Art Post - MCU Sam's body

MCU Samuel Sterns / The Leader

We all knew it was only a matter of time before I started sexualizing MCU Sam but anyway. Couldn’t decide which version I like the most so have both, I like the kind of “firecamp” vibe of the first and the sketch one of the second.

Also an excuse to show how I headcanon his body. I like to think he has "burning" scars and visible green veins on the right part of his body, as it is the most damaged. Like I said in another post, my headcanon is that he got transfused Bruce's gamma blood through the right arm, thus having the gamma poisoning more present in this part.

Like Bruce explains is She-Hulk, you need something they have in their DNA to survive the mutation. It's hard to say if Sam has it because he did seems "well" after his accident, it's the overdosage that seems to be the problem. Would Jen or Bruce would suffer a similar faith if they did ? I don't think so, though, but it's my own personal theory and honestly at this point the MCU could do one or the other. But you see, when Bruce snaps in Endgame, it destroys his arms through burn because of the too big amount of gamma produced by it. So a too high dosage of gamma can hurt him, like Sam. But he did heal himself by reverting back or something, I don't remember well but he did heal that arm while Sam visibly can't even with his knowledge and yet, he's probably better than Bruce on that matter because, well, he's the Leader (and he was even prior to his mutation, that's why Bruce came to him after all).

The other scars I give him are from himself but also scientists. I think it makes sense, given how Ross wanted a Hulk army, to have his scientists studying Sam in the grossest possible ways. Opening his body and shit. Maybe Sam had to do that too to "fix" his organs. He looks physically in pain and his brainish difformation is too close to a gamma radiation to not be inspired by it so it makes sense to me that his organs would fail him. Maybe that's why he was able to save Ross, because he knew how to do that by doing it on himself.

cw : suicide for this part (I'll put a "end of cw" so you can jump to it) :

The scars on the left wrist are obvious enough, I really don't think you go through what he went through without trying to escape. And sometimes, sadly, the only way you find to escape your situation is to escape your whole life. I never hurt myself, thanks to my closed ones. But when I had suicidal thoughts, I always thought about cutting my left wrist. Not the right, because I draw so if I survived this I had to make sure to not damage it, when you cut too deep (which is kind of the point) you can lose some fuctions of your hand after all. I didn't want to take meds because I didn't want it to impact my treatment, which is a weird thought when you think about dying. But I guess you never really want to die.

hat's the kind of shit I was thinking about. I don't have these thoughts anymore, but they left invisible scars on me, a deep intense fear. You have no idea of the absolute terror you feel when you imagine imagine your own death in such a realistic pragmatic way. Even if you don't do shit, it leaves a mark on your soul forever. And like I said, I project a lot to MCU Sam, so he bears some of my scars, but I made them visible. It's comics accurate also, having Sam suicidal. There's a few hint showing that he is in comics because, well he did try to kill himself at some point (and had Bruce coming to comfort him while he does) but also because of his irrational fear or Mercy (the woman who kill suicidal people).

End of cw

This doodle was also a way to test new things. Like I said in my previous posts, I wanted, or rather needed, to evolve and to not just stick to whatever tag and aesthetic people slapped on me. I used to test a lot of different artstyles in my Sam arts and stopped eventually, I wanted to go back to that, to these experimenting.

He's smirking, for once, because the idea behind this was him having a casual conversation with Bruce. The campfire vibe is because I enjoy picturing them on Bruce's island beach and at first having yet another argument, which ends up in Sam and Bruce in the sea water (thus Sam's outfit being open and shit, it wasn't supposed to be kinky at first and it's not in context, it was supposed to be him kinda lazily dressing up while still wet, but look, it's still kinda kinky I guess and honestly I don't mind LOL) and then sitting on the beach, talking and Sam just having this genuine smirk. Somewhat creepy, but still genuine. Sam feeling amused at something Bruce would say but in a kinda tender way and enjoying the moment, probably answering something with a lot of sass but not to mock Bruce, rather to join him. That was the initial idea but really you can interpret that however you want. You won't see him smirk often in my fanarts so don't get used to it haha.

Forgive me for this transgression Tim… (it will happen again tho)

Until next time, enjoy~