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A little Bucky/Bruce moment💚

(comics bucky is 5’9” btw, im always using that height for him)

Original pencil sketch below

Bruce as the awkward anthropologist who works with FBI/retired sniper Bucky.  Bucky keeps trying to protect Bruce who is having none of this shit because he can take care of himself.

Bucky doesn’t know about Bruce’s rage problems, Bruce doesn’t know about Bucky’s super soldier enhancements.

Tony is Hodgins & Angela, happy with her place on the squad and hiding her true identity as Tony Stark, heir to the Stark Industries.  She works on simulations, reconstructing the physical appearance of the deceased. In her own words, Tony makes the victims they work with ‘their death masks, a final dignity unto humanity- to give them back themselves.’

Rhodey is Tony’s best friend, she’s the only one knows who Tony actually is and covers when Tony can’t go to events.  She worked in the Jefferson before Tony and she works with the ‘bugs and the slime.’  She sort of takes Hodgins & Angela’s place.  She lives with Tony and they come to work together.  Everyone knows they’re best friends.  

Reed is the socially awkward student to Bruce.  She’s a little confused by social interaction, but really smart.  So smart that she works leaps ahead of people, but has issues connecting them.  Since she’s significantly younger then the rest, everyone is kind of protective of her. 

Bruce heads up the whole unit in the Jeffersonian.  Everyone loves her, thought they get exasperated with her.  Tony frequently tries to get all of them out of the lab, even for a couple of hours, but usually fails.  Bruce, like Reed, has a couple awkward moments but she’s learning with Bucky’s help.  She’s written one wildly popular book about an anthropologist.  Her crew likes to try and figure out ‘who’ they are in the book. 

First off, I don't see it as being that odd of a pairing, though I'll admit it's likely a very rare one because people don't seem to think of Bucky when they think of any Avengers. But yeah, not too keen on the term weird for it, because I've seen far stranger ships out there.

Secondly, this can be laid completely at the feet of antisocialworkaholics. When it comes to things like this, I try not to go into something with a ship in mind if at all possible. I just prefer to let things develop and see if there's chemistry there - that's my main ship when it comes to Bucky: Bucky/Chemistry. If it's there, I'll jump right on it most likely. When I started playing with Anti, it was mainly with Bucky being a friend and supporter of his relationship with someone else. But as things went along, James started developing more and more chemistry with Bruce, and they became this really cute, strangely balancing pairing that just worked.