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   A Hazy Shade of Winter by FlamingoQueen

   Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

   • Not Rated, Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Series in Progress

   16 May 2024

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Other(s)
   • General Karpov (a la 616)
   • Maria Dmitrievna Karpova
   • Tracksuit Mafia
   • Vasily Karpov
   • Vladimir Ivanovich Karpov
   • Polina Tarasovna Karpova
   • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
   • Clint Barton
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes
   • standard Winter Soldier trauma umbrella
   • Dehumanization
   • Sassy Bucky Barnes
   • slight bird obsession
   • no really
   • so many birds - Freeform
   • holiday theme
   • Hydra
   • KGB
   • the Soviets still have Bucky
   • did I mention the birds?
   • there’s also lots of garland
   • Cryofreeze
   • Biting
   • See endnotes for content warnings
   • The General - Freeform
   • Gaslighting
   • Above and beyond canon-typical violence too
   • holiday theme if you squint
   • The General’s granddaughter
   • Medical Torture
   • Interrogation
   • Kidnapping
   • rough handling of a small child
   • POV varying
   • POV Multiple
   • the Winter Soldier has opinions about gardening
   • dachas everywhere
   • Bucky Barnes is good with children and so is the Winter Soldier
   • the girl with brown curls
   • Bucky’s sisters
   • the excavation team
   • The General’s grandson
   • The General’s sons
   • the Winter Soldier continues to have opinions
   • well the Winter Soldier is learning to be good with them anyway
   • and is sort of unintentionally natural at it
   • Birthday Parties
   • chocolate cake
   • Baking
   • Pies
   • Blueberries
   • the wife with the warm disposition
   • allusion to war crimes committed off-page
   • Cambodia broke the Soldier
   • Winter Soldier activation codes
   • nausea and what often follows
   • problems with eating things
   • well-intentioned objectification of a character that is nevertheless still objectification
   • misuse of rolling pins
   • that’s not how you use a hammer either
   • Choking
   • Strangulation
   • Dissociation
   • implications of noncon occurring off the page
   • Happy couples
   • unhappy couples
   • fucked up relationship dynamics
   • fucked up family dynamics
   • Mild Dissociation
   • Food
   • watermelon
   • Summer
   • One-shot
   • Not Black Widow (Movie 2021) Compliant
   • Red Room (Marvel)
   • Black Widow Program
   • Child Abuse (this is a Red Room fic so naturally)
   • Child Soldiers
   • All the little widows
   • Adorable stabby children
   • War zones
   • Murder
   • Bombing
   • Human Experimentation
   • Deaths of minor but named characters (all of them OCs)

   Summary

   This series started out as a place to stash prequel ficlets that were intended to be brief flashbacks/asides in a sprawling, unposted, in-progress Bucky recovery fic. But then the recovery fic's backstory got overly complicated and grew a narrative of its own. I cut the narrative off, but two more took its place. Go figure.

   (And the ficlets... all turned out to be stories. Again, go figure.)

   There are definitely tie-in/continuation shenanigans throughout this series, and the individual stories will be referenced by the aforementioned WIP, but each story of the series should largely be readable on its own. Pieces will be posted as they are polished up, probably out of chronological order. Each one will have at least one timestamp inside, though, and often several.

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   28 Apr 2022