65 parts Ongoing MatureEmmie McClare didn't set out to join the Avengers. She just wanted to stop setting things on fire-metaphorically and otherwise. The Coast Guard was supposed to be structure, safety, something resembling sanity. Then came a hidden island in the North Atlantic, a cursed artifact, and a classified report that still smells like whiskey and regret.
Enter Bucky Barnes-metal arm, haunted eyes, and far too much quiet.
Their connection isn't pretty. It's forged in chaos, near-death missions, and silences that say more than words ever could. But as HYDRA rises, aliens fall, and the world unravels, they find themselves caught between duty and something dangerously fragile: hope for something more.
Because after wars, after apocalypse, after choosing each other just to be torn apart over and over again-what's left a for hero when there's no one left to save?
Blood and Tide is an emotional, slow-burn epic that rewrites the Marvel story through the eyes of a woman who can command the light-and the man who's spent his life trapped in the dark.
Spanning the MCU from The Avengers to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, this saga keeps canon close-just with one slight adjustment: no Hawkeye (sorry, archery fans). Instead, meet Aurora, a reluctant warrior who commands light and doesn't know when to quit.
Grab your life vest. The water gets deep fast.