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Never thought that you would be
Standing here so close to me
There’s so much I feel that I should say
But words can wait until some other day
I love that they played “There is a Tavern in the Town” during the bar scene in TFA and this song when Steve meets Bucky again in TWS 😒
i.
They tell you: never wear your heart on your sleeve,
Because you never bring to the surface
Something meant to be encased in bone.
You ignore them.
How else will he know
About the thunderstorms that roll into your chest
Whenever he lights the cosmic of all smiles?
So you pin his name onto your clothes,
And you look at him like you love no other.
There’s a heart on your sleeve and you hope there’s one on his too.ii.
They tell you: never release the birds in your lungs,
Because you’re already drowning ten different ways,
And you just don’t save someone else before you save yourself.
You just laugh.
He has been the oxygen in your atmosphere
Since the day you touched his hand.
So you open the cage of your ribs,
And you let him steal your breath away.
The magpies beat their wings and peck at his cheek.
iii.
They tell you: never let someone reside in your thoughts,
Because the moment you lose your mind
Is the moment you lose yourself.
You say, too late.
He’s already deep within your bones,
And he’s the only reason why you’re up on your own two feet.
So you let him build the foundations,
And lay down the roofing.
He makes a home out of you, and you beg the universe he decides to stay.iv.
He doesn’t.v.
They tell you: never wear your heart on your sleeve.
You laugh, you cry, you look at the sun.
You wear your heart on your sleeve.
— Seventy Years of Sleep: SteveBucky # 4 — n.t.
Steve Rogers in 1944: I know I’ve never seen combat and have actually never won any kind of physical fight, ever but I’m going to go alone 30 miles behind enemy lines and defeat an entire factory full of squid Nazis by myself in order to save Bucky because I refuse to believe he’s dead
People in 2016: We sent a SWAT team after Barnes and we know Rogers will be upset but we told him to chill out so we’re sure it will all end well without any grown men crying on the floor in Siberia
Stop for a moment to consider Steve talking to Bucky and comparing his height pre- and post-serum, saying “I guess you gotta look up to me now, huh?”
And Bucky replying “I always looked up to you, kid.”
f a c t s
WHILE STEVE WAS BREAKING MULTIPLE LAWS ALL BUCKY WANTED TO DO WAS GO TO A SCIENCE CONVENTION
You know what, the ‘suddenly, there’s 5 more Winter Soldiers’ subplot
has gotten a lot of flack, and I don’t disagree that it could and should have been handled a lot better, but even as it is, I really really like what it says, or rather, confirms about Bucky.
I really love this meta! I just wanted to quote this:
Good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows… compassion.
It’s interesting, in light of this quote, to note that while the narrative prefers to focus on all the ways Bucky was made weak, all the ways he’s unable to escape the helplessness that has been imposed on him, everything we’re told, everything we’re shown of him and about him keeps reinforcing that compassion is the true cornerstone of his characterization.
What I find interesting is that Bucky is one of those strong men Erskine was talking about. He dispatched the bully in the alley like he was nothing; he was called to war with other able-bodied men. And he wasn’t just strong– he was smart, handsome, charismatic. He had girls hanging off of both arms, and a loving family. But he never let his advantages get to his head; even though he had relatively more social and physical power, he knew the value of strength– recognizing Steve’s strength before anyone else– and he absolutely knew compassion (see: his entire life with Steve while growing up under the shadow of the eugenics movement, which Marvel so kindly glossed over).
And even as a brainwashed supersoldier, Bucky’s inner strength and compassion shone through (as your meta explains). It wasn’t something the serum could replicate, and sadly it was something Hydra was able to manipulate even as they were constantly trying to undermine it. (He certainly wasn’t “corrupted” by the serum as Zemo seems to think 🙄)
Good becomes great. Maybe that’s how Bucky was able to survive with his goodness and compassion intact after decades of being Hydra’s assassin/slave? How they were never able to beat, drug, or electrocute it away from him? Another person might have given up, or been bitter at the world, or gone on a revenge world tour against his captors, but not Bucky. First he just wanted to recover in peace and stop fighting; now he wants to bring Hydra conspirators to justice and make life better for the people Hydra wronged through him.
