Winter Soldier x Red Guardian AU space
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Latest Posts by wintersredguardian - Page 2
They ditch the last body in a Nevada ravine and don’t look back. There are no more handlers, no more orders. No Red Room taskforce and no Hydra to haunt them. Now they're just two weapons built by monsters, finally turned on their makers. They steal a Dodge with a busted radio and windows that don’t roll down. The soldier drives while Alexei navigates. Alexei keeps one hand on the map, the other on the soldier's thigh. They cross state lines without purpose - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico. There's no plan, just wind and dust and stolen hours. They sleep in cheap motels and abandoned cabins. Alexei patches the soldier's wounds in silence and hums old Russian lullabies when the soldier can’t sleep. They don’t speak of love, but when the soldier wakes in the middle of the night, breathing hard and shaking, Alexei is there with strong arms and calloused hands holding him tight, grounding him like gravity. Like faith. There’s no future waiting for them except whatever they make it. No orders, no redemption, no audience. Only stolen hours and the taste of freedom bittersweet on their tongues.
Alexei: So. Mr Winter, what is the plan? Bucky: The Plan? Bucky: .... the plan. Bucky: *screams and drives into a building*
some buck training
Chapters: 2/? 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)
THUNDERBOLTS*
I await their meeting anxiously
I like my men socially unaware but emotionally conscious. Hugs a little to tight, and lingers a little to long. Arms always open. Gives the kind of forehead kisses that could heal the soul… five decades older then me…
Alexei Shostakov, I need you. 😫
"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."
"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."
I endlessly admire fic authors who have betas and write chapters and chapters ahead of what they post because you best believe my needy ass is slapping just-finished, mildly edited and typo-laden fics onto AO3 the moment they’re done so I can get that sweet sweet validation
Daily drawing 5 may 2025
Red Guardian
Where are my fellow winterguardian shippers at 👀
They’re both saying grrrgrrgrrr 💕🤭
I'm going insane - it looks like they were on a road trip and Alexei picked up an old camera in some garage sale and they took happy snaps of each other on the way 😭
lost in time / like tears in rain
More winterguardian and sentryagent
(Yelena, Bob and Ava are just siblings + the guinea pig)
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
Okay I caved, come join my Thunderbolts* server!!! I need a place to yap about this goddamn movie. Still semi in construction but good enough to go live right now so go inhabit it and we can ramble together :)))
This server is 16+ btw!! God please everyone be nice, I'm modding it by myself for now and the less drama we have the better!
Consider giving this a little reblog so it spreads around :) please and thank you
“Mr. Soldier”
“Mr. Soldier was my brainwashed and tortured alter ego. Call me Bucky.”
Thunderbolts* comes out today in Italy, but I'll go see it, probably, on Saturday, but in the meantime, KEEP THIS (Not actually explicit but Instagram and Tumblr are shy and they don't like too exposed skin of imaginary characters) Uncensored on Twitter, Bluesky and Ao3
THUNDERBOLTS* minor SPOILERS —
Alexei: “so what’s the secret plan?”
Bucky: “the plan?”
Also Bucky 2 seconds later: *proceeds to slam the van right into the glass corridor*
Also Alexei 2 seconds later: “i love this plan!!”
— Thunderbolts*
happy thunderbolts weekend!! (its so good and bucky looked sooo good)
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), What If...? (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Alexei Shostakov Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Alexei Shostakov Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Reunions, Slow Burn, No Spoilers for Movie: Thunderbolts (2025), soft angst, red guardian x winter soldier, Wistful, Mentions of memory loss, alexei and bucky reunion, Post-Episode: s03e03 What If... The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?, Past romantic relationships, Winter Soldier - Freeform, past mission partners, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Tender Alexei, Alternative Timeline, Canon Divergence, winterguardian, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, How Do I Tag Summary:
A long time ago, the Red Guardian and the Winter Soldier shared a mission, a cabin and sweat-slicked skin under the covers.
When they meet again, decades later.... Alexei still remembers. Bucky does not.
