forum Marvel AU OxO?

Started November 29, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Bucky looked down at his crane. It was a bit mangled, the edges less crisp than he would have liked, but it was recognizable, and that was all that mattered, really. "Thanks."

"Of course," Steve smiled, placing Bucky's crane next to his, so they were sitting side-by-side. He took a sip of his tea, "Do you wanna make another? I've been meaning to try out this one.." Steve said, flipping to the page, "–Turtle."

(mhh imagine tony coming back and finding the floor covered in little paper animals– "we're making a jungle, tread carefully")

Bucky squinted slightly. "Mm…fine." he said slowly, picking up another sheet of paper and looking at Steve.

(Yess and Tony just takes a picture and posts it online or something and the caption is "world's deadliest assassin caught!: Making paper animals with best friend")

"We should use green, yeah. And…okay– for the turtle, you start like this," Steve said, pointing at the picture in the book, letting out a gentle laugh at the excited-looking cartoon with its thumbs up in encouragement.

(!!yess!! origami could be their thing and bucky could explain all the little sections like "this is africa, with lions, and this is the ocean, and this is asia, with elephants, and this–")

Bucky nodded a little bit, raising an eyebrow at the cartoon image, but saying nothing as he carefully started to follow the instructions, eyes narrowed slightly in concentration.

(yess!! yussss perfect and Tony just videos it and posts it and yesssss)

Steve nodded along as they folded the little squares of paper, looking back at the book for reference and softly laughing when they missed a step. He occasionally stole a glance at Bucky, with his eyes flickering from the pictures to his own paper, curtained by the gentle strands of his brown hair.

(mhm!!! and later,,,they could leave little notes for each other on them like: 'goin for a run :)' or 'i'm sorry :(' !!)

Bucky tucked back a few strands of hair behind his ear to make it easier to see. He muttered a curse as he messed up a fold, having to undo it and mend it. He cocked his head a little as he continued.

(yessssss perfect!!)

Steve tried to hide his smile at the sight of Bucky's frustration. "Don't get worked up over it," He quietly laughed, placing his finished turtle next to their cranes.

(mhm!!! should we do a mini skip to them giggling in the middle of their sea of animals ?)

Bucky glanced over at Steve as he finished his own turtle. "I wasn't." he replied, setting his turtle down with Steve's turtle and the cranes. He sighed softly.

(sure! want me to do it, or do you want to?)

"Okay," Steve said, absentmindedly tilting his head to the side. "Do you…wanna make another?" He asked, a slow smile creeping onto his face.

(maybe you could have tony come in to the sound of them laughing or somethin? "i brought shawarma" :)

Bucky smiled a little bit. "I… alright." He replied with a smile. "Let's do another." He ran a hand through his hair, picking up another piece of paper.

(Yes perfect! Want me to do it?)

Steve quietly nodded, smiling as he took another sheet of the coloured paper and flipped to another page. "How about…a bird?" He suggested.

(yes pls :)

(kk)

It had been about an hour and a half, and the floor was littered with paper animals. Birds and beasts and fish and everything else, sorted into sections for each continent. Tony stepped off the elevator, food in one hand. "I brought shawarma!" he called, setting it down on the counter and looking into the room. He blinked, snapping a picture of them.

Steve giggled shamelessly at the crinkled pink unicorn he was holding up, squashed beyond recognition. He hadn't meant to sit on it. "Ahaa– Oh, hi Tony," He chirped, sitting crosslegged in the sea of coloured paper, grinning from ear to ear.

Bucky was grinning too, his hair pulled back and a creature held carefully in his hands. He looked up, eyes flickering slightly when he spotted Tony.

Tony chuckled at that, smiling. "Hey. What are you two doing?"

"Origami," Steve said brightly, his eyes full of excitement. Both of their cups of tea sat idly next to them, half-empty and no longer of interest. "Tell him," Steve said, nudging Bucky to explain their layout of creatures.

Bucky smiled a little bit. Tony started recording. Bucky started to speak. "Well…so. We made a bunch of creatures, and then we organized them. Over there is Asia," he gestured. "and Africa," another gesture. "the oceans, uhm…australia, europe, South America, North America. Oh, and Antarctica. Which is basically just a fuckton of penguins."

Steve let out a laugh at the last part, nodding at the large clump of multicoloured penguins. He bit his lip, wishing he could take a photograph of how happy Bucky looked and sounded in the moment; his smile was such a rare sight. "–And this," He chuckled, holding up the squashed bit of pink paper, "Was supposed to be a unicorn, but…I guess we ran out of space."

Bucky smiled a little bit. "Plus, I don't know where the fuck a unicorn was supposed to go. I mean, as far as I know they don't exist."

Tony stopped the recording, smiling. He nodded. "Right, right. It looks cool, guys, but…where are these little animals going to go?"

"As far as you know," Steve observed, pointing at him with raised eyebrows and a grin he'd failed to hide. "They could be anywhere. We have to base it off of probability," He explained, gesturing with his hands to the scattered groups of animals.
Steve turned to Tony, grinning, "Well…we can't just throw them out. This is their home now."

Tony had resumed the video, and shook his head a little, laughing. "Oh, of course."

Bucky wrinkled his nose. "Steve, I am 95 years old and I've never seen a unicorn." he pointed out. "Eventually, I'll be like 150 years old, and I'll still have never seen a unicorn."

"Well– seeing isn't always believing." Steve retorted, nodding his head as if he were sure of himself, "Some people can’t see the colour red. That doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And– and there is evidence that suggests that they exist, or existed at some point."

Bucky squinted at Steve. "Yeah? What sort of "evidence"?" he challenged, arching an eyebrow at Steve, looking at the blonde.

Tony was smirking.

“Like— the deer they found in Italy,” Steve replied, gathering his mental notes on the topic, “It was born with one horn.” He nodded knowingly, pointing a finger at him, “This— along with some other points, shows that even in past times, there could have been animals that had this feature and the existence of unicorns may be possible.”

"Well yes, but…that was a deer, Steve. Not a unicorn. Besides, deer horns are very different than unicorn horns. Deer horns have all sorts of…poky points coming off of them." Bucky said, looking at Steve.