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Fandom: Captain America: Winter Soldier
Pairings/Characters: Sam Wilson
Rating: mature
Length: 8k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] JHSC 
Theme: black characters, character development, AU, AU: genderbend, AU: religion, backstory, characters of color, family, friendship, favorite fics, trans character

Summary: Sam knows a thing or two about that. About fighting to do right, fighting to fight, fighting to get the body you want so you can do the things you feel you were meant to do. About losing what you love in the span of a single moment. About wondering if it was all worth it.

Steve’s just some stranger Sam met on his morning run. Sam knows how to treat a stranger.

Reccer's Notes: It takes an excellent author to take a character, change major things about the assumptions people make about that character, and still have it fit perfectly within canon. JHSC makes Sam a Jewish transman and does a deep dive into what that means for him and how that makes him the person who steps up to fight HYDRA alongside Steve and Nat. The writing is excellent and vivid, the exploration of Judaism and transness is amazing (and the way Sam retells Bible stories, I almost recced this as a crossover with the Bible). This is a fic I keep coming back to.

Fanwork Links: Viddui

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