I come up with shit and cry abt it

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Robert "Bob" Reynolds/John Walker (Marvel), Yelena Belova & Robert "Bob" Reynolds, Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Ava Starr, Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Alexei Shostakov, James "Bucky" Barnes & Robert "Bob" Reynolds, James "Bucky" Barnes & Yelena Belova & Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Alexei Shostakov & Ava Starr & John Walker, Yelena Belova's Guinea Pig & Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Thunderbolts 2025) Characters: Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel), John Walker (Marvel), Yelena Belova, James "Bucky" Barnes, Mel (Thunderbolts 2025), Ava Starr, Alexei Shostakov, Mentioned: - Character, Robert "Bob" Reynolds's Father (Marvel), Robert "Bob" Reynolds's Mother (Marvel), Yelena Belova's Guinea Pig (Thunderbolts 2025), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Unreliable Narrator, Self-Deprecation, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Yelena Belova and Robert "Bob" Reynolds are Like Siblings, John Walker Gets Bullied by Yelena Belova and Ava Starr, Chronic Pain, Found Family, Fluff and Angst, Bottom Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel), Top John Walker (Marvel), Post-Movie: Thunderbolts (2025), Domestic Thunderbolts Team (Marvel), Soft Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel), POV Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel), Robert "Bob" Reynolds and The Void | Dark Sentry Are Not Different Personalities (Marvel), Jealousy, (if you squint then squint some more), Coming Out, John Walker Being an Asshole (Marvel), John Walker Not Being an Asshole (Marvel), Memory Issues, Eating Disorders, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Mutual Pining Series: Part 2 of something like tenderness

Summary: ‘XXX-0147, text me when you feel like it - C’ "Is Mr. C cute, at least?" asks Yelena with a sly grin, and Bob glares. "Mr. C's physical attributes are none of our business," he says, tracing the way bright particles from the ceiling light dance on the bedroom walls, "because Mr. C's card belongs in a trash bin." Yelena's frown deepens. "What? Why."

Or: Bob Reynolds has a plan. The plan is simple: identify the exact mechanisms of his catastrophic crush on John Walker and dismantle them systematically before anyone gets hurt, least of all himself.

I have been working on this for an embarrassing amount of time (a year, I'm so slow I know pleasE SHHH). It's sentryagent, with all my favourite tropes. Tags will update as we go. Praying I can maintain some form of a consistent update schedule.

Meanwhile, enjoy:

Summary:

"Hey man, you good?"

Bob startles, turning around to glance behind the couch, fruit knife in hand. Walker slowly raises his hands in mock surrender.

"Hey, yeah, I'm— I'm good. Just, um, feeding this little guy," Bob lifts the guinea pig in demonstration, as if it would be unclear who he's talking about otherwise.

"And verbal encouragement helps him digest better, or what?"

This is the man Bob wants to hold hands with. Voluntarily. With feelings attached.

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Bob Reynolds has the power of a million exploding suns and absolutely no idea what to do with himself. A former addict, accidental supervillain, and full-time disaster, Bob is now inexplicably living at a watchtower with a team of ex-spies and enhanced individuals who are, against all odds, kind to him.

Naturally, he has to ruin it by developing a catastrophic crush on John Walker.

Walker -US Agent, resident straight asshole, Temu Captain America— has so far remained blissfully unaware. Bob intends to keep it that way.

The motherly feelings hitting me everytime I see Ryan😭