Bucky Barnes Headcanons: pining for you

bucky-at-bedtime:

daryldamnson:

This is basically just adorable pining Bucky.

This was not requested so idk why I did this when I have so much writing to do that was requested months ago but, y’know, shit happens.  Enjoy anyway!  P.S. this is the first piece of bucky writing I’ve ever posted so… exciting but also terrifying??

In my world everyone forgave everyone at the end of civil war and now everyone lives together and bucky still gets to live his best life w/o his left arm (bc that was obvi his choice when he was living in wakanda so why not here too?) and iw never happened bc i refuse.

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• Bucky would be the first to admit that he was no longer smooth when it came to dating
• while he may once have had a way with women (and occasionally men)
• this was something that had been lost long ago
• and honestly he hadn’t really had much use for it anyway recently
• romance wasn’t exactly on the forefront of his mind
• until he met you
• and then suddenly he was praying for his long lost skill to come back
• at least a little
• because honestly?
• his game was lacking so. badly.

• When you first met him Bucky was on the better side of recovering
• he’d accepted that he could never be as he once was
• and he was well on his way to healing and becoming a new person
• someone he wanted to be
• someone he was ready to be
• Bucky Barnes 2.0
• and right off the bat he’d thought you were attractive
• and funny
• and smart
• and goddamn were you attractive
• which meant that he was a little quiet at first
• a little nervous
• a lot insecure
• he’d do things like angle himself so that you couldn’t see his left side
• keep his head down so that his hair covered his face
• look at you only when you couldn’t see him
• basically just tried to make himself invisible
• but because he was all new & improved
• he decided to work through this properly
• and eventually spoke his insecurities and his “I’m not good enough”s and his “I don’t deserve love”s through with his therapist
• and came out mulling over the thought that maybe
• just maybe
• after everything he’d been through
• he did deserve love
• and maybe he was actually ready for it
• So after two months of stilted conversation, averted eyes and hidden feelings
• Bucky Barnes decides to give it his best shot at romancing you

• And that was when he realised that he wasn’t quite as smooth as his memory suggests he used to be
• despite his best efforts he still seemed to become mute around you
• sometimes because he was too busy admiring you to come up with a whole structured sentence at the same time
• seriously, how could he be expected to when you looked like that?
• sometimes because he’d try to speak
• and end up mumbling or stuttering
• which just made him feel embarrassed so he closed ranks again
• but mostly just because he was so nervous that he was going to fuck it up
• and he figured that if he didn’t say anything
• then he couldn’t ruin anything
• right?
• not only did it turn out that he couldn’t speak
• but apparently he had absolutely no control over his remaining limbs
• he dropped things left and right when you were around
• cups were elbowed off tables
• chairs were walked into and subsequently knocked over
• steps were stumbled over
• once he even managed to walk head-on right into steve
• and hell if sam didn’t rip him to shit over it for weeks afterwards
• he hadn’t even known it was possible for one to be so clumsy when they were all pumped full of super serum
• and yet here he was
• (what he didn’t know was that you found his clumsiness entirely endearing)

• Bucky made the drastic mistake of hinting that he needed help to Steve and Sam
• Steve only made a couple of jibes before seriously making an effort to help
• you were friends with steve so he could give bucky tips
• flowers he knows you like
• your favourite kind of chocolate
• TV shows he knows you watch
• film genres that you saw the most at the cinema
• restaurants that you raved about
• even small things like your favourite colour
• bucky used this information to the best of his ability
• aka he may or may not have bought 12 new tshirts in that colour as well as two pairs of sweatpants
• Sam however
• Sam was significantly less helpful
• ie he laughed his ass off
• made a few glib remarks about bucky’s helplessness
• and shrugged “i don’t know man I can honestly say I’ve never been in your situation – a centenarian tryna seduce someone a quarter their age”
• a couple of hours after that sam comes to him and gives him some real advice
• (after ensuring that no one would ever know that it was possible for him to be so nice to bucky)
• “you gotta get off your ass, man, and let her know that you want her.  you can’t expect her to choose you if she doesn’t know you’re an option.”
• Sam’s advice really hit home
• and Steve’s was exceptionally useful in helping him ‘get off his ass’ and put a plan into action

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Bucky Barnes is bisexual, let’s be real here, he deffo seduced men and women alike back in the olden days.

This will be followed by another set of headcanons at some point in the future (bc this was getting long so I figured I’d make a separate post) wherein Bucky confesses his feelings and finally (finally) asks you out.  If you wanna be tagged in that, drop me an ask.

I’m in a very Bucky-centric state of mind rn so I’m going to very briefly open headcanon requests for Bucky Barnes only.  I’m only gonna take a few so send them in quickly!

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