The Destiny of the Captain America Shield
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Solace by bryonyotsana for AteNanaAo3
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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John Walker had a choice, and he said no. He rejected the Captain America shield, hoping to cheat a prophecy of ruin, but some things are fated: if it was meant to be, it will be, and it was.
The mantle wasn't a job; it was a curse that destined him to fall. The shield pulled him back to the serum, the moment of Lemar's death, and public catastrophe.
Now, part of the Thunderbolts team, John is consumed by the poison in his blood. He finds a brutal kind of mirror in Bucky Barnes, the only man who knows what it means to be a weapon broken by the state.
Their relationship is not love; it’s a necessary, desperate pact built on shared trauma, where Bucky’s cold, unyielding Vibranium arm becomes the only anchor John has left.