You make me want to be...better, somehow.

[grinded]

Redemption Romance

Atonement is, in your eyes, a Sisyphean task. You'll never be able to redeem yourself, no matter if what you did was against your will and only allowed you to survive in a cruel world. Who could understand what you've done or think you could be forgiven when it comes to all your friends? Certainly you never believed redemption, so far away already, could come in the form of a person...or a romantic relationship. You know the drill. Comment, preferences, desired role, doot. Thread.

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Severus Snape | Harry Potter

[potioneers]

( He is the redeemed one. open to M/F and M/M for anything shipping related. canon-mates are very much welcomed! assumed cr, cross-canon. give it all to me. )

Usa Tsukino (Black Lady AU) || Sailor Moon || OTA

[pink_is_back]

(ooc: She has a pretty checkered past but she's really trying to turn things around.)

amelie lacroix / widowmaker - overwatch - ota

[bulletpointe]

[ u already kno. ]

Jon Connington/Griff | Asoiaf

[longjon]

[ Could use a kick in the ass for humility and redemption. And maybe some self-acceptance while we're at it. M/M ]

Brienne of Tarth | ASoIaF / GoT

[chivalrouswench]

[ Good source of inspiration for those in need of redemption. ]

natasha romanoff (the black widow) | marvel-616

[mertvykh]

[ voicetesting. i'm playing her from her current comics so she's a clone of the og nat but has retained her personality/memories etc; she could be either role. ]

Parker Wagner-Caine | Charmed Reboot

[shadowpain]

Aaron Minyard ( All for the Game )

[assumptions]

Jaime Lannister | Game of Thrones

[feintinglions]

Loki | MCU | ota

[coldsong]

[I feel called out.]

[icycold]

[ Would you be interested in starting over with these two in a post-Endgame AU? Both of them could really use the redemption! ]

[coldsong]

[Sure! Did you have any particular scenario in mind? I imagine they'd want to keep contact with the others, but maybe they could be on a road trip or something to clear their heads or find themselves or whatever?]

[icycold]

[ A road trip sounds good! I would think they'd both be struggling with Steve and Thor being away/gone. Do you want them to already be together or for there to be some tension but not there yet? ]

[coldsong]

[Mutual loss of big muscular blonde puppy, yes. How about halfway between, with interest and intentions expressed, but having not quite gotten to the physical aspect yet? I'm a sucker for first times.]

[icycold]

Bucky idly switches channels on the radio as they drive through the open country of the Midwestern United States.

He and Loki had been on this trip for awhile now, driving no where in particular. The world was only beginning to recover from the last five years, but for the wandering pair it felt like the world no longer had any purpose or space for them. Thor had gone off with the Guardians of the Galaxy, leaving Loki to either live with a small Asgardian population that didn't particularly want him or move on himself, while Steve had decided to live his life on his own terms, leaving Bucky without his best friend and greatest advocate.

He doesn't resent Steve for what he did, but he it... stings, nonetheless.

Sam, of course, tried to offer him some help, but he declined. Sam was Captain America now. He couldn't be bothered to deal with someone like Bucky.

So, with their shared troubles, Bucky and Loki had met up and decided to just go. Leave. Drive away and see what life still might have in store for them. They'd gotten a lot closer on the way, though the former soldier feels uncertain about that, too. Getting too close to someone else seems like a bad idea. What can he really provide anyone of worth?

He sighs and changes the channel again.

"See anything interesting on the GPS?"

[coldsong]

There are some who would be surprised that Loki can even drive. He claims he learned in the 1970s, and it's possible he learned from 1970s action films, based on the way he speeds and dodges through traffic like he can't be bothered to wait for the cars in front of him. They've had no accidents, though, and the one attempt to give them a ticket ended with the state trooper forgetting why he had stopped them and wandering off into the meadow beside the road to blow the seedheads off dandelions and frolic in the grass, courtesy of Loki's seidr.

They switched off driving duty after that, and Bucky's at the wheel right now.

Loki is certainly an interesting road trip companion, aggressively upbeat in a way that suggests he's partly trying to shove his own feelings aside. He understands why Thor left, why he needed to leave, and he can't be but so upset about it. They have thousands of years ahead of them to heal and meet up again, and they've never actually excelled at supporting one another emotionally anyway. More the opposite. He's not sure what to tell Bucky about Rogers, except that he could tell the man was broken the first time he met him, when they fought in Germany. And humans have less time to heal themselves before they die.

He doesn't pity Barnes. Loki isn't good at pity in the first place, but he respects the man at this point, as well, and that breeds something better than pity, something warmer and sturdier, like a feeling of kinship. They fit together, at least for now, and frankly, the man is beautiful. Loki is a bundle of issues, placed neatly atop a powder keg of divine power, and it's still entirely possible he'll blow up in Bucky's face at some point--which is probably what Sam warned him--but if he does, it won't be deliberately.

"We've passed six Poke-stops and a gym under control of Team Mystic in the last twenty minutes," he reports. "But we're passing them too fast for me to actually spin the disc."

Oh, wait, did you mean the GPS that's not attached to Pokemon Go? His bad. He puts down his phone and taps the dashboard. "What's a Tastee Freeze? I wouldn't be averse to stopping for a bite."

Claire Bennet ∞ NBC's Heroes ∞ OTA

[infinite1ups]

( yes hi let her be a little ball of sunshine for that sweet redemption arc. cross-fandom welcome! )