Bucky Barnes sees a fucking raccoon firing a machine gun while cackling like a maniac and instead of losing his shit he just shrugs, picks it up and spins it around Mary Poppins style
Listen Bucky “Type B 4 Life” “Too Chill Even Without Cryo” Barnes has been rolling with unreasonable shit his entire fucking life.
– Pre-serum Steve. I feel I don’t need to elaborate on this too much
– Steve rolling on up to the POW camp like the lovechild of Adonis and Hercules and all Bucky has to say about it is if it hurt or if it‘s permanent
– “I’m drinking alone and look like the human equivalent of a room that got “cleaned” by a kid shoving all their stuff under the bed; I clearly just suffered a massive physical and psychological trauma; my entire understanding of what was physically possible, as well as my place in the world and in the life of my Most Important Person, has just been flipped upside down, bent in half, and beaten to death with a crowbar. Naturally I am going to jump right back into a war zone with a crack squad led by a Greek God who I once watched throw up in a Coney Island trash can.”
– “oh this guy who watched me assassinate the director of SHIELD just threw his weapon at me, but I’m not ordered to kill him so I’ll just throw it back and fuck off while he’s distracted.”
– “I completely accept and won’t argue against being mindwiped, even though I am clearly terrified of it, simply for asking questions my handler doesn’t like.”
(ok this is getting depressing)
– just got arrested, triggered into going on a rampage, crashed a helicopter, and woke up in an abandoned…someplace with your arm in a vice? The only thing to do is immediately suit up and rush off to an airport in Germany so you can take a plane to Siberia to stop someone’s evil plan alongside people you mostly don’t know and Steve “so what are we” Rogers
Sometimes I just kinda wanna cry because in the MCU, Steven Grant Rogers:
Was violently bullied throughout his childhood and into adulthood.
Watched his mother waste away and die.
Was an orphan by his mid-to-late teens.
Grew up in poverty, during the Great Depression, as the child of immigrants .
Grew up color-blind, partially-deaf, malnourished/stunted, and chronically-ill, in a culture that was so big on eugenics that Nazis took their cues from the US systems.
Signed up for the army and then dove on what he believed to be a live grenade because he believed the best use of his life was to exchange it for the lives of others.
Fought on the front lines of the bloodiest and most horrific war in human history, where he undoubtedly witnessed terrible violence and atrocities.
Watched his best friend die and lived with the guilt of believing he was responsible.
Crashed a plane into the ocean, fully believing he was going to die.
Was frozen alive.
Woke up to find that nearly everyone he’d ever known was dead and gone, and his home was changed nearly beyond recognition; he could never truly go home from the war. Ever.
Lost his shot at happiness with the one woman who ever actually looked at him when he was small and frail, and had to watch her mind come apart, and later carry her coffin.
Found out his sacrifice – the thing he gave up his life, his friends, his whole world for – was in vain, and that HYDRA had corrupted the legacy of the people he loved.
Found out his best friend survived, and that he’d abandoned him to a fate worse than death, and got to then live with THAT fresh guilt.
Is seen by most people as Captain America; almost no one sees Steve Rogers.
Was only 26 years old, biologically, during the Battle of New York.
Has not had the time or resources to cope with any of this.
Wide Spread Interests 