70 Years of Winter;
you look for me inside the dark. I am the ocean, you are the shark. you hunt me like your last goodbye, oh fallen angel of the night. just take my heart just rip it out. this holy skin is for you now.
I lay my body on the bed, one day, someday, you know I will see you again. even the stars are trapped inside your night. there's nothing left to hide.
there's nothing left to die.
.01・Welcome! Stark here, she/her pronouns, though I’m not picky at all since I typically write male muses and I’ll answer to their names/pronouns just fine. I’m 30+ and I’ve been rping since I was 11, so I’ve been around the block a time or two and I’m real low-drama. I work full-time, so I can be low to moderate activity, but I’m always around to chat - discord upon request.
.02・I don't follow for follow and I'm mutuals only. If I follow you, it means I've read your rules and most if not all of your info on your blog (sometimes I skim if I'm low concentration that day), and it means that I'm interested in writing with you. This is permission to hit me up with asks or send me an IM! I like to keep a clean dash, so I will unfollow sometimes if there's excess OOC chatter being posted, if we haven't interacted after a long period and/or if I come to the conclusion that perhaps our writing wouldn't mesh.
.03・I generally have a starter call floating around or the occasional open, but I send ask memes often, as well. If I haven't sent any yet, then hitting my meme tag is honestly the best way to get my attention and get something started with me! I try to make it a point to post them consistently into my queue, and I always turn asks into threads unless you request otherwise or we do a lot of them, in which case I'll just pick a few of them instead of all. You're welcome, of course, to do the same with any I send! I'm old school and do asks as fresh posts, and I'll generally reblog yours if you answer the ask directly, then link to it in my reply.
.04・I never really practiced mains and exclusives officially before, but let's be real, we all have our favorites. For me, mains come about as people I talk to and plot with ooc, so I generally won't click mains/exclusives calls or anything even if I am interested in getting there with you and your character. Following my blog means you'll see a lot of those people, but unless stated otherwise, seeing me writing with or plotting with another version of your character doesn't mean I won't write/plot with yours, so hit me up! Different interactions for different versions!
.05・ I sometimes use a queue to keep myself organized and give some breathing room for getting drafts done. When I do, I tend to do an ask per day on it, generally M-F and CST. It's more of a guideline than a strict rule and I post outside of it as well. See the queue here.
.06・Plotting is great! Not everyone is into it, and I certainly won't force it on anyone, but my IMs and discord are available for plotting if that's what you're into. In the same token, I'll gladly talk about my characters if you'd like more information about them and how I play them, or if you wanna talk about yours! If you're a multi, I still request that you come to me with a few characters you're interested in, if not a full idea. I don't mind talking things through, but when you narrow down a list to a few muses you're most excited for, it really helps me get a feel for what kind of story you're looking for and where to go with ideas.
.07・I don't mind if you format or don't, but I only use basic aesthetic formatting myself - small text, icons and a little separator bar in most posts, and I have some banners for asks and the like. If you format to the point that your responses are difficult for me to read, that's another story, but I'm usually not too concerned with it.
.08・I ship chemistry, which generally means that I need time playing back and forth to build up some rapport before getting involved in a ship, so I'd prefer it if you didn't try to dive right into something before I'm ready. I like shipping, I love all kinds of relationships (platonic included) and I'll talk out pre-existing relationships so that we don't have to start from scratch on friendships, but it throws me off if our interactions IC go straight to dating when we barely know each other. OOC talking is almost always a requirement for shipping, and I also use wire for quick conversational development. Should our threads get to smutty territory, which happens with some partners I'm comfortable with, I'll post the reply under a read more with the tag "spicy cw".
.09・I personally don't have much in the way of triggers outside of the obvious content most of us don't want to see - racism, incest, pedophilia, homophobia, transphobia, animal abuse and probably others I'm forgetting but would certainly notice on sight. I don't ask people to tag that kind of stuff, I just unfollow, so probably best not to bother here if you're into that. I don't generally post much in the way of triggering content, but let me know if you see something and I'll tag things as: tw trigger . I don't tag blood or violence as a trigger if it's minor/genre-appropriate.
