baggvinshield:

so i was thinking about steve’s line “rumlow said ‘bucky’ and suddenly i was a sixteen year old kid again in brooklyn” and then i thought about the fact that “seventeen” is one of the trigger words that activates the winter soldier programming in bucky

steve and bucky were born a year apart in the mcu, and steve would have been 16 when bucky was 17.

i wonder if something significant happened between them at that age