Wintersredguardian - You Love Him. The Story Still Ends

Hadda do a sketch of these goofballs

Also👏👏👏 I HAVE IDEASSSSS

Thinking about What If S3 E3 again today and the look on Bucky's face here is so powerful and telling of his thoughts and mental state.

He may not know he's Bucky Barnes, he knows he's about to be brainwashed but he is proud and himself.

He met someone [Alexei] he look up to, he finally act on his will, he did the "good guy thing" for the first time in how many years.

He was someone because he was finally seen as such so he had no problem looking HYDRA in the face and telling them "I won't awnser!"

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

Chapters: 1/? 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)

some buck training

★ shot

MLMay 2025

030. Contented - Bucky Barnes/Alexei Shostakov, Marvel's What If? (100 words)

Bucky: Alexei, you’re losing blood Alexei: No, I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't underestimate me