such_heights | MCU Kissing Fest, 2015 edition!

So in 2012 I ran a kissing comment fest and everyone seemed to have a good time. (And yes, lol, I did at that time believe I'd stop caring about superheroes by the end of the summer.) Let's try again!

Everything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe applies, so that's all 11 films as well as Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter and Daredevil. Assume that comments may contain spoilers for everything.

THE RULES:

01. Leave a comment with two or more characters from the MCU who you'd like to see kiss. You can include a prompt if you like as an optional extra for the prompt-filler.
02. Reply to the comment with a fanwork in which those characters kiss. The kissing can be platonic or romantic, on the mouth or the cheek or the forehead or the shoulder or anywhere else that you like.
03. All fanworks welcome, including art/podfic/vids/icons/recs/meta/fic etc. Multiple fills for the same prompt are fine. Replying to your own prompt is fine. Anon commenting is fine. Coming back and posting a fill two months later is fine. Posting your fanwork elsewhere is fine.

I will link to fills in this post as they come in.

Fills:

Angie/Peggy
Angie/Peggy, home by

strix_alba
Angie/Peggy, a good cup of tea by

frith_in_thorns

Bruce/Natasha
Bruce/Natasha, hold by

jamaillith

Bruce/Natasha/Steve
Natasha/Bruce/Steve, family by

thebonesofferalletters
Bruce/Natasha, running by

celeste9

Bucky/Peggy
Bucky/Peggy, test by

gwyn

Bucky/Steve
Steve/Bucky, baseball by

alafaye
Steve/Bucky, baseball #2 by

gwyn
Steve/Bucky, soft by

thebonesofferalletters
Steve/Bucky, candles by

applegnat
Steve/Bucky, candles #2 by

recessional
Steve/Bucky, heart by

recessional
Steve/Bucky, rooftops by

thebonesofferalletters
Steve/Bucky, soft #2 by

recessional
Steve/Bucky, shower by

recessional

Claire/Matt
Matt/Claire, daylight by

pearwaldorf

Clint/Darcy
Clint/Darcy, milkshakes by

topaz119

Clint/Laura
Clint Barton/Laura Barton, unexpected by

kayim

Clint/Natasha
Clint/Natasha, perfunctory by

recessional

Daniel/Jack/Peggy
Peggy/Daniel/Jack, drowning by

sholio

Foggy/Marci
Foggy/Marci - alcohol and bad choices by

sholio (TW: aftermath of an off-camera attempted assault)

Foggy/Matt
Foggy/Matt, hospital by

sholio
Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson, spin the bottle by

devilc

Helen/Sif
Helen Cho/Sif, teamwork by

longwhitecoats

Maria/Sam
Sam/Maria Hill, coffee by

recessional

Maria/Wanda
Maria/Wand, broken by

x_dark_siren_x

Natasha/Pepper
Pepper/Natasha, suits by

isagel

Natasha/Rhodey/Sam/Steve/Vision/Wanda
Natasha/Rhodey/Sam/Steve/Vision/Wanda, team building by

sholio

Natasha/Steve
Natasha/Steve, home by

thebonesofferalletters

Pepper/Tony
Tony/Pepper, party by

igrockspock

Pepper/Vision
Vision/Pepper, genderfluidity by

jamaillith

Peter/Rocket
Peter Quill/Rocket, drunk by

longwhitecoats

Sam/Steve
Sam/Steve, return by

longwhitecoats
Sam/Steve, commanding by

astolat
Sam/Steve, pool table by

gwyn
Sam/Steve, bedtime story by

gwyn
Sam/Steve, breakfast by

monanotlisa
Sam/Steve, sharing a bed by

raanve

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Bucky/Clint, hand signs

Even though Bucky knew probably about a dozen languages, and those were just the ones he was fluent in, Clint wasn't surprised he didn't know ASL, because almost none of the hearing people he met knew ASL. Sometimes that pissed him off. Sometimes when he met hearing people who wanted to try out their three-credit college course slower-than-turtles-fucking-in-January f-i-n-g-e-r-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g on him, that pissed him off more.

("Do what I do," Natasha had said.

("Look, when you tell assholes 'Fuck off and die' in Russian, they don't know what you're saying and think you're so cute. But even if they don't know ASL, if I say 'Bullshit'...."*

(She'd just smirked at him.)

But it had surprised him that Bucky knew military hand signals -- American military hand signals -- and it really shouldn't have.

One evening when he'd been trying to "teach" Natasha ("That's not the hand signal for 'shotgun,' Barton, and even if it were -- ") he realized Bucky was watching them, not in that Here We See How The Predator Can Track Its Prey From A Great Distance way, and not in the And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side Fuck Me Sidewise way either, but with real interest.

"I know those," he said. He cleared his throat after he stopped speaking, because his larynx had sounded coated with rust.

Clint frowned, because he was pretty sure Bucky wouldn't co-troll Natasha with him. "Yeah?"

Bucky made a fist, raised it to about his eye level. Freeze.

Clint chuckled and gave him a big exaggerated thumbs-up -- what one teacher he'd known had called LOUD signing. Bucky grinned.

Natasha looked at them both, eyes narrowed a little bit. "I thought that meant approval, or agreement," she said.

