[ congratulations, yelena: you've finally broken him and now he's just breaking into startled, incredulous laughter as he takes the knife and turns it end-over-end in his hands, either admiring the balance or being aghast at the decorative skull, or both. he flips the knife, testing the weight and heft of it. it's obnoxiously over the top, but it is still a ka-bar, and so you can effectively shank someone in the kidney with it and murder them while also looking, at best, extremely tacky.
it's the best and most ridiculous thing he's ever seen.
This is gonna sound really weird to say, but I feel like the Red Guardian could give really good piggyback rides. And bear hugs.
[ alexei shostakov was a big guy, and exaggeratedly physically affectionate β as demonstrated by the absolute bear hug he'd given james barnes upon first meeting him, with an exuberant comrade!! and literally lifting the other man off his feet before then challenging him to a wrestling match. they'd gotten along, surprisingly. the man seemed like he could be a good dad, when he put his mind to it.
(and maybe that was what made it so much worse. how effective that ruse had been; how he'd worked his way into his youngest daughter's heart without even knowing the wreckage he'd be leaving behind once the job ended, once they came in from the cold, once the family was stripped away from her.) ]
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[ congratulations, yelena: you've finally broken him and now he's just breaking into startled, incredulous laughter as he takes the knife and turns it end-over-end in his hands, either admiring the balance or being aghast at the decorative skull, or both. he flips the knife, testing the weight and heft of it. it's obnoxiously over the top, but it is still a ka-bar, and so you can effectively shank someone in the kidney with it and murder them while also looking, at best, extremely tacky.
it's the best and most ridiculous thing he's ever seen.
with another chuckle, bucky flips it back over and sets it back in her hands, and finally seems to notice what she'd said. he's still reeling at the mental image of yelena with a kid, but doing his best to be very cool and blasΓ© and totally chill with it. everything is fine!! she'll divulge more details when the time is right; maybe when he meets fanny herself. ]
This is gonna sound really weird to say, but I feel like the Red Guardian could give really good piggyback rides. And bear hugs.
[ alexei shostakov was a big guy, and exaggeratedly physically affectionate β as demonstrated by the absolute bear hug he'd given james barnes upon first meeting him, with an exuberant comrade!! and literally lifting the other man off his feet before then challenging him to a wrestling match. they'd gotten along, surprisingly. the man seemed like he could be a good dad, when he put his mind to it.
(and maybe that was what made it so much worse. how effective that ruse had been; how he'd worked his way into his youngest daughter's heart without even knowing the wreckage he'd be leaving behind once the job ended, once they came in from the cold, once the family was stripped away from her.) ]