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"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky."

ghosts in the metal arm

beeeee who you areeeeeeeeeee for your prideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

what if there were two boys and their world was at war, and they were doomed from the very beginning. what if their story starts with them saying goodbye to each other as one of them is sent to be consumed by the war that is devouring the face of the planet.

what if the other chooses to be transformed into a weapon to find his way back to his friend, but he still can't save him and has to watch him die anyway. What if he tries to follow his friend into death but he can't die anymore.

What if he is forced to live in a future more remote than he could have imagined, wielded as a weapon and a symbol of tyranny.

Okay, now what if his friend couldn't die either. What if he was sent instead to a fate worse than death, the body he once embraced disassembled and rebuilt with unfeeling metal, the soul he once loved relentlessly scraped out and burned away until he was a hollow void, a suffering undead creature who didn't know his own name. What if his friend's tortured undead body came back to him. What if he got a second chance to tell his friend he loved him in the worst way possible.

What if there were two boys who became war machines. What if they were doomed from the very beginning and they were supposed to die, but instead they came back wrong. What if they found each other again transformed beyond all recovery and there was nothing left of their original selves. What if they were trapped in a remote and alien future with nothing to cling onto except each other.

Okay, now what if in this future, they'd gotten rid of sodomy laws and being openly homosexual was broadly socially acceptable, and they're both in super-strong new bodies that still remember the fear and repression in the marrow of their bones but also have ultra superpowered libidos that don't fucking quit. And there are words and terminology for these things and for desires and feelings but neither of them fucking know any of it.