"It can," Clint told her. "Or 'message received,' 'good to go,' 'raise' something, or" -- he pointed his thumb down -- '"lower' something, it really depends." He thought a minute. "'Ready for takeoff'...." Bucky nodded. "I meant 'I get it,' right then, basically. Context." Natasha's forehead untensed a little. "What was that other dub-dub-two one," Clint asked him, "'good luck'?" Bucky nodded again.

Then he started to make a gesture, hesitated -- the same teacher would have told Clint that reminded her of a hearing "stutter" -- and then held his left arm straight up from the elbow, thumb stuck out and index finger pointing at the ceiling, then aimed it straight at Natasha, his right finger on an invisible trigger guard far down his forearm.

She said immediately, "Rifle." Bucky smiled.

Then he turned to Clint, took his "rifle" and propped its butt -- his left elbow -- on his left thigh (even when playing fucking Sniper Charades, he was careful to lean the muzzle away from all of them), and with his right hand, reached across, undid an invisible pouch thing by his left hip, drew an invisible handled thing out -- a knife? -- matched up the top and bottom knuckles of his right and left index fingers, pushed them together firmly and raised the rifle straight again, keeping his right index finger on top of the "muzzle." Natasha frowned.

Bucky looked at Clint and raised his eyebrows and lowered the corners of his mouth in the universal symbol of: Well?

"I have no goddamned idea," Clint said.

Bucky laughed -- brief but genuine -- and let both arms relax, drop down. "'Fix bayonets.' Basic training, 1942. Thought you might not know that one."

"Jesus fucking Christ," said Clint. Bucky blew him a kiss, a big wet smacker, and Clint pretended to catch it on his cheek with a slap that made Natasha giggle her secret little-girl giggle that Clint loved getting out of her. He looked at Bucky's face, not smiling but warm somehow, and wondered if it matched his expression when he heard her laugh like that, too.

*From what I have seen, the ASL sign for 'bullshit,' even if the recipient doesn't know that ASL exists, is really unmistakeable.

Edited 2015-05-24 04:53 (UTC)

Cute!

Thank you!

Now if I ever need to tell a bunch of soldiers how to fix bayonets, I am all set. Who says fannishness isn't applicable IRL?

Ha! Well done :)

Thank you!

EEEEEEEEEEEEE

So school kinda toppled over on top of me, which is why I'm late with this, but THIS IS KINDA PERFECT BECAUSE IT IS THE THING WITH NAT LAUGHING OMG I LOVE THAT

Um, okay, to calm down slightly. I love the translating going on, I love that ASL is of course not one of the languages HYDRA ever bothered to program into the asset, and the hand signals Clint knows are not the ones Bucky knows, but of course there is some overlap, and naturally Clint's the guy who will check himself when he's surprised at that, and will work with Bucky to draw him out of his shell, and see the effort that Bucky is making and reciprocate, and Nat will reward that, but also I think her delight is genuine, and that is part of the reward, letting them have that genuine response from her. It is...effort at connection, on all sides, which is part of what I wanted, and it is joy in finding other people who get that it is an effort, so that it becomes less of an effort because of that recognition, and...yeah. Like that. The thing behind the reason I prompted.

We so both need Clint icons, what is up with us.

YESSSSSSSS YOU LIKED IT //fistpump AND YES CLINT IS THE ONE WHO CAN MAKE NAT GIGGLE, NOBODY ELSE CAN EVER

I love that ASL is of course not one of the languages HYDRA ever bothered to program into the asset

"We're evil, we don't do accessibility!" -- new slogan?

and the hand signals Clint knows are not the ones Bucky knows, but of course there is some overlap, and naturally Clint's the guy who will check himself when he's surprised at that, and will work with Bucky to draw him out of his shell, and see the effort that Bucky is making and reciprocate, and Nat will reward that, but also I think her delight is genuine, and that is part of the reward, letting them have that genuine response from her.

YES

It is...effort at connection, on all sides, which is part of what I wanted, and it is joy in finding other people who get that it is an effort, so that it becomes less of an effort because of that recognition, and...yeah. Like that. The thing behind the reason I prompted.

Well, you just totally summed up what I hoped I was doing only even better! AWW YESS. And I do think Clint and Bucky share maybe a darker kind of humour -- not that Steve is some kind of humourless dude who doesn't enjoy trolling, but I think those two are more the trickster types who would sass off the Grim Reaper on their deathbeds. And Nat has that Russian sense of humour, so she really enjoys it, and maybe even was a little surprised to find it in such an 'American' Iowa-born dude, heh.

ALL THE CLINT ICONS omg I srsly have the urge to make a comics-based one where he's in the purple outfit, because Clint in purple!

That is SO CUTE!!

Aww, thanks dear! //finally has a Clint icon (yours is GORGEOUS)

(even when playing fucking Sniper Charades, he was careful to lean the muzzle away from all of them)

I love this whole thing, but I think that line was my favorite bit. ^_^

(I'm reading through people's ficlets painfull slowly. ^^;)

Aww, thank you! I read a bunch of meta on Tumblr I think about how in photos, Bucky himself is always displaying proper gun safety (finger off the trigger, muzzle not aimed at anyone) and the Winter Soldier's finger is always on the trigger because he's a weapon. So in my mind Bucky is always careful about gun safety because poor dude is not a weapon!

Aha, I found one http://historicallyaccuratesteve.tumblr.com/post/95214164771/urulokid-can-we-also-note-that-in-the-middle

...oh, that meta broke my heart a little. And is awesome. Thanks for the link!

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