#boopifer

So the main story happens when Bucky is 20, and the underage noncon/abuse has been going on since he was around 13/14 - we don’t see the underage parts happen in ‘real time,’ as such, but we see the present ongoing version, because it’s still happening, and then we learn about it as other characters figure it out, and they do talk about it in pretty frank terms. There’re also some flashback/hallucination/sensory memory moments in Bucky’s POV (blurry and often drugged, so I’d say not *super* graphic, but he’s clearly remembering feelings, hands and bodies, etc, and it’s clear what’s happening). And it’s being done by people supposed to protect him (bodyguards, Pierce, etc), who also give him drugs and sometimes physically get rough with him (they can’t leave marks, because he has to make public appearances, but they do things like literally force-feed him pills). He also has what other characters suspect (though not diagnosed) is an eating disorder, because he’s always supposed to look pretty and also he usually can’t eat much.

There’s a fair amount of gaslighting/people just not believing him (because hey, he’s on drugs, everyone knows that)/people doing things ‘for his own good’, and that’s been going on for years - though this does get better as his friends find out what’s happening and people start to be on his side.

There’s also some dubcon verging on noncon with Steve and Bucky - as in, Bucky does want Steve (he’s genuinely in love with Steve), but he’s also high and not really capable of proper consent, and also he’s very used to using sex to please people and used to not really being able to say no. (Steve knows Bucky’s a little intoxicated but thinks they’re still in the realm of okay and mutual wanting (which is kind of true; Bucky does want him); when Steve figures out what happened, he’s horrified, and thinks of himself as having done, well, noncon, because Bucky really couldn’t properly consent - it’s messy.)

I’d say it’s a hopeful ending, if not quite all wrapped up - there was meant to be a part 2 (not sure if that’s still the plan), so it does have an ending - revelations, Bucky starting to heal and recover (it’s a work in progress, but he’s working on it), Bucky naming the people who did this, friends and Steve on his side - but the abusers (especially Pierce) haven’t really been punished yet (though some of them have been punched a lot). But the assumption is that there are about to be Consequences, and things are...looking brighter, at least, at the end.