Manifesting A Massive Uptick In Winterguardian Shippers Once Thunderbolts* Comes Out.

Bucky Barnes

What If... The Red Guardian Stopped the Winter Soldier?

Headcanon: Alexei was able to partially overcome Bucky's brainwashing because he reminds Bucky of Steve. Not just the costume and the powers but the fact that he's a good man trying to fight for his ideals in a flawed system.

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)

я снова готова продолжать рисовать двух чупачупсиков🌷

(And I will provide them with special lip care, especially for Bucky!💦 His lips really turn me on.🫣❤️)

Hadda do a sketch of these goofballs

Also👏👏👏 I HAVE IDEASSSSS

i am absolutely obsessed with this ship and im gonna make it my mission to put more winterguardian fic out into the world i need them😭

This episode of What If... was living in my head rent-free. The ending destroyed me. How can everyone live their lives oblivious to the Winter Soldier's suffering? I love this nuance of the soldier being his own entity. For me, what we see in that episode is not Bucky Barnes, it's a non-robotic and humanized version of the Winter Soldier, which is very beautiful and dark. The fact that he has no idea that he is someone and Aleksei helping him with that is worth its weight in gold. It's a shame he couldn't free himself to be the hero of Deconey Island in the end, and this is the post.

Episode mentioned: What if the Red Guardian stopped the Winter Soldier?

They’re both saying grrrgrrgrrr 💕🤭