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   Blue-Eyed Matador (the series) by FlamingoQueen

   Fandom Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

   • Explicit, Not Rated, General Audiences, Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Multi, Gen, M/M
   • Series in Progress

   17 Feb 2026

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
   • Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
   • (slowly burning still)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Clint Barton
   • Steve Rogers
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
   • Tony Stark
   • Bruce Banner
   • Lucky (Hawkeye)
   • Alpine the Cat (Marvel)
   • Various Character(s)
   • Nick Fury
   • Alexander Pierce
   • Brock Rumlow
   • Hydra Agents
   • Various Characters
   • Various MCU Characters
   • Kate Bishop
   • Thor (Marvel)
   • Lucky the Pizza Dog
   • Alpine the cat - Character
   • Liho the Cat
   • Canon Divergence - Post-Avengers (2012)
   • Mute Bucky Barnes
   • Asset Bucky Barnes
   • Deaf Clint Barton
   • Therapy
   • Everyone Has Issues
   • Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
   • Past Starvation
   • Effects of Dehumanization
   • Villain Character Death
   • Beyond Canon-Typical Violence (but not much of it)
   • Implied/Referenced HYDRA Trash Party
   • Storming HYDRA Bases
   • Found Family
   • Domestic Avengers
   • No animals are harmed in this story
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note (usually end notes to avoid spoilers)
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Way beyond canon-typical violence
   • Dismemberment
   • Kinda dark to start out
   • Crime Fighting
   • so many issues
   • Issues Everywhere
   • Starvation
   • Eventual Relationships
   • winterhawk - Freeform
   • Dehumanization
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • (usually end notes to avoid spoilers)
   • Outtakes
   • Scenes that did not fit the narrative structure
   • Jigsaw does eat the pie
   • Pie
   • Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags
   • Content warnings in end notes if necessary
   • pink river dolphins
   • giant pandas
   • Endangered Species
   • Jigsaw's names for things
   • fun with language
   • idioms
   • Animals
   • Tony stark is trying
   • botched explanation of soap
   • hints of trauma but nothing explicit
   • honestly it's kinda cozy
   • Annotated Playlist of Chapter Titles
   • The author rambles
   • Copious Hyperlinks
   • Spoilers for Blue-Eyed Matador
   • WinterHawk Slow Burn
   • Canon Divergence - Post-Movie: The Avengers (2012)
   • Past Rape

   Summary

   What started as a 10-20 chapter outline has become over 200 chapters worth of content, and no one is surprised, haha!

   This series starts out with the Asset escaping HYDRA's clutches in 2012 during the Chitauri attack on New York, includes his murder revenge tour against HYDRA across the country, his eventual capture and rehabilitation by the Avengers, and many adventures in therapy and recovery beyond that. Plus, Winterhawk (that's Clint/Bucky) slow burn that lasts hundreds of chapters as they circle each other and fall in love. Observe as villains die brutally on the page and civilians and bystanders occasionally become close friends of the cast and cast members themselves.

   There's some HYDRA Trash Party tropes in here that can get pretty dark, but everything should be tagged appropriately per chapter in the end notes. And since it's a revenge tour + recovery journey, most of the HYDRA Trash Party stuff is either referenced only or is firmly in the past. We're moving forward (slowly) not backward, here. ^_^

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   08 Feb 2026