Family, Friends, Deadly Assassins...

Feeling insane about this

I'm plagued by the thunderbolts, have some randomly assorted headcanons

Ava, Bob, and Yelena yell cucumber instead of "bless you". They especially like yelling it at John because he finds it dumb and annoying. Bucky and Alexei are confused.

Ava and Yelena end up getting really close. Neither of them have had friends since childhood, so it's nice to connect with one another. They bully John together 💕

John gets his kid for the weekend. While he was a distracted father, he still knows HOW to take care of a kid. None of the others besides Alexei do and he can't believe how incompetent they are. Alexei likes John's kid because toddlers are easy to impress lmao.

You know the "life changing field trip with Zuko" thing from ATLA? Life changing field trip with Bucky. One way or another, Bucky either comes to an understanding or gets closer to the others on the team. Bob was thoroughly startled to find out that Bucky wasn't scary, just socially awkward

No one but John and Bucky knows how to cook. They don't even cook WELL, just passable. How everyone else has made it this far on take out and frozen meals is beyond them. Ava and Yelena go "how hard can it be?" And now they're yelling at Alexei to follow the recipe as he insists that he knows better and this will taste WAY better. Bob is quietly ordering pizza.

If things turn into a genuine screaming match on the team, Bob going "can we please calm down?" Makes everyone very bitterly simmer down because they know this a bit triggering for Bob

In general, I think they start to learn one anothers triggers and start being more mindful of them. Barely even consciously, but they've all felt that void inside them and don't like being the reason someone else feels it again.

Everyday Bob is blown away by what's happening around him and what's happened to these people. Like, while Bob had a rough life, it was a "normal" kind of rough. No experimentation, no super powers, no government plots. Just a normal guy dealt a terrible deck in life. He's spent the vast majority of his life with no powers.

Ava, Yelena and Bob decide to hang out one day as normal people. They are very bad at this and they come home with torn clothes and a cat.

I'll stop yapping for now, I just love them

a small collection of recent sambucky doodles

Hola y'all

I'm Tinnuellen, you can call me Ellen if you want. The name is Sindarin, I won't go too much into detail unless someone asks.

This is mostly a Marvel blog, current obsession is Thunderbolts and Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

I am a writer!! I take writing requests too!

anyway, I don't have much to put here, have a good day

keep reading Thunderbolt fics where Bucky drinks tea a lot. No idea who started that idea but it's fun

I like to think the habbit started with Zemo

Thunderbolts headcanons:

•Everyone who was in the vault likes to yell cucumber at random times. John is the worst offender. He will do it just to startle Bob. He is *absolutely* trying to bring Sentry out just to fix the shield. Bob has now fallen off the couch multiple times. Yelena has now hit John with his own shield.

•Yelena accidentally switches Bob's name and the guinea pig's name sometimes.

•Bob really likes Taylor Swift's evermore and folklore.

•Kate comes over to hang out, and Yelena points at the cutlery drawer and goes, "See? More forks than people. Like normal humans." Everyone else is very confused by this. Yelena does this every time.

•Everyone keeps making divorce jokes to Bucky about Sam. It doesn't matter that they're not actually a couple. Not one bit.

•If they ever meet, Joaquin and Bob become instant friends. Many jokes are made at their expense(mostly by Sam) about them being two different flavors of Florida man. Joaquin gets them into incredibly stupid situations. Bob panics and calls Yelena.

•Bob has accidentally called Yelena "mom." They both froze.

•Bob will read pretty much anything you put in front of him. He has read everything from classics to cheap romance novels.

•Everyone has called Alexei "dad" at some point. Even Bucky.

•Speaking of, Alexei refers to Yelena, Ava, and Bob as "his gorgeous daughters and his very strong son."

Me being crazy over small things lets go

So we all know about The Gun

but you know what else is similar?

their hair

Yes, several arguments could be made

that's a common hair style for guys

it looked that way before the war too

it's just hair you're over-analyzing way too much!!!(hey, I need to do something)

I can't think of anything else, it's solid /j

First one: Common hairstyle

Yeah, I can't refute that, it's kinda a fact. But you know what? There are So Many Other Hairstyles too! Maybe it's common, but it doesn't seem that common, especially in the movies(don't quote me on that, it's been a while since I've seen them). If he looked at a book and pointed to something random(like I've seen in a few fics), there's a good chance it wouldn't have been that.

