gwyn | New Fic: Urban Legend

My annual birthday fic, which I'm surprised I made it in time, because I've had so much actual work that I haven't had any time for writing. Now on to Yuletide!

Urban Legend (4156 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Of the Not Harmful Variety, Steve Rogers and the 21st Century, Minor Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Minor Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Summary:

“People are saying I’m fake?” Could they really not compare his recent photos to the newsreels and article photos and his films from the war? “They’re saying I was never found and I’m just…some guy wearing a Cap uniform?”

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It's strange, because I actually hate conspiracy theories and urban legends/cryptid stories, even when they're fairly harmless like in this fic. But I find myself constantly thinking about how Steve would have been perceived in the larger world, the different ways he would have been accepted or not, especially given his unique situation. I've explored it before in other stories, especially Tonight, I Dream in Technicolor, but it's just always been odd that they never wanted to show us the ways people, who are incredibly weird as a rule, would accept his story.