Captain America/MCU Beta Request [filled]

[osidiano]

Fandom: MCU, Captain America

Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers/James "Bucky" Barnes, Ensemble Supporting Cast

Rating & Warnings: E/NC-17. There's an on-page rape in the final chapter, extremely dubious consent between the main pairing characters, a lot of violence and gore throughout the fic, and some accidental torture between friends. This is a dark!fic, and kind of skirts the line between "Fandom Typical Tags for Winter Soldier Related Trauma" and "Hydra Trash Party" (there's no sex trauma related to Bucky's time with Hydra, but there's a lot of dehumanization and physical/mental abuse). It's a "Winter Soldier mistakes Cap as his handler" fic. If you me know your specific or potential triggers/squicks, I can double-check.

Estimated Fic Length: ~16k-25k left, so all together the fic will probably be between 65k-80k words.

Notes: The first 51k is already posted up on AO3, and now I've got a mess on my hands. This is the first longfic I've ever gotten far enough on to start doing actual resolutions and it. . . uh, kinda shows? Originally there were supposed to be 30 chapters total, but I think I've whittled down the excess so there's only 5 chapters left, ranging from 900 - 6k words in length (because chapter consistency is for people who know what they're doing). Anyway, I need someone to hold my hand, pat my head, and steer me back on track when I start getting distracted by subplots and the shiny secondary characters. Also, because of how long it's been since I wrote some of these scenes, I need a second set of eyes to make sure it's all written in the same voice/style so that you can't tell which scenes were written this year and which have been sitting in a drawer since 2015.

The fic is Post-CA:TWS, but canon divergent from the ending on (so you don't need to have seen any of the later movies or shows in the MCU). I reference some comics stuff, but again, you don't need to actually have read Brubaker's run or anything; everything you need to know is in the narrative and I usually put an author's note for extra clarity (I also do this with all of Tony's pop culture references and whenever I go too hard on military jargon). Unfortunately, because I am struggling with making my resolutions not suck or come off as melodrama, you will need to be familiar with what has already happened in the fic and how things have been foreshadowed to see if that's paying off (though you won't need to beta previously posted chapters) (except for the one I am rewriting because Story Structure Is Hard™).

I really want to finish this fic by the end of the year, but I don't think I can without help.