thing he can do is stand there, because you can’t look away from a train wreck (in his world). Steve and Peggy are clearly already falling, but at least Bucky can slow it down by making the situation less romantic.

He can’t do anything else, but he can stand there, so he does. It will break his heart, but it’s the only thing he can do.

[avengerscompound]

"𝓘 𝓶𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷, 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻, 𝓰𝓸 𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓰."

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

[buckypascal]

The Winter Soldier. The world's most deadly assassin...

[marvelilovebucky]

He will always be worthy🫶🏼

[luna-rainbow]

I know a lot of fans are upset about What If and its continual attempts at making Steggy a thing.

But I don't see it as Disney has won? I came into this fandom in 2021, long after Endgame stopped any chance of further canon Steve and Bucky interactions, and I know of fans who came into the fandom long after that.

Because the magic is still there. Because CATWS was a genuinely well-written story and a well-presented movie. The plot, the themes, the characters, the action, the music -- all of it culminating in a climax where the main character reverses 70 years of manipulation and torture with a simple phrase, and in doing so, saves both him and the person he says it to.

Whether you choose to see them as romantic or platonic or anything else, that unbreakable bond is there.

What If and Rogers Musical are cheap knockoffs trying to capitalise on the same magic without understanding what created the magic in the first place. It's the sacrifice and the loyalty, the shared loss and shared experience, the same wanderlust and same homesickness. It is the thematic relevance and the narrative significance. It is the fact that Bucky was tied to Steve's identity as much as Steve is tied to Bucky's, that every key beat in Steve's journey to becoming Captain America and upholding his values involved Bucky.

The real tragedy about the Steve-Peggy story - as a Peggy fan had pointed out actually - is that even in What If, her story remains subservient to Steve. Not What If Steve, but canon Steve. Unlike other stories in What If, where a simple change leads to a butterly effect of an unrecognisable future, the direct effect of copying Steve-Bucky's interactions beat for beat is that "Peggy" becomes the least consequential factor in the story. "She is just as good as Steve", the writers want to say, "she brought forward feminism by 2 decades". But the reality is…she continues to be a non-character and a non-factor, because even in a timeline as significant as a woman becoming the first super soldier, the universe barely changes. It simply fills in the holes with other characters and continue on the same inevitable path.

Bad stories are forgettable, good stories last forever. Remember when we had that hilarious poll against OFMD and a bunch of people came out of the woodworks to vote for Stucky even though they had long left the fandom? Because a good story has magic, and it's left an indelible print on many people's lives.

Disney had already lost the day Steve uttered, "I'm with you to the end of the line, pal." The characters belong to us now.

[rohirriiim]

MCU Capfam + phones (inspo)

[theavengers]

If the stories are true, then the Hydra Stomper is responsible for some of the world's worst acts of terror, which cost the lives of dozens of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including friends of mine.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Captain America: The First Avenger ☆ text posts

[meidui]

steve rogers has a type

[trinhdrawss]

just watched what if (for bucky barnes of course)

[moralsareathingofthepast]

so what if epsidoe 5 is the same plot, with a little variation, of Captain America: The Winter Solider, but this time, its a straight couple. that gets to be canon. the EXACT SAME DYNAMIC. but with a woman. hm.