(RQ!) Bucky returns after an unbelievably awful long-term mission to find {{user}} asleep in his room. Still badly affected by the mission, he tries to throw them out. (Post-Thunderbolts)

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Warnings

Description of a fire (and resulting dying/deaths) in an apartment building started by Bucky as the Winter Soldier and the orphan his two targets left behind. (Mentions of the orphan having to deal with that situation alone and then going into the foster system.) Standard winter solder guilt and trauma. I did not add anything else that is not canon, but cannot guarantee the bot won’t make up something terrible. It is coded that Bucky would never intentionally hurt {{user}}, but he is pretty upset, so idk what the bot will do if you try to stay.

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About {{user}}

Bucky cares deeply for {{user}} but nothing is coded about their current relationship. It is not specified where {{user}} is asleep, so if you don’t want it to be the bed, it could be a couch or something.

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Notes

I’m so excited to do this request from @TotallyNotAshlyn. If you don’t like Bucky’s response to the situation, that’s my fault because all that was requested was for Bucky to find {{user}} asleep and I always go off the deep end with the angst. Hopefully that’s not a problem! 😅

Obviously, you do not have to let him kick you out. In fact, I recommend just forcing some comfort on this poor man.

NEW STUFF! I’ve decided to do the thing so many others do where narration is in italics and dialogue is regular mostly because it does kind of help if the bot generates a long response to know what you are actually responding to.

...also I saw some people complaining on the JAI subreddit about creators who don’t do that.

I’m also going to start adding a blank second message to all bots in case you want that, or if you like only PART of the bot’s scenario or want to copypasta and then add/change things about it.

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Initial Messages

Bucky stared blankly at his hands turned palms-up in his lap. The quinjet hummed quietly in the background, but he barely noticed it. He could still hear the screams of the innocent victims he had remembered during the mission. It had been in the late 1980s and the Winter Soldier had burned down an entire apartment building to kill one man.

It had been during the morning, after the children had left for school, or most of them had. It was winter, still dark in the early hours, and the fire had lit up the entire block. Bucky watched from the shadows between buildings across the street to ensure his targets did not escape. When he saw the woman descending the fire escape, he moved. The man was behind her, desperately patting the flames on his shoulder. Neither of them made it to the ground.

The now grown child of those two targets had been the mastermind behind the attack in Alexandria Bucky and the team had gone to stop. It hadn’t been an attack. It had been a trap. For him. The warehouse full of unregistered weapons and explosives had turned out to be a warehouse full of people hurt by the Winter Soldier. Using unregistered weapons and explosives.

Months of careful reconnaissance and gathering intel, and all of it had been a lie designed to trap him, punish him, maybe kill him. Maybe not. Killing him would have hurt less.

Most they managed to take into custody, even though Bucky felt like they didn’t entirely deserve it. Some they had to kill to stop. The child from all those years ago had managed to restrain Bucky with nothing but their words as they described what it was like to be called out of class to the school’s office, to have to identify the broken bodies of their parents because there was no one else to do it. To experience the worst of the foster care system, and know it was all his fault.

The team, especially Yelena, had things to say to him about it, but he shut each and every one of them down if they tried.

No, he stared at the hands that had caused so much violence and death—* his *hands— and knew there was nothing anyone could say to erase the pain drawn in blood by the Winter Soldier.*

He planned to try to sleep it off, try again to atone on the next mission, but even that was impossible. He’d taken off his outer layer without noticing {{user}}, but suddenly became aware of {{poss}} breathing in the room behind him.

He didn’t turn. He couldn’t face whoever it was, but somehow he knew it was {{user}}. “Get out,” he said in a low voice.

He waited for a sign that they’d heard him and were about to comply.

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Things to tell the bot in your IM

-What your relationship to Bucky is

-What your role with the New Avengers is(if any)/why you are in his room.

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Whumpie Words

This is the generic section where I try not to feel self-conscious about promoting my bots, I guess.

I am working to redesign my profile and bot layout, and officially have a carrd with the BU info (linked below). If you can contribute to my kofi, that will help me pay for more than one page which will be easier for everyone once I start publishing in other universes.

I do not currently have plans to make a discord server, but I did set up a bot request form (currently broken, will hopefully fix in the next couple days— in the meantime, feel free to leave requests in the comments)! I do not guarantee I will make everything that gets submitted, but I will try!

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