hydratrashmeme | Dumpster #4: I Don't See How That's a Party

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OP again and wow, this is great. I came for emotional devastation, and this delivered. It's like every chapter is a new circle of hell (and nice taste in music btw!)

My thoughts on Bucky's journal entries are just one long screech of sadness that can't be rendered phonetically- but rest assured that they are exactly the kind of angst I was hoping for with this prompt. I'm clinging to the fact that this takes place pre-CW to reassure myself that Bucky and Steve's relationship will improve from here, but if you want to deviate from canon and break my heart into even smaller pieces, that's alright too!

As inhumanly evil as the HYDRA goons are, Tony's the most disgusting person in this story to me, in his own way. His particular brand of spitefulness is so completely self-centered and gleefully voyeuristic--the deaths of his parents don't seem like as big a deal to him as his own wounded narcissism. I really like this grimdark take on his character (mostly because I don't like canon Tony all that much as a person). It'll be interesting to see if he becomes more sympathetic in future installments, if you decide to continue with him gaining more of an understanding of what Bucky (and Steve now! Poor Steve looking for a Bucky who can't bear to see him!) have been going through.

I am all for the ambiguous Stucky! It's a dynamic that I love both platonically and otherwise, and yes, the way the exact nature of their relationship is left open to interpretation makes for additional horror here. (I'll do you one worse-what if there were unacted-on romantic/sexual feelings on Bucky's end before everything went to hell, so if those feelings still exist on his part, he'll have to reconcile them with the fact that he has no positive non-platonic memories of the real Steve going forward?).

Dumpster #4: I Don't See How That's a Party

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