“He had plans today, dammit. He was going to order his dollar-fifty coffee at Hearth, settle in at his favorite booth, and pin things on Pinterest. He was going to crack AutoCAD so he could start drafting some of the furniture ideas he sketched out. He was going to drink free coffee refills until his flesh hand started to shake, and then he was going to buy a fifty-cent package of broken cookies for lunch. When Hearth closed at six, he was planning to go back to his apartment, eat leftover tuna-noodle casserole, and plan his day tomorrow.
Bucky Barnes is a busy man with a daily to-do list in his very organized Evernote system. He does not have time for laying tiny babies with feather-soft blond hair and shiny pink lips and chubby cheeks in their overpriced Ikea cribs, nor does he have time to utilize nap hour for cleaning Steve’s trainwreck of an apartment.
But that’s exactly what he does.
Because Bucky Barnes is painfully, secretly, deep-down, totally gone on Steve Rogers.”
Imagine Bucky and Steve go to Coney island in present day and in one of the games there’s a giant goat stuffie and Steve wins it for Bucky. Bucky loves it because it reminds him of his animals back in Wakanda. So now there’s a giant goat stuffie on their bed.
Reminder that Steve Rogers was born in 1920, and Bucky Barnes was born in 1917, which means that Steve was in his early twenties during the war, and Bucky was in his mid twenties. I know that they’re both portrayed by 30 year old men, but really? They probably looked more like these guys:
Don’t forget that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes had to grow up way too
fast, not only because of the war, but because they were teenagers in
the Great Depression, they were part of an extremely marginalized group during a time of extreme tension, and the whole dead parents thing. Don’t forget that Steve and Bucky probably never got
to do dumb teenager things because they both had to do whatever work
they could to stay afloat and then a WAR happened.
Think about all that pressure once Steve was “Captain America” and became a propaganda piece. Think about the atrocities of war that they’d have seen. Think about the fact that they both faced death. Think about the fact that Steve’s best friend died. THINK ABOUT HOW THESE KIDSARE NOW SUDDENLY 95+ YEARS OLD. Think about Bucky, waking up and technically being maybe 27 and having to reconcile all the things HYDRA made him do as the Winter Soldier.
Peggy Carter was born in 1919. She is only a year older than Steve. She’s still in her twenties during Agent Carter, y’all. Let that sink in for a moment. She’s still in her twenties.
That flashback scene in The Winter Soldier with the “I’m with ya till the end of the line”? They were teenagers then. TEENAGERS.
REMINDER THAT THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGERS WERE ALL CHILDREN.
THIS IS NOT EVEN IN THE FOOTNOTES ON THE LIST OF THINGS THAT ARE OKAY
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