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Sierra’s 12 Days of Rec-mas

Day 3: Chasing Fires

Author: Writer_Lethogica @thatmexisaurusrex Rating: Mature Length:  150,178 words

Review: Watching Buck grow from the desperate guy awkwardly stealing chips to the probie with purpose to his life thanks to the safety Tommy gives him makes for a really heartwarming story. On the flip side, Tommy struggles with his self worth and overcoming the things he has been through, and having Buck get to know him and be all in for Tommy changes his life right back. Featuring the author’s distinctive writing style and memorable characters, especially Todd. The moment that Buck recognized the similarities between Doug and Todd and how that leads Tommy to an important realization has stuck with me, because yeah! And it only gets better from there as more of our favorite characters show up and some earlier season canon events start rolling. This one is long and rewarding, make sure it’s on the very top of your list!

this is the first time i got this! idk what up with tumblr. rude of it tbh bc i really like this ask. my answer might get a little long tho bc my fave hcs for sam revolve around the backstory the mcu doesnt super give us. warning, this got long oops

1. fave sam headcanon? is one ive seen a few times but not very often (because people like to make sam the most stable person in every room, but not acknowledging it takes a lot of work/going through some shit to become that person). sam, before having his shit together for the time we know him in the mcu, spent a lot of time in his early life feeling unmoored. first it was this call to do something bigger with his life that he felt so young and answered first by joining the airforce. then there was a period between joining and being accepted into the falcon program where the airforce wasnt what he hoped it would be/he struggled heavily with being there. ofc after riley died he spent a lot of time not knowing what to do next/dealing with survivor's guilt from that but i think this was compounded by his parents dying around that time too (maybe a year or two later). and one that i think @thankssaragorn made canon in my mind is that The Thing that made him realize he needed to check back into life post-grief was cass being born on the anniversary of riley's death. so i guess thats a tandem cass and sam headcanon but i really really loved it and it's canon in my brain. he was feeling unmoored again by all this death surrounding him and then suddenly i think cass changed so much for him. and made him realize that he had to commit to being alive again. i feel like this was probably more into it than i couldve gotten but also. i couldve gotten deeper into it. it's very early and so im extra wordy

2. fave sambucky headcanon? i personally love when people headcanon them as having interracted between tws and civil war at least a few times (whether it was them providing occassional backup if a fight got too much/them hooking up and then being really weird about it/etc) i think that adds a really weird and funky layer to the two of them. also one that anthony mackie himself brought up during the infinity war press tour which was sam visiting bucky in wakanda. there are like. mountains upon mountains of text for steve visiting bucky in wakanda but comparatively it's a desert out here for sambucky on that one. romantic, platonic, weird situationship they arent talking about where sometimes they like go out and spend time together or stay in and spend time together and sometimes theyre like "no why would i want to see you i just happen to be here right now" and then they spend sam's visit avoiding each other like weirdos. as if sam wasnt literally there to see bucky. idk they a. are obviously weird about each other for much of the mcu and b. obviously know each other well enough that sam is texting bucky semi-regularly (enough to be ignored) at the start of tfatws. i think they were weird for a reason

a couple bonus sam/sambucky/bucky/wilson family hc's that are just my brain thinking ab them because i was filtering through the ones catalogued in my brain to find ones i wanted to share for this:

bucky and his sister rebecca were twins (he was 4 minutes older and a whole foot taller. he held these two things against her for their entire childhoods, as one does). he sometimes now watches sarah and sam interact and feels this awful combination of grief, jealousy, and joy that sam still gets to be with his sister. sam doesnt find out about this until theyve been actually dating for about a year and a half because bucky is a ✨️communication king✨️

sam drinking orange juice straight out of the bottle is his habit that just about everyone around him wishes he would break (he started doing this as a young teen and Never Stopped. sarah wishes every day that he would). however. bucky also does this. dont drink the orange juice at their house theres an 87% chance it has both of their saliva in it. unless of course it was never opened. then it's safe

this is only a headcanon by mcu standards bc this man Doesnt Get Mentioned in the mcu at all. sam and sarah have an older brother named gideon whos occupation changes in my mind depending on the day and the weather and what i feel like on that day but in my mind he's been a lawyer, a doctor, a pastor (in comic canon sam's father was a pastor. sometimes you have to create a way for a character to have complicated feelings ab religion bc the mcu changes their whole story) and many other things. but regardless of occupation i do not think gideon is at all close with the wilson family. where sam left with the intention of coming back, and had delacroix and their family in his mind as a safe place, gideon left delacroix with the intention of never coming back. this left sam warring with the urge to stay and care for his family/leave and do something for himself. by tfatws we see he has managed to do both, but initially, he leaves with the air force. this causes some tension between him and sarah that eventually smoothes out

one i think is just cute sometimes is sam being the one to find alpine and bring her home one day. she then proceeds to lock eyes on bucky and decide right then and there (as some cats do) that any other human is unnecessary. except when sam has toys treats or some other food. he acted affronted by this for a few days because it was funny but deep down he's really happy it worked out this way. he kinda wishes he had a cat that would lock onto him though. this happens when figaro (his cat from the comics) just. appears in their home one day, sitting in their kitchen sink. nobody knows where she came from. but she looked at sam (woke up first, therefore in the kitchen first) and srarred purring and when bucky came downstairs sam was bathing this strange new cat and at that point what can you do but accept that you and your partner have two cats now

Are we still calling it a dashboard? Anyway, I laughed.

ohh i love this! okay well here's a couple i have!

tommy is a certified Napper. man can and will sleep anywhere and does it any old kinda way. if it's movie night, tommy is passed out less than half way through and bucks wondering why he even let tommy convince him to watch if he was just gonna zonk out. tommy is actually usually the passenger when they go places and he always falls asleep when buck needs him to be navigating! they'll be in bed and tommy was supposed to be listening to bucks latest stream of interesting facts and…apparently he has learned how to say "that's so interesting evan" in his sleep now. 118 gathering? tommy does the rounds for 30 or so minutes before excusing himself to grab another drink and finding a corner and passing the hell out. bucktommy yapper4napper is very important to me.

tommy is the Napper, but buck sleeps like an insane person. he's absolutely a bed/covers hog. sleeps like a twitchy starfish. he snores, he drools, he drapes himself all over tommy like a big meaty blanket. fortunately, tommy can sleep through just about anything so it rarely bothers him. he also kinda likes when buck sprawls out on top of him. a perfect match!

Buck needs to squeeze Tommy’s tits twice before a new shift for luck. He’s convinced that if he doesn’t give them a minimum of two squeezes each it’ll be a nightmare shift.

How does Buck know this is true? Because the last time he didn’t get to squeeze Tommy’s magnificent tits he was cursed by Billy Boils and the time before that Athena almost crashed in a plane, he almost killed Gerrard by saving his life and that made the man weirdly obsessed with him for a hot minute.

aww mexi thank you for this ask!! 💜💜💜

oh man goofiest. I don't know that I ever thought of a goofy headcanon for these two.