shanology:

steverogersorbust:

“Dropping the shield is a rejection of the Captain America identity and a choice to embrace the Steve Rogers identity,” Anthony Russo says.

please don’t forget that steve didn’t just drop the shield in cacw to show he’s choosing to protect bucky—he also dropped it to show he’s choosing himself. bucky, and his friendship, and the connection to the past that he represents, is of course an inextricable part of that self. but bucky isn’t the only part.

captain america, the mantle that steve’s worn for so long, is arguably most visible through this shield. it was created for captain america. it is his best and most enduring and most recognizable weapon. the shield represents all the honor of the role, and all the responsibility of the role, and all the heaviness of the role. it’s a literal weight to carry. one that people who matter to steve (natasha, bucky, others) have picked up time to time in battle, a metaphorical sharing of the burden.

make no mistake—steve can carry the weight of the shield. he wears it well. he is captain america, insomuch that captain america is the persona the world needed to give him so he was allowed to use his powers to actually do something. but as soon as this mantle, this title, this legacy, this shield, becomes representative of someone else’s ideals rather than his own, steve makes a decision:

drop it.

when he leaves the shield in that bunker in siberia, he’s leaving behind a lot of things: his role on a team that felt more like someone else’s family than his own; the identity created for him by 70 years in the ice and never recrafted to fit who steve was when he got unfrozen; the expectations placed on him by the world at large based on that identity; the need to put faith in and take orders from and represent institutions he’s progressively been losing trust in since the WSC ordered a nuke to hit NYC.

when he leaves the shield in that bunker in siberia, he’s leaving behind captain america as the 21st century has created him.

he’s choosing himself. he’s choosing steve. he’s choosing to be steve. free to put faith in people, individuals. free to stand up for what he believes in. free to be flawed. free to explore who steve even is, in this new world.

like i said—it’s huge that steve gives up the shield with bucky’s arm thrown around his shoulder, but that’s because bucky is a part of steve. and steve is the most important thing being reclaimed, defended, and protected in that final scene.

soldieronbarnes:

feliciates:

ellidfics:

theactualcluegirl:

Dude. You can actually watch him bottle all that up, stick a cork in it, and label it “deal with this never”

There’s also the scene on the Quinjet as they’re flying to Clint’s farm; he’s sitting in a corner, hand clenching and unclenching, jaw working as he literally swallows his grief and pain at once again having what he most wants snatched away from him. He’s the leader, he knows his team needs him, and he’s bottling up everything because there’s no time to let it out right now.

Steve do-NOT-bleed-on-other-people Rogers in action.

#Clint’s home must have been such a horrible shock for Steve though #It’s the American Dream he wanted but could never have #(except for the faintest hope when he took the serum and met Peggy)#and Steve thought he’d left those dreams behind when he went into the ice #but now he sees CLINT – another Avenger who lives the superhero life #Clint has made this beautiful life for himself #Which means it’s not impossible to have this job and a family like Steve had convinced himself of #It’s entirely possible to have both worlds #and in this moment Steve realized that it’s not the job that stops these dreams #It’s just him #Maybe he’s just too broken for love and a family #and that’s a horrible realization to make. (via @assetandmission)

greenbergsays:

ttsreina:

buckybarnesss:

assetandmission:

It’s interesting to see Steve’s insecurity about his friendship with Bucky. Bucky was his best friend, and presumably his only friend. Steve idolized him. As he told Natasha and Sam: even when he had nothing, he had Bucky.

But Bucky? Bucky had a family – parents, probably some siblings. He likely had friends from school, work friends, and friends from army training. He had endless girlfriends. We know he was popular. Bucky had an entire life, and objectively, Steve was only a part of it.

Before Captain America, Bucky was Steve’s world, but Steve may not have been Bucky’s. And because of that, you can see Steve constantly second guess Bucky’s love for him. During CATFA, he doesn’t know if Bucky will follow him into war. In the CATWS funeral flashback, he doesn’t want to intrude on Bucky’s life (even though if the situation were reversed, you know he’d never let Bucky ‘get by on his own’). Even during the final CATWS fight scene, he says ‘You’re my friend’ instead of ‘We were friends’. He’s horrified that Bucky died following him, because Bucky had a life outside of Steve.

I don’t think Steve realized how important he is to Bucky until he broke the Soldier’s programming, just by existing.

@greenbergsays

I feel like you just knew I was writing canon-compliant fic and you wanted to give me EVEN MORE Steve Rogers feels and now @elinimate is gonna hate you because I’m about to make shit painful for her

greenbergsays:

geneticallydead:

Okay so to be completely honest, I feel like at the end of Civil War Sam will get to Wakanda at some point (after stopping to tell his ma he’s okay or somethink idk) and be like “Where’s Bucky?”

