“Steve and Bucky reunion scene!”

“Sam, Bucky, and Steve together on screen again!”

I don't think you understand how important this kiss is.

Doing this in front of God too.

Chapters: ½ Fandom: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Sam Wilson Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Sarah Wilson (Marvel) Additional Tags: Bucky Barnes’s Trigger Words, POV Bucky Barnes, Deaf, Self-Harm, Past Torture, Isolation, Sensory Deprivation, Post-Episode: s01e06 One World One People, Healing, Getting Together, Whump, Whumptober 2021, Hurt/Comfort, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Sam Wilson Needs a Hug Summary:

Bucky goes to drastic measures to avoid being triggered by a newly-rediscovered set of words. Afterwards, he and Sam heal together—physically and emotionally.

like, it just fits them so well. Not just because Yelena is canonically aroace in the comics and likely is in the MCU, but also because… that’s just how they are.

The whole movie, they just have this… connection. Of understanding, of acceptance, of hope and concern and quiet belief.

They’re constantly doing things that say I got you and I understand you and don’t give up, you can’t give up, we have to keep going. At the end of the movie Yelena literally says, out loud, “you’re not alone.”

The whole premise of the movie is that they’re all outcasts, weirdos, people who are shunned by society, but somehow they find each other in their grief and fear. They just get each other. And because of that, they band together to say I get it, I really do, but you have to keep trying, you have to stay, please, we need you, and look, you’re not alone anymore, okay? So please, don’t go. You’re not alone.

Isn’t that just the epitome of the queer experience? To feel completely, utterly alone, hopeless and terrified, only to learn you’re not alone? To learn that, yeah, the world’s pretty damn scary, but it’s not as daunting when you have people on your side who just get you. When you have someone that loves you, despite all your broken pieces? That they look at you and don’t see your mistakes: they see your light and life and you, they see you… suddenly, the worlds not quite as scary anymore.

And that’s definitely been my experience in any relationship, queerplatonic or not, that goes outside the “normal” binary of friendship and romance. We’re weird, and the world is against us, but it doesn’t matter because we’re not alone.

And thats what Bob and Yelena are to each other: someone who gets it, someone who sees all of them, someone who truly cares. Someone who makes them believe, who makes them hope, makes them look at the world and think we can do better, so they do.