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
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
Bucky being all repentant and wanting to atone for his crimes and willing to take any punishment required until he’s told he’s going to be training the Young Avengers. Then he’s firmly in fuck this shit I was brainwashed I don’t deserve this I don’t deserve this for fuck’s sake Tommy don’t think I can’t see you put that grenade back where you found it…mode
While the kids alternate between driving Bucky crazy and trying to make him smile.
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.
Can we just talk about the moment when the Howling Commandos realize that the only reason any of them made it out is because Steve loves Bucky That. Fucking. Much.? That if Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes were just a tiny bit less adorable, they’d all be dead?
OMFG greenbergsays THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN. THEY WOULD NEVER LET HIM LIVE IT DOWN. THIS NEEDS TO BE A CODE. This needs to be the thing the Commandos hand down to their grandchildren so that Sophie can look at Trip, all innocence, and say “Code Purple” or something and they all just tease him solid for a week and he’s like “Goddamn it, guys. IT’S BEEN SEVENTY YEARS ALREADY. LET IT GO.”
now, you might think a disagreement of such proportions would send fandom into a tailspin. whom do you believe? MUST WE PICK SIDES? IS THIS WHAT THE PLOT OF CIVIL WAR IS REALLY ABOUT?
luckily, the answer is simple
Steve and Peggy disagree on whether or not oral counts
I’m just imagining them literally arguing this at Peggy’s hospital bed, possibly stubbornly enough that a nurse shows up to find out what the hell is going on.
excuse me, but I started typing headcanon accepted then realized what I was typing and what i was typing it about and I am now laughing like a hyena.
the first time steve went to the captain america exhibit at the smithsonian was actually when natasha dragged him there as a joke and then she realized it wasn’t fucking funny when he stood in front of the bucky wall for like twenty minutes and she watched the footage and realized she’s never ever seen him smile like that
there is a note, buried deep in the winter soldier’s files, that warns his handlers against leaving slack in his leash on the fourth of july. if the asset must be taken out of cryofreeze on that date, it says, it should be done away from the states and any calendars should be kept out of sight
years after this note is written, anyone who comes upon it assumes something about the holiday wakes up some latent patriotism or perhaps that the fireworks cause an adverse reaction, but really the asset goes on the fritz a bit because he knows he’s missing something important, even if he doesn’t realize that something is steve’s birthday
You can see he looks apprehensive, stressed right here. And it’s because he hears a siren, presumably police. He’s on high alert because he’s just waiting for the day that those sirens come for him.
And here he is after the (police) car with the siren passes by him. He’s relieved, a little shaken. He swallows, breathes, and gathers himself a little.
ANNNDDD then he spots the guy across the street who’s staring at him, and you can see his stomach drop and he visibly tenses again. It’s a nightmare come to life. And I’m saying “a nightmare” because sadly, this probably isn’t his worst nightmare.
And his breathing picks up, and he looks so afraid, his tiny bit of peace, whatever peace he can get, is shattered. He always knew this day would come, but he had hoped he’d have more time. And it breaks my fucking heart.
And I have to say biiiiiggg KUDOS to Sebastian Stan for acting out all the minutiae of Bucky’s facial expressions and body language. Because HOLY SHIT there was a lot of stuff going on in Bucky’s internal dialogue.
hannahbelleeeebackup 