.10・I'm surprised that I have to say this in this year of this particular timeline, but nazi or hydra related plots are not allowed on my blog or on my dash. Hydra characters or alternate universes are a thinly veiled nazi reskin and while I understand that writer =/= character about villains, I don't want to see these. I also generally don't like villain au runs for hero characters even in canon material. Hydra Cap is an instant block. I reserve the right to block or soft-block at my discretion without explanation.
MARVEL - main verse
default / 100+ years old.
MCU origin as Steve Rogers' best friend and Howling Commando and MCU compliant with some divergences and heavy 616 influences.
★ canon compliant + headcanon.

616 - canon verse
default / 100+ years old.
coming soon - still reading.
★ canon compliant + headcanon.

COMING SOON - fandom verse
default / thirty+ years old.
coming soon.
★ canon compliant + headcanon.

COMING SOON - fandom verse
default / thirty+ years old.
coming soon.
★ canon compliant + headcanon.
ACTIONGRRL・written by victoria・. sam giddings .・main
ASGARDIANHAMMER・written by mir・. thor odinson .・main
EPHEMERALENCOUNTERS・written by faith・. blog-wide .・main
ITSBEENTWELVEYEARS・written by gabe・. remy lebeau .・main
SPXCEQUEENS・written by victoria・. blog-wide .・main
UNTAMEDTEMPEST・written by rose・. ororo munroe .・main
WNTERWOLF-SHIELDCAPTN・written by foxx・. sam wilson .・main
XLIANOVNA・written by jt・. natasha romanoff .・main

| FULL NAME. | James Buchanan Barnes |
| AKA. | Bucky, The Winter Soldier |
| AGE. | 106 in 2023, appears about 30-35 |
| GENDER & PRONOUNS. | male, he/him |
| ORIENTATION. | bisexual / demiromantic |
| SPECIES. | human, cybernetically enhanced |
| OCCUPATION. | Assassin, Spy, Soldier, Avenger? |
| RESIDENCE. | Varies based on verse |
⎯⎯ ★ ⎯⎯.01 PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
HAIR. Dark brown, length varying between a short cut with a bit of length on top for styling, or shaggier and longer around his face.EYES. Sharp blue, and very alert.BUILD. Athletic muscular build, enhanced by the Hydra 'knockoff' version of Erskine's super soldier serum and intense training. The weight of his metal prosthetic arm also required additional training and strength to learn how to carry and also fight with as smoothly as he does. A good eye would still notice that his stance and the way he moves constantly compensate for the extra weight on his left side.SCARS. The serum he was treated with prevents a lot of damage from leaving permanent marks, but the surgical attachment of his metal arm left massive scarring and tissue damage to his torso around the shoulder itself.FACE CLAIM. Sebastian Stan⎯⎯ ★ ⎯⎯.02 BACKGROUND
BIRTH PLACE. Brooklyn, NYCETHNICITY.American CaucasianFAMILY. Three siblings that were younger, also deceased.NOTABLE SKILLS. Bucky was a skilled marksman even before he became the Winter Soldier, and he only improved from there. He's by no means the best in the world, but he probably ranks in the top ten, and he easily puts that to use alongside his martial arts and hand to hand training, knife work and tactical knowledge. He was trained and designed to be a top weapon - deadly, unfeeling and efficient, and despite the return of memories and personality, he still falls into that training and can use it to great effect.LANGUAGES. 30+, including English, Russian, Romanian, French, Xhosa and German.ABILITIES. Bucky was experimented on by Arnim Zola while he was a POW in an Austria weapons facility run by Hydra, which started the process that saved his life when he fell from the train in the Alps. The full serum's effects have made him more durable with denser bones and an enhanced healing factor, a necessary requirement to keep him functioning as Hydra repeatedly put him into cryosleep between missions.The serum also granted him increased speed, strength, stamina and agility, and while his version wasn't the same as Dr. Erskine's orignal formula and therefore doesn't quite match up to Captain America, he's able to keep up with those who are better than his match through sheer will and his own internal ability to push past his limits.
