personally I like to think steve’s birthday isn’t actually July 4th but someone asked him when his birthday was when he was doing his little show tour thingy and he just said it as an accident and/or a panic response in a bid to seem even more patriotic and everyone believed him and now it’s like 100 years later and he’s too deep in the lie to back out now bc he knows all the avenger’s would fucking publicly roast him if he admitted july 4th wasn’t actually his birthday- like he would literally never live that down- so he lives his life in fear that some bitch ass historian is gonna find his birth certificate and expose him
avengers: happy birthday, steve!
bucky, eyes narrowing: what the fuck your birthday isn’t until-
steve, holding back tears: shut up
Bucky tries to hand him a birthday card one cold December day, and Steve tackles him out a window before anyone else can see what he’s holding
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
Where was Bucky Barnes during the whole Eric taking over Wakanda? Like was he just guarding the goats?
He was on ice….? The final post-credit end scene of black panther shows him waking up and Shuri talking to him, you can watch it on youtube if you missed it
Ive seen that, but you’d think Eric would have try to get the winter soldier on his side. If i was taking over a country, i want the winter soldier with me.
I think that only works if you’ve got that red book with the star on the cover…
And I believe the proper nomenclature for what Bucky was up to is:
CHILLIN’
According to the prelude, Steve and Bucky didn’t return to Wakanda until *weeks later* following the bunker fight, and Erik showed up within the week (?) of T’Chaka’s death. So they were out having renegade margaritas or something.
Ok but then why did Shuri say “another broken white boy for me to fix” when T’Challa turned up with Everett Ross??
Because she knew he was coming. T’Challa invited them to come back , and Steve said they would but had something to take care of first (ETA I just reblogged the prelude and this isn’t entirely accurate)
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