reclusiveq:

I was thinking of a comparison between bucky and sam. In the Winter Soldier, Sam said he would help ‘Captain America’ (Captain America needs my help. There’s no better reason…). 

Rewind to The First Avenger. Bucky said he wasn’t ready to follow Captain America. He was going to follow Steve Rogers. 

I think this says a bit about how they each saw Steve. There’s no doubt in my mind that both consider him a good friend (setting aside ships and the like), but Bucky didn’t really know this ‘Captain America’ person. There was no way he could follow someone he didn’t know back into the horror that he’d somehow managed to escape from.

Conversely, Sam knew who Captain America was, but he’d only just met this person called ‘Steve Rogers’. 

Maybe I’m just reading too much into this, but it’s an interesting contrast.