Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Holy shitballs, look at us go. Welcome to Captain America fandom's resident wretched hive of scum and villainy: ROUND THREE. AKA Bad Guys Do Dirtybadwrong Things To Your Faves, AKA the Hydra Trash Party kinkmeme. As usual, BLANKET NON-CON AND NSFW WARNINGS apply: just assume going in that everything in this landfill is unfit for human consumption.

Rules in brief: don't be a jerk except to fictional characters, warnings for particularly fucked-up garbage are nice but not required, thou shalt not judge the trashiness of thy neighbor's kinks unless thy neighbor is trying to pass off their rotting banana peels and half-eaten pizza crusts as a healthy romantic dinner for two, off-topic comments may be chucked out of the dumpster at management's discretion, management's discretion decrees that omegaverse, soulbond AUs, D/s-verse, non-superpowered AUs, and dark!good guys AUs are off-topic.

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Round 3 is closed; comments and fills in existing threads are still welcome, but all new prompts go to Round 4.

Comments

Re: Mini-fill: The Interests of National Security [1/1]

[(Anonymous)]

*blushes* Aaaah, thanks so much!

It's funny, I was thinking earlier today about what this Steve's response would be to the "but how could Captain America let something like this happen to him and not prevent it???" side of the media shitstorm, and stumbled upon what I suspect is Steve Rogers' Philosophy On Fights: "if you win 100% of the fights you get into, it's a sign you're not picking fair fights." One dude vs the news media and the American security-theater apparatus is an absurdly unfair fight, so of course Steve charges right into it going "no, you move."

Re: Mini-fill: The Interests of National Security [1/1]

[(Anonymous)]

Agh, he could totally leverage this into a discourse about victim-blaming, too. "What, was my skirt too short?"

Re: Mini-fill: The Interests of National Security [1/1]

[(Anonymous)]

a!a

IDK, the interesting thing about throwing Steve into this kind of situation is I'm not sure he would approach it from the angle of mainstream anti-sexual-assault activism. Obviously there would be overlap because the entire thing is a rape scandal, but I think he'd be pushing hard for it to be viewed first and foremost as a war crime: "what, I was strapped to a table, experimented on, beaten, electrocuted, and half-drowned, and you'll call me a hero for enduring it, but one guy unzips his fly and now you ask me why I didn't break free?"

Re: Mini-fill: The Interests of National Security [1/1]

[(Anonymous)]

D!A

Oh, that's just the perfect Steve response! I think maybe he might eventually bring up victim blaming after having some people (fans or other avengers) mention that he could do a lot of good for people, but I definitely don't see him treating it as separate from anything else in the beginning. I can also see him being reluctant to be the poster boy for something, especially as a rape survivor. He's not exactly the king of healthy coping mechanisms.

Re: Mini-fill: The Interests of National Security [1/1]

[(Anonymous)]

a!a

I can also see him being reluctant to be the poster boy for something, especially as a rape survivor. He's not exactly the king of healthy coping mechanisms.

Haha, I think he'd absolutely bristle at the notion that he's obliged to be the poster boy for anything, especially if it's just because something crappy happened to befall him. He's just a guy doing his best, after all.