Second: It looked that way before the war

No it didn't! Bucky's hair in TFATWS is way more similar to Brock Rumlow's hair than it is to his own in CATFA

Captain America: The First Avenger:

Longer on the sides and top, both are swept to the side and back.

Longest front prices are swept up and to the side, making an arch and curve

Softer, lighter brown, and well taken care of

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier:

Shorter all around

Spikier, messier but still nice

hair in front is swept forward and spiky(very similar to someone else...)

Okay, it's similar, why?

I don't know, lets think

During the depression and during the war Bucky seems to take care of his hair, he makes sure it looks nice.

While he was the Winter Soldier, there was a good chance his hair wasn't cut at all, if it only grew when he was out of cryo that could be it. He didn't have a choice and no one did it for him.

Then he was freed. When he was on the run he obviously didn't care, it was unwashed and long and he didn't take care of it.

But in Wakanda. His hair is nice now, it's washed and wavy and looks like he got ready to see Steve.

But He Didn't Cut It.

Why? I don't know. Hair is said to carry memories, was he too afraid of losing his again that he didn't want to cut his hair? Was it because He wasn't ready to let go of a part of himself like that when he just got himself back? Was it because he knew he looked really good with long hair? I don't know. But he didn't cut it.

Now, TFATWS.

He cut it. He decided that he would make a choice to cut his hair, and he chose That.

Did he remember Rumlow fondly? Is that why he carries a part of him in his hair and his gun? Did he have a vague memory that his hair looked close to that and just went with it? What was he thinking? Did he want to look like Rumlow for a reason or just because?

And Thunderbolts*

his hair is long again

we're back to the Winter Soldier y'all

TLDR: Bucky's hair looks very similar to Rumlow's and I don't know why but it seems like it has some sort of significance because of his past hair choices.

Thunderbolts Sparring

How good are all of the Thunderbolts(Yes I'm still calling them that I don't care) at sparring? This is what I think. List is from worst to best(Bob not included)

5. Alexei Shostakov: Yes, I know he's a super soldier, here me out. Alexei is very strong, but in a group like this, being strong isn't as big of an advantage as you would think. He can throw someone around yes, but does he seem like he has the amount of training everyone else has? No. Against unenhanced people he's amazing, when fighting with trained assassins? I actually think he would lose first.

4. John Walker: Yes, he's like, the best in the military, that's also not super cool compared to some training the others have. I do think he would beat Alexei in a fight because he has the same strength but more training, but he would lose to some of the others because they are trained better, have different skills, and have more control over their strength. I do like to think he's somewhat still learning how to control his strength. Even though he has military training, with the serum he seems like he would rely more on his strength than skill to take down an opponent.

3. Ava Starr: She would be so much higher if she could throw a punch better. With her skillet, she doesn't even need to fight and she would be absolutely amazing at dodging. I think she would easily beat John and Alexei by dodging and trowing a few well aimed punches. Though I don't think she is the best and hand to hand fighting. With a weapon? Amazing, you're probably not winning. Hand to hand? She probably needs a little bit of practice. She seems more of a spy with a gun than a soldier.

2. Yelena Belova: She's a widow, what else do you want? I think she would be able to beat both previous super soldiers because her fighting style is so different and she's very quick on her feet. I think she could also beat Ava because quick enough reflexes would be able to get her before she phases again. She was an assassin, she could definitely beat around a lot of people.

1. Bucky Barnes: I headcannon that he trained the young widows in the Red Room so yes, I think he could beat Yelena in a sparring match. Maybe it would go back and forth a bit, but for the most part I think Bucky would be able to win. He was an assassin for far longer, has the super soldier serum, and has a vibranium arm.

These are just my thoughts and how I write the characters, I would love to hear how anyone else interprets their fighting styles!!!

Ok so with Bucky driving and crashing that van into a building in thunderbolts, Is it too much of me to ask/ imagine that:

Bucky just wordlessly takes the steering wheel with him after. It’s not like they’ll need it anyways, the vans likely not drivable after that, so Bucky just rips it off its hinges so casually and carries it with him out the van, leaving the rest of the thunderbolts kind of confused,

Because really, who just does that??

Bucky notices their confused faces, looks down at the wheel in his hand as if he hadn’t even realized he’d done it, and just shrugs “oh, it’s an inside joke.” And we don’t get an explanation for it at all, very IYKYK

And the last scene in the movie is just bucky coming home to sam, “got you a souvenir since you missed all the fun.”