And Steve will haltingly explain with his manpain face of American woe that Bucky has gone back into cryo for everybody’s safety and Sam will just be like “Oh hell no.”

Then he’ll march himself up to the cryo chamber where there’s a very obvious pile of blankets where Steve has been sleeping and crying probably, with Steve and T’Challa following after and Steve will be asking T’Challa to seal the doors or stop him or something, and T’Challa will just lean against the wall with arms folded and say very dryly “The bird man is too powerful, I cannot stop him.”

So of course there’s a big green button that just says ‘DEFROST’ and Sam hits it while Steve makes sad noises about his promise to Bucky but doesn’t actually make any move to stop Sam, and there’s a big venting of vapour and then the glass cover slides away and Bucky wakes up all groggy and shit to Sam’s mad as hell face and starts to try and say something, and Sam just smacks him over the head.

“Wanda is here now. Wanda will fuck you up if you go all White Boy Soldier again. You are safe as fucking houses here with the goddamn KING of Wakanda protecting you, and you are making Steve sad.”

And that’s how Bucky gets out of cryo and how Wanda and Vision (he’s doing purple-man-pining, which looks a lot like Steve but purple, so Tony sends him to find Wanda) figure out how to break down Bucky’s programming.

And any time Sam does something that Bucky doesn’t like, Sam just mutters, “At least I didn’t get myself damn well frozen and make Steve sad.”

This is everything I didn’t know I needed and now the only headcanon I will accept

BLESS YOU OP ❤

Top 5 headcanons, preferably Stevebucky related but really any marvel ones actually :)

greenbergsays:

darthstitch:

lizdejager:

drop-deaddream-deactivated20160:

1. Steven Grant “Old Man” Rogers (“Well golly gee,” he bitches, deadpan)

2. Steve & Nat having to share warmth on some kind of cold weather mission (please take a moment to picture Tasha curled up and huddled in his huge man arms because they’re best friends I’m dying)

3. Actual New Yorker Steve Rogers. Occasional rage when driving an actual car. Yelling at cabs when they almost run him over and/or splash water in his direction. (“WHADDAYA DOIN, HUH? JESUS!”) Pastrami on rye. If the cheesecake isn’t six inches tall it isn’t a goddamn cheesecake. Balking at Chicago style pizza, which he actually may not have known about, considering it was first made when he was at war. Super nice to tourists. Super disgusted when Stark plans a weekend at the Shore. And finally, Food Trucks: The Autobiography Of an American Hero.

4. Steve actually acting his age, re: sitting somewhere bored with his chin propped on his hand and messing with filters on insta, one shameful post-gym selfie at a time. Sometimes he ends up slouched in a chair, texting, oblivious to everything else. On this note, Steve fitting in DISTURBINGLY WELL with the current population of like 60% of Brooklyn, that is to say, hipster humanities majors

5. Steve Rogers actually speaking the way an asshole kid raised in Brooklyn in the early/mid 20th century who then graduated to the Army would speak (stubbing his toe getting food in the middle of the night, like, “Jesus motherfucking Christ, fuck me, fuck”)

6. For that matter, Bucky talking that way (“What the fuck is this?” he demands, staring, horrorstruck, at deep dish pizza in front of him. “What the shit is this, asshole?”)

There are going to be ten, I’m sorry

7. Natasha paints her toenails purple and her feet are always cold and every time she’s on the couch w/Clint she shoves her feet under his thighs

8. Steve listens to Turn Down For What literally a disturbing amount of times a day

9. Bucky missed Sinatra by one year and promptly falls head over heels for his voice in a totally no homo way and plays his music nonstop and hums it when he’s in the field

10. My absolute favorite headcanon, mostly because it’s 100% going to BE canon, is that everyone just thinks Steve and Bucky are incredibly fucking weird. And it’s not really because of the trauma or the fact that they’re collectively over 200 years old or any of that. It’s the fact that they’re fucking weird. Sometimes they just stare at each other. They literally just stare at each other, for like, hours. Sometimes Steve has to look away dramatically and blink back man tears. Are they telepathic? Is that it? Sam doesn’t have time for this. And they’re weirdly violent for each other. It’s creepy. Tony wonders what they get each other for holidays, and then decides to stop thinking about it. It’s probably the still-beating hearts of Hydra operatives.

I am behind these canons. And I’m firing them.

Headcanon accepted and shared.

I love ALL of these but #10 is literally my everything.

I could write ODES about it.