| MCU COMPLIANT | HEAVY 616 INFLUENCE | OPEN FOR SHIPPING |
⎯⎯ ★ ⎯⎯.03 MEDICAL RECORD
MENTAL. After essentially 70 years as a brainwashed POW turned weapon, it's no surprise that Bucky has a full, unabridged collection of issues. PTSD symptoms strike seemingly at random and sometimes in ways that make it seem to others like it's not that at all, namely when he decides to do something stupid or reckless because he's already damaged so what's one more stunt? He's also very inclined towards going emotionally numb when everything starts feeling like too much, but that only works if he feels it coming on in time. If he doesn't catch it, it's easy for the world around him to start being too fucking loud, with a nice unhealthy dose of anxiety and general irritation at literally everything. He'll get snappish and keep everyone at a distance, which is when his trust issues are at their worst and he needs space, whether it's possible or not.Even under normal, everyday conditions when he's feeling alright, he tends toward being very aware of exits, keeping his back towards walls or someone he feels he can trust in that moment (which essentially means Steve), and being mindful of sudden sounds and movements. He may not be obvious about it and can put off a feeling of casual ease when he's in a decent headspace, but he always keeps that level of his guard up. He's prone to nightmares, and he isn't always aware in the moments after waking of exactly where he is or what he's supposed to be, and he's had moments even during waking hours where he has to stop and put himself back together because he's found a rabbithole in his brain and gotten lost in something nasty. It's difficult in those moments to keep it straight in his head who and where he is, much like the return to the waking world after the nightmares. For obvious reasons, sleeping is a difficult process, and he therefore doesn't do enough of it. He learned long ago to operate on very little sleep, but it does not help his state of mind in the slightest, which just becomes more of a vicious cycle of mental issues, not sleeping, then more issues and less sleep.PHYSICAL. For all of his internal problems, Bucky is physically in pretty damn good shape. His left arm is gone at the shoulder where Hydra amputated it further than the point he'd lost his arm at in the fall from the train, and it was replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic that is both strong and heavy. Under Hydra's control, there was very little attempt on his part to preserve his own well-being, but he's since taken a much healthier outlook on that, and actively seeks to land jumps with shock absorption in mind, spare himself whatever damage he can and to eat well enough to function to the best of his ability. It's just the sleep he still struggles with, but that's not a physical malfunction, so he just tries.FEARS. Heights, losing control of himself and his mind again. Also not a fan of electricity, though not terrified.EYESIGHT. As a skilled sniper, his eyesight is very good, thank you.DRUG USE. It would take very strong drugs to knock him out, and he doesn't use anything recreationally.ALCOHOL USE. For the same reason that drugs, recreational or prescription, don't work, alcohol just gets burned up by his metabolism far too quickly to have any effect.DIET. For his activity level, musculature and metabolism, he has a healthy appetite, and he does what he can to feed that whenever he has the means. He's not a picky eater, and actually likes modern food far more than what he'd been used to before the war.
BUCKY
BARNES
⎯⎯ ★ ⎯⎯.04 PERSONALITY
ZODIAC. Pisces (March 10th)ALIGNMENT. Chaotic GoodHOGWARTS. GryffindorPOSITIVE TRAITS. Bucky is calm under pressure and loyal to the point of self-sacrifice if it comes down to it, and he can take impressive amounts of abuse to push a cause or for survival. He's endured bad conditions in a variety of climates and situations, which isn't a good thing itself, but it makes him adaptable and good at preparing and enduring. While he's not as much of a people person as he used to be, he can still sometimes fall into old habits without thinking about it and would genuinely like to get along with most people that he meets.NEGATIVE TRAITS. Given his history, very few people really want to trust him, and he doesn't blame them, but it also doesn't inspire him to let his guard down or trust other people, either. He's endured a lot of abuse and been used as a weapon for so many years that the flirtatious, charismatic young man he used to be seems entirely lost, and it's left him with a lot of issues and experiences that others don't relate well to. He will almost always consider the most direct way of handling a situation, and whether he says so or not, it's typically a violent and brutal solution, or simply the best tactical maneuver. He just keeps that to himself around people.⎯⎯ ★ ⎯⎯.05 RP HOOKS
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