fic: "downright complicated" [Maria/Steve/Bucky/Natasha]

[tielan]

Title: downright complicated (38298 words) by tielan
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill & Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanoff
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov, Other Marvel Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Sedoretu, Sedoretu, Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Not Black Panther Compliant, Developing Relationship
Series: Part 8 of sharp Evening stars and bright Morning flame
Summary:

A sedoretu is a four-person marriage, an intricate mesh of six dynamics - sexual and non-sexual - between Morning man, Evening woman, Morning woman, and Evening Man. But when a sedoretu consists of Captain America, the former Deputy Director of SHIELD, the Black Widow, and the Winter Soldier, things are bound to get downright complicated...

It is finished. *flops down in a heap*

Let the Infinity War come; I already know Maria won't be in it, let alone significant.

Comments

[kore]

OMG, Maria and the Dora Milaje would have been AWESOME. (I really hope Nat and Okoye get some more time other than that little standoff.)

You, me, and a SHITLOAD OF PEOPLE, from the sound of it

They wouldn't do that, would they?? We just got it! We should get Black Panther sequels! At least two more! Hell, how many Spider-Man movies did we get? ....I'm just feeling such dread. I think the Asgardian refugees will get it in the neck at the start and then it'll be all Deathy Destruction with lots of the giant grape monologuing and then Wakanda gets smashed at the end. I'm just so not there for that. I hope it's not going to be that depressing, but the way Feige keeps gleefully talking about how awful it is....aaagh.

[tielan]

Wait, didn't they mention a Black Panther 2 movie?

*clings to hope*

Honestly, I...actually want the Avengers to mess everything up and vanish into Infinity (or something), and then Maria, Fury, and all the people who weren't there the first time have to pick up the pieces in Part 2... But, yeah, death, destruction, and Wakanda gets killed = BIG FAT NOPE. One thinks that surely Feige is wise enough to know that if he kills off the bastion of Black Advancement in the movie, he's a dead man walking. Then again, this is Kevin Feige.

[kore]

I think they were kinda teasing the idea but nothing has been set yet. But it made so much money, and was so wildly popular, they'd be absolutely crazy not to set it up soon.

death, destruction, and Wakanda gets killed = BIG FAT NOPE. One thinks that surely Feige is wise enough to know that if he kills off the bastion of Black Advancement in the movie, he's a dead man walking. Then again, this is Kevin Feige.

Yeah, he was supposedly the one who walked into the writer's room, said "Civil War," and walked out again, according to that interview they gave, so I just absolutely hate him. There was NO reason for MCU to do that movie, and it royally fucked with all the relationships and the organic tension in the group and everything. They could have tried to recover after the AoU mess with a real Cap 3 movie and then a non-CW Avengers movie, and they just blew it. I just don't want them to totally blow Wakanda after Coogler did such a beautiful job making the world.