no but disturbing realistic superheroes

ruby-white-rabbit:

the-light-of-luna:

ookaookaooka:

Vision has no hair anywhere on his body–no armpit hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. No fingernails. His skin tastes like metal. Sometimes, he forgets to breathe for minutes or hours at a time.

Captain Marvel smells like burning. When you touch her, your hand comes away cold because she’s absorbed your body heat. If she gets cut, she bleeds light. She can tell you what the inside of an explosion feels like.

Bruce Banner vomits after de-hulking. His skin is always red and peeling. He looks sick, like he has a fever, and he ingests more medication than actual food. There are blisters on his lips.

Tony Stark has a huge, sunken scar on his sternum where the arc reactor was removed and his chest aches each time he takes a breath. He has callouses in odd places–so does the whole team, really–and there is a permanent bald spot on the back of his head where it has been cut open every time he gets thrown around in his suit.

Spider-Man sometimes forgets which way is up–if you put him in a room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling, he couldn’t tell you which is which. His hands and feet are prickly to the touch, even through his costume. He is very nearsighted.

The Scarlet Witch has no sense of boundaries; if you can’t tell she’s spying on your thoughts, why should she stop? She doesn’t do it out of any malicious intent, just out of curiosity and convenience. She never loses arguments.

Thor speaks about events that happened thousands of years ago as if they were last week. Cats arch their backs and stare at him. Something about him–his eyes, or his skin, or the way he moves–seems slightly off, like he doesn’t belong on Earth at all.

stuff like that.

The Black Widow doesn’t speak. She was trained to be quiet, silent, unnoticeable. Unless someone engages with her, she will sometimes be deadly silent for hours on end: watching, listening.

The Black Panther unconsciously watches people, paying close attention to their every move. He moves with a cat-like grace, and at night, he can see better than he can in the day. His eyes glint in the moonlight.

Clint is hyper vigilant due to growing up with an abusive father, especially without his hearing aids he’s on the defensive, ready to help or intervene. He always takes the hit, the blame, gets in the way because he’s used to it. That’s how he protects others. He can take it. He stares at people’s mouths more than anything, reading their lips even from across the room.

amarriageoftrueminds:

I was thinking about that question Seb got asked at Wizard World about how Bucky was making money in the two years before Civil War no Mackie he was not a dancer and consider this: 

Bucky as a cook.

  • scary-good with knives
  • never needs an order repeated / never fucks one up
  • working through his ‘automatic-obedience’ trauma in a low-stakes environment
  • hidden away from the public / less chance of being spotted
  • using the supersoldier!stamina to stay on his feet for hours without flagging and the grace to move around the kitchen like a dancer
  • telling the other staff he has a badly burned arm/hand (which is why he’s shy and has to wear a glove all the time)
  • picking up red-hot pans/handling hot food without getting burned because he’s using his metal hand
  • getting the habit of wearing his hair up in a bun (or in a hairnet!!)
  • learning to enjoy food again

    (aka, how he got thicc)

    because the Winter Soldier only ever ate to replenish energy or was force-fed through a tube 

  • going to the market for good produce for the restaurant (plums!!)
  • being an uppity restaurant-patron’s worst nightmare when they make the mistake of asking to see the Chef.