Ok but imagine all the guys, despite the initial shock, getting quickly used to the fact that Steve and Bucky are a couple and hey, Captain America isn’t exactly straight, except Tony, because there’s this thing he can’t stop thinking about.
Then on movie night Steve goes make more popcorn for him and Bucky and Tony follows him and when he comes back he’s just upset and blurting out “For the last time, Tony, I did not sleep with your father. Bucky, please, tell him!”
And Bucky says, with a mouthful of popcorn, “Steve did not sleep with your father, Tony” and Steve’s eyebrows scream ‘told you son’ to Tony untill Bucky finishes the sentence with “But I did” and everybody stares at him.
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.
I’m not over this idea of Bucky being drafted. He probably got the notice weeks before the World Expo and reported to the nearest Selective Service office to argue with his new commanding officers that he couldn’t go to Europe, he had a half-starved twig of a best friend to take care of, and who was going to pay the rent and drag Steve out of alleys and make sure he fucking ate? Sir, I understand, sir, but you don’t get it. This kid’s got a case of terminal stupid and I’ve gotta look out for him. But then he saw the salary he’d be pulling in by serving in the Army, and it was more than anything he’d ever managed down at the docks or working in the garage. It was a lot of money, and it wasn’t like he was going to need it where he was going, so he took his uniform and went home to Steve. Bucky braces himself before he walks through the door, all polished new shoes and swagger with his hat tipped to one side and his sergeant’s chevrons sewn to his sleeve, and tells Steve that he finally enlisted and he’s going to go single-handedly save the United States, and he’s grinning so hard his jaw aches, but inside he’s screaming and trying to memorize the exact shade of blue of Steve’s eyes because he knows that he’s going to die over there, but at least Steve will be be able to afford the rent and groceries. And Bucky doesn’t cry, he will not fucking cry, because he’s already a soldier, been one since the age of eleven and fighting a war against Steve Rogers’s bullheaded stupidity for years now.
everyone talks about steve rogers being a huge advocate for equality
but have you considered how viciously bucky barnes would fight for equal rights for everybody
Steve was talking about something when he realised Bucky was no longer right next to him. He stopped,…
