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Blue-eyed matador by FlamingoQueen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
27 Jan 2024
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The asset is programmed not to strike a handler. Not to struggle no matter who is doing what to it. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to shy away when technicians approach torch-first to take it apart and put it back together in the name of science, research, progress. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to object to the mouth guard, the restraints, the chair. Not to beg or plead when it is left empty and hungry in its cryo tube. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to so much as consider harming an operator, the highest of all members of the organization. And...
And if the silent, liquid fury in the asset’s eyes is any indicator, the asset does not comply.
(Or: The one where the asset is thawed out during the Chitauri attack on New York, escapes, and goes hunting for revenge with the Avengers hot on the trail.)
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- Part 1 of Blue-Eyed Matador (the series)
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- English
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- 582,590
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- 152/152
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21 Apr 2026
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Reaching Out by Steve_writes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Apr 2022
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[Bucky Barnes X Reader]
Y/N has always kept to herself to avoid others from discovering her abilities. After a night she would rather forget, S.H.I.E.L.D. gives Y/N two choices: stay at a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility to be monitored, or stay with the Avengers to be monitored. She reluctantly chooses the latter.
While learning new skills, Y/N faces the challenge of navigating the meaning of family after years of detachment from others. Then, when an old threat familiar to both the Avengers and Y/N reappears, she is given the ultimatum of helping or hiding. Despite the unknown, Y/N places herself in the world of superheroes and finds her purpose may be more than what her parents had her believe.
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NOTE: Uses 'Y/N', but is written in 1st person POV (so kinda an OC?)
Follows a timeline where Hydra is still active after 2014 (CA:WS), Avengers didn't break up after Civil War, and takes place a couple years after Bucky's return from Wakanda.
Complete second and third stories!Series
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- English
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- 113,504
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- 37/37
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20 Apr 2026
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A Birdie Lost in Time by Steve_writes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
07 Aug 2023
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After the battle against Thanos and his armies, Marlow Hendrix is tasked with helping Steve Rogers return the Infinity Stones to their rightful times. When her mission goes awry in 1970, she keeps her resolve, waiting to find a way out of an increasingly dangerous situation while being stuck away from home and away from help.
Back in 2023, Bruce picks up her signal and pulls it to the present, unaware of the danger that lurks in the past, but it is only when an unexpected threat steps off the platform that they realise just how badly the mission went.
And when Marlow finally returns, she struggles to come to terms with her past in order to accept her future—but with the help of a familiar face, she might just do it.
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Main themes:
Time-travel, canon-compliant, Hydra, slow-burn, trauma, brainwashing, friends to lovers.
Timeframe is mostly between Endgame to FATWS with time-travel at the beginning of the story.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 209,065
- Chapters:
- 55/55
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20 Apr 2026
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Blue-Eyed Matador (the series) by FlamingoQueen
Fandom Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
06 May 2026
Summary
What started as a 10-20 chapter outline has become over 200 chapters worth of content, and no one is surprised, haha!
This series starts out with the Asset escaping HYDRA's clutches in 2012 during the Chitauri attack on New York, includes his murder revenge tour against HYDRA across the country, his eventual capture and rehabilitation by the Avengers, and many adventures in therapy and recovery beyond that. Plus, Winterhawk (that's Clint/Bucky) slow burn that lasts hundreds of chapters as they circle each other and fall in love. Observe as villains die brutally on the page and civilians and bystanders occasionally become close friends of the cast and cast members themselves.
There's some HYDRA Trash Party tropes in here that can get pretty dark, but everything should be tagged appropriately per chapter in the end notes. And since it's a revenge tour + recovery journey, most of the HYDRA Trash Party stuff is either referenced only or is firmly in the past. We're moving forward (slowly) not backward, here. ^_^
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- 1,468,261
- Works:
- 6
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- 198
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18 Apr 2026
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Redundancies by Noxnthea
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Hawkeye (Comics), Marvel
07 Nov 2021
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Clint didn’t mean to kiss the Winter Soldier only days after being rescued from the Raft. He didn’t mean to trip his way into a time machine in the lab in Wakanda. He definitely, 100%, didn’t mean to spawn three alternate realities for his dumbass self to fumble through saving.
Now if only he can stop telling everyone he meets he’s from the future, rescue his loved ones from their tragic backstories, and get all three versions of James to like him as much as he likes them, he might have a chance to make this whole thing work out.