In Memory of Fatty Nuggs...
Essential info: HRH Darcy and her Bucky are pet people. Bucky just can’t help himself, always bringing home strays. Steve’s never been allowed to have pets before, so he just can’t say no to all those big, earnest, begging blue and green eyes, and Natasha … well, if it makes Darcy happy, she supposes she can get used to all the fur/scales/venom/slime/slobber/molting/”are those feathers?”.
On tumblr, submit your human & pet prompt pairing ideas for Darcy, Bucky, Steve, or Natasha. (Hell, write me an alien pet prompt for Lang, Clint, or Volstagg, if you want. I’ll dabble in nearly anything to distract myself at the moment.) You can send images, songs, poems, a single line of text, a quote--whatever inspiration you think would help me come up with a fun pet drabble in this 'verse. Prompts don’t have to be specific. Open-ended inspiration is always welcome and appreciated. Pet species can be domestic, wild, prehistoric, magical--anything you think might turn up in Darcy's sphere of influence in this 'verse.
Some human & pet pairings will likely end up here in the Outtakes story line, but some may end up with a home in the big fic with Steve’s new magic-pocket puppy for a brother. Please, include your penname with your prompt so I can gift you the results here on AO3.
(Prompts can also be left in the comments below, if you don't do tumblr.)
Current reader requests include:
~ Darcy & a cat (multiple requests)
~ a dragon
~ ravens
~ a unicorn
~ assorted chimeras
~ a carnivorous bunny & Fandral (see Chapter 5)
~ a shenanigator
~ an amorous insectoid with low-key telepathy *eyes the readers dubiously*
~ a tiny lizard
~ Darcy or Other & a bilgesnipe (I actually got several requests for something like this, but emma98, who I originally started writing this series for as a gift, has actually written that exact pet pairing in Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die. Manuel the Fluffy is the legit hero of that fic, but there's some good Darcy/Steve & Bucky/Nat up in there, too, if that's your thing. ;-) )
~ Natasha & a lion cub
~ Bucky as Winter Soldier & a wolf