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    We don't recognise others as one whole, we know them in pieces; their eyes, their movements, the way they breathe, the way they smell... Through these unconsciously gathered fragments do we create the whole in our minds. Piece, by piece, by piece, we learn another and we slowly come to recognise them, know them, feel for them, need them...

    Not too long after being unfrozen after 70 years under ice, Steve Rogers goes to work for Nick Fury at SHIELD HQ in Washington DC. The missions start to roll in and Nick Fury assigns him a new backup when he finds himself in need of a skilled forward scout and sniper; a strange man with a metal arm and a mask, known only as The Soldier.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    “What is all this?”

    “Keys to Steve’s place in Brooklyn, and his motorcycle. Some records about his, ah, accounts and things. He—well, he hasn’t been declared officially dead, we can’t, you know, say anything about the time travel, but—”

    “He’s not coming back,” says Bucky, before Banner has to try to couch it softly, or spare Bucky’s assumed feelings. It’s a courtesy Bucky doesn’t need. His feelings have seemed very far away since Steve left. “I know.”

    "Yeah, so, uh, I just figured you should have all this."

    Bucky is doing fine after the Blip. He has his amends, he has his exit strategies, he goes to therapy. Steve's gone, but that's fine, Bucky can deal with that, even if he can't deal with feeling like a ghost in the apartment that Steve left behind. But when Steve returns, they'll both have to deal with how to rebuild a friendship and a home that are haunted by the ghosts of who they used to be. Their methods of doing so are perhaps less than ideal, what with how they involve more sex and stealthy surprise interior decoration than any actual communication. Maybe that's all they need to make a new home together.

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    17 Oct 2025

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    Without all the drugs, the memory stuff had started flooding back in. Which was a laugh and a half, squatting in some leased flat that wouldn’t know a proper air conditioner if it had eyeballs, so Bucky had battened down the hatches and gone out to get himself a job.

    Enter Falucci’s Corner Store.

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    17 Oct 2025

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    His body is not his own.

    This may not be the first thing they teach him, but it is the first thing he learns.

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    12 Oct 2025

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    Jason Todd returns to Gotham with a detailed plan for Batman, the Joker, and the new Robin he’s seen pictures of in the papers. There’s just one tiny problem with his plan: Batman is missing. Also the Joker is missing. And nobody has seen Robin in a while.

    In unrelated news, there are two(?) teen vigilantes patrolling the streets of Gotham. Someone should probably do something about that.

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    Jason was going to find answers, and when he did, he was going to beat the shit out of someone. Who it was going to be depended on what the fuck, exactly, was going on.

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    29 Sep 2025