I just wanna be by your side (if these wings could fly) for the rest of our lives. Magical Realism! Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Sunshine's Gifts” (E, 52k) by Quarra, wearing_tearing
“Who are you?” Steve asks, eyes bright with anger and cheeks flushed with heat.
Bucky laughs.
His warrior, his Steve, is as brave and as incredible as Bucky thought him to be.
“Is this how you offer me thanks for saving your life?” Bucky grins, delight making him giddy and playful. “Pinning me to the ground without even a proper courtship first?”
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Or: Bucky is Horny. Steve likes his big rack.
+ Alt Avengers. Fae Bucky leads the Wild Hunt and gets a crush on Captain America. Courting, flying horses, space dogs, and everyone is happy
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“The Leshy's Prey” (E, 5k) by DeamonSlayer576, exclamation
Steve is just a small woodland fairy, but when he hears that the Leshy, a powerful forest spirit, has stolen a child, he can't let this injustice stand. He takes it upon himself to confront the Leshy. The confrontation... doesn't go as planned.
When the confrontation goes in a more sexual direction than Steve had intended, he's not certain he minds, and maybe the Leshy isn't as bad as he'd first thought.
+ Fantasy AU. Fairy Steve helps the local village find lost items, and gets more than he bargained for when he looks for a lost child.
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“Runaways” (T, 4k) by crinklefries
“Do you believe in magic?” Bucky asks, sitting back on his haunches.
Bucky’s too old to believe in that kind of thing. He graduates in a year with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Columbia University. He believes in what he can see, in what he can touch and feel.
He can’t believe in magic.
But.
+ Modern AU. Bucky finds interesting trinkets all around New York and falls in love with Steve along the way
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“Going Through” (G, 2k) by Taste_is_Sweet
Bucky wasn't quite sure what to do with the extremely angry fairy he rescued from the group of Make Humanity Great Again! assholes who'd been trying to suffocate him in a jar.
+ Fantasy AU. Steve gets saved, nursed back to heath, and gets a crush.
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“Under the Hawthorn Tree” (E, 57k) by odetteandodile
There is a faerie tale of sorts, though it’s one known only by the Fair Folk themselves and a few others who know that they can’t tell it.
It goes like this.
A young man wanders into the woods one night, and wanders until he isn't a young man anymore—but something else.
Seventy years later, another man follows him. Inside of a magic ring, they meet.
(or, Bucky is a faerie—amongst other things—and Steve Rogers, as always, is helpless but to love him from the start)
+ Modern AU. Environmental Consultant Steve gets sent to check out a forest before it gets bulldozed. He finds a mushroom circle, Bucky, and the fae court.
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-☆- And a freebie where fae are involved! -☆-
“Thyme and Tide” (T, 21k) by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen), seleneheart
Bucky might be only a one-armed ex-mercenary who'd washed up, half-drowned, on the shores of Sciatha with nothing and nowhere—never mind how hard Captain Rogers, head of Sciatha's Royal Guard, was trying to change that—but even he knew better than to get involved with the fae.
Unfortunately, that wisdom had somehow bypassed Sciatha's ancient kings…and fae bargains always came due.
+ Fantasy AU. The kingdom has a deal with the fae, and they’ve taken Steve. Bucky holds faith that Steve